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As TO somE RECENT ACCIDENTS"

An automobile is n very perfect and very
powerful locomotive II applies anywhere from
j. 10 40 or 60 horsepower 10 the propulsion OF
q single short ear. and is able 10 develop fits
utmost power ia minute or two. 1t rarely
runs at less than the average speed which n
freight train makes. X often attains a speed as
great as that at which the average accommOda-
ton train for passengers runs, sometimes that
OF the average express train.
This very powerful very delicate and very
sensitive machine, liable ar unexpected moments
10 get out of order and beyond the control Of
The operator; this most high strung and nervous
Of organisms; this very thoroughbred of engines,
is turned loose. not like the dray horse locOmO-
tive on rigid steel rails. Il uniformly graded
and thoroughly ballasted roadbed, hut ON the
common crowded highway 1t is not protected
from collisions by fences along the track or
gates at grade crossings. The road it takes IS
sure 10 be traversed by all manner of vehicles;
some of them managed by boys others by
women, and almost any OF them liable at the
most inopportune moment 10 cross the track or
do some other unexpected thing. The same
road is sure ut times TO be crowded, especially
Fl the vicinity Of the villages or large towns,
with considerable numbers of children, gossip
ing girls and holiday idlers. 1t is rea sonab
sure also TO be infested with dogs and other
domestic animals, capable OF suddenly getting
under 4 wheel
Now, this mettlesome engine, thrust into this
bcwilderment Of dangers, is not intrusted 10 an
engineer who has had years OF training in sub
ordinate positions before he was permitted TO
handle the lever, an engineer who even then
has been first taken over the track often enough
10 know every dangerous spot in IT, every curve
and every grade. On the contrary, il is handled
sometimes by young girl, sometimes by a bow
very often by person OF comparatively little
experience or judgment, and with two or three
companions along who are "out for a lark" II
IS taken over unfamiliar roads. often merely
guessed at from a road map, and is liable TO be
suddenly rushed into narrow or crooked or
sdelinS places, where even a farm horse with
his cart would need 10 be driven a walk with
care
That the inexperienced people who Cavlv and
heedlessly take such risks are fools is PERTAINS
their own affair and when the result is merely
the killing of the fools and the fools friends.
perhaps the general public ought not 10 be
much discomposed. When they risk killing
other people, however. they pass from the line
OF folly 10 the field of crimnatv. Resides
when they thus arouse such general hostility rs
L. provoke tendency 10 assault upon all outo-
laob''sts by the casual hoodium, they do IN
Unite harm TO the rational and legitimate users
OF wonderful invention which has really como
10 stay, and which ought TO be protected nor
merely against the hoodums, but also AGAINST
The fools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28

They are not vet reported, but they viii prob
ably prove TO be much heavier than in the fight
al the Yalu. Indeed, II viii not surprise us II
they are considerably heavier than the Rus
slams. II is 10 be expected that an attacking
and storming party will suffer more than the
defenders of a fortified place Yet il will be re-
called that at the Yalu the japanese suffered
far less than the Russians whom they drove out
OF their Notifications. In this case. however,
the japanese can better afford To lose than can
the Russians for the roads, by both land and
sea, are open for them to send in as many more
achievements as may be needed, while the
Russians at Port Arthur cannot replace single
man whom they lose
The capture of Kin-Chow alone would have
been an important gain for the japanese. but
they have done more. Just south Of that place
is the narrow neck which connects Port Arthur
and Dalny with the rest of the peninsula. 1t is
less than two miles wide between Hand Bay
and Kin-Chow Bay. The japanese have passed
that point and have entered the Port Arthur
peninsula itself. Nor is that all. Just south
west OF that narrow neck is a range of hills eX-
tending clear across the land. beyond which the
country is level and open. The Japanese have
pa ssed those hills and secured a footing on the
open plain. They have now between them and
the Notifications of Port Arthur only twenty
miles of level or rolling plain, and only half
flat distance between themselves and Dalny.
How strong the Russian garrison of Port Arthur
is cannot be told. The japanese themselves
estimate it at twenty thousand men. which
shows they are not indulging in easy decisions.
for that is the highest estimate that has been
made. and is probably above rather than under
the mark Against such a Russian force they
arc preparing TO send one five times great, II
necessary. In such case ii is 10 be expected
that the end already attained at the Yalu and
AT Kin-Chow will be reached a third time, at
heavier cost than on either of the former occa-
sions. but also With more important results.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
OHIO's MARRIAGE RESTRICTIONS

