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New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

Washington Dec. q (SpecaD.-The Belgian Min
lister and Baroness Moncheur have had their
guest Doha Blanca de Zelaya. the wife OF the
President of Nicaragua, herself Belgian The
Baroness gave Il luncheon yesterday in honor OF
Miss Alice Roosevelt. The guests invited TO meet
her included the Baroness Won Palm. niece of the
Austrian Ambassador: Miss MacVeagh. Miss Lang
horne Miss Howard, daughter of the British Min
lister to The Hague; Miss Alice Ward and Miss
Clayton, sister OF the hostess.
The Russian Ambassador entertained at dinner
last evening in compliment to Bouminrof. the art
list
DR.. Won Holleben. the German Ambassador,
one Of the guests at the H1tt-Gray wedding IN New
York yesterday. The Ambassador remained in
New-York for the express purpose OF attending the
wedding Is a special compliment To Nr. Hit. who
has recently been transferred from Paris to the
United States Embassy in Berlin.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
Amnsemenis


ACADEMY OF -s:fo-11he Ninety ana Nine'
AMERICAN THEATRF-2-s:15-Alone In LONDON
RHlIASfl0 TIfFATRE-2s-The Darling OF the seas
FlJoIT Mockirg Sirh
BROADWAY THEATRE-2-S-The Silver slippt'-
s.ASfNp-a-s:1g-A Chinese Honeymoon
CRITERION eHEATRE-2:15-s:i5-1he Cevafer
DALT's THEATRE-2-s-lo-A Country Giri
EDEN MIJSEE-2-s-Tbe World in Wax.
EMPIRE THEATRE -S:2o-ln lnprudence ~
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-2-S-IP h'ih
- ,,--x.. o-
Geraldine a-- r,.vts
GARDEN THEATFsE-2ls-Torn Pinoh-e'i"- DA'iu
Garrick
HARLEM OPERA HOCSE-o-s:15-The Toreador
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-S-Julus Ceesar. y. ~
IRVING PLACE THBATRE-2:45-Max & horflH-o'-'
KEITH s-io a. m. to 1890 p. m.-Continuous Per
4lNfcKERBocKER THEATRE-s:15-The Altar Of
Friendship.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2-s:15--A Audrey;
MANHATTAN THEATRE-2-S-Mary Of Mascaia.
NEW sAyOT-s:l5-The Girl with the Green Eyes
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Johnny Comes MArehi"k
Home.
PASTOR S-Continuoug Performance.
PRINCESS TTEATRE-2-s:3o-He heidelberg -
PPOcTOR's THEATRE-10:3o a. m.-NRudevine
ST. NICHOLAS SKATING RINK-Skating-
vTCTORIA-2s:rs-The Eternal City.
wAILACR'S THEATRE-2-s=3o-T Crisis
WEST END TTIEATRE-s-The Old Homestead
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
THE CABINET.

Washington. Dec q (SpeciaD.-Christnas in the
Cabinet families. well at the White House.
will be observed as a family day. The Secretary of
State and Mrs. TIay have with them their son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. James w Wads-
worth. ir.. and their young son Clarence, who is
home from college. The day will be passed quietly.
as Mrs Hay will not entertain until the Goth, when
she will give a dinner for Mr.. and Mrs. Wads-
worth who will remain hero until the middle Of
January.
The Secretary of the Treasury has returned from
Chicago accompanied by his eldest daughter. Miss
Enid Shaw and his Earl. who attends school In
Washington and the entire family will be together
in their usual holiday fashion. The Secretary Will
entertain a few friends from Iowa.
The Secretary of War will spend the day with
his family in New-1ork.
Miss Rebecca Knox and Phander Knox returned
from Pittsburg to-day and completed the family
circle at the home Of the Attorney General.
The Postmaster General and Mrs. Payne will have
a family party at their apartments in the Airing
ton.
The Secretary OF the Navy will spend the day in
New-York.
The Secretary Of Agriculture and Miss Wilson
will have. has always been their custom an in
formal dinner at which friend or two will he
present.
The Secretary of the Interior and his family will
spend the day quietly at their home. in K-st
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
TRA1sTAAL GOLD AND BoER NEED.

