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New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
TRANSATLANTIC BALLOONING.

1t Is reported from Paris that Louis GODDARD.
Frenchman who has had much experience in
aerial navigation. wants to drift from America
TO Europe this summer in the easterly current
of air that is known to exist at slight eleva-
ton above the earth. According to last weeks
cable dispatches he proposes TO launch his
craft in the vicinity of New York, and aims TO
land if possible. near Gibraltar. His plan, as
announced. is to invite three other skilled aero
nauts, besides taking six passengers. NJ. GODDARD
hopes to reach the other side in from four to
eight days. and regards twelve the very longest
period that can possibly be required.
Such propositions have been made several
times before. but the advances effected in aero
nautc science within the last twenty years rem
der the idea little less foolhardy to-day than
ii once was. The trouble resulting from leak
age of gas for instance, has been partially over
come, so that balloon can be kept aloft longer
now than formerly. Still. the maximum dura-
tion of a voyage thus far has been thirty-siX
hours, and the best average speed for long
distances is only a trihe over thirty miles an
hour At present then. hundred hours seems
TO be the minimum time needed for the trip
under the most favorable circumstances.
Fully as important the buoyancy that will
keep man up in the air proper length of
time is the ability 10 control his course while
there. Steering IL balloon is practically out of
the question, as poor Andree learned to his sor
row. But air strata at different elevations flow
in slightly different directions. Hence aero
Iauts have been able to shape their course to
limited extent by regulating their height But
whether this method will prove adequate to NJ.
Godard's needs or not remains TO be seen. 1t
may he remarked that the usual direction taken
by balloons on the longer trips made last sum-
mer in Europe was more or less to the north
of east. rather than due east. Such a course
from New-York would lead to Great Britain,
Iceland or the open Arctic Ocean rather than
Spain, and considerably prolong the voyage.
1t is not unreasonable TO suppose that food
enough for n week two could be transported
in an airship. But the expediency of carrying
ten men is more than questionable. Evidently
the six passengers are expected to finance the
scheme The cost of the expedition is estimated
at about $4,000. If the leader had only one or
two companions who fully understood the
handling OF the balloon. and whose services
might be needed, and then put all the additional
weight which 1t possible to carry in the
form OF ballast that could be thrown over
board, the chance of success would be greatly
improved. Again. II is TO be remembered that
the longest distance yet covered by this method
of transportation is eleven hundred or twelve
hundred miles. One could wish. therefore, that
the attempt TO travel three times as far might
he made entirely over land instead OF over the
sea. The performance would be less dramatic
perhaps. but it would also be much less risky.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
THE GROWTH or FLORICULTURE.

1t is said that in the State of Connecticut there
| are more than 100000 feet of glass devoted
wholly 10 the growing of flowers for commercial
purposes. and doubtless a similarly good show
ing could be made in other States. Yet not so
many years ago flowers were looked upon as an
| expensive luxury that for some curious reason
whimsical rich people liked TO have Indeed, it
is not too much TO say that the average Ameri-
can of "A generation ago would have been rather
ashamed 10 avOw openly any liking for flowers
Such taste would have been looked upon
mark of effeminacy. to be ridicued. if not CON
demned But to-day the appreciation of flowers
is general and the amount of money invested in
their cultivation is in the aggregate enormous
But the commercial side of the question is after
all. subsidiary. The growing love for flowers.
misdirected though ii sometimes is. indicates an
increasing sympathy with the beauty and charm
of Nature that Americans have lacked hitherto,
perhaps because Nature was the first and great
est obstacle they encountered in their early po-
neer life Similarly. Americans used 10 feel
somewhat ashamed to confess that they We're
from the country. because. from the point of
view of the pioneer settler the city represented
civilization. while the country stood for strug-
gle, privation and. perhaps. poverty. Happily,
however, that provincial view is passing away
with the growth of higher culture and a keen
er understanding of the beauties of Nature
Ii is pleasant to know that the directors of the
Pan-American Exposition alive to the i'm
portance Of developing an interest in floricult-
urc large conservatory will he provided for
the floral exhibits. well trees and shrubs.
of the various States, and 1t is TO he hoped that
there will he complete showing from every
State and Territory in the Union. more espc-
cially of the flowers peculiar to each region.
Such composite exhibition of the nations for
iculture will do much TO educate visitors To the
exposition not merely in appreciation of the
beauty Of flowers. but in a knowledge of floral
varieties unknown TO them in their part of the
the exposition grounds have been so effectively
treated that they will not fail to bring to those
who see them n realization of the marvels posi-
bic through a knowledge OF landscape garden
ing Perhaps majority of those who visit the
exposition will he farmers. and this exhibit of
flowers. trees, shrubs and landscape gardening
cannot fail to impress them with the Importance
Of doing something Of the same sort on their
farms and hOmesteads.
Nor the residents of American cities vet
as fully imbued with n love of flowers as they
might be- although it is in the cities that flowers
are most generally used for decorative purposes
The science of window gardening is yet in its
infancy in American cities. and much more
might be done in the cultivation of flowers in
the small land spaces in front of or behind
houses.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28

