New-York Tribune (New York [N.Y.])
January 8, 1908

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vo pf New- Work ribune. VO LXVIL...N® 22333. noel mio 3 To-morrom ete amin or mow. winds. NEW-YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 1908.— TWELVE PAGES. 8m 08s PRICE THREE CENTS. RAILWAY FACES CRISIS. RECEIVER MAY BE ASKED. Chicago Great Western Noteholder: Await Action of Conference. Western Railway Company will be reached to day A crisis in the affairs of the Chicago Great President Stickney, it will be remembered, went abroad about a fortnight ago, accompanied by OC. A. Severance, the law partner of Frank PB. Kellogg, of Minneapolis, general counsel for the road, for the purpose of conferring with the finance committee in London over plans for financing about $8,000,000 of gold notes matur ing at various dates within the next three years. Of thess notes $1,500,000 fall que this month. Conferences have been reld in London since "Mr. Stickney's arrival there between repre sentatives of the railway company and of the noteholders, but without decisive result. Another conference will be held there this morning, at which an arrangement may be reached for tak ing care of the $1,500,000 notes now at the point of maturity. If that meeting proves ineffective, it is understood here representatives “of the noteholders will go this afternoon before Judge Walter H. Sanborn, in the United States Circuit Court in St. Paul, where the company’s main offices are, and make application for the appoint ment of a receiver.

The Chicago Great Western has authorized common stock of $50,000,000, of which $44 485,195 outstanding: $30,000,000 4 per cent cumula we debenture stock, of which $28,127,089 has een issued: $15.000000 5 per cent preferred A tock, of which $11,336.900 is outstanding, and 23163842 out of a total authorized issue of 24 O00. 000 4 per cent preferred B stock. There are mo bonds secured by mortgage. The note issues, each bearing 5 per cent interest, aggre gate $8491.848 in amount, of which £3,342,545 mature this vear, $4,060.081 in 1900, $56,727 in 1910, $099,273 in 1911. and $24,242 in 1512. The annual report for the fiscal vear ended June 30 last, showed gross earnings of £9,139, (R87. operating expenses of £6583 808 and net earnings of $2,553,279, the ratio of operating penses to earnings being high, 72.04 per cent. After deducting taxes, rentais and other charges, including $437,107 for interest on loans, there remained a surplus of $1,459,010 over all charges prior to the 4 per cent debenture stock. Out of this surplus the full interest was paid on the debenture stock and a dividend of 2 per cent was paid on the preferred A stock, which is entitled to a non-cumulative dividend not exceeding 5 per cent a Vear.

The securities of the company, which are held mainly in England, have within the last few vears shown a large shrinkage in market value. The commen stock closed yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange at 7. In 1902 it sold as high as 35. In the same vear the preferred A stock, which closed yesterday at 20, soid at 01, and the preferred B at 513, against 85 vesterday. The notes for which provision is being sought to be made were issued in suc cessive years, beginning in 1903. i

The Chicago Great Western, perhaps owing to ite foreign control, has always been free from affiliation with other roads, and long pursued a policy of rate cutting which aroused against it the antagonism of the other systems in its ter ritory. Since the enactment of the railway rate law its privileges in this direction have been greatly curiailed, and, with the other lines in the states in which it operates not disposed to co-operate with it, there has been talk of the Chicago Great Western's passing into the con trol of the Canadian Pacific, which itself is, of course, not under the authority of the Inter state Commerce Commission, and which could, by lowering rates on its own part of a through haul, virtually cut rates between the Northwest and Chicage by utilizing the Chicago Great Western, and could thus make serious inroads on the business of the American transconti nental lines. As noted recently in The Trib une there has been discussion among men iden tified with the two roads as to the practica hility of absorption of the Chicago Great West ern by the Canadian Pacific, and it is believed in Wall Street that such a move is entirely probable as an outcome of the present embar= rassment of the Chicago Great Western. The system operated by the Chicago Great Western Railway Company has a total length of 1,474 miles, and consists of a main trunk from Minneapolis and St. Paul southward, branching into lines to Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago. The Mason City Fort Dodge Rail road and the Wisconsin, Minnesota Pacific Railway are operated under lease. The Chicago Great Western was chartered in January, 1892, as successor to the Chicago, St. Paul Kansas City Railway Company. Its present officers are: President, A. B. Stickney; vice-president, Ansel Oppenheim; second vice president, 8. C. Stickney; third vice-president, AL. 8. Case; general counsel, F. B. Kellogg. The #frectors are the Messrs. Stickney, Mr. Oppen heim, Frederick Weyerhauser, M. D. Flower, H. E. Fletcher, Thomas H. Wheeler, J. W. Lusk and R. C. Wight. The finance committee, with which President Stickney has been conferring in London, is a body of five men elected annually from among themselves by the debenture and preferred A stockholders, meeting jointly. St. Paul, Jan. 7.—Rumors coming from the East that a receiver had been asked or was about to be asked for the Chicago Great Western Railroad were not only denied by officials of the road in St. Paul, but a counter rumor, coming from sources practically official, was in circulation this &fternoon that A. B. Stickney, president of the road, had made satisfactory arrangements in Eng lang concerning the payment of the 5 per cent gold notes due in March.

When 8. C. Stickney, vice-president and general manager of the road, was asked to-day concerning this latter rumer he refused to confirm or deny the report, saying, however: “The rumor is prob ably correct.”

Concerning the receivership rumor, General Man ager Stickney said to The Associated Press he had no knowledge that such a step was contemplated and that “you may deny the rumor, so far as I am concerned.”

R. CC. Wight, secretary of the Great Western, scouted the receivership rumor, say.ng that he did not think such a step could now be taken even bl da iE deli “Te fc vy IINnAdoerctandine hae ocaid on the business of the American iransconui nental lines. As noted recently in The Trib un= there has been discussion among men iden tified with the two roads as to the practica hility of absorption of the Chicago Great West ern by the Canadian Pacific, and it is believed in Wall Street that such a move is entirely probable as an outcome of the present embar rassment of the Chicago Great Western. The system operated by the Chicago Great Western Railway Company has a total length of 1,474 miles, and consists of a main trunk from Minneapolis and St. Paul southward, branching into lines to Omaha, Kansas City and Chicago. The Mason City Fort Dodge Rail road and the Wisconsin, Minnesota Pacific Railway are operated under lease. The Chicago Great Western was chartered in January, 1882, as successor to the Chicago, St. Paul ¥Xansas City Railway Company. Its present officers are: President, A. B. Stickney; vice-president, Ansel Oppenheim; second vice president, 8. C. Stickney; third vice-president, L. 8. Case; general counsel, F. B. Kellogg. The #frectors are the Messrs. Stickney, Mr. Oppen heim, Frederick Weyerhauser, M. D. Flower, H. E. Fletcher, Thomas H. Wheeler, J. W. Lusk and R. C. Wight. The finance committee, with which President Stickney has been conferring in London, is a body of five men elected annually from among themselves by the debenture and preferred A stockholders, meeting jointly. St. Paul, Jan. 7—Rumors coming from the East that a receiver had been asked or was about to be asked for the Chicago Great Western Railroad were not only denied by officials of the road in St. Paul, but a counter rumor, coming from sources practically official, was in circulation this &fternoon that A. B. Stickney, president of the road, had made satisfactory arrangements in Eng lang concerning the payment of the 5 per cent gold notes due in March. When 8. C. Stickney, vice-president and general manager of the road, was asked to-day concerning this latter rumer he refused to confirm or deny the report, saying, however: “The rumor is prob ably correct.” Concerning the receivership rumor, General Man ager Stickney said to The Associated Press he had no knowledge that such a step was contemplated and that “you may deny the rumor, so far as I R. CC. Wight, secretary of the Great Western, scouted the receivership rumor, say.ng that he did not think such a step could now be taken even if soc desired. “It is my understanding,” he said, “that no receiver can be appointed for this com

until six months have elapsed after interest been defaulted.” SENDS COAL FOR FLEET. Supplies for Honolulu and Manila if Vowarge Is Extended. Washington, Jan. 7.—Sixty thousand tons of coal have been sent to Honclulu by the equip ment bureau of the Navy Department, and by April 1 there are to be one hundred thousand tons at Manila. These shipments have been made in expectation of the possibility of the battleship fleet returning to the Atlantic coast by way of the Asiatic station. If it is not needed for that purpose the coal will be used from time to time by American men-of-war, as occasion may require.

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Nine Steamers and Hundreds of Wind Craft Wrecked in Gales. Vancouver, B. C,, Jan. 7—News of storms in the Far East in which many lives were lost was brought here by the steamer Tremont, which arrived here this morning. Nine steamers were stranded on the Hokkaido coast and lost. The Hashi went down with twenty men, but the crews of the other vessels were saved. Forty sailing ctaft were lost with many men. From Sapporo news was received that 588 fishing boats were wrecked and more than a thousand buildings were flooded, many persons being drowned. The American schooner Dolores, from Yokohama for Guaymas, with coal, foundered in the storm, her crew being saved.

NEW RACETRACK BILLS g

Imprisonment for Siw Months the Minimum Penalty for Betting. {By Telegraph to The Tribune.) Albany, Jan. 7.—Unconditional imprisonment for not less than six months is the minimum penalty provided in a drastic series of three anti-racetrack gambling bills which will be in troduced in the Assembly to-morrow by Mr. Hart, of Oneida County. They conform more closely to the Governor's recommendation on this subject than the Agnew bills, which were introduced in the Senate last night. One bill amends the Percy-Gray law by providing that any person who places a bet on a horse on a racecourse “shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punishable by im prisonment in the county jail or penitentiary for a period of not less than six months nor more than one year.” The present law provides that any person who piaces a bet “shall forfeit the value of any money or property so wagered, to be recovered in a civil action.” The Agnew bills, or “Jerome” bills of last year, repeal the section limiting prosecution to the recovery of the amount wagered and substitute a penalty of not more than one year's imprison ment or $500, or both. In addition to the bill amending the Percy-Gray law, another amends the Penal Code by repeating the proposed pen alty, and the third appropriates $250,000 for the agricultural societies that now receive state support through racetracks. As far as the one item of appropriation is concerned, the Agnew and Hart bills are similar. Assemblyman Hart talked with Governor Hughes to-day about his bills. He had told friends previously that he would not handle this legislation unless the bills met the Governor's annroval PRIEST ON HIBERNIANS. Threatens to Stir Up Great Scandal in the Church.

Philadelphia, Jan. 7.-Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians here were greatly stirred up to-day because of the refusal of the Rev. D. I. McDermott, rector of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, to permit funeral services to ba held in his church over the body of John Daly, a parishioner, because a Hibernian lodge had been invited to at tend. The funeral was to have been held yester day, and because of Father McDermott's opposi tion to the Hibernians it had to be postponed. Ha agreed to permit the funeral to take place at St. Mary's only on condition that the invitation to the Hibernians be revoked. The widow of Daly agreed, and in the funeral notice, printed to-day, it was stated that “the invitation to the Ancient Order of Hibernians to attend the funeral is here by revoked.” The funeral was held at the church to-day without the presence of the Hibernians. Father McDermott, in explanation of his opposi tion to the society, said he formed an opinion of the Hibernians in the Moily Maguire reign of terror in the Pennsylvania coal regions. He said:

My absolute opposition to the Ancient Order of Hibernians is based on my knowledge and the facts in my possession about the Molly Magulires, which I got directly from the condemned Molly Maguires themselves. No power on earth will ever make me recede one inch from my stand against the Hibernians. I have given my testimony against them, and what I said was true and is true, and I cannot compromise on fit. I have in a Digevslivle of my desk a memorial which I was directed to prepare presenting the facts in my possession to be read before the third Plenary Council in Baltimore. After I had pre pared the document, under the direction of Dr. Corcoran, 1 was called before Archbishop Ryan here and asked to read it to him. He declared that it contained features that would cause one of the reatest scandals the Catholic Church has ever intl and he informed me that he would use his influence against having it submitted before fhe council. I sent the memorial to Dr. Corcoran, re gardless of Archbishop Ryan’s opposition to it, but, through the influence of Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ryan during the sessions of the coun cil in Baltimore. the memorial never reached them. Archbishop Ryan and a number of other prominent clergymen are aware that the facts I have in my possession against the Ancient Order of Hibernians are true, and that if made known, they will cause the greatest kind of a scandal, and I have a mind to give them to the public. When Archhishop Ryan read Father McDermott's statement he replied, through Mgr. Turner, the chancellor of the archdiocese, that he did not care to discuss the matter in any way. In the archdiocese of New York there is no opposition to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, though there is considerable feeling against cer tain members connected with it who were instru mental, it was assumed, in offering an insult to Archbishop Farley nearly two years ago. The Archbishop was at one time national chaplain of the order, and at present a large number of priests are connected with it. In some parishes through out the state the branch organizations enjoy equal favor with the parish sodalities. There are, how ever, here and there a number of zealous priests who still believe there is in the organization the old Molly Maguire spirit, and these refuse not only to recognize the order, but hold it their duty to refuse the sacraments to persons connected with it. A few months ago there was printed in The Tribune a letter addressed to his bishops by the Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotlard, reminding them that they should still enforce the Papal mandate directed against the ancient order in that coun try. Its publication here caused considerable com ment, but none of the clergy could recall any Papal warning hurled against the body in its present state.

In the archdiocese of New York there is no opposition to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, though there is considerable feeling against cer tain members connected with it who were instru mental, it was assumed, in offering an insult to Archbishop Farley nearly two years ago. The Archbishop was at one time national chaplain of the order, and at present a large number of priests are connected with it. In some parishes through out the state the branch organizations enjoy equal favor with the parish sodalities. There are, how ever, here and there a number of zealous priests who still believe there is in the organization the old Molly Maguire spirit, and these refuse not only to recognize the order, but hold it their duty to refuse the sacraments to persons connected with it. A few months ago there was printed in The Tribune a letter addressed to his bishops by the Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotlard, reminding them that they should still enforce the Papal mandate directed against the ancient order in that coun try. Its publication here caused considerable com ment, but none of the clergy could recall any Papal warning hurled against the body in its nrecent state. TOM JOHNSCN LOSES COAL SUIT. i. Must Pay Bill of Traction Company, Which He Guaranteed. Cincinnati, Jan. 7.—Tom Johnson, Mayor of Cleveland, must pay a $2000 coal bill to the Charles D. Norton Company, coal dealers, of Phii adelphia, according to a decision by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals to-day. The com pany supplied the Philadelphia Lehigh Valley Traction Company with coal, and Johnson guaran teed the payment of the bills up to $20,000. The road was later thrown into the hands of re ceiver, end the Norton coal company sued Johnson for the $20,000.

