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The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-19

She was 4 little, willowy wisp of a
thing. who had been listening attentively
to heated debate as to just the proper
meaning of the word received in cen
nection with an order or amendment. She
left her seat for a minute and returned to
find it occupied by Il stern, imposing re
gent of one of the largest chapters in the
congress. Knowing little of the chapter
and less of its regent. she requested the
privilege of resuming her seat, and the
chapter regent went way back while Il
satellite of the dethroned chapter regent
looked daggers at the little. willowy wisp
of thing and said: Did she make Mrs.
Custer (hyphenated) Washington get out
OF that seat? She did? The cati" And
the little, wllowy wisp of a thing purred
away, happy in the knowledge that the
first cousin of her greatuncIe's half
brother had helped George Washington
eat snow at Valley Forge.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-19

Mrs. William a. Smoot is receiving con-
gratuiatons upon her excellent manage
ment of the pages who are in attendance
at the sessions for the purpose OF seating
the delegates and delivering messages to
the various regents. There are thirty-two
of these attractive young women, who may
be identified by their white ribbon sashes,
and who are always ready and willing to
locate any delegate in the house.
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-19

The meeting of the Children of the
American Revolution will be held Friday
morning at 10 o'clock in the building at
the corner of Fifteenth and II Streets
The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-02-19

$50 Tables cut .s1i9s
SIS Tables cut to........- s9.9S
The new Mattings and Go-Carts
are here in endless variety. In
troductory prices are very inter-
esting.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
THE NARCONI DINNER.

The compliment paid to Marconi last evening
by the American Institute of Electrical Engi.
neers possessed slightly different significance
from those which he has recently received in
Canada. The latter came largely from public
officials. Possibly they were not evoked solely
by appreciation OF his work, but were, to some
extent at least a recognition of the visitor as
a knsman. Though the inventor was born in
Italy his mother was a native of England, and
he has now adopted the latter country as his
own On the other hand, the courtesies ex-
tended on this side of the border were more
exclusively an expression OF the spirit of
brotherhood among scientific men. Coming, too,
from the nation which gave to the world the
first electric telegraph, the telephone. the troll
ley and the incandescent lamp, and which did
much to perfect the arc light and the dynamo,
they had a value to which Marconi could not
have been insensible. >
The homage offered at the Waldorf-Astoria
dinner was meant to be in great measure an
exhibition of faith in the correctness of Mar
coni's own Interpretation of the results recently
secured in Newfoundland and hence in the pos
sibilities of transoceanic wireless telegraphy.
1t is only Fair to say that. though the Signal
Hill experiments were interrupted in tantaliz-
ing fashion, this mark of confidence was we'll
deserved Marconi has occasionally had reason
" hiOulIf LIS IutOIISS COuCeIulllE l1e pIOCeSSeS
employed in his work, but the results which he
has attained from time to time have always
been stated with accuracy. Moreover, the de-
velopment of Hertzian wave telegraphy has
been accomplished only by what the world
perceives TO be a rare combination of perse-
verance and caution with scientific knowledge
His work has consisted, 1t is true, more largely
of the practical adaptation Of the discoveries OF
others than of original invention; but 1t must be
borne in mind that older. more experienced and
more learned investigators enjoyed precisely
the same facilities as he Pre-eminent success
under those circumstances was not lucky
chance.
The men who organized last nights graceful
demonstration in honor of Marconi had an
exceedingly short time in which to make II
worthy both of the guest and the institute
Their executive ability equalled their good taste
however, and the electrical fraternity is to be
congratulated on the outcome.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14

dreams of that description. The limits Of his
reformatory zeal were pretty clearly defined
while. as chairman Of Croker's Committee Of
Five, he was conducting spurious inquiry into
the conditions and agencies Of vice and crime,
which intended to do nothing more than
relieve the Croker administration Of the intol-
cradle odium already threatening it with destruc-
ton last winter, and which happily failed to an
swer even that fraudulent purpose.
Doubtless Mr. Nixon hopes to recruit the
waning strength of Tammany, not merely by
covering its repulsive features with mask Of
decency, but by as large an exercise of moral
discipline as the men who made and can I'M
make him will stand. But in the very nature
of things he cannot go far. The SOW that is
washed returns to her wallowing in the mire,
and the that is only whitewashed is GER
tainly not more particular.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
PERSONAL NOTES.

