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.TUESDAY, MAY 24. .1910.
This netcspapcr i* <Ktncd and pub
lished by The Tribune Association, a
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ing. So. 154 '\o**» street, yew York:
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tecretcrp; Jam** 11. Barrett, treasurer.
The address of the officers is the office
of. this newspaper.
' the wbwm THIS MORyiXG.
COKORB6S— : The naval ap- .
propriation bill carrying |114.«M).0<l« and j
assuring the construction of two bat- j
t3?Fhips of the Dreadnought type was ■
parsed. :=^= HoTise: The proposed |
appropriation of 5250.000 for a tariff
board as recommended by the President ■
was strtCsue* from the sundry civil bill, t
but in order to accomplish practically
the same purpose in a different way
Chairman Tawn^y of the Appropriations
Committee offered an amendment ap- |
propriating the same amount of money,
but Kaving out all reference to the tariff
board; consideration of the amendment
went over.
FOREIGN-— Emperor William started :
from London for Germany, taking an af
fectionate leave of Kin? George: KinK |
Georjre issued an address to the colonies
and India. . ■■ Mr. Roosevelt and his
family ar<» the KO«ts of Lieutenant
Colonel and Mr--, Lee at London. =====
Rioting among: the Nationalist factions
was renewed at Cork, and twenty per
sons w^re taken to hospital?. ===== Rep
resentatives of the four foreign proups
interested in the Hankow railway loan
are expected to ?Ign an agreement in
Paris to-day. = - Herr Frey new in a'
biplane, twenty miles from J<»hknnisthal
over Berlin and return, attaining a heicht 1
of fifteen hundred feet. ===== Th» Danish
Cabinet has decided to reei^u, owing to
the defeat of the. Radicals in the -recent J
-election, zz — -~ Sir James Penders racing
cutter Brvnhild was capsized -and^sank.
-in a. -^uall off Fclixstowe; no lives. were,
lost. ■ Count ismael fl« 'Lesseps and
i'ount Just de Polifrriy were tvounded in
a duel fought with pistols at Tarjs.
DO-il BS-TIC— It was said at Albany
thatthe pT>iin firm Of Duranf & El more
was involved in financial difficulties ow
iv.s to the alleged manipulation of biljs
of lading:. r^— — It was announced at Al
bany that a hearinc on the raising of
( rimmutation rates by the New Haven
Railroad would be held in that city on
Thursday next. === Receiver? were ap
pointed for The Chicago Railways Com
pany, operating the City's West and
North side streetcar lines: the bill was
filed by the Wostinfrhou.«e Electric and
Manufacturing Company. . Con
pressman H. B Bontell. of Illinois, in a
speech before the Bankers' Club at De
troit praised the Payne-Aldrich tariff
7a w. — z= New schedules filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
Washington show a Fharp increase in
rail and. sea freights on coffee and sugar.
- Booker T. Washington was elected
a life member of the World's Sunday
School Association at it? convention, in
Washington, and hi? Initiation fee of
51,000 was promptly pledged.
CITY. — Stocks were weak. ■• '■ Oliver
Spitzer. the former dock superintendent
convicted for sugar weighing frauds, ap
peared, in court with a pardon from
-President Taft. stunned counsel " for
Charles R. Heike. secretary of the Sugar
Trust, by his presence and led to the
arrest of an ex-Treasury agent for per
jury. - Th* Municipal Art Society
said it would appeal to Mayor Gaynor
to set the name of police heroes for the
tablets in Headquarters. ===== Mirabeau
L. Towns said h* would tef=t in court the
legality of the Mayor's firework ordi
nance. - Mayor Gaynor signed the
bill permitting the city to establish a
home for inebriates. == A Maiden
Lan" jeweller got ■ clew to jewelry
stolen from him three years ago in a
Brooklyn Bridge train. ■;.. ■■ lira. Hetty
Green lost the first case that a jury ever
decided against her. = The work of
dredging; the outer reach of Ambrose
Channel was practically completed.
THE WEATHER.— lndications for to
day: Showers. The temperature yester
day: Highest, 68 degrees; lowest, M
A MORIBVXD PARTY.
la the <Mirn»nt jssu^ of '-Leslie's
Weekly*' a former Prohibition candidate
far President, Mr John Q. Woolley. dis
cusses the question "Has the Prohibition
• Party Outlived Jte rsefuinps-'.-" Mr.
Woolley, as ssigM M expected, speaks
with jreat respect nf tbe national srjssi
-ization with which he was aetiv«My asso
cial)M for more, than twenty years, but
lie frankly says that Its work h;is been
rioue and that tin contlnuanre «< ■ party
is no longer neressaiy to ti)» accoiuplish
iuent of its oswntJal purinises. Mr.
■ Woolley announces that he has erased
An l*> a Prohibitionist, though believing
as firmly its ever in ])r<>!ii»>it!<ni. He
used to think that what the country
needed was prohibition with a party be
hind it. X"xv se foals that what th«
country n«»«*«ln i-> prohibition with the
voters behind it. whatever their party
afliliatioDS may l»e. He is satisfied to
mm prohibition or l"<;fl option lava
'imtf&dj wnrtluM- they are passed by the
voles of i:o]iui>!i«:iii<. Democrats. Social*
i«tf* or Prohibitionists.
