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New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
BELGIUM AND THE CONGO.

The declaration Of the King OF the Belgians
that he would not accept the provisional gov
ernorship OF the Congo Free State proposed in
the pending act of annexation to Belgium has
created a considerable sensation, and is regarded
by many nothing short of "a coup d'etat. II
is interpreted, probably with justice, as mean
ing that the King will not consent to the annex
alton of the Congo State by Belgium but will
retain his personal sovereignty over the African
realm long as he lives Beyond doubt such
an attitude on his part is calculated TO cause
surprise at Brussels and il certainly seems
much like a reversal or Reputation of the
Kings former declarations.
The question of annexation was raised at
Brussels nearly a year ago. and was taken In
hand 10y the government practical measure
though apparently without consultation with
the King. The government, however, presently
grew lukewarm I'm the matter, and might have
shelved il altogether had not its hand been
forced. on May 80 last, by NJ. Beenaert one of
the ministers of state and former president of
the Chamber of Deputies who introduced bill
bluntly providing for the outright and absolute
annexation of the Congo State one year after
date. In this bill the King was not so much
as mentioned. The government thereupon
appointed commission to consider the whole
matter, and presently made known that while
| i
sideration. and 10 make him a sort of pro-
visional governor of the Congo State IL held
that il had right 10 annex that State and
that the option of doing rested with il and
not with the King. On June the government
put into shape and decided 20 press 70 passage
a bill on these lines. providing for the annexa-
tion Of the Congo State within ten years. This
was satisfactory 10 NJ. Beernaert, who there
upon withdrew his bill. and thus effected a
substantial union Of all parties upon the govern
ment measure. 4 week later the King made.
in a letter 10 NJ. Woeste, the Ultramontane
| leader in Parliament. the declaration OF his
| dissatisfaction with the proposed act of the
1 government.
Ii is not easy 10 see on what ground his
| majesty objects 10 the annexation. Ii is true
| that IN the beginning the Congo State was quite
| independent OF Belgium the latter having no
| more interest in II or any more right TO annex
| II than any other European power had. But in
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

August. 1889, King Leopold made a will in
which he said: I'VE bequeath and transmit to
Belgium, after our death. all our sovereign
rights over the Congo Free State. together
with all property and advantages attached to
this sovereignty" A year later. in July 1890
he made. as sovereign of the Congo State a
convention with Belgium. under which the lat
ter loaned to the Congo State S5,0OO,O0O. This
sum was TO be paid TO the Congo State at the
rate of S5OO.OOO n year for ten years and at
the end of that time Belgium should have the
option of annexing the Congo State outright or
If Belgium did not choose TO annex il, the Congo
State should repay the loan at the same rate in
ten years. Now. the ten years first named
expired ON July q 1900, and Belgium therefore
certainly appears TO have the right of annexing
the Congo State if she elects and that she
does very heartily and all but unanimously so
elect is quite obvious.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
GRlDL LIES.

They've gone out from their Alma Mater
safe now in the wide. wide world Sc runs the
song which just now they singing In col
ieges and universities and finishing academies
where fervent gOOdbys are being said and
whence thousands upon thousands of Young
men ana Young women are preparing to move.
In an unorganiZed mass, upon the world of af-
fairs. There are among them valedictorians
class presidents. editors of college publications.
captains of football teams. baseball captains
hundred yards dash men. Toms who were lead
ers of the banjo clubs and Jacks who sang
bass in the college glees. digs. grnds. bootlicks
head debaters. college and university society
leaders, Hasty Pudding men under different
titles, together with host of middle stand
men and tail enders who have not distinguished
themselves and were in general rather relieved
to find that they were included when the di
plomas were passed around
With them, those who go TO make up this host
are bringing into the wide wide world bones
and inspirations and ambitions and resolutions
and determinations philosophical orations (de-
liyeredp, knowledge OF Greek Latin modern Ian
guages (in moderation). higher mathematics for
NAL logic, rhetoric, philosophy, the problem of
the external world. psychology theism ethics
biology. Some can spell. add. subtract multi-
ply, divide; many cannot. All know that George
Washington was the Father of his Country and
That Abraham Lincoln was assassinatet after
bringing about the preservation of the Union
and emancipating the slaves; some have heard
runors of jefferson and Monroe and jackson
and Clay, and Calhoun and Webster, but few
remember the exact substance OF what they
heard about these men. All these young men
ana women are about to begin the search for
the particular inches which they feel fitted 10
occupy. or for the first rungs of the ladders
which they believe themselves able 10 climb
Almost all who seek 1t will dnd employment OF
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
HAPPENINGS AT NEWPORT.

