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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
PACIFIC CABLE TERMS-

Delay and Veyation have attended the ne
gotiations for the laying of transpacic cable
by the corporation which has begun that work
but it IS to be hoped they will soon be past and
the much needed work will be in some salts
factory way completed. The latest hitch has
been over the conditions imposed by the Pres
dent upon the Commercial Cable Company as
prerequisite to the granting of consent for It
to proceed with the work Perhaps we should
say it is over one of those conditions for we are
told that all the rest have at last been accepted
by the company. That one condition, the first
On the list, is highly important one. We had
thought its purport was expressed by the Pres-
dent with sufficient clearness If not there
can be no objection to a recasting of its phrase
ology, so long as the meaning is not changed
For 1t is essential from more than one point Of
view that the end aimed at in that condition
shall be secured.
Briefly stated-we reprinted the condition in
full in our Washington correspondence yester-
day-it is required that the Commercial Cable
Company shall not set up monopoly of cable
service to China nor associate itself with any
other company for the purpose Of establishing
or maintaining such a monopoly The circum-
stances which led to the making of this condi-
ton are these: There are two European cable
companies which claim, one a monopoly of
monopoly on the Chinese coast the latter by
virtue of a concession made to II by the Chinese
Government. The American view is that such
a concession is in violation of treaty stipua-
tons and is therefore to be denounced as
Illegal and void, and that in spite of it any
American company is free to land a cable on
the Chinese coast This government does not
propose therefore, to sanction anything which
might be construed as a recognition of the
validity of that monopolistic concession. It
proposes TO stand immoyably for the mainten-
ance of treaty rights and of the "open door,
in China
Now, the Commercial Cable Company was re-
Gently understood upon its own authority, to
nave entered into some sort of compact with
the first named European company. which
claims the Philippine monopoly. It had an ar
rangement with 1t for connecting with it or
transferring TO it at Manila and thus compIet-
ing line TO the mainland of Asia without Law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
AROUND THE CITY HALL.

The Tribune heartily welcomes the support
which the Municipal Art Society gives to the
scheme of public improvements in and near the
City Hall Park, which has long been advocated
in this paper. as it welcomed the support which
Controller Grout lately gave. The suggestion
is that all the buildings in the park except the
City Hall and the County Court House should
be removed soon as possible, and that the
municipality should acquire by condemnation
the property between Reade and Chambers SITS,
Broadway and the new Hall of Records 1t is
not proposed for the present to remove the
County Court House. which will doubtless be
needed for some time to come; but the scheme
Of costly extension and Improvement which is
under consideration is opposed partly because
further obstruction of the park would be a mis-
fortune and partly because so great an expendi-
ture for such purpose would be unjustifiable.
II these features Of a plan for clearing valuable
space around the City Hall and providing a
site for a municipal building, which is
certain TO be imperatively needed in years to
come, were carried out, in connection with the
preparation Of Il suitable approach TO the
Brooklyn Bridge, the result would be of enor-
nous advantage to the city. Moreover. so IA
vorable an opportunity for the acquisition of
property which the city will hardly be able to
dispense with in the not distant future will not
body doubts that even a few years hence the
value Of the private holdings which the city is
advised to secure will be much higher than 1t
is to-day.
The chief obstacle in the way Of many large
improvements which it would be wise for the
municipality to undertake if it could do as it
pleased is the condition of the public finances
If money We're no object, to use the familiar
phrase it might be desirable to plan the i'm
mediate removal of the County Court House
and the construction of a spacious building in
Chambers-st, but that is now impossible The
city government ought, however. to consider
most attentively the proposition that it should
secure at an early date, on better terms than It
Will be able TO command again, the property
between the Hall OF Records and Broadway
In the future, as we have said, it will be indis-
pensahle; but knowledge of the rentals which
the city is paying there and elsewhere strongly
supports the opinion that even now 1t would he
a good investment, and would continue to he
until the municipal treasury was in a condition
Justifyfng the erection of new building on the
site, and the carrying out of the other improve
ments proposed.
Three things seem to us 10 be certain namely
that the shabby little structures which now de-
lace and cucumber the City Hall Park ought
to be removed at the earliest possible moment
that the scheme of spending 100000 TO reno
Vate and enlarge the County Court House ought
to be abandoned, and that another generation
will be amazed and resentfuI if the present gen
Grafton fatally neglects to secure adjacent prom
erty the possession Of which will soon become
essential to the dignity and the material wei
fare of New-York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22

