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YouV ou LXX....N 0 23,199. To-day «ud to-morrow probable «bo<*f^: » JLa*. &..».»-• ..-*' «'M> • ■ *a«» wind* PRIMARY COMPROMISE MEASURE FINISHED Expected to Reach the Senate To-night if Approved by Governor Hughes. rvjRA SESSION LIKELY Prospect of Assembly Passing Any Real Direct Nomina tions Bill Seems Very Remote. fßy Telegraph to Tat Tribune.! Albany. May 22.— The compromise, direct primary bill which the committee of Republican Senators hopes will meet tlir approval of Governor Hughes wa? j completed to-night. It will be submitted u« the Governor to-morrow. If it suits him it will be printed and introduced to morrow night, either as a substitute for th«" Cobb bill or Senator Hinman's meas ure, after the vote which killed that bill ! liaa been reconsidered. It seems fair to assuror, as most people here are doing. that the bill will suit the Governor, as ! far as it goes. It is. as The Tribune od'urt-ially urged on Saturday it should y>? and as it predicted this morning it | would bo, virtually the Hinman-Green bill, so far as the ballot is concerned, and provides for the direct nomination j cf Assemblymen, Senators, Congressmen i and county officers on a plan almost ! identical with that of the Governor's bill. ! TVorking with Senator Cobb and mem- '• !'?rF of the legislative bill drafting force j •_»n it to-day were Roger P. Clark, the <*ov?mor's counsel, and Robert H. j Fuller, the Governor's secretary, both of T\?iom had much to do with the framing : of the Hinman -Green bill. Senator Cobb : said to-night that he expected the Sen- i ats would pass the bilL He does not care j whether it is passed under his name or ; Senator Hinman's, so long- as it is pat-ted, and puts the Senate squarely on r>™rd on this important issue. He says he has no information about the attitude cf the Assembly, and refuses to specu late about it- Rules Committee Under Control. Whatever speculation is done places I*l eater Wadsworth and Assemblyman MdTitt squarely, even violently, in op position to the abolishment of any con- ■ s rr.tion. The fact that they were able I- pass the Meade-Phillips bill in the Assembly, retaining the convention sys- | urn. settled the future attitude of th lo^er house, so Car its they were con- | < erned. They can control every man on tue' Rules Committee on this issue, an •! it takes one hundred votes to discharge -.hat committee. Talk of calling a cau- i Vus"'.tO make the compromise bill a cau cus nieasur** i'j fc»«uer L raxu^» is < - ' — afll. but direct primary people do not ; ;^ra sanguine about deriving any fa vorable result from that course. As tMyntan Jesse Phillips, one of the esl bitter opponents of the direct pri mary scheme, is chairman of the Assem- My caucus. He and his fellows feel per- \ fcctly certain that they could control . =ny caucus against any form of a direct rrimary bill, and dir«*ct primary men are Inclined to agree with that view of the j -nuatiois. T?i<=rr remains, therefore, a prospect :<■' the calling of an extraordinary ses sion, a prospect which cauFes every ;c ?islator to feel far from overjoyed. Vo • most of them consider It inevitable tf tire Speaker and Us Rules Committee refuse to report the Cobb compromise bill •-■■:• If ••-• Legislature were 1-. adjourn without enacting any pri raary legislation most people here feel *ure there would be ■ violent protest . from -:•■ parts of the state, with an ac ti- 1 o demand on the Governor for an ex- i r a session- Legislators point out that th«- Governor ha? educated the public to c k°eii sens^ of the urgent necessity for primary reform. Some of his professed Ripporters have criticised him because Jm did not jam the Hinman-Green bill j through the Legislature by an exercise ! eT tae oV3 Od^ll methods. , Speaker Tenacious of Views. , ' Hughes men know that the Governor " is 'iuit*» as m \. .- to have a proper primary* -... •■ bill become law this I : r ar as th" most earnest exponents of X)« Hinman-'jreon bill, though he could ; ji,r *r>*> that his duty carried him to thai extent^ The opinion hi pretty gen «ra! Vi«>re. however, that Be would not ' ■r.i-id^r it beyond the bounds of proper « x*-utivc action to brine tit* Lea !^Tur<^ ba^k here promptly if final ad r^—nmTit ian taken without an j airr'Krmem between the houses on a rrhnary bill. Whether this outlook. r< upled with the fact that responaibil ii; for the extra session would inevi- i ably be placed on him. will canse the ! •Htaker to abate his enmity to any thing looking like a direct primary bill I • tnains to he seen. The chances are 'h3t 1» -Rill si • The Speaker is ten*- j •i^uy of his views. He believes sln '♦j-pfy that abolishment of the conven- ; liou system would spell disaster and destruction to all American institutions. 