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THINKS EoulTAeLe TRoueLE NEEDLESS

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos Of the Equitable Life squabbIe. you
have treated the subject with your usual fairness
and careful analysis. and your stand appeals TO
every honorable right minded citizen II seems 10
me- Lifelong admirer of one OF Americas rrs,it
institutions, that there no OCCASION for this
those who caused IT, " 81
New-Xork. May II. 1905
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Wa have AN enormous annual casualty list-even
when allowance is made for our excessive single
track mileage. Naturally. as our lines are more
generally double tracked the ratlo OF casualties
to traffic will decrease; but there IS much room
for ,nnrov.ment and the Harrisburg disaster
VIII have served a useful purpose If It leads to
strfctsr regulations in the handling of dynamite
and other exceptionally dangerous freight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19
THE TALK OF THE DAY

DR.. Duke the leading English brain specialist
says the trouble with brains is that they are
not kept busy enough The brain ought never rest
except during sleep and most persons take too
much of that. A good, healthy circulation OF blood
would be maintained in tho brain II professional
would relax themselves from their intellectual
pursuits. not in golf. but in chess problems and
scientific Investigations!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19
DR.. LAwRENcs's DAUGHTER TO WE'D.

IBy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE-l
Cambridge, Mass. May B.-Bishop William Law"
renee has filed al the city Clerks ONCE Lotice OF
his daughters wedding intentions she Is 10 Dc
married next Saturday at St Johns MernS2rlS
tlulci. 20 Morton I4Gzeu Peavey, n NeW-AVtS -
LAWYER twcntv-eight years old, and haIte :.
Albany. Miss Julia Lawrence Is tWsnty-slsht -
old and was born at Lawrence. Mass 5he VIZ -
attended by her sisteE Aisa Sally LAST~nS@
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Mayor Dunno is beginning to lay down the
law TO strikers in terms that are encouraging
to lovers of law and order. mo man or set
OF men," ne announced the other day shall pre-
'suma to say who shall use the streets OF Chi
"cago and who shall not" If the Mayor lives up
to that pronouncement the end of the strike is
not far of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

The last soldier OF the War of 1912 was laid
at rest yesterday with imposing civil and mill
tary honors. The veterans Of the war with
Mexico now hold seniority in our military an
mails.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

santo Domingos unwonted absence from the
news lead lines for two months past is excellent
evidence of the turn for the better recently
taken In this turbulent West Indian republic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

The Philadelphia politician is evidently trying
to maintain his reputation OF the wonders
Of the New World
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Harry T. Peters. who Is to marry Miss Natalie
Wells in st. Thomas's Church next Thursday, gives
his farewell bachelor dinner tonight at Dslmon-
ico's His party will comprise his best man, Har-
old H Weekes and his ushers. Lewis Iselin. Henry
O. Havemeyer. IT.. Albert T. Gray. H. B. Williams.
jr. Harry l. Nicholas and David Wagstan Miss
Marian Fish will be Miss Natalie Wells's maid of
honor and the bridesmaids will be Miss Louisine
Peters Miss Maria Moran. Miss Janet Fish and
Miss Margaret Busk. of Newport r I.
A. Gordon Norrie, Theodore A Hsvemeyer, J.
Chauncey McKeever and Richard Wainwright Will
be the ushers and Charles x Beekrnan the best
man of Henry Chauncey Cryeer when he marries
Miss Louise Hollins June 8. Miss Edith Rollins
will be her sisters only bridal attendant William
NJ Holins will give his daughter away. and the re-
ception after the ceremony will take place at the
East 70th-st house of her uncle. Charles A. Wiss-
man where Miss HoIlins and her sister have to
great extent made their home since the death of
their mother.
Mrs Reginald c. Vanderbilt has entirely recov
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

ered rom her recent Illness and viii Isav. Ns,,.
port on Monday. with her husband for Bzook,e..
Mass. to attend the horse show there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Mrs Reginald c. Vanderbilt has entirely recOv,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

