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ft ./ muscmenis. ACADEMY OP 11CSIC— 8:15 The Merry Widow. ALHAMBRA— 22 — — Vaudeville. A6TOR- S;l.V— Seven Days. BKl.a.<i-i>-- a Wife. BIJOI' -X:2« — Lottery Man. BROADWAY B:I3— TU« Jolly Bachelors. «\\SlXO— S:l.%— The Chocolate Soldier. COLONIAI.T— 2— Vaudeville. COMEDY- 30 Man's World. # CRITERION— Th Bachelor's Baby. DALY'S— >:.",0 — The inferior Hex. KDSX ItUSEE — World in Wai. EMPIRE in— Mid-Channel. GAIETY — — The Fortune Hunter. ••AUnK.V— S:IS— Tho Rivals. «■■!.' »BK s:!.-•s :!.-•— The OKI Town. HACKKTT — 8:13 — Th« Turnlnc Point. Ii A 4EKSTEtX*S 2 : 1 3 — : 1 5— Vaudeville. HERALD .<QI'AKE- S:ls— Tho Yankee i;irl. HIPPODROME— S— A Trip to Japan; Inside the ICarth: the Ballet of Jewels. m*I»SON— fc.-2i>— A > ••'• ■■> Star. BtVIKU PLACE B:ls— Dec Yopeih-indler. Kxn*K!:tt!!(H-KKK — — The Dollar Prinoeaa LI BKUTY-*-«— The Arcadian?. LYOKIM- S:SO— lbs. Dot. LYRIC— •■-,:. The City. . MADISON SQVAHK GAKDCX — 11 ■ m. to 11 P. "in. — Sportsman's Show. MAXINJ: 'ELLIOTT'S THEATRE— S:3O— The -ins of the Third Floor Back. i MEXDKLSBOHS II A — ."— S : — Concert.- NEW AMSTERDAM— 16 -Xadai X. NEW THEATRE U ltohesue. NEW YORK— S:ir. — Brißht Eyes. PLAZA HOTEL -Elektra. ST. NICHOLAS niXK— S:ls— lce hockey. 6TUYVESA K¥— S:l&— The L!!y. W.ALLACK'S — «8;lS — Vitas Jimmy Valentine. WERER-S— *:l-.— Where There* a Will. Wi:sT END— 8:15 — Lew I)'vksiailcr's'M;ns;rrls. Index i<> Advertisements. race. Col. I Put, Col. Amusfin.nts 14 S-7]Lost i;.inkbook#.-.1l ■ d Art i-'ales :: G-7 1 Marriages ait d Art'SaTe* 5 6-7 1 Deaths 7 7 Auction 5a1e5.. ..11 r»|Mef tinjrs . . VI 1 AutorsvliiUs .... *< <> M»rtpiir<»-Iyians..l<» ■ <» Kankrra and [Public Notices. .'. 13 7 Isn>ii*rs . i-• i ; ■■•■.- & Ex- Bu-Jn's <"hances.ll Ci! change 115 «."ari«.-t « Meaning. 11 .">;r^al lCstal* Jet 5-45 Citations ..I:; 7< n«tt"ivrrs' Sales.. l.'! «i-7 City Hotels It) Oj Resorts ..II 0 lx*sk« i<nil office I Roofing ii :. Furniture ....13 (i;srli<v>! Asenc|e&.\ll ."> Deiertlve Asm- Si<eoia! Notices... 7 7 '•lep 11 GlHtorase 11 5 Divid'd'-xotlc«*i.l2 liSurrogate's No-: Dnmpstip Sltua- 1 tiers . ..1™ 7 tloua Wanted. .ll 3^T»|Time Tables .... 11 0-7 Excursions l 1 BjTo iyt for Busl- T^ijiamiaJ 12 «-7j ness Purposes. .lo !>-' Foreclosure Falesl«» , 0-7iTrir.un*> Sabscrip l-\»r Sale 11 r.l ties Rates 7 7 Furoiysi«vl Room? iTypejsrlting i] 5 to I.?! -.11 ri!rnfurn"d Apart flelp Wanted 11 1-2 irient F to 1 ... t...10 S Instruction ...11 6 Where to I >ln« . 8 7 Lawyers .. 11 5 1 Work Wanted 11 2-3 rCfto-DoTii (Tribune. TTESDAT, MABCIi 8, 101*.. This newspaper is incited and pub lished by The Tribune Association, a >«"('■ York corporation ; office and prin cipal place of business. Tribune Build in a, Wo. 154 yassau street, Xew York; Opdcn Hills, president; Off den M. Reid, secretary; James If. Barrett, treasurer. The address o' the officers is the office of this newspaper. THE KEWS THIS UORNING. CONGRESS.— Senate: The agricultural appropriation bill was considered during Hie entire - -i.'ii of live hours. - House: The post office, appropriation bill was the principal business under discus don. FOREIGN. —It was reported from i Washington that the United States might j act as mediator between Peru and Ecuador if the King of Spain's award ' was not accepted. ===== A dispatch from I Paris said that Kins Edward, on his ar rival at Biarritz, was expected to an nounce the engagement o f princess Patricia of ■ Connaug-ht to King Manuel <>f Portugal. - The trial of Nicholas Tschalkovsky will begin to-day in St. I Petersburg:; it is expected that he will ' be convicted on the principal charge. 1 *~ A Canadian Pacific train won a race ag-ainst a snowsllde by a few feet last Saturday on tho western slope of the Rockies-. ===== The combined forces ff Generals Estrada and Chamorro are 4 iiJu to. be only three hundred men. ■- ' ■ '■ Half yf tli" . .subjects of the Prince of Monaco marched to the palace and de mandod a constitution. = '■■ Two Cleri- i rals were killed and seven were wounded by the explosion of two bombs in a din ins hall at Lisbon. DOMESTIC. — An important conference of New York State Republican loaders was h'ld'lh*- Senator Root's room in the Capitol at Washington. ' The Su- ! preme Court uf tlie United States in two ! decisions rebuked the Interstate Com merce Commission for i.-suin^ orders in j rxcess ..f its authority. ===== Commander l'<ary, in a statement to the sub-corn- i mittre on 7iav.il affairs of th. House of ' Representatives, said ho could not fur nish I'ioofg" that he had Reached th. North J'oli.-as he had contracted to givo them to hiss publisher alone. ! Piiflandor. C. Knox. jr.. xon of the Sec - '■ rotary of State, was dismissed from a school at Providence because he refused to t<ll if he had married a young woman of thai city; the latter admitted that th-y were married in Vermont on Sun day. ===== The steainei- Manhattan, of the Maine Steamship Company, was de- : t-lroyed by fire at Portland. Me. -■ j It was learned at Albany .that supporters j of Senator Cobb were circulating a call I for a conference of Senators to-night to elect a temporary president. CITY. — Stocks were strong and active. '■ Controller Preridergast announced a fifty-: $50,000,000 city bond 1 isue at :t new rate of 4*4 per cent. - ' "-■ Con- I troller Prendergast's statement on the lijiancia! condition of the city attracted much aitention and was generally ap j roved. =zz=r= The r^ift of |350,QOOjfor a I building for the department of philosophy i nt Columbia was announced. =j^= The Xnterborough Rapid Transit Company ! \vill begin to-day a new subway service. ! de.cijrn'-d to 'provide more scats during: ' the rush hours. =^=r Prosecutor Garven, Of Jersey^City, said cold storage foods: were a menace to health. ■ The ■ Mayor., whh other memberß of the Board \ of "Estimate. In !d another conference I with the Public Serrice Commission for •' the purpo«e of hastening work on the" now subways. ;:■ U was announced ! that Jive hundred chestnut trees in Van | Cortlandt Park irm?t be cut down. THE WEATHER.