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AOADI2MY OF MUSIC— 2— i> — The* Ensign-
ALJi-VM liR A— 2— Yaudcviile,
AMKKICAX— 2— S — Vaudeville.
ARSOR— 2:2«»— *:2&— The Aviutdr.
BELASCO— S:2O— The Concert.
I'.JJOU— l':2t»— t-:C«V-Xii« N. .-( Ess.
BRpADWAY—S— Macbeth.
CAilXO— 2:ls— *:ls— lie Came from Milwaukee
<"JB«"I.K— 2:IS— S:U> — Mother.
ClTY— 2:ls— S:l.*>— Vaudeville.
COIjCXIAI^-2—^-Vaudeville.
COMEDY— - :r.. ril H. Hanged If I Do.
CRITIiKIO.V— 2:I."» — S:ia» — . .;. commuters.
DALY ' s— r :C*< — s :3< "•— - Haby ,\Ene.
FM?'IHE- « Private Secretary. - ■.;,
FIFTH AVENTE-2—^— Vau<3o\ille. _ ...
GAlETY— 2 :ir.— 6:ls— Got Rich Quick Walllas
ford.
<; ".i.i:; "X" - _""• B:2B— Tii« yp>'<Wled Hand.
GLOBE 2— L.s TM=ca— — L'Aislon.
HJIICK.ETT *>:-"- Daddy UufaitJ.
HMXUUSRSrEIVm _i"_S;ir.- Vaudeville. -..
HERALD SQUARE— si.' The Girl and the
UirK«>i'ROME— 2-S— The International Cup—
Ballet Of Niacara — Iv.e t^rthquak*.
HUDSON— - :20— "• 30 — Nobody's Widow.
IR»VJNG PtACB— SO3 — Polniscbe W'irthschaft.
JOj: WEBER'S— 2— b:l3— Alsna. Where Do You
KNICKERBOCKER— 2— S^-Henry of Navarre.
UStERTT— 2:li— ft:ls— The Coumry Boy.
LYCEUM— S>:3d— The Importance ci Being Ear
nes-t.
LTKlO— 2:ls— S— Two Women. .
MAOKON SQVAHE GARDEN— S — Cement
: jiTIC 2: 1." — >:" — due Bird.
Manhattan OPERA house— 2— — \aude-
MAXINE ELLIOTT'S— 2:SO—S:.*»— The Gam
atB3CI>ELSSOHX HALL— 3— Recital.
METR<»POLITAN OPERA • — Manama
Butterfly.
"C MOV H'fi — 2:15— 5;15 — Madame Troubadour.
. NEW AM S T R» A M— 8:1»- -Madame
Shprrv
3CEVT THEATRE— 2— S:ir.— Mary Maci'.alene.
Xi^v YORK— S:1j — Naughty Marietta. - -> ::: "__
REPrr.] 2:ir— b:l.".— ltobccca of Sunnybrook
. Farm.
TVALLACK*S — 2:lo — — Getting a Polish.
"VTK?T END — 2:in — S:lT— The Fourth Estate.
Inrfi.r ' < idverii.semcnis.
Tic Col. ! Pas«. Col.
Anjufemer.ts ...14 i; 7 Lost Bankbooks.. 11 6
Auction Sales.. .ll <'• Marriages and
.Automobiles lo 6-7 i l>caths 7 7
Bankers ar.d ! Notice of Sum-
Brrkeis . .12 II i. ana 11 •♦
Boarfi & Koom^ll 7t7 t Proposals II 6
Bocks and Pub- | Rf-al Estate for
licationp ..... 8 7\ .-v=> or to Let. » 7
B-Jf.. Chances... <*. R E. Wanted... I 1
Carpet CJe*n*e..ll 71 Remedies \1 5
I>*ks and Office 1 Rtsorts It *-5
Furniture ....11 4 Sch-^ol Acneics..ll 7
XHvid'd XctJ<-*»s.l2 li Special Notices.. 7 7
IV.jres:;.- Sif.:a- ' Sxnrape Notices. .ll 5
tinr* Wanted. :i 4 ■ Surrogates* No-
BkEandaai 11 «-7 ; tires 11 5
European Ads.. l 3 f»-7!Tim»> TaW^s ...11 G-7
rin«r :aj 12 G-7JTo Let for Busl-
Financial Meet- 1 ness Furr*)ses. . 7 7
Ings 12 I ! T ■: ■ •wTi'lr.ir II 6
T" closure Sale?.. 11 r>! Unfurn'd Apart-
Kor Sale 11 51 ir.c-nts 9 7
Fcrn'<3 Rooms. .11 7 j Work "Wanted... 11 4
Hejp Wanted... 11 T-4 [UMiaJllW 11 7
r\>to-2»ork £rttnm?.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 14, 1910.
This newspaper is owned and pub
lished by The Tribune Association, a
yoto Tor]: corporation; office and prin
cipal place of business. Tribune Build
ing. Xo. 154 Xa##au street, yew York;
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(secretary James M. Barrett, treasurer.
The address of the officers' is the office
of this newspaper.
THE VEWB THIS 310RXIXG.
CONGRESS. — Senate: Mr. Cummins
spoke in favor of tariff revision, sched
ule by schedule, and became involved in
a discussion with Senators Aldrich,
Lodge, Heyburn and others. , - House:
The pension appropriation bill was
passed.
DOMESTlC,— Representative Sereno E.
Payne, chairman of the House Com
mittee on Ways and Means, announced
himself in favor of tariff revision sched
ule by schedule. ... James X. Huston,
formerly Treasurer of the United States,
was convicted, with two others, by a
jury in "Washington of using the mails
tor fraudulent purposes. = - Dr. George
Edgar Vincent, of the University of Chi-
capo, was appointed president of the
University of Minnesota, to succeed Dr.
: Cyrus Northrop; he accepted the place.
-Thomas Barber, of Brooklyn, sent
i. letter to Attorney General 6'Malley
af.AMany ailing that the order . of
the Knigtrl of Pythias was insolvent,
ecu asklatt that v receiver be appointed:
he also; cequested .... order be
barred from, doin^ an insurance business
in this suite. •-
FoREIGX. — Returns from the British
elections show that the Liberals have
made a net gain of one seat so far. , . -
Reports of a battle between Mexican
troops and rebels at Cerro Prieto. in Chi
huahua, say «sevtnty insurgents and four
teen rearutars were killed. = The
♦Brazilian mutineers of December i will
be tried, according to a dispatch received
in "VVasbiniton, and the mutineers of
Novvrnr*»r 22, who were granted am
nesty, will be dismissed from the navy.
