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New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
CHINA AND THE PEACEMAK1EG.

China's demand TO be consulted in the peace
making between Japan and Russia is not un-
natural, in view of her direct interest in the
issues of the war. 1t has been an anomalous
feature of this war that it has been fought al
most entirely on Chinese soil, and largely with
Chinese affairs as objects of contention, and
yet China has not been party to IT. but has
been required 10 maintain a neutral attitude
That was undoubtedly trying to China, but still
more trying would it be now TO see the issues of
the war closed up and her own territory dis
posed of without her consent or her particpa-
tion in the councils.
Japan, on the other hand, has reason for de-
clining to grant the Chinese demand in the
form in which it is made, as she is reported TO
have done. Her war is with Russia, not with
China, and if she has invaded Chinese territory
it has been TO drive out Russians who we're oc-
cupying it to the detriment or the menace of
japanese interests; just as an American army
in 1914 invaded Spanish territory to drive out
the forces of third power that were using that
territory as a base Of operations against the
United States Japan is not occupying Chinese
territory any more than Russia was OF course,
after Japan has settled accounts with Russia
she will have other accounts TO settle with
China, not by war but by friendly negotiation.
1t is not for Japan and Russia, but for Japan
and China, TO discuss and to determine the ex-
tent OF holuluSS japan Snau reLaln IN emma, II
any. But neither is ii for Japan and China, bat
for Japan and Russia, to discuss and TO deter
mine the terms of peace between the two bel
lgerents.
If Japan should turn back to the record of
ten years ago, and insist upon the restoration
and fulflInent of those provisions of the Treaty
of ShimOposeh which China agreed to but
which Russia, backed by Germany and France,
required to be abrogated, there would seem to
be no ground for complaint. Neither would
there be If she should insist upon the transfer
TO her of some OF those privileges and conces-
siOns which China at later date voluntarily
granted TO Russia, But these things, as we
have said will probably be topics of subsequent
negotiation between japan and China The
present task is to determine the basis of lust
and lasting peace between Japan and Russia,
and that is something which Japan and Russia
themselves and alone must do.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
NOT A ZRMGKY SOROR

Russia's demand not long ago was for q
Zemsky Sober. the calling together of which.
1t was said, would satisfy the desires of the re-
formers That it would have been SO satisfac-
tory may, perhaps, be doubted. What Is clear,
however is that things have moved so rapidly
in that empire that the demands of a few
weeks ago are now quite obsolete and the
Car is now offering and promising something
far in advance of that at which he hesitated
and to which he demurred. The outlines of
Mr.. Bouligin's scheme for an elective National
Assembly have been published, and that meas
ure is now in the hands Of the Gar who is
understood to have committed himself to the
fulhlment Of ii. 1t is easy TO perceive how
vastly more advanced and revolutionary this
viii be than the mere Zemsky Sober, which
his reactionary advisers recently persuaded his
majesty TO refuse
The first Zemsky Sober was summoned bv
Ivan the Terrible and the last by Alexis Nj
chaelovitch a century later. In all. sixteen
of them were held. Each was specially sum-
moned by the Czar at his own will 1t was
summoned dd hoe was purely consultative in
function, and when 1t had given It's answer
to the questions presented to ii was dismissed
by the Car, who accepted or rejected its adj
vice as he pleased. 1t had no initiative, no
authority, power of self-reproductton or
maintenance The only purpose it served was
10 enable the Czar TO shift responsibility upon
the representatives of the nation. There Is no
record OF its ever saving effected any real
good. TO compare II with a real legislature
would be folly.
Seeing how impotent n thing It was, 1T is
strange that Mr.. Pobiedonostsef should so
strenuously-and successsuily-have opposed
the calling of a Zemsky Sober by Alexander
III twenty years ago. and that he should also
have persuaded Nicholas III 10 refuse one this
year. Really, the Zemsky Sober was thing
which pleased the people, but did not in the
slightest degree ilnpalr the imperial autceracy
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
TIPPING AND THOSE TIPPED.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Those who declare against tipping are.
perhaps not well Informed the subject Of
wages commonly paid to those who accept cash
gratuities OF this general class the walters out
number most all others In New-York City alone
there about twenty thousand walters, some OF
whom receive $50 month wages from their regu-
lar employers. but most OF whom receive only s5
or less For this totally insufficient money where
with 10 live In Gotham these men average twelve
OF every four and twenty hours at very fatiguing
work. and probably so per cent Of them do II we'll
The majority OF these Industrious fellows have
wives and children others largely dependent
upon them and, as they receive nothing In addi-
ton 20 wages from their employers except three
rather Indifferent meals day. they obviously
stand In need OF further pay for much grinding
toll. They could hardly subsist at all without adj
ditions to their cash receipts approximating the
of their tips, which probably makes on an
average So day for all expenses. more than this
being exceptional,
BARRIERS. porters. expressmen and various others
who accept trifes in money for exercising a little
extra painstaking energy at right moments are IN
no danger of ever being too we'll paid: and the
thoughtless charge glibly made that any OF these
classes lack self-respect Is kind OF charge that
cannot possibly be substntated, because II Is self
respect, perfectly natural and abiding self-respect
that principally actuates all persistent wage-earn-
ers and keeps them at their employment.
ALFRED I.AURENS BRENNAN
Brookine. Mass, July 10. 1906.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
THE CHICAGO LIMIT.