— lndications for to- I day: Generally fair. The .tempera tun; yesterday: Highest. 48 degrees; low- ' est, 37. POWER i \DER THE \EW CEXBIB. The enumeration of 1010, ii which rcjjfesentation In Congress and In the i:i«toral Ctollege for the ensuing decade will I.p based, is to tie taken next month, and pimjcu Union is already active as to Its IKtlitical i ous4 j'i.mi' en. "The 1 'li*-,, Press" reflected a popular but 111 founded judgment when it said the other day : 'Tudor any basis [of ionnieiit i "thai in:..- be adopted the West and the *Aiu:h are practically certain to make *X':iins. as they have Increased in j»o}»n "I.-uioii t(» :i larger extent than have "other sections." The terms "West" and "South' iis used by "The Press"' are not jJerhaps precise, but the general no ia«-ii kwuis to Ik» thai the Southern State* as a whole and the three parts of thi; West— ihi' Middle West, the trans- Ml^iwurJ region aiid Hie Far West— are likely to have v relatively larger share ••I jV>\ver U!j(I«t Ihe ijev? apportionment ir '•■ House of Representatives and in tin* Electoral College. There is no foundation for the idea that. the Ea*r is being outstripped in p»«*rl by the other sections of the rnioti. The >-ute.s which in the last two denudes hate uiadi liic greatest relative gains in population do not belong '" any <iH<» yei-tj.ni. but are widely scattered. Thus. betwe«»;! ISSO and 19Q0 Illinois- and Texas; -<\!<h gained ijw .-eats in the Jl"iis<\ ;«liuij<>oia. _\eu ■'■i-.-.'\ and Vaiin *y!vn»{.t .-.I- h lo*ir Mod Nebraska and New" V<;ik <*aclj three. New Jersey, .Vert', . Vorir nud. f'eniisyjvania t^etlior gamed t-U'von v<»i<»b lU «Viiisrr« ss ami in tl»e.T;i« f.»i;!| • I ..lJf»^e. uJtile in Hie Mil {]]<■ c-t. -iiieJudin^ Ohio. Indiana. [|i( li«<iK'\Vis«-.iri*iu :-i I ; ui^an, there. w;is a lain of only six votes, and in the en tire South. Including Missouri. Kentucky and West Virginia, a gain of seventeen votes. Contrary to the long prevalent theory that power was passing rapidly to the West, it has passed slowly In that direction, and the change has been due more to the admission of new states, many of them over-represented In Con gress, than to any excessive growth in the West's population. Certainly In the decades from 1880 to 11)00 the East kept pace with the greater portion of the rest of the Union. The. Iriterdecennlal state censuses taken since 1900 show that during the present decade the Western States have been growing more slowly than previous ly and more slowly than many of the Eastern States. Thus, according to the state censuses of 1805, the rate of in crease for Kansas was only 5 per cent, for Michigan 4, for Wisconsin 8, for Wy oming 10 and Minnesota and South Da kota 13; while the increase for Massa chusetts was 7 per cent, for New York 11, New Jersey 14 and Rhode Island 14. In lowa there was a decrease of 5 per Cent from 1900. Apparently the West as .-. whole will do little more than hold its own in representation, while the great Industrial states of the East, like New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts, seem certain to make important gains. "The rtica Press" says that If ta<> present ratio of representation is con tinued New York will have forty-four Keprosenialives in the House instead ;>f thirty-seven, it is highly probable, how ever, tii.it the ratio will be increased by twenty or thirty thousand, and the net increase in seats limited to twenty-five or thirty. In t har case New York will probably gain two Representatives, Penn sylvania two and New Jersey one. Min nesota, Texas and Illinois will be the chief gainers in the Mississippi Valley section, and the other seats will be dis tributed one apiece among the smaller slates which are growing most rapidly. Phere will be no revolutionary shifting of |H.nvor under ihe next apportionment Tho changes which occur will rather tend to counterbalance the sectional ad vantage accruing to the West in the lasr twenty years through the creation of new commonwealths. BLANKET BOND SALES. From Controller Prendergastf6 analy sis of the city's finances it clearly ap pears that one of the most pressing reforms needed to secure accountability and t<- prevent waste is the abolition of what has long been known as the "gen eral pot" and the custom of selling the city's corporate stock under the blanket designation of "various municipal pur puses." Tins custom was established in the time of Controller Groul and lias been the open door to the use of the proceeds of corporate stock for other than Hie purposes for which the bonds were sold, and even for purposes for which the law does not allow the ex penditure of corporate stock proceeds. Corporate stock should be sold only r <>r definite purposes, and the money se cured should be considered a trust fund to be siient only for the designated bet terments for which the city authorities authorized the loan. It should be possi ble for ihe Finance Department to d' 1 \ ise a plan for specifying the purposes for which corporate stock moneys are needed, without going into such details as to make the plan too cumbersome for practical use. If Cunt roller Prendergast can formulate some method by which every bond buyer will know •within rea sonable limits where his money is going, and that it will not be transferred under a blanket t^ some foreign object, we be lieve that the credit of the city and Its future economical management will be Lireatly promoted. THE \'EW COURTS FUNCTIONS. A new argument against the ad ministration railroad bill has made its appearance in "progressive" circles-. This argutneni is that the Supreme Court in recent eases — nor those decided yesterday, by the way has tended to confirm the complete authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission in re gard to certain questions, and to hold thai iis rulings are not subject to re view by the courts, unless it can be shown that ihe rulings result In the taking of property withoul due process of law. The .curt has held that the orders of the commission regarding the distribution of cars, for example, are administrative orders aud cannot prop erly be brought before the courts -.