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The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20
THE wHIPPLE is SWIFT.
rpedo Destroyer Makes Fine Run
on Trial Trip.

q" THU IT'D.
"ashington, July 19.-The torpedo
oOat destroyer whipple, in her oficial
e-'uuranee trial on the Chesapeake
~ arse Yesterday, made 2s. ~ knots over
Va. measured mile. A part Of the run
vs. MADE at the rate of 30.25 knots.
IT, me ne hour the boat made 275k knots
o,,,r. nipple exceeded the contract Ie-
N''ienents In all points.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-20

the special discount sheet, which fur
nishes the speciaL--Asw erices TO for
eigners on these goods. The difference
in price shown here Is great enough.
but If we could only secure the special
1t would show much lower prices
SIS. xod ozk.., !. -. ddFy
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Their operations. II unchecked, are sure TO De
carried on more and more extensively anu "
effect in no long time deplorapie rransioi h,a-
ton. Owing to its natural cnaractefislie' III.
region is peculiarly liable to the processes VI
deterioration which everywhere follow the reek-
less destruction of standing timber Inc Slopes
are steep. and if the vast sponge when nature
has beeu forming there for thousands OF years.
which absorhs an extraordinarily heavy raln-
fall and dispenses it as it is needeo to liie u
pendent lands below, should ever De ieIt uiipio-
tected. 1t would be swept away and the sur
rounding country would be hopelessiy eAposeu
to alternate drouths and floods
The limited States has been slow to learn the
truths concerning forest economy whleh the oiu
world learned long ago and has since applied
with infinite care. Sooner or later we nius' Ii.
anv case begin the slow and costly process OF
roforos+ing which European countries are en-
ploying for their salvation, and it is an lhlhi'e
n,+v that the work of devastation should never
tbo1ass be going on in contemptuous dlsregaro
of that annroaching necessity 1t is not strange
that generation after generation took no thougnl
of the future. Originally the nations forest
wealth was SO immense that it appeared HILL
less and the settler In a new region VINO naue
o clearing had substantial claims to be regarueu
as a public benefactor. That era ehueu i'ns
ago. but the fact was not discovered uhlh llrep
arabic mischief had been done fortuna'ei',
however when an intelligent understdhuins "a
the facts had once been formed IL was re"uil'
communicated and policy OF forest presei'"
tion too long delayed and still much too narFo"
and besitating has been adopted not mercy ps
various States but by the federal goVerhinen -
In the West extensive areas have peen pious
,,Tder national protection, with the approval OF
t+a noon1e and there is no reason to doubt that
tbav would commend the prompt passage py
Congress of the Appalachian preserve Dill. Inc
president has formally advocated 1t, the Senate
committee to which it was referred mas unani-
mously reported in its favor, and there is no
answer to the arguments in its support winch
are contained in the speech OF Mr.. Depe"'
copiously quoted on another page this mornihs'
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
A PROTECTOR" OF TREES.

The failure Of Park Commissioner Young of
Brooklyn 10 use his legal authority to prevent
the wanton destruction of fine old trees in the
street, told in yesterdays Tribune is simply
amazing. The last legislature put all trees in
the streets absolutely under the Jurisdiction
of the Park Commissioners TO prevent prop
erty owners from removing them under cover
Of Improvements and building operations. Yet
it seems that Commissioner Young goes out OF
his way to authorize man TO remove old elms
eighteen inches in diameter from a residence
street in order to construct a vault out to the
curb It appears that the owner of the Hotel
st. George is putting up an addition to his
building at Clark and Hicks SITS. Incidentally
he wanted TO carry his cellar out under the
street cutting down at the curb these fine old
trees which had been fifty years in growing
This was a piece Of vandalism Of which even
a Raines law hotel keeper ought to be ashamed,
but this mans taste apparently ran to artificial
palms, and he began to dig out the trees. a
citizen concerned for the beauty OF the city
complained TO the Park Commissioner offer
ing to take any steps necessary TO protect the
trees or punish what had already been law
lessIy done to mutilate them. The Park Com
missioner promised TO do his part to save the
trees. Finding, however. that the hotel keeper
had a permit from the Department Of High
ways to put a vault under the sidewalk, by
which he claimed authority to excavate the
trees out of existence, the Commissioner not
only refrained from acting to protect the trees.
but actually, out of scrupulous politeness to his
fellow officials of another department issued
a warrant for chopping them down.
Mr.. Young's theory that a vault permit
robbed him of all right TO interfere with the
destruction Of trees through building the vault
is entirely untenable. The law gives him COM
plete control OF the trees as against every per
son and every department. 1t is enacted sub
sequent to and takes precedence OF all other
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
THE APPALACHIAY FORESTS.

