The times dispatch. [volume], December 20, 1911, Image 4

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OaJly ?Ith Sunday. U ceutl
Dally without ,: . i?a]. 10 centi
Sunday unly. ( oaata
Hntared January J7. IW. at ltlchiueno.
>?. ci kf' tnd-clajs mattet under act of
? or,,;:.-.? of March t- 18TR
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Returning
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\.M1 VtlKil.MA.
I':-. Dtibney's letter
; Papor liiHt Monday,
propounded why It h?
(Inventor nor tlio
i Iti prcscntatlves of
i tu und cd iho ?tiotnluu*
. Wilson. Kalling a
t as to their pcroonol
gentlemen ivhom
??r. Dabni >
out that il
ed politic i!
it
ma;
P"
ie holders of distinguish
.file.-* have not nominated
any on* its yet for tin Democratic
lcad-n- tn iPlf. The storms that are
C?hvulslr.p Wisconsin, New Jersey and
Ohio have not milled the surface of
Virginia's pollticul waters. But the
irouhllng <".f Die water;; will come, and
Or. Dabncy will Und nmplo ground lor
ohuiiglng his opinion us to the lulco
warmnoss of Virginia before this cam
it !s not only tho ojn-tinic friends
of Woodfbw Wilson who cnmplatu of
apathy in political Virginia tn-dny.
Murmurs co up from the Harmon
camp also. He, the Idol of Ohio Pern
erratF. has been passed by in Vir?
ginia wlih scant notice, yet Harmon,
too. has been called a pi npresulvo by
olilo reactionaries ami ;i reactionary |
by William Jennings Brvnn. Unlike
Wilson. Harmon is very popular In the
Ba&t, ami not m> well admired In (he
West, where Wilson hns perhaps a
create:' following tba:i any leader now |
In America, except only Roosevelt.
It I:; all a matter of viewpoint. The'
men who were radical* of the wildest
typt when the French Revolution bo
tin. bad their heads cut off before
?.hat episode was concluded, because
the newer radicals call them monarch?
ists, It will ulwuys bo so. Initiative
rind referendum doter the comfortable
and conservative Democrats of Vii
uinln who might otlterwlsc turn lo
vyilsi ti OS their prophet and leader,
yet tl Initiative and referendum for
municipalities was a piece 61 legisla?
tion that endeared Harmon to pro
jrcssives of all parties In Ohio. In?
tl. ? tt Governor Harmon has sugf;ent'.d
und forced through legislation which
will ? ntitle hint t.. be culled a pro
met'.slve by evorybody but tin editor,
at lite Commoner. To .Mr. Dry an and!
t.i thds who think with him. the fact
that Governor Harnten was a receiver:
for a. railroad and rode in a private
?.tr. and frequently talked t? New j
Vork financiers, wan dumping and con?
clusive evidence that lie was. allied
tylth the money power and was a pliant
tool ot the Interests. Vit Governor
H'ivm'oi! stood for and secured a bill
similar to that of Oregon, making the.
Legislature elect tin Senator chosen
by the people; and yet the Senate, as
??ieetcd by the Legislature, hits always
been tho greatest stronghold of the
Interests! j
When the oAiestioi) 01 a Constitu?
tional Conw-ptToh", cwfne up. Governor !
Harmon threw all ? his weight on Ittel
-Id' of a nonpnrtWau . nn vent Ion.
r.e. V;iii;.; nnl;' citizens who were quail
fled to serve the Interests of the Stale.
As ptirl of the same effort lo re?
establish citizenship he earnestly sup?
ported ih,- law that recently went into,
effect, placing all candidates tor Judi?
cial office "!i a nonpurttsau ballot, und
he urged the removal of the parly I
?iir.Vlom from nil ballots usa-a in purely]
municipal election*. In the matter of
trusting lln people as opposed to can-!
v en Hons. !-.?? used every effort to s< - i
cure the enactment of a Slate-wide'I
primary law. hut those same reaction?
aries with which he Is wild by Mr,
Bryan to be so olcarly allied, sr.. iced.
*d In def- ating this measure.
