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New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
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SATURDAY. DECEMBER %, 1900.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Fierce storms raging around the
British Isles have done great damage to snip
ping and caused serious loss of life. --.t1, = FL
forts OF De Wet to break through the British
lines in the Orange River Colony ana go soutn
have been unavailing; an unconfrmed report IN
London said that De Wet had been captured;
Several British officers concerned in the as
aster of Lindey last May have resigned -
The Turkish Government has contracted Tor the
reconstruction of an Ottoman pattieshp d
Kiel in order TO meet demand for payment OF
German claims. - Many prominent natives
have been arrested in Manila alleged insu--
gents under General MacArthurs recent proc,
lamation. - The Emperor and Empress and
many princes attended the funeral Of Count Won
Biumenthal in Berlin. - There is alarm
among the planters of Barbados over an out
break Of incenoiarism- - A Copenhagen
dispatch says that the Danish Government is
about to submit fresh proposal to the United
States Government for the purchase Of the
Danish West indies; in Berlin it denied
that Germany is trying TO buy the Danish island
Of ST. John. in the West Indies.
DOMESTIC-The President has selected
Frederick Rittman, of Cleveland, TO succeed
Auditor Morris, who was killed by Samuel Mac
Donald =- Chairman Jones of the Demo-
cratic National Committee denied reports that
a movement was foot TO shelve Bryan as
party leader Senator Foraker replied to
ex-President Harrison on the Porto Rico ques-
tions == Educators are in session at Ann
Arbor. Philadelphia and Richmond. - 1t is
said that new State Forestry Department will
superseoe the State Forestry Preserve Board
and Forest Fish and Game Commission now
existing - The rnIlifarv Court of InoI1ir,,
which is investigating the hazing at West
Point viii finish taking testimony to-day; sew
eral cadets testified yesterday that "plebes''
had been haZed TO exhaustion.
cITY-Stocks were irregular and active. -
Devery. il announced, will fight his re-
moval; the trial Jf Captain Herlihy was begun
- The C0Toners jury held Davis Dean and
Marshall, formerly nurses in Bellevue Hospital
responsible for the death Of Louis H. Hilliard
who died in the pavilion for the insane. -
The Palisades Commissions report told of the
cessation Of Palisades blasting on Christmas
Eve, and of the steps taken to bring about that
result. - The lEtna Real Estate Company
bought property in Broadway, on which II will
erect thirty story building to be the tallest
IN New-York - A guardian ad tem was
appointed for the settlement Of the Walden
estate.
and colder. The temperature yesterday: High
est, 42 degrees: lowest, 80; average 3S.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
NO SCAPEGOAT WILL DO.

These are days Of much speculation about the
future of Chief Devery. Whether he is TO go
or not to go is the question on the lips of every
politician and patronage monger. The varying
fortunes Of the battle between President York
and the Chief are everywhere chronicled at
length. Just ar present Mr. York seems 10
have the advantage. Mr.. Sexton, as the repre-
sentative Of Tammany, is said TO have con-
cluded that political necessity calls for the
abandonment Of the Chief Mr. Hess can al
ways be brought around when the proper press
ure is applied. So the Board stands three to
one, and. with the Mayor, is able TO overrule
Mr. Abell whose friendship for Devery is at
tribGted to pigheadedness rather than corrup-
ton by all charitably disposed persons There
fore il is predicted by good judges that before
long Devery will have TO go
No doubt he ought TO 60 His management
OF the police force has been characterized by
the most open corruption. the most blatant dis
regard Of decency and the most impudent de-
nance or public sentiment Under him vice has
hourished more openly than for many years
before. When confronted with demands for
the enforcement Of tie law his favorite trick
has been 10 use che law an instrument for
the annoyance of respectable citizens and the
obstruction Of legitimate business. instead of
turning his attention 10 Intentional and yicious
lawlessness. Thus. when called on TO close m
the vile music halls which the law gave him
ample power TO do. he maliciousIy sought by
strained Interpretation of that law to perse-
ente the proprietors Of respectable hotels and
restaurants who served dinners at which music
was played. for the sole purpose Of making law
enforcement unpopular. More recently he
sought 70 protect vice by charges against re-
spectacle property owners who were expected
10 exert influence 10 suppress the anti-vice
movement. He has also sought 10 precipifate
disorder at elections. He is totally unfit for his
post anG ought 10 be removed. But likewise
The men who are now his special enemies or
have become ready 10 make him scapegoat
nre equally unworthy Of trust Satisfaction
over the possibility Of getting rid of Deverv
should not divert attention from the corrun,
system Of which he is merely a part
What claim has President York or his bactar
Hugh Mclaughlin 10 the consideration and re
spect Of decent citizens? Did they lust learn
that Tammany was wicked organization and
that corruption was rife in the police force? n,
course not. They have known of the evil all
along and entered into partnership with the
eviidoers
TheMcLaughlin machine in 1897. with a perfec
understanding of Crokerism as a system fo,
blaekmaflng. protection OF vice and use of off1cs
10 promote the private fortunes of politicians
helped TO place Tammany in power II ha stenet
TO divide the spoils. Mr.. York undertook to pre
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29

