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New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
RULES OF THE ROAD.

The so-called Automobile Speed bill, as
amended and adopted by the legislature must
be regarded with the proverbial mingled emo
tions.' 1t has some good features, and some of
doubtful propriety. 1t is well that horse We
hicIes and horseess vehicles should be put
upon the same plane and subjected to the same
rules. The fact that some automobiles can
move faster than some horses would not justify
setting one limit of speed for the one and an
other for the other. Such uniformity of speed
may be regarded as in some respects an especial
concession to the automobiles, since it is gener-
ally safer to drive horse at high speed than
to run automobile at the same rate. Never
theess, the improvements which will be made
in the latter vehicles and the increased famil-
iarity with them and skill in managing them
will probably justify putting them on the same
basis with horses.
The doubtful feature OF the law is the high
speed limit established for villages and country
roads. Twenty miles an hour is a dangerously
rapid pace. On broad avenue, where no turn
ing out is necessary and where pedestrians
to be encountered only at occasional crossings,
it might be reasonably safe. But on a narrow
and much used village street and on a still
narrower country road where it is necessary
to turn almost into the gutter when meeting an
other vehicle and where lack OF sidewalks
OIlcu pulS pcueSIIldIlS lllO lIle roadway, LOT
either horse engine TO tear along al a three
minute pace will be to put limb and life In
jeopardy. Undoubtedly there are times and
places when and where it is perfectly safe TO
travel at such speed. But to do so indiscrimi-
natey will be to invite disaster.
If the bill becomes a law in its present form,
therefore. the safety of the public will depend
not upon the restraints of statute law but upon
such moral suasion as can be made effective for
restraining men from going as fast as the law
permits. 1t is to be believed that much can
be done in that direction. At the annual dinner
of the automobile club the other evening some
words Of sound sense upon this subject were
spoken by the president, Mr.. Shattuc1, when
he said
This club believes that the roads belong to all
citizens in common, and do not defend for a
moment the driver of an automobile who drives
his machine furiously, taking the middle of the
road and blowing his horn as an intfmation to
the rest of the world that 1t get into the ditch
or be killed If 1t stay in the road. There are a
few such people. and they should be driven from
the highways.
If all reputable automobilsts will assume
that attitude toward such offenders and make
their attitude aggressive, the evil will be cor
rected Under this law the users of automo-
biles, and drivers OF fast horses too will be put
upon their honor" If they exercise their privi-
leges with sane discretion all will be we'll If
not, it will not be long before stringent re-
vision of the law will he required.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
"FTREPROOP PRETENCES.