The speech which Mr.. Depew delivered in the
Senate yesterday on the bill TO establish
national forest reservation in the Southern Ap-
palachian Mountains ought TO have the practi-
cal effect of gaining abundant support in Con-
gress for that important project 1t is clear
and instructive rehearsal Of the general truths
concerning the relation Of forests TO water sup
ply. and consequently TO the prosperity Of sur
rounding regions. and a convincing presenta-
ton of the particular reasons for putting the
wooded slopes within the territory TO which
this measure applies under federal protection.
AS citizen OF New-York Mr.. Depew is familiar
with forest history IN this State He knows
what enormous losses have been sustained here
through long devastation of the Adlrondacks;
how difficult it was TO arouse the public mind TO
a sense of the harm already done and the
calamity which was threatened, and how
thoroughly the policy Of preserving our wooded
domain which IS now embodied in the consti-
tuition is sustained by the people. Thus ac
quainted with what sacrificed for many
years and what has since been gained in his
own State, the Senator effectively pleads for
measure which would be Of incalculabie benefit
10 other commonwealths and indirectly TO the
whole country.
The task OF preserving the Appalachian
forests cannot be left TO the localities imme-
diately concerned, for obvious reasons. They
lie In half a dozen States, which could not be
expected to act in concert, and one or more of
which would necessarily refuse to undertake an
enterprise from which the others held aloOf. 1t
Is necessary, therefore. that the national re-
sources ard authority should be invoked for
the purpose The bill provides for the pur-
chase at a comparatively trivial price OF about
four million acres, most Of which is still held
in large parcels and can be readily acquired
while any considerable delay would be unfortu-
nate Already at many points in this great
tract lumbermen are busy and destructive
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
rV-yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE. sUNDK-. JUNE 8. 1902

there is no mystery about cooking beans tnoueh
doubtless the article commonly served under
that name is extremely mysterious. Again, now
often is it possible to procure on this size Oh
the Atlantic really meritorious chop? once
or twice in a lifetime, we should say, II man
has luck, though it is no longer extremely dill
cult to get good mutton here, as 1t USED
to be. Perhaps one person in hundred is
aware Of the fact that between mashed potatoes
in their best estate and as they are usually sent
to the table there is difference which language
is inadequate to express; that corned beef ana
cabbage is capable of being raised to the nth
power Of deliciousness; that the dreadful straw
berry shortcake of commerce has degenerated
from Wand which, if the gods could have got
if would have made them jeer at amDrosla;
that a clam chowder may be not nightmare
but dream.
If John Hartman had had realizing sense OF
these things he might have been alive to-day
and famous in six months, for it is in evidence
that he was not one of the cooks who cannot
boil water without burning it. He simply dld
not comprehend his opportunities. Few can
reasonably hope to be great masters, with All
cookery for their province; but many prac-
titioners Of the culinary art who now are iden-
titled merely by their mistakes might achleye
contentment and prosperity if they would only
try And as it is with cooks. so is it with others
Suicide is seldom either necessary or 1udlclous.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

