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New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
PERSONAL.

Professor David P. Todd, the Amherst astrono-
who sailed from New-York early in March
to the coming total eclipse of the sun. had
planned go to Singapore first and thence TO
But at Port D said he heard Of an Outbreak
of the bubonic plague at Singapqre He writes mt
for Sinkap, perhaps across to the coast of
Borneo near ga P9ntianak At last accounts & al the
Henry Mailard. jr., the sympa thetic president of
the French Benevolent Society, of this city. and
of the French Hospital, has received the decoration
of Knight of the Legion of Honor. The French
Government. says lie Courier des Etats-U MIS- mis-
wanted recognize the valuable services rendered
by Mr.. Mailard to the benevolent society since
orally to the French residents in New-Ycrk.
George w Boyer one of the jurors who tried
John Brown. has just died at Charlestown, w Va
Only member of that famous jury now sur
vives-William A. Martin, who llves al Deid-
plane, Va.
The widow of the late Frederick II. Aims. of
Cincinnati has offered the University of Cincinnati
slo0NO to build new college OF music as de-
partment of that institu uton.
E. H. Simmons. who last year erected and gave
to Kenosha. Wis. the q. NJ. simmons Memorial
Library, a of s10oooa. and the soldiers mon
ument, at a of $4,000 is building an erner-
gency hospital for the city. to cost S5o,Un
William E Horton to whom, according TO a dis
patch from Paris. has been awarded colonial
decoration by the President of France for his ser
vices in finding the remains of Baron Dumarais'
murdered in the FhinppineS !i'-o ceciI
appointed "A captain and assistant quarterinasief
in the regular army. He has been decorated aIs9
by the Hereditary Prince of Armenia FOR hlstoricdi
researches concerning the Armenian royal house
The Duke ard Duchess of Cornwall are expected
70 arrive in Melbourne May 6. and preparations
for their stay there already under way. Inc
programme includes the opening of Austraila hIsl
Parliament levee and reception AT the HoVeIn-
rnent House, and the comforting OF degrees at tie
university.
Canton Ohio April 1s.-NIrs. William r. Day.
wife of the former Secretary of State. who was
taken seriously i'll late yesterday, was greatly I'M
nroved to-day. She regained consciousness TO s9ch
an extent o. to recognize those about her Judge
Dav who was the way 10 Washlng ton: was
reached at Oakland. Md. and Immediately slar'eu
hac q Canton.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

The American Institute of Electrical Engi-
neers is to be congratua ted upon the attractive
ness OF its conversazione on Friday evening. In
Europe the combination of an exhibition show
ing recent advances in science with an evening
reception is familiar occurrence But in Amer
lea ii is something of innovation More
over an undertaking of this sort involves a
large investment of time. trouble and tact on
the part of both the exhibitors and the COM
mittee of arrangements. But such venture
yields 4 handsome return in educational results
And those who contributed. by material
vice, TO this particular one have reason for just
pride over its success.
The technical press of America is so progress
sive and wide awake. and admirably illus
trated, that important discovery or inven-
ton be unknown to the public long after
the author is ready TO remove the seal of
secrecy. However. even after one has read
fairly full description Of apparatus like Dr.
Pupin's for promoting long distance telephony,
Nernst's lamp or Mr.. Tesla's oscillator. he finds
an additional satisfaction in examining the
mechanism itself. and, if possible seeing ii in
operation. 1t is scarcely less gratifying to OBJ
serve the efforts made by inventors and in
vestigators Of less prominence in the scientific
world to improve on the achievements of their
predecessors. New men are always coming to
the front, and it is desirable to keep an eye on
them.
Then. too, the social opportunities which
converSazione is intended to afford. both to
members of the organization which gives it and
to that portion Of the outside public which is
invited thereto, are exceedingly valuable. Those
who are engaged in allied lines Of experiment
thus become better acquainted with one another
than is possible at n purely business meeting.
And non-scientific people always esteem ii
privilege to look at a lion like Mr.. Edison and
form their impressions of his personality.
Those who We're the guests of the institute last
Friday evening will remember the experience
long and with peculiar pleasure.
In putting two of ITS new and spacious build
ings at the disposal of the electrical engineers
Columbia did a graceful thing Indeed. she
has been extending that kind of encouragement
10 science for many years. Besides. electricians
from out of town naturally felt a special inter-
est this year in the great institution of learning
with which DR. Pupn is identified. Still, until
better transportation facilities exist between
the present site of the university and the lower
part of Manhattan, one might wish for more
central point for meetings Of this Character-an
additional reason for hoping that the Scientific
Alliance may soon have that long talked OF
home.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
GERMANT-4ND SOME OTHERS.

