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FOREIGN. — All the foreign professors In the Imperial University at Peking have refused to continue their courses unless unsanitary conditions in the. building are rem^di^d. = The Met ropolitan Opera Company jrave. a per formance for charities in Paris, at which ; nearly 540,000 was raised. == Spain has intimated that unless the Vatican decides not to couple its protest against the royal decree with the negotiations to revise the Concordat the government Will break on! all negotiations: anti clerical riots occurred at Valencia. ■■ ■ - Mexico has agreed to arbitrate the Chamizal boundary dispute with the United States; a Canadian jurist will hold the balance of power. ■ Em peror William's physicians issued a statement denying that an operation had been performed on the Kaiser's knee. DOMESTIC. — Secretary Knox In a statement Issued in Washington said positively that he would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania, ■ l ' Secretary Dickinson of the War Department opened the mili tary tocrnam«nt in Nashville with a re view of United States troops. ■ Gen eral Grant will preside over a school of instruction to be held near Indianapolis for four hundred and fifty militia, officers | Of the National Guard of Ohio. Indiana and Michigan. ===== By vetoing- rarious financial measures and cuttingr out items in the annual appropriation and supply bills. Governor Hughes reduced the an r.ual state appropriations by nearly 15. 000.000. Appropriation bills passed by the Legislature this year totalled $46. 970,571 93. - . ■— Glenn H. Curtiss broke his former record for a short distance ■but at Louisville. Ky.. rising 87^4 feet from the starting mark; hie previous record was PS feet == The Potomac Rlv»r -seas reported as Hie highest since 3SS?: considerable damage was caused at Washington. ■ Baccalaureate ser mons were preached at Wellesley Col lege. Cornell University. Harvard Uni versity and Beloit College. ■ Three persons were killed and a score injured Mien SA Immigrant train collided with a light ensjne on the Ontario & Western Railway near Norwich. N. Y. — Mr?. O. H. P. Belmont was the principal speaker at a suffragette outing at Corona. Long Island = The detec tive were still without a clew to the murder of Moses Sacks, whose body was found in a trunk on Friday. - - __- Presi dent Flnley. In his baccalaureate sermon at the College of the City of Sew York, frequently referred to ex-President Roosevelt. ==: Aviators at H^mpstead were so annoyed by crowds yesterday that flights were tame, and Captain Baldwin refused to ascend. == The leading Catholic prints of this and many oth^r dioceses attended ■ mass in com memoration of the centennial of the death of the first bishop of New York. = Magistrate O'Reilly, when dis charging an ice dealer, said the delivery Of lea on Sunday did no harm to the observance of the day. ■ - Police men had to resort to a trick to capture en alleged lunatic who had climbed to the top of a trolley polo. ===== Legisla tors here for the Roosevelt welcome discussed the chances for a direct pri mary enactment at the special session opening in Albany to-night. ... The committee appointed by Mayor Gaynor announced Its plans for a "safe and sane" Fourth of July celebration. THE WEATHER. — Indications for to day: Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, S7 degrees; lowest, 65. yEWS BY TELEPHOyE. The interesting announcement is made that our enterprising suburban neighbors of Chicago purpose to take a lea? out of the book of Budapest and to establish in their city a system of tele phonic distribution of news similar to that which we have hitherto described as existing In the Hungarian capital. No unfavorable comment is to be made upon such imitation of the Hungarian example, since, as we have frequently reminded our readers. New York itself did not venture on the construction of electric tramways with underground conduits until years after the city on the Danube had demonstrated their entire practicability in climatic circumstances far "ess favorable than those of this metropolis Nor would it be judi cious To assume that the venture will be Impracticable or unprofitable. It may Mot l>e iHilinhii:. however. to point out tome reasons for not indulging in 100 •^tlmistic expectations and for doubt- Ing that ltefore its triumphant oncoming the poor old newspaper press is to fade into the Nabs* of the. obsolete. There can t*> no question of the pos sibility of transmitting news by tele «: no simultaneously to a multitude of eu!iscri!>ers, and with loud-speaking in struments it may be done En such a way tbml the subscriber will not have bo keep the receiver at his ear. but that the ■ewi will be heard by all in the room if not In the house. In order to get all tLe news, however, it will be necessary for someone to remain constantly with in hearing of the machine, and it will also be necessary for those who hear to do much oral repetition of news to those ho were out of hearing, but who are equally Interested in what is going on. It would be practically impossible, for si! the day's n*w« thus to be repeated to those wiic were m engaged during the day a:- to be unable to listen to the telephone, and who, doubtless, would romjwhs* the large majority of the com munity. Apafn, it will he with the telephone as Omar says of the Recording Hand, The Sieving Finger writes; and, having writ. Moves on.. The telephone will tell its tale and then be stil! or proceed with other tales. deaf to the desires of those who did not hear at first distinctly or who wish to heir again an important item. And if one listener thought the machine said one thing and another thought it'said another thing,- the cold, mechanical voice -would go right on with some alto gether different story, leaving them to light cut discrepancies of hearing or of memory