The Tribune has more than once ><>iii
* 'ueuted on the seemin? paradox that
though the Ptfen^th «»f the' prohibition
! nun-einent has euormously Increased in
the last decade th*-* Pnihibltion. party
has actually declined in influence and
imail>ers. Many slates have recently
adopted state-wide prohibition laws,
jiinon? them North Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi. Oklahoma ..and
Msjsjtsjte In other- states — Houtu
Caro3ina, Kentucky. TeSas and Indiana
-^local option has made a gnat ma-
Icriry of th? counties dry. But tho«e r* I
suits ha^s hee.n' in no ra«>«» s.i nrorffi?U#d
ihroui.li the- fluency of tue Prohibition
B#rt3 > £o c^any ttatCß and counties
have forbidden the sate a* l'.quor with
out having had to employ the services
of the political organization designed by
its founders* to undertake th - mission
that no substance is left bo the notion
that a Prohibition party is indispensable
to the spread of prohibition. Logic is
with Mr "Woolley when he says that
while the catrse tvnn the party waned
and that Prohibition hopes have been
Hasted roost cruelly iv the communities
which hare been foremost in putting
prohibition laws on the statute l»ooks.
The fate of the Prohibition organiza
tion has been the natural one of single
issue parties. The Free Soil par«£ lived
only until the ideas which it advanced
tools firm root, and then was absorbed in
the broader-gauged Republican party-
The Anti-Masonic and the Know-Noth
ing* parties .bad a somewhat different
hist. representing single idea-? which
enjoyed a sudden temporary popularity
bat had little political vitality. When
the first burst of enthusiasm was over
each of these parties began steadily to
decline in power. Other parties did not
take up their programme, although 'ab
sorbing their membership. But had
they hit upon principles j>olitlcally more
enduring and more available, their ideas
would have been appropriated by the
better established organizations and tney
would hare perished, as the Prohibition
and PopuMst parties have perished in
our day. while transmitting their rela
tively narrow programmes to the cus
tody of political associations more gen
en] in character and therefore more
capable of carrying their pledges into
effect.
THE ROAD AXD THE TREES.
Generally speaking, any obstruction
or material delay of the extension of
Dl iIJUl 1 Drive northward might -well
1... regarded with disfavor and regret.
We have frequently dwelt upon the de
sij.tbility of making that unsurpassed
thoroughfare connect with Riverdale
:ivi nue and thereby with the Albany
Post Road, thus forming a continuous
urban, suburban and rural parkway
scarcely rivalled for scenic beauty in the
world. There are. however, other things
to be considered than merely an arbi
trary construction of the road accord
ing to the plans of a road engineer, and
if what is asserted in connection with
the suit Trhlch has just been started
against the enterprise is. true public in
terests may require some recasting of
the plans.
It is said that the plans as hitherto
drawn contemplate the construction of
tlie road with little if any regard for
park effects and involve the destruction
of hundreds of fine trees of many years'
prowth. If so. there certainly is cause
for .. reconsideration. Fine, trees are
scarce enough on Manhattan Island
without any such wholesale slaughter,
and little compensation is offered in the
provision which Is made for the planting
of new trees In place of some of those
destroyed. We have had enough of that
work on upper Broadway. It is better
to let one tine tree stand than to de
stroy it needlessly and then plant two
■dubious saplings in its place. x
: Moreover, it is suggested that the
plans as drawn practically ignore the
Park Department of the city and the.
park-like features of the proposed road.
.That we must regard as. a great mis
take. Riverside Drive is essentially a
parkway, and its extension should.main
i tain that character in an even more
: n.arked degree. The upper part of the
1 island Fends Itself in "an exceptional
manner to the laying out of such a road.
Instead of indiscriminately cutting away
the trees to make room for a boule
vard a sylvan road -or series of roads
should be made among "them. may
' be that to some men nothing is more
; ii.vely than a sun-swept -.stretch of as
phalt, bordered with trim little arbor
i vit;e growths .in green painted boxes.
But that is not the kind of road New
Yorkers want for the extension of Riv
erside Drive.. . -. .
h\ our opinion the Park Department
and its landscape architects and garden
ers should be pretty nearly supreme in
the matter <>f laying out such a road,
and if. as is alleged. their construction of
the road ac s parkway would be pe
cuniarily more economical thai the
building of H as it was originally ar
ranged there would rw» an argument for
reconsideration which should eointrei'd
Itself to the most practical and utili
tarfan citizen.
makixg' for peace.
There is probably no more noteworthy
circumstance connected with the life
and death of Edward VII than that,
while he was as Prince acd as King
more in touch with the world and with
its prevailing spirit than any other. sov
ereign of his time, he 5s called with uni
versal approval The Peacemaker. The
purport of that coincidence is unmistak
able. He: was conspicuously in harmony
with the spirit of the age. and his own
spirit was actively and efficiently ironic.
If we should apply mathematics to ethics
we could easily make it appear axio
matic according to Euclid, that there
fore the spirit of the age is peaceful,
peace-loving and peacemaking.
That conclusion is indeed suggested, at
least, so far as our own land is con
cerned, by the formal declarations of
the Lake Mohonk Conference on Inter
national Arbitration last week. That
body of particularly active peace propa
gandists saw fit to congratulate this na
tion upon th* progress of the last year
toward the substitution of peace for
war, and it called special attention to
three Items In the record — President
Taft's declaration in favor of arbitra
tion/ secretary Knox's proposal for an
international court of arbitral justice
and the centenary of the agreement for
limitation of armaments on the Great
Lakes. These references are pertinent
and well deserved, and others of like
tenor might have been made. At the
very moment when the conference was
formulating its platform our government
was successfully engaged in conjunction
with Home of Its neighbors in averting a
threatened war in South America and
also, single handed, in limiting and da*
couraging hostilities in Central America ;
It was sending envoys to an inienia
rinnal court of arbitral justice to settle
peacefully a controversy which had long
fetSBJ a cause of vexation and which, in
other times and between other powers^
n,ight easily have become cause for war,
and, as our news columns yesterday hap
pily disclosed, was completing « settle
ment of its last rein in it boundary dis
pute with Canada.
