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New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
UNcIKrLIzED BATON RoUGE.

Baton Rouge has been the scene Of a singular
exhibition Of popular ignorance and hostility
TO saEhority. A mass meeting recently held
there expressed such indignation over the pol
icy which the local board of health proposed
to adopt in order to protect the community
from yellow fever that the medical men who
were on the board resigned. This behavior re-
minds one of the riotous outbreaks which often
occur in India when the government tries to
check the spread of the bubonic plague. 1t is
less excusable, however. In India the authori-
ties have al times found ii necessary to burn the
houses Of the natives. no mere cleansing or dis
infection being regarded adequate to the
emergencies that occasionally arise. Again, ad-
ditional bitterness is impaired TO the resent
ment which the Hindoos feel by the fact that
10 some extent they are ruled by foreigners.
The recommendations made 10 the people OF
Baton Rouge involved much less trouble and
aacrihce. and they emanated from officials who
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
IN THE BERKSHIRES.

TELEGRAPH TRIBCSEl
Ienox Mass July 2s.-Ex- Governor and Mrs
BENJAMIN b. OdeH jr Of Newburg. are making
a tour through the Berkshires. With them are
P R. Odeu and the Misses Ramsde. ONetn and
Roselle. Of Newburg- The party arrived IN PITTS
field last night in a large automobile from Troy.
N Y and to-day they started southwark through
Southern Berkshire and Will return home by the
way Of Poughkeepesie.
The report Of the death Of Arthur S. Dixey, %
Ienox in Seoul Corea. where he was acting az
secretary to Minister Morgan caused much regret
Mr. Dixey was Of Mr.. and Mrs Richard {
Ufxev of Boston, who have country home, Tar
gIewood. in LenOx- They are no" travelling
abroad. Mr. Dixey was member Of the Berk-
shire Hunt, Lenox Club, Lenox Golf Club and otner
Ianox Orea nizations. He one OF the leading
riders in the Berkshire Hunt. Last fall, with the
secretaries Of the British Embassy, he promoted
a gvmkhana for charity at Tanglewood- Nj
Dfxey's body will be sent to Boston for burial
Dr William V Kelly, Editor Of The Methocls
pe,,,e7v +" Of New-York has arrived in Stockbridge
According to the deed filed in Pittsfeld. John
4 spoor. OF Chicago. paid S44, $50 for the Blythe
wood property. which he bought this week IN
Pfttsfed-
Marshall r Kernochan. OF New-York, son O
Ms William Pollock. stepped a sharp nal
earlv this week. and had since been unable TO Be
about until to-day. when he appeared on crNtches-
Travellers in automobiles who arrived IN Flrts-
field to-day included L. ". Thatcher. Of Nutley
y 7 on the way 10 Boston; George E Hall. o.
Plainheld y J.: F. r Bartlett. OF Chicago, on
the way 10 Maine: DIT. c. S Kerr c. z Anderson
OF Chicago and DR. E Reed Whittemore, OF New
Haven
Mr. and Mrs NewbOd Norris Of New-York. en-
tertained at dinner tonight at NestledoWn-
Miss Elizabeth Remsen. of New-York has Mrs
A P Montant of Oyster Bay. as her guest
A one ring circus exhibiting here to-day inter
ested many of the cottagers and hotel guests Sew
eraI large circus parties We're made up from the
cottages.
Among the arrivals in Lenox tonight were "
Gould Brokaw NJ Core HermOsa- Madrid, Spain.
Frank Ellis Atlanta; Mrs. Frederic Esler. Lunnist
Esler Harold de RaaslOrf. of NeW-1Ork.
Miss Virginia S. HOyt of New-TOTk. IS a guest
of Mrs. ]. Woodward Haven at HighWood-
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
"BUMPING THE BURPS."