as best they might. Of course, some of these imperfections might be measurably remedied by the use of a recording device, by which the news would be inscribed upon the disks or cyl inders of a phonograph for repetition, but such additions to the complications and costs of the system would scarcely commend it to the "get the news quick" contingent of the community. As for mu^h of the matter in newspa pers, including statistical reports and, by no means least, advertisements, the im practicability of purveying them by telephone must be manifest to even the most inventive genius of Budapest raised to the «th degree of Chicagoan efficiency and enterprise. We shall therefore, however great the success of the telephonic news service, confidently expect the newspaper press to continu? business at the old stand with unim paired prosperity, and probably with in creased profits from the amount of ad vertising which the new venture will have to do in order to bring Itself to public notice. THE SPECIAL SESSION. There is only one sensible course for the Legislature, which meets in special session to-day, to follow, and that is to pass a direct primary bill as promptly as possible. An exhibition of bad temper or resentment could only injure its mem bers and the Republican party. To pro test that the Governor exceeded his au thority iv calling a special session, as some have advised, would make the Leg islature ridiculous. To Take a recess unTil the end o* the Governor's term, a course also advised by the Governor's enemies, would be to invite scathing pun ishment from the voters. The Governor's calling of a special ses sion has served to sharpen the direct pri maries Issue. Public attention has been increasingly drawn to it, and unless the coming session disposes of the question properly it will remain an acute topic in the fall campaign. How keenly the peo ple In some parts of the state already feel about it is shown by the sharp way in which Assemblyman Eveleth. of Her kimer County, and Assemblyman Green wood, of Wayne County, have been called to account by their constituents. Dr. Eveleth has been compelled to announce that he is not a candidate for re-election, while Mr. Greenwood is vainly trying to create the impression that his vote for the Meade-Phillips bill was a vote for di rect primaries. Moreover, the ministers' associations and tne Granges have been bestirring themselves in support of the Governor very much as they did when he was making his fight against gam bline. The sentiment for direct primaries is growing. The people of this state will not long consent to be deprived of that participation in the control of parties which they see the people of other states enjoying. Persistent denial would be dangerous alike to the men and to the parties responsible for it. The motives of the refusal are too obvious to escape attention, and the methods by which direct primaries have been defeated in tensify the demand for them. The open bossing of a Legislature by Mr. Barnes, of Albany, in a -bipartisan combination with Tammany— could any more striking object lesson of the evils of present con ditions have be<>n furnished for the use of direct primary advocates? The opponents of direct nominations have lost the main argument for their opposition. Their objection that the Hin man-Green plan involved a wide depart ure fraught with danger has been met by the Governor's willingness to approve a less radical measure. The Cobb bill. which he was ready to accept, has the support of the conservative sentiment of the party, which hesitated at the Kin man-Green bill. To defeat it again will be without a shadow of justification in the eyes of the public. THE GROWTH OF RUSSIA. The statement of the population of the Russian Empire which has just been made by the central statistical bureau of the government is not the result of a census, for none has been taken for many years, hut of estimates which are made with so much care that they are probably within a very narrow margin of the exact truth. The total population of the empire Is placed at 1 G0. 095.200. which figures, when compared with those of former enumerations and esti mates, indicate a greater ratio of growth than might be expected in a land of primitive sanitation and high mortality. The growth of Russia has been through territorial conquest and annexa tion more than through births, at least down to the middle of the last century. In 1722 the population of the empire as it then existed was only 14,(100,000, and by the end of that century it had only a little more than doubled those figures. At the end of the Napoleonic em it was only 45,000,000, or loss than twice that of France at that time. By IST>9, owing largely to acquisitions of populous ter ritory, it had increased to 74,000,000. since the latter date territorial acquisi tions hare not been important, and in crease of population lias depended more upon the excess of births over deaths. The latest — and first — real census, in £897, reported 129,209,297 persons in the empire, not counting Finland. The enumeration, or estimate, which is now made Includes Finland. If we reckon Finland at close to 3,000,000, li.en. the increase of the empire appears to have l>een more than 33,000,000, or more than 26 per cent, in thirteen years. It may be added that an estimate by this same statistical bureau three years ago placed the figures, not counting Finland, nt 182,009,200, indicating an in crease of about 5,000,000 in three years. The natural explanation of the growth of population in spite of poor sanita tion and high death rate is to be found in the fecundity of a comparatively primitive and unsophisticated people. Thus, while the death rate is enormously high, being about 30 to the thousand yearly, the birth rate is nlso phenomenal, being at least 48 to the thousand, showing 'i yearly surplus of IS births over deaths to the thousand population. In Ger many, by way of contrast, It may be noted that the death rut* is only 19. against Russia's 80, but the birth rate is only 34 to Russia's 4«, so that Ger maar*« net grain in surplus of births over deaths is only 15. against Russia's IS. It should be added that while the Rus sian death rate is slowly falling- the birth rate is actually increasing, so that there is a prospect r>f the general growth M^-VORK DAILY TRIBWCE. MONDAY. JU>'E 20. 