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New-York tribune., 1905-06-16

frequent interchange of air between the inside
and outside than has been supposed; (2) the air
within must always be hotter than 1t is with
out: 60 the problem presented to the managers
of the subway is not one of a sanitary charac-
ter but is "how to keep the temperature down to
reasonable limit and a. the larger scale on
which operations are conducted in this city
makes the heating effect of the electric current
greater than in any tunnel for underground
roads hitherto opened, so that the Newly ork
subway is the first to demonstrate that that in
fuence is matter that should be foreseen and
considered by the designing engineers" From
these opinions we imagine, there will be little
dissent although a slight modification might be
required TO make them fully acceptable For
instance Engineering News takes no account
of the foul smells which sometimes haunt the
subway Again. the public health may suffer
from excess of heat well as from carbonic
acid gas. The prevention Of one evil might be
considered as much of q sanitary duty as the
other. Then, too, the managers of at least one
underground electric road in London were
forced by the popular outcry Tor the persuasion
of the health authorities) to introduce rotary
fans for ventilation; so that the trouble in New
York has been foreshadowed elsewhere though
probably not eQualled in degree.
However, the question possessing the most
immediate interest is. What may be reasonably
expected by the patrons of the New-York sub
way in summer if no steps are taken to supple
ment with fans the natural ventilation which
already takes place? This is question which
the people of the metropolis have never before
been called on to face. The most casual OBJ
servauon shows that at this time of year as in
winter, warm waves and cold waves alternate.
There arc days in every month whose mean
temperature is much above the normal and
days when it is much below 1t is also neces-
sary TO remember that there is a regular diIrnal
oscillation of temperature, which In this city
usually amounts to Il 15 degrees Hitherto
1t has been the combination of only two things
"a hot wave and the afternoon rise in tempera-
tlre-which caused the most extreme discomfort
and prostratfon. If third should operate ST.
multaneously-if the air in the subway cars was
from TO degrees warmer than in the shade
above ground-would not suffering and sickness
be aggravated? The next few weeks will show
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
SUMMER MUSIC.
Mr.. Warren's Concert.

Richard Henry Warren, for many years associated
with what is best in American church music last
night made his bow orchestra conductor IN
the widely heralded ecclesiastical beer garden,
otherwise known as the st. Nicholas Rink. As
might have been expected not very much beer was
In evidence, nor were the clergy numerous But
a large audience. surprisingly large audiences
that quite filed garden. gathered In decorous
manner and listened, between much friendly ap-
plause. to the excellent band Mr. Warren has as
seIrlbled The band indeed. seems composed OF tried
musicians and both separately and IN volume une
instrumental tone and quality Is satisfactory Mr.
Warren himself betrayed last night perhaps, Il
certain unfamiliarity with his men and with his
music He stuck to the latter a bit more closely
sometimes than the former stuck to him. Thls
will like enough be obvated by practice. though
Mr. Warren will probably always conduct as last
night composition like Handels Largo bet
ter than the overture to William Tell or u
Strauss waltz
The programme last evening ranged from the
prelude Die Meistersinger to Sousa march
and included Bizet's Incidental music to ''LArle-
sienne'' (Which lost in the spaces of the halD
the Peer Gynt' suite and the William Tell
overture. besides lighter pieces, and the Thousand
and One Nights" waltz. Miss Liebling also sang
Mr.. Warren is going to play Strauss waltz
every evening, which should him the graft
tude of his public. If they not to be per-
mitted clear the floor for action. It is to be
hoped. however. that the promised decorations Of
the garden Will be completed soon. The present
prospect is dreary enough. and the unshaded
yellow electric lights make the place hot and
stuffy.
Tonight the programme will be:
March. '"Tannhauser Wagner
FsreWeii Song Trompeter Won sakkingen Nessier
Trumpet solo. Edwin F. Goldman
Walt Morning Journals Johann Strauss
Overture Poet and peasant ......... suppe
Selections, Aida verdi
Traumerei -SchuTnahn mann
String orchestra
March. 'Tzgane' Lacombe
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
lrnoM THE TRIBUNE puRHAU.l


