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New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
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THURSDAY. MARCH 2s. 1901.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-China had not signed the agree
rnent with Russia respecting Manchuria within
the rime set for its acceptance or re1ectloh'
= A dispatch from Lord Kitchener gave ue-
tails Of the action fought by General Bahlngtoh'
- General Macarthur has approx ed the SEN
the Philinpines - Sentiment among the Gu
hans in favor Of The Platt amendment is grow
ing =- The bubonic plague is reported TO De
spreading at Cape Town and in India -
The Russian Government has decided to ADOPT
more lenient measures in the cases OF students
charged with riot. -- Turkey nnahces 1 are
in had condition and trouble is said 10 De prev
ing Lord Curzon urged the maintenance
Of a larger army in India
DOMESTIC-P. c. Knox, of Pittsburg. is TO
have a conference with President Mckinney 10
day and il is expected that the Attorney-Gen-
eralshp win be offered TO him. == secretary
Root and Adjutant-General Corbin are making
preparations for their contemplated trip 10 tne
Philippines. - The State Department aban-
doned its plan Of demanding an apology from
the Sultan of Morocco, and the cruiser New
York was ordered 10 proceed from ranger 10
Manila - The likelihood of the election of
Senators i'm Nebraska is regarded as extremely
small, as agreement has been reached and
the legislature adjourns to-day - Floods
were reported throughout the state; train was
wrecked near Norwich. = Governor Odell
vetoed three bills; the Assembly passed
the same number over Mayor Van Wyck's We
tees. = new police bill was presented in
Albany by Senator Elsberg. - Princeton
Won the annual debate with Yale.
CITY-Stocks were strong and active. -
The steamship GWent was ashore at Long
Beach. = The Rev. Z. S Phillips conferred
with j. P. Morgan regarding the differences be-
tween the miners and operators in the anthracite
region; no strike is now likely. - Commits
sioner Murphy decided to divide the Tenderloin
precinct into two. == The Ice Trust cut down
its capital stock $1,000 900. - Magistrate
Pool explained why he declined TO entertain a
complaint against a prisoner arrested a Su-
preme Court warrant, and was rebuked by
Justice McAdam; Mayor Van Wyck returned
The petition asking for Pools removal, TO the at
TOrneV nd n he att
II back. telling the Mayor il was his place 10 be-
gln proceedings - Revenue officers found
What they declare is Illicit still in room di-
rectiy above synagogue in Brooklyn. - A
caValryman. thrown from his horse at the Mill
tary Athletic Tournament in Madison Square
Garden, received painful but not serious injuries
- Firgio Tojetti, the mural and portrait
painter, died in ST Luke's Hospital.
THE NEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Fair
Ihe temperature yesterday: Highest - degrees:
lowest, -: average 4Gll
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
THE PURPOSE OF RAPID TRANSIT

Mr.. Albert l.. Johnsons discussions of the
| rapid transit problem are diverting and stimu-
| lating TO the imagination. There are many
| attractive features about his plan for tunnel
TO Staten Island. have already said,
and il is TO be hoped that if he seriously
means 10 promote rapid transit in this city
| he will not fail to comply with the commits
sion's terms which are absolutely fair 10 him
and no more severe than necessity requires
for the protection Of the city against tne
impostion of SPECTATORS and cranks with i'm
practicable schemes One feature of CIR situ-
alton. however. Mr. Johnson appears to have
misapprehended. and il is vital feature, the
correct understanding of which is essential 10
any successful rapid transit work. New-York
Is huilding these tunnels not to develop new
territory hut to accommodate the people already
crowded beyond endurance in going between
their present homes and places of business.
Mr. Johnson says: IL have found repeatedly
that by cutting fares in half the Increased
receipts have at least offset the comparatively
slight increase In operating expenses. Heaven
forbid the construction of n rapid transit syS-
tenn aimed 10 increase traffic rather than 10 dis
pose of existing traffic. Three cent fares have
4 charm but if three cent fares mean 90 per
cent increase in the number of persons to he
carried the users of our overtaxed transit facll-
ties will with one voice demand lne Hlaihteh-
ance of the five cent rate. Mr.. Johnson talks
about the land owners who are 10 be benefited
by his road. May they be benefited and vel
come in good time. But the city of New-iork
is not borrowing millions of dollars primarily to
develop suburban territory, but to serve the
convenience of its people and relieve the con-
cestion along the natural lines of travel of the
nresent nopuIation Real estate booming is
quite aside from its proper function.
Mr. Johnson is doubtless right in his belief
that if the present railroads surface and ele-
waited will reduce their fares they will increase
their business more than proportionately, not
'withstanding their mass of fixed charges.
But as these railroads have already all the
business they can handle with comfort to the
passengers, the last thing the public wants is
further artificial stimulation OF travel The
problem of carrying those who travel because
they must is already troublesome enough with
out compcating it with an incentive TO every
body else 10 crowd them because the fare is
temptingly low TO people who haven't anything
else TO do.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
Amusemrnis.