Tales of Transvaal gold seem to he verified
They are repeated and believed not only by
Brito1s, but also by Beers. General Botha
than whom we suppose nobccy is better quail
fed TO speak for the Boer people, is convinced
that a large SUM in bullion has recently been
shipped from the Transvaal TO Messrs. Kriiger
and Leyds, amounting TO more than S6000o0
and il is estimated that those gentlemen now
have in their possession about S2500,000 OF
Transvaal gold. This is not their private prop
erty. but public funds belonging to the Trans
Saal treasury. The British Government is seek
ing in some way legally to attach it on the
ground that it forms part Of the assets of the
Transvaal. and therefore should be turned over
10 her as partial Offset TO the Transvaal obl-
cations which she is assuming General Botha
takes a different view. He thinks IL should be
turned over TO the Transvaal people to aid In
alleviating their distress and in rehabiIitating
their farms and homes after the ravages of
war
To both these representations DIR. Leyds ap-
parently turns a deaf ear. He does not deny
the possession of the gold. That is to be noted
as corroborative of the truth of the reports in
question Indeed, he practically admits that
he has a great sum of Transvaal funds at his
disposal But he says he intends to keep pos
session thereof and to use it in ''upholding
Boer nationality IN the future" That is euphe-
mistic periphrasis for "upholding Leyds and
kruger," since those two gentlemen are about
sll shere is now left of Boer nationality. 1t is
very much as though some OF the Confederate
leaders who fed TO Europe in 1865 had carried
with them millions of dollars from the Rich
nond treasury and had insisted upon retaining
such funds after Lees surrender and after the
South had been fully restored TO the Union on
the ground that they had to uphold the nation
aIity of the Confederate States. We all know
what honorable Southern gentlemen would
have thought of them.
There may be those who exult in seeing Great
Britain tricked out of part OF the assets of
the country whose liabilities she is assuming
and who would regret TO see the money taken
from Messrs- Leyds and Kriiger and handed
over to the British treasury. Such sentiments
are explicable and appreciable, whether we ap-
prove them or not. But in no such way can
General Bothas demand for the money be dis
posed Of. Mr.. Kruger has wept many tears
over the losses and sufferings OF his former
countrymen- There is no doubt that there is
much suffering among them, beyond all the re-
lief which the British Government is giving
Boer generals who fought on the yeldt while
Afessrs. KRUGER and Leyds were living in Sc
curity and luxury in Europe are lecturing and
writing hooks and soliciting contributions all
for the relief Of their suffering countrymen
Between their conduct and that OF the two Gus
ing contrast IL Messrs. Krdger and Leyds
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.

| Washington, Dec. a (Special).-The first OF the
! series of dinner dances arranged for socety's
! younger set, and which took the pretty form OF a
! bal blanc was given tonight in the tapestry gal
! = 5 Of Charles VI. Ffoulke's house. in Massachu-
sttts-ave. The young matrons and maids present
| their hair powdered and added no touch OF
| color to their pure white gowns. Miss Helen
Ffoulke. who presides over her fathers household
in the absence of Mrs Ffoulke in Arizona with her
| invalid son, Horace received in white brocade.
Mrs. Chapman Smith. the married daughter of the
house, who is spending the holidays here. wore her
wedding gown of white satin embroidered in pearls.
and Miss Gwendoline Ffoulke in white lace.
The bail chaperoned by Miss Eleanor Ffoulke.
OF Philadelphia sister OF the host. Before the ball
Miss Ffoulke entertained at a dinner. when her
guests were Countess Cassini. Miss Hitchcock.
daughter of the Secretary Of the Interior: Miss
Edith Newands. daughter of Representative New
lands, of Nevada. whose engagement to Charles
Johnston has just been announced: Miss Theodore
Martin. Miss Margery Cotton. Miss Edith Liv-
fngston Mason, of Newport who Is a guest at the
Ffoulke home; Baron Ritter. OF the German En-
bassy: Senior Riano first secretary of the Spanish
Legation; Mr.. Huicekoper Lieutenant Stanton
L. S. A.. Van Lindsey. of New-Yorls; William
Stewart. jr. of Philadelphia Richard Elkins and
John B. Henderson. Jr.
Several dinners were given before the dance.
Among those who entertained was Mrs. Foraker.
wife of Senator from Ohio. Her guests
Representative and Mrs. OInsted, Miss Rose Doug
lass WaIlach Miss Hagner. Miss McLanahan. Miss
Seymour Miss Fanny Fuller. Miss Enrol Brown,
Miss Margaret Hitchcock. Mrs Chapman Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. King Wainwright of Philadelphia:
Senior Puldo. charge daffaires OF the Venezuelan
Legation Signor Borghetti. of the Italian En-
bassy; William Mcpherson. Nathan Wyeth. Cap
tain Joyce u. s. N: Alfred Hopkins. Dr. Church
and Messrs Siebert and Dennison.
Representative and Mrs. Hufs guests were Miss
Field, Miss Anita Poor. Miss Martina Jones. Miss
zaidee Cobb. Miss Gallaudet. Miss Hun Randall
Hagner, Murray Cobb. William Merriam Richard
Mckee and George Smith. of Boston.
o~f1r hxT Mr. n,I Ta6,, n
Cropper the guests mainly the debutantes
and the bachelors of the younger set Among them
were Miss Jean Crosby, Miss Jean Lorng. Miss
Wainwright. Miss Edith Ailler, Miss Pansy Bloom
err Miss Diane Morgan Hill. Miss Postlethwaite |
Miss McCawley. Jasper Wilson, lieutenant Me- |
Cawey Charles Woodruff Hugh Rowland James |
Crawford. Hiard Owen. Charles X. Poe, John |
woolsey and Mr.. Reyburn. After each dinner the |
guests went direct to the dance
Tile marriage of Miss Henriette Marie Webster, |
only daughter of Commander Harrie Webster. |
L. S. N. and Mrs. Webster. to Hugh Skpwith. OF |
Richmond, will take place January IA.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
THREE KINGS