Washington June 15-President Roosevelt re-
eelved check from the Treasury Department to-
DAY for s5S3 SO, which represented two months extra
pay for his service in Cuba. Under an act passed
by Congress in 1889 all soldiers serving on foreign
soil during the war with Spain were granted two
months additional pay. The President never made
application for the amount due him. and probably
would never have done so. One of the officials IN
the office of the Auditor for the War Department
recently made the discovery. however. and the
claim was put through without the President S
knowledge After the was thus taken up the
President obliged to accept the money TO make
the records right.
Chairman Theodore P. Shonts of the Panama
Canal Commission presented r. p. Schwerin. presi-
dent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and
Maxwell Evarts the general counsel of the cor
poratioC Mr.. Shonts is endeavoring 20 bring about
an Understanding with the steamship company
which will result in its resumption of business with
the Panama Railway Company Until recently the
steamship enjoyed a monopoly OF the
freight business of the railroad. but lost the con-
tract through cancellation when the road passed
into the hands of the government Although no
decision made at the conference to-day II Is
understood that the parties concerned will reach
an agreement quite satisfactory to the commission
and the steamship company.
Twenty-Five delegates to the international Turn
Fest which is to be held at Indianapolis next week
called upon the President to-day. After they were
received In the office the visitors adjourned to the
sidewalk in front of the building and gave the
President several hearty German cheers They al
terward visited Mount Vernon and laid a hand
some wreath of flowers on the grave of Wash
ington.
Count Ca.sini the Russian Ambassador,
caller at the White House this afternoon Minister
Takahra. the Japanese Minister, spent an hour
and twenty minutes in the Presidents office before
luncheon. Other callers during the day were Senior
Don Gambon, the Mexican charge d'afaires, who
came to present autograph letter from President
Diaz relating to the retirement OF Ambassador
Clayton; DIR. Yung Wing, and Kang Tau Wei the
former Chinese graduate Of Yale. and the latter
a. prominent business OF Canton; Attorney
General Moody who called take UP a depart
mental matter and William E. Hoyt. general East
ern passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way. who is here on visit from New-York
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
SUBWAY VENTILATION.