Now and then a "freproof" building is
burned, with particularly disastrous results
That is 10 say, it is called freproof True,
1t burns. Fire spreads swiftly from room to
room and from floor to floor. But the owner
insists that ii was fireproof. Perhaps it is
found that some of the essential construc-
ton, floors or partitions, of wood. or that
The rapid extension of fire from floor to floor
was facilitated by wooden stairways or by ele-
vator shafts light shafts built of or lined
with wood No matter. 1t was "ireprOof," or
ut any rate, as perfectly freproof as the ingenu-
ity of man could make it. Black is white
Quod erat demOnstrandum. Then, in some
such cases, because the building is "freproof"
no appliances are provided and no arrange
ments made for securing the safety of the oc-
cupants in case Of fire There are no fire es-
capes. There is no adequate system of fire
alarms. In case of fire. no adequate warning
is given And lot of lives are lost some
day, and men wonder how that could be in a
perfectly fireproof building. with all possible
life saving devices. Truly it must be Kismet!
The fact is, of course. as should be obvious
to every one, that such buildings are not fire.
proof. or are not nearly fireproof as it is
possible TO make them: and to say that they
are is both foolish and untrue and besides has
the evil effect of persuading some people that
all hreproof buildings are frauds and that
therefore, there is no in trying TO make
hreproot construction. 1t is a trite saying that
no chain is stronger than its weakest link, but
1t Is true No building is more fireproof than
the most infiammable part of its essential con-
structon; and so, If any such part is not fire
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
Aep9lurk DaiIp Gribmne
SUNDAY, MARCH Q, 1902
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-Ceon RhoGess health is reported
10 be poor, his friends showing anxiety regard
ing his condition. == A large sale of bric-a-
brac and paintings was held at Christie's -
The King and Queen Of England were present
at the launching Of the battleship the Queen
and the laying Of the keelplate of the battleshp
: of the Newfoundland sealing crews struck for
higher wages. -= A large quantity of Boer
ammunition discovered by British in the
Orange River Colony. = Chinese rebels capt
ured town and released prisoners looting is
{ Fbattleships reached the harbor of Colon. =-=
ttt was rumored that the insurgents in Colombia
fhad won an important battle. - A street
tTailway strike at Rome has been aYerted.
DOMESTIC.-Conferences on reciprocity with
Cuba Were held between President Roosevelt
and Republican leaders in Congress, and
message TO Congress, setting forth his views on
that subject, were revived. == The Philip
pine Tariff bill passed by Congress became
law by the signature Of President Roosevelt.
g g Trains were moved over the scene of the
Northern Pacific disaster. - The Western
Association OF Princeton Clubs ended its meet
tng at Pittsburg. - Siam appointed com
mission TO be present at the Louisiana Pur.
Brooklyn, died sudderly in Detroit from apo
pleXy. - According to advices from New
Haven the outlook for Yale's baseball team is
not promising.
CITY.-Stocks We're inactive and steady -
Prince Henry was the guest of honor at the
annual dinner of the New-York German Society;
ne spent most of the day resting in his apart
nents in the Waldorf Astoria, and attended
private luncheon given for him. == 1t
learned that the NeW-York Central directors
were considering plan for running the trains
of the Putnam Division downtown on the Ninth
ave. elevated tracks without change at One
lhundred-and- fifty -fifth-st. Guests of the
Hotel Endicott. by alarm of fire, were thrown
Into a panic and stampeded for the doors,
ltrampling each other in the rush. - Leslie
NJ Shaw, Secretary Of the Treasury, made
personal investigation Of the method of exam
lining baggage at the piers Of incoming steamers.
- A Rochester man took carbolic acid at
1.-THE Herald Square Hotel yesterday, and died in
"a hospital after a detective had gone to the
hospital TO arrest him for forgery. - Justice
Mayer declared that he would not accept evil
idenoe the third degree" identification by the
ihotel hallboy of Miss Florence Burns. == 1t
was announced that the Garland collection of
tporcelains was to remain at the Metropolitan
Museum for the present, at least, and probably
permanently - Strikers at the Rogers Loco
motive Works at Paterson, attacked the Office
latter assaulting one of the new men,
THE WEATHER-Forecast for to-day: Rain.
The temperature yesterday: Highest, 46 de-
grees; lowest, 80: average, ~.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
4 STUDY IN ETHNOLOGY

Like the majority Of other modern ethnolo-
gists. Professor l.. NJ. keasbey of Bryn Mawr
College. thinks that the cradle of the human
race was Southeastern Asia. In discussing the
differentiation of the species for the readers
of the March Popular Science Monthly" he
makes that region the focus from which the
earliest streams OF emigration radiated He
believes, moreover, that four general types were
recognizable in the glacial period Sub
division carried much further under the in
fiuence of new environment, of course. and the
outlines have been blurred more or less by mis-
cegenation Yet the identity of at least two
of the four great branches of the human fam
lily, the negro and the Mongolian, has been
preserved with great distinctness
In the European Professor Keasbey sees more
or less of a mixture, and not comparativelv
pure race Though retaining the term eau
casan" he ignores the theory which that phrase
implies, and thus escapes dilemma which has
beset many other anthropologists Europe. in
Professor keaSbey's opinion, derived its pOnula-
ton from two sources, the Southeast and the
East. The former supplied more or less diIuted
negro blood to the inhabitants of Mediterranean
countries, while this element was still further
attenuated by intermarriage with the Asiatics
who poured in from the region between the
Pamir and the Arctic Closely akin to these
Mawr professor, were "the swarthy skinned
Indians who came down from the northern
plains (of Asia during prehistoric days. and
established their superiority over the black
people Of the peninsula" Possibly the Hin
doc was OF a purer strain than the European.
so far as ancestry is concerned, but in the char
acter OF MS CIVILIZATION, OF course, he was more
closely related to the latter than to the neonle
who remained in Central Northern and Eastern
Asia.
Professor keasbey looks upon the red man.
as we'll as the white man, a composite That
view OF the case is not altogether novel but
1t has much to commend it. 1t offers way TO
explain rather puzzling fact. The form of
the skull Of a race undergoes less change. per
haps, than any other characteristic. If. there
fore, all Of the skulls Of North American In
dians were Of the short and broad type. the in
ference would be that the aborigines were of
Asiatic origin, and had cone across tia Pacific.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

