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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
NOT 4 DANGEROUS CONFERENCE.

The purpose of the Citizens Union in arrahs
ing for q conference of the various orgaliiza-
tions which are expected to oppose Iafnilahs
in the coming municipal campaign seems W
have been misunderstood In some quarters Inc
misunderstanding was not the fault OF the Cltl-
zens Union which had distinctly dlscIallheu
any intention of proposing candidates at TINS
time or of laying out programme or pohucai
work for the summer. The sole OBJECT Oh lhe
conference is, as it always has peen, 10 piine
the several bodies which were animated t"o
years ago into friendly relations again, ana 10
elicit expressions of sympathy with the idea OF
cooperative movement TO maintain a good
administration of municipal AFFAIRS.
There is nothing about such a conference
fairly considered. to cause anxiety or excite
opposition. OF course, it is much too early 10
nominate candidates or even TO bring pressure
to bear in favor of particular indlVlduals, ana
nobody has more emphatically declared that
fact than the chairman of the Citizens Union
There is no indication on his part of a desire to
commit any delegate to posltlon whlch nlis'll
nroye embarrassing There will be, We are sure
no semblance Of q dictatCr1al spirit at the con
ference. The German-American Reform Union
MIGHT have heen represented without the slight
est risk of losing whatever prestige it may en-
10Y among German voters. and its determine
ton not to participate is an evidence of need
less timidity AS Secretary Fulton said yes
terday. leach anti-Tammany organization can
prepare for the campaign as it pleases-" Each
will presumably desire TO recruit its energies
as far as possible during the summer in order
that it may be able to exercise an influence
satisfactory TO its members when the time Tor
combination arrives and make credltable con-
tribution 10 the result. At the conference next
Monday nothing more than the cordial express
sion of common purpose is practicable, and
nothing more is expected
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In the ancient Spanish city of Murcia there has
Just been carried out the annual ceremony OF al
most grotesque splendor known as the burial or
the sardine." Just what symbolism there may be
in the festival does not appear There was a
splendid cavalcade of horsemen giants represented
Europe Asia and Africa, thus showing that the
ceremony dates from before the discovery or
America; chariots of strange characters from re-
mote countries, with to represent his satanic
majesty; mounted fish, crocodiles and all manner
of monsters and, finally. the "sardine," resplen-
dent as Venus at the bottom of the sea On the
borders of the city the "burying' took place, fol-
lowed at night by the apotheoss. when the sardine
figured floating in sea of flaming light
Eve women" she saying again. suffer in
silence" ,
II can readily believe that you do suffer In
silence" the man replied. You take so much
pleasure in talk."-(Philadephia Press
1.-THE Saltwater (Okla) Advance" refers to the al
legged danger of kissing, and denounces it I'M
mitigated SANDER on the women. There can be no
more danger in kissing a beautiful woman" says
the paper than in kissing the sunlight or new
blown rose, and for the purpose of demonstra ting
our position we stand ready to kiss any white
woman (who does not wear store teeth from Cape
Cod to Kalamazoo. We not afraid of this dia-
bolical kissing microbe; and the who would
recommend the abolition of the health giving kiss
is fit only for treason stratagem and spoils and is
clearly unconstitutional and should be abolished
himself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
Amuseme

sc1DFMT OF MT-s1c~2~s:i5-Tne Suburban.
AMERICAN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 60.
REI,ASCO THEATRE-2-S-The Darling OF the toos-
BIJOT -2:15-S:l5-Nsncy Brown.
BROADWAY THEATRE-2-S-The Prince OF Piseh
CIRCLE S.I5-Naudevile-
CRITERION THEATRE-2:l5-S:3o-A Message from
e.
pALYs THEATRE-2:13-s:I5-My Lady Peggy Goes 10
Town.
EDEN NT-S-E-2-s-The World in Wax.
GARDEN TETEATRE-2:3o-S:30- EveryTnan ,-.r
GATRICK Observation-Disclosures * TO- VEAL
Street
HARLEM OPERA BOUSE-2-Rip Van Ninsie--o.
Cricket the Hearth ard Lend Ne rive ohi Is
ALL SQUARE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FeeSs-
TRTTSC1 PLACE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Geisha-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Performance -s
rll psFa TPE-a-S-Nr. Blue Beard
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-2:50-s3So-A fooa anu
Money
MAJESTIC THEA TI<E-2-s-The Wizard of o.
MANHATTAN THEATRE-el5-S-2o-Ihe Lar OF F@"
MURRAY BILL, THEATRE-a-s--othelo
NF-w SAvOY-a:I5-S:I5-The vinegar Buyer
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Performance: ~,
Mess THE :S0-s:3a-There and Back
PROC-TOR'S THEATRES-Cor7edv and Vaudeville
VICTORIA TTIEaTRE-2-S:15-The Auctoneer
" A I.Ar Sultan or Sulu
ZE-T-ST T-NsTp THEA TRT-s-Thc Crisis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
FRANCHISES AS REAL ESTATE.

