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New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
SPARE THE PRINCE.

There would seem TO be considerable danger
that Prince Henry may be overentertained on
his visit to the United States. The programme
already announced is such as to put no slight
tax on his strength well as on his capacity
for enjoyment, and yet additional invitations
are daily communicated to persons supposed to
possess some measure Of authority or influence.
So far as we have observed, the official bodies
and social organizations which are soliciting
portions of the Princes time are in no instance
unworthy of his attention, but 1t does not neces-
sarily follow that in the circumstances which
will surround him here he will find it con-
venient and pleasant to be the guest of all of
them. 1t is probable that he would have pre-
ferred to retain even more liberty OF action than
the arrangements TO which he has thus far con-
sented allow him, if he could have done so with
out the least risk of giving offence, and the
proffer Of further hospitalties which it might
be embarrassing to decline is rather to be depre-
Gated than encouraged.
In private life the most considerate host is
not the one who leaves the least possible time
at the disposal of his guest, and that social
axiom applies to some extent In the case Of the
Princes visit Under the rule of noblesse
oblige, he will be reluctant to disappoint any
one, but the same rule forbids disregard Of
his comfort on the part of others. 1t is to be
hoped that his travels In the United States will
be conspicuously free from manifestations of
selfshness masquerading as generosity, and no
doubt that is the hope of all who Justly ap-
preciate the motive Of his coming
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
A CITY SWEET AND CLEAN.

Havana is much better off than New-York and
many other American cities, and better than
London and a large number of foreign capitals,
with respect to smallpox. Cubas foremost
community has not had a single case of this
disease for many weeks, and it is also free from
yellow fever. This metropolis has had as many
as sixty smallpox patients in a single month,
and London has been compelled TO care for
much larger companies of the afflicted.
The improvement in health conditions in the
Queen of the Antilles has provoked the admira-
ton Of physicians and laymen alike, both in the
Old World and the New. Excellent work has
been done there since the island was released
from the dominion of Spain Even before
Columbus made his first voyage in 1892, the
grandees and hidalgos of CASTLE and Aragon
had failed to achieve distinction in the safe
guarding of the health of the people whom they
made subject to their authority, and when their
supremacy included the greater part of the two
Americas, before France and England had
made much headway between the Atlantic and
the Pacific, the death rate In every country
which they ruled was deplorably high Neglect
of sanitary precautions and of barriers against
pestilence has been characteristic of Spanish
control at all times in every quarter of the globe
in which the Spanish flag has been seen.
1t is notable triumph that American officials
have succeeded in the suppression of those
dreadful plaques, smallpox and yellow fever
in Havana, for centuries hotbed of disease
and 1t is perhaps a little disconcerting when
so much has been accomplished in Cuba in so
short a time, that New-York is not entirely
purged of the tant of contagion. But there
is no occasion for a scare in Gotham. Few of
the patients who have been affected by small
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

tary. Nevertheless it is. In accepting office
under the government civil servants. like army
and navy officers. occupy a status different
from private citizens. Military men have long
been forbidden TO undertake political activity
or to attempt to influence Congress except
through regular military channels. Civil SER
wants likewise, while allowed a larger freedom
Of political action, have been forbidden TO en-
gage to the same extent that a private cltlzen
may in party contests. If a still strcter rule Is
desirable to keep them from using their official
positions and consolidated strength, either IN
determining the party complexion of the gov
ernment or in promoting their own private in
terests, it is entirely proper to treat them as
army and navy men are treated.
The restrictions upon the latter are partly
due to a popular fear of militarsm. There is
really more danger Of our government being
made the puppet of its organized Civil Service
than of its much smaller military force one
of the most serious objections to Civil Service
reform is the fact that IL establishes perma-
nent body Of officials, who may organize TO
overawe the elected functonaries and force the
conduct of the government for their own benefit
The President is wise in putting a stop to this
tendency of government employees 10 get what
they want by political agitation, organization
and money. The recent work of the policemen
of New-EOrk with regard TO the three Platoon
system is only one of many instances of the
abuses which grow up when consolidated
body of public officers are permitted to seek
legislation in their own interests over the heads
of their superiors. When men go into office
they surrender certain part of their freedom
as citizens. If they do not wish to abide by the
conditions of their employment they may leave
the service. Certainly it is not compatible with
their duty 70 the government that the influence
of their places should be used for personal ends.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
GOOD WORKS IN PERIL.