Newport r. l.. June rs (SpeciaD.-Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt drove out 10 their farm. ID
Portsmouth. to-day. and inspected the new poo
grounds there They were followed by Resnau
Vanderbilt In an automobile. The polo ponies.
which they for the first time. were put throusn
a few PAGES for their inspection. The grounds VIII
be ready for play in day or two.
Professor and Mrs. Ames. OF Cambridge. srs
guests Of Professor Alexander Agassiz.
BeIcourt is being prepared for the occupancy OF
Mr. and Mrs. o. Fl. p. Belmont, who will De nero
July l.
For a second time in the history OF old Trinity
Church every sitting has been rented for the
season.
Tomorrow the wedding of Miss Ida Morreh'
daughter OF Mrs. J. c. Johnson. and George Pepper
Norris. both of Philadelphia, will take place AZ
noon at the summer home of Mrs Johnson IN
Bellevue Court The bride will be given away oy
her brother, Colonel Edward ID. Morreu. the ce.s-
mony being performed by the Rev. E. X. Porter.
rector of Emmanuel Church. About sixty guests
will be present. The young people will take
wedding tour through Europe IA.
The PaTan Stevens villa. once Famous TOT -
elaborate entertainments. will this season De ocSS-
pied as a grillroom.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
FoRTUy4TE DEpaRTvEyT crrprs

II Is to be feared that the number of invalids
on the city payrollS will be largely increased be
cause of the opinion of the Corporation Counsel
that 1t is illegal TO cut off pay or TO reduce IL
when the placehOders can show a medical GER
tincate of sickness or weakness. no matter how
long the absence from duty may continue There
are several thousands of doctors i'm New-YOrk.
Some of them are cOmplaisant and good natured.
and not few Of these amiable physicians have
friends who are drawing salaries from the pub
lie funds
Recreation in the open air Is often highly
beneficial 10 clerks and others whose duties re-
quire them TO sit at desks for several hours six
days in the week. Is it likely that medical GER
tificates which may he used To shield the en-
ploye who desires TO enjoy himself will be hard
10 get: Mr.. Whalen's opinion may involve the
city in an alarming addition TO its expenditure.
and may lead TO unpleasant complications of AL
sorts.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
BURLES0rE SAFETY APPLIANCES.

chance 10 commend the official conduct Of
Police Commissioner Murphy ought not 10 he
neglected, and we hasten to say that he has
done well in directing the captains OF the Steam
boat Squad and the police boat TO examine the
life saving appliances provided on passenger
vessels using the waterways Of New-YOrk IL
has been commonly asserted that when the
ferryboat Mortified was found 10 be sinking
the life preservers which she carried proved to
be OF no account. and Colonel Murphy desires 10
know not only the facts in that particular case
but what the general conditions are in respect
TO the supposed means of safety on the North
and East rivers. the Bay and the Sound
The temptation 10 base a careless generaliZa-
ton on single incident is perhaps too seldom
resisted. The record shows that the navigation
of our crowded waters is extraordinarily free
from accidents. and the watchfulness and skill
by which such n record is maintained are
deserving Of grateful recognition. 1t is well to
remember also that in adopting measures of
safety a careful discrimination ought TO be
made between a rule or appliance which on
reasonable estimate OF possibilities seems likely
20 prove serviceable and one which might DOS
sbly serve a useful purpose in a remote contin-
gency. railroad car for example. occasion
ally catches fire with fatal consequences but il
would be irrational and oppressive TO require
every ear 10 carry on its roof a tank from which
IL could be instantly flooded with water by
pulling lever. Similarly IL would be a hard
ship, though a less fantastic one, TO compel a
ferry company 10 equip each of its boats with
small boats enough 10 hold all the passengers
and put force OF men through daily drill In
launching them. Such wild recommendations
are Frequently made by foolish persons when a
serious accident has caused some public dis
euietude but as a rule they receive no more
attention than they deserve.
Ii is fair 10 insist. however that safety appli-
ances which are conceded TO he suitable and
which the law requires should he so placed and
Kept as TO make IL easy TO use them when they
are wanted. Now. common observation shows
that AT least on ferryboats. life preservers are
usually slowed away in such a manner that II
would be hard 10 get at them in a sudden emer-
ecncy. On the newer boats they are generally
packed behind panels under the seats, where
they cannot he seen and are likely TO be for
gotten, though rather obscure sign here and
there may testify TO their existence IL they
were kept overhead in hinged racks from which
strong pull would release them all at once
they would doubtless be unsghtly on ordinar,
occasions, but they would look very attractive
after a collision. The point is that if life pre-
servers are worth carrying AT all they ought 1,
" 80 carried as 10 be available in case Of need
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