Arthur F. Layton. who directs the eieanlHs =
Detroirs streets fought in many lands as Dlilis.
soldier principally with General Graham anu - -
woIseley during the memorable British c~sILp47 ~ ~
In the early eighties He possesses q IC-.,5 -
medals including the Khedive'S star presence -
him by Tew1k Pacha in lSSI
Miss AIbertne r. Ridley. one OF the niS' @A--- 90.
ican girls to go 10 the Philippines as an go
nurse has returned 70 California she says l. @ilo
lean rule has Infinitely bettered sanitary at a. tEt
Conditions in Manila and that the H5I-esS - -. +Ss
city are very courteous ana cohsluei - si~k
American girls who administering " 'i' -
and wounded soldiers
The will OF the late George W. Farr IT, a OF Z -
deIphIa disposes of an estate valued at S--'' ,,,
large portion of which is bequeathed 10 eNS -
institutions most of them in Phadelphia -Lanvne +
the charities remembered are the Ministerial -
lief Association OF the Presbyterian Cn9reIs; s Home
receives SO O0O. the Presbyterian hoOe-N I.1-aIcu
Missions $500; the Presbyterian boary % Ssorsfv
Missions 5000 and the French BeIieV @ ,sGe the
81 eco After an individual bequeStS az - board
will devises the residue Of the estate 20 IS - The
Of PIIblicatiOu and Sabbath school WOIA 4 e trrst
PRESBYTERIAN Church in the United Sta'eS L"
Franklin Breed an elderly farmer Hvihs ns--
rainesviue Ohio holds the distinction OF na s--.s
,ri,iata5 Iohn ID Rockefeller into the on ht n
This was I'm 1867 and Nr- Breee taAS, ar5aTd Oil
tAlljrs ~ tha first immersion Ine sIIs Pam.
magnate had in bayou near Ai'.s,e' -
that year.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14

course to be hailed with delight. But when
the necessity for such removal occurs 1t should
be regarded with equanimity and cheerful conn-
dence as the very best thing that can be done
under the circumstances.
Those hospitals strongly to be commended
to both official and popular consideration Ii
would be wise and humane policy to give
them better plant and more generous mainten-
ance II is good thing for benevolenty dls-
posed people to remember them in their time OF
gift making Reading and pictorial matter and
TOYS for the little children are much needed
there and when received are welcomed with
gratitude which is none the less deep and sin
cere because it cannot be directly expressed to
the giver While thus making the smallpox
hospital as agreeable a place as possible for
those who are so unfortunate as to be COM
nelled to 60 thther, the public can and should,
of course observe every possible precaut1on
against contracting or spreading the disease.
Vaccination and revacclnation, scrupulous care
of the general health. avoidance of known In
fection and prompt and frank reporting to COM
petent physicians of all suspicious symptoms
these are the simple and reasonable means,
within the reach of all, by which this disease
is to be robbed of half its terrors and to be re-
strcted to within the merest fraction of its
former extent
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
TIE TAHMAHY SUCCESSION.