To th. average man the nnni test
ot fidelity to the people Is found in
the attitude of public met, towards
mibllc service corporations. Ii iva's In
his fi??!;t lor a public utilities bill that1
Governor Harmon achieved Iiis at -
est success and bit- greatest popular?
ity. Even so. the bill as puteiied was
a very different measure from what
he suggested, vyit, tin bill, maimed
and disfigured as it was, raised the
State railroad taxes from $l??,Oyc.O'J0
to $074,000,000. Cndei this act the
electric light companies hud tltoli ...
f J3i,m-:i ?-. Increased four and ? half
tiroes, the now assessment ?eins/
f27.006.ev* as against 9tt.oo0.000, whij?
the Standard Oil Company pipe Hoe
was Increased from $(>,.,006 inore
than 9VS.0vO.666. nearly COO per cent)
"It was his knowledge what was
coming In these iinc.?." says th? Scwl
TorK Evening Post, -that led the late
Thomas l* .lohnison, originally h .-iron;;
opponent of Harmon, To disobey his
physician's orders, go to .. public meet?
ing, and. in the lest public nppearanci
before his death, talte ih" Oovernor by
the hand, congratulate him on his re?
cord, and predict the triumphant re?
election which soon followed."
The new lawn for taxation have
dtic?d the tax rate and h.iv" equalized
the burden to an extent that has
never been ltnown bofore in Ohio. In
mattere of internal control Governor
lfarnton forced th* creation of ;i ceo
trul board of control for nearly twen?
ty Statu Institution*. <-ucli of which
hud bcoii under a separate board under
thy old measures. The immediate re?
sult of this centralisation of power
and responsibility has boeti to already
detect and stamp out a muss of In
efllclcncy, corruption and extravagance,
though the new board luia been in I
control only since August.
Tituse arc some of the ihintts that
Governor Harmon has <lohc to ftiitli
his pledges t? tiii! people of Ohio, anil
vet lie iias been denied the "progress
lvo" label In lite far Northwest and
on the Pacific slope. Perhaps Ihn-! Is
why Mr. Bryan feels !t so shfo to
express Iiis dislike of Mr. Harmon, a
uislllc- that will probably bo most
dangerous, to Democratic success
should Mr. Harmon be nominated, llui
thoro is this consolation, that Mr.
Bryan is growing perceptibly cooler
towards the candidacy of champ Clark
and Wooclrow Wilson as those two
Democrats increase in public favor.
The mooting; of the Democratic Na?
tional Committee at Washington will
be of unusual Interest as showing how
far .Mr. Bryan's personal ftellngs can
control judgment of the committee
snd the destinies' of tin: party. Unless
.Mr. Itryun's personal- preferences bo
made the final test. Governor Harmon
is progressive rnough to suit the Dem?
ocrats casi <-r the Mississippi Iii vor,
oven If the Iowa Democratic state
Committee voted 25 to :i in fnvor of
Wilson against Harmon :ts their choice
for? the next Democratic, President. j
\ oTKHS OF BMCGAXT l.r.lSlltr..
I taw !onr does Il Ink1! a matt tf> vote?
How long does it taki ?< i'lty Hall em?
ploye to vole?
The questions must have dlffcrorit
answors, according, to the .street Clean?
ing. Water and Gas Departments ot
Itlchmohd. The average man who if
very busy und has something to do
leaves hi.< worlt, goes to the polls,
volts, and goes straight hock to work.
The dcpartnvantfl mentioned above,
however, have gl von their employes a
whole day to vole in, giving election
duy .is a day oft at the city's expense.
That la on-e respect In which the pres?
ent administration of these depart?
ments differs from a business-like ad?
ministration, and a respect which tho
Administrative Hoard will be expected
to abolish. City employes are meant
to lx- on the ,1ob. not to be hangers-on
at the polls. The City Engineer, upon
the advice of tho Mayor, let his men
off at tho lust election day at 2:S0?
und that was sttr>ly time enough. Men
employed us day laborers must give
tho city a full day's work for a full
day's pay. They call do that without
bolng deprived of any ivf their rights
of citizenship.
Tin presence of City Hall employs
at thi City Hull on election day. In?
stead of in continuous session around
the polls, will do the clly no harm,
SOT ROH\ IK XOHTli CAHOMNA.
