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The Washington times., 1902-05-10
A Congressional Photograph Collector.

There is no more enthusiastic amateur
photographer to be found than Mr.. Julian
". Richards. the jovial private Sec
retary to Speaker Henderson. Nr. Rich
ards is the proud posscssor of first
class camera of the latest design and
improvement, and he never goes any
where without it.
He is making a collection of snapshots
OF the members as he catches them in
early morning around the Capitol
and on the floor of the House. Since
the 18th OF April he has snapshot more
than one-haf OF the members, aad the
likenesses are excellent.
BY the time the House adjourns sine
die Mr.. Richards hopes to have picture
of every member as well as the special
employees OF the House. It will be a
valuable collection. for On each photo.
Mr. Richards viii have the autograph OF
the member.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
GOSSIP AND CHAT-HEARD IN
WASHINGTON HOTEL LOBBlES
Approve Senator scott's Attitude.

''The people of West Virginia. said Col.
]. l.. Leonard. of thai State. at the Ma
tiunal. are almost unit in their in
dorsement of Senator Scott's position on
the civil service. At least. the Republi-
cans are. and 1 believe the greater part
of the Democrats.
IF there was any way by which vote
could be had would make wager that
West Virginia would give a majority OF
81. .OGO in favor of doing away with the
present civil service law. which breeds
an office holding class and is absolutely
contrary to the spirit OF our institutions.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Guests of the Belgian Minister.

The dinner guests of the Belgian minis
ter and Baroness Moncheur on Thursday
evening were the Mexican ambassador
and Sonora Azpircz Sonora Perez. daugh
ter Of the ambassador; the Peruvian min
ister and Sonora Calderon. Mr.. and Mrs.
Chatard and Mr.. Wauters. counselor OF
the legation.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Mr.. Bulls European Trip.

Representative Bull OF Rhode Island is
preparing to take an ocean voyage within
about ten days for the benefit of his
health. While he has greatly improved
York several months ago, still his ply
sician has advised him to take sea trip.
Mr.. Bull intends to spend some time in
Germany and Switzerland. He will be ac-
companied by his brother. DR.. Bull, of
New York. He expects to be absent until
August Since his return MIR. Bull has
been very actively engaged in assisting in
the preparation Of the naval appropria-
tion bill. and now that ii has been re-
ported to the House, he has decided to
accept the advice OF his physicians and
take q trip abroad.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Mr. sulzer and the Real National Game.

Tie other afternoon representative
Statue Of Ohio left his seat on the Re
publican side Of tho House and walked
slowly over TO the Democratic side to
Representative Suffers desk. The mem
Der from New York was busily engaged
in writing letter.
"Howdy do. General" said Mr. Sulzer.
looking up; what can do for yOu?'
"Wby I came over to ask you II you did
not want to go with me to see the bail
game. said General Shattuc.
Sorry, but | can't DO IT," was the re-
ply; I'm too busy playing the national
game" and Mr. Sulzcr resumed his writ
ing.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Riches and Airships.

Kew York Tribuno-Aogiai reports from
Germany state that Count Zeppelin
Is breaking up his airships nnd selling his
oltworn aluminium by the ton FOR old junk.
II these reports arc true The cloud voyag-
ing count may perhaps console himself
with the old preverb. Riches have wings"
How cou;d riches ~ 'aster than in air.
shirs?
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Nordhoa Guild Spring Sale.

The Nordhoff Guild. whose members
never relax their efforts IN behalf OF the
work they are so nobly engaged In. gave
spring sale of fine summer requisites and
luxuries yesterday afternoon and evening
for the benefit OF the National Homeo-
pathic Hospital
The pretty affair took place at the resi-
deuce of Mrs. Job Barnard. on Rhode
Island Avenue. who placed her attractive
home at the disposal of the ladies' IN
charge.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.
Method in His Madness.