The Monte Cristo of Death Valley genialy
and Familiarity known as "Scotty," broke all rec
ords to Chicago. His advent had been expected
and so far as the city's possibilities would per-
NIT, provided for; but Chicago. even before Mr.
Scott's arrival on his special train of three cars
over the Santa Fe was compelled with humility
to acknowledge that soF an easy spender her
flying visitor probably would find the town slow
On the eve of the arrival of the record making
and record breaking train a Chicago paper
humbiy confessed that Mr.. Scott would probably
find only poor entertainment there and that the
best the city could do for him would be to pro-
vide him opportunity for parting with $1,000
during stay of twenty-four hours. After can
vassing all the places Of amusement and in
quiring the rates at all the best hotels and quick
lunch resorts, the reporters found that the
amount Mr. Scott could spend in those places
would be simply Insignificant. even including
15 cents for peanuts for the elephant In Lin
coin Park. However. Chicago was ready to
do the best she could. under the circum-
stances in helping Mr.. Scott to separate him
self from a reasonable amount OF money. though
she had humbly to acknowledge that her pace
slow and that without coarse work no gen
tlemanly rounder could hope to spend more than
$1,000 day within her limits. unless he should
go into wheat pork or buy an option on the
Masonic Temple.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
THAT sEEcHsR MEMORIAL SITE.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In recent issue OF The Tribune an item
appeared referring 10 the new Beecner memorial
Site had been SO glad and happy the
wisdom OF DR. Hills and others of the COMMITTEES
IN securing the site opposite the church that It
gave me a sad surprise IL would seem that the
views Of objectors. carried to the last analysis
would mean that the dear old church site could be
used.
Those who approach the church from FuIton-st
would. I sure be glad to have Plymouth
Church In coming years permitted TO smile her
qualification and daily welcome to noble memorial
buildings across the street, The debris and IN
tidness Of the block between Fulton and Henry
sts suggestive OF future possibilities when the
site opposite the church shall have passed into
other hands.
Could there not be an ornamental elevated
connection with the church built the sreets
IL seems etnensly fitting that the space fronting
the church. where immense crowds awaited Mr
Beecher every Sunday be dedicated to him In
suitable memorial buildings PLYMOTyTFffTE
Brooklyn July 10. 1905
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
WANTS BOOK PAGES CUT.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: agree heartily with \. X Whiting, whose
coununica tion has appeared in your columns,
though he expresses himself less forcibly than l
am wont to do when I characterize the stories
which publishers generally fit to infiict on the
reading public. Blood and thunder doesn't begin
to describe them. They thrilling. with a new
and distinct thrill on every page; and where the
oldtime hero slew his halfdozen redskins, the hero
of these thrIeTs must dispatch score, at least,
with his improved arms and ammunition. fheh.
too he must possess superhuman ingenuity in get
ting into scrapes, Just TO display his superhuHan
ingenuity in getting out of them. And after that
subject is worked out, the story ends, he says,
abruptly-somehow. nohow, because the word limit
is reached. -,
But that Is a trivial fault compared with that
barely mentioned in the closing paragraph or the
communicat ton. One is not compelled 10 wade
through poor story. But 1t Is an outrage 10 com
pei the reader of really good book 10 work his
passage through ut. it We're. paper cutter IN
hand and risk his souls salvation In consequence
Of the frequent big. big Ds'' which are evoked
Is compelled to pause 10 cut the leaves-work which
the bookhinder should have done. And what has
he to show for it. after all9 Nothing but ragSed
unfinished. unhandsome book, with lnlt@t!oh
"deckle edges which offend the taste every time
il is opened. ,., a.. -,
1t is worse! 1t is nuisance which calls Tor aoate-
Inent. HOOfNAICN H@A@'
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
About People and %ocfaI Incidents.

