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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
THIS NEEDLESS WORLD.

On one day there was q catastrophe unsur~
passed in all annals for magnitude Tor
piteousness and for horror. Yet with the news
OF il ringing in the ear, with the city marked
with mourning the multitude went on It's ac-
customed WAYS. A record crowd went TO the
races, and another record crowd went on
similar excursion upon the companion boat TO
the one that was lost An hour, twenty-fOur
hours after the tragedy there was no indica-
ton that the multitude had taken II TO heart
In a practical manner. Flags at halfmast and
mourning emblems on hundreds Of doors do not
restrain the merrymaking throng from pur-
suing their wonted pleasures.
Il is well. in a measure, that II should be So
II is well that we do not stop 70 brood over
every and TO anticipate every peril in the
path. IL did so, the world would be robed
III gloom and should have voice save for
fCreboding and lamentation. Brooding over
trouble is useless the trouble itself is
irremediable. Nature never sorrows. Whatever
happens 10 fill the world with fear or pain. the
splendor OF the sunshine IS not dimmed. Night
and day. winter and summer, pursue their
course unmoyed. Creation is infeXible. in
BILE; and man. after all, is a part OF the
natural creation and must share its genius. If
he is endowed with sympathies and passions
which other orders of creation do not possess,
so is he also endowed with reason and with
spiritual consolation TO which all others are
strangers If he has the power. which they
have not. 10 suffer, he has also greater power
than they 10 be strong. 1t is well that he should
be buoyant and that the bent bow should spring
again.
In measure. we say, IT is well. The meas
ure is not TO be exceeded. Buoyancy Is not
needlessness F0rtitude Is not fppancy. We
would not have The community pancstrcken
because OF one disaster, however terrible, nor
have il forsake all JOY because of the advent OF
woe however great. But it is well 10 be thought
ful even in our nerrymaking. and prudent even
IN our courage. 1t would be foolish for people
10 say that, because Of the Slocum disaster.
they VIII never again set foot upon an excur-
sion steamboat; but II would be far worse than
foolish for them TO say that in spite Of that dis
aster, they Will pay no stricter heed 10 safety
but Will let things go on in the anne old happy
golucky fashion. They need not grow excited
Excitement is not earnestnesS any more than
fortitude is callousness; but it would be Grim
inal for them TO forget and ignore this appaI-
ing lesson 1t IS their duty calmly but inaexi-
bly,, 10 see TO IL that no measurable possibility
or such disaster is left for future menace
Better far than tears and wailing both for
tribute 10 the dead and for duty to the living
into effective practice that these dead shall
rot have died in vain." but that as an outcome
or this bereavement we shall take lasting and
valid measures TO prevent another such dis
aster.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
HONEY AND BUSINESS

Although the current average Of about 200
600 shares daily would not have been con-
sidered brisk business at the New York Stock
Exchange in 1902. il is better than occurred n
rev weeks ago and, what is much more impor-
thnt, larger proportion is for investment. Prob
ably the major part is still strictly professional
but that element is less dominant than it has
been for some time past. There Is less concen-
tration Of attention on a few specialties pur-
chases being fairly well distributed throughout
the entire list. Good crop news helped to
strengthen the tone, and the latest statements
Of railway earnings showed moderate gains in
comparison with the corresponding weeks last
year, which IS significant, because up to the
end OF May the reports were falling consider
ably short of 1903 Fluctuations are limited to
small fractions IN most cases but nearly every
day Of the last week showed a small net gain
over the day previous. and the average Of the
sixty most actve railroad securities has risen
above $50 for the first time since February 9
In the bond department activity has continued
and first class issues being accumulated by
investors. This absorption has made 1t increas-
ingly difficult to secure desirable bonds, and
prices have advanced moderately.
In seeking an explanation OF the persistent
cheapness of money 1t IS not necessary TO look
beyond the conservative attitude of investors
who prefer TO allow their funds to lie idle rather
than to miss a possible opportunity OF getting
securities little cheaper. This disposition has
been very much in evidence for some time, and
applies to the development OF manufacturing
and real estate undertakings as well to Wall
Street. During the last week there has been
little more demand for bonds but this does not
necessarily imply any definite increase in con-
hdence. because the approaching July interest
and dividend disbursements would naturally
exert some influence. Government operations
In June have reduced the deficit on Panama
account. and there is no occasion for alarm be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27

