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New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
ONE w y.

1t is said that Mr.. Carnegie. having irrevo-
cably committed himself 10 the doctrine that the
man who dies rich dies disGraced, is now much
worried By the problem Of how 10 give away In
n beneficent manner during the rest OF his life
the 25OOOO0OO more or less, which still
threatens to disgrace him. Mr.. Carnegie has
hitherto shown no lack OF foresight and disc:im-
inaton in his phiianthropic enterprises, but IL
he is really perpiexed by the extent of the pos
sessions which he considered himself bound 10
deplete and ultimately extinguish he Will not
resent n respectful suggestion.
1t is commonly the fate of cities after they he
come great to lament that theIr future require
ments were not discernei and provided for while
they were small. Perhaps the failure to reserve
land for parks is the most prolific source of such
regrets. and certainly New-York, though not
so badly served in this respect by former gen
erations as some other crowded communities.
nevertheless recognizes n greater demand for
additional open spaces than her financial con
dition enables her TO supply The few small
parks created in recent years have SO amply
demonstrated their utility that public sentiment
would overwhelmingly approve the creation of
more If the state of the municipal treasury and
the debt limit would permit
Mr.. Carnegie has agreed to give this city sixty
libraries Perhaps he could not more usefuIly
supplement that superb benefaction In any other
way than by giving Now-York some new small
parks-not necessarily park for every library,
though If he is anxious to make handsome
hole in his huge and solid pile sixty parks would
do ii. But n much smaller number would make
81 cheering inroad. and every one of them would
be permanent blessing 10 the metropolis
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Martha Patterson, whose death at Green
Vile. Tenn. Is announced the eldest child OF
President Johnson. and was born October p.
1928. She well educated, and was her fathers
and woman OF comma nding intellect and excel
lent judgment Her husband. Judge Thomas Pat
terson. has been dead number of years. She had
two children-a daughter Belle. and son. An
drew Johnson Patterson. with whom she made her
home. The cabin In which she born torn
down years ago, but another loshouse In which
the family lived during President Johnson's early
years, still stands I'm sight OF her present home.
The Harben medal OF the Royal Institute OF Pub
lie Health will he presented Professor Koch at
a dinner 10 he held on July - in London.
Professor George c. Tilden. mIneralogist and
the author Of many works on his subject has been
brought from San Salvador and placed in a sana-
torum I'm California. He is in a state of mental
collapse due 20 the strain Of overwork and the
trying climate OF the Central American republic.
The Rev. Or. c. =. n. Mason. the pastor OF the
Second Presbyterian Church OF Germantown.
Penn who has been appointed 10 be United States
consul AT Grenoble France. was graduated from
Williams College In 1867 I'm President Carters
class, and his degree was conferred by Williams
two years ago.
Paris, July i2.-Charlottc Cipriani. a graduate ot
the University Of Chicago. is the FIRST woman 10
receive the degree OF Ii. d. from the University
of Paris.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

Newport r. I..-JuIy II (SpeciaD.-Edward Brown
ing of Philadelphia who has arrived here with hts
family on his steam yacht. has rented the King cot
tage in Ayrault-st- for the remainder OF the sea-
son.
Mt. and Mrs William Payne Thompson have
gone to Southampton for short stay
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish has cards out for picnic IN
Portsmouth on Saturday. The guests will leave
Crossways coaches
Mrs " D. Clapp and her daughter. Miss Edith
Clapp have arrived at their cottage. in Bellevue
ave, for the season
This evening Mrs French E Chadwick gave
dinner at the War College in honor Of her guest,
Bishop Satterlse. of Washington
E NJ Robinson and family. Of Philadelphia. have
arrived at Cliff Cottage No. > for the season
Dinner parties were given this evening by Mrs
r. l. Gammell. Mrs c. II. Baldwin and Mrs. Theo-
dore n Gibbs
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish gave luncheon to-day at
Crossways
Mr.. and Mrs. James r. JSssup. of New-York
have taken apartments at the Hill Top cottage for
the season.
Should Sir Thomas Upton succeed in lifting the
Americas Cup. Thomas Lawson will al once chal-
lense and make an attempt 10 bring back the CUP
and place II in the custody OF the NewYOrk Yacht
The schooner yacht Emerald. Mr.. Iselin, and
Commodore Robinson's Hester, which came on
the marine railway to-day. sailed for Larchnonc
where they will be entered in races
Mrs E. G. Tinker. of Nev-York. arrived to-day al
the Merrill cottage. in Bellevue-ave.. which she
will occupy until the close Of the season
Mrs H. Mex. Twombly Is entertaining Mrs. W.
A. Flagg of New-York. ct Nineland-
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
A STUNNED LEADER.