give a series Of dinners on Friday evenings "a.
first to be held this week.
Harry s. Lehr. Elisha Dyer r., and L. Bruxusrs
with the assistance of Miss Laura swan. are ar
ranging for subscription ball to be gysn at m.
casino In August the date TO be decided on fast AZ
soon as II Is found that enough subscriptions can BE-
secured to warrant the affair.
Peter F. Collier arrived at his cottage. the Moo
irgs. to-day for the season. ard later win bri,z
the Monmouth County hounds 70 Newport for ~.
fox hunting.
Announcement made to-day OF the rental Or
the PendIeton cottage on the Gifts to T. suffer.
Taller. of New-Yorsv. for the season.
Word was received at Newport to-day that Sfzs
COrpehUs Vanderbilt and her daUsnteF. NBss
Gladys Vanderbilt. will sail from England on Julv
10 and wHI come direct to their Newport villa. tbs
Breakers which has been made ready for them
Alfred C. Vanderbilt has e--tered Number Of HI,
horses m t6e Atlantic CIty Horse show.
Charles NJ. Oelrlchs returned to-day from New.
Yerk being called on account Of the robbery Ian
evening at his home. when Mrs Oelrichs's Jewels
were stolen
Mr. and Mrs Robert y. Carson arrived at Rec.
Point to-day for the season
Mrs. Alexander s Clarke Colonel Delaney A
Kane. John S. ToOker and NITs. G. NJ Best have
sent their checks TO the Newport PoHcs RsHsf
Fund
The following yachts arrived at Newport TO-DAY.
Steamer Marietta. r. n. Carson; schooner Viglant
S. Read. and schooner Muriel. c. Smithers.
Some time ago II reported, but not generally
believed here. that James j. Van Allen would leave
Newport and remove 10 England. The announce
nlent has now come direct from Mr.. Van AIen who
cOrFoborates the report The city Clerk has re-
ceived notice from counsel for Mr. Van Allen that
he desires his name stricken from the voting lists
OF Newport. and that he viii hereafter cease TO be
citizen of Rhode Island
This Is all the Information contained IN the notcs
1t was reported that Mr.. Van allen had taken ex-
ceptton to the personal tax assessment. which was
increased this year from $1,000 to $4,000 Ne pro-
test however. has been made 70 the tax collector
1t has been known for some time that Mr. Van
Allen contemplated such step and when he took a
fifty year lease OF RushtOn Hall. in England. il
seemed certain that he would make his home there
What he intends to do with his Newport estate "a
not known Mr.. Van Allen has been resident and
voter in Newport for fifteen years and has contrib
uted generously to the Democratic State campaign
funds he always made It point to come TO New
port to vote until the last two years. when he has
rot voted here His Newport estate. Wakehurst
Is closed. and Miss May Van Allen has rented
small cottage for the summer.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
LETTERS FROM READERS OF THE TRIBUNE
ELECTION OF SENATORS.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir; or late there has been somewhat OF luil N
the discussion relative 10 the election OF our na
tionaI Senator's by. a popular vote. Such a tsls
ought not to be, for the matter is Of principe.
and should be kept continually before the puhlc
II is a principle that ought TO be advocated By al
political partes-Of having our national COnstitu-
ton in perfect harmony and accord with the spirS
Of this twentieth century, and laws initiated
and passed by legislators elected directly BY the
American people.
Our voters should see that the men representing
them in the different State Assemblies IN favor
of amending our national Constitution. that the
office OF United States Senator be filed by diCect.
popular ballot The members OF these State bodies
are elected directly by the people, aud the people
ought not to find IL difficult to send only those
Senators and Representatives to Congress- who ara
sincerely In favor of such a practical and neces-
sary amendment.
The day and hour have certainly arrived f0r The
citizens of this Republic 10 declare directly and
discrtminately who and what sort OF men shall DO
their representatives in the Senate bOdy OF our
American Congress. CHARLES y. HOI.4ES
Exeter, y. H. July I. 1905
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
Nsip1ork daily 0ribn,rs
THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1905.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