NO statement regarding the atmospheric con-
oItlons which prevail in the subway has ap-
peared which is entitled to greater confidence
than that which is made this week by "Engi-
neering News" From advance sheets which
had been courteously supplied The Tribune was
aole 10 make liberal extract yesterday: but
municipal officials whose duties oblige them to
take cognizance OF this subject should examine
with care the whole article from which our QUO
ration was made. The scrupulous avoidance of
sensatonalism which has always characterized
the utterances Of our contemporary and its high
standing In the profession to which It ministers
lend peculiar value to its revelations and argu-
ment-
1t Is pointed out that the temperature of the
cir IN the subway has on several occasions heen
found TO be from TO degrees higher than the
temperature outside. The most important source
Of the heat liberated there, it is assumed is q
product of the electricity employed to move the
trains and light the subway; for in theory all of
the power generated at the central station must
eventually be transformed again into the kind
of energy used in the generation of steam. Com
Qutation indicates that 1000, 100000 heat units
must be set free in the subway every TWENTY
four hours. After an allowance is made for
cOnduction through the roof and sides, enough
is apparently left to warm the air there de-
grees two hundred tines day. In other words.
If this estimate of the thermal OUTPUT is cor-
rect change Of air every seven minutes would
be needed TO keep the temperature down to a
level or degrees higher than that prevailing
outside. II is possible that the losses may be
larger than Engineering News" comedies. or
that the amount of power which is developed
at the central station is less than is adopted as
the basis of its computation. For one reason or
another IL might be necessary to assume that
less than 200 changes Of afr day were needed
10 keep the temperature where ii now is The
essential point TO keep in mind, however is
that the atmosphere is warmer inside than out
side, the difference averaging about or de-
grees In the daytime.
Engineering News draws these conclusions
from itS figures: 90 There Is already q morn
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
Aep1lorls daily Uriba1rs
FRIDAY, JUNE 16. 1908
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-Advices from st. Petersburg say
that the Japanese plenipotentieries VIII propaDis
be Marquis Ito, Baron Komura ana MARQUIS
Yams gata; fears are expressed that a great
battle in MRnchuria cannot be aVerteo.
Grand Duke Alexis, the High Admiral. and Ad-
rniraI AyeIIon head of the Admiralty Depart
rent. resigned; the grand dukes resignation
was accepted by the Emperor - The agl-
tation in favor OF q national assembly IN Russia
IS growing, the Liberals berating the govern
saent's decision to treat for peace as sur
render. The German steamer Tetartos
was sunk May 80 by the Russian auxiliary
cruiser Don according TO adV1ces received at
1IoyCis: her crew was landed at Batavia
DOMESTIC.-President Roosevelt officially in
formed Japan and Russia that Washington had
been selected as the location of the peace con-
ference at the request Of their respective repre-
sentatives. - Efforts are being made to in
duce Japan not to insist on prohibitory cash
Indemnity. - In a proceeding started by
Mayor Weaver the connection of Boss" Dur
ham with contracts involving S2lGOOOO was
shown in court, was the method Of juggling
awards of contracts. - A record breaking
labor scandal is promised in Chicago as result
of the disclosures OF the employers agent
CITY.-Stocks were duh and heavy. -
Thomas T. Ryan stated that he was the sole
buyer of the 500 shares of the Hyde Equitable
stock, for which he paid 81, 100000 - Sil
Edward Elgar, the famous British musician
arrived here TO receive a degree from Yale. -
The jury awarded a verdict against Howard
Gould in favor OF Abner J. Heydel. the archi-
tect who sued for work plans for Castle
Gould - Mr.. Wickes the lawyer accused
OF blacknail, said W. E. d Stokes had offered
\ 20 Adrhlsn a real estate pa1l BOND Tor him. -
Ihe anniversary OF the Slocum disaster was
observed by the unveiling of a monument in
the cemetery at Middle Village. Long Island
and by services in St. Marks Evangelical
Lutheran Church, in this city. A calcula-
ton, based on reports by census enurnerators
indicated that the city's population has in
creased to about 4,000,0 900. - Borough Presi-
dent Iittleton Of Brooklyn is expected to op-
pose action on subway franchises until voters
can settle the question of municipal ownership.
g. August Belmont's Beldame won the
Suburban Handicap Proper was second and
First Mason third; the other winners were: %
Ivan the Terrible, CD Water Light 30 George
c. Bennett, % Timber, 90 Memories.
THE Wealth naturalization for to-day,
Partly cloudy, thunderstorms in the afternoon
The temperature yesterday: Highest, 81 degrees;
lowest 66 degrees.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16

for which he was in no way responsioe' ln
tho end perhaps the fault attaching 10 inc III
dtviduaI will be condoned. and the SYSTEM ho"
condemned by all. will be allowed TO serve DO
q sufficient scapegoat
Such an outcome Of the General Sioculn pio'e
cutIons might be considered ineyitapie ahu
natural Yet IL would be highly regretlapie
We are accustomed to holding life little cneap
and TO tolerating vague and colorless ho'ion.
of public duty and responsibility we are Nv
duly indignant at the man who cohuu.'' a.
excursion boat business on the take-the-cl
theory and who thinks that nothing hiat.ei' %
long as no one gets hurt. disaster ihe ''o
burning of the General Slocum comes aiois W
"a stonallv to remind us of the unsouhdheo' VI
ths theory and then we are stlrreo W p
test against the reckless Indifference 10 puph1
safety which the ake-the-chances System III
wolves What we really need is to deVeiop d
sounder sense of responsibility to the puoI anu
nurpose TO put that sense OF respon'ip'y
ahead of the mere desire for gain were Suon
subordination of mercenary motives more coin
mon we should find less difficulty In inhic'ns
punishment for negligences like those winch lne
General Slocum investigation disclosed sum
dav perhaps we shall adopt the theory
act on it-that no offences deserve less 9u"i 1oi
than perversions and abuses of pupic anu 'eA''
Dublic trusts.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
NEW-YoRk SOCIETY.