= Floods in the northern part of
Italy have become so serious that many
villages are isolated. ■■■ = P. C. Sim
mons was awarded £-'.<'>'<* damages in
an action which he brought against a
London newspaper that made charges
against him when he was a candidate
for Parliament,
CITY. — Stocks were dull and irregrular.
: Indictments against a man and a
woman Ear complicity in the kidnapping
of two boys were reported by the Kings
County Grand Jury. ==■ Full service
of local trains in the subway was im
possible because of a shortage of cars.
General Manager Hedley said, jit a hear
ing: before tho Public Service Commis
sion. : _ • t Governor-elect Dix saw few
visitors and announced no new appoint
ments. == The Cement Users Asso
ciation heard fire loss statistics at its
convention, and prepared foe the show
v/hich Mayer Gaynor will open at Madi
son Square Garden to-night.
THS "WEATHER.— lndications for to
.day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest. SO degrees; lowest. 13.
WHERE PEXSJOXS ARE DESERVED.
Mr. Loeb, the Collector of the Port of
Hew York, is reported to have inscribed
his name first on a petition to Congress
asking for the granting of pensions in
the L,ife- Saving Service. There are
those who will envy him the privilege
of standing tirst on that roll of apprecia
tion, and therefore of honor, and we shall
expect to hear that many other names
Lav** beea eagerly added to the list. But
however many or few they may be. Con
gress should not need serial urging to
incline it to do an act of justice to men
■who are not surpass;^! in The public ser
vice in th« arduous ness and perils of
their wort or in the devotion and suc
cess with which that work is done.
These men belong in the civil and not
the military service, it is true, and there
may 1«* much room for difference of
opinion concerning the advisability of a
general system of civil pension^. .Yet it
i- obvious that in the very nature of
their work the members of the life-sjtv~
!r.g crews stand apart from most if not
all other civil servants. Their duties
'„,<,;.. rather, those of sailors and
soldiers. None are more exacting. None
require greater privations and exposure^
None are fraught with greater risks to
limb .-* i i life. Summer vacation makers
who visit life-caving stations may think
that the men have v jolly time in their
MHtg houses. They wculd think differ
ently if they saw them patrolling the
beach in a blinding and freezias mid
night winter storm, or putting oat in a
cockleshell boat through breakers which
have just wr«ked some huge ship. .
Their mission is to risk th<«ir own lives
iij saving the lives of others, and no
mission hi braver «:r nobler.
iii respect to civil servants generally
it ii ntn^nad by opponents of the pension
system that with a permanent tenure
of place they should be able iii the
course of years to save a sufficient sum
to maintain them whsn superannuated.
Whatever hMJ 1«- the force of that ar
prun;ent in many <;.se.-. it caii have little
farce in this case Men who get only j
SQo a uivntjj and are forbidden to en
gage in private occupations for sain
can scarcely amass a competency even
in ■ Ion? lifetime. And the nature of
i'i> work A\lri<-h they have to d<> does
not conduce to protracted careers of ac
tivity. They are liable at any time to
fee invalided or disabled, or to l" 1 killed
and have their families left destitute.
Under sucli circumstances the plea for
■ generous -provision Cor them or for
their dependent survivors should be ir
resistible. It is regarded as a reproach
that a man who risked his life and lost
limb or -health in battle, for his country
should be left to bejrsary. it is no less
a reproach that these heroes of count
less battles with, the elements for the
saving of life should be abandoned to
the same fate.
JUDICIAL SALARIES.
It is to be hoped that the general
approval with which, according to re
pi its from Washington, Senators and
present at regard the President's
judicial appointments will incline them
to look with equal favor upon his ear
nest recommendation that the salaries of
federal judges should be raised by sub
stantial amounts. Justices of the Su
preme Court now receive $12*500 (with
BE extra allowance of $500 to the Chief
Justice); Circuit judges, $7,000, and Dis
trict judges. $0,000. Mr. Taft urges
that these too moderate salaries should
be increased to 317.000 (and $17,500).
£10.000 and SO.OOO. There is nothing
new in his plea. On the contrary, it is
supported by a. long array of solid argu
ments heretofore presented and. we be
lieve, by the wellnigh uuauimous opin
ion of all who are competent to estimate
the requirements and proprieties of the
case.
If Congress refuses or neglects to
grant the relief proposed, it will not re
flect the general sentiment of the coun
try. There is not the slightest reason
to believe that the respectable liberality
with which the Presidential office, after
much discussion and long delay, has at
last been treated is regarded with any
thing but hearty approbation in any
part of the country. Bo it would be if
the meagre salaries of the federal judges
—meagre in relation to their important
functions, their hard work and the con
ditions which their official status im
posesshould be raised to the amounts
which the President suggests as reason
able.
It has sometimes been said, probably
•with less truth than mean complacency,
that the country has never suffered from
the unwillingness of competent men to>
serve it on the bench for the salaries
feed by law. If that assertion could be
verified it would be wholly inconclusive.
The country does not want to drive a
hard bargain, with its ju«l^s. to exact
depressiutr sacrifices while they are in
the full rigor of life, or afflict their de
clining years with anxiety for those who
are dependent on them. In too many
cases tlie present scale of remuneration
subjects them to such penalties as these,
and In bo doing. lmpairs their usefulness
in greater or less degree. The public
would b • glad to have their circum
stances made more easy and would ex-,
pect to sec their efficiency increased by
a lightening of their burdens.
THE CnXTIXI IXCE OF COXSPIRA
CIES.
The decision, of the Supreme Court
that Gustave E. Kissel and Thomas P..
Harned must stand trial for their part
in the. alleged conspiracy by which the
Pennsylvania Sugar Kenning Company
was kept out of business is of great im
portance to the federal government.
Not only will it make possible the prose
cution.of the American Sugar Company's
directors who are charged with partici
pation in the same alleged conspiracy.
but it broadens the applicability of- the
Sherman anti-trust act and renders
prosecutions under it easier for the gov
ernment. The decision that a conspiracy
is a continuing offence makes escape
under the statute of limitations difficult.
