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New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
THE SPEED OF MOTOR CARS.

The extravagant rivalry in motor vehicles
continues almost every day seeing the announce
ment that somebody has got or has ordered
car faster by mile or two an hour than
any used before. Already we hear of vehicles
intended for use on ordinary highways which
are capable of making greater speed than the
swiftest railroad trains. 1t is perfectly obvious
that the running of them at such speed, or
anything like IT, upon the common roads would
be intolerable. and it is accordingly gratifying
to observe that not few motormen are arrang
ing TO try the speed of their cars on private
racetracks. Undoubtedly such tracks are the
proper places for the speeding of such vehicles.
just as much as for the racing of fast horses
Nevertheless, the man with the 2:10 trotter has
a perfect right TO drive him on the common
roads, and does so. merely restraining him
within the prescribed limits of speed. So the
swiftest motor vehicles must be permitted to go
upon the common roads, but they, too, must be
restrained within the legal rate of speed. The
fact that many mOtormen yield to the fasci-
mating temptation TO ''let OUT their machines
suggests the question whether some special
restraint is not necessary in their cases, at
least for time.
a detailed proposition is put forward by THE
Spectator of London, 10 this end. 1t Is that
no motor vehicle capable of high speed-say,
more than fifteen miles an hour-shall be per-
mitted to go upon the public highways except
ing under the charge of certified motorman,
who shall have license declaring his ability TO
manage the car and permitting him to do so on
the highways. II such motorman shall run his
vehicle faster than the law permits, In addition
to any other penalty that fact shall be indorsed
upon his license to serve as a record against
him. And for persistent disastrous breaches
of the law his license shall be suspended or
entirely revoked. 1t is assumed by The Spec
tator'' that these conditions would make motor
men careful not to break the law. The profess
sional motorman would feel, it says, that his
livelihood was at stake, while the amateur
would be extremely anxious not TO be deprived
OF the right to indulge in his pastime.
If any system of special restraint for motor
men be needed. this one has commendable feat
ures. 1t may however. be doubted whether any
such be necessary or even desirable Drivers of
fast horses have not been required to get special
licenses but have been sufficiently controlled by
the common law Now and then some one drives
too fast in the park elsewhere and gets
arrested and fined Bicycle riders too used
often TO break the law, and some OF them do so
still. But the ordinary enforcement of the COM
mon law is considered 10 be adequate in their
case. We are inclined TO think the same prin-
ciple will hold good in the case of motormen
The fad Of furiousy fast running will pass
away or he restricted to racecourses. and the
common law will, if vigilantly enforced be
sufficient 10 check or to punish those who per-
sist Ia violating the rules of the road. And we
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
PERSONAL.

Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has leased for five
years a piece ground the highest point of the
Ampezzo Road. between Toblack and Ampezzo. In
the Austrian Tyrol In this charming spot he IN
tends to erect an abestos house in separable com
partments. The workmen have already left Vienna
lay the foundations of the new villa.
Professor William B. Scott, OF Princeton Univer-
sity has arrived in La Plata Argentina He is on
his way to study fauna In Patagonia. He will re-
ceive every courtesy from Argentine officials 10
aid him in his Investigations.
Former Federal Judge John Watson Barr. who
presided over the District Court. in Louisville, XIV,
for thirty years. is suffering from a paralyttc
stroke and may not recover. He was conspicu-
Gus Union leader during the Civil War
T Nossa who has been appointed the first
japanese consul-generaI In Montreal has been sta
toned in Corea for the last two years and his
intimate knowledge of the country is likely to lead
Japanese Government. until the difficulties with
Russia settled TO retain his services in Corea
so that he probably will not be able TO open the
consulate in Montreal until late in the autumn. In
2 letter to the Canadian Department Of Trade and
Commerce he expresses the hope that the friendly
relations existing between Great Britain and Japan
pressve character against the Japanese will be
taken by Canada.
The Duke of Cornwall and York will be asked IN
press the button at Quebec which will Ooen the
Central Canadian Fair September is The duke
will be ir ottawa fhe last day of the fair. and
effort Will be made 10 get him to visit H.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

