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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-20

hand The defunct red tail only
ESH a the day before had swooped
"a upon a reputable old hen and
y borne her away screaming he
deserved death and had
W. countered it. My father sat q
down upon the plow-beam and
argued for two hours con-
vince me of the prOpriety of Harvard l was seven
teen; but opposed him then, | should oppose him
now, the ground that remembering the brevity
of life, | didn't have the time.
Doing best to be charitable, | cannot think
a college experience either impressive important
Send to sea for four years, work him on
railroad four years, or commit him to the COW camps
for four years and thereafter you may engage in
first half-hOur of with him discover that
he has sailed railroaded punched the casual
cow. Anyone of these educations will leave its
marks upon the student to last through life.
In contrast to this 1 have been in my time wholly
acquainted with the bars of four cities and knew
those of the law who constituted them by their
first And yet, from aught they individually
said or did or seemed YOU would have found it inn
possible to separate the sheep from the goats-the
college from the other There
signs signal smokes, in the instances of the college
man to identify him against the other. He was
better worse. for having been to college. But
he out his time And it meant, where industry
and age and intellect equal that to the end he
four years behind the other man in the race for
bar hOnOrs and emoluments. Judge Ranney, the
father of the Ohio bar in his day and a lawyer of
national fame, had never seen college
In this connection, go the Presidents in their
biographies and off the college men" from
the other men" Also, in the stories of such
Washington and Jackson and Lincoln, consider their
records-words as well deeds-in comparison
with the records of college Presidents Make
the same search for college and other among
those who signed Declaration of Independence
and light the taper of inquiry concerning them.
| say nothing of those who fought for independence
the Parkers and Buttricks and Putnams and Starks
and Paul Joneses and Ethan Aliens and Mad An
thony' Waynes
Your college is graceful; and there is too kind
of millinery of learning To of idle rich
who medates work, and lives for purpose
except purpose of pleasure college education should
be seemy and becoming 1t would be ornamental
like the solitaire his finger the black pearls
in his dress shirt Since he is born to waste his time
il matters where and how he wastes it. Besides
there is, | say that question of millinery. Your
college is fashionable; and tag two from Horace
o a signing knowledge of Ovid sets with a of
fashion extremely well Therefore, by all means
have idle rich at college for what spaces and
what book-extremes you will
There is another class There be lunatics of learn
ing-bOO< drunkards. We have book drunkards lust
as we have rum drunkards They have passion
d Joy in learning without least of plan to put
their learning any They find their parallel
in the Great Salt Lake They suck in erudition from
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name the latter it is enough to say that he was
commissioned of highest authority far his col
lege concerned. He might put the instit luton
full steam ahead, or set her back on both Wheels )"
river folk would say. | thus nautical because
in their pretense colleges fashion of
ferry-boa bearing the traveller in search of learning
from his native shore of dark ieracy to that other
binding of bOOk-ight.
Our college chief and the barbarian fell into de
bate. This disaster was provoked by the barbarian
who melted thereunto by irritation which
had been gnawng about the roots of his temper for
two New-Engand days. He had from the
West, from Arizona, and to queries he confessed
this ignobty of emanation. Also that, specifically
he not born in Massachusetts didn't live in Massa-
chusetts in purblind and degrading truth
had seen Massachusetts until this visiting occasion
These facts becoming known barbarian was
treated with plying commiseration a tender dis
dain, by those whose better fortunes made them
born children of the soil In short the natives patron
lied him in three-ply spirit of charity, liberation
and contempt for that regional misfortune of his
Western source. Thus was barbarian rolled and
set a-fret thus he made willing to disturb with
interrogatiOns- a Goth might have disturbed a
Romantic high compacency of the educator who
for a motive composed, perhaps, in equal parts of
a willingness to befriend the quest of the barbarian
and make safe against Western ntermissons of what
personal college property being loose and little
might lie kicking about, had become guide his
tour. 1t was the old question which Cicero stole
from Lucus Cassius: 'Cui bouO?'
What good is your coege?" demanded the writer
barbarian OF the educator We been might
say, all through your college with lantern. I've
looked your libraries investigated your dining halls
I've experienced your recitation rooms and your
seums, and borne testimony to your gymnasiums,
where students ambitious of fractures Will find every
last appliance to aid them their way. And yet
at the finish What good is it? What does the student
GET"
Il don't understand, quoth the educator bit
haughtily.
This is the proposition, explained the barbarous
THE value of anything depends upon compar-
of what gives with what gets No one
should give dollars gain dimes. Everything in its
attainment must cost less than ii comes to- the
barter is a failure You have told that
you take boy of fifteen, of pubc-schoo attain
ments and by giving him year of preparation enter
him in your college. Then with four years at your
college, he will be graduated in all, five years, At
fifteen 1t IS popular theory that has hfty-hve
years to live-a theory, be it known against which
insurance fluctuations initiate. Taking the common
view, however, you demand of the boy one-eleventh
of his life Wherefore, l ask; What does he get
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The Side of the Com