31* is a. hard fighter, and when pressed to tin? danger !in* none too choice in lii? weapons, as was shown in the de- i feat this year of the Hinman-Green i : It appears to most person? h'jre al- Kj'jFt incredible, ever; if there were *"nough votes t'» pass the compromise 11-511. that the Assembly could take it j •-•.•.Jiy from the Speaker in any fashion ■ Jf ho determined to hold it in the Rules Oommlttee. The only way to make j sure of getting it before the House for : " vote, -ay*- with the Spanker's con- | *- Vj nt, would he through the caucus, and that proi'psct does not seem joyous to tbe direct primary men in the lower bvuae who have canvassed the situa tion in the last coupie of 'days. Ac < Man) tl:#»re remains, to throw, a J "'iradow ov^r the last week of the ses *&n. the likelihood of an <ixtraordlnary | *i£«on on primary legislation. » ■■- I APPROVAL FOR MORTGAGE GIVEN. *il*ny. May 22. -Approval has bass given ky the Public Service Commission of the k '^ai of £ flret consolidated and refunding: *SC to the Security Trust Company <* Uocbeswr ',;.- the New York BbsVl liail **jni on ail the property* rfasnt* sM frar> *:bifc^£ to htcure issues of JSi.UO.U'J'J S !>** cent ■Rj -i -*.r -uld l.uuU^. ■'*-•"•.-■-•«*-*';•••>; ■'" . .-.«.,_ . . - .;. .... . ....... -.'•■■-•■.-■>-■-■ -~ ■•- ■ , _!__ . — ' : ' ■ AUTO LECTURE HOLD-UPS Young Man Stops Machines to Speak Protest — Is Arrested. Eight automobile parties had the un usual experience last night of being held up on Fifth avenue and compelled to listen to a sermonette from a young man resembling in appearance a divin ity student. Patrolman Keefer, of the Tenderloin station, standing at 29th street, saw the occurrences, and when he was finally convinced that the young man was not a deputy commissioner of whom he had never heard he placed him under arrest, despite the prisoner's pro test that he hadn't the pleasure of the partolman's acquaintance. At the Tenderloin station Lieutenant McCarthy, usually an adept cross-ques tioner, found that he was facing one of th<» hardest propositions of his career. Finally he did learn that the prisoner was Clare Thompson, of Clearfield, Perm. Letters in his pockets were ad dressed in care of George I. Thompson. The prisoner would not give his New York address. In explanation of his actions he said that he thought it was a disgrace for automobilists to make the Sabbath hide ous by the speeding of their cars and the tu.iting of their horns. BOOKKEEPER TO BELLEVUE Mind Gives Way Planning- Com pany to Make Adding Machines. Stanley H. C. Walpole. who said he lived at No. OGT» Boulevard, Weehaw ken, was taken from the Hotel Knicker bocker to the Tenderioin police station la.<t night, and lat^r he went volun tarily to the psychopathic ward at B^llevue Hospital. Waloole had or dered a meal at the hotel caf€, but before it was served went to his room and retired. A short time afterward Charles T. Northrob, a lawyer, of No. ;'.l Nassau street, to whom Walpole had tele phoned, called to inquire for him. At that moment Walpole appeared in the office and walked out into 42d street. Northrob followed and told Patrolman Tethers to arrest him. The lawyer told the lieutenant that Walpole was a bookkeeper for the Na tional Biscuit Company and that he was also interested in the organization of a company to manufacture adding ma chines. His mind had weakened under the double strain. Lieutenant McCar thy suggested that Walpole go to Belie vue. and the latter agreed. He had only one cent in his clothes, out ho informed the lieutenant it would be "multiplied to $MMKfcOQO berore January 1, 1U10." REPORTS $10.000 BURGLARY Newark Merchant Wakes Up to Find Cash and Gems Gone. The police of Newark, N. J.,. are in vestigating a mysterious burglary re ported by Samuel Vogel, a shoe dealer. liV?nFi *-*■ -^*i-i- I^i'i ■ iTi^irjiiQunt avCTUP, that city. He told detectives that a bag containing $6OJ in cash and jewelry valued at $10,000 was stolen early yesterday morning from under a pillow | on which his w<fe was sleeping. Ac- | cording: to Voge>. the intruder at the same time rifled the pockets of his cloth ing, which contained checks and about Sir. in money. Detectives Ryan and Farrell. who reached the house soon after the rob bery was reported to Police Headquar ters, said that while there were at least