1910. of population being even more rapid in the immediate future thnn it has been in Hie immediate past. SIMMER COTTBSBBL. '..- The open' season for summer advice has been considerably delayed this year, but we may expect our benevolent coun sellors to break out nt any moment now, with toe advent of the first hot wave. They will he led, as heretofore, by the cheery philosopher who lauds New York as ii summer resort. lie will tell us how privileged we are to he obliged to stay in town the whole summer through : he will talk eutranchjgiy of boat rides and beaches, of roof gardens and open-air res taurants, of nocturnal trips ou surface cars and the cool apartment awaiting us nt the end of this* round of comforts. The refrigerator is a dream of iced de' lights, the bathtub allures, and a breeze always manages to blow in from one point of the compass or another, yet never bears a mosquito on its wing to disturb our slumbers. "And so to bed," to quote the comfort loving Mr. Pepys. Now our perplexities begin, however, for next comes the counsellor warning us against the iced liquids in that refriger ator. Whatever the nature of the bever age, or mixture of beverages, alcoholic or temperance, danger lurks in it if it be artificially chiiled. "Beware," he says, with uplifted finger. Usually he has a refreshing draft of his own to recom mend, oatmeal water at its natural sum mer temperature, perhaps, or even a cup of nice hot Tea. To bewilder us still fur ther, along comes the counsellor who pins his faith to cold food, which in cludes, of course, cold liquids. Even the after-dinner coffee must be iced, accord ing to him, if we would live in comfort and health through the hot spell. And now They be upon us in their multi tude, advisers who would direct our way of living from rising to retiring, our dress from the soles of our shoes to the straws on our heads. Even the rural cabbage leaf as a protection against sun stroke bobs up occasionally in this volu minous body of rules for. urban summer living. Last of all comes the insomnia specialist of the dog days, whose reme dies range all the way from cold water to auto-suggestion. His is a thankless task, his only reward usually a feeling of bitter enmity. New Yorkers manage to be a fairly comfortable folk through most of the summer, thanks in part, no doubt, to these kindly counsellors, but. chiefly to the situation and configuration of their city. We should miss the advice if it were not forthcoming. Meanwhile, it is a great comfort to remember that we have got through most of June without the need of it. A FIRST APPEARANCE. The abscess on the German Emperor's wrist, which prevented him from holding a peu. was the means of introducing his son and heir to participation in the af fairs of the empire, though the service required of the Crown Prince William was a modest one. merely the signing of his father's name. The open concern with which the news of the Emperor's plight ailment was re ceived by The German papers, irrespec tive of their political color, is significant. They paid him the spontaneous tribute of alluding to the supreme importance of his continued life to the peace of Europe —probably the first unanimous, ungrudg ing, national recognition of the success of the guiding principle of his diplomacy. William II is not a "peacemaker," but he has been a peace preserver through out his rejgn. sometimes in crises that may have been a sore temptation to a war lord conscious of the strength of the weqpon ?n his hand. Another fact has been emphasized by the Emperor's indisposition, namely, that his has been a one-man rule in the Ger man Foreign Office since his dismissal of Bismarck. The empire has now no strong, tried, trusted statesman except the Emperor to look to in an emergency. Ir musT pprforce place its reliance in the young prince who has so modestly made his first appearance on the great stage of public life by signing his father's name. It is this reflection that gives the inci dent a dramatic meaning which Is en hanced by the later mishap to the Em peror's knee. PROFESSIOXAL SCHOOL STAND ARDS. It is distinctly encouraging to observe that the American. Medical Association, as a result of six years of painstaking investigation, has made a report strongly confirmiog that of the Carnegie Founda tion, which was recently commented upon in The Tribune, concerning the need of a higher standard of scholarship in some of our medical colleges. That there is a markei difference in stand ards is uudeniable. Probably to some ex tent it is inevitable. But that some in stitutions fall considerably below a standard which must be regarded as the minimum of acceptable efficiency is un hesitatingly declared by impartial and informed investigators, while it is also, as we have recently been reminded, somewhat resentfully denied hy the friends of those institutions: or perhaps we should say more correctly that they deny that it is possible to fix any specific standard to which all institutions should conform. Without undertaking to pasß judgment up<>n any particular institution, we would repeat wh.it we have hitherto urged, that a genera! standard of professional attain nn-iit and efficiency i; not only desirable but also possible. It is to be noted, more over, that the report to which we havo referred is not merely censorious and condemnatory. It does regard some of the medical Bcbooto as