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New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
A DAY OF MUSIC.

Josef Hofmanu gave his third panoforts recital
at Carnegie Hall yesterday afternoon. the Bendix
Quartet its last subscription concert OF chamber
music in the small ballroom of the Waldorf-As-
tora In the evening and at the Metropolitan Opera
House La BohAme" performed. and Nine.
Meba. besides enactins the part of Mint in
Puccnis opera. afteyward went mad Lucia-wise
just show how we'll she could sing beautiful
music with flute a competitor
Mr.. Hofmann had another fine audience and won
another popular triumph He changed his pro-
sranme evidently in order 10 increase its attract
iveness for the lovers of what the newspapers call
virtuosity and winding up with Liszt's "Venezia
Napoli' secured the usual additional perform
ances which seem to sound better to the women
who sit in the front when they can hear them
standing MIR Hcfmann strock a study by the Rus
sian Scriabine a Berceuse by Tschaikowsky,
waltz by Liszt and Nocturne by Chopin from his
list as published. and substituted Chopin's
sharp minor PoIOnaise, a study by Moszkowsid. an
Intermezzo by himself. of Rubinstein's Bar
carolles and Saint-Saenss transcription Of the
chorus of Dervishes from Beethovens Ruin of
Athens"
La Boheme' was given for the fifth time this
season. and. as the matinee performance. Ms
Crernonini was the Rodolfo. Public interest in the
work was not largely manifest in the attendance
but the opera keenly enjoyed. and Mime. Melba
especially warmly applauded
The concert Of the Bendix Quartet was heard by
an audience that filled the concert room and por-
tion of the gallery. Mr.. Bendix brought forward
quartet in d fiat by Sgambati. Beethoven's charm
ing and ingenious Trio op. 8 and. with the help of
Mr. Ulysse Buhler, Dvorak's Quintet in A major
The playing admirable. rule. but perhaps
its delightful effect the contrast between
the lovely. idiomatic. tunefuI language of the
Beethoven serenade and the frequently impoteut
strivings of the instruments in the Ssambati
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
rEyy4L AyD BRIDE ARE BETTER.

The romantic marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Sugney Reynal as the result of their being quar-
antfned at the country residence of Howard WI
1ers ON the outskirts of White Plains Satur-
day last while both bride and bridegroom were
seriously i'll with scarlet fever. has been a FACTOR
in the rapid recovery of both patients To-Day tns
announcement made by Howard WinetS az
Gedney Farm where the bridal couple are sJaylhs'
that the conditioa OF both showed marked improve
ant
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

then fall 10 praisrg the city and its govern
ment ana cursng reform and reformers. or
will he vary the monotonous course and reach
out for some definite. permanent. real result
As 10 the answer Of This question we perhaps
have certain views. but il he has the power
and the will We should he glad 10 have Colonel
Nurnby prove them In error
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

II will he a good thing to get rid of Ramapu
which has been the most pernicious obstacle 70
fhe needed Improvement of New-forks water
system But that is not all. IL may be neces-
sary to deal in some summary way with the
Municipal Assembly. which runs good second
II Ramapo as an enemy of the public welfare
To its perversty, stupidity. criminality, or what
ever you may call it, in refusing to sanction APP
proprations made by the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment are attributable whatever scarc-
ity of water now exists in Brooklyn and large
share Of that in The Bronx. 1t is intolerable
that. after the Water Commissioner. the Mayor.
the Controller and other officers have agreed
upon some work as of prime Importance for the
health and comfort of the people the enterprise
should be delayed indefinitely by a ring of petty
politicians seeking "rakeoff"
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
GENERAL HARRISON left A WILL.