Chicago Record Herald--h Kansas man
has named his baby daughter z. Hluribus
rHum. He isn't as crazy, however, as
might at frat be supposed. She is his
eleventh. and the other ten are living.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
SUBSCRIPTION RATES TO OUT OF ,

hoRNING EDITION. enc year 50; six
onths, $3.50; three months, s1.a5. Morn
ing and Sunday. one year. 81; six months,
es.oo; three months, SLID. SUNDAY edi-
Ion only. one year, 81; six months, 81;
'hice mon;hs, 80 cents.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
CnRernor Davio' Fr.ro-.

philadelphia Iaquircr-&o Gre with Any
sense CT humor VII fad i-ul, VIA the
action of Governor Davis ~ hIkausag in
pard0ning a colore5 citizen q uIgt statc
upon condition that be should migratc to
Massachuscits. il looks as u the icEc
were cn tie Bay state.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10

Any person buy the Morning. Afternoon, Sunday
Edition of The Times stand in Washington suburban
towns, railroad elsewhere will confer favor by notifying
the Publisher The Times Tenth and StS Washington d. e.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Miss Skinner at Newport.

Miss Skinner. who has been Spending
some time in Washington. has opened her
Newport cottage for the summer.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
TOWN POINTS, POSTAGE PREPAID:

EVENING EDITION. one year. So; six
months. Si.JO; three months, 80 cents.
Evening and Sunday. one year. So; six
r.ion,i,s. s:.5O; three months. ci.25. Morn
ing, Evening. and sunday. one year. cio;
xix xinoDths, 50; three months, $3.50.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
Sixty-one Years Welded.

Gen. and Mrs l.. C. Graham cele-
brated the sixtyfrst anniversary os their
wedding on May s.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
More Stars.

cleYelanl Plain Dcalor-it l0ols rs IL 4
lively demand for a revised Oh Glory
win soon bo hustlins up the Gag-makor2.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10
carreeie,s Creed.

Kew York World-Tbat dividends knew
no geography seems to De part .: Andrew
CGrncgie's creed.
The Washington times., 1902-05-10

Miss Boyce Visiting in Washington.
Miss saIlie Boyce. OF Rich Square. y.
c., is the house guest of Mrs Dudley at
the Montrose. Miss Boyce will make an
extended sojourn in Washington.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

with London in this matter. In almost every
quarter of the English metropolis pleasant resi-
dence regions have survived, while we are IN
clined TO overcrowd the regions OF our mo
mentary preference and discard as unht Ior
residence everything else AS the transit prop-
lem becomes more and more acute. however
there ought to be change, particularly
in view of the tendency of larger pro-
portion Of the population each year TO hFe
in apartment houses. Whole downtown regions.
now filed with decayed houses, could be trans
formed by good apartments and family hoteiS
which would have a distinct advantage over
quarters further away from business anu
amusements. AS the fifteen story once pulu-
ings replace the five story warehouses do"h-
town. the pressure ON transit facilities is III
creased and comfort is found more ana more
in homes near business and especially in homes
off the main line of travel up and down the
backbone of Manhattan.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
THE BROOKLYN "sPEEDWAY."