According lo the Sunpnper, of Hui-,
11 more, the tforth Carolina Hoclct) of
that city lately hold Hp annual dinner,
and thorc wa? a great doal of enthu?
siasm, which reached lt.- night when
the Rev. nr. Walter William Moprc.l
president of the Union Theological]
Seminary, of Richmond, "hut n North]
Carolinian horn," asserted that ihc
Mecklenburg Declaration of Indopend
? nee, "the most disputed question In
1{< volutlonary history," was "absolutely
fact that should be beyond doubt and
nol ?> myth." It is claimed In Nprlli
Carolina, It may be recalled, that cor
tuln patriots 01 Mecklenburg county
Ural declared tfoi American Independ?
ence, Dr. Moore said:
"The doubters of this declaration
t. ii iin to show thorn the original doc?
ument, and that until then they will
doubt ?t. boos nnybod> question the
Ton Commandments i?i tin-. Sermon "in
the Mount? So Is thi- Mecklenburg
Declaration beyond question, for when
<,tip questions that, history-making doi
umunt ho questions the sworn state?
ments 1.1' Ihc most lionorable North
Cnrpllnlnns >>i that lime. There are.
those living now who hoard from ihr
?Hps <?f their fathers who helped frame
the declaration the talc of how it was
brought about, nml what It contained.
It Is undlHputndty a fact."
This, pX course, la the view hold by
a majority "f then North Carolinians
wh.. have heard of Mils alleged dec
tf rat lor.. Whether Dr, Moore bus ex?
amined carefully nil the sources be?
fore coming to bis conclusion wo do
r ot know, but wo do Know thai William
Henry lloyi, loyal North Carolinian,
temporarily n sblinp in lirooklyn. a
great-grandson of the famous Judge
Archibald noljow Murphey, the groat
rsi North (,'arollnHih of the nnte-bol
lum period, made n Roarc'''ng study
of tlii:- i|U0Ht!oj), exhausting all sources
and gathering ? :i enormous mass of
.lain. Mr. Hoyt started out to estab?
lish t'n- Mecklenburg Declaration as a
fact, bin, us ho -uiys in the profaoc t'?
his scholarly work) "the truth of his
I tory" compelled him the conclusion
iUat th? declaration never existed, in
opinion, shown thnt tho Mecklenburg
Decktnulun ..; Independence Is mtire
argument, be has, In our
myth. j
Indeed, tlii weight oi historical au-l
thorlty is heavily against the autbeu
tIcily of thl.i declaration. Kyman c.
Draper, th< vcr> eminent American
historian, first investigated the mutter
years ago, and cumri to the conclusion
that it was a fabrication <>f forvld
Imagination, if liny historians, excript
ini; North Carolinians, have accepted j
lliie declaratloii as a . fact, ice do not
know of it. j
North Carolina'r- claim to primacy'
I In the mattor of asserting Independ?
ence Is not Impressive; "The native
North Carolinians seem at firr^i to have
been little Interested In the light tor
liberty. Otherwise, whs' were nil of
North Carolina's signers of the Amcrl
can D.-.ciuration of Independence inert
horn outside of North. Carolina!
I Where wore the native soni. of Merk
I lonhure then' Joseph llcwts, one of
j Hu- three Hlgnor.'i, tvntt born in King?
ston, N. .f. William Hooper', tho bco
1 OHO. . llrsl anw the ' light in Horton.
AuO the third. John l'enn. wan not
born In Uhntiotto, X. C, but In Caro?
line county. Vs., the birthplace of so
many 01 tho good and great In Amer?
ican initials. In other words, u Mass?
achusetts man, :i Now Jersey man and
Ii Virginian signed the ?real Declaru-j
tion of independence for North t'aio-j
Una. Where wore thu militant Mock-j
leuburgci'H then? Why should Udcn
loti. Greenville count*, and Wlltning- j
ton have, lalien Hie lead over Char-|
lotte?
I Behold, uii the other hand, Virginia.
I Uvcry onp of her .seven slgnors of the
i American Declaration was n native Vir?
ginian. One of llictn wrote that Deo-:
[ In ration, another reported it favor-j
[ably from committee, mid others were
j instrumental in shaping nnd udoptlng
'it. The did Dominion sent to the
Congress the men who hail been most j
aggressive in demanding Independence.
Of the signers ol the greatest Dec?
laration for freedom In modern times.!
nine were horn In Virginia, and no,
State was so well rcprcsoiited save
Massachusetts, with ten sons. Not a;
single signer, nay. no! even any of!
those who signed for her. was born in
North Carolina.
Thorr; Is a difference between reso?
lution and revolution.
r.m Ait KBspoxsinniiTV.