4 IN Inc same gay InaI was III
] asked to write this article, u
being III Chance-sown con-
versation with the manager of
great street railway, that mag
nate of traction said:
If | was 10 advertise in the
NcwYork papers for college
graduates 10 enlist with my COM
pany as motor men and conduc-
tors | should have two hundred ~
applications. each accompanied by -
a university Shecpskin, within
tWenty-four hours. | could man
my entire road with Masters of
Arts II
Also. not two days before, l
had been told by leading pub
Usher OF a university man who
was tossing lapjacks for a live
hhood IN the front window of
a Broadway restaurant. and had
consulted him rs TO best meth
DDS Of bursting into literature
This question of a college edu-
cation and It's value is not new.
Montaigne discussed II three and
one half centuries ago, and speak
ing Of Latin and Greek and their
requirement, observed:
Half our age IS cmbezzled in
this way. We are kept four and
1--WE years TO learn words only,
and TO tack them together into
phrases.
Our own Franklin, two centuries late
Frenchman, did not speak enthusiastically
and referring to the so-called classical
marked that he did not think we'll of lea
/ 4 !. h Ill
the ignorance OF the ancicnts to the natur
with which we were born.
lohn Quincy Adams wrote gloomily in
Seminares OF learning have been sycC
1iIne-servcrs in every age. -
However. this was hot on the heels OF a
by Harvard CoIlege-or was it Yale OF
Of Doctor Of Laws on Andrew Jackson, W
loathei- This may account for the
OF our Bay State diarist,
What has gone before viii have no pres
ton only as far as the reader makes one 70
What Do YOU know" said the mar
proliing ne TO this performance, what d
Of college men and other mem"
OF other men, | replied, Il know a
one Of them. OF college men, the thin
most emphasized itself upon my memory
are forever asking me questions. This la
i.lf-true
Last week l received a letter from
Ohio. aho put sundry questions and s.
had spent four years taking the classical
university. and three more taking the law
Ha- NON playing baseball to live.
More. About a dirner-table in Delmol
were four of US Having occasion to quo
where. speaking OF Thoreau, he said:
Henry. but we don't like him " a
on my right-a graduate Of Yale, and
hoarse from much loyalty Of screaming
victory at ball-asked:
Who was Thoreau'"
Not being . college man, l am or ou
bad nudge OF those who are. Besides, in
ing instance Of the youth from Yale, m
apprehended in It's fuilness the questioning
underlay his chip of motive Possibly,
was to Yale. he pretended ignorance Of
81 Walden. who was a long-ago offshoot
Or i may have been that he had not re-
for fun, and was going about my own
ly The Sacrafic method OF asking QleStiO
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those scores of streams that come
down to them from whole ranges
of book mountains that fence
them round. And for those
streams of learning that empty
into them they give up nothing.
They take all; they keep all,
except for what may evaporate
and be thereafter lost by them
in mists of forgetfulness. Now
| would let these lunatics of
misunderstanding no one except
themselves-go to college as much
and for as long as they please; in
their distorted instances a college
might be regarded as an asylum.
My own thought touching col
leges. in any case where the would
be student will afterward have
to cut his path through life, and
is neither of those idle rich ones
nor yet those lunatics of learn
ing, might find expression in the
adventures of a Western bar
barian-a writer for magazines,
he was-who visited, for the pur-
poses of his craft, one of our
foremost colleges, the same not
breathlessly distant from Boston.
The article he had been commits
stoned to write would be excellent
advertisement of the school.
Wherefore, the barbarian was
aided in his poking about, and
replied to in his question-putting,
holds Il rnimht he i'm nnlitn To
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
coNsTABLE CORNELL HELD.