Some of Colonel Bryan's last ditch supporters
may have suspected that this years Democratic
State Convention In Ohio would succeed in a
measure In assembling its love for that peer
less leader" whom the party Mt large had fol-
lowed 10 two successive and unexampled re-
verses. Tncy could not possibly have been
prepared however, for the exuberance and en-
rhusiasm with which the Democratic delegates
gathered at Columbus kicked downstairs the
unlucky candidate of 1896 and 1900. Nothing
was left umdone apparently by the Ohio man.
ayers 10 emphasize their disgust with the fol-
lies written at Colonel Bryan's dictation into
the Chicago and Kansas City platforms. follies
which they had been forced 10 subscribe to
with unctuous submission at home while the
spell of the Nebraskans leadership remained
unbrokeD. in rhe resolutions adopted last
Wednesday at Columbus all reference to the
national platforms of 1896 and 1900 Is stud!-
ously avoided, and the especial doctrines ex-
plotted rs paramount 10y Colonel Bryan are
coolly brushed aside without a syllable OF in
dorsement. More than that. but six votes
could he mustered I'm the convention in support
of a declaration of confidence i'm Colonel Bry-
ans leadership. and when ithograph of that
matches commoner'' was sought to he sand
wiched among the eiigies Of dead Democratic
heroes like Allen and Thurman, il was igno-
minously torn down and trampled upon by
delegates and spectators.
The rehemence Of the Ohio reaction against
Bryan and Bryanism Cannot be questioned:
though, like all reactions. it probably developed
an intensity and eSplosiyeness quite unfore-
seen by the managers who cleared the way for
H. In sense the conventions rebuke was
natural answer to the foolish challenges which
Colonel Bryan has recently flung at the ee-
ments within the party which insist upon its
gradual reorganization As is we'll known,
THE Commoner" not long ago published an
extraordinary cdict Of excommunication
against all Democrats who harbor liberal ideas
Of party policy party management. Ad-
dressing his followers. Colonel Bryan laid down
this superlatively narrow and extravagant rule:
Do not allow to be placed upon any
committee precinct, county, State national
unless he is believer In the Kansas City plat
form. II a man opposed to the Kansas City
platform is sent az delegate 10 any convention
he should be bound by instructions and should
have associated with him q sufficient majority
who are sound the platform II OBJ
5ects to instructions leave him at home.
Against such an III judged piece Of proscrip-
tIon it is inevitable that party interest, as well
as party spirit should protest: and 1t is not
strange - find the Mclean and the Johnson
wigs Of the Ohio Democracy rivalling each
other in eaGerncss to resent and diseredit such
4 petty and selfish exhibition Of national lead
ership.
Whether the brutal snub administered 10
Colonel Bryan at Columbus is the beginning OF
politics, II 10 perhaps too early to determine.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

wins theories regarding evolution. He was also
a Of profound religious convictions. Fortu-
nately. however. he able to reconcile these
with what he regarded scientific truth. Two
of his best known books Religion and Sci
ence' and Evolution In Its Relation to Religious
Thought" Another notable outgrowth of his
biological study the belief vigorously advo-
Gated, that the proper approach to psychology is
physiology. He laid great stress the demon
strated correspondence between mental and
cerebral action.
The originality of his thought. the force and
courtesy Of his argument and the versatility Of
his pen attracted attention not only on the Pa
ciic Coast. but also in the East Few scientific
writers in this country have been widely
known and admired. Nor was his worth recog-
nized in America alone. Some of his works
were used textbooks at Oxford. He also had
the happy faculty Of winning the personal affec-
ton of his professional associates and his stu
dents. The world cannot contain too many such
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
STREET SIGNS ON BUILDINGS.