One accused to obtain the beneiit of that
statute will have to show that the con
spiracy ended through the completion
of its purposes or their abandoment
more than three years before prosecu
tion was attempted.
The decision is in accordance with
plain common sense. When a conspiracy
suppresses competition it is natural and
reasonable to regard the conspiracy not
as consisting simply of the original
agreement by which competition was
suppressed but of the whole process of
agreeing and carrying out the agreement,
lasting as long as the purposes of the
original agreement are being adhered to
and accomplished, and as long as compe
tition is being suppressed in pursuance
of that agreement. As the court very
effectively said : "When the plot contem
plates bringing to pass a continuous co
operation of the conspirators to keep it
"up. and there is such continuous co
"operation, it is a perversion of natural
"thought and of natural language to call
"such continuous co-operation a cine
"matographie series of distinct conspira
cies, rather than to call it a single one."
A COMMITTEE OX COMMITTEES.
A Committee on Committees in the
House of Representatives uuder Demo
cratic control seems to be a foregone- con
clusion. It will be an interesting experi
ment. Its appointment need not detract
at all from the efficiency of the Speaker
in promoting the transaction of business
or the floor, though by completing the
process of decentralizing the power
which gradually accumulated in the
| Speakership it promises to put an end
to the conditions under which it has been
felt that the Speaker is. second to the
i President, the most important o;iicer in
the federal government. The decentrali
zation is natural enough, though it re
verses the tendency which for a long
time has, been exalting the fTpfagsrgMp
N\> legislative body could be forever con
tent with a system which unnecessarily
concentrated vast and easily abased
powers in the hands of one person, and
their concentration had become unpopu
lar not only among the Representatives!
[ themselves but among their constituents.
The Committee on Committees will
probably therefore be a popular institu
tion to begin with. Irrespective of its
merits as a legislative device the people
will be inclined to applaud it as bring
ing more democracy into the organiza
tion «if the House and putting an end to
! the possibility of one man rule. Never
■i. .■..«>•. the committee itself nay come
to iii'iir the same dislike which has at
tended the Spenken»hip. In the place of
a Czar it ban been said the House will
have an oligarchy, l'rohably thai will be
the tendency. The committee, through
its control of the •■plums," may build up
a machine out "i : tho.se who enjoy them
Or expect them under the custom <>f
seniority, and it may thus tend to he
come self-i»erpetuat.lug. ; I.ut in place uf
one man baying i.i his grasp all the
power of the Committee on Committees,
through, Us control over assignment's,
NEW-YORK DAILY TRTBUNE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1010.
and that of the Committee on Rules,
through its mastery of the fate of legis
lation, and that of the Speaker through
his power to deny recognition on the
floor of the House, if the Democratic
plan is carried out, will have this
power distributed among three' different
agencies, either of which, theoretically,
it will be easier to reckon .with than
with a single "Czar." Theoretically we
say, because the "Czar" was not so much
a single individual as a legislative ma
chine, and perhaps the three different
agencies, of- decentralized power may
turn out to be a similar machine, com
posed of the Speaker and the most in
fluential and experienced legislators of
the majority party on the floor.
Institutions have a way of persist
ing^ despite changes of form. If the
Democratic plan is carried: out only the
event will show just how far the House
has thereby got on th road toward
, making its organization responsive to it
self throughout the session, that Is, of
making the House the master of the or
ganization and not the organization the
master of the House.
XOT A COM DAB THREAT.
Mr. Upton Sinclair, a young socialist
agitator whose sensational writings and
unlucky experiment, at organizing a so
cialist community in New Jersey have
gained for him some public notice, has
been, writing to the President of the
United States in behalf of a fellow so
cialist who has had some disagreement
with the postal laws and with the United
States courts and who consequently finds
himself under sentence of line and im
prisonment. Mr. Sinclair thinks that his
friend was persecuted and unjustly con
demned, to which opinion he is, of
course, perfectly entitled. lie asks the
President to grant the man a pardon,
which he is, of course, entitled to ask.
But then he makes a prediction or a
statement, in its terms tantamount to a
threat, of. what will happen if the par
don is not granted, iv which we must
regard him as going beyond the limit
of propriety and discretion.
If the President does not pardon the
man and thus administer a rebuke to the
judges who condemned him, Mr. Sinclair
says :
There can be but one result; the men
who are to-day devoting- their efforts to
effecting social transformations through
legal and constitutional methods will be
driven to thinking of extra-legal and
extra-constitutional methods, and the
revolution which is inevitable in this
country within the present decade will
be a revolution of violence instead of a
political revolution.
In brief, if the President does not
pardon this man at Mr. Sinclair's de
mand the socialists will resort to crime
and violent rebellion asrainst the gov
ernment. Xow, we have no expectation
of seeing Mr. Upton Sinclair leading -r
even following in any such crazy esca
pade. But really he OMgM t<> have sense
enough to understand that whatever
may be the merits of his convicted
friend's case the making of such threats
does not commend it to favorable judg
ment. He ought also to realize that his
words to the President, which he him
self has made public, savor unpleasantly
of what might prove to some erratic and
not well balanced mind au incitement to
crime, and if they should unhappily
have that effect the feelings and the pre
dic&ment of their author would not oe
enviable.
CRVELTY, FRAUD OR S'TCriDITY.
The choice among cruelty, fraud and
stupidity is unpleasant to make. Yet a
considerable portion of this community
seems to be ia danger of having that
choice forced upon ir. For really it is
not easy to explain on any other basis,
the abominable condition of horse drawn
traffic in our streets the moment a fall
jf snow makes the pavements slippery.
During the last week the amount of suf
fering among horses, straining, slipping
and falling, has been enormous, while
the amount of delay in travel and traftie
and of obstruction of the streets hns
been large. It. is no new thing. The
same conditions have been observed.
every year within the memory of man,
probably, on the whole, growing worse
as the amount of traffic increases and as
rough stone pavements are replaced by
smooth surfaces of wood or asphalt. But
why should such conditions be Indefi
nitely tolerated?