If equal Auftrage would bring about
equal responsibility before the law;
that new cause would doubtless en?
list many supporters who otherwise
would remain aloof. It is n fact
noted throughout the land (hat by
Juries women arc regarded with a
feeding of leniency that does not exist
In the ease of men. The man mur?
derer goes to the Chair, but the woman
who did with multco aforethought
Icill. in the majority of cases, goes free.
The sentiment and sympathy of the
jury are with women; artificial tears
and feigned hysterics turn the trick.
How often do we read that criminal
women weep their way through to a
vordlot of not guilty.
The Stokes rase In New Vor It was
typical. The women wept copiously,
and they were net free. The sympathy
of the Jury was worked on. and the
threadbare picas that have influenced
HO many Juries wrongly were still po?
tent in the case ot" these women. If
lltey bad been on trial before an
English Jury, they would probably not
have 'ared ao well.
it c tiial suffrage will mean an ennnl
chance of receiving due punishment
in ihc courts, it will liuvo the approval
<if those who bolievo that a case should
ho tried on ihc fleets and that truth
and not law-destroying sentiment
should decide. Of course the women
who offend arc not of the class who
appeal for Ihc ballot, hut the mover
ment In one which alters the statu?
ol nil women. Equal rights ought to
mean equal liabilities.
TUM (OA rr.l) litt ATM HAI.I. OK KAAIIi.
In a Utile more than d year the Con?
federate .Memorial Institute will bo it
structure of stone and marble, and the
dream of many days will have bei n
realized. Work on the Institute Is t"
begin within it very short time, and
under the terms of the contract with
the constructors it must be flnlshod
within a year from the signing of
Hie contract. The plans of the com
mitts'! in charge uro .most elaborate
uiui complete; It In evident that both
in its interior ami in Its exterior tills, i
structure is t<> be one of appropriate
architectural dignity. It will be a :ii
Pia, e of custody for the memorials
of the Confederacy, und if the Stales
of the nation that was each contribute
for ihc grounds of ihr- institute a
statue ot some ?on who won glory In
te,- Confederate cause, it will consti?
tute a Confederate hall of fame.
Tin i e will be general gratification
on the part of the living men and
women o? the Confederacy, as well :ir
of the public, that til" contract tor this
struct uro hau been let and that tlio
work Is to go rapidly on There ha3
beeil unfortunate delay, but it was not ^
the fault of the patriotic men who are
directing the construction of this great
mcmoriul building.
?mi-, wArt os tiik 'tit'.
Five hundred wallers held a mnss
meeting last week In New York to
promote a hew labor union to be
called the International Association of
li.it.) W?lket?. No resolutions wore
passed l.latlve to tips, but the chair?
man of the. meeting said. "This union
Wants to abolish, tipping. We'd bo
the happiest of men If wo could get
the opportunity to earn our living as
men in other trades are earning:
theirs.."
It seems thai the average wage of
th? waiter in New York is $is the
month. Ills real employer Is not the
hotel or restaurant In which lit- works,!
but the patron who parts with the
tip. Statistics were read at the meet?
ing to show that the deaths from con?
sumption, heart disease and pnonmo
nln arc more common among Walter,-?
and hotel workers than In any other
trade.
One reason given for the large death
rate wus thai the waiters who depend
upon lips for a living often work
eighteen nr twenty hours a day
throughout tho week. No mention was
made of the waiters who own pnl.it In I
hotels paid for with tips. Nobody re?
ferred to the notion negro hcadwalter
who Is a mlll'onalre. Hut what of It?
lit our opinion, the war on tips Is no
less effective Hum the campaign
ivagcd by tb" lloboken barbers on
safety razor users,
Better still. The Fiddlers' Conven?
tion Is to be hold at South Hill on De?
cember 37, instead of North View, as
we stated not long ago There Is no
letter place to meet than South Hill,
with Its hospitable neortlc and Its nrr -
j srresstve newspaper, the Enterprise. All
thut remains to be done now |h for
Governor Mann to mime some offlctul
delegates to attend the convention, i\ml
for President Taft to name Senator
Taylor, of Tennessee. "Fiddling Bob,''
to represent the nation. |f we do not
effect conservation of our old time
fiddling resources, the harmony of both
Stale anil nation will be Impaired, and
now is the tlmo to take steps to pre?
vent any such undesirable denudation.