When commenting two days ago On the rela-
ton of special franchises to the debt limit we
overlooked the fact that the section of the con-
stitution prescribing the limit Of Indebtedness
was amended in 1889. Mayor Rodenbeck Of
Rochester, in letter published in another col
umn, calls attention to this, and shows that he
was right before in saying that when the peo-
pie enacted this provision of the constitution
the Franchise Tax law was on the statute book.
Therefore the "real estate subject to taxation
as it appeared the assessment ROLL, which
the constitution made the measure of the citys
borrowing capacity, included the franchise vaiu-
atoms.
Provisions for the most part identical with
this section were in the constitution previous
to 1899, but when the same legislature which
passed the Franchise Tax law proposed an
amendment changing the rule respecting county
debts in greater New-York the whole section
was submitted to the people, and as it now
reads was adopted in November, 1899, over six
months after the passage of the franchise tax.
Such adoption took place in the light of the
statutory defnluon of real estate subject TO
taxation" at that time. If the people had not
meant to use that term as it was used in the
statute, where it included franchises they
would have made an exception to the statutory
rule and an independent definition of their own
The Appellate Division has on other grounds
declared that franchises must be taken into
account in estimating the borrowing capacity
of a city. Even if it had not, the readoption Of
the constitutional provision regarding the debt
limit after franchises were subject to taxation
as real estate would settle the question
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
Aesu-l1crI; DAHL, Gribra,Ie
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1903.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoRETGN.-The Russians reoccupied New
Chwang, bringing in several large guns, and
also garrisoneG the forts at the mouth OF tie
Lao River; ii was reported. further. that they
were building forts on the hills at Lao Z ung'
commanding the road to the Yalu River. -
An attempt by z Bulgarian band to blow up a
ro7x6e- MAGAZINE in SIonastir on Wednesday
caused panic in that town; the Prime Minister
of Bulgaria sent telegram to Prince Ferdinand
in Paris urgently requesting the latters return
TO Sofa. - The airship built for the Lebaudy
brothers and one of Santos-Dumont's airships
had successful trials in France. - The Co
lombian Congress has been called to meet IN
special session on June 20. - Senator Scott.
If West Virginia, after tour of several Euro
Dean countries. said that he considered the
American workrnen and the American soldiers
superior to the soldiers and workmen Of Eu-
rope - Blu bonic plague has been discovered
inert railroads in Victoria, Australia, struck
because the government said that they must not
affiliate with trade unions.
DOMESTIC.-President Roosevelt visited
Pasadena and Los Angeles. and saw the annual
festival OF flowers in the latter city -
Postmaster General Payne relieved A w
Machen. the general superintendent of free de-
livery. from duty. pending the close of the
postal investigation - Secretary Root mas
exonerted General Baldwin from the charge of
criticising Filipino and negro soldiers. -
College presidents from all parts Of the country
University in Chicago to discuss the rela1ions
OF colleges to professional schools :" The
national conference Of Charities and Correc-
lions was continued at Atlanta, with discussion
Of many topics in which the members OF the
conference are interested
CTTY.-stocks were dun and firm - The
subway excaVators voted to continue their
strike for six months If their demands were not
granted: the contractors planning to fill
the places Of the strikers with negroes on Mon
day; policemen rode on coal carts to protect nom
union drivers; eight thousand bricklayers threat
sned quit if their forenen were not union
men: one striker was killed and non-union
nan probably fatally injured in labor disputes
-= Seven Italians were held as accessories TO
the barrel" murder - A man committed
suicide by hanging in a cell at the Morrisania
police station. - The Appellate Division re-
f sed to uphold the injunction sought by c. [.
Barney to hold up subway work in Park-ave.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest "A
tlee-~eas. lowest. 30.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
NOTES OF SOCIETY I'M WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. May SAN out OF town enter All
ment of this afternoon which attracted sooi.lS
was the tea given by Mrs. John Biddie at the OoNi
try Club =, -
Admiral and Mrs Dewey have closeo 'tei. -. -,
house and gone for the early summer u '
urban place in Woodley Lane
Mrs. Pnchot. who has been with her SON "'lO. =.
Pinchot, since he returned from the PhhppiiIeS -
the fall went to New-York to-day Her son '11t
Washington on Monday for Minnesota "Hsi -
will insnect the forests on the Chippewa Indian
lands He will De gone three weeks 49,. r-bo
Mrs. Daniel s. Lamont and her dausnteer' 80
came to Washington for the Pilot GrossihdH "SN
ding returned to New-York yesterday o~.,
Miss Elizabeth Young daughter Of Genera
Young has returned from ten days visit 70 New
York. -, 49,. oar5s
Mr. and Mrs. William 5. CampDeH nave Catsr
out for tomorrow at the home or their ddusntSI'
Mrs John c. Keton, when they Will give re sJl;
ton to celebrate the sixtietn anniversary OF
marriage. Mr.. Campbell was commissioner g 80
by President Tyler in 1873 and aftsr Sf4TrisT
at several Continental posts closed MS Oiiiot1'
career in England in 1888
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
RETURN OF THE GRIP.