Canfield the Faro King is not hanging up
his stocking for Christmas Eve. He fears that
Jerome and Jacobs and Inspector Brooks have
steered Santa Claus away from East Forty
fourth-st Francis Farrell, the celebrated Pool
room King" does not expect that st. Nicholas
will pay him visit with liberal gifts in his
reindeer sleigh. The kind old benefactor who
sometimes masquerades under the nickname of
Kriss Kringle has wandered afar from the di-
rect route to the poolrooms, and King Far
reI is disgruntled and disgusted
But "Ar' Adams, the ~"Policy King" roves
about gleeful and jocular He is richer than
Garfield or Farrell Out of the frauds OF the
policy game he has heaped up a large fort
une. His real estate possessions in Manhattan
are extensive and profitable. Who can molest him
or make him afraid? The public prosecutor has
not yet succeeded in laying him by the heels.
Adams more than holds his own. Neverthe-
less, policy is swindling through and through,
and Adams has been for long series OF years
at the head Of the policy system in this city.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
NsspDork DAILY Gt-ibn1rs
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1902.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The English press still holds to
the opinion that Mr.. Roosevelt is best qualified
so srbitrste questions in Venezuela - ihe
Bishop of Rochester is named possible sue
tessor TO the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Arrangements have been made for the return
Of the Humbert family to Paris. - Heavy
snowstornls reported in Turkey. =" II
is thought unlikely that the Crown Prince OF
Ssyony will obtain i divorce from ms Nlle.
- Further details of the earthquake disaster
at Andijan show that one section Of the city
Was destroyed and that great suffering pre-
walls.
DoMESTIC-Presdent Roosevelt received the
formal proposals of Great Britain and Germany.
requesting him to act arbitrator in the Nenez-
nelan dispute: the subject was considered at a
conference between the President and Secretary
Hay. but no decision was announced - The
Navy Department ordered Rear Admiral Cooper
TO command the southern division of the Ash
atic Squadron, 10 succeed Rear Admiral Wildes
t. The full text of the reciprocity treaty WITH
Cuba is made public. - Governor OdeH VIII
pass Christmas at the Executing Mansion. in
Albany: his father and brothers will he his
guests. = The II. G. Frick Coke Company
of the subsidiary concerns of the United
States Steel Corporation. announced an increase
Of per cent in the wages of its twenty thousand
employees. to take effect on January /; the in
crease will add s., 100000 year TO the pay rolls
Of the company; the BesSemer Coke Company,
the second largest independent concern in the
Connellsville region. also announced an increase
of per cent for its five thousand workers. ==
The directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior
Company announced that loan Of S3.JU0.Oe0
had been secured by the concern
CTTY.-Stocks We're irregular, closing strong.
jury acquitted eX-Police Captain
Moynihan of the charge of taking protection
money from disorderly house keepers. -
Miss Laura Biggar was acquitted but DR. Hen
bricks and Justice Stanton were convicted Of
conspiracy TO acquire the estate Of Henry NJ.
Bennett. - Manager Skitt of the Manhattan
Railway Company and II. H Vreeland, presi-
dent Of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany, replied to President Lows letters. -
DIR. Austin Flint ir., said that Cornelius Van
derbilt had turned the corner and would get
well. - President Roosevelt sent check
and letter 10 school in Oyster Bay. -
Argument was heard in the of Jesse
1ewisohn, the banker. who refused to answer
questions concerning Richard Garfield the gam
bier. - The brokers Of the various exchanges
celebrated Christmas with merrymaking and
presents. - Jacobs. the detective and chief
witness against the gamblers. surrendered after
warrant for him had been issued the COM
plant of an employe of the gamblers. charging
him with perjury. - Photographs of the
Mormon Salt Lake City Temple and Mormon
elder were found in the room of woman who
committed suicide.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Snow rain. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 33 degrees; lowest, 21 degrees.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
"PEACE AND GOOD WILL"

