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New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
PERSONAL NOTES.

1t is said that the Rev. Floyd w TOmkins. rector
of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity. Phi-
adelphia, will probably be chosen bishOp-coadJutor
of the diocese of Pennsylvania at the convention
to be held on February A. Another strong candidate
is the Rev. DIR. W. NJ CiroSvenor. rector or inc
Church of the Incarnation. In this city,
The Rev L. f. Holden. president of the UniverslH
of Wooster. Ohio. which was recently burned an
nounces that well known millionaire has prom
ised to contribute 100000 toward the rebuilding OF
the institution. provided that $4,000 shall be raiSeu
In Wooster and 100000 from outside sources.
Professor Iden. of the Kansas State NcrniA.
School, at EmpOria, Kan. has followed his usuS'
custom of sending to every former and presen1
member of his Bible class. thirteen hundred r -
number. a New Years greeting. His present nioe i
class numbers four hundred. the largest OrsdAiN@
ton of its kind in the United States
John c. woolley. the Prohibition leader, has Jus
returned to Chicago. after a seven months 90
around the globe to study the condition OF '
liquor traffic in foreign lands. He addressed 80 80
ninety temperance meetings, and says that <' Pro-
lea Is furthest advanced in the struggle io' -
hibition
President Maclean of the University OF Iowa S. -
heves that church congregations should auSte E1s -
practice of appauding sermons whlch theS M
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Amnsements.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-S-The Christian.
BiJOU THEATRES 6.20-The Widow Jones.
BROADWAY THEATRE-S-The Sleeping Beauty and
the Beast.
cAsrNo-s:i5-The Little Duchess
CRITERION THEATRE-S-Du Barry.
DALYs-s,2o-Frocks and Frills.
EDEN MUSEE-Day and Eyening-World in Wax
EMPIRE THEATRES 2e-The Wilderness
GARDEN THEATREc-s:20-Alice Old Vlncennes.
SARRICR THEATRES :30-A Message Mars.
HARLEM OPERA HOUSE-S:15-The Messenger Boy.
HERALD SQUARE TREATRE-s:1 s:15-Beaucaire
IRglNG PLACE THEATRES :20-Die kollegin
khl1ES-l230 70 1870 p. m-Continuous Performance
NAlCkERBOCRE<R tn HSATRE-S-The Toreador.
lshCEIM THEATRES -30-The Girl and the Judge.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE -S:3O-Sweet and Twenty
Hatch.
MEN SDELsSoEN HALL-s:15-Song Recital.
hIfsftAf HILL THEATRE-2-S-As in a Looking
Glass.
new new savoy THEATRE-s:3o-DArcy OF the Guards
NV YORK THEATRE: :15-F1orodora.
rASIOk, Ok,S-Continuous Performance. 80
ffsNCIOSS FIFTH AVENUE-1:30 TO i0:30-Why smith
Left Home.
PRocroR's TwENTY-THIRD sTREET-I:ao to 1880
PRocToR's 18TH sTREET-1:3o to 1o:so-The stn
'7-20-S.'
EEiPUEsI-Ic-s:15-Und Southern Skies.
81. NICHOLAS SKATING RINF-s:15--Hockey Match.
nIcIIotIA-S: S:2O-Francesca da Rimini
WALLACh'S THEATRE-S2O-A Gentleman OF France
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S4TISF4 Glory BUT NOT PHENOMENAL.