three windows through which a burglar might have gained entrance, they were unable to rind any evidence that any body had used such means. The only thing- that appealed to the detectives as a sign that there had been a visitor while the family slept was the presence of a number of burned matches on the floor. Vogel keeps a store in Fifteenth ave rm \ near Springfield avenue, and with his wife returned home with the day's receipts after midnight. They retired about - o'clock. Two hours before that, the detective? learned, a servant girl reached the house, and. finding the only door for which she had a key barred, got in through a window, which she latched afterward. Asked as to why he carried the money home from the store and did not ].;.-•• it in his safe. Vogel replied that he could not open the safe. LOBSTER AND TOMCAT TIME With* the Assistance of a Bull Pup a Restaurant Is Stirred. A three-cornered encounter between » tomcat, a lobster and a brindle bulldog caused an uproar in a restaurant in 125 th street last night. Before the Struggle was over the owner of the dog had fainted, the lobster had lost a claw and the cat had acquired a lasting aver sion for sea food. In front of the restaurant is an ice box with a glass top. through which varied delicacies may be seen. A waiter returned from the ice box last night with a basket containing several lob sters, when one of the crustaceans fell out and bepan to crawl along the floor. Thomas started to demonstrate with the lobster, when the latter fastened a claw |in his log. With a cry of pain the cat retreated, dragging his captor after him. At this moment Gus. the bulldog, made a spring toward the combatants, ' upsetting the chair on which his owner, : M::= Rose Iceland, of No. ."»1«J West ; 12901 street, was sitting. Miss Leland promptly fainted. Many of the other patrons became excited, and several offered suggestions to employes who ; were trying to separate the principals in the unusual affray. Finally the man ager cut off the lobster's claw with a ! pair of shears and took the rest of it away to be boiled. Miss Inland was i revived, Gus resumed his place under I his owner's chair and Thomas went oft ( to nurse his wounded leg FEED POOR INSTEAD OF AUTOS. IBy T»sraph to Tb» Tribune] WntfTbury. Conn.. -May 22.— -Th«s Rev. John N L*wiE. rector of St. John's Epis copal Church, who talks to many million airJ£. t»aJd tn ' s morning that he hoped there would be a generous response in the collec tion next Sunday, as there were Urgent cm.l* aaMoe the needy. He saia those who went away on Sundays tor automobile rides used more money for gasolene than w«ju!<S bring happiness to many poor per y,.t!t>, asi'i U" hoped they vouJJ ..'...- UP thele trips fur < am das — ■■* £••<- tv charity wlaat wuuW zo fur sasoienc NEW-YORK, MONDAY MAY 23, 1910. -TWELVE PAGES. SCIENTIFIC BATTLE OVER PARSEE'S RIGHTS Government Goes Deep in Eth noiogy to Oppose Balsara's Contest for Citizenship. BROWN SKIN RACES AID HIM Furnish Money to Fight Test Case — Principal Question the Meaning- of "Free White Persons."' Whether Bhicaji Franyi Balsara is a "free white person" and hence entitled to citizenship will come up before the j United States Circuit Court of Appeals i this week at the Federal Building on an : appeal by the government from a dcci- I sion of Judge Lacombe on June 9 of last year. Judge Lacombe admitted Balsara Ito citizenship. The government deter | mined to make a test case of it, and the research of Addison S. Pratt and Carl E. Whitney, of the staff of Kenry A. Wise, the United States Attorney, to es tablish their case took them to the Con gressional Library' at Washington, where they delved for a week into ancient and modern ethnological works. Balsara has arf counsel Rounds & Schurman, and Louis Marshall and Max J. Kohler have been retained by Syrians interested in the case. Their prepara tions have been extensive and the eth nological tangle will call forth a scientific battle in striking- contrast to the sugar fraud trial which is being conducted in the same building. The whole Syrian colony, and other races with brown skins, have moved to aid the Parsee -with funds, for they feel that their citizenship is at stake. Fears Loophole for B'own Men. If the case is taken to the United States Supreme Court the decision by that body will take its place in the liter j ature relating to the races of men, their ; descent, divisions and place in the great man-family of the earth. The case has a significance apart from the mere admis sion of Baisara. The decision will