Brazil, its 100000 inhabitants are so largely
German that the government apparently does
not dare to reveal the actual number of them;
but we should not be surprised if there We're as
many as ten or twelve thousand of them, see
ing that the present rate of German immigra-
ton is not less than 475 year. In the rest of
the continent there must be many as 10000
more Germans, making probably not far from
10000 in the whole of South America Really
it should scarcely be necessary for Germany to
interfere at all If those 10000 cannot rise up
and suppress the other G0.000,0OO white inhabi-
tants and transform the continent forthwith
into New Germany we should like to know
the reason why.
Evidently the situation is critical. if not
already hopeless. II will probably be best for
the United States Immediately to abrOgate the
Monroe Doctrine and beg Germany to be con
tent with taking the whole of South America
and not seek to take North America too But
The Saturday Reviler' means well. and is
entitled 10 our thanks. partly for warning us of
the impending danger. partly for urging the
British Government 10 take Germany's side
thus making as sure as il can that that govern
inent will take our side. and partly-chiehy
indeed-for opening the silly season this year
SO far in advance of the usual time.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
sand They deceive nobody, and brutal impu-
dence is much more in their line.
THE BETTER WAY.


The result of the Cuban commissioners visit
10 Washington should serve another public end
than that of promoting satisfactory settlement
/ between the two countries though the latter is
1 the most important of all. 1t should point out
Enthusiastically 10 some men in both countries
1 the existence OF better way in public business
/ than that which they have tried TO pursue. Some
! Americans have been shrieking that If we dld
/ not instantly. absolutely and Internationally
/ withdraw from Cuba, leaving the Island to sur
! viye or perish according TO its own devices. we
sbould brand ourselves with infamy. and have
added. with cocksure shrillness, that the Cubans
shouId would and could be contented with moth
ing less Some Cubans. too, have seemed to
think that the establishment of any conditions
precedent TO American evacuation of the island
meant nothing short of spoliatOn and oppres
sion.
But what a change came DER the spirit Of
these dreams as soon as an authoritative com
mission of representative Cubans got TO Wash
ington. 1t quickly perceived by these visit
that the United States not a pirate
power but one seeking peace Justice and pros
perity; that its intentions concerning Cuba in
volved simply the loyal fulflment Of the pledges
and purposes which ii announced at the time of
fits intervention. three years ago, and that the
not only with the good faith of this country, but
also with the highest interests of Cuba. 1t sure
ly should be equally obvious TO all Americans
that the Cubans less practical than senti-
mental. and that they wise enough to prefer
practical liberty with ''the blessings Of liberty
TO a theoretical liberty without such blessings
On the whole. it may be that the need of such
lesson was greater in the United States than in
Cuba. We have observed not nearly much
obstreperousness in the latter among the fac
tional foes of the government in the former.
Information is better than prejudice. That is
the lesson of this incident. 1t is an old lesson,
but il apparently has to be learned anew at
every new conjuncture. The vast majority of
dissensions and quarrels in the world. in public
and in private, arise from MISUNDERSTANDING,
and would be speedily and amicably settled if
only mutual enlightenment We're effected. Such
enlightenment came TO Agunaldo. involuntarily
on his part through the agency of forcible capt
ure. 1t came TO the people of Porto Rico when
they found that the revenue system which many
of them had opposed was really a most benefi-
cent thing. 1t seems now to have come TO the
Cubans in an incomparaby easier and pleasant
er way They now know what the purposes of
this government are. not from irresponsible
hearsay nor from prejudced or malicious
sources but from the government itself; and
they are satisfied. That is the better way TO
settle the issue. and they will not regret that
they have taken il.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
THE DRAMATIC WEEK.