proof. the building is not fireproof Indeed the
fact that part Of it is freproof while the rest
is not really makes 1t all the worse. That is
partly because such construction may give the
building an unmerited reputation for safety and
its occupants a false sense of security, and
partly because such a building, when it does
get afire, makes the worst kind Of a fre-just
as a fire of wood and shavings in an iron stove
RACES more fercely and makes more heat than
the same fire In paper box would do.
These false pretenceS Of ffreprooing should
not, however, be permitted to obscure the graf
flying fact that really fireproof buildings can
be constructed, and are at the present time
in existence. We may take the Tribune Build
ing as a type of them since it was the first
modern fireproof office building to be erected,
and since it has more than once given cOnvinc-
ing practical proof of its fireprOof qualities.
The walls are of brick and granite-freproof.
The windows are protected with steel smut
ters-freproof. The roof is of slate and arti-
fetal stone-freproof. The floors and partitions
are of masonry and steel encased in masonry
fireproof. The stairs of iron and slate,
wainscoted with marble, and the elevator shafts
of iron-fireprOof. In brief, every element
and detail of essential construction is not noml-
nally but actually fireprOof And by practical
experience 1t has several times been demon
strated that If you fill one Of the rooms with
infammable materials and set them af1re the
integrity Of the building and the safety of its
occupants are not endangered. If IT is not
convenient to extinguish the fire you can let
it burn itself out while you sit in the next room
on the floor above, serene and undisturbed.
Such a building is fireproof, and it presents
a grateful contrast to those which are fire.
proof only in pretence, and which are in fact
the most dangerous Of fire traps. The distinc-
ton between the two should be recognized and
kept in mind, officially and unOfhcially. The
merits Of the really fireproOf should not be per-
mitted to reflect undeserved credit upon those
which are not fireproof; and the false pretences
of the spurious ones should not obscure the real
worth of the true ones
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Unfortunately, though, good many Indian
skulls are of the long and narrow pattern which
apparently allies them to the European BY
supposing, however, that there were two
streams Of emigration to this continent. one
from Asia and the other from Europe, the prob
lem is simpllfied. Professor Keasbey believes
that the Mongolian element was much more
abundant than the Caucasian, but he thinks
that both are recognizable in the primitive pop
ulation of the continent His conviction is
strengthened by the prevalence of long heads
in the East and of broad ones In the West, while
in the Esquimau there is a suggestion of both.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
At THE WHITE HOUSE.

WASHINGTON March (SpeciaD-President and
Mrs. Roosevelt gave small dinner party tonight
which the Secretary OF War and Mrs. Root,
Senator and Mrs. Lodge. Miss Carow, MISS Ethel
Roosevelt Brook Adams and Master Kermit Roose-
Veit were present. At sis o'clock the party leIt
the White House for the National Theatre 10 see
Miss Maude Adams in Quality Street 1t was
some minutes after the curtain was raised when
the President and party entered the theatre. They
occupied the lower right hand boxes. At the close
Of the performance the PRESIDENT comphnlehted
Miss Adams her performance.
Miss Roosevelt had two sittings at the COrcoran
Art Gallery to-day when the finishing touches
were given her portrait. The painter who has
been employed to make pictures of both Mrs
Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt was introduced at
the White House by NJ. Cambon, the French Am
bassador.
Mrs Roosevelt received few callers to-day
among them being Mrs Root and Miss Phelps.
Cards were sent out this afternoon for muslcal
to be given at the White House on next "euhes-
day evening 1t will be held in the East Room
and a pretty programme has been arranged similar
to that of the delightful musical that the Presi-
dent and Mrs Roosevelt gave Il short time ago
Young Theodore Roosevelt. who suffered slight
set back in the early part of this week was much
improved to-day, and for two or three hours ne
George r, Corteiyou. the secretary 20 the Presi-
of grip until the early part of last week has re, re-
a ed to "a as4 ba We House day
this week for short time. although ne renamed I
That Mr.. CorteIyou is again able to resume his
duties al the White House is source of great de-
light to his friends who have been daily con-
graduating him. .
In the forenoon Speaker Henderson, Representa-
tive Payne, chairman of the Ways and Means onl-
mittee and Representative Grosvenor, also or tnat
committee had conference with the PRESIDENT on
the reciprocity question.
1t expected here that General Funston Woulu
visit the White House to-day. but for some reason
he postponed his call
Eugene A. Phibin. ex-Dstrict Attorney OF New
York, called the President to-day: he ar
rived in Washington before o'clock and left town
on the Congressional Limited
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