laws nossiblv conflicting with It, The PARK
Commissioner in Manhattan so construes the
law and has ordered the arrest of ali persons
touching trees without his permit, no matter
who else authorizes operations in the streeL.
He has nrotected trees against the rapid tran
sit contractors though the Rapid Transit CoH-
mission has almost unlimited power In the
streets Mr.. Youngs theory opens tue uooi
to the destruction of all street trees anu llahee
the law ridiculous. Almost every tree III the
streets of York is within the curp ilhe' anu
if any vandal by getting permit TO oullu
vault, can cut down trees IN spite OF Tue Z d.
Commissioner, then the trees OF this Guy hse
solely bv the grace of the Department of High
ways and the law giving the Park Commlsslon-
ers authority is & farce OF course, trees must
sometimes be removed when they encroach on
the building line, but property owners have no
right 70 street vaults They allowed to
build them purely as a privilege, when COM
natfble with the interest of the city. protect
ino the trees in this case would not nave inter
fered with legitimate progress Of improvements
it would merely have restrained the hotei
keeper from extending his cellar quite so Iar
upon public property, the use of which he en-
Joys only on sufferance.
If Commissioner Young had any douDt-no"-
ever unrea nable-about his powers in the face
of vault permit, he might have held up the
tree cutters and asked the Corporation Coun-
sells advice If he had been energetcally IN
terested to save trees he might have asked the
Department of Highways If 1t did not grant the
vault permit-as it doubtless did--w1thout any
knowledge of the destruction it involved, and
suggested the propriety Of revoking 1t anu CO.
operating with him to protect trees. He hau
fair chance to establish a precedent OF tree
protection and he threw it away. He might
at least have left the hotel keeper to act at his
peril under the vault permit alone, and the
complainant to bring action to test the SUI
iciency of that permit as a defence for tree de-
struction. Instead, he made haste to intrencn
the hotel keeper and legalize the vandalism, so
that nobody else could take action either TO
save those trees or establish rule Whlcn
would serve to protect other trees from the
same fate. This is the sort of thing we mlSnt
expect from the Grass barbarism OF Tammany
We look for something better from Mr. Lows
administration. 1t Is the kind of biuHder
which would subject an officer intrusted with
the lives of soldiers to court martial. Inc
Park Commissioner is intrusted with the lives
of street trees, but owing to his weakness and
good nature the growths of fifty years are ruth
lessly destroyed Mr.. Young is polite gentle
man-apparently too polite TO other otnclals
and reluctant to assert his authority. His inten-
tions are doubtless of the best, but it is pro-
verbal that good intentions pave road over
coal deposits as bare and dreary as that from
which he has not merely permitted but assisted
the hotel keeper to cut off the trees to make
storage vaults for whiskey and for COAL
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
TOO RADl

While sitting on bench in Tompkins Square
Park yesterday morning a cook named John
Hartman blew his brains out 1t is a painful
incident, and we should not dwell upon it ex-
cept for the purpose Of seeking to convey to
despondent minds which may be meditating a
similar exit from the world a sense of the in
sufficiency of Hartmans motive, and SO per-
suading them to consider their own circum-
stances more philosophically. To a man who
chanced to sit down beside him this unhappy
cook said. as he drew his revolver: There's
nothing in life now and I'm going to shoot
myself" That was a great and, as it proved
a fatal mistake Nothing in life for cook?
Why, hardly any other vocation assures so much
that is worth having to him who merits good
fortune. Honor, love, obedience, troops Of
friends await the person who makes himself
proficient in the art Of properly preparing one
more articles Of human sustepance. Perhaps
Hartman was bad cook, but we do not hest
tate to assert that he might by suitable effort
have become a good one. Nature may have
forbidden him to shine in the highest culinary
realm. but on the lower planes there is abun-
dant scope for merely respectable talents If only
they are directed by conscientious purpose.
If Hartman had only known it, he might have
made his present cheerful and his future secure
by the easy process of learning how to turn out
IN the best manner a few simple articles of
food, or even perhaps single one. Consider.
for example, the colossal ignorance and netfi
cheney which exist in respect to coffee The
vast majority OF persons to whom is intrusted
the honorable function of preparing that bever-
age live and die In the belief that when they
have brewed from the berry fluid which is
brown in color and does not distinctly taste like
anything else they have done all that is required
OF them. Public restaurant and domestic break
fast room alike testify to the prevalence OF this
miserable deluson. Or take beans. The num-
Der of freeborn American citizens who don't
know beans is very large, and we fear it is in
creasng; yet how great a part have beans
played in the history of this republic And
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
THE PACKING HOUSE STRIKE.


After a thirteen days strike the disaffected
packing house teamsters of Chicago have won
ON the principal point at issue between them
selves and their employers. They demanded
higher wages and the recognition of their union;
the packers have conceded the first point,
but declined to yield all that the second i'm
piled, merely promising not to discriminate
against union men.
All things considered, the strikers have rea-
son for congratulating themselves ON the re-
suit; they should also consider that they won
their fight under exceptional circumstances. 1t
seems to be generally admitted that the wages
paid TO packing house teamsters were smaller
and their hours longer than those Of men in
other branches of the same calling, and at the
beginning of the strike the public had every rea-
and their friends, however, did much to ALLEVIATE
sympathy by resorting to mob violence in a city
where memories of the Haymarket riot give a
sinister significance to street fights; and but
for the intense popular feeling against the So
called Beef Trust it is doubtful If their en-
ployers would have found it advisable to yield
to their demands.
Congratulations are to be extended also to
the third (and universally disregarded) party
to the strike-the meek and long suffering pub
trust that allows you to buy beef at its own
price than strike that prevents you from get
ting it at any price.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
BLASTING IN NEW-YORK.