es | tablish a precedent for the Immigration I Commissioner and for the courts in their naturalization proceedings. Balsara is a Parsee. one of the hundred thousand or so of the race left in and about Bombay. India. If he is admitted it is believed by the government that a loophole for I the naturalization of little brown men and big brown men wil! be made. There is a bill before Congress amend ing the statutes so that no ethnological quibble may be. possible, whether in or out of the courts, so far as the principle of naturalisation fs concerned. This till is H. R. 24.075, amending Section :,'.IG9. Revised Statutes of the United J3ta.tes, toj read: "And Mongolians, Malays and other Asiatics, except Armenians, Assyrians and Jews, shall not be naturalized in the United States." Hitherto the "free white persons" in the statute as desirable citizens was supposed to mean any Caucasian, which in turn was supposed to mean almost anybody not an Ethiopian or of Ethi opian descent. Just what the framers of I the original law meant had to be gone | over as completely a.s possible, and in j order to find this out it was necessary for Mr. Whitney and Mr. Pratt to dis cover wlial works on ethnology were accessible to thr> framers of the law. The counsel for the government in pre senting their case say : Meaning of "Free White Persons." "The principal, if not the only, ques tion is the meaning of the phrase 'free white persons' as used in the naturaliza tion acts. It was a phrase in more or less common usage in the colonies and in the original thirteen states prior to the passage of the acts under consideration, and so we turn naturally to its meaning when so used. It has been held by th« courts and tho appellee and intervenors so contend that by 'white persons' Con gress meant "Caucasians.' " , The government counsel insist that the term "Caucasian" was not coined until after the phrase* "free white persons" had been ir. use some time; that although "Caucasian" had been used before 1790 it could not have been known to Con gress at that time. They further declare that encyclopaedias, gazetteers, geogra phies and histories of the period when the enactment occurred referred to a "European race," which was synonomous with the "white race," and that all au thors of the eighteenth century consid ered the races or peoples to which Bal sara belongs, as well as other Asiatics, to be not white, but- dark. The amount of reading necessary to arrive a.t the conclusion that Balsara. is not a white person under the act is evi dent in the brief, and the deduction that Congress in 1790 could not have known of the classification of "Caucasian," al though tho »word was coined in 1781 by a German ethnologist, Blumenbach, is based upon the later publication of the work and the fact that the first transla tion was not made into English until 1825 in London. No Outside Rcom for Parsee. The reason for this particularity re garding the knowledge of the word and designation meant by "Caucasian" is shown by the definition by the man who coined the term. Blumenbaeh gives it as follows: "Colour more or less white, with florid ! limit"", hair long, soft and brown, run ning' on the one hand into white, on the other hand into black; according to the European ideas of beauty the form of the face and skull most perfect. It in cludes all of the Europeans with the ex ception of the Laplanders; the Western Asiatics on this side of the Ob. the Cas pian Sea and tho Ganges; lastly the Northern Africans; altogether the in habitants of the world known by the an cient Grecians and Romans." There is no outside room for the Par see. He is not classed among the Mon golians or the Ethiopians or the Malayan race, nor can he be classed among the Americans or red men. There are nu merous debates in Congress referred to as showing that by "fret- white persons" were meant Europeans, and court dcci- Coatiiiued on third pas*. BEQUEST MAKES OEAN WEST'S PLAN POSSIBLE Salem Trustee of Wyman Will Says Everything Recom mended Can Be Done. PRINCETON IVY ON GRAVE No Contest Expected-Only Blood Relative Satisfied with Provision for Her Benefit. PRODUCTIVE FUNDS OF EDUCA TIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Columbia $26,000,000 ! Girard 23,*81.R70 Harvard 22.716.750 Inland Stanford, jr 18,000,000 University of Chicago 15.000,000 Princeton 14,i««..'