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New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
THREE POWERS IN HARuoNY.

1t is now nearly three weeks since we had
occasion to speak Of the substantial agreement
of the United States. Great Britain and Ger
many on certain salient points of Chinese policy
Those points had relation exclusively to the
settlement of the Boxer business. 1t is now
possible to observe n still more marked agree
ment of these Powers upon a more general and
permanent policy, to be pursued not only in the
present contingency, but hereafter, as an estab-
lished thing.
The alliance, agreement compact or whatever
we may call it, which has been formed between
Great Britain and Germany provides that so
far those Powers can effect it all Chinese
ports and all Chinese territory shall remain
free and open to trade and TO every other Iegiti-
mate form Of economic activity for the peoples
of all countries without distinction, and that
neither Government will seek any territorial
acquisitions in China, but that both will strive
TO maintain undiminished the territorial integ-
rity Of the Empire.
More than two and half months ago. when
the situation at Peking looked blackest and
most hopeless, the United States Government
made a declaration TO all the world to this
effect I'VE adhere to the policy initiated by us
"in 1857 of peace with the Chinese nation. of
"furtherance of lawful commerce and of pro-
lection of lives and property Of our citizens.
". The policy of the United States is to
seek solution which may bring about perma-
'nent safety and peace 10 China, preserve Chi
"nese territorial and administrative entity
land safeguard for the world the principle of
equal and impartial trade with all parts of
"the Chinese Empire"
There is no occasion TO enter into any question
ing whether the two European Powers are fol
lowing our example and have united upon their
present policy because it was already the policy
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24

the most extensive and most arbitrary OF trusts
1t is a Good Lord! Good Devil!' record all the
way through There is not trace of sincerity
of earnestness. of conviction in it. In such
matters. as Senator Hoar says "Mr. Bryan does
not mean business
Note on the other hand, his persistence in the
free silver heresy. Two years before he be-
came a Presidential candidate, before he had
made his memorable choice between the White
House and the theatre stage, he introduced a
resolution into Congress intended TO place this
country upon a compulsory silver basis. -Four
years ago he ran for the Presidency on that as
a paramount issue. 1t was superior in impor-
tance to peace and war, to life and death. He
was engaged in a war of determination against
the gold standard in which there would be no
quarter given and there would be no cessation
until the gold standard was destroyed. He
meant to cry out against the gold standard as
long as God gave him voice to speak. In the
interval between the two campaigns OF 1896
and 1900 he harped continually upon that same
cne string. When the time for denomination
came he told the convention he would not ac-
cept the nomination unless the silver plank was
specifically repeated and reaffirmed in the plat
form; general reafirmation of the Chicago
platform would not be sufficient. And now,
though for prudential reasons he does not dare
10 Speak frankly upon SUBJECT, he gives uO
hint of relinquishing his free silver belief. On
the contrary. he says explicitly that he stands
to-day just where he stood four years ago upon
that subject Upon that. as Senator Hoar says.
he does mean business
Let there be no mistake about it. Whatever
the mask worn or the voice assumed, it is the
same old Popocratic party and the same Popo-
cratic candidate, with the same Popocratic de-
signs against the prosperity and honor of the
Nation that we met and vanquished in 1896.
Bryan, Altgeld and Croker-Free Silver, Anar-
chy and Corruption. Having failed to STAN
pede the Nation in the first wild rush under
their true colors, they seek TO inveigle it
under false colors. But the only business they
mean Is the old business of clipped coins and a
packed judicial bench. Those are the issues on
which they are in earnest. In respect to them
they 'mean business"
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
TON ZEPPELIN'S AIRSBJp

Last weeks experiments in aerial navigation
over Lake Constance resulted only little more
successfully than that of three months aeo
In the more elaborate of these recent trials
Count Won Zeppelin kept aloft for nearly an hour
and half without accident His airship carried
up an exceptionally large party Following the
example Of Langley, the Wtirtemberger CON
Quoted his test over a sheet Of water so that IN
case of tumble the machine would not ba so
seriously damaged as If it fell on land While
aloft the ship was manRuvred sufficiently m
show that she would mind her helm nicely. and
in certain details the steering gear was hotb
novel and excellent. The vessel maintained her
equilibrium perfectly. That is to say. the sus
pended boats stayed directly under the sustain
ing gasbag, and the longer axis of the craft re-
mained horizontal all the time. But as the wind
velocity did not exceed six or eight miles an
hour this was not remarkable. After drifting
TO leeward for nearly seven miles the airsbip
tried to beat back against the breeze but II was
able TO get only part of the way home before
night overlook 1t. Regarding the speed devel
oped, the dispatches are obscure and confic+ine
Although the engineer, Mr.. Wolf believes that
the craft was able to make seventeen miles a,
hour in calm, she does not seem to have done
better than ten or twelve. Evidently the record
made by Krebs and Renard, of the French arn,,,
in 1888 fourteen miles an hour was not beaten
Indeed. ii looks as if Won Zeppelin had tried n
run too big a ship with too feeble an engine
Santos-Dumont. the young Brazilian who is now
in Paris for the purpose of capturing the
Deutsch prize. If possible. has proceeded more
sensibly. He has a small ship but more
powerful motor relatively. Whatever NAV he
deemed prudent and practicable in the far
future, certainly during the evolutionary stage
of aeronautic science the true policy to observe
Is TO subordinate size to power. The gasbag
should be just large enough to sustain the ma
chinery, the requisite amount of fuel mini
mum of optical and other apparatus and only
one person. A colossal balloon like Won Zeppe-
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
PLANS FOR SHERMAN'S FUNERAL
HONORARY PALLBEARERS SELECTED-THE
SERVICES IN WASHINGTON AND
MANSFIELD