Beginning last Friday. Ohio entered upon an
interesting experiment in the matter of restrict
ing marriage. BY law passed by the recent
legislature OF that State all applicants for mar
rage licenses upon applying to the Probate
Court for legal permission to wed are required
TO answer the following questlons
Is either party habuual drunkard2
Is either epileptic?
Is either insane?
Is either under the influence OF an intoxicating
liquor drug?
The happy swain who hereafter goes to the
Probate Court in Ohio for a license must be
prepared with some knowledge Of his own and
his fiancees habits and state Of mind and body
Doubtless the questions will seem to him to be
impertinent or insulting. and certainly no one
but n probate Judge would dare to PROFOUND
such inquiries. However, as the queries will
be printed on record forms, the would-be bride
groom will probably look upon them merely
another device to make him as uncomforta-
BILE and foolish as possible at this momentous
crisis of his life and fill them out as we'll as
his confused intellect will allow under the cir
cumstances.
Meanwhile, other States will watch with in
terest ohio's experiment in matrimony along
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
4 PLAY FOR STMPITHT.

Mr. Curran the president of the international
Freight Handlers Union, denies the rumor mat
lie is going to try TO tie UP the North ana East
River ferries as n feature of a sympathetic
strike against the New-YOrk, New-HaYen ana
Hartford Railroad Company, and says: I'VE
want the sympathy of the public in this fight
land by tying up the ferryboats we would De
cutting our own thrOats.
If the strikers really want public sympathy,
they are to be pitied for their lack of common
sense in the manner Of obtaining it. If there is
any merit in their contention they have care
fully concealed it. So far as we have been able
TO observe the strikers keep shifting their po-
stion and making it impossible for an en-
ployer to meet them on any reasonable basis.
According 10 the statement in behalf of the
railroad company, which has not been dis
credited the demand was originally Tor the re-
iIstatement OF some men laid off for lack Of
work. Tho company manifested conciliatory
disposition. and promptly reinstated them.
Then, instead of putting them TO work. the
union suddenly demanded the discharge OF an
old and faithful workman, against whom no
complaint had previously been made. Since
then. we believe there have been questions of
wages and conditions OF labor raised and now
the recognition OF the union and the restoration
OF the strikers in body previous TO any adjust
ment OF differences are demanded. The whole
suggests Il set purpose to precipitate n conflict
on any sort Of pretext apparently for the pur-
pose of breaking down the system of free en-
ployment which has hitherto prevailed and es-
tdblishng the CLOSED shop" a strike avowed-
ly for a CLOSED shop would have no public
sympathy. so apparently indirect means have
been taken TO extend strike ostenslbly begun
for other purposes 10 the accomplishment OF
that end
Does Mr.. Curran. who is so anxious for public
sympathy, think that the people will be more
sympathetic toward attempts 10 tie up all the
coast shipping than toward a suspension Of the
ferry service? True. more persons would be IN
convenienced by the stOppage of ferryb boats, but
the principle is Just the same The man who
wants TO 20 TO Savannah or san Juan or Gal
weston has just much right 10 complain. II
prevented by Mr.. Curran, as the man who wants
10 60 to Jersey City. In one case just as much
as the other Mr.. CurraH and his strikers are In
tCrfering wantouly with the business OF persons
who have no concern IN their fight. They are
trying TO boycott the community In general as Il
Part Of their campaign against tie New Haven
road. They stop at the ferry service not that
they really regard the rights of the public but
Tor the simple reason that they dare not use that
weapon. because. as Mr.. Curran puts It, we
would be cutting our own throats" II they
thought they were cutting only the peoples
throats, they would apparently try 10 stop the
ferryboats fast enough. That sort OF regard for
public rights and interests is not likely 10 COM
mand much sympathy
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VAR VIEWS OF EXPERTS.
Surprise at Japanese Occupation Of
Heights South of Kin-ChO1C.
IFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU


washington May 27.-The military experts
express surprise that the japanese should have
taken and are now occupying the heights south
of Kin-Chow. officers here knew that the
neighboring hills afforded unusual opportunities
for defence, and believed that the japanese
would not be able to dlslodge the Russians with
out much loss Of life. According 20 Toxic adj
vices at the Japanese Legation here, the attack
was from the sea as we'll from the land. and
the japanese force was partly made up OF land
ing parties. There are several ways to account
for the Japanese success. The Russian resist
ance may have been perfunctory or the Jap
anese may have been in much greater force.
One officer said the Russians got out Of Kin
Chow and abandoned the positions on the
neghborng heights either because they had to
or because they wanted TO. He meant TO ex-
press the military view which. at least In some
quarters. still clings 70 the theory that Kuro-
patkln knows exactly what he Is doing. and that
his abandonment OF a place does not really add
10 the strength of the enemy.
Army officers say that Kuropatkin's dis
patches give evidence that their author possesses
much information of the japanese He tells Of
their movements around Feng-Wang-Ch and
from Taku-Shan and in the neighborhood OF
Kin-Chow. The officers who feel that the Rus
SLAMS have employed every facility at their COM
mand and believe they have reason for what
ever is done hold the view that nothing OF great
Importance has been accomplished yet. and that
even the occupation OF the Kin-Chow heights
which is of more Importance in a strategic way
than the investment OF the towns merely a
step to something OF real value in the relative
movements OF the opposing forces. These off,
GERS repeat their warnings that too much faith
must not be placed in the dispatches Of CORE
spondents who are not in the field. and who. al
though in Toxic. have no better means Of know
ing what is occurring than n reporter in Detroit
Some OF the officers believe that the condition
of the roads In Manchuria must soon bring to an
end anything like mobilization of troops and
that there will be tedious period OF watching
and waiting. Some believe that soma sign OF the
Russian plan OF campaign will soon appear
They think this cannot he kept back much
longer or IL will become apparent that the Rus
slams have plan at all. That Is the belief of
others in the service. but few army officers en-
tertaining views prejudicial to the Russians are
found The naval officers generally think that
the Russians doomed to defeat. and to-day
the sympathizers with the Japanese regarded the
occupation OF Kin-Chow an important step
In the campaign. An estimate of the Importance
Of the Kin-Chow engagement is made difficult
by the absence in to-day's advices OF trust
worthy statistics of the casualties.
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and that many passengers shrink from making
al inquiry for that reason. They do not like to
be insulted and perhaps provoked into a re-
tort.
1t is distressing enough To ride in a car
crowded 10 suffocation when one is surround
ed by respectable persons. To be jOstled by a
drunken Tufian and assailed with prOfane and
obscene language is an intolerable affection.
But Il case has 10 be extreme to convince the
average conductor that it is his duty TO inter
ferc. The truth is that man or woman of re-
fined feeling who gets into streetcar in this
city runs constant risk OF being subjected TO
gross indignides for which there is no re
dress.
1t would be easy to make this list longer. but
we do not want to overload Alderman Staple
ton. We are very much afraid that lie cannot
pass or even frame an ordinance fitted to work
an effectual reform of these abuses, but while
his mind is on the general subject or local
transportation he may feel inclined to try. Be
yond a doubt it is time for somebody in au-
thority to seek a remedy for evils which are
constantly growing worse with the increasing
demand on inadequate facilities for getting
about town.
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Irtp:llnvk DAILY Gribn1le
SATURDAY, MAY 2s. 1904.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.vThe japanese after sixteen hours
OF desperate aghi2g, captured NaT-Shan HlLA'
a position believed by the Russians 10 be I'M
pregnabie Thursday; llin-Chow was taken
on The morning or the same day; the losses on
both sides were heavy. --- Admiral Togo )
gunbo0ts took part in the action on the isthmus
and a complete blockade OF Port Arthur was
announced: IL was reported from TOXIC that lhe
japanese land forces were within twelve inlss
Of the city, after having pursued the Russians
south and having captured many guns -
Japan declared effective blockade OF Port
Arthur. all communications having been cut
on both the land and SIDES. 80 It was re
ported that Russia had purchased in England a
cruiser being built at private shipyaEd -
The Chamber OF Deputies sustained the action
OF the French government in recalling NJ
Nisard Ambassador 10 the Vatican the en-
bassy win not be abolished. = Cardinal Sa-
limited states - The international Tuber-
culosis Congress opened at Copenhagen.
DOMESTIC.-EXperts OF the Department COZ
Agriculture have discovered an ant which preys
on the boil weevil, in Guatemala, and VIII III
tro5uce II into me cotton growing States =-
Senator Germans platform, adopted in Mar!
land was severely criticised by democrats IN
Washington. --= Miss Alice Roosevelt. though
q guest OF honor at the Worlds Fair. was COM
PEELED to psy Ter admission fee. --= The Ger
;nsn navy assembled the largest neet ever seen
Of that nalicn ar Newport News. ---- y tor
nado wiped out the town Of NeW-I-iberty, Ill
CITY.-Stocks We're dull and weak. -
President Curran threatened 10 call out truck
drivers. in spite OF the recent agreement -
The firm Of - J. Sully & Co. asked the re-
celvers 70 demand OF the forty Cotton Exchange
houses which had contracted 10 sell cotton 10
the firm for MAY delivery that they denver
10000 bales OF spot cotton representing the
contracts closed out on the day OF the announce
yueut OF the failure. - Announcement was
made that default would be made on the in
terest due June / on the fifty year first mort
gage per cent bonds OF the Detroit southern
Railroad Company; a plan TO eXtricate the COM
Iany from :ts troubles without a receiNershp
hag been accepted. - Mayor McClellan's
su;ouobre driver was arrested for exceeding
the speed limit while he Was going TO Demon
.co's to get the Mayor -= The body OF l1eom-
das Hubbard was brought here. -= Henry
Harmon Hendricks a well known metal mel-
chant, Cieo suddenly In the Chnstopher-st
FERRY house. ==-= A crowd wanted 10 lynch a
l.eSTo accused by two women or trying 10 as
s,ault ono % them in Central Park - 91rs'
Cherries Bartlett starved TO death in he- home
in Flushing neglected by her husban : Whlle
aer mother was dying firm consumption ---
A nU.nher of poolrooms resumed operations
.-= The winners at Gravesend were: J.
Fnandy: p Inmasked; 3, Damon. /, Ascenslon'
?. WRterside: q, Ancestor.
TIE WEATHER Indications for to-day;
rair The temperature yesterday; Hlghest -
degrees. lowest. -.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
SPANISH PROGRESS.