He would then return to the poems themselves
ethical and spiritual significance. This is the
Genesis to pursue
But even if it should be generally agreed TO
give such advanced instruction in the Sunday
schools, it would not be possible in most cases
to find teachers competent to impart it, 10
tear down the old traditional beliefs concern
ing the Bible, and at the same time to replace
them with the new knowledge without weaken
ing the Bible as a moral guide. would of itself
require the most delicate judgment and the
keenest sympathy. But even if the average
Sunday school teachers had every natural quail
fication for the work. they do not know the
facts, and few scrappy statements gathered
out of manual would serve only to confuse
them Among other things, Biblical criticism
has developed highly technical language
which few teachers and pupils would
understand. The Massachusetts pastor who
told his Sunday school the points of difference
between the JahviSt, the Elohist and the
Priesty Writer in the dOvetailed narrative of
the HeXateuch did much more harm than good.
Yet if up to date Biblical scholarship is TO be
given in the Sunday schools the documentary
theory of the Bible will have to be impaired to
the pupils in some way.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
ONE FOOT on THE GROUND.

In European countries balloon ascensions have
been extremely frequent in recent years. The
war departments on the Continent have been
carrying on experiments to test the availability
of airships for the operations of hostile armies.
1t has been found, after many trials in South
Africa. that balloons may be extremely useful
in overlooking the operations of an enemy.
Smokeless powder has been employed so largely
that it has been difficult to determine the loca-
ton of intrenched antagonists except from the
baskets occupied by aeronauts. When civilized
peoples fight hereafter they will probably send
I'D whole fleets to the seas of the upper air, not
to engage in deadly conflict among the clouds,
but to observe and anticipate the campaigning
plans of the Iegions of aggressive warriors on
each side
The vessels which ride the viewless air are
also in much demand in France and Germany
for recreation. Captive balloons and wander
ing air craft are both popular among the daring
adventurers who insist upon novel and exciting
forms of diversion. Journeys into the azure
thousands of feet above the commonplaces or
ordinary life find many patrons in the Old
World That sort of uplifting fad has not yet
become conspicuous especially enthralllng
among the lovers of odd sensations on this side
of the Atlantic Possibly ii may have bit OF
run here later but Americans are cool ana
shrewd and sensible and few of them Will ever
become "balIoona tics" They prefer to keep at
least one foot on the ground.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
TIE T4LK OF THE DAY.