Influenza is now keeping physicians busy In
several parts of the United States, but with less
painful and enfeebling symptoms and conditions
than in some former years. People everywhere,
however, ought to be on their guard against its
attacks. Freedom from exposure and from
overwork, regular hours, plenty of sleep, nour-
ishing food in moderate quantities overeating
often invites trouble from this malady-the care
full avoidance of sudden changes of tempera-
ture the barring out of draughts. the taking of
pains TO keep the feet dry and warm, the wear
ing Of fiannels until the hot weather is fairly
under way-all these precautions may prevent
suffering and the running up of big bills for
medical attendance.
a minor question obtrudes itself. Why
should anybody nowadays stick to the old fash
Toned French name of "ia grippe" for this
affiiction? Has 1t not by TINS time been set
tied and established long enough among the
users of the English tongue to cali IT by the
terse old Angio-Saxon word, so short but so ex-
pressive, grip" and drop the Gallo namey
The genuine grip takes hold hard enough, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
IN THE BERKsHIREs.

Lenox. Mass May CSpeciaD.-Richard Watson
Glider of New-York. is preparing 20 open next
week his country place. Four Brook Farm Mr.
Glider will have former President Grover C1svs-
land as his guest the end OF the month. Mr. CIsye-
land will come TO the Berkshires for trout fishing
which is at its height
General and Mrs. Marcus P. Miller. Of Washing
ton will spend the summer in Stockbridgs.
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Milton, OF Nsw-York
have arrived at their country place az Pittsheld
Mr. and Mrs. Max Z. Butler. Of New-York. have
opened their handsome country place IN PittsAeld.
Mrs. Writ Il. Walker. OF Chicago. is at her coun-
try estate OnOta Lake
John r. Proctor, president of the United States
Civil Service Commission, has leased cottage IN
TyTingha
George H. Morgan. Of New-York arrived at his
country place, Ventfort Hall. tonight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

Newport r. T.. May CSpeciaD.-Mrs John N1chs
olas Brown has rented Lyndenhurst. In Bellevue
ave-, for the season from James b Haggin. OF New
York who has abandoned his contemplated visit to
Newport for the summer
Mrs. E. A Arnold. OF New-York. who has been
inspecting her cottage In Middleton. has returned
to the city
Miss Helen Skinner and Miss Frances Skinner,
of Boston have opened their cottage. IN Red Cross
ave-. for the summer
Hollis H. HunneweIl. OF Wellesley, Mass. Is IN
this city for a short stay.
John w Ellis Of New-York, has rented his villa,
Stoneacre, in BelIevue-ave-, 10 Mrs Richard 4.
Townsend, Of Washington
Oliver Hazard Perry. Of Newton. Long Island,
is the guest of Samuel e Huntington
The arrivals from NeW-YOrk this evening were
William Watts Sherman. Mrs. l. L Spencer Mrs
Burke Roche. Mrs c. ". Gilmore, W. SJorrs Wells
and Edward J. BerWind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
D-NORROW'S PAPER.