>00 Yale . *t.ftl*ttt ! Salem, Mass., May — While the ] value of the gift bequeathed to Prince- | ton by the will of Isaac C. Wymari, of this city, is estimated at 510,000,000, its exact amount is unknown even to the trustees. John M. Raymond, an attor ney of this city, who is one of the trus 1 tees, said to-night that $10,000,000 was ! only an approximate estimate. He did not think the estate would exceed that I value, and he was not prepared to say whether It would equal it. "There are millions enough, however." he added, "to take care of the needs of the Graduate College or proposed grad uate college, for which under the terms of the will the money is designated." Mr. Raymond assisted Mr. Wyman | for many years in his business dealings, j and is" more intimately acquainted than ! any other person with the size of the estate. Mr. Raymond said to-night that Mr. Wyman, who made his will July 1, 1909, drew the document with full knowledge of the discussion over the selection of a site for the Princeton ! Graduate School, in which President Woodrow Wilson and Dean West fig ured on opposite sides. Mr. Raymond added that Mr. Wyman's gift would make possible everything recommended !in the official report of Dean West after his return from a study of the methods of graduate schools abroad. Brought Ivy for Grave. Dean Andrew F. West of the Prince ton Graduate School, who is the co trustee with Mr. Raymond under the will, was here yesterday, but left this city immediately after the funeral. Dean West brought with him from Princeton a spray of ivy, which he placed on Mr. Wyman's grave. There will be no contest of the will, t><a.ltii>:>u*c.h several relatives were cut off without a cent and were keenly disap pointed. The only blood relative, a niece, Mrs. Susan Dickinson, of Salem, said to-day that she was perfectly satis fied with her uncle's disposition of his property. While she does not receive any bequest outright the income of a sum is set aside for her that will be amply suffi cient to provide for her. After her death the fund will revert to Princeton. "I shall not contest the will," said Mrs. Dickinson. "Tt was my uncle's property, and he had a right to do whatever he wanted with it. Niece Praises Mr. Wyman. •'Mr. Wyman has been maligned by the newspapers, which asserted that h* 1 and I were not on good terms, and that he cheated his brother, my father. T have received many presents from him and have called at his house for years." Mr. Wyman was a great student. He was familiar with the property laws of every state where he owned land. He practised law in Boston for ten years. and as Assistant United States Attorney he prosecuted one of the last slave ab duction cases tried In the Massachusetts courts. H" was an intimate friend of Daniel Webster and Rufus Ohoate. and kept op hi- acquaintance with other famous men of his day long after ho rptired from the law to manage his real estate inter ests. While he lived in comfortable style, Mr. Wyman did not indulge in luxuries. He was adverse to spending money freely, and often said that he liked to make it. GREAT JOY AT PRINCETON Trustees Express Deep Gratifi cation Over $10,000,000 Gift. [By Telegraph to The Tribune. 1 Princeton. N. J., May 22.— The news of the bequest of Isaac C. Wyman to the graduate school of Princeton University was received here to-day with delight. There was much speculation as to what effect it would have on the graduate school controversy, which has recently been more or less of a dead issue, owing to the lack, of money with which to be gin the erection of the buildings for such an institution. Now that the funds have been provided the trustees will have to decide the questions in dispute. It is hoped, however, that the result •will be harmony. Those who have been in support of Dean West are especially inclined to this view. That the will of Mr. Wyman was dated July 1, 1909, was considered as distinctly noteworthy by all. The early date makes it seem that at that time Mr. Wyman's bequest was a gift to his Alma Mater, and not to be used to support the ideas of one man. On the other hand, Mr. Wyman was known to be a close friend of Dean West, and there is every probability that the latter was a factor in procuring the money. The friendship between Mr. man. a man of literary tastes, and Dean West, i who is Giger professor of Latin in the university has been of many years* stand- Ing. Curiously enough, however, although Mr. Wyman has shown such a deep love for Princeton, he never visited here after his graduation. Dean West discontinued his sophomore course in Horace last Fri day and, taking some ivy from Old North with him, left hero for Salem. He is now in Boston and Is expected here on Tues day. • • ; > • - President Wilson said t'>-ni£ht that Continued uu second p:t£e. PROFESSOR ANDREW F. WEST. Whose plans for Princeton's Graduate School will be made possible by the bequest of Isaac C. Wyman, of Salem, Mass. KiNG GEORGE'S CLEMENCY Sentences Remitted — A Touch ing Letter to His People. London. May L"J.