There is no exaggeration in the statement of
Am arica's good works in Cuba which was made
in our special Washington correspondence. 1t
would be difficult, indeed, for any one to over
state the benefits which have accrued to that
island as result of United States occupation
and management. Politically. socially, intellect
ually, morally, and in respect to sanitary con-
ditons, the island has been all but remade
There is probably no more noteworthy and more
creditable example in history Of the doing of
such good works by one nation for another.
We have done all things. save the one thing
needfuI for completing. crowning and safeguard
ing what we have done. We have corrected
every serious evil of the old Spanish admins
tration, save the one fundamental evil upon
which the others rested To the intelligent
reader of history there is no fact in connec-
tion with Cuba more plain than this-that her
grievances against Spain were primarily eco
nomical industrial and commercial. Cuba was
Spain's "milch cow" as some Spaniards cyni-
cally boasted. She governed for SPANS
pecuniary benefit. not for her own. Her reyolts
were against Spanish tariffs and commercial
systems. When, dozen years ago, Spain was
induced 10 accept the equitable reciprocity pro-
posals made by Harrison, Blaine and Mckinley
prosperity prevailed in the island, and with it
peace and contentment. The moment that ar
in revolution.
There is no exaggeration. then, in what our
Washington correspondent also said-that fail
ure to relieve Cuba's industrial and commercial
ills would menace us with the undoing of all the
good that we have thus far done. The econom-
ical question is absolutely fundamental With
out prosperity for her chief Industries Cuba is
ruined. IF she cannot find a market for her
sugar she cannot maintain her schools, and her
sanitary system, and her improved roads. She
cannot even maintain her free and independent
government The closing of the sugar market
against her would mean the opening of the
gates Of chaos. That is the simple truth and
it is well that It should be borne in mind. If
presently the condition of Cuba becomes as bad
as it under Spanish misgovernment, the
blame will rest upon those men in the United
States who, bindly or selfshly, have refused
to give to Free Cuba the equitable treatment
which they gave 10 Cuba when she was a colony
of Spain.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
A SALUTAPY RESTRICTION.

1t is encouraging TO see that President Roose-
velts recent order forbidding employees of the
government TO agitate for increases Of salary
except through the heads of their respective de-
partments is declared by some Of the postal
clerks, class conspicuously active in organiz-
ing TO bring political pressure to bear on Con-
gressmen. TO be unconstitutional and a violation
of their inalienable right of petition. 1t is al
most safe TO say that no public measure which
somebody does not discover TO be unconstitu-
tionaI has any very positive merits, and we
should be inclined 10 fear that the Presidents
order did not amount to much if its constitu-
tionality were not assailed.
For long time the acquisition of the Philip
pines was distinctly unconstitutional, and, in
spite OF the contrary decisions OF the Supreme
Court, there are still rumbles from time to time
that the Foraker law for the government of
Porto Rico is unconstitutional A few days ago
some serious critics of State affairs solemnly
announced that the bill placing the State hos
pitfalls more directly under the management of
the Commission IN Lunacy was unconstitutional
on the ground that our fundamental law con-
ferred on the commission merely visitoriaI and
inspecting powers. These critics neglected to
read another section of the instrument. which
says that the legislature may confer on the
commission any additional powers not incon-
sistent with other provisions of the constitution.
What they really meant and what opponents
of our colonial policy meant, that they did
not approve the measures in question and they
merely jumped to the conclusion that anything
they did not like must be unconstitutional So
with the postal clerks. They want to buJIdoze
Congressman under threats of political oppo-
sition, open or covert, to give them favors and
do not want to be confined to asking such fayors
as their superiors think compatible with the in
terests Of the government. Therefore they OBJ
ject TO the order and find it contrary to their
ideas Of what the constitution at least ought
TO be.
When they think over the constitution as ii is.
they will find that the Presidents order does
not violate it. Perhaps 1T is too much to expect
Them to agree that the order is likewise salu-
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
THE ISTRMIAN GUARANTEE.