hopelessly bad. But more of them are susceptible of being raised to a satisfactory standard, and The association expresses a readiness and, in deed, an eagerness to co-operate in the work of thus elevating them. That is also thp spirit of tin* Carnegie Foundation. There is no thought of creating an aristocrat ie monopoly In professional education, bat rather a desire to bring all institutions up to the level of the I>-Ht. That desire is logical aud laud able, aud we believe that its fuilil nient Is necessary for the highest good of the profession itself and for the wel fare of the people whom it serves. MONET AND BUSINESS. Financial conditions are stronger than they were a few weeks ago, and general tendencies in business circles are in the direction of improvement. No great trade activity, however, ie, looked for in the summer months, nut with bounti ful harvests, which appear to be as sured, pronounced expansion should mark the course of our industries in the autumn, accompanied by a better de mand for Investment securities. The stock market shows no life at present, though Important interests are quietly accumulating attractive issues on the theory that all known adverse factors in the situation have been adequately discounted by the prolonged decline in prices, which has carried prime invest ments to levels* that should appeal to capital. In the last few months liqui dation of securities find commodities has been heavy, and as r- consequence the money market is in A healthier po sition, with ample facilities for handling legitimate trade needs, including tne financing of the crops, which, as usual. Will cause the withdrawal of a large amount of currency from the East for the account of the interior banks. Banks in all parts of the country have been husbanding their resources, and as a result of the forced liquidation in the markets loans have been materially re duced, while reserves above legal re quirements have been substantially strengthened, the latter item at this centre, for instance, having increased more than $20,000,000 from the low point of the year. Money rates are easy, and with good stocks selling on a 5 to C> per cent basis it would seem as if a readjustment in Stock Exchange prices to a higher range would soon be effect ed. Our foreign trade is improving, as reflected by the figures of imports and exports for May, exports in that month showing an excess over imports for the first time eince last January and ac counting for the decline in sterling ex change to a level that encourages the expectation of gold shipments from Eu rope to this country in the fall, if the needs of the local money market should become urgent. A year ago New York hankers were heavy borrowers abroad. There is no prospect of a repetition of this operation in the current summer, and our growing exports of merchan dise therefore will not be offset by ma turing finance bills In the autumn as an influence upon the foreign exchange market. While there is a certain amount of ir regularity in trade movements, the gen eral volume of business as shown by railroad earnings and bank clearings is large. For the first week in June gross transportation receipts present an in crease of 14 per cent as compared with the same time last year, and payments through clearing houses outside of New York an Increase of 6 per cent, a de cline at this centre being due to the light trading in securities. In the pri mary market for drygoods activity is by no means pronounced. Prices for cotton goods are held at a firm level, though in the West jobbers are shading quotations at clearance sales for the purpose of reducing stocks. A dull sum mer is looked for in the New England textile industry, and a short time policy has been decided upon by the manufact urers, affecting upward of fifty thousand operatives. It is estimated that more cotton mill machinery is idle at present than at any time in the last twelve months, but the mill men are hopeful over the future of the trade, believing that with the approach of the new crop the high price for raw material will dis appear. Cotton crop conditions at this early period foreshadow a normal har vest, while the same thing may be said of wheat and corn, a reflection of which may be found in the big decline that has taken place in quotations for the various options from the advanced figures re ported early in the current year. The export demand for wheat and corn is heavier, owing to the lower prices here and the active spot demand abroad. Iron producing centres report a some what heavier inquiry for the metal, -md the tonnage booked for the second half of the year is large enough to encour age the expectation of marked improve ment in the industry in the fall. In fin ished steel lines the output is fair, with an increasing tendency on the part of consumers to come into the market, the railroads being better buyers in spite of the recent statements by many rail road presidents that drastic retrench ment would be forced if they were not to be permitted to advance freight carry ing charges at once. New orders for steel products in the first two weeks of June are estimated at eight thousand tons a day in excess of the correspond ing time in the preceding month, and on its present basis of operating the United States Steel Corporation, which handles more than 50 per cent of the trade, is working at about SO per cent of capacity. Copper production is still in excess of consumption, with prices weaker, notwithstanding the fact that trade authorities assert that the con sumption of the metal at home and abroad is greater than ever before in the history of the industry. The shoe and leather trade shows no Improve ment, the most noticeable feature of the market being the weakness in hides. with the tendency apparently toward lower levels. Chairman Dix, whose election was hailed as the deliverance of the