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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
IDA T4RB ELL THEIR GUEST.
Wells College Alumne Hear Her Discu"
ImitatOrs in Life.

The alumne Of Wells College had the'
annual reunion at Sherry's yesterday
turning out in their new spring gown,
to eat at tables decked with yellow dato.
dis and tulips.
There was one lone man at the feast.
He was the president of the college, DR.,
George Morgan Ward. The real guest o.
honor wa Miss Ida Tarbell. who. was intro.
duced by Miss NJ. Helena Zachos, the pres.
dent of the Eastern Association of Wells
College, as one of the women who had
made their mark with men. Miss Tarbell
spoke on THE Imitation versus the Real
IF you walk along Twenty-third street,
she said, you find n of the most d.
tressing sights in New York. Every woman
Is trying to initiate every other womah
and the lay figures in the windows as wei.
Let a country woman, or a nun or a maid,
come along and Immediately these per.
sons, arrayed suitably in accordance wit,
their occupations, present a proper dis
tinction.
There is more initiative thinking than
anything else. We follow the crowd in
our thoughts as we follow the crowd on
Twenty-third street or on Fifth avenue.
If everybody says some play is a grea'
play we say tnat IL Is a great play. lake
that most conspicuous big thing, money
and the mania for wealth. Money is q
good thing in the hands Of the skilfl.
In unskilful hands it is a very dangerous
thing and gives you neither permaneh'
place nor permanent name. All of us, how
ever, kneel before this idol-money.'
The wonderful thing about the imitation
Of to-day, Miss Tarbell went on to say,
was that so many people liked it.
I'VE take ideas as they are offered to usl
and we like them. How are We to get rid
of this? First, get rid of the idea Of your
own infallibility, Make up your mini
to get all that Is real"
DR.. Ward told of what a hard time d
college as small as Wells had getting a..
tention from the few great gIyers q,
the country, we have reached a crisis
he said. I'VE can't go backward. Their
is a place for a small college, but tt4
place is for n college and not for a eirIs
boarding school. The two or three men
in this country who are giving largely 70
educational institutions employ account
ants, and as soon as applications are mao
they e a nan TO go over your eNpeni'
lures and divide the total OF these by ta4
number OF students. On such a plan Wells
College with $50 students comes out hal.
We must be a college, and yet We wan,
to keep our numbers down to where tAe
students will continue to get indlvIdud'
care"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

"H t|H"N.
ucts and g~overhftent8t em Of an
island which has 4sen a. Srioan pos
session for nearly eight
One purpose of the hear Is is to OBJ
tain information upon wtlFh to base
action with regard to the pptitical status
Of the Porto Ricans. This u important,
and there seems no reason whatever
why they should not have the rights of
citizens Of the United States as well as
the duties of such citizenship. Another
matter for consideration is provision for
an elected upper house in Porto Rico's
scheme of government instead OF the
present appointive body, Upon this
point there is difference of opinion. Gov
ernor WINTHROP seems disposed to think
such a step unwise at the present time.
We recognize his better information
concerning local conditions, but are
inclined to a belief that no serious
danger and some positive good would
.Eesah- irea the Adoption f-R dssidedlyS
American policy, With the veto power
in the hands of an appointed Governor,
there would be no chance for the Porto
Rican chambers to run wild, even if they
were disposed to do 80, while a little
stronger voice in the control OF their W
affairs would unquestionably be crafty
ing to a very large number Of the island
people. The matter is important.
There is not much probability that
anything will be done for the advance
ment of the economic interests of the
Porto Rican people. Doubtless that
question will in time settle itself. If the
distressed coffee growers cannot raise
coffee at living prices they must raise
something else or starve. 1t is not to
our credit as a nation that we impose
such an alternative. We regard the
Porto Ricans as children in the matter
of learning to read and write, and as
adults in the matter of providing for
their material needs. 1t may contribute
to u peace of mind, but it does not
stand to our credit, that Governor WIN
THRoP Is able to report a marked i'm
provement in the economic situation.
The Porto Ricans will probably pull
through somehow, but the United States
would stand in a better light if it gave
them a helping hand ove the rough
places.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

The poor feudists that il to say the pure
foodists are now represented by a weekly
organ, the Food Ldu Bulletin, Volume One
and Number One of which is dated Chicago,
April 8. The editorial salutatory outlines
the purpose and character of the publica-
ton: TO enlarge a we'll organized service,
now furnishing special information and
authentic news TO manufacturers and
handlers of food products, concerning the
operations of the food laws, decisions, rul-
ings. opinions and other matters of vital
interest to the trade"-and Of some interest
to consumers. The first number contains
items of food law" news from fourteen
States, with several general items, includ-
ing a review Of the status Of the National
Food Legislation" 1t is a meaty little
paper, and should be of value to those
who determine for US what we shall eat
and drink. May Heaven send them sense
and sympathy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
The Late Rutherford b. Hayes on the
Limitation OF Fortunes.

