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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OPENS.
Her Statue OF Alma Mater Given In Robert
GOeIet's Memory Unveiled.

The opening exercises of the l5oth AGA
demc year of Columbia University were held
on the college campus yesterday afternoon.
The principal feature was the unwilling OF
the statue of Alma Mater, the gift Of Mrs.
Robert Goelet and her son Robert W. Goelet,
In the court approaching the library build
ing:
who graduated with the class OF 1880. Mr.
Goelet was a classmate Of Dean j. Howard
Van Amringe, and the dean made the pres
entation of the statue to the university
yesterday on behalf Of the donors, President
Butler accepting it. 1t is the work OF Daniel
c. French, designer Of the statue OF John
Harvard at Harvard University. It rep
resents woman seated in chair or throne,
her right hand holding a sceptre surmounted
by the crown OF Kings College. Upon the
back il the university seal.
Bishop Potter made the invocation and
Prof. Harry Thurston Peck OF the classical
department delivered the address OF the
day. He said that the university does not
exist merely as a sort Of janitor, to open
wide the doors to the various professions.
II it did no more than this. in the last analy-
sis it would be little better than sham,
with nothing more to it than what the I'M
instructed eye can see-halls and Lecture
rooms and laboratories, mere brick and
life, q body without a soul, with no more
trace Of genuine distinction than il It were
a huge ten chimneyed factory. BY some
means it must set deep down beneath the
superficial difference Of interests IN its
student body and bring to bear some infu-
ence of which all those who have felt II will
forever bear the impress.
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RscolIections NJ an old Thestr~.o>r

To THE EDITOR or The SUN-.Sfr, | was much
interested on reading in your paper my old friend
Alston Browns communication on the subject OF
-Old Theatres In New York" Being an old In >
habtant" OF Brooklyn for the past sixty 1--WE years
and a schoolboy at Forest & Mullgsn' . Academy
In Franklin street near Church In tbs decade of the
'40s am able TO speak by the card" on the topic
OF old Theatres as | well remember seeing the
National Theatre on Leonard and Church streets
destroyed by nre while on my way homo from
school ono afte moon In tho early 4Os
notice that the Colonel states that Bunncil's
Museum the Arst In the Bowery But I re.
member a museum located in the Bowery
nearly opposite tho old Bowery Theatre, before
Col. Brown was born. OF the old theatres have a
distinct remembrance Of the Park Theatre Of the
'4os; the Bowery Theatre. the Chatham Theatre
and OF the olympic Theatre on Broadway near
Grand street AZ the latter OF which saw tho elder
Booth play Richard H." In the '4Os also recol-
lect seeing many Of the old theatrical stars of tho
period play al tns PAIN Theatre as far back AS 1896
remember. my next birthday Is my eightieth and |
still, keep my memory green. | do not, however
remember any Of the old theatres In New YORK
named the Novelty when | think Of the old time
actors at the Bowery Theatre In It's pAImy DAVIS
when the leading stars were Tom Hampton and
Mrs Shaw--the hhndsornest actress Of the period
and ~ young T.. L. Davenport and youne Frank
Chanfrlu. and young Mrs. YcamAns and youns Mrs
Eldridge. now "Aunty." and later on the famous
American Clown Fox In the Christmas D antomimes
how the old time comes DER met" But enough OF
these memories OF my oarly experience a. theatre
goer HENRY CHADWICK
BROOKLYN, Sept 2s
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To rHB EpTron OF THE SuN-.str: I am only
familiar BY tradition. with the genial trainin'"
cake-g,ngerbread of the hard, or sheet. form
This Is referred to on D. $40 OF The Memorial His
tory OF Hartford County. Vol. l.. as follows:
All day Wednesday the country people poured
into town, bringing their dinners with them or
beer. molasses candy and gingerbread were sold
But am familiar with the Lection cake of
Connecticut. Mr. Henry Baldwin on the page
above referred 10, writes
But election day tthe nrst Thursday In Nav
the redd est ettered In our ca endar. Frightened
the whole year, The cake making began a week
before and-thb delectAble compound testing the
talents and strength OF the cook as nothing else
could possibly do; and a Hartford family that can :
not recte some tradition connected with II has
no claims 70 antiquity. Mothers sat up all night
to watch the batch OF twelve or twenty loaves or
called their daughters long before cock Growing
TO faint from fatigue while mixing tho materials.