Johnson objected, claiming the neglect of the Norton company to collect the bill from the trac tion company released him from liability. The fed eral court at Cleveland decided against him, and

he appealed. FAST TRAIN WRECKED. THREE DEAD, 80 HURT. Collver Special Leaves Track on Trestle in Georgia. Weg NSS ry Ne ape. Atlanta, Jan. 7—Rnnning at a speed of thirty miles an hour, the second section of an excur sion train on the Southern Railway, from Cleve land, Ohio, known as the Collver Special, and “bound for Florida points, plunged through a trestle over Copper: Mine Creek, about fifty miles north of Atlanta, to-day, and as a result three persons are dead, three others are fatally injured, and eighty passengers were so seriously injured as to require medical attention. The injured: ACKERMAN, E. N., Columbus, Ohio. ALMON, G. M., Rome, Ga. ARTER, Mrs. Theodore, Columbus, Ohio. BALDINGER., Mrs. Nellie, Columbus, Ohio. CANE, Mr. and Mrs. R. Cleveland: slightly hurt. CREIGHTON, Mr. and Mrs., Ashtabula, Ohio; slightly

bruised. GREGORY, Mr. and Mrs. Frank. GRISWOLD, R. W., Ashtabula, Ohio; internally injured and badiy bruised on head. GRISWOLD. Mrs. R. W., Ashtabula, Ohio: brulsad on back and limbs. HENRY, Mr. and Mrs. E. E., Ashtabula, Ghio. HODELL, H. H., Cleveland. KILSIE, Mrs. D. D., Erie, Penn. PEEL, Mrs. K., Cleveiand; slightly bruised. ROGERS, Mrs. George B., Columbus, Ohio. ROGERS. H. H., and son, Cleveland; cut and bruised. ROTH, Jacob, Erie, Penn. ROTH, Mrs. J, Erie, Penn. ROWBOTHAM, Mrs. Elizabeth F., Cleveland: slightly bruised. SMITH, Mrs. Elizabeth, Cleveland; back hurt and prob ably serious internal injuries. SMITH. Mr. and Mrs. R. E.. Cleveland; .slightly bruised. SMITH, Mrs. P. N., Columbus, Ohio. STRAUSS, F. 8., Cleveland. THOMPSON, Mrs. Delia, Mantua, Ohio. TIDEMANN, Mrs. Elia E., Cleveland. TOUCHSTONE, John, East Jordan, Mich. badly injured. VOSS, O. G., Columbus, Ohio. WEBSTER, Mrs. B. F., Wellington, Ohio. Twelve passengers, names unknown, who are cared for at hotels. The Southern Railway's relief train reached Atlanta about midnight bearing the body of James Edwards, the engineer, and about fifty of the injured, among whom. was Mrs. Emil Hoover, of Columbus, Ohio, who is in a dying condition, and Florence A. Studebaker, of Cleveland, internally injured and probably fatally hurt. G. Schnapps, road foreman of en gines, and the negro fireman, “Mose” Baldwin, both fatally injured, were also on the relief train. The road foreman of engines, Schnapp, and the fireman died shortly after reaching the city. Many of the other injured were carried to local hospitals, while some were taken to hotels. The Collver special is an annual excursion from Cleveland to Florida points and Cuba un der the direction of General Passenger Agent Collver, of the Rig Four system. It started A from Cleveland yesterday at 12:25 p. m,, in two sections. On beard the train were some two hundred excursionists. That they escaped without fatal injury is considered remarkable. E. E. Norris, of Atlanta, superintendent of the Atlanta divis fon of the Southern Railway, suffered a fract ured collarbone. The accident occurred about one thousand vards south of where the Seahoard Alr Line crosses on a bridge above the Southern tracks. A freight train was passing on the Seaboard when the crash came, and the conductor of the freight witnessed the wreck. Running his train into Hiram, he sidetracked everything but a caboose and one car and ran these back to where the passengers were slowly extricating themselves. Forty of the passengers, mast of them women, were brought into Atlanta over the Seaboard tracks. The second relief train arrived later in the night. Most of those on the train went to At janta hotels to-night and had thelr injuries cared for by physicians. A report that the train caught fire was denied by every one aboard. One of the Cleveland pas sengers, bound for Cuba on an excursion trip, said after he crawled from a window of the sec ond Pullman and looked at the wreckage: “The minute I get back to Cleveland I will give $1,000 to charity.” The trestle on which the accident occurred was about two hundred yards long. The engine struck the telegraph poles beside the track and for several hours no details of the wreck were available. Atlanta, Jan. 7—Rnnning at a speed of thirty miles an hour, the second section of an excur sion train on the Southern Railway, from Cleve land, Ohio, known as the Collver Special, and bound for Florida points, plunged through a trestle over Copper: Mine Creek, about fifty miles north of Atlanta, to-day, and as a result three persons are dead, three others are fatally injured, and eighty passengers were so seriously injured as to require medical attention. The ininred Suicide of Cleveland Man Ascribed to Fi nancial Loss. BY RN a ne 4D Cleveland, Jan. 7.—A bullet fired by himself after a day's constant use of morphine to-night ended the life of Harry Gordon, former presi dent of the Tippecanoe Club and agent for the estate of C. E. Bolton, running into the hun dreds of thousands in value. Gordon's act is ascribed to despondency, friends saying he had spoken to them recently in a hopeless tone of his financial affairs. A physician, called by Gordon himself, en tered the house after dinner this evening. Gor don had just confessed to his wife that he had taken at least three and a half grains of mor phine, saying that he did not get the required effect. He complained of thirst as the’ phy sician entered. His wife offered to get water, but he went to the kitchen himself. The re port of a pistol was heard, and when he was reached he was dead. LOAN BROKER FAILS FOR A MILLION. John Mulholland, Who Operated in Many Cities, Files Voluntary Petition. Danville, Ill, Jan. 7.—Scheduling assets of $3, 010.568 and liabilities of $1,804,862, John Mulholland, money lender and broker, who gives Fairview, Jl, as his place of residence, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy here to-day. He admits he has at least one thousand creditors. Mulholland operated a brokerage and loan busi ness in St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, New York and other cities. In many of these places he had handsomely furnished offices and forces of clerks. He incorporated and bonded various enterprises. On the assets sched uled, it is said, little can be realized. His home has been in New York. PART OF VESUVIUS'S CONE FALLS. PART OF VESUVIUS'S CONE FALLS. Great Column of Smoke from Crater—New Eruption Not Expected. Naples, Jan. 7.—Following a number of heavy detonations to-day, a part of the cone of Mount Vesuvius sank into the crater, causing great ebul litions. An enormous column of smoke rose from the crater and spread out for miles. Professor Matteucci, director of the observatory, said to night that there was no danger of a new eruption, the sinking of the cone being merely a geological phenomenon. a COLUMBIA, AIKEN, AUGUSTA, SUMMER VILLE FLORIDA RESORTS via Southern RY: Drawing Room. ticeping Dining Car Service. N. Y. Offices, 271 1200 B'way.—Advt.

MORPHINE, THEN PISTOL. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.) {By Telegraph to The Tribune.) SENTIMENT FOR HUGHES HIS FRIENDS SANGUINE Expect Governor's Indorsement— Working for Instructed Delegates. {BY 1elegrapll 10 Lut Liludat. Albany, Jan. 7.—Reports are being received here by friends of Governor Hughes that there is much enthusiasm for him as Republican can didate for President. This enthusiasm has resulted in the formation of Hughes clubs throughout the state, whose object is to bring about an Instructed delegation to the national convention. In many parts of the state county organizations are reported to be for the Gov ernor. Hughes men here assert that there is now no question about Governor Hughes getting the in dorsement of the spring state convention, but they realize that it will be necessary to have an instructed delegation to the national conven tion if he is to triumph over the favorite sons of other states. The fact that New York is a pivotal state this year and that the Governor once carried it under discouraging circum stances they believe will go far in his favor, but all their efforts are being bent now toward the choosing of the instructed delegation. A survey of the state situation shows everything in their favor, they say. Some of the Governor's friends who keep in close touch with the trend of the Hughes senti ment, declared to-day that the county organiza tions in Saratoga and Washington counties were preparing to adopt resolutions indorsing the Governor's candidacy. Ex-Senator Brackett is the dominant political figure there, and is known to be friendly to the Governor. Rensselaer County also, where ex-Governor Rlack and his lieutenant, Cornelius V. Collins, State Superin tendent of Prisons, are leaders, is understood to be in line, and the county organization there is expected to put itself on record for the Gov ernor soon. Columbia County, Louis F. Payn’'s bailiwick, is full of Hughes feeling, one result of which was the appearance of Senator “Sandy” Smith at the recent conference here looking to the formation of a state Hughes league. The city organization of Poughkeepsie has declared for the Governor. In Binghamton a Hughes club has been formed. Israel T. Deyo, formerly an Assembly man, is president. Senator Harvey D. Hinman, who now is the county chairman of Broome County, is one of the strongest Hughes men in the Legislature, and he is understood to be be hind the Hughes movement in his county. Monroe County already has put its name on the Hughes roster. Onondaga County also, in a sense, is committed to the Governor by the recent declarations of Senator White and Ray B. Smith, the county chairman, who told of the Hughes wave up there; bui the Hughes men are not putting too much faith in the Onondaga support. The Lincoln Club of Watertown, Jefferson County, which is the dominant political body in that section, has declared for the Governor. Deputy Superintendent Holt of the Department of Public Buildings is trying to swing the Lewis County organization inte line. Over in Fulton County the Tipeccln Club of Johnstgwn has joined the Hughes boomers, while the political club to which the Republicans of Gloversville belong is co-operating with its neighbor. Hughes sentiment has many exponents in the western part of the state. In Olean, Cattaraugus County, the home of the late ex-Governor Hig gins, a temporary Hughes club has been formed, of which Frederick E. Easton, who was a close friend of Mr. Higgins, is secretary. A perma nent organization is being formed by Assembly man J. E. Smith. James S. Whipple, State For ‘est, Fish and Game Commissioner, is one of the active Hughes men in Cattaraugus County. Chautauqua County has several clubs, the oldest of which is that formed at Jamestown by Assemblyman Augustus F. Allen. Dunkirk has one, organized by ex-Tax Commissioner Stearns. Up in Niagara County there is a Hughes Club in Niagara Falls, to which Repub licans of both the Merritt and Porter factions belong. k Some of the Hughes leaders say that in a few weeks about a dozen states will have joined the Hughes movement through the organiza tion of Hughes clubs similar to the one under way here. New England especially is con sidered friendly to the Governor. Vermont's delegation is believed to be sure for Gov ernor Hughes because of the personal friend ship of Governor Proctor, and the deep im pression made last summer by Governor Hughes on the seasoned politicians who at tended the meeting of the Vermont Fish and Game League. Inquiries and communications in great number have been received by Hughes men recently from Massachusetts, New Hamp shir and Connecticut.