If. as many tell us and as seems
plausible, they can be easily remedied,
their continuance is simply abominable
cruelty, which should be forbidden and
punished by law. We are told that not
only will "sharp shoeing" of horses pre
vent slip] ting, but also that various
types of "emergency shoes." which caa
lie promptly attached to the feet of
sui'Kith shod horses, will effect The same
desirable result. If this is true, then it
is within the power of every owner or
driver of horses to give them secure
footing at all times, and failure to do
so, resulting in slipping and falling, with
torture to the horses and obstruction >f
the streets, should be made a penal
offence.
If. however, this is not true, and if
the various non-slipping devices with
which the market, is filled will not effect
the purposes for which -they are designed
and which their makers and venders de
clare they will effect, then a fraud is
being perpetrated upon purchasers of
the thjngs, which ought to be exposed
and sharply rebuked. We must say,
however, that on the face of the case
there is no appearance of fraud or mis
representation. Some of the devices in
question certainly look as though they
would do what is claimed for them, and
there is much testimony to that effect
from persons who have used them and
who have observed their use.
If. finally, these devices are ineffective
and are frauds, and there is no known
| means of preventing horses from slip
: ping on snow and ice, then we must imp
each inventors of stupidity. When we
consider the marvellous ingenuity of
other devices, which successfully accom
plish incomparably more difficult ends,
to say that it is impossible to make an
"emergency shoe" which will fulfil its
purpose seems like an affront to Ameri
can ingenuity and to human intelligence.
We do not believe that the existing de
vices are worthless, but rather incline to
the belief that, they are serviceable and
effective and that if generally and In
telligently used they would put an end
to the conditions which now prevail.
But If a satisfactory "emergency shoe"
does not yet exist, we refuse to believe.
that the invention of such a thing is be
yond the power of human ingenuity, and
we would recommend to inventors that
they promptly set their minds to work
upon it as an achievement which Is im
mensely desirable.
Why are cab farea high? Because they
are; that's al. 1 . The ease is analogous
to that of the transportation lines.
When the elevated roiul.i were built
there was to L>v uo uiwv crowding; but
in fact Uie crowding grew worse. When
littfc horse cars gave place to big elec
tric cars, crowding- was to be a thing of
the peist: but it remained in the continu
ing ives^nt, intensified to the n-th de
gree. When the subways were opened
we ware fee have "fifteen minutes to
HarlemT' and a seat for every passenger;
but the result is that to get to Harlem
moans Crom half an hour to an hour of
strap haaiging. So the introduction of
electric tiuxicabs was to give us an ideal
system of cheap conveyance, with no
extortion amd no disputes; but the fact
is that the crib-using- public is little bet
ter off than it was before. One of these
clays all these nuitters may all come
light. Also* -when the sky falls we shall
catch larks.
The lats Justice Fox is shown in his
bequests to have been a philanthropist
with some discrimination and little or
no prejudice.
(Jovennor-elcct Dix begins well by re
taining Adjkitant General Verbeck.
Aviation records for height, fur speed
and for enrUurance, automobile records,
subway jam. records, election landslide
records ajid all other records of a rec
ord year go a-nglimmering into insig
nificance before the joyous announce
ment that Coloaiel and the Hon. "Abe"
Slupsky has succeeded in drinking
twenty bottles of beer a day for thirty
days. Before that peerless achievement
all St. Louis stands entranced with won
der and deHght. and even the catfish
in the river wiggle their whiskers in
irrepressible pride. Henceforth ClupHky
ville must rank as the centre, the nub,
or let us say the spigot, of the bibulous
world.
"No smoking" is the order of the day
for automobiles, and it ought to be eii
f i need.
Mr. McAdoo's criticism of the Inter
borough proposal was interesting and
valuable,- but he was not ix\>\e to make
cut so effective a case against it as the
Interborough company itself did recently
with the quality of its service.
Brazil appears to be a country afraid
of Its defenders.
The advent of Governor "Wilson is to
be celebrated in Xew Jersey with an
elaborate "inaugural ball"; at -which, it
is safe to say. ex-Penntor Pniith will not
lead the grand opening march.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
"One of the entertainments arranged for
the Czar of Tlussda while he amd his family
were visiting Germany." says a Berlin cor
respond.>nt of a Palis paper, "was a hunt
ing party on the- imperial preserve, near
Borgsdorf. Nearly three hundred animals
were slaughtered 'for the fun of it,' and
the natives who had an opportunity to see
the two- monarchs. drive away from the lit
tle station got a K'timpse later also of the
trophies of the hunt. To some persons who
were there the Empresses, with their
feather tipped hunting hats, were less at
tractive than Prince Oscar, -who rode on
the back seat alone, and he was consptou
ous because of the monster rosette on the
back of his hat and the gigantic cigar be
tween his lips."
"Oh, yes. Tommy,'' said the teacher, "if
you have a dopr you are the 'owner of a
quadruped.' "
"No. I ain't," insisted Tommy.
"Don't contradict me! I explained to you
yesterday that any animal with four legs
was a"— "—
"Yes'm: hut Rover lost one o' his'n fight
in' a trolley car."— The Catholic Standard
and Times.
"The K<nncbei" Journal" has a tale of tha
Maine, woods that is not unlike the familiar
"mistook him. for a deer" yarns that gen
erally tell of the death of a hunter. It says
th;it a Hartland man starting out after a
deer cue. day recently put a blanket on his
horse before he put on the harness so that
the animal would ho warm, Arriving at a
likely place he tied the horse beside a wood
road and went into the woods. He had not
travelled far when he. struck an old road.
Following this for about a mile he saw in
the distance, what he t^ok to be a moose
standing in the road. Taking careful aim
he fired arid was much pl'-ased to sen the
animal fall. He rushed up and found he
had killed his own horse.
CHRISTMAS TRANSPORTATION.
Reindeers' mighty skittish and
Dey don' look strong o' limb.
Foh travellin 1 'cross <3e -winter land
Out in de starlight dim. ,
Xo matter whut's <le freight you draws,
"Go slow's" de safest rule;
If I >vua Mistuh Santy Claus
I'd get myse'f a mule.
'Course, he could have a motor car —
But s'pose she staht to skid?
Dem aeroplanes dey travels far;
But s'pose dey comes undid
An' draps de outfit?— if he'd pause
An' linger calm an' cool,
I bet ol' Mlstuh Sajity Claus
Would Kit hlsse'f a mule.
•Washington Star.