A well tried recipe follows for making both yeast
and cake and Is from the store OF an old Hartford
family.
Yeast big potatoes boil and sift: 1 terpoon
little; raise with cents worth Of yeast drew er
make In the morning.
Cake-six pounds hour. pounds sugar. pounds
butter pounds ralsins, ounces nutmegs B eggs
quart milk. "a pint rum. pound citron, orang es
Nil az follows. al night: Weigh everything
!. sugar and butter IS OF yeast: most OF -four and
necessary milk. Work over In tho morning add
ing remainder Of those Ingredients and Adding
eggs, lrIt rum &C last MARY A. KNous
NEw HAVEN. Sept. ~.
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The Right to Be Heard at the White
House

An esteemed correspondent signing
priety Of further intercourse between
the President of the United States and
the leaders of the labor organizations
which have taken up the Miller case.
Our correspondents remarks are sug-
gested by published report that the
leaders are to be admitted to confer
ence" with the President on the subject
of open Government shops.
Sometimes the choice of term makes
q great difference. The word CONFER
ence" carries the idea OF meeting for
the discussion of something not already
settled, with both Of the parties TO the
conference participating in the settle
ment of the business by compromise or
otherwise conference in that sense
there could not be between the President
of the United States and the labor lead
ers, without loss of official and personal
dignity on the part of the former, such
as no President in his right mind would
ever contemplate.
Yet when a number of citizens with
definite ideas on a certain matter of in
terest to themselves approach the Presi-
dent with request to be heard on the
same can he refuse them hearing, pro-
vidng always that his mutifarious ex-
ecutive duties leave him time for the
interview How can he shut the door in
the face of the delegation, even if they
come to protest vainly against an i'm
movable purpose upon which he has
resolved?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN had many such ex-
periences. Parties Of respectable citi
zens from various parts of the country
used to visit the White House to urge him
to discontinue the war for the preserva-
ton of the Union. The great President
was accustomed to receive his fellow
citizens, if he had the time to listen pa
tiently to their representations and to
usher them out politely when they had
said their say,
Those meetings between Mr.. LINCOLN
and his advisers or professionals might be
styled hearings; but they can hardly be
described as conferences.
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Miracles,

DR.. PATTON, the president of the Pres
byterian Theological Seminary at Prince
ton, is one Of the sanest, acutest minds
in the whole range of theology. He
never misses an essential point or seeks
to avoid it because the inevitable con-
ciusion from it would be uncomfortable
to either the new or the old theology,
or because it would involve an ire
pressible conflict with science.
In the intellectual operations Of DR..
PATTON there is courageous honesty
in the direction which we often, nay,
usually, miss in the new fashioned
theologians We observe in this latter
day school much timidity. They dare
not 20 to the theological conclusions of
their arguments, for these would land
them in the square infdelity where
really they belong. For this new the
ology the question Of miracles is a
stumbling block They fight shy of
it, or if they venture to tackle the sub
ject they essay to give "fgurative
explanation which leaves the miracle
something FIWlAL pbeut Imagining
and a superstitious hallucnation- Wis
ion OF mind distraught or a fancy en-
gendered by the exaltation Of religious
enthusiasm, profitable for contemplation
as spiritual imagery, but not AZ fact
of history.
DR.. PATTON is too honest and his logical
discernment is too clear for him to de-
ceive himself with any such subterfuge,
In sermon at the autumn opening of
the Princeton Theological Seminary last
Sunday DR.. PATTON presented the only
view Of miracles which is compatible
with the existence of Christianity AS
n religion, or as supernatural system
of divine origin.
DR.. PATTON sees plainly that TO deny
or doubt miracles or attempt 10 explain
them away ls 10 give up the very folnda-
Ton OF Christianity as IA religion and 10
leave II with nothing more than basis Of
human philosophy and poetical mag
nation on which 10 rest christianity. )"
as he said at Princeton on Sunday, lis
piece Of information given supernatur-
ally and miraculOusly' or IL is no more
than mere superstition, ii mythology.
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1t may exist as moral philosophy with
out supernatural birth and mission for
JESUS, but it ceases to be religion, the
religion which has built the temples of
worship of CHRIST. If JESUS was a
mere man, worship of him is idolatry.
