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New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
GENERAL BULLER's ADVANCE.

Sound comes out Of the silence at last, and it
is a sound of war. The rigid censorship kept
the world for week in ignorance of what was
going on along the Tugela- The British army
was engaged in mOmentOuS operations, and its
commander did not mean to have those opera
tions frustrated or impeded by betrayal to the
enemy. He preferred to let his own guns, rather
than the telegraph announce his advance. In
that he quite right No doubt his repres-
sion of news was trying TO the public patience
and exasperating to the correspondents. But
then war is not waged for the sake of giving the
correspondents a chance to distinguish them
selves or of supplying the public with fresh
sensation every day. To cross a large river in
flood in the face of a strongly intrenched and
fortified foe equal if not superior in numbers to
his own army-that is the task which General
Butler was essaying. 1t can in no respect be
deemed anything but arduous and formidable.
1t was we'll that he acted in silence and in dark
ness, for he had need Of every possible aid of
circumstance. To-day the embargo is removed
and news comes through. 1t is important news.
The British army has advanced, with both tact
and courage. 1t has crossed the Tugea River
AZ two points and is approaching Ladysmith.
At any hour we may hear that the siege of that
town has been raised Or may hear that the
British advance has been checked again by the
resolute Beers.
For, while the present plan of campaign on
the Tugela is the most commendable, it is not
necessarily bound to be successful at the very
first attempt Beyond doubt a fanking move
ment Is preferable TO a frontal attack. Yet
it must be remembered that hanking is not
always all beer and skittles. The nearest
parallel which recent warfare offers to the
task which General Butler has thus under
taken is furnished in Grants campaign against
Lee Again and again Grant tried to out
flank Lee and get past him TO Richmond.
Again and again Lee by virtue of superior mo-
bity and familiarity with the country bafiied
him. In the end Grant won, but at tremendous
cost The armies now confronting each other at
Ladysmith are more nearly matched in size than
were Grants and Lees, and the Beers ought
therefore to oppose General Butler more eff
fectively than Lee did Grant. For obvious rea-
SONS there will be little cause to wonder If the
first attempt or the first half dozen attempts
to turn the Boer flank fail. Yet we can scarce
ly credit the Boer commanders with the con-
summate skill of Lee, and II may be that the
first flank movement of the British will sue
ceed. For, OF course, the British have this adj
vantage over Grant that their objective point
Iadvsu1ith. is held by their friends who are
able TO give them material aid by rear attacks
upon the enemy.
Today is the anniversary Of the recepture
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
PERSONAL.

Mice Mary Emma Wooley. NJ. A, professor III
y,rI1as,e1 College who has been elected president
of Mount Holyoke College, is a daughter OF the
Rev Joseph J. Wooley, pastor of the Flrst Congre-
gational Church of Pawtucket, X L. ana was ool
In South Norwalk Conn. After preparatory STUDY
in the classical high school of Providence h l. she
was graduated from Wheaton Seminary IN 1854 anu
ae for some wears teacher of history in that IN
s+tution She entered Brown University in 1891, as
soon nc its classes were opened to women, and was
graduated with the degree of b. A In 1874 the irsl
woman to be thus honored After post graduate
study she also received the degree OF NJ A from
the university. During both her Undergraduate
and graduate years at Brown she MADE speclal
studv of history devoting also large part OF the
tina To languages Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Ger
man and giving special attention to philosophy,
nolitical economy and political science. She has
published monographs on historical suoJects IN
1.-THE Brown Magazine, the puolcaIlohs aIi OF me tne
Historical Review" She has spent some time IN
travel abroad She belongs to the Rhode Island
Society for the Collegiate Education OF women,
and is one of the trustees or Pernbroke CoHese tue
college for women in Brown University.
President Hadlcy -~of Yale thus explained his
Western tour the other day in Kansas City: The
main feature of the trip is the explanation to the
alumni and friends of the university of the plans
for the erection of new set of buildings at Yale.
1t is no trouble to get money for special schools,
but it is another matter to get enough funds to re-
build the necessary structures for them around
the campus
1.-The London Chronicle says that, while Colonel
chased by English soldiers at it's published price
published and distributed without cost to every sol
dier in the German Army
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
amnsements.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s :1o-'way Down East
AMERICAN THEA ATRE-S :15-Martha-
BIJoTT-S.l5-S Mary.
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eASfNC-Si5-Iittle Red Riding Hood.
CRITERION NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Little Minister.
DALY'S THEATRE-S-The Maneuvers OF Jane.
EDEN MUSEE-9 a m. 10 ii m-Naxworks. Grand
Concert and Cinematograph
ENPlED .2a-Brother Ofncers.
FIFTH AVENUE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Little LAMBS
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-s-The village
Postmaster.
GARDEN THFATRE-s:20-The Degenerates.
GERRFCK THEATRE-S-Sherlock Holmes.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-S-The Gunner's Mate.
HAMMERsTEIN'S VICToRIA-S:3o-Chri and the Won
derfui Lamp.
HARLEM OPERA HoUsE-s:SO-Beau Brummell
HERALD SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AnInony-
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-S-Schwei In GeDlA-
dete Menschen Educated People,.
KEITH S-Continuous Performance.
KNJCKERBOCkER THEATRE-S:15-The COWBOY ana
the Lady.
KoSTFR e RTAT!S- -s:1s-Vaudeville.
LTCEJN THEATRE-S:30- Hobbs. -
MADISON SQUARE TREATREs-S:SO-Wheels Withlh
Wheels
MENDELSsoHN HAII.-s:l5-Concert by the Columbia
University Philharmonic Society.
METROPOLITAN OPERA HODSE-S-Aloa
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-s-An Enemy TO the
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INSTRUMENTATION of Oh
Paintings
SEW-TORK THEATRE-Closed.
PASTOR Continuous Performance.
WALLACK' K'S-s:i5-The Ameer.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
WATERFRONT RAILWAYS.