Democ racy from petty and selfish leadership, with a vision dull to questions of politi cal morality, has a chance to show -what stuff there is in him. The Legislature meets in special session to consider di rect nomination?. Will Mr. Dlx be heard from? Will the Democratic party show the tonic effects of his leadership? The first of the Taft measures, the railroad bill, is now a law. It is of such Importance that its enactment alone might be regarded as a substantial achievement for the administration. The holding of the first court of the new reign at St. James's Palace is a re minder that while courts may be and are commonly held at various other places, and may constitutionally be held wherever the sovereign may happen to be, <ild St. James's is the one official habitat or "permanent address," of the English court, whence the common ap pellation of "the Court of St. James's." An experimenter In Kansas Is said to have invented a device which will record the absorption by a backslider from ab stineni-e sf even a. email quantity of strong drink. Mechanics is Invading the field of psychology with deadly effect. What will be left ere long of the psyoho logical alibi as a means of exculpation and defence? What is there, to find fault with in the Rnoßftvell weather. Never, probably, in all their history did the "pious monks of St. Bernard" have so numerous and so strange a com pany of guests In their famous hospice as they had a short time ogo, when thou sands of swallows on their way north for the Rummer were met by a violent snowstorm. The birds settled upon the hospice and flocked by thousands into its guest chambers, the monks' cells, the kitchen and even the chapel, remain ing there until the storm had subsided, when they resumed their flight. Some of the monks were shocked at seeing the,* chapel altar converted Into a resting place for birds, but- memories of St. Francis of Assist Induced complacence and assent. What shall we do with our «x-Presi dents? How pale and academic that problem as It has hitherto presented It self now seems! The movement for a sane Fourth of July is not always itself entirely sane, but it promises safety and a much higher degree of sanity than we have known for many years. It will he no light thing to Impress upon the popular mind that Independence Day was not established as a festival of sound and fury, and that there are other m^ans of celebrating it than with racket, stench and potential arson, mayhem and tetanus. THE TALK OF THE DAY. The Doukhobors. a strar.ers reiigio-is sect who caused no end of trouble a couple of years a?o by insisting on parading around the province of Saskatchewan in the frart> of Adam, have settled downj on a large tract of land near Kamloops, British Co lumMa, and bid fair to become one of the most valuable and prosperous eorronunitles in Canada. They are clearing nearly three thousand acres of forest land and placing it undor cultivation, and a correspondent of "The London Chroniole," who recently vis ited the settlement, speaks highly of their industry and success thus far. He writes: "No meat Is eaten by the I>oukhobor3. Cows are kept for milk, which is consumed in place of tea and coffee. There is not a dog, a gun. a doctor, a dentist or a lawyer in the whole community, although when a case requires surgical assistance a doctor is sent for, one such case occurring during the last twelve months. It need hardly be said there is no slaughterhouse, brewery, distillery or cigar factory, whole meal bread, vegetables, fruits, jams and honey being the staple diet, with a vegetable but ter made from oil expressed from sunflower seeds. The communistic principle is very strongly in evidence. No purchaee of any amount would be made without calling a meeting and discussing the. pros and cons, every one present having an equal right to speak and vote." Knicker— lt is said that you can keep a donkey from braying by attaching a weight to its tail. Bocker— Nonsense! The Democratic don key has had Bryan tied to it for twelve years and brays as loud as ever.— "The German Emperor took his cue from Roosevelt," says a letter from Berlin, "when he called the young one-year vol unteers— einjahrige Freiwilllge— to task for their extravagant habits. From now on they will not be permitted to exercise these as heretofore. They must share bar racks and tents with the other enlisted men, and will not be allowed to take quar ters In nearby hotels and farmhouses. One of the perquisites of the officers has been the gifts received at the hands of these young men. who, according to the Emper or's orders, will be unable to continue the practice under penalty of being tried, not only for Insubordination but for bribery.'" THE PROBLEM. Our troubles have increased of late; Alas, how problems vex us: It seems as if a stubborn Fate Delighted to perplex us. We fondly wished our son to be A man of deepest knowledge: Fcr years we've struggled patiently To pay his way through college. We've watched his progress with a pride That fully has repaid us For all the luxuries denied And all the care he's made us. But by a problem hard and grim We are at present weighted : We don't know what to do with him Since Willies graduated. —Chicago Record-Herald. "There's been more cussln' and swearin' and back talkin' along here on my post since, this dinged airship sallln' began than I ever heard before," said a Park Row "eop-per," after he had separated and calmed a couple of elderly gentlemen who were about to "mix it up" near the Popt office. '"Why. just watch. Don't you see. everybody's goin' along gawpin' up at th' sky, expectin' to see a flock o' man-birds, and o' course they bunk into one another, and then there's trouble, and I have to straighten it out. A man who gees moonln' along an* gets a jab in th' stummick from another cloud searcher natcherly thinks the other feller's to