S4TISFA Glory BUT NOT PHENOMENAL
The report of the United States Steel Com
pany showing the earnings for the first nine
months of that titanic corporations existence
makes the head reel with the size of the
figures That total OF net earnings of nearly
$50 100000 should be piled up in nine months
by any company, no matter what its size,
would have seemed to our forebears like the
widest dreams of an Arabian romancer. This
gigantic industrial cOnsOida tion, with Il capital
that approxlmateS our national debt and an
income greater than that enjoyed by any civil
lied nation in the eighteenth century, may well
give pause for consideration. 1t is so vast and
complex a piece of industrial and financial
machinery that the mind cannot grasp it en-
masse, and must therefore content itself with
an examination in detail. But are the com
pany's earnings stupendous they
to be?
The capital of the company in bonds and
preferred and common stock is well over
81, 300, 100000, and on this capital the yearly
earnings bid fair to reach a total of $110,000,000.
Large as this sum is, it amounts to less than
S1a per cent on the entire capitalization and
this, for an industrial company. is not stu
pendous. In this department of business greater
returns are looked for than in others. The gen
eral rule is that a feast or famine always
prevails, and that the good years must care
for the bad. This is peculiarly so in steel. Mr.
Carnegie was once quoted saying that a
steel manufacturer was either prince or Il
pauper, due. of course, to the alienation of
good and bad years in the trade Were the
proportion of earnings TO capital the same in
a million dollar corporation that they are in
the United States Steel Company, they would
come to some $4,000 annually. After deduct
ing interest on the bonds and setting aside pro-
portionate amounts for sinking funds, deprecia-
tion reserve, etc, the surplus for the year car
ried over would approximate something like
$4,000 which, while it would encourage would
not wildly exhilarate the owners of the million
dollar corporation.
The report of the great steel corporation
affords pleasant reading for the shareholders.
and reflects great credit on the management of
the company. At the same time ii is not so
phenomenal TO create wild enthusiasm or to
cause the values of steel securities to advance
TO unduly high figures.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
Nempork Dailp Gribn,rs
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: Mr.. Gallinger made a
statement showing that policy Of economy will
be followed In granting private pensions; many
bills Of minor Importance passed. -
House: Debate the Nicaragua Canal bill de-
veloped a strong sentiment in favor of consid-
er1ng the Panama companys offer; the final
vote on the Hepburn bill will probably be taken
this afternoon.
FOREIGN-In view of unfavorable reports
Of German trade, il is possible that England will
adopt moderate tariff TO shut out undesirable
German goods. The London stock market
suffered slight depression. - At the opening
Of the Frussian Diet and Reichstag, the En-
peror and Baron Won Thielmann took gloomy
views of German trade. - Sir Thomas Hol-
dick, one of the members of the tribunal to de-
ter..aine the Argentine-Chilian dispute has been
ordered to South America. - Anthony Hopes
new play will not deal with political matters
Americans ard Russians at New-Chwang We're
received from Pekira. - NJ. Varilla one of
Company, is on his WAY to Washington. -
Zeiaya again elected President Of Nicarag qua
for term of four years
DOMESTIC-President Roosevelt made
large number Of appointments. including those
of Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw. of Iowa. to be Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, ard Henry c. Payne,
Of Wisconsin, to be Postmaster GENERAL. -
The wedding of Miss Julia Foraker daughter of
Senator Foraker. of Ohio. to Francis King Vein
wright, of Philadelphia. took place in Washing
ton. - Sevcnty per cent of the creditors of
the Everett -Mcora Syndicate hava agreed to
grant extcTson of time receiver has been
appointed fer the Detroit and Toledo line. -
pointed Secretary of the Treasury, enter
tained in Chicago on his way home. = The
Interstate Commerce Commission ostponed its
inquiry into TIE community of interest" sys
TEN of the Northwestern railroads for lack of
witnesses.
ClTY-Stocks were irregular. with strength
at the close. = Two cars of q NewHaven
accommodation train were wrecked in a rear
emo collision with a Harlem tram in the Park
ave. tunnel at Flfty-siXIh-sI. yesterday morn
ing. and fifteen persons were killed and thirty
six seriously injured. Richard Croker
shipped about six boxes Of household effects to
England. 80 Congres essman-eiect Montague
Lessler went to Washington. == MarcelluS
Hartley died while attending a meeting of the
executive committee of the American Surety
Company. - The death Of Francis ]. Heron
q major general of volunteers in the Civil War
was announced. --- Jacob II. Schiff purchased
property in One-hundred- and twenty third st.
for a new Jewish theological seminary. In
the magistrates controversy in Brooklyn Fur
long attempted TO have the newly elected Wat
son arrested for burglary
THE WEATHER.-Forecast for to-day: Part
ly cloudy, with snow rain in the early morn
ing. The temperature yesterday: Highest :}3
degrees; lowest. 81: average, b.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
THE TUNNEL DISASTER.