man appeared in the bankruptcy court in Lon
don the other day who described himself as de-
scendant of the Pharaohs and hereditary hero
phant of the sacred mysteries His two Claims
10 fame that he has discovered that "hurrah'
is Of Egyptian origin. being really hoo ra.' and
dating from Rameses. and that he has written a
poem called THE Doom Of Chaos: One Thousand
Lines of Original Melodious Verse"
McCort-You know something about horse rae
ing. What is meant by the favorite''? sport-.A
favorte is a horse that would surely win II people
only wouldn't bet on him.-(Philadelphia Record
The term royal yacht" hitherto applied to
vessels belonging to King Edward VII. will be
abandoned henceforth. and the appeIation will
be "his majesty's yacht"
Dinerent-"It seems strange to hear you speak
so Bitterly of him. You used to say you admired
him for the enemies he has made Yes but
A s99-year lease expired in London the other
day and the property reverted to the original pos
SCISSOR. the Chapter of Westminster Parish.
CohenthaI-rve shtruck it rich; isaasberg-I,m ,Ia
cohenthal~Jewsh seiS nee brooklyn Life.
The Thermometer the other day at the Summit
House Mount Washington, hanging in the
light stood at 9S degrees. The other side of the
doorway, in the shade, but receiving reflected
light and heat from the platform, another ther-
mometer read 81 degrees. Behind the hotel.
=
the true temperature of the air to be Al degrees.
yisitor-So you weigh 700 pounds? Doesn't it
Fat Man-oh. no! If / wasn't worried to death
with fool questions maybe I'd weigh lOOo pounds
-(Chicago Record Herald.
A woman in Eau Claire. Wis. has sued spirit
uaIistic medium for s. 900 damages because he al
lowed a materialized spirit to kiss her
NJ Ployee-wen. I tell YOU. I'm tired N
Pioyer-Huhl Another one OF your bluffs NJ.
Roath GSk NJ PI Ia ySS S9Fkos ao
like thirty cents-(Catholic Standard and Times.
A Bowling Green, Ohio. young woman is suing
her former lover for breach of promise. and fixes
the value of her wounded affections at 5000. The
man SAYS that, eight years ago. when he first
coured her she was one OF the fairest and weighed
only l25 pounds. She weighs Sls pounds. and
he being a small man. declines to take huge
mate.
The botb 5cksT iSEr{y EhGss fss tSgn s5sTna plant
He fain would take this world of ours
And turn IL upside down
But If he found it upside down
His anger still would climb,
Because twas hot in winter ana
So cold in summer time
And great mass meetings he would call
And work with might and man
And never rest until the world
-(washington Star
A few years ago Phoenix Ariz. the centre of the
Salt River Valley, a sagebrush desert 1t now
has 5000 habitants, with an assessed property
valuation of SOGooO00 All this is due to the intro
duction of water which. brought In canals from
distant streams. has turned the desert into a fer
tile valley covered with ranches and dotted with
small towns.
No Sucker-"Those strings" said the first fish.
hanging down in the water with worms on the
end of them mean danger"
How do you know?' asked the other.
"Oh / can read between the lines."-(Philadel
phia Press.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
THE BIBLE IN SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

a few papers the other day published
satonal dispatch from Chicago announcing that
in certain Congregational Sunday schools some
of the modern critical conclusions concerning
the Bible are being taught. In reality there was
nothing sensa tional in this news. There are few
Sunday schools anywhere In which some of the
views of the Bible not taught. In most
of the Sunday school manuals now in use in
the different denominations it issassumed as a
matter of course that the universe was not ere
ated in six days, and that the socalled Usher
system of Biblical chronology cannot be true
Even in matters not directly touched on by the
manuals there is a general disposition to admit
at least the more conservative conclusions OF
modern Biblical scholarship These conclusions
are accepted by the clergy generally; they are
taught In the theological seminaries, and are
taken for granted in nearly all the religious
books that read Under such circum-
stances the really surprising thing would be to
hear of Sunday school in which the old ira
ditional views of the Bible were exclusively
taught.
Nevertheless, there are many embarrassments
connected with the teaching OF the Bible in
Sunday schools to-day. the chief of which is TO
decide just at what time to drop the old views
and accept the new; for the new are certain to
be accepted at some time 1t is not so many
years since orthodox opinion in the churches
branded as denial of Christianity the theory
that the Genesis story of the Creation is not
TO be taken as literally true Yet to-day the
scholars of even the most remote Sunday schools
are taught that the word day" in Genesis does
not mean day, but an enormously long epoch.
and nobody thinks OF protesting In many Sun
day schools also the Biblical stories of the Crea-
ton and the Fall are said to be allegorical or
panoramic. The Flood is treated as an ancient
tradition and the longevity of the antediluvian
patriarchs is explained as due to an error in
copying numerals. Yet. after ALL these conces-
sions touch only the fringe of the matter What
course shall the teacher take in regard to the
more radical conclusions of Biblical scholars as
TO the whole Book of Genesis for instance? An
answer TO this question is thus given bv ."rbe
Outlook" in an article on the subject:
In judgment the Book of Genesis is a COL
otion of ancient traditions some of them GER
tainly not of Hebraic origin, which were re-
written by an unknown prophet for the purpose
OF imparting to them a spiritual significance and
making them the vehicles of a spiritual lesson
The relation of Genesis to these ancient historic
traditions is somewhat analogous to the relation
of Tennyson's "Idyls Of .he King to the ancient
Arthurian legends of English history
If professor of English literature were teach
ing Tennysons ''Idyls of the King to a class of
young pupils he would spend very little time
probably mona at ali, in considering their rela
the poet made use. If pupil asked him. Are
these idyls founded on fact? he would reply
They are founded on legend, and how much OF
fact there IL IN the legend We cannot now tell
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
SIBERIAN SLOWNESS.