These things etrongly indicate what
we have already suggested, that the
spirit of the present age, which gome
have, unthinkingly nnd unjustly stigma
tized us excessively and wantonly. mill
tain. in, in fact, making directly and
fetmacly for peace; and it sJMM . only
just to say that nowhere- IS teat
beneficent tendency more Liai^d UsM in
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. TT'KSDAY. MAY 24. W.
cue own land.- Without, in the least de
cryins the value of arbitration and in
ternational tribunal?. moreover, it is fit
tine nrain to call attention to the fact
that this pvogriai is being largely, we
think chiefly, made. through th* direct
offices of ordinary diplomacy, and it can
not be too strongly emphasized that that
method is always preferable and should
always have the first trial. It is only
after it fails teat the 'arbitration of a
third power or the intervention of an
international court should be invoked.
It is noteworthy that while it is the
.imrdiatjon of neutral powers that has
: averted a war in South America, the
two dispntants intend softer all to settle
their differences by direct negotiations
| and to that end have asked that arbitra
tion, already undertaken.^ be held in
! abeyance, and that our boundary settle
j ment with Canada has similarly been ef-
I fected by direct diplomacy hi preference
j to the arbitration for which provision
i bad been made.
PRIXCETOX'S XEW MILLIOXS.
The Wyman bequest to Princeton Uni
versity in all its circumstances is proba
bly the most romantic in* the history of
gifts to education. A university of mod
erate endowment has its wealth probably
doubled, and perhaps more than tripled.
at a dramatic moment in its history, in
a 'totally unexpected way, and from a
totally unsuspected source. The giver,
whose bequest may prove to be the larg
est gift ever received by a college at one
time from a single donor, was one of this
country's "obscure millionaires." Proba
bly outside of Salem, where he led the
simple life, and appears to have made
bis real estate lead the simple life, tos?
he was unknown.
The fact that this capful old real
estate investor, who more than once was
j^immoned into court on : account of the
disrepair into which he had permitted
his property to fall, should have left his
fortune largely under the control of the
Princeton educator who has figured be
fore the public in the controversy at
Princeton as the protagonist of the "aris
tocratic" conception of a graduate school,
with "ivory tower" ideals of "cloistered
elegance," is one of the apparent contra
dictions that add interest to the bequest,
humanly considered. But very likely
Dean West and the old graduate with
property in every state in the union un
derstood each other much better than the
general public understands the merits of
the Princeton dispute. It is impossible
to consider the great bequest apart from
that controversy, since it t provides fo» a
graduate school whose prospective en
dowment bad just been lost through a
disagreement over terms and. functions,
and apparently puts it largely in Dean
West's power to carry out his own con
ception of what such a school should be.
We are glad to see that reports from
Princeton indicate a tendency to concil
iation and a healing of the breach -that
has existed. The feeling of irritation
! that the endowment formerly offered was
I lost may well die out now that a greater
endowment is in hand, and a reasonable
spirit of compromise should f void the
danger of any such division in the fut
| ure. With this great fortune in its pos
\ session Princeton faces the prospect of
developing from a relatively small insti
tution into one of the country's greatest
seats of learning, and It is in need of
i harmonious councils and wise leadership.
THE LATXZT STEAM EXGTXE.
Motive power is ptit to so many uses on
land and sea that any claim to have
Improved the means of developing it is
likely to interest many people. SiK-h a
claim is made for an engine. -invented by
Gerardns Poet Herrick and described at
a dinner given t<> him at the Waldorf
on Saturday evening.
I'ntii recently the only mechanism
utilizing steam to drive ships and to
run mills produced a reciprocating mo
tion, which it. was necessary to convert
into rotary motion. Practically all of the
work of an engine is done with a revolv
ing shaft. Hence efforts to perfect one
whicfa would have a rotary motion at the
very outset have repeatedly been made
for nearly a century. It has been hoped
that thus more or less waste of power
miKhi be avoided and greater simplicity
of design attained. In the turbine, which
is still something of a novelty and which
i* the firpt rotary engine to achieve suc
cess, these objects, have in a measure
been secured, and with the additions
and changes which will surely come in
time its usefulness cannot fail to he in
creased. Many inventors, however, have
soucht to produce rotation in a different
way from that adopted by Parsons and
Curtis. They have employed a piston,
and uutil now have encountered embar
rassments of one sort or another which
led them to abandon their endeavors.
Mr. Herrick thinks that he has overcome
these troubles.
In the published accounts of the talk
at the Herrick dinner it will be noticed
that there is no suggestion of using the
new motor by itself. Mr. Lovekin. the
engineer of the New York Shipbuilding
Company, asserted that in combination
with a turbine the Herrick engine would
increase the speed of the Maurefania one
knot and enable her to save five hours in
8 transatlantic voyage. ■ Even such a
small gain would be worth making, of
Course, if the additional equipment re
quired for it did not. materially enlarge
the first cost of the machinery and im
j»ope a new tax on space. The claim
made for the Herrick engine Is certainly
a modest one. Can its inventor "make
good"?
LITERATURE AND ITS REWARDS.
The discussion of the pecuniary re
wards of literature never ends. It is al
whvk going on BOinewhereJ especially in
England^ whore the Royal Literary Fund
ii.is recently been talklng.it over again.
Every ten years or bo it breaks through
the professional circle to take it II the
educated world Into its confidence! The
cause of the futility of these* Inquiries.
of their barrenness of all results, lie* In
ho haziness of the definition of the word
"literature" itself, It is cither an art or
a profession; the mistake Is that it Is
dealt with as a confused mixture of both.
