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New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER a. 1908.
TEE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Joseph Chamberlain delivered a
notable speech on the tariff issue at Glasgow
- The unstable character OF Mr.. Balfours
Cabinet generally remarked in England
g.. II stated at Yokohama that an
arnicable settlement Of the dispute with Russia
was expected. despite the popular agitation.
- Advices from Sofia said the entire Raz-
log district was IN possession Of the Turks
- The civil marriage of Prince Andrew Of
place at DarEstadt - speed OF 10 40
miles an hour was reached on the Zossen cleo
rric line 80 The funeral OF Sir Michael Her
bert took place AZ Wilton, and a memorial ser
vice held at Marlborough House Chapel
Brazil has awarded contract involving
S25.oec0e0 for harbor improvements at BIO
Janeiro. - Mr.. Dickinson continued to sum
up the case for the United States before the
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. - Venezuela
has been condemned to pay $4,000 TO satisfy
the claim Of Mexican capitalists.
DoMESTIC-It was finally determined that
the extraordinary session Of Congress next
month would be devoted exclusively TO iegisla-
treaty. - President Roosevelt appointed
three American members of an international
commission 10 consider water routes from the
Great Lakes TO the Atlantic. - The report
of the Postofflce Department auditor showed
postal transactions in the last year Of more than
billion dollars; the deficit was more IMAM
100000 80 A service in memory of Sir
Michael Herbert was held in Washington. Presi-
dent Roosevelt being present =- III was oe-
cided TO reduce the output OF pig iron IN the
Central west .5 per cent for the next three
months --= The Republican convention IN
Rhode Island nominated Colonel :. T. Cot Tor
Governor and 6 II. Utter for Lieutenant GOV
.rnor and renolninated the incumbents for the
other Offices and indorsed the administration or
President Roosevelt - The court OF Appeals
fastsinea the Brooklyn school teachers IN their
suit acainst the Board OF Education TO recover
salaries =- Supreme Court decision IN
New Hampshire apparently permits Chrlstiah
science healers 20 practise. == Al the Dan
l,,rv fair the awards were announced for cattle,
horses and dogs.
f-TTy-Stocks were dull and irregular
-r,e fusion conference decided on +. w hlh.
,tc,e for Controller on the ticket in the place OF
ar C;rort - Mr. Grout. il was learned viii
make no fight to stay on the Repuplcah uCAel' S'
In VAS learned that James X Jones chslr-
MAN Of the National Democratic commute:
--orls make a partisan appeal here in oehalf OF
Tamnarv - Brooklyn Democrats salu
f-rout and Fornes would not be allowed 70
sneak Al the Democratic meetings IN Brooklyn'
- Central Office detectives raloed nat
fsnatne 81 900 worth Of plunder salo 10 nave
oeen taken from department stores; iour rrls-
oaers were made. == Collector Stranahan re-
oeived a check for over $500 for the conscience
.una" - Winners at Morris Park; Prince
1hinr. Almanzor. GreenCrest, Grenade, Conun-
drum Caughnawaga-
THE WEATHER. Indications for to-day:
Partly cloudy. The temperature yesterday;
Highest, 90 degrees: lowest, 90
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
A COINCIDENCE.
fiscal world

Reports of attacks on Jews in Russian towns
have been so numerous of late that they fall
to excite much comment, and the massacre Oh
women and children by Russian moDs Is
classed among the ordinary occurrences OF the
day. A few days ago pathetic letter was re-
ceiyed in this city from Russia from the wife
of a resident of the East Side. The writer
gave some revolving details Of the Gomei
horror, but the letter was not finished Dy
the unfortunate woman who began 1t. The
task devolved upon the daughter, because since
her mother had written she also had fallen a
victim. Yesterday" she wrote, mother was
sound and healthy. To-day she lies on her
bed wounded hardly drawing her breath. Her
injuries are fatal, and none of us escaped in
Jury. We are in a terrible condition. Have
mercy on us and save u.s..
In reading this pitiful appeal it is a source
of comfort to the people of this country to
know that the ghastly scenes by which it
was evoked were enacted IN q far away land,
and that there is no sympathy among Amer
leans with the spirit of bigotry which makes
itself manifest in murder. The fact, however,
that on the same day when the Gomel letter
was made public a Jewish woman living In
the tenement house district of this city was
shot and severely wounded, for no reason, eX-
cept, as she said because some Of the neigh
bors hate the Jews" showed that the Russian
barbarian has some following even in enlight-
ened New-York.
The unfortunate people in Russia have little
to expect in the way of redress by complaint to
the authorities for there the machinery of JUS
tice. if not broken, is certainly sadly out of gear
and the cry Have mercy on us and save u.s.
is naturally directed toward the outer world
Fortunately there is here no such condition, and
the law will not permit in New-York the spirit
which is rampant in Gomel.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON



Washington Oct. 6.-lfiss Elizabeth young "no'7
marriage Captain Hannay, OF the "a 4hlail.i =
tomorrow afternoon is the topic In army cIe4I9
gave a luncheon to-day at RauScners 1of hei NO. %
of honor, Miss knight. and her oridesInalos' sis'
Ruth Kelly and Miss Leah Kelly, OF sprinsIeIu'
Ohio; Miss Carlotta n. Klemn. OF St LOUIS -IlSS
Gertrude Bayne. Miss Edith Needham ana MISS
Mary Wallace Dewitt. all OF washington NUM-
her of guests from out OF town have arrived mere
to attend Miss Young's wedding tomorrow MISS
Rayne entertained the wedding party at dinner
tonight.
Captain Hannay gave a dinner at the Army ana
Navy Club tonight in honor OF his best man an"
ushers. The guests were Captain Peter W DaVio-
son. Colonel Clarence Edwards. Captain Robert Ia
Hamilton. Captain Horace 81. Reeve. Captain
Frank Dewitt Ramsey, Captain Robert w. Mearns
and Lieutenant Dean Haiford-
Mr. and Mrs. L. u. Letter arrived to-day at tneir
home in Dupont Circle. after spending the summer
Bar Harbor.
The Secretary OF Commerce and Mrs Cortelyou
have their guests Mrs John Schroers, OK SI
Louis and her daughter. Miss Klemm-
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert H Grosvenor have returned
to Washington from their bridal trip abroad. and
are at present with the brides mother Mrs Gardl-
ner Hubbard. at Twin Oaks. Woodley Lane.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

from this personal controversy, is that now, Tor
the first time In fifty years, Great Britain has
an avowedly antiCobdenite, If not actually pro-
tectionist. AIinstry-somethng that our Golden
ite friends a few years ago regarded as quite
impossible. 1t may be added that the next
electoral campaign is certain to be fought on
the issue of free trade versus protection-the
first time in fifty years that that issue has
been before the people-and the reorganization
of parties will be made on those lines. Instead
of Cobdenism taking the aggressive and con-
verting the whole world, it is now thrown upon
the defensive and is fighting for life in its own
birthplace and home. Not in our day has there
been n more interesting and significant spec
tacle than that in the whole commercial and
fiscal world
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
HRS. SAMPSON HOME FROM EUROPE.

Mrs. William 7. Sampson widow or AdrnIrai
Sampson, and her son. Harold. returned from Ger
rnahy Yesterday on the Finland Mrs Sampson
for the last few months has been visiting her sis
ter who is living in Bavaria As soon as she had
finished with the customs officials she started TO
visit her daughter. the wife OF Sn artillery officer
stationed at Fort Hamilton
Senator George c. Perkins OF Oakland. Cal. re-
turned from a tour OF the Continent with hs
daughter. Miss Grace Perkins.
The present situation in England is interesting.
he said Were 1 an Engllshnan would ne1ievs
that Chamberlain is absolutely right As an Amer
lean. I strongly believe IN a protective tarlu As
proof Of that have lust paid 81 or sulall wa'c1
/ purchased for nv daughter in Switzerland i
am sure 1 could have got the watch here for less
money. -.
we can learn many excellent things By gong
abroad. For instance. we could learn from Ser
many much regarding the preservation OF our lor-
ests and good roads
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
About People and SocfoI lncfdenfs.