We are told that on Tuesday last the Ger
man Emperor and King Of Prussia paid to
Great Britain an unprecedented compliment.
He sent three of his finest court carriages to
convey from the Hotel Bristol to the palace
the members of the special British mission
which came TO announce formally to him the
death of Victoria incidentally himself wearing
on that occasion British uniform. 1t the
first time in the history of Prussia that the
royal carriages were used for the conveyance
of mere envoys. We must add as a significant
feature Of the incident that the populace Of
Berlin did not seem to be well pleased for, de-
spite an overwhelming display of police, there
were many cries OF Down with the Englishr'
Confederation and point are thus given to the
remark of a writer in the current "Fortnightly
Review to the effect that the German En-
peror's most popular act in all his reign-in Ger
many-was the sending of that famous dispatch
to President Kriiger which so reused British re-
sentiment, and that his most unpopular act was
his bestowal of a high decoration upon Lord
Roberts. William III has never continues this
writer, been further from his people than In
his personal approachment to Great Britain, and
the article concludes with a description Of the
German nation 'the people with a bad politi-
zeal instinct, and with an Emperor of genius
whom they have ceased, at the critical mo-
'ment of their development, to understand
We have no doubt that there is much truth in
that characterization, and while the German
antipathy to England may be deplored it Is
scarcely to be wondered at. A great nation.
which found itself only thirty years ago and
which in those thirty years has made incom-
parably greater progress than any of its neigh
bors naturally feels its oats" to degree al
most arrogant. The knowledge that England
Is its chief riyal-itS only one in EurOpe-n the
commerce and industry in which 1t is seeking to
excel does not incline ii toward affection for
that rival The war in South Africa, too has
not been without influence in the same direc-
ton. for three msjor reasons: One that Paul
Kriger and other Boer leaders are not Dutch.
but Deutscher; not Hollanders. but Germans.
another. that the success Of Kriiger and Steyn
In their Afrikander plans would have meant an
ultimate German protectorate over the Boer
States. and special privileges in them for Ger
man trade; and third, that the Germans desire
to ngratiate themselves with the Hollanders
! In hope OF wooing Holland into the empire We
| cannot therefore regard it strange that there
are expressions Of German dislike for England.
They are probably no stronger than similar
pressions have been In this country, though. Of
course not a tithe of Germany's excuse for
them exists here. They are a mere triie COM
pared with the Anglophobe outbreaks In France.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
No OBJECTION TO COLOR.
home.

In England and on the Continent Of Europe so
many dusky potentates from Asia and Africa
and the islands of the have been Conspicu-
in important affairs that the prejudice
against sombre complexons which is deep
seated in many of the cities of this republic is
almost altogether lacking abroad Major
Taylor the negro bicycle rider. was looked upon
askance i'll many town in this country, but in
Paris he is acclaimed heartily and greeted
with much enthusiasm as If he could trace
back his ancestry without break to the palest
of the light haired Franks who overran ancient
Gaul Even New-York. most cosmopolitan of
American cities, lags far behind the capitals OF
the Old World with respect to the treatment OF
the races whose lineage may go rearward to the
darkest of the sons OF Noah.
What man whose features are copper tinted
or umber or ochre get comfortable room
In a fashionable hotel in NewYork or a good
seat IN a we'll known theatre? On the other
shore of the Atlantic it is not the custom to
balk at the hue OF the skin. whatever 1t may be.
Other things are taken into account and at
some time in the future the common sense, rea-
son and fairness to color which pervade
Great Britain and the countries of the Cont
nent will he accepted unreservedly on this side
of 10
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
CAN ENGLISH ATHLETES COME!