The State Commerce Commission, which has
been studying the comparative decline of this
port, will recommend, it is said, that with the
rapid transit tunnel be coupled freight tunnels
along the waterfronts OF Manhattan and Brook
Iyn The idea is that thus goods brought here
by the trunk lines can be more cheaply and
conveniently handled either for export or local
delivery. This may seem like a startling
proposition, and in the present state of the
citys finances there is no prospect of its being
carried out Immediately as municipal enter
prise. But as a plan for giving this port ade-
quate facilities for the transaction of its busi-
ness there is nothing visionary or eXtravagant
about it, 1t is a simple and sensible solution
of the problem. Some day this scheme, or
some modification of it, which viii still bring
our shipping into direct contact with our land
transportation lines will be adopted. That is,
if we do not delay long that the bulk of our
trade has sought such cOnvenienceS elsewhere.
New-York burdens commerce with one of the
most expensive and inconvenient carriage and
lighterage systems that could well be imagined.
With the exception of a few wharves on the
Jersey shore and in Staten Island, there is
scarcely a spot in this harbor where freight
can be transshipped without being drawn la
boriously through the streets or foated across
the rivers. OF course, towns in which incoming
freight trains are pulled up beside an ocean
steamer have the advantage over New-York,
and as the mechanical means of handling
freight are more and more improved that ad-
vantage will tell increasingly against us unless
we abolish it by making possible the placing
of O car of grain from Duluth or beef from
Chicago on any wharf frequented by ocean
steamers without breaking bulk or lghtering.
New-York is now trying to carry on the prin-
cipal part of the cOuntry's commerce with faeili-
ties worthy of medieval trade. Only one line
connecting with the West has any direct access
at all to Manhattan Island and it can reach the
waterfront in only few places The Brooklyn
wharves are entirely cut off from rail COM
munication with the rest of the world. The pro-
posed North River bridges and tunnels will give
the many railroads centring about Jersey City
access TO this island, but unless they can find
further outlets for their tracks from bridge and
tunnel terminals to the places where their
freight is wanted they viii really be little better
on than they are now. They VIII hnd stations
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
TIE TWO PER CENT CURRENC