lcaDEMY OF nJSIC-s-Uncle Tom Sanlh e,
IMFpT-AN THEATRES: 1.-THE wages OF SIN
PTJOI-S .I5-The Climbers.
PROADVyAY-s: s:IO-T-he Price os Peace
"a -, -T5t! TR Rsls-vhen Knighthooe Was In
rosI.Y'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Toy
s,TF-N NUEEE-The World In Wax
EMPIRE THEA TRES :20-M-s. Danes Defencc =,
FOI -RTEFNTH STREET THEATRE-s-A hornahoe u
GARDEN THEATRE-s:l5-Under Two Flags; -,
GaRRICK THEATRES s30-captain Jnss OF 'ne hoise
Marines.
cPaNT1 OPERA FOI-SE-s-May Irwin
PI.F-M OPERA FIOI-SE-S-l5-Ariz -
BI,RAID SQUARE THEATRE-s;l5-The Girl from Up
rRx,fecSs pr sf-F, 7-TEaTRF-s:l5-women Of To-day
KEITH S-Continuons Performance ,, .s r.
FzcST'T;R & BIAI.s-i AS :s5-vsudeviiie
LYCEI7M THEATRE-2-s 1.-THE L.asn OF d SH.p'
n T1TS6S SOL THEATRE-s-3o-On the Cuict.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-s-Aiitsry 1ourhaileil'
MURRAY Hill. THEATRE-2-S-Fecoia-
NFW-YORK-s:l s-Naudevtlle.
PASTORS-Day and Night-orontinuous snow
PROCTOR S-ContinuOus Performance
REPT-BIIC- -Sl5-In The Palace Of the King
VICTORIA THEA TRE-s:l5-My Lady
KVAII.ACKrS THEATRES -l5-Manon Irscaut
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
4 DAM IN FTFTH-AFE.

On the southeast corner of Fifth-ave. and
| Fifty-fft small army OF men is at work
digging for the foundations of n huge new
| building The contractors who have this affair
| in charge are boldly defiant of public conven-
fence and public rights II has been proved
again and again in this city that the tallest and
broadest of structures can he put together with
ont serious encroachments on the most crowded
and important streets. Mighty buildings have
been raised from foundations to roof without
grave obstruction of the highways. In these
matters almost everything depends on the dis
position of the builders. If they men with
n pull which extends into the recesses of the
Tammany ring. then they can laugh at munich
pal ordinances and the rea easonable complaints of
the citizens
In the Wall Street district and other congested
business quarters of Manhattan towering piles
have been set up without causing intoerable
blockades in the roadways. In Fifth-ave. and
Broadway enormous hotels and apartment
houses have been completed with no exasperat
ing impediments TO the currents of city life
No builders in the world more ingenious
and resourcefu than those of Manhattan. They
have made 1t clear that the largest tasks in
construction can be carried through this
island without giving cause for censure or
reproach.
NEWCOMERS are therefore naturally impa-
tient over such botching as that now so glar-
nCly obtrusive in Fiftn-ave. at Fifty-fifth St,
only four blocks below the chief entrance TO
Central Park. In these spring afternoons the
number of carriages passing north and south so
near Central Park Is of course extremely
large The contractors at the point Just oppo-
site the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, so
long known DR.. John Halls, have encroached
upon the roadway far that blockades are
ineXcusably frequent in the afternoon hours.
With an upright city government so offensive
an abuse would rot be permitted for n day.
What pull" with Tammany some contractors
must have,
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
MUSIC.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Another performance was given last evening at
the Metropolitan Opera House of the tnal drama
of Wagners NibelUng trilogy. Mime. Nordica took
the part of Brtnnhilde with this exception the per-
formance the that OF last week. Mr.
Jean de Reszke the Siegfried. and sang with
finer effect than he did that occasion. but there
still certain listessness in his singing; he
sang with continual reserve and he did not appear
to the best advantage. Nine Nordica, however,
was in her finest form and gave an Interpretation
of the heroine full of passion and fervor and mag
nifcent in vocal power. Frau Schumann- Heink was
somewhat hoarse; but she allowed this to interfere
no whit with the wholesouled devotion of her
singing and acting, and her Waltraute scene in the
first act delivered with convincing fervor. Mr.
Edouard de Reszke was in better voice than ne was
at his last appearance Hagen. and took his
hearers back to the days when he first revealed to
them his baleful impersoDation of the part OF
Hagen. Miss Susan Strong was an excellent repre-
sentative of Gutrune. Mr.. Damrosch conducted
with skill and authority. There were many admtra-
bic fea lures through the evening. but the perform
could be ranked with the best that Mr.
Grau's regime has given of Wagner's masterpiece
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28

