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To Stop Park Abuse.
i In another column The Tribune prints
to-day a letter from Dr. William T. liorna*
day relative to the Mayor's undertaking
to stamp out abuse of the public park> by
persons who carelessly or -wilfully defile
them with rubbish. Too hearty indorse?
ment of this campaign ca*.not be given.
The parks belong to the people, It is true, i
but many who use them and enjoy thc.n
treat them as if they belonged to some?
body else. It is high time to stop the kind
of use which after each Sunday- each holi?
day in summer, leave.- the parks littered
with peanut shells, banana skins, lurch
boxes, discarded newspapers, with gross
trampled and shrubbery torn. The city has
too great a financial investment in its
parks, and their material and ?esthetic
value is too high for such treatment longer
to be countenanced.
Much of this abuse, to be sure, comes
rather from carelessness and ignorance j
than from maliciousness. Ne nrtheless,
care and intelligence are rot likely to be'
propagated by the leniency with which
offenders have heretofore been treated. '
Fair warning has been given by the
Mayor and the Police Commissioner that
after May 1 the park ordinances will be
strictly enforced and their violators ade-?
quately punished. A few severe sentences
ought to have a salutary effect in inculcate i
?ng respect for public property and care,
in its use, even by those who help to
pay for It.
Fifty Year? of "Beef and"
Once in a while, even in this blas? and,
cynical generation, conspicuous merit will
obtain enthusiastic tribute. That, we take
it, is the nature of the celebration j
to-day of the fiftieth anniversary of ?
the founding of Polan's "beef and"-'
establishment- It was inevitable that;
sooner or later gratitude for the
existence of beans inch as Boston
never knew, beef red and tender and ;
"sinkers" which left only pleasant memo?
ries should be littingly expressed to the
men who for half a century have set forth
8uch comestibles for all who had the
sagacity to seek them. And if only the
half of those who owe that debt of grati?
tude take part in the parade of tribute,
Park Row and Nassau Street will have toj
bt closed to other traffic.
Dolan's is more than a restaurant; it
is an institution. It is almost a state of i
mind. It typifies the American utilization i
of plain, practical elements In the journey
toward the ideal. The hypercritical who
assert acofflngly that there is no idealism,
no poetry, in beans, have never partaken
of the Dolan brand. Testimony to refute
their sneers can be drawn from a multi?
tude, from the Colonel himself?and he
has a way with him in testifying?down
to the newest substitute who is shoulder?
ing a mailsack at the old General Post
office. In other lands they have not been
above erecting statues to some of the great
onee, the Inspired who enriched the na?
tion's life by enlarging its cuisine. If this
city ever reaches that stage, Pat Dolan,
Johnny Meehan and the faithful Adam
Brade should not be forgotten.
An Amazing Lawsuit.
One of the curiosities of the campaign
to compel this country to modify its atti?
tude of neutrality for the benefit of one
set of the European belligerents is the
suit just brought in Wisconsin to fasten
a conspiracy charge on the Allis-Chalmers
Company. This company has a contract
to deliver certain war material to the
Bethlehem Steel Company, and the plain?
tiff in the rase, General Samuel.Pearson,
the former Boer leader, charges that such
delivery will constitute a conspiracy to
injure him, since he has property in Ger?
many and owns German government
bonds, and the munitions turned out by
the Bethlehem company, if they reach the
Allied armies, may be used to help defeat
the German armies and thus contribute
to a depreciation in German securities and
in the value of German real estate.
This plea jumps any number of fences
Ix'fore it gets anywhere within sight of
them. It a-sumes what few friends of
?Germany in this country are ready to
concede- -namely, that even with the ad?
vantage of a ready supply of ammunition
from the United States the Allies are
going to defeat the Teutonic alliance and
make Germany pay a war indemnity
which will permani-ntly depress property
values throughout the empire. How can a
judge or a jury in Wisconsin determine
in advance whether Germany is going to
lose or not and what effect the war is
eventually going to have on quotations
for German real estate or government
bonds?