-i reaped of their reasonableness. Now, so runs the argument, this is ;t situation displeasing to the "conservatives," and they Bee a way out of it through th« i creation <>f an interstate commerce i ourt. or course care should lie taken thai Ui the creation of the new court tli • interstate Commerce Commission is uol stripped of its power and influence. But :.'s -,-,«• understand th.- administra tion measure, its spirit Is tcinerease, not to diminish, the functions of the commission; and the new court is- not Ui take away from the present body ii- ; authority to determine any question which ii now has power to determine. Tl,.- new court is to promof • not ap peaN fiMui the commission, but the protupi adjudication of such appeals. 1' Is not i<> bave more authority th.ii the courts now have oxer questions that conic before the commission, but pre tisely the xinie authority. if the I'nited states Supreme Court bas de cided that the courts have no business passing "ii administrative acts of the commission, it Is safe to say thai it will also hold that the interstate com merce court cannot review the commis sion's administrative acts. I TWO-EDGED SWORD. A two-edged sword will cut both ways, ■ "i it may cut more toward Hie back than toward the front. In some parts of Hie south the plans for negro disfmn • iiiseinent have developed many of the characteristics of ibis dangerous Instru ment. Such a moral Injustice as that contemplated in laws governing the fran chise which ike color rather that ill ness the chief Qualification for voting is bound to react upon the classes they are presumed to benefit. No one can offer valid objections to a scheme which i lakes education of vital importance in determining titness for tb« suffrage, and .-: property provision, impartially ap plied, iii reasonable If übt entirely just; • •-it when the slavery of ones grnnd patent is made a qualification, without flic sli>,'hte>! regard fur any other con Emigrations of fitness, an injustice which tight to react upon its authors is per pcirated. From the point of view of the inter e* •■•! onlooker, the Mlttuitioti in puns of Georgia is interesting and hopeful. A' " l|!!i - '■' "' '"■ Clinch CouuJy News," NEW-YOKK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 101f? - if it is quoted correctly by "The Macon Telegraph" : Such negroes as can register under the new diafrancbisement amendment to the constitution are doing bo and rapidly, and from the way things now appear the registration law, which requires whites to register six months before the elec tion, is Koiiifr to disfranchise far more whit- 1 peoph than the other will negroes —that Is, whereas the great bulk of the es were practically disfranchised before the amendment waa adopted, there will be as many If not more negroes to register this year than formerly and less whites by far. "The Macon Telegraph" tells us that these "reform?" were designed to take the ballot away from negroes so far as possible, and their authors "set out with a great fanfare of trumpets" to do this, but the final result seems to be that the Iwo laws operating this year will not cut down the negro registration, but will cut down the white vote. "The turn total "and upshot Of it all is that they have "disfranchised whites and not blacks." The obvious means <>f preventing the •negro domination which has always been the bugbear of the South is. of course, to get what "The Clinch County News" refers to as the "honest, hard "working, law-abiding and even patrioti cally inclined white men" to register, ft seems thai these patriots are very much like the dog in th<\ manger— they don't want to vote themselves and they will not let the colored men vote either, if they can help it. In this instance, how ever, they took the wrong means of pre venting what they locked upon ;:s s O dire a calamity. Sooner or later it will dawn upon eveu the most pronounced opponents of negro suffrage that the righi way is the best way. Makeshift after makeshift has been devised to let the most ignorant white man cast his ballot and prevent the most intelligent colored man from exercising the same right. The spirit of the national Constitution has been re peatedly violated to this end. and the re sult has been unsatisfactory from every point of view. An educational and a prop erty qualification would certainly place the power in the hands of the Southern whites, and further than that would fur nish inspiration to the negro to tit him self for citizenship by gaining the neces sary intelligence and real estate. Hut this is the very thing which many illog ical white persons desire to prevent. They cannot grasp the fundamental truth that it is to their advantage, to have with them an intelligent property owning rather than an ignorant, shift less colored constituency. THH -DAY OF REST' DEMAND. A suggestive exhibition of the more or Uss unconscious perversity of human nature, in destroying the very things which it wants and then setting about replacing them at great pains and cost. is to be perceived in the current move ment for what is called a day pf rest once a week for everybody. We have commented upon the folly of creating at great expense a beautiful park, then giv ing it up to building purposes, and riual iy having to make another park some where else. It would be s.n milch better, more sensible and more economical io keep the original park and pur the build ings elsewhere. A pretty dose analogue to this is to be found in the attitude of the public toward the much needed day of rest. For a day of rest, one in seven, pre cisely such as we are now tol<l it is necessary to establish for everybody, was long ago instituted and generally ob served. But then there arose a wide spread movement against it. We were told with much vehemence that it was bigotry and