General Herrera, a Colombian insurgent is
reported 10 have proposed TO the foreign con-
suls at Colon, for submission to their govern
ments, plan for joint guarantee by the vari-
ous nations of the neutrality of the Isthmus of
Panama, or at least OF transit zone across it.
The plan does not appear to be well devised,
and in the light Of certain historic documents
and precedents does not seem TO be acceptable
to the United States.
The United States, on December u, 1S46,
made with the republic of New-Granada a
treaty in which 1t pledged itself to guarantee
positively and efficacously to NewGranada
''the perfect neutrality of the isthmus, with
the view that the free transit from the one
ito the other sea may not be interrupted or EN-
"barrassed in any future time" The United
States in the same treaty did further "guaran-
tee, in the same manner, the rights OF SOW
"ereignty and property which New Granada has
and possesses over the said territory"
The Secretary of State of the United States
Mr.. Cass. informed the government of Great
Britain, through Lord Napier, on September 10
1897, that "a joint guarantee by the United
states in common with other powers of the
neutrality OF the Isthmus OF Panama is incon-
"sistent with the policy OF the United States"
Another Secretary OF State of the United States
Mr.. Blaine, referring to the treaty above quoted,
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
MUSIC.
AT THE OPERA

The first performance of Verdfs "OteIo" at the
opera a week ago last Friday. disclosed the fact
that the representation we'll as the composition
entitled 1t to rank among the finest of Mr. Grau's
productions this season. Last night. when there
a representation by the same excellent artists
there was another demonstration of the fact that
Verdfs greatest works ''caviare to the gen
eral" The subscribers We're hand. and a hand
some quota of the people who stand on the first
floor when the Fire Department permits But
there were vast spaces of emptiness In the regions
where the earnest reviewers of musical affairs are
in the habit of asserting that the true lovers of
music most do congregate Evidently the Italian
ismi have not yet learned to love "Otello" 'Tis
true. tits pity. and pity tits. tits true.
The performance was admirable in all its parts.
Mesdames Eames and Homer and Messrs. Alvarez
and Scott, who bore the brunt OF the work. We're at
their best. All showed intelligent appreciation
of as much of Shakespeare's tragedy as the best
tragic operatic composer OF the last century, at
his ripest period and full of his finest zeal could
put into the language of music. and what orches-
ira. chorus, conductor (AIr SepilD and the lesser
artists could do TO add to the eloquence OF the
proclamation was honestly and effectively done. 1t
was, in brief, such performance justifes the
pride that old observers have long felt In our op
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

reminded the American Minister to England,
Mr.. Lowell on June "a, 1881, that this guar
"antee given by the United States of America
docs not require reinforcement, or accession, or
assent, from any other power" And President
Arthur. in his annual message to Congress IN
the fall of 1881, made it clear that 1.-The inter
lection of any foreign guarantee might be re-
"garded as a superfuous and unfriendly act
In connection with General Herreras pro
posal. it will be we'll to bear in mind that the
treaty with New Granada which we have quoted
is still in full force between this country and
Colombia, and also that the policy Of the
United States as set forth in the passages
quoted from Mr.. Cass, Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Ar
thur has not been renounced, abandoned or
modified.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
amusemfnts.


AMERICAN NTHEATRE-2-s: :l5-Vanity Pair
ICADEMY OF MCSIC-s:l5-Under Two Flags
BIJOU THEATRES :20-Lady Margaret.
RROA ADWAY THEATRE-S--The Sleeping Beauty ana
CAsINO-s:l5-Mss Simplicity
CRITERION THEATRE-S-Du Barry
loAIlYS THEATRE-S:20-Frocksa Frls
EDEN MUSEE-Day and Evening-World in Wax
EMPIRE THEATRES :20-The Wilderness.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-S-Garrett . Magh'
GARDEN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Marian.
GARRICK THEATRE-s:30-The Message from Mars
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE-s:15-The Little Duchess
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE: :l5-Dolly warden. =,
IRVING PLACE THEATRE-s-Hopa! Water Siehts ia
Nicht.
REITHS-i2:8o 70 lO:30-Contnuous Performance
kaUCRERBOCKER THEATRE-s:15-The Toreaoor
IYcEUM THEATRE-S:30-The Girl and the Juoge
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-S:SO-On the Quiet
AANHATTAN THEATRE-S:15-Hon. John Gr1gspy
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOCSE-s-Die WalKuIe-
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-s-The Shaughrsnn
NEW SAVOY THEATRES .3o-The Way Of the Worid:
NEw-YORK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF Fanne-Wlntef
GSerden-F1orodora-
PASTOR R'S-Contnuous Performance.
PROcrORS FIFTH AVENUE-l.30 to 1o;3O--A TIP 70
Chinatown Varieties o.n
PRocToR's TwENTY-THIRD sTREET-1SO to 1880
PRocToR.s 125TH sTREET-1:SO 1o:So-1nnocent as
Lamb and Varieties. .ooo
PRocToR's FTFTY-EIGHTH sTREET-13o to 1880
A Temperance Town and Varieties
THEATRE REPUBLIC-S:20 S:20-Mistress Nell.
VICTORIA-SI5-Mi
wALLACKs THEATRE-s:2o-A Gentleman OF France
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
Personal NOTES.