Yet it is clear that if Germany is not
beaten and comee out of the war rither
victorious or on even terms with the
Allies, the ammunition aent to Kurope by
American manufacturers will not have
had any measurable effrct in depreciating
the value of General Pearson's Herman in?
vestments.
That la not the only eccentric assump
Uon on which the suit is based. It
sumes, further, that in order to p?o
the foreign holdings of r,r American
,-on the courts nre goln,; to wander
the domain of polities and try to ra*fn
the action of the politico] branch of
government We have no law forbid?
American citizens to sell mu-vti
to the governments of countries
war. The Executive Department h<
that under the existing international c
tb.ere is no warrant for prohibiting s
trafl'c. All the belligerent? have an er,
right to buy war supplies hero. If
American citircn finds that property
owns in the, territory of a belligerent
boon damaged or destroyed, the govr
will probably help him to pros
his claim through diplomatic chanr
after the war is over. The courts r
not compel it to do moro than that
even that if it doesn't think that
claim is diplomatically defensible.
It would have been about as rostiono
on General Pearson's part to bring a s
to force the warring nations to conch
peace on terms which would leave
German investments intact and to rcqti
the United States to go to war, if nee
sary, to guarantase the stability of thi
Investmente.
No Berlin Muzzle for Harvard.
Professor M?nsterberg has writt
two big volumes, one interp-eting G(
mar.y to the United States and the otV
interpreting the United State? to G<
mai y. Thinge happen occasionally whi
illustrate better than any ?uch scienti
dissertations can the real diff?rer
between the German and the Americ
point of view. That contrast is made
vivid as possible in the corresponden
between Professor Kuno Meyer, of t
University of Perlin, and Preside
Lowell of Harvard University over t
recent publication of a prize poem wr
ten by a Harvard student.
Professor Meyer charges the Harva
authorities with having countenanced '
gratuitous and shameless insult" to Ge
many because two Harvard professoi
acting as judges in a student compel
tion, awarded a prize to the producti?
complained of. Thero the German poi
of view sticks out. Accon?ing to it, tl
officers of a university must accept r
sponsihility for the private judgment
professors and the literary output i
students. Supervision of thought as w<
as of conduct is an ingrained notion in
nation which knows no other form
government except government from tl
top.
To Americans such a theory is odiou
Freedom of speech extends here to all
even to professors and verse-makir
students. The judges in the Harvai
contest were literary umpire.-, not polit
cal censors. The Harvard faculty is ni
vetted with the right to regulate the pt
rate political opinions of those who |fi*t
instruction or those who receive it. Th
is a free country,and even bad poetry hi
its immunities. President Lowell, ther
fore, stood on the Constitution and c
impregnable American custom when 1
informed the irate Herr Professor thi
free speech?however shocking to tho:
brought up to a strict avoidar.ee of Maje
taetsbele'digung--will remain the rule ?
American institutions of learning.
It is the claim of most German writet
that we are not capable of passing judj
ment on the German case in the prcser
war because we do not understand Gei
man ideals and Kultur. Germans wh
don't understand our ideals should ther*
fore be all the more chary about criticis
i;ig us. Harvard wouldn't look at all lik.
I Harvard if it hnd to wear a leather mu;
zle of the Meyer-Berlin cut.
A Fleet in Being.
Though regrettably deficient in goo
temper und good manners, there i
j point worth noting in the following letter
?To the Edite? of The Tribune.
Sir: The "ignorance or stupidity" yen (?is
I play in your editorial? is laughable. "Th
! i?erman fleet is helpless." Indeed! Then hot
. is it that the great Hritirh fleet has not al
J ready bombarded liremen, Hamburg an
other important seaport towns and binde
their troops in Germany? The German flee
ia protecting Germany. That is more tha
the British fleet has been able to do for Eng
land during the whole of this war. We ar
not all sr> b'inded by partiality for the en
r>f this country England as you an
other New York editora. If the British flee
could do as much as the German Bei ? ?
would not read of ships bombarding the Kng
lish coast. You certainly must think th
? majority of your readers are Ignorant fool
or you would not write such an editorial a
that in this morning's Tribune.