Authorship- -vieatlve* work." as the
young and enthusiastic call it with the
amusing solf-consclousiiess of their years
— 1.-«, first of all, not necessarily a branch
Of 'literature. The author of popular
'novels, especially, who stands in the pub
lic ■•..•• as the very incarnation of belles-
Icttje*, may know nothing about if, his
torically or. critically, and, care less. Ho
heed Dot even lie grammatical. At his
worst he is a manufacturer of a specula
tive" article of commerce, whose success
or failure depends upon the Incalculable
Whim of the public. At bin best he is sin
artist, but raiMy ,i professional "literary
man" in the sense in which a professor
of literature is one. AS a role he Is ton
busy writing his own books to read those
of other*. "Who," asked the late Marion
Crawford on . I memorable occasion, .."is
Miss Mary Wllktai, wlmt has.jhe
written?" . ''. ' :-*> •, - - - -■■
Literature as an art. or its imitation,
••near-liteEat'ire." should not be taken
into consideration in ■ -discussion of the
rewards of literature as a 'profession. In
no art, not even In music and sont:. is
there any sure connection between in
trinsic worth and financial return. The
artist is overpaid or underpaid. admired
or neglected, according to the public's ]
good pleasure. His work is not- a nece?- j
sity. like medicine or the " law. with
which professions " literature is oftMMSt
compared. Painters, sculptor?. mn?i
clans never dream of drawing this com
parison.
The professional literary man. as dis
tinct from CDS literary artist, makes the
comparison as often, and with better
reason, hut be. too, overlooks several
differences." If he be a teacher he should
compare his income with the incomes of
his colleagues in the departments of art
and music, not, as he generally does,
with those gained by the lecturers on
law and medicine as practitioners. To
do this. he. too. must practise first. *\
■ There is a general practitioner In lit
erature. He is sometimes dubbed a
"hack." There is nothing derogatory in
the term :. Andrew Lang declared that he
gloried in the title "prince of hacks" J
when it was bestowed upon him by a
supercilious reviewer. This literary gen
eral practitioner, too, is much given to
comparison of his earnings with those of
lawyers and physicians— of corporation
lawyers andy eminent specialists by pref
erence—in his hours of dejection. Unlike i
them, however, he is a "middleman," not
the ogre that, according to some radical
economists, takes most of the profits, but
a useful and not badly paid cog in the
machinery of the world of print. He
reads manuscripts for publishers, 'and
"licks them into shape" for Inexperi
enced authors. He writes prefaces, con
tributes to encyclopaedias and helps to
edit them, reviews books, adapts for
eign plays, translates, perhaps conducts
a department of his own in some peri
odical, occasionally is an acknowledged
authority on some special subject
Chaucer or Jonathan Swift. or heraldry,
or the underrated native English influ
ence in the drama of the Restoration —
and in his leisure hours may be a minor
poet, an occasional and very acceptable j
novelist or writer of children's books,
and even a persistent playwright. His
interests and his work are one, which in
itself is great compensation: and as a
breadwinner he. the average professional
literary worker, compares not unfavor
ably with the average lawyer or general
medical practitioner.
All of which leaves the question of the
speculative financial rewards of author
ship, as distinct from the earnings of
literature, exactly where it has always
been and always will be. dependent upon
the firkle favor of the public.
Thf* Hon. Champ Clark was asked on
Saturday in the House of Representa
tive how far he would go to hear a de
bate on th' 1 tariff question between Sen
ator Bailey and William J. Bryan. His
reply was: "I wouldn't travel ten steps;
'I know as much about the tariff as both
"those statesmen put together."
Clark is a wary Democrat. He knows
enough about the perplexities of the
Democratic attitude on the tariff to avoid
committing himself to either the Bryan
theory of free raw materials or the
Bailey theory of taxation on all imports,
whether raw materials or manufactures.
Whether a pair of birds that nest in
a particular tree one. year come back
to it again is a question which thousands
ask every spring. From a flock of swal
lows, flying over a town in K>nt, Eng
land, a few weeks ago four separated
themselves and settled on a shed. One
was caught, and on one of its legs was
found a ring put there last .year by the
.captors sister. All uncertainty about
that identical swallow was thus ended,
but it would not be safe to draw con
clusions about other birds. BUt further in
formation will probably soon eorrie in. for
more than two thousand birds were thus
marked last year, each ring Toeing in
scribed with a number and a few words,
and a record of the times and places at
wh.ich the rinfes were attached has been
kept for future reference. A duplication
of the?*- experiments in America would
he interesting. "For the rings aluminum,
being light and cheap, was used in Eng
land. To determine how large a propor
tion of robins, bluebirds and swallows*
possess the homing instinct of the car
rier pigeon would b* 3 a task attractive
from both the sentimental and the scien
tific point of view. If some one should
take the initiative and let the news
papers know, it is likely that the ex
ample would be promptly followed in thi?
country.
The Hon. "Tom" Taggart thus ex
ploited his own judgment and generosity
th* other day in Washington: "I say
"now. as I said in the state convention,
that John Kern was the logical can
didate for Senator, and no one was bet
"ter pleased over his nomination than I
■was." The Hon. "Tom" has made a
success in Indiana politics by always
going long on "the logic of the situation."
Mr. Kern is his private counsel and close
political friend. If anybody thinks that
Mr. Kerns nomination was not satis
factory to Mr. Taggart. he has no knowl
edge of the ins and outs of Plutonian
politic? fn Indiana.
Two French duellists had the mis
fortune yesterday to wound each other
in an encounter with pistols. They will
probably b" pxpelled from the Society
for th* Cultivation of Polite Duelling, al
though it may be urged as an exte.nun
tion of their carelessness that they had
mot twice before on the Held of honor
without mishap and probably considered
themsoivrs oa«uaJtjr-proot
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
"Always Fresh" as the motto for a
brand of chocolates named after their col
lege has aroused the resentment of Vas
sar Kirls. They deny the Imputation and
want the manufacturer to change tli*» label.