The Pleasure Drivers Association is partly
right and partly wrong. 1t has done well In
securing the better paving Of streets in getting
the trolley companies to stop their cars before
crossing streets much used as driveways, and
In having check placed upon the reckless driv-
ing of business wagons by incompetent boys.
There is still room for more work in these and
similar directions in which this association de-
serves the sympathy and should have the CO.
operation of the driving public in general. But
unfortunately, In the very publication in which
the association enumerates these claims upon
public favor, there appears this surprising and
deplorable utterance:
Actor. must be taken to stop the use of the
Speedway during certain hours by others than
drivers in light wagons. The driving on the
Speedway of carriages, surreys and heavy We
hices of all kinds is a menace to the drivers for
whom the Speedway was projected.
Now, that does not refer to the Speedway
along the Harlem River concerning which such
an utterance would be entirely proper if it
were needed-as it is not 1t refers to the
Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, which was not
projected" as speedway, but as a continual
ton of the ordinary park driveways for the
general of the pleasure driving public 1t
is true that the Park Commissioner has set off
a portion of II for use at certain hours as a
speedway. But such use of it must be regarded
as had on sufferance only. The road belongs
first of all to the general public. The racing
men with their brushes are there on courtesy.
not by primary right. The menace is that of
the racers to the general public, not Of the gen.
eral public to the racers In seeking thus to ex-
clude the public from one of its choicest pos
sessions at the very time when it's use is most
desirable the Pleasure Drivers Association puts
itself in the wrong and incurs the danger of
having discredit brought upon its good works,
too.
There is no doubt that the Ocean Parkway
makes a superb speedway. In some respects
it is superior to the Harlem River Speedway.
So would Prospect Park make a fine cow past
ure and dairy farm, but it must not be used
as such. The parkway belongs to the whole
public for such uses as are compatible with the
pleasure and safety of the whole public. 1t
would be an injustice TO sequester it to the ex-
elusive use Of limited class Moreover in
one important respect it is oonspicuousy unfit
Tor racing purposes. A speedway should not be
crossed at grade by other roads That is axi-
onafic. and it was we'll recognized in. the Law
ing out of the Harlem River Speedway Rut
lhe ocean Parkway is, or is TO be- crossed at
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
AT THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington. Dec. 20 (SpeciaD-After attenulils
Mrs. Grants funeral this morning the FresiueH|
accompanied by Mrs Roosevelt, Theodore' H.
Kermit, Ethel and Archibald. left washington loi
Rapidan, Va, on special train over the southern
Railway. At Rapidan the party will be the suea'S
of old friend. Joseph Wilmer. over SUNDAY MI
Wilmer Is the of large Virginia pIahtd1loH'
and Mr.. Roosevelt expects to secure orlei ou'
complete rest from the nervous strain 1nclden1 10
the session of Congress and the Venezuelan crisis-
The President took with him Secretary Loeb and a
few servants He will return to Washington on
Monday morning.
The only caller who secured an audience with the
President to-day was Secretary Hay, VINO saw nlui
In his private apartments.
Unaware of the Presidents intended absence tne
usual number of callers besieged the executive
offices, many Senators and Representative cailins
to say goodby and wish the Executive merry
Christmas Callers were merely informed tnaI the
President was not his office and that Secretary
Cortelyou had given instructions that no cards De
brought to him. Later in the day. however 10 De-
came known that the President was out OF the city,
and the executive offices assumed deserted ana
holiday appearance.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
PRAISE FROM 4 GREAT SURGEON.

DR.. Lorenz pays the handsomest OF tributes
to The organized charities OF the chief cities Of
the United States TO the hospitals especially.
and above ALL to the hospitals OF Manhattan.
This famous expert is familiar with the cele-
brated institutions of London, Paris, Berlin and,
of course, Vienna. But above every other com
munity he awards the palm to New-York for
its marvellous generosity in providing the best
and most lavishly equipped OF quarters for the
afflicted and the suffering.
Such ungrudging acknowledgment from so
distinguished a public benefactor is welcomed
by every New-YOrker. We have right TO civic
pride In our charities and hospitals, our sur
geons and our physicians; and New-York is not
going backward. No matter what faults may
be found how much just criticism may be made
public, It is and always will be the American
metropolis. 1t has taken DR.. Lorenz to It's
heart He likes New-York, with good reason,
and NewYork has ample cause for liking him.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

grade by dozens of other streets and avenues
five or six of them crossing the very part or IL
now used as speedway. That Will not 90.
The safe use of it as a speedway would not
only exclude the public from it, but would also
intolerably interfere with traffic on the streets
which cross it 1t would cut cash in the city
mile or two long which nobody could cross
That is something to which we believe the pub
lie will never consent.
What the Pleasure Drivers Association says
about the fine road horses of Brooklyn and the
need of a speedway for them is all quite true.
But in trying to grab the Ocean Parkway 1t IS
as much in error as some Manhattan horsemen
were when they were trying to have race
track established in Central Park The latter
error is now universally recognized. 1t is seen
that it is far better TO have the Speedway on the
bank of the Harlem. The Pleasure Drivers AS
sociation will do well to heed the moral of that
case and instead of aiming at the rape or
the parkway. to work for the creation or
speedway pure and simple for speeding pur-
poses exclusively. In such an effort it will not
lack public support earnest as will be the
public opposition to a surrender of the park
way to racing uses.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

