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1 SULTAN VERY ILL His Heir Present at King Ed ward's Funeral To-day. T<T>' T 'S"'- iSl*. by the JBreatwood Company.] f . l j\.pi;iar Interest has teen to such an ex tent monopolised by the death of Edward VII a™ l ti: * accession to the throne of - Qeor^c V that the very serious Illness of * ihe Sultan of Turkey has been allowed to •ri«ss relatively unnoticed. Yet he has been r.t the point of death, and although there "has been some improvement in his condl •' tien. It ip evident that his reign, which crly began a year ago, Is rapidly drawing to a close. "Prue. the disease of measl*£. ■n-hl<*h was officially designated as his mal tCy. :«* not serious in itself, but.it is quite '^ storming in a lather stout and prematurely seed man of sixty-six, who Is afflicted with Jmrd?rJr.g of the arteries and with Bright's jHgr.nr' In an advanced degree. The com- Vlnation of Bright's disease and measles - ]ed for a time to a temperature of IOC and r pulse of 110. from which it will be seen ' that his life may be said to have hung for a time in the balance. The affection of the -♦>>-«. as well as hi.* obesity, had its origin in the fict that during the great er part of the more than thirty years' reign . of his brother. ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid, he %-is kept a strict .prisoner in his palace and never permitted to wander beyond the precincts of the very small park by vh'.ch it as surrounded. The next heir to the throne, Yussuff (or Joseph) Izzedine. is representing to-day the Sublime Porte at the funeral of King Ed i He 4s the eldest son of the late gu!tan Abdul Aziz, who was deposed in 1576 fjid immediately afterward driven to sui cide. He is therefore a first cousin of the eeeat Padishah. The fact that he, rather thar. the sons of Abdul Harnid or the reign 1: „ SiT.tan, should be next In line for the throne I due to the religious and civil h,ivs which for hundreds of years have <]« termined the succ-essLcn of the reigning lioute of Osman. The Padishah's own son, Sia-Eddine. a man now thirty years of age, Is ciily ■ .'•-.-•. in the line of succession. Th* 'icir apparent Is a small man. His rtatcre is extremely abbreviated. In fact. y, n is not so ta.ll as King Victor Emmanuel. r.nd •"•hen he mi i mil the throne will en jt/y the distinction of being the shortest ruler in : nope. He is more than fifty old. but, unlike the present Sultan. i? in excellent health and condition. He is on very good terms -with the Sultan, this T*:ng something altogether new in Turkish MsK'ry. Heretofore the heir apparent has ; s ;trayf been treated by the occupant of the. ,- thrcß? a? an object of crave suspicion and . has freq-jently been kept in close captivity tnd not ■".--■■ to see anybody, and mm- j pfc:ai!y barred from intercourse with for- j . gnen During the recent visits of the ; Kinsr? of Bulgaria and of Servia to Con- | *.tar.tinep!e the Turkish heir apparent took ; s prominent part in all the festivities, and -- vwxy Important ceremony invariably •■>■ r-j?ie* a position on the steps of the throne by the Padishah's side. H^ is also on friendly terms ... Tdtosg Turks, and, ■ bile talking English, French and German fluently, nearly all his ' Jmotriede'E of foreign languages, foreign ? ecurtries and foreign affairs has been de rived from hooks. For a long time he con i»nted himself with one wife, but owing to Ler childlessness subsequently took three oihers. The fourth one alone has presented jilte with any issue, namely, a girl, who is Me only chiid. He is extremely fond of music --; of flowers, especially roses, and both his residence and the gardens by ■* hich it is surrounded show a cleanliness end care and an orderliness which axe ai ' together tin-Oriental. Spanish Royalty at Buenos Ayres. [nfaaaa Isabella, aunt of Etna; Alfonso. err*— cd at Buenos Ayres on Wednesday, to take cart in the ceremonies in connection •with the centenary^ of the declaration of in «s*pendeDee of the Argentine Republic. 2-^arly every government has dispatched a epecia! embassy to Buenos Ayres, to take part Irs the celebration, but Spain is the only power that will be represented by royalty. This is not only peculiarly Cas tillar; courtesy, since it was the sovereignty cf S^ain which the Argentinos thvear off trtiea they proclaimed their Indepen lence, Just a hundred years ago out it is also a very sacaciou& move, and calculated to fur ther the policy pursued by Alfonso XI IL in : *tr!d€£voring to develop the oldt"nie ties r 'of kinship with the people of Spanish aneepti 1 ! in South America into ■ species "cf federation of the Spanish republics, more or less closely ellied to the mother •ctrjntr; . It has been bis one dream since lie has attained Us majority to restore to tpain the power and prestige which she '^S lost through the sacrifice of her colo nies by uniting all the Spanish republics on this side of the Atlantic into something thai v.-o'j'd be riot merely ■ zollverein, but **» a federation for offence and defence, at arhted his most Catiiclie majesty would "in the presiding officer. ' .- Alf^r.so could not have made a happier choice than his aunt Isabella for any such mission as this, ■ad the very fact that she ••is lh^ only rlnoesc of the blood present WiH assure to Spain the foremost place at eWH'l' one of the BMpfea in honor of the tirth cf Argentine independence. For she i*- far and away the most popular member «f U» reigning house of Spain, and the t*ertion which she has known how to In «pb* in all classes in the peninsula, from tit nroudest aristocracy <jown to the most | >!ai)ovf:ri<=h<-d peasantry, as been a source | l * R.-eat strength and security to the throne «?. her brother. Alfonso XII, and of her # ,s?ohew. Alfonso XIIL I.~]s"ith no pretensions to the good looks or .<■t-gar.ee cf her youngest sister. Infanta Euialit. -srho represented Spain at the cele tetUon at Chicago in 1533- of the 400 th an .Zifrtzry of the discovery of America by ; '-'^uabus. Infanta Isabella commands a j Hatfa srreater degree -.; affection and re- -at home as well as abroad. Forced £fatj an uncongenial marriage with Prince rr G *«tia ...f BourlHjn. Count of Girgentl, ..