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New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
THE EXAMPLE OF WAsHIYGFoY.

The architects who are renovating the White
House sent to New-YOrk a few days ago for
photographs and measurements of some of the
architectural features of our admirable City
Hall. 1t was explained that these examples Of
what American architecture in the beginning of
the nineteenth century was at its best would be
OF material assistance in the restoration of the
executive mansion in complete harmony with
fits original design. While the work at the White
House is going on, repairs Of the City Hall will
also be undertaken. The appropriation has al
ready been made. No extensive changes are in
contemplation such as required at the White
House. Nevertheless enough reconstruction
and decoration will be done TO make worth
while the adoption of comprehensive plan
with the purpose of gradually restoring the
building after the example set in Washington,
where the excrescences of the last seventy-fve
years are being cleared away from the White
House. Our City Hall has likewise been marred
by political architects and decorators. Dignified
as are the lines of the structure and beautiful as
ere its details. many of the rooms have been
made hideous with the crudest specimens of the
upholsterer's enterprise Wall coverings, cell
ings curtains and furniture have been made
10 do their worst. They could not take
away the intrinsic charm of the building any
more than stained glass screens and other in
congruities could destroy the impressiveness of
the White House, but they have greatly de-
tracted from its harmony. All future work on
the City Hall should be done with the distinct
understanding that no decorative Innovations
nc matter how much in fashion or how beauti-
ful they may be considered, are TO be allowed
The ideal should be to bring every room as soon
as possible into harmony with the original de-
sign, so that when the whole building has been
renovated 1t VIII be perfect example of its
period.
The teaching OF Washington might well be
followed on an even larger scale. 1t is evident
that New-York must before long have more
public buildings. The courthouse is inadequate.
the municipal departments quartered about
the town in rented offices at great expense One
partial project after another is brought forward
Now it is proposed 10 spend 100000 In repair
ing the old courthouse, which would still be a
monstrosity when the work done. Then
the erection OF a great building at the bridge
terminal is suggested One haphazard scheme
after another is talked of, and il anything is
done, II is mere isolated enterprise, without
any attempt being made TO carry out compre.
hensise and intelligent scheme OF public i'm
provements. In Washington plan has been
adopted which may not be realized for genera
tion, but each building 1t is needed is placed
TO ft In with the great design and made to
harmonic with its ultimate surroundings So nc
effort is wasted Every bit OF work tends toward
the completion of a beautiful whole. Why
should not NewYork do the same thing? Why
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

not now, before we spend any more money, get
competent men to tell us how the city ougll to
look fifty years hence? Then when we need a
municipal building we can put it where it
ought to be with reference to a future court
house Thus we should finally get instead of an
ncongruous cOnglomeration of misplaced struct
ures, an harmonious and impressive series OF
buildings which would be credit to the city. y
good plan, not extravagant chimerical. but
practical and adequate, would, when once
adopted, so commend itself to popular favor that
changing administrations would hardly dare TO
depart from it, Even If they did the situation
could be 10 worse than now. when the merest
chance is often allowed to decide the direction
of public improvements
New-York has already taken a step in the
right direction with regard to the transportation
problem. The resolution of the Rapid Transit
Commission TO proceed to the laying out or n
complete system of interborough communica-
tions, instead of planning lines piecemeal, was
an act of true municipal craftsmanship. Hit-.-
erto road has been built here and bridge
there according TO the mood of the moment or
the pressure of some local interest Much money
has been wasted The permanent has been sacrl-
feed to the temporary. So it Will be III the
matter OF buildings as long as each need is LETT
to be dealt with as an isolated problem. 1t may
be years before New-York can complete any
large scheme of public buildings, but it is time
TO prevent waste of money on structures whch
In few years we shall wish had never been
built and TO make every wall n part. however
small, of something shall in the END be PROUD
Of The perfection of such a plan under au-
thority of a competent commission would pe Il
noteworthy achievement for Mayor Lows ad-
ministration.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
A Plea FOR PUBLIC BATHS.