Indianapolis March 1s.-Before the members OF
the Immediate family of General Harrison leave 'he
city meeting Will ne held. at which the general
last will and testament will be read. before Il IS
probated Arrangements for this family meetlhs
made to-day. The viii of the late eN-Presi-
dent lies in a safety deposit box az tne
Fletcher National Bank. with other private papers
and securities OF the estate. It is a holographlc
document. written by the general shortly oerols
he lsfr for Paris. in the scrinS OF 1923.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
AUTHORS GREETING TO ToIsToJ

ST. Petersburg, March B-The Russian Society of
Authors has unanimously sent Count Tolsto the
following telegram:
The Russian Society of Authors learns with nIeas
ure of your improved health. IL sends rha @rsa.
Russian author its warmest wishes, and hones he
will be spared for many years of labor in tha ser
vice OF Russia and OF humanity. - - 80
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
BISHOP LEWIS SERIOUSLY IN

The Right Rev. Travers Lewis Bshop of the
diocese of Ontario, is seriously i'll at the Hotel
empire. Broadway and Sixty-taird-ss.. from heart
disease and rheumatism. Bishop Lewis CANA to
TINS city on February !. and i'll at that time
tie IS pelng treated by DR. A A. Smith a special
ISL, or Vest Forty-stXth-st. and Dr. Douglas stew
ART, of No. Ill West Sixty-fourth-st His wife is
him $50 "AAC ID
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
nINISTER wv N CHICAGO.

Chicago. March 1s.-Wu Ting-fang. Chinese Mih-
lister to the United States. arrived IN Chlcaso %
day and will be the guest of President Harper al1
the faculty of the University of chicago Ior us
three days stay. Minister WI VIII dehVer 'le -
,,oca,i,n ,d5rass of the University of Chicago 70
morrow afternoon and will attend a series oI -, -
ceptions and dinners planned IN MS honor, hs,r,Iy
welcomed 10 Chicago by Mayor HarriSon SN'A'-S
after noon at the Au iitOrium Annex
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
SAIL FOR THE MEDITERR4NE4y.

on the Kaisern Maria Theresa of the North
German Lloyd Line, which sailed yesterday for
the Mediterranean. We're Gustav Fl Schwao man
ager of the line: Mrs. ]. Perpont Morgan Miss
Morgan, colonel A: s NJ. Morgan Mrs Norman
L. Munro and Herbert f. Stone
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

Miss Alice Nielsen. the comic opera singer will
sail for England on the Majestic on "Wednesday
There was recent report that Miss Nielsen was
engaged 10 Thomas Williams, formerly her firsan-
cal packer The denial OF this report receives au-
10 Miss Beatrice Gray Steele the dauxhrer Of a
San Francisco merchant
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

Burton Holmes lectured at DaIy's Theatre ,-ss-
teTday afternoon on "Thessaly and the OIvrntar
Games. The lecture is not a new one but ir Is
one OF the most interesting which Mr Holmes has
ever given ana is Illustrated with remarkably flsci-
mating pictures. IL will be repeated at Dalvs This
afternoon and at Mendelssohn Hall to-norrovv and
Thursday evenings The lecture of next weeiS-rhe
last of the series-will be on the Passion play OF
OherammeIgau-
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
>TrvvoPK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, MARCH 49, 1901

with Mrs Cleveland and their children. He enter
tanned no callers Cousratuiatory telegrsms in
abundance from friends received
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

Miss Lulu Glaser, who was for some time the
leading woman of Francis Wilson's company has
made a contract to for several seasons under
the mana cement of F. G. Whitney. She will have
a repertory OF operettas and will begin her tour
next autumn and reach New-YOrk some time in
the course of the season. Afterward she will go
I Australia and then England
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

NJ Deschamps will lecture tomorrow evening al
Sis O'Clock in the Packer Collegiate Institute
Jorale uon-st.. Brooklyn. Ali the members of the
French Alliance are invited TO attend
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

AT the Victoria Theatre last night the new policy
of low prices was begun. Many new seats have
been added TO those on the orchestra floor and the
best seats in the house sold az 80 cents There
still the burlesque My Lady"
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

The more carefully the plan for repairing and
enlargins the County Courthouse at a cost OF at
least S2o00G00 is considered. the more unsatis-
factory does il appear.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

n Cd and 10d. in 1S60'63, and Sir Stafford
Northcote forced it down TO only 2d. in 1S1i-f6
Thus after fifty-eight years this temporary
tax Is still imposed. and seems likely TO be made
as heavy as il ever was before, the forecast OF
the budget in THE London Times" putting II NJ
lid or 16d. At such a rate it will probably turn
in TO the Exchequer yearly revenue Oh ABOUT
S160,000'O0o. or. say, one-ffth of the entire hi-
come from taxation. Perhaps it VIII not WIN
all its anomalies and inequiries, be an OBJECT OF
much complaint. After nearly threescore years
the British back should have learned, III MI
Gladstone's semi-cynical phrase. Ito adapt IT,
self 10 the burden And So
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