Careful observers of public sentiment and OF
the condition Of affairs i'll Spain say that the
Kingdom Of Alfonso is better off to-day than it
was before the loss of its colonies and is gain
ing in many lines of development. 1t is said
also that the general drift of opinion in Spain is
that the country will have brighter future
without possessions beyond the seas.
The Spanish temperament was never ideal for
the government OF alien peoples and subject
races That stored peninsula OF Southwestern
Europe with its picturesque and fascinating
history, has within its borders latent treasures
OF amazing value. 1t may become prOdigi0usIy
rich and populous again. as it was in former
centuries. Americans wish it well
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NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON

CFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington May Z7.-Secretary TAFT VIII leave
Washington tomorrow for Topeka to deliver an
address at the Kansas semi-centennial celebration
on Memorial Day.
The president and trustees Of Columbian Univer-
sity gave a reception with dancing. at Rauschers
tonight in compliment to the graduating classes.
The patronesses. several Of whom were present.
included Mrs. Hay, Mrs. Hit, Mrs. Foraker. Mrs.
Alvarez Calderon. Countess Cassini. Mrs. Cowles'
Mrs. Oliver Cromwell. Mrs. w. P Emo. Mrs.
Pinchot Mrs Fairbanks Mrs. Thomas =. Walsh
and Mrs B. H. Warder.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Webb and the latter's
mother Mrs Hutchinson. will close their Washing
ton home June and go to Easthampton. Long
Island. for the summer.
Commander Remey and his family will spend the
summer in foreign travel.
Assistant Secretary Darling Of the Navy Depart
ment will attend the Memorial Day exercises at
Morgantown. w. Va
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CHANGES AT PRINCETON.
Professor Hibben to Edit New Publication,
To Be Called "Epochs of Philosophy"

Princeton. N j.. May q (SpeciaD.-PrOfessor
Grant Slovenian. OF the University OF Wisconsin.
was announced to-day professor OF Latin IN
Princeton for next year in place of Or. Jesse b.
Carter. who has accepted the prOfessorship OF
Latin in the American School of Classical Studies
In Rome. and will be In Europe for the school year
of 1s0i-'05. At the end of his term DR.. Carter will
resume his place in Princeton University. Profess
sor Slovenian will begin his duties IN September
Professor John @. Hibben OF the Princeton Uni
verslty logic department has accepted an invitation
TO become editor OF a new philosophical series. to
be published by Charles Scrihner's Sons. The
series will be known The Epochs OF Philos-
ophy." and will consist of twelve volumes six of
them to be written by leading American philos-
ophers and six selected from prominent English
and Scotch authorities. DIR. Hibben sails for Eu-
rope on June z to make arrangements for the for
egn contributors. out Will return TO Princeton for
college duties next fall. He will con-
tribute the series volume OF the eighteenth CEN
tury called THE Philosophy OF Enlightenment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
VARIOUS VIEWS OF PROVIDENCE