AMERICAN WHO Wm.'I.D I.IKF 1<
KNOW.
Brooklyn. April 22, 101.*"..
Precisely because it was presumed tha
the majority of our readers were not fool
it seemed hardly necessary to observe tha
only a Ringle aspect of tho navy's worl
had been considered in dealing with Dr
Dernburg's thoughtless or insincero criti
leiten of the? British fleet. The one poin
?taken up was the protection of sea-borni
commerce. In the preamble to the Germar
?navy act of 1900 the creation of a greal
fleet was advocated expressly "in ordei
to jirote? t Germany's sea trade and colo
n.es." In respect of this important func
tion, it is not a matter of opinion but a
plain and indisputable fact that "for tho
time being at least the German fleet it
I helpless." On the other side the returns
Iof the British Hoard of Trade for last
'month show that the value of British sea?
borne commerce amounted to 1106,766,984.
In the face of this contrast, Dr. Dernburg
calmly maintains that Great Britain's
battleahipj are out of date and ?seles-.
Is it necessary to labor the point that
Dr. Dernburg talks foolish. \?
The sentence italicized bj the writer
of the letter is quite obviou.'y sound. The
German fleet is protecting the German
coast, and though, being the inferior fleet,
it may be obliged to confine its? if to that
task during the war, yet by its \e-ry exist
etice it prevent? tne Allies from obtaining
an absolute command of the Mia? It may
be recalled that in the Anglo-Dutch wars,
1 Holland likewise suspended her maritim?
commerce for a wh.le and thus held Eng?
land conMantly in disputed command.,
It is reasonable to suppose thai in the j
prirent, war a general nction on a great,
seal? would be welcomed by th* Allies, with ?
the odds greatly in their favor, but since
for Cermany it is not merely n question
of winning or losing a battle, it is plainly
to Germany's advantage to avoid a d*>
S engagement unless an Opportunity
comes presenting a fair prospect of fuc
Thus Lord Torrington sought In 1 Gf>0
to avoid ?an action which might have left
the enemy masters of all before them,
whereas, even if hp had to remain shut
up with nn inferior force, the existence of
that force alono would, he argued, so para?
lyze his opponent as to render an inva?
sion an extremely hazardous enterprise.
It is easily seen that in the same way
1 Germany's fleet is serving a useful pur?
pose, and to sneer at her naval com?
manders for not courting suicide is unjust
and foolish. As foolish in its way be the
twaddle of Dr. Dernburg.
A New Cancer Clinic.
An important announcement has just
been made by the directors of the New
York Skin and Cancer Hospital. Accept-,
ing the opinion that the mortality from
malignant disease is increasing, and rec-'
ogni/.ing "that there must be some consti-i
tutional cause producing the disease,"
they have decided to establish "a special
clinic for the medical treatment of suit-^
alilc cases by means other than surgical
operation."
Though the aim is avowedly "to extend
the benefit of a medical treatment to those
desiring it," it may be presumed that as!
far as new patients are concerned the
clinic is intended principally for the bene?
fit of inoperable cases. In this sense it
may properly be described as experimental,
and no one can justly question the hope?
ful conclusion that "if progress can be'
made along the lines now instituted by this
hospital it will certainly be a boon to man?
kind whose value cannot be estimated."
It is a little disappointing, however,
that in notifying the public of thin inter-!
est ing departure the hospital authorities
were not moro explicit. Directions with
regard to diet and habit? of living are
frequently given, 'if course, to cancer pa?
rents, but there is a hint in the announce?
ment of some more or less definite concep-1
tion of the conditions that favor the dis-j
ease and of a quite definite belief that]
the disease is in some way associated with"
the conditions of civilization. In fact, it
is positively stated that cancer "is very
rare or almost unknown among primitive j
people."