Adventurous women have lofty ambitions in
these days Some OF them have climbed surrepti-
tiousy to the topmost peak of the Williamsburg
tower Of the New East River Bridge parlous
feat which would daunt the average man But
when they had risked their lives and scaled that
dizzy height by the dangerous ascent of frai
and trembling ladders. each Of them must have
wished she hadn't taken the chances What was
there to he gained? \ mere dare" with pos
sihle collapse in a fanting fit to follow The
tops OF towers are too narrow and dizzy fields
for the development of the aspirations of the
new womanhood of the new century
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
EY-PREsIpENr cLETEL4Np.s RIRTH

Princeton. N. J.. March 1s.-Ex- President Cleve-
land spen, this. his sixty fourth birthday at home
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

The weary Titan. with deaf
Ears and labor dimmed eyes
Regarding neither to right
Nor left, goes passively by
Staggering on to her goal
Bearing On shoulders immense,
Atlantean, the load
Welnigh not to be borne.
OF the too vast orb of her fate.
Only IL is not so directly the orb of her rate
as the anomalous and inequitable" income tax
which she bears.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19
Nrp-31ork Daiin g-ribnns. 9

Tuesday, MARCH 10. 1901.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

The head OF our Police Department said Of
fcaly not many days ago that certain captain
was an old friend Of his. and would be treated
fairly. or course. it would be an unwarranted
inference that members OF the force who were
not old friends OF his might be treated unfairly
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

Peruvian newspaper asserts that In the
province of africa a woman IA years old is
doing daily work in the fields. Some investi-
gators who have devoted much attention 10 the
subject deny that convincing evidence can be
brought forward that any man or woman In
modern time has lived more than 10 years.
These sccYtrz nout the legends about old Parr
and similar tales 1t is hardly probable that this
venerable Peruvian matron can point 20 any
church records or other proof that will put
doubters flight.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

Loud complaints are now heard almost daily
that the customs inspectors al the piers cause
too much delay and annoyance TO passengers.
The Collector and all the heads Of departments
should give careful heed 10 every just criticism
which is made concerning the methods recently
put in force in examining baggage at the docks.
But This is 10y no means jug-handled matter.
There two sides 70 H. Under the system
formerly in use smuggling practised
tcnsivey. The laws must be enforced with dis
cTetou and sIgaCty. but they should never he
suffered 10 fall into contempt The practice Of
allowing the so-called "courtesies of the port
had been carried far that grave abuses had
grown up, and many dutiable goods had been
brought in by reason Of this Objectionable laxity.
The golden mean should govern the Custom
House and the collection of duties. Petty perse-
cuton and inexcusable favoritism are alike out
OF place.
New-York tribune., 1901-03-19

Singular reports come from Alabama Of the
ravages caused among negroes by the prev
alence OF the cocaine habit. Cocaine is beyond
question a dangerous drug 10 use. except when
it is prescribed by a competent physician, but
II is also a costly drug. Where do poor negroes
in Alabama get money with which TO buy
cocaine?
New-York tribune., 1901-09-17
FAITH IN THE PRESIDENT.