The experiments made on the Marienfelde
ZOssen road, in Germany, with electric cars a
year or two ago have been followed in the last
few months with triAls Of the best steam ell
gines which that country can produce Consul
General Mason writing from Berlin, summa-
rizes the results In a report which has lust been
published by the Department of Commerce and
Labor -Four locomotives. made by different
builders were tested. The poorest of them de-
Veloped a speed Of sikty-nine miles an hour. and
the most powerful Of them eighty miles. when
hauling six-car train; and the velocities at
tanned with three-car train ranged between
1642 and SIP miles
No one who is familiar with modern railway
practice in America and Europe will regard
these performances as at all wonderful A dozen
perhaps score-of steam locomotives can be
found in the United States which are the eouaI
OF the fastest of the German engines lust tested
The behavior Of a locomotive is largely com
folled by the character Of the track on which If
runs. The Marienfeide ZOssen line is practical
~ without grade or a curve has been recon-
structed with view 10 fitting il for the trials
lately in progress, aud was provided with one
safeguard which is not adopted elsewhere
Extra rails were spiked 10 the ties close TO those
on which the trains ran. 10 prevent Them
from jumping the track. Under such fayorahl.
CONDITIONS as these The Germans ought 10 have
made better time than they did American loco
MOVIES nave repeatedly made short runs at
SV 10 100 miles an hour. Moreover. The cleo
tre cars which were tested on the Marien
lelde-Zossen road last year made several trims
al the rate Of ZEE 10 l2a miles an hour,
SUI another feature Of that railway should be
Kept in mind willie forming an opinion about
lie excellence OF the newest German locomo-
uFes. Tie section which has been the scene or
the experiments is only fourteen miles i'm length
Al Anoroed no opportunity therefore for asti
mining me ability OF those engines 10 genera 70
sleah continuously for long periods Herein
4Aes the gfeat weakness OF such motors A snaad
oi lVV hiiies an hour can be developed for n few
seconds or even minute or two. but tbe heller
van NO; supply power enough 10 maintain tba
face The limit OF improvement In this respect
mas now been nearly reached Hence steady
travelling nj a higher rate than dffv-6xe or
sixty miles an hour for more than an l,our ,S
practically impossible with steam. On tho ot,,a-
habd- an electric engine whicI, 70 canahla 90
running seyenty-tve eighty miles an hour
"4h 90 SO as easily during the last mart az a
journey OF 900 miles as at the beginning
among the deductions which are now ,,.ao
possible by the German tests is ono conco-n,no
Tue reatlYe expense of operating n road ,,y
steam and electricity. From the nbrasaolog-
employed by Mr.. Mason, IT would anneor tbn,
ms OASIS OF comparison is the movement a, 100
seats FOR one kisonetre regardless of Tho WEIGH,
q ,he rolling stock. When tie service was
performed by steam the cost was 1919 cents
~"o "Heh I'e same work was done electrical liz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
P4DTO-4CTIVE MINERALS.