So positive a statement coming from so :
authoritative a source must evidently have
some foundation, and since it is at variance '
with the conclusions of many recent in
vestigatOM it is a pity that it was not
dealt with more at length and that no1
reasons were given for the further state?
ment that cancer musi be due to "some
constitutional cause." Statement:- so un-;
qualified indicate that those who estab?
lished the clinic are in possession of infor-1
mation which has not hitherto been made
public. A further announcement will j
presumably be made before long.
District Attorney Perkins, in expelling that
reclining chair from hi? office, may have had
memories of a certain photograph of Mr.
William Travers Jerome which found Its
way into the public prints.
i Sinking of a Glasgow Steamer: Germans
Hi is ne, but Not Kude. Headline
When they send the passengers to the bot
tom, however, it is not unfair to call them,
I o itively rude.
The title of the new chief of operations In
I he Navy Depr.rtment is a misnomer. H?*
outrht to he addressed a.4 Dean of the Jo
sephus Daniels Seagoing University.
The city's gardeners are to he congrstu- |
Sied on the tulip bed? at the City Hall. The
ha-- seldom, if put, yren a finer dis?
play of these splendid flowers.
Tity the poor old Giants! Even the jramei
they win hy foreit are taken away from
them.
It II announced that Colore! Roosevelt II
Being fishing. Barnes's lawyers say he has
lii-en.
Psychology and School Children.
From Th* U'tnchnter Ouardia?
Ther? are soma interesting conclusions in
I thu flrst report of the recently appointe.]
i official psychologist to the London County
j Council a post which is, I believe, uni?|Ue
in this country. Mr. Cyril Hurt's chief work
is In applying tests to backward children in
th? schools to ascertain tshctl.er or not they
?re suitable for tuition in the special classes
;.e mentally defective. Mr. Hurt has
examined over 2,000 children 400 subnormal
children, 200 eerl lied mental defectives and
.?bout 1,400 norm?;! children. The great ma?
jority of the 400 children who were pre
'Jented by the teachers on the grour. I af
mental in. ufficicncy were found to suffer from
mere dulness, backwardness or special and1
limited detec's rather than from mental ci?
ir'eieney. Only twenty.four passed the medi?
cal examination for admission to a mentally
Jefectiva school. Mr. Hurt says there is a
?trikine; disagreement as to where the line,
.???'?.Teen the defective and the ordinary child!
j i3 to be drawn, and remarks that school,
?.rorress is only a very indirect measure of!
mental ability or defi-i-t. His conclusion is
that there is no one definite or constant men
'??1 characteristic in which children classed
| ai mentally defectiva resemble one another
,and differ from nrdinarf children. In intelli
geaee, as in every <.her r-ualitv. they overlap
??rarmously with ordinary children and art
not a aeparate class or species, but largely
I simply the inefficient tail end of a more com
prehenshra normal group. Mr. Hurt's repart
ta the need of more delicste discrim
.nation in the selectlea of children to ba ,
classed as mentally defective. H. carriad
lent an Interesting investigation to ?how t?e
ii-iflueneo of loss of sleep upon school work.
In one school the children were divided into
?"? groups. One group were allowed t?
?j eep for two hours dally in school, th? other
1.--OUP worked in the ordinary way. It wai
.'(.und that among the children who were al- !
I lowed to sleep those who suffered most from
?!a?-k of nl.ep at home gained greatly in gen?
ial ability. In th? worst eases th? gain
?mor? than made up for th? loss ?f t:m? [
I Kxpenments of the same V nd an? gelag or |l
- | eh ?It Hurt says may rhow 'that lack alii
?, ert. may be as Jaii-iaging to le?o*, ?v?rk M|j
lack of .'....
THE ADVANCE GUARD.
CONCERNING GAS
Use of Fumes Due to Artillery De?
terioration.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
fir: The one thing that Germany's press
agents in this country seem to forget is the
complete detachment of which we are capable
in regard to the Kuropean war. As evidence
of this I might quote the bald, brusque, ye?
complete, cable sen-ice our papers use.