tenderness may too frequently be disclosed in
an acquittal mistrial or inadequate YER
diet but such results are at least not sanctioned
by the law.
These and other objections to the bill now in
possession of the Senate are worthy of its ear
nest attention. We are by no means convinced
that the public advantage would be served by
the abolition of capital punishment, but if such
a change In the Penal Code is advisable IL should
be made with deliberation and full knowledge
Of what is being done. 1t should be made. fur
thermore, directly and finally by the lawmakers
and not indirectly and fortuitously by those
whose function 1t is to administer the law.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
is 1T NTHTLTSU2

There are increasingly grave rumors from
Russia. 1t Is said that mine has been dis
covered beneath the palace of CzarskOe-Selo
the purpose of which was to destroy the
Emperor and his chief advisers. The Emperor
it is added, is panic-stricken and on the point
Of nervous collapse; the police are severely
blamed for not more vigorously suppresSing
revolutionary movements at their outset and
the army is to be called into service to enforce
most rigid repression. All this Is credible If
the Russian Government permitted anything
like free publication OF news there would be
no question to its truth or untruth
There is, however, still serious question as
to whether the disturbances and plots-if the
latter exist--are the work of mere murder low
ing nlhilists of the beer drinking, bomb throw
ing, John Most kind or of more intelligent and
more formidable revoluionists of an entirely
different character. Beyond question there are
many indications of the latter. Prominent lit
erary and other professional men, above the
suspicion of nihsm, have taken part in or
expressed sympathy with the student riots and
other outbreaks. Important literary and scien-
tific societies have done the same corporately
A number of prominent army officers and high
members of the nobility have either expressed
sympathy with the agtators or have protested
against the repressive measures of the govern
ment. 1t seems certain moreover, that not
only have the police been Iukewarm and reluc-
tant to disperse the rioters. but the Cossacks of
the imperial army, some of them, who are
supposed to be mere mechanical butchers ready
TO do unhesitatingly anything they are ordered
to do, have protested and almost reyolted
against being sent to fog and shoot down
women and unarmed men.
II the present troubles are nihilistic in origin
then, we must consider that nihilism has gained
ominous foothold in the army and in those
social orders upon which the Emperor has hith-
erto relied for his most loyal support. On the
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
PRINCETON WINS N DEBATE.
TOOK THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF SHIP SUBSIDY
QUESTION. YALE THE AFFIRMATIVE

TOOK THE NEGATIVE SIDE OF SHIP SUBSIDY
QUESTION YALE THE AFFIRMATIVE
New-Haven. Conn March = tSpeciaD.-Princeton
in the seventh annual debate with Yale to-
night In College Street Hail. after one of the best
debates heard here in recent years The decision
rendered by the judges after only five minutes
discussion of the form and substance Of the argu-
ments. and unanimous for Princeton on the
first ballot
Yale's three speakers. Frank r. Sincerbeaux
Oe, of Moravia. n. Y; Mason Trowbridge o. Of
Chicago and Robert Hall Ewer, Os. Of Washing
ton had the affirmative side Of the question
which was.
Resolved That system of subsidies other than
the present mail subsidies. should be adopted bv
the United states 10 encourage our shipbuding
ana ocean carrying trades
The Yale speakers offered strong arguments
They asserted that increase in the ocean carry
ing and shipbuding business was necessary to
the interests of the country; that such business
must be made 10 pay and that a subsidy was
necessary. The experience of England and Ger
many was adduced evidence. The Princeton
men, Axten Julius Byles, OS. of Titusville Penn ;
Walter F. Hope 'Ol. of Brooklyn. and Robert
was no immediate need OF such change and
that subsidy class legislation The argu-
ments Of Mr.. Steen, of Princeton. were the strong
est and best put of any of those made.
ThLS victory OF Princeton makes the score to z
In favor OF Princeton. Judge William X. Town
send presided. and the judges were William n
Guthrie and William -. Peckham of NeN-York
ana professor James Is. Thayer. of Harvard.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
PERSONAL.