the law toward an accusation of crime. Ev1-
dence, carefully sifted and conforming TO GER
tain previously established standards, is requi-
site to the establishment of either theory IN
less the proof is emphatic and convincing, anu
unless there is general agreement among the
witnesses, the suspicion must be rejected out
right or opinion held in suspense. The ngnt
which Professor Chamberlin throws upon the
antiquity of the Lansing skull is of great vaiue
How far it may induce Professors upham ana
Winckell to modify their views cannot be lore
told 1t is to be observed that the Chicago eA-
pert discusses the matter in the most temperate
and courteous spirit. His paper is not IN the
least controversial. For that reason, perhaps
it will carry the more weight with others VINO
are looking for guidance. 1t will certainly nave
much influence with those who are famlllaf
with Professor Chamberlin's sagacity and learn
ing At any rate, 1t sadly invalidates the case
for the supposition that the Lansing remains
date back to the glacial age. Some day it may
be demonstrated that man lived on the Amer1-
can continent as long ago as that Ethnologists
and geologists want a more satisfactory demon
stration though than any yet afforded In the
Missouri Valley.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
CORBIN FOE THE GENERAL STAFF

CORBIN FOE THE GENERAL STAFF.
The address delivered by Major General
Henry c. Corbin before the Cleveland Chamber
of Commerce last night was an able argument
from a man who is thoroughly competent TO
judge in favor of Secretary Roots plan Tor a
general staff for the United States Army, or
which the senior general shall be the head. AS
adjutant general he has had opportunity to note
the difficulties under which the military estab-
lishment of the country is now operated He
has heard at first hand the complaints Of ofti-
GERS who are hampered by the present system,
and the criticism of the public has likewise
come to him directly He has listened also to
the arguments which officers who fear that the
Root bill-the establishment of general staff
NAV deprive them of glory, have advanced
against the measure. but he has never wayered
in his advocacy of the plan, and his ideas on
the subject arc shared by the majority of the
officers of the United States Army. To those
people who have asked Mr.. Root, What Will
become of senior general officer under the
general staff regulation, and will he not be re
"duced to the position of head clerkE' the
Secretary of War has pointed to Won Moltke'
who earned his Iaurels when he was the CHIEF
of staff Of the King Of Prussia.
The chief Of staff who is competent will reap
as much glory in that place as he would In the
position of senior general commanding the
army, while an incompetent who came into the
office simply because of his seniority could not
do the injury which might easily be wrought
by him In the position of general commanding.
General Corbln hints at the friction which has
existed between the line and staff and says:
THAT there has not been more is a matter for
"congratulation. Perfect harmony of admins
"tration is no more possible under existing con-
faffr
constitutional provisions than the placing OF
two pegs in one hole" If the Root bill will
establish harmony, If 1t will cure this malady
from which the army has suffered in war and
in peace for many years, 1t should become a
law, and opposition on the part of officers
should be looked upon prompted by personal
and not patriotic motives.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

Washington, Dec. 20 (SpeciaD.-The Russian EN-
bassy that the plans for the marriage Oh
Nile. des Planques and Alexander PaVIon nave
been changed and the ceremony will take place at
the embassy in this CITY, instead Of at the Orthodox
Greek Church in New-York. The date cannot De
fixed until the return of Mr.. Pavoff from Russia
where he has been called business
1t is understood that the marriage OF Mr. RogeSt-
vensky of the Russian Embassy, and Miss Martina
HOY will take place on January 20 in this city, in
stead of in the New-York Orthodox Church as re-
ported.
Senior Rafael Lopez, Minister from Salvador. has
leased house in Q-st-. and expects to be joined Oy
his wife and children from California soon
The Italian Ambassador and Signora des Planches
have dinner invitations out for December S When
Miss Alice Roosevelt Will be the guest OF honor.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
THE LANSING SKILL