Whatever the individual war correspondents
of thc,American press m;iy have to say from
their particular ancle, the cable news re?
mains peculiarly unprejudiced because of Its
essentially utilitarian nature.
This, however, has nothing to do with neu?
trality. And I am piad to see that Dr. Dorn
bnrg, with the other German press agents and
hyphenated Americans within our gate , ha.
at last quit harping on that somewhat in?
genuous theme. Kit.otjnnaHy we cannot be
neutral, any more than our German \merican
citizens. Hut the recent charges of parti?
ality on our part made by Dr. Dernburg re?
garding the German use of gas shells are
easily explained by refurbishing our memo?
ries on the cables for the last month.
We have been thoroughly prepared for Ger?
many's latest breach of the Hague rules. A
month aero we had barely got through with
the Pumdum charges, when we were told of
the gases spread hv the French shells. Now
melinite end lyddite and the charges used by
Kuropean powers in their shells cannot fail
to send out a certain amount of gas, which,
if inhaled at close quarters, is highly detri?
mental. What of the suffocating etTect of
the German 42's at Li?ge? But Germany,
with characteristic thoroughness, saw ahead,
and anticipated the lack of copper so neces
sary for insuring accurate and indirect shell
fire. She accordingly Invented the gas myth
to justify her new substitute. We now read
in the cibles of her guns being fired from
a closer range, despite their heavy calibre;
all of which i-r-ows that the new device must
he justified, because it is a last resort for
German artillery.
Of course, the latest order to gather in
Belgian copper coins may serve the purpose
of another week's bombardment of shattered
Khoims. Hut hereafter we may expect gas
>hells, blasts of hot air and other devices of
scientific "frightfulness" heralded in the
cables or from the German Ambassador or
Dr. Demburg. ALREADY PREJUDICED.
New York, April 28, 1915.
"For Humanity's Sake."
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: "I'pon the request of the Russian
government," says Secretary Rryan, "and as
a matter of humanity the I'nited States have
forwarded through their Ambassador Mor
genthau a protest to Turkey against the
massacres of Innocent Christians in Ar?
menia."
"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander," I believed. Hut now I see that
the massacring of innocent Jews, the pillag?
ing of their homes and the outraging of
their daughters by Russian Cossacks do not
call for any protest "for humanity's sake"
from our government, but the slaughter of
innocent Christians by Turkish Cossacks
does.
And Russia protests! Such audacity
smacks only Russian. Good work for Mr.
Hryan. SAMUEL DOBBIN.
New York. Apnl 28. 11*15.
Christian Science and Deafness.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In The Tribune of April 27 appeared,
a letter from a Captain Mathews, of Brook?
lyn, describing what he says was Christian
Science treatment taken some twenty-five
years ago. This communication appears un?
der the caption "Deafness Treated as Error.
Showing How One Patient Fared Under Chris?
tian Science Treatment." Since the treatment
described by the captain is not In the least
similar to Christian Science treatment it
?ei-ms proper and Just to object to the state?
ment as published.
In the treatment described the patient was
informed that he was a spirit and not deaf
and that he must declare that he was not
leaf. Now, this has eertainly nothing to do
^ith Christian Science, which teaches tha?
.od is ?he one and only Sp.rit, and that
leal'ng is not brought about by any thoughts
?onceraing the human bod/ or a personal
(self. Christian Science heals through the
power of the mind that was also in Christ,
ithe mind that has to do with God only, and
?which fulfils the laws of God according to
'the method of Christ Jesus. It has nothing
|to do with the manipulation or willing of the
human thought in any direction. It is not
! surprising that dependence upon such human
I thought, diiected, as your correspondent de
i scribes, contrary to his human reason, should
not have hi -iled, bu' it is not fair to call
this the ?":nlure of Christian Science, which
through the prayer of spiritual understand?
ing has healed many cases of deafness and
all other diseases, evidence of which can be
easily obtained upon proper investigation.
JESSE PK'KARD.
New York, April 2?, 1013.