scarcely ineligible except to the eject ana
thus great science, whose pursuit ought u
enlist and entrance the multitude, was 'oo
generally neglected. Even ar seats OF learning
it seldom inspired an ardent devotion. Inc
Hon. Thomas Hedge, of Iowa. recalling MS col
lege DAYS at n recent Yale dinner referred TO
the late Professor Loomis as the instructor III
whose classroom we used to assemble three
times week to corroborate the lovely truths
of comic sections" The remark was piaylul
in FORM but very bitter in substance NOW,
however. all is changed. The mathemauclans-
present at yesterdays convocation completely
recovered from that state of pride and exclu-
siveness which formerly marked them as class
by themselves, listened with delight to dlsserta-
tions on such popular and almost frohcsome
themes as THE Complete Form System OF In
variants of the Group of 12O Quadrauc Gre
mona Transformati tions Of the Plane" ana Inc
'Colllmatons of Space Which Transform Nom
Degenerate Quadric Surface Into Itself
The pressure upon our columns forbids fur-'
ther consideration Of the occurrences, not all or
them stupendous or spectacular. which gave
yesterday n respectable and, when properly estl-
mated distinguished place in the annals OF
i'm
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
SEATS INSTEAD OF STRAPS.

We cannot altogether agree with CORE
spondent, whose letter we printed the other
day. on the subject of straps, braces or other
supports for standing passengers in streetcars.
1t is quite true that passengers crowd ABOUT
the doorway instead of distributing themselves
along the aisle, because of the difficulty OF keep
ing their footing where there is nothing TO lean
against 1t is true, too. that the straps in pres
ent use seem to have been devised with mali
cious ingenuity to be awkward and 1ncon-
venient and inadequate as possible. But the
cure for the evil is not, as our correspondent
suggests, to be found in any improved, enlarged
and extended system of straps or other supports.
No; the cure is to be found in seats, not straps.
Give every passenger seat, and seat sepa-
rated by arms or rails from its neighbors. Then,
when every seat is occupied, forbid any more
passengers TO enter the car. and make it mis-
demeanor for them to do so. punishable by fine.
That is the admirable principle established in
England, where it has been judicially declared
that passenger paying a fare is entitled to a
seat and, occupying the seat, he is entitled to
the enjoyment of it and of light and air; and
that any person who enters the vehicle and
stands in front of seated passenger is infring-
ing upon the latter's rights and is therefore
trespasser and msdemeanant. That is sound
sense and sound law there, and 1t should be
sound law, as it certainly is sound sense, here.
Oh, but it would be physically impossible, say
some, to run enough cars to give every passen-
ger a seat. Credat Jud@us Apella. To our
mind that objection is completely answered by
the fact that the transportation companies de-
cline refuse otherwise fail to provide sufi-
cient cars to give each passenger a seat at times
when it is most obviously possible and easy to
do so. When surface cars are run eight or ten
minutes apart and crowded to the dashboards
we say it affronts intelligence to talk of the
impossibility of providing seats for all When
elevated trains of two cars are run ten minutes
apart, packed and jammed, it is worse than
folly to say the company cannot give seat for
each fare. The fact is. the companies do not
try to provide seats for all, or as many seats as
possible What they do try to do is to crowd all
their patrons into as few cars as possible, and
to make1as many stand as possible. When they
reform their ways and honestly try to give seats
to all it will be time to discuss the physical
Limitations in the case.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
PURLJC SPIRIT IN THE CITY HALL.