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Invariably accurate IN discussing ms
national ethics and the individual code. you sesn,
20 have been of guard IN this mornings edito'iA
on 'svarfous Views OF Providence" You SPEAK -
leach of two antagonists" expressing the e0a-.
dent belief that Divine Providence was marsna'
on IT'S side" and you conclude that obviously 0Hs
az them must have been mistaken. God was NV
lighting on both sides. That Is emphatic; ou1 "
1t truce -,
There are two parties concerned In every conssss
and not infrequently neither Is wholly IN the e..
There IS an element of justice in every claim o'n'.
wise there would be no reason for It's exis1SA
In SO far as each party embodies the DIVINE S--
ciples so far God is represented on both sioes' -
hrhts for each You seem 20 condition the part -
Providence upon the claims OF the antasO
whereas. He must be external in sense eAis1.- s
INDEPENDENTLY OF them. and Uninhuenced oy cha
fortunes OF war to-day than you can exciuu1
from the history OF the world his I oot vita
Through the ages have ever been slaIueu. ON
Mood and II has been only through fntshseS,S
ficts physical intellectual. moral anu 7tter~
that men have learned His truth. he mas III rs
aIIy fought on both sides. History W. more
VIE the~ i'm the divine balances Russia WelsSt Ths
than Japan and she may tell US asaLnI, 80 - "ths
Intimate triumph Is always on the sur your
bToviSst battaliOns'' and the most suns YOU
various Views OF Providence need reslslOas .nsts
cannot rule Providence out or the EaSteLLn ON
In spite OF prejudice He Is likely SUI of nrofess
which Side / with pre-emnent favor DO nos "a 10
to know "God Is His own inteTgreI5S9TIa1 SsoN.
" C ~ Hail n T. May g. 1904.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
CHARLTON 7. LEWIS MEMBER OF o. X. :.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: In your sketch OF the late Charlton T. Ls~is
In to-day's paper you omitted to mention his con-
nection with an organization in which he TOOK q
very active interest for fifty years-the Delta happa
Epsilon fraternity. which he Joined at 4aie ne
was a favorite orator at the conventions OF this
fraternity in later years was the first president o.
the Delta Kappa Epsilon Club OF New-fork, TOM
1880 TO 1885, was vice-president or the Delta AaVps
Epsilon Association Of New-York for 1904 ana pre-
sided at the annual dinner OF that association on
April Is. This was almost his last public appear
ance He had recently declined several invitations
20 speak on other public occasions. but MS aIsc-
ton for his old college fraternity was so great tna'
he responded to this call and spoke with sucn so-
auence and magnetism that he seemed to Do my
rather than seventy years old. and many renaEAsu
his youthful vigOr. - -,b.-. AZ
He was admired and beloved by the menoesrs So p
the fraternity and especially by those VINO hae y
sonalIy felt his influence and enthusiasm "a - .rr
half He himself would not have consldeEee ,t Ion
account of his life complete which omitted nen.d
OF his connection with Delta Kappa EpSliesn' r.
therefore call your attention to IT, = W.
New-York May q, EO4-
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THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

IFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU
Washington, May Z7.-Mme. Hengelmuler. VIE
Of the Austrian Ambassador whose Illness has
caused concern to her friends. is much improVed
to-day and her speedy recovery is assured
Ignacio Calderon. the recently appointed Minister
of Bolivia the United States, received by tne
President to-day He was presented by Secretary
Hav the ceremony taking place in the Blue Room.
Felicitous addresses were exchanged between the
new minister and the President Mr. Caideron
is no stranger in this country. as his governments
appointed him to an important post In New-1ork
about fifteen years ago. While stationed III bai,
timore he married. His wife. who has accompanied
him to Washington, will add another American
hostess to the diplomatic corps. The minister Is
not related to Manuel Alvarez Calderon, the MIN
lister from Peru.
Sehor De Azpiroz, the Mexican Amoassador' anu
his daughter Senora Perez, have returned from
short visit TO New-York-