gone 10 Nsw-York TO attend the wedding Of Mrs.
Winthrop's They viii return 70 Lenox next
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt.
left for Sey-York to-day IN their automobile.
Mrs. J. H. Bsekran and Miss Beekman, wro
have been at Curtis Hotel. have gone 20 New-York
William A Reed. OF Nsw-Iork, viii give big
coon hunt at Brookhurst tomorrow evening
Twenty and women will go out under ths
direction OF guides
To-nights arrivals the Hotel AspinwaII Included
Mr. and Mrs Robert Winsor 8. A Pope. James
Pope Miss ri. A. Dean. Mrs. Charles o. Cage
Boston; Mrs Arthur s. Rogers. salem. Mr. and
Mrs H RI. Skinner. Springfield. Ward =. Foster
Mrs Andrew Anderson. ST. Augustine: Mis-
Leland New-York: Mr. and Mrs. Morris A Janney
Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs ". !. Berg. Nutiey. E
J.. Miss Vincent. Orange. y. }.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
form of gas. When Sir william Ramsay and

form Of gas. When Sir William Ramsay ana
Sir William Higgins, examined this substance
with spectroscope they decided that IT was
helium. For an instant one might interpret
this discovery as evidence that thorium ana
radium were compounds; but there is mucfi
more probable explanation of which the ap-
sorption OF hydrogen by platinum is an Mus
tration The phenomenon of "occlusion more
nearly resembles mechanical combination thah
chemical union. Hence for the present the
uninitiated must take it for granted that
radium is pure element, and that its pecnli-
arities are not fully explicable by previously
accepted notions.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
4 nusemsnE.

ACADEMY OF NCSIc-2-s :la-rrtnk.
AMERICAN THEATEE-c-S.1 .1f--Checkere.
BEL<ASCo NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the Gods
BfsOJ-Tosed ro-night Tor rehearsal
BROADWAY T1fEATlSE2-2-S. .l3-iearte courageous
CASINO TErATRE-Si5 i5-The Rnnawsys.
C7RC1,E--2-k-NaudeNile.
CRITERION-S.2 .20-The Man from Blsnkleys.
DALN'S TEEATRfI-2-s--Threc Little Maids
EDEN NCSFE-2-S-T'he World in Wax
GARDEN THEATRES 1o-f-iysses.
GAERICK TaEATRE-2-s l5-Her own Way.
HARLEM OPERA HOT OT-SE-S.1S-Nancy Brown.
HERALD SQUARE TEEATRE-s s20-Captain Dieppe
IRVING PLACE TITEATRE-S. .2o-Haberkorn
kFfTT1,S-f,onfinuouS Performance.
KNICkERBOCKER THEATRE-s-Rogers Brothers IN
London
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE 80 $40 - $40 - Pretty
Peggy
MANaATTAN THEATRE-s-Hedds Gaher.
MURRAY HILL THEATRES :1S--Under Cover
NEW-lORk TIL iEATRE-2-S-Ben Hur.
PRINCESS TFTEATPE-s 30-The Earl of Pswtucket
SAVOY THEATET5-2-S :3o-The Spcndeys.
VICTORIA TiEArRH,-2-s .15-The Jer&y LILY.
WA1d.Ac-K'S THEA TRr-2l5-s 2o-Peggy from Paris
WEEER a. FIELDS-S-Nhoor- -Dce-Doo.
WEST END TIE TFfc-2-s-A son Of
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
IN THE BERKSHIRES.

Lenox. Mass. Oct. (speciaD.-several o, the
cottagers who have been In Lenox throughout the
preparing to return to New-York. The
Misses Thompson will leave tomorrow for their
. town house.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r.. Martinez. who have been In
Pittsneld. have gone 20 their town house In West
Tenth-st. New-York.
Mrs. L. Fabbricott. who has been spending the
summer In Pittsfield. has returned TO New-York
Mra Robert Winthrop and Miss Winthrop have
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07
NOTES OF THE STAGE.
Rumor That Klaw & Erlanger Are to Pro-
duee Pilgrims Progress

