New-York tribune., 1902-03-10
Pastor Central Park Baptist Church
March g. 1902.
NOT WORKING For RICH WOMEN Only

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The newspapers have unfortunately given the
impression to public that the petition presented
to the President for the change in the manage
nent Of the custom houses in reference to passen-
gers luggage was initiated by and for the benefit
of rich society ladies'" This is n mistake. Tho
women who penned the petition inspired by
the treatmen. they the piers toward passen-
gers with one trunk quite much by any in
convenience to themselves. They women who
had possibly saved a small sum for European
and trihes as mementos obliged to expose all their
ana Pay 9IJH TSsod ode @ Whose o PaT e
them and their wives pleasure trip, were sub
these that they pleading. even more than for
the rich society ladies', though at the same time
the latter entitled TO courteous trea tment un-
less wealth is regarded as ftgm3 by G9fsd States
secretary Baggage Inspection Reform Committee.
March /. 1902.
SHAKESPEARE. BACON AND COLONEL STONE
To tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I am sorry TO infer from his letter 10 you OF
the 18th inst that Colonel Stone is edGing tow
ard the ridiculous Bacon theory Of Shakespeare
II is an example OF the real harm which men
like your correspondent Mr.. Herpich. are doing
bv turning their undouhted talents for research
and so TO speak, scholarship in wrong directions.
Why should they not search for facts cumulative
in support instead of to the destruction OF known
history? MIR. Winter" he says, sees in 1t
["Henry WI a gorncation of that monarch, but
many persons see in it a yelled panegyric of Es-
sex" That is TO say that sensible people see in
a thing what it's maker put into it, but some
body else not sensible something that the
maker did not put into II. 1t me that
either these somebody elses laughing up their
sleeves and trying TO see how many gudgeons they
can catch ought to be in lunatic asylums.
Colonel Stone does not relish what William Win
ter and Appleton Morgan write in proof Qf fur
ther proof were demanded) that Shakespeare wrote
his own plays. Mr.. Winter hits off the whole hum
hug when he says: THAT which has happened to
others must not, in the reasoning of these Great
ures" have happened to Shakespeare-he alone, Of
all others must be thought to have developed by
rule and line, Boshl Marconi never developed
wireless teIegraphy! How could he? He was not
placed by his parents in telegraph office as soon
as he was out of his cradle and kept at II, and at
nothing else all his ifei
The late Miss Cummings, of this city. she who
wrote The Lamplghter." the novel over which
as young folks used to weep. also wrote a novel
Eel Fureidis," which exactly described a GER
tain tropical island that a returned missionary
(the only one who had visited said sland)
sought her out talk matters concerning H.
He was astounded to hear her say that she had
never been outside of the United States, and had
written the description at second hand or 'out
of her own head: Miss Cummings could do this
but Shakespeare, Shakespeare! Oh no. certainly
noti
ask him get il. Mr.. Morgan shows that in
every single play there are not only Warwickshire
dialecticisms, but that the puns with which the
plays Ceven the serious ones, like Hamlet and