CIRCULATION BOOKS OPEN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Alfred G. Vanderbilt was the whip OF the v,ntrr,
yesterday on its run to Belmont Park Among a..
passengers were Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Eaxen, q a
Haven and Cortland smith
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Mrs Robert Menzies Taylor and Miss Elizabeth
Taylor are booked to sail for Europe on the
Deutschland next week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Francis Carley, Percy Pyne r.. and William Eitt
will be among the ushers OF oliver Perrin the
occasion of his marriage 10 Miss WinOna King on
June g. The bride viii be given away by her
brother-in-aw. E 5. ]. McVickar, and Bishop Nc
Vickar. Of Rhode Island will perform the cers-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-19

Mrs. Frederick Nelson. who IS in town. 4. en-
tertaining her eldest daughter. Mrs Hollis n
Hunnewen The latter formerly Mrs Arthur
Kemp. has arrived in New-Yorz for a few DAYS
stay
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lem an inventor has designed a pair of
leads with rounded edges and tapered
toward one end so that they might be
placed on either side of the keyhole the
lower end nearest the hole. All the ex-
cited householder is required to do is to
strike the leads with his key and the
rounded corners guide it directly to the
keyhole 1t is very simple and would seem
to have some little commercial value.
A man who must have been unitarian
Of the highest order and who must also
have been dweller In apartment house
where economy of space Is necessary has
designed "a household article that would
seem to have some practical value. This
device is very simple, being nothing but a
round tin cylinder with hole at either
end; a series of perforations with rough
edges on one side and a series of raised
blades on the other. Its mission in the
world is to serve as a fy-catcher by day.
rat trap at night, nutmeg crater at
d.lner time and a potato parer for break
fast. This seems much better and more
economical a rat trap than the device of
another inventor who has patented an
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FREAK DEVICES PATENTED
BY AMERICAN INVENTORS

There is at least one branch of the gov
eminent service where the limitless ca
pacity OF the American Imagination is a
source of never-endng wonder. In these
days of horseless vehicles. wireless tele-
graph and other marvels Of science and me-
chanlcs Il would seem that the force of
examiners at the patent office would be
surfeited with propositions from those
mental gymnasts who pose as inventors
for patent rights on freak devices that APP
parently solve impossible mechanical prob
lens But as science advances so do the
imaginatious Of those who invent expand.
To just what extent and into just how
many freak channels the mind of that
branch of the human species known as the
Inventor develops and extends only the
examiners in the patent office know. Thou
sands Of applications are received daily
from every section OF the world for patents
on devices that are absolutely absurd, me-
chanically and practically. Such appica-
lions are ruthleSsly swept aside, the draw
ings returned and the inventor turned down.
Such IS the organization of the office that
the name and device Of the would-be bene-
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a Dog-Mobile.

ta1nly be gigantic success if tried. 1t was
simply an elaborate solution of the old
problem familiar to students the world over
in which the question is asked, How fast
Will person be travelling who runs
through train moving at a speed of Il
mile minute?' The answer is that if the
man can run fifteen miles an hour, or one
fourth of a mile a minute, he travels just
that much faster than the train.
The inventors scheme was to have q
series of heavy fiat cars with tracks laid
on their decks, placed on top of one an
other each car to be half the length of the
one beneath 1t. On the topmost car a pas
senger coach would be placed. The idea
was 10 place all the cars at one end of the
track, the superimposed cars to be at the
end of the tracks on the cars beneath them.
and then start all of them at once. 1t
would all depend on the height of the pyra-
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WASH PENCER5 CLUB.

