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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
BUSINESS AND HONESTY.

Possibly six months ago or twelve months ago
the spectacle Of a banker dilating to a conven-
ton Of bankers on the business advantages Of
honesty might have passed as piece Of pleas
entry-a venture into the field Of whimsical
hUmor worthy of Gilbert or Lewis Carroll. II
Is a good deal harder to-day to tell Just where
the real ends and the paradoxical begins in such
q performance. Every banker is supposed 10
nail the Eighth Commandment conspicuously
over his portal and when an association of
bankers finds itself discussing as a topic Of
vital interest the obsolescence of that command
ment old Fashioned standards Of Judgment are
little upset, as well as old fashioned standards
Of humor.
No note OF playfulness appears in Mr.. J. Ed
ward Sinmops's address last Thursday before
che Maryland Bankers Association on Honesty
Is the Best Policy" Mr.. Simmons almost seems
90 fear that honesty is becoming lost art az
well as lost virtue, and he does not hesitate
10 denounce the classes and the influences which
have done most to bring loose views into fash
ION He lays his finger on the real trouble when
he declares that the most demoralizing force in
business life to-day is the divestiture of nersonal
honor and personal responsibility allowed NJ
modern methods. The extension of the pripci.
ME Of INCORPORATION has ena bled leaders in bust
ness TO set up two standards Of morality to
maintain Jekyll and Hyde duality and 10
DO as members of an impersonal and non-moraI
corporate body acts which they would shrink
from as individuals. This sense Of dual per-
sonaIty has led TO the acceptance by men Of
affairs of new and strange principles of mo-
rality Mr.. Simmons says:
Men who pose as the salt Of the earth and who
condemn without reserve. those who steal sou.
or forge a check for 500, or accept bride. Will
themselves make millions by lying, by misrepre-
Eentatfon. by fraud and by bribery. In private
life they are stainless: but in the interest OF
corporations, Of the trust, Of the gas company,
Of the railroad company. Of the insurance COM
pany, they will have recourse TO every villany
damned In the Decalogue.
Honesty is a more or less elastic term. AS
somebody recently explained, one may practise
real honesty or merely law honesty; OF, as the
Tsmnany Hau politician quits It from tia re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
DIRTY WATER.

DR.. Darlington's statements concerning the
water supply Of this city distinctly unpleasant
if not gravely disquieting. They do not give,
cause for anything like panic but thew do indi
cate the urgent need Of prompt and radical Off
cial action. He says that the water is befouled
with what we must regard as the most repulsiva
and most dangerous Of communicating elements
to wit animal excretions. to such an extent
that the presence Of characteristic bacteria ia
readily perceptible through analysis. His re-
marks were called forth by an examination of
Brooklyn water. but he added that the condI-
tons were practically the same in all the Dor
oughs Of the city. In brief. then, the people of
this city are drinking water that is always dirty
and that may at any moment become deadly.
for, as DR.. Darlington truly says this contami-
nation may at any time develop into dissem-
nation of typhoid fever dysentery or cholera
If, as he seems clearly to intimate, the animal
excretions which befoul the water are largely
or in any measure Of human origin, then 1t is
evident that single LII cared for case of one of
those diseases among the persons whose excre-
mons are finding their way into our drinking
water might cause widespread epidemic.
This state of affairs is disgraceful to the city
authorities, and comes very close to being crimi-
nal few Isolated cases of water contamina
uon might De unavoidable and therefore pardon
aole' but there can be no excuse for long con
tnued liberation Of such conditions Adn,tnia
'rators of proper intelligence and energy sbonId
De able TO discover the sources of contamino-
uon- 1t is trtfing with common sense IN say
Iney could not do so. And II they found The
sources they could cut them off and sion tba
poAutlon- All that is needed is a careful in.
spetIn0n OF the watershed and the exercise Of
t uoos bowers which the Water Board and
health Board possess. It is well 70 Gov, a.
| ing system should be adonted a. -. n.. .I
100000 We believe the water shon,d he oitsnS
But the construction of such works s;Ii 80
time. It is well to say that all Datan 80 TnI axe
boiled before using; but everybody knnnu it oe
only tiths eli the peopls can be- persusSs. .ls'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
OPEN AND CLOSED CARS.