tuouSly disappointed with the Low admtnlstra-
ton, would be on the way to New-Jersey TO
get into more congenial atmosphere, where, II
they could not be happy they could at least
find fault. Imperfect as the city government
doubtless is, there is not one single department
in which substantial improvement has not been
made, not one in which the return of Tammany
TO power would not mean decentralization to the
service and loss 10 the people.
1t is doubtless true that the Improvement IN
the Police Department has not come up to pop
ular expectation and that attention has been
largely centred on it. We ourselves believe
that more vigorous discipline should have been
enforced from the start but even there sub
stantiaI improvements have been made. we
should like to see many more heads cut OFF
than have been, but realize that II they
were they would probably be put on again by
the Court Of Appeals, and the situation made
worse than it is. Retiring undesirable officers
on a pension is not indeed an heroic way or
getting rid of them but if it is the only way,
what is a Commissioner to do? There is no
sense in heroic prancing uphill merely to sneak
down again. Nothing is gained by removals
which simply load the city with the expense
of defending appeals In that department,
in others, are convinced, citizens will ind
abundant reasons for congratulating them
selves that Tammany is out of power. Prob
ably more might have been done than has been
done. That is always the case, and it is no rea-
son for wholesale condemnation or pessimism
about the results of reform The ignorant, in
deed. find in the administrations work no shio-
boleth to shout. But what of that? We have
been trying for years TO educate ourselves to
demand in Office. not heroes to appeal TO our
imagination, but plain business men who would
honestly and intelligently do our administrative
work: and we have got them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
aep;11prk Daily Gribrnas
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER %. 1902.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-A treaty of peace was signed on
board the United States battleshlp Wisconsin at
Panama by the revolutionary general TeIIesa
and the government commissioners. - Al
Manila Governor Taft and MonsISnor Guiul' ule
Apostolic Delegate, exchanged formal visits ana
discussed the prospective negotiations IeldllNe
10 the friars in the islands. 49, Parllamen-
tary per was made public in England giving
correspondence between Secretary Chamberlain
and General Botha in regard to the humanity
of British treatment of the Beers: General VII
joen. a former Boer commander, Will sail from
SOUTHAMPTON today Tor thls 6oanS MitFa of
Mrs Langtry. died at her home, in the island
of Jersey. - Venezuela has protested against
the entry Of the British sloop Fantorne 10 me
Orinoco River as an infringement Of her SOW
ereignty. There was a banquet az WIND
sor Castle ii honor OF King Charles Ct Portu-
gal and the play Quality Street was gwen pc
fore the royal party. == Mrs PenrudoockT
was found guilty in the Old Bailey OF cruel
treatment Of her little daughter ana hleo Ioo'
DOMESTIC.-Plans are on foot for an inrle-
date settlement of the coal strike without walt
ing for the action of the arbitration conlLnlSsloH'
IT is understood that the operators will offer
10 per cent increase in wages with a nine hour
workday; the union will not be recognized, ana
non-union workers will retain their places; the
strike commissioners cordially approve OF the
plan; doctors testified before the commission on
the health of the miners. - President Roose-
welt returned to Washington, Cabinet meeting
was held, and a conference with hepupllcdH
leaders in Congress called for MONDAY.
- The son of United States Minister w
Godfrey Hunter killed a man in Guatemala
CITY and took refuge in the American Legation
CITY-Stocks were strong and higher. -
STEPS we're taken toward establishing Chlnese
hospital in Chinatown - The mistake OF
drug clerk in giving cyanide Of potassium IN
stead of a medicinal mixture, caused the death
Of grandmother and grandson. - 4 wooden
bridge, forming temporary sidewalk over an
excavation in Fffth-ave. gave way. and in fall
ing broke a gas main; the escaping gas caught
fire and a sheet of fame twenty feet high burned
for over two hours. - A publisher OF this
city was arrested in Yonl1ers for alleged auto
mobile speeding. - Controller Grout, at the
Board of Estimate hearing on the NeW-Hork
Central Railroads plan for loop at its yards,
declared that the road had been living on the
city ever since its Incorporation. - Immigra-
ton officials said they knew of no vice syndl
cate but were aware in a general way that
girls were brought here for immoral purposes
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy and continued warm. The tenn
perature yesterday: Highest, SO degrees; low
est AZ degrees.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
BAPTISM NOT ESSENTIAL.
ROCKEFELLER'S BAPTIST PASTOR
WOULD PERMIT CHURCH MEMBER
SHIP REGARDLESS OF 1T.