The question Of the antiquity Of man in Amer
lea is revived by an elaborate paper in the latest
number Of THE Journal of Geology" by Pro-
fessor I. G. Chamberlin. Of the University of
Chicago. When skull and other human bones
were found Oh farm in Lansing, Kan, last
spring, three lines of inquiry were Immediately
suggested. Could these remains have been
planted there for purposes of deception, as is
believed to have been the case with the famous
Calaveras skull? In size and general shape did
the Lansing skull more closely resemble ancient
or modern specimens previously found else
where? Finally, what did geologists think about
the age of the layer of earth in which these
bones We're embedded? Investigation of the cir
cumstances attending the discovery satisfies
every one whose opinion is of value that no
fraud was practised. There seems to be no
reason for doubling that the bones were left
there by natural forces not human intermeda-
ton. The similarity in contour between the
skull picked up on the Concannon farm and one
brought to the Americanist Congress last Octo-
Der from the Smithsonian is suggestive OF re-
cent origin rather than great antiquity. though
this fact alone is not conclusive. Two well
known American geologists, Upham and Win
chell, inclined to believe that the soil directly
over the limestone bed on which the bones lay
was left there at a late stage of the glacial
epoch-say, ten thousand or twenty thousand
years ago. Professor Chamberlin however ia
not well satisfied on that point and he tells
why.
1t appears from reports of United States en-
gineers that the Missouri River considerably
higher up than the town of Lansing, exercises
a remarkable securing action on its edges and
bottom. Sometimes it eats down through n
stratum from seventy to ninety feet in depth;
1atir laar
elsewhere. In the immediate vicinity Of the
Concannon farm, its owner says, there is a
spot where once there was ninety feet of water
but which is now high and dry. Professor
Chamberin thinks in like manner floods have
cleared away whatever soil was left in Lansing
by the Ice sheet Of glacial times and have left
there q mixture of material from places further
up stream. He regards the time of this deposit
recent, not ancient. He fails to find in or
near Lansing certain terraces or platforms
that exist in Dakota and which are characters.
tic Of glacial action. There is a lack of strait
fication such as might be expected from glacial
mud. Although there is some so-called 'Ioess"
in the Lansing deposit, 1t is not pure and may
well have been brought there from somewhere
else. One of his associates who inspected the
scene in Professor Chamberlin's company calls
attention, moreover, to the presence of a layer
of clay and certain shells which have never be-
fore been found in undisturbed Ioess
The strictly scientific attitude toward any new
and striking proposition is like that assumed by
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

1t is expected that the Haytian Congress will
confirm the accession of General Nord to the
Presidency Certainly II General Nord himself
says he Is President and the Haytian army
says so. the Congress scarcely do otherwise
than to say SO. too. 1t isn't the best way OF
choosing a President. But General Nord seems
to be pretty good for the place and It
is to be hoped the country will remain as tran
quill as It Is now reported TO be.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

The agitation for a better ferry service be-
tween Staten Island and Manhattan is now on
in dead earnest, and ought to be successful
The Borough of Richmond has been sadly Dur
dened IN its efforts to go ahead by the sloW
old fashioned, insufficient lines of traffic in our
harbor. Give that part OF the city fair chance
and it will make gratifying progress at a fine
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

President Roosevelt suggests to the powers
that the Venezuela be arbltrated at The
Hague, and they reply by proposing that he
himself act the arbitrator. His proposal GER
tainIy seems the better Of the two. Since there
is an international court at The Hague. It
should be used.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

The Cuban reciprocity treaty promises unex-
pectedly favorable markets for American agrl-
cultural producers and manufacturers Self
interest should prompt its speedy ratification
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

The big department stores which have this
year abandoned their old practice of keeping
open until late at night during the holiday
season have done a graceful thing, and they
will probably not lose anything in cash by 1t.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

Christmas shopping. Christmas school holidays
and Christmas entertainments OF one kind and an
other the order of the week which opens to-
day, and a general atmosphere OF festivity and
animation prevails in the fashionable districts OF
the city. which will last until Wednesday after
noon. when number of people will leave town in
order to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
in the country, numerous house parties having
been organized for the occasion. In town the cele-
bration of Christmas Day will be OF an essentially
informal and rather domestic character. and the
dinners given in honor of the event will be mostly
for relatives and intimate friends.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

Little boys and girls who last year wrote to
Santa Claus begging for skates and sleds. are
now sending letters asking for baskets of coal
May the answers be liberal!