Were the effects of the accident in the Park
ave. tunnel yesterday limited to the actual
loss of life and the bodily injury sustained by
the survivors the event wauld be lamentable
enough. But the harm which was done did not
stop there. Many thousands of other suburban
passengers realize how narrowly they escape a
similar fate and how great are the risks which
they run daily. Nearly the same conditions
which made this disaster possible they are
excusable for thinking exist there continually.
The bravest of men who consider their business
social and domestic responsibilities may well
grow anxious when they realize how suddenly
their earthly activities may come TO abrupt
termination Again, there are the families of
suburban residents, who stay at home, and
who are unquestionably more solicltous about
fathers. husbands and brothers than the latter
are about themselves Perhaps they exaggerate
the danger 10 which their relatives are sub
jected. Yet feeling constitutes an important ee-
ment in life, and, whether altogether rational or
not, ii must be reckoned with.
Some of the causes which contributed to yes
terday's collision are general and seemingly per-
manent in character. The most conspicuous of
these is the already enormous and steadily
growing travel over the section of road that
extends from the junction of three separate
lines at the Harlem down to Forty -second-st
There is no city in the world where just such a
concentration of traffic is paralleled for the
same distance and where the terminus is at the
mouth OF two mile tunnel. 1t would lessen
this congestion if the roads had separate sta
tons, but such remedy is not to be thought Of
4 union station is a necessity. Relief might
also be obtained by widening the tunnel and
the road up as far as Mott Haven. This expe-
dent would not only be costly, but it would be
beset with grave engineering difficulties. There
are objections, too, to abandoning Forty sec
ond-st. altogether and locating the station In
Harlem. Still, it may eventually prove neces-
sary to choose between these last two poss-
bilities.
The vital and immediate question, however,
is this: Why was not the second train involved
in yesterdays collision stopped before 1t struck
the first onei 1t is asserted by some of the
railroad officials that block signals were set
both at sixty-thrd and Fifty ninth sts. the
former having cautionary significance and the
latter being peremptory, Inasmuch as the col
lisiou occurred near Fifty.sixth-st., there is
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disposition to blame the engineer of the White
Plains Local fnr lot hrincinn his train O q

disposition to blame the engineer of the White
Plains local for not bringing his train TO a
standstill sooner Before the public accepts
that verdict, though. it will ask whether or not
the accused employe really saw the signals.
Although the testimony concerning the clear
ness of the atmosphere in the tunnel is conflict
ing, there is some reason TO believe that the
smoke and steam left there by the Norwalk
accommodation had not entirely disappeared,
and the in fact, they Obscured not only the
semaphore, but also the train ahead and any
red lantern which may have been displayed.
This much is certain: If yesterdays accident
is not clearly traceable to that cause, the preva-
lence of the conditions described is so common
as TO be a constant source Of peril NOR is any
careless employe of any railroad company re-
sponsible for that situation.
Obviously, when electricity is substituted for
steam a motive power In the Park-ave.
tunnel the danger of obscurity will be sensibly
lessened. Moreover, there would have been no
such ignition of the wrecked cars had an cleo
trio motor struck them resulted from the
attack of steam locomotive. Hence the loss
of life would have been reduced, if, indeed, the
collision had not been entirely averted. The
public will have ample reason for rejoicing
when the Central company makes its long
promised change; and the Central cannot afford
to keep the public waiting, while it prosecutes
still further experiments TO ascertain whether it
has found the ideal electric system.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

The seizure of the condemned transla tions of the
New Testament into modern Greek is pursued In
Greece with great vigor all over the country in
execution of the decision of the Holy Synod and of
the order OF the government.
Two Niews.-"Mister,' began the beggar, ITS
pretty hard to lose all your relations and
Hard snorted the crusty individual why,
man alive II they're poor relations it's impossible
philadelphia FIess.
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DARIEN.

A D. l5i3-A. D. 1901.
1.-THE American Senate has ratified the isthmus
treaty.-(Washington teegram.l
silent. upon a peak in Daren'-
The Spanish steel red in his conquering hand.
While golden green and gracious the vast land
or that world comes sudden into ken
Stands NuheZ da Balboa North and south
He At last the full Pacific roll
In blue and silver each shelf and shoal
And the white bar the broad rivers mouth
And long ranked palm trees. queen OF Heaven"
he cried
To-day thou giv'st me this for all my pain,
And the glorious guerdon give to Spain,
new earth and new to be her pride.
War ground and treasure house" And while he
spoke
The worlds heart knew mighty dawn was broke
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
CARNEGIE 4 LIBRARY TRUSTEE
HE WILL HAVE PERSONAL VOICE IN inN