^Kier of thf last King of Naples, she was _^Ceas*,j s]ir>-«? year* later, in a horribly manner, «,froni her epileptic hua ->:^»d. irtven h<- Wew his t.rains out in her *?3*«jw i n a hot<?l at Geneva. From that &: - Xortn she devoted herself entirely to .kfcr only brotLer. itjraiiaa XII, and until . birth of bis children bore, as next heir *° tjb« throne, the titl* 1 of Princess^of the acting us reg«it in his absence. .?\k?n be marrU-d in ISTB tne lovely Mer !**» the effaced bt-rself. and cheerfully •^m-nd, - t ,j t() il<fr nevr Rittc-r-in-law »the «iiirf ix^isiuu which Shu had until then oc- at h<^r brother's court. It was not, «J fe'ei. -jiiti! Alfonso Xll's death that she t^nif. prominently again before the public «*-the fricjui and supporter of her broth -^'s widow. Cri&tina, who at that tin,- was •^tatly dislikfr-d by the people on account * h?r Ausirisin ongin. Shr? took up her tt&ence In the royal palace at Madrid ■»' *-a h*>r widowed sister-in-law, xigoxously «Tpo^<l a!! the niovements started by the '" ••:- >*rvatlves to transfer the regency from x^ Qur«n Mother Cristina to hertelf. a«d uholly to the welfare of •Uis yout;g king, of his sisters and of their Qolte as t.samele?s in her private life *s *&*ifß CMstina l-«;r«eif. all her tastes are She lias been Justly famed a*= I*e sr.«st r "ir In haaid feminine whip In ZiWrp^ ir a eplendtd shot, and before sfte n^canx; so stout used to ride to hounds *&Z !%ow herself a daring equestrienne. Ji'r inte!:!zence and her conversation, like • : «J partisies, partake more of a masculine "lin c£ a feminine character.- She has al »^« taiten a man's vtmm of the political -f-iuaiiotif that have arisen, although <iis • P;sy'.!!£ an •! -i t e n<j«;rne6B of a woman to %*«, CriEtlaa ar.J the Utters children. '-ri is rronouncert by Spaniards of «-'Vcrj # *«Sree to te net only the cleverest but also | the most broad minded "statesman" of the k.npdom. She has -the same merry lauph. ! tne sunny temper, the kindly manner, the l amusingly brusque and witty speech as her mother, the late Queen Isabella, without any of the latter^ moral defects of char- ' , acter. and with her simplicity and ab!»enc« of all arrogance and affectation; with that democracy which only those of assured po j sition can allow themselves she is bound ito prove the most popular feature of the : celebration which takes place at the end ! of this month at Buenos Ayres. ; She made the trip on the transatlantic ! | liner Alfonso XII. escorted by several cruis j ers and attended by a large suite of naval 1 and military dignitaries, by representatives | of the Spanish Academy and of other an- ! ; alogous institutions of the peninsula, as I ■ well as by the presidents of the principal l i chambers of commerce of the kingdom. i The New "Prince of Scotland." Through the accession of King George j I his eldest son has become Invested with j the title of Prince of Scotland. The princi pality or appanage of the Prince of Scot i land consists of the counties of Ayr. Ren : frew and Ross, and they have constituted ! a principality ever since the time of King '' ! Robert 111 personal to the eldest son of the : King for the time being. Another new honor of the British heir ' j apparent is the dukedom of Kothesay, along ! with the earldom of Carrick and the barony j of Renfrew. It may be recalled that "Lord i ; Renfrew" was the title which the late King j Edward used when travelling about In this i country half a century ago. It wag by an j act of the Scottish Parliament, bearing ' date of 1459. that the dukedom of Rothesay was settled on the eldest sons of the kings jof Scotland. It had previously been borne by the ill fated Prince David, eldest son I of Robert 111, who met with so unhappy \ \ a fate at the hands of his uncle, Robert ! ; Duke of Albany, at Falkland Castle in \ j 1402. The Scotch earldom of Carrick, which ' must not be confounded with the Irish • peerage of the same name, comes to the ; j British heir apparent as an inheritance of , ■ the Braces, having been obtained by them i ! through the marriage of Robert de Bruce, j father of King Robert I. with Margaret, j ' only daughter and heiress of Neil, Earl of j Carrick. Yet other Scottish dignities of the new ' , heir apparent are those of Great Steward of j j Scotland and of Lord of the Isles, the latter J ' a title which In olden times belonged to the i ! house of Macdonald, but which they were j i obliged to surrender at the close of the flf- } ■ teenth century to the reigning house of J I Scotland. While all these honors come to the young ■ I prince by the mere fact of his father's ac cession to the throne, the dignity of Prince of Wales, as well as the Palatine Earldom j of Chester, always associated therewith, j will -come to him later by creation. King , | Edward, during the last twenty or thirty ; years of Queen "Victoria's life, was wont to 1 use the name of Earl of Chester when tray- i ; elling: incognito abroad, an<l used to be j ! known as such during his annual stays »it j i Horn burg and Marienbad. The earldom of i ■ Chester was originally held by one Gher- ' bourd. a Fleming, who received large grants in the district, in addition to the city cf ! I Chester, from William the Conquerer. He. j however, returned to the Continent, and ; i never came back, and the earldom was ! I shortly afterward granted to Hugh d'Av ranches. His son and heir was drowned with Prince William in the Blanche Kef, off j I Barfieur, when the title passed to his kins- j man, Randolph le afeac&in ; that is to say, i "the Young:." On the death of the fourth j ,of this house, the earldom lapsed to the j .Crown. John le Scot, nephew of William j the Lion, of Scotland, was the nest -..arl of Chester. At his d<eatl» it passed to Ed [ ward P'antagen^t, afterward Edward I. j | since which time, with die exception of an j I eight months' usurpation by Simon de ■Mont ! fort, It has never been held by any one ex- j cepting: the heir apparent. . i MARQUISE DE FONTEN<~>T, OBITUARY. DR. MICHAEL BRINKMAN. fß^ Telwrraph tc The Tribune.l Pl.iiadelphia. May 19.