J. .T. Repin's portrait of Tolstoy, showing
the venerable philosopher in bare feet and
wearing a lons white blouse, has been re
produced in cheap form and thousands of
copies have been sold to admirers in Eu
rope and In this country. A New Yorker
who received one from Germany returned
It to the sender with this indorsement:
"Years ago a brilliant American humorist
and sage wrote that men show by the way
they wear their shirts on which runs of
the ladder of civilization they stand. Those
who wear it 'flopping over their trousers
are- away down.' That's where Tolstoy
wore his, and by that standard the much
spoken of portrait of the novelist shows
that at the time of his death he had still
some climbing' to do."
"So your old sweetheart Is going to be
married?"
"Yes."
"Who is the, happy man?"
■'There's lots of 'em."
"Why. she can marry but one!"
"That's what I mean."— Houston Post.
A young woman who was a passenger on
board the Lloyd steamer Prinz Ludwig
with tho German Crown / Prince and
Princess on the way to Ceylon writes that
the royal couple seemed to enjoy every
moment of the trip. "They were so demo
cratic that no one would have suspected
their rank and consequently they were the
most popular people on board." Bays this
observer. "Th- dined with the Other pas
seiiKt-rn and joined freely and without re
serve in the deck games, posed for snap
shot pictures and were, in short, just pas
sengers. The Crown Prince, went below
to tho crew .sometime.'-, and the stokers
speak of him as a 'good fellow.' "
Waiter— will you have, sir?
Customer (looking over the restaurant
bill of fare) Permit me to cogitate. In
t!i»i correlation of forces it Is a recognized
property of atomic fragments, whatever
their age, to Join, and — ■
Walter (shouts across th« hall)— Hash
for one!— Tit-Bits.
The porter at the Grand Central Station
who abused C. L. Spoffnrd, of Utica, be
cause h>-. offered him a-10-cent tip, recalls
thu story told by an old commercial traveller
at a recent gathering (>t "druintncrs." "if
there's anything a was learna when ho si-Us
goods on the road, it in how, when and
where to do the tip act," was the introduc
tion to the story. "I weal to the station
once in the same. 'bus' with a How sales
man at Chicago We were both bound for
St. Louis. Wo were met by th.< hotel porter
with out- checks. I gave tin- man a quarter
the usual fee— and win iiic train hud
started ami we were having it amoks my
friend told me that ho had given the porter
nothing because ho was late In getting his
sample trunk to the hotel when he arrived.
'Yotni be sorry.' I mil lilm. My trunk a»
rived at St. Louis on time -his «ot there
a day lat* ■■; "
"Going to turn over a new leaf next
year?"
"Yes. and the first thing I'm going to do
is to stop answering people who ask me
fool questions."— Detroit Free Press.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
CAN WE DO WITHOUT EYES?
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: That is a sane letter that you pub
lished to-day in protest against the long
hatpin. I nearly had my eye put out by
one such this morning in the crowded
Third avenue elevated train. In her tradi
tional kingdom woman receives due credit
for an unselfishness that man does riot al
ways exemplify, but out in the world of
the public she shows a lamentable disregard
of the rights of others.
The bit; hat in a crowded train is In it
self a sufficient nuisance and men have
been too patient with It. looking on It, per
haps, as a harmless feminine extravagance.
But with the long hatpin the joko ceases.
Public opinion should make women ashamed
to display such an indifference to the wel
fare of others. M. ELM A DAME.
New York, Dec. 12, 1910.
To the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: In your issue of to-day there is a let
ter on "The Deadly Hatpin," which bo ably
expresses its menace that I write not only
to indorse the statement fully, but with the
hope that other sufferers will add their
voices and plead for a law imposing on
such offenders a fine of not less than $10,
since the practice involves so great a risk
as loss of eyesight, a peril constantly and
daily encountered in our overcrowded con
veyances and elevators in department
stores, especially at this busy Christmas
season.
I do not like to testify against my sex,
fur I wear hatpins, but with jealous care
that they never project. Such offences are
doubtless often due to thoughtlessness, but
the peril and result remain the same.
New York. Dec. 12, j9lft. ML E. L.
RENAMING 125 TH STREET.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To change the name of 125 th street
seems unwise for the following reasons:
First-One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street is undoubtedly the most important
retailing street in the city.
Second— Named streets, instead of num
bered streets, have always been a perplex
ing nuisance to strangers, and indeed to
ir.uny born and brought up in New York.
The difficulties experienced by visitors in
finding sues streets as Bond, Rtvingrton.
Columbia and others are too numerous to
mention. If these streets were properly
numbered a child could find them.
Third— Many shopkeepers have been in the
habit for years of drawing attention to
their businesses by declaring that their
stores are in 125 th street.
Fourth— The great confusion such a
change would occasion.
BURNETT F. BRENNAX.
Xew York, Dec. 12. 19UX
"LOOSEN UP."
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Christmas hint to "Loosen up,"
contained In the lines of W. X I^ampton in
your columns of this morning, are timely
and should be indorsed by literal action.
I wonder how many in our great city
think Of their postman and milkman on
Christmas Day? The faithful, through
storms and cold and heat, should be cheered
by that which talks. And the old saying is,
' -Money talks." W, £. H.
Brooklyn, l>ec. 13, 1910.
MR. TAFT IS RIGHT.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The best friend of the people.
President Taft, has proffered valuable ad
vice in his recommendation of careful en
forcement now of the righteous laws al
ready written on the statute books, in or
.ler to ascertain their remedial qualities in
practice and inciflentally to discover if any
<«f tlu-m prove to bo of the "hocus-pocus"
variety, which, while full of smiling prom
ise, are picking the pockets of- the people,
Enforcement of the law ia the salient
roint (as the evasion of any law breeds
contempt for ;>ll law) and leads directly to
development of repeal of impossible stat
t:tes (.if they are thus developed), whose
evasion broods contempt of all law.
Thus) careful enforcement and observation
cJ the effect <^f such general and specific
action will be the beginning of a valuable
echii -ational epoch
If it should demonstrate that all the ills
of the country cannot be cured by legisla
tion it would be a progressive era and will
be found to be the logical path of repeal
of nonsensical, bad and obnoxious laws, if
any are now on the statute books of the
people LINCOLN C, CUMMIXGS.
Brookline. Mass.. Dec. 10, 1910.