, FoREIGN-M. Muravlef resigned his post as
heao OF the Russian peace mission, and II is
considered certain in ST. Petersburg that NJ.
Wttte viii succeed him: the Emperor is said to
nave decided that the appointment Of NJ Mura-
Wen might Jeopardize the negotiations. -
russian sailors on two cruisers at Reval have
peen oisarmed owing TO fears Of mutiny; it was
reported from SebastOpol that the Kniaz Po-
telDkine had sailed from Kustenji ~ Sen
snor Chauncey NJ. Depew made statement to
tne Irbune's correspondent at Paris regarding
the loan made by the Equitable to the Depew
Land Improvement Company. - NJ. Del
casse. the former Foreign Minister of France
expressed the belief that Germany's menacing
attitude in the Moroccan question was not seri-
Gus and that France was assured Of Great Brit
ans cooperation in OF need.
DOMESTIC.-President Roosevelt addressed
the doctors Of Long Island at Oyster Bay, and
held a conference on the Chinese Exclusion and
Eight Hour laws with labor leaders - The
evidence in the cotton leak scandal is to be pre-
scented to the grand jury in washington. the
President favoring a drastic investigation. -
Little progress was made in the legislative hear
ing OF the case of Justice Hooker, except that an
editor was subpoanaed to appear. - Governor
Higgins removed, on charges, William o.
Dodds. Sheriff, and Frank f. Hufnail Clerk
of Montgomery County. = 1t was said at
New-Haven that a movement was on foot TO get
Senator Depew of the Yale advisory board
account Of his connection with the Equitable
case.
CITY-stocks were strong. - Nine deaths
ana ninety prostrations yere. reported yesterday
reducing expenses in the Equitable by ordering
a cut of from 10 10 20 per cent in all salaries
over $500, == There is great scarcity of
water in several Staten Island towns, and it is
possible that the supply may fail entirely. -
Morris K Jesup gave $4,000 TO the Peary
fund, which is complete. == The first OF
the widows who received damages for the
death Of their husbandS in the Park-ave tunnel
married a New-ROchelie contractor. - Po-
lice Commissioner McAdoO gave out a state
ment praising the police. -= Andrea Bongar-
zone a highly educated Italian Roman Catholic
priest, announced that he had been converted
and had become Methodist
THE WEATHER.-Indications for to-day:
Showers, light south winds. The temperature
yesterday: Highest. IS degrees; lowest, IA.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
pEARY B4NDsomELY SUPPORTED.


Those who have sympathized with Peary's de-
sire to seek the North Pole again will rejoice
at the removal of the obstacle which for sew
eral days has delayed his departure. In addi-
ton TO the amount previously put at his dis
posaI by the Peary Arctic Club, he wanted
$4,000, and SOL 600 has now been advanced In
sums ranging from $1,000 to $4,000. These
gifts are all liberal, but that of Mr.. Jesup de-
riyes special significance from the fact that 1t
supplements what he had already contributed
He Is the president of the organization which
is backing Peary in the present venture and
which sent him North five or six years ago.
When Il is remembered that Mr.. Jespp has in
the mean time been promoting other important
and costly researches, it will be seen that he is
an exceptionally generous patron of science.
The offer of $4,000 made by the owners OF
the Hippodrome, to be divided among Peary's
crew in case the Pole is found within the next
eighteen months, is also eommendable, though
il is not an unconditional gift The idea origi-
mated with the explorer himself. While he
might have counted on the loyalty and enthusi-
asm of all In bis company. there can be no
doubt that the promise of bounty will lend
additional stimulus to their efforts With prac-
tically everything he desired In the way of
equipment, and with this encouragement to his
men, Peary certainly should go of with cheer
f,Ih
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13

followed the first disclosures OF grating in
the Postofice Department showed that many
more officials were concerned in irregularities
and fraud than was at first suspected. Per-
haps it would be well to turn another Joseph l..
Bristow loose in the Office of the statistician in
the Department of Agriculture. This admins
tration has proved its sincere purpose TO uproot
graft and 'grafters" in the government SER
vice. 1t has already done a great work. and it
Will have the cordial support of the public in
continuing to probe, wherever necessary, for
proofs of venaity and corruption.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
CATS.