Tho discovery of an ore In Westchester Coun-
tv invisible radiations from which act upon the
chemicals Of n Photographic plate Is open 10
several interpreta tons. One Is that the mineral
contains radium. Another is that salts OF some
other element possessing the same properties
ere present there. Uranium, thorium, polonium
and actinium are among the substances which
exercise this peculiar power. 1t was BecquereFs
detection OF II in salts Of uranium which led 10
its being recognized elsewhere, and, indeed, 10
the discovery of the most potent OF all the
sources-radum. Hence it is at present prema
nIre 10 assume that the Bedford quarry VIII
Weld the latter element.
independent testimony has been supplied by
the State geolOgist Il is said, that one OF the
compounds in the ore is uraninte. Even this
fact does not dlspel all uncertainty. Cranintte
is pitchbende, complicated mixture or metal
lie salts Of which those OF uranium are the
most abundant. Among the things associated
with the uranium In the pitchblende OF Joachims-
thai Austria, is radlum, but the majority OF
pitchblendes found in other parts OF the world
either contain 10 radium at all or so little that
It cannot be separated proftably. There is, or
course, small chance that radium exists In
microscopic quantities in the Bedford ore, but
the probabilities are against such a conclusion
All Of the phenomena observed by It's discover
ers can apparently be explained by the presence
or uranium. mus fdr tne only American mill
eral from which ii has been possible 10 extract
radium is carnotite, procured in Colorado.
Though the prospect of finding radium in sufl-
Client quantities 10 lower the price materially
still seems remote, ii Is reasonable TO hope for
such contamination eventually. In many
parts of the world the water and soil exhibit
feeble radiO-aCtivity-so feeble, indeed, that 1t
can be discovered only by the most delicate cleo
trical apparatus and not by its influence on the
Photographic plate. These circumstances seem
to indicate that the air and water have recently
been In close proximity 10. if not in actual con-
tact with, some OF the half dozen elements
which give off Becquerel rays. Many sub
stances. after having absorbed the latter from
uranium. thOrium radlum, Will emit them
again. The Cures were greatly annoyed by the
behavior Of the walls Of the room In which their
work conducted The search for the origin
of the radioactive quality of the ground and
water has hitherto proved unsuccessful, but It
cannOt well remain so forever. Something be-
sides radium may be involved, but ii is atural
to impute the effect to the most powerful OF the
known causes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
FRENCH VIEWS OF GERHINY.

Burnss WISH "to see Oursel's as others see
us, is now in measure granted to Germany
That empire can see itself, in certain important
particulars, not only as others see IT, but as
another somewhat critical nation. If not
jealous rival, sees II. \ French Parliamentary
committee has been investigating German
financial, industrial and commercial affairs and
has reported upon them with much elaboration.
sometimes in comparison with corresponding
affairs in France. The result is instructive TO
all, and should. on the whole prove decidedly
gratifying 10 the sons of the Fatherland
We are told that since 1890 the area of cul
tivated land in Germany has increased bv %
per cent. while that in France was stationary
The number OK farmers in Germany increased
by So per cent between 1888 and 1900 The
population living farms has increased by
30 per cent since 1882 Thus there is evidently
In Germany a strong movement back TO the
land contrary TO the cityward migration COM
planned Of in other countries. The Increase in
agricultural products in the last ten years has
been enormous. 1t has amounted to 80 per cent
in wheat, so per cent in hay, 30 per cent in
oats and 60 per cent In potatoes. There has at
the same time been n similarly great increa Sc
In products per acre, demonstrating the adj
vance of scientific methods in farming. This
lis a record of which the Agrarian party in
go FAR toward absolving it from the charge of
cantankerous agitation in politics.
| This great development OF German agricult-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
Aetp:llerIs DaiIp Gribrl,ts
MONDAY, JUNE %, 1904.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-The Russian admiralty is re-
ported 10 have admitted the loss OF battleshlp
and two cruisers of Port Arthur. - - Con- Con-
fiictinR reports regarding General Okus army
were received at LiaO-Yang. - Another
naval battle. IL is believed at Che-Foo, look
place off Port Arthur on Saturday nlght' the
hiring of the Chinese port was not heard on
steamers passing Lao-Teai-Shan. - 1hers
were runors I'm st. Petersburg or Dattle anu
a Russian defeat near Tashi-Chiao Where IL
was reported that forty thousand troops were
futrenched. == The Russian troops In North-
eastern Corea were reported to be retreatins on
Vladivostok coynman deering livestock and food
=-= Chinese arriving at Che-Foo report that
the Russians have evacuated kai-Ping ana
have fallen back on town few miles north-
ward The official japanese report or
losses at the battle of Wafang-Ka showed 90
officers and 114S men killed or wounded. -
A dispatch from New-Chwang said that the
Japanese expected 10 enter Kai-Ping unopposed
TODAY - Not clew has been found 10 Kent
J. Loomis, who disappeared from the Kaiser
Wilhelm III on June 20 - MT feri!caiis s
gave an account of his capture by Raisuli and
Of his experiences in the bandits camp.
CITY.-The arrest OF man a suspicious
person was expected TO shed light on the Fate OF
Henry Baxter Kingsley; Paterson woman said
the prisoner had been at her home with a man
she thought was Kingsley - The DAY was
the hottest June 90 since 1870. - Seven per
sons were drowned as the result Of young tor
nado that swept over Brooklyn. == Senator
Thomas G. Platt. II WAS learned. has given UP
his trip 10 Europe and will stay here to take
active part in the campaign = Boys threw
a giant frecracker under a team Of horses; the
Park persons sitting benches there having
narrow escapes. == The arrest of a negro on
p charge of insulting girls nearly caused race
riot in front of the West SiXty-eghth-st. station
DOMESTIC.-In the last weeks ten
Americans have been abducted and held for
ransom or killed by band Of Mexicans on the
border between Mexico and Texas. - mob
at Cupora, Miss. lynched negro in the public
square. Labor leaders threaten TO throw
Texas TO the Republicans in revenge for the
Democrats knitting Hearst == The tempera-
ture reached 101 degrees in the shade at the
State Camp at Peekskill, and relief from camp
duties was greatly appreciated. - A de-
spondent mother in Chirago, who was about TO
be evicted for non-payment Of rent killed her
self and her three children. --- The Prohibi-
ton National Convention Will meet in Indian
apolis tomorrow; General Miles has sought Sc
cluson without making definite statement as
70 whether he would accept the noFiination for
President If il were offered TO him. = Bac-
calaureate sermons were preached at Yale Am
herst and Wesleyan by Presidents Hadley. Har-
Tis and Raymond.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Partly cloudy and cooler. The temperature yes
terday: Highest, % degrees; lowest, Il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
RUSSI4'S BALTIC FLEET