The retirement OF Richard Croker from the
leadership of Tammany Hall would have pro-
duced greater sensation if it had been his first
performance of the act. Public recollection of
his abdication in favor of Mr.. Sheehan, fol-
lowed ar convenient season by his sudden dis
placement of his imprudent understldy, is too
fresh 10 justify wild lamentations on the part
of the ever faithful or a reckless display of joy
by those who have been secretly intriguing for
q new deal. The fact has not escaped Mr.. Gro
ker who is known as an attentive reader Of the
newspapers that there is a pretty general ex-
pectation of his return to power in Tammany
year or two hence. AS rule, friends and foes
alike think they see a stout string attached to
his resignation. and are doubtful only as to the
time when he will pull il in. Now his successor
in the moment of his elevation. though he talks
bravely of his purpose to run things, does not
seem 10 feel absolutely sure of a long tenure
OF course, these suspicious are painful to Mr.
Croker, who is worn out in the public service
and wants nothing but to rest invite his soul and
win the Derby; but there is small prospect of
their being speedily allayed.
And yet in point of fact 1t is probable that
the departing chieftain does not his own
course clearly. that he is not firmly resolved
either TO resume the authority he has laid
down or to abandon il permanently. Much may
OepeUu Oh OcCuIIeHCes WHICH ne Cdh-
not forecast. 1t is 10 be considered also that if
Mr.. Croker should hereafter attempt to play
with Mr.. Nixon the game he played with Mr.
Sheehan he might not succeed There is reason
TO believe that his enemies in the organization
are stronger and bolder than they ever were
before, and that they will gain instead Of lose
influence during the next two years. Moreover
be is at period of life when a short lapse of
time may take the aggressive spirit out of
man. 1t certainly would not be surprising IT,
before the next campaign comes round the ease
and luxury Of Vantage should have left him
no stomach for & fight. He is several years
older by the calendar, and perhaps ten years
older to all intents and purposes than he was
when he abruptly dispossessed Mr.. Sheehan and
reduced his other opponents in Tammany TO
submission.
AS for Mr.. Nixon. few men whose associations
outside Of politics have been similar to his own
envy him his job. A man of education
whose natural proclivities are creditable and
whose personal integrity has never been ques-
toned he has been deputed TO manage for
longer shorter term a political establishment
which is rotten TO the CORE and which can be
made respectable only by processes so radical
and far reaching as to leave nothing familiar
about 1t but its name. If anybody imagines
that such a transformation is al hand, capable
of being rapidly accomplished, the courts should
be invoked 10 appoint guardian OF his person
and property. Assuredly Mr.. Nixon dreams no
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
New9lork Daily Gribn1rs
TUESDAY. JANUARY Il, 1902.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: In open session the bill
TO create Department of Commerce was dis
were confirmed, and there was a lively con-
troversy between Senators Blackburn and
Deboe, Of Kentucky. - House: The Pension
Appropriation bill was under consideration
FOREIGN.-Prince Henry will leave Ger
many for America about February -; the i'm
perial yacht Hohenzollern will sail for this port
on January IS, making roundabout Southern
voyage and touching at Gibraltar, Cape Verd
and St Thomas in order to coal: the Prince
Much hostility displayed by the audience
at a Liberal meeting in st. Jamess Hail. Lon
don. toward Lord Rosebery; Sir Henry Camp
bell Bannerman, Earl Spencer and Miss Hob
house were enthusiastically received - The
King and Queen returned to Marlborough
House. where a Cabinet council was held to
prepare for the opening Of Parliament and the
coronation festivities. - Whitaker Wright
, testified in the Bankruptcy Court, London re-
sarding the stock market methods of the pro-
Inoters Of the London and Globe group Of COM
panes. - Lord Dufferin is seriously Ill at
his residence in County Down. Ireland.
DOMESTIC.-M. Lampre agent Of the Pan
anna Canal Company, testified again before the
Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals. -
Another statement concerning the work of the
Wright. - Henry c. Payne will take the
oath Of Office as Postmaster General tomorrow.
- Mrs B. P. Cheney, formerly known on
the stage Julia Arthur. and her husband
were injured in runaway accident at Boston.
CITY.-Stocks dull and lower. - It
was learned on high authority that the Emperor
building here. Alice. after Miss Roosevelt
and the Empress of Russia. - The city tax
books were opened for public inspection and ex-
animation, in accordance with the provisions of
the charter. - Ground purchased in
East Sixtierh-st. for site for the Manhattan
Maternity Hospital and Dispensary. - A
dinner in honor of Marconi given by the
American Institute Of Electrical Engineers. -
A number of bartenders expressed themselves
as being in favor OF opening saloons all day Sun
day. - The committee OF the New-Rochelle
mass meeting drafted resolutions demanding
that the Parl1-ave. tunnel menace be removed
the State Railroad Commission declared that it
would begin its investigation Monday. - The
board of managers of the NewYork Botanical
Garden met and received reports showing the
growth of the institution in the last year; the
officers We're reelected. - A man and a
woman were locked in alright vault in the
Criminal Courts Building. ~ Charities Com
missioner Folks issued a statement showing
that Joseph Yanka died in Bellevue insane pa
Vilon from natural causes.
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-day: Fair
and cold. The temperature yesterday: Highest,
% degrees; lowest Is; average 20
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
NEW LEADERSHIPS AND OLD.

