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New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
ygr MAYOR ON THE POLICE.

The greatest obstacle to police reform Is the
practical impOssibility of dismissing unworthy
policemen. The next is the State legislation al
fecting the habits of the people. the strict en-
forcement of which public opinion, il is said
Will not support. That part OF Mayor Low
talk on the police situation in which he calls
FOR modification of the laws governing the or
ganization of the force viii meet with wide
spread approval. Great improvement has been
made since Tammany was driven from office
The red light districts have been cleaned up
and the cadets" have been driven out of busI-
ness The city is on the whole much more
orderly and more decent Nevertheless, the Old
influences are strong in the department and,
do the best he can, the Commissioner is COIN
PEELED 10 use and in measure TO trust men
who he is morally certain are working TO per-
petuate corrupt methods. The courts have gone
to such extremes in restricting the right of re-
moval that the head of the force cannot truly
be called its commander His subordinateS can
practically defy him. This WAS shown in the
case of Devery himself in Mayor Giroy's time.
He failed TO appear for trial alleging that he
was sick but refused TO let himself be eX-
amned by police surgeon at the order Of his
superiors Yet when he was dismissed the
courts reinstated him. Imagine an army officer
making the excuse OF sickness to his SuperiOrs
and refusing TO let his excuse be tested by army
surgeons. and the absurdity of the situation be
comes apparent.
These rulings which make discipline impos-
sibie must in some way be changed, and the
Mayor has taken a wise step in asking COM
mission TO consider what legislation is desir-
able Colonel Partridge. Mr.. Philbin and Gen
eraI Andrews are all familiar with police prob
lens and should be able 10 propose an Organi-
zation which will insure adequate protection
TO policemen against politica! or arbitrary re-
moyals and at the same time make every men,
Der of the force amenable to discipline and give
the Commissioner effective power and enable
him TO dismiss all subordinates who are un-
faithful or inefficient. The whole system is
now cumbersome and calculated to intrench
abuses. Any proposed changes. of course, will
be bitterly fought, but If the Mayors commit
tee can bring forward scheme which is at
once conservative and adequate there are good
prospects of its adoption The Governor and
legislature are disposed TO give the city admin
istrafion whatever is reasonable. and the diff
culties which have confronted Colonel Par
fridge have shown beyond question the defects
of the present law as interpreted by the courts.
The Mayors views of the excise question will
be received with a greater difference of opin-
ION. In one way he minimizes the difficulties
of the police. 1t is conceded by all but faddists
that any attempt to deprive the people of this
cosmopolitan city of their Sunday liquor would
wreck the administration which vigorously ap-
piled the law TO that end. Hence the disposition
TO tolerate a convenient blindness on the part
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
HAPPENINGS. AT LENOX.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.l
Lenox. Mass, Aug. Mrs. George Winthroo
Folsom gave dinner this evening Sunny Ridge
the country place of Mr.. and Mrs Folsom. for Lieu
tenant Sidney Haight. U. S. A. and Mrs Haght
who their guests. Besides Lieutenant and Mrs.
Haight and Mr. and Mrs. Folsom. there were pres
ent DR.. Richard c. Greenleaf, Mr.. and Mrs. New
bold Morris. James Barnes. Miss Barnes. Charles
Onrich, Miss Adele Kneeland Mrs. William 3.
Bacon Miss Winifred Folsom and Eustace Jaques.
\ daughter was born Wednesday evening to
Mr. and Mrs. Courtlandt Field Bishop. of New
York.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Woodward Haven. of New-YOrk
have arrived here. and will spend the rest of the
season at HghwoOd.
Mrs Lawrence Waterbury, of New-TOrk, has ar
rived at the Curtis Hotel
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Astor BriSted leave here to-
day for Newport for the rest of the month
Augustus Schermerhorn is aboard his yacht the
Free Lance. cruising along the Atlantic Coast.
Mrs William B. o. Field is a guest OF her sister,
Mrs. James Abercromhie Burden. jr.
Mr. and Mrs Grant Walker, of Boston. ar
rived at the Curtis Hotel for a several weeks stay
Mrs F. D. Tappen and the Misses Brooks have re-
turned to the Curtis Hotel from visit at the Shore
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
>r1uvoRK Daily TR1R11NE FRIDAY AUGUST s. 1902

recalled Why should human beings care u
90 through the painful experience OF suspeho-
ed animation when they are not compelled py
any claim of duty to undergo such suHerlhgs:
For many reasons, then, the naturally lhcoh-
siderate and the overdaring should be urged
to take thought in this month OF outings
Bathers who cannot swim should learn 10
SWIM if possible and to take care OF thein-
selves in the water Swimmers should De
ware Of unwise excess of effort and the con-
sequent menace of collapse. Shippers of sail
boats, paid or unpaid, should keep thelr
weather eyes open and not rush into needless
risks Caution should be the watchWord III
and on the water in these vacation weeks
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
About People and Social Incidents.