blame, an' there's the makln's of a neat little street scrap and the start of a crowd. I wish they'd either quit this heaven scrapin' altogether or get airships down to $1 99, so they'd be so cheap and plentiful nobody'd pay any attention to 'em." "I see you employ a number of o!d men." "I do." "How old axe they?" "Too old to be interested in canoeing, or mandolins, or race horses, or girls, or ten nis. That makes >m fine for work." — Washington Herald. A teacher of dancing who was present at the session of the National Association of Masters of Dancing, where the waltz time was fix?d at "not less than fifty-five meas ures to the minute," said that waltz time cannot be fixed for the people, who come under his "professional observation." The time and the atyle of the waltz lie- in the personality, he salfi. just the same as the mode of walk or gesture. "Tou may teach an Hungarian or an Austrian to waltz to slow music," he added, "but when once he has mastered the step he will show his na tionality by wild dancing, no matter how the music is playing. The German comes next in impetuous waltzing, but he lacks grace and can be held down more easily. The French^ and the Americans like to •glide,' and the Englishman— well, my ex perience is that he dances in a forced and stilted manner, no matter what the musio time may be. The new slow French waltzes, tuneful though they be, will never become universally popular as dance mu sic, simply because they are slow. There is nothing better for the dance than Gungl. Strauss and their imitators, and their waltzes suggest the time. No one needs to prescribe it." "I see a Plttsburg pastor has r^sirniod a $7,500 job." 'I wouldn't call that resignation. It s ac quiescence."—Philadelphia Ledger. .SENSITIVE CITY OFFICERS Their Right to Special Place in Roose velt Parade Denied. To th* Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In your admirable account of the Roosevelt reception, printed in this morn ing's Tribune, on page seven, Is an item headed "City Officials Aggrieved," giving voice to an alleged slight to certain of ficeholders. No slight was Intended., and I am In a position to assert that none was offered to the honorable gentlemen referred to. The Hon. George McAneny, the Hon. John Purroy Mltchel and the Hon. William- A. Prendergast were aprointert by Mayor Gaynor as members of the Roosevelt recep tion committee, toother with more than three hundred citizens of f, >*. York City, and they received the same consideration accorded to their fellow numbers. In ar ranging the order of precedence, non-resi dent guests. Including Cabinet ministers. United States Senators, Governors, repre sentatives of governors, mayors of other cities and the committee of the Legislature of this state were duly placed with suit able escort. In the Judgment of the com mittee of arrangements the city of New York was thought to bo represented with becoming fiignlty by his honor th* Mayor. IftWe than enough carriages were pro vided for the remaining members of tne general committee, and two notices were i?:ued advising them that no special as signment of seats would be made. If fault is to be found with a member of the executive committee who has had the pleasure of putting In more than a week of ten-hour days of work at the committee rooms, it will be cheerfully re ceived and filed with a saving sense of humor, especially if any ! uc: - complaint should happen to come from members of the general committee, whose critical tal ent might have been of vast value if focussed on daily details before rather than after the event. WILLIAM D. MURPHY. New York, June d 1310. THE AWARD 70 PARR Virtue Should Be Its Own Sufficient . Reward. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In view of the stand quit* generally taken in connection with the *!ze of th© reward paid to Deputy Surveyor Parr for his work In connection with the sugar frauds, one cannot help feeling that the morals of "the country are at a deplorably low ebb, and that the official himself should have expressed his dissatisfaction because he received so small a reward as $100,000 for doing his duty is not exactly encourag ing. If we are to applaud the public of ficial who unearths, frauds against his gov ernment, and is Instrumental In securing punishment for the guilty ones in the ex pectation of receiving a large sum of money. we may as reasonably expect to have re wards paid to the cashiers of our banks for not stealing th© funds or to our public officers having the handling of large sums of money for not running away with them. There seems to be little appreciation of the fact that it is the duty of every man to be honest— that he Is not expected thus to be merely because he receives a neat sum for not being dishonest. It is this dis regard for public duty especially which has made the municipal governments of so many American cities so corrupt— there is no real sense of the responsibility of the individual In the matter of right doing. Inasmuch as Mr. Parr has expressed so plainly his opinion of what real honesty means by complaining because of the small ness of his reward, he has to some extent forfeited any sympathy which might be due him for his unrecognized faithfulness. PUBLIC SPIRIT. New York, June 19, 1? 