The athletes who play the Olympian games Of
modern England on the wreath strewn shores
Of the Isis and the Cam willing to come
over the sea and meet the champions Of Ameri-
can universities and colleges in this city If the
contests can be arranged for September Under
graduates of Oxford and Cambridge give con-
vincing reasons for saying that it is not pract-
cable for them to send over the Atlantic the
best of their young men in June or July. 1t
would suit the American amateurs much better
II a meeting could be arranged for dates several
weeks earlier than the first of the autumn
months. General regret will be felt if it is found
impossible to come to an agreement.
Few sacrifices the part Of the collegiate
associations of this country would be too great
if by any means a renewal of the amicable
rivalry Of the past between the students OF the
Old World and the New can be brought about
The international yachting of the first year of
the century is almost certain to arouse still
stronger and wider enthusiasm than any one of
the previous battles Oh the ocean for the Amer
icas Cup. If this country can be so fortunate as
to welcome here not only the chosen represent
ative Of Englands yachting, but also a noble
minded band Of hghspirited athletes from Ok
ford and Cambridge this will be indeed a
notable season for sporting honors.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
though the French grievance against England
fc M oroa FOR than Cerrarv,S

though the French grievance against England
is no greater than Germany's.
Now, the writer in THE Fortnightly' is Of
opinion that Great Britain best meet this
German antipathy by making an approachment
with Russia. His idea is that Germany aims
to absorb Holland, Austria, the Balkans and
Asia Minor, and thus create vast Teutonc
middle kingdom reaching from the North Sea
to the Persian Gulf; that therefore she is curry
should Join hands with Russia to check Ger
many's ambition. We have little doubt that
such Is Germanys aim. Her attitude toward
the Netherlands. toward Austria and toward
Turkey, and he: enterprises in Asia Minor. be-
speak it plainly. But why Great Britain should
seek to check and TO thwart 1t is beyond our
comprehension. AS between Teuton and Slav
British sympathies must, we should think, turn
to the former. AS between German and Rus
sian domination of southeastern Europe and
Asia Minor, the British should unheStatingly
prefer the former. 1t is the true part Of great
But if it must choose between two Of them it
should naturally incline toward that which is
nearest to it in race and speech and religion
and tradition. 1t would be deplorable for Great
Britain to join Germany against Russia. but it
would be incomparably more so for her TO Join
must prefer Germanys friendship TO her ami
mostly. and friendship is to he and held
by friendliness, not by antagonsm.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
THE PRESIDENTS WESTERN TRIP
THREE DAYS To BE SPENT IN THE Yrr.
LOWSTONE PARK

Washington, April 1S.-Several matters IN con-
nection with the itinerary of the Presidents West
ern Trip were decided to-day. Ex-senator Carter
and MIR. Bache, representing the transportation
company of the Yellowstone Park. made arrange
ments for the trip through the park. Usually the
park is not opened TO tourists until the middle OF
June. owing to the fact that, it is at an eleva
ticn of 1909 feet. it is completely clear of snow
until that date For this occasion it will ha
opened this year fortnight earlier. The Presi-
dents party will reach Butte. Mont. on May q
and will take luncheon there, proceeding in tha
afternoon TO Helena where dinner will be had
The party will reach the park the morning Of
May %. and spend three days travelling through
t. In this time all the features of the park can
not be visited. and several of the famous geysers
will necessarily be missed. But the plan is TO
have the party the best OF the scenery and
the most picturesque of the great natural wonders
in which the park abounds Leaving the park on
the evening of May 81. the party will so to Ana
conda and then to Salt Lake City. The Kansas
itinerary will include stops at Topeka. Emporia
Ottawa, Baldwin. Lawrence and possibly Junction
City. Captain Pitcher OF the 1st Cavalry. now
stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco. is to
succeed Captain Goode as superintendent OF the
Yellowstone Park.
Arrangements for the trip of the Ohio delega-
ton in Congress TO San Francisco witness the
launching of the battleship Ohio are practically
completed. The delegation will leave Cincinnati
at l:5O a. m. on May for New-Oreans. and will
proceed to san Francisco over tne southern
cinc After the launching they will go north 10
Portland and Seattle and return over the Northern
Pacific. arriving in Columbus about June / II is
understood that Senators Hanna and Foraker will
accompany the party The Representatives
who will not go are Messrs. Burton. Weaver. Van
VoOrhis and Kerr
Senator Mitchell of Oregon. has been urging the
President to visit Astoria while lac is IN oregon
and also TO extend his stay in Portland The 1tin-
erary as far as Portland has been arranged how
ever, and Secretary CorteyOu has informed senator
Mitchell that il is impossible 10 make the chanSe
which he proposed in the route through oregon.
Colorado Springs, Col. April 1s.-Mayor Robin
SON chairman OF the general committee on enter
tanning President Mckinley during the latter's two
days visit in Colorado Springs. June and :. an
nounced to-day that President had consented to
Law the cornerstone of the new se0,OtS Young Mems
Christian Associa ton building on June 9.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
STICK TO THE RIGHT ROAD.