Mayor Van Wyck has not usually shown
disposition 10 find fault with Democratic mem
bers of our local legislative bodies; but even his
patience seems to be worn out at last. When
delegation of well known citizens called upon
him to protest against the dangerous delays IN
enlarging the Brooklyn water supply he did not
reproach or abuse them. as he was in the habit
of scolding committees and representatives of
taxpayers earlier in his term. Strange TO say,
he admitted that these taxpayers had good
ground for their complaints, and advised them
TO use every legitimate means TO defeat for re-
election the Councmen and Aldermen who had
shut their ears to the just demands OF those
who suffer from the rapacity and perversty of
members of municipal organizations that block
necessary public Improvements in order to pro-
mote their own selfish schemes.
1t is somewhat late in the day for our obsti-
nate Mayor to adopt broader view of his
duties and responsibilities. But on some things
at least he seems at this time to be taking
warning from the forcible evidences of public
awakening and indignation as to local misgov-
ernment For long time his utterances in the
City Hall gave the impression that he was de-
termined TO use his high office solely for the
enrichment Of Tammany leaders and favorites.
1t became the prevailing belief that he was too
obtuse and stubborn to realize that he might
sink out Of sight in quagmire of obloquy and
would destroy his career unless he mended his
official ways. His eyes were opened in some
measure when Governor Roosevelt took prompt
and determined action after Croker and Devery
had attempted TO provoke not only disorder but
actual rioting on Election Day last month. The
Governor called the Mayor TO account in a man
ner which left no room for evasion or delay
The Chief Executive of the city speedily made
up his mind that his removal was certain unless
he exerted himself TO prevent the mob violence
which Croker and Devery had sought to incite.
Our Mayor is not yet meek and lowly enough
when it is pointed out to him that the people
| demand that he protect the public interests.
| Nevertheless he has made progress. May he
go on in the right path, and not become back
slider! He and his subordinates will discover. if
they do not know it already, that this city is
greatly stirred, and that better things will be
required from our local officials than in the past
There is Commissioner Dalton, the chief of the
Water Department, for instance. He is sure to
get into trouble If he lends himself to Ramapo
| schemes to the injury of the common welfare.
The Mayor has another year before him in pub
lie station. Unless he does what he can to make
1t happy new year for honest citizens he will
be condemned from Jamaica TO Mount Vernon.
Will he bring forth fruits meet for repentance?
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
Amnsrments.

AcADEMY OF MusIc-2-s ;i5-Monte cristO
AMERICAN :15-Fausf.
BIJOU-2-S.2o .2o-Madge Smith
BROADWAY Observation-Disclosures Royal Rogue
CARNEGIE HALL-S-The Messiah
CASfNO--2-S: :ls-f lorodora.
CRITERION THEATRE-2-S-Tbe Cay LORD Qoeh
DALY's THEATRE-2-s:l5-Lady HuntwoTtns HNpe''
mert
EDEN MUSEE-The World In Wax
EMPIRE THEATRE-2l5s2S ST1set' x-,,. rs
FOURTEENTH STREET THEAfRE~-z- zine N'4'Ne
Postmaster
GARDEN THEATRE-2-s-Hsmlet-
csRRIcK THEATRE-2:I5-s:l5-Da Harunl
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-2:1s-S-fhe Old Hoines'e~u-
HkRI-EM OPERA HoUsE-2-s-Zsza. ..
HERALD SQUARE THEATREc-2.2o-s;2o -
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-2-s -2-sehnee"ittonehE-'
Cross Hartmann
KEITH S-con tnuOus Performance
rcNICKERBOCKER THEATRE--2-Ss-L4ie 4ieion-
ROSTER & BIALsS-2-S-FsudevlDe.
IvCET-G TKEATRE-2:l5-S:Se-A Royal Eafnilg
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2-s'so-Ihe hOise
That Jack Butt
NETRoPoLTTRN OPERA HoUsE-2-La Boheme-s-
afl-RRay HILL. TREATRE-2-s-L&ttle Lord Fsunfle-
rsryw-voRK T5EATRE-2-s-The eddy 7'hrong.
PsSrOR'S-Day snd Night-Continunus Show
PROCTOR S-Conf,nuous Performance
.2O-s 2e-The Sprtghtly Romance OF MAJ
eav0Y-2.2o .2o-Mistress Nell
81 Nf~FTOIsAs SIX TING RINK-s:l5-Hockey Match
VICTORIA-2:s5-S3 30-Aiiss PTinnt. -
EVsLI.ACK's 5-S:3o-Janice Meredith
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side over a Police Board pledged TO wide
open' town For years he has sat quietly and
enioyed his share of the good things OF the
Deyery administration, and turned a deaf ear
TO the appeals even of his personal friends 10
his sense OF decency, his honor as citizen his
feelings as a father and his duty as ehurcA-
man 10 stop the police partnership WIN VICE
He pretended that he could not see anything
wrong hut suddenly in an unguarded moment
admitted that the vice which he often said
could not be suppressed hourished only because
it was protected, and was protected only De
cause it paid for protection. That was after he
and Devery quarrelled. Before that he was as
efficient a protector of vice against the attacks
Of citizens as any member of the Tammany ad-
ministration.
Mr. York and Mr.. Mclaughlin may be dissat-
isfied with their treatment by Tammany. Tam
many itself may think 1t wise TO unload Devefy
But IT is not to be accounted to them for virtue
If Mr. Mclaughlin makes his terms he will be
as subseryient to the dominating machine as ne
usually is after his little threats of indepen-
dence and Mr. York will be as faithful in Blind
ness TO new wrongs as he was to old ones And
Tammany with new Chief win be just as
corrupt as ii was with the old. The men who
have degraded themselves and disgraced the
city through their three years rule will not ac-
quire new character by dsnissing the official
who all too successfully put their system into
effect and aroused Indignation against it. Dew
cry cannot carry into the wilderness of Oblivion
the sins of the united Croker Mclaughlin ma
chimes
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
FORAKER REPLIES TO HARRISON.
THE SENATOR TELLS OF THE GENEROUS
SPIRIT DISPLAYED TOWARD
PORTO RICANS.