And il the one essential miracle Of the
Incarnation is accepted, what difficulty
is there in the acceptance of the rest OF
the miracles of the Bible, if not of other
miracles dogmatically proclaimed as OF
subsequent occurrence!
DR.. PATTON meets the issue made by
scientific inidelity with a square pro-
fession of faith in miracles as requisite
to Christian religious belief, and it is
the only way in which it can be met, IL
the miracles are not TO be received as
historical facts the worship in thousands
of churches, the teaching in hundreds Of
theological schools and the hope which
has inspired countless millions Of man
kind for nineteen hundred years and
more are vain and superstitious delu-
sions and the contest of Churches as to
the possession of Divine authority to
teach and represent the Christian re-
ligion is farcical controversy.
Correspondents are discussing in THE
Sun candidates for election as Coad-
jutor Bishop of the New York diocese
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. We
observe however, that little or no atten-
ton is paid by them to the distinctively
theological position Of any Of the candi-
dates put forward. II is true that their
varying schools of "Churchmanship"
are Observation-Disclosures they are High
or Low" Broad" or Catholic" But is
not the really important question how
they stand toward Christianity: whether
they believe in its miraculous origin and
character, as DR.. PATTON believes, or
regard the Bible as simply comfortable
and inspiring literature to which proph-
cts and other enthusiasts contributed
visions and poetic imaginings? Is it
worth while to quarrel over the title to
Churchly authority by right Of descent
from the Apostles unless there has come
with the physical inheritance DR.. PAT
TONS uncompromising Apostolic belief
in the miraculous origin Of Christianity
as fact of history?
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The Battle Of Antictam.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Sir: The ques-
ton as to the Union commander at the Battle
Of Antietam is Of little importance as compared
with the result Of that eng cement.
By the Confederates Antietann was looked
on as far from a defeat. Not many years
after the Civil War when was visiting South
Carolina, the late Judge William Henry Wal
lace Of the Supreme bench Of that State, spoke
of the Battle Of Antietam. In which he was
engaged as commander Of South Carolina
brigade. saying: After Antietam felt con-
fident that we had won Our Independence"
Antietam cannot be called a Union defeat.
nor can 1t truthfuly be described as a Union
victory. Lee. so far from being routed. held
most Of the ground on which he fought. and
retired more than twenty-four hours after
tho battle. in good order and without attack
or fear Of attack. On THE UNION SIDE.
NEW YORK, Sept. %.
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The subjoined letter was written on
Tuesday by the Hon. ANDREW d. WHITE
to Governor ODELL:
III, E1ceAencV. the Hon. Benjamin b ofeH, Jr.,
Governor. dc. Albany ~ Y;
SIR: Allow me- as one OF your fellow citizens,
to thank you most sincerely for the manly ludcious
and patriotic stand you have taken In dealing with
the applications for pardon Of the brothers VAN
WoRMER
eau well understand that you have been under
severe pressure and many temptations to finch
from your duty; that you have been beset by short
sighted persons who mistakenly think themselves
humane; that, indeed. you have had to resist pain
fully the impulses Of your own heart.
When ono compares your conduct with that
of some Of your predecessors In much less trying
cases. and when see TO what contemplate
condition law and justice have been brought In
some Of our sister States by weak or demagogioa
or whimsical use Of the pardonng power, We may
we'll be proud Of the prcsen attitude OF our own
commonwealth and Of Its Governor.
Be assured, dear sir, that In this matter you
have not only won the profound respect Of the
great body Of thinking observers throughout this
State and nation. but that you have secured the
gratitude of all your fellow citizens in all parts OF
the Union who. contem plating the fearful number
of high crimes during late years believe that mis-.
taken lenIty has been one OF their greatest causes.
and that the frequent exercise OF the pardoning
power has proved to be. not mercy. but cruelty.
/ remain, dear sir most respectfully yours.
ANDREW d. WHITE.
ITHACA. N Y. Sept 70.
these words must blister.
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One OFFENCE by italians.