Broadway was astOUnded yesterday by a rurror-
Broadway is not often astounded by rumors; it
hears too many Of them But this one. besides bear
ing certain earmarks Of authority was OF u1coru-
mon character II is. in fact that Joseph Arthur
is preparing a dramatic version OF that classic of
the Overwrought Puritan conscience. the Pill
grim's Progress" which will De produced under
the direction OF Abraham l. Erlanger and Mars
I<law- For purposes OF eopyrlsnt IuIno. SAYS lie
Will Tyrone Power PLAY the leading part TIE
story could not be confirmed at the Offices OF the
syndicate last night.
Miss Alice Fischer is the drst actress to indorss
the new plan suggested by the trustees OF ths
Actors Fund for the support OF the Actors Home
on Staten Island. Miss Fischer has affixed her
signature to the form prepared BY her manager.
Henry B Harris for distribution among the players
in his employ. BY which he is authorized % de-
duct from their salaries weekly one-half OF per
cent as their peTson9i SonITi0Uln Ior tne support
knowledged at the end OF the season by the treas
broached at Tuesday meeting OF the trustees os
the fund. Il was believed that the generA adop-
home on sound financial basis.
u, mn I,s1s sn omeiaf mU % tsst ~ os r Sfs, Mss
Fischer. when approached on the subject. gave ie
lege OF being the first to sign the agreement Ths
actors now ,g esing ensagSd 70 support her N
ready willingness to follow her example.
Grace FIlkins. formerly leading woman for Burr
Mcintosh and other actors OF reputation. but who
retired from the stage some time ago after her
marriage Captain Mark U. s. N Is IN this city.
considering offers from several managers to act
more. One OF them she will accept. IL is also
reported that the widow OF Alexander Salviui VIII
return 10 the stage.
William A Brady has engaged Miss Ruth Hon
TO support Aubrey BOuccicault.
Rehearsals OF ''Babette.' the new comic operets
by Smith and Herbert. IN which Mime. Fritn
Schef will appear In this city in November, W.
begin Monday at the Broadway Theatre- A-lS
Schefr will arrive here from Germany q rev udss
later Frederick Latham viii conduct the rehe~A%
sails.
The advance sale OF seats for the Mansneid en-
gagement at the new Lyric Theatre began yss-
terday and brought out a large crowd one yours
woman brought her camp stool and a book W. W.
hours before the Office opened. 20 set lr9n. g.
In the line. and elderly woman rom EeN
chele tainted from long standing IN hns
Mr.. Sothern has cut from "a Proud Prince -
lines which objected 10 in Detroit oceufiAs
IN the second He did not personally & &tsei TO "a
they were Questionable. but wished doeo...-s1 "a
be on the safe side. They will not Do res'0'S~ y
the text .
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

All previous triumphs in New-England in
city hospitality on a large scale to visiting
body of uniformed guests seem to have oeen
surpassed in Boston's lavish entertainment OF
the Honourable Artillery Company of London.
Every provision for the entertainment and de-
lectation Of the warrior pilgrims from over
sea has been made with unstinted expenditure
and in spirit of the most cordial friendship.
and even of affection.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Mr.. Grout wants Mr.. Low to remember the
things that he (Grout) thinks he ought to re-
member. 1t is probably too much to expect Mr..
Grout to appreciate the principles which Mr.
Low and most other honorable men appreciate.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Can it be that Parks is, as he says really
through with strikes? We thought he was
going to order strikes against anybody who
opposed him.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Mr.. Chamberlain is commonly regarded as the
first class fighting man. of British poiitlcs'
But the urbane and philosophical Mr.. Balfour'
once his blood is reused. shows himself one or
the most formidable controversialists that ever
dominated a wordy arena. There is no occasion
to be surprised at IT, either, for the Irish found
ii out years ago. When he was appointed Irish
Secretary they called him Miss Balfour" and
a ivan, pale lily" and promised themselves
endless sport in batting him and driving him
out of Office in failure and confusion. But with
in three months they complaining of his
in1exible brutality" and they found in him a
master compared with whom even "Buckshot
Forster" was "as moonlight unto sunlight and
water unto wine" man may be a philos-
opher. and have "open mind" and lounge
languidly on the Treasury bench, and yet have
lots of hot. red blood in his veins-and some
times dash Of vitriol on his pen.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Senator John T. Morgan. of Alabama. is the
most sangune Of political optimists. He says
now that there are at least five hundred Demo-
Gratis in the country with qualifications for tne
Presidency superior to those possessed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Mr. Morgan's discovery is CAL
culated to make the work OF the next Demo-
cratic National Convention extremely difficult.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Returned to Tammany Hall amid universal
appreciation: Brother John" and Hep. NO
flowers. r. T. p
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

The following said to be the names Of the
Sultan of Jolos wives Scent of Lilies. Hearts De-
sire, Honey Of Life, Dancing Sunbeam. Blush of
Morning Oasis in the Desert, Moon upon the
Waters. Song of Nightngales. Whisper of the
West Wind and Rose in Bloom.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

J. J. Van Allen has abandoned his projected trip TO
Hot Springs Va. and is booked to sail on october
IL for Europe where he will spend the winter 1t is
understood that he will be accompanied by his
daughter. Miss May Van Allen
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Invitations have been issued for the wedding OF
Miss Eloise McElroy. daughter OF Mr. and Mrs.
William II. McEIroy. and Mark Stebbins at st.
Asnes Chapel in West Ninety-second-st.. on Octo-
her % 4 D. m.
New-York tribune., 1903-10-07

Miss Florence Harriet and s. Carman Harriet
who have been staying at the Elysee Palace Hotel
Paris since their return sailed the Blucher on
October for New-York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11
ACTOR WOULD
FIGHT DUEL
A. r. Walker Shows a ChaI-
lenge From S. W. Murdy
to County Attorney.