On account Of the approaching completion of
the tunnel Of the a-Simplon Railway. the
monks of the historic hospice of the Grand st.
Bernard considering proposal to abandon
It, The carriage road from Glays to Domo dos
soa. which constructed by Napoleon is
costly to maintain account of frequent ava
lanches. and when the post goes by railway the
Swiss mail stages which in summer now trav-
erse it daily twice each way, will be withdrawn,
leaving the hospice practically in the midst Of
a mountain solitude. The monks have occupied
it since 1875 and have created for it name of
renown all the world. the memory of which
is likely to outlast it's material foundations.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

Prince Henry has monopolized the attention OF
society for the last two days and will continue to
do so until he sails Tuesday for home at the
end of the most successful visit ever paid to this
country by any royal or imperial parsonage of the
luncheon by Mrs. Ogden Mills and Mrs Cornelius
Vanderbilt tr.; gives dinner for him tonight. He
goes 10 Philadelphia Tomorrow and sails on the
Iollo%lng morning. Mrs Vanderbits dinner for
the frlnce tonight like Mrs Mills's luncheon yes
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Japan has done surprisingly well In her efforts
to keep abreast of other nations yet Marquis
Ito who has just visited Europe says she will
have to redouble her endeavors in that direc-
ton in order not to drop behind and be counted
out of the running. But the country is doce
to receive and take advantage from all useful
lessons. and so instructed the chances are that
it will hold its own in the international race
with any of It's competitors.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
CLEVELAND ELECTED vICE-PREsIDENT.
GOVERNOR MURPHY BECOMES PRESIDENT
OF PRINCETON BATTLE MONU-
MENT ASSOCIATION
,lENT ASSOCIATION.

Princeton. y. J.. March (SpeciaD.-Announce-
ment was made this morning that at recent meet
ing of the Princeton Battle Monument Association
Governor Murphy elected president and
President Cleveland vice-presdent. The other
officers elected were: Second vice-president. Pro
fessor Henry c. Cameron, ~; secretary. Bayard
Stocton, -; associate secretary, c 5. Robinson:
treasurer. y. Macdonald The following have been
added to the board OF trustees: Professor Woodrow
Wilson. DR.. Henry Dyke, NJ Taylor Pyne, the
Rev. Robert F. Burke. James r. Burke, A ~
Woodruff and 5. II. Blackwell. all OF Princeton.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Congratulations and compliments to Cinctn-
natl upon her centennial are in order, flying
thick as the snowfakes which have just laid
that proud and beautiful city under white
spring counterpane which is just trihe out of
season. Her hundred years of history show
noble aggregate of achievement to be piled
higher and higher the centuries go on If her
outlooks. now in the bud, come to their expected
flower
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS

Washington. March (SpeciaD.-The Minister of
costa Rlca and Nine Calvo gave a dinner this
evening.
The Minister OF Japan entertained a company at
q luncheon to-day In honor of the Minister of Siam.
ing.
The French Ambassador has issued invitations
for reception Monday evening
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Some of the police sergeants are appealing to
Colonel Partridge for more time off duty. The
average taxpayer who takes the trouble to OBJ
serve the daily and nightly habits of the aver
age sergeant in the average precinct is inclined
to think that the fortunate wearer of the uni
form is not overworked.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

and viii thus increase that mutual knowledge
and appreciation which are the surest elements
of strong and enduring friendship
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

These are the days in which the police black
mailer suffers almost as much the policy
man, the trade of both struck with blight. and
nothing but its penalties remaining.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Some of the passengers on the steamer Lucania.
which arrived here from Liverpool yesterday, were
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Booth jr.. Miss L. c. Booth.
Lieutenant Colonel Eretts. Captain Herbert Eas-
ton j. \. Clark. James Fowler, r. N r.; A II
Hardy. Charles C Nutting a W. MacOnochie.
NJ p; Dr. W. III. Mason, II. Bloomfield smith and
q. F. Swift jr
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mrs Herbert L. satterlee, Mrs. Fordyce Barker
and Mrs William F. King are among the box hold
ers at the entertainment which is to be given at
the Waldorf Astoria next Saturday morning at II
O'Clock by George Riddle. with accompaniment or
Nendelss0hn's music by the Boston Philharmonic
club in behalf OF the Gospel Settlement, No. III
Clinton-s;.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Among those who sailed on the Umbria yesterday
were Mr.. and Mrs. r. III. Anderson, James Camp
bell n Dreyfus the Rev. II. f. Fox. Arthur c.
Humphreys, William King, DR.. a. Joseph Kindred.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Lipman Wycliffe Thompson
and Mrs. John Richmond.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs John Blake Baker. OF No. 20 Eas
Forty-eighth-st sail next Wednesday on th'
Prinzessn Victoria Luise for Gibraltar. en- route
for Spain.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mr. and Mrs. George Rowland announce the en-
gagement of their daughter Catherine 10 Geors
Lander IT.. Of Pittsburg.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Nine Ternna will sing for the last time this
season at the concert 10 be given at the Waldorf
Astoria on Monday March "a. by Charles Joseph
over and which is under the patronage OF a num-
Der OF fashionable women
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