TO THE EDITOR OF The SUN--Sir' THE Sun
Ia one of the very few journals-some think
It about the only one that do not imme-
diately become on the stroke Of midnight
yesterday paper" At all events. its in
terest for me does not depend on the date
OF the ISSUE 1t Is welcomed because 1t caters
for all sorts and conditions Of men, and many
varieties Of women But that is not what
want to talk about. would speak OF the
admirable letter from Mr.. Marchisio in de-
fence Of the Italians Of the United States
With much that he says all will agree. while
he might have given the Italians credit for
one admirable trait that he failed to cite;
namely, that the laborer will work steadily in
the field without need Of an overseer. Thus
the employer gets better value for his wages
than from any other nationality. Let us
hope the walking delegate will not read this.
The admiral editorial that appeared stimuli
taneousy with Mr.. Marchisio's defence but
tressed his claims for his compatriots and
laid under obligations all the readers and
thinkers who appreciate the debt Of mankind
to that nation. regnant in arta arms and
learning when the rest of Europe was ensaved
by ignorance.
Here. too, there was an omission. While
lauding the true art Of Italy, the bad art ought
to be as strenuously condemned. l refer
to the organ grinder nuisance that Is main
81 every citizen s u With the slightest musical
perception. and Furthermore to the vexation
Of every writer or reader within earshot. If
the sufferer goes to his window to wave away
the tormentor, tho beggarly or burly grinder
or. II may be, the woman dressed In appro-
pirate black las il in mourning for the lost
chord. mon existent in the instrument OF tort
ureJ, these tormentors smile blandly with
tantalizing artlessness., knowing well there
Now, il Prof. Marchisio will do something
truly helpful for the national reputation,
let him use his undoubted energy In sup
pressing the discordant hand organ. 1t
exists now only as z nuisance. 1t has, In
the owner i or grinder hands solely nuisance
value. There is plenty OF law to prevent
yender from stopping at your pavement
with q CARLOAD of decayed hsh There
is law. too to arrest beggar who assails
the eyes of the passers with display of I'LL
cerous sores. But why IL there no law en-
forced against narrowing the ears OF every
Of special responsiveness. because it simulate.
Strange coincidence. that the country of
Palestrins, Pergolese, Rossini Bellini and
Verdi should be the mother Of the organ
grinding fraternity; but no other nation than
the Italian 40 ofYends. and no city of Europe
would tolerate such a nuisance for a month.
while this city seems % be at the mercy OF a
horde OF beggars who make their demands to
be bought off audible to at least a score Of
quiet households Pigs used to have the
freedom Of New York streets fifty years ago,
but they were less offensive than organs out
Of tune. +. B. Fl.
NEW YORK Sept 81.
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PRINCETON'S YEAR BEGINS.
President Wilson Obliged to Omit Address
OF NelcOme-SOphs Rampant.

PRINCETON, n. j., Sept %. Princetol
University began its 18th academic year
this afternoon with exercises in Marquand
chapel The customary address of WEI
come by the president had to be omittsl
owing to sudden slight indisposition o,
DR.. Wilson.
The returns from the entrance exam
nations are not all in, but the indica-
tions are that this years entering class
will be larger than that of last year. Recita
lions and lectures will begin tomorrow.
Already the sophomores are beginning
to make things lively for the new men
Tonight they paraded the streets shou
ing and singing, frightening the freshmer
and making them do all sorts Of ridiculous
stunts. Each train IL bringing in its load
OF upper classmen and by tomorrow nearly
all Of the students will be on hand.
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Contempt OF Law.

Governor VAN SAINT of Minnesota, the
statesman made illustrious by beginning
proceedings against the Northern Secur-
tiles Company, poured select assert
ment of noble ideas into the Chicago
Press Club the other day. When vio-
lations of law by powerful corporations
or men Of great wealth and influence go
unchallenged,' he said, then contempt
for law follows
The curious thing is that where there
are shoals of statesmen ready to leap
into sensational language or action at
the slightest suspicion of violation of
law by powerful corporation; states
men who sit up Of nights trying to catch
powerful corporations violating law;
statesmen who are bent upon saddling
powerful corporations with laws to
break these same statesmen are not
moved by the frequent and almost con-
tinual violation Of law by labor trusts.
The contempt of law so shown and
caused doesn't worry statesmen Of the
Van SAINT school
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The CANAL TREATY DEAD
Unless the Colombian Congress Rushed .