— King George ha 3 begun his reign with an act of clem ency, grajiting remission of short sen tences and reduction of others through out the kingdom, these including the army and navy. He has also issued a touching letter "To My People."' ex pressing grateful appreciation of the affection and loving devotion which the nation has shown in the face of "a sor row so sudden and unlooked for that it might well have been overwhelming. "But the sentiments it has evoked," continues the King, "have made me re alize that it is a loss common to me and my people They share it with me; I do not stand alone. With such thoughts I take courage and hopefully look to the future, strong in my faith in God. trust ing my people and cherishing the laws and constitution of my beloved coun try." It is announced that King George in tends to maintain a royal racing stable at NVwmarket and a breeding stud at Sandringham. and that he will patron ize racing on the same extensive scale as did his father. TO END MARRIAGE OF UNFIT Bishop M'Vickar Favors Mental and Physical Examinations. [By Telegraph t.o The Trihun«. i Providence. May 22. — That every human being in the United States, or elsewhere for that matter, deemed physi cally or mentally unfit should be pre vented by national lows from marrying, and that a commission of experts should be appointed to pass on the fitness of each would-be bride or bridegroom, is the assertion whereby Bishop McVickar of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Rhode Island sounds the note of a re j form which he declares is Hkely to ■ spread from one end of the country to the other. Bishop McVickar asserts that he makes these recommendations only after thp most careful considera tion of thp subject and after having apenT years in accumulating facts rela tive to his deductions. "I fully believe." he says, "that in less than a generation we shall see national legislation that -will check indiscriminate marriage, and which will prevent the ] propagation of disease, both mental and physical. The average public does not as yet realize it, but there has been jl steady although unobtrusive advance ment in legislation looking toward the j prevention of marriage between those I physically and mentally unfit. "There should be laws passed which will make it impossible for the habitual, j hopeless criminal, the person showing ', incipient idiocy or insanity, or the tuber- : culosis patient, to get married and trans- j mit that disease to descendants. "The working out of a plan that would j make those things entirely feasible is, of course, a hard proposition. It might be j possible for a man and a woman to have } the certificate of their family physician as a guarantee that they were fitted for marriage. It would probably be neces sary to establisn a sort of marriage com mission in ea.-h state or large city, the members of which would decide on each applicant." THREE BALLOONISTS LOST New Yorkers, Who Went Up on Saturday, Not Yet Heard From. Pittsneld, Mass., May I*l\— Some anxi ety is expressed to-night over the where abouts of three New York men who made a balloon ascension from here Sat urday noon and have not yet been heard from. William F. Whitehouse piloted the balloon, the Pittsneid. taking up with him Philip Carroll and Lorimer Warner. The balloon started off in a direction a little west of south. - As it was heavily loaded it is thought that under ordinary conditions the voyagers would have found it necessary to descend before get ting very far Into Connecticut. No word had been received from the party late to-night, although Mr. Whitehouse had arranged to send word here immediately upon landing- It was said at the Knickerbocker Club last night, of which Mr. Whltehouae is a member," that ho wan there early last evening.' but had said nothing of his balloon trip. lie could not be found lust night, but his appearance at the club Indicates that "there was no mishap. PRICE O-Ml OjLiN 1 EL.SEWHTKX TWO CENT*. fiM ■-•■'-- IRISH FACTIONS_ IN RIOT Many Persons Kurt at Cork, an M. P. Among Them. Cork. Ireland. May :T.i-The presence here of rival Irish factions, in spite of police precautions, led to serious con flicts to-day, following demonstrations which were addressed by John Red mond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary party; John Dillon and William O'Brien. Many persons were injured, including Daniel D. Sheelum. Member of Parlia ment for Cork. Some were taken to the infirmaries. SAW COMET AND DIED Two Persons in One Neighbor hood Expire Looking at Visitor. Talladega, Ala.. May 22.