Readers of English fiction. and even of litera-
ture less ephemeral, cannot fail being struck
by the frequent references to the tub" as II
it were peculiarly British institution unknown
to the rest of mankind, in which English writ
ers are so fond of ndugng. The inference, Of
course, is that the English as a people are
cleaner than any other An atmosphere of self
righteousness envelops the assertion, as a rule
and leaves the average traveller who remem-
bers the steam baths of the Russian peasants;
who has seen a Filipino patiently go with a
small wet cloth over his entire body in case
neither river nor lake is handy; who knows that
90 per cent of the population of Japan does not
retire for the night without previously undergo
ing thorough cleansing in hot water-the aver
age traveller who recalls all this and much
more besides, must sometimes be puzzled to
account for this strange assumption of a virtue
of which it has truly been said that it is next to
godliness.
We. too, as a nation apt to fall into the
same error and vaunt our superior facilities
for bathing and point with pride to the princely
fortunes amassed in this country by successful
plumbers as evidence that tubs are
finer and more numerous than those of any
other nation. Indeed, the joke constructed
around the occasional bathtub of Continental
Europe and the gibes accompanying n descrip-
ton of the ceremonial which is supposed to at
tend its use have from time immemorial served
to replenish the depleted exchequer Of the news
paper paragrapher. Yet it may be asserted,
without the slightest fear of successful contra
diction, that in civilized country has less
been done by municipalities through private
agencies TO supply the poor with decent Oppor-
tunities for maintaining bodily cleanliness than
in the United States Public baths are with
few exceptions, unknown in this country. 1t is
frequently asserted that houses in American
cities so generally furnished with bath
rooms that the need Of public facilities for bath
ing does not exist TO an extent at all comparable
with the needs existing in European cities.
That is a notion which has been exploded again
and again, and yet finds renewed Judgement In
| the public mind soon the discussion or
the subject is dropped few years ago Or.
Robe, Of Baltimore, In an address delivered be-
| fore the American Medical Association in Chi
cago showed that, contrary to popular belief,
| large proportion Of the inhabitants OF American
| cities were unprovided with adequate bathlng
| faclliues. His statistics concerning eighteen
cities having no free public baths, among which
were Baltimore, Cambridge, Mass; Cincin-
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

conception Besides. the step now taken Is
doubtless the result of some amicable arrange
ment between Marconi and Soiari
Though the former cannot be considered the
originator of Hertz wave telegraphy in general
it must be confessed that he is not only plo-
neer whose example has drawn host OF others
into the same field, but he has achieved the
largest practical success up to date. lie sent
the first messages across the English Channel
His apparatus was first used by an army,
navy and the merchant marine. The man Is so
completely identified in the public mind with
his system that it has even been proposed-un-
wisely The Tribune thinks-to call his mes
sages "marconigrams." Others have hoped ana
talked. He has performed. They may possibly
catch up with him and pass him. but just now
he leads the procession. Thus far he has un-
questionaby deserved larger share of honor
than any competitor.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH PATENTS