Rrll-Bottomed Trousers.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Is ignorance really contagious?
I am moved to ask the question by the
declaration credited to a naval surgeon that
' bell bottoms to sailor's trousers serve no
utilitarian purposes. Even "Pills" is sup?
posed to know better than that, so I am
compelled to assume that he has been as?
sociating with Sir Joscphus.
One of the duties of the bluejacket is to
wash down decks. Then the bell bottom
trouser is the thing in that it can be rolled
j knee high without discomfort to the wearer.
I The ordinary trouser will not roll easily and
will at the best be anything but comfortable.
Heneo its utility, apparent to any one who
has ever lived aboard ship. On much other
of the bluejacket's ordinary work, not ex?
cluding the landing where "Pills" is quoted
\ as objecting to the bell bottom as unneces?
sarily adding to weight, the comfort of the
j bell bottom is known to every sailorman.
However, one must not expect too much
i from ?he department as at present managed.
Bat hope remains March 4, 1017, is not as
. far off as it was. KEARSARGE.
New York, April 28, 1016.
Let Us Be indulgent.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: It is time for residents of the United
States to begin looking to the future, to that
future when the European war will be ended I
and life will begin to flow along in its nor?
mal way. When that day comes we shall.
huve hundreds of thousands of Germans ini
thin country, just as we have had for the
pat; decades. They have always been good!
citizens, and they will continue to be good j
citizens. They are our neighbors and our|
friends. We must continue to be neighborly j
and friendly with them.
This will be easier if we are inclined to be
? friendly during thes?^ day* of stress, ii' we
i are neutral in word as well as action. We do
not have to sympathize entirely with the
I German point of view in order to see that
tthe Oerman has a right to think he is right,
.that he is honest and sincere and at times
(has argument to support his position.
No mat'er what the result of the war, no
(matter where victory finally perches, the po
Isition of the United States will be stronger
I if her attitude is fair, If she does not pre
judge and condemn on information that is in
'accurate and on statements often the result
,of prejudice.
For the sake of the future let us as indi?
viduals be calm and dispassionate and show
a tolerant sympathy with the human frailties
of the belligerents. We can belie*.e that the
German nation has made a mistake without
showing trat we believe the German people
are bad at heart. R. C. STORM.
New York, April 28, 1915.
Mr. Whitman's Ambitions.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
S.r: I am indeed lorry that my letter,
which appeared in today's issue, had given
you the impression that I was referring to i
Colonel Roosevelt when I mentioned the Re-1
publican party and i's present leadership lei'
this state. You would have given my letter
a clearer interpretation had you made the
heading read "Whitman No Moses," for I was I
alluding to him, and no one else.
If the Progressive party in this state has
received a new lease on its political life it is i
mainly owing to the efforts of D**.G<v.-Pres |
idential Candidate Whitman, and to the care
fll nursing of his efficient staff the Hepub- I
iiean majority in the Legislature. I hope in
justice to mjself you will correct your mis- t
take, and I thank you for your courtesy. I
PHILIP F. MALOT.
New York. April 27, 1915.
FOR CLEAN PARKS
i Dr. Hornaday Explains Merits of
Mayor's Crusade Against Rubbish.
?To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The crusade begun by Mayor Mitchel
to end the abuse of our public parks by the
disorderly element is a reform that does not
admit of two opinions. Far too long have
the expenditures of the taxpayers and the
best work of the Park departments been flout?
ed and the rights of decent people set at
naufrht by the throwers of rubbish. Every
piece of paper thrown down or set free in a
public park is an insult to erery decent
citizen.
If the people of New York were not the
monumental eajy marks of the world they
never for fifteen years would have endured
the prevailing abuses of their parks. Thou?
sands of filthy pt'ople do things here for
which they deserve to be clubbed. The worst
element is that which comes to us from the
, police-ridden monarchies of Europe, where no
I poor person dares to say or to assume that
his soul Is his own. In the cspital cities of
iKurope no man dares to throw paper or
?other rubbish in a park. Here the dirtiest
Baal Sider, speaking not twenty words of un?
broken English, will in two years' time throw
his rubbish anywhere, in any park of New
?York City, and if spoken to abojt it will
-hove out his lower jaw and demand: "Ain't
this a public park? Don't the city pay to
?keep it clean? Who are you, anyhow? What
have you got to say about it?"