The announcement that the Sissoi VeIikv has
heen put into commission Mt Cronstadt Indicates
mat progress is being made with the Baltic
squadron OF the Russian Navy. There are now
two battleships ready of the six or eight that
We're 10 be dispatched eastward this summer
One is this Sissoi Veliky which Is an old STYLE
second class ship. built in 1894 The other IS
the Alexander III, a ship of medium size
launched In 1901. The Orel n companion shin
TO the Alexander III. was nOminally finished
some time ago, but has since then been run
aground and sunk. and what not. and it is said
1t has received such structural injuries as
viii require 1t TO be largely rebuilt Another
practically identical ship, the Borodlno. was
launched in 1901. but nobody seems TO know
when 1t will be finished. The Kniaz Suvarofr
was launched in 1902 and is not likely to be
ready for year. The other two the PayeI I
and the Slava, Will scarcely be ready before
1910 as one has not yet been launched and
the other was launched only a few months ago
The Osliabia is, of course. ready and is q cant
tai vessel. The Alexander III and the NayarIno
OLD style and small vessels, are also under
stood TO be in commission
1t is obvious that from this list It will not
be possible TO send out this summer a par
hcuiarly powerful squadron. There will be
available at most four modern and three
armored cruisers will be the slow little Dimltrl
Donskof-a most unworthy vessel to bear the
name of the dashlng hero Of the Field Of Wood
cccks-and the Pamyat Azova, which is being
overhauled and fitted with new engines There
may be many unarmored cruisers Of small size
mere gunboats, torpedo boats and the like But
the entire feet would be Of less fighting strength
than the squadrOns which Russia had Mt the
beginning OF the war at Port Arthur and
NladivOstok If these latter were unable 10
cope with the japanese. it may well be asked
what chance of doing so this weaker fleet
would have, especially on reaching the scene
after sea voyage of thirteen thousand miles
with no port in which to be put in trim before
meeting the foe. As for the difficulties of taking
such fleet over such course they are most
serious. 1t would be necessary 10 carry along
in cOlliers at least 10000 tons of coal, TO be
transferred 10 the warships on the open high
seas. If any one of the ships broke down. the
entire fleet would have 10 wait for il TO be re-
paired. If it could be repaired at sea When
to this we add the consideration that I'm case
this fleet met with defeat at the hands Of the
Japanese the Baltic coast Of Russia would be
left quite unprotected, there is ample cause for
earnest reflection on the part of the Russian
government before II enters upon this desper-
ate enterprise
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
U4JESTIC NEW BRIDGE.