Caution should be exercised In interpreting
the statement in yesterdays dispatches CON
corning Marconi and Solari. While the an
nouncement appears in an official publication of
the British patent office its exact significance
cannot be told offhand 1t may mean much or
it may mean little. The latter Is the safest con-
clusiOn to draw from the facts until something
to the contrary is definitely known.
1t cannot be too distinctly recognized that no
one man is to be regarded the sole author of
the art of wireless telegraphy. Scores of elec-
tricians have contributed to its development,
and scores are likely to carry the evolutons still
further. Marconi Lodge, Braun. Slaby, Arco.
Guarini, Tesla Fessenden, De Forest and others
have had hand In the business. Hertz too
made the theoretical discoveries which led to
the practical results recently achieved In the
next place, each system, including Marconis, is
a composite of a number of features, some OF
which are common property-l'ke the induction
coil, vertical wire. ground connection and tele
phone-and some are original. There are vari-
Gus forms of transmitter, several tuning sys-
TENS and number of receivers. Marconi be-
gan by using what is known the Branly
herer for a receiver, but this was useless for
telegraphic purposes until he added an auto
matte Taper. or late he has adopted a receiver
of new type, but of course, that is only
single item in his combination.
Patents usually if not always, cover some one
instrument or process or method and not a COM
bination system. Edison has probably taken
out no less than fifty patents on his mode of
electric lighting. He could not cover it in one.
Just how many patents Marconi has ii would
not be easy to say, but he probably owns
eral. His earliest one in England was applied
for In June, 1885, and granted thirteen months
later 1t is his application of September 10,
1901, which has now been amended as to give
another man credit for the idea embodied
therein. Precisely what this is is a little uncer-
tain. After failing to prove. in his Saturday
pated Marcon Professor Sylvanus Z. Thomp-
stated a few weeks ago that an Italian
naval officer was the inventor of one of the
devices employed Mt Poldhu and Signal HILL
Newfoundland. The particular invention speci-
fed was n mercury coherer to be used In COM
bination with telephone. Perhaps that is the
subject Of the patent application of last Sep
tember. If so, the document recognizes Solari
only as the inventor of one single item and not
necessarily an essential item In Marconi's COM
binaton. 1t does not concede, and could not
correctly concede, that Solarf is the author of
the art of wireless telegraphy. Nor does the
change made prove that Marconi was
guilty OF anything discreditable The history of
invention is full of instances OF unconscious
, borrowing and of simultaneous and independent
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

natl, Milwaukee. Minneapolis, Portland Me-,
and st. Louis showed that only about 23 per
cent of residences were supplied with bathtubs.
He concluded that 'fve-siXths of the inha BIZ
"tants of these cities have facilities for
bathing, except such as are afforded by pail
land sponge. or 4 river, lake or other body of
water which may be easily accessible but in
winter even such sources of cleanliness are
&, "cut off,
DR.. ROhe'S general conclusions concerning the
cities enumerated in his table were subsequent
ly borne out in a striking manner in the case
of Boston. The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor
Statistics found upon Investigation that out
of total of 11,6C5 families only little more
than - per cent were supplied with bathroom
cOnveniences We shudder to think what the
result of a census taken in this city would be-
While England was the first nation in mod
times to establish public baths. owned in
whole or in part by the municipality, it has long
since been outstripped by France and Germany.
OF the public baths in Germany, indeed, DIR. f.
VI. Hartwell. who Las contributed an interest
ing monograph on the subject to the series OF
monographs on social economics issued by the
United States Department of Labor, says:
The Germans have carried the art of bath
building to a higher plane of excellence than
have the Scotch or English, in respect to % the
arrangement of swimming pools and the dress
ing rooms connected with them: CD the variety
of forms of bath afforded: (3) the provision or
special douche and cleansing rooms. and (4) the
development of the spray or shower bath
At this time of the year what n relief from
suffering, what a positive benefit to the COM
munity at large would be a series of public
baths In the crowded tenement sections of the
East Side. We may not quarrel with Car
negie for dev0ting several millions of his wealth
TO the establishment of libraries or wish that
his philanthropy had taken a different direc-
ton; but that sum devoted to providing bathing
facilities for the poor would have done as much
at least TO spread intelligence and rear n race
Of self-respecting human beings as ever can n
hundred thousand rows of books placed within
reach of the bookful blockhead, ignorantly
read
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
A BALL AT BAR HARBOR.
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Bar Harbor Me-, July 26-The last Of the moro
important gayeties took place tonight The Keho
Valley Club gave its regular Saturday dinner
dance and Mr. and Mrs. II. NJ. Sears entertained
large party at the Malvern There were besides
large number of dinners about town. after which
every one converged to Kebo for the ball The
hosts at the club Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Emery,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hone. Mrs. James f. Sullivan.
W. Butler Duncan. Mrs. Charles E Green. Mr. and
Mrs T. G. Condor, Mrs. Clarence Wadsworth and
H. H Hatfield. Among those present were Baron
Frankenstein Mrs william l.. Graves, Mr. and
Mrs W. Butler Duncan. jr. Mrs. Louis G. Liv-
ingston Baron and Baroness Hengelmuller, Count
and Countess Laugier-villars. Miss Eleanor
Thomas General and Mrs Samuel Thomas. Mr..
and Mrs. j. Montgomery Sears. Miss COnOver. Mr..
and Mrs. s. Megargee Wright, NJ Pierre Rogestven-
sky. Arthur Raikes. Percy Wyndham, Mr. and
Mrs Levi z. Letter Joseph Letter. Miss Taylor and
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Pinchot.
The guests the Sears dinner were Mr. and Mrs
William Lawrence Green. Mr.. and Mrs Edgar
Scott, Mr.. and Mrs Antonio G. Stewart. Mr. and
Mrs Robert Amory, Mrs Potter Miss EDWARDS.
Miss Andrews Mr.. Peabody, Mr.. Sears. Sumner
Gerard and p Stewart
William c. Whitney came to-day. He will remain
for short time at Devilstone, and will return
here in August for the balance of the month
Mr. and Mrs. r. Hall Mccormick entertained at
dinner Count Cassni, Baron Frankenstein, Miss
Carpenter Mrs. Platt Hunt John B. Henderson.
John Inglls Mr.. and Mrs Kirk Porter. Or. and
Mrs Anderson DR.. and Mrs. Harris. Mr. and Mrs.
John s Kennedy and DR. SchiefTelin
Mr. and Mrs. z. c. Fahbrt entertained at Cor
field Marchese Cuadagui. Mrs Fabbrt. jr-. Mr. and
Mrs George w Vanderbilt. Mr. and Mrs R
Horace GalIatin, Charles How and Miss Beatrice
Bend.
Peter Marie, who is the perennial delight Of the
Younger set came to-day to the Malvern He
will give his usual putting contest in August
Arden NJ Robbins. of New-York. VINO has been
seriously Ill with typhoid fever, came to-day with
his mother Mrs George S. Robbins.
Mr. and Mrs Henry b. Valentine and Miss Val
entfne OF New-YOrk. came to-day 10 the St
Sauveur-
The race of the knockabouts was won today by
Edgar Scott with the BObtail In a close finish with
ri Nj Searss BOgey. W. c. Allison was third with
the Tiger
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