party to-day. her guests being Mrs V. s. Lee
Mrs. Weeks Mrs Wesley Merritt Mrs. ToIfree
Miss Holns, Miss Nelson and Miss De Ruyter.
Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Tuckerman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Nelson Robinson, of New-York, arrived to-
day at the Malvern
Mrs. F. AmOry had guests at dinner tonight
Mr.. and Mrs J. j. Emery, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Mont-
gomery Sears Mrs. Potter Mrs. Miles B. Car
penter. Miss Fox, Mrs. Herbert Sears Mrs Stew
art, DR.. H c. Chapman. Arthur Raikes. Percy
Wyndhann and Mr.. Bartlett
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Hall Mccormick entertained at
luncheon to-day Mr.. and Mrs. Abram s. Hewitt
Mr.. and Mrs Whitmore, DR.. and Mrs. Robert
Able. Judge and Mrs Patterson and H H Kohl
saat.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
WORDS OF WARNING.

In August the number of pleasure seekers
who 90 bathing in salt and fresh waters and
who 90 sailing or rowing in small craft is
swollen to large proportions. This is pre-
cmnently the vacation month So many care
less pleasure seekers take foolish chances
both on the water and in the water, that the
annual warnings and appeals should be made
emphatic everywhere.
Every year in August the newspapers are
crowded with mournful details of losses of life
because of reckless defiance OF reason and
common sense. Light headed persons who
cannot swim will insist going out too far
from highwater mark. Swimmers who are
vain of their ability to cope with the waves
venture too far become exhausted and sink
Indiscreet pleasure parties trust themselves in
catboats and other small craft to the care of
rash Young fellows who hardly know the rud-
der from the boom, and are utterly at a loss
what to do If even puff of wind is blowing
There are smpletons, too, at the oar as well
as at the tiller and the idiots who delight to
rock small boats for the fun" of soaring
the girls" are not yet extinct
The doctors and other life savers both pro-
fessionaIs and amateurs, have made gratify-
ing nrogress in their methods of resuscitating
the apparently drowned. They have brought
back the futterlng breath and set the heart
coses which at first sight appeared to be hope
less But alas. they have failed in their
heroic labors over many victims who have been
foo long upder water. The vital spark had
gone too far from its tenement Of flesh " be
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
PERSONAL. NOTES.

Mime Elise Block the well known sculptor is ep-
preaching the completion Of a bust of Severe. the
i'll fated aeroRaut. The Brazilian Government has
accorded pension to his children. and Admiral
Wandeukolk has taken the initiative In general
subscription throughout Brazil for the eoleeton eo .,
funds necessary to defray the cost OF erectIHS .
monument to his memory.
Miss Hannah B. Clark has accepted the position
of dean of women OF Knox College. Galesburs Ill
Miss Clark graduated from Smith College
Massachusetts. in 1881
General Curtis Guild. jr.. Republican nominee for
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. was on inc
starr of General Fitzhugh Lee Inspector gen
eral Of the Seventh Army Corps. L. . " uur'l~
the Spanish War
us your respected mother still alive? May she
teach Won discretion" was the reply Of RaS Ma
konnen to a Partisan reporter who asked him
whether the Abyssnians liked the English OF 'i'
French better
General De Wet objects 10 being termed a que
ri!la leader" THE BIoemfontein POST so referred
to him. and subsequently withdrew the phrase at
the BOer generals request
Lord Kitchener has brought back many trophies
of the South African campaign Two OF the most
interesting are General Botha's travelling wagon
and a Long Tom The wagon is light and strongly
br1t and was fitted with every possible requslte
from a handy medicine chest down to a neat COOK
ine, apparatus The Long Tom was badly darnaseu
in the siege of Mafeking Three feet of its muzzie
were shot away and large piece blown out OF
&c sida The Beers ingeniously filed the breacn
with nieces of hard wood and sweated collar over
the damaged section TO make it air tight and Mt for
service again
In Dantzic journal Heinrich Kicker relates
cbaracteristic anecdote OF the late Georg Won Sic
mems One day while residing in Persia. Semens
was Obliged to dismiss servant for dishonesty
Returning to his house the same evening. ne
heard some following him. Grasping mis- Gag
ger, he turned just in time TO save his life by
punging IL into the assaant's body. The relatives
of the servant promptly declared a vendetta ne
replied by messenger that he would ride or sJ 9ng
third night following to their village. accompanied
by a servant only. He did 50. and expected every
moment that some concealed nen1nu rOCs
would fire at him. But no one nolested hini anu
when he reached the village early In the morning
ne was met by several old men dressed IN whlte.
CARRYING bread and salt. They begged him 20 ear
of this and be their friend as they hsu never 0e-
fore heard of such courage.
Professor c. E Borchgrevink. the explorer. is N
Washington seeking to interest the Carnsgle IN
sutution in a new expedition 10 the Seula SoAA -
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
MARQUIS DI RUDINI OPERATED on.