HE WILL HAVE PERSONAL VOICE IN i"-
EXPENDITURES OF HIS s5.OooeOo GIFT
The trustees of the Nev-fork Public Library - -
their monthly meeting yesterday The resisha.0 resis.,
of George l. Rves as secretary of the board whien
had been rendered at the December meeting, N
accepted. and Charles HOwland Russell was s'eSs ~
to the vacancy Mr.. Rives remains a meunoeF u -
board Andrew Carnegie was elected a truS.ees xss
succeed Daniel Huntington. whose resislittlot.
received at the December meeting MT htIils5SqI
was the only surviving member or the oLaoas rSs
board of trustees OF the LenoX Library, whlch 80
formed In 1870 Since the consolidation, ne hsiS -
a trustee OF the New-YOrk Public Library. AS !
trustee M- Carnegie will have direct pers0T pis FOR
oversight of the expenditure OF the SS,pN'vN ~
library buildings which he has given 10 tns eiss-
An important gift was anhouhesd h, ireH Th,s is
collection of more than eighteen hundred etcnlnss
by Daniel Nicholas ChOdowecki. bound IN tn..s .rs
three volumes and containing many book iiiust's'
tons.
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BIG CITY BUDGETS

Washing municipal linen. whether in public or
IN private, cannot be looked upon as an alto
gether agreeable process. Moreover. it is un-
pleasantly expensive for the French capital
which rolled up bill of no less than 100000
for its laundry work in 1901. Paris now groans
under the staggering debt Of $40O oOO, 900, and
is graphing with the problem of q deficit. But
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

France are to be examined In Mrs. Browning
Aurora Leigh" Thackeray's The Four
Georges Pineros THE Princess and the But
terf1y" Mrs. Barbauld's Evenings at Home
and MISS Corners Every Child's History OF
England" Most American teachers in schools
of like grade Will probably congratulate them
selves upon the fact that they are not Obliged 10
teach English in France.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

the aggregate of it's Budget falls considerably
below that of NewYork.
Paris expects to pay out S61 100000 in 1902.
Gotham will be compelled TO expend much more.
But it should be borne in mind that the metrop-
oils of the European Continent is not so rich as
the metropolis of the Americas and contains
smaller nODulatjoD
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Battery Dan" will now disappear as a Demo-
cratic district leader downtown. Colonel Muir
ply is a veteran. and he knows something about
war. He spiked Dams" battery.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

1t is said that Caligula fed his favorte horse on
gilded oats. History does not tell us how the
pampered brute liked the diet. 1t is also said that
the Roman tyrant conferred the title of consul
the beast, which did not apparently improve
his appetite. Judging from the feed bills. stable
bills and extravagant outlay for hostlers, rub
bers and other attendants. the municipal de-
partments under Tammany were full of Cali
gulaS.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

When the Daniels on the police court benches
in Brooklyn fall out. the goddess of the scales
averts her face and sobs.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Candidates for positions as teachers of Eng
lish In second class. normal and high schools of
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's dinner and musical
at her home. in Fifth-ave, is the principal enter
tainment on the social programme of to-day The
dinner. for which some seventy invitations have
been issued. will be served at small tables In tn
dining room and conservatory. \ number of ad5i
tional people have been asked the musical which
follows and In which Nine SembrIch I'm = -s'si
and Jean Gerardy will take part 49, A>"'enh
There Will also be small dance at Sherrv.s 10
n'sn.' given oy MIS- Harold f. Hadden for her
ueoutahte daushter May Mrs. Daniel s Lamont
mas dance for young people this evanins =, -. =
Metropontan Club and there will be the drs,
Riding School. 's Siuo at bickel"
Dinners will be given tonight NV Mr.. uo..,
4eii at her house. In Madison-ays. ana hx NJ
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Horrfying reports come from Boston that the
Common has been neglected shamefully. and
that even the frog pond has become stagnant
from lack of care. Faneuil Hall will soon thun-
Jar
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Charles B. Alexander has chartered Anthony J..
Drexel's steam yacht Margarita. now at Cowes, for
a cruise in the Mediterranean. and will join the
yacht abroad early in the spring
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers the Cymric. which
sailed for Liverpool yesterday, were Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles A Ballard Mr.. and Mrs T. B. Bowrins,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard DOwnes. Sherwood HOdginS.
Captain 7. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. A, 5. King; VIII;
lam kydd. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Taylor, Mr.. anu
Mrs. q. d. Snyder. W. ]. Watkins. c. H Wilson,
Mrs. II. r. Wilson and W. G. Weir.
Booked TO sail the steamer L'Aquitaine FOR
Havre to-day are Otto Fenselau. Chancellor OF
the German Embassy at Washington. and wife;
Maxwell D. Howell. Miss T. Haney. Charles NJ
Sweeny ana Mrs. G.. White.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