From Baltimore comes the announcement or the
engagement OF Donald Swan Miss Ella Dallett
Wilson, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. John sawyer
Mr. swans first wife is now Mrs. Elisha Dyer, trs
who sailed with Miss Laura Swan her daughter
BY her first marriage, for Europe yesterday
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

On the steamer st. Paul, which arrived here from
Southampton yesterday. Mr.. and Mrs. c. X.
Baldwin. the Rev. r. g. FllinSham II. Stuyvesant
Dudley, W n Gavin, Henry F. Gillig, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Gregory. 6. c. Lea. Miss Leary. John
Il. Mccormick, MIR. and Mrs II. Murphy and fam
lily James 5. Patteson, Miss Jean Stone. c. G.
Worthington, Captain W. ]. Roberts and Captain
Z. F. Small.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mrs John Jacob Astor Is kept to her home. No.
$40 Fifth-ave by a slight indispOsltion-
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
AMBASSADOR WHITE LEAVES BERLIN,

Berlin, March S-The United States Ambassador
Andrew u. White. has gone to the Riviera with hi.
wife and daughter. They Will be absent six weAs :
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09
SENATOR PLATT

Washington. March S.-Senator Platt Of Na
York. started this afternoon for Florida 70 ha
benefit of his health A ANA 'Ae
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mrs Edward Tiffany Dyer has issued invitations
for a bridge whist party on March Il at her housS
In East Thirty-fOurth-st.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Some OF those who sailed for Bermuda yesterday
the steamer Pretoria Mr. and Mrs Ed
ward X Parkinson, y. :. Post. Miss r. NJ Post,
Mr. and Mrs. Sargent Dr. and Mrs. T. l.. Sted-
man. Mr.. and Mrs w f. SimOnds, Mr.. and Mrs
w a. Whittesey. Mrs. c. L. Westcott. Miss Mar
gerry Westcott, DIR. Walker Colonel and Mrs NJ
H. Walker. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Williams Mrs.
George F. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. +. B. jennings
p. B. Jennings; Mrs; r. a. Greenfield. Mr. and Mrs
j. H. Henry, Mrs. Charles r. Haywood l. A Ford
Mr. and Mrs. III. ID. Fisher. Miss Dalton, Mr. and
Mrs. w. Fl. Duval Miss Duane, Mrs. c. s Bush
nell Mr. and Mrs w g Burbank. Mrs. V w
Burnside and q. f. Covert. ~
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mr. and Mrs Francis Burton Harrison have lefe
town and have gone South in their private car.
They expect to be absent about three weeks
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Stuyvesant Fish and his daughter. Miss Marion
Fish are entertaining a week end party at their
country place at Garrisons-on-the-Hudso
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

The Duke Of Newcastle is spending a few days
at Chatsworth n J. where quite a large num-
Der of people are registered at the clubhouse for
the week end.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mrs. Henry ". Poor gives a musical on Wednes-
dav evening al which Emil Paur's orchestra will
play. The programme will consist OF compositions
of Louis a. Gaertner.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

The departure Of the royal guest will be followed
by the sailing of long list of fashionable people.
among them being Mr. and Mrs. c. B. Alexander,
Henry sloane and his daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. A.
CaSs CanHeld and Mr.. and Mrs Winthrop Ruther-
furd. who were 10 have gone yesterday. but who
postponed their departure.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mr. and Mrs Henry S. Redmond are returning
to town this week on the completion OF their wed
ding trip in the course of which they have visited
Cuba. Mexico and California.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-09

Mrs John P Clifford has returned to town from
Canada and is at her in East Forty sixth-st.