There is occasion for some surprise at the
terms and at the logic Of the ordinance now
pending before the Board Of Aldermen for the
regulation OF streetcars in the Borough of
Brooklyn. Briefly stated, it is to this effect
that whereas the running of open cars in win
ter is detrimental to the health of the people
therefore the railroad companies shall be re-
quired to have every other car on their lines
an open one all through the winter.
That certainly strikes us as extraordinary
If open cars in winter are a menace to the
public health we should think the use of them
should be forbidden instead of being COM
manded and required. Hitherto. SO far as our
pretty extended observation of Brooklyn transit
conditions has gone the companies have run
nothing but closed cars in winter, though they
have been inclined to run open ones somewhat
late in the fall and early in the spring It
might be well to require those to be taken off
earlier and put on later. But here are alder
men demanding that half the cars that are run
in midwinter shall be open ones. If the pre-
amble to the resolution had read Whereas the
notion that open cars in cold weather are bad
for the health is all fudge such vehicles being
in fact, nfallible sanatoriums especially for
bronchial and pulmonary patients" then we
could have understood the logic of ordering the
use of open cars. But to say that open cars
are deadly, and therefore they must be adopted
and used, is proposition that passes our pow
ers OF Interpretation.
1t is scarcely supposable that the aldermen
are Gin cahoots' with the doctors and undertak-
ers OF course, it may be that. with Their char
acteristic devotion to the higher and more alb.
struse departments Of science. they are Dlan.
ming a wholesale experiment to determine the
actual effects of open car traffic upon the death
rate. but in that case we should suggest the
propriety Of having the learned and observant
aldermen themselves serve as motorunen and
conductors of the cars
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
GRADUATES CLUB SEEKS NEW HOME
Secretary Says Organization Is Growing
Rapidly-Raising Building Fund

The Graduates Club Of New-York City. an
organization Of college men formed IN February
last year, has had such speedy growth that II is
now raising bulldiT g fund for home OF IT'S own
committee is looking for site In the club dis
trIct between 22th and 10Th SITS.
The club at present by arrangement with the
Adine Association. uses their rooms on the
twelfth floor Of the Constable Building No III
5th-ave. and enjoys the appointments necessary
for comfortable and well furnished club. The
growth of the club. however tustihes Il in seeking
larger quarters.
Verne VI. Bowie, secretary Of the club said yes
that the present membership of about three
hundred would reach five hundred by the end OF
he year
Partly because of the long waiting list OF the
University Club. this organization was started Ia
furnish club home for the local graduates of all
colleges and universities Of recognized STANDING
II was also desired to provide club home where
man Of moderate financial circumstances could
enjoy all The privileges Of club without any great
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
Amusement


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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07

verse noint ~ view. one may be not only
CRATER" but an honest CRATER" such dis
tinctions. though they may be tolerated at law'
have no excuse in morals. There may De sixty
seven I'D to date varieties of honesty; put there
is now, and always will be, only one real kind.
That honesty is not legal and not conVentlonai'
hut solely and strictly personal 1t can spring
only from, seIf-respect and self-control. from an
enlightened purpose to deal fairly with others
and tn accent the full consequences of ones own
acts. What is wanted, if we are to preserve
rigid standards of honesty in business dealings,
is adherence to the old notion of personal re-
sponsibility and personal integrity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07