E W Rector, son Of H NJ. Rector. War Gov
ernor of Arkansas. is candidate for Governor OF
the State in opposition to "Ien Davis, VINO IS now
serving his first term. The name OF H ". Rector
Is historic for the course he pursued IN the ia-
ciPiency of the Civil War. In April. lsol. wnsn wnn
President Lincoln issued his first call Tor 's.u"
volunteers. and Arkansas was called upon % -
tary OF War Cameron follows The peop.s q
this State freemen. not slaves. ana Will oeIs-
10 the last extremity their homes. lVeS ana prSH.
erty against Northern mendactIy and uSuIpaIoI-
And ne made good his word. At -he call OF tne
old war Governor. who thus threw defiance IN tn9
teeth Of the Washington authorities. a arse arm!
THE Scranton Genn) Republican recalls this
famous reply of Governor Rector. classinS X as
"tauntng insult and says that "tt Is not eN=eSLs
ChriStianke TO hold a man responsive IoE 80 ~.
of a considerable amount OF Christian charlly S u.
the part Of the Northern people II they I..- Iesc
themselves 10 wish the son o. old Governor hsr so,
success in his candidacy rms eNpIes1Sioiii Ian
the Northern press is being taken up BY the ArA1
sas press, pro and anti Rector. and has oee0HA7
one OF the issues Of the campaign
DR.. c. II. Herty. of the University OF Georgia. =.
Athens will soon sever his connection with tna'
institution TO accept place in the Bureau OF H0i-
estry-
Hiram Cronk. the last surviving pensiorer OF - -
War Of ISl2 is passing the last years OF quiet o
at the home of his daughter. at Dunn Brook aoOu'
fifteen miles north OF Rome, n Y
Lord Curzon's success" says MAINLY A0ou'
People" lis undoubtedly largely helped ny Us
wife Everybody has praise for her; for her
beauty for her sweetness of temper and Gisposiiii
ton for her aboundng tact Lord Curzon. AS1 49, q
strong men intent on great thngs may Soss
sionaiIv ruffe the feathers. but whenever ne 0oa
so Iady Curzon is at hand to make them snl'o*
again"
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

pox or varioloid In any borough of New-York
have suffered from virulent forms of the NAL
ady. Our new Health Department is keen eyed
and well equipped. Moreover, it is aided in its
work by an advisory board, which includes sew
eral of the ablest physicians not only of this
capital but of the whole nation. Still, our peo-
pie should not neglect the invaluable safeguard
of vaccination.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

The present head OF the management Of the
bridges has abundant reason for compelling con-
tractors to bestir themselves and to work hard
for the completion of their tasks at the earliest
possible dates. 1t has been too common prac-
tice for the men who have bound themselves to
finish city enterprises of the largest Importance
within a limited time to loter and suit their own
convenience while great public interests suffer
grievous damage from their delays. New days.
new plans. new methods now.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
A LONGER LEAVE FOR FUNSTON

Kansas City. Nc. Feb 10.-Dr- E 2. Robinson,
General Frederick Funstoa's physician Forwarded
TO the War Department to-day a eeruhcate IN SUP
mort OF an application for three months extern
sion OF leave OF absence for General Funston. The
gsneraVs leave will expire March 10 under tbs
raDidly
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
MRS. BUTCHER SERIOUSLY I'LL.

Mrs J. Gerow butcher. who was before her mar
riase Miss Helen Wuets. is critically Ill at the
Hotel Bristol with pneumonia DR.. Helmutn Is
attending her. and she has two trained nurses
Mrs. Dutcher's parents Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wiz
lets, who have been in Florida, returned 70 TINS
city last night, having been hastily summoned
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
AMERICANS TO BE PRESENTED.

London. Feb -1o-The levee tomorrow will be al
tended by the entire staffs OF all the embassies
The United States Ambassador. Mr.. Choats ytl
Gibson Of Boston
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

Volcanic blasts still spread terror in Man
haitian in spite Of the warnings from the catas-
trophe in front Of the Murray Hill Hotel. Is it
impossible to teach every contractor to be rea-
sonably cautious? New Workers are impatient
for rapid transit but they are not eager to be
blown apart piecemeal
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
CAsINo-"MIss SIMPLICITY"


