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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
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TTESDAT, MABCIi 8, 101*..
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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