a correspondent is informed that Mr. Carnegie's
name IS generally pronounced as though it were
spelled Car-nay-Gy, with the accent on the second
syllable
The Car of Russia has twenty-seven physicians
and they are all selected from the medical celebr-
ties of Russia. There is first physician chief:
then come ten honorary surgeons two oculists a
cnlropodlst and honorary chtropodSt, two court
physicians and three specialists for the Czarina.
The fact is noted that this year the Duke and
Duchess of Cornwall will see three winters but no
summer. They Will have first a spring then an
autumn. then a winter, few DAYS OF another
spring and then autumn again. Their winter
especially that part between Fremantle and Natal
Will be exceptionally severe though the visit to
Mauritus keeps them north OF the ordinary route.
The Baltimore News says that Tom L. John
sons first is not a contraction Of Thomas
but family name widely known I'm the South
especially in Kentucky his native State Mr.. John
son always feels aggrieVed when he himself
referred to I'm print Thomas johnson or Tom
johnson with the quotation markS).
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
TIE TAIN OF THE DAY.

The Abilene (Kan) Reflector prints these lines
in the hope that they may reach the checkbook of
Mr.. Carnegie:
Here's to good Andy, the king of 'em ALL
Who listens when any Town hollers;
May he give IN to Abilene between and fall
slice OF that s5ooo.oOo
Wfe-Such horrid language you do use. It's all
nonsense. at the best There was Mr.. Dane. the
other dav hH to"'ned his finger with a hammer
tIusDanu-A inal who won't express himself ap-
propriately when he jams his finger Is a hypocrite
-(Boston Transcript.
Besides the ArcAbishops of Canterbury and York
there three Bishops who always sit in the
House of Lords. They are the Bishops of London
Durham and Winchester. The others have 10 wait
their turn. There twenty-four ecclesiastical
seats In the upper chamber and thirty-two bishops
to say nothing of the Preate Of Sodor and Man,
who is entitled 10 a seat, but who cannot vote so
that there are always nine in waiting VINO hll va
cances in order of seniority. The first one who is
now waiting for place appointed nearly six
years ago.
Ta S9nn FD tGrs I've sHush you last
you. to pay you that $40 owe YOU but everv
time you suddenly disappeared.
Jimson-Eh? Have you been wanting TO see me
for that?
"Of course
more.'-CNew-York Weekly ~ '0''o"
During a recent smallpox scare in the South the
Mayor of a small town in Alabama took the ex-
traordinary precaution of appointing all the con-
doctors on city and suburban lines as quarantine
officers, and all persons coming from adjacent in
fected districts were required show health GER
tihcate before being allowed TO enter the city
Jack-No; don't see May much as used TO-
yil!-Really? Why heard you engaged
Jack-That's just It, It's dark in the parlSr when
| call now-(Philadeiphia Record
The Rev. Edward III. Smith, pastor of the First
Congregational Church of Oshkosh Wis declares
that he believe in the personal devil
described in the Bible
Mr. Slimpurse-People say that a young counIa
get along very nicely nowadays on a small
income. If the-er-wife is of practical turn of
mind.
Sweet Girl-Oh. I'm real practical. My favorite
piano piece is an imitation of the spinning wheel
(NewYork Weekly. ,
The street railway company In Chilicothe Ohio
is having trouble with it's lady conductors" The
State law provides that streetcar conductors shall
get off their cars at certain places and go ahead
to make sure that train is coming. The women
conductors declare that IT is "undgniied' for them
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28

other hand. If they are not nihilistc there is
revealed revolutionary movement far more
formidable than nihilsm. In either case the
situation is a grave one, which may we'll COM
mand the most serious attention of the Emperor
and his advisers With aspirations of the Rus
sian people toward constitutional reforms and
liberal institutions the world will cordially SYM
pathize. For plots for blowing up palaces or
otherwise numbering the Emperor and his min
listers it can have nothing but detestation no
matter by whom they are made And If con-
stitutional reformcrs in Russia are resorting to
the methods of nihilists, the sooner they mend
their ways the better il will be both for them
and for their cause
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
DEATH Of II. 4. HAMILTON.
THE WELL KNOWN BROKER DIES FROM TIE
EFFECTS OF AN OPERATION FOR THE ANPU-
TATION OF \ LEG.