Our esteemed contemporary the Inter
Ocean of Chicago printed on Monday
the singular statement that in a
speech delivered in Cleveland in 1880
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES advocated limit
ing by law the accumulation Of fortunes,
with 49, 900, 900 as the maximum which,
in his opinion, any one person ought to
be permitted to possess.
We have not been able yet to verify
the Inter Oceans statement.
If it is accurate, Mr.. ROOSEVELT is not
the first person holding the office of
President Of the United States who has
publicly discussed this idea. Mr.. HAYES
did not leave the White House until March
Of 1881.
There is in this circumstance the
suggestion of an interesting possibility.
Two or three years later Mr.. HAYES and
Mr.. ROOSEVELT we're associated in the
administration Of the National Prison
being the president and Mr.. ROOSEVELT
the treasurer of that organization. They
must have met frequently and discussed
the problems of penology and the kindred
questions, sociological, ethical and eco
nomic, which relate to pauperism, crime
and the unequal distribution of wealth.
The late Mr.. WILLIAM MARSHALL Fits
ROUND would have known.
Did the germ of President RoosE-
vELT's idea come to him through the
teachings of RUTHERFORD B. HAYES? =
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
PICKED Up A MILLION or So
Carpenter Tells How He RetU y '"a
Very Busy a

Ernest Chapman, a carpenter, pl'Aei
up yesterday afternoon at Wal and Ne"
streets a bank book lost by a mess'nee'
of Wolf Bros. & Co., bankers and brokers
at 100 Broadway, which contained a cheek
for 81 900 900 and other checks for amounts
a~ggregating $3.50. 900. All Of them were
payable to the National City Bank. he
went to the Mutual Life Building, whe''
he was employed on work in the Northern
Pacific offices, and asked the raIlros'
officials what to do with his find lnt'
pointed out the address on the bank BOOK
and there the carpenter went.
They led me pas, a lot of cuhhy NOES
into a little room in the corner, sud NE
Chapman, dis 2ussing his experience aite''
ward. There ut the desk sat a man WIZ
didn't as much as turn around t" i''S "
me. The man who was with me 'o.i III"
I'd found something.
Has he got it?" said the man a Nh" aesA'
not looking up for a minute.
He has the Other man SAID. h'h'MS
me pull the book out Of my p"ck''
"'Give it to me- says the Other ntn
without turning a hair. And s2"l"H 'r''I
the way of him that he was th" goods !
turns over the book.
They're all right, says he, 2e,,t
as If they were of no consequence VIZ, ,Ss,
ever. Here, give him this Aud WIN i Gar
he hands a ten dollar bill over his ,l2u,o,a
and the other man gets it and rI'', nrJ
me and the big man never book UP %''
never says Thank you or 'Whct" ana a..
find it?' or anything that you'd m's,
rect, and | goes out and comes back ''Nr,
wondering il l want that ten dollar OH.
much after all" 20.
Chapmah's fellow workers said he va
on the police force in England once pey
Sundays he sings in the choir OF me TnS,b
Robert Paddock's church. Twenty-rls"ss
3l9 West Twenty-siXth street ,ras
At the Offices of Wolf Bros. 4 Go. II ,ar
said that they intended to use the caTPenmr..
politely. They thought they had he
pensed him fairly for his trouble, 'Itos"N
checks were worthless 10 him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

Senator PAGE and tssemb!yman PREM
T1cE have prepared a bill to be intro
duced in the Legislature soon which
provides for the abolition of the Aque-
duct Commission. 1t should be passed.
The Aqueduct Commission is a survivor
of the day of Bipartisan" boards, a Use
less and expensive cog in the municipal
machine, the members Of that board
not having work enough to keep them
reasonably busy. The operations they
are supposed to supervise fall legiti-
mately within the province of the Com
miss Toner of Water Supply, Gas and
Electricity. None of the members Of
the board has ever performed a service
to the public that entities him to ask
for a pension from the municipal treas
ury, yet that is practically what each
Of them receives.
Let the Aqueduct Commission be
abolished, and then let every other
similar home for political inourables be
swept out Of existence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
WHY COCHRAN DIDN'T GO.
He Assures the Mayor That Il Wasn't PIaue
at Him.

W. Bourke Cochran has sent a long letter
to Mayor Mcclellan dated last week saying
that he didn't intend to stay away from
the Jefferson inner because of the topic
chosen by the Mayor. but because he didn't
want to appear to confirm by his presence
what Vas really a INSTRUMENTATION.
namely that the Belmont dinner at the
Democratic Club was art of the same
anti-Hearst movement that Tammany Hall
had initiated. He intimates his opinion
that Mr.. Belmont is as bad for the party
as Mr., Hearst, and that universal trans
fers for o e fare would be more to the pur-
pose than ~oratory.
A member of the Democratic Club said
Yesterday: Our jefferson dinner prom
ised to be a dismal failure through the apathy
Of the members until Murphy and Cochran
said they wouldn't 40 to it, On the day
after they said this we received 1888 applica-
tons for seats, and the applications Kept on
growing until We had $50 at the feast, the
'argest number we ever had.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
HaZIng's Dark Side.

