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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1903.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Storer's visit to the
Pope was said to have been for the purpose OF
urging Archbishop FaTley's appointment as
cardinal 80 King Alfonso has received the
resignation OF the present Spanish Cabinet.
- The Bulgarian Premier said that the youth
Of that land was being driven into rebellion
and emigration == The steamship Flora went
On The rocks on Denman Island, and will prove
a total wreck. - The people of Panama
greeted the signing Of The canal treaty with
cheers and the singing Of national airs. -
Chancellor Won BulOW opened the RelchStaS IN
the absence Of the Emperor. -- The Pope
has learned that several Vatican millions were
employed by Leo XIII in restoring the private
patrimonies OF aristocTatic Italian families.
DOAIESTIC.-The Senate committee which IS
investigating charges against General Leonard
Wood heard testimony from Melville l.. Stone,
Ray Stannard Baker and DR.. Pablo DesVer-
nenie. of Havana == The committees Of the
House or Representatives VIII be announced Dy
Speaker Cannon on Saturday. == The United
States submarine torpedo boat Moccasin broke
loose from her pier of Cape Henry, and was
sn danger of eing lost. - The Reading Rail
road detectives captured two men believed TO be
concerned in the robberies on the Shamokn
division CT the road; one is thought TO be the
1eaoer OF the gang - me DooleS OF an aseQ
couple, evidently murdered, have been found
under a wcodshed at their home in Buffalo; an
arrest has been made. - The State Railroad
Commissioners recommend that fifty cars be
added 10 the Brooklyn Heights railway system,
TO be operated on the lines OF heaviest travel
CITY-Stocls were strong and active. ~
It was reported that the remaining $50 100000
Of the S50000000 bond issue of the United
States Steel corporation had been taken up by
a banking house. - The announcement of
The government cotton crop estimate caused
The greatest excitement, the fercest competi-
zion and the largest volume of trading ever
known on the Cotton Exchange. == -Four
inches Of snow were cleared quickly from the
city streets; traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge was
again impeded. =- 1t was learned that Gov.
ernor Oden intended to depose some Of the
Brooklyn district leaders = Coroner Jack
son and a jury held an inquest on the recent
fatal tunnel accident: the jury decided IT was
due 10 weak timbers -= An insane man
Flashed his wife with razor and then committed
suicide == Henry Farley, colleague of
Sam" Parks and Timothy Mccarthy, who testi-
ned that he had perjured himself, was surren-
dered by has bOncsman. -= On complaint OF
& railroad agent, a former emplOye was arrested,
charged with larceny -= The police caught
q shOplifteT who only six years old
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Rain or snow: north TO east winds. The tenn
perature yesterday: Highest, SO degrees; low
fef %
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About People and Social Incidents
AT The WHITE HOUSE.
[FEoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

Washington. Dec. S.-The President to-day ac-
cepted invitation from Post No 3. Grand Army
Of the Republic. Department Of Pennsylvania, to
deliver an address at Gettysburg next Memorial
Day May 30 1904.
The Presidents callers included Thomas f. Walsh,
who presented Mr.. and Mrs Henry NJ FlagleF. IN
the party Miss Wilson. daughter OF the Secre-
tary of Agriculture and Frederick Townsend Mar
tin OF New-York.
Archie Roosevelt and his schoOlmate. Philander
Knox. of the Attorney General. grieved over
the loss of their tutor John Frederick Gray. who
died Tuesday. Archie attended public school
until this year. when he became pupil OF Mr.
Gray. who had q select school OF five or six chill
dren. The lad doing well with his studies I'M
der his new teacher.
The President received by express yesterday a
wildcat from an admirer in Georgia It was pre-
scented to the zoo to-day.
The President received a committee representing
the National Congress Of Mothers Clubs. The
visitors, numbering about twenty. were received in
the East Room by appointment. the President
shaking hands with each
The board OF managers of the National Soldiers
Home, accompanied by Secretary Root, called at
the White House to-day. Mr.. Root had short
talk with the President after their departure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04