~ ENCING is rapidly on the increase
In Washington. II is rather a fash
ionable and exclusive sport here.
II The President INDUCES in II, being
proficient with the foils he Is
In most other branches of athletics. But
the home OF the pasttime is the Wash
ington Fencers' Club of which Count Cas-
SIM is the president and which numbers
many of the diplomatic corps on It's roll.
More recently the sport has been taken up
In earnest at the Y NJ. c. A. where there
are now about thirty of the members prac-
tieing under the instruction OF Professor
Darieulat maitre d'armes of the Wash
ingtOn Fencig Club, Professor Darieulat
is also instructor at Georgetown University,
where fencing has been In vogue among the
athletes for many years. There have al
ways been a number of Mexican students
al the university and others of Latin-Amer-
lean blood who naturally inherited a love
for the sport. Recently this has spread TO
many of the other students and before long
Washington ought 10 be able to pick a
match team that would show up well in any
competition in this country.
The Russian ambassador is not only the
president OF the Washington Club, but is
himself an expert with the foils In spite
of his heavy diplomatic duties he is often
to be found in the club house and prefers
a bout with any equally skilled opponent to
any other form of recreation. In fact, he
declares that fencing has had much to do
with enabling him 10 keep up with the
physically exhausting side of his work.
The roster of the Feneers' Club also in
cludes: Senior Don Luis F. Corea. the min
lister from Nicaragua, and Mr.. ]. n. Leger
the Haitian minister; Mr.. John Herbert
Corning, secretary and treasurer; Capt. +.
b. Wharton, chairman of the house com
mittee; Mr.. Scott d. Breckenridge, captain
sale d'armes; Prof. L. j. Darieulat, maitre
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| II In a number of his encounters with tho
Indians, who were first overawed at the
ease with which he held mobs of them at
bay, and subsequently submitted TO his
milder methods of diplomacy
Spain is said to have been the original
nome or FENCING. Thence 1t passed over the
borders into Italy and France, each of
which developed a school of its own with
the rapier that gradually relegated to dis
use the heavier cut and thrust swords OF
the earlier period Va
the dagger was at first the sister of the
rapler, and used with it In fights, partly as
a quicker and partly to give the finishing
stroKe when an opponent had been dis
armed or disabled. Sword and dagger fights
We're spectacular enough and long contin-
ued 10 De popular. First the dagger was a
pain blade. Later 1t was armed with re-
curved teeth to prevent a swordsman from
grasping 1t and disarming his adversary.
Then the combatants took to lining their
gauntlets with light chain mail as a pro
tectlon IN graspfng the blade. Thereafter
1t was found that the rapier could be made
70 act both as buckler and weapon OF Of
fense, and the dagger was discarded alto
sether. Devotees of Scott will rememher
now, IN the fight between Rhoderick Din,
ana the disguised king, the fight went to
the latter, ~
For trained abroad his arms to WELD
fltz James blade was sword and shield :,
The French and italian schools are to-
day the great rivals. Each nation claims
that Its methods are unexcelled. But the
tact remains that most international con-
tests have been won by the French To
excel in the italian style of fencing one
must be a giant in strength and stature
for the success of that method depends
on its attack, backed with brute force. The
frehch, on the other hand, hold an insid-
nous attack back of a matchIess defense
both depending much more on skill than
On strength. They claim that a woman
may master the French style of fencing
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The military training school OF the gov
eminent of France and the high school of
military gymnastics have been primarily
responsible for many of the later marks
OF progression of the French school in re-
cent years. 1t is in these schools that the
masters-at-arms are graduated who are
sent to the most remote parts of the earth
where the armies Of France are stationed
to instruct the soldiery. In the French
school of fencers were some well known
to fame. including Stakeholder, Chevalier
d Eon de Beaumont Chevalier de Saint
George, Boessiere. the two Bertrands and
Charlemange. In the Italian school will
be found Marozzo, Agrippa, di Grassi, Fa-
bris and Mancioliuo. II one will take the
trouble to look over the records of the old
Spanish school, where the sport originated.
such names as Carranza and Narvaez will
be found who have added to the luster of
Spanish grandees OF the other day and the
Kingdom of the Alphonsos. The German
student, ever quick and willing to mix up
In any sport like fencing, quickly took hold
OF the art and early in the eighteenth
century the study of the sport was re-
garded as of paramount Importance at all
OF the German universities of the day. In
the style of the German school there Is
little II any originality. nearly all their
movements having first been adopted from
tne ltaIlan school and later from the
French. From the middle of the eighteenth
century the German universities held many
contests.
In Washington one of the most interest,"
ing features of the sport with foils is the
number of women who have become devo-
tees. Adherents of the pastme say that
almost any one who watches a bout be-
comes infected with the fever. AS the sport
unquestionably leads to good digestion
good circulation and consequently to a fair
complexion and fine carriage, 1t is little
wonder that it is a popular recreation with
many women of the capital
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The President as
a Peacemaker