1 A FAVORS A SILENT FOURTH. To the Editor of The Tr'bune. Sir: It has always seemed to me that the national birthday is a memory too precious to be desecrated by noise. Rather should It be hallowed by a stillness beft ting reverence. Why not commemorate this day by silence, peace and reflection— a day of retreat, as It were, from the trivial, the loud, the cheapness of exploding po-r der and of fire. One day of cessation from blare, resounding din and the pounding echo of mercenary grind would bring re lief and comfort to all, without cost of money or injury. The explosion of gunpowder, with the shouts of heedless rn^n and boys, with, ir.de-d, expressions of every form of what is wasteful, frivolous, dangerous and ex citing. Is th© usual form of commemora tion for the sacred and holy aasss day of the na'ion. But Is it In keeping with dig nity, sobriety, intelligence and the best interests of the famih-, home and state? Is it a wise method that shows gladness by ruthless racket and shock, imperilling the sick and maiming and destroying human life? Parades, shoe's of ev«»ry nature, frolic, mock battles, illuminations, with accidents and death, have been tried, leaving waste and exhaustion, litter and embers, but no real satisfaction. Puppos© this day be. distip.guisnefl frorrt every other holiday by absence of labor; a<» far as possible a day of stillness, rest, re treat from strife, struggle and every form of contention or strain: a day of silent, respectful, commemorative reflection. T>R. ELMER LES. : New York, June I<s. IWO. THE APPLICATION CF LAW. To the Editor of The Tribune. • Sir: In my opinion, my fellow Srooklyn ite. Mayor Gaynor. was gTiiity of a piece of gratuitous impertinence in his admoni tory reminder to the arriving ex-President that this country needs "a government ot laws, not men." I have heard the perform ance denounced as smug hypocrisy The principal things Theodore Roosevelt was denounced for by his most venomous critics were his efforts to apply law to big offenders, such as the Beef Trust, the rail road combinations, the Standard Oil Com pany, the thieve? who were absorbing the public lands by thousands of square miles, and other predatory citizens of that stripe. The country has never been damaged in the slightest degree by any defiance or overriding of law on his part. And the people who have roared loudest for "a gov ernment of law" have been the people who have wanted men like Aldrich and Cannon to make the laws and Bailinger to Inter pret and execute them. What th© country really needs most is government by honest men, who are strong enough to enforce law! Xo laws are auto matic or self-enforcing; and an impotent administration may largely nullify them. This Is not a gem of thought from Epicte tus. but simply the opinion of a plain, everyday, modern New York citizen. WALTER C. TAYLOR. Brooklyn, June IS. 1310. BALLINGER ON MUCKRAKING Secretary Thrusts at- Certain Critics of His Administration of Department. Secretary Bailinger. in Leslie's Weekly. Muckraking, when animated by the spirt* of purging the public service of un worthy public officials, is laudable In so far as the muckraker reaches muck and re moves it from the public service. But the muckwriter who seeks to place slime upon a worthy public official is the greatest crim inal of the barring, oi course, his master, the muck publisher. The muck writer ... is essentially a coward be cause he strikes without warning and gives no chance to parry the blow. It Is only men of iron nerve who can complacently do their duty against these fires pet about them. The effect, as has been said, on most men is that they spend some of their lime in the performance ot official duties ami the remainder in ex plaining why they did what they should have done. The Interior Department, in matters af fecting the public domain and the Indian affairs, offers the most fertile field for the mendacious journalist and politician and hysterical exaggeration of any case re sults in untold mischief. This "is particu larly true since charges have been imputed sometimes justly and sometimes unjustly' in the disposal of public lands since the creation of the public domain, and will continue as long us an sera Is left A cer tain amount of corruption and irregular ity has always been imputed to the Indian service, and will probably continue to be imputed to it 80 long as the white nun can find a way to take advantage of the Indian. When the occasion for evil de signs of man no longer exists in attempt* to loot the public domain and the Indian -namely, when the government ceases to exercise 11 direct control over them— then, and then only, will charges of corruption fail for want of material. The muckrakers have devised a new grade of patriotism— the. "cautious patriot." who betrays his official superior on con siderations of personal emoluments, dis guised by the pretence of having acted pro bo no puhllco. If this doctrine could pre vail under civil government, loyalty to official duty would be a mere matter of personal convenience and monetary consid eration. ... The calumniator flourishes on surmise suspicion, innuendo, insinuation and de nunciation. "Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds— they fly by night." If the publisher of to-day would adopt the. precepts of Colonel Henry Wat terson. "to print nothing of a man which -•• would not say to his face, to print nothing of a man in malice." the muck rakers' vocation would end. AMERICANIZING ENGLAND. From The St. Paul Pioneer Press. The new Kin? of England has sent a eases: to a woman who haa given birth to triplets Apparently the Roosevelt policies are becoming popular in England. W ROOSEVELT NEDDK Rehearsal of To-day's Ceremony at Bride's Home. Another Roosevelt celebration l 3l 3 sc^ uled for to-day— the wedding ©• xbeJllL Roosevelt. Jr.. and Miss Eleanor BbsZ Alexander. Young Mr Roosevelt aaflZ fiancee returned from Sagamore HHl,>^ they spent the night -with his family 5!? terday morning, and spent the dny * lr^*.- Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander, motta«rtf the bride-to-be, at her home, in West fjnT street. The young people were very b^ preparing for the momentous occaslo- » rehearsal being held In the afternoon. ~* The ceremony -will take place at 4 O 'c!