One of the few distinctly creditable and COM
mendable acts of Mayor Van Wyck's admins
tration took place in the last hours of it when
he vetoed the outrageous $13,OOO,OOO job in Long
Island City.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Washington, Jan. S.-Private advices received here
to-day from high Catholic sources in Rome indicate
that Cardinal Martinelli the PapaI Delegate to ths
country. is likely to be retained here until next
May and possibly later There was indication
in the adviCeS Cardinal Martinell's successor
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Martin Engel has made public declaration
Of his unabated zeal for Mr. Croker as the Tam
many leader. his high opinion of the boss and
his devoted friendship Will Mr. Croker take
pride in this touching tribute from the man
who had charge of the Tammany forces in the
red light district, the worst In the city. for so
many years?
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Daniel Mason, whose marriage 10 Miss Caroline
Townsend Plum. takes place January Is gives
his bachelor dinner on Saturday night at the Union
Club His guests will comprise William Travers
Jerome, John ]. Phelps. Julian Gerard Buckley. OF
Geneseo; George Willard Plum and Ernest Carter
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt return 70
town from Bntmore. N c.. on Monday. January 30
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Mrs. Edward C. Hoyt gives dinner dance asher
house in Sixty-seventh-st- next Tuesday even
ing.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09
Jn0eT tc ADVERTISEMENTS.
Bnsinrss NoIlres.

Bnsirtrss Noures.
REV. G.. CAMPBELL MORGAN
SPEAKS TO-DAY IN BROOKLYN
At 800 ir the
ROSS ST. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
he
THRooP AVE. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Judge Leventritts admirable decision in the
Plant will case will probably result in the pay
ment of a large sum in death duties on that
large estate. Exaggerations to the real value
of property accumulated by rich men are ex-
tremely frequent. But Judge Leventritt in his
decision declares that this estate runs far up in
the millions, and he says plainly that there
seems to have been an effort to escape taxation
on these millions in this State. New-York
wants no more than it's just dues. but 1t should
get every dollar which it can legally and rightly
obtain.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Sancho Panza Governor of the island OF
Barataria. was never more grotesque than some
of the beeaguered police justices of doubtful
titles have been in Brooklyn in the last few
days
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Hermann Oelrichs at her home in East Frfty-~,n
enth-st. while Ms Frederick de Peyster giyS .
large at home tn4s afternoon
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

The marriage OF Miss Josephine Bissel Roos
daughter of General and Mrs. Charles T. Roe takes
place on February at St ThOmas'S Church.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Mrs. Henry F. Dimock has issued invitations
for two large dinner parties. January Is FOR
Mr.. and Mrs A. H. Mosele. and another on Janu-
ary % for Miss Elizabeth Lamont. one OF the win
ter'S debutantes. Mrs. Dimock viii likewise have
a dramatic recital by Miss Mary Shadlock. at her
house January Il.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Mr. and Mrs. Cary Hutchinson move into their
new house in East Sixtieth-st. the last week OF
this month and will give a large reception by way
of houSewarming.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Mrs John ID. Nockefsiler gave a large recen,,or
yesterday afternoon at her house. in West Fffrv
fourth-st., for her daughter-in-law, Mrs John N
Rockefeller, ir, who Miss Abby Ald-,cb
daughter OF Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, of Rhod-
Island. - -~"0o1
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Sir Edward and Lady Colebroke. the latter sister
OF Almeric and Sydney Paget. are likewise about
&c pay another visit to this country and were
booked to sail yesterday on board the Kaiser VIII
helm der Crosse.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Receptions were also given yesterday afternoon
by Mrs A Holland Forbes. who was Miss Jezs,a
LIVINGSTON Wetmore. at her home. in East FYftv-
D. Trowbridge. and by Mrs. Joseph T. Low
New-York tribune., 1902-01-09

Mrs. Charles j. Folsom and her daughter. Miss
Folsom. have issued cards for Fridays in January
at their house in West Tenth-st- Mrs j. Stevens
Ulman will give two large receptions at her house
in East Fifty-sixth-st. on January % and .. Mrs
Charles Phelps No. % East Thfrty-SecOnd-st, vii
be at home Tuesdays in January. and Mrs. Ben
iamin Drake, No 147 West Eighteenth-st, on Mon
days IN January. Mrs. Francis Dana Winslow
gives reception tomorrow at her house In East
Tenth-st.