Washington. Oct. 23.-The honorary palIbearers at
the funeral Of ex-Secretary Sherman will be Sec
retary Hay, Secretary Gage. Justice Harlan of the
Supreme Court: Admiral Dewey General Nelson
A Miles ex-senator J. D. Cameron John A Kas
son. OF the State Department; Judge J. c. Bancroft
Davis, Justice A B. Hagner Of the District OF Co
lumbia Supreme Court and Myron NJ. Parker OF
this city.
invitations for the services in this city to such
members of the Diplomatic Corps as have left
cards at the house. Owing to the fact that Mr.
Sherman was not at the time of his death con-
nected with the State Department 1t is impossible
for the Department to issue a general official invi
tation to the Diplomatic Corps. II is the wish Of
the family. however, that all members Of the corns
now in Washington should feel themselves included
in the general Invitation
The funeral train will leave washtnv+o, .o
Mansfield, Ohio at $3.50 o'clock tomorrow after
The following were among the messages Of con-
dolence received at the Sherman home to-day:
M; NJ A Hanna,Please accept for the sorrowing
sincere sympathy in the loss sero o. my y most
termination of a noble and useful life. 'N0
John D. Long. Secretary Of the Navy-win you
the loss of your father? His long and ssithfIi
he won the admiration and respect Of the peopIe
statesmen % Of Re TfS ne 65 s4aia among the great
Murat Halstead-My sympathy extends "a all .b.
"a dsmHy: deeply feel the loss OF personal friend
r. A Alger. former Secretary OF War-Nrs AIear
sorrow " 'i sIeat
Representative Charles Dick, OF Ohio-Accept
my deep sympathy in the death of your disti9
guished father Ohio mourns the loss of a great
and good - s-S91
Count de Quadt; the German Charge d'Anaires
Count de Quadt begs to convey on thIs Occasion
the expression of his deepest sympathy to Mrs
McCallum, and feels sure that the whole Nation
VIII feel the great loss the country has susFsned
oat 6y the death Of the Hon. John sherman whose
great capacities and the services he rendered ~
his country were appreciated all over the world ~
From Santiago. Cuba-To the President ~ .h
Senate at Washington: The newspapers of frae
and independent Cuba deplore the death or t6e
III dustrious Sherman, defender of the Independence
The body Of Mr.. Sherman has been placed in a
neaVy plain black covered coffin. with silver han
dies. silver plate on the top bears the inscrt
ton
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24