It should be easy to nnd something more
appropriate without fracturing the truth.
'•K.eniy loves me desperately, tliafa
clear.*' ■ ,
"How now?"
■ lit- lets father win from him at poker
mid mother trim him (shamefully at
bridge. •- Washington Herald.
In Ha review of Pierre de Vaaslcro's book,
■ 1.. Mort dv nbl," which inade.tw appear
ance recently In Paris, the "Neueste Nach
!iiht<if dwells upon the- account of tho
last seven mlnutcfl of Louis XVI, as de
ncribort In the book. ThtM were between
10:15, when the Kins arrived at the foot
of the guillotine, and 10:22. "when a shot
fired at the end of. the Champs Elyfieea. no
MM know* by whom, gave notice that th«
head had fallen" , The , ! review call* at
tention to dm Matantoat by the author that
the King* hand* had been pinioned bsnted
him by me 'executioner- while LoiuV was
putting on the coat which hA was to wear ;
at th* &nd. and that when •- reached BIS
platform of the instrument of •'!•■• ne,
rushed • unast=lst»d to th«» . uprlpht furthest
from the stairway. v "i'lappincr the face of
one of the assistant executioners who tried
to. stop him" With hands fastened at his
back, the reviewer asks.. "How did the
doomed monarch manage to perform th«
operation?" ,
*The Wife* Caller <ltehtly>-The?e-hus
bands of ours need watching from morning
The f)ther Wife «<?ss lightlv^-Say. rather,
from night till morning— lA'c.
BISHOP M'VICKAR AND MARRIAGE. ;
Some day. dear Bishop, all the world
Will be as wise as you. > '
And every sort Of human drift
Can not go two and two.
Weil learn in time, that marriage means
A whole lot more than Just
Two hearts that beat as one because
Two weaklings think they must.. .
Some day. deaf Bishop,' we will know
Some marriages are wrong.
And in the mean time we must wait
How long. O Lord, how long?
W. J. LAMPTOX.
"Dr. Eliot says he'd rather draw well
than spell well." _ . . 0,,,_0 ,,,_
"Crowds or salary ""-Cleveland Plain
Dealer. . - .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR-
A WORKER FOR AMERICAN .MUSIC.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It has been called to my attention
that "H. E..K.." in commenting on Dvorak
and American music in The Tribune of
April 17. writes as follows-: "The latest
contribution to the memorabilia of the
subject wan made by Mr. Arthur Farwell
in a bulletin of the Symphony Society pub
lished last January. Mr. Karwell has plen
ary inspiration on the subject of American
music, which he finds only in the songs and
dances of the North American Indian."
In view of my known services to the
cause of American music past and pres
ent, in every one of its discoverable aspects,
whether touching primitive music in Amer
ica or not. I am sure that in the interests
of justice and broadmindedness you will
sustain me in taking exception to the giv
ing out of the above . misleading and mis- '
taken presentation of my ideas, and will
give space to this letter in your columns'.
With appreciation of The Tribune and us
broad influence. I am truly yours.
ARTHUR FARWELJ*
New York. May 13. -1310. -.
[The ■Tribune ou^htnot to be e-rperfd
to do more for Mr. Fanvell in sustaining
his exception to the remark of "H. E. K."
than to permit him to present his own
statement of the "known services" which
he has performed to the cause of Ameri
can music, past and present; but it is in
clined to be more generous.. Mr. Farwel!
has lectured far and wide on the subject
of such music as he considers American
He has organized an American Music So
ciety, and in his capacity of publisher he
has helped to give publicity to the music
of pome American composers. The one
deplorable fact in" connection with his
letter is that, inasmuch as the article
from which he makes an excerpt dealt
with the subject of aboriginal music, he
did not tell The Tribune's readers how it
came about that he . recognized the
"rhythm" of lowa* in one movement of
Dvorak's symphony "From the New-
World" and found all the rest of th»
music Bohemian. Such talk about the
music of the North American Indians
and the coddling of small talents stand
in the way of appreciation of what is
characteristic and good in American
music. — Ed.]
QUESTIONS ON "WHITE SLAVERY."
To the" Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: What do you think of the "white
slave" agitation now? "Would this Moore
, woman have committed the crime of which
she stands convicted had not the city of
New York appropriated. £s,ooo of the tax
payers' money to .prove or disprove the
"white "slave" allegations? Whose agents
and whose money induced her to commit the
crime? Was the city's money appropriated
to make "white slaves'? Is it right or manly
to squander so much money in tempting a
negro woman to commit a crime and then
send her to Jail for it?
And the girls who were used— girls with
careers, one of them married, but described
as a "poor child crying for her teddy bear"
—what of them? Are they the only kind of
"white slaves " we have?
Is not the whole thing buncombe, des
picable buncombe?
CHARLES O'COXOR IRWIN.
New York. May 21. 191 ft
FOR ADJUTANT GENERAL.
Tr> the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Among the men who have been sug
gested to Governor Hughes for rh« post of
adjutant general when General Nelson H
Henry assume? the duties of Surveyor of
the Port is Brigadier Genera! G^r-rse
Moore Smith, commanding officer of the
First Brigade.
General Smith has been in the Mrvice
since April 28. 15*1, when lie enlisted as a
private in the 7th Regiment, and has ad
vanced throu-tb all grades, receiving the
title oi brevet major general in Maren,
190 ft Many of hi? friends in the national
guard think that his transfer irom th? line
to the office of adjutant general woaM be
a graceful compliment to an efficient offi
cer, and that It would round off pleasantly
his long and faithful service.
New York. May 2\ ISO* GUARDSMAN.
PROTECTING THE BOYS.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Many of your readers will dOQbtiSM
be interested to learn that Governor Irttghsa
on Saturday signed the Murray night
messenger boy bill, which was recently
passed by the Legislature.