one sort or another Then they will settle down
TO decide consciously or unconsciously, whether
they will cling to the inspirations which they
have received or be like the man who, having
intended TO build bridge to the moon, hnaliy
used the boards which he had accumulated for
the purpose in the construction of woodshed.
1t will not take even the dull ones long to
realize that the ways in the wide, VIDE world
are different from those TO which they have re-
Gently been accustomed They will soon see
that the philosophical oratiOns, which seemed
so important If delivered now under the new cir
cumstances would sound like forgotten crackers
going off after the fireworks. The recent grad
mates who seek and find employment will be.
generally placed under immediate superiors who
either did not go TO college. or, if they did, re-
member 1t more or less dimly. Most of these
will try TO be patient, and In general they VIII
succeed especially If they do not hear the forgot
ten crackers going off too frequently. There VIII
be much for the graduates TO learn from these
men; the teaching will be thorough, although IL
may lack the enthusiasm of the professor out
lining the principles of his favorite study. The
first plunge of the recent graduate into the busy
world of affairs will be somewhat startling
not to the world but to the recent graduate
There is no way of avoiding this; the world is
not to blame. and it would be too hard TO blame
the graduate Tor IT, presently, however, thc
harness will begin to fit and all will go well. II
the graduate is of the right sort
Perhaps the most important lesson for these
graduates to learn is that they do not as yet
fulfil the requirements of the term educated
No person ever escapes from college or uni
yersity without hearing from some one a dis
cussion of the duty of educated men and women
In the affairs of the world, in politics, In the
professions in business. If the college presi-
dent does not take this as his subject for an adj
dress 1t is at least treated by one of the class
orators. But the graduate must recognize
sooner or later that young men and women just
out of college are in no sense educated men and
women. The possibilities of education have In
a measure been pointed out to them, nothing
more But this should not be in the least dis
couraging There is plenty of time 10 learn. II
they begin soon enough. Most men OF scholarly
accomplishments, except perhaps specialists
acquire their scholarship after graduation, not
before.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
Amuscmenis.

CASTNO-2 -s:I5-Florodora
GARRICK THEATRE Is :30-Captatn 1lnks OF '4ie
Horse Marines
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-2:3o- s;So-Ine f'iiN'0
Burglary
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PerfOrmance.
ROSTER a BIAI.S-l .45--7 .45-NaudeviNe
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2-s:8D-om me Sale'
MANaATTAN BEACH-3 30-e 30-Shannons <Su me-
Band Concerts J-.-.,,-o,
NEW WORKS. i5-Naudeyiile-Ihe hihs No''''~'
Cherry Blossom Grove.
PARADISE GARDENS-s:lb 20 l2-NaudeHille'
PASTORS and Nlght--COntinuous snow. ry.,,--
PROCTORS FIFTH ANENU Lost--lWefty y-i'uH i'O1i'
and To Obge fHnson and Narieties - -, --,
PROCTOR'S TWENTY THIRD STREEI-AA the No''-
Home and Varieties. e.-.. -
pPOcTOR'S FIFTY EIGHTH STREET-Lost strhyeo or
Stolen Violin Maker and varieties ,,,u---ty
PROCTORS ONE HUNDRED AND W - = ar n
sTRrET-Caste. An Engagement and varieties
TERRACE GARDF.N-S .IA-The Chimes OF NoTInahoE.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

he will be the guest Of King Edward and Queen
Alexandra Marlborough House and at WINDSOR
Castle and will be accompanied by his brother,
Prince Hans OF GlUcksburg "
The death of Colonel Henry Clay Egbert in the
field. at Manila, p. L.. has been commemorated
by the erection OF handsome monument on the
spot where he fell leading his men.
Thomas Nelson Page. the author. who has been
travelling the Continent and in Egypt gather
ing material for novel, returned last night
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. Mr..
Page not only gathered new material, but wrote
more than half novel, which will soon be ready
for he nuhliSher
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
CAPT. COGHLAN BUYS A CoLORA DO HOME