The Rev. Dr. r. P. Johnston. pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. Of which John d.
Rockefeller is a leading member. has set Baptist
ministers OF this city talking vigorously by his
utterances in a paper read before the Baptist
Church Congress. just held in Boston. Before he
left for Boston he called together a number Of
New-York ministers and read TO them parts of his
paper. Some advised him to make public his
views. while others deplored the STEP saying Bap
fist heresy trials not wanted
What the pastor said was that baptism
not essential to church membership. The practice
Of taking people into churches without baptizng
them is comon among Baptists in England and
the pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church IN this city
thinks the practice should become general here.
Baptists wondering how far. il at all, the
pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church represented
the Rockefellers in his Views. Part OF what the
Rev. DR.. Johnston said follows:
Could there be a church without baptism? Ones
answer must depend upon ones views OF the efficacy
OF baptism l assume that baptism is an express
and that it is essential neither to salvation nor 10
bantIsm ee9tel 70 church Smbership is to per-
petuate its cleavage in the body of Christ along
the line of ceremony merely. 1t would compel as,
for the sake of a ceremonial observance, to dis
right and duty of individual freedom of scriptural
Interpretation The policy OF receiving members
English Baptist churches. It's adoption here would
not mean the discontinuance of baptism nor the
disappearance OF immersion
Speaking of these expressions yesterday. the
Church. Manhattan. said they totally con-
trary to views generally held by Baptsts. The
Rev. DR.. H. L. Morehouse. secretary of the Ameri
Baptist Home Mission Society, said the Rev.
Dr. Johnston's logic was bad. and that his prac-
tice. If adopted would be
The Rev. DIR. R. S. Macarthur Of Calvary
Church. said:
The idea that baptism is essential 20 church
membership is not peculiarly a Baptist idea. In
insisting that persons should be baptized before
becoming church members Baptists are sngly in
harmony with all Protestant denominations, and
the Catholic Church we'll So far from be-
nevng that baptism is essential to salvation, Bap-
lists have held and taught that salvation is
sential to baptism. Nevertheless have held in
common with everybody else that baptism ought
TO procede church membership. The difference
arises in answer to the question. What is bap-
tism?' With the great body of scholars In all
countries and centuries. Baptists hold that the
of baptism Is immersion. Sprinkling is rantiSm
The position taken by DR.; Johnston does not more
oppose Baptist practice than 1t opposes the prac-
tice OF all Christian bodies. 1t is practice fol-
lowed by Baptist churches in England, but
II is, In my Judgment. not likely to become COM
mon in Bantst churches in America. Indeed, 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
TICKET SPECTATORS AT YALE.

Whatever may be the outcome of to-day
gentle discussion upon the big grdiron at New
Haven, the record of Thursdays preliminary
pickering stands secure. 1t was not the Har-
ward nor any other eleven that was the object
of attack but some thrifty gentlemen who
were trying to dispose of tickets for to-day's
proceedings at eleven-fold their face value.
Upon those enterprising spectators, who were
neither of gown nor of town, but aliens. the
might of Yale descended like Bosom of de-
struction Tandem, flying wedge, revolving
wedge tackles back formation punting, hurd-
ling and every strenuous device of the great
encounter were brought into effective play,
with the inspiring result that score of hun
dreds to nothing was speedily rolled up and
the enemy was scattered far and far away
from Yale.
Now we are not advocating the general adop-
ton of methods as strenuous as those for the
righting of such wrongs. There is distinc-
tion with difference, between the Yale cam
pus and Broadway. Yet when remember
the long suffering of the theatregoing COM
munity at the hands of eXtortioners no less
rapacious and no less unclean than those which
excited righteous wrath at New-Haven, we
can scarcely refrain from wishing for one hour
of Yale in Manhattan. If speculative eXtortion
be intoerable upon single yearly occasion,
how detestable is it as a fixture for every day
in the year and for every year of a mans life,
Can It be that impulsive youth is mightier than
ordered law, and that the legislative and adj
minstrative expression of the peoples will is
unable to do that which a squad of rollickinS
youngsters so thoroughly did in the twinkling
of eye?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
ALUMNI DINNER FOR DR.. WILSON