THE WELL KNOWN BROKER DIES FRoI THE
EFFECTS OF AN OPERATION FOR THE ANPU-
TAT1oN OF \ LEG.
Mark Kerr Hamilton. one OF the Oldest members
of the New-York Stock Exchange died in his
home No IO26 East Observation-Disclosures seventy
sixth-st on Tuesday night. a result of the
amputation of a leg because of blood poisoning
His death. which was reported IN Wall street yes
ter5ay was a shock to the many friends whom he
made in the thirty-seven years that he followed
the Street Hamilton had not been to his Office
since last December.
He was the senior member OF the stock brokerage
firm of Hamilton & Myers, No IS Broadway As
Hamilton shook hands with his partner, Charles
\ Myers on the afternoon Of December o. 1850.
he remarked that he would not return to the office
until after the holidays, as he wanted 10 enjoy a
little vacation II was his last appearance in the
office and the last time he able 70 leave his
home. The following day a plmple made It's ap'
pearance on the sole of his left foot For day or
two Hamilton and his family tried homemade rem
edies Soon the patient was laid UP. his foot and
the leg began 20 swell and physician was called
in He pronounced il case of blood poisoning, ana
began course Of treatment 10 counteract It's e1ec'
Treatment did not seem to help Hamilton his
foot. ankle aud leg continued 70 swell Last tues
day after a conference. il was decided that the
only thing would avail would be 70 remove the
leg This was done: The patient continued % sN.Sa
NSloct TSrsS; until he died o" Ioes0ay Nis"' at ''
Mark Kerr Hamilton was born IN the o4d sew
enth Ward this city. his father being OF the same
name. He was sixty-two years old at the time or
his death In 1853 he entered the ohice OF a StocA
broker and ten years later became menn9er OF tns
Stock Exchange. About thirty years ago Mr. Ham,
ilton. with his parents, moved TO West Farms, ana
he had resided there since In politics ne was
Democrat. though ne did not seek political prefer
ment He was one of the school trustees OF the
village of Paramount. member Of the Men
delSsohn Glee Club and the stock Exchange Gles
Club.
After entering into business in Wall Street HAM
ilton organized the stock brokerage hrm of ham
ilton Elery & Co The firm dissolved HAM
pton became Identified with other irns. y widow
and six children survive him
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
IDEA FOR An EDUCATIONAL TRUST
PRESIDENT HADLEY TELLS HOW UNIvER-
SITY WORK CAN BE BROADENED.

PRESIDENT HADLEY TELLS HOW UNIvER-
sITY WORK CAN BE BROADENED.
San Francisco, March % (SpeciaD.-President
Hadey of Yale gave some novel ideas of the uni
versty trust of the future in address at
Leland Stanford University yesterday. After
dwelling the tendency of many institu-
tions TO turn cut specialists rather than broad
minded men, fit for the best citizenship. he said
The tendency of the university is TO turn ont
not ten doctors of the first rank but rather fifty
doctors Of the second rank. How we TO cor
rect this tendency? l believe il is by a high
degree of organization OF labor among the diff
ferCnt parts of educational system.
To use an unpopular term, we educators must
form an educational trust; we must broaden our
Investigations and develop graduate stu
dents Al some universities there is a theory
that in order To have teacher stimulated along
any line. the best work in that line must be
done within nve hundred yards of where he is
teaching. This is a narrow policy, and is rapidly
losing ground.
One of the things that most gratfed in
coming out 10 California at this time is that the
establishment of another we'll equipped inStitu-
ton has been not hindrance but a help. So
II IL with the country as whole. There is 10
reason why the best work done ct a university
should not be source Of inspiration TO all other
universities. We should be proud rather than
fearful of rivals
Finally. let understand that in the work of
our colleagues the greatest duty of the student
is not 10 get the most he out of the uni
versity but TO put what he can into IT, Let
understand that each college is only a part Of
this world of education, and he who emphas sizes
his university TO the exclusion of others
falls short OF that broad and liberal uindedness
which should characterize the true educator
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28

appears TO be no good reason for doubling. True,
there is a denial from st. Petersburg that there
was even mention of Mongolia and Turkestan
in the agreement, the denial being upon no bet
ter authority than the original assertion, and
not nearly circumstantial. Well. such uncer-
tainty serves merely to give added fitness TO this
counrry's declaration that it would be improper
inexpedient and extremely dangerous to the in
terests of China for her to make any such
agreement as this without the full knowledge
"and approval of all the powers now engaged in
negotiation"
New-York tribune., 1901-03-28
SENATOR cLARK AND COL. HARrEr s4l1

n number of prominent people sailed for Europe
on the Oceanic yesterday. Among them was SEN
ator w. A Clark. of Montana who will remain
abroad six or seven weeks. He will spend the time
in Paris and London He expects to purchase sew
eral paintings for his new Fffth-ave. home
Mrs. Arthur Paget. who has been spending two
months in this country also sailed on the Oceanic
Soon after her arrival in London she will visit
Cannes with her two young
Another passenger was Colonel @. r. NJ Harvey
who is going abroad on his annual business trip.
Mrs Henry NJ. Gfl!ig. of this city. also on
the steamer She expects to purchase Il number of
French bulldogs before she returns