The regular dramatic season is rapidly drawing
to a close few additional events will invite
passing notice. and then the record will be com
pleted Nine. Bernhardt and Mr. Coqueln Will ap-
pear at the Metropolitan Opera House on Mohday
night giving a farewell performance Miss Cros-
man will come Walack's Theatre, and present
Nell Gwyn Miss Elita Proctor Otis will act at the
Murray Hill Theatre in The Crust OF Society
Messrs Williams and Walker will sport at the
Grand. A presentation of "A Runaway Girl will
he made at the Harlem Opera House. The friv-
oIous play of Lovers Lane" recently disclosed az
the Manhattan Theatre. will be offered at the Re
public.-Miss Viola Allen having finished her sea-
son there and gone to the country. The vulgar and
idiotc farce called Are You Mason 2"-having
pleased a rabbIe that is gross itself-has
disappeared from the local stage. the engagement
OF Mime. Odilon. at the Irving Place Theatre, has
been extended. and that German actress will con-
tinue to appear until May s. Established attrac-
tions the local theatres remain unchanged The
week cannot he deemed dull that is illurnined
by Sarah Bernhardt, Julia Narlowe. Blanchs
Bates, Jessie Milward and Henrietta Crosman, 10
name only few OF the that still are shining
stage. ". W
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
NepDurk DAILY Taibrnre
SUNDAY. APRIL oS. 1901.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Count Won Waldersee reported
that the German force had attacked the Chinese
near Hei-Shan- -Kwan and had driven them into
Shan-Se Province with heavy losses. - Tur-
key has ordered new warship, but has taken
no steps to pny for previous contracts. -
drill OF native mounted troops held at San
Juan. Porto Rico: the soldiers made a good
showing. - Burglars robbed the office OF the
American Express Company in Paris Of 10000
francs. =- The French Government expressed
its thanks for the courtesies shown to the Off
GERS and men of the training ship Duguay
Trouin in the United States.
DOMESTIC.-The Cuban commissioners had a
final and decisive interview with President Nc
Einley, at which trade relations were discussed ::
the President assured them that after they had
formed their government he would appoint a
commission TO consider the question; the COM
missioners started for New-York and General
Wood left Washington on his way back to Ha-
vana. 80 There was a great rush of callers
at the White House to bid the President goodby
before he starts his trip to the Pacific Coast.
So Senator Beveridge spoke THE Ameri-
can Situation" at the Grant dinner in Des
Moines and Senator Fairbanks The Repub-
lican Party at the dinner OF the Americus
Club. in Pittsburg
C1Tf.-Stocks were strong on The Consolidat ted
Exchange. == II learned that the rail-
roads having terminals the Jersey side of the
Hudson River were opposed TO the scheme of
'he New York and New-Iersey Bridge Company
for bridge Al Fifty -ninth-st and approaches
in West-st; il was thought that their opposition
would kill the project. even IL Governor Odell
signed the bill: the Reform Club Joined the fight
against the bill.
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Fair.
The temperature yesterday: Highest. 60 degrees;
lowest, A.; average. o.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
PERSON AL.