Leadership whether in politics or business
whether in society or in 'the world of graft" is
generally determined by the law of natural
selection. The leader fits the led. In some
cases the leader chooses his followers. In others
those who are to follow choose him who is TO
be their leader. In both cases the result is the
same. And when an old leader gives place TO
new, the same law obtains. If the character
or aim OF the organization has changed, a leader
of different kind from the former one will be
chosen Or if a different kind of leader as
sumes and strongly holds the leadership, the
character of the following will perforce be
changed. That is, of course, provided that the
leadership be real and efficient, and not a mere
mask or popnjay.
In some cases, however. leadership is unique,
having no adequate precedent and no possible
successor A noteworthy example of such was
furnished couple of centuries ago by the head
of a great municipal organization which curl
ously combined philanthropy and politics on the
one hand with vice and crime on the other.
Writing of this leader at an important epoch in
his career, the realist-romantic historian thus
depicts him:
He was fast rising to an erninence that no one
Of his nefarious profession ever reached before
him. nor is IT TO be hoped. Will ever reach again
He was the Napoleon of knaVery, and estaS-
Ished an uncontrolled empire over all the prac-
titoners OF crime This was no light conquest;
nor was 1t a government easily maintained.
Resolution, severity, subtlety, were required for
IT; and these were qualities which Jonathan
possessed in extraordinary degree The dan
ger or difficulty of exploit never appalled, him.
What his head conceived his hand executed
PROCESSING to stand between the robber and the
robbed, he himself plundered both He Il was
who formed the grand design Of a rohber cor
poration OF which he should be the sole head
and director. He divided London into districts
appointed gang to each district and leader
to each gang, whom he held responsible to him
self. Those whom he retained about his person
or retained in Offices Of trust were for the most
part convicted felons. who constituted in his
opinion. the safest agents, inasmuch as they
withhold any portion Of the spoil Of which he
chose to deprive them.
Such leadership, happily, was unique Nature
provided no successor 70 Jonathan Wild Yet
1t would be interesting TO have had from the
same facile pen which we have quoted an ac-
count of the efforts that may have been made
in The Mint or elsewhere. to select a successor
TO him. and, failing In that, to adapt the old
organization to the circumstances which
his involuntary abdication imposed upon n
The world of graft is an interesting object Of
study, whether in the eighteenth century or the
twentieth and no phase of it is on the whole
more fascinating and instructive than its suc
cessive leaderships. their entrances and their
exits.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
amnsements.

AMERICAN TREATIES .15-3fadanne Sans Gene.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC-S-The CHRISTIAN
BIJOC T1HEATRE-S20-The Widow Jones.
BROADWAY THEATRE-S-The Sleeping Beauty and the
Beast
cASINO-s:lB-The Little Duchess.
CRITERION THEATRE-S-Du Barry.
DAILY -20-Frocks and FriiIs.
EDEN MUSEE-Day and Evening-World in Wax.
EMPIRE THEATRES :2c-The Wilderness.
FOURTEENTH STREET THEATRE-S-Up York State.
GARDEN THEATRES :2O-Aloe OF Old Vincenres.
GARRICk THEATRE-s:3O-A Message Mars
HARLEM OPERA HOUsE-S:15-The Climbers.
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE -s:15-Beaucaire.
IRVING PLACE THEATRE Eisen i'm Feuer
KEITH SlZ:3o 20 1870 m.-Contlnuous Performance
kNICkERBOChER TiEATRE-s-The Torsacor.
lYCEUM THEATRE -s3c-The Girl ana the Judge.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-e a, to 1890 D. NJ
Poultry Show.
MADISON SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and Twenty
MANHATTAN THEATRE- -S20-Ths Un-secome Mrs
Hatch
MENDEISsOHN HAII<-s:I5-Concert.
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-S-Aiau' zeH
NEW SAVOY THEATRES: BOD Arcy Of the Guards
NET-YORK THEATRE-s:15-F1 -F1orodora-
PASTOR 'S-continuous Performance.
FROCTOR'S FIFTH AVENUE 80 TO 1o:0o-At the
White Horse Tavern and Varieties.
PROCTOR'S TWENTY-THIRD STREEr-1:3o 10 fo:So-
Varieties
PRocToR's I25TH sTREEr-1:ao 1O:ao-A Temper
Town and Varieties.
PRoCToR's F1FTY-EIGHTH sTREET-1:ao to 1o:So-
Why Smith Left Home and Varieties.
IsE>PU BI1IC-S:15-Aagda
TICTORIA-s: :1b-FTancesca da Rimini.
WALLACKS TFIEATRE-s:2o-A Gentleman OF France.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
SMALLPOX AND THE ISLAND