The decision in a federal court in this city
that the proper remedy in the case of per-
son so prostrated by illness that the noise OF
blasting on private property next door to his
home may hurry him to the grave lies in an
appeal to the compassion Of the blaster, and
not to the courts for an injunction, may be the
best Of law, but it CRATES harshly sympa-
thetic feelings.
And what can be thought Of the man who
will keep on blasting In private. personal en-
terprise when he knows that his brutality may
kill the victim on a sick bed?
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

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New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

Washington. June Julius L. Brown. OF Al
Ianta Ga called at the White House To-Day Win
Senator Clay and Representative hVinss'oi no
tr,,,,sd the president to attend the unveing OF a
to the confederate general, W1lham ii.
T. Walker at Atlanta. on July Y. GeneraI NaIher s
was killed in the same battle and on tne saHle udy
that the Union general Mcpherson met ms oeatn-
The President said he would take the InNItstio E
,nfer advisement but he feared he would not oe
able to 90 owing to the pressure Of public business
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
Devery has opened a real estate office. d
they buy and sell dough by the acre?

The action of Mayor Low in putting his
steam yacht at the disposal of trained nurses In
city hospitals who needed outing of the sort
which would be most beneficial to them was
characteristically generous and praisewortny.
In fact, it was just like our kind hearted ana
broad minded Mayor. Think Of Van Wyck do
ing anything of that sort! There was no warm.
red blood in the Van Wyck official veins Only
ice water.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
OXFORD TO HONOR MIR. CHoArE

London. June 7.-Oxford University at the forth.
coming Encenia (an annual conmemoration at o~
ford in honor OF the founders) will confer tn.
honorary degree OF Doctor Of Civil Law on JoxsnS
H. Choate. the United States Ambassador. 'A
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

AS the summer warmth comes in, the roaming
tramp sets forth afeld. He has deserted the
benches in the city parks, and spends his nights
in unshut barns or sheds, under the shelter OF
clumps of trees or beneath the caves OF un-
guarded buildings owned by railroads or mills.
Hospitaple hayricks are few and far between In
June. This is the time to let loose the faithful
watchdog and to bar the poultry roost with
double bolts. And lonely homes, with no neigh
bors near at hand to give aid, should be well
warded against rowing Ishnasls.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

The extreme fanatics among the ardent dew
otees of nicotine are rejoicing loudly because
the Manhattan managers have put few smok-
ing cars on their lines. But to the moderate
consumers of tobacco, we'll as TO the great
majority of passengers in the elevated trains. it
seems plain enough that the company should do
many things for the convenience and benefit OF
It's patrons before it stoops to the folly Of run
ming cars especially for smokers.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

The Misses Northam. of No. 500 Madison-av. A..
to sail for Norway on the MoItks June 10 Tor
years absence
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
About People and Social Incidents.

In Switzerland with their daughter Mrs yrss.-.
J. Parsons of Paris Miss Marion Stodda~d ..sT
VISIT her sister Mrs ". " v Hoffman, at Tu,saas
Park
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Fortunate pensioners of the Police Depart
ment! Under the latest court decision they can
take Offices and get salaries in other municipal
departments while they are still drawing money
from the Mulberry-st- funds. A policeman's lot
is truly a happy one, in spite Of Gilbert and
Sullivan in the Pirates of Penzance." Gilbert
and Sullivan simply didn't know what they were
writing about.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

The college football rusher has been found
useful after taking his diploma in breaking in
the doors of poolrooms under the orders Of an
aggressive District Attorney. Who said that
the still air of delightful studies in university
closters did not furnish the best preparation
for the most violent struggles Of a combative
life?
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