The Marquis Carlo di Rudini, who was taken
from the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse on
Tuesday to the private hospital Of Dr. W. 7. Bull,
No SO East Thirty third-st.. operated on there
yesterday for appendicitis. Dr. John b Walker
said last night at hospital that the operation
was serious in the way that all such operations
are where an abcess has be drained II requires
at least fortyeght hours interval after the opera
ton be able speak with any certainty or the
outcome Such cases usually resulted We'll, ana
nothing unfavorable was expected in the case OF
the marquis
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
SYDNEY PAGET DOING WE'LL.

Sydney Paget. who underwent slight operation
at the Roosevelt Hospital yesterday. said TO
be doing well. He is the patient of Dr. George A.
Brewer. Of No 81 West FOrty-eighth-st.. where IL
was said last night that Mr.. Paget's trouble
not serious and that his progress satisfactory.
Mr.. Paget who IS the brother Of AImerfc Hugh
Paget son-in-Iaw of William G. Whitney. Is assOCi
ated with Mr.. Whitney in his racing interests. and
go Saratoga He drove 10 the hospital
"wednesday night and was admitted a private
Datient
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

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New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
ENCOURAGED ABOUT MR.. HUNTINGTON.

Archer Milton Huntington. who operated
upon Wednesday for appendicitis at his home.
PIeasance. Bay Chester. by DR.. W. T. Bull and
other surgeons. was said last night 10 be showing
unfavorable symptoms. Dr. John B. Walker, the
assistant OF Dr. Bull the sanatOrfuIn No. SO West
Thirty third-st. said that il early 10 speak
certainly of the outcome but the best results were
k.y-va tod
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
SCHLEY AT PLATTSBURG.

Plattsburg, ". Y. Aug. Admiral and Mrs.
Schley arrived at Plattsburg Barracks to-day
ten days visit their son. Captain Thomas F.
Schley, of the Sd Infantry. A reception was held
in their honor. Another visitor PlaJtsburg Bar
racks is Colonel Kitson OF the British Army. who
IS attache at the British Embassy Washing
He is a visit 10 the different army posts
&, tba
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Bav Shores Horse Show will open to-day anu
will be continued tomorrow, constituuhs ~
iect of interest to the fashionable set whose sum
NOR homes are scattered along the south shore OIL
Long Island Among the stockholders OF the me-; no q
Show are NJ Orme Wilson, w. Bayard SuitlhhSs Th5scn
o. Havemeyer ]. NJ. Ceballos. BraulSA '
n III. Hollister and August Belmont.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers on the Germanic. which
arrived from Liverpool last night.
Captain ward-Jackson. THE Rev. Dr.. 2 II. East.
+. Toppin. ~. VI. Mackay.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
ISAAC STERN IN NORWEGIAN WATERS.

Christiania Norway. Aug THE steam yacht
Virginia. with her owner. Isaac Stern. of New
York and party of guests on board. sailed to-day
for the FjOrds
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

The topographer is abroad again in Westches-
ter County, with the statement that Butter
milk Hill. which Mr.. Rockefeller has purchased,
is the highest point in the county 1t isn't
any such thing Some of the guide books say
the of Knapps Hill. near Newcastle, put
1t isn't, either. Buttermilk Hill is III feet high
and Knapp's Hill 763. There must be a dozen
or more in the county much higher than either
There is one only half mile from Knapp's S
which overtops the latter by more than forty
feet. Aspiton. near Bedford measures more
than 7S0 feet. Just north of CrotOn Dam there
is a peak S21 feet high. North of Jefferson Val
ley an altitude of more than 800 feet IS reached,
while over In North Salem. near the lovely
Waccabuc Lakes, there are several hills con-
siderably exceeding 900 feet in height
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
Died Tracy as fool dieth?" Yea, verify