Let us, as was once notably said, rid our
minds of cart. There is on this day, and all
through the season Of which this day is the
centre and elimination, much talk about ''peace
and good will" Even in the garbled form which
the quotation usually assumes the sentiment is
a noble one. 1t is entirely too noble to be treat
ed ignobly or unworthiy And, unfortunately
such treatment of 1t is all too common. Per
haps it is thoughtiess and unintentionaI. None
the less il is deplorable that lofty sentiment
should be degraded into sickIy sentimentality.
And this is done to degree whenever the
angelic message OF Christmastide is distorted
to mean an indiscriminate granting OF peace
and exercise Of good will among men.
There will be those to-day, we fear who will
lament that nations regardless of the
Christmas spirit to be at this very time
carrying a sword against one of their fellows
It will be said that they ought to concede peace
forthwith But why? If the object of attack
be really an offender against the laws of ma
tions there is no absoiution for it in the Jul
dean chorus. To break the peace is regrettabe.
But worse still would it be to make com
promise with sim So in cases of individuals
Many an offender against law and morals will
plead immunity on the ground that .it is Christ
mas" and people will deplore what they call
unexpectedly severe sentences" for ali manner
oI la"DreaAefs, BECAUSE as they think, "peace
and good Will should impel justice to wink at
felony. Such sentimentaIities do little credit To
the true spirit OF the season
That was a shrewd response to the PROPOSAL
that capital punishment be abolished, and one
worthy Of ali remembrance: LET messieurs the
murderers begin" In the establishment of peace
and good will among men, let those who are
breaking the peace and who are manifesting iii
will toward their fellows begin. II a nation
will deal justly with its fellows, It should fave
peace and should enjoy the good will of the
world. If man viii love his neighbor as him
self. he should be loved in return. But those
who will not thus comport themselves deserve
no exemption. not even at Christmas time. from
the law that is scourge to transgressors. We
must remember that the most terrible denuncia
tions of sin and the most inexorable nenaces
of remorseless Judgment against evil doers
were uttered by Him Whose coming was her
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
THE CENTRAL ASIAN BARTHQUAkE.

As fuller details are received concerning last
weeks earthquake in Russian Turkestan 1t De-
comes apparent that the event was more 1of-
midabe than was at first suspected Inc NOR
tality is now estimated at four thousand or five
thousand, most of the buildings in Andl1an
have been Frustrated, and much suffering re-
! suits from the paralysis of trade and the cut
ting off of food supplies. Obviously, the extent
of the damage is due in some measure to the
fact that the scene of the heaviest shocks was
close to the site Of large town. Andljan had
n population of about thirty five thousand. The
violence of the agitation was not In exact pro-
portion TO the number Of deaths. HAD the
earthquake happened in an uninhabited local
ity the result would have been different. Never
theIess. IT is evident that the town must have
been vigorously shaken in order to throw down
most of the buildings and completely to wreck
the government offices, presumably among the
stoutest structures there.
No close coincidence can be detected between
the date Of the Turkestan earthquake and
the dates for which renewed disturbances III
the West Indies We're predicted Moreover,
Pelee and Souffriere have kept remarkably
quiet for the last week or two. The safest III
ference to draw regarding the shock in Turkes-
tan is that it was essentially local in cause al
though the shrinkage of the earth as whole
may well have been responsible for II. Earth
quakes varying in severity from the mildest
tremors TO even more terrible manifestations
than the one observed in Central Asia last
week are occurring almost daily first here and
then there, though generally confined to noun
tainous regions where the crust Of the globe is
already crumpled, tissured and tilted up at an
angle There is tendency under those circum-
stances for one stratum to slip along over an
other. Friction for a time prevents yielding
A considerable strain may accumulate before
anything gives way. The longer and firmer the
resistance the greater will be the dislocation
when a fresh readjustment occurs. Andijan is
near TO the Pamir. the Tian-Shan and the
great central tableland of Asia as to be favor
ably situated for this kind of experience.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
!. HARRY sTRATToN MARRIED.