LLOYD Bingham
Miss Amelia Bingham
Mr.. and Mrs ]. Romaine
Brown
Mr. and Mrs l. BoskowttZ-
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Will
ing Balch.
Professor q. H. Brown
Mr.. and Mrs. o. X FL
bridge and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. kalman Haas
and family.
On the steamer st. l
early last evening. were
Mrs. z. B. Andrews
Mr.. and Mrs J. II. Csper-
ton.
Hugh Caperton-
Joseph l. CarozzL
Mr.. and Mrs W D. Corco-
ran.
Among those on the 50,
arrived here last night
NJ. Barbas.
NJ. Bordss.
+. T. Dickinson-
NJ. Z. Hardy.
p. Martin
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

The prophets of old had q great deal TO sa!
about destructive charots of fire. or course
they meant automobiles.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Sd4iCU on lflc 5iOdNlN%
Dol were:
lMr. and Mrs. 7. 8. Haiia
Ralph Pulitzer.
,fne. Colonel T. W. Wearecreo
Miss K. w White
ritz. Mrs. J. Galt smith
I'LL Mr.. ana Mrs Charles MiH
Zesheimer.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. purn.
En- Mr.. and Mrs J. c b1
and family
laas Miss Cruft- Aa.
SIR. ana Mrs. W constao
!. Louis. which arrived asf'
ere:
The Misses Curtis
per- Thsodors NJ. Davis
Mss ctcely Northcote
GensraI Roy stone
Miss Alice stone ,-.t,,cs
Webster
steamer La Lorraine "nAe"
NJ from Havre, were'
Charles I. z LArdy. ser
tary OF the swiss LssAs-N
al washington.
T. b. Potter.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Some of those who sailed on the steamer LoeA'-
yesterday for Liverpool We're:
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Give Bailey. British consul in New-York. and
member OF the Calumet Club has been appointed
one OF the Atty special sticks who will act as
ushers in Westminster Abbey on the day or King
Edwards coronation.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Mr. and Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt left town
Yesterday for Newport. and will be at the Finard
cottage, in Narragansett-ave.. which they nave
rented for the summer until Oakland Farm their
place at Portsmouth r. l. is ready Ior IneiT .,- o
rupation They propose TO make the farm lnSIr
headquarters during the summer but VII aesR 's
Pinard cottage open we'll Mrs Nanderont Is
in mourning for her husbands aunt, MISS G"ynIe'
WI died the other day.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Mr. and Mrs A Holland Forbes will spend the
summer on Long Island and their return in the
autumn will occupy their new house IN Fifty
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

CAPTAIN and Mrs. Philip Lydig returned to town
Yesterday on board the st. Louis and at their
new house Gramercy Park and Irving Place.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

July has been set the date for the wedding OF
Miss Julia Edwards and Reginald Mansfield john
SON. the Invitations for which have just been Is
susd # will take place at Bar Harbor, at St
SaViour's Church, and will be followed by Wed.
ding brea kfast at Eastcote. the country place OF
the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pierrepont Ed
wards.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

1t is next Saturday week at noon that the mar
rage of Miss Helen Dominick. daughter OF MI
and Mrs Bayard Dominick. to Alexander smith,
con or DR. A A. Smith takes place at ST. Peters
Church GalIee Monmouth Beach, N j. Inc
ceremony will be followed by wedding 1reas5aS' s5a
at the Dominick country place at Monmouth tSeact;
The wedding guests from town will go on the Io
o'clock boat from Rector-st, and Will oe n1eI AT
Gaee by carriages. which Will convey theAi ~
the church
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Haggin left town yester'
day for Tuxedo, where they will remain fort
night before going on to Newport, where they have
taken White Lodge for the season.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Miss Leary is still in town, and will not go 70
Newport for the season until after June q.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

On the same day a gyulhana will be given at
Mrs. Trenor L. Parks country place at Wnlte
Plains for the benefit Of the Stony Void sana-
torium under the auspices of Auxiliary NO D.
sooia +ed with her in the affair Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Oliver IseIin Mr.. and Mrs. Howard n Potter.
Nathaniel Reynal Mrs Bond Emerson; Mrs. henry
stars ramIind Randolph and Beverly Robinson
A special train will leave the Grand Central sta
tinn AT pos o. M on the afternoon or the enter
tainment for which tickets may be purchased from
members of the committee.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-08

Mrs. Hermann oerichs. who is IN mourning fol-
her brother-fn-Iaw Harry Oelrichs, closed her
house in East Fifty y-seventh-st yesterday and
went to Newport for the season