Theodore Roosevelt, the Peacemaker,"
soliloquized old Bill Dinkle, as he leaned
back In his chair at the Capitol. Who'd
although it?"
Bill Dinkle, be it known, holds down a
of the Capitol, where all the big statesmen
pass dozen times a day. Bill often over
hears more than he should, and what is
worse. he talks volubly about what he
overhears.
why, gosh ding it, continued BILL last
fall when the pesky democrats was fussing
around, whoopin it up for an obscure per-
son named Judge Parker, the stumpy SPELL
binders kept oratin' about Teddy, the Man
With the Big Stick and Teddy, the Man
on Horseback, or Theodore, the Terrible
You couldn't hear consumed word what
wasn't condemning the President for bein
so strenuous. Tom Taggart and the rest
of the bunch in the democratic paddock had
a choice morsel in that term big stick.
They just rolled it around under their
tongues with gusto and handed it to the
people at every important democratic
knockfest in the country.
The charge he made up San Juan hill
was embalmed in type in every one-horse
democratic newspaper, and the cartoons had
him meandering around the White House
grounds with a chip on his shoulder and
fourteen six shooters danglin' from his
belt. oh, it was a heartrendin' picture;
you can't make any mistake about that.
But the voters passed all that sort of
dope, KNOWN as Ted was the sort they
wanted to preside at the immaculate man
CUFF don't soak into an American no more
than the sad tales of Mr.. Pickwick. We
all knew 1t a crude assortment of hot
air and let it go at that.
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IS simple but 1t does not seem to have ap-
peaied to present-day railroad men.
Another inventor who was familiar with
railroads applied for and secured a patent
IN 1888 for device which he claimed would
prevent collisions. This consisted of a long
spring about the length of a passenger
coach affixed to the front of an engine and
carried along the track on trucks At the
emu OF the spring was a platform on which
was placed the figure of q man. and in
'front.' OF the figure a large bell. Extending
from the platform was Il long steel trbe
with buffer on the end. When two trains
ATTEMPTED to pass on the same track the on
coming train would strike the buffer. the
manlkln on the platform would ring a bell
warning the passengers to leave the train
and the spring would take up the shoc, OF
the collision. This invention has not vet
been called into practical use
In 1896 disciple of Anthony Comstock
who was shocked at the exposure conse-
quent on bicycle riding by the females of
his FAMILY, constructed a curtain in the
shape of fan which fitted over the front
or the bicycle and effectually prevented any
designing person from seeing the lower ex-
tremltles of rider on a ladies' style OF
wheel.
1t was bicycle enthusiast of another
type who, sympathizing with his brothers
VINO were compelled to use bad roads, in
FENCES over which an especially constructed
tricycle. could move with ease This in
Vehtor dld not take into account the fact
that many miles of fence are now con-
structed of barbed wire.
A htue more than thirty years ago a We
/ loclpede enthusiast evolved scheme of To-
comotlon that called into practical use the
lap dog that was such a fayorite at that
tme he devised a vehicle built somewha I
on the lines of the modern "T" cart which
would nave large wheel in front where
the horse of the "T"' cart of modern DAYS
has his position. Inside this large wheel
on tread mill the inventor places a pair
OF zap dogs and secures motive power from
their FESTIVE feet. The machine was de-
signed to be steered with a wheel by the
person occupying the seat brake was
also constructed to be applied to the front
wheel.
X
The dangers of being buried alive seem
to have worried many inventors and many
devices have been prepared to lessen
these dangers. Quite the most practical
came TO the attention of the patent office
officials about ten years ago and involves
the introduction of long pipe TO the coffin
with one end extending up through the
earth to the top of the grave. The end in
the coffin is placed convenient to the
mouth of the person buried, while the end
exposed has a whistle of the locomotive
type, that il the person buried is not
really dead he can blow through the pipe,
sound the whistle and thus notify the Gem
efery attendants that q mistake has been
made.
For the benefit of householders who get
hcme so late or In such condition that the
finding Of the keyhole is q difficult prob
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ana be as expert at 1t as man. but this
is never true of the Italian school
One incident that seems to hear ONT 4hi
theory VIII be remembered by many Wash
ingtonians 1t also shows that skin with
tne Tolls may be very practical accom-
lencers' Club that two of the ladies Of
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ago But they were a long way behind
More than sixty years ago. when railroad
ing was in It's veriest infancy to be pre-
else, on April 49, 1888, a patent was grant
ed one j. Nollner that would make an
elShteen-hour train between New York and
Chcaso so slow an affair as to put it In
the class of the fifteen-day steamer be-
tween New York and Liverpool.
Mr.. Nollner's scheme was perfectly plan
hed, as far as mechanics go, and would GER
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Screen for Ladies' Bicycle.