New diseases call for remedies. and
scarcely had London physician named and de-
scribed the new disease. mOtormania, which is
making such ravages everywhere, when what
promises to be an effective remedy was discov-
cred. AS shown by the discoverer, patients af-
flicted with this dire malady are possessed of
an all consuming desire TO travel swiftly through
space and one of its most deplorable effects is
that after il has run unchecked for time II
makes them regardless of law, of human suf-
fering and even of human life. 1t is true that
the patients usually give notice Of their ap-
proach by a 'honk, honk'-though even that
precaution is often neglected-but they seem TO
regard any accidents, even fatalities, oc-
curing after their signal the victims fault.
and frequently leave him to his fate without so
much as stopping and pretending to take an In
terest In such slow moving creature. This
popularity of motormaniacs is well known, and
in its later stages of development the victims
of the disease sometimes derive great amuse
ment from seeing their motor toss man or
child in the air. Such incidents pleasingly
diversity what else might soon become mo-
notonous sport and give greater zest TO the ex-
hilarstion produced by rapid flight.
TO treat this disease effectively it is necessary
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
THE ARNoR PLATE CORNER BROKEN

We called attention yesterday to the hatter
inS success Of the Midvale Steel Company's
first venture as a maker of armor plate The
plates tested at Indian Head were found to
meet all technical requirements, and the show
ing made by the new competitor in the armor
field was officially commended as very excel
lent" This result is as gratifying as il is sur
prising, for the Navy Department experts were
disinclined 10 believe that the Afidvale company
could turn out a product reaching the Krupp
and Harvey standard, or that it had the equip
ment Necessary 10 make deliveries within con-
tract time On these grounds the Midvale bid
was originally ignored. But after much per
suasion the department allowed this lower bid
der to undertake part Of the work which it
had intended 10 assign at higher rates TO the
Carnegie and Bethlehem companies. Now it is
seen that the apprehensions of the experts
were not well founded, for the new contrac-
tor has not only turned out material Of the first
class, but has delivered that material three
months earlier than il was called for
BY proving its capacity TO compete with the
Carnegie and Bethlehem companies the new
establishment has solved one of the Navy De
partments most annoying problems. For years
there has been friction over armor plate con-
tracts and Congress was at one time so in
censed at what it held 10 be the exactions
OF the plate makers that it seriously contem-
plated building and operating a government
armor plant There had been and could be no
genuine competition for the work so long as the
only possible competitors maintained a business
understanding. The saving 10 the government
likely 10 be effected through open competition
is indicated by comparison of the terms aske1
by the old companies and their new rival. In
the last two lettings Of contracts the Carnegie
and Bethlehem plants bid $420 ton for Glass
A armor and S4O0 a ton for Class and Class
G arTnor. The Midvale company bid S39S ton
for Class A. 1898 for Class and $3SS for
Class G. The Carnegie and Bethlehem estab-
nshments pay a royalty Of SD a ton on Class
A, or Krupp plate. and OF S1l 20 ton on Class
B. or Harveyized plate. These amounts they
require the government 10 assume in addition
10 the contract price. The Midvale company
pays no royalties and makes no claim for extra
compensation on that account Ut Is evident,
therefore that unless the courts declare the
Midyale process an infringement on the earlier
processes the new establishment will either get
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
AUTHOkII1 ON CaRS.