of the United States are acting indepen-
dently of us and would have done just what
they have done if this Government had never
issued it's note of July 3. That does not matter.
What does matter is that Great Britain and
Germany have entered into compact TO uphold
and to promote a policy identical with that of
the United States, so that the three Powers are
brought into entire harmony.
1t is scarcely to be supposed that the United
States Government will relinquish its long estab-
lished policy just because two others of the
most friendly nations in the world have seen fit
to adopt it. 1t would not be wise nor reasonable
to change benefcent policy and TO adopt a
bad one just for the sake of disagreeing with
other nations.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
Ieto91ork Daily Gribnrte
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER "a, 1900
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The British Government has
leased from English contractors the harbor
works Of Chang -Wan-Tao, on the Gulf Of Lao
Tong for winter port; Ii Hung Chang mas
asked NJ Deicasse 10 replace NJ. Pichon with
another Plenipotentiary on account Of N.
Pichon's illness. concerning which the French
Government had heard nothing previously; the
French transport Caravane sank in the Inland
Sea after collision with a Japanese liner, three
Frenchmen being lost: the 18th Regiment has
departed from Peking. - Registration in
Porto Rico exceeded all expectations, nearly one
selves to vote. =- Frank Williams, an Amer
lean. was drowned while crossing a river in
Porto Rico. = Medical students who at
tempted to mob Dowie, the Chicago faith
healer" in London We're reprirlanded and fined
by police magistrate. = "A flibustering eX
pedition is said to be preparing at Kingston.
Jamaica. for the overthrow Of the Government
Of President Sam Of Hayti - The COM
plete suppression Of the revolution in San Do
nlingo is officially announced General Garcia,
the rebel leader, has surrendered unconditlon-
ally. - The rescued party from the yacht
AliTis left Kingston, Jamaica, on the steamer
EthelTed for this port; they suffered greatly and
had abandoned hope when picked up by the
Ethelred, thirty miles from Scotland Light.
DOMESTIC-Th President reached Canton,
Ohio. where he will remain until after Election
Day. - Arrangements for the funeral Of ex-
Secretary Sherman were completed. - Presi-
dent Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, in
spSGh Tn at neTs M65 sa %or again all by
Monday; the coal operators agreed to post no
tees explaining their position on the powder
at Wilkesbarre. - At the twenty-flfth ami
versary of Vanderbilt University the formal
presentation Of Kissam Hail. q gift from W. K.
Vanderbilt was made, with addresses by Presi-
dent Hadley, of Yale. and Chancellor kirkland.
== Governor Roosevelt continued his New
York State campaign tour through the counties
Of Ulster Delaware, Otsego and Chenango yes
terday. = Senator Depew made a flying cam
paign trip up the west bank Of the Hudson
CITY.-Stocks were in good demand. -
Winners at the Empire City track: Musette
Miss Hanover, Queen Carnival, St Simonian
Cresson and Watercure- == 1t was announced
that Cornelius L. Alvord jr., note teller of the
First National Bank, had defaulted in the sum
Of 100000. and was missing. - Assembly
man Henry c. Honeck. Of the XXth District, in
YorlCyille police court. was held in $1,000 bail for
a charge Of perjury and paroled in the custody
of his counsel a charge OF colonizing illegal
voters at mis- Rains law hotel. No pa East
Twenty -eighth-st. == 1t is probable that the
business men IN the lower parts Of the city will
observe the day Of the sound money parade as a
holiday.
THE WEATHER-Forecast for to-day:
Clearing. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
Il degrees: lowest, 61; average, 662s.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
JOHN SHERMAN.
May 10. 1923.
October -, 1900.

Hepresentauves OF the Loyal Legion. of which
Mr. Sherman was a member and ., +ho s. -
the American Revolution. will be present AZ ,bs
services tomorrow Special invitations have been
extended to the following friends In additfoD 70
those TO whom personal and general invitations
nave been issued: Mrs. Grant and NTrs S,..o-t.
ex-senator and Mrs, John B. Henderson, Mrs Rob'
srI ANDERSON ana the Misses Anderson, Mrs An
qenreld, Mrs. Edward Parker Wood M 80 NJ
John Sherman, ex-senator and Mrs QUAY and ~ ex <
Secretary and Mrs. John w Foster ~A' anu CA
The train bearing the body and tba r,a-.A "a
the 1amily and friends is expected to srrfts a. ~
Mansfield at 10 o'clock THURSDAY Tor,,,rst ~, az
!, s!ervlSes In the church there win be held ar
meeting Of Ohioans living in WashInqtor ,,,s
held to-day IN the office OF George W Wilson C" %1s
missioner OF Internal Revenue TO take sI1itobIo
action on the death OF Mr. Sherman AnnSon-Ite
resolutions were adopted @NpPtOpIidle
Alvey A. Adee. Second Assistant Sao-o4,- -.
state, has been chosen TO represent the esttS ot
PaPtment at Mansfield He will accomnsnv [Ie
oody from Washington to Mansfield ss ~1iiS 'nS
s5baoGOeK sbaS at one time private secretary 10 Mr IT.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
WBERE BRYAN is IN EARNEsT.