— Dr. Michael Brink man, who introduced hydrotheraphy Into this country, died this morning at his home bare He -was !n his eighty-fourth year and had been ir. ill heath for several years. Although his medical ideas were net re garded favorably for several years after his arrival in this country from Germany, he lived to see his theories and practices accepted as a recognized branch ot medi cal seienc*. Dr. Brinkman was ~orn in Tassel. Ger many, on February 16, 1827. He obtained bis medical education and training: at the University of Marburg. During IS4S and 1849 he served as a -purgeon in the German army, at tho revolution in Baden. The fol lowing year he was appointed assistant to the court physician and placed in charge of the Alexanderbad, a famous German watering place. In 1855 he came to this country. Two years later he established a hydropathic in stitute at Willow Grove. This establish ment was later transferred to Chestnut Hill. Here his practices met with Booeoaa, and recognition by the medical world fol lowed. Dr. Brinkmaß leavs a ■wife, two sons. Dr. Morris W. Brinkman, of New York City, and Dr. Leon Brinkman, of this city, and two daughter*. Mrs. Julius Wtodnor. of tbJa city, and Mrs. Lcjuis T »Veil, of New York City. JOHN ROONEY. John Kooney, seventy-one years old. died on Wednesday at his home, No. 59 St. John's Place, Brooklyn. Mr. Rooney came to this country from Ireland fifty years apo. He studied law, and for twenty-fiv» years was connected with a New Yprh railroad firm. For years he was president of the Boston. Hartford t & Erie Railroad Company, and was associated with General Benjamin F. Butler in the celebrated Sprague failure case in Rhode Island. In IS9I Mr. Rooney became president of the American Electric Light Company, and mas a promoter of the Consolidated Elec tric Company and of the Tower Electric Company, subsequently absorbed by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, He leaves a wilt-, three sons and three daughter*., FRANZ NEUMULLER. FrciiZ Xeumuller, one of the proprietors of the Union Square Hotel, died at his home. No. 119 East 18th street, yesterday afternoon, at the age of tifty-eight years, from rheumatism. He was born in Vienna and came to America forty years ago. His first independent venture was a table d'hote restaurant in Philadelphia during the^x positlon of 1876. He came to New York after the exposition, and, with Andrew F. Schaefer, established the Hotel Uungaria, in East IMb street. Four years ago the partners bought the Union Square HoteL Mr. N«umulier was vice-president of the Excelsior Brewing Company, a director of the American Exchange Cigar Company and a member of the Hotel Managers" As sociation. He leaves a wife and six chil dren, three sons and three daughters. WARREN G. SMITH. Warren G. Smith died at his residence, jCo.' 161 Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, on May 18. in his sixty-first year. He had been in the wholesale Jewelry business for thirty y«ars at So 170 Broadway, but retired from ac tive work ten years ago, on account of poor health He was the grandson of Conklln Bruch one of the former mayors of Brook un as well as one of the founders of the Mechanics' Bank and Holy Trinity Church. He married Jessie Talmage. one of the da-^Uters of IIM late Rev. Dr. T. .De Witt Talmas?, who. ... daughter, vurvives bhn> XEW-YOUK DAILY TKTBrXE. FRIDAY. MAY 20. MlO. TABLET IN MEMORY OF GENERAL LOUIS FITZGERALD Unveiled yesterday in 71st Regiment Armory. TABLET FOE A SOLDER Former Ccmrades Honor Mem ory of Genera! Fitzgerald. A tablet to the memory of General Louis Fitzgerald, a former commander of the Fljst Brigade. New York National Guard, was unveiled yesterday afternoon at the brigade headquarters, in the 71st Regiment Armory. 34th street and Park avenue. THe tablet is made of bronze and is four feet square. It contains a medallion buot of General Fitzgerald, in uniform, sur rounded by laurel and oak leaves. It is the work of H. Herring, cf this city, and was presented to the brigade headquarters by the former members of General Fitr gexald's staff. Beneath the medallion is the inscription: "In affectionate memory of Louis Fitz gerald; born May 31, 1838; died October 6, ifJB. Enlisted as a private in 7th Regiment, December 30. 1557. Served in Civil War as lieutenant and captain of volunteers. 18C1 1£65. Promoted for gallantry at Bull Run, 1861, and at Fair Oaks. I&6C. Adjutant and lis-utenanX colonel of the 7th Regiment, 1867 18F2. Brigadier general. N. Y. N. G. 1882 1897. Gallant soldier, man of affairs and loyal friend. "This tablet is placed in the headquar ters of the brigade which ho commanded by those who had the privilege of serving as members of his staff." The exercises at the unveiling of the tab let in the living room of the headquarters staff were brief and informal. Major Paul Dana, who served under General Fitzgerald on the brigade staff, made the presentation, and Brigadier General George Moore Smith, new commander of the brigade, accepted the tablet as a tribute to the bravery and other soldierly qualities of their departed comrade. It would serve as an incentive to those now connected with the brigade, he said, to maintain the traditions of tne National Guard of New York and to emu late the example set by him whose memory was thus commemorated. Mrs. Fitzgerald, tho widow, and her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Adee, were present at the ceremony, as were Mrs. Paul Dana, Mrs. F. R. Applet on, Mrs. C. Lawrence Perkins and Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt. Old comrades of General Fitzgerald on the brigade staff who were present were Colonel Stephen H. Olin, Major Paul Dana, Major David Crocker, Major C. Lawrence Perkins, Major H. 6. Van Duzer, Major Francis R. Appleton and Major W. Emlen Roosevelt. Colonel Daniei Appleton, com manding officer of the 7th Regiment, to which General Fitzgerald belonged, was the guest of the headquarters staff at the exercises General Fitzgerald, besides his splendid career as a soldier during the war, in which he rose to the rank of colonel in command of the Ist Mississippi Regiment, had a dis tinguished record in thp financial world. He was for years president of the Mer cantile Trust Company and active in im portant railroad reorganizations and other financial operations. ETCHINGS GO AT LOW PRICES Many Purchases Made at Exhibition in Fine Arts Building. Many lovers of etchings attracted to the current exhibition of the American Wator Color SMtety in the Fine Arts Building. In West Tilth street, have made purchases there this week at what are considered exceptionally low prices. Two well known etchings by the late Jam* h D. Bmlllie, X. A.