IN AID OF THE NEGROES.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The trustees of the Slater Indus
trial School for Negroes at Winston-Salem,
N. C. have written me that the state has
offered to give the school t&fflg if they
would raise Che same amount. The negroes
say if the 121,600 Is raised and put into ma
terial they will do the labor free.
The leading white people of the town
have engineered the school from the be
ginning nml have taxed themselves to the
extreme limit to bring the Institution up to
its present capacity of 4fi2 students. They
cannot possibly raise the SI&Q6Q without out
side aid.
It is a sad sight to see the negro boys
and girls turned away daily for lack of
accommodations. The salutary effect of
the school has eliminated every vestlg - of
race friction in the vii init;-. This industrial
institution has solved tho knotty race prob
lem completely, for this community :tt least.
It would be a calamity, and a groat one,
to the negroes to fail to double the capacity
(1 f the plant by the above plan.
It is not, however, a local affair, but a
national one, and every patriotic citizen
who slips a dollar or more in an envelope
and mails it to the treasurer *>f the school,
William A. Blair, vice-president of the
People's National Bank, Wraaton-galem.
N. C, can feel that If is aiding in a work
of great importance. If the trustees ar«
enabled to embrace the state's offer me
capacity of the school will be doubled.
J. P. RAWL.BY.
New York, Dec. 12, I'l<>.
IN MEMORY OF WALTER L. PIERCE.
To the Editor of The Tribune,
Sir: One day one shall go out; one day
one shall not return; ene will be taken:
one left Uut his daily outgoing had been
so ordered that when the nightfall came
that heard not his returning footsteps, it
was as all days— full and well rounded.
His unselfish life Is Ills eulogy, and words
in lending themselves to praise his stead
fast soul do most honor themselves Given
to mingle, in the everyday utTuirr* of life,
hi- dignified thorn In that he added to the
world's store of men's confidence in each
other. Tenacious In application. Indomit
able in courage, he was master of his call
ing in life, but not before he was master
of himself.
Experience ami knowledge were not, bow
ever, for him to hoard, capital for accumu
lation to himself; but rather he gave (if
himself generously, anil no worthy plea ao.
weakly preawtd thai did not meet a quick,
response. Truly, peace hath its victories,
and above the strong, patient face of
achievement rests the evergreen laurel
wreath of love and appreciation. Sleep an,
thou faithful soul, your place is secure.
FRANK S. CHICK.
New York. Dee, 13, ISHQ.
PILE IT ON!
From The. Itutfalo Commercial.
Now York pays oue-tlfth of the entire cor
poral ion tax and will also pay a very large,
proportion of the Income tax. Bring on
your Irrigation, reclamation. 24-fooi lake to
gulf ,iiH other billion dollar schemes! The
more the merrier. New York li rich.
People and Social Incident*
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From tn« Tribune lit:reau.J
Washington, Dec. 13.— The President, as
soon as ha clears his desk of the corre
spondence which has accumulated during
the preparation of bis message and con
sideration of the judicial appointments an
nounced yesterday, will hold a. number of
conferences with Senators and Representa
tives to dlscusa legislation and politics. A
number of Important offices are now or will
soon become vacant, including a place on
the Customs Court of Appeals, vacated by
the appointment of .1 -i !-' • W. H. Hunt to
the Commerce Court. Senator Warner and
the Republican members of the Missouri
delegation in Congress have indorsed Hugh
Mclndoe, of Joplin, for the Customs Court
vacancy. Wade Ellis, of Ohio, in also men
tioned for this office.
Representative Polndexter made another
vis-It to the White House to urge the ap
pointment of O. C. Moore, of Spokane.
Wash., as United States District Judge of
Washington.
Granville W. M«oney, of Ohio, Is men
tioned f<_r the post of Secretary of Porto
Rico, an.l Carmi Thompson, of tho sanio
state, Is slated to succeed Jesse \Vi!**>n aa
Assistant taavatary of the Interior when
Mr Wilson resigns tliat ofHce to take up
the practice of law in Indiana, Other Ohio
appointments soon to be maue include the
JndgeaMs in the Northern District and the
offices of United States Attorney and
United States Marshal of the Southern Dis
trict, the terms of the incumbents of the
latter two having just expire-1.
Representative Morgan ia urging the ap
pointment of C. M. Cade. Kepubliran Xa
tional Committeeman of Oklahoma, anrl
Representative Manure has recommendfd
the selection of George A. Foster, of Perry,
as United States Marshal for the Western
District of Oklahoma, vacated by the reais
nation of "Jack" Abernathy.
Senator Uradley, Representative-elect
Powers and Charles Finley. of Kentucky.
called in the interest of George Patrick,
who is a candidate for postmaster at Will
lamsburg-, Kj*.
President Taft presented the Congression
al medal of honor to-day to Wiiiiam K.
Snyder, chief electrician on the scout
Cruiser Birmingham, for saying tho
a seaman last February in Hampton Roads.
Professor Henry W. Farnam, president of
the American Association for Labor l<aaji
lation, talked to the President this after
noon about labor legislation.
Among the White House callers were the
Secretary of the Interior, Judge Knaj>p,
Commissioner Clark. Senators Hale, Hey
burn, Lodge, Depew and Gamb'.e. Repre
sentatives Young, Calder, Bennet. Morgan.
of Missouri; Lloyd, Townsend, Hughes, of
Georgia; Candler, Alexander and Bradley
and Delegate Larrinaga of Porto Rico.
The President took a long walk before
dinner.
Mrs. Taft occupied a box at the Belasco
this afternoon at the performance of the
Imperial Russian Ballet and Or>-hf>stra. She
had with her Mrs. E. H. G. Slater, MJai
Marj' Guynn and Miss Mabel Boardman.
Miss Helen Taft returned, to the White
House to-day from a visit of several days
in Baltimore, and was at the Belasco.
THE CABINET.
[From Tlie Tribune Bureau.!
Washington, Dec. 13.— The Secretary of
the Navy has returned to Washington from
New York, where he went to meet Mr.-.
Meyer and the Misses Meyer on their ar
rival on Sunday from a visit of several
weeks in Europe, Mrs. Meyer and her
daughters went to Hamilton, Mass.. from
New Tork, but will join the Secretary here
within a few days-.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
[From T!io Triliune bureau.]