that, while In many cases it is pracncaliy ln-
possible to do it.
But what is possible. what can be done a'
once, and what it is the duty of the authorizes
to do, Is to find out where the water Is oeins
contaminated and to put stop to the dirty
work We have repeatedly Indicated where anu
how. in Westchester County village. Croton
water has for years been dangerously befouled'
Has anything really effective yet been done
concerning those outhouses and pigpens ano
stables and cesspools and rubbish heaps: Have
our sanitary police. of whom we have heard so
much, carefully examined the banks OF all
other streams which contribute to our water
supply to ascertain how many of them are b@
ing detiled in the same way as Kisco Brook
There is no use in making 4 mystery of 1t. III
saying it is unknown how the bacteria got into
the water. and charging the whole thing to the
inexplicable diSpenSationS Of Divine Providence.
Modern scientific knowledge has gone too far
to tolerate any such excuses. The filth that
detiles the water and menaces the lives of the
people got there either through malicious intent
or through carelessness. In either case. Its
origin must be discoverable, and it is the i'm
perative duty of the authorities to suppress the
nuisance. Muddy water, fishy water and water
discolored with dead leaves we may endure; but
water dtrtied with sewage is a little too bad for
even this long suffering community.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07

Citations and committees of large owners OF
property-has been taken before. The Bureau
of Forestry has pointed out the desirability
of reforesting these tracts, and will doubtless
offer practical cooperation in any earnest AMI
well considered scheme looking to that end. u
Mr.. Roosevelt succeeds in arousing the enthu-
siasm of his neighbors to the point of begin
ming general tree planting movement, the
map Of the island which Mr.. Henry Hicks is
preparing with special reference 10 the SOILS
best adapted TO the growing of different species
OF trees, should also be considerable aid to
the project.
Successful examples of such movements are
common enough to encourage the pioneers III
this one. The late Secretary Morton estab-
lished his remarkable plantation at Arbor
Lodge 70 such good purpose that it became the
fashion to set out at least d few trees on nearly
every farm ON what had been treeless prairie.
The efforts of single progressive citizen IN
a little Oklahoma city have in three years given
the place which boasted only q few scragGy
cottOnwoOds well planted park and streets
lined with elms growing vigorously. though
still small A letter from Irrigon. in the for
merly arid region now watered by bitches from
the Columbia and Snake rivers, informs us that
two hundred thousand seedlings will be planted
there this year. This is done in country
where trees are an experiment, and for eco
nomic reasons chiefly. The wealthy residents
of Long Island can we'll afford some expend-
tUlre for the sake of identifying the landscape
but they ought not to be insensibe to the adj
vantage Of turning a useless wilderness into
productive woodland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
Getu91ovk LaiIp 0r1br1rs
SATURDAY, OCTOBER I, 1905
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-Cossacks made repeated charges
on crowds in Moscow; a general strike is threat
ened- - British newspapers are discussing
Rnss Ros and Great Brtain; popular opinion is
said strongly 20 favor an agreement. -
TJnited States raarshals will leave Canada with
Messrs Gaynor and Greene to-day. - "A let
ter received in Germany said that Beers ana
Cape Colonists on August made an attack on
windhoek; the police, II was added, were pre-
pared, and made twenty-five arrests. - The
Japanese and Russian commanders in Northern
Corea have been unable TO agree on terms OF
en- arnnistice. - Dispatches from Manila say
that two hundred natives and twenty-five
Americans and other foreigners lost their lives
Gable Conpany's fifth cable across the Atlantic
from Canso to Waterville, was completed. 60
A6vtces from London expressed the belief that
the Bank OF England would advance its rate to
3 per cent.
DOMEsTIC-After the Cabinet meeting at
the White House It was decided that the build
ing Of the Panama Canal should remain under
the supervision Of Secretary Taft; he will make
& trip to the isthrnus; the question Of the bond
issue viii be taken up early next week. -
At the Cabinet meeting in Washington Attorney
General Moody was ordered 10 take action on the
Mississippi River bridge case; 1t is expected that
suit will be brought under the Sherman Anti
Trust law. - The Massachusetts Republicans
IN convention declared for revision Of the
tariff. - Frederick J. Buxton, OF the Asphalt
Trust testified IL Philadelphia that the big
check mentioned in President Castro's complaint
was for lawyers fees and not for Matos.
CITY.-Stocks closed strong. The Repub-
Hughes for Mayor. Richard Young for Con-
troller and James L Wells for president OF the
Board of Aldermen. - Il was shown al the
hearing Of the legislative insurance committee
that the McCurdys had received from the Mu-
tual IN the last twenty years the sum of 81 534,-
120; the salary of Richard A. McCUrdy was
shown to be $4,000; the officers of the Mutual
showed q surprising ignorance of its affairs.
g. Charles F. Murphy viii bow to the will
OF the Bar Association and order the remonina-
ton Of Justices Gidersleeve and Ingrahar
= A riot was caused around the Sub-Tresg
Try IN Wall-st by crowd collected by a news
PAPER advertising scheme. - Gomez, the de-
Seated Liberal candidate for Cuban President
denied the published assertions that he in
fear Of assassination by ernissaries of his politi-
cal opponents. - President Butler of Column
hta University announced the suspension Of
three scphomores implicated in a recent hazing
affair.
THE WEATHER--Indicati tons for to-day:
Fair and partly cloudy The temperature yes
ssrday; Highest. 81 degrees; lowest 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
About People and Social Incidents.