A message to (he gentlemen of tit
General Assembly of Virginia from
Editor Kau*, of the Wise Xcwri:
?'That ?120,000 deficit In tho Slate
Treasury could soon be wiped out by
putting county clerks on u salary not
exceeding; 81,000 and uuiklng them rc-l
npouslblu for the collection and tur.n
ing in of all fees due tin Common-]
Wealth. Many of our county clerks|
are now making Ihre,, limes as Inttuh]
as of a rlirht they should make. A
public olllcc was never Intended to bei
a private snap."
Too often I* is in Virginia
The U?sslan situation Is ? one thut
culls for masterful diplomacy on
the part of the American nmbnesauui'
nt St. Petersburg, l>ut Curtis Oull:1
win measureup, to the requirement. For
tact, for diplomacy, for tin- handling
of a dolicate problom, tliei ex-llovor
nor 01 Uassachueettu hus no superior
In the service of the nutlon,
Fifty years from now when our
Territories lire Stutcs of tile Union,
the t:r? at question will be, ' Can ilryan
carry Porto RlcoV
ii loolu as if the fee system le In!
its Ins! Staues. ? I
Some of the out-of-town now mom-!
tiers of tin- General Assembly have ?I-1
toady paclted their grips.
Voice of the People
Htm I.rasing- the I'cnllciitlnrj >Vnii
Defeated.
To Ihc Kultur of The Times-1 ilsp&luhl
Sir,?Buck In the ntivunllcsi ovei
thirty years ago, hill pursed tip
House o.r peleKHtnn it mi uiinii; up m
tin Bahnte HnturUny tilvthl tor uoii
currency, when the Clnnnra! rVnnethbl)
had decided to niijuuru slut: die oh
the following Tuesday,
How to defeat it was tlin qunsltou,
whon a powerful lobby was at work to
havL. H passed tliut night, .fudge Urlim
ley. of Culpcper (then Stute gutm
|or). nnil I agreed to xpcult the prupslr
tlon to death, our plan was that ut
that niqht session ;>t v o'clock one of
us should ftrst got the lloor anil hold It
until tired, whon the other should ask
a question and have tho lloor yielded
to him. who should hohl It until Sun?
day morning, which being done, killed
tho bill, as It could not then be > n
grossed and gotten bock |o Ihc House
In time before adjournment.
That was en outrageous monstrosity
nttemutod, as tho bin provided Cor
lousing out for u term of years the
penitentiary and all the convicts to
syndicate of sharks in violation of the
statute and Constitution of tho com
monwcalth. C T. smith.
Alton. Nelson Co.
Scores the Suffragette*.
to the iCditor The Tlihcs-Dlspateh:
Sir,;?-Please allow me to reply to
letter of a. IT. s.. recently published
In your papor.
first, .'t la natural that any stiff ro
Betts should differ with mo as to what
the effect "t" votes for women In Vir?
ginia would bo, an<i Bho has n right i
to her ideas on the subject, ilut it
the effect in Colorado after twenty
years and in Wyoming after forty ;
years had been what wua prophesied
for It tin re would be no opposition
to woman suffrage. As to the "per?
mission given i>y some of tlio largest
department storey In Richmond for !
woman suffrage talk.-, to their cni
ployos," 1 will only say that this eon- !
version of women's shops Into po-'
lltlvni meeting places has 'eeeit a 1
soiireo of astonishment and Indien?- j
lion to many of their customers.
Second. My authority for conditions
In Colorado Is Miss Helen U Xuiniu-r, i
herself i. promlnont suffrnglst, who has t
Investigated the olfccti of woman suf- ;
frage in thai State, and in her book, i
called "Equal Suffrage.'' sayu: "Tak- j
iiig public employment as a whole, wo- ?
man rccelv,< cpntrtdorably less re- i
.numeration than men." She alHo shows '
thai ih- pay of women In private om- !
ployment has been steadily lower than j
that of men, the fact being tlml while ;
lite average weekly wages for women
in Colorado are 57 cents higher lliuii
the average for the whole United
States, Iho-" of men are J3.C2 higher
in Colorado.'than for the whole United
Status. She .-hows that the wages of
mon In manufacturing industries in ,
Colorado und Idaho are about double
those of women, while In Utah, also j
o suffrage State, they are nearly three I
times as large. |t may be.-appropriate- \
ly mentioned here thut Miss S?tnner |
also explicitly slatos of woman suf?
frage that "Its effect upon party poll
tics has neon slight. ?*.'.* politics in
Colorado arc ol least as corrupt as I
in the other .Slates."