An aged woman while walking on a bride
road in Central Park the other day was Knocked
down by a horseman or by his horse and had
her coIlarbone broken. 1t was lamentable in
cident. Perhaps there were circumstances CON
nected with it which have not been publicly re-
vealed and which impose culpability upon the
horseman and bespeak sympathy with his vic
tim. Or perhaps not. What seems evident
upon the face Of it. however is that it was
case of carelessness Of not of wiful breach OF
ordinance on the part Of the person injured.
At any rate It calls attention to common evil
of our parks and parkways which should be
corrected by the authorities with an unsparing
hand.
We refer to the Of roads by those for
whom the roads were not intended and to
whom in fact, they expressly forbidden.
There are three systems OF roads in our large
parks-one for equestrans, one for vehicles and
one for pedestrians, the last named being by
far the most extensive. The benefcaries Of the
first two always obey the rules. Vehicles
never ntruded upon bride paths. nor have we
ever heard complaint that vehicles or horsemen
trespassed upon footpaths But multitudes of
pedestrians seem to think themselves free to
stroll along the driveways and bride roads al
will although the practice is fraught with peril
to themselves and grave embarra sSment to
those for whose use the roads are intended In
the course of a Sunday afternoon hundreds Of
men, women and children may thus be observed
violating the rules in n single one of our city
parks. persistently walking along the middle OF
the driveways and bride roads. although
phalted footpaths are close beside them. They
compel riders and drivers to maintain an
anxious lookout to avoid running them down.
and when a horse vehicle passes close by
them they look up, and sometimes speak re-
proachfully If not abusvely, as though the
latter instead OF themselves, were trespassing.
The Mall and other broad promenades in
Central Park would be fine places for pleasure
driving and horsemen would find the lawns
and meadows glorious places in which to ride.
But a single case of such trespass would set
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
NOTABLES FROM ABROAD.
FRENCH EX-MINIsTER COMES TO STUDY
LABOR AND PRINCES ON PLEASURE TRIP

FRENCH EX-MINIsTER COMES TO STUDY
LABOR AND PRINCES ON PLEASURE TRIP
Among the passengers on the French steamer La
Lorraine. which arrived here yesterday, were
Princes Albert and Jacques de Broglie, who
travelling around the world. and Jules Siegfried
and his son, Andre Siegfried. They went to the
Waldorf
NJ Slegrried is the Director of the Museum
Sociale of Paris. and formally Minister OF
Commerce of France and Senator in the French
Assembly. He is a large manufacturer, and comes
here 70 study labor and trade conditions
NJ Siegfried his previous visit to this coun-
try was introduced to President Lincoln. and he
expects during his three months stay here to
meet President Mckinley He will go 10 Phila-
delphia. Baltimore, New-Qrleans. Savannah. Pitts
burg Cleveland. Chicago. several of the Eastern
cities and st. Paul. Mimi Before leaving the ship
the visitor said he expected that in the near
future the business relations between France and
the United States would vastly increase. and that
while France would send its silks. linens and works
of art here, this country would ship its manufact
ures in large quantities 10 France NJ SeSfried
was elected as the first Mayor of Havre under the
republic. At his expense, but in conjunction
with the Industrial Society Mulhouse (his native
place in Alsace). he established high schools Of
commerce Havre. Rouen. Lyon Marseilles and
Bordeaux He was also instrumental in the build
ing of the big boulevard along the waterfront at
Havre and the formation throughout France OF
workingmens societies and the building OF suita-
BILE and healthy homes for the poor One OF his
books on Poverty: Its Causes and Remedies" was
strongly indorsed by the Academy of Moral and Po-
litical Sciences.
He Minister of Commerce in the Cabinet oc
President Rbot in 1928. and he President o,
Group 10 at the Exposition of Social Economics
held in Paris in 1900.
The Princes Albert and Jacques de Broglie, who
are accompanied by NJ Fassy, are on a pleasure
trip, and after crossing this continent will return
10 France by way of Japan They the grand
of the late Duke de Brogie. who the
President of the Council when Marshal MacMahon
the head of the French Republic
Comte Joseph de Gabriac said that he came to
the United States TO look after mines Cali
foraia in winch he has his capital invested
Secretary d'Apchier le MaGguin. another possen-
the Lorraine. is on mis- way to the City OF
Mexico. where ne is to join the French Embassy
He was accompanied on the voyage. the ships list
stated. by femme de chambre-' The secretary
told the customs that the woman, a native OF
Martinique who wore yellow kerchief around
her head, really his cook. and that he had
come across her at Port-au-Prince. where cooks
might rare. some years ago and. as she could
bake and cook suit epcure. he will hold on
to her long she will stay with him.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