Cats commonly figure in public prints as the
theme of more or less humorous paragraphs
They are recognized part of the professional
funny mans stock in trade, along with the
plumber, the iceman, the gas meter and the
mother-in-law. But there times when the
eat, even the common, domestic cat, is to be
taken seriously, pathetlcally and even trag-
ically. Such a time comes every summer and
the present season Is no exception to the rule
Whatever may be thought of the practice of
keeping cats at all In the CITY, there can be
no question that If kept they should be decent
~ cared for, in summer as we'll as in winter
Attention has often been called to the cruelty
of turning cats out to starve when houses are
shut up for the summer. But the practice con-
tlnues. We should hesitate to estimate the
number of cats in this city which were until
few weeks ago household pets, but which
have now been abandoned TO their fate by
families which have gone out of town. These
wretched animals roam about, foraging where
they can, making day and night hideous with
their cries. A few are cared for by benevolent
persons, but most of them either perish after
time from hunger or from the savagery of
street boys, or else become members of the host
of predatory tramps
II is in the latter case that they are really
the greatest nuisance. Many betake themselves
to the parks and there, despite the assumed
eHorts or tne poilce anu PARK employees 10 sup
press them prey upon the birds and squirrels
1t is only natural, of course for the poor brutes
thus 10 seek to maintain their lives, but we
cannot regard the parks as proper hunting
grounds for abandoned cats, or the birds and
squirrels which adorn them as legitimate prey.
Apparently there Is no other course than 10 de-
stroy abandoned cats, which Is indeed In the
circumstances the most merciful thing that can
be done. 1t should be done promptly and thor
oughly, and how much 1t needs to be done may
be reckoned from the fact that in half hours
drive around Prospect Park one evening this
week no fewer than nine tramp cats were seen
prowling along the roadways How many more
were hidden in taa thckets End elsewhere Is
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13

The National Assembly which is now promised
will be very different thing, although IL viii.
of course, fall far short of being an effective
legislature In the worlds acceptance of that
term. The Zemsky Sober will not serve as
the Assembly's model, though 1t may be re-
garded as precedent 1t was, as Mr.. Leroy
Beauleu has explained irregularly convoked,
always intermittent and destitute of rights or
definite prerogatives. In every one of those
particulars the National Assembly will be its
exact antlthesis. and some day the Assembly
will, we may hope in its turn serve not as a
model, but as a precedent for a real ruling
and supreme legislature.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-13
~ THE BERKSHIREs.
IBT TELEGRAPH TO rHE rRIBUxE-


Lenox. Mass. July 12.-Charles J. Bona aparte. Secs
retary Of the Navy. ana bis family viii arrive at
Greeneck Inn IN Lee on August II, for a part
Of the season. Secretary BOnapaTte viii divide his
time between Washington and lee, and his family
will remain during his absences
Baroness Helen Won Giskra. wife OF the counsellor
of the Austrian embassy, entertained party OF
friends at luncheon on the balcony of Shadow
Brook Inn to-day. Her guests were made Up OF
members OF the various embassies stationed IN
LenOx for the summer.
Nine de Strale, wife Of the charge q afatrss OF
the Sweden-Norway Legation. arrived to-day IN
Lenox. The charge aud his wife have taken apart
ments at Shadow Brook Inn.
Tonight nany Of the leading cottagers Of LenOx
and a large number Of guests at the hotels at
tended a recital given in Trinity Church by the
Lenox Orchestral Club OF which the Rev Charles
O. Arnold is director. The sOlOists were the
Misses Edith and Lillian Arnold. Mrs James o.
Clifford and Miss Bessie Cameron
Mr.. and Mrs Allen Robbins Of New-York, are
guests Of MIR and Mrs william B. O. Field at the
PopIars Mrs. Field IS also entertaining MISS
Dolly Kernochan. Of New-York-
Hamilton W. Cary. Frederick Sturgis and Rob
ert Whistler. OF NeW-York. are among the Iata
arrivals in Lenox.
Miss Emily Bacon. who has been spending
month on the Massachusetts coast has returned
70 LenOx-
Miss Irene Bigeiow niece Of Charles Lanier of
New-York. started for New-York to-day. AIR
and Mira Henry r. Pease have also gone to New
York for a few days.
Mss Ruth Twomby, who has been at Elm
Court the country place of William d. Sloane
since the Fourth has gone to Newport