— "Causeway. Marblehead," and "Tower on the Rhine" —were sold yesterday at only (2S and S2O. respectively. "Rainy Day, Provi dence," by Charles F. W. Mielatz. brought $30; a drawing by Winslow Homer ?-K», and a portrait of Isadora Duncan, by Florence "VVyman, $75. The exhibition will close on Sunday. A WEDDING. Miss Helen Elizabeth Denslow, youngest daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Herbert M. Denslow. was married to the Rev. Henry Sherman Smart, a recent graduate of the General Theological Seminary, yesterday, at I o'clock, in the chapel of the Good Shepherd, of the seminary. The ceremony was performed by the Right Rev. Dr. James Henry Darlington, Bishot) of the Diocese of Harrlsburg, Perm. The maid of honor was Miss Anna C. Bach man, of Seneca Falls. N. V., and the best man was "William Essex, of Nyack, N. Y. The ushers w«re Luke Reed and John Mc- HaiJCht. of Garrison, N. Y. The bride was given away by her father, who Is profes sor of pastoral theology in the General Theological Seminary- After a trip r through the South the couple will make their/home in Huntingdon, Perm.. where the bridegroom has recently accept ed a call to become rector of St. John's Church. FETE CHAMPETRE FOR INFIRMARY. A f&te-champetre for the benefit of the S. R. Smith Infirmary, of New Brighton, Staten Island, opened at the Fair Grounds of the Richmond County Agricultural So ciety yesterday afternoon, »nd will be con tinued throughout the week. Five hundred persons were In attendance yesterday, and a nice puzri Is expected to be realized for the cause. To-morrow there will be a rse show. There will also be a potato race and an egg race to-morrow. • WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY. TTree admission to the American Muneum of - £ Natural History and the Zoological Gar den. Meeting of the Spanish War Veteran*. Hotel A star. 4 p. m. Mee!'n« of th* N«w York Association of Biology Teacher*. High School of Com merce, evening/. .:;*,;: Tjtnner of the Speakers' Club and the Dinner Association of tin Public Rpealilnir Club. ' Terrace Garden, evening. UMtltlC of th« New,' York Microscopical So oJety. American Museum of Natural His tory. cvenitiK- MeatiisiK °i tne tv o* dh«mieal Industry. t Chenjiil*' Club, .No. 103 West &sth eireet, % 6:i& p. so. ARBITRAHON A W Business Men for International Union with Final Court. Mohonk Lake. X. V., May 19.— The Busi ness Men's Association of the Lake Mo honk Conference on International Arbitra tion, representing between fifty and sixty chambers of commerce in the United States and Canada, this afternoon adopted a dec laration to be presented to the conference to-morrov, in part as follows: The business interests of the world are keenly alive to the abnormal conditions that from time to time destroy the confi dence of peoples and Interrupt the work ings of their interdependence. The great est and most distinctive of these are those of the apprehension or the positive real ization of war. Nothing can be of greater importance than such agencies as will pre vent these conditions from arising or will quickly end them whenever tney do ap pear. Among these agencies tbe first in impor tance are those that devalop mutual confi dence and respect and beget a love of jus tice and a devotion to the right. We reaf firm our conviction that commercial in terests are and will increasingly conttnuw to be a powerful factor in preserving the peace of the world. We hold that justice and righteousness are prerequisite conditions to true business prosperity, and -while we recognize that arbitration of the disputes between indi viduals and nations is the best means yet available for settling them we regard ar bitration as but an intermediate station on the way to the nnal consummation to be found in an international union whose ar bitral court of justice will be the final court of the world, from whose decision there can be no appeal. Dr. Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus of Harvard University, and Rear Admiral J. B. Murdock, U. S. N"., addressed the conference to-nigtit. L»r. Eliot said In part: It is a solid fact that an overwhelming majority of the Englisn people feel it to be for mem a matter of life and death that they keep ready for Instant action fleets capable of preventing invasion and the cutting off of the fcod supplies and the raw materials which come to them over s<=as; and so long as they seriously dread catastrophes of that nature they will keep or. building preponderant fleets. They must have security against such ruinous calami ties. . . _ On the whole the only way in which promoters of oeacs can at this moment make headway'against the apprehension of invasion is to urge the making of arbitra tion treaties which contain no exceptions and the establishment of a permanent court of arbitral justice. The reduction of arma ments on land must await the establish ment of such a supreme court unless, indeed, neighboring nations by twos or threes can make local agreements for reduction analogous to the invaluable ar rangement made in ISI7 between the United States and Great Britain concerning arma ments on the Great Lakes. Rear Admiral Murdock said the officers of the United States navy were "for peace and for every legitimate means by which it can be secured and guaranteed." The question of arbitration was accepted im plicitly. Simeon E. Baldwin, formerly Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, this forenoon pointed out some of the faults of the present court of nations set up at the first Hague conference, and ex pressed a hope that the proposition to make the judges of the International Prize Court ex-officio judges of the Court of Ar bitral Justice, which was indorsed by this government last year, would receive gen eral indorsement. H. B. F. MacFarland. of Washington, former Commissioner of the District of Columbia, declared that this proposition, favored by Secretary Knox in a circular note to the powers last October, would be adopted, and that its success would in after years be considered the greatest achievement of the Taft administration. James Brown Scott, Solicitor of the State Department and a delegate to the second Hague confeience. brought an "authorized and directed" quotation from Secretary Knox, predicting that the third Hague conference would find a permanent court ot arbitral Justice in session at The Hague, and that many powers were accepting the proposiuo'n, at least in principle. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler expressed the thanks of the conference to Secretary Knox for selecting this occasion for the announcemnet. PERU-ECUADOR DELAY King Alfonso Withholds Award to Allow Direct Settlement. Lima, Peru, May 19.— The Spanish Min ister has received a telegram annouueing that King Alfonao. the arbiter in the boundary dispute between Peru and Kcua dnr, will delay his award, thus allowing the two countries to make a direct settle ment. NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS. "The rubbish collected in the city of New York during one year was 5234,000." Does this Include fake old masters?— Chicago Evening Post. Mayor Gaynor of New York may have saved $4,000,000 for the city, but what has he saved for the politicians?— Detroit News. Chicago, too, has suppressed a theatre. The old rivalry between Chicago and New York still exists.— Atlanta Journal. Fifty thousand bad eggs have been seized in New York. We'll bet that most of them weie arrested on the corner of Broadway and 42d Cleveland Leader. When New York can boast a lofty stand ard of civic pride and righteousness the people there will commence to bra* of the town as the "Houston of the East."—Hous ton Post. Mayor Gaynor is sometimes accused of being a dreamer, and we notice in this connection that lie says he Is going to erad icate graft from th*> New York Police De partment.— State Journal. Newest; New York society fad is to have guests write their names on the table cloth and then have the tracings embroidered It'll be a co, until some honest man writes his opinion of -the grub.— Philadelphia Star. New York subway cars are being pro vided with gerraless "straps." That is nothing but fair. If the strap-hanger is re quired, to pay full fare, he is entitled at least to the exclusive use of hia strap — Washington Herald. A_ most reprehensible form of gambling in The opinion of New York lawyers, has made its appearance in that city. The plaintiff and defendant in a lawsmit set tied it out of court by Sipping » penny.— Concord Monitor. • • INDEPENDENTS COMBINE Say Main Object Is to Eliminate the "Booking Graft." [ John Cort and his recently organtr^d I National Theatre Owners' Association won I recognition yesterday at the meeting of the National Association of Theatrical Pro j ducing Managers, when the directors of ! the two organizations agreed to co-operate ; in an effort to eliminate the abuses of the ; theatrical business. j John Cort. J. J. Coleman. Albert Wei««. C. P. Walker and Jacob Wells represe-tei the National Theatre Owners' Association, and the directors of the National Associa tion of Theatrical Producing Managers represented the latter body, and they set- J tied upon the elimination of the Baakftßl I graft as the main object In common. They agreed In a desire to abolish the middleman between the producer and the theatre owner or lessee and adopted a It i era! interpretation of the open door policy. •They also determined to appoint commit- Jtees which should have full power to set j-tle any disputes which might arise between 1 producers and theatre managers. Commlt ; tees were appointed to prepare full plans for further co-operation, the first meeting ! of which will take place to-night. It was Intimated that Klaw & Erianger i would not be recognized as a booking con ! cern, but that all bookings would be con ducted between the owner or manager of the theatre ani the producers of plays. This arrangement, it was stated, meant that all the houses represented in lbs Na tional Theatre Owners' Association would be open to all meritorious attractions in the country and that no "one-man power" would dominate again the several districts represented in the association. MORE BROADWAY BURLESQUE The New York Theatre Will Open for "The Merry Whirl" on May 30. Burlesque will be given at the New Tork Theatre, beginning May 30, when "The Merry Whirl." which has been playing to burlesque houses for forty weeks and has been entertaining crowded houses at the Columbia Theatre, moves down the street. Cliff Gordon and Bobby North are the own ers, and the latter will play in "The Fol lies of 19W on the New York roof while his attraction is in the house. Thts is the first time that burlesque has ever been given in the New York Theatre, and Klaw & Erlanger say that it is no forecast of what the future policy will be, although it will be the attraction through the silly season. The house prices will be greatly reduced. THEATRICAL NOTES. Mesfirs. Wagenhals & Kemper dented yesterday the report that the Astor The atre was to pass out of their control XhfZ said that the McVicker RealtyTompany had offered tnem a rental of $60,000 a year fcut that, the offer had been refused. Wagenhals & Kemper recently renewed their iease for ten years, with the privilege of a ten-year extension. "Lulu's Husbands" will end its engage ment at Maxlne Elliotts Theatre to-ntght. in order to open at tne Grand Opera House, Chicago, on Sunday night. Jefferson T>e Angelis is to replace Sam Bernard in the role of Ko-Jf o In the revival of "Tht Mikado" which is to take place at the Casino Theatre on May 30. Five hundred ministers, representing all denominations, attended a special matinee of "The Fortune Hunter" at the Gaiety Theatre yesterday afternoon. Professor Brander Matthews, of Columbia University, and the Rev. Thomas R. Slicer oreupied boxes. Next week Is the last of "The Chocolate Soldier" at the Casino, the long run ending on Saturday ni^ht. May 28. Margaret Anglin