TIE TWO PER CENT CURRENCY SECTION.
The agreement to close debate in the Senate
On the gold standard bill on February ID doubt
less means that the bill viii pass in some form,
but in form to be determined by the private
action of conference committee, and not by
discussion and voting in open Senate or House.
1t MEANS apparently, that the Democrats do
not intend TO make serious opposition to the
measure. The natural significance of such a
decision is that the passage of the bill in its
present form would, in the judgment of Demo
Gratis, help more than it would hurt their party.
They have blundered so long and so often that
their judgment is not entitled TO great weight
and as to the silver issue they certainly mis-
take if they suppose that the pending measure
would weaken the Republicans But they ex-
pect to gain most by reason of provisions which
the Republicans of the House did not adopt, nor
did their committee think it wise to recommend
them. Obviously the Democrats mean TO claim
that the refunding section will make present
Of good many millions to the National banks,
permitting them TO continue outstanding as
large circulation as they have at present but
based upon far inferior security, and encourag
ing them indefinitely to increase their paper
circulation based on such security.
The Democrats are not in haste to disclose this
line Of attack IN the Senate. As the shortened
debate may therefore not draw much attention
to the feature in question, it seems worth while
% consider what the Republicans will have to
0ser in justification if the provision passes as
reported 20 the Senate. They will be able TO
gnow that the interest payable in future years
will be diminished by the full equivalent of
Che money paid TO holders of bonds now out
standing for the surrender Of those bonds and
the substitution of the 2 per cents. The Sec
retary of the Treasury may at his discretion,
says the bill, pay the difference between the
present worth of the outstanding bonds surren-
dered and their par value But it must be as
surned that the holders will demand such pay
ment. unless they desire largely TO increase
their issues Of notes on per cent bonds at par,
which would add about one-ninth TO the bank
circulation now based on bonds bearing higher
rate The objection is not that the people OF
this generation would advance for the benefit
of future generations the present value Of the
large sum which the latter would have TO pay
in the form of higher interest on bonds now
outstanding Probably the next generation will
be richer than this, but il will have burdens or
its own TO bear. The question Of greatest i'm
portance is whether o currency based on
per cent bonds at par will be as safe in the
emergencies which may come hereafter as a
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

on Manhattan Island useful for passengers ana
ing goods for export into the most crowded
section of the metropolis just for the sake OF
cartng them where congestion is greatest ana
carting most difficult and expensive.
A circuit of railroad tracks about Manhattan
Island and along the Brooklyn shore, such as
was long ago so strenuously urged by Erastus
Wiman, would remove some Of the most an
noying of the present shackles upon the ports
commerce. The idea of putting these tracks In
tunnels is a new development, which has come
with the passenger rapid transit plans. But
even tracks along the surface If used under
proper regulations, might be endurable, or ele-
waited freight tracks along the waters edge,
with spurs onto the wharves at level not In
convenient for shipping might answer the pur-
pose and be little or no obstacle to foot and
wagon traffic. The plan to connect waterfront
lines with passenger tunnels is more ambitious,
but by no means impossible. Perhaps when
we have a great system of underground passen-
ger railroads they can be used at night for the
distribution of freight cars from railroad yards
into the cellars of the great wholesale establish
ments in the centre of the city. Also we be-
lieve that private enterprise has contemplated
the possibility of freight tunnels through the
most crowded sections of the town. 1t may be
vet a long time before any such complete
scheme of local freight handling can be de-
veoped, but 1t Is good sign that the need of 1t
is understood by practical business men like
Mr. Schieren and his associates on the Com
mission
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The following advertisement recently appeared in
1.-THE Church Times" of London:
STRONG BICYCLE urgently needed by a poor
Vicar, who has not given up the ceremonial use Of
incense at Mass"
you know that jewel of hired girl of mine who
left fet the Bnkins0pps and came 10 me lot y more
'Yes"
niger woman is trying to buy her away from me. =
cleveland Plain Dealer
The Anglophobes of Paris will no longer be com
PEELED to eat in the presence of some mad Eng
lishman." The following advertisement recently
appeared in a Paris paper:
CAFE ANTI-ANGLAIS.
Under the management of CHI Schroeder,
acknowledgement de la Care.
English people will not be served.
"That panic scare startled me- tell you"
Have you so much in bank?"
No: but suppose the people whom owe money
should get any poorer than they are!"-(Indian-
apos Journal
Isdor Martinez a Cuban resident of Philadelphia
has just returned from Havana. and gives his i'm
pressions of 1t in THE Press" Havana" he says,
lis to-day an entirely different city from what it
was when I a young The first thing that
would impress the visitor would be the general
cleanliness of the streets This is of the many
American reforms Every day three four hun
dred men clean the streets with broom and water,
and 1 tell the truth when l say that Havanas
streets are cleaner than are streets In Philadelphia.
The Cubans like the American ways and are fast
growing accustomed to the change. They see that
they are being benefited and they anxious TO
do what they can to even better their present con-
ditions In the way of education. the change of
government has accomplished much. There are
now a large number of public schools with COM
petent teachers.
Mrs. Brown-She's active; in fact, most un-
common woman.
Mrs Jones-Yes indeed: she's not Ike other
women at all. For instance, yesterday l watched
her while she making bread and do you know
all the time she had her hands in the flour her
didn't itch once!-Philadelphia Press.
experts story of the Transvaal Boer who believed
that the Bible originally written in Dutch re-
minds a correspondent of another one, which, he
understands is generally credited IN South Africa.
A Dutch minister, lately arrived from Holland.
rebuked by an old farmer for having expressed
doubts of the reality of personal devil. I
show you his portrait said the Boer and taking
dcwn his family Bible. which adorned with
woodcuts of antique type he turned to a pre-
sentiment of the conventional evil one with horns
and tail 'Theret exclaimed the Boer triumphant
ly, you have doubts about the existence OF the
devil. There is picture of him. and that is the
Word of God The Boer had fully believed the
artist. well as the writer's. TO have been in
spired,"
your cad Is smashed in! Was II a she'll?
Second Tommy-Shell, nothin It's honly a
chunk o. one them plum puddn's as tn bloody
Beers is nrln at usI-(Cleveland Plain Dealer.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
DIR CALISCH NOT TO COME TO NEW-YORK.