The opinions of Mr. Whalen. the Corporation
Counsel, have not always been commendable,
but his latest. concerning the placing OF street
signs on corner buildings. seems to be invested
with the authority of sound common sense. He
holds that there is no legal ground on which the
owners of corner buildings can be compelled to
put such signs thereon. and he is of opinion
that any such compusion would he inequitable,
since it would be requiring q few members OF
the community to bear a burden for the benefit
of all. from which those few would receive no
especial benefit apart from that enjoyed by all.
That is a perfectly sound principle and 1t
should be sufficient to dispose of the demand for
signs on buildings at the expense of the prop
erty owners. Carried to its logical end, more
over. the same principle would negative the
proposal to put signs on corner buildings at pub
lie expense. regardless of the will of the owner.
The owner of the corner building is as truly
the owner of it as the owner of any other
building is Of it. And there Is no reason ap-
parent in equity why he should be compelled.
against his will to surrender that building in
any degree to public uses without compensa-
ton 1t would be just rs proper to require the
owners of other buildings TO have lamp brackets
placed on the fronts of them. to save the city
the cost of poles along the curb.
Apart from this grave objection to the cor
ner building sign scheme there is this other.
that such signs are not so effective for as
those on posts on the curb line They are OBJ
vously great deal further away from the
people who want TO see them-50 per cent fur
ther from the man on the sidewalk. and from
100 10 500 per cent further from the man in a
vehicle on the roadway. Such added distance
means of course. either that the size of the
signs must be correspondlngly increased or that
their legibllity will be correspondingly de-
creased. Again, street lights are arranged so
as 10 illuminate the sidewalk and roadway, not
the fronts of the buildings, and the result is
that along some of the best lighted streets
the fronts of buildings largely in shadow,
or at any rate imperfectly lighted. so that
signs on them would be scarcely visible We
called attention the other day 10 the case of
Philadelphia, where the metal signs on the cor
egiblc, ut night.
a corner post. bearing a foursquare lantern,
each side of it plainly inscribed with the names
OF both the streets. the parallel ono above in
large and the intcrsecting below In smaller
letters-that Is the simplest and most effective
device for indicating the streets; equally ehec-
tive for those on the sidewalk and for those
on the roadway. by day and by night. And
every day this splendid metropolis Is compelled
to go without such system and is kept in its
present barbarous and chaotic state is grave
reproach 10 the powers that be-
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
JOSEPH LECONTE.

Few educators leave behind them so long and
varied record Of usefulness as Joseph Leconte
whose death was briefly announced by The
Tribune few days ago He had entered upon
the seventy ninth year of his age and had been
a college professor for fully half century Dur
ing the last thrty-two years of that period he
occupied the chair Of geology and natural his
tory in the University of California His brother
John identified with the same Institution of
learning from 1860 until the time Of his death
and also eminent both scientific writer and
teacher. barely completed his seventy-second
year.
The Lecontes were Georgians by birth Jossn,
took his first degree in the university of his ma
of law. This was not to his taste evidently ,or
he soon afterward tock a courre Of medicine y,
the College Of Physicians and Surgeons In New
York. Finally he went TO Cambridge as a sns
c.al student in zoology and. what was probably.
his most conspicuous line Of work in after ufo
geology, under the elder Agassiz. His Passion
for scrutinizing and interpreting the rocks ap-
pears TO have been Keen to the very end of his
life. His favorite pastime during vacations ne.
the study of mountain formation and scu,n,,r.
among the Sierras. And 1t Is a touchIne civ,
cumstance that when he closed his eyes for tbo
last time on earthly scenes he was in tho
Yosemite Fdiey a region famous not only for
it's impressive beauty. but also for Its xeolopica,
problems.
For comparatively short time Josepb TO-
conte seems to have given some attention ~
chemistry. One OF the professorships which he
held in Georgia and South Carolina before ana
during the Civil War was in that department ~
science. Moreover. he had charge OF the Con-
federacys laboratory for the preparation .,
nitre an important ingredient OF old fashioned
gunpowder
The insight into biology acquired by Professor
Leconte while he was yet a college student pecul
iarly fitted him to appreciate the force Of ra-
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

ness with which they are taken Is not directed
to the best results The first thought Is OF
winning, and the hope of winning is the chief
inspiration whereas the pleasure OF hcalthful
exercise and the consequence of physical inn
provement ought to be a sufficient motive and
reward. Not only rowing but football. is too
much n business here instead of an amusement.
The competition is intense. and the passion for
supremacy has brought abour an excessively
elaborate and extravagant system of manage
ment. 1t would be well If return TO simpler
ways could be accomplished by agreement
among the leading universities.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
URGED FOR MINISTER TO JAPAN,

FRIENDS OF GENERAL BARNES. OF SAN FRAN
CISCO. PRESENT HIS NAME.
San Francisco. July IL tSpeciaD.-Many San Fran
cisco LAWYERS aud other friends Of General w. n
r. Barnes are urging his appointment Minister
Japan, and petition is in circulation which has
received many signatures. II seems that when the
President was here he much struck with the
speech of welcome which General Barnes delivered
and then remarked that able ought to be
In public life General Barnes's friends told the
President that he had been campaigning for the
Republican party for thirty years. but had never
asked for office
'rhe only difficulty in the way Of General Barnes's
appointment lies in the fact that the California
delegation has indorsed DIR. Chester A. Roweil of
Fresno. for the Japanese mission An attempt will
be made TO have DIR. Rowell's name Withdrawn and
General ParneS's substituted. General
Barnes has been the leader of the San Francisco
bar for years. and is conceded 10 be one of the
best speakers In the State AS after-dinner
speaker he is regarded as having few equals.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
THE REST PLAN FOR PARK SEATS.
-ork Evening Post.