Bill Through on Tuesday NIGHT.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 13-A cable despatch
received at the State Department this
afternoon from United States Minister
Beaupr4 at Bogota, shows that seven hours
before the expiration of the time set
for the exchange of Publications OF the
Hay Herran clnal treaty the situation was
unchanged. What may have happened
in the closing hours of Tuesday night Min
lister Herran has no information. Neither
has the State Department, The following
announcement was made by the State
Department this afternoon:
-The Department OF State this afternoon
received from Minister Beaupre, at Bogota
telegram dated Sept, 20, p. NJ, stating
that since the introduction Of the proposed
law in regard to the canal treaty and its
first reading there h rs been no discussion
Of the measure in the Colombian Congress
and that the situation is IN changed
The proposed law referred TO Is UNDER
stood here to mean the new bill which
passed the Colombian Senate some days
ago, and which authoriz ~ President
Marroquin TO negotiate new canal treaty
with the United States along certain lines
laid do WIN in bill providing that the Panama
Canal Company shall pay Colombia $4,000
900 and that the United States shall pay
$Z0,UU,0OO
This bill went to the House Immediately
after passing the Senate, and was there
referred to committee, but so far as known
here it has not been taken up for discussion
What may have been done in the closing
hours Of Tuesday. II anything. to keep
the Hay-Herran treaty alive, is problemati-
cal, but it was said at the State Depart
ment this afternoon that there was just one
chance in a thousand that on Tuesday night
a new bill might have been rushed through
the Colombian Congress authorizing Preei-
dent Marroquin to negot late treaty with
the United States on the best terms obtain
able, and that President Marroquin, being
a stanch friend Of the Hay-Herran treaty,
might have forthwith signed that treaty
and instantly informed Minister Beaupre
OF his action, which would constitute com
plete ratificat ion by Colombia.
There is absolutely nothing to base such
hope upon except private advices re-
ceived by persons interested In the cana
scheme that something of the kind might
be attempted. If it was attempted, the
news cannot be looked for here until to-
morrow morning The general opinion is
that negotiations for a canal will have to
begin anew.
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THE PRESIDENT AND TRADE
UNTONISM.
Remarks on tho Report Of an Intended
Conference With Labor Leaders.

Remarks on tho Report Of an Intended
Conference With Labor Leaders.
To THE EDITOR or The SuN-Sir: An
nounoement IL made Of the purpose Of Mr..
Roosevelt to hold an early conference with
labor leaders, with view Of reaching an
amicable settlement of the difficulties re-
sulting from his action In the Miller case
This places Mr. Roosevelt in anything but
a commendable light. 1t savors of the
vacillation Of a weakling and not Of the
courage OF a strong and right minded man.
sure Of his position.
So far as the President is concerned, the
argument should now be closed. He
has made definite and concise statement
of his position. Il heartily approve Of
this award and judgment by the COM
mission appointed by me- That COM
mission .adjudged and awarded that no
person be refused employment or In any
way Disseminated against on account Of
membership or non membership In any
labor organization" There Is no vague
ness, no room for argument or discussion
In either the declaration Of the President
or the judgment Of the commission. To
parley with the representatives Of those
who have declared themselves as opposed
to the ground thus taken is confession Of
weakness, the cause Of which Is readily
attributable to purely political and there
fore unworthy motives.
II the President consents to a conference
with Mr.. John Mitchell or any committee
representing the unions he has antagonized
the consent should be attended with state
ment Of his conviction OF the correctness
OF his original position and the assertion
OF his purpose to stand unalterably by
that position. The conference may be
granted as an act Of courtesy to body
Of citizens, but 1t should not be allowed
to descend to an argument regarding either
the righteousness or the policy Of the Presi-
dents position. A principle Is involved
upon which there can be no honorable
compromise, and Mr.. Roosevelt has openly
and fearlessly committed himself to the
support Of that principle.
1t is now no moro possible for him to
retract or to recede from his clearly stated
position with honor or with the hope Of
retaining the esteem Of the people than
1t would have been for Martin Luther when
he was summoned before the Diet
II Mr.. Roosevelt was right In July, he
Is right to-day, and there should be no
weakening. Perhaps never again will he
have so large an opportunity to exemplify
In practice the doctrine which he breaches
with such vehemence. He need not be
discourteous to the representatives of
trade unionism, but he can give to the
world an exhibition Of backbone which
will command its respect and approval.
A WELL WIsHER.
WARRINGTON, Sept. 20.