CALLED FACULTY “BUNCH OF ASSES. Student Editor Expelled and Comrade: Strike Against All Athletic Activity. PY Ea RE sal St. Louls, Jan. 7.—Two hundred students of WasMngton University unanimously voted to dis continue all student activities to-day except ac tual studies and recitations. Their action resulted from the expulsion of J. Albert Stevens, editor of «Student Life,” for calling the faculty ‘a bunch of asses” and accusing the teachers of not doing their share to improve tpe athletic standing of the university. Professor Hooker, instructor in civil engineering, was referred to as “the childish in structor.” The trouble really began with the recent expul slon of Stratford Morton, because, as alleged, he threw bisulphide in the face of Edward Nipher in a class fight. LONG CONCEALED GRAFT CHARGED. St. Joseph Indictment Against Veteran City Emplove—Others Involved. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 7.—Walter C. Stewart, su perintendent of the municipal lighting plant, with which he has been connected twenty-one years, was ‘indicted to-day by the grand jury, charged with ob taining money by false pretences and on false cer tificates. The grand jury charges that men long dead are siill on the payrolls, and that the city has been defrauded of thousands of dollars. There are two charges against Stewart, seven against C. W. Walter, also an old employe, who Is in jail, and seven against Ferdinand Mays, a saloonkeeper, who is charged with forgery in con nection with cashing time slips. CANDY BOX WAS INFERNAL MACHINE. {By Telegraph to The Tribune 3 {By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Greensburg, Penn., Jan. 7.—Two alleged Black Hand members upon the protest of John Ranco that he had no money te give them, to-day handed him a little box, with the remark that it was candy for his children. Ranco opened the box as the strangers made a hurried exit. There was a terrific explo ‘sion, which tore off Ranco's right arm and wrecked the house. Ranco will probably die. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Tv Telegraph to Tha Tribune. JAPAN SURE OF PEACE. Count Hayashi Foresees No Diffi cultu in Negotiations. Paris, Jan. 8.—In reply to a cable message which the “Matin” sent to Count Hayashi, ask ing the Japanese government's sentiments on the Japanese-American situation, the Japanese Foreign Minister has sent the following state ment: Our negotiations with both the United States and Canadian governments are characterized by eminently cordial feelings. There are no insurmountable difficulties in the way, and we have every reason to believe that a satisfactory settlement will soon be reached. LAUNCH THOUGHT LOST Disappears with Two Men in Gale Off Old Point Comfort. {By Telegraph to The Tribune.) Norfolk, Va., Jan. 7.—A launch and two men are missing, and are thought to have been lost in a terrific storm which, moving rapidly north ward from the Gulf, was central off the Virginia coast to-day. The launch belonged to the quarantine ship Jamestown, lying off Old Point Comfort, and the missing men sre the captain and engineer, both white. A quarantine surgeon from the James town had used the launch to board the British steamship Helvengrove, which had just arrived. With his negro assistant he went on board. When they were ready to return to the launch the storm was so severe that they could not do so, and they remained on the ship and pro ceeded to Lambert's Point. The launch, which was laboring heavily when last seen, is believed to have gone down. The wind reached a maximum velocity at Cape Henry of seventy-two miles an hour to «lay. The gale blowing from the northeast caused mountainous seas, and with its hurricane velocity registered at the capes made it hazard ous for all shipping caught on the outside. WOMAN KILLED BY. CAR Her Baby Thrown Many Feet, and Mau Not Lice. While crossing 135th street, at Fifth avenue, at 7 o'clock last night, Mrs. Marie Marino, of No. 18 East 134th street, was run down and killed by an eastbound crosstown car and her vear-old baby Michael was thrown fifteen feet and almost killed. The car was in charge of Edward Kilduff, and, according to several of the passen gers, he made every possible effort to stop it, but was unable to do so because of the wet rails. The car was filled with homeward-bound passengers. One woman rushed to the in fant and, wrapping him in her coat, ran to the Harlem Hospital. The child is in a serious condition from shock and contusions. Mrs. Marino was dragged almost fifty feet be fore Kilduff could stop the car. After twenty minutes’ work, her body was taken from be neath the car. Dr. Ross, of Harlem Hospital, pronounced her dead. Bieyele Patrolman Brennan, of the "East 126th street station, arrested the motor man on charge of homicide. FIRST TUNNEL DEATH. Electrician Killed—Car Catches Fire in Brooklun Subway. George Kevburn, an electrician, employed by the Interborough Rapid Transit, was the first person to meet death in the Brooklyn tunnel since the trains began running. Last night he received a shock of 11,000 volts and was killed instantly. Keyburn entered a room at the Brooklyn ter minal to connect wires with a switchboard there. He was in the room perhaps two min utes when the lights suddenly went out, fol lowed by a cry. Keyburn fell to the floor. Many persons having passes to ride back and forth under the river were waiting to be taken to New York. They rushed into the room. Sev eral who tried to drag Keyburn from the room received slight shocks. One of the guards who had rubber gloves finally got him out. An ambulance from the Brooklyn Hospital was summoned, but there was nothing for the sur geon to do. When the accident occurred the current was shut off, stopping a train which had started for New York suddenly in the middle of the river. Keyburn's body was removed to his home fol lowing an examination at the Adams street sta tion house. He was forty-five years old and lived at No. 177 Chauncey street, Brooklyn. At o'clock, an hour after the first accident, another occurred. One of the trains caught fire through the short circuiting of the wires. There was a stampede on the part of the motormen who are learning to run the trains under the tunnel. Many of them who had heard of the previous accident were ready to desert. The motorman and conductor of the train, however, soon extinguished the flames by throwing sand on them. NEW PLAN ON EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY Senator Knox Presents Bill Designed to Meet Supreme Court's Ruling. Washington, Jan. 7.—Senator Knox, who has taken much interest in the litigation growing out of the employers’ liability act, which was declared to be unconstitutional in the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday, introduced a bill to-day which is intended to remedy the defects in the present law. The bill is so drawn as to make it applicable only to corporations engaged ia such commerce as Congress has the undoubted right to control and to employes of such corporation® as are en gaged exclusively in interstate commerce. The existing law is so broad as to cover all trans portation between states, but Mr. Knox's bill so modifies it as to limit its operations to common carriers which are operated by steam or similar motive power. URGES $550,000 FOR ELLIS ISLAND. Representative Bennet Introduces Bill for Repairs to Aid Immigrants. {From The Tribune Bureau. Washington, Jan. 7.—A bill introduced in the House to-day by Representative Bennet of New York provides that $530,000 be appropriated for urgent repairs and construction at the immigration station at Ellis Island. The bill suggests that the appropriation come out of the emigrant fund. According to Mr. Bennet, Ellis Island accommoda tions have long been in need of extensive repairs. The bill provides $&.,000 for refitting the plant, $125.000 for a steam ferryboat, $250,000 for completing the wing to the hospital and $150,000 for the comple tion of the contagious disease hospital. COMMANDER BOOTH HAS PNEUMONIA Boston, Jan. 7.—Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation Army has been stricken with paeumonia here and is criticaily il F. A. HEINZE INDICTED. F. A. HEINZE INDICTED. BANK FRAUD THE CHARGE Alleged That He Overcertified Checks Amounting to $500 .000. BANK FRAUD THE CHARGE Alleged That He Overcertified Checks Amounting to $500.000. Checks Amounting to S500 060, F. Augustus Heinze, the copper man and ex president of the Mercantile National Bank, sur rendered himself yesterday to Marshal Henkel as a result of an indictment brought against him by the federal grand jury, charging him with the overcertification of fifteen checks on October 14, drawn on the Mercantile National Bank, amounting to about $400.000. He was FF. AUGUSTUS HEINZE Who was arrested yesterday on an indictment charging him with the overcertification of fifteen checks drawn on ths Mercantile National Bank. (Copyright, 1907, by Underwood Underwood.) EO CA arraigned before Commissioner Shieids, in the Federal Building, who held him in $50,000 bail for his appearance this morning before Judge ‘'Chatfleld for pleading. Mr. Heinze pleaded not guilty to the thirty counts contained in the in dictment. The bond was furnished by the Fidel ity and Deposit Company, of Maryland. The checks which figure in the overcertifica tion charge were drawn by the firm of Otto Heinze Co. A bench warrant was issued upon the finding of the indictment. The latter, a voluminous document, charged the former bank president with a violation of sections 5208 and 5209 of the United States Revised Statutes, and Section 13 of the United States acts of July 12, 1882, which provide a penaity of net less than five years nor mora than ten years for a wilful and intentional overcertification of the checks of national banks. Edward Lauterbach, counsel for Mr. Heinze, talked lightly of the charge against his client last night, and said that it was based entirely on a technicality which he doubted existed. HEINZE NOT WORRIED. Mr. Heinze did not appear the least bit per turbed when he called, accompanied by his counsel, at the office of Marshal Henkel. United States Attorney Stimson had announced that he ‘would demand a bail bond of $30.000, and Mr. Lauterbach had previously arranged for the surety. The proceedings before Commissioner Shields wers brief, and after the formalities were over Mr. Heinze was released until to-day, when he will plead formally to the indictment. The indictment of Mr. Heinze was brought about through an investigation made by United States Attorney Stimson in co-operation with a special representative of the Controller of the Currency whom Controller Ridgely sent here for that pur pose. A dispatch from Washington last night quoted the Controlier as saying that while he knew of no specific instances of fraud he would not be surprised if other cases were brought te light. LIST OF THE CHECKS. Tha choarnrke which according to the indietes The checks which, according to the indiet ments. Mr. Helnze certified were as follows: Cuyler, Morgan CO. ...vocmercincnccsocnnnans Morse, Moore Moore. J. B. Coigate CO. .ccvvvvunn a Sternberger, Sinn C0. .veiiviiicnccncrnnennn Sternberger, Sinn C0. .ccvvvnrrrracsrrncnnnn Hayden, Stone Co......- W. KR. Rosenbaum.......... Gross Kieeberg.. coc. BE HERIORE db Che oe ovens etna me eta ees eam 5,000) 0p 46803 13 12.000 00 S006 wm 30, 0060 25.787 $5. 20008 $2234 qeisa2as C. H. Smithers C0...cvvvvrrcrcrrrmmcsnsnccns J. S. Bache C0....cecencee cerraecanten veeeen Wasserman Brothers. .......e. ansasassacsnc. Marshal, Spader COveenn. BP apn Gross Kleohorg. .c.cccvensnssscnsnsnraman nas

The indictment of Mr. Heinze is the aftermatix of the collapse of the Heinze pool in United Copper which brought about the suspension of the stock brokerage firm of Gross Klee and subsequently resulted in the resignation the indicted copper man from the presidency and the retirement of the directors of the Mer cantile National Bank. This followed an ex amination of the institution by the Clearing House committee. Mr. Heinze said at the time that he had been betrayed by his friends in the United Copper pool. The date, October 14, when the checks mentioned in the indictment were drawn, was just before the smash in United Copper. PUNISHMENT FOR THE CRIME. The indictment specifically charges that Mr Heinze, while president of the Mercantile Na tional Bank, overcertified fifteen checks. That is, that he guaranteed by the bank signature that the sums indicated in the checks were held by the institution to the credit of the drawer. To overcertify bank paper is, under the federal statute, an offence punishable by imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years. One count is devoted to each of the checks involved. It is alleged that Mr. Heinze knew that Otto Heinze Co. did not have to its credit the sums named in the various checks. The sixteenth count in the indictment charges that Mr. Heinze intentionally applied the funds of the bank, and without the knowledge of the directorate, to the payments of the fifteen checks drawn by Otto Heinze Co., and knowing that the company did not have on deposit with the bank a sum equal to the amount named in the certified checks. Mr. Lauterbach made this statement for Mr. Heinze last evening: “The indictment is based upon certification of fifteen checks amounting to something over £400,000, drawn by Otto Heinze Co., on Octo= per 14 last. Before the certification was made F. Augustus Heinze obtained the discount of a note of $O00.000, secured by abundant stock ex change collateral, worth at the market rates of that day more than $800.000, and drew his check for $300,000 to the credit of Otte Heinze Co., the amount of which should have been passed to their credit, as I think it was. Thera certainly was no wilful intent within the statute to overcertify any check, not even to the extent that overcertification is practised every day In business necessity. On the contrary, asl a 4

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6! Marriages and Deaths. 7 5-6 Ocean Steamers 5-8 Office Fixtures a 6 RIN AIE A R 6 Railroads .....ccenvee i] 6 31 Real Estate 12 4 4 Savings Banks 11 5-6 PW ine Agencies 6 Domestic Wanted Dressmaking 8 2-4! Special Notices 7 6 1! Steamboats 9 6 7-8! Surrogate’s Notices... 5 6 Tribune Subscription IDregoofis ..eeemnn-.- Ermployment Agen 1! Rates ........ccceee 7 6 cies v..oocsnenas-a Trust Companies ....11 23-4 Buropean Advertise Mente ..o..covencn 12 4' Winter Resorts 4 48 of ri WanteG 12 14 Fmanclal 11 Financial Elections..]1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1808 This mewepeper is owned and published by The Tribune Association, New York corporae tion; office and principal place of business, Trib wne Building, No. 155 Nassau street, New York; Cpden Mills, president; Nathaniel Tuitle, sec wetory and treasurer. The address of the offi core i& the cffice of this newspaper. THE NEWS THIS MORNING. CONGRESS ~Senate: The emergency cur rency bill was introduced by Mr. Aldrich; ad journment until Thursday was voted. House: Mr. Bennet, of New York, introduced a bill appropriating $550,000 for improvements at Enis Island; Mr. Gill, of Maryland, introduced resolution asking for all official papers bear ing on the recent naval controversy. DOMESTIC. The Prohibitionists sent an organized party of workers to Washington to urge national legislation. The second sec tion of the Collver special on the Southern Railway was wrecked between Hiram and Dallas, Ga. and some twenty persons were injured, two probably fatally. Governor Hughes ap pointed Edward S. Clinch, of New York, a com: missioner to hear the testimony on the charges brought by the Independence League against William Leary, Superintendent of Elections in the Metropolitan District. It was an nounced at Albany that Assemblyman Hart would introduce anti-racetrack betting bills to day imposing a minimum penalty of six months’ imprisonment. James H. Higgins was in augnrated Governor of the State of Rhode Island for the second time at Providence. One man was burned to death and 109 others had narrow escapes when a Salvation Army lodging house burned at Worcester, Mass. The Greenock Inn, at Lee, Mass, a well known Berk shire ‘hotel, was burned, with a loss of $70,000.

FOREIGN,—The Mount Royal steamed into Queenstown Harbor after a rough trip, which forced her to seek port after trouble with her boilers; all on board are well. The Russian imperial family celebrated Christmas quietly; the Emperor thanked the guards and Cossacks at Tsarskoe-Selo for their service: the health of the Empress is reported improved. Chilian villagers between Santiago and Valpa raiso attacked a German pleasure party, mis taking it for a band of cutlaws; one of the Ger mane was killed and five were wounded, in cluding a naturalized American. Count Okuma issued a denial of the report that in a speech at Kobe he had urged the natives of India to rise against British rule. CITY —Stocks declined after early advance. F. Augustus Heinze was arrested on an indictment charging him with overcertification. Three Thaw jurors were sworn and four more were accepted provisionally. Bishop Worthington died in France. In a letter written before committing suicide H. Grey Duberly bitterly reproached Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, for not granting him some favor. It was learned that the diamond business was now in a state of stagnation. Two floors of a new house collapsed, killing one man, injuring seriously five others and probably burying alive two who are missing. Theo dore Whitmore was arraigned in court and held without bail for the murder of his wife. Samuel Fessenden, of Connecticut, died. It was thought probable that by the end of the week Mutual Reserve officials would be fighting for the company’s existence. THE WEATHER. —Indications for to-day: Rain or snow. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 46 degrees; lowest, 2X. TBE LIABILITY LAW DECISION. The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States annulling the employers’ lia bility act of June 11, 1806, is notable less for what it says than for what it refrains from saying. In that sct Congress sought te make every common carrier doing an interstate or foreign business liable to its employes for all damages “which may result from the negli “gence of its officers, agents ar employes, or by “reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its “negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, “machigery. track. railroad, roadbed. ways or “works.” It was also provided that negligence on the part of a fellow servant could not be pleaded ss 2a bar against damages when the contributory negligence of the employe was slight and that of the employer gross in com parison, all questions of negligence and re sponsibility being left to the jury. The two decisions of lower federal courts affirmed by the Supreme Court were sweeping in their character. They declared the law in valid in foto, on the thecry that Congress was not regulating commerce at all when it at tempted to define the liability “of a common carrier to its employes. District Judges MeCall and Evans held that the right to regulate inter state or foreign commerce did not extend to the regulation of the incidental conditions un der which common carriers operated. They construed the term commerce very strictly. But the Supreme Court, in affirming their technical judgment, does not scem to have adopted thelr reasoning. Associate Justice White, who handed down the decision of the court, did not declare the law repugnant in theory to the provisions of the Constitution. but held it to be so drawn that what was constitutional in it could not be separated for salvage from what was unconstitutional. The law's fatal defect, he suggested, was that it did not distinguish between the employes of a common carrier who might be engaged in actual interstate commerce and those who might not be. It would be ex treme and indefensible. in Justice White's view, to maintain that because a railroad line otherwise intrastate crossed a state line to reach terminal the gemployes on its whole

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i svetem, in its repair shops, on its branch lines and in its central offices should be put by Congress on the same level as the small mi nority actually engazed in conducting inter state traffic. Justice White concludes that the statute, while it embraces both subjects within the constitutional power of Congress and subjects beyond that power. is nonen forceable only because it so interblends those subjects that separation becomes impracticable. It does not follow that an act drawn more skilfully. 4nd making distinctions between dif ferent groups and classes of employes, would not be approved by the Supreme Court. Four of the justices—NMessrs. Harlan, McKenna, fiolmes and Moodyv—held that the act of 1906 was valid either in whole or in part, and Jus tice White has indicated his belief that it could be redrawn in such a way as to be valid. Apparently only three justices—Messrs. Fuller, Peckham and Brewer—think that any such regulation as Congress attempted is repugnant to the Constitution and voidable as a departure from strict consiruction theory. The report of the Interstate Commerce Com mission is a great tribute to the regulative power of public opinion. It says: By railway managers almost without excep tion the amended law has been accepted in good faith, and they exhibit for the most part a sincere and earnest disposition to conform their methods to its requirements. It was not to be expected that needed reforms could be brought about without more or less difficulty and delay,

but it is unquestionably the fact that great progress has been made and that further im provement is clearly assured. To a gratifying extent there has been readjustment of rates and correction of abuses by the carriers themselves. Methods and usages of one sort and another which operated to individual advantage have been voluntarily changed, and it is not too much to sav that there is now a freedom from forbid den discriminations which is actual and general to a degree never before approached. i

In other words, there have been compara tively few trials. few convictions for evasions of the law and few rulings of the commission upon contested points, and yet a tremendous reform has been effected within the brief period of fifteen months. In so short a time, if the railroad managers had not “accepted the law in good faith” and had not “exhibited a disposi tion to conform to its requirements,” and if old methods and usages that resulted in dis crimination had not been “voluntarily changed.” no such improved condition as the commission reports could have been achieved; for the ability of any body of men to correct abuses case by case through the slow and tedious process of the law in the face of resistance is obviously and closely limited. The railroads bowed to an aroused and enlightened public opinion, and the old abuses that sprang up in a day when public and managers entertained a different conception of a railroad’s duties and privileges speedily disappeared.