Quite in keeping with this seasonable, buoy
ant, inspiring spring weather will be The Sun
day Tribune's offerings to its readers tomorrow
The proposed terrace along Columbia Heights,
in Brooklyn; views of NewYork from the Will
amsburg Bridge; the Bach festival in the old
Morayian Church at Bethlehem, Penn; the
Quaker statuary offered to Salem, Mass; the
unexampled food of immigration into this coun-
try at this time; students sign grabbing FRANKS
at Harvard; Mrs. Gardeners Fenway Court, IN
Boston; views of Mexico from a car window;
the old JumeI Mansion and the efforts to save
it from distinctions; Secretary Roots country
estate; additions to the Metropolitan Museum
of Art; plans for Harvesting the Victoria Falls
to machinery; the national convention of piano
makers; the fighting of forest fires; the passing
of New-York beggars; the travels of the rulers
of nations, and the application of surgery to
dogs are few of the topics of miscellaneous
interest which will be treated in special articles,
most of them richly illustrated.
There will, of course, be an ample array OF
book reviews, social chronicles, d0ings in the
world of sports, matters of interest to women,
juvenila, foreign correspondence, humOr, car
ICONS, entertaining miscellany and all the news
of the world, comprehensively gathered and dis
criminatingly edited. 1t be paper which
no UP to date reader can afford TO miss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
OUTDOOR DRAMATIcs AT WELLESLEY

Wellesley, Mass, May s-The Department. OF
English literature Of Wellesley College has ar
ranged for outdoor performance OF the morality
play "Everyman" and OF Ben Jonson's pastoral
The Sad Shepherd" May % is the date set for
the presentation of the plays. 'Everyunan'. TO be
given in the afternoon and The Sad Shepherd in
the evening If the weather should prove insult
able for an open air performance other arrange
ments viii be made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

Old familiar faces in the Police Department
legacies of former evil days. are vanishing. and
new men are coming to the front. The force is
making noteworthy progress Four new cap
tans appointed in a day and Inspector Cross
banished. "Shakeup'' after "shakeup" and up
heaval after upheaval, and all for the improve
ment of this branch of the municipal service.
Those "grafters' who remain are walking softly
and making no noise.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
is hard enough to shake off. without adding 10
the length Of it's name or its Irritating grasp
upon it's victims.

The Irish Land bill debate proceeds smoothly
with apparently a general agreement that the
measure must be licked into shape" and enact
ed. The contrast to debates over former irlsh
legislation is bewildering. 1t gives ground Iot
hope that a new era has actually dawned IN
Anglo-Irish relations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
PUBLIC EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

New-Haven, Conn. May s-The annual confer
ence of the Eastern Public Education Association
which began yesterday. continued to-day. The
programme included addresses on hygienic subjects
by Joseph Lee. of Boston. and Luther H Guliclx
and Miss Winifred Buck OF New-YOrk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
RECEPTION FOR n. FISH.

The annual meeting OF Group 8. New-Tork State
Bankers Association, will be held at the Lawyers
Club to-day at 40 p. M After the meeting there
viii be informal reception for Hamilton Fish.
Assistant Treasurer Of the United States. n this
city
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
c. J. FISK CRITICALLY I'LL.

TBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1
PlainfeId. ". J., May S-Ex-8Iayor Charles Joel
Fisk member OF the banking firm OF Harvey
Fisk & Sons. Network. is critically i'll at his
home here. He has heart disease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
The CABINET.

Washington. May (speciaD.-Mrs Knox VIII
leave Washington in a day or two to inspect 'he
summer home which the Attorney General mas
rented at Beverly Farms Mass
Secretary Root went New-York Tonight lie
will attend a dinner at the Lotos Club tomorrow
evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
SHORT VACATION EoR The MAYOR.

Mayor Low announced yesterday that he would
take a weeks vacation aboard his yacht Tha
Mayor expects to leave the city about noon to-day
by rail. His yacht reached Baltimore on Thurs
day and he will board her there with his wife.
cruise in Chesapeake Bay and neighbOrins waters
a r-la
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
GENERAL DI cEsNoLA HoNoREo.

The Royal Institute Of Fine Arts. Bologna, has
unanimously elected General di CesnoIa honorary
life member. The institute is one Of the Oldest
art schools. not only OF Italy. but OF Europe and
has its director the art writer and poet Pro-
fessor EnTico Panzac-hi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
MRS. C. VANDERBILT AT MEssINA.