Washington, April 1S.-Mr Grip, Minister OF
Sweden and Norway, had audience with the
President to-day present Count Wachtmeister.
The head of the celebrated Swedish family of that
name Count wachtmeister left Sweden some
time ago for tour of the world and recently has
been travelling in Mexico and California When
ne left Sweden he commissioned by King Oscar
IL as the bearer of fine photograph OF his majesty
President Mckinley. The Kings autograph Is
on the photograph The presentation made
by Count Wachtrne;ster. who spoke OF King Oscars
great esteem for and high opinion OF the Chief EN-
ecutive of the United States
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
PASSENGERS RETURNING FROM EUROPE,

Paris. April 1S.-Passengers by the ST. Louis from
Cherbourg
Mr and Mrs. John Har-i- Mrs GROCER.
Mrs L. H Is. Kissar-
John Dean. Mrs. William McVickar.
Mr. and Mrs Ezra Fitch. Colonel Palmer.
Among the passengers booked for the Kaiser VIII
helm der Crosse Wednesday
Mrs. David King Mrs Frederick j. Parsons.
The Misses Miss l. Abbott
Ffske. Miss Nellie Iarjes
Professor J. D. Miss
Prince. Carroll Brown.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

Washington, April 1S.-The monthly statement OF
the imports and exports of the United States issued
by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, shows that
in the month of March the imports Of merchandise
amounted SO s9osS of which sss. sC6.266 was free
of duty. The total is a decrease from March, 1900.
OF 10000. -,
The exports of domestic merchandise amounted
to sl22 Se0,519 a decrease of 49, i50.00o-
The gold imports amounted to SeH1,ol1 an IN
crease OF s500000. The gold exports amounted 10
$3.50 $50. a decrease Of SsOo6l0.
Silver imports amounted to 81 2731 .7ss a decrease
of SAA1Go. Silver exports We're S5.1501s6. decrease
of
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

To the open eyed observer the number of long
sleeved All Sins visible in the streets Of New
York is steadily increasing. The inference is
that leakage of Chinese immigration over the
Canadian border resembles in volume and in
continuous flow the leakage in the Croton sup
ply. And how childlike and bland are the faces
of these Oriental newcomers in the chief capital
of the Occident, Every one of them would de-
light the soul of Bret Harte.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

the town wild with Indignation; and rightly.
Does it not occur to pedestrians that their
trespass upon the driveways is just as objec-
tionable and just as dangerous? And to the
police that the one violation of rule should be
as sternly repressed as the other?
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

The published reports of munfcent Easter
gifts in we'll known churches and of the gener-
Gus benefactions to Andover's famous academy
and also to many other educational institutions
must convince the most cynical of pessimists
that this is especially time Of open hearts and
open hands. Never in the history of the country
there many possessors of wealth so
ready to bestow abundantly from their riches
for the promotion of that which is best
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
QUEEN ALEXANDRA RETURNING HONE.

Frankfort on Main April 13.-Queen Alex
andra boarded a train at midnight on her return
journey England
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14

1t seems a pity to arrest hard working and
honest women who selling newspapers on
the street. Yet it must be admitted that some of
those at the Park Row end of the bridge have
now and then been considerably in the way of
the public.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-14
DETROIT GAS LINE TO BE CUT OFF.

Toronto Oat April iS-The Ontario Govern
ment has decided mot 10 renew the lease of the
Canadian side of the Detroit River TO the Interior
Construction and Improvement Company for pip
ing natural gas to Detroit. The lease expires y
three months.