For our part, we think the creation of this healthy public opinion, this awakening of the national conscience, a more important result of recent reform laws than the ending of rebates and other abuses at which the legislation was aimed. Let us give this newly created and active public opinion a chance to assert itself, and not push forward too insistently with fur ther regulative legislation until it is proved to be necessary. All regulation is an experiment. No one knows yet quite whither it leads, nor how the cost of having a governmental army supervising the details of industry will compare with the cost of overcharges, discriminations and the various exactions of unregulated com merce. Neither does any one know the effect of regulation upon the attitude of capital toward future enterprises. Therefore, we say, give this newly aroused public opinion. to whose potency the commission's report pays a striking tribute, its chance to rectify abuses before pressing forward to extend the domain of regulation.

Some of the practices for whose correction the Interstate Commerce Commission asks ad ditional legislation seem to us to have received the attention of tbe public and to lie already under its ban. The wholesale investment by a railroad in the securities of other lines not properly capable of union with its system ap pears to the commission to call for a new pro hibitive law. Tt appea~s to us, on the contrary, to be one of those cases which may safely be Jeft to corrective public opinion. The dangers of such investments have been forcibly brought to general attention by the recent siump in stocks. In the most conspicuous instance of this practice it is evident that public disap proval is sufficiently realized. A lively public sentiment already exists against inflated stock issues by railways for speculative purposes. Popular realization of the evils inherent in that practice is as keen as popular realization of the abuses in rebates. Moreover, the present attitude of the states in respect to the establishment of freight and passenger rates would probably make greatly inflated issues unmarketable. This, therefore, seems to be an abuse that will cure itself. With regard to holding companies the report sug gests that the existing law is subject to judicial determination. Why. then, ask for further legislation until the state of the present law is clear?

Nor can we agree with the commission in its recommendation that it should be invested with power to make a “comprehensive, sys tematic and authoritative” valuation of railway property. We know of no process by which such a valuation, however comprehensive and s¥stematic, could be made authoritative. In the case of the Consolidated Gas Company we have had several comprehensive and systematic valuations. The Legislature made one. The company itself in its sult offered another. The master in chancery, after a hearing, announced a third. The United States judge before whom the case came then prescribed a fourth. And no two of these valuations agreed in detail or in general, but, on the contrary, they were sev erally far apart. Now, the valuing of the Con solidated Gas Company's property, with a total somewhere between $50,000.000 and $120,000. ox), is a very simple matter compared to set tling “authoritatively” the value of $10,000. 000,000 or so of railroad property. Moreover, in no case could the opinion of the commis sion’s experts be “authoritative.” Whenever a rate fixed by it was taken to the Supreme Court on the question of constitutionality that august body would set to work and determine the valuation all over again according to its own judgment. The report of the Interstate Commerce Com mission is a great tribute to the regulative nower of public opinion. It says: Four years ago Christian Henry, a resident of Brooklyn, was bitten by a dog. The dog never displayed the faintest symptoms of mad ness, according to the reports, nor did Henry's wound give him any local pain or trouble. But he died apparently of hydrophobia last Friday night, and an investigation discloses the inter esting fact that for four years the unfortunate man had been constantly worrying over the possibility of rabies from the old, long healed wound. Was this a case of auto-suggzestion? It would be unsafe to say so positively. There are three possible explanations of the incident. One is that bacilli introduced into the victim's system when he was bitten remained dormant or required a certain long period of development, such as the bacillus of leprosy is now supposed to require. The second possibil ity is that the original infection may have been so slight that Henry's blood corpuscles could have overcome the murderous micro-organisms had, bis constant fear of hydrophobia not low ered his general vitality »nd hence his power of resisting bacterial invaders. Or, finally, there may have been absolutely no infection from

INTERSTATE COMMERCE REPORT. NFW.VORK DAILY TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8 1908. FEAR. without, the entire disturbance having been brought on by persistent thinking about the dread disease. While there are no details pub lished thus far which make this last hypothesis the most probable explanation of Henry's death, there is no warrant for denying that it may be the correct one. The tremendous and constant influence of mental getivities upon physiological processes is too we established to make ut terly absurd the supposition that the same visl ble symptoms may he induced by two different chains of causes, one beginning with bacilli, producing lesions at the periphery of the ner vous system, and the other starting in the cen tral nervous organs. If there are two such processes producing, to all outward appear ances, the same results they must be distin cuishable in some aspects and must constitute, in strictness, two separate diseases. Far from being mysterious and unique, this situation is one of the commonest in the annals of medi cine: many a disease has its double, as every voung physician knows to his sorrow, and in some cases they can be differentiated only after an exhaustive scrutiny which unhappily cannot always be finished ante mortem.

Until all the secrets of life have been laid bare the precise degree to which fear is itself a toxin cannot be shown. In the mean time, however. we can say that it exercises a harm ful influence in all three of the cases under which Henry's may be classed. and is probably the critical factor in two of these. The safe arrival of the Mount Royal at Queenstown fractures a modern figure of speech concerning the North Atlantic. How long have poets been talking about the shrinkage of that <alty tract to millpond dimensions? Who has not been told that there are so many ships ply ing between Europe and North America that the great highways of the North Atlantic are now like crowded city streets? And everybody has heard that wireless telegraphy has abolished distance so utterly that Queenstown is now virtually a part of RicLmond County. Some persons not in a lunatic asylum have even de clared in all solemnity that a steamer could hardly spend forty-eight hours on the main track of travel without being sighted. And yet here is the Mount Royal bobbing up off the Irish port to prove again the vastness of the gray old sea. Thirty days she steamed over waters well within the “beaten track,” and yet no mariner even spied her smoke.

1t is refreshing to have the high seas magni fied to their ancient size again, even if the act sives some underwriters an uneasy fortnight. Senator Beveridge's bill providing for the ap pointment of a tariff commission deserves serTi ous consideration. Its details may need to be altered. for it is not clear that a permanent commission. established as a bureau of the De partment of Commerce and Labor, would secure as good results as would a special commission chosen to consider the reeds of a particular sit uation. A permanent bureau, with five mem bers at salaries of $5,000 apiece, might degen erate into a perfunctory, humdrum board of in quiry, duplicating the work of other govern mental bureaus. It might be better to select a commission to perform a single prescribed duty and to pick out men for the work of a class not to be greatly tempted by an offer of $5,000 a vear for a six years’ term of employment.

But the general idea of paving the way for tariff revision by the creation of an investigating commission is eminently sound. It is probable that Congress will undertake to revise the Ding lev schedules at a special session called in the spring of 1909. The chances of an intelligent and equitable readjustment of rates would be greatly improved by a thoroughgoing inquiry into the workings of the old schedules and a presentation of the changes which have taken place in industry and commerce in the last decade. Conditions have greatly aitered and the role of the United States as a manufactur inz and trading nation is vastly different now from what it was when the Dingley act was passed in 1897. Congress needs information on which to act, and the country would welcome the report of a competent, non-partisan tariff board.

Despite occasional efforts to revive the old sectional and partisan agitation of twenty years ago, the country has steadily set its face against treatment of the tariff as a factional or sec tional question. The great mass of ‘mericans in every section want to see the protective sys tem retained, but they want protection applied equitably and intelligently, so as to bring the greatest good to the greatest number. It is foolish to try to treat free trade and protection as mere party cries or sectional fetiches. The country seems convinced that the Dingley tariff should be succeeded by a tariff adapted to new conditions. Before legislation is attempted it would be well to have that general conviction confirmed and fortified by an array of inform inz and indisputable facts.

THE PAN-AMERICAN RAILROAD. The convention of the Central American states for the development of transportation lines among them is one of the most interesting and most practically promising of all the eight treaties recently made by them for the cecn firmation of peace and tbe promotion of national unity, since it is a step toward the realization of the long cherished project of a Pan-American railroad, extending unbroken from the United States to Patagonia and connecting this coun try, Mexico, the Central American states and the chief countries of Scuth America by rail In its early days our Pacific railroad was the Jongest in the world, but it has been surpassed by the Canadian transccntinental system, and still more by the Siberian line, while the rapid progress which is being made on Cecil Rhodes’s “Cape to Cairo” route bids falr presently to provide the world with another long railroad, the first of great length running north and south. It now rests with the various govern ments of the American continents to complete here a system which shall be second to none in extent and importance and which shall, indeed, be the longest north and south railroad in the world.

The ultimate achievement will perhaps be a railroad from Alaska to Patagonia, but at pres ent the practical aim is one from the United States to Chili and Argentina, so that a through train might be run from New York to Buenos Ayres. The major part of such a system is already in existence, and the gaps to be filled, which are altogether in Central America and the northwestern states of South America, are shorter than most persons probably realize. At the south there are two lines, one from Buenos Ayres on the Atlantic littoral and one from Puerto Montt, on the Pacific, in latitude 42 de grees south, extending practically unbroken northward to Cuzco, Peru, in latitude 13 degrees south. At the north the system is complete from New York and all points in the United States through Mexico to Guatemala, and across the latter country from the Pacific Coast to the Caribbean. A short link would connect it with a line now running across Honduras from the Caribbean to the Salvador frontier and the Gulf of Fonseca, on the Pacific. But from Honduras to Peru there is a great gap remaining to be filled, much of it in difficult places.

Much light on the Central American part of the problem is provided in a paper prepared by Mr. Theodore Paschke and presented by the Costa Rican delegates to the recent Central American conference in Washington, where, we may assume, it was largely Wstrumental in ef fecting the adoption of the communications con vention to which we have referred. Mr. ATT ANTIC ROLITUDES. 4 TARIFF COMMISSION. Paschke, who was the chief constructor of the railroads of Guatemala ana Costa Rica, points out that to complete a rzilrcad from the Mex ican line to the city of Panama by the most direct route it would be necessary to build 86.7 miles in Guatemala, 166.8 miles in Salvador, 71.7 miles in Honduras, 106.3 miles in Niea ragua, 360 miles in Cost: Rica and 234 miles iu Panama, a total of 1,125.5 miles. The esti mated cost varies greatly, from $12,386 a mile in Guatemala to $51,124 a mile in Honduras, the average being $18.467 a mile and the total cost of the system $20,784,285. That wonld give us an unbroken route of more than five thousand miles from New York to Panama. Thence there would be another long and diffi cult gap to fill, through the eastern part of Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where now only a few miles exist in short, scattered stretches.

Mr. Paschke dwelt brietly but eloquently upon the benefits, both commercial and political, which would acerne from the construction of such a highway of communication and trans portation. These are too great to be ignored. Their appeal is strong and direct. both to pub lic and to private interests. This the Cen tral American states recognize, and they are even now taking steps tcward the performance of their part of the task. It may be problema‘ic whether they are able at present to do it with out external aid, but it may be expected that the action which they have taken for the assur ance of peac~, order and integrity will make it not difficult for them to secure such assistance as they may need. As for the South American part of the work, there is hope for it in the im proved condition of Colombia and the better ment of relations between Peru and Chili. About thirty-eizht hundred miles of new road will be needed between Mexico and Peru. But when i* is provided there will be direct railroad connection among all the states of North, Cen tral and South America, with the exceptions of Venezuela and the three Guianas. As a ma terial corollary to the Monroe Doctrine nothing could be more logical than that.

The threats communicated by postal card to some of the East Side landlords who have se cured eviction orders agalnst their rebellious tenants may emanate from so-called “practical jokers.” But probably some are seriously made, in which case the famous ‘rent strike” will cease to be a comedy. Considering the time of vear and the growing distress among the poor, the recent wholesale issuing of dispossess writs may prove injudicious, however fully justified in law; and in view of the fact that many ex perienced and trusted charity workers know more or less intimately both parties in the quar rel, it is surprising that nobody has yet sug gested arbitration by a committee of experts whom everybody concerned would trust. No doubt many landlords, at the present juncture, would reject such intervention, but the situa tion may, for aught anybody can now say, de velop in such a manner as to cause universal regret that tact and conciliatory measures were not early emploved. r—p—— The statesman who is going to address the National Democratic Club on the question, “Why is the Democratic Party Divided?” will probably find it necessary to cast his observa tions inte serial form. The topic is too vast to be exhausted in one brief excursion between dusk and daylight. ef President Schurman of Cornell, who so vigor ously denounced the Harvard elective system the other day, might have strengthened his at tack considerably by waiting until the fishing smack with a weary, half-starved crew of five “Harvard students” was towed up New York Bay. Here we have all the evils of the Har vard elective system condensed into one little episode. Dr. Schurman might have itemized his arraignment in a telling manner had he walted for this story. Think of a college so favorably inclined toward the encouragement of under graduate Free Will that it lets students whe have never reefed a sail elect an advanced midwinter course in deep sea navigation! Think of these same students being allowed to elect that their names should be omitted from the college cata logue! Worst of all, think of offering to beard less youths an elective course in real life! By the time Dr. Schurman had reached this point. any impartial umpire would have counted John Harvard ct al. out. i i

BERNESE THE TALK OF THE DAY. The ‘Heidelberger Tageblatt” in an account of the interview between the Grand Duchess Louise and Nathan Straus says: “The grand duchess had long known of the work of the American philanthropist and had followed it with great in terest. How deep this interest is may be judged from the fact that she spent one and one-quarter hours with Mr. Straus discussing pasteurization and its results. The conversation was carried on in English. The grand duchess expressed her sorrow because of the great mortality among chil dren and said that it was necessary to combat the condition with all available measures. Aided by the wife of Minister Hansell and the privy medi ellor, Dr. Hauser, she is employing the best scientific methods and seeking new ones to check the mortality especially among infants. The milk plant which Mr. Straus presented to the city of Karlsruhe is under her personal protection be use she hopes to see good results from the in Straus system. Mr. Straus was deeply impressed by the love and solicitude of the noble lady for her people, and said that he could well understand why she and her house were "so well beloved by the people of Baden.”