CASINO-"MISS SIMPLICITY
A musical farce called Miss Simplicity wnlca
has already made considerable tour was 80 -.
and heard-especially heard-at the Casino SIM, !.
night for the first time in New-York Inc 'i''e
understood to refer to some supnositiOus P, :,
who could be amused by the piece IAe S'a' :,
mind of the person who could write II = - .,
those mysteries which have often been -.
question but never solved The unrortuha'S
roared and yelled and whOoped at one 80 -
sometimes one at a time. sometimes TWO o' -,
sometimes all at once. in their efforts 10 0e -
hut II was of no use You can no more H
bad Joke a good joke by shrieking II than ~ -.
make a Frenchman understand Eneiish " -.
same process The house quivered- as 'asS N g.
into the air and came down on the stage 50 -
gether in their frenzy To amuse. but theSS -a,t
ments were futile too; they only mace u .s,n
kind of noise and il no more diVer'1il9 r,,z
the other The leader among the actors Was - -
Daniels who with a limited range OF '@i as
often amusing But in this piece the s'ru s",,srs
too great He looked Ike the knob on = MD
baubIe but he had nothing funny to say shu rssr-
only scream with the rest. and as hopeisssiS ia
were the usual accessories Of pretty iaS. -
pretty gowns and indeed whatever eAe--r ssca
are common TO all musical farces thiS
farce had. But Ii had no more,
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11
About People and Social incidents.

E0wsF lam James s,as Mcguire led the soton dane
Rockefeller, Mrs. Francis GriSwold Landon Niss.
Elsie Iadd. Arthur Gouverneur Morris and Frssss
There was likewise another OF the series OF ,ou.
cotillons OF which Mrs. William Brookaed. M.
Robert Hoe and Mrs: Edward L. Keyes are patron.
esses at Sherry's last night.
The Cosmopolitan Sewing Club viii nnest ~.
Thursday at the house OF Mrs. Brayton Ives 4,
Mrs. Clarence A Postley will give luncheon n,
Friday next at her house. in Fifth-ave.
Under the patronage Of Mrs. Theodore A Hsv..
meyer and other fashionable women Miss Anne
Often will give a violin recital on the evening Of
assisted by her sister Clara and by Msxxses ss
Kennedy, of the Grace Church choir.
Small silver loving cups were the prizes at ths
bridge whist tournament organized yesterday az
Sherry's by Mrs Oliver Gould Jennings and Mrs
George Sheldon for the benefit of the building fund
of the Babies Hospital Among the hundred
and fifty women wh9 t29k part IN the he affair
Edey Mrs Charles Chlds Mrs Goodhue Living
WITT f and Mrs. Henry G. Trevor Oliver Gould d Jts Ds
nings has succeeded the late Hooker Hamersley
fftS-st. fHE ST "'" ''S - LEANS ' - anu ''''-
Dinners were given last night by Mrs. Penhroks
Jones and Mrs. Frederick r. Hasey.
At the Tennis Building. In West Forty-hrsts.
the first meeting of the Monday Evening Bowling
Club took place. the patronesses including Mrs.
George r Schieffelin Mrs w Eugene Parsons
Mrs Livingston Mason. Mrs Oliver Livingston
Jones and Mrs Eugene Bogert- The prizes
sisted of a silver vase and loving cup. After the
game supper was served Among the members d,
this club the Misses Mary Newoold LaWrencs.
Alice HowIand. May simmons. Marjorie Lea Edith
Mason. Katherine Whiting and Mary De Peyster
Bailey. as well Dudley +. Phelps Emmet W. r.
wing, Percy Hudson. Alexander Rutherfurd and
Mnturn Collins.
Mr. and Mrs Alfred G. Vanderbilt left town yes
terday for Palm Beach. where Mr.. and Mrs Fred
erfck W. Vanderbilt now staying. Edwin q.
Weatherbee of No 240 Madison-aye, accompanied
bv his daughters. has likewise gone 70 Palm Beach
The last OF the Amsterdam Theatre parties VII
take place on Thursday at the Garden Theatre Tns
party will be chaperoned by Mrs Gilman CoIlamort.
Miss Amy Baker will give a musical this after
noon at the Gerrit Smith studio. in East Thirty
third-st-
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

Alumni seem to be inspired In these days
with generosity toward their alma matters far
more lavish than ever before. From the open
hands Of the graduates and friends of education
unstnted largess is poured.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-11

Joseph Letter. who is i'll at his apartments. No
% West Thirty-thrd-st-, was reported as better
yesterday. His mother. Mrs. Z. T. Letter. who -
with him. sent out the following statement az 1Se.
Mr.. Letter is better He is not critically III