Colorado Springs. Col. June rs (SpeciaD.-Captain
Joseph II. COghlan. who commanded the Raleigh g.,
the Manila Bay fight under Admiral Dewey has
bought a $4,000 home in Manitou Captain COghIan
is at Newport. and he will shortly be assigned
70 duty on the Atlantic Coast. He came here with
his wife in June invalid and Remained ,,nfiI
May Is of this year. The climate and mineral
water cured him. When he went away he said ne
would return when finally retired from service fo
end his days here. He and his wife made many
friends here who will welcome their return ''
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
PRESIDENT MKINLEr's HARVARD DEGREE

Cambridge Mass. June S-Presdent Eliot of
Harvard is authority for the statement that II
will be necessary for President Mckinley to he
present at commencement on June 26 in order To
receive the degree OF LII. ID voted by the mt
versity. President Eliot says that formerly de-
grees were conferred upon an absent person. but
OF late years II has been required that the one
VINO Is 10 receive the honor present himself at
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
THE TRIBUNE FRESH AIR FUND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
$4,000

Mrs vanderbilt ....-............ $500 90
Proceeds Of childreu's fair and planned
by three young girls, Marion nj
Gladys COursen and Miss Mildred Denton nv a
few Of their young friends. held on the lawn of
Coursen Madison. y. j. on SATURDAY
Proceeds Of fair held by the G. c. s. Club of
West Eighty-seVenth-st.. consisting Of he four
following little girls: Ethel Cox. Anna Drysen
sophie Macdonald and Islay Macdonald. - a5 81
l. r. W..
William D. sloane. .......:-.. 30 ~
Sunday school. Brooklyn. through n. o. TOwl. pa
Please do not mention my name 10 %
Florence NJ Jameson. Rtdghed. Conn. 100
Going Abroad
Robert W. New
y.
j. Stckney
II. Boien South Somervile. y. J.-........ 3Oo
Herbert Parsons tspectaD
y. y.
Previously acknowledged 392 20
Total June is. 1901. So 125
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II is an absurdity 10 provide them in obedience
10 the law or as a concession 10 popular feeling.
and then reduce their possible utility To mini
mum. Yet In many instances precisely that is
done, as the investigation which Colonel Murphy
has ordered viii presumably show. The univer-
sal enforcement of reasonable regulations ought
10 fnll
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers who will sail for Europo
tomorrow on the ST. Paul Miss NJ A Aooot''
p. L. Barley. Mr.. and Mrs. Morris b. BeardsleS'
Mr.. and Mrs. Watson p. Blair. j. w. Cabot baron
Casten. Mrs. III. p. Chamberlain. Mr. and MIS-
Richard Harding Davis. w. ID. and W. FL Dutton'
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Gilroy Lewis w. Henry w y.
Hunter. United States Vice-Consul-G ul-General AT
Cairo. Egypt John b. Jackson. secretary TO the
American Embassy at Berlin. Germany; Mrs Eo-
ward B. Jordan. j. III. Latham. S. c. McFariana.
United States Consul at Nottingham. Englahu,
Isaac P. Norman. DR.. N. j. Packard. e. Spencer
Pratt. Captain Algernon Sartors. Mrs. John ?.
Ward. Egerton L. Winthrop. jr.. and Lieutenah'
and Mrs G.. L.. Younghusband-
on the Southwark will snil the Rev. L. Bumpus.
William Curtis, Professor X. l.. Cowdery. DIR. war
rem p. Lombard. Robert Lyons, NJ. B. Mulford'
Robert r. McCracken, Dr. d. c. Noble and =
Parker Williamson.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

What wonderful era Of generosity and good
will 10 institutions Of learning is that OF the
present. The ambitious boy or girl who desires
a college training in these days in any part of
this country experiences far less difficulty In
obtaining il than did the generation OF thirty
years ago. If there are any Abraham Lincolns
at humble firesides at the dawn Of this century
they need not confine their studies TO borrowed
books painfully conned by the fickering and I'M
certain light OF pineknots May there not be
some little danger that 10 some extent. here and
there. the higher education may be made too
luxurious and too facile?
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

The second city in the world is scantiy pro-
v,ded with public baths. New-York. with her
large population. ought TO provide more gen.
erously for the cleansing OF the masses In the
tenement districts. Up to the present time there
have been few extremely hot days this year.
but even II the temperature is not so high as
last summer the city should furnish the poor
with bathing facilities in abundance New-YorlS
can well afford this
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
CARNEGIE LIBRARY FOR MACON. O..