— The appear ance of the comet thi3 evening caused in tense excitement here. Congregations of several churches left- their pews and hun dreds of persons stood- excited in the square and gazed at the celestial visitor. Miss Ruth Jordan, daughter of a farmer "living two miles from here, was called to the door of her home to see the comet and immediately fell dead, physi cians assigning heart disease as the cause. .■■..:.* • An unknown negro on the railroad sta tion platform was shown the comet and instantly dropped dead. INSANE WATCHING COMET Negro in Constant Terror That World's End Was at Hand. rB-- Telegraph to Th<» Trti? • SomrrviHe. N*. J. May 22.— James Kline, a negro, formerly a Pullman car porter, is in the Somerset County jail here to-night a raving maniac, as the result of waiting in terror for several days for the destruction of the world by HalleVs comet. Patrolman Holmes was standing in Main street about 3 o'clock this morning when Kline, in scant attire, loomed up out of the fog and passed him with the speed of the wind, shouting that he was being pursued by his mother-in law and the tall of Halley's comet. Holmes called after him, and he stopped and began to pray. Kline is well known here as one of the pillars of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He began his observations of the comet about a week ago. after which he went through the negro colony here warning his brethren t<» prepare for the end of the world on May IS. The puzzling movements of the comet had the effect of keeping Kline in a state of constant terror, and it is now believed that he is hopelessly insane. ANTI-CHURCH MOVE Pittsburgh Ball Players Threaten to Use "Blue Laws. " fßy Telesrmph to The Tribune. 1 Pittsburg. May 22.— The Pittsburg churches to-day managed to stop Sun day baseball within the city limits, but from the present outlook it appears as if there would be no music in the Pitts burg chnrchef next Sunday, owing to this action. The managers of the A. J. Martins.' one j of the best known amateur baseball nines j in the country, and the Emsworth. an other amateur nine, have had lawyers looking up the Sunday "blue laws." They [ have discovered that it is against the law for churches to hire organists or singers. The managers of the baseball teams to-day announced that they would take action to prevent any church in Pitts burg from having a hired organist or soloist, and if they persisted information would be filed against the ministers of the churches. HONORS FOR FAMOUS POLO PONY Wealthy Hyde Park Residents Send ■ Flowers for Punch's Grave. [By Telesrapfa to Th« Tribune.] Poughkeepste. X. T.. May 22.— Punch, the famous polo pony once owned by the late Woodbury Kane, of New York, was buried with honors at Hyde Park yesterday. He was forty-live years old. and was said to be the oldest horse in the world. Punch had not had a bit in his mouth for twenty-three years, bavins; bean pen sioned for life by his dead owner to pass his remaining " days on the A. D. Jones farm at Hyde Park. His grave waa strewn with flowers, which had been sent by the wealthy resident* of the Hyde Park Road, including the Rocerses, Roosevelt* and Vanderbllts LAST DISPUTE WITH f CANADA MOVED Boundary Treaty Signed by Secretary Knox and Mr. Bryce. NOT WORTH ARBITRATION Lines in Passamaquoddj Bay and Grand Manan Channel De limited — Convention May Go to Senate To-day [From The Trtbane Bor*«a.J Washington, May 22.— The Secretary of State and the British Ambassador signed yesterday a treaty delimiting boundary between the United States and Canada, running from a point In Passamaquoddy Ba*y. between Treat Island and Friar Head, and extending through the bay to the middle of Grand Manan, Channel: The treaty, it la ex pected, will be submitted to the Sena** to-morrow for approval. This action, subject to the approval of the Senate, settles the one remaining boundary question between the United States and Canada, or New Brans-wick, to be more exact. The exact location of this boundary had been in dispute ever since 1783. In that year the great er portion of the boundary was delim ited, but no agreement could be reached regarding the line at this) point. Soon thereafter a joint committee was cre ated and charged with the doty of reach