«what do you find so very interesting about soci ety?” asked the ordinary person. “Watching people trying to get in,” Miss Cayenne.—Washington Star. A Kobé newspaper gives the cost of the wearing apparel of a Japanese woman of fashion. She wears $1380 worth of clothing under her kimono, which costs $25. The obi costs another $25. Numer ous tying paraphernalia sum up to $1760, end a set of footgear amounts to $9. Combs and hairpins, ornamented with gems, cost $245; a shawl, $750; a diamond neck clasp, $150; handkerchiefs, 25 cents each: a gold watch, $150—about $918 in all for a season. A middle class woman wears about $150 warth of clothing each year, according to the same newspaper. “Caddy, how many strokes {s that for this hola?" asked the golfer with the plaid cap. “T can't say: sir “Can't say “No, sir; I can only count up to twelve, sir."— Pick Me Up. Though celluloid is a convenient chemical prep aration for the manufacture of a wide variety of articles, its high {nflammability is a constant dan ger, Bays “Chambers’s Journal.” In view of these circumstances particular interest 1s being centred in “galalith,” a German invention which is now coming extensively into vogue, since {it is mnon inflammable, of great strength, and of wide value in its possible applications. The material is a per fectly odorless, hornlike product, prepared from casein, the cheese constituent of skimmed milk. cal couns ca troduction of the answered She—-They say that a man becomes like that with which he continually associates. He—Ridiculous idea! I've been a fishmonger all my life and can't swim a yard yet!—London Opinion. A pretty custom was observed at the midship men's New Year's Eve hop, which was held in the armory at the Naval Academy. At two minutes to twelve the lights were turned out, the band stopped playing and a bugler stepped out on the ballroom floor and sounded Taps. Hardly had the last notes died away when a clock began to strike twelve. Miss Badger, daughter of Commander Badger, U. 8. N., superintendent of the academy, struck eight bells, the armory fairly blazed with lights, and the class of '08, standing together, sang its class song. As usual, the band played “Home, Sweet Home," and then “The Star Spangled Banner,” every couple standing at attention while the national air was being played. “Not a cent,” replied the rich man coldly; “money ia pot good for the poor.” Well,” respond the applicant, “just pretend ‘against me." --Philadelphia joat you have a grudge ADMIRAL LUDLOW’'S CONDITION GRAVE. {By Telegraph to The Tribune. Oakdale, N. Y., Jan. 7.—The condition of Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, U. S. N., who {is ill with grip at the home of his superintendent, August Marsh. is regarded as critical to-night. His nurse, Mrs. Marsh, the superintendent's wife, has been seized with the same malady. Mrs. Ludlow, his wife, who is believed to be in Washington, has not been near the bedside since her husband's first attack. Miss MM. Adelaide Gould, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elgin R. L. Gould, was married yesterday afternoon in St. Bartholomew's Church to Charles Ingram, of Baltimore. The bride, who was given eway by her father, wore a gown of white satin, made with a court train and trimmed with point lace, and used her mother’s point lace well, fast ened with orange blossoms. Her bouquet consisted of lilles-of-the-valley. Mra. Lyttleton R. Purnell, of Baltimore, was the matron of honor. Her Em pire gown was of yellecw chiffon trimmed with satin, with which she wore a white lace hat with yellow plumes and carried mauve orchids. Miss Florence Ingram and Miss Carrie Warfield, of Bal timore; Miss Gertrude Tower, of Boston; Miss Herma Letts, of Evanston, Ill, and Miss Helen Moffett and Miss Dorothy Worrall, of this city, were the bridesmaids. They were dressed alike, in Em pire gowns of yellow chiffon, with white lace hats trimmed with yellow roses, and carried bouquets of the same flowers. James Ingram was his brother's best man, and the ushers included E. Mulford Crutchfield, of Richmond, Va.; Alvar O'Brien, who took the place of R. H. Grimes; Lyttleton B. Pur nell, John Hurst Purnell, W. J. Clarke Dulany and Clarke Matthal, of Baltimore. The ceremony was performed by Bishop David H. Greer, assisted by the rector, the Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks, and afterward there was a recep tion at the home of the bride's parents, No. §7 West 52d street. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram, after a Southern trip, will make their home in Baltimore. Albany, Jan. 7.—Miss Katherine Buckley, daugh ter of Mrs. Josephine Buckley, of this city, was married here at noon to-day to Edward H. Hawke, jr., formerly assistant corporation counsel! and a member of the bar of New York City. The Right Rev. T. M. A. Burke, Catholic Bishop of Albany, officiated. The bride was given away by her broth er, Willlam HH. Buckley, of thls city. The bride groom was attended by Judge Edward F. Swan. of New York, and the bride by Miss Frances AL Hawke, daughter of the bridegroom, and by Miss Mary A. Brown, of New York. Mr. and Mrs Bawke willdivedn daw Jozi Cites About People and Social Incidents. AT THE WHITE HOUSE. From The Tribune Bureau f¥rom Ihe TTIDRRE yeast Washington, Jan. 7.—The President received a number of social and business callers to-day be fore the Cabinet meeting, which convened at 1 a. m. and adjourned at 1 p. m. Among the callers were Senators Carter, Clapp, Daniel, Bourne, Piles and Hemenway, Representatives Hayes, Kahn and Hackett: Charles A. Prouty, Interstate Commerce Commissioner; Admiral Cowles, United States Mar shal Abernethey, of Oklahoma, and Robert Bacon, Assistant Secretary of State. Representative Gaines, of Tennessee, came to con sult the President about a bill he has prepared for governmental support of the Hermitage, President Jackson's home and tomb, near Nashville. AT THE VICE-PRESIDENT’S. {From The Tribune Bureau. {From 10e 1Tibung DRITSES-N Washington, Jan. 7.—Viece-President and Mrs, Fairbanks gave their annual dinner in honor of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, at their K street residence to-night. Invited to meet them were Associate Justice and Mrs. Harlan, Associate Jus tice and Mrs. Day, Senator and Mrs. Elkins, Sen ator and Mrs. Beveridge, Senator and Mrs. Carter, Senator and Miss Hemenway, Senator and Mrs. Frazier, Rear Admiral and Mrs. William Sheflield Cowles, the former Ambassador to AustriaHun gary and Mrs. Addison C. Harris: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Major, Mr. and Mrs. James R. McKee, Mrs. Mark Hanna, Mrs. Rich ard H. Townsend, Miss Boardman, Mrs. John Tim mons, Dr. Bristol, Colonel J. J. McCook, George Adee and Clarence Douglas. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. {From The Tribune Bureau.) Washington, Jan. 7.—The German Ambassador and Baroness von Sternburg entertained this af ternoon in their box at the Boston Symphony con cert Miss Carow, the sister of Mrs. Roosevell] Mrs. Murray Crane, Miss Langham, Herr von Schubert, of the German Embassy staff, and Baron Ambrézy, of the Austro-Hungarian Embassy. The British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce gave an other of their series of dinner parties at the em bassy to-night. Their list of guests included the Ambassador from Mexico and Seiiora de Creel; Sefior Don Ramoén Pifla, Minister from Spain; Speaker Cannon, Miss Cannon, Major General J. Franklin Bell, Mrs. Bell, Senator Murray Crane, Mrs. Crane, Senator Julius C. Burrows, Mrs. Bur rows, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Foster, Lieutenant Commander de Blanpré, naval attaché of the French Embassy; the Rev. Dr. McKim, Mrs, Mc Kim, Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, of England; Miss Langham, Miss Ashton, the sister of Mrs. Bryce; the Hon. Nina Kaye Shuttleworth, of Eng land; Miss Stimson, of Boston; Lieutenant Colonel B. R. James, military attaché of the British Em bassy, and the Hon. Mrs. James; W. H. Kennard, second secretary, and H. Beresford Hope, the new attaché of the embassy, who has just arrived. The military attaché of the British Embassy, I.ieutenant Colonel B. R. James, and thz Hon. Mrs. James, accompanied by the sister of the latter, the Hon. Nina Kaye Shuttleworth, will go to Virginia on Friday for ten days. Prince zu Lynar, third secretary of the German Embassy, who has been transferred to Rome, has gone to New York preparatory to sailing later this week for his new post. He will be succeeded hers by Baron won Stumm, now counsellor at London. IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY. [From The Tribune Bureau. fErrom 4408 2 1ioung oulrvau.jg Washington, Jan, T.—Brigadier General and Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards were hosts at a dinner to night complimentary to Miss Gertrude Claggett and Paymaster Edmund W. Bonnaffon, U. 8. N., whose marriage will take place in this city on Saturday. Dr. and Mrs. Duncan McKim gave a muslecal to two hundred guests at their 18th street home to-night. Occupying boxes at the Boston Symphony this afternoon besides Mrs. Roosevelt and Baroness von Sternburg were Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs, C. A. Willams and Mrs. Herbert Parsons, each with a party. Otheps present included the Secre tary of the Interior and Mrs James R. Gartield, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs. NATION TO SAVE OLD JACKSON HOME. y Bill Introduced in the House in Accordance with President's Message. term: Tha Trinhnmma Ruurearnr {From The Tribune Bureamn.} Washington, Jan. 7.—After a conference with the President this morning, Representative John Wes ley Gaines, of Tennessee, ‘completed the draft of a blll which he will introduce to-morrow, asking that sufficient appropriation be made to maintain The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's old home, in suitable condition. The bill provides that 33,000 be appropriated for three years to the Ladies” Her mitage Association for this purpose, and that $1,000 be appropriated each year thereafter. The proper care of The Hermitage was one of the recommendations mdde to Congress by the President in his last anual message. He told Rep resentative Gaines this morning that he was de cidedly in favor of the bill and was gratified that his suggestion should meet with the approval of Tennesseeans. He also told the representative that he considered his own speech delivered at The Her mitage on Jackson as the best of all his Presi dential speeches, because the subject was such an elevating one. Representative Gaines expects no opposition to the bill, saying that it is not at all *a partisan measure, but one that will appeal to the patriot ism of all the members. A GIET TO PRESIDENT DIAZ. Mexico City, Jan. 7.—Ambassador Thompson has received a portrait of President Roosevelt which he was instructed to present to President Diaz The presentation will be made in a few days. WEDDINGS. Straus. and Mr. and Mrs. Hockstadter, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman, Miss Boardman, Assistant Secre tary of State and Mrs. Bacon, Mrs. Nicholas An derson. Mrs. Richard Butler, Mrs. Brewer, Mra James Bavard, Miss Bayard. Mrs Joseph Awnden ried, Captain and Mrs. Richardsen Clover, Mrs. Hay, Mrs. Payne Whitney, of New York: Mrs Gordon Cummin, Rear Admiral and Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles, Mrs. Chatard, Mrs. Carter, Mr, and Mrs. W. C. Denny, Mr and Mrs Tiffany Dyer, Mr and Mrs. Wiliam Phelps Ene. Mr. and Mrs Wiilam Corcoran Eustis, Mr. and Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Dr, and Mrs. Ralph Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kirk Porter and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page. Major General and Mrs. George I. Gillespia en tertained at dinner to-night the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. James R. Garfleld, Associate Justice and Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Glover, Mr. and Mrs. George X. Me Lanahan, Mr. aad Mrs. William Phelps Eno, Major General and Mrs. Merriam and Brigadier General and Mrs. Duvall. Major General and Mrs. Alfred E. Bates had dining with them to-night the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Newberry, the American Minister to China and Mrs. Rockhill, General and Mrs. Fitzhugh, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Hague and Bricadier General and Mrs. Sharpe. In spite of the inclement weather there was a larga attendance at the dance of the Junior Cotillon last night at Sherry's, for which the entire large ball room suite was used. Mrs. Arthur Murray Dodges and several other of the patronesses received the guests, many of whom came on from dinners which Mrs. Frederick W. Whitridge, Mrs. Augustus Heckscher and Mrs. Edward Landen had given in connection with the affair. Stowe Phelps led the cotillon, dancing with Miss Eleanor Mortimer. Among the patronesses of the Junior Ceotillons this winter, in addition to Mrs. Arthur Murray Dedge, are Mrs. John Borland, Mrs. J. West Roosevelt, Mrs. J. Hood Wright, Mrs. Edward H. Wales, Mrs. Reginald W. Rives and Mrs. John E. Alexandre. Members of the Amateur Concert Club, which in cludes Mrs. John Henry Hammond, Miss Beatrice and Miss Constance Pratt, Mrs. W. B. Osgood Field, Miss Eleanor Alexander, Mrs. H. W. Me Vickar and Mrs. H. Mason Raborg, visited the Bowery Mission last night and sang and played for the entertainment of the frequenters of the mission. Dave Hennen Morris, Miss Gladys Rice and Miss Marie Keickhoefer played a trio for violin and ‘cello; Lawrence Butler, son of Mrs. Prescott Hall Butler; Miss Dorothy Innes and Mra. E. Berry Wall, sang; Miss Mary Gaylord played the harp, and there were recitations by Miss Cornelia Barnes and Evert Jansen Wendell. Dr. and Mrs. W. Seward Webb have returned to town from Shelburne, their place in Vermont, where they spent the Christmas and New Year holidays. Dinners were given last night by Mrs. Richard Mortimer, by Mrs. Lucius K. Wilmerding, by Mrs. Ogden Mills and by Mrs. Warren C. Beach. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has issued invitations for a dinner on January 21 at her home, In East 75th street. Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs has left town, and is now in San Francisco. Mrs. Frederick Pearson gave a luncheon yestar day, at her home, in West 57th street. Mrs. Charles H. Marshall will give a large theatre party this evening for her daughter, Miss Evelyn Marshall, a debutante of the season. A supper will follow at Sherry’s. Mrs. Frederic J. ds Peyster will give a dinner at her home, in East 86th street, on January 23. Miss Caroline Delafio, who has been ill with typhoid fever at the Washington Square house of her father, Eugene Delano, is nov" om the road to recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Giraud Foster left town yasterday for the South. MONUMENT TO BENNINGTON DEAD. Sailors Killed in Explosion Honored in Na tional Cemetery at San Diego. San Diego, Cal., Jan. 7.—In the presence of thou sands, including the officers and sallers of the Pacific squadron and citizens of San Diego and other cities. the memorial monument to the Ben nington dead was unveiled at the National Ceme tery, on top of Point Loma, this afternoon. The plain shaft stands within the plot where are buried most of those who lost their lives in the explo sion on the gunboat, July 21, 153, and is composed of seventy-four slabs of San Diego County granite roughly dressed and towering $0 feet above the con crete base, capped by a pyramid of polished granite. The principal speech was made by Admiral Good rich. commandant of the navy yard, who was com mander of the Pacific squadron at the time of the accident. An address was made by Colonel R. V. Dodge, president of the Bennington Memorial As sociation. and a closing address and benediction were delivered by Bishop Johnson. SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT. {By Telegraph to The Tribune. Newport, R. IL, Jan. T.—Edwin D. Morgan, whe has been here to inspect his summer estate, started for New York to-night. Henry F. Eldridge, after a few days’ visit, has returned to New York. William Watts Sherman, who is a member of the Newport City Council, was here on Monday to attend the inauguration exercises. He returned to New York to-day. Miss Mary Appleton and Miss Frances Skinner, who have been visiting cottagers here, have ra turned to New York. FUNERAL OF THE REV. DR. STAFFORD. Washington, Jan. 7.—The funeral of the Rew. Dr. D. J. Stafford, for many years pastor of St. Patrick's Church, in this city, was held in that edifice to-day. The burial was at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Vice-President Fairbanks, Speaker Cannon, many Senators and Representatives, fus tices of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of the District of Colum bia, Cardinal Gibbons, Monsignor Falconlo and many others notable in the Catholle Church and in other religious flelds were among those present. President Roosevelt sent a wreath of carpations and lilles-of-the-vallay from the White House consarvatory. REGULATING THE SUPPLY OF CURRENCY. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In this morning's issue you quots with ap proval President Garfleld's statement that “No currency can meet the wants of this country that is not founded on business.” Here {3 something else he sald which is equally true: “There never did exist on this earth a body of men wise enough to determine by any arbitrary rule how much currency is needed for the business of a great country.” We ought to bear this in mind at the present time, when it is proposed to clothe the Controller of the Currency, the Treasurer of the United States and the Secretary of the Treasury with au thority to determine whether such an emergency exists as would justify the issue of additional bank circulation. Were our banknote issues based upon comumer cial paper, with a safety fund, a gold reserve, and if a proper system of redemption were provided for, business transactions themselves would infal libly regulate the supply of banknotes. The de mand for currency expresses itself through the banks just as the demand for meat fs expressed through the butcher shops. Let us also bear in mind, especially in a country of such vast extent as ours, that the granting of bank credits—whether in the form of banknotes or otherwise—can be regulated most efficiently by bankers whe know their clients by dealing with them face te face. ELMER HN. YOUNGMAN, Editor “Bassers' Magazine” New Yori, Jan. 7. 1908 NEW YORK SOCIETY.