well deserved rebuke was given the other
day by Magistrate Wahle to ruffianly car con-
ductor, and the lesson was one that should be
widely needed Too many employees of trans
portation lines are in the habit of treating the
public though they were CATTLE possessing
no rights that men in blue coats with brass but
tons were bound to respect 1t is bad enough
to be vOcally assaulted with "Step lively!' and
Move up therew 1t is worse and should be in
tOlerable for a conductor to lay hands ON pas
sengers, violently pushing and pulling them
about as a stevedore would bales of merchan-
iise. The climax of ruffianism seems to come
when, without provocation or for the mere graft
hcation of vicious whim conductor assaults
a passenger, drags him from the car and has
him arrested by the police.
The offence is aggravated when, as in the case
before us, the conductor is guilty of discrimina-
ton between passengers. Now and then a con-
ductor is observed TO insist upon strict compIi-
ance With the anti-smoking or some other rule
by some passengers, while he tolerates breaches
of it by others. Again. conductors sometimes
refuse TO enforce the rules of the cars when
asked TO do so by aggrieved passengers. Such
capriciousness of conduct destroys respect for
the conductor as the enforcer of rules, and also
destroys respect for the rules themselves and
makes the car scene of practical anarchy, in
which each passenger does what pleases him.
subject only to his own courage or ability to
maintain such an attitude.
There can be no doubt that certain reasonable
rules for the protection and comfort of pas
sengers should be firmly but judiciously en-
forced upon the cars. They shOuld-indeed, they
must. if at all-be enforced by the conductors
and it may even be that to that end. as some
have suggested the conductors should be in
vested with something like a quasi-police au-
thority. But the greater the authority of the
conductors is, the more scrupulous must be
their exercise of it. They must be guardians
of the peace, not brawlers; the protectors and
not the Oppressors of the public
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
Ietp71urk Dsil1, 1ribnrrs
SATURDAY. JULY %. 1905.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-Advices from Toxic say that the
Russian force which retreated from Alexan-
drovsk is practically cut on It's capture WIZ: II
Is said place al Saghalien in the hands OF the
japanese. - NJ Takahashi. Japan's Special
Finance Commissioner, expressed hope that peace
would be declared. and said that Japan would
need to borrow money for development after a
treaty had been signed. - General Teranchi.
Japanese Minister Of War. gave a luncheon to
were exchanged. - The Cuban House. by
one vote, refused to print the Platt amendment
appendix TO the constitution. - There
are signs Of a hitch in the Franco-German
agreement relating 10 Morocco; French newspa-
pers are again sharply criticising Germany s
course. - Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Harnil-
ton Lee. Civil Lord OF the Admiralty, announced
that il had been decided to push work on q
great naval base on the Firth OF Forth in pref
erence TO Chatham :" A plot against the
Sultan OF Turkey was discovered at Kustenji, ac-
cording TO a dispatch from Bucharest
DoMESTIC.-Yellow fever spread to all parts
Of New Orleans. - A repTieve was granted
Johann Hoch, who was to have been hanged In
Chicago for wife murder. - The new CHIEF
of Police Of Chicago made many gambling raids.
- Dr. George T Moore. soil culture expert
OF the Department Of Agriculture, resigned
owing to unfavorable comment on his connec-
uon with the Nitro-Culture Company. - A
man in Derby, Conn. began a crusade against
the use OF the Presidents picture in advertise
ments. - Residents Of Larchnaont began ac-
ton TO revoke the license held by a hotelkeeper
commended a priest for refusing to bury man
killed seeking pleasure on Sunday.
CTTY-Stocks were strong and active. -
President Roosevelt visited the Sea Breeze
Home. an institution for tuberculous children at
Coney Island. - A fire broke out In the cleo
trical room Of the liner Teutonic, which may de-
lay the vessels sailing. - II was announced
that plans had been completed for a combinN-
ton Of ali concerns building streetcars the con-
cerl TO have $56000.00O capital. - Commits
sf ner Watchorn said that the railroads were to
build 100000 station at Ellis Island. -
Workmen declared that mine Of cement rock
has been found in the shafts for the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad tunnel in East 34th-st
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day:
Rain; fresh southeast winds. The temperature
yesterday: Highest 81 degrees; lowest, 65.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29

first to catch your patient, an exceedingly diin-
cult thing to do. Happily, however, genius
In Chicago suburb has devised plan whlen
gives great promise in respect to stopping tne
headlong flight of the machines ana bringing
their drivers into that reasonable condition OF
mind in which they can be argued with by po-
licemen and courts and the only known remedy
can be applied-a good stiff fine, In the hrst
place. followed later by solitary confinement
and a regimen conducive TO the simple llfe his
plan consists in constructing bump at every
crossing. These bumps, made OF DrlcKs' VIII
be six inches high at the highest point with
sharp slope permitting the easy passage OF We
hices at ordinary speed. But they are so skill
fully constructed that when a motor takes them
at flying speed they will fling the occupant out
and cause him TO execute that lovely parabollc
curve which gives him so much pleasure IN the
case of others AS the bumps are to be placed
at every street or road intersection. it is maln-
tanned that the frequency Of his involuntary and
unexpected flights through the air to the road
side will cool his ardor life will once more be
made safe upon the highway and policemen Will
not be reduced to the rude necessity of using
their revolvers.
Dumping the bumps" in short is put forth
as an effective cure for motOrmania. Whether
doubted, but the inventor Of bumps" is san
guine and the ingenious citizen would be great
~ pleased to be able to do unto the motormani-
acs as the motormaniacs do unto him-and do it
first.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29