This measure, was introduced at the re- j
quest of the New York Child Labor Com
mittee to remedy the very serious situa
tion revealed by an investigation conducted
by the National Child I^abor Committee of
the conditions surrounding young messenger
boys working at night In our Urge cities.
It was found through this investigatir*
that night Work for these boys in a large
majority of instances was an introduction
for them to immorality and vice.
While this new law will not put an end
to the social evil in our cities it wttt.Mt is
confidently expected, do much toward tak
ing out of these surroundings growing boys
who particularly need to h« protected from
temptations of this sort. By prohibiting the
employment of all boys under twenty-one
years of age after 10 o'clock In the evening
and before 5 o'clock in the morning the
chance of messenger bora being called to ,
objectionable place* Is greatly reduced. if
not entirely eliminated.
In enacting this law New York State has
the honor of leading the country In this
particular form of legislation, and Its ex
ample will do much to stimulate similar ac
tion next year by other legislatures. The
members of the I^eßlalatuii) and Governor
Hughes dosorvo tho fullest commendation
i for placing 1 this regulation on our statute
hooks.
Permit me furthermore to express the
appreciation of our committee for the as
sistance rendered by your paper In this
matter. OBOROB A. HALL,
Secretary New York Child Labor Com
mittee. • -
New York, May It, 1310.
KEEPING PEACE AT HOME. \
From. The Rochester Democrat and Chron
icle. • *,
The Buffalo Common Council ha* killed
an anti-hatpin ordinance In other word*,
of two evils— running th* gantlet if the
hatpin or that of wifely la^gnaaon-r.
choee the l«aet. . t
People and Social incident^
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
' - (From Th* Trtt>u«« Burse* 1
•Washington. May t 23.-Th« President re
ceived a large number of callers ■ to-**) _..
prnicipally ; members : of Congress, witi
whom he discussed the situation in con
gress. Mr. Taft is devoting a great deal "■
bis tune to conferences with Senators and
Representatives. d!sC«s?ins tho various ad
ministrative measures#and the railroad tl.l
in particular. .
The Alaskan bill, together with otnor
matters' pertaining to that territory, were
discussed by the President, the Attorney
"General and Governor Clark. ;■
• Major General* Cornells Do W. Ulllcox.
of the General Staff, now in Manila, was
recommended by Senator Bacon for in
structor of- modern Hnsuasres at West
Point. .(
Concessional leaders predicted the ad
journment of Congress frcm July 1 to la.
but admitted that if the weather continue*
hot members would find a way of nnlsning
their work much sooner. '"^..'v:"
Letters of protest against the establish
ment of a department of hea]|h continue
to reach the White House from every sec
tion of the country.-
Amort the President' callers were Asso
ciate. Justice Harlan. the Secretary of the
Navy, the Postnfester General, the Secre
tary of Commerce and Labor. Senators
Crane. Burn ham. Brown. Dick and Smoot.
Representatives Dickinson. Miller. -of Min
nesota: Barnard." Crumpack'er. Kennedy, or
Ohio; Tayor. of Alabama: Keeder. Edwards,
of Georgia; Clark, of Missouri; Martin, of
South Dakota: Hayes. Brown low. Kopp.
Danielson. Aiken. Candler. Graff. Volstead.
Murdock. Englebright and Sterling. ex-Sec
retary Terry, of New York: ex-Senator
Chandler and ex-Representative WaUon.
The President sent a list of nominations
to the Senate, including the name of Fred
erick L. Marshall. of New York, to be Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the 3d New
York District.
President Taft. Captain Butt and General
Edwards played golf thi3 afternoon.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. g
[From Th« Trtb;in« Bureau.]
Washington. May :3.-Th* Ambassador
from Germany will return to Washington
from New York to-morrow.
The Cuban Legation will be established
at Manchester this summer, and the new
minister will take his family directly there
from New York. They will not establish
themselves in the legation here until next
fall. Seftora de Garcia Velez. wife of the
former minister, has leased a cottage at
Chewy Chase for the summer, and will soon
leave the legation In 16th street for that
place.
Lieutenant Filippo . Camperio. Italian
naval attache, who is. now In Pitt3burg.
has arranged to sail from f New York on
June - for Italy. He will enter upon a
month's sea- duty, and may not return to
this country.
YINV IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From The Tribune Burean.]
Washington. May 23--The wedding of
Miss Mathilde Townsend and Peter. G.
Gerry on Thursday will bring a number of
persons back to Washington io attend the
ceremony and breakfast. Mrs. -Leiter and
her family will arrive from Chicago on
Wednesday, and Miss Mabel Boardman is
returning from Chicago with her. that she
may be present at the wedding. The num
ber of guests tavilsd is small, but the com
pany will be one of the most distinguished
assembled here at a ■ wedding in. -many
years. The Vice-President and Mrs. Sher
man, the members of the Cabinet, a- num
ber of diplomats and prominent society
people will be among the number.
At Mrs." Barney's ancient Greek festival
at The Oaks, in Georgetown, this after
noon, given for the benefit, of Neighbor
hood House, the audience as well as the
play proved a brilliant attraction. Women
In the most attractive- garden, party gowns
and the most summery hats divided atten
tion with the Greek robed figures, who went
through with the arranged- programme in
faultless manner. Mr*. Sherman, Ml«.
MacVeagh. Mrs. -Meyer and the Misses
Meyer, Mrs. Wlckersham. Baroness Rosen.
Bareness Elizabeth* Rosen, the- Chinese
Minister and his picturesque family, in
Oriental attire: the? Minister from Panama,
the Swedish Minister, the Japanese Ambas
sador and Baroness Uchida. many of the
younger members of the- diplomatic corps.