has received from Percy Anderson, the English archaeologist, the de signs for the costumes to be worn In her June production of "Antigone," at the Uni versity of California. Tunatzl Sato, an employe of Frederic Thompson, has acquired the Japanese risrhts for "The Spendthrift," by Porter Emerson Browne. In conjunction with his brother Huiki he will present the play in Japan next winter. GERMAN WRITERS CELEBRATE, The German Press Club of New York and the national organization of German-Amer ican lournalists and authors celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their foundation with a reception to delegates to the conven tion at the German Press Club, No. 21 City Hall Place, last night. There will be a concert at the Hotel Plaza to-night and a dinner at the Hotel Astor to-morrow even injf. Mayor Gaynor will speak at th« din ner as will the German Ambassador and the Swiss Minister. DINNER FOR HUGHES AND JUDGES. Albany, May 19— Governor Hughes and the Court of Appeals Judges will be guests of honor at a dinner to be given in Albany on June 4 by the Supreme Court Justices or the state. The committee having the affair in charge consists of Justices Chester, Foote. Hendrick. Lehman. Coman, Maddox. Morschauser, McCal! and Andrews. THE WEATHER REPORT. Official Record and Forecast. — Washington. May 19— West her condltK-na and general fore cast: Low pressure over the western half of the country, with a principal trough of depression extending from Texas northward beyond the in ternational line has resulted in unsettled weather between the great mountain ranges, with show ers in the great river valleys and the Gulf states. There were a!"X> showers in Northern Georgia. and the Michigan Peninsula. In the Atlantic states, the lower lake and southern upper lake regions and the extreme West the weather was generally fair. Temperatures hare fallen somewhat over the shower area, and decidedly In the Northwest, but elsewhere they have generally risen, and they are above the seasonal average. The we« ern low pressure will drift slowly eastward, and a continuance of the unsettled and showery weather may therefore be expected from the Mississippi Vailey eastward during Friday and Saturday, except in New England and the mid dle Atlantic ntates, where It will be fair Friday and partly cloudy Saturday, but with little or no rain. In the West the weather wll! be generally fair, although scattered local showers are prob able. It will be cooler Kridaj- in the middle and northern plain st&tes. the central Rocky Moun tain region and Western and Southern Minnesota, and cooler Saturday In the Missouri, upper Miss issippi and lower Ohio valleys. Tho upper take region and th» Southwest. In the. East tem peratures will change but little. Forecast for Special liOcalltie*.— New England, fair to-day, warmer In western por tion: Saturday, increasing cloudiness; light to moderate, variable wind*. For Kaatern New York, (air to-day, warmer In the Interior; Saturday, increasing cloudiness; light to moderate, variable winds. For th« District of Columbia, New Jersey and ESiStern Pennsylvania, partly cloudy to-day; Saturday unsettled; light south wind*. For Western Pennsylvania, partly cloudy to day; showers at night or Saturday; cooler Satur day; moderate south winds. For Western New York. increasing cloudiness and warmer to-day;' Saturday showers; moderate south winds. Observations of United States weather bureaus, taken at » p. m. yesterday, follow: City \ ■ Temperature. Weather. Albany • «0 Clear Atlantic City «2 Clear. Host™ .......i •• «*• «lear Huffalo • 62 «-lrar Chicago •■•• 72 £255 Cincinnati *" «-l°u<ty New Orleans H Rain St. limits "'• , Cloudy Washington 72 Cloudy I>h-»1 Official KeconL — The following official record from the Weather Bureau chows the changes in the temperature for the last twenty four hour?, in comparison with the correespood ing date of last year. -J V; -v-> _ I!*>U. 1010! ' 1809. lftlO. ga. 8i........5i 54 6p. m 61 73 etm 57 ,S1 »p. m M 60 It m.. st Belli p. m. ... .. as CO ,« ni »V> fiOJIS p. m. S3 — 4 p. m <« 7 *l Highest temperature yesterday. 74 degree* lowest, 54: average yesterday, 84: average for corresponding date last year, 60; average lor corresponding date last thirty-three ' years, «0. Ijp a. forecast: To-day fair; Saturday, la creasing cloudiness; light 19 moderate, variable a lads. INDIANA MAN MODERATOR The Rev. Dr. Charics Little Wins at Presbyterian Assembly. NEW YORK CASE TAKEN UP Dr. Barkiey. of Detroit. Preaches on Need of Witnessing Church for Modern Evils. [3y Telegraph to Th# Tribune.] Atlantic C!ty. May ».— The Rev. Dr Charles Little, of Wabash. Ind.. waa unanimously elected moderator of the *en eral assembly this afternoon. His rivals for the chief office were Dr. George Alex ander, pastor of the University Place Pres byterian Church. New York, and presi dent of th# board of foregn missions: Pro fessor A. C. Zenos. of the McCormick Theo logical Seminary. Chicago, and President Warfleld, of Lafayette College. Easton, Perm. Dr. Little was bom !n Ohio in IM6. He waa graduated from Marietta College and the Lane Theological Seminary. In 1872 he began his present pastorate in the Presby terian Church, of Wabash. and he has been the stated clerk of the Synod of Indiana for twenty-five years. Dr. Alexander was placed in nomination by Congressman Ben net, and Dr. Little by ex-Congressman Chancy, of Indiana. Need of Witnessing Church. This morning the ten days' session was begun with a sermon by the Rev. Dr. James M. Barkiey. of Detroit, who in scathing terms denounced "the twin sins that threaten the very existence of this Christian nation, the vulgar race for gain and the rotting sin of social vices." Dr. Barkiey' s sermon centred about the words "Giving. Praying. Witnessing." which he declared were the key words of the conquering Church of the apostolic age and of every age* His conclusion, from a study of the work of the Presby terian Church through the year, was that these were not the key words as they might be at the present time. H» said In part: I believe that we are here face to face with a supreme spiritual need of our day— a witnessing Church. I dare not be a pessimist. Human