The general confidence in the new President
TO which The Tribune gave immediate express
sion was confirmed by the first formal utter
ance of Mr. Roosevelt after his accession to the
Chief Magistracy. With the desire and inten-
tion that his words spoken in a moment of pro-
found solemnty. should be given to the country
and the world at once, he said just before he
took the oath of Office at Buffalo on Saturday
afternoon: In this hour of deep and terrible
national bereavement l wish to state that L
"shall continue absolutely rnbroken the policy
'of President Mckinley for the peace, pros
'perity and honor Of our beloved country.
knowledge of his character. his career his
loyalty and his admiration for the achieve
ments which constitute his predecessors title
TO lasting renown as a great administrator
would have left room for apprehension, even
if President Roosevelt had not chosen for the
present to indicate his purposes in this explicit
manner. But his voluntary pledge was so eN-
pressive of personal feeling and a sense of pub
lie care that it was instantly, universally and
gratefully recognized as service of inestimable
value. rendered at just the right moment by the
individual TO whom the opportunity exclusively
belonged. 1t cheered and strengthened millions
of hearts, and must be reckoned among the
powerful influences which have combined 10
preserve complete political tranquility under
circumstances naturally favorable to disturb
ance and despondency.
The nations response to the Presidents dec
laration is most gratifying. From all sections
and parties come earnest assurances of conf
dence in the integrity of his purposes and OF
that patriotic support which the head of the
State Is entitled 10 claim from every citizen
whatever his political sympathies may be
Moreover in this manifestation of popular trust
there is a happy lack of undiscriminating praise.
which would be perfunctory and meaningless.
The fact is recognized by all that party lines,
obliterated for the moment, will be sharply
drawn again. and political opposition become
as free and vigorous as ever. while all unite,
under common impulse. in giving to the world
an impressive example of perfect devotion to
their institutions and generous faith in the man
so ira gcally rails to the first place in the gov
ernment In the calamity which has bowed it in
mourning the great republic exhibits new proofs
! of strength and it is evident that this illustra-
| ton of national character has been observed
| with deep interest and respect in other lands
We cannot doubt that President Mckinley, in
his last conscious hours. as he submitted him.
self with noble serenity to the will Of God, was
sustained by the assurance that his successor
and the people whom he so faithfully loved and
served would accept the irrevocabe decree in
this spirit. and thus do all in their power to
make the future secure.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-17

birth. II is well that it should be so. the dust
returning 10 be treasured by the people whence
came the man. But 1t is fitting too, that the
nations dead should lie in state for brief space
N the nations capital and should from those
august precincts return to the places whence
they came. IT sets the seal of Solemnity upon
the work done there The labors and trlunphs
of Mckinley as Congressman and as President
will be the better remembered. and will be re-
garded for all time with greater esteem, be-
cause that in their very scene his martyred
form has lain and has received the last sad rites
of reverence. a few days ago the eyes ana
hearts of the nation were centred upon Buffalo,
at first in pride and then in horror, in anguish
and in supreme bereavement. To-day they are
all turned toward Washington, in a double
sense, in lamentation for the President who
was, and in hope for the President who is. To-
morrow they will turn toward Canton and then
back to the humdrum of the workday world
which is so much the better for his having lived
in it and so much the poorer for his having left
1t. But always the thoughts of Mckinley Will
most he centred upon Washington, where his
life work was chiefly cast.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-17
THE RETURN TO WASBJyGTOy

The mortal Mckinley has returned to Wash
iDgton. All that remains of him TO material
sense has been borne, unconscious and helpless
as so much clay, TO the White House, and to-
day will be carried back 10 his home in Ohio
whence the whole living loving man so
recently set forth Of his own volition, with
light and joy before him. Imagination can
conceive no sadder contrast than that between
bis journey of twelve days ago and that of
yesterday. 1t comprises the difference be-
tween life and death. II is that contrast which
holds the nation in awe-that he who only
few days ago was by the nations mandate
foremost of all in that capital is now In
sense less than the least who lives. No hand
obeys his will. He is subject utterly to
the dictates Of others. The place where once
his voice the voice of supreme command,
and the hall which once rescunded with his con-
vincing eioquence. low hear his voice no more
There is longer a President Mckinley in
Washington There is only, for few more
hours, the mute and lifeless dust of him upon
whose words and acts so recently the whole
capital and the whole nation hung
And yet pathetic as is the scene there Is
something Of triumph and of splendor in this
return to Washington. The dust of Mckinley
returns to the place upon which the living Nc
place in which as national force Mckinley
sfill lives and will continue to live Not many
statesmen in our history have made broader
sr deeper mark at Washington for national
good than did he. Net many Presidents have
30 much affected the very purport and constitu-
ion OF the nations capital. He found IL a capi-
tai regarded with some lingering degree of sec
aona1 aversion by n part of the country. He
made II the capital Of completely reunited and
harmonious nation He found IL the capital of
I great continental republic. He kept it such,
out made II, in addition, the seat OF govern
nent OF a world encircling domain. He made II
1 capital OF far greater international interest
md importance than ever before. The work
which he thus did abides, and will abide as q
stal and potent force for ages after its authors
lust has mouldered In its last resting place
We have no common place OF sepuIture for the
reat men OF America. Their tombs are scat
cred far and wide were the places OF their
New-York tribune., 1901-09-17
"ENGLISH AS SHE rs WROTE"