Cincinnati. Dec Ex-senator J. B. Foraker, IN
speech before the Manufacturers Club, Of this city.
last night. replied to the recent speech OF exresi
dent Harrison at Ann Arbor in part as follows
All the questions arising upon the Porto Rican
Supreme Court. For that reason do not care TO
that the view taken BY Congress, as rehected 0y
that LEGISLATION was Gredita2ie 20 tne gsns0SS ~ tSe
American people We found Porto Rico as poor as
Credit. no system of taxation Of any kind. She
wanted a civil government and revenue to sup
ernment than ever given to any territory prior
her people is concerned. and we dealt by her more
generously in providing support for tnat gossrI sr
@sRt tofg. 'nan we nave ever yet a'Ai' with any s
In requiring her to pay tariff duties on imports
from foreign countries we did only what We did
with Louisiana. Florida, California and all our
Sufies when coiected a N into Ser own tfeary
the support Of her local government we 81 w wndi a
other cases we have not only required the payment
Them When Thev wsr esete 10 he psid into
the National Treasury at Washington for the com
on one commerce between Porto Rio and the United
1eT ct a of G tS izting i @ rsfe on % number Of
articles and the whole duty all the rest. and
Pn9 er Mare sa or the be
Of Porto Rico shan 50 provide and that meanwans an
in the United States shall be DSid over 70 Porto
Vision i Because n was tSe easiest and least bur
densome possible to raise indispensable revenue
any sense of any benefit to either our Government
people
The Porto Rican Legislature is now IN session.
but neither that body nor any member OF u, nor
anybody else, has taken step 70 repeal or after
the tax system so imposed by Congress on the
contrary. all concerned alike testify TO the highest
satisfaction with what Congress has done. and the
request will be almost unanimously made that the
provisions enacted may be continued II NOT tndef-
initely at least until some satisfactory system OF
proper taxation be substituted
In addition. IL should be stated that Congress,
also in the same generous spirit exempted Porto
Rico from all internal revenue taxatiOn-another
before extended
people anywhere. 1t is true that the legislation for
Porto Rico a Departure but it Is not true
that IL was a departure from correct principles.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
SUIT TO SToP "THE FOUNDERS"

PARIsIAN OWNERS OF LIES FErARDsr' ALLEGE
THAT ROYALTIES HAVE NOT BEEN PAID.
A. III. Hummel counsel for Henri Heugel and
Paul Chevalier. OF Paris. owners OF the play Les
Fetards." which adapted for the American
stage by Harry b. Smith and Ludwig Englander
and produced under the title Of The Founders
by George W Lederer. at the Casino applied 70
Justice blanchard in the Supreme Court yester-
Gay for an injunction pendente lite. restraining
Samuel K. Rorke. Thomas Q. SeabroOke and s
SJryker Williamson from continuing produce
Inc kounders on the road, the ground that
ItlSS nave refused TO pay the royalties due 70 Miss
thxabeth Marbury. who is agent for the French
ada.
Justice Blanchard reserved his decision. but a.
I.eSted the defendants TO furnish bond On SGN TO
!neemnlIy the plaintins against any loss in royal
ues pending his ruling In the case.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29

Governor Roosevelt will be shooting noun
tain lions in the West next month The Tam
many General Committee has taken ocea-
sion to denounce what il calls ''the infamous
conspiracy through which Asa Bird Gardiner.
1.-The elected District Attorney of the county,
''was robbed of his office by Governor Roosevelt"
No matter how many mountain lions he may
miss, it is evident that when the Governor went
tiger hunting he was dead shot.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
DIR. PEARsONs ADDS TO HIS GTFTs