Third. Again. O. II. S. has a right
to her personal views. To my mind
the men who advocate woman suffrage
after careful thought confess them?
selves either unwilling to do their own j
part in government, or unable to do it i
properly.
fourth. 1 thank G. II. S. for publish- 1
Ihg Ihe correct text Of this statute, it ;
Is during her lifetime, then, that a wo- i
man may dispose of her property
without her husband's r?nnen!, while I
he may not dispose of his without her j
Abe Martin
Sight ht nine good saloons In over*
town that won't sell t' anybuddy that
drinks la th' only solution o' th' liquor
question. Th' smokin' ond o' a Pullman
Is alms full <>' big fat fellers rtlscussln*
Texan.
IMPORTANT THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
_ By John T. McCutchcon._
ICopyrtaht: 1811: By John T. McCutcb-.on.l
"Merry Cfcrtatntaa, Ulster Pontranai
Will yon kindly step and ace
If In 7oar natk of picMnti
Taer* la nnrthlns for met"
"And wkaCn year aanr.? the potnbjnM ??Jd)
" An* what la yonr addreoet
T (Huh I'v* preaente In thin bag
For n?ry our, I (nru.*1
Tfce Increased coat er Urine;
Sinken na very, rerr mi,
Wot tlie tncrcnne-d coal et B*rta*
TanH nearly TneXf ee be 4b
ntppltr h?? t* ihr CkrUtam ahmp.
r o ft B?r aliopDlnv dan*.
Urr trnttbtr Ii doaal*
If ab? vr*Bra w holtbics
IiIIm tht* imfactmaatti nmn
A ??rl of the foToap of reeefrrera into nbtn
*????? wUJ fail ?He Btoek =rl Saat* ?V 0?<
consent I wish all Hip laws <>f Vir?
ginia relating tu women could be pub?
lish.-:!, so thai the people could 'bin
judge for themselves whether a pu
litluol revolution be necessary to r..
forni^lhem.
And now this is the lost wor,i from
a woman loo iiour to ?n into politics,
and too lousy u> argue against the
wliob- of that rich and powerful fac?
tion, the "Equal Suffrage League."
one or Tin: women of Virginia.
Mr. I In nil mi's Mdc.
to the Editor of Th. times-Dispatch:
?Sir.?Your reporter says in to-day's
issue:
"the members of the Street Commit?
tee took occasion to express dissatis?
faction with the work of Assessor A.
C. Mnrmitn, and with the law under
which (lie assessments for grading!
damag s are. made, and that Mr. NclScp 1
sui.I |h'? grading of l<oulslnrin and I
Nicholson Strools had been referred
to blm last January. Anoiher ease of
on- vacant lot lor a very slight change
of grade of sidewalk on (trace Street,
w<_sj ot the Uoulevard was allowed
The resolution directing grading of
Louisiana and Nicholson Streets was
I.on isla mi and Nicholson Streets was
approved by tin- Council. May 20, Kill,
ami delivered to me May 29; the reso?
lution for grading the north and south
shies of Gruce Strr.et. west of the !
Boulevard was not one vacant lot; It
was for lour vacant lots, owned, re?
spectively, by Morgan It. Mills, sixty
feel; Mrs. Hannah i item tree, ir,o
foot; r.. 0. Pillow, thirty feet, and Miss
Mary Ward, thirty feet, no damages
allowed. W. .1. Llpscomb, house and
lot, seventy feet, and George w. l-'ord
ham, house and lot. sixty feel, allowed
$'J'.'.". each, and the report made to the
Council, which report was not n bind?
ing Judgment against the city, "as the
I'.jumil or either branch tloroof may
affirm, amend or reject the same in
w tie ?>!? in part/1 and If any member
of the Council had reason to believe
that any allowance was "entirely Ion
liberal," lie should have said so. and
bad the resolution pusscd by until an
Investigation was made.
When 1 was appointed by the City
Engineer, assessor of damages, i un?
derstood the griitTes were to bo mark?
ed at the property linos and the names
of the owners whose property abutted
the stroel or alley would be given. This
lias mil been done; therefore the work'
ll: s been necessarily slow, as 1 have I
several times reported to the Street
Commltte,-. A, C. 11 AHM AX.