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NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNES AN EMPERORS GIFT. Tokay Vines at Lord Harewood’s Ancestral Home. foepyTight, 1808, by the Brentwood Company. Al rights reserved.) i

Lord Lascelles, who has just come over here to $o'n the staff of the Governor General of Canada, and who i= Ukely fo be seen pretty freduently in the states during his stay on this side of the At the eldest son and heir of the Earl of and while he has been recently con with the diplomatic service as an attaché, held commission in the Grenadier which his father and so many of his had belonged. But he severed his con with the regiment following unpleasantness

[Hip in relation 10 a “ragging” scandal, in the course of which he was compelled under pressure to ad mit that ke had been subjected io malitreaiment and sbuse owing to his disinclination to go out with the brigade drag. In one word, Lord Las celles dif not hit it off well with his fellow officers, and accordingly left the army.

The family of Lascelles is one of the oldest in Yorkshire, where it has held prominent rank and enjoyed great prestige ever since the reign of King Edward I, seven centuries ago. The earldom, how ever, is of relatively moderna origin, having been created a little over one hundred years ago in favor of Edward Lascelles, who was the intimate friend of Maria Theresa's son. Emperor Joseph 11. The latter presented to the first Lord Harewood some Tokay vines, which the earl planted in 1783 st Harzwood House, his place in Yorkshire, and which gione of their kind in the United Kingdom till yield a quantity of delicious grapes every veer The first Lord Harewood inherited a vast fortune from his father and uncle, amassed by

i in the West Indies, especially in Jamaica Barbados. Harewood House is ene of the est country seats in Great Britain. It was in the reign of George III, from designs by A and Carr, an the site of an ancient manor house known as Gawthorpe, and is famous for its superbly painted ceilings. The unigne collec sion of old Sevres, old Dresden and Crown Derby porcelain, vaiued by experts at considerably more than $100,000. which was once the glovy of the place, has been sold by the present earl in order to get rid of the heavy incumbrances on his property. Harewood House stands in a great deer park of several thousand acres, and the present Lord Harewcod enjsys cosmopolitan fame a= ope of the pillare of the English Jockey Club andl as one of the greatest authorities on all mat ters connected with the turl

One of his half-brothers, the Hon. Eric Lascelles, died ss travelling showman some years ago at Broadway, in Worcestershire, from the effects of drink. His behavior had been such as to compel hic relatives to decline io hold anv further inter course with him, and he degenerated into 2 drunk en and pinniless itinerant showman, treated by the authorities 2s a vagrant and looked dovm upon by evervhbody. The inguest showed that he had been found dead in his gypsy cart from the combined effects of liguer and want. Another half brother, the Hen. Francis Jobn Lascelles, now happily married, kilied his Chinese cook in a fit of temporary insanity while out ranching in Brit jeh Columbia, was tried for murder and committed 1g an asvium, from whence he was subsequently discharged as cured.

i A more distinguished member of the family is Sir Frank Lascelles, the British Ambassador at Beriln. Sir Frank married the daughter of oid Sir Joseph Cliffe, Irish phwsician to Napoleon III and to the Duc &e Morny, who is portrayed br Alphonse Daudet in his novel, “The Nabob,” in a singularly malignant and slanderous manner under the transparent pseudonyme of “Dr. Jen kine” Sir Frank's daughter is now married 1° Sir Cecil R|pring Rice, long attached to the em bassy at “Washington, who has now been win wing his spurs by restoring British infiuence at Teheran. For it must thoroughly be understood 1hat all the constitutional troubles which have re cently been taking place in the Shah's capital have had as their result the destruction of the former Nussian preponderance, the elimination from power of all those native dignitaries who are noted for their Russophile leanings, and in the establish ment in office of the friends of England. to whom indeed the now viciorious constitutional leaders and champions have been looking ever since they started their agitation for a parliamentary form of goyernment.

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bed 1 POYAT, FYES AND JAWR. Nations have a right to expect of their rulers that ther should be far sighted Gustaf V of Sweden. who has just succeeded to the throne, is, however, extremely near sighted, and enjoys the distipetion of being the only mow actually reign ing monarch of Europe who is unable to see with oul glasses. Spectacles, while they may contribute t» an air of erudition and learning, for which rea =on they are invariably worn by the literati of Ching, ars not conducive to majesty. Nor do they 24d to the impressiveness of a military uniform. In fact, they are incougruous when Worn with she latter, and under the circumstances it would be preferable for the King of Sweden to keep to civilian clothes instead of affecting the dashing cavalry regimentsls which he prefers 1o every cther garb.

True, the Grand Duke of Luxemburg is also very short sighted, and while still in possession of his mental and physical faculties was accustomed to wear a pince-nez But for two or three months rast he has been lying completely paralyzed, in an 2bsolutely hopeless condition, bereft of all powers movement and even of reason, ths government being carried on in his name by his clever wife and his ministers. Indeed, the only reason why no regency has been appointed is the desire to avert the pretensions thereto of Count Merenberg, son of Prince Nicholas of Nassau by Mme. Doubelt, wife of oid Generzl Doubeilt, who was chief of the secret police In Russia, and daughter of the Mue covite poet Pushkin The Grand Duke of Luxem burg can hardly be iooked upon, therefore, &s an gctive ruler, and has long since disappeared from public view.

Two monarchs only in Eyrops affect the mon ocle, namely, King Charies of Portugal and the King of Wirtemberg, who before ascending the throne was -dashing cavalry officer. King Ed ward, sithough often portrayed in foreign comic papers as wearing an eyeglass, has never made use of any such 2id to his vision. King Leo poid wears glasses only when reading, and the izte Queen Victoria used 10 wear spectacles dur ing the clesing years of her life. Xing Alexander of Servie was so short sighted as to be almost blind, and was completely dependent on the very powerful lens of his spectacles and pince-nez. And eo, too, is Prince Louis of Bavaria, the eldest #on of the octogenarien Regent and eventual suc cessor to the throne of the crazy King Otto. There &re no longer any entirely blind rulers in existence. For the Landgrave of Hesse, although enjoying sovereign rank, no longer possesses any throne, and the handsome old Grand Duke of Mack lenburg-Strelitz, who was sionhe blind for fifty years of his life, has been gathered to his fathers, Another blind king was the last ruler of Hanover, end the pathetic spectacle which this extremely handsome and ehivalrous looking old monarsh pre rented in 1866 won the battlefield of Langenzalza, which signalized the loss of his crown and thse ennexstion of his dominions by Prussis, has its only parsliel ip history in the participation of the blind King of Bohemia in the battle of Crecy.

Shortsightedness is not the only physical disad vantage under which the new King of Sweden la bore. He is likewise afflicted with that somewhat unusual defect known as barred teeth, and it is coubtful whether there is any royal personage who has suffered more cruelly at the hands of dentists than Gustavus V. Barred teeth, I may add for the benefit of the uninitiated, is a species of malforma tion of the jaw, which, among other things, pre vents the removal of any tooth without its having teen previously crushed to pleces and pulled out in fragments Gustavus was a patient of the late Dr. Thomas Evans, the famous Philadelphia dentist of Napoleon IIT and cf Empress Eugenie. Evans was frequent visitor at Stockholm, and Gustavus made many trips incognito to Paris for the purpose of being treated by the doctor, put nothing that the

the present king from wholly distorting his mouth, as BIE MOTHER A CHINESE LADY. published of him at the time of his accession. Inesmuch sas G. Macartney, the British Consul Washgar, in Chinese Turkestan, who is decorat ed with the Order of the Indian Empire, is return ing home to England from his post this month by way of Americas, it is hoped that no difficulties wil! he made to his landing at San Francisco and that he may not be held up there as Chinaman. Ms. Macertasy ia of mized parentags, his mother having been a Chinese lady of one of the sreat families of Nanking and a cousin of Sir Li Ching Fong, the new Envoy of the Chinese Emperor to the Court of St. James's. Macartney not only had a Chinese mother, but was born in China, at Nanking, where his father, the late 8ir Halliday Macartney, who died while sec retary and counselior of the Chinese Legation in London, was director of the imperial arsenal. Sir Halliday’s Chinese wife was the daughter of one of the principal mandarine of Nanking, and re tained her national religion instead of becoming a convert to Christianity. She died after giving birth to a girl and to a boy, the present Brit i=h Consul at Kashgar, 2nd was buried at Nanking according to native rites, a beautiful pagoda mark ing her grave. The fact of Geerge Macartney belonging, through his mother, to one of the best families in China naturally causes the Chinese dignitaries and na tives in Chinese Turkestan to regard him with ex ceptional good will and respect. Moreover, it en abies him to fathom the mysterious depths of the Chinese character to an extent altogether beyond any European or American who does not happen to be half a Chinaman himself. It is to him that the scieniific world is indebted for the wonderful collection of Central Asian MSS. which bears his name. He is indeed one of the most able and re markable of England's splendid corps of civil ser vants in India and Central Asia, and will probably be knighted and converted into “Sir George” Ma cartney before he returns to his post at Kashgar. MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. HARILEN OPERA HOUSE. Mr. Pinero's well known play. “His House Im Order,” which contains some bright dialogue and is an example of neat construction, will shortly be presented by the stock company at the Harlem Opera House, Miss Morgan and Mr. Craig enacting the leading parts in it.

ALHAMBRA THEATRE. Jouis Mann begzn a week's engagement here last Monday in a version of “All On Account of Eliza,” and was cordially received. Laddie Clift, an English boy performer, who was at the Colonial last week, is another pleasant feature of the bill Nellis Florede and the Six English Rockers, Mavme Gehrue, Rice and Provost and Kelly and Tinee particinate in the performance, COLONIAL THEATRE. ¥vmack, “England's chameleon comedian,” fis the particular attractien this week at Mr. Will jamsa's Colonial Theatre, where he is amusing large audiences by his “lightning changes.” Miss Ethel T.evey is on the bill. She sings a number of new songs that rarely fail to find favor. “Joe” Welch, 2 pepular impersonator of Hebrew charac ters, offers soma novel reflections and eccentric speeches. Besides these there appear Ryan and Richfield, Donald and Carson, the Binns, the Coun 1vv Choir 2nd Kartelii

FEN MIISFEFFE A iifesize figure of King Gustaf of Sweden has been added to the group of statues at the Eden Musée representing “The Rulers of the World.” The members of the royal family of Sweden ars persons of uncommonly massive build and lofty stature, and this new effisy is signally conspic uUOUS.

NEW YORK THEATRE. This is the last week here of that pleasing singer, Vesta Victoria. She sppears twice every day. One of her songs that has found particular favor is called “Dreamy Eyes.” As an extra spe cial feature she is singing this week several of the cold ballads in her repertory. Whit Cunliffe, Kitts and Windrum, the Le Carmen group of per formers, Jordan and Harvey, Ida Fuller in fire dances and Mme, Emmy's happy family of fox serriere con*r’bute io the merriment

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TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. Persons in quest of varied and inoffensive hilarity can always find it at Mr. Pastor's little playhouse in 14th streets The bili there is changed weekly, and thers are two performances daily. This week the chief performers are the Fitagibbon-McCoy rio, Jeanette Dupre, Emerson and Baldwin, Billy Broad. the Kramers, Webb and Norton, Hathaway and Sigel, Mrs. Jules Levy and family, Arthur Ynie and company, the Carlisles and Bernier and Eakin

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VICTORIA THEATRE. The chiel attraction at Mr. Hammerstein's Vie toria. Theatre this week is a Japanese wrestler named Hitachiyama. He and his six “Sumo” wres tiers give an interesting exhibition of wrestling as it is done in c¢ld Japan. Mr. Hammerstein, as usual. has provided for various tastes, and those who may not find wrestling to their liking will un doubtedly be pleased by the performances of such players as Sidney Drew, Truly Shattuck, Felix and Claire, Johnson and Wells, the Kinsons and the Sleed pantomime company. i

TEI EARMONIC HALL. There are two exhibitions here every day. For the benefit of those who may not have heard of Tei harmonic Hall, it is made known that that place of amusement is situated at Broadway and 39th st. There the telharmonic system of music is explained by competent lecturers, and concerts are given twire every day, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and at 8-20 o'clock s&t night. VIRGINIA 1 AWYERS INVITE TAFT. Washington, Jan. 7.—Secretary Taft was invitec to-day to address the annual meeting of the Vir zinia Bar Association at Hot Springs on August 6. He will give his answer on Monday. The invitation was extended at the White House, in the presence of President Roosevelt, by a committee from the Bar Association headed by W. R. Meredith, of Richmond. Vea.

MISS PALMER TO WED ENGLISHMAN. Rv Telesranh to The Tribune. {By Telegraph to The Tribune. Colorado Springs, Col.,, Jan. 7.—Miss Eisie Palmer, eldest daughter of General William J. Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs, will soon marry Leopold Hamilton Myers, eldest son of the late Frederick William Heary Myers, of Cam brides. England. CHARGES WHICH SHOULD BE DISMISSED. CHARGES WHICH SHOULD BE rom The Outionk January 4. From The Outiook January 4. The Commissioners of Accounts have not as yet formally preferred charges against the Board of Water Supply, but théy have issued a report in which they give notice that they will formulate charges and give the grounds for their action. Surely such grounds ought to be explicit and con vincing., Surely an enterprise of such magnitude should not be imperilled on grounds that are trivial or meagre. ‘“The Qutlook” has tried to get from the Commissioners of Accounts the full text of their report, but has received word that no copies are available. It has applied to the Board of Water Supply, but has received the astounding in formation that the board against which charges were to be directed had not even been considered in the distribution of the report, though some at least of the daily newspapers had been supplied with it. The board has at last received a single copy, after one of its members had preferred first a request and then a demand for it. We leave our readers to form their own opinion as to this pro ceeding. In the mean time “The Outlook” must rely upon the fairly full newspaper abstracts and quotations. The specific charges ars twe: (1) That in the matter of letting the contract for the buildi of the Ashokan Dam the members of the Board of Water Supply “failed to take such steps to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of the statements made to them by their chief engineer and con sultants as would be expected of ordinary business men of experience”: in other words, that the board in deciding on technical questions acted upon the unanimous advice of experts who stand at the head of their profession. (2) Phat the presi dent of the board had given to the business of the board “but scant portion of his attention’'—more specifically, that be did not go to the site of the gam and to the headquarters of the board as often as the commissioners thought he ought.