the late William Lawrence Bresse. who died hA,.
few years ago. and niece OF James Izvra,o.
Breese. The mother Of Miss Breese. who e uo-r
the wife Of Henry Vincent Higgins member a.
the English bar. a Miss Parsons. Of Columbus
Ohio. and sister Of the widowed Princess Lyusr
Among the features to-day are the horse sho-7.
a. Morristown. y. J., and ~ Piping Rock. Long Isl
and. while there will be racing at Belmont Psrs
NorthingtoR WhitehOUse has chartered the Vert
ure FOR it, regular trip to the racetrack. and win
take out party Of friends on the coach to lunch
at the Turf Club and to witness the races.
Mondays December T. Il and IS and Thur,s.,,
December Is. the dates selected by Albert Noz
ris Bagby for his musical mornings at the Waldorf
Astoria this winter. These concerts have now b.
come regular feature Of the winter season WITH
NETWORKS world OF fashion
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter D. Martin and child VIII Is.y.
to-day for the Pacific Coast Mrs Martin Was n
town yesterday. with Mrs William K. Vanderbilt
jr-, and the Duchess Of Marlborough with whom
she luHched al Sherry's The Duchess OF Mari
borough is 70 leave town to-day for Lenox to ioin
the house party OF her aunt, Mrs william Douz;aa
Sloane, at Elm Court. where Mr. and Mrs. Georxa
Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs. H. Mex. TwombIy and
Nj and Mrs Marshall o. Roberts are spending the
week end
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt and children are du.
here to-day from Europe. Cornelius Vanderbilt IL
making the trip across the Atlantic on his yacht
the North Star. and viii arrive In the early part OF
week.
Mrs William P. Douglas and Miss sybu DourIss
have arrived in town from Bar Harbor and are at
their house. IN East lGth-st-. for the season
A matinee musical viii be held At the hou7s ~
Mrs Edwin Gould Ardsley-on-H Hudson this after
noon at 3 o'clock. for the benefit Of the Robins
Nest. Of Tarrytown. Those who viii take part in
clude the Dannreuther Quartet and Kelley Cola
The Robins Nest cares for crippled children from
New-York City. and IS supported By voluntary con
tributions and entertainments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
WHITE PINE F0R YELLOW

Travellers on the Long Island Railroad who
have passed through the monotonous stretches
of scrub oak and dwarf pitchpine will SYM
pathize with Mr.. Robert B. Roosevelt in his
propaganda for rational reforestation of these
barren areas. These trees are worthless for
timber, and certainly have no beauty that thew
should be desired. yet they ara allowed to take
up space which might just as well be occu-
Pied as Mr.. Roosevelt says, by the stately
white pine, which flourishes on soils poorer
than the Norfolk sand and sandy loan which
form so large part OF the waste land of Long
Island. It is rather remarkable that no such
concerted action as that which is now recon-
msnded-through fair and agricultural asso,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
THE MEANING OF MCGOWAN.
McClellan's Consent to Murphys Sinister
Design
From The New-York Times