La Marquise de Fontenoy
NTiL now Americans, and peo?
ple everywhere else in the
world, have been under the Irh
invasion that the foreign policy
of Germany was dictated from Berlin
by the Kaiser, who has frequently been!
denounced for his aulocratlo Indlffer- ?
ence to the views of the other sovf-r
eigna and princes of the confederation
known as the Herman Empire, llul
if-we arc to believe the story cabled
across the Atlantic last week, publlsuod
in almost every paper In the United
States, as well as by many organs of
Hie press In the old World, tin centre
of political gravity, as far as Gormany's
international relations are concerned,
Is not. at Berlin, nor yet at Potsdam,
but in the Munich royal suburb of
Nymphenburg, and the prime mover is
not the Kaiser, but Prince Louis Ferdi?
nand of Bavaria, who Is portrayed In
the role of a Machlavclll. It Is urged,
Indeed. Ihat the. political destinies of
Kui ope, even the eolations of Germany,
are swaynd In an unfriendly sense to
France, England, the United States.
Italy and Portugal from tho salons of
the wife of Prince Louis Fordlnand.
It would not be worth while referring
or discussing this wild fairy talc, which
is described as "An International Plot,"
were it not for Its appearance in re?
putable, papers, on the authority of j
sonii of the leading statesmen of the
Portuguese republic, and for Its accept?
ance as gospel truth by tho French
ami English press. The only pretext
that could bo brought forward for such
a tissue of lies Is the fact that the
son of Prince Louis Ferdinand Is r-nr
rlsd to the only surviving slstor of
the King of Kp.-iln. and was natura?
lized as a Spaniard on tho day of his
wedding, granted a colonelcy of Span?
ish cavalry, and Invested with the
title, rank and prerogatives of an In?
fant of. Spain. Although 'he lias been
held up to obloquy In this country, .as
a drunken and dissolute blackguard,
and has even linen pictured by Imagi?
native artists in the not of horsewh'P
?Plnsr bin wife, yot his marriage has
turned out very happily indeed, and ho
and his wife- and their two children
make their home, nil together, wltn
the Queen Mother Christina; und a?
.Madrid, at any rate, which In a very
hot-bed of malignant gossip and
scandal, more so, Indeed, than almost
any other capital thai 1 can think of,
exccpi Bucharest, no breath of these
tales of wlfo-hoatlUK has ever been
heard <>f. Indeed, there Ik a disposi?
tion to ridicule Hen Alfonso's brother
in-law. as ultogeih ir loo domestic in
his tastes to suit the rapid pace of
Mndrllene society.
Whether the yoiinv Ihfaril and the
Kins are quite as Intimate with one
another as formerly; It Is dlfhVult to
say, Possibly the prince shapes the
political sympathies of his mother-in
law. Queen Christina, rather than those
of his brother-in-law. But to all ap?
pearances their ufToctlon tor one an?
other and the cordiality of their re?
lations remain iiiiiiiaug.-d.
With regard to the prince's father.
Prince lentils Ferdinand, he la about
the very last person in Ihc world whom
anybody would dream of Betting down
as a scheming Machlavelllc statesman,
= uch as it\ portrayed In the Story. It
Is true thai he, like his son, has a
Spanish wife, nitmoly, the Infanta Pa?,
Ulster of !he Infnnn K.iilnlie and of
King Alfonso XII. ' Moreover. his
mother was the Infanta .Amelia of
Spain, with ail that he remains a
thorough Bavarian, retaining all the
characteristics and nppc?.rnnco of th? I
latter, und has nevot for one. moment
consented to consider the pressure
brought to betr upon him to become
?i Spaniard.
Far from Interesting himself hi poli?
ties, he devot 'S all his time and i>.ll his
activities to obstetrical surgery and to
music. Me 'lelonps to all sorts of musi?
cal societies and symphonies at Munich,
and. as a violoncellist of altogether nj
innrkablo talent, has frequently a,i
pearod upon the concert platforms of
his native city, not as a soloist, hut as I
a member of the orchestra, Ho may]
often, too, l>:- found spending evc-nlnp..
at nut tings of the various Llodnrkrnnz :
societies, taking hi;, place among the j
members without the sllirhf^st degree;
of fuss oi- leathers, and asking merely ;
to he treated as an ordinary comrade.
With regard to hla attainments as a
aurgeon, ho has won Just as much
fame, as a gynecologist as hl? cousin,
the late Duke Char leg Theodore of
Bavaria, won for himself as an oculist, ,
and If tho duk?> restored the sight of
thousands by means of catnract opera
lions?he had over S.OuO to his credit
when he died, all of them performed
gratis ulion poor patl intS?Prince Bouls
Kerdlnand can In the same way pride
himself on having Drought many
thousand young Bavarian's into the
world, by his readiness to answer calls
as nil accoucheur, by day and by night,
providing the .summons were from the
poor and from those unable to pay.