Messina, Sicily, May S-The American yacht
North Star with Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt
board has arrived here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

Hamilton, N Y. May 6--The annual Grafton be-
fore the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Colgate Univer-
sity Will be delivered by Dr. James H. Garfield. T.
brarian Of Columbian University. on Wednesday
evening, June IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

which they were originally granted. and there
! is no reputable reason for reviving and pro-
| longing them In disregard of the wishes and III
| terests Of the city Of NewYork.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

An ex-Assemblyman in Brooklyn has peen
convicted of making a handbook on the races
The people of his district should see to 1t that
this common gambler is never again permitted
to hold a public office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

Washington. May tSpeciaD--Mrne- de mar
wife of the counsellor of the French EMBASSY
with her little SON will sail for France on May Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
About People and SocfdI Incidents.

Gehrmann of New-York; John 7. Norton. oe Al
bany- and Robert H. Could OF Bridgeport Hugh
6 Jarvis brother Of the BRIDE will Be best man
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

King Edward reviewed $4,000 Italian troops
in Rome this week, and the soldiers made gilt
tering show. If however, the amazing exodus
of Italian immigrants to America, and espe-
ciaIly to the United States and the Argentine
Republic, is kept up at the astonishing hgures
of recent years, how! are the ranks of the Italian
army to remain full?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

Professional detectives, a rule, are not ex-
tremely modest in their operations and claims.
Were they a bashfu and shrinking class tneS
might probably achieve only moderate success
in their efforts to entrap lawbreakers yet
some New-York taxpayers lift their eyebrows III
establishment when they read the items of ex-
penses filed in public records by who have
obtained evidence against faro banks. More
than one of these agents of the blind goddess
of justice may possibly have taken the vie"
that the latest of the fat Of the land was not
too fine for such favorites of fortune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

We hope the courageous passengers who sat
in a Metropolitan streetcar for three hours
rather than be damned into car ahead IN
violation of the ordinances will keep up their
courage and prosecute the lawbreaking COM
pany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
WILD SPORT IN MAYFAIR.

Bubbles The players blow bubbles along.
are to be the fashion this season.l
oh, no, we don't play ping pong now.
The racket's reign is Ger; -
EVEN wh the era 1eres oh eha fnp 9ef play
No longer makes for fame;
The net and balls slowed away.
We've found another game
You take pipe of common sort.
TWO chairs@cne tall. the other short
It's made a most enormous hit.
And Bubbles is its name
And If you try it you'll admit
It's quite thrilling game
It's seen at brushes balls ard fetes
oh, would that could pen
The wild excitement it creates
Among the upper teni
His nightly bridge the duke forsakes
The MARQUIS does the e., same n
It's such jolly game!
And if you seek the reason why
They play it with such zest,
The constant putting they reply
Is splendid for the chest.
And-here's its highest claim
II doesn't overtaI the mind.
That's why they Ike the game:
-CLondon Chronicle
Senator Blackburn tells story of constituent
Of who holds the office of trial Justice in the
Blue Grass State. His own son was brought be-
fore him charge of drunkenness and disor-
DERBY conduct His honor listened gravely TO the
evidence which established a clear against
the voting man. and said: 1.-The count will now
render sentence You're fined one cent and costs
The count will remit the costs and you may go
homo and thank God that your father is the
Judge"
Alyce Appleton. who went TO the ST. Louis exer-
cises writes homo that she had to pay ST yester-
day for ham sandwich. and then the waiter stole
the ham and put il back into another sandwich be-
fore II got to her Coffee cost s. Is cup aud she
sat on a mans lap seventeen miles In a streetcar
because there was no other seat She had seen
nothing when she wrote but two men before bar,
who were pointed out 70 her the Governors OF
North and South carolina---lA tchison Globe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09
POPE RECEIVES w. souRKE COCHRAN.
DR.. cANFIELp 10 SPEAK Al COLGATE.

Rome. May S-W- Bourze Cochran was received
to-day in private audience by the Pope.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

Golfers who use the public links at Van Cort-
landt Park report that the mosquitoes there TINS
spring are more numerous and more pestlferous
than ever before. Park Commissioner Eustis
should borrow some of DR.. Lederle's apparatus
for a day or two and sprinkle his ponds and
pools with crude petroleum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-09

It is coming to be a Hobsons choice with the
builders of this city. The wrangles of rival
trades unions and the excessive cost of work are
making it a matter of Indifference whether all
building is suspended or hope of profits from
activity abandoned