tyranny to deny men the right to labor on all seven days alike. and that it was particularly hateful to require certain kinds of labor, of a some what less necessary character than most work, to be suspended ou one day of the week. And thus Step by step the long established and beneficent day of rest was Impaired and largely abolished, until now for a considerable proportion <T the community there is none; aud now arises a demand for the re-creation of the very thing which lias been destroyed, largely from the very persons who destroyed it! Once Paris observed Sunday as a day of rest. Then it abandoned that practice and prided Itself, with the super-bigotry of extreme anti bigotry, upon its emanci pation from Sabbatarianism and upon the tact that all days were there alike. But not so very long ago humanitarians aud publicists perceived the ruinous effects of that unresting system, and in Response to the overwhelming demand of obvious ne cessity there was enacted a law re-estab lishing the day of rest in a particularly strict manner. That does nol mean, of course, what has been called with strange infelicity a "Puritan Sabbath." It does mean thai all workers must rest one day in seven aud that for the sake of convenience and cumulative benefits thai day shall as far as possible be Sun day. If only our own social reformers oi agitators bad hitherto recognized and acted upon the authoritative princi ple thai "the Sabbath was made for man." and instead of trying to transform it Into a day of t"il and tumult had striven to perfect and preserve it as ,i rational daj of ivsi. there would be no need of the present movement for doing the thing which has been undone. FIGHTING THE FLY. Time was, and not ho very long ago, "when a serious proposal by the govern ment to undertake the extermination of the house fly as a deadly enemy of the human race would have been regarded with amazement and derision. Thai in sect had for ages been regarded as an innocent If not, indeed, a beneficent creature, the only indictment of which was its proclivity tor disturbing late sleepers and for annoying with its too affectionate attentions the possessors of hairless pates. As for the possibility of ridding the world of it. .even were that desirable, it would have 'been dismissed with Invincible Incredulity, as though one had suggested iii" drying up of the ocean. Those were the days "when we made bricks in Egypt," u> bondage to Ignorance and superstition; before the coming of Pasteur to set i!> free. Now it is perfectly well known, how ever, that the fly was well worthy to be ranked among the deadly ph'.gues which scourged recalcitrant Pharaoh, and that it is in reality a HJngnlar.ly noxious creature, to whose black account pesti lence and death are to be abundantly charged, It is the pertinacious purveyor of a dozen or more diseases, including conspicuously typhoid, diphtheria, chol era and— -perhaps above all e!>v — •'sum mer complaint." cholera Infanttuni: and the allied enteric ills of childhood. " The mention of cobra and krait mat es men shudder, yet the n> probably causes more deaths ,■;.•], year than all /he ven onions serpents of the Indian ' jungl •. Familiarity with ii -as with vkc-has caused us to regard it with tolo.rance, »»ut thai regard in no degree digests 11 of its detestable characteristics and In destructive potentiality. The extermination of this pest is no doubt a formidable undertaking, but its difficulty is no greater than its need. Experience, indeed, gives much en couragement fox the enterprise. . The mosquito has not, it is true, been exter minated. The campaign against it is vet too new for such a result. But a degrees of progress toward that end has been made which a few years ago would have seemed incredible, and the sanitary results of it are gratifying beyond all expectation. If malaria could be ban ished from Port Said and yellow fever from Cuba, and Panama, it would cer tainly not seem Utopian to plan a great abatement of the plague of Hies, if not entire extinction of that death-bearing nuisance. The systematic campaign which is to be started thib spring by the Department of Agriculture deserves encouragement and co-operation. It is to be conductor in rural regions chiefly, where the need is perhaps even greater than elsewhere and where the difficulties are perhaps greatest. In cities the health boards ought to .undertake similar campaigns with energy and persistence. If this ij <l'>ii»'. and if all people treat the lly as those should who have regard for either cleanliness or health, the approximate extermination of the baneful little creat ure will not be remote. We have prac tically exterminated, through selfishness and greed or through sheer wantonness, so many innocent and beautiful creat ures that wo surely should be ready to do the same with creatures which are devoid of oven a single redeeming trait to recommend them to mercy or tolera tion. Labor leaders In Philadelphia are. now talking iihuuL forcing ii "state-wido" .strike in Pennsylvania In order to briny the Philadelphia Traction Company to ttrms. Could folly and illogicality go further? Because the Philadelphia Trac ii"ii Company directors cannot agree on terms of employment with the men in their service, .shall the people of Hurri.s burs; and Pittsburg be compelled to do without transit facilities and to see an embargo laid on all the ordinary opera tions of trade and industry? What have Harrisburg, Pittsburg and tho other cities of the state to do with a labor complication local to Philadelphia.' It would be just as sensible and justifiable to order a strike in the Xew York sub way because a traction company in San Francisco refused to arbitrate with its men. Oul o!' twenty thousand menus offered for a prize the host la said to have included fricasseed veal. Suppose. though, you don't, like veal. It is not easy to imagine a more strik ing illustration of the rapid spread of new inventions than is afforded in tho fact that on the recent march to TJia:-n