An inquest was held yesterday morn
ing over the remains Of Wilmer steele,
the young man who was shot by Con-
stable John Cornell in Alexandria county
last week. Coroner Ashton. Of the
county presided, and after viewing the
remains of Steele. which had been taken
from Demaine's undertaking rooms In
this city TO the house Of Mrs. MOTLEY,
at ST. Elmo. the jury heard the testi-
mony Of a number of witnesses. includ-
ing the brother and sister of Constable
Cornell.
DR.. Delaney. Of this city, testified that
the bullet passed nearly through steele 5
body, and that he died from the effects
of the wound produced by II. After be-
ing out a short time the jury returned
a verdict holding John Cornell, con-
stable OF Jefferson district. responsible
for the death OF Steele. Cornell was inn
mediately placed under arrest by Sheriff
Palmer and was taken to the court
house at Fort Myer. where Bail Com
missioner Rucker placed Cornell under
s., 600 bail and Cornell was released,
Frank NJ Hill, OF this city, becoming
his surety.
The remains of Steele were sent TO his
former home in Prince William county
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Sailor Murderer ShOWS
No Fear in Death Chair
Frank Burmese, Who Confessed Killing Cap
tain Townsend, Goes to His Execution
Without Religious or Other Attendants

OSSINING, n Y, June 27-Unat-
tended by either clergyman or keeper.
Frank II. Burmese. the sailor murderer.
strobe into the death chamber at Sing
Sing prison this morning and was put
TO death I'm the electric chair
His apparent eagerness to meet death
surprised even prison officials. He al
most ran to the chair. As keepers and
State Electrician Davis were busy ar
ranging the electrodes and strapping
the man in the chair. Burness gaZed
about at the little group of witnesses
before him and smiled as though he was
merely posing for a photograph.
Burmese case was one of the most
unique in the history of the famous old
prison. Arrested for the murder of
Capt. George 3. Townsend. he con-
fossed not only that shooting, but the
killing of at least half a dozen victims
at various times. and told OF escapades
in which he had been engaged and in
which he had wounded several others.
He aided the district attorney in
bringing about his own conviction.
When he learned that his attorney had
appealed his case to the court of ap-
peals against his wishes. he wrote to
Governor OdeH. asking the governor TO
use his influence to have the appeal
dismissed.
He refused religious counsel OF any
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sort, and kept up his spirit Of bravado
TO the last
Burmese entered the death chamber at
Sol 30 O'Clock 1t took less than a min
ute 10 adjust the straps and electrodes.
Eight seconds later, at 5:52:ls. Prison
Physician Irvine gave Electrician Davis
the signal and 800 volts sent the mans
body cracking against the straps.
The fun current was continued for six
seconds. 1t was gradually reduced TO 80
volts when 1t was turned on again TO
the full voltage for a few seconds A
second shock was given at 5:54:2O, and
third at 5:57:5S.
AT the end OF each contact the pbv-
sicians present listened for signs fsr
life Even after the third shock there
appeared TO be slight hutter of the
heart So at s o'clock a fourth shock
was given before Burness was officially
declared dead. Four minutes later the
body was carried to the autopsy room
where DR.. z. A. Spltzka, of New York.
performed the autopsy The body will
be buried in quick lime in the prison
plot
Although Burmese told OF three muir
ders at the time OF his trial he Is said
TO have confessed also to the killing
of a white boy. named Baker. whom he
dubbed to death. the murder Of mulat-
to In New Orleans. whom he choked to
death. and TO the murder OF two China
men In Havana. He told of two other
murders to which he was a party, but
refused to give the details on the
ground that 1t would implicate others.
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hearts in which kind. tolerant broth
erly love must be awakened, time-hal-
lowed prcjudices that must be over
thrown.
"One evil that must be checked is the
ignorance Of the learned who have never
acquired the simple. honest language Of
the heart. which is the most vital Of all
languages and is more satisfying than
all the Latin and Greek ever written.
Il nave CROPPED my way through col
Iege, reaching out in the dark pathway
for wisdom. for friendship, and for
work l have found much work, album
dant friendship. and a little wisdom, and
l ask for no other blessedness
Miss keller's studies in college have
included the full number of courses nee
essary 10 the degree Of bachelor OF arts.
These courses have been distributed a.
follows. One IN French, one in German.
two in English composition, haiI
course in Milton. three courses in Latin
one IN government. one In economics,
one IN history of medieval Europe, two
I'm Shakespeare one in EliZabethan liter
AZURE. one in the English Bible. one III
English literature of the nineteenth cen
fury. and one in the history OF pnilos-
Ophy-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
WASHINGTON SCHOOL CLOSES.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. June H.-Wash-
ington public school for boys closed tn's
morning. Exercises took place at the
school building on South Washington
Street. after which the awards Tor the
wear were made. IN the ninth grade the
graduates read appropriate essays Inc
sunerintendent's medal was awarded 10
r P. Albert Johnson. In the elghth
grade cards Of honor were given 10
Frank John Brooke, Thomas henry
Clarke William Gidlow Harris, Eugene
Lee Lindsay. Charles Marshall Sei'0-
field. Bedford Keith Smith, Clarence
Luckett watkins. and Charles Henry
Zimmerman. In the ninth grade CARDS
of honor were given to Peter Eugene
Igoe Edwin George Schwarzman, James
Louis Bontz. Charles Augustus Dean
and Courtney Lee Nails
Certificates from the George WASH
ington High School were awarded 70
Wallace Noble Lindsey. William Fred
erick Hellmuth. Edmund Joseph Dwyer'
Alexander Harris. and r P. Albert
Johnson.
Lee School for white girls VIII hoid us
closing exercises tomorrow morning AT
the Peabody Building at the corner OF
King and Alfred Streets
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
DR.. TINDALL ACTS
AS LIFE-SAVER
Two Young Men in Peril in
the Basin.
OUT SAILING WITH HIS SON
Prompt Action Rescues Weak Swim
mers Who Had Lost Their Boa.
Names Not DivuIged.
OUT SAILING WITH HIS SON