Richmond Va, jan IS (SpecaD.-Tha Rev DIR
r. N Caliseh, rabbi of Beth Ahaba Congregation
has received letter from Ahawath Chesed Con-
gregation, OF New-York City. requesting him TO
occupy the pulpit OF their synagogue. which Is
shortly 10 become vacant by the departure OF the
heV. Dr David Davidson. The invitation. which
was sent oy unanimous vote OF the Board or Trus-
tees states mat DR. Calisch Is requested TO occupy
Inc Ine pupil pulpit with view to extending him call;
Or CeIisch mas written declining the invitation and
REGARDS the incident closed 50 far as he IL con-
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

1apan is one of the best friends we have
among the nations, and in sending to us the ex-
pectancy and rose of the fair State-that is her
Prince Imperial who is presently to visit us-she
is assured beforehand of Dame Columolas cor
dial greetings The young gentleman Will arrive
with the summer which will spread blooming
welcome for him from ocean to ocean.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
Business X oflres.

$500 will buy half interest in business al
ready established with most excellent outlook Money to
be used to increase business. Address LANDLORDS
PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Park Row Building.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

The only way to reform the prizehghtng
which now disgraces and debases this city is to
reform it altogether" The only effectuaI re-
form is abolition.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19
MIR. PADEREwsKrs PRoGRAMME.

The fourth of Mr. Paderewskrs pianoforte re-
eitals. and the last prior to his departure for
Mexico and the Pacific Coast. will take place In
Carnegie Hall tomorrow afternoon. The pro
gramme will be as follows:
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

The opposition of certain special interests In
France to the ratification of the commercial
treaty with this country is not unexpected, nor
indeed unnatural. Precisely the same kind OF
opposition has more than once been manifested
in this country against reciprocity treaties and
changes in tariff legislation. And those VINO do
so in one country are the very ones who most
deplore or resent the doing of 1t In another!
The course of the Government is TO De deter
mined. however, by the general WeIIare' anu
not by that of any one class or lndustry'
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

The Park Boards firm determination that the
elevated structure must be removed from Bat
terry Park would seem to indicate that Tammany
Hall and the Manhattan officials had not yet
reached a modus Vivendi.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

Last night at the American Art Galleries the
sale of Mr. Henry Mosler's paintings and studio
effects was begun. The concluding session will
be held this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1900-01-19

At the Keppel Gallery there may be seen an
exhibition of drawings by Mr. Peter Newell
He is a pictorial humorst Of the sort that Is
born, not made. His ideas are as funny as they
are original, and his style is exactly fitted to
them. 1t is a style without beauty, but not
without cleverness and interest.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04
PERSONALS.