“The Outlook” has carefully examined the full transcript of the testimony on which these charges are based. Not only are the charges themselves trivial, but the report to the Mayor from the Com missioners of AcCounts in which the charges are made grossly misrepresents certain important por tions of the evidence. We do not believe the Mayor will regard the charges seriously. The first is merely the pitting of a iawver's view of an en gineering question against tiie view of a solid phalanx of engineers, From the lowest engineer on the aqueduct to the most expert of the con sultants the view is practically unanimous that the contract for the dam Was rightly awarded; that ths lowest bidder was fnexperienced in dam eonstruction, that his bid was too low, that the acceptance of his bid would have resulted in

fulness and delay. As to the second charge. vg A fs plain. The work of the Board of water Supply is to be judged by its fruit and not by the number of times its members sit in their office chairs. Its ach so far come near to being unprecedented; it is both unreason able and unjust to apply to Suh board the tests may be readily seep by the pictures which were that are suitable for office We do not know whether some personal quarrel, some political ambition, or mere mania for in vestigation, has been the cause of putting this hoard fire and of the construction of the St in and Pl hatever the cause, wa hope that the Maver, who deserves great personal educt, put an en ect from fi dis tn the seandal and the city's Pro NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1908.

DR. WORTHINGTON DEAD Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska Ea mires in France. Word has been received in this city of the death at Mentone, France, of George Worthington, Bishop of Nebraska, who recently took charge of all the Episcopal churches on the Continent of Europe, where he succeeded Bishop Potter, who resigned. On account of heart trouble the Bishop had been unable to live in the high altitude of his diocese for a long time. About seven years ago he removed to Pittsfield, Mass., and divided his time between that place and New York City. While living in New York hé declined to draw the salary attached to his diocese, and was closely associated with Bishop Potter in many undertakings. George Worthington was born at Lenox, Mass, October 14, 1800. His life offers a striking illustra tion of a man whose business ability was turned to great service in the Episcopal ministry. Early In his boyhood he decided to enter upon a mercantlle career and came to New York, where he entered the employ of an uncle, making rapid strides in the STL TDN Tin. Juey SU BISHOP WORTHINGTON OF THE NEBRASKA DIOCESE. Who dileg in rrance. RE EEE a EEE business world. It is related of him that his uncle considered him one of the best bookkeepers in New York City. The young man, however, became in epired with a desire to devote his time and energy to the Church. and, against the advice of friends, who thought they saw before him a brilliant mer cantlle career, entered the ministry. He went to Hobart College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1860. He immediately entered the General Theological Seminary in New York and was graduated three years later. In the month that he was graduated he was ordained a deacon, and a year later consecrated as a priest. His early ministerial work was done in the churches of New York State, his first charge being that of assistant rector at St. Paul's Church, at Troy. Following his service in that town he went to Christ Church, Ballston Spa, where he became rector. Whila he was at thess places the energy and devotion which characterized all his later work be gan to assert themselves, and he was fnstrumental in building up both parishes to such an extent that by the time he was called upon to go to another field he was well known in the Church. In 1368 he was called to Detroit, wheres he became rector of St. John's Church, a position that he held until 1885. His work there in building up the parish immediately attracted attention, and scon led to his eall into the first councils of the diocese. In the early 7's he served twice as Bishop of Michi gan, where he was instrumental in bringing about the construction of many new churches. He was for several vears president of the diocesan stand ing committee, and was examining chaplain ani deputy to the General Convention. In 1883 he was elected by the House of Rishops Missionary Bishop of Shanghai, but declined. A vear later he was appointed Bishop of Nebraska. He also declined this place, but was reappointed at a spacial convention that was called almost im mediateiv. He finally accepted, and was conse crated to thet office on February 24, 1885. With the natural energy that characterized him the Bishop went to work, and soon proved by the growth both in numbers and in strength of the parishes in the Nebraska diocese the wisdom of the con vention that had made the appointment. He de voted his energies particularly to church building, and it Is said that he was prominently identified with the eonstruction of fifty-one churches, in ad dition to several parish houses and guild halls. To many of them he contributed generously of his own money, his methods of giving being such as were calculated to teach his charges the necessity of self-support.

One of the essential points that he always em rhasized in building up s new parish was the burden that a =mall debt might prove to be. Whenever ha contributed he did it with the un derstanding that his gift was only on condition that an amount sufficient to free the parish cn tirely frem debt should be raised by the members. As an evidence of his business ability it was re lated of him that while he was at Detroit Gov ernor Baldwin of Michigan and several local capi talists were in the habit of coming to him for ad vice. It is said that the Governor remarked once that the Bishop's advice in business matters never led him wrong. Another characteristic was his ability to place himself on intimate terms with his clergy and to gain their highest confidence and regard. In 1899 his health began to fail, and soon afterward he came East. His work in Nebraska has been carried on by tne Right Rev. Dr. Arthur Tv williams, his coadjutor.

Paris, Jan. 7.—The death is announced of Stanis las, Prince Poniatowski, head of the historic Pol ish house of that name. Two of his sons married American women. The eldest, who succeeds his father, married Miss Maud Goddard, of New York, and the younger, Prince André, married Miss Eliz aheth Sperry, of Stockton, Cal. Prince Stanislas Poniatowski was a well known figure in Paris during the Second Empire, when he heid the post of Master of the Horse to Emperor Napoleon III. He visited this country in the sum mer of 1832, spending several weeks in Newport, where he received many attentions. He was de scended from the old Lombardy Counts of Torellf, who emigrated to Poland in the sixteenth century, and on ths marriage of one of them with a daugh ter of Karl Peniatow took that name. In the latter half of the eighteenth century a Count Stanislas Ponlatowski was elected King of Poland, and all the other Poniatowskis became princes, the family continuing to hold a promi nent place in the affairs of that country until the early part of the nineteenth century.

Washington, Jan. 7.—Commander William Hale Driggs, U. N. (retired), died hers yesterday. He was an inventor of a breech mechanism now in use in the guns of the navy. He will be buried

at Arlington. ~mmander Driggs. who was fifty-nine years oid, Commander Driggs, who was fifty-nine years oid, was a native of Michigan, and was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from that state in 1885. He was zraduated in 1889, promoted to ensign in 1870, master tn 1872, lieutenant in 1876, lieutenant commander in 1887, and commissioned as commander and placed on the retired list in 198. During the war with Spain he was on duty am Ema Bt marl. Hartford, Jan. 7.—George J.. Chase, president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, died early to-day after a long period of feeble health due to old age. Mr. Chase was born In Millbury, Worcester County, Mass.,, on January 13, 1828, the son of Paul Cushing and Sarah Pierce Chase, of that village, and a descendant of Aquila Chase, who was also the ancestor of Salmon P. Chase, BSec retary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's first cabinet. George 1. Chase was graduated from the Millbury Academy at the age of nineteen and im mediately entered the insurance business, working for various companies for several years, and then PRINCE PONIATOWSKI. AAMMANDER W. H. DRIGGS. GEORGE L. CHASE, \IBUNE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1908. noasine far a while in rallroading in Ohio. engaging for a while in rallroading in Ohio. Returning to Connecticut in 1883, he re-entered the insurance field, and four years later was elected to the post that he thereafter continuously held. By reason of his long term of service he was one of the best known as well as one of the best equipped fire insurance men in the United States. Among other offices that he held were those of vice-president of the Hartford Society for Sav ings, trustee of the Connecticut Trust Company and director of the American National Bank of Hartford. He was a Republican in politics and a member of the Republican Club of Hartford. Iie was mar ried in 1858 to Miss Calista M. Taft, of Millbury. SAMUEL FESSENDEN DEAD Prominent in Connecticut and Na tional Politics for Y ears. hati oi ds cnt, po AR SE ibe ais SUR Stamford, Conn., Jan. 7.—Samuel Fessenden, of this city, a former State Senator, and one of the most prominent men in Connecticut, died here to day from heart disease. Mr. Fessenden had long been iil, but at times would appear to regain his former strength and would re-engage in his law practice and in his work as state's attorney for Fairfield County with his oldtime vigor. In the last three months, however, the relapses, due to kidney trouble, became more frequent, and brought about marked changes in his appearance, so that friends and family were not unpTepared for his death. Heart disease also developed, and this morning, in one of his sinking spells, his life ebbed away. Samuel Fessenden was a native of Rockland, Me., where he was born on Apri! 12, 187, one of twelve children of the Rev. Samuel C. Fessenden. He had two uncles in the lower branch of the 37th Congress. While a student at Lewis ton Academy Mr. Fessenden enlisted, in April, 1864, as a privafe in the Tth Maine Battery, ist Regiment Maine Light Artillery, served in the campaign of the Wilderness and until the end of the Civil War, being successively promoted to ser geant major and second lieutenant. After being mustered out Mr, Fessenden resumed his studies and was graduated from the Harvard Law School fn 1871. His family in the mean time having moved to Stamford, he began the practice of law in that city, and in 1880 was appointed state's attorney for Fairfleld County, an office which he held until his death.

Early in his public career he became active in politics, and was elected to the General Assembly in 1874 and 1879. In 1876 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention which nominate: Rutherford B.» Hayes for the Presidency: was again a delegate in 18%, and from 1834 to 1388 he was secretary of the Republican National Com mittee, taking active part in the Blaine campaign. It was one of the great disappointments of his life when that nominea was defeated. He was again a delegate in 1888, and when Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, was a candidate before the Republican National Convention, in 1808, Mr. Fessenden headed the Connecticut delegation. With Joseph Manley, of Maine, he was one of the strongest supporters of Mr. Reed, but when the McKinley boom began to gather strength Mr. Manley, believing his candidate's chances to be hopeless, climbed on hoard the McKinley band wagon. Mr. Fessenden, always noted for his dogged persistence in political affairs, was so en raged at this evidence of faint heartedness that he went over to his former ally, shook his fist in the Maine man’s fac\ and shouted, “Joe, God Almight¥ hates a quitter!” i

During his whole political life Mr. Fessenden cherished the ambition of going to the United States Senate. In 1999 he was a candidate before the General Assembly, and had Morgan G. Bulke ley as an opponent. It was a warm contest, and Mr. Bulkeley threw his strength to Joseph R Hawley and defeated Mr. Fessenden. In prepara tion for this fight Mr. Fessenden had sought and obtained an election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1897, and had been its Speaker In 1905 he went to the State Senate, Senator Haw: ley then being in ill health, for the purpose of tak ing part in the fight over the United States Sen atorship. Senator Hawley died, and Mr. Fessen i den, as a candidate, again had Mr. Bulkeley as ar opponent. The latter won.

Upon the death of Senator Orvilis 3. Platt, 3 fow months later, Mr. Fessenden was a third tims a candidate for the Senatorship, but withdrew, and {in the great contest which followed he at las threw his strength to Mr. Brandegee, who was nominated by the Republicans on the thirty-sev: enth ballot. Mr. Fessenden's withdrawal, it later became known, was due to failing health. He went to Europe for a time, but his disease could not be stayed. Ie kept at his practice, however, and appeared in court as late as in November.

One of Mr. Fessenden’'s most remarkable achieve ments az 2 lawyer was his success in collecting from the United States government Connecticut's claim for money spent in equipping and maintain: ing the state's quota of soldiers in the Civil War.

MR i _ A a —_"—_—_——.—.—. aa. The local authorities did not believe that the claim could be collected, and agreed to give Mr. Fessen den one quarter of whatever he might obtain. In 1903 Congress allowed the claim in full, amounting to 3606,560, and Mr. Fessenden received $151,840 as his fee. Mr. Fessenden was married in June, 1873, to Miss Helen M. Davenport, who died in 1995. He leaves two daughters and one son, three brothers and seven sisters. The body will be cremated, as was that of Mrs. Fessenden. There will be a public funeral at the First Congregational Church, in Stamford, at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Stamford, Conn., Jan. 7.—Samuel Fessenden, of this city, a former State Senator, and one of the most prominent men in Connecticut, died here to day from heart disease. Mr. Fessenden had long been iil, but at times would appear to regain his former strength and would re-engage in his law practice and in his work as state's attorney for Fairfield County with his oldtime vigor. In the last three months, however, the relapses, due to kidney trouble, became more frequent, and brought about marked changes in his appearance, so that friends and family were not unpTepared for his death. Fieart disease also developed, and this morning, in one of his sinking spells, his life ebbed away. Cincinnati, Jan. 7.—Judge Albert Seaton Berry, seventy-three vears old, Democratic politician and ex-Representative in Congress, died at his home in Newpert, Ky., last night from pneumonia. At the time of his death lie was judge of the Campbell County Circuit Court. While representing the 6th Kentucky District sudge Berry was the tallest member then in Congress, and was popularly known as the “Tall Sycamore of the Licking.” PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS HOTEL ASTOR—-E. O. Schermerhorn, Boston. BRESLIN ~Judge W. F. Beasley, North Carolina. GRAND—A. O. Chase, Philadelphia. HERALD SQUARE—W. Pickens: Johanieshurs, South Africa. IMPERIAL—Judge W. M. Titus, Massa

a es: FT WR THE WEATHER REPORT. Official Record and Forecast. Washington. Jan. During the last twenty-four hours a storm has advanced frem the Gulf of Mexico to Eastern Pennsylvania at tended by heavy rain in the Atlantic states, by heavy snow in the Appalachian Mountains, and by bigh winds alcng the coast from Florida to Maine. The centre of the storm passed Washington between 4 and 5p m. At that time the barometer read 28.94 inches, reduced to sea levei, and an extieme wind velocity of forty-one miles an hour was reached. The total rainfall at Washington up fo 5S pp m was 1.81 inch. At f p. m. the central area of the storm was circied by the isobar for ox X53 inches, and maxbiaum wind velocities of forty to fifty miles an hour had oc curred along the Middia Atlantic and New England coasts. During the pext twenty-four hours this storm will move northward and unite with a disturbance that is moving eastward over the Grea! Lakes. Fair weather ix indicated for Wednesday in the central valleys and ths Southern states. In the Northeastern states rain or snow wiil ba followed by clearing weather. in the lake region there will be snow in eastern portion and now Aurried and lower temperature in western portions. The winds on ths New England Coast ill be high from east to south, =hifting to west. on the Middle At lantie Coast, hizh, but diminishing from westerly: on the South Atlantic Coast. fresh and diminishing westerly: on the Gulf Coast, light and variable, 01 the lower lakes, high northerly winds will shift to westerly; on the upper lakes the winds will be brisk from westariy.