the Chinese army used wireless telegra phy to keep itself in communication with headquarters and home. In order that it might not be isolated by the Tibetans cutting the wires. It is also an equally striking indication of the speed with which China is catching up with the world. The rapidity with which the movement for a ".short ballot" has gained support, even among the politicians, is without parallel in tli-> list of proposed reforms. The House of Representatives recently passed a bill reducing the compensation Of receivers in bankruptcy appointed under the provisions of the federal bank ruptcy law. The excellent New York law ending costly bank receiverships here may have inspired this attempt to lessen the hardships to both creditor and debtor attendant upon insolvency. Ex cessive charges should not be laid vii proceedings for the salvage of victims of misplaced business judgment or mis placed extension of credit. llu. ion's morals may be. as Dr. Cort landl Myers asserts, siraighter than those of Paris, but no one will claim thai its streets are. It is reported that rust has added seven one -thousandths of a grain to ihe weight of the pound block employed as the standard at the Philadelphia Hint Rather delicate scales must be needed to vi rify such a statement. The complaint of the people of Monaco that the government of their country is the only absolute monarchy now re maining on the faco ..f the globe may come as a surprise to many, but it will be a pleasant surprise. All clvil^ed countries save Monaco are now endowed With constitutions, or at least with con stitutions In the making, and since the abdication of Messrs. Castro and ZeUtya the Prince of the. Land of Rouge et Xoir Is the only real autocrat left in the world. THE TALK or THE DAT. This 1 arrowing cat story comes from Cornville. Me., via "The Bangor News': "In order that her kittens may grow up well trained, Maggie, an old cat owned by Mrs. Delia Amiable, feeds the kittens one at a time, keeping the others back until their turn. The cat has three kittens. A few days ago the mother brought a mouse Into the house. The three kittens came running to her. but she haa decided which kitten she would give the mouse to, and kept the other kiitens away by cutting them. The same day she brought in an other mouse and she gave it to one of the other kittens. The next day she caught an other mouse and gave it to the third kitten. When the mother had caught the fourth she stood before the kittens anil ate it her self." '•Yon women would rather talk than lis ten." ••Not always." "When, for example?" "When a man i> about lo proi>os«." — Judge. GENERA!- POT What 0 Don'l you know <;e>ncrHl Pot? "Will, you'd better net acquainted, And you'll know tt;;it General Pot recipient "f your money I'uiii iii taxes "ii i he spot, it i-i handed to the general, And tho general puts it where The varioua municipal purposes Will get their proper share. The varioua municipal pnrposa What- them. i >h, x\.-li now; say. Gel acquainted with the methods And the purposes that pay. Ask !•>■! What. (For further particular.* consult Controller Prendergast.) \V. .r. LAMPTON "Won't you l;ike this Mat?" said th« Kintleniun in the car, rising and lifting hi* hat •■No. thank • mi," said the girl with Rkates over her arm; "I've been roller skating, and I'm tired of sitting down.*'-- Tlt-IJUs. ■•it i* aya v long time," says the ''PreuseUche Kreutsseitung," "sine* Kopenlek was made fain. 'us by the adventure of the tattered fraud who remained well In the front ■ : i i class until Dr. Cook won his ptae* It is a ion* time sine then, hut Kbpenlrk still continues to be interesting to tne \isi tor, and the sale of postcards has not fallen off. But since the commander of the Dreadnought was fooled Into receiving with royal honors, six maskers who pre tended to be Prince Nakalin and his suite •all the way from Ahyssinla. 1 England de serves to share honors with Germany. |M captain of KopenJck waa punished, but what was dona with the Abyssinian mum mers?" , Miss Kldcr-The wretch has been majjjn? Jove to both of us. dear. How can we pun- Younger— Why don't you marry him. dear?— Illustrated Bits. In the current number of "Simpllcl* fltnus" there is a cartoon In two parts under the caption. "There are two kinds of Germans. " The tlrs=t half of the pict ure shows a group of n:en seated at a beer table. Under this It the line: "One kind speaks only of Bismarck." Tlis other picture represents another group at a round table, on which there are coffee cuds and cordial glasses. The figures are all of the high brow- "type." and beneath them Is the line: "And the others always speak of Goethe." The cartoon waa the subject of conversation at a restaurant in the dry goods district yesterday, and a German merchant was asked by his American neighbor: "Where do the Berlin rioters come in?" "I'm afraid I'm catching a cold." said Kluseman, trying to get some medical ad vice free. "Every once in a while I feel an Itching: in my nose and then I sneeze. What would you do in a case like that, doc tor?" "Well," replied Dr. Sharpe, "I guess I'd sneeze, too."— The Catholic Standard and Times. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. A DEBT LIMIT QUESTION. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I note m Controller Pr» ndergasfs statement of the city's financial condition which you publish this morning a declara tion that there is a "net deficit" of approx imately $39,0)0,00*) on account of uncollecti ble taxes, and the outline of a plan "for the extinction of this deficiency." At the same time, I see that lie estimates the city's borrowing margin at $38,7t>},207. with out deducting this $3!).OX>,000 deficiency. Should It not be deducted, and the borrow ing margin estimated at $i:>,7t>i.3)7? How can the city officially declare that J33.000.000 of revenue bonds : issued against unpaid taxes have no assets behind them, but must be met . from the funded debt, without counting that sum as a debt and subtract ing it from the borrowing margin? Xew York, March 7. 