To THE EDITOR or THE SuN-Sr' In Saturdays
sun was an article saying that hazing was a manly
practice and so II must be continued In Phila-
delphia sits a cripple. who became such by being
made 10 jump from an open window when he was
hazed, Is he more manly because OF this lifelong
helplessriess. or Is /, those who inflicted this suffer-
ing who are made more manly by IT.
heard a mother encourage her son to submit TO
being hazed, because he could then have the pleas
ure OF torturing others. Is II such a proof OF man
illness for a dozen or more strong fellows TO unite
In showing how much suffering they can lndict
on one younger than themselves
This is not my idea OF manliness.
AMERICAN CrTry IN.
STATEN ISLAND. April Is.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
TWO INSPECTORS TURNED DoWy
Reinstatement or Smith and 0ruhan Max.
Hoka and Sweeney Captains Again

Commissioner Bingham received the n.
poration Counsel's opinion yesterday ~.
the mixup which has resulted in the poNo,
Department from the Supreme Court d,
cision reinstating sixty officers dismiss
by Commissioner McAdoo. The reinsta,.
ment Of two inspectors and four captain,
gave Gen. Bingham more captains sn5
inspectors than he had vacancies n,
Some Of them he found places for, hut i.
still had left W. inspectors and only An.
vacancy.
The charter allows the Commissions,
fifteen inspectors, Some time ago II.
Board Of Estimate and Apportionnsnt
gave money for a sixteenth. But the rein.
statement produced seventeen inspector
the last two, Sweeney and Hogan, hayns
been appointed by Mr., McAdoo to fill thu
places Of Baldwin and Albertson, who ver,
dismissed for physical disability along with
Ebert o. Smith and Thomas /. Drub,n
When Smith and Druhan secured ,bs,
reinstatement through the courts TIA
question was Immediately asked the Com.
missioner: Are you going to redus
Hogan and Sweeney"
"The matter is in the hands Of the Cor.
poration Counsel and ! shall await nj,
opinion" the Commissioner replied.
The Corporation Counsel has decidH
that, as the Supreme Court holds that Smith
and Druhan were illegally dismissed from
the force, no inspectorships actually existed
for Commissioner MoAdoo to place Hogan
and Sweeney in, and therefore their al
pointments to such rank were illegal.
Commissioner Bingham, in view Of TIA
foregoing opinion, yesterday ordered In.
~spectors Hogan and Sweeney to hand in
their shields and reduced them to the rank
of captain and assigned them to act tenn.
porarily as acting inspectors of the Second
and Sixth inspection districts respectively
This action leaves one inspectorship still
open and to fill this vacancy he has
requested the Civil Service Commission
to furnish him with a new eligible list for
inspectors. The new list will contain
the names OF Hogan and Sweeney and one
other name, probably Capt. John W, O'Con.
nor, who was reduced from acting inspee
tor to captain in Mondays shift. The mar
list will In all pr obability be appointed
This will cause the permanent reduction r.
rank Of either Hogan or Sweeney, or both
1t is now feared about Headquarters thal
both Inspectors Baldwin and Albertson will
geek reinstatement under the same ruling
that put back Smith and Druhan. If they
succeed it will mean two more reductions
in rank. The next two inspectors from
the bottom are Nally and Flood,
There il a chance, however, that sona
retirements will come about in a few months
as several inspectors will shortly react
the retirement age.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

WILLIAM r. HEARST was hailed as PYR-
RHUs at the Easter festival Of the Randolph
Club after he had told the story of the in
vasion of Italy by the King Of Epirus and the
fight at Heraclea. We'll, PYRRHUs." said
the lion Of the evening, was complimented
on his victory, but he replied after looking
at his shattered forces, Another such victory
and we are destroyed SO it is with Tam
many. BY force and fraud it retains pos
session of the battlefield, but with shattered
ranks There was tremendous applause
from the Randolphians, followed by admir-
ing cries of "PYRRHUs! PYRRHus!"
Both the speaker and his friends got
things a little mixed. History tells us that
PYRRHUs whipped vALERIUs IAEvINrs
in a square fight at Heraclea and retained
the field by force of arms. Mr.. HEARST
described Tammany az PYRRHus, but
the Randolphians and the Independence
Leaguers insisted on acclaiming HEARST as
PYRRHrS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
Proposed Changes in England's Edu-
cation Law.