Mrs. Richard H. Townsend. Mrs. Morgan
G. Bulkrley". Mi 3. Churchill Candee. Mrs.
Charles J- Bell, Mrs. Wlllard K. Brownson,
Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins. Mrs. John Hay,
Mrs. Hennen Jennings. Mrs. Nicholas An
dersoiv Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff and Mrs.
Frank Ellis were among those who bought
boxes and tickets. The pastoral opened
with the Impressive rite of the prieates323
of the temple marching to the altar at
dawn to light the sacred fire of Apollo,
foncwed by a sacred sun and lire dance,
executed by Mrs. Barber, the hisli priest
.*.??. Apollo with his lyre called forth the
Muses, who performed a dance In which ho
took part. Th« Misses Downey were the
Three Graces, and other society girls tak
ing part were Miss Jane Sands, as DUna;
Mrs. Barber, as Niobe. and Miss Ol?a"
Roosevelt. Miss Sophie Johnston and Miss
Barbara. Brodie. Dionysian dancer*. Nature
could not have provided a more fitting
place for an ancient Greek dance than Th»
Oak?, oneo of the historic places In George
town, where great forest trees stand in a
setting of half-cultivated park, the gradual
rise of the lawn as It nears the splendid
old mansion forming a perfect arrphi
theatre.
Mr 3. A. C. Barney will sail for Franco on
June IS and will remain abroad for a year
or two. spending the early summer at her
place In Par!?.
Mrs. William J. Pettus left. Washington
to-day for New York, and will attend the
commencement at the Misses Spenco School,
from which Miss Charlotte Pettus wIU b*
graduated.
Mrs. Robert Hlnckley and Miss Hlnckley
left here to-day for New York, and will
nail to-morrow for Europe to spend" th»
summer.
PTJKSE FOR DR. S. A. EIJOT
Gift of Unitarian Ministerial Union at
Meeting in Boston.
Boston. May -Morning prayer In an
cient Kind's Chapel, conducted by the Rev.
D. Roy Freeman. *f Braintre*. opened the
regular meeting of the eighty-nfth anni
versary week of the American Unitarian
Association to-day. Two preliminary ses
sions were held yesterday. Later In the
forenoon thf> Rev. J. T. Sutherland, of
Hartford. Conn., addressed the annual
meeting of the Ministerial Union In Chan
nlnf» Hall. Ilia subject was "Theodore
Parker.**'
In recognition of h'.s tenth anniversary
as president of the American Unitarian
Association, thn Us*. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot
received a purse of about JSCO at the meet
ins; of the. Ministerial Union. The pres
entation was made by the Rev. Faul Re
vere Frothlnsbam, of the Arlington St^et
Church, on behalf of the ministers of the
association.
A public meeting of the National Alliance
of Unitarian and Other Liberal Christian
Women, the fourth annual meeting of the
Unitarian Service Pension Society and a
vesper service conducted by the Rev. Fred
erick It Griffin, of Montreal, comprised the
afternoon programme. ; At the women*
meeting the speakers Included Mr«. C. L.
Gllson. of Elisabeth. N. J.
BOTH
From The Charleston New* and Courier.
Thft New-York Tribune calla It '.•Farm
lns and Fun,", but down this way It i* Set
ting to be • Farming »r.i ILln,"
NEW YORK SOCIETY.
Mr. and .Mr*. Oeorsje J. Gauld, v .
Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel. jr.. ant "jiT?
Gould'* mother. Mr* Charles G. Kir.'-.io
sail for Europe to-day. on board the KnS
prlnz*s>*4n Cecil!*. .""*"
31. Orme Wilson, jr. who is to man
Miss Alice Borland. daughter of Mr «jj
Mr*. J. Nelson Borland. <-,n run* 3. < a t <.
I Church of th» Incarnation, will gtr* *?
I bachelor dinner at Delmocicv 3 on Jua»"»
; His guests will Include his ornth*? £
I Thornton Wilson, who will be bis t<S: ass»
f Albert Eugene Gallatln. O'Donnell Tjqll
PerYyß- Pyne. M. Avmar Johnson, Alb?
I* Hoffman and Francis E. Stcrer, »C
will serve as ushers. * "
Mr. and Mrs. .J. Frederic Kersocbaa gjj
t£eir daughters. Miss Sw«ratta and jrjj.
.Mary Kernochan. are at the:- -»uatr»
place at Bemardsvllle, N. J.. for the «S
summer.
Howard Towiwnd Martin and his am
Townsend Martin. win sail t&r 1 "~'iat _x
the Adriatic on June 2?. to speed, tta ■»*>
mer abroad. They will ° the rusts *,„
several weeks of Mr and Mrs. ssasW
Martin at their place In Scotland.
Morgan Wing, who »3 to carry Wjgj
Lucia Ciark Burton' on ■sconta? a: g;.
George's Church. Newburg, X. V., jar^ hit
bachelor dinner last nigh at r«\ai3!»ii«<>a
Hi? guests Included hi? brother. John D.
Wfng. 2d. Gardner Ca33att. of v '"ila4s>
phia; Edward E. Rice, el Boston; Dr
James T. Nagle. Crawford Burrou, S. 3ryt»
Wing and Frank V. Burton, jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payee Whitn?y «£■
leave their country ptacs at Wens^j
Long Island, on June 1. and go to ' < *9*Jt
for the season. j
Mr. and Mr; Corae!i:» Vanderbll: wB
spend the early part cf the summer «;
Newport, and will sail for Europe in ju.'j
to remain abroad for ferera] w^eks.
Mrs. J. Hno] Wrl?ht will take --tMBSJ
of her country place at Fort Washingta'
the end of this week.