fnctor OF mankind is kindly screened from
public view and every EFFORT is made to
prevent his being made the laughing stock
OF his friends and the world in general, but
there are times when the ingenuity of the
freak inventor gets the better OF the exam
liners and they can find no earthly reason
for refusing him patent In such cases
the examiner can only sigh and throw up
his hands. and give the official seal OF the
Office to a device that will have no material
effect on humanity unless il be to excite
the risibilities OF those persons who pos
sess a well developed sense OF the ridicl-
iouS.
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Moral Suasion.

From the Philadelphia Press
Il don't see how little Penniman man.
ages to get so many of his tommy-rot
verses accepted by the magazines"
1T is easy. Haven't you ever seen that
big tough mug he associates with So
much? Well, he pays the tough a come
mission to take his poems around to thu
editors and pretend he's Penniman."
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Washington, one of them in the official
circle and an accomplished fencer, were
driving on the conduit road in the neigh
borhood of Cabin John bridge They had
stopped to pick some flowers. when they
We're assaulted by a negro. The fencing
and what she did with 1t to that negro was
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petUal motion The officials of the patent
ONCE receive hundreds of applications every
year for machines that are described in the
speclhcatlons accompanying them as abso-
lutely solving the problem of perpetual mo-
ton.
If permitted, these inventors would sup
PIGMENT their specifications with mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstrations of the feasibility of
their machines. But they are not allowed
TO go beyond the filing of applications. Their
modes and papers are returned to them
with polite note from the commissioner
which informs them that years of study
or the subject has convinced the patent of
hcials that perpetual motion Is not posi-
bic or feasible In this generation at least
and that they will have to be shown" more
clearly than the inventor can possibly show
them that the problem has been solved
before patent is even considered.
The number of different schemes for per-
petual motion that are presented to the
ONCE every year is astonishing TO the lay
man, and oftentimes one inventor will put
forth half dozen or more machines. each
of which is absolutely perpetual One such
inventor, after trying for years to get a
patent on one scheme or another of this
sort, finally grew tired of the manner in
which he was treated by the officials of the
office. He determined to present a specih-
cation that could not possibly be turned
down and therefore made applica ton for
patent on the earth and the solar sys-
tenn, arguing, In his presentation of the case
that the earth had been revolving on it's
axis several thousand years and the solar
system had been working as great a length
or time, and IL that wasn't perpetual mo-
ton he wanted to know what perpetual
motion Is. The patent has not yet been
granted
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illuminated figure of a cat with which to
scare rats and mice away from the prem
ises.
tobacco chewing inventor has original
ed scheme for the preservation of old
guilds that would seem to be a boon to
users of the weed This device is simply a
small receptacle with ventilated top and
bottom, about the size of a walnut, which
opens with a hinge in the middle, and
can be made as ornamental as the owner
thereof fancies.
These are only samples of hundreds of
freak patents that have been granted. On
every device that has been mentioned a
patent has been issued and persons fnfring-
ing thereon are hereby warned of the PEN
altieE for the same.