we find ourselves unprepared, and are suddenly
forced info extrayagant expenditures for the
imperfect execution Of imperative designs, only
10 undergo after peace has returned the old
nrocess of deterioration in military efficiency.
So it has been with the army So IL mas been'
and will continue to be, with the navy, II per-
manent measure TO prevent repetition of past
misfortunes is not adopted
Comprehensively considered, the functions OF
a navy General Staff would be to obtain anu
preserve an exact knowledge of our own and
foreign offensive and defensive nauucai re-
sources. to consider infinitely all the obstacles,
geographical and artificial which we might
have TO encounter and all the advantages OF
which we might be enabled TO make use, at
home, at sea, or near the coasts Of any for
eign power: to mature plans of campaign TO
meet all contingencies; to maintain the mghest
possible measure Of efficiency in the personnel
and to contribute its share toward a complete
cooperation Of the army and navy in preparing
for the issue Of war 1t should be borne IN
mind. moreover that, while the General stan
would be permanent its membership wou4u De
Systematically changed, so that the Dement'S OF
the educational process would be gradualiy
diffused throughout the service.
1t is a gratifying fact in recent years that the
General Board of the navy, through the per-
Torrance of its own designated labors and by
virtue Of its relations with the Bureau OF Navl-
cation. the office of Naval Intelligence, the
Board OF Inspection and the War College, mas
served in a valuable degree the chief purposes
of a General Staff. But the General Board eX-
lists merely by the will and at the pleasure of
the Secretary of the Navy. There is need OF
a similar but more fully developed instrument
created by law and assured of permanent
status.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
NARROW PATHS AND LANES.

The present local administration was discreet
ninth-st. That would be an Improvement high
ly acceptable but for the prodigious eXpendi-
ture which would be required. So many costly
buildings have been set up on both sides of
this thoroughfare that the outlay for making a
broader roadway would stagger the taxpayers
and deplete the municipal strong box.
The tide OF crosstown travel in that part of
Manhattan Island may perhaps be diverted in
some degree to SiXtieth-st., to Fifty-eighth-st
and to Fifty-seventh-st. even after the compile
ton Of the third great bridge over the East
River. To change the contour and the dimen-
sions Of Fifty ninth-st. between Second-aye and
frame it in on the north and south Sides might
be an undertaking not altogether without COM
parison with such q colossal task as the widen
ing of Nassau-st from Printing House Square
to the front of the Sub-Treasury
Alas and alas. Why did not those dreamy old
Dutchmen who bought this wonderful island of
Manhattan from the Indians lay out every road
upon the liberal proportions of the Bowery?
How blind they were to the possibilities of
after generations. Were Broadway as broad as
the Bowery, were Nassau-st. as wide as Sey-
enth or Eighth ave. were every important
crosstown path of travel as spacious as Canal
ST.. how intellectually better Off would be the
residents and the sOjourners in this capital
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
FOR 4 NAVY GENERAL STAFF.

The animal report of Rear Admiral Taylor,
Chief Of the Bureau Of Navigation, puts IN the
form OF an official recommendation the well ad-
Tised proposal that a General Staff Of the navy
should be created by act Of Congress The
question viii doubtless be considered at the
coming session, and, while II is known that
there is now sufficient opposition TO the plan
to insure an earnest discussion. it is hoped that
no unreasoning hostility will be encountered,
and that a fair presentation Of the case will
prove convincing. The creation Of an army
General Staff was not accomplished without
protracted effort, but Secretary Root was sue
cessful IN the end and public as well as mill
tary sentiment heartily approves the new sys-
TEN. In tie main the arguments which ult-
mately gained the consent Of Congress to that
change sustain with equal force q similar pro-
vision for the direction of naval affairs, and it
IS difficult to see why objections which have
been overcome in the one case should be urgent
ly renewed in the other
That is the right military system which
makes and keeps the military organization fit
for war. 1t is a general rule to which Ger
many. perhaps. furnished in 1870 the solitary
exception, that when hostilities break out they
md tAe contestants unprepared. 1t is pain
1ul fact that such was the condition Of the
United States in the spring Of 1898 in respect
10 both arms Of the service. 1t is true that
native ingenuity and energy, drawing on IN
limited resources, rapidly accomplished won
ders, and that a brief campaign ended i'm tri-
umph on land and sea. But 1t is impossible 10
avoid considering what might have occurred
81 we had been at war with a strong instead OF
a weak foe. Yet too little has been done in
the way Of applying the lessons learned at that
time. The General Staff Of the army is a val
uable beginning. after needlessly long delay
and we trust that 1t viii be effectively supple
mented this winter by act putting the naval
organization on a sound basis; but 1t is not
agreeable TO think Of the time which must in
any case elapse before the country win be fully
prepared for emergencies which may never
arise, but must always be contemplated.
There has been some Jealous apprehension
that the creation OF a navy General Staff might
have the effect OF impairing civil authority over
naval affairs and interfere with the proper du-
ties Of the department bureaus; but no such
purpose is even remotely entertained, and the
plan proposed suggests no reasonable fear OF
such results. Admiral Taylor compactly but
clearly sets forth the object TO be attained
when he Says that General Staff would not
make tie slightest encrOachnIent in any quar-
ser. 'but, 10y applying a directing force here
''tofore lacking, would serve as better instru-
"meEt TO the Secretary Of the Navy for admin
''istering the feet a whole" II is as vain as
81 IS easy 10 assume thSe the existing machinery
of The Navy Department can smoothly, contin-
uOusly and satisfactorily accomplish all that is
required From a hundred years experience
We know the contrary. AS soon as war comes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
TENEMENT HOUSE REFORM.