Elaborate. indeed. are the plans for the pro-
posed new Manhattan Bridge, with its towers
each made up of four steel columns. the col
umns to be bound together by cantiiever de-
vices On the tops OF the anchorages, at a
height OF 125 feet or thereabOuts, will be courts
1875 feet by 175 in area, which will undoubtedly
become highly popular resorts as Will also De
the two balconies to be built on the Level OF
the footwalk and upon the edge of the bridge
for resting places for pedestrians This bridge
will be double decked and extremely massive
as well as stately in appearance
suggestion has been made that the towers
and the cables should be outlined with electric
lights. The Brooklyn Bridge is an object OF
glittering beauty at night although its cables
and towers are not illuminated When all or
our bridges between Manhattan and Long ISL
and are finished the display above the East
River after sunset will be truly superb.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27

ure has NOT however been effected at the
pense of other industries. On the contrary
agriculture mining, manufactures and all the
rest have moved prosperously on together IN
mining. in q great variety of mineral products
these critical French observers declare Ger
many is 10 be compared only with the United
States No other country is in the same class
with these two The same is said of the iron
and steel industry which is OF fundamental
Importance while the textile industry mas naue
equal progress. In chemical Industries Der
many easily leads the world. The pruning
and engraving trades have attained enormous
proportions Books, cards. pamphlets, htho-
graphs. etc. says this report are manufactured
in Germany for all parts of the world In the
ten years 1S92-1901 German imports increased
by As and exports by 80 per cent, while the ex-
norris of the United States increased by 43, of
Great Britain by 10 and of France by 16 per
cent.
The significant feature of the case is that
Germany has done these things under q strict
protective tariff system which system she Is
now not only maintaining, but strengthening.
In her new tariff laws, say these French in
vestigators Germany has forged against her
industrial competitors a formidable weapon,
capable Of profoundly troubling the economic
relations that exist between them Ihere
can be no doubt of that. OF course however,
the primary purpose of that system, as of that
of the United States, after which 1t is In Il
mea sure modelled, is not TO trouble relations,
but TO influence them for Germanys own profit
In effecting that purpose the German system
has hitherto been notably successful. German
trade relations with all the world have been
peaceful and friendly during the years in which
this enormous advance has been made. and 1t
is TO be expected that they will continue TO be
so under the new tariff and commercial treaties.
Certainly there is nothing in this French view
of Germany which is likely t. turn Germany
from the profitable course she is pursuing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
PERSONAL.

Daniel G. Burr. aged eighty-four. a survivor OF
Company H. 4th Regiment recruited at Paris, Ill.
June f. 1886 for the war with Mexico. has held a
reunion by himself the fair grounds at Paris As
he had done annually forty years. he called the
roll of his company from the original roll he had
tody as orderly sergeant of the company He spent
the day in meditation, eating his picnic dinner
alone.
King Edward has approved the appointment or
Charles Harding Firth. LIZ D.. to be regius pro-
fessor of modern history In the University or O1-
ford. in succession 10 the late Frederick YORK
Powell.
Robert D. Davis OF Fail River. Mass. who was
the senior delegate the Chicago convention from
his State. also delegate to the convention that
presented him with gold headed cane while IN
Chicago.
A remarkable veteran soldier in England Is Lord
Chelmsford now seventy-seven years old, but ap-
pearing like man In the fifties II Is sixty years
since he entered the army. and he IS among the now
thinned ranks of those who served before Sebasto-
pol He in the Mutiny. and later IN the Abys-
sinian. in the Kaffir and then in the Zulu wars
The Boston Authors Club visited the Whittier
home in Amesbury, Mass. recently. A feature or
one years ago. The author had underlined and
commented various passages.
The seniors In the academic department Of Yale
University have presented to Professor William G.
Sumner the noted political economist. handsome
loving cup.
Miss Grace Herred daughter of Governor Her
reid of South Dakota has accepted the invitation Of
the Union Iron Works to name the armored cruiser
South Dakota, which will be launched in San
Francisco late In July.
Professor Justin H. Smith. of Dartmouth College.
is at present travelling in Mexico experimenting
collection OF material for a history of the
between Mexico and the United States