Rteamers departing Wednesday for Furopean ports will have high southerly. shifting to westerly winds, and rain or snow followed by fair weather. Storm warnings are displayed on the Atlantic Coast north of Virginia. Taverast for Special Localities. —For Naw England lo BR Sa ae ns aan Je is ie Sl Sie rain or snow to-day, colder near the coast; Thursday fair and colder; high southeast to south, shifting to west, winds. For Eastern New Yerk, rain or smow, followed hy clear weather to-day, colder in‘southern portion; high winds, shifting to west; Thursday fair. Tor Fastern Pennsrivania and New Jersay, clearing early this morning, colder in eastern portions; high but diminishi west winds: Thursday fair. For the strict of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, fair to-day and Thursday. diminishing west winds. Jor Western Pennsyivania and Western New York, fair to-day, except gnow flurries near the lakes, lower tem perature; Thursday fair. Local Official Record.—The following official recor. from the Weather Bureau shows the changes in the tem perature for the last twenty-four hours in comparison

ni poll dines Aste nf last veaar’: Local Official Record. —The following official record from the Weather Bureau shows the changes in the tem re for the last twenty-four hours in comparison iin tha corresponding date of last year: 1907. 1808. 1908. Manors noes BB M.ccccensne 28) 42 88 M.comorrnee 35 26! 9 an SA IR acsseres ool 34111 43 ENE re Misses smmns 08 Me cnsraness $2 Me..ovrrarsnes os 37112 p. Maes Bi oe Highest temperature yesterday, average, 40; 4D MWeoccohons 41 45 s OWES, «4, average re corresponding i last year, a. average for correspon date last thirty-three years, Local Forecast-—Rain or snow, followed by clearing and colder to-day: to-morrow, falr; wept. high winds, shifting tc JUDGE A. S. BERRY. THE EKNEISEL QUARTET. room, thus assuring the musicians of the homoge neity and the appreciativeness of this assemblage of those who enjoy pure music for its own sake. To have built up, by steadily deserving it, such a clientele, is not the least of the New York achieve ments of Mr. Kneisel and his associates. Bach, Beethoven and Smetana were the com posers drawn upon for last evening's entertain ment. The Bach quartet in G minor, which is not strictly a quartet at all, having been written for a small band instead of four single instru ments, headed the list and Smetana’s quartet, “Aus meinem Leben,” which is and ought to be heard a‘ least once in every concert year, concluded it. The middle number was the Beethoven trio in B flat major, Op. 97, for pianoforte, violin and violoneello, in which Mr. Kneisel and Mr. Wil leke were assisted by Mr. Harold Bauer. The scheme was a happy one, although its full sym metry was not revealed until after the Smetana music was under way, and had begun to intro duce a note of variety and of dynamic vigor in which the performance of the Beethoven trio was somewhat lacking. Mr. Bauer's pianoforte play ing. exquisitely tempered and refined as it was, seemed in the first movement of the trio to want assertion—the opening bars were quite inconse quent—and the work throughout, except in the final division, might have been made more com manding by the infusion of a little more energy; the effect was too continuously hushed and blood less. Yet there was throughout so nice a balance of the three instruments that the trio was heartily enjoyed.

In the Bach piece, which. whatever its omigin, was a welcome addition to tha list, thers is char acteristic ingenuity and invention, which the fom instruments proved well fitted to set forth, espe cially in the capriccio section. The Smetana quar: tet's autobiographical nature is well known, and its ardent thought, as transformed into terms of flowing melody that reaches the heart, has foi nearly a generation been beloved of musicians here ‘and in Europe. It was a presentation of keer and sympathetic insight that Mr. Kneisel anc his colleagues gave last night; the quality ‘of vouth sang in every measure, until the final movement ended in a spirit of musing beaut) that suggested the glowing embers of a once flam: ing fire of emotion. METROPOLITAN OPERA PLANS. The repertory for the ninth weck at the Matro politan Opera House will consist of operas that have already been perfornfed. “T.a Traviata” will be sung on Monday evening, with Mme. Sembrich and MM. Caruso and Scotti; “Die Meistersinger” on Wednesday, with Mmes. Gadski and Mattfeld and MM. Knote, Van Reoy, Coritz and Blass: ‘‘Tosca” on Thursday. with Mme, Emma Eames and MM. Caruso and Scotti] “Madama Butterfly” on Friday, with Miss Farrar and MM. Caruso and Straceciari, and “Tristan und Isolde” on Saturday afternoon. with Mmes. Frem stad and Homer and MM. Knote, Van Fooy and Blass. The opera for the Saturday evening performance at popular prices will be “II Barbiere di Siviglia,” with a cast that will include Mme. Sembrich and MM. Bonei, Campanari and Chaliapine. The soloists at the popular concert on Sunday evening will be Mmes. Gadsk! and Kirkby-Lunn and MM. Knote, Van Rooy and Blass. Mr. Hertz will conduct. Pol Plangon will sail for New York to-day on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie. Berta Morena and Marta Lefller-Burchard will sail from Hamburg en January 21. Mme. Morena will make her first ap pearance here in the revival of “Fidelio,” which will be sung under the direction of Gustav Mahler. The date of the first performance of “Don Gio vanni”’ this season will be January 23. The cast will include Mmes. Sembrich, Gadski and Emma Eames, and MM. Seotti, Bonet and Chaltapine, who will sing Leporello for the first time. There will be no increase in the price of the tickets for this per formance. TETRAZZINI TO OPEN IN “TRAVIATA. Mme. Tetrazzini, who will arrive on La Ler raine on Saturday, will make her first New York appearance at the Manhattan Opera House on Wednesday in “La Traviata.” It was in this opera that she made her success in London a few months ago. The tenor will be M. Bassi, while M. Ancona will be the father. M. Gilibert and Mmes. Zaccaria and Severina will complete the cast. Mme. Tetrazzint will also sing “La Traviata” at the Satuniay matinee. “louise,” with Miss. Garden, Mme. Bressler Gianoli and MM. Dalmores and Giltbert, will be heard again en Monday night. MPR ROCKEFELLER SETTLES SUIT. [By Telegraph to The Tribune. Cleveland, Jan. 7.—John D. Rockefeller, who has been fighting a $25,000 damage suit for two Years, gave notice to-day that he had agreed upon a settlement. The case grew out of the erection cof the tall Rockefeller Building. in the excavation for which the old Johnson House was injured by the toppling of its wall The owner brought the pe mAlIALTER RORN TO MANCHESTER. Dublin, Jan. 7.—The Duchess of Manchester, formerly Miss Ilelen Zimmerman, of’ Cincinnati, gave birth to a daughter on Sunday at Kylemore Castle. Married. Marriage notices appearing in THE TRIBUNE will ‘be republished in the Tri-Weekly Tribune witheut extra charge. BMITH —STIMSON—O2 Saturday, January 4 at the Manhattan Congregational Church, by tha Rev. Henry A. Stimeon, D. D.. Alice Mary Stimson, daughter of the officiating clergyman, to Wilson Fitch Smith. Notices of marriages and deaths must be indorsed with full name and address. Marriage notices appearing in THE TRIBUNE will be republished in the Tri-Weekly Tribune without extra charge. BMITH —STIMSON—O2 Saturday, January 4 at the Manhattan Congregat A. Stime=on, D. the officiating tonal Church, by the Rev. Henry D.. Alice Mary Stimson, daughter of lergyman, to Wilson Fitch Smith. Notices of marriages and deaths must be indorsed with full name and address. Death notices appearing 'n THE TRIBUNE will be republished in the Tri-Weekly Tribune without extra charge.

Babcock. Helen V. Brisley, Rebecca. Carpenter, Samuel Creugbaur. Lydia K. Dashiell, Susan E. DeNvse, Adrian B. Donnell, John. Dougherty. Grace Elffott John M Fessenden, Samuel Faorhes, William H. Hanly, Thomas Fernandez Julia F. Harned, Ruth A. Hart, Kilen M.S. Heiser, Maria Julland, Harrfet M. C. Kuett, George F. Nobis, Elizabeth T. K. OF Neil, James. Orton, Sarah A. Raynor, Adeline C. Robert W. Babcock. Helen V. Brisley, Rebecca. Carpenter, Samuel Creugbaur. Lydia K. Dashiell, Susan FE. DeNvae, Adrian B. Donnell, John. Dougherty. Grace Elffott John M. Fernandez Julia F. Fessenden, Samuel Faorhes, William H. Hanly. Thomas BABCOCK--At Oak Bluffs. Mass. on January Sth. Helen tanderberg Babcock, beloved sister of Jared S. Bab enck. luterment private. BRISLEY —On January 1008. Rebecca, oldest daughter of the late Willtam J. Brisiey. Funeral services at Chapel of the Home for Incurables. 185th st. and 3d ave. on Thursday. January mt 11 o'clock a. m. CARPENTER—On Tuesday, January 7. 1908. Samuel Carpenter, at his late residence, Spencer Arms, Broad way and 69th st, New York (Yty. Funeral services will be held at the Spencer Arms on Thursday evening. @th inst, at 8 o'clock. Interment in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia. Friday, noon, on arrival of 10 o'clock train from New York. Philadeiphia papers please copy. CREUZBAUR—On Epiphzny Day, January 6, Lydia Kirk, wife of Robert Creuzbaur and daughter of Eli and E. M. Kirk and granddaughter of Johp P. Palmer, of Phila deiphla Funeral services at her late residence. No. I33 Brooklyn ave, on Thursday at 10:30 a. m. Interment D Sunday, Jan Susan Emily, wife of the Rev. Aufred H. i. DD, ter of the late Sewail and Clarissa Stock Married. Died. Harned, Ruth A. Hart, Kilen M.S. Heiser, Maria Juliand, Husriet MQ Kuett, George F Nobis, Elizabeth RK. OF Neil, James. Orton. Sarah A. Raynor, Adeline C. Tavior. Ww. Ten Brook, Sasan H. Whitney, Mary L. i

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i i i! Neo. LL Wednesday evening, 8 o'clock. DOUGHERTY—On January 6 1908 Grace. wilew Bernard Dougherty. Relatives and friends are to attend her funeral from her iate residence. Talman st. Brooklyn, on Wednesday, January at a m. thence to Church of the Assumption, a solemn requiem mass will Se offered for the repose of her soul. Interment Holy Cross. BLLIOTT--On Monday. January 4. 1308, John M. BIfeE beloved husband of Elizabeth A. Brinsiow L 3 the late Alfred and Cecilia Eillott, aged Long Island. at 8 o'clock. FERNANDEZ On January 1908, Julia Fernandes, dence, No. 611 Emst Tth st, Flatbush, on evening, January at 8 o'clock. FESSENDEN—At Stamford, Conn., on January SESENDR- AC Samim, Chon, REET a services will ba heid at the First Congregational Church, Stamford, on Saturday, January 11, at 2 m. Inter mat at cmvenisncs of ye Sasilys omit Sow. FORBES—In the 334 year of his age. William H. Forbes, Fi NO A nt a January 8, at 1:30 o'clock. a F. and A. M., and members of Amphion Coun cil, RB. A. are respectfully invited to attend. HANLY—Suddenly, of on January 1908, Smi og I Rie g M Ig et BT husband of Jeremiah-Marchant Funeral ser ices will be held at his late residence. Nu. 120 Amit st. Brookiyn. on Wednesday evening. 32 o'clock. Members of Ploneer Lodge No. 20, FF. M., are invited to attend HARNED—At Rahway, N. J, First month Seventh, 1908, Ruth Anna Harped, widow of the ate armed, in the 57th year of her age Reiatives friends are Invited to attend her funeral at her Iate residence, No. 28 Fulton st. on Sixth day Friday). 10th instant, at 11 o'clock a m train leaving Broad st, Philadelphia, 8: am, New York at 9:23 a m. Please omit Sowers. HART Suddenly, on the morning of Tuesday, January at her home, Bilem M. Southwick, wife of James Hart, in her 7ist year Services on January g at 4 p. m.. at No 1 South Elliot Placs. Brooklyn. Interment private. St. Leuls, Philadelphia snd Wheel ing papers please Copy. daughter of the late C and Saran Helse, In the Sth year of her age i trom her iste dence. No. 858 Lexington ave on Thursday, January at 1 o'clock. 1908, JUTLIAND—On Sunday morning, Jamary Cambridge. N. Y.. Harriet M. Crocker, wife of the late Frederick Juliand, of Gresne. N. aged 53 Funeral services and interment st Greene, N. om Thursday, January 9, 1908 KUBTT—On January 9. at Paterson. after a short ness. George F. Ruett beloved husband af Mary RB Kuett. Funeral serviges will be held on Thursdar, January 9, at 2.15 p. m.. at his late residence. No. 515 Fast 38th st. Interment at Cedar Lawn Twain for Vreeland ave Paterson, leaves Pennsylvania Ferry at 234 st, at 12:55 p. m.: at Desbrosses or Cortlandt ef. at 1:10 p. m. NOBLE -At Carmel, N. 7.. on Tuesdar. January 7. 1908 Elizabeth Taylor Ketcham. beloved wife of Rev. Georges P. Noble and eldest daughter of the late EP. and Frances Taylor Ketcham. Funeral Thursday. January Pp at 3 p. m. Carriages will meat train leaving Grand Central Station, Harlem Division. 11:15 m.. Thurs Say. at Brewster, N. Y. Interment at convegience of amily O’'XElL—At South Orange, N. J. on January T. James O'Neil, aged 539 ysars. Notice of funeral after. ORTON —On Jasuary 7. after a brief iiness Sarah A. Orton, widow of the late Willlam HH. Ortom, nm the Toth year of her age. Funeral services af har late resi dence. Metuchen, N. J.. on Thursday, January 3 at 130 p. m. will mest train leaving Naw York via Penn. R. R. at 12:10 p. m. ii RATNOR-At Home for Incurables, on Japuary 7. 1980S Adeline Chardanoyne, daughter of the late Pryor and Richard Raynor. Notice of funeral hereafter TAYLOR—On Sunday, January 6, of nephritis, at his home. No. 142 West 48th st., Robert W. Tayler. M. D. 8s hy aged years. late residence on Wednesday afternoen, Sth inst, at 2 o'clock. TEN BROOK—At Tenafly, N. J.. on January 5. 1908 Susan MH. Tan Brook, widow of John Ten Brook. In the 94th year of her age. Funeral services at Tenafly on Wednesday, January on arrival of 10:13 train fom Chambers st. Boston and Salem papers please copy. WHITNEY -At Naw Orleans. Ta, on Saturday, January 4 1908. Mary Louise Whitney, daaghter of tha ada Charles Morgan. in the Toth year of her Funeral from her late residence, Tuesday, January th, 18 at 2% om.

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