The Princeton Club Of New-YOrk and the I'm
ton Alumni Of New-York and vicinity VIII so
reception and dinner in honor Of President W.
row Wilson at the Waldorf-AStoria on lue' r
December 2. at Z .. m. II is proposed 10 No. s
this celebration a fitting tribute to tn ne" 80,
dent of Princeton-an occasion which VIII 80
the president ard the alumni to meet eech 49, -.
and give TO the alumni an opportunity 10 So,
their esteem for President Wilson ana assure N
of their loyalty and support. -,
President Wilson has already announces Ms -
tention to be present. -
James W. Alexander. 90 will presIue'
speeches will be made by President NlsOl. =.
President Patton. Job E. Hedges, ana proilI-, St
representatives OF Harvard. Yale ana Co,uA- s,n-
Iander's Orchestra has been engaged Tor tue u'-
ner and the singing will be under the olre0''ON
former members of the glee club .5
Representatives from each class have Sols' ,t1
to cooperate actively with the committee ~,
the view of bringing out large attendaice -
the various classes and II is expected that oe'
400 and 500 alumni will be present II Is ln.oH- ,
that the alumni shall be seated by classsSS- roiS
Gus TO the dinner President Wilson wi VII .bs aim
reception in the Aston Gallery, and eIter +s5 and
ner the guests will adjourn to the reCeSO.a TSFrty-
refurnished Princeton club. NO. q East 49,
fourth-st. for an informal reunion
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22

In his account Of what has been done for
the people in ten months by anti-Tammany
municipal government, published yesterday
Nr R. Fulton Cutting chairman Of the Cit
liens Union, gives a partial answer to ques-
ton which has frequently been prOpOunded to
rs Many letters come to this office asking
such information. One before us now, from a
citizen who has no doubt that the government is
honestly administered holds that honesty
should be taken for granted, and says: Now, if
you or anybody else can mention single good
work which Mayor Lows administration has
effected. know lots of people that voted for
him who would be most happy to be in
formed
Mr.. Cutting mentions not one but a great
number of good works which Mayor Lows ad-
ministration has effected. Moreover, he does
not deal in generalities, but comes down to the
specific detailed matters Of administration,
which have been handled not merely with
honesty but with an ability and intelligence
which have brought great positive benefit. We
are by no means convinced that honesty in
Office should be taken for granted. 1t may be
negative virtue, but we have often failed to
secure this negative virtue that knowledge that
our affairs are merely honestly managed should
be appreciated beyond the possibility of again
intrusting thieves with power. Nevertheless
the Citizens Union does not ask favorable judg-
ment Of ant-Tammany rule on such grounds.
1t brings forward positive evidence of improve
ment in every department, showing that the
various officials are, tending to the municipal
business and doing IL better than it was done
before, and accomplishing more of tangible
good for the people.
This showing is OF an Improvement in mat
tiers OF detail and no doubt il will be said by
some that they do not want to be told how this
park has been improved. or that old debt col
lected, or this hospital made decent What they
want is a grand transformation scene and a
tableau, which will appeal to the galleries and
set the needless TO exclaiming How grandw
1t sounds queer to hear serious and austere
statesmen, who have never been tired OF foil
ing US that government was a mere matter of
business, and all that we wanted was business
cause they are expected TO think well OF the adj
minisration by the aid Of a tape measure and
"A trial balance. how else does any stock
holder judge Of the conduct of a business? Gov
ernment is matter of business, and business is
a matter Of detail. 1t is the mass of accom-
plishments, each small in itself, which goes to
make the difference between good and bad adj
ministration. There has been no spectacular
revolution. Human nature has not been
changed. The millennium has not arrived at the
City Hall, and If it had, a large share of the
people Of New-York, including those most vir-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY NOVEMBER

ing a cable of it's own thither. To that our
government rightly objected, insisting that the
Commercial company should lay cable of its
own from Manila to the Chinese coast. The
company has at last agreed TO do so. But of
course it still has. or wants to have, some work
ing agreement with one or both Of the other
concerns for the forwarding of its messages to
other points in China and Japan. 1t is right
that it should do so, and the Presidents terms
do not forbid it. But what our government
means to guard against is the making of such
an arrangement in terms that would recognize
and uphold the alleged but illegal monopoly on
the Chinese coast 1t practically says: You
may connect with what other cable or land
Lines you please for the forwarding of business,
"but in doing so you shall not close the open
door Any other American company must be
equally free TO lay cable across the Pacific
land TO land it upon the Chinese coast That
is an impregnable position, and if any company
wants to get this governments consent for the
laying of a cable it will have to accept that
condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-22
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Makers Romance and Rouget de L
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KEITH 5000 d. II. TO 1870 ?. m-Conunuous Per
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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-9-H Horse show.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2-s;3O-The Two
MANHATTAN Observation-Disclosures Of Magdala.
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