«> in the afternoon In the Fifth Avenue pi * byterlan Church, and will be pertora»M^ the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Sanders, a"W^, uncle of the bride, assisted by th« R«v. •_, Gordon Russell, of Cranford. K. j. t!s» morning will be an active on« •within^ church's portals, for It 13 to be a Sera: ■wedding, the decorations, in chars* 4 Wadley & Smythe. consisting of HllegHj*. the- valley, -white roses, mountain liam. pink peonies and palms. A reception «sl follow the ceremony at the home of }fc* Charles B. Alexander. in West oith gtm* Mrs- Alexander Is the bride's aunt Invitations have been issued to as 3*37 as the church -will hold, and no one 2 be admitted -without a card. A concert sS orchestral music under the direction* o: Xahar. Franko will greet the fiesta as th«y are assembling. The bride will hay* M her matron of honor Mrs. Sno-arden Andre* Fahnestock. The. other bridal attendants wil'. include Mias Ethel Roosevelt. »n Harriet and Miss Janetta Alexander, Mia Jean Delano and Miss Jessie Miiliagton- Drake. Kerrnit Roosevelt will act as his brother's best man. and Hamilton Flaft, Jr., Francis Roche. Fulton Cutting. Georjj Roosevelt, Monroe Robinaon. Graf ton Chap man. E. Morgan Gilbert and Elliot aat John W. Cutler will be among the U3iierg. The bridal party will walk through a las* of Ulies-of-the- valley from tie church doer to the chancel. The steps of the altar wU] be carpeted with BBes-«f-tBS»«aBS. a =d Bride roses, and the chancel rail win b« hung with garlands of whits rose* x priedieu with white satin cushions wia & placed for the bride and bridagroota ta kneel upon, and abov« all will tower tia largest floral arch ever used in this cwjb try for the purpose, made of pink raxbler roses. ; «. IN THE BERKSHIRE 3. ■ [By Telegraph to The T-*bane.J Lenox, June 15— Mr. and Mrs. Char!e3 i Bryan are guests of Misa Clemectin* Far." niss and Mrs. John Zimmerman, at S4je comb Villa. Dr. and Mrs. "William Arrr.srr<Hlg £a»» been entertaining XVilliata Green Ssj Ar thur Murphy, of New York, at tZfee* Pep.. lars. Iff and Mrs. William Eloodgsod aat Miss Maud VanbO3kerck, of Xew Tor*, have arrived at the Mapiewood. la Pltti field. S. Parkmar. Shaw, jr. returned to Bossa to-day after a visit with Mr. and Its. 5. Parkman Shaw at Redwood. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett A Hoftart si Pat. erson. V. J.. are at the Hotel AsptanO. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Walker will 99 is Boston to-morrow. Mr and Mrs. Henry F. Cook aat 3B» Edith E. Cook are guests °* Mr and Its. Robert Paterson. at Blar.tvre. Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Hi!!. U. S. A., »m a*. the Red Lion Inn. ?tnckbridgfe E. E. Mowberly has Joined Ms las^y *• Ler.cx. The Misses Margaret and Jxtmt fM* have returned to New York after a ■«* in the hills- Chester G. Burden has arrived at Under. ledge from Harvard University- :";■>• Mr. and Mrs Columbus ODonnell laeSa have son? to their country place. Is. Xe* Rr.chelie. after several weeks at the Curt* Hotel. - : --i Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Mala, of ■■ York, are at the Maplewood. In PIKS-eSt SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT. Telegraph to The Trii>MM Newport. June 19.-Mr. ar.d Mrs. G^ Henry Warr?n have returned from st» Ington. Conn. ■ . Mrs. Charles M. Oelrichs is the guest c. Mr. and Mr . Leonard M. THosias »• Professor Henry G. Marquand and ! B» crick Terry, jr.. are visiting Dr. and am Roderick Terry. ~ Captain and Mrs. W. R. Kobizso- m guests of Theodore W. Prur.r.e-y. . Mrs. Theodore F. Kane is enter. Mrs. Nelson Miller, of East Orange. 9j9 j- Lawrence L. GUlespie. of New *>« f * guest of Miss Irene Sherman. T J^ John McCullough of Mr. and Mrs. Joswi Harriman. -s^sS Mrs. Joseph F. Stone and Miss S^» Stone, have arrived for the seasox •"_ . Mr. and Mrs. James B Has?* are « r ected on Wednesday, and Senator «£. Mrs. George Pe^body Wetmore the law part of the week v^ - Harry S. Lehr has returned L f res York: Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. <*?**?; North Easton. Mass.. and Mr and «» Archibald G. Tbacher. of Ne^ York. fc» arrived for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones *»** Sadie Jones sailed for New Tori 0- t Kara* this afternoon. They had as ta* guest Ellsha Dyer. . B S Mrs. Titus Zabriskie. of New Is* ■» * at her summer home. Registered at the Casino to-day **_ and Mr,. A. G. Thacher. ttptata W. , Robinson, Mrs. Joseph N'sUoo 3«"*J P. Will*-* U. S. N.; Mr and llr*. »» Lehr. and Mr. and Mrs. James » *f and Francis Burke Roche, who are J>— of George F. Baker, jr.. en the > *>- yacht Viking. Mr. Baker ivneheon to-day, and later started fin ■ Commodore Arthur Curtiss James «£•£ Commodore Arthur Cur:iss ,ames jw luncheon on board the fl?gsh.p aw— this afternoon. _ CROWDS AT PARK CONCERT^ A better day for the b«ji nntej Sunday afternoon concerts in ia %iflt parks than yesterday could not J" "^ chosen. It was the flrst concert day season, and thousands of *""»**%!+ about the bandstands lons bet ° T **; „»+ which was the schedule time ** tI %j B p clans to begin. In *^££& tl» Franko and hta orchestra "Tr i »sSl«««* music. At Colonial Park Height., the music ™ s '^i^taal-** orchestra. Popular airs received tns cst applause of great crowds. NEW YORK FROM THE SUB^ A man ninety-six V« r » fi*jfs pet into trouble in that L --- Press. . i^to £* Now New York is trying w^* ™l world's fair gam,- Irua' wort*** «»* L .• claimed to be ,1 perpetua. «« Florida Time#-Unu>n >v * Wilbur Wright sufgests that York-^t. Louts fitaht surt fr^7 r^tl instead of from - N «» ,);: r reJ et awsy I|«ts a more •nthusiastK «'« «W S made from St. Louis, ?" Various V) ■«* experience It Is «*»f^J2 * New York-Houston Post. There ace four hundred ■ t^SSmg Sis state alonf. *««J2isl t this state alone. r»p • ... of home bulldets. I*. !^ '} .natVf"*^ «rs el N>"' Tsrt thinK « «^" phla Inquirer. * ad ><*« The ultra New Yorker. *^STr«^ the elevated trains to «cod *^- 2 nigllgibt^ « siit* y Ji the President of the lt^?.; t w (Man «*,*£ \:, city's greatness.— asniat,ton