1910. TAXPAYER. THE MACCRACKEN REGIME. | To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In your article on Chancellor Mac- Cracken in your issue of March 1 the statement Is made: "In the period of his connection with the institution's adminis tration it has grown from a college of • ninety-one students and one faculty of ten members to a university of 4,113 stu ! dents and eight faculties." When Dr. MaoCraeken came to the uni j versity, in ISS4, the medical department had ! been in existence for more than forty-three j years and the law department twenty-six i years, and the total number of students in I the departments of arts, science, law and ' medicine was 71S, s-o that the growth of the : institution under Dr. MacCracken'a manage i ment is not quite so roseate as you have pictured it. GEORGE W. PALMER. New York, March 4, 1910. [True; but in ISS4 the medical and law ; schools were so detached from the Col- I lege of Arts and Science as to be prac- I tically separate Institutions. It was not until Dr. MacCracken's administration ! that they were brought into close rela tions with the other departments under a true university organization. — Ed.] « FESTIVAL NOT A FAREWELL. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: The statement contained in our last press notice that the German artists' festi val is intended partly as a farewell to Andreas Dippel is due to the misunder standing of a translator. The object of the festival is purely one of charity. Mr. Dippel lias merely consented to supervise the artis tic arrangement. G. B. VIERECK. Chairman Press Committee. New York. March 7. 1910. SENOR ALFONSECA EXPLAINS. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Referring to an article on the Do minican Republic printed in your paper of the 2Sth ultimo, I must make the following remarks: Firstly— The assertion that the Secretary of Finance and Commerce of the Domini can Republic refused to give Information asked for by our Senate regarding a finan cial matter la a wrong one. Not long ago, ! as the result of some questions put by one of the Senators, a committee made up of Senators Lovatdn and Dicoudray was ap pointed to request certain information from the said Secretary, who replied that, in accordance with the Dominican constitu tion, he could not satisfy the committee in i the way chosen, but, notwithstanding this, he felt pleased to supply the information unofficially, which be did. The data In question appear in our (.Uncial Gazette of July 24, 1909. Secondly— That it is preposterous to say that Bettor Federico Velasquez, Secretary of Finance and Commerce, usurped the functions of the Secretaryship of Public Works while 1 had this fortfollo In charge; also that we were almost going to have a duel. Any judgment made vi connection I with my resignation must be groundless, as I have not given the reasons for the same. ! Thirdly— That it is without foundation to I affirm that the Dominican government has I abandoned public works on which $300,000 has already been spent; and in reference to the $90,00-3 per three miles of railroad, i am at a loss to know to which road they refer. The Dominican government has been en gaged directly in the construction of two lines— ono in the north part of the island. which is now running, the contractor of which was Sefior Horacio Vasquez. and the ; other one in the east, which was in charge of Benor Pedro afartn, as its director and j administrator, In accordance with a con- | tract between him and the government. ; The work on this last line has been given up by one of the parties, and if the undue expenditure of $90,000 refers to this particu lar railroad the case would deserve a care ful investigation by the proper party. JUAN a ALFONSECA, New York. March 4, 1910. Consul General. HE HAS AND HE WILL. From The Syracuse Po-i-standard whatever he wants he will probably B ! t PROGRESS. From Th» Watertown Times. A Missouri Judge has had the temerity to declare that a man who reads T./w? papers will make a better juryman ,£ .says that ignorance i., no proof of ' will and correct judgment. s*wi or wise GRADY'S RETIREMENT. From The Schenectady Union. Th* announcement of Senator ti, Francis Oma, ,|,»t ho wm'«M re „, ",'£? scart'Si'sSS.&S occasions of Its deliverance i >! '^dln ff There was a memorable timo u-hwi th » Senator ..tired, nol of hN m,, . , "■"■ En'" 0 M,. Grad, h»d proved h'fiL'S menl tha, ,.- B ena to & lo dtvS&nfmsSr What would the Senate be wtthaut ola^hi* 1 * V, hOU ' * ;m »* Tammany I '^ oluee him us its i^pokejmiin? "People and Social Incident* AT THE WHITE HOUSE. [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington. March 7.— The President discussed the New York political situation at some length to-day with Representative Duryea, Lloyd Grlscom. State Senator Brackett and the postmaster General. Mr. Taft also talked Ohio politics with Wade Ellis and Representative Lnngworth. both of whom were guests, with IJoyd Grlscom. John Hays Hammond. Mrs. I^ongworth and Miss Mauel Boardrnan. at luncheon at tho White House. Mrs. Taft being present. President Taft will deliver an address at the dedication of the new jmtMllal of the International Bureau of American Repub lic;, on April 26. and will attend a reception that evening to be given by the representa tives In Washington of the Latin American republics in honor of Andrew Carnegie, who contributed three-quarters of a mill ion to the buildinr fund. The Invita tions were presented by John Barrett, di rector of the bureau: the Mexican Ambas sador, the Costa Rican Minister, the Chilian Minister and the Brazilian Charge d Af faires. The Bristol postmastership discussion was taken up again with the President by Representatives Brownlow and my. W. B. Stone. Edward Corrigan and B. E. Wills, officers of the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, talked with the Presi dent about pending legislation in which their organization is Interested. President Taft will