Deplorabe though it is it is not to be denied
that smallpox is again prevalent in this civ
and elsewhere. Many cases have occurred he
yond those which have been more or less SEN
satlonaly reported in the public prints and it is
10 be feared that many more will occur espe-
cialy during intensely cold weather. This is
a state of affairs which calls for caution and
prudence but not In the least for alarm.
Devastating epidemics OF smallpox like those of
few generations ago are now, of course an i'm
possibility in this part of the world certain
traditional terror still invests the disease and
causes many people to dread it more than any
other malady. Beyond doubt it is highly con-
tagious, often somewhat disfiguring. and some.
times fatal. In all these respects, however. it
has been much modified and mitigated by per.
Slstent vaccination, so that it is now by no
means the disease it was even a score of wears
ago. 1t is still highly contagious, though no
more so than several other diseases which are
of far more frequent occurrence and against
which no such defence can be made as vaccina
ton generally affords Material disfgurement
from 'pittng" is now rare AS for the risk 10
life, smallpox is simply not in the same class
with such maladieS scarlet fever diphtheria
and pneumonia. 1t is indeed one Of the least
deadly of serious maladies.
The feature of it which most appaIIs MANY
people is the necessity Of absolute isolation and
therefore, in n large proportion of cases of he
ing removed to special hospital-inexcusabl
misnamed ''pesthouse." Intelligent and rational
people are heard to say that they do not dread
the disease and its perils so much as they do
the idea of being taken to North Brother Island
This amazing misconception has doubtless
arisen from, or at least has been fostered and
promoted by, sensational and wicked storias
about the hospitals for contagious diseases
which have no foundation in truth There Is
doubtless need of better buildings and moro
generous equipment and maintenance for those
hospitals. But IT Is equally indisputable that
the physicians and nurses there are faithful
devoted and efficient and are doing particularly
we'll with the resources at their command and
also that the patients there are well cared for
and are in an overwhelming proportion of cases
restored to health. The death rate in tho
dreaded "pesthouse' is in fact much lower than
In many general hospitals and sanatoriums.
The idea of going to "the island" is not Of
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14
IN THE NATTER OF GIFTS.

The authorities of Harvard University have
made the belated discovery that Cults, the
strongest member of last seasons football
eleven was ineligible to play because he had
taken pay for boxing and fencing lessons at
HaverfOrd. Having been convinced of that fact
by written proofs and his own tardy acknowl-
edgment, they have frankly published 1t for the
information Of all concerned and expressed
regret that they did not ascertain 1t sooner.
This is, perhaps, all that they now owe to other
colleges, but the question arises whether they
may not owe something more to themselves.
Cults says that he did not reCollect taking
money for his services as an instructor in ath-
letics, but his lapse Of memory was attended by
peculiar circumstances. Yale had just volun-
tarily laid off her most important football
player on evidence that the strict letter though
not the spirit of the regulations made him inei-
gible, when Cults assured his associates and
a thing to impair MS standing as an amateur.
1t is not probable that Harvard would have
failed to defeat Yale without him, but her vic
tory would certainly not have been so over
whelming. That, however, is a trivial consider
alton The serious point is that Harvard is
Inundated by discovering that she was be-
trayed into a deplorable act OF injustice to an
dicated at a heavy sacrifice. We should say
that the continuance of Cults in good and regu-
lar standing at Harvard would be n touching
proof Of faith in the genuine quality of his
forgetfulness.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14

favor this or that trust" in the United States,
since. according TO their own testimony, both
the great sugar interests here will be able in
any case to go on prospering and to prosper.
1t is. rather, whether shall remain de-
pendent upon the bounty aided sugar trusts of
Europe or shall emancipate ourselves there
from. and. with our own independent supply,
fix our own prices in accord with the mutual
interests of our own producers and our own
consumers.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14

notwithstanding the optimistic outlook Of the
president of the Reichsbank on the condition Of
German trade, the Emperor took gloomy views
of 1t at the recent opening of the Reichstag. and
It is not in fact. very encouraging. Govern
ment efforts to force industrial expansion, when
II ought to have been left to its natural growth
lie at the OF the matter. their corrective not
vet found, though 1t grows clearer and clearer
that IL is not In tariff determinations against
America wherever IL may be.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-14

Among those who sailed on the steamer haiser'a
Maria Theresa for Gibraltar. Algters. Naples @-S
Genoa yesterday were Ar. and MIS- eeOfse =
Bangs Mr. and Mrs Paul B,Ireigh Coukling Mss
Kathleen Cartwright Mr.. and Mrs. \ A EaloA'
Mr.. and Mrs Cass Gilbert. Mrs William p Alns'
Mr. and Mrs. William p, Lippincott. Count AuA
burg. Mr. and Mrs. John 5 Newbold. Richlnons
Pearson, United States Consul at Genoa vie -
family. William, Potter the Misses A6elne c. Mar
garet and Elizabeth V Potter. Francs ri-fss
Potter. Eugene n Phbin. Mr.. and Mrs OI@NT NTr
H Storm MIR and Mrs Martin \ RyerSo1, - -.
and Mrs. Edward Hamilton smith John J. lrrsn en-
Mrs. Gardiner Van NOStTand. Miss A r. Na-AN-r
Miss II Moln and lanes Mclean Walton