Challenges to fight "a duel to the
death" are so rare nowadays that A R.
Walker brought one purpOrting to have
been written by Samuel w. Murdy, an
actor, and sent to him from Finley,
Mimi, to County Attorney Kane that
he might bring legal proceedings
against the challenger.
The challenge, which Walker AYERS
is written in good faith and with sober
intent in spite of its serio-comic as
pect, is couched in the eXtraVagdnt
terms of the melodrana and voices a
desire to shed the gore of the recipient
on the field of battle. The choler Of the
challenger, however, led him into dis
play of ignorance of the time honored
custom governing Cluels in that he
names the weapons, vested right of
the challenged.
Walker stated yesterday that his
friendship for the wife of Murdy was
the cause of the challenge. Walker
lives at 1927 Charles street, and MuTdy
at 905 Edmund street, nearby. Walker
stated that he had known Murdy for
some time and that he and Mrs. ,Murdy
were officers of the same Christian En-
deaVor society. They became friends
and when Mrs Murdy was sick Walker
did many kind acts for her Mr.. Murdy
objected, he said, to their friendship,
because Jealous, and trouble followed.
the latest outcome of which is the in
vitation to fight a duel.
Last winter" said Walker, MurIy
kicked me and l have had two opera
lions since from the effect. But he
isn't content with that. Now he writes
me this letter.
He pulled from his pocket an express
envelope addressed to him and marked
"value S." Inside was the challenge in
a separate envelope.
L challenge you to a duel with guns, -
it opened. Il will be in the city soon
and arrangements can be made for the
time and place."
Further on it refers indefinitely to the
wrong" done him which only blood can
wash away. After Offering to furnish
notes of how a brave men should con-
duet himself upon the field of battle he
closes thus:
"All 1 want is a free field and a fair
fight"
Il don't want any trouble" said Mr..
Walker yesterday, but if. the law viii
not protect me l will protect myself"
County Attorney Kane did not take a
serious view Of the challenge and adj
Vised Walker to wait until Murdy re-
turned and then if he molests you have
him prosecuted.
The practice of dueling is strictly
prohibited by the penal code, which
places a maximum penalty Of seven
years Imprisonment upon anyone who
challenges or accepts challenge or has
to do either as principal, second, sur
geon or abettor with any such practice.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-11

the saving to the county and state
becomes greater.
Estimating that it cost the county
and state $170 per capita for the con-
Vlct1on and maintenance at the training
school per year, there has been a saw
ing made by the probation system in
Ramsey county Of 1920 in 1901 over
1900, and $S,075 in 1902 over 1900, and
$4,845 over 1901.
But the great expense annually to
county and state for the prosecution
and punishment of criminals is seldom
considered and little realized by the
ordinary citizen. Yet infinitely more
far-r reaching than the actual expense
saved is the moral effect which tends
to make better citizenship. The results
of the work Of the probation system in
this respect are little appreciated be-
cause not generally known.
"It must be admitted that the re-
suits reached through the application
of the probation law during the past
year are eninently satisfactory and
most gratifying, when it is considered
that out of total of 269 on probation
during the past year 1873 were released
after having proved themselves worthy
of confidence, leaving, besides, thirty
one who were otherwise disposed of,
fifty yet on probation. A third Of these
will be released Jan. 10, 1903.
Every delinquent placed on proba-
ton is taken from the court room to
the probation office and there he is
talked to and made to feel that the
officer is his friend and counselor, who
will aid and assist him while he re-
mains and endeavors to be a good boy.
He is required to report every two
weeks. In some cases a boy is re-
quired to report every week, and give
true and full statement concerning
his conduct. In all cases an effort is
made to have a personal interview with
the delinquent every time he reports,
and thus by kindness, firmness and
assisting him to secure employment, if
needed, the work of reforming is car
ried on quietly and we hope effectualIy
Nearly all delinquents fear the law, but
are never made to feel that they are