without doubt, belong to the same race as the
majority of persons that attended the mass
meeting. The protest of the latter, Therefore
was utterly unbecoming to civilized eoun-
try and in strong contrast with the good sense
and progressive spirit shown by the people of
New-Orleans.
What is more, the programme outlined by
the health authorities at the capital of Louisi-
ana offers practically the only available meth
cd of attaining the object In view. So far as
anybody knows to-day there is only one way
of transmitting the germs of yellow fever from
one person to another, and that is through the
agency of n mosquito biting the sick first and
then the we'll The process is identical with
that by which malaria is spread, except that
the insect which Is thus related to one disease
(stegyomial belongs to a different genus from
that which disseminates the other (anopheles).
Altogether the best way of suppressng malaria
is to suppress the mosquito and the same tac-
ties afford the largest promise of reScuing
region that is threatened with yellow fever
By far the most effective method of getting
rid of the mosquito-whether it belong to a
disease bearing family or a less baleful one
is TO prevent propagation. Cisterns and small
water tanks in houses are favorlte breeding
places, and they cannot well be abolished
or treated with kerosene, they can be made
harmless only by the use of screens which will
prevent access TO them by the female mos
quito that tries to lay her eggs in them.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
About People and Social Incidents.

,.b+ vvar-,or In, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Y
vaDnarbiIt IN honor Of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt.
daughter Of Mrs. Cornelius Vandsroir The guests
were mostly young people.
Others of the cottage colony entertaining al
luncheon to-day were Mrs. Allston Fiags and Mrs
E l.. Ludlow.
T. sunern Taller this evening gave dinner IN
honor OF James Hazen Hyde. OF Ne"-1orA' VINO y
his guest for few days
Mrs Hugh ID. AuchinclOss. Mrs z. X. Inonas
Mrs George T.. Rives. J. T. Woodward Mrs. Elisha
over fr and Mrs Z. H G. Slater, the latter being
a. honor of Justice Holmes OF the United States
supreme Court who Is Mrs. slater's guest
Mrs william G. Rocker entertained this evening
for Young people at Hawkshurst there oeins a DIR
ner early in the evening, which was followed BY
dancing number Of young people coming IN Tor
the dance The party numbered about torry.
Tisnenard Stewart sent out cards to-day for
dinner on the evening Of August 2 IN honor Of
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
Mrs Astor arrived at Newport this evening. com
ing from New-York the private car Iolanthe
On her arrival at Newport she was driven at once
10 her villa Beechwood which had been ready FOR
her coming for some days
c. V L. Hoppin. OF New-York. Is the guest ~
Mr. and Mrs Richard T. Wilson. r.
Miss CSwynne Of Washington. is the suest a.
TIopedene OF Mrs E. II. G. Slater
General Horace Porter IS the guest OF Edward j
Berwind at The Elrns-
Herbert Hartman. OF New-York, has rented the
Weaver cottage. in Berkeley-ave. for the remain
Bradish Johnson OF New-York. IS the guest o.
Mrs. Alfred c. Vanderbilt at Oakland Farm
Mr.. and Mrs. Delaney Kountze are visiting n
Edgar Froud Of England. is the guest Of M
Professor James Russell soIey is at the Berkeley
for the remainder OF the season.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
A DINNER AT DORCHESTER HOUSE.
Ambassador and Mrs Reid Entertain IN
Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Lodge.

London July 2S-Ambassador Reid and Mrs Reid
gave a dinner tonight at Dorchester House to Sen
ator Lodge and Mrs. Lodge and Francis B. Loomis.
Assistant Secretary of State. The other guests IN
cIuded the German Ambassador. Count Wolff-Met-
ternich; the Spanish Ambassador, Sehor Polo
Bernabe and Sonora Polo Bernabe; the Turkish
Ambassador. Musurus Pacha, and his wife, Lady
Barrymore John r. Carter. secretary of the Ameri-
can Embassy, and Mrs Carter; Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Chamberlain Lord and Lady Churchill. the Duchess
of Buckingham Mr. and Mrs. Burton Harrison.
Mrs p c. Hewitt Mrs ogden Mills, Major General
Arthur Paget. Lady Powis. Baron Redesdale. j. S.
Sargent, Earl Spencer the Countess OF STAFFORD
and the Marquis of Tweeddale.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUN

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBCNE.I
Newport. July 28.-Several luncheons and dinners
were given in Newport to-day, but aside from that
there was little activity in the cottage colony
There was a large gathering at the Casino at the
concert hour, and afterward Spouting Rock
Beach This afternoon there a meeting of the
women who have charge of the lawn fete to be
given on the afternoon of August u. when it was
announced that the following subscriptions had
been received:
J. J. Van Allen. ]. Brett Stokes. William B. Leeds,
Lorillard Spencer and Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs
each S1OO; G. B. Perry and Mrs. W. G. Weld, each
$50; F. P Garretson. SIS; Mrs. E. r. Thomas, SO;
Mrs Whitney Warren Professor Alexander Agas-
siz Mrs E H Porter, Colonel ]. Horton, Mrs. +.
G. Swan and Mrs ]. H. Scannevin each So
The largest social event of the day was the
luncheon given this afternoon on board the steam
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
BY THE SWEAT OF HIS BROW.
m The San Francisco Chronicle.