It was Glen Cove. rather than sheepshead Bay
that attracted society yesterday afternoon and the
ffty-ninth annual regatta of the New-York Yacht
Club afforded to the fashionable set greater
amount of interest than the Suburban Among
those who went up the Sound to witness the boat
races or else to participate in them. were Mr.
and Mrs Trenor L. Park. Cary Smith. Mr.. and
Mrs Oliver Hartman. Mr. and Mrs William But
Ter Duncan IT. O'DonneH Isen. August Belmont,
ir Stephen Peabody, w. Gould Brokaw, Mr.. and
Mrs Newbury D. Lawton and Howard Willets-
Many yachting parties were organized In connec-
ton with the regatta, and the Iron steamboat
Cepheus, which had been chartered by the club
for the use of members and their guests. carried
large load of interested passengers many Of
whom went on afterward to Oyster Bay to dine
and spend the evening at the seawanhaka Co
rinthian Yacht Club.
The Suburban always suffers. from a social point
of view in being at this season OF the year
when so many persons have either gone abroad
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
EXCLUSION RUN MAD.

In his commencement address at Miami Uni
versty yesterday Secretary Taft made a time
ly and convincing plea for the moderation of
our extremely rigorous measures for the exclu.
sion Of Chinese laborers. We do not want this
country flooded with Chinese coolies as If I'm
doubtedly would be if all restrictions were ra
moved. On the other hand we ought not in
excessive zeal to prevent a few undesirable
Cinnamon from slipping over the border. to SUBJ
1ect Chinese merchants and scholars to hard
ship, anger the Chinese nation to the serious
detriment of our export trade, and even subject
TO exile native born American citizens. Several
things have conspired of late to bring sharply
to view the dangers of the present policy hy
which few administrative officers exercise
an arbitrary power over all persons whom,
with without, they think to be Chi
nese and are practically commanded to use
that power with the most uncompromising Sc
verify.
last month the Supreme Court In the case of
Ju Toy determined the Chinese Exclusion act
to have such a scope that it is to-day men,
ace to the natural rights and liberties of the
American citizen. That decision was reached
only by the narrow vote of five to four and
drew forth vigorous dissent from the minority
Full respect for its Interpretation of the law
and it's finding that clause of the Consti-
tuition was so distinctly violated as to warrant
holding the law invalid cannot obscure the fact
that any law which operates as the court saws
this may operate is dangerously at variance
with the ideals of American liberty, and should
be modified. Ju Toy, though of Chinese blood
claimed to be a native born American citizen
If he was the exclusion act did not apply to
him Yet his claim ignored by the ad-
ministrative officer upheld by the Supreme
Court as the sole judge in the premises. The
court seems TO have accepted the truth of Ju
Toys statement yet held that the law made
an arbitrary or obviously mistaken admins
trative ruling against him final; for Justice
Brewer in his dissenting opinion declared:
1t will be borne in mind that the petitioner
has been judiciay determined to be a free born
American citizen, and the contention of the gov
ernment sustained by the Judgment of this
court is that a citizen guilty OF no crime-for
IT is no crime TO come back to his tive land
must by the action of a ministerial officer be
nunished by deportation and banishment, with
ont trial by jury and without judicial examina-
ton
If Ju Toy a native born American citizen,
could be excluded by the mere fat of an tmmi-
grafton officer who chose TO say that he was
a Chinaman there is nothing to prevent John
Winthrop 9th from being excluded on his re-
turn from the Orient; for if the immigration
officer chooses to call him a Chinaman, no
amount of proof of Puritan ancestry will avail
him any more than proof OF native birth. to the
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
"TOO MUCH FRATERNIZING."
One Confederate Veteran Not Pleased with
G. A. RS Greeting