The report of Tenement House Commissioner
De Forest which has just been transmitted to
the Mayor, is a record of one of the most credit
able pieces Of work in the history of municipal
administration done in so short time. The de-
partment came into existence in 1902, without
organization, without records and with the
problem of administering a new law with re-
spect to $1,000 tenement houses.
It was confronted with the problem of clean
ing out unspcakable foulness in a large number
of these places and securing the welfare OF
tenants, often unwilling TO be helped, while
avoiding the imposition of any undue hardships
on landlords and builders. At first the law
aroused great opposition. Builders thought it
could not be complied with protitably, and own
ers of old houses fought against changes die
tated by the most elementary considerations of
health and decency. Through the tact Of Mr.
De Forest and his assistants and owing to the
excellence of the law, which was largely the
work of those set to administer 1t, a gradual
change has taken place. Many builders have
discovered that work under the new law pays
better than under the old. New houses are be-
ing projected in large numbers, and old ones
are being freely remodeed. Best of all, the
whole community has learned that tenement
house reform was practical matter which con-
cerned the general public; that the existence of
unhealthful dwellings in place menaced
those who lived elsewhere.
The attempt last winter to emasCulate the law
showed that the people were interested in it
and would not permit return to the old abuses.
The tenement house law has been a success
largely because it was we'll administered. A
good start has been made. It remains to be
seen how Tammany will use this piece of ma
chinery which is to be put in its hands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
THAT SNOWSTORM.

Although the Weather Bureau declares that
less than five inches Of snow fell in New-YOrk
City and vicinity during the thirty-six hours
ending with Thursday noon, vast amount of in
convenience resulted. There was delay on most
of the steam roads that have terminals either in
the metropolis or on the New-Jersey side of
the Hudson; no end Of temporary blOckades oc-
CURED on the surface street railways and even
the elevated roads 1t was not always posi-
bic to make time. So far as the trolley lines
are concerned, it Is only fair to say that their
managers were not entirely to blame for the
trouble Trucks which were stalled caused
part OF the mischief, as did the Instructions
left in FOrty-second-st by subway cOntrac-
tors.
The trial of the new brushes which are TO
keep the third rail clear on the Manhattan ele-
waited roads was a matter Of much interest.
The operation Of these devices, if not all that
could be wished was fairly satisfactory. Pa
irons Of those lines, however, cannot help re-
fleeing On the probability that severer test is
yet TO come. Snow is not sleet, and last Win
ter's experience demonstrates that a coating of
ice interrupts traffic more seriously than a fall
of snow The efficiency or ineficiency of the
mechanism for cleaning the third rail will prob
ably be better known three months hence than
at present
The effects Of the storm were felt at sea as
well as on land. Mariners who had overesti-
mated their distance from the coast were pre-
vented by the binding snow from discovering
their mistake until too late. Fierce gales and
rough water added to their peril. Craft which
avoided running ashore found navigation espe-
cially difficult. The experience of the subma-
rlnes that were caught out at sea was unpleas-
antly suggestive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
AmuSenentS.