pessimism and di vine sovereignty are inconsistent terms. I cannot be a pessimist while "God is in His heaven " But I declare to you that, dis credit the muck-rakers and the mock re formers as we will, "tbe times are out of joint." If virtues are virile evils are gi gantic. Twin sins that threaten the very existence of this Christian nation are the vulgar race for gain and the rotting sin ot social vices. The former of these evils, the inordinate love of money, is the parental and pas sionate root of sins that nave vitiated the whole world. It has produced the Achans, the .Tudases and the Benedict Arnolds of history. It has given us the grafter In office and "the wnite slave dealer" tn so ciety, those twin vampires of civilization. It has corrupted the functions of govern ment and choaed the channels of justice. It has oppressed the hireling in his wages and robbed the poor In his living. It begets betrayals of trust and prompts the rob bery of widows. It lays It* hand of greed and grasp on the most sacred seasons and thing's and prostitutes them to its unholy purposes. Sunday baseball, Sunday excur sions. Bunday newspapers. Sunday saloons, Sunday theatres and the like axe its creat ures. But bad as is the Inordinate passion for wealth and its attendant evils, it is white and wholesome as compared to that sec ond category of sins at which I hinted a moment a^o. This Is that social sin that runs so often in the wake of wealth and luxurious living. It is that terrific wrong against which ths great apostle to the na tions shaped some of his sharpest sen tences. Corinthianlsm has colonized in America. And the highest medical au thorities are alarmed at its astonishing rav ages. It Is eatlnsr with sarcomatic hunger into the health, the happiness, the mental ity, the mcrallty of this nation. Eloquent preachers have their place. And yet the ambition for eloquence may be fatal to a harvest of souls. Many a man has ridden the hobby horse of eloquence hard and got nowhfther. We want great evangelists and learned scholars and skil ful teachers and diligent pastors. But back of these and just now more than these, we need a Church that will give and pray and witness. New Yort Case Taken Up. i The New York presbytery case, as It Is now known, is officially before the assem bly. F*our pamphlets have been distrib uted by the Rev. Dr. John Fox, the Rev. Dr. Walter Buchanan and the Rev. Dr. Frederick E- Shearer, committee on com plainants. One contains the complaint and appeal and the others are brief statements from each of the committee showing why, in his opinion, the matter should be brought to the general assembly. Dr. Shearer asks explicitly that one of the candidates against whose licensure a protest was made to the New York Synod should not be ordained by any Presbytery other than the New York, and only then after another examination. In the case o* the Rev. Mr. Black, at present a pastor hi The Bronx, Dr. Shearer contends that the complaints to the synod prevented the or dination which took effect last October from being complete, and that his ordina tion should be nullified and he should be re-exajnined. Dr. Shearer declares that the assembly has the unquestioned power to de clare the ordination null and vo!d. The papers will be submitted to the judicial committee, which will be elected to-morrow, and if it is found in order wlil be referred to the judicial commission of the. assembly, which has been summoned here to try the case, assuming that there will be one. The chairman of the commission is the Rev. Dr. John W. Dinsmore, of San Jose. Cal.. an 3 the secretary. Dr. Rooert Hunter, of Philadelphia. The other thir teen members are scattered about the, coun- ; try, only one of the number. Henry W. ! Jessup, being from New York. The assembly has the power to try trip case itself and not refer it to the commis sion, but the probability ia that it will aro to the commission. The preliminary judg ment rendered by the commission may be reviewed by the assembly and may be affirmed, reversed, modified, suspended or remitted for further hearing, so that th« assembly does not lose control of the case until it has itself taken final action. From Interviews wltb the commissioners there is little likelihood of the commission or x the assembly establishing a precedent by declaring Mr. Black's ordination null and void. At the same time there are j members of the assembly who would favor taking advantage of the occasion to Issue a j clear cut declaration concerning the ques- j tions which were under discussion when : the Union Seminary students were exam- j ined. such as the validity of the Scrtptures. ; the deity of Christ, the Trinity, the super- j natural element in Christianity, the sacra ments, the vlrgtn birth of Christ and Hia resurrection. While It is undoubtedly true that the assembly is conservative tn its make-up the statement of a trading* commis sioner after the election may not be taken literally, but it undoubtedly has force. Re ferring to the election of Dr. Little over Dr. Alexander Zenos and Dr. Warfleld, this clergyman said: "You have seen to-day the triumph of Western orthodoxy." GOOD COMPLEXION COUNTS Made Essential of Gymnasium Course at Wellealey. (By Tel««T»ph to Th* Tribune 1 Wellesley. Mass.. May 19.