There are upward of 10 So%nconform-
lists in the present House of Commons,
most of whom are supporters OF the
Bannerman Cabinet. 1t is doubtless in
compliance with a peremptory demand
on their part that a drastic amendment
Of the existing Education law has been
made the capital feature of the Minis
terial programme for the present session
Of Parliament. A bill to that effect was
introduced last week in the House of
Commons by Mr.. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL,
president of the Board Of Education. If
we may judge by the comments Of many
Liberal newspapers friendly to the
Church of England, this bill may split,
if it does not wreck, the present Gov
eminent.
1t may be remembered that the law
which was enacted by the last Parlia-
ment, and which has been in force for
about three years, placed denomina-
tional schools in England, hitherto sup
ported by voluntary contributions, on
the same footing as the n~on-denomina-
tional national or board schools, in the
sense that both classes of institutions
are now maintained at the public. ex-
pense. In almost all of the denomi-
national schools, which number many
thousands, the pupils have been and are
now instructed in the doctrines of the
Church of England. The Nonconform-
lists, who are satisfied with the national
schools, where no sectarian instruction
is impaired, have vehemently objected
to being taxed a second time in order to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
Doing Something for Porto Rico.

While the hearingsar not Of a thrilling
nature, 1t is gratifying to know that the
House Committee on Insular Affairs is
giving attention to Porto Rican matters
with a general intent to do something"
for our forgotten island. The character
Of the investigation might almost be
termed ~disgracefully elementary. Vol
umes might be filed with what some of
the members of that committee do not
know about the size, topography. prod
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

The Harnburg-American Line steamship
Moltke arrived yesterday from a seventy
three days cruise to the Orient, bringing
Ss4 cabin and Liza Storage passengers
She had fine weather with only two hours
rain the whole cruise. On April ~ she
was in communication with the Poldhu
station, a distance of 1850 miles, receiving
a message Of eighty-three words. en-
April s Fritz Schmolsinski, q coal trimmer.
jumped overheard and was lost.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

That abandoned cemetery in Buffa 10 is
sure to be a political graveyard if the sew
eral local and Federal officeholders who
have beer indicted for selling the property
which they didn't own to Erie county,
thereby stealing $40 900, can't make a favor
able impression on the jury.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

To try to deal with them in an Incorporate.
destructive or demagogic spirit would In all proha
billy mean that nothing whatever would be
accomplished. and with absolute certainty that
II anything were accomplished II would be OF a
harmful nature ."-PreStdem ROOSEVELT.
Mr.. ROOSEVELT was not talking about
great fortunes, but about regulating the
corporations; the quotation is from his
MESA ge to Congress in December, 1904.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
Uncle Joe and -

Some people insist that the Illinois veteran wants
be President, He was asked recently II this
port were true. All he said was "Scati-
When he was asked,
As sometimes are
The statesmen who
May cross the bar,
And from the wide seas
Chilly air,
Find haven in the
White House chair.
II he had thought
Or wish 10 be
The Big Stick Of
The G. o, p.
As President,
He scratched his head
And all that Uncle
Joseph said
Was: Sat"
II he were asked
The question thr,c"
Would such an answC-
Still suflce'
Would Uncle joseph
Say his say.
p And scat the crown
Three times away
It's early yet
To answer that.
Let's watt and hear
Another; Scat"
W, i, LAnPron.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
Moon and the Wheat.

Petersburg correspondence indianapolis !NsUs.
Much Of the wheat In the White River bottoms.
which was thought TO have been destroyed In the
recen, overflow, Is In fairly good condition, and Will
Yield a partial crop. Men claim that as the water
WAS over the wheat during the light OF the moon,
the damage will be light; asserting that the moon
eIerts a wonderful influence on growing wheat.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

On the whole, would not the main purpose
of the Presidents speech last Saturday, the
castigation of the Muck Raker, "a been
served bette if the Federal inheritance tax
idea had been postponed to another occa-
sion? OF all the big sticks, stick to your
subject ia one of the most useful.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

Any criticism of the Mutual LIES ex-
penditures for flowers and trips for the
girls would be as captious as the discovery
Of those items is belated; for flowers and
girls are the God that poetry feeds on. and
until recently the Mutual had a poet
president in a setting Of white and gold.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
once See king the Man.
STATEN ISLAND. April rs.


Fr0m Nc WnShInpIoh Say,
What we want, a" said the reformer, is a system
by which the Office seeks the man"
We've go: 1t right here In Crimson Gulch," an.
swered Pluto Pete. The whole Sherin's ONCE
was out last night huntin' the Teller that got the
wrong boss"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuH-sir; "Pittsburg"
seems to have missed the "speckled Jimmie style
OF beauty familiar to the denizens OF Sootv1lle.
Our girls wash. GOTHAM,
NHw YORK. April II. Z
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