George Foster Peabody has offered to give S5 oo,
for the erection of Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation building at Columbus, Ga, provided that
the citizens shall agree to maintain the institution
lie has also offered $20Oc0 for Young Men :
Christian Association building for negroes under
the same conditions.
The Rev DR. Edmund Ware headmaster .,
Eton College. has just been decorated with the
Royal Victorian Order by King Edward VII Next
to this honor. he is said to be most pleased with
the success of his son. who helped to row the latest
Oxford boat to victory at Mortlake. and with the
fact that the winning rowed in a boat sne
ciaIlv designed by the doctor. DR. War; is III
self oarsman of renown. having been three wears
in the oxford boat. 1s57'59, and president OF fbe
o. u b. C. In addition TO being headmaster Of
and honorable colonel of the I'd Bucks (Eton Coil 2
Royal Volunteers.
Letters written by Queen Victoria are already In
creasng in value in London. and the other day n
brief three line note of hers, written In her own
hand, sold Tor TO
General Miles has resorted to walking as an exer-
else and takes long strolls about the streets of
Washington. generally accompanied by a friend or
member of his family.
The William l.. Wilson memorial fund OF Wash
ington and Lee University has been Increased by a
gift of $500 from David r. Francis OF ST. Louis
The fund amounts to more than $4,000
In the course of address delivered at Spring
field Mass. the other day President Pritchett Of
the Massachusetts Institute OF Technology referred
in a humorous vein TO recent gift that institu-
ton The gift in question he said, commended
itself most heartily to his own judgment--in fact
few wiser dispositions of money seemed him TO
be possible. In word, the income OF the beauest
was to be used in increasing the presidents salary
Dr. Pritchett announced that he would profit by
the endowment TO the extent OF about SIS a year.
Dr. John P. Ashley has resigned the presidency
OF Albion College. Albion. Mich. The Board OF
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The morning after arrival the hotel IN
Caracas, says w. E. Curtis. II called for glass
OF milk while dressing. On every subsequent
morning during our stay a glass of milk was
brought TO me at precisely the same hour, with
cut Instructions and although servant was
told several times that il not wanted she did
not appear TO understand. and continued to bring
ii just the
I'm the hotel Were electric bells. The first day
| rang for something. and certain boy answered
the summons. The next morning l rang again
and again. and no responded. Finally l went
into the dining room and found there half dozen
servants.
Didn't you hear my bell ring? L asked
81. senior CYes. sir. was the 'eply
Then why didn't you answer IT.?
The boy that answers your excellencys bell
has gone to market with the manager
- But you knew he here, and you should
have come in his place
No. senior; 1t is his occupation to answer your
bell answer the bell of the gentleman in the
next ROOM
And as long as l remained in that hotel my bell
was answered only by the particular boy. If
he was not in 1 could ring for an hour without
receiving response although the house was full
of idle servants"
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28

Trustees has accepted the resignation and ap-
pointed DR.. Samuel Dickie acting president.
A monument to mark the grave in Arlington
Cemetery of George Anderson has been erected by
his former associates OF the Naval Observatory.
For thirty-one years Mr.. Anderson connected
with the observatory. He born In Edinburgh.
came TO the United States in 1858. served In New
York regiment during the Civil War. and went TO
the District of Columbia at the close of that con-
fict
The Rev. William c. Richardson, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church. of Chicago has been called to
ST. Jamess, in Philadelphia. of the leading
churches of that city. Mr.. Richardson is a New
York State man, native of Auburn, and was
ordained In 1883 by Bishop Potter. For nearly ten
years he was rector of St. Paul's Church. in New
buryport. Mass. and after some service as special
preacher at St James's. in Philadelphia was called
20 Chicago in 1897. and has had charge of one OF
the largest Episcopal churches in the West since
that time. He is a man of energy and ability
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
THE DRAMA.
MR. JEFFERSON IN DOMESTIC DRAMA
CALEB PLUMMER.