Somebody prematurely said good while ago
that letter writing lost art, and many
ignorant persons believed him. In saying that
they were ignorant 1t is not intended to reflect
upon them unkindly, but rather to indicate
they they formed conclusion without being In
possession of the necessary facts. For instance.
il is morally certain that they had never read
any epistle from the pen of Thomas r. McGlen-
non president OF the Board of Education of the
borough OF East Newark, Hudson County N j.
recent communication from Mr.. McGlennon
to "The Newark Advertiser" gives a fair idea
of his beautiful diction and the unerrng judg-
ment used in selecting expressive and artistic
Anglo Saxon, to say nothing OF the classical
spelling. Just read it.
To the Editor of The Advertiser.
! surprised very much to read THE Adyer-
tser" story McCilennon remarks Not. /. in re-
New-York tribune., 1901-09-17
BUSINESS DISTRICTS BTSTIING

AS the wayfarng man walks to and fro in
the trade quarters of Manhattan In this glow
ing month of September he cannot fail TO be
impressed with the activity and hustle all about
him. Importers and commission merchants
jobbers and distributors of every class whole
salers, middlemeh and retailers seem 10 be
overwhelmed with work from morning to night
IL there are any sceptlcs and pessimists who
doubt that New Workers now have plenty to
do and are doing ii well. they should start at
the Battery and wend their ways uptown at a
moderate pace, gazing about them they ad-
vance northward and taking careful note of
what is going on. From the Staten Island
ferry to the Produce Exchange they will see
ample evidence that substantial enterprises are
rising 10 height rarely approached in previous
Septembers. In and near the Produce Exchange
the dealers in bonds and stocks, in wheat and
corn. In almost everything in fact eatable and
vendible, Industrious in these days as
bees in the thriftiest of hives. Glimpses of the
operations in the Cotton Exchange, in the buy
ing and selling of coffee. in metals. in oil and
in almost every imaginable transaction in which
brokers and agents can take part, result in so
extensive and varied impressions and expert
ences that the average onlooker may well be-
come somewhat bewildered.
Passing from the districts in which the ex-
changes are throbbing with the fevers and the
chills of speculation. leaving Wall-st. and Broad
one walks toward the City Hall, no student
of present conditions can shut his eyes to the
diligence and energy manifest every hand
among the contractors and the builders. And
from the Battery to Madison Square, in the
great drygoods houses, in the agencies of the
important industries of the United States
in the offices within whose walls huge
contracts for the output of manufactures and
mills of many classes from one end of this
republic to the other are signed and sealed and
deivered-was there ever a September In which
the volume of business handled in the first
month of autumn on this island of Manhattan
reached proportions so striking to those who
really understand what NewYork Is doing
Are any Of the truckmen complaining of hard
times? BY no means They are working under
pressure and have more calls for their services
than they can meet. Our business districts are
bursting with merchandise, but it is swiftly
parcelled out TO the four corners OF the land.
This is a lively month for New-York.
New-York tribune., 1901-09-17
PERSONAL.

DR. Borden p Bovine. the dean of the graduate
department of Boston University. Will deliver the
address at the opening of the College OF Liberal
Arts of the university Tomorrow.
President c. X. Adams. OF the University OF Wis
consin who went TO Europe little more than a
wear ago for his health writes that he is WELL and
that he will be ready to his work at the
university. DR.. Adams was formerly president OF
Cornell
A memorial OF the late Senator Stephen NJ. White
of California In form OF life size statue Is TO
be placed I'm the courthouse grounds at Los
Angeles
Senator Depew has been invited TO deliver the
address the opening of the Charleston Exposition
December /.
Secretary Wilson has offered Professor F. b.
King OF the University OF Wisconsin. place in
the Department of Agriculture. and II is thought
likely that he will accept
Professor Salomon Jadassohn. the we'll known
composer and teacher of music recently celebrated
his SEVENTEEN birthday. Since 1871 he has been
instructor in music In the Lepsic Conservatory.