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New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
CONDITIONS IN "GAsHoUsE~ DISTRICT

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The report in This mornings Trthu,a -, ~.
Citizens Union on present police conditions * 90
misleading as to statements concerning the
XVlIIth Assembly District that a word OF nrotest
seems called ior' am lifelong Republican for
many years u resident OF this district and ,,ntu
a month ago. a long time resident of Irving Place
and quite as familiar with local conditions as any
self-denominated reformer His honor the Mavor
and X Fulton % cSuttins. of the Citizens Union are
Vestrymen OF 81 Georges Church, which Is doing
great institutional work in the heart Of the gas
house district ana these gentlemen must be fairy
famlnar with local conditions, so that their per-
m1ttng the clrcuation of current ISLANDERS on the
district is all the more remarkable - ~
VIII any of the reformers point out a single dis
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

orderly house in this district? What crimes have
been committed in the 'gashouse district? Can any
citizen give specific instance of robbery burglary
reported at the East Twenty-second-st- station
thai was not instantly and inteltgently handled
by the local police, the thieves being detected. or
the valuables recovered in a great many cases l
can cite case after case a pOO}rOOm did operate
in the district and. the proprietor found il con-
venient TO move about week. read
that Captain Fitzpatrick has closed up seven OF
these places 1t is To laugh
The '.yashouse" is the best place in New-YOrS
in which live; the police manage to give US
pretty good protection FAIR PLAY.
New-York July IL. 1902
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

Police Captain Schmittberger. now in London.
is convinced that New-York is on a higher plane
Of morality than that Of the modern Babylon.
His expression of opinion may not perturb the
dwellers on the banks of the Thames. Not
many police captains in this city have gained
immortal fame experts in social problems or
as irrepressible promoters of public morals.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