ing- an agreement on tee line, but MM of its purpose. In the comparatively recent general boundary treaty it was provided that It no agreement could bo reached OB that boundary at this point within a gives | period the question should bs> submitted ito arbitration. Secretary Knox and An? bassador Bryce concluded, however, that the point at issue was not of suSdent importance to warrant th« expense and trouble of an appeal to arbitration, and accordingly undertook negotiation which have been concluded to their cow awn satisfaction, a compromise having- been reached which is expected to meet the approval of all concerned. The present era of good feeling; follow ing tha recent tariff agreement, warn deemed particularly auspicious far thi3 settlement of the one remaining point at issue between the United States and Canada. ' Final Chapter in Negotiations. The signing of this convention com* pletes a chapter of diplomatic relations ! with Great Britain which reflects the : highest credit on both the British and the American diplomats who have labored so assiduously and successfully to remove the last possible occasion, of friction between the United States and Great Britain and all of her colonies. an<i more particularly between this country and the Dominion of Canada. The completion of the pecuniary claims treaty with Great Britain, first announced in The Tribune of May VI. provided the means of disposing by arbitral methods of the last bone ej con- ■ tention between Great Britain" and cer ' tain of her colonies, notably Australia. As has been told in The Tribune, that convention was recently submitted to the Foreign Office by Mr. Bryce after a complete agreement had been reached between Secretary Knox and the ambas sador, and the ambassador is now only awaiting authority from London, wherw the draft of the convention has already arrived, formally to affix his signature to the copy which is retained in Washing - ton. The principal boundary waters treaty, which not only delimited th© water boun daries between the United States and Canada but provided for an equitable disposition of the water to be withdrawn for power purposes, and •was negotiated by Secretary Hoot. was ratified in the) closing hours of the last Congress— on the morning of March 4. 1000, to be> exact— but before giving its approval th* Senate, as will be recalled, added an amendment in the form of an appended resolution which was insisted on by Sen ator Smith, of Michigan, which was de signed to provide for the proper dis tribution of the waters of the St. Mary River, and which occasioned such oppo sition at Ottawa that it demanded the exercise of the most skilful diplomacy en the part of Mr. Knox to induce the Ca nadians to accept it. With the hearty co-operation of Mr. Bryce the powers at Ottawa were finally persuaded to give then- approval, and. having already beet ratified by the Senate, the convention be came a part of the supreme law of the land. Wo of the Boundary Convention. - The boundary waters convention fol lowed a. more general boundary treaty* which provided for a commission to mark clearly and permanently the boun daries entirely across the continent. ' That work is now being: performed, and only the short line through Passama quoddy Bay and Grand Manan Channel remained the subject of contention. The final delimitation of this line is accom plished by means of the convention signed yesterday, and as far as it is pos sible to foresee the last occasion for a boundary dispute with Canada has been dispelled. Pursuant to the negotiations conducted by the American Ambassador to Great Britain and the Foreign Office, the con tentions which have menaced the peace ful relations between America and New foundland fishermen ever since 1912 an* to be settled this summer by arbitral proceedings at The Hague, so that every thing augers well for the most peaceful relations between the United States and its neighbor to the north. This country, as is known, has award ed its minimum tariff rates to Canada, and within the last ten days Mr. Bryc* has been requested to take up with th»» authorities at Ottawa, some plan of ne gotiations looking to closer trade rela tions with the Dominion. The eminently useful diplomatic * relations which have characterized the tenure of Means. Root and Knox .as Secretaries of Slate and of Mr. Bryce as Ambassador from Great Britain augur well for the future, an.: the signing of this latest treaty will b<i the occasion of congratulations to both Mr. Knox and Mr. Bryce as soon as the fact becomes ; iaiovvn-