. Mr. and Mrs. J. Pter; .llcryta. jr,
have gone, to their country pU:e 03 East
Island. Long Island-
Mr, and Mrs. Leonard M. Ihcrsas tan
left town for Philadelphia. They will «•!
turn at the end of the wises, sad speed 1
few days at the St. Re£3 b-fcre tjoinf to
Newport.
M- sari Mrs. Seymour L. "■"•l art
at tU? Plaza for a few days.
Mr and Mr?. B. Ogden Cftisnola JBltfts
Misses Chisholm are due to arrtr* here o»
r the Mauritania on Thursday.
The president of Colombia CriTenltt
and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Better will gta
a garden party this afternoon en the usi
; versity grounds.
I Miss Frances Cleveland La=o=:. <iau3>
" terof Mrs. Daniel S. reamer.:. *IT. re mar
ried to Francis Le B. Kobfcfit*. jr.. en Mi
15. at Millbrook. N. T. T:.* *flj
take place in Grace Church, a.-i wffl bj
followed by a reception at Alra^oat, fit
summer home of Mrs. Lament. •
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
[By Telegraph to Th* Tribune.]
Newport. May 25.-Mr. and lira. W. «,
Sherman and Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Hus<l
ton w.I! arrive, for the season to-morrow
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel wt'.l arrtH
on June 2. Mrs. A. C. Daßea on next Fr
day. J. H. Mahony and Mrs. J. J. Por.
some time during the week. Mr. and **
Herbert M. Harriman about June ■■>. *
and Mr?. Elisha Dyer early Best BKJBttj
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. . Bull. '
Brooklyn, the latter part of thi3 "••*
Reginald' C. TanA has returned ■
New York.
After "a visit to Mi? 3 Fredertka Paw
Mrs. William F. ••a-"- has returns**
Lakewood. N. J.
-Mr. and Mrs. William B. Bristtw. «f Ne*
York, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B..E=2W=3
.have arrived for. the season.
Mr. and Mr?. George B. de Forest w»
not arrive until after July 4
Mr. and Mrs. Leonarn M. Thomas hays
returned from a visit fa »*" Torfe.
Lady Arthur Herbert is expected frca
England this week to visit ■! sister, iira.
T. Shaw Safe. ■ .
Mrs. H. McK. Twombiy taa tad.Vteelan4
prepared for occupancy.
Mrs. Hermann Oelric'r.s arrived from >»'
Ycrk to-day, and GeoTga Hecry V!m T
and Lyman Josephs have returned ■■»■? ,
same city.
Miss Godwin, of New York. 13 tha r-- 51
of Dr. and Mrs. Roderick Terry.
IN THE BERKSHIRE*.
rßy T- I rfci "•■■■]
Lenox. May 23-Mrs. J- B. ***** »
and Mrs. C. G. Wood. Miss Mary i-,
Pprague and Miss M. F. s?ra?ue. of >«"
York, have arrived at Greenock Isn. n w»
for the summer. _ „,
David Lydi* ha? arrived at Curtis EW-
The Misses Eleanor and Mar.on *J
will open their country pl3ce ■> bw
bridge to-morrow. • *^— *
Robert W. Taft. wi-Ji a party a ; BB
will arrive this week for tIM wee* eni
Mr. and Mr*. Richard C. Pixey ««*?
Rosamond Dixey Have arrived at T4-»
wood. r-rtt" 1 -:
Lleutenanr-r T Louis A. Fro "^
ham. of Boston. rerurrM M th? JOMg
tal to-day. Mr. and Mr*. B. C v**_*u **_*
and Mrs S. V. P Cro^y. :";*: ";* "JJ
Thaver. Mi*s Williams aad X- ' _T^
who have been on a. tear to T>r«J*J
and Great Barrinsron. proceeded to^W
WUliamstown. tf
Franklin Farrel. 0? Anaemia, th
rived to-day. .__ 4H
Eustace Jaques. who " w teen *°IT-i
a year, will arrive tomorrow. \Zt
Mrs. B. P Jaaues will wtirn to W- 34
later - «» * ,gi
MM, Robert W, ■"•• has lea?ea a
in Stockbrid?e. *
HARVARD OFFER TOR CUSS3
| Baltimore Specialist Recently Cj*
ated on General Wood.
(By T>!*sr*rh ««• Th " rrt * — *J ra*>
Baltimore. May 23--r>r. lUrvey B- m»
1 in* of th» Johns Hopkins rntvtfw rf
Pltal medical staff haa r. • ' ** *» ao^
an Important chulr in lUrvar ° . i
School. Several other "^'ns ta*^
..aid. will be install*! at "^ToT •
the plan for widening "•* s^v*
medical school. nor***!
Dr. Cushtng i" •» ** -'" , *' .SriS
ctaltst. He recently removed * .naHW* 1 *
the- brain of Major Central I.eonaru
PRESIDENT TAFTS VISIT HE**
Washington. May a^^SsSwl*
make two afcort trips out ot » , k
next week. He will I«« IS*5«
r-isht. May ». to royiew tt;e 111 is» ••
Day parade In New York •*••"*** «a#
noon of the 30th. Me will return V>
uii;t.>ti that afternoon. • JasS !
The President wilt leave ■»S al!^ oaß f
! to attend the exercises thai •«»- .^.
i Bryn Mawr School, at Bryn X" •
r where tils daughter- te a * l £**' m l*
Brvn Mawr the President will *« J^*
Ohio, where he make* > nOli>fl^3( r W
!on June Z. The evening of J«aj_^^o
will be in Detroit. On Juno « *"V n V
will make a short visit W J£» \&
\ Monroe. Mich. He will be b»c» »
ington the evening: of June ' 3.
CAN'T. \
Frara The Detroit Fro* Pre.**- ,V 4 ,, B *'
Cnarokee should * av*.JK**j-slf2£
1 #tory aaaat a parson losing .&» «•