The Russian railroad across the European and
Asian continents is now so far completed as TO
make POSSIBLE the running of trains from the
shores of the Baltic to the shores of the China
seas and in a short time the running OF such
trains on Il regular schedule will begin. Be
yond doubt it is Il great achievement for which
Russia is entitled to much credit and from
which she will probably gain much reward IL
will open up enormous regions TO colonization
il will augment Russia'S power in the Far East,
and it will provide n new route of travel around
the world All of these assurances have
hitherto frequently been heard. and the sup
position is that they are now about to be real
lied.
The realization will, however, be qualified in
n way which to many will be disappointing
COMPARISONS have been drawn between this
Siberian road and own tranScontinental
lines, often 70 the disadvantage of the latter
and we have been told that in her trains de
luxe across Siberia Russia has spoken the
latest word in railroading. But the fact is that
instead of rushing across the continents, as our
trains do, trains on the Russian road WILL in
the most favorable conditions, consume at least
four weeks in going from Moscow to Port
Arthur That will he the summer schedule. In
winter. and for nearly half the year, the of
fcers of the road will decline to guarantee the
transit in less than six weeks. The explanation
is that over a large part of the road speed of
from seven TO nine miles an hour is the best
that can be made.
In such circumstances it is well that trains
de luxe with 'aIl the comforts of home" are
to be provided. Nothing less could make the
journey endurable. save TO exiles. The pros
pect of trundling at a jogtrot pace for two or
three weeks across the dreary steppes and
through the Inonotonous birch forests of Siberia.
in furnacelike heat in summer and bitter cold
in winter, is enough TO appal any but the most
courageous traveller. Nor does this route offer
any material advantage in point of time over
the old sea route. The "P- d o. steamships
carry the mails from England to Shanghai In
less than thrty-thlee days There is little
doubt that steamship can make the run from
Brindis even from Marselles. to Chinese
ports about as quickly n train can run from
Moscow TO Port Arthur, and can afford its pas
scngers great deal more comfort. In time, no
doubt there will be improvements the 81
berian road which will shorten the trip across
the continent But that will be some years
hence For the present the opening of the
great road will have little effect upon general
traVpl
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

class Of voters from among persons of recog-
nized good character'-a company 10 which
every worthy Virginia Democrat barred by nat
ural deficiencies from the franchise can easily
attain certificate of promotion. No eligibility
tests could we'll be more fimsy or slipshod in
character. or more open TO the grossest perver-
sion and abuse. Under them equality before
the law will remain in Virginia empty and
mocking a fiction as il has been for fifteen years
past under the Old Dominions present corrupt
and fraudulent elective system.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
JEWISH cHAuTAuQUA ELECTS OFFICERS.