Macon. Ga, June ls.-Mayor Smith to-day received
letter from Andrew Carnegie Informing the CITY
of gift Of $50 600 for free library on condition
that the city appropriate 81 900 yearly for it's main
Ii is expected that the council will accept
the offer.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
DIR. sCHLEY REsUMEs MS DrTJEs

Or. Winfield Scott Schey who for many weeks
has suffered from blood poisoning in ST. Luke's
Hospital. with which he is connected has recov
cred. and is now attending to his duties at the
hOSbital
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

The Free Employment Agency which is kept
up by this State appears to be doing valuable
work 1t is successful in getting places for
large number Of deserving persons who might
otherwise find it difficult TO live with any toler-
able degree of comfort.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

BeJore ron lelVF the sitr ror roHT summer ont
ing b 10 subscribe for TIE TRIBUNE. YoH IriH
Jsd lost uiihout II. The address sriH be changed
as often rs desired
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals as a part OF its excellent work has
put 10 death mercifully and painlessly no fewer
than $1,000 cats in single year IL Is cruel
practice, that of many families, TO close their
city homes I'm the summer and thrust their fire
side pets into the streets 10 fare as best they
may Even cats have their rights.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

The annual meeting for the workers of the Fresh
Air Fund will be held on Friday. June o. at
o'clock p. m. at the Tabernacle No. 395 RroOune-
st Ii Is essential that all who wish 20 avail them
selves of the benefits of the fund should be present
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Several days have passed since Senator TILL
man OF South Carolina, has asked the attentive
world for a loan OF it's ears. II cannot be that
the pitchfork statesman Of the John c. Calhoun
commonwealth has decided 10 keep silent?
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

The public prosecutor should never be over
hasty. When he takes action he should have
ample evidence. But excessive delay in bring
ing unfaithfuI offceholders to book creates dis
trust and dissatisfaction among public spirited
citizens
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

What clouds of canvas are spread by Cup chal-
lengers and Cup defenders! Their white wings
in these days seem now and then TO put too vio-
lent a strain upon the masts and the rigging or
those marvellous single stickers. In the time or
old Rameses the yacht designers Of ancient
Egypt learned that II was not wise 10 hoist too
huge a bulk Of sail on the craft which took part
in the races on the Nile. The experts OF this
era might do worse than to accept a few hints
from the experience OF the yacht builders who
launched their vessels not far from the vast.
weird shadows OF the Pyramids
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Trips TO the Pan-American continue 10 be popular
with the fashionable set and among the many VINO
are at Buffalo, who have been there during tne
last few days. are Mrs Cadwalader Jones and ner
daughter Reatrix Mrs. Ward McAllister and MISS
Louise Ward McAIster and Louis Keller.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Another wedding which took place yesterday was
that of Miss Alice Cavanagh and the Rev. William
Everett Johnson at the Church Of the Redeemer,
in West e-hundred-and-th -thirty-sixth-st The
bridegroom is the rector OF the church. and the
regular ushers OF the church attended him the
altar They were William s. Lounsberry Henry
Fl Duryee Herbert RI. Wheeler. w. II. Crittenton
and Albert Turner. The bride. who wore a travel
ling dress was attended by her sister, Mrs Hiram
Wngate of Manchester. n. H. as matron Of
honor A reception followed the wedding, after
which the couple left for New-England. They will
return 10 town about August l.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Mrs H. Walter Webb has taken a cottage az
North East Herbor. Me. for the summer, and VIII
shortly go there from her country place at scar
orough-on-I he Hudson, where she Is now
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Mrs Charles c.. Peters remains at Meadow Brook
during the absence of her husband on a nshin5 ex-
pedtiOn along the coast of Maine
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Among those who sailed yesterday on board the
Lain were Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens. OF Hoooken;
John stevens Bayard stevens. Mr.. and Mrs. G. 3.
White and Mrs and Mrs. Henry Lansdaie
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Mr. and Mrs Frederick Martin Davies. who were
married at Pittsburg last spring. are back IN tns
country from Europe and are paying number OF
visits 10 country houses in the vicinity Of New
York before settling down at Albany.
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Burial Hoffman nave
leased their house in East Seventy-ninrn-st- 70
rosenh Pulitzer They are abroad. and propose 70
spend next winter in Europe and do not expect 10
return until next summer
New-York tribune., 1901-06-19

Those sailing to-day on board the ST. Paul IN
clde Captain Algernon Sartoris. son of Mrs Nellie
Grant Sartoris; Lloyd c. Griscom. the newly ap-
ponted United States Minister at Teheran. with his
mother Mrs Clement A. Griscom. and his sister:
Frances OF golhng fame: E. L. Winthrop. IT,. and
Pratt