Washington, De.-. 13. — Tho Austrian
Ambassador and Baroness Heneelmiiller
went to Xew York to-day to remain a
short time. Tha baroness has not suffi
ciently recovered from a recent illness to
resume her social duties.
Prince Koudacheff, counsellor of the
Russian Embassy, accompanied Baroness
Rosen and Baroness Elizabeth Rosen to
HEADS 3MTNNESOTA UNIVERSITY
Dr. George Edgar Vincent, of Chicago,
Succeeds Dr. Northrop.
Minneapolis, Dec. 13.— Dr. George BSgai
Vincent, dean of the faculty of Arts, LJ;.-r
ature3 and Sciences in the University of
Chicago, has l>^en chosen by the regi
succeed l>r. Cyrus Northrop as pn
of the University of Minnesota, and has
accepfeii the office. -I>r. Northrop resigned
two years ago, but the regents prevailed
upon him to remain president till they
could find a tit successor. The choice nf Dr.
Vin>-e:it is said to meet with Dr. Northrop"s
hearty approval.
The new president is a son of Bishop John
Heyl Vincent, who founded the Chautauqua
Literary and Scientific Circle in IS7S. He is
forty years old and is regarded as one
of the most effective speakers in the coun
try. He has been engaged m educational
work for twenty years. He will assume
charge of the university April 1. when Dr.
Northrop will retire. Dr. Vincent is a Yale"
graduate of the class of >."..
The salary of President Vincent was fix-'l
by the board of regents at $17. • v< " l a year.
Dr. Northrop was elected president em
eritus.
ART COMMISSION ACTS
Approves Designs for Various Build
ings in City.
Designs for twenty houses for the Fire
Department, to be erected at an approxi
mate cost of $500,000 in different boroughs
of the city, were approved at a meeting of
the Municipal Art Commission yesterday,
Robert W. do Forest presiding. These
houses will be built of reinforced con
crete, the facades having a white granite
base.
The commission also approved designs for
two one»story brick addition:. 1 to buildings
on Randall's Island, to be used for the day
rooms, and to be erected at a cost of $10,
000. They will be 9*M feel In saw ana
will be constructed to correspond with the
present buildings.
Approval was alas gJaaji by the comnjls
sit>n to designs for ;i elaasroom, with haven
room and diet kitche'. 1 . attached, to be
placed on the roof ol the free public l> ith
at No.. g{ Qanaine street, adjoining Hodaoa
Tark. and to b«* used for public school c)\\\
aieii att'ieted with tuberculosis.
KNOLLYSS DAUtrHTE°v WINS
Gets 1 Verdict of $2,500 Against 1
Paper Which Said She Had Eloped.
London, Dec. li.— A jury in th» Kind's
Bench Division to. lay awarded Miss Alex
andra Louvtma Knollys, daughter of I^onl
Knollys. King George's private secretary^
damages m tho sum of $2,«*\> In th«« libel
suit which she brought against the period
ical "John Hull" for having published a
false report that the plaintiff had eloped
with an English army officer.
Horatio W, Bottom ley, s member of the,
House of Commons, who controls the paper,
expressed to 'ho court sincere regret that
the groundless statement had been printed.
MUSEUM GETS PEARY'S MEDALS.
Washington. Dee. 13.— Captain Robert ■
Peary has presented to the National Mll
smun sixteen gold and two silver medals
that have been awarded to him. l»roml->
!., -Hi among these are the goal medals
given him by the National Qeographle So
ciety for hi ■ discovery yf the North Pole,
and by the Royal Oeosraphlcal Society or
London, for •Arctic exploration. ISiC-ltK».\
Peary also deposited 111 the museum Hags*'
carried by him I" the I' .-in.
Xew York this morning, where they wwna
preparatory to sailing on Wednesday toy
Russia. Baron Rosen has postponed sail
in* until his friend. Baron Schlippenbach.^
who is ill, has sufficiently recovered. li*
hopes to be able to sail on Saturday.
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY. \
[From Th« Tribune Bureau.) '
Washington. Dec. 13.— The Vlce-PresK
dent and ?.Ir.««. Sherman returned to Wash
ington to-nl^ht from Utica, where tha*
Vice-President joined Sirs. Sherman th»
end of last week. Mrs. Sherman -will re
j main here as Ion? am the condition of her
mother's health permits. They will (rive a>
dinner in honor of the President and Mrs.
Taft on December 19.
A brilliant and overcrowded house Brest.,
ed the Russian Imyerial dancers at that
Belasco this afternoon. Miss Helen Taft
was the guest of Miss Hammond. whai
also entertained the Postmaster General,'
the Mexican Ambassador. Mrs. George W. :
Wickersharn. Mr:-;. Doyle, Mls3 May Ham
mond, Miss McMnllin. Mrs. Gardner Hub*'
bard Bell. Brigadier General Edwards/
Brigadier General Crozler, A. Piatt An- 1
drew, Lieutenant Long and Lieutenaas
Spear. Mrs. William A. Slater entertained"
j in her box Xobile Lazzaro de Marches!*
I Negrotto Cambfaso, Italian qounsellars
j Mr. de Struve. Russian attache, and 2f r
I and Mrs. Guy Norman. In the box— ani j
seats were the Secretary of the Navy, tj^
: Secretary of Commerce and Labor ar.4
' many diplomats and official and resident
members of society.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson chaperoned
a luncheon party to-day* for Hiss Louis*
Cromwell, whose guests were Mr. and Jlrsj
Granvilie Fortesque. Countess Lui3e-Alex«
1 t:n(!ra yon Bernstorff. Mis 3 Olga I:oose»
! velt. Miss Marion Oliver. Miss Vivlaaj'
Gould, Miss Angelica Brown. Jarvis Geer^
jr.. of Pittsburg; Ralph Bloomer, of Xew
York; Mr. de Bceofort, Mr. van Weed, .*
the Netherlands Legation, and others.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Southerland en
tertained guests at dinner to-night to meets
Miss Helen Tuft.
. Mrs. Thomas T. Gaff was hostess at a
' large dinner party to-night In honor off
Miss Lou!.-o Cromwell, who took with .-
all of her house guests.
Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard u-a3 hostess at
a tea this afternoon in compliment to be?
house guests. Dr. and Mrs. S. Weir Mitch* *
ell, of Philadelphia. " „"?