From The New-York Evening Post
IN I. hard TO keep track of the deveiopnen's N
the pay chair business so rapidly 90 otus's W.
yersafs and iniunctons follow another ine
only certain thing in the matter is that tne -
OF requiring pay for seats in the pubic PARIS nsa
60 Complications in the proceedings 10 ttlat eiaS
can only delay the inevitable result The pest sos
gestion which has been evoked by the controvetss
Il The rribunes. that the city should suostitut7
separate chairs for benches in expendins tne az
propriaton recently authorized. IL thinks tnat sie
were, IL would be quite iustihab BILE Then ever ever,
chair would represent seat. whereas now a UNI.
or even half of a bench is often not nlled because
the occupants of the other places take more lnzs @
their fair share OF room. are oneusiNe persohs
10 sit beside. 1t would be happy issue or = ois.
creditahle controversy II the attempt 10 estsous.
the system OF furnishing cha!Ys only FOR those ~
can pay should end in the provision OF free cna1%
for all
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
MR. TERKES PRESIDES AT DINNER.

TELLS ENGLIsHMEN HOW TO CONDUCT WAR
HIS SPEECH CHEERED.
London. July I1.-Charles T. Yerkes presided to-
night at the anniversary festival Of the Salters'
Company. Mr.. Yerkes is the first American to oc-
cupy the chair the occasion OF these anniver-
saries
Mr.. Yerkes contributed GOO guneas to the ROYAL
Asylum or ST Anne which is maintained by the
Salters Company. and the three hundred guests
cheered the chairman as he extolled the company's
charity.
Referring to the South African war Mr. Yerkes
said
The Beers are brave soldiers and resemble the
early American frontersmen, but Great Britain
cannot anord halfway measures. Do not pitch into
them unmercifully. but pitch into your own people
who oppose the war. and make them keep their
mouths shut until the night Is over Th.p ssttie
your differences among yourselves.
Mr. ferkes was cheered to the echo and the
toasts TO King Edward and President Mckinley
called forth great applause from the assembled
guests '~ '~N
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

Some of Southern friends taunting us
playfully over the recent atrocities in temper
ature from which Northern cities and towns
suffered such torments, and printing figures
in their newspapers to show that Georgia. for
instance. is on the whole a somewhat more COM
Portable State to live in while the sun is doing
its worst than the typical Northern State of
New-York. And the records to support
their contention. Are to upset the old tradi-
tions and seek refuge in Atlanta and Augusta
while the hot waves sweep over the territory
above the Potomac? Is Dixie the most inviting
of summer resorts after all?
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
SHORTER HEADWAY on THE BRIDGE.

Chief Engineer C. C. Martin of the New-YorK
and Brooklyn Bridge, said yesterday, in support o1
The Tribunes contention that the train service On
the bridge is poorer than IL was three years asc'
that ~ was entirely feasible for the trains TO &c
operated over the bridge during rush hours unors s
a forty-fve second headway. This would anca1
twsnty.,wo trains an hour The headway at pres,
ent between the hours OF and Is one minute AN, an,
President Greatsnger hopes soon TO get the u ia"'
running on a nifty second headway.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
An ENGAGEMENT.

The engaSerent is announced OF Fritz " Hcen
inShaus OF the law firm of Corbitt. Kelly & Hcen-
inshaus No. % Broad-st., 10 Lillian 5. Proctor
daughter of Harley T. Proctor. of Proctor 4 Gam
BILE soap manufacturers. Mr.. Hoeninshaus lives az
No sns West Seventy-second-st- He is graduate
of Yale Of the class of 1895. and member OF
SQUADRON A Miss Proctor lives at No. 2 East
EfEhtieth-sc. She Is at present at the summer
home of the family. at Williamstown. Mass Inc
wedding will take place early in the fan
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
PHILOLOGISTS ADJOURy