Milwaukee, Dec PA dispatch from Oshkosh
Wis. says that Isaac Harry Stratton, son OF the
late W. s. Stratton and Miss Josephine A Lara
bee were married to-day at the home Of the bride
mother. Mrs. Josephine Larabee. The Rev E H.
Smith, pastor OF the First congregational Chureh'
performed the ceremony. Only the immediate reia-
tives OF the couple. and William N Cooley col
lege friend of the bridegroom. were present MI
Stratton gave his business a banker at Colorado
Springs. The couple left here this afternoon for
the West
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
RECEPTION FOR MISS HUNT.

San Juan. Porto Rico, Dec 4-The reception
given last night al the Executive Mansion here by
Governor Hunt and Mrs. Hunt formally to intro
duce their eldest daughter. Miss Elizabeth Hunt
was the most brilliant since the American occupa-
tion Of the island Among those present were Ad-
miral Dewey. Rear Admirals Sumner, Taylor.
CrOwninshield and Coghlan. and scores Of other
naval and military officers. besides many pToIni-
nent American. Porto Rican and Spanish civilians
of this city and from all the inland towns In all
there were at least FIVE hundred persons present
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

On the White Star Line steamship Cymric. which
sailed yesterday for Liverpool. were Mr. and MIS-
w. ]. Baker. J. G. Dickinson. Lieutenant Inouye'
Mr.. and Mrs. r. n. Salmon and Mr.. and Mrs j.
w. Whitehead.
Some OF those booked to sail to-day tns
steamer La Savoie are Mr. and Mrs Bunai-
Variila. Alfred Cottard. s. Crawford Count ana
Countess. Lepic, B. X Mumford. Count de Pointes'
DR.. l.. de la Torre. Mr.. and Mrs. George y. Whes-
lock and MIR. and Mrs. A Whitcomb. a.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
WEDDINGS.

Plai1deld. n. j.. Dec 24-Miss MAY Webster
HoneScut. niece OF Mr. and Mrs. Martin l. Cooley
of North Plainfeld. married this afternoon to
Lieutenant Frederick W. Hinrichs, U., L. S. A.
stationed at Fort Hamilton, in BEoOkIyn. The
marriage took place in the home of Mr.. Cooley The
best man was Lieutenant WiIIam Pierce Ennis Of
Fcrt Hamilton. and the maid Of honor was Miss
Eleanor Lusk. The four ribbon girls We're Miss
Gertrude Mills. Miss Elizabeth Allen Miss Dora
Waring and Miss Margaret McKutcheon. The usl-
ers were Lieutenant H c. Williams. OF Fort Ham
hton; Lieutenant Wade II. Murphy, OF Fort 1Iyer
and Cadets G. NJ. P. Murphy and Quincy A Gil
ran OF West Point The bride was given away By
her brother. Cadet Francis W HOneycut Of West
Point There large gathering Of friends
and relatives at the ceremony. after which a re-
ceDttOn given
The couple started a wedding trip through the
South and upon their return viii live at Fort Ham
Dtcn.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25
Mr.. AsToR's GIFT TO HOSPITAL.

London Dec. 24-WiIliam Waldorf Astor has
given s250VJo 10 build out-patieHt department
for the Hospital for Sick Children, in Great Or
mond-st. 1t will be dedicated TO the memory OF
his daughter. Gwendolin. who died recently.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25

aided by that self-same proclamation OF peace
and good WILL If we must paraphrase the
message, at least let us do it In harmony with
the spirit of the original.
Be peace on earth-be peace on earth
To men Of gentle will.
That is the real spirit of the day.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-25

The fact that NeW-York City uses about three
times as much water per capita as other large
cities, without getting any more good from It,
is pretty strong indication that there is some
thing rotten in the State Of DenmaTk--to wit,
the system of distribution. Until that evil is
renedied, it will be we'll to sing small about
extensions of the watershed. There is really no
use in the world in trying to fill sieve by pour
ing more water into it.