AcADHeEY OF MUSIc-s:15-The Best OF Friends.
BIJOLl-s:S0- What's the Matter Susan?
BtlLaAECo ThfEATkE-S-IDu Barry.
BROADWAY THEATRE-S:I 5-Eabette.
CAkNEGlE HALL--@-PhilharInOnic Society Concert
CASINOS :f5-Winsorne Winnie.
CiRCLE-2-S-Naudeville
CkITE3Rl S:l5-Niss Elizabeths Prisoner.
DAIY's THEATRE-8:l5-A japanese Nightingale
EDEN MGSRB-The World IN Wax
GATf3ICE THEATRES 20 matchmaking Julia
HARLEM OPERA EOUSE-s.l5-Pretty Peggy
HERALD SQUARE THEATRE-S:lO-The Gi1 from
HUDSON NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Marriage OF Kitty.
IRVING PLACE TTEEATRF-s.20-Im Bunten Rock.
IIEfIfT S-ContnCous Performance.
KNTCEEsRBOCkER-S.3 Light That Failed.
LYRIC TEEATRls-S 2O-Red Feather
MADISON SCUARE-SS O-Iittie Princess
MAJESTIC ThEATRF-S-Babes In Toyand.
oAeyHATTAN TTsEATRE-S :I5-CSptain harrington
MURRAY HILL THEATRE-2-s:15-HaPpy Hooh-
SEW-AMSTTRDAM-S-N Mother Goose
NEW EMP1lg,-S:15-The Pretty Sister Of Jose.
NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Admirable Crichton.
NEW-YofRK TJIEATRE-S-Ben-
PRINCESS THEATRE :S0-Rafies the Amateur
Craclsznan
PR0CTOR'S-Twenty-t Street-Continuous Vance
VILE Fifty-ciEhth Street.-The Funny MI Doetes-
FIN ANenue-Saratoga and Fau9eVlle: 0ne-hu"
drsd-snc -tysnty-ffth street-Swe-d Of the King
SAVOY TffFATRF7-S 20-Her Own Way -
NAUDFNILLE-S :3O-ChRrlotte Wiehe and French So1H-
VICTORIA TTTEATRE-s;I5-The once Boy.
wAT1sA s-The County Chairman
VTFRER & FIFLDS-S-V-h0On-D ce-Doo.
WEST END-s-A Fool and His Money.
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NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
IRON THE TRIBUNE BUREA

IRON THE TRIBUNE BUItEAU-I
Washington, Dec. 3.-Niss Jean Crosby, daughter
OF the late Admiral Crosby, gave a luncheon to-
day. when her guests were Miss Sands. Miss Wood
ruff Miss Morgan Hill, Miss Townsend, Miss Mil
Ter Miss Huff Miss Switzerland. Miss Shepard.
Miss Sylvester Miss Dodge. Miss Goldsborough and
Miss Parker.
Mrs. Burton Harrison entertained guests at din
tonight.
Commander and Mrs. William H H Switzerland
will give a dinner on December Is in honor OF the
Secretary Of the Navy
Miss Harriet Switzerland gave q dinner last night
in honor Of her guests Miss Green and Miss Phyllis
Green, of Philadelphia. and Miss Reynolds. OF Bed
ford PENN and has invitations out for another
dinner tomorrow. This afternoon the young host
ess and her guests were at home TO a number OF
callers.
General and Mrs. William F. Draper will come to
Washington next Thursday for the winter They
spent the fall at their home in Hopedale, Mass
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04

hotel, five grain elevators, two or three chemi-
cal concerns and more than fifty firms or COM
panies which want electricity for strictly me-
chanical purposes. A few of these shops ana
factories need only 10 or 10 horsepower (and
even that not continuously, perhaps), while
others require several hundred, but all of
them find it cheaper to do their work with
power brought to them from distance than TO
generate it on their own premises. This, in
fact is one of the most important discoveries
of the last few years.
Mr.. Buck says that designers of entirely new
mills no longer ask themselves whether it Is
better to distribute power inside their estaD-
lshments by electricity or shafts and betting,
because they realize the immense economy of
the former system. Possibly he is too confident
on that score. Still, whether or not the merit
of the electric drive" for interior service is as
fully recognized as it should be, this much Is
true: A good deal is yet to be learned about
the advantages of buying power ready made
instead of manufacturing it. Mr.. Buck says
that the customers of the Niagara Falls Power
Company set it for about half as much as it
would cost them to develop 1t themselves, to
say nothing of the saving Of space. Engines,
boilers and coal bins take up deal of room.
Inasmuch as Buffalo gets her supplies by Il
transmission line twenty-five miles in length
she has to pay a trifie more for electricity than
local consumers at Niagara do. 1t is safe TO as
sumo, furthermore, that rents and taxes are
lower at the latter place than in Buffalo, while
the facilities for shipping are practically equal
1t is easy to understand, therefore, the Sc
lection of sites near the falls for manufact-
uring purposes during the last few years, and
the increasing demand there both for land and
power.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
ON THE DEEP.