Two young men were rescued from
drowning yesterday in the outer basin
Of the Bathing Beach, and the heroes of
the episode were Or. William Tindau
secretary TO the Board OF District Com
missioners. and his son PhIip. The
names OF the rescued were not ascer-
tanned. although they were profuse in
their expressions OF gratitude TO the life
savers.
About O'Clock yesterday afternoon
the two TindaIls. who were in a boat
near the outer edge OF the basin, saw
three young men swimming near the
center Of the inlet, their boat being left
unanchored near them. Suddenly a
strong breeze arose and took the boat
at a lively rate toward the shore. fifty
yards distant.
When the three swimmers recognized
what had happened one Of the number
started after the speeding boat leaving
his two companions IN the center Of the
basin. II soon became apparent that
one Of the couple was only a beginner
in the art OF swimming. and that his
friend was having difficulty in keeping
him afioat-
A boat. containing a young man and
a young woman. was near at hand. but
the young people seemed TO have no idea
what 10 do, or else regarded the matter
as jest on the part Of the swimmers.
They sat and looked on idly while the
third man pursued the fleeing boat. and
the other two were every minute IN
greater danger Of drowning
BY this time Dr.. Tlndail and his son
had started their boat toward the
cOuple in distress. The third swimmer
had not yet caught UP with the boat
which the breeze was hurrying 10 the
shore The man who could not sWlm
was frightened and called for help. and
his companions long continued EFFORTS
TO keep his head above the water were
Sging dangerously.
Before the doctors boat had reached
the two the novice's head had gone
under several times As the boat came
within their reach the couple grasped u
The swimmer who had saved the life
Of his friend was TOO exhausted TO get
into the boat The other was all but
unconscious. They were taken TO shore
and after q rest. felt well enough TO
go home unassisted-
The third man. who had gone after the
drifting boat caught II near the snoTs
iust as DR.. Tindall and Philip Tindail
pulled the exhausted two into their
craft.
The incident. which was witnessed by
a large crowd created the greatest ex-
element There is little doubt. say eye
witnesses of the scene. that. II the TIT
daIIs had not responded at once to the
emergency, the two young men would
have been drowned
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TO BE TRANSFERRED.