HEW YORK SOCIETY.
Mrs. Richard Stevens gives a la.rse din*
ncr dance this evening at her home, Caatla)
Point, Hoboktn.
Mrs. J. Duncan Emmet gives a dinnen
dance this evening In her house In Madison
avenue for her cousin. Miss Margaret H&r*
ris-
Mrs. John K. Drexel will give a dance c$
January 4 at her house- in East f>l& street. \
Lady HadSeld. who was In town for a
few days, has returned to /Washington-
Mrs. Jacob "Wendell, jr.. win give a re-*
ception this afternoon at her house In Easl
35th street, to Introduce her niece, Mi&f
Frances Gordon Wendell.
Mr. and Mrs. I?. Tappen FairchlM sailed
for Europe yesterday to sjend the zs.i
abroad.
Mrs. J. Stevens Ulman will give a !arj«
reception on December 22 at her house 4
East £lst street.
Frederick Totvnsend Martin grave a din*
ncr at Sherry's last evening and afterward
took his guests to tha Comedy Theatre. la
the party were Miss Elsie de "Wolfs, Mis 3
Constance Warren, Colonel and Mrs. P. S.
Kenna, of Engrand; Collonel John Jaco'O
Astor, Mrs. Edward X. Breitung and Br!r.«
ton Buckwalter.
Mrs. Frederic. Neil«o:i will return to tom&
to-day from Hot Springs, Va., and will be«
at the Plaza for the winter.
"Sir. and Mrs. Reginald Brooks have ap»
rived in town from Virginia and are at th»
St. Regis.
YALE MEN LIKE PHI BETA KAPPA.
Think Scholarship Is Most Desirable^
with Athletics in Second Place.
New Haven. Pec. That scholarship
is held to be of first importance In un
ill mi lii activity at Yale, with athletic*
ranking second, is shov.n in the results °£
■ postal card canvass just (■•■•.• d ac
the university. About 1,000 cards were sens,
out to members of the classes of MM 19 1 L
and MM, and 553 answers were received.
Of this number 329 voted that a scholar
ship stand sufficiently high to gain admis
sion to the honorary high stand society—'
Phi Keta Kappa— was most important. Poa-,
stssion of the university "V" pot second
place, and activity on "The Yale Dail>-
Xews" and "The Yale Literary Magazine 1 *
third and fourth places.
PASTEUR MEDAi WINNER
Harvard's Annual Debate Priz*
Awarded to - Scranton Student.
[By Tel^eraph ta Tht» Tribune.]
Cainlnrldg*, Ma - . Dm 13.— Maurice Sura- ;
vitz. '13. of Scrantor:. Fenn.. won the an
anal debate at Harvard this evening for ths
Pasteur medal. There were six other ««*■
testants. Karon Pierre de Coubertin found
ed the Pasteur medal at Harvard ir: &9B
as a prize for annual debate "on subjects
drawn from contemporary French polities'*
to be delivered in English.
MR. REID'S ADDI ESS )K LINCOIJC
The Man As He Was.
From The Rochester Democrat-Chronicle*
In his address on Lincoln before Cw.
Birmingham tKnrfand) University. White-
law Reid, American Ambassador to *-» re r*
i Britain, aimed to show Mr. Lincoln as m
! was. W'hitelaw Raid was a war corre
spondent during the Lincoln administra
i tion. As such h« was In touch wtta a!*
;he currents of events and scstbnest d^"
ing that historic ,en». His writings iron
tlu> field w»-r<> read by the \w».r Trtsnienr,
and in turn he. with all his c.untrymen.,
was a close student of the unique charac-;
ter, spirit, utterances and acts i«f the w»
who was the central figure q{ the BU*Wj
conflict between the forces of th.t UniW
and those arrayed against It. The tesO-j
luor.y of a contom;>orary s<» fortunately,
;>!ac«>d for direct personal observation aiw
: study is «>f great ralue In .- generaniw
wliich largely knows Lincoln «.::">- ■ froa*
general historical report ar.d gosstix. It »*
true there are still many thousands »-,
Americans Bring wlio dtetlncttrely remera-,
Ver t!i- war. l! . ii» mils wru> partlci;>atea.
; In it. and. Nt» do'.ibt, tnoosanOs who tJW
for Mr Lincoln or atratr.st him ut w*
.-,»:.: If not at his first election. Buj tr.->.
proportion i:i numbers of tlie^o t.> tnosj.
who have come upon the sccca of ac * I v,
' since the first martyr PreaWePt!* lloat ",i,
comparatlTely amall. Many of these ai^,
. hare accepted much that is pure lose**
ami notion about the great I'resnitirt a^
retailed from year to year in unsutnen
tlcal stories, instead of kolhk t^> s^'«>"v«f*
which huvo s;'»k.'!i with authority. . - z*&
W,. llko the closing parasrr»ph of «f-.
K*iil"s speech. In which be places w»*a
imuoti ami Lincoln *h> by side as me-;
: n-.»t Inferior to any sons of the race «-•
any century. It was A brave thlnw>w*|
Mr. Iteld to make that statement «tn«- ;
l'.\ land or In this twentieth «-'«'ntuJ-*
: whoso heroes, as a class, are of ap. *"3
tirely •: '■■:•■ -: type from those -:'=' n " *
. examples of^^Xntericun manhood.
An Admirable Resume.
From The Chicago Tribune. -^
Tho quality that raise«l the aC X«/
of Lincoln to its noble eminence am' j^j
constituted its strength atn'tl terr.pntl^
which would have led another astray.
weakened him when most he n ?^'^ I
strenKth, was his splemlM dislutei «»«*"|Sa
iTo sumo of the most striking proofs ot v-» • j
quality Mr. R«id refers i^ what ; ~yJ5 j
sMere.l aa a whole, an atlmir:»ble **^B (
of Lincoln's character ami career, f, S ;
address vimW h:'.\-e been better. ha>i 1.**,. . j
', n>ore emph «-is thun it did u>» this «JJ«*^
ity. His *Rtrttw* sinslcmlmledne** * n „'..,
I was what saved Lincoln and the ' i 4-;
■ It lii tho rarest of human virtues -^^ ,_- ;
makes ._ statesman tnvlncible- .