go to Fassslr, N. J-. on May 9 to attend the dinner of the Pas saic Board of Trade, having accepted an invitation presented by a committee repre senting the board. The White House callers included the Secretary of the Interior, the Postmastor General, the Secretary el Agriculture. Henry M. Hoyt. Senators Owen. Plies, Mc- Cumber, Crawford. Gamble, Foster. Brings and Wetmore. and Representatives Ben net. Miller. Hayes. Weisse. MoreUead. Slemp. McKinley, Mclaughlin, Taylor, Sa bath and Brownlow. Miss Helen Taft returned to Bryn Mawr Col lego yesterday afternoon after a short visit to her parents in the White House. THE CABINET. [From Trie Tribune Burran-1 Washington, March 7. The Secretary of War and Mr?. Dickinson returned here to night from New Haven, to which city they weal on Saturday to visit their son, J. M. Dickinson, jr. The Secretary of th«* Interior ami Mr?. Ballinger will pive a dinner on Friday nisht in honor of the Vie^- President and Mrs. Sherman. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. ! H"r m The THaaaM Bueau.l Washington. March 7.— The French Am bassador and Mme. Jusserar.d entertained Mine. Thiebeau. -wife <>f the French M.n ister to Argentina, at luncheon to-day. Their uther guests were the M Argentina, Henry White, former Am dor to France; Senora de Cruz, wife of the Minister from Chili; Commander and Mr:-. William Manning- Irwin, Miss tiher- . French naval attach* and Viscount*:-* lienoist d'Azy and the FTench first sec retary. Mr. de Pcretti <le la Rocca. There was a small tea af th» embassy this after noon. The British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce entertained at dinner to-night Baroness Rosen, Justice and Mrs. LAlton, Bo licitor General and Mrs. Bowers, Senator Kean, Miss Kean, Representative and Mrs. John W. Weeks. ex-Secretary of the In terior and Mr.--. Garfleld, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Page, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Charles D. Norton, Mr. and Mrs." Archibald Hopkins, Mr. an,} Mrs. George. Howard. Dr. and Mrs. Fremont Smltn. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur WlHert. of Ix>n<ion and Washington: Miss Elizabeth Adams, Mrs. Samuel Spencer, Miss Wetmore. Miss Georgiana Hopkins, Brigadier General Crozier, ex-Governor Magoon. John White and the British second secretary, George Young. Mitchell limes, British counsellor, is spending some days in Xew York. IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY. [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, March 7. — The Vice-Presf dent and Mrs. Sherman will return here early to-morrow morning from a short visit to their home in Utica, The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Ballinger were the guests of Senator and Mrs. Piles at the New National" to-night, and were afterward entertained at supper at the New Willard. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Hollyday were also guests. The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. MccVeagh were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Clark, of Chicago, at dinner to-night. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have an apartment in Wendell Mansion for the season. Miss Gwendolyn Burden was the guest of Miss Klkins at luncheon to-day, when a number of young people were Invited to meet lier. Miss Burden baa he* the guest of Representative Hamilton Fish and Miss M LABORI TO RETIRE. DECIDE IN FAVOR OF ROBBItI Reasons for Refusal to Run Again for J Post of Deputy. Paris. March 7.— Fernand Labori. the law- I yer and Radical Republican member of the Chamber of Deputies, following th« exam- ' pies of M. l>a^ie>. anti-Semite, and M Gauthier de- Clagny, Revisionist, who are retiring from Parliament on the ground ; that the opposition is impotent, announces j that he will not stand for re-election. M. Labor! says that although he la an j ardent Republican he can no longer serve ! the best interests of the country in the ; present state of parliamentarism, which he says makes political life a perpetual com- j promise with power, demagoglsm and I money. He places responsibility for this j state of affairs upon the system of electing Deputies by a. majority votp in small dis tricts, and prop a remedy in broaden- ing the election basis to departments, wit:-. a proportional representation which will permit all shades of political opinion to be heard. Ho also advocates a change in the constitution through which the President of France would become the real executive head of the nation. Senator Raymond Poincare. Radical Republican, advocates a similar reform. CACERES RECEIVES MINISTER. Santo Doenngo, Bfarca X, -Bova Knowlea, th.» newly appointed American Minister to Banto Domingo, presented his credentials to President Cacerea t.> daj The reception was cordial. The country ia quiet. BILL TO HONOR ROOSEVELT. Albany, March 7. A joint committee of ten Senators and twenty Assemblymen to represent the Legislature at the ceremonies in Now York City to be held in honor of the return of ex-President Theodore Roose- velt Is provide*! for in a joint resolution, introduced by Assemblyman R. 11. Clarke, of Brooklyn, to-nighl The resolution, which appropriates j:'.O<vv for expenses, was referred to the Ways and Means Com mittee. MR. STRAUS GOES TO CAIRO. Constantinople, .March 7.— Oscar S. Straus. the American Ambassador to Turkey, and Mrs. Straus sailed to-day for t'alru on tho American gunboat Scorpion. Mr. and Mrs. Straus will meet former President Roose velt, and will then make h fcix weeks' cruise in the Mediterranean before return ing here. AND THE NEK ES. i-'roni The Auburn Advertiser. N>w York's latest drink is the "parasol punch." It tickles the ribs. Fish for some .lays, but will retura •- v* York to-morrow. * Roprescntattve Hamilton Fish ant »' Fish will have as week-end guests jn^* 11 Mrs. William Dudley and Miss Sibyl nf? las. who will arrive wre on Friday *'* and Mrs Stu>-vesant Fish will arrive **- March IS for a short visit to Mr. j^a - his daughter, and a dinner will begj-pj^! their honor the night after their arth«f * Mrs. William 11. Leeds, of New Terk rived here this afternoon for a We«Vi'** to the Misses Cameron. She win latr» for Paris. Mr*. Belmont Tiffany, gt^* York, Is now the guest of her slst?