The Rev. J. T. =. Mulvaney, pastor
Of Trinity Catholic Church, corner Thir-
ty-sixth and o Streets northwest, viii be
transferred 10 some other charge some
time during the month Of July. Father
Mulvaney requested to be transferred
last January. on account OF his healtn.
mo exact date and place where he viii
20 has not vet been decided. Father
Nulvaney has been pastor OF Trinity
Church for some years, he having sue
cecded the Rev. Father William j. Sean
Ion. who was transferred to St. Mary s
county, Md.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
FuNERAL OF MRS. MATTHEWS.

The funeral of Mrs. Mary Jane Mat
tbews took place from her late home in
Prince Street yesterday evening and was
largely attended. Services were con-
Quoted by the Rev. j. p. Stump. Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. The
remains were this morning sent &c Pur-
ceIlviile Loudoun county, for internent-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
SUNDAY IN THE CHURCHES.

The Rev. Mr.. Bischoff conducted SER
vices and preached at Emmanuel Luth-
eran Church here yesterday.
At the Southern Methodist Church the
service.
The Rev. Mr.. Bell conducted services
az Grace Church yesterday. Beginning
tonight mission will be opened at this
church by the Rev. Mr.. Matthews
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
PROGRESS OF O. D. RAILROAD.

Much Roadway is being made on the
construction of the Great Falls and Old
Dominion Electric Railroad. Last week
the workmen were engaged in laying
tracks across the Aqueduct Bridge
Hundreds Of Italian labOrers are en-
ga ed in grading filing in and bridging,
on the line of the road, and IL IS said
that IN the present progress is continued
the road will have been completed be
fore the end of the contract time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
1rALIANs IN ZEE COTTON FIELDS

NEW ORLEANS. June 27.-The move
nent of Italians from New York TO the
cotton plantations Of the Yazoo delta
OF the Mississippi has begun. The first
party has arrived and disembarked at
IeotO Landing They number rs. and
came straight through from New York.
second party will arrive today, 80 IN
number
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27

Francis J. Nugent. son of the late
Patrick Nugent. died at his home, 5S4
South Pitt Street. yesterday afternoon.
Nv Nugent vas a timer and was in
MS thiTty-hfth year. His funeral will
take place from st. Marv's Church To-
morrow morning
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
Low Rate Coach Excursion to St. LOui.

Worlds Fair. every Tuesday in June.
VIA Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Only
SI7 round trip. Tickets good going in
day coaches only. limited to return ten
DAYS. including date of sale. Trains will
leave Washington. New Jersey Avenue
and c Street. at 1905 a. m, June y.
Call at ticket Offices. New York Avenue
and Fifteenth Street. 6l9 Pennsylvania
Avenue, and at station, for fun partlcu-
lars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
LEAVES PULPIT FOR UNIVERSITY

PEAINFIELD, n. J.. June 27.-Dr. Ed
ward Lee carp, who has been pastor OF
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in
this city for the past two years. an
nounced to his congregation yesterday
that he had accepted a call to become
professor Of sociology in the Univer-
sity of Syracuse. He asked to be re-
lieved Of his pastorate on August !
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
SPRING WATER FOR CITY.

COLUMBUS. Ga, June 27.-Pure spring
water Is given away free to the people
OF this city. the city hauling il III from
WyntOn in sprinkiing carts The most
office was the distributing point. a water
cart being there all the time. The usual
water supply has been rendered unfit
for drinking by the drought
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27
MEETING OF THE BOYS"

The Boys" Of Tenleytown held an in
teresting meeting Saturday night at
their clubrooms, in the Masonic Hall
Building. on Wisconsin Avenue, near
Grant Road j. Barton Miller addressed
the meeting. At the close Of the meet
ing the club adjourned for the summer
months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-27

Sullivan is not permitted TO be with her
pupil Questions are given her, printed
in Braille type set up by a teacher
from the Perkins Institution. She
writes out the answers on her type
writer and they are corrected with
those of the other pupils.
Describing the benefits of her course
Al Harvard in a recent talk TO the Rad
cliffe Alumnae, Miss Keller said.
College has breathed new life into my
mind and given me new view OF
things. a perception Of new truths and
new aspects OF old ones.
Il grow stronger IN my conviction that
there is nothing good or right which we
cannot accomplish if we have the Will
10 strive.
THE assured reality and neaTness of
the end Of my school DAYS fills me with
bright authorizations The doors or the
great world are flung open before me
and a light shines upon me-the light
kindled by the thought that there is
something for me 10 do beyond the
threshold.