Mr.. Will Pace has re-entered Wake
Forest.
Judge Geo. H. Brown was in the city
Sunday.
Master S. f. Telfair went to Durham
yesterday.
Miss Eta Ramsey is visiting friends
in New Bern.
Mr. Walter w. King, of Danbury,
is at the Marlborough.
Mr.. ID. III. Senter has gone to Ll-
lington to attend court.
Miss Claudia Willis has returned
from a visit to New Bern.
Miss Byrd Person, of LoulsburS' Is
the guest of Miss Annie Jones.
Miss Mamie Calhoon, of Mississippi
is visiting Mrs. / Il. Mosely.
Mr. r. b. Hall, who has been VlSltlliS
friends in the city, has gone nome
Miss Birdie Person is the guest Oh
Miss Annie Jones, on Hillsboro stree
Mrs. John r. Brooks, OF ReIdsVllle,
| is visiting her sister, Mrs. 1aflald
Jones.
Miss Rossie Mason, of Harlowe, is
visiting the family OF Rev. Geo. f.
Smith.
Mr.. Ham F. Smith, city clerk, has
returned from a two weeks visit to
New York
Mrs. Henrietta Williams, of Green
vile, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
w. M. Russ.
Mr.. w. M. Allen, of the State Chem
ist office, has gone to Arson county
on a vacation.
Miss Elsie Riddick has returned
from months visit to the eastern
part of the State.
Mr.. Rufus McAden has gone to Ok
ford, and will attend the next session
of Horner School.
Mr.. r.. e. Lumsden, and Misses Har-
die, Allen and Lumsden, have returned
from a trip North.
Miss Josie Love, who has been visit
| ing Misses Ora and Annie Love, left
Yesterday for Sanford
Miss Kate Cummins has returned
from Wrightsville, where she was the
guest of Miss Kate Mayo.
Miss Margaret Shepherd Bryan, OF
| New Bern, is the guest of Mrs. Alden
2. Bryan, on Hillsboro street.
Mrs. DR.. Collin Hughes, of Choco
winity, is the guest of Messrs. w. M
Russ on North Blount street.
| Mr.. l. Rosenthal left yesterday fo1
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Yorl
| to purchase his fall and winter goods
| Mr. James II. Moore, of Birming
ham, Alabama, who has been visiting
| friends here, returned home yester
day
Gen Julian S. Carr, Of Durham, was
in the city yesterday, on his way tt
Currituck, where he makes speech
today.
Mr.. w. w. Newman has returned
from the eastern part of the State
He contemplates engaging in business
here for himself.
Sheriff M. w. Page spent yesterday
morning in the city, but in the after
noon returned to the bedside of hi
sick son, who is reported some better
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04
THE WEATHER TODAY.

For North Carolina: Fair Tuesday
and Wednesday; light to fresh east
erly winds.
Local data for Raleigh yesterday:
Maximum temperature, Sc; minimum
temperature, 81; mean temperature,
rs. Total rainfall o inches.
No local forecast was made on ac-
count of Monday being legal holiday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

See your agent at once as to dates and
rates by the Seaboard Air Line Railway
to the Annual Convention of the National
Baptist Association (colored), at Rich
mond. Va.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

NOW IS THE SEASON when the small
boy fills himself with green fruit, which
invariably leads to cramps, diarrhoea or
dysentery. If parents are prudent, they
will have a bottle of Pain Killer ready
for such summer emergencies. Avoid sub
stitutes, there is but one Pain Killer,
Perry Davis. Price, 25c. and SOC.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

THERE ARE MANY OPINIONS AS II
the merits of the different candidates
but all are unanimous ~ to tbs merit,
Of Registers Candy.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

Mr.. A. L. Morris and Mr.. John T.
Morris yesterday qualified as execu-
tors of the late Gideon w. Morris.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

An Ohio girl who is unable to speak
above whisper has had forty-s seven of
fers of marriage. word TO the wise, etc.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

An excursion will be run on Septem-
Der 4th from GoIdsboro to Asheville
over the Southern Railway. Fare for
the round trip, $500.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

There will be an excursion on the
Seaboard Air Line on next Wednes-
day to Portsmouth and Norfolk. Fare
for round trip 1926.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

Mr.. Walter Wilburn, of Richmond,
and Mrs. Rosa Apt, of Rocky Mount,
n. c., were married re'by Rev. j. L.
Foster, on last Thursday.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

Mr.. Haywood Bell has accepted a
position at Woolcott's and would De
glad to have his friends call.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04

DIR. James Dinwiddie, president of
Peace Institute, says that all indica-
tons point to the largest attendance
this year in the history of the school.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-04
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.

Rev. E. c. Glenn will assist in a re-
vival in the Methodist church at Troy.