Louisville. June 15-General Stephen d. Lee was
to-day reelected commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans The other officers were also
reelected. The next convention will be held in
New Orleans.
Greetings were read from the State Encampment
OF G. A. r. of Indiana in session at Madison. The
greetings were only moderately cheered, and one
delegate the platform. with the remark that
there lis getting to be much of this fraterniz-
ing took his hat and departed
Alarm is felt by the officers of the United Sons
of Confederate Veterans over the lack of interest
in the organization. Not a committee sent in
report to-day Few Sons were present and the opin-
ion was expressed by Commander-in- Chief N r.
Tisdal that the organization failed 10 do its duty
W. L. Williams. of Macon, Ga. said the Sons OF
Veterans as an Organization was nearly dead.
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16

satisfaction of Supreme Court justices availed
the exiled Ju Toy.
Since that decision an educated Chinaman
coming here with letter from Mr. Choate has
been subjected to great annoyance. Then our
exporters are beginning to hear of Chinese
boycott against their goods because of the illib-
eral treatment of the Chinese in this country
China we believe. does not seriously object to
the exclusion of coolies, but to the policy which
humilates all Cinnamon and puts the country
in seemingly unfriendly and contemptuous
attitude not merely toward undesirable indi-
viduals but to whole proud nation from which
we draw great wealth.
Under these circumstances it is time to con-
slider modification of our policy, and everybody
who is not a fanatic for exclusion will give
an emphatic "Nor' to Secretary Tafts ques-
tion
Is it just that for the purpose of excluding or
preventing perhaps hundred Chinese coolies
from slipping into this country against the law
we should subject equal number of Chinese
merchants and students of high character to an
examination of such inquisftorfai, humtliat-
ing insulting and physically uncomfortable char
acter as to discourage altogether the coming
of merchants and students?
1t may be that without this rigor there will
be difficulty in excluding all coolies. but the
labor unions will not be seriously troubled by
them there will not be enough of them to
affect the labor market and it is far better that
q few be allowed to slip through than that in
Justice be done, international commerce be
checked and ideals of human liberty be disre-
on rded
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
DEGREES FOR MAYOR AND Mr.. HAFFEN

On next wednesday Fordham College will ho'd
its sixtieth commencement The exercises VIII y
held under the shade of the old naples close ot
Ct John's Hall Archbishop Farley. of the class
OF '66. will preside. and Mayor Mcclellan will de-
15yer the address TO the graduates Edmund
O,Connor of Binghamton, N "a. is the Vaieoi'
torian Twenty-one members of the senior eIaS
are to be graduated with the degree or ei'hei
I2acbelor of Arts or Bachelor Of Science The ue-
gree of Master of Arts will be conferred on Jere-
nliah V Dunlevy A b. IS Of Pttseprg e' ,x seie9d s5d
Ranbael DeIii Paoli A. b, '63. OF New-fork CIV
The degree of Doctor of Laws will be eonfeTrei 5d n
Fordham Medical School: John J. Dela1y. Io5 30,
noration Counsel: Louis F. Hafen, 90 and pr. I''''
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

IBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE1
Newport r. L, June 15.-Roger K Wetnore, son
Of Senator and Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore. has
started on tour of the world He leaves Newly ork
Tomorrow for California, where he will take
staauer for the Philippines. He viii be absent
about year.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney will occupy
their cottage here this season. Their servants
arrived to-day prepare the place for early occu-
pancy-
Mrs James P. Kernochan arrived at her newport
cottage to-day for the season
Mrs George L. Rfves returned from New-York
this evening.
=. s. Rawson of New-York is spending few days
in town.
Mrs Stuyvesant Le Roy and Mrs Amos TUCK
French have arrived at their cottage 1oF tne SUM-
New-York tribune., 1905-06-16

Forest fires in this country cost more than
S25OO0O0O annually. 1t is kind Of loss which
is particularly grievous. because It takes many
years Of natures deliberate processes of growth
to restore 1t. A good deal Of this destruction
might be avoided If proper precautions were
taken. Germany and France do not suffer ap-
preciably from forest fires. because they have
strict forestry laws and obey them Here the
general government can do little. except on its
own preserves. The work of protection is thus
left to the States and it is not so thoroughly
done as the urgency of the case calls for. Prob
ably there is increasing efficiency in this direc-
ton year by year, but it leaves the average of
loss much greater than 1t ought to be, and in
marked contrast with that of countries which
have really efficient forestry laws and live up
to them.