To-day the treatment of New York parks is
n disgrace to the city, and Mayor Mitchel and
Police Commissioner Woods have decided to
end it! The police magistrates are prepared
to do thoir part; the Park Commissioners are
prepared to do their4. Park employes in
plain clothes will gather evidence for use In
court and point out rubbiah throwers for
arrest. After May 1 tne joyous and hereto?
fore insolent rubbish maker will find himself
in very hot water. Now that the Mayor and
the Police Commissioner have taken hold of
the evil in real earnest the reform is certain
The struggle will be sharp at first, but it will i
also be fdiort and decisive. When the spittingj
evil was taken hold of in the same manner
the result was magical and permanent.
In the Zoological Park waste paper and
peanut shells have been our twin curses. The
sight of five miles of walks and grass bor?
ders littered with nut shells is maddening.
N'ow the peanut shellers will do well to be
warned. We ?hall diligently gather evidence
against them and have them arrested and
haled to court for the limit of the law.
With 150 park baskets and boxes for rub
biah, there shall hereafter be no rubbi h on
our walks and lnwi. -.
I have said nothing about the gross waste
of public money involved in cleaning up rub?
bi ?h that never should have been thrown
down, but the Mayor's movement will save
many thousands of dollars annually. The
men who now spend the>r time in cleaning
can bo released for work in caring for veg?
etation and further beautifying park grounds.
With clean parks, with parks that are treat?
ed with respect, New York no longer need
apologue to the people of Boston and Wash?
ington for an untidy house.
The newspapers of New York will do well
to warn their readers that tht Mayor and
the Police Commissioner mean business; tha'
ev?ry park is just as sacred a placo as i<
??very art gallery and museum, and th? man
or woman who further misuses them insult?,
the City of New York and will be punished
for the act. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,
Director of the Zoological Park.
New York. April U, MM.
For Mercantile Honesty.
To the Editor of Th? Tribun?.
Sir: Permit m? to congratulate >co on th?
lupport which your paper gave to the bill re?
lating to the fraudulent use of fam ly names
,n business, introduced at Albsny hy the Hon.
f, R Stoddard, jr., Int. No. 1,203; F't. No
1,3.15.
It is a pleasure to tell you that this bill,
after being passed by the Assembly, was
r,as?ed on Thursday by the Senate, and now
icquires only the Governor's signature to
income a law.
Again acknowledging your contribution in j
onneetion with this bill in the causo of
mercantile honesty, I rema'n,
PHILIP LE bULTILLIER.
N?w York. April 24, 1915.
The Conning Tower
Basebnll : a Parable.
Ten fervid beeeball fans, paying at the
gate,
Twn grt sei rmirh bit td to them
in the newspapers durit g the v/inter that
they lost interest, and then there were
eignt
Fight eager ha?**hall fans, p'.id to he alive,
Three of them went up to the ball-park
one bright day, but found that the (rame
was not to be played, because of wet
grounds, and then there were ? -
Five ardent baseball fans, hmgry for the
score,
fine grew tired el ?he arro-nt? of "junp
ing" and cntract-brcaking, then there
were four.
Four rabid baseball fans, sitting in the
sun,
Wearied of the poor sportsmanship, as
dem?nstrate', by the Kauff incident, and
then there was none
No screaming baseball fans coming to the
game.
"The business depression, the European
War, the California Fairs, automobiling
and golf." said the manager, "have
killed the interest in baseball. Isn't it
a shame?"
But baseball, the contention is, is a
business and not a sport. True. Yet why
should business men, as so many of them
are, be such poor business men? As,
again, so many of them are,
CROWTJINO IT ON MORrTTVOSIDE ?rBTOHTB.