FROM Ihe san Francisco Chronicle
when was the STAGE remarked Chief
Clerk McDermott OF the st. Francis, who eternally
delights TO recall his many triumphs a Thespian.
Il once played the waves in Monte Cristc.' You
remember the scene where Edmund Dantes climbs
up on the rock, with the billowy. bounding deep
surgng mady around him? He poses heroicalIv
on the rock. looks up at the gallery and says The
world is mine! Well. 1 played the bilowy bound
ing deep In that scene. The waves consisted OF a
piece of green canvas attached TO a rocker i
worked the rocker and made the roll. Now
and then another fellow tossed a bucket OF real
water up against the rock to add a little realism
to the scene
The first night / played that part one OF those
buckets OF water missed the target and caught me
IN the neck The stage manager took one look az
me when the curtain was rung down. I was drip
ping wet Fine" he said Great You're the hrst
fellow that ever perspired playing that part!'
And was engaged for ths whole season right
there and then"
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29

These figures give promise that The Bronx
will be pretty we'll provided for but we cannot
say so much for the other boroughs. The out
look in June 1904, was that in Manhattan and
Brooklyn enough new sittings would be pro-
vided by September, 1905, to make full time
room for all the pupils registered. not at the
latter, but at the former date. That made no
provision for the army of new pupils coming
into the school field between June 1904, and
September, 1905 In other words, the best that
was promised was that the supply in Septem-
Der, 1905, would be equal to the demand, not
of that date, but of year and a quarter be-
fore. AS the table shows, the expectations of
June, 1904, have not been Over-realized.
1t is to be feared. then, that despite this
brave array of new buildings, the new school
year six weeks hence will find tens of thou
sands of children crowded out or put on half
time Doubtless enough buildings have been
projected to furnish ample room for all, If they
were finished now. But they are not. Some of
them will not be ready for occupancy for two
or three years, and by that time the school
population will have been largely increased
and the new accommodations will be made
quate. The only way for the supply TO catch
up with the demand is for the supply to be
measured and planned, not to meet the demand
that exists to-day but to meet the increased de-
mand that will exist two three years hence
or at the time when the supply now planned
VIII be completed and put into use.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29

the lions share Of the governments work or
compel a material reduction In prices.
The successful entry OF a new bidder into
this closed field is welcome also because it
demonstrates the possibility of better and
quicker work in arming our new ships and
enlarges our resources In case OF emergency.
The Philadelphia company deserves great credit
for pushing its claim to a part of the armor
contracts and for demonstrating that the cor
ner in armor plate construction embarrass-
ing to the government could be successfully
broken.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
MCCLELLAN TAKES TO TALL TIMBER.

Mayor Mcclellan viii start his vacation this
morning He expects 10 be gone until about Sep
tember 10. Most of the time. II he carries out his
programme. he will be in the Canadian woods OUT
of the reach of of the city and out OF line
OF postal delivery. His two secretaries will take
their holiday at the same time. John Fl. O'Brieu
is going to Saratoga and Thomas J. Hassett the
assistant secretary, will spend his OF the
Catholic Summer School
During the Mayors absence President Fornss of
tne Board or aldermen viii be Acting Mayor, and
his secretary. Win OConnOr. will serve as Mayors
secretary Little Tim sullivan will take Mr..
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29
FOR THE GODDARD MEMORIAL.
Contributions Asked by Friendly Aid Society
to Continue influence of Philanthropist

A statement has been issued by the Friendly I'D
Society calling attention the work Of the laos F
Norton Goddard. and saying in part:
We wish u continue his influence and carry out
his plans. We ask You TO contribute 10 this, and
through the Friendly Aid Society. of which he was
president. of which We are directors and trustees
The Friendly Aid Society Is Incorporated and has
maintained its activities for twelve years in the
district in which the Warren Goddard House i
situated at Nos 246 and 24S East 34th-st. The so
ciety debt and Is permanently established
Contributors may be sent to George F. Ba keT
president of the First National Bank Of Newly Ork
No. Wall-St.. NeW-YOrk
New-York tribune., 1905-07-29

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