Cambridge, Mass. July u.-Formal business was
closed up to-day by the American Philolos.cal AS
ISOLATION II was decided to hold the next meeting
az union cohsse' schenectady. N. Y, the
ond Tuesday OF July. 1902 Professor Andrew r
West, OF Princeton Cniversity. was elected presi-
dent and Herbert Weir Smythe Harvard al
versity, secretary and treasurer ~
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

There rumors of another bitter struggle
next winter among the Democratic chieftans In
the House Of Representatives for the empty
honor of minority leadership. The smaller the
minority the more wranglng over the right to
dominate in it. seems to be the rule by which
Democratic craftsmanship is guided in these
days of party degeneracy.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

There is some heartless talk afloat among the
'reorganizing' Democratic forces of oustng
Senator James K. Jones. of Arkansas from the
chairma nshp of the Democratic National Com
mittee. Can base ingratitude already have for
gotten Chairman Jones's magnificent pre-elec-
tion victories of 1900 and 1896?
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
4 WEDDING.

Plainheid. y. J.. July II tSpeciaD.-The marriage
Of Miss c. Griffin. dsushter of the Rev and Mrs
Walter T Griffin. of No al la Girande-ave.. and
Charles II. Clark. OF Edward Clark. OF South
port England took place to-day az the
home OF the brides parents
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

Washington. July 1.-THE Rev James Dausherfy'
s j. to-day succeeded the Rev. John D. Whitney.
$. J.. rector Of Georgetown University Ins
change ordered from Rome Father Whitney
was appointed three years ago
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
VISITORS AT MISS GoU1D's GREENHOUSES.

Many persons visited the greenhouses Of MISS
Helen Miller Gould at Irvinston last night 10 see
the night blooming cersus, which was In fun oios
som Miss Gould present. and enjoyed tie
blooming of the plant with the visitors.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

Before roa leape the nfr for tonr Summer caf-
ing te 10 subscribe for THE TRIBUNE. Yon lciH
feel LOST arfthonf IT, The address leiH te changed
as offR as desired.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
Amueemenfs.

CAEINO-S Sl5-Florodora.
CHERRY BLOSSOM yE-S:30-vsudeyfne
EDEN MESFE-Day and Evening-World in WAX
KEITHS-Continuous Performance.
ROSTER Il BIALS-1 49, :<3-Nauceynle
KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE-S:15-The strolers
MANHATTAN ACH-3.3o-Sousa and His Bano-o-
PAINS War china-9-The Geisha
PARADISE GARDENS-s:I5 TO 12-FaudeVile
fASYoR'S-Day and Nicht-Contnuous Show.
sr NICHOLAS GARDES-e:l5-Kaitenborn orehes'fai
Concerts
TERRACE GAHDEN-LFta pisvo,o
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

PRESIDENT AND MRS VKTNLEY DRIVING
Canton Ohio. July i1.-President and Mrs. Nc
hinley went for an extended drive this forenoon.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

The two thousand word platform adopted by
the Ohio Democrats Is triumph of verbosity
if of nothing else
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12
HAPPENINGS AT NEWPORT.

Mrs. Yates Sterling is staying with her daughter
Mrs. ]. Lee Taller. at Richfeld Springs
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

After absence of two years Mrs Charles .
Dana is again at her country place Dosoris On
Long Island. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Dana are SPEND
ing the summer with her f
New-York tribune., 1901-07-12

Among those in town yesterday we're Mr. ,,s
Mrs Theodore Frelinghuysen and Mrs Alexsndsr
Van Nest The latter was dressed in frock q,
oiack foulard with broad insertions of black lace
i,, UHer Whl'e, and with black hat. Miss Robb was
PAIN garden at the Waldorf with a party Of
over red silk. and large black hat trimmed witS
black feathers. "''4'
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-01-08
THE WAR GUN OF 1900.

a Jealous advocate Of the machine gun,
carried his battery to the front, out be-
yond the firing line, and opened upon
the trenches Of the Spaniards at Fort
San Juan. 1t was the first and only
use to that date of the machine gun in
aid Of a charging line, the offensive
tactics. With handful Of men Par
ker in few minutes poured into the
enemy as many bullets as 1000 sol
diars could have fired out of their
Arag- Jorgensens in the same length Of
time.
The Krag j orgensen which the Amer
lean soldier Of 1900 carries multiplies
the bullets over the old breechloader
five times, and the Calling multiples
soldiers and bullets until the expression
"storm of missilesI is no longer q mere
figure of speech. In truth, when reg
iment of Americans get to work with
their Krags '1eaden rain" is fact
where before it had been poet fancy
merely. So stands the war gun Of 1900
against the tiintlock Of Bunker Hill.
GEORGE T.. KILMER.