The United States apple crop Of this year is
estimated as worth $34 boo 600 That is sew
eral times as valuable the sugar beet CROP
without as much protection as the latter gets
and with not thousandth part of the fuss.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

inches in length. though several inches OF the
lower end had been broken OF. The variety is I'M
known, but the seed came from the Agricultural
Department.
A SEASHORE IDYLIA
When at night yer gently sleepin.
Seepin' In yer trunnie bed.
=, creepin' round yer drowsy head
Seems like some ones sayIn Cousin
When ye amt got no sich kin.
Heads in under quick. an cheat 'er!
And a-tryin'
70 break In.
An there aln't no good O. sIidin'
Meath the bedclothes-she won't leave
For she knows yer only htdn'
So, shtll hover, round mar 6azzn'
Couz-in cOuz-zn, couz- -z-zin. couz-z-z-zin!'
Heads from linderNbfff! she's got YER.
An / told yer that she'd swat Yer.
General Jackson!
Did she swat?
II We git as hot as tinder.
CrouChin' thar beneath that sheet,
Don't You think you've fooled that skeet
For she'll hustle back buzzin'.
BIZ! !eY She h has has bout Si al all we We OWE ' er
An ye wonder why ole Noah
Let the first two
An the worst two.
FLORIDA Times Union and Citizen
Colonel ]. NJ. Gurey when asked If he did not
sometimes feel like Withdrawing from politics at
the thought OF the trouble into which victory
should plunge him through the applications of
officeseekers said. according to The Philadelphia
Times he thought he could stand the trouble If he
could get the victory, and then told Of a politician
in a Western city who had been persistent office
seeker until the day of his death The editor of
the local paper was asked by the dead mans fam
il,,t 10 aTitan anh Ur1S hat he
mitted:
Here lies -- in the only place for which
he never applied"
Lord Roberts once found himself the centre of a
circle of new friends in a London club. There was
Hevng himself to shine wit, seized every OPP
pense on being introduced to Lord Roberts the
wit bent down patronzingly to his lordshp and
Il have often heard of you, but'.shadng his
eyes wtm a one so & as though m the nous gen
culty,'.1 have never seen you"
II have often seen you, sir, but L have never
heard of you."-(Answers.
The famous Chicago River is being sold by the
bucketful TO soapmakers. That classic stream the
passing Of whose water by the city of St Louis
moved the State of Missouri to so to law with the
State Of Illinois for not keeping its nuisance at
home, affords a lucrative employment to a number
of men. In the south branch above the drainage
canalthey are kept busy the day long scooping the
top layer OF tne stream OH with buckets and
ting it in barrels in which form II is to pack
ers at the stockyards to be transformed into soap
This takes place in "Bubbly Creek" which is the
name applied to that part of the river into which
the waste from the stockyards empties through
sewers.
In View, of Recent successes.-''What are you
going to do with that boy of yours?' inquired the
Intimate friend.
II don't exactly KNOW answered the puzzled
parent. He eVinces the most obstinate aversion
to the usual rorIns of industry. and he uses lam
guage and expresses sentiments very shocking TO
the sensbilities of friends. II he was a girl
I'd be tempted to put him at literature '-(Wash-
ington Star.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

NJ and Mrs 7 Harsen Rhoades. jr-, have LETT
seabright and gone TO the White Mountains - ~
stay with Mrs. Rhoades's mother, Mrs. D-'io
<imbalI, of Boston.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

st. Swithin has been hard at work wringing
out the drenched and dripping clouds ever since
his damp and dismal anniversary was Celebrat-
ed in mid-Juy. Hardly day has gone by
since then without a downfall from the leaky
skies. Already the water supply of every bor-
ough in New-York is secure for months to
come; and that is Il bit Of comfort in moist and
mIldewed conditions
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Colonel and Mrs Astor Will leave town 'o-ua;
with their baby on board their yacht Nourrahai
for Newport where they will take possession Q
Ivndhurst the villa which they have leased ther
for the summer.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Latest tidings of the Perpetual Candidate
Mason City. Iowa, August 1-Barkis is wilin'.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

There is suspicion extant which we should
be glad TO see refuted. that the Hon. Peter Pow
er is a kinsman of the late Mrs. Harris. part
ner of John Doe and a close friend Of the man
who struck Billy Patterson
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
Amnsemtnfs.