It Is quite characteristic Of Tanmny rtAnA8ss
ment TO do what can be done 10 spon = $50 $50
work by some defacing stroke Mr. McGoTSSsass
with the names OF Mr.. Mcclellan and Ny. Ns-
we may admit that he is very respectaoie Pgs
son but he does not possess the qua1tfes SIo -
abilities that ut him for President OF the b0s 80
of Aldermen at any time. and they IAN VeFS -
short OF making him 1T for the nomination az -
time when the expectation Is somewhat $500
that the incumbent OF that once may ne&t -
he called 10 the ONCE Of Mayor through Inc $50
tim ~ Mr. Mcclellan Governor OF the SUAtoS
Naw-York This is looking some distance &c. So.
TO be sure but IL rs the business OF ponucA ~Ss
ayers TO look ahead. and Mr. Murphy o0es ssv
seem to nave looked beyond the next eieclloN -.
even II as far that Inasmuch as 49,
bAan no particular concealment o. the PURksxt
10 nominate Mr. Mcclellan for GoVefnoI -.
rear II was plain that voters disposed - ~
him their support would scrutlnize WIZ 49, ~
care the candidate for President OF the SS Afs-
Aldermen. II voter should Ieel - NaI--Yori-~
Cyowan is not qualified to be Mayor OF Nessst nav
and a great multitude Of voters VIII teeI 80 isss
about it--he would naturally Do 500 500 49, tt-ts+
enthusiasts about the whole McClelI+5-' 80 70
FURTHERMORE the nomination OF W9SaH1.teI s,,s-
the once which carries with Il the 'snSoIA ths
cession TO the Nayoraity VIII SSSs1,snd thak
pressure and the authority OF lne - ant his
will be made upon Mr. Mcclellan 70 JAs1v~ Istsr
term here and take his chances OF 49, xf,~fsI.
Ii may be not quite fair to say | S aT-csorsn q
Isn's assent TO the nomination o. 49, $500
e0utvalent TO a pledge not TO Try L9I - - esr-
orship but II Is impossible TO ac9uttL 49,, Shs
trtbutory negligencs IN not AnsAs%AAA
choosing OK a bsttAF man
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau


Washington, Oct. 6 - At the Cabinet meeung
to-day the question Of transferring the Panama
Canal administration from the War Department to
the State Department considered and II
decided 10 make change; the existing chi
nese exclusion regulations will also remain IN
changed and the Attorney General vas directed
proceed against the ST Louis Merchants p, cGe
Company and Terminal Railroad Associati" uu-
der the Sherman antitrust law.
The Presidents only visitors to-day were United
States Judge George W Ray. az the northern
district Of New-York. and Represent ative Burton
OF Cleveland. chairman Of the Rivers aud Harbors
Committee.
Mrs Roosevelt spent this morning in the down
town shopping district accompanied by Mrs Cht-
ford Richardson the Presidents sister, and Miss
Hagner. Mrs. Roosevelt dressed in cream
white batste gown, partly concealed BY haIf
length pongee coat Her hat was of cream White
chip, trimmed with clusters Of white lilacs and
orange ribbons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-07
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
from The Tribune Bureau

(From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Oct 6.-Dr. Edward NJ Gallaudet
president of the Gallaudet Deaf and Dumb College
at Kendall Green. announces the engagement Of
his eldest daughter. Miss Marion Wallace Galaudet
to John Warren Edgarton. OF New-Haven, Conn
General 8 NJ Mills. chief Of artillery, and Mrs.
Mills have returned to Washington and taken
apartments at the Connecticut for the winter Gen
eral Mills has recently returned from tour Of in
spection Of the fortified harbors Of the Pacific Coast
Captain Seaton Schroeder and family have closed
their summer home. at Jamestown. R /. and are
returning to open their Washington house within
z dsy or SO