The prince is lhs only prince of the
blood to hohl the rank of Httrgeon
genoral. He tiguros as such, not In
tho German army, but In that of Spain.
Xor are his relations with the court
of Berlin marked by as rrfbch covdlall- i
ty us those of Some other members of |
his family. The reigning house of
Bavaria may bo divided into two par?
ties, one of which is only moderately
well disposed towards the Prussian
HotienzoHorns. while tic other moiety
does not make much nretense of sym
pathv or of friendship. Prince Kouls
Pcrdlnand and his wife, the Infanta
P*z. beloncr to the second category, and
uro ruraly. if over, seen cliaer at Be: -
tin oi' ut Potsdam.
With regard 10 tho Infanta I'at,
lias iiuin; ..i that disposition towards
trlvohty and fumtnlnu elegance which
in UiHtlUH Ultll In I Mot'-r r.li.alK-. SltU
la extremely u.-vout, raiinrr reactionary
in nor religious views, and If 1 wer? to
bo asked to describe hier salons at
Nymiihonburg-, t should be disposed -to
sei ilicm down us a rallying ground
im- thJ clerical forces ?f the Bavarian
monarchy?there are always auiue pre
tales present?as the headquarters ot
.,ii ?.??i i- of philanthropic enterprises,
and us salons whel'o artists, that Ik to
say", musicians, painters, composers,
sculptors and iminont physliplaiis, ar
more welcome tlmn statesmen, politi?
cians, military mop, or people who have
nothing to recommend Ute in save their
ancestry.
The Infanta h.n written one or tw>?
works of a rMlglotls character, and h i
likewise compiled a volume do luxe. In
Which every page was devoted to a
sketch, n musical composition or some
expression of opinion of a reigning sov?
ereign, or of princes and princesses of
ite blood, the work of tholi own pen,
and bearing their autograph signature.
This volume had a very large tale, all
:>!?? proceeds being dovot-ad to charity.
Do American Congressional Library
contain.- a unique work of hers, on the
subject of '"Don Quixote/' An Illustri?
ous list of collaborators I? eniiiner
.11 mI by her "as having assisted her In
producing the volume, which, printed
In Spanish, deal; with the stops which
hive'been taken during the last 300
years to translate the masterpiece of
Cervantes, and to make It known In
foreign countries. The Russian Oiand
Duke Const.mtlne Conslanttnovltcli,
president of the Imperial Acad-smy of
Hclanccs of Itttssla, the widowed Queen
Margaret ofltaly. tho poet Queen 6f
Rumania, the terribly Uarnod and
homely Smith American explore.'.
Princess Therese of Bavaria, are among
the Infanta's fellow-authors of the
work. Froth the latter It would ap?
pear that the liri>t translation of "Don
Quixote" was Into Dutch, In lfi?O. soon
after that into German, French and
Knglish, then Into Russian, Swedish.
Bohemian ami Hungarian, Queen Bllxa
beth of Rumania mentions that It has
been printed in Turkish, and. of course.
It has bean printed in Japanese and i"
Hindustani.
Nymphenbiirg. the royal palace where
Princess Bouis Ferdinand of Bavaria
makes her home. Is about three mile*
away from Munich, and dates from tii*
seventeenth centnrv, being, so to speak',
the Versailles of the reigning house of
Bavaria, T-he fountains nre superb, so.
too, are the beautiful gardens, the
ornamental waters, ami t|M Impieties
winter pardons ai\d hothouses. Con
poctcd wll-h the palace is a royal man?
ufactory of porcelain, and In the ex?
tensive park environing the pnlsce Iff
si hunting lodgs. where F.innt-ro:
Charles V. was wont to spend much of
his time.
Neither Prince nor Princess Frederick
Ferdinand of Bavaria hats the slight?
est tns-te nor time, nor yet bent, for
stntecrnit and diplomacy; and'any on
who knows them personally most have
laughed, as they will cert.iinlv have
dene, and ri? the renders of this letter
will now undoubtedly do. .it the I) of. I oil
of their directing the foreign relations
of r,i?rm?ny. end the concert of great
nowers. from the'n- seventeenth century
PMace of Nvniohenbiirg.
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