Chicago, Dec 2s.-Dr. D. X. Pearsons OF Chicago
who several months ago announced his purpose OF
giving his fortune. estimated at several millions
small colleges and other deserving institutions
the gifts TO be made during his lifetime to-day in
creased his donations by $4,000. To Grand Prairie
College of onarga. Ill. was given $4,000 Lake
Forest University received s25.000 A check for
$4,000 was sent 20 school the name OF which ia
unannounced The gifts contingent on the
raising OF S2iSOoe by the three colleges. which al
ready has been done -
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business driving the man instead of the man
driving the business. The school SYSTEM prl-
marjly intended to serve the Children is over
grown until the children are in danger Oh pe-
ing made merely to serve the system. we
can't have different courses because they
..u,ou,d work Injustice to the teachers, Pray,
most learned member of the Board OF Educa-
tion what do we have schools for?
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SATURDAY DECEMBER 49, 1900

sengers are settled in their seats? Suppose that
a copy of that decision were served upon every
motorman, every driver and every ticket taker
between Babylon and Buffalo. What
startling revolution in streetcar methods would
pron1ptly be scent
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
G. 4 r POST TO INSTALL OFFICERS

Alexander Hamilton Post. Grand Army of the
Republic has arranged for the installation OF Its
oficers-elect on the evening OF January g. head
quarters. Lexington-ave and One-hundred-and-
twenty-fifth-st. General John Palmer. Past Com
mander-in-Chief and ex-Secretary OF State OF New
York. will be the installing officer.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29
MR. FR4NCIs CONMIsSIoNEp AS ENTOY

Washington, Dec. 2S (SpeciaD.-Charles s. Fran
els, proprietor OF The Troy Times" to-day re-
ceived from Secretary Hay his commission as
Minister to Greece, Rumania and Servia. Mr..
Francis received his instructions from the officials
of the Department, and will sail for Athens on
January u. He will be accompanied by his family,
with the exception of his eldest son, who will re-
main to complete his course at Cornell.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29

It may turn out that the only great and
South African on either side will be that of
De Wet, the crown and flower of Free State
chivalry and a Roland for any Oliver which
the invading Empire over seas can send against
him.
A London correspondent has cabled to America
the astounding discovery that the ghost of
Mary Queen Of Scots haunts the Tower. and
adds that this unfortunate Queen was impris-
"oned by Queen Elizabeth in the Consta ble's
Tower. and was led from it to execution in the
tower quadrangle" All the historians have
agreed in saying that Mary put to death in
Fotheringay Castle, in Northamptonshire many
a mile from the English capital and that she was
never in the Tower Can it be possible that
every one of them was in error?
1t is to be hoped that the great twentieth cen
tury revival movement that has been projected
held in Brooklyn last winter. 1t set out to
convert about half a million heather in that
borough but the first notice of it's existence
which the aforesaid heather received was bit
ter attack Of some preachers a respectable
Christian denomination. Human nature being
what It is, it would seem wiser for each sect to
work by itself. For attempt to unite which
ends in a rupture only makes the heather more
than ever set in their beliefs, or. to speak more
accurately, unbeliefs.
Scotland Yard has been informed by the Bos-
ton police that the Cudahy kidnappers prob
ably their way to Liverpool on the Warren
liner Michigan, which sailed for that port
week ago. AS an essay OF conjecture. ii has
leg two of probability to stand on which the
guesses of the Omaha police up to date have
not presented.
A Baltimore bank has gone down because 1t
lent too much money TO the promoter of COM
bination Of United Milk Producers" II is
plain to everybody that the difference between
the prices which farmers get and householders
pay for milk is far too wide. But the plans to
secure for the farmer fairer proportion of the
amounts which the consumers are In the habit
of paying in great cities have, unfort-
unately, collapsed In most cases. The middle
men get too much and the farmers get too
little.
Have the streetcar conductors throughout the
Empire State yet learned that the Court OF APP
peals has declared it their duty not TO give the
signal for starting until the embarking
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29

WILHELHINA TO MARRY ON FEBRUARY =
The Holland Society of New-York received
cable dispatch from The Hague yesterday saying
that Queen Wilhelminas marriage has been set
for February z
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gnnex TO Advertisements.
Bneiness y oI1cfs.

REMEMBER this is Hospital SATURDAY ahO
that tomorrow is Hospital Sunday
New-York tribune., 1900-12-29

Have the streetcar conductors throughout the
Empire State yet learned that the Court OF APP
peals has declared it their duty not TO give the
signal for starting until the embarking pas