[From Tba Columbia Spectator.]
A qusrtetta comroaed of E McT. DaanaUv,
J. O Acker, E. A. Rov?!ata<1. S. Armatroaf, W. D.
Laary and aevcral othara uni aa ewaatly as aver
thay did In th?1r ll\ <??.
How the prohibition wave is mshmg
over England it is hard to tell; but
"Punch" of April 21 has one whisky and
four mineral water advertisements.
Historical Fiction.
Sir: Jamespipe this week's "Collier's."
Tale, "The Outlaw." Indicated time: Past six
years. Based on Interior Department throw?
ing cut Alaskan coal claims. Chief figure,
specifically aged thirty-eight years, declaims
his father died for his country at Murfrees
boro, which was battled the first week of
1863.
W. 8.
If what we hear from traveled persons
about English cocktails Is true, British
renunciation of liquor has its joyous side.
-VITAS HIXNULEO."
Horsy?! Book I. Oda tS.
Why, Chloti dear! Afraid of me?
How like a trembling faun you fir"
Which seeks on trackless mountain side
An anxious mother, terrified
At breathing wind and swaying tree;
It fails and quakes in heart and knee
If thorn leaves quiver rustlingly.
Or lizards through dry brambles glide.
Why, Chlo? dear?
No savage thought occurs to me.
No lion do I care to be,
I come not with a tiger's stride.
Think! Thou are ripe to he a bi ,de.
Let mother go, and hear my plea.
Why, Chlofl dear!
Ctmt.
Conning Tower, whose activities keep
1 us at the ticker a good deal these days,
'ran third at Lexington yesterday, and
part of our profits melted.
Conning Tower's jockey ought to he
I Sthenelufl, "who"?Horace, I, 15?'if oc
! casion arise to command horses, is no
sluggish charioteer."
ora OWV TRAVKi.or.rr?.
r P. A.?In th* library rata!e*ru*>? of th* Ho'al
Slnlon library they ap.!l hta name H?nry Mltchsll
Webster. The afor??Rl,1 library !??*>? ??.?%
transient Action. 17*". ??tandirrl work?'' and .00%
po?try. i" l)lck*>iia la the only old-tima author
who psaa?(1 tha ?eaaarafejf of th? foty lltrarlan.
Clnclnnall. BDWARD Hl'NiiBRFOnD.
"Vivienne says," writes Bab, "that she
can come back as well as Dulcinea. Still,
sauce for the goose is another man's
poison."
Some day somebody will tell the car?
toonists that May 1 hasn't been Moving
Day in these parts for a good many years.
To O. M. Dennis.
0 mo?t industrious eontrib
O busy bard, pray pause and listen:
Your stuff is i;ood; your phrasing glib;
Your metres sparkle, glint and gl'sten.
Your muse, that never slumps to slang,
Has got mine beaten to a blister;
1 cannot- ah, most pungent pang
Approach, forinst, your "Little Sister."
Your lofty aim, your classic themes,
Are such as win my admiration;
Your standard far above me gleams;
You have my fullest approbation.
But pause and rest you tireless cun!
imbibe, I pray, some soporific;
i'or, what chance have the reel of u*, I
While you remain so darned prolific? I
A V \\. -I
In New Rochelle is a candid ?Wirt who
is "capable of proving that one trial will
convince you. Trees and Cherubs
trimmed."
The ioaapleta Leila WVi*r.
'R??*u?d b, a rh-m!oa. ,al ? a ,ry j
?Oantl-m?*? ?rut you .??.?,. u, ,,
noT "it" ' '';' ",ll,r -?? '"? "? ?ls?
j? .?..,, a\%xaz^S3s\
retir analyste waa vary aatlafvtn?- aa?4 ?^? .
Trua??, Vou **': "?'o, '?a *CC?i
r*>ure ?try rrulj*"
rrinain
The fine Italian fist is about to discard
the velvet glove.
First call for the mixed doubles May
T.T.A.
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