The exceptional virulence of the epidemic OF
cholera in the Orient is shown by the fact that
several laborers in Egypt died from the disease
before they were taken away from the places
where they working. Because of some
peculiar conditions of earth or air. or both,
which the medical profession has not yet been
able TO explain. the violence of contagious mala-
dies in the East is much in excess of normal
experience.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Auonr those who arrived yesterday on the
steamer Iucania. from Liverpool. were:
The Right ]. c. De Arthur NJ SLaden, secretary
laney. Lord Abbott or 70 the Eari OF aiH'O-
Mount Melleray. r y, woodruff
c,N-atD Farford British Mrs Philip DAILY. jr
Consul Philippine 4 BouclcauJ -.
ISIor5s who Is here on c. c. Tyler. manager FOR
leave IAebIer & Co. theatrical
George o Palmer. agents
II. r. Seabrook
Some of those who sailed for London on the Mn
netOnka were:
Edward r. Hall family The Rev J. F. Cannon.
pr. Gildersleeve- Henry N Sase
Frank NJ Monroe Lr J. A Wnlte-
The James I. Clarke
Included in those who arrived the steamer
Coamo from San Juan. were:
,.,,,at, T, wilson Captain F Skunk
I-rttsi states +. Captain r I. Graham
II. Dexter. tfSooert w Bliss
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

The exploits of the Oregon assassin Tracy re-
semble those of the Italian bandit Mussolino.
Each of the two desperadoes bas shown wonder
full daring and cunning. But the Italian muir
derer is in prison. There is death PEN
atty in Italy. and the convicted criminal es-
capped the capital punishment which he so fully
deserved. But Tracys doom is certain.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
Abouf People and Social Incidenfs.

for another visit to Mrs. Vanderbilt with whom
she is staying at the Breakers
Miss Leary. who has been in town for few days
returned 10 Newport yesterday
Mrs. George ]. Gould and her have left New
port and gone to Saratoga
Miss Whitney and her niece. Miss Eweretta Ker-
nochan, have gone TO Bar Harbor and at the
Malvern.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Butler Duncan likewise at
Bar HarbOr for the summer
Mrs. Julius CatIin and Miss Edith Catlin ars
spending Tue summer at F9irhorne. their country
place at Morristown y. J.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

A Swedish writer declares unreservedly that
duels have been unknown for many years in the
realm of King oscar. This must be accounted
creditable to the Swedes France. Germany
and other European countries cannot do better
ample.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

Delays in Canadian courts in the Gaynor and
Greene cases remind the impartial observer OF
the dilatory methods so often seen in legal pro-
ceedings this side of the border.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
GOOD TRAIN FOR THE WHITE MOUNTAINS

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You printed the other day letter calling
attention to the fact that for reaching Maine re-
sorts train had been placed in service. leav-
ing New-York at y. m. running by way OF the
New-YOrk. New-Haven and Hartford Railroad
from New-York to Springfield thence BY the Bos-
ton and Albany 10 Worcester; thence BY the BcS-
ton and Maine via Rochester TO Portland; thence
by the Maine Central tC Bar Har0or. with a
through Pullman car running TO Bar HarhOr- At
Portland passengers can take any of the branches
of the Maine Central. reaching ROcklaud at l0so
a. M Poland Spring 1880 a. m and Bar HarDor
at y. m.
To the foregoing might be added that this train
equally serviceable tor the White Mountains
IL reaches Portland without change OF cars from
New-YOrkl at 6 -i5 m The train Tor the White
Mountains leaves Portland tsame statlonl at ssfs
a. m and reaches North Conway at lO-oS a m,
Glen Jackson, u 10 n n; Crawford's l2:l9 p M:
Fabyan's. 1880 d m and the summit OF Mount
Washington df desired by p m--leSs tnan
twenty hours from Nsw-YOrk and fourteen hours
to North Conway.
There is good place to breakfast in the Port
land station, in the hotel opposite the station.
jackson, ~ h July L. leE- h z. w.
New-York tribune., 1902-07-27

Winston Churchill the novelist, seems TO have
found paramount political issue in NewHamp-
shre-the preservation of the forests-on which
the distracted harmony hunters of the Demo-
cratic party might possibly be able TO unite.