Senator Hoar doubtless expressed, with ad-
nlirable directness and lucidity, the exact truth
when he said last week that Mr.. Bryan does
mot mean business in this matter of i'm
''perialism and he does mean business in the
matter Of the free coinage of silver and the
attack upon the courts" The whole story of
Mr. Bryan's career as a Presidential candidate
confirms this view with convincing force. There
is not 4 note Of earnestness in the hollow mouth
ings about mitarism and Imperialism and trusts
unless it be In what ex-Postmaster-G General Dick
inson well calls the gospel of hate" The whole
thing is evidently and palpably trick. pre-
tence, trumped UP at the eleventh hour TO mask
If possible Mr.. Bryan's real designs and to
make the people forget, amid this wild and
empty clamor. the pernicious doctrines for
which Afr. Bryan stands and the disastrous
policy to which he is committed and which he
is pledged TO execute. Mr.. Bryan did not make
the introduction Of an "anti-imperialist'' plank
into the Kansas City platform a sine qua non
TO his acceptance Of the nomination. He did
not say there must be a plank against mill
tarism or he would not stand upon il. He
never said "Anti-trusts or nothing" No, but he
did insist upon a specific and exceptional re-
affirmation of the free silver demand as abso-
iutely essential IL he was 70 be the party's
candidate.
Upon these other matters he has played fast
and loose. He rails against the awful militar-
ism OF having one soldier TO every thousand cit-
Zens Yet he himself voluntarily entered the
Army and worked for its increase In size, and
some Of the chief advocates of military increase
are his close friends and party supporters He
declaims against the Treaty of Paris and
against the policy Of which that treaty is the
great charter. Yet he himself favored the rati-
fication of that treaty and urged HIS friends in
the Senate TO vote for il. He inveighs in his
shrlllest tones against the trust octopus Yet
the chairman Of his National Committee and
director Of his campaign is the head of one
trust; the man under whose guardianship he
placed himself IN New-York, and whom he him
self acclaims as the great leader of a great
party, is most extensively identified with one OF
the most wantonly offensive of all trusts. and
the man who was selected TO introduce him 10
his Hew-York audience was and Is the paid
attorney and serviceable champion Of one of
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24

Inns Is a shocking waste of money labor and
other resources 1t is not yet clear whether
steam or gas engines are preferable for this SER
vice; that is which will yield the largest amount
of power for the weight of the machinery Won
Zeppelin and Santos Dumont gas engines
and the Brazilian's made by the famous
Daimlers. But the ratio between pounds ana
horsepower is not so favorable in either instance
as it is in those marvels of mechanical engineer
ing. the steam engines of Langley and Maxim
STILL the competition in this respect can haroly
be considered closed. Where steam is USED no
doubt gasolene would be employed for fuel ana
the power thus developed by gallon OF mud
would not materially differ from that ootalneo
from 1t with a typical gasolene motor such as
operates many automobiles
In undertaking to establish standards of speed
and length of flight for airships. of course II is
necessary consider the character OF the service
to be rendered No we'll informed and sensible
person nowadays expects to see anything like
the commercial transportation OF passengers
and freight conducted by such craft. The ex-
pense would put it out of the question. Only
the lghtest imaginable loads can be carried.
Moreover, the chance of being overtaken by a
squall or gale which would treat airship as
it would an autumn leaf, is too great The wind
blew at the rate of seventy-sx miles hour
for few minutes in this city last week The
usefulness OF airships must always be limited
10 special times and unusual duty, therefore.
Adherence to a regular schedule, like that of
railway or a steamship, would be impossible.
Won Zeppelin has chiefly in view the utility of a
elf-propeed and dirigible balloon for military
purposes Obviously, such airship would be
superior to drifting or captive balloon. Again,
an alrship would be a valuable agent in particu-
lar kinds of geographical research, where ordi-
nary transportation facilities would be unavai-
able inadequate, in Arctic exploration.
Shorter flights would serve the former purpose
than would be required for the latter, perhaps;
but for both speed of twenty miles an hour
or more would be almost essential. And though
the nineteenth century will probably close with
out witnessing such achievement, the latter
cannot now be deferred much longer.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
MUSIC.
OPERA IN ENGLISH.

1t was found at the Metropolitan Opera House
last night that several OF Mr. Savages singers have
voices and notions OF singing and acting that adapt
themselves capitany to the strenuous styIe called
FOR by the composers Of the young Italian school
who have been digniied by the title of veritistsH-
Whatever that may mean in connection with opsr-
attic manners. The works given were ''CavaIieria
Rusticana' and Il Pagliacci'' Refinement OF ex-
preston. suavity and genteness Of utterance such
as are called for by Gounod's music Is not FOR
them, nor for their instrumental coadiutors but
for the full blooded strains OF Mascagni Mr.
SheehaD has voice and he may use IT as lavishly
and recklessly as the choristers are in the habit
or doing. yet count on hearty a reception as
he received last night without CHALLENGING the
ifs" and butts with which the reviewers have
felt obliged to pepper their pages whenever they
have discussed his singing The force in "CavalIera
Rusticana" is an elemental one and Mr. Shsehan's
gifts are also elemental Miss Strakosch's eouIp-
ment discloses itself larger and better with Zach
performance and last night, though she seemed a
olt under the weather. she achieved excellent re-
SUITS dramatically as well musically. 7 Pa
gllacci was given with fine spirit and was as
picturesque and moving any one could Wish
me declamatory style of the music enabled the
singers to make themselves intelIigible and the
absence OF old fashioned lyricism In text and set
ung made Tor the good of the experiment OF using
a language understood Of the people. In Leon
divided between Miss De Lussan Mr. BrozsI and
Mr.. PAUL.
New-York tribune., 1900-10-24
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