^ > Misses Cameron. * * •'* Mrs. John }:. Henderson <»iitertaiaai w night the members of her ftancins; h^ ! which met all winter in the ballroom 0 «? new house, and invited a number of L* tlonal gossts. Among them wer* the 3 . Ish Minister and Mme. >]» T - Ig cr>Z? Mrs. A. C. Barney. Miss Ower.dolj^Tf den. Miss Fish. Baron and Baroness jj^ j schen yon '.;rnl SMi I^ieb^ri.-tf.n. -y,^_ ! and Viscountess d'Azy and others,"E~~^? I ing more than a hundred. "*" Mrs. J. Hopkins Smith, formerly p,^ j Morton, and a favorite ner* sociaUy j her father was Secretary of th« Xj^^j spending SbbSH "lay-! in town. ' .* Mr. and Mrs. Robert RoosmtH tg, talned at dinner to-ni?ht for their &*** ter, Miss OJga Roosevelt, in the J*t were Miss Beatrice Sterl'ns. cf .%>«, t^? Mi- Ma: McCati!ey. Miss '■ tartan w Miss Laura Man law Mfcw Glaifra jj^T Ipy, Lieutenant Palirspr. I-lcutrnun: (^ haus, F^ieutenant Bristol. U"ur»n4nt E«* cliff. Mr. illicit and Frank'in EH» S Rear Admiral and Mrs. Mason •s^ tamed jruest.H at dinner to-ni^ht as ill and Mrs. Franklin El!:*. ' * NEW YORK SOCIETY. Mrs. I. Townscnd Burden pave I'bbbi l last nicrht et her house. In Ea»t 32J r^i On account of th«* «!cath of Mis, r^ truydt Van Cortlandt 8.-'kman. the w<^jl of the Washington S<iuare dance?, which m i t€ have taken place last erebln? »t _ home of her mother. Mrs. "William Befi<rl' .nan, in East I 'th street, »- a . -,_. poned Indefinitely. Miss Be*san«n> finiaal took place yesterday rnomtr.c; trom g^". Church. She was a member of th* eiar. mittee that, had charge of the dances Mrs. George a. Robbie* will Rive a ,j!.. rer for her srranddaußhte,-. MJss ""mxMi. daughter of Mr. an 1 Mrs. 11. Van Rtaa»» la»-r Kennedy, on March 23. w Mrs. John Henry Hammond gaT» %» use of her house, in East 9!st street, r?& terday for a lecture on "'Superstlttensait Songrs"' Riven by A. Foxton-Fer^asoa tr th* benefit of the work of the AntJ-Ba» rnent Circle of Hartley House, which ss. ports .1 kindergarten, a district tiu-ne az> a free milk depot. The entertainment ©e-j mitte© included Mrs. Charles A. Ta 111 1111 lISH Mr«. Ne!sor. R Burr, Si Ansel Pholps. Mrs. J. I^nsdor. Schroeirl Mrs. Everett Colby. .Vr«. Corne!iu3 Zl Agnew and Miss K. M. Kohlsaat \ Mrs. A'anderbJU will give a d:an:r ■ Tuesday of next ivpek at her house, $ Fifth avenue and ;~sth street. Mrs. Georga J. •'. g!v« a <fi«jr this evening at h aicnt The Tuesday Evening Roller SkattejCu will meet this evening in the MetroscSsj Rink. ' The seviinc class that works fcr fij fresh air fund cf the Cathedral of -■ Jail the Divine will meet this morning at tt» home of Mrs. John Greenough, in East £1 street. Mr . Frederic. J. d- Peyster"a sew ing class met 3-esterday at her hem?, ii East SSth st-eet. The Prince ar.d Princ??s Lucings-Fai cigmy -.. due to arrive i:i New York O day from Havana. After a short ?tay « tl'.e St. Regis they wffl go to ■ "■as* TTie princess was Miss Mercedes Terry. «f New York. Mr. and Mrs. A. I>. Juilliard have a"*"* at St. Augustine, Fla.. front Palm Bea^L Mrs. Joseph Stickney will sail for Enter* ■■ a; Mr. a- i Mrs Stephen l». Olin tav» r* turned to town from their trip to 3te»i SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT. [By T>!egTaph to Tfc» Tribur.e-1 Newport. March 7.— A report is • irrtrt here that Colonel John Jacob Astor Jjßj open Beechwood this summer ar.i willsjt' a purt cf the season here. Ex-Commodore and Mrs. Lewis Cass l£ m yard were Newport visitors to-day. Mr. and Mrs. R. Livingston Beeckstt who spent the week end with Mr. •»*** Louis I*. Ljori'lard, have gone to Wisii*** Presbyterian Stated Clerk Will •£ Hold Treasurersliip. - • Philadelphia. March 7. -The PcesbjK* of Philadelphia, at a special meetiss fcs* to-day, decided to take no action ' >n *** overture of the Presbytery ot BJairsvfJft which .«eeks to have the treusurership e the I'resbyterUn General Assembly ftelli *L some other person tha:i the stated «■*■ of the genera] assembls". The Rev. Dr. William" H. KoberW. • stated clerk, is also treasurer, and the* in favor of the Blairsvilie overture fcg^l that one man should not hoM botb oSi*» Th«? I'hiladelpliia Presbytery is one of ti» largest in the Church. MDO WELL CLUB FELLOWSIff One in Dramatic Composition Is" 3 " lished at Harvard. (Xv Telesra;^. to Thr T^s^^ae.] ■&• Cambridge.. Mass.. March 7.— The IJ *\ yard University Corporation has acc^** an offer from the student fund coxcnxW** of the McDowell Club, of New York Cttt to establish a fullowship in dramatic position for 1910-'IL The candidate ** the fellowship must l>e a student in ** matt composition, but it is not *:?&*& that he should know the history of W» dranuT. although this is desirable Kach applicant must til« with Prof"**^ George P Kaker a dramatic raanu.-'cnf' before August 1 and also the reeaawi has for destrlns the fellowship. W^eat best manuscript has been selected 6? ■ ' lessor Baker the name of Its author *'' be forwarded to the New York club gj approval. Any Harvard or Radcl!2* sts " dent is eligible for the fellowship- DR. MALCOLM M'BURNEY ENGAGE^ [ By IMaajaaaji : I The Tr^un»l I<enor. March 7. — The ensasexne"* announced In Stovkbrids** of M*»*~^ Dorothy Moran. daughter of AmWW pa« Moran. of N.». 46 n*»t :^i st«« l * ■*" f York, and Dr. Malcolm Mcßurner. *>" "^ Dr. and Mrs. Charter Mcßurne>*.- °LL,> York and Stockbridge. Dr. McE^'^ was graduated last Jane from the C ~J£ of Physicians and Surgeons N'c** t#v , ami has passed an examination <•» *^ t ■ years* course In the Presbyterian Pltal. in New York. He' is a **""*!*«? the Harvard and University clubs *"r^-; the Stockbrldge Golf and rr * "* ## Ha was a member of the Har^'aj*^^- Club at CalnbriJge. won- the McrK^^^ Coif cup two years, and for s * vM ]*;Sit^ was goli champion of Berkshire *.o