srADF-,sY OF MrSIC-s:l5-Cuincy AoaHs NN"'
"a AsINC-s.l5-A Chinese Honeymoon. m,
sITRAID SQUARE THEATRE-s:i5-lhe .in,,n,,s Per
KEITH n. 20 lO:3o p
- -Aa WILD Rose.
KNICKERROCKER TREATRE-s-1o.i.nne ood T Regiment
MANHATTaN BEACH-3:30-Shannon mons --'1
Band-S-Pains Fireworks-s-F-I-olTr iSo-Jnpan by
n4DTsON SQUARE ROOF GARDEN-''"O
Nisht-The Mikado. ,-so,t,Ia
PARADISE ROOF GARDEN-S.l5--N o~Ne
PASTOR's-Continuous Performance e..sa,.
TERRACE GARDEN-e-The Beggar- stso1i
STEAMER GRAND REPUBLIC-s-NauoeNt tsS--igbt-s Band
eT NTC-TsofaaS GARDEN-s:15-Summer NiRi'
!yAls
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Probably the biggest radlsh ever raised In Mis-
souri, possibly anywhere else. grown
the farm OF W. NJ. MatIock, in Liberty Township
Washington County. It weighed five pounds
measured llA inches in circumference and p
inches in length. though several inches OF the
lower end had been broken on. The variety is un-
known. but the seed came from the Agricultural
Department.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Miss Adeline Havemeyer, daughter OF MT AM
Mrs Henry o. Havemeyer, is due here tomorrow
from Europe board the St Paul. ana win re Re
sTme her Studies at Bryn Mawr college in tn
fall
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

New Yorks strange hold last place in
baseball is still unshaken.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Mr. and Mrs John c. Emo are at Newport Ior
the remainder of the season. and have taken one
of the cottages of the New Cliffs Hotel
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Mr. and Mrs. Foxhall P Keene have taken
camp In the Adirondacks, to which they Will go
on leaving Saratoga. They will spend the ian as
I.nn Island
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

So Mr.. Bryan's declnation had a string to it
after all! He does not want to be the candi-
date for President again. but. OF course he
is doing nothing to keep the party true to his
platform so that it will turn to him as its
only possible leaderi
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Mr. and Mrs w. B. Osgood Field returheu ~
town from Lenox Monday and Will rethalh neie
until they sail for Europe, on August 10
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Several fragments of news OF late have sug
gested that the watch and ward kept up over
places of confinement in various parts of the
country are not keen they should be. In
the State prison Of Tennessee this week con-
victs blew big hole in the walls with dyna-
mite and more than a dozen Of them escaped.
What sort of a warden there in authority
over this Bastile, an officer who could not pre-
vent the prisoners from getting dynamite?
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Nine Bonaparte. who has not been seen in New
port for a number OF years. is now making short
sta
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Reginald Vanderbilt will spend the fall at
Lenox in order to be near his fiancee who returns
with her mother Mrs. Frederick Nelson at the
close of the Newport season.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Mr.. Mitchell, the leader of the coal strikers
seems to be under the impression that the
President of the United States can be frightened
into rendering aid to lawlessness So he is go
ing to demand executive pardon for the law
breakers who sent to Jail by Judge Jack
son for interfering with work in the Wes
Virginia mines.
New-York tribune., 1902-08-08

Miss Alice Roosevelt. who IS staying with MT
and Mrs r Fulton Cutting Newport, has de-
cided TO extend her soouln there for another week
A dinner OF about fifty young people will be given
in her honor tonight by Mrs Francis Burial Hon-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-07-13
.HUCKLEBERRY PUDDING
HOUSEMORK IS BETTER
EXERCISE THAN SPORT

America still has several million girls
who find large part OF their physical
culture in helping mamma. and are not
blushing because of the fact. For such
girls the vista Of possibilities Is long and
alluring.
For arms, fingers and wrists, washing
and wiping dishes will be found admIra-
BILE One is as good as the other. Per
haps the water aids in giving suppleness
to the joints OF the fingers. That is an
advantage washing dishes has over wipins
them. However. there is surely a fine ell
bow movement In the wiping.
Bed-making as it Is still taught in the
homely physical culture economics OF
Yankee farmhouses cannot be too highly
recommended.
With the folding OF every Counterpart.
blanket and sheet the arms are stretched
as far as they will go. each hand holding
one end Then. standing perfectly erect.
the chest Is thrown out. Quickly the
hands are brought together again. and.
presto! the sheet is folded double.
Shoulders, body and limbs are all de-
veloped by the mattress turning. The eye
and the sense Of symmetry learn much
from the regular arrangement Of counter
pane and pillows. OF course. this exer-
else ought not to be carried too far.
Sweeping gives much the same motion
without the perkiness OF solfing strokes.
For the graceful perfection OF arms and