Atlantic City. n. j.. July 2s.-The Jewish Chau-
tauaua Summer Assembly adjourned to-day after
three weeks session. The following officers were
elected: President DR. NJ Blumenthal OF New
York; treasurer Lewis Wolf Of Philadelphia; sec
retary, Isaac Hassler. of Philadelphia. chancellor
Dr. Henry Berkowitz. os Philadelphia.
The reports OF the secretary and tysasurar showed
crest progress IN juda!sm thyeuaheVt the eouAtyY.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

shall presently come to a time when endurance
comfort ease of control and freedom from noise
smoke and smell will be the qualities most
sought after in motor vehicles rather than mere
SDeed
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

Extensive improvements of the BROOKLYN
waterfront proposed. Wisdom will be justi-
fed of her children if these plans are carried
out No other great city has magnificent a
barbor as that of New-York, and this port
ought to have the most commodous and ex-
tensve system of docks and piers anywhere on
the globe. 1t has been sluggish in developing
it's superb natural advantages
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

Since his hot wave theory of the bridge break
is disposed of, Mr.. Probasco might get Com
missioner Murphy to examine the structure and
report if the same bacilli that used to ooze from
the asphalt are not responsible for the trouble
What funny Tammany does have in officei
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

erorf ron lsace The ntp for Gonr SUMMIT OUT
rg, te sarF 10 subscribe for The TRIBUNE Yon rciU
J6eI lost uifhonf it, The address ,ciH be ehansed
IS often desired
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

Official figures have been compiled showing
that 130 persons were killed by violence in this
city in 1900 but that only three convictions of
murder in the first degree were secured. and
only one person put to death for the srav-
est Of crimes. Such laxity is discreditAble.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

No matter what the disaSreements may De as
to Professor Kochs belief that tuberculosis is
never conveyed from cows to human beings IN
milk flesh civilized peoples everywhere VIII
rejoice that the ablest and most celebrated ooc-
tors in all lands are convinced that con-
sumption is certainly durable in its early stages
and that the death rate from that destructive
malady can be and will be cut down extensively
by the enforcing of simple and practical precau-
tions. Stop promiscuous splitting and there VIII
be fewer cases of weak lungs. Common sense
and science go hand in hand in that warning
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
amueemenis.

CASINO-s:I5FIorodora
CHERRY BLOSSOM GROVES so-vaudeviIe
EDEN MUSEE-Day Evening-Worid Wax
KEITH 'S-Continuous Performance.
KNgCKERBoCKE ER NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Strollers.
MANHATTAN BEACH 3G-Sousa and His Band-s-
China PAINS Fireworks-a-The Casino Girl.
PARADISE GARDENS-s:15 10 I2-yaudeville.
PASTnRS-Day and NiRlt-Continuous show
ST. NICHOLAS Observation-Disclosures Orchestral
Concerts.
TERRACE GARDEH-The Bohemian Girl.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29
Murder ought to be far more effectively dis
courased

The quality of Tennessee chivalry seems 10 De
deteriorating. when fifteen pistol shots can De
fired in a courtroom without worse results tnah
the wounding of three men.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

Some important gains have been made already
in lessenng the miseries of the sweatshop toiers
in New-York. and the work of amelioration is
likely 70 widen and advance steadily. with few
checks and setbacks. The day may not be far
off when Hoods ptiful Song of the Shirt Will
not be applicable to the lot of wielders of the
needle in Manhattan.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

Africa has drawn America heavy drafts Of
horses and mules to the profit and satisfaction
of American breeders. And it Is now reported
that thc Dark Continent is trying to collect
swarns OF Yankee ladybugs for shipment over
sea. Such reports seem to be wildly imaginative
Beasts of burden and cavalry mounts may still
be needed the veldt, but the Transvaal has
never suffered from scarcity of insects. and is
not likely to be seeking supplies of bugs OF
any sort in any country.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

The new title proposed for King Edward ''of
British Dominions Beyond the Sea, King" has
obvious and great merit. 1t is automau-
caly adjustable. and will fit the case whether
the dominions be extended or con-
tracted.
New-York tribune., 1901-07-29

The ball players of the New-York nine are like
the comics spoken of in the Old Testament-a
feeble folk In batting. in fielding. in running
bases and in general agility they are as swift
and nimble as a Welsh rabbit left over from
last year. They are stale, fiat and Improbable