— A good com plexion wjll be one of the essentials of the gymnasium course tn future at Wellesley College, and will count toward points tn that course- Failure to pass the "ajrui" course will mean a loss of points needed for a diploma. Mlm Holman. the physical director, announced the complexion test this afternoon, at the direction of the faculty. Next year a course in gymnastics will be peremptory tor the freshmen and sophomores. STATUES FOR NEW CHURCH Sculptor Busy on Models for Fifth Avenue Baptists. Emi! Slebern. a young sculptor of tMal city. It was learned yesterday, I? boagr on models for statues for th« proposed new Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. They will comprise, in part. maiTilß statues of the Evangelists. Matthew. Mark, Luke and John. These will ba> five feet high and will adorn the facade of the church. Mr. Slebem recently finished a marbl* group for the estate of John D. Rockefel ler at Focantico HUIsl. It depicts nymphs punishing a satyr who Is cassis* spying on them while bathing. REAL PLAYGROUND FOR PARK To Make Central More Attrac tive for Women and Children. President Mltchel of the Board of AN**** men has a new plan for increasing th« use fulness of Central Park by making it la truth a playground for the " thousands of women and children whs cannot afford t» leave the city in the hot summer month*. He will ask th* Board of Estimate and Ap portionment to-day to appoint a special committee "to formulate a plan for the «a tablishment in a suitable location in Cen tral Park of a thorough;* equipped modern playground, with wading pools, a nursery, shelters', a milk depot and such other ap pointments and devices as may be deemed advisable." The committee Is to consist of two members of the board and Park Commissioner Stover. Speaking of his project. Mr. Mitchei aaal yesterday: "The cur has succeeded ta aa» tabiishing in Central Park almost every conceivable convenl»-nc« for the autaaaobaV lst, the hors«man and the pedestrian. WRk its boulevards, bridle paths and graat lawn* it offers much comfort and pleasure to th» man who car. spewi th-ough tt with as automobile or on horseback; but w« have not, an yet. equipped this park with ttt» conveniences that the city might well offer to the many thousands of women and chil dren, who find in the park their only suns* mer vacation ground." MARRIED. BOL.TON— DETTET— Cm "Wednesday, May JS. 1910, by the Rev. Percy B. WtghtmßJS. at th» residence of her parents, J,in»t Adatr, dau«o ter of Mr and Mrs. Henry Addleon Dewey. *» Arthur Thomae Bolton. DAWES— VEK— On ThursiSay. Slay 19. 1310. at Eng'.ewood. N. J.. by the Re-». Howard C Rnbblne AdeMa Merrlclr Lew. daoshter of th« late Stella Bo»worti> and Georjre Carlton Lee and granddaughter of th« tote J«d»» Joseph 8. Boswortb. of >iew Tors, to Henry FrmoaUsi Pawes. of Qtglewood. >'otfr »• •* I— Miss. as* <■■»■ asnat s» accaaspasdsd by fall name and .<-•>« DIED. "' Bnlmer. KTfrabeth. Jonea. Hlraci. Covert. James W. Kelly. Fannie C Fleet, Samuel E. W. Klrkland. BenJ*=ste ». Gill Phillip H. Mataey. Jeanne A. A, Harloe, Blanche K. Mills. John T. Hertw<g. Anna t» Tiffany. Frank M. Hopkins. Barbara. A. Van S«boonhoTr*n. E. X Hopkins, Susan W. Wlnne. Mary D. 1?. la Xemorfexm. King Edward VII. BUI/MER— May 17. 1910. Elisabeth »S»Sjwa\ beloved wife of Ames Balmer and dan?ht«r of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCauley. and sister of the late Andrew J. McCauley COVERT— On Monday May 16. 1910. James W. CW-rt. after a brief !lln«is. Funeral service* Sunday afternoon. May 22, 1210. at 4 o'elocX. at his lat«» r«!sid»?nce. No. TO First- Place. Brooklyn. Interment at convenience of family. FLEET— May 17. 1910. at the residence of his brother No. S3 Busnwick ays» Brooklyn. Samuel E. W. FTeet. fn the B*tb year of his ag«?. son of the late fjamuel Fleet, of Brook lyn. Funeral private. GILL— On Wednesday. May IS. 1910. Ph«U» Henry beloved husband of Margaret GUI. aaed 70 years Funeral services &* his lacs resi dence. No. 82 Th'ni Place. Brooklyn, or. Friday evening at 8 o'clock Interment Saturday morning, at Roelyn. Long Island. Private. HARLOE— Thursday. May 1». bbb! Blanche K. Harloe. aged 7 year*, beloved daughter of Adelaide J. and Ralph V. Harlo-. F-jnera! cervices on Friday evantn^ at A o'clock at No. 302 East Bth st. Flat bush. ,^'; HERTWIG— On Tuesday. Mai 17. 1910. Ajma Louis'? beloved wife of Rudolph F. Hertwtfc passed' away in the 62d year of her ag«. Fu neral from her lare rwddence^fo. 254 ilarl borough Road, Erooklj-n, on Friday. May 20, at 2 d. m. HOPKINS— Suddenly or. May Ml 1»1O. at her residence. No. 13 Glenada Place. Brooklyn. Barbara Amy Hopkins. HOPKINS — At h> ' f»s- l»i»»-«. em Wednesday morning. May 19 1910. Susan Wells, wife of Henr: C. Hopkins and daughter of the lat» Henry A- Kent. ag~-i 64 ream Funeral at km lat* w— Msnrs. No 232 H»nry «c. Brook lyn. N. T. on Friday. via- 20. at 2:3» o'clock. Interment at convenience of family JONES— May 17. 1310. at bis resfdence, _!»» 71-1 New York bt*.. Brooklyn. Hiram Jos«a» husband of Mary W. Jones. KELLT— Fannie C. beloved wife of T. P. K9fty, on May IS. Funeral from the residence of her brother. John B. Kerby. No. 20GS Bathgate a%e.. The Bronx, on Friday. May 30. at W a. m.: thence to St. Joseph's Church, at lOJm a. m. Interment at St. Raymord'a. KIRKLANI>— Suddenly, 81 Ma- 1J». in Part*. "Benjamin B. K.irkiar.l, of New fork, la hl» 55th year. MATHET — Wednesday. May 18. 1910. Jeam« A««asttM Abn'. wife of J. Louis Matiiey. FtJn»ral services a- her late residence. Sow !*2l Hudson ST.. Hoboken. N. J.. Friday even- Ing. May 20. at 8 o'clock. MILLS— At Warn Brunswick. H. X. — '«*•• day. May 18, 1910. John T. Mills. In tha 89t!t year of his age. Funeral «ervlce3 will be held at the residence of his sen. John T. Mills, jr.. No. 719 Madison are., on Friday. May V. at 10 a. m. Interment at Greenwood. TIFF ANT — A- Stamford. Cor.a.. "Wednssdaiy. May 18 1910. Frank M. Tiffany. M. IX F» neral esrvtasa will be he.d at St. John's Church. Stamford, Ccnn.. Friday at 3 > m. VAN SCHOONHOVEC— At Auburn. N. T« Emma Ttagsc widow of the Ut« Rev. Law si nc Vaa 6choonhov«fl. of yuogue. Lose Island. WUCKK- At rest, Albany. N. T. 'Wednesday. May 18. 1910. Mary Darting- Passengar. wli« of the late Charles Henry w!nn«. la the 730 year of her age. Funeral services at her ia*ei residence. No 72 Llvlr.gaton aye.. . jLlbaay. «a Saturday afternoon at 3 clock. IN MEMORIAM. KING EDWARD VII.— There will be a Bertie* "memorial" to th» l*te King of England in Grmoe Church, Broadway and loth «t-. to-day (Friday) at 12 JO > m. (No seats will be reserved.* CEMITKBII& THE WOODLaWJi CKMaOTHY t^ » t» r»«dlTy lv ■— by Harlem trata (N« Grand central Station. Webster and Jerome •*•» nut trolley" and by carriage Lot* UN «fk Telephone 4335 Oramerey for Book of View* «• representative. Office 30 East 23d St.. New Tor* City. UNDERTAKERS. FRANK 15. CA.MPBKLL. 241-3 West" 2*l ft. Chapels. Privet* Rooms. Private Arson! Tel.. 1324 Cast— SPECIAL NOTICES. TO TIB iain.OYER. Do you want desirable help QUICKLY ? 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