"I hear a small sea urchin cry"
Said little Tommie Gum
''Ah, yes his father made reply
They're whaling him, my SON.
what need have folks OF telescopes?'
Asked Tommie. ION the ships?"
His father said: "They hope to see
-(Chicago Tribune.
days the motormen trolley and the drIv-
ers OF overswift wagons handle their vehicles so
heedessIy that they rush at headlong speed
against telegraph poles strong walls. big trees
and other formidable obstacles. In Reading a
serious accident occurred when a trolley car
jumped the track and dashed into a telegraph
pole. Similar disasters TO and self-motors
are recorded daily Is it altogether impossible to
give lessons in caution to front platform men and
to drivers?
Town Has Two Names-Pierce City Is probably
the only town in the State that has two names
1t originally called after Colonel PIERCE, the
president of the Frisco Railway. In later years
PIERCE spelled his name ana fell to calling their
postoffice Pierce City. Now the town Is known
City. Postofice Pierce City. "-(Kansas City Jour
nal.
Our Museum OF Natural History is enriching its
attractive collections with fine specimens Of fossil
horses with skeletons OF typical animals OF the
modern era Possibly within less than thirty Years
the bony framework of Hamburg and Lou Dillon
the greatest runner and the greatest trotter that
America ever produced. may be set up for the
wondering gaze of future generations. They Will
be well worth looking at.
Caught with the Goods On-"silas wuz down 10
the city an had 10 send for money"
Get buncoedg"
Nope. He pasted his money to the inside of tho
home the landlord Wouldn't change his Shirt
brooklyn Life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
THE CABINET.
ORION THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

IFR0M TIE TRIBUNE bUHhAU'I
Washington Dec. 3.-Secretary Hays guests at
luncheon to-day were DR.. Herran, charge d'affaires
of Colombia and General Reyes. CoIombia's special
representative.
Secretary Root left here this afternoon for New
York to attend to personal affairs. He viii return
on Monday.
Secretary Moody sailed to-day the dispatch
boat Dolphin Philadelphia to inspect the League
Island Navy Nard. He was accompanied by Sen
ator Hale Senator PenrOse and several Represen-
tatives from Pennsylvania. The party is expected
to return on Sunday evening or Monday morning.
Mrs Hitchcock has returned from st. Louis.
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AMBASSADOR MEYERS GUESTS.

Rome Dec S-AmbassadOr Meyer, although sun
showing the effect of his recent fox hUntias acci-
dent to-day returned the visit OF Sisuor TtttonL
Minister OF Foreign Affairs. The ambassador saVs
a dinner tonight and among his guests were sew
eraI members of the Diplomatic Corps Count Pierre
Macchi and Countess AIacchi. formerly Miss Wood
worth OF New-York; Mrs Robert Patterson sister
OF the wife OF Robert 5. Mccormick United states
Ambassador TO Russia and Miss Patterson; NJ.
and Miss Gilpin of Philadelphia and Mrs. BeTGan'
rnother-in-law OF F. Marion Crawford. the novelist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
DE MAReERIE GOES TO MADRID.

Paris. Dec S-Foreign Minister Decasse mas
signed the transfer OF VI. P. de Margerie. Coun-
seIlor OF the French Embassy at Washington %
Madrid. where he viii have the same relauon 70
Ambassador Cambon as existed while NJ cannon
was Ambassador at Washington. VI. de Marsere
and his wife will not return washington our W.
go direct to Madrid. This also terminates, No AZ
prospects OF the projected American VISIT oL -
Rostand who is a brother OF Nine. de Margerle-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04

Now that typhoid fever has appeared in so
many different places. announcement by DR..
William F. BisseIl OF Buffalo. deserves atten-
ton. The notion was advanced last spring in
Chicago that lemon juice is a germcide and
that lemonade is fatal TO the bacilli of typhoid
Though the medical profession probably took
no stock in the idea. the latter may have lodged
in the minds of good many unscientihc people
Dr. Blssell explodes it In letter to one OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
HARTY LEAVES ALL TO CHURCH.

St Louis Dec. S-Just before his departure ior
Manila Archbishop J. j. Harry lett MS eAll.e
fortune, amounting to almost $4,000. TO 81 ~
Church, the parish In which he had spent hI'esA
years OF his life. When ne boarded the tram -
Monday evening 20 start his Ions toHInSSSs
tho Philippines he took with him only eN0~9
his PASSAGE and expenses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-04
CONGRESSMAN JAMES MARRIED.

Paducah. KY. Dec. S.-The marriage OF cons, -
man Ollie NJ. James and Miss Ruth fhsi.s's -
place last night at the home or the o''- -
Marion XIV The Rev Mr.. Thomas. father o. t''
bride performed the ceremony. They LETT hele -
nediateIy for Washington. where they W. - sr.s
rooms at the Cairo. Mr.. James - ssfN1As -
term IN Congress-