Mr.. Jefferson closed his Harlem week last night
with performances of Caleb Piummer and Mr.
Golightly: and these images of Lature-the
ALI humor and pathos. the other all buoyant
Dir rollery,-were greatly enjoyed and heartily ap-
plauded by sympathetic multitude Next to Tom
Pinch the character of old Caleb is probably the
mcst lovable certainly the most pathetic, that
Charles Dickens drew. The ideal is that OF
absolute self-sacrdce-not the self-sacrifce that
asks attention and expects reward. but the total
ahnegation of self innate, constitutional virtue
that lives for others, accepting every hardship
With cheerful patience. harboring no resentment
against harsh destiny, and uttering no complaint
The story requires rehearsal, for everybody who
reads has read The Cricket the Hearth"
Mr.. jefferson, presenting his own stage version
of the Dickens story. gives an embodiment Of the
venerable Toy-Maker that IL neither oppressive
with the misery trivial with the garrulity OF
infirm and broken age. The comedian who deals
with this subject has always delicate course
steer. for senile decreptitude must not be too
closely simulated. and wretchednsss must
be made trivial with jocular levity- Caleb's
drift is TO make the best of misfortune by
bearing IL with bIithe spirit, and innocently to de-
ceive his blind daughter. Bertha. by pretending
that his raiment is sumptuous and his employer
benefcent; and so mitigate her physical afiic-
ton. Literature presents few types OF nobler he
rosm and the stage of our time has no sweeter
or lovelier image of it TO show than Mr. Jefrer
sons impersonaton of this character There is, of
course. intellectual purpose, underlying the ar
tstic structure but the art Is neither intellectual
imaginative; it flows out of the emotions. and
il is the spontaneous utterance of human sympathy
with human weakness and sorrow. NO one can see
this performance without being at once amused
by it's droery and touched by its tenderness; and
in that way made tolerant of frailty pitful OF mis-
fortune. more keenly sensible Of the hardships of
the human race, and more patient to endure the
inevitable ills and sorrows of life
MIR Jefferson acted Golightly in his customary
vein OF expeditions playfulness and comic perplex-
ity and he rounded his closing performances with
a genial and cordial speech of gratitude and fare
we'll He goes now into New-England appearing
at Bridgeport. New-Haven. Hartford. Springfield.
Salon, Portland and Boston. His popularity ia
prodigfous; his fame is its meridian; no actor
of our time has enjoyed so large measure of me
public affection. and actor has better deserved
this rich reward.
New-York tribune., 1901-04-28
THE BENEFICENT "REVILER." ="

America owes great debt Of gratitude TO
The Saturday Review The fact has not
always been recognized On the contrary, we
are afraid this country has at times regarded
that journal as an unfriendly critic The gentle
admonitions and sweetly reasonable comments
which long ago for it the fitting pseudo
nyme OF THE Saturday Reviler" have not
always been appreciated at their true twenty
four carat worth But in the current issue a
service is rendered TO the United States which
must be gratefully apparent to even the dullest
perception. and which must turn every Ameri
can heart toward The Reviler' in devout
thankfulness for loyal and so watchful n
friend. For that journal reveals TO us and
warns MS of vast menace to avert which it
behooves us to bestir ourselves with ali possible
energy.
That peril is found in Germany That great
power is building navies and marshaling armies
for war with us. 1t no longer regards the
Modern Carthage as its rival or foe. But the
United States is in its way 1t means to invade
and conquer the South American continent and
since the United States is supposed TO look upon
such proceedings with disfavor. it will open the
way for so doing by first subduing the United
States. Nothing could be more simple. All that
prevents European exploitation and partition of
South America is North America. The latter
obstacle must therefore be swept out of the
way. '"rhe Saturday Reviler" perceives that
preparations for so doing now well under
way, and ii gives us timely warning of the fact
OF course in so doing it is compelled to dis
semble, and so it masks its disinterested friend
ship for this country behind a guse of indif-
ference. if not of hostility urging that when the
tug Of war comes Great Britain should ally her
self with Germany rather than with the United
States.
There can be no doubt that THE Reviler
makes out a strong case. Germany is surely
entitled to take possession of South America
and can do so easily, when the United States is
out of the way. because of the enormous num-
Der OF her own subjects settled in that conti-
nent, especially in Brazil and Chilli Those two
republics. respectively the first and third on the
continent In strength, are now little more than
German colonies, and are being rapidly made
wholly SO by the overwhelming flood of German
immigration into them. Why. of the $3.50, 900
Inhabitants OF Chill no fewer than 5000. or
scarcely OPS per cent. are Germans. and that
dominant proportion is being augmented at the
rate OF nearly If not quite 500 year As for