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New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
THE DISASTER on THE SOUTHERN.

THE DISASTER on THE SOUTHERN.
1t is n long time since the commercial world
has received such a shock as was occasioned
by the tragic death Of Mr.. Samuel Spencer Oh
Thursday. The energy, sagacity and farslght-
edness which enabled him to administer the af
fairs of the Southern Railway with rare sue
cess had been exhibited before his connection
with that company. Those qualities long ago
excited wide admiration and won him the con-
fidence and friendship Of leaders OF industry
and finance in the North. His sudden removal
from the field of activity in which he had
played SO prominent part is not only a blow
to important businezs interests in the South.
but also the termination of wide personal re-
lations of remarkably cordial nature.
Mr. Spencer's fate will recall to many minds
the tragedy which cost Webster Wagner his
life a quarter Of q century ago, though the
cases are not exactly parallel. AS the founder
Of the palace car company which bore his name.
Nr. Wagner was widely known to railroad
men, but he was not q railroad president. In
deed, Mr. Spencer is probably the only man
at the head of great transportation company
in America who has been killed on his own
road The one consoling feature Of the melan-
choly occurrence is the probability that death
came almost instantly TO Mr.. Spencer and his
guests.
This city had additional cause for deplor-
ing the disaster Of Thanksgiving Day when
it learned that one of the victims was a CON
spicuouS figure in the life of New York. His
lineage his military activities during the Civil
War his services to yachting, his personal char
acter and his close association with many or
ganizatiOns and enterprises gave to General
Schuyler varied and powerful claims on the es-
teen of all who came in contact with him.
Though he rounded out his full threescore years
and ten few months ago. his mental and phys
ical vigor had been finely sustained. General
SChuyler's death terminates prematurely a ca
reer OF large usefulness.
There is a strange irony in Mr.. SpenCer's fate.
The railway system over which he presided had
been greatly improved within the last few
years, largely through his influence. On the
fatal journey, moreover, he was accompanied
from Washington by his private dispatcher,
whose presence was expected to add to the
presidents safety. Yet an emergency in
which neither the ordinary the extra pre-
cautions availed The Immediate responsibility
for the accident is placed by the company
with apparent justice-on the signal operator
who let the second train into the block which
the first had come to a stop without having
assured himself that the block then clear.
1t would be interesting to know whether
automatically operated signal system, under the
circumstances which existed near Lawyers on
Thursday, would have been more efficient than
one requiring manual control.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
NEW GERMAN SINGERS

The first German performance at the Metropoh-
tan Opera House last night vas devoted TO Tam
hauser." and served 10 introduce two new singers
to the local public. They were Nine. FIeischer-
Edel, OF the Hamburg Stadttheater, and Carl Bur-
rian. Of the Court Opera at Dresden Naturally.
they We're the Elizabeth and Tannhauser OF the
type they both conventional in action and o7sr-
full OF that affected pathos against which IN his day
Wagner rallied 50 furiOusly; but willing slaves
distnctness Of utterance ever ready TO pursue ths
last cOnsonant to the death. and whole-heartsd
In their devotion to the ideals OF the Wagneran
drama as they exist in Germany. Nine Fleischer-
EdeI has yOUthfuness of figure and a mobile face
10 aid her in her characterization Of the operas
heroine. and her voice IS ample In power. pure in
intonation and generally fine in quality. Herr Bur
rian has the typical voice of the German heroic
tenor That sensuOUs charm is latent in II he dis
closed occasionally in phrases sung IN half voice.
but such lascivious blessings not for the tragic
singers of the Fatherland who believe in strength
strength. always strength 1t seems to be a voics
OF bronze and incapable OF fatigue The COM
paniOns of the newcomers were all old acquainr-
ances-Miss Fremstad. the Eerus whose lower
emotions that IT pitifuI 10 think how they are
helng sacrificed 70 soaring dramatic streuuousuess;
MI ' an Rooy, the Walther; Mr.. BIass, the Land
grave; Messrs- Reiss. Muhlnann CSunther and
Bayer, the -ninstrels and Miss Bella Alien win
some shepherd lad Mr. Hertz conducted well and
secured good results from the orchestra but a
ore untuneful band Of pilgrims than those OF the
nrst act never set out for Rome. HEX
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
Il nluSementS.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-2-s-Jullus Cassr
ALHAMBRA-
ASTOR-2-S.3O-The Daughters Of Men
BELASCO-2-s-The Rose Of the Rancho
BIJOU-2-S-Mrs. WIson-Andrews
BFaOADWAY-2:l0-s: :15-The Partisan MODE
CARNEGIE HALL-2:50-s :15-Concert
CASINO-2-S-The Blu Moon.
CR1TERION-2-S:i5-The Little CheTut
DALYS -215-s:I5-The spring ChckeI
EDEN ATUSEE-The World in Wax.
EAPIkE-2:lO-S: :i5-Eils House in Orde1
GARDEN-2:l5-s 20-Madam Butterfly.
GARRICK-215-s s:20-Carice.
GRAND-2-S l5-3famselle Salls.
HECKETT-2 -220-S:3o-The Chorus Lady
HERALD SoUARE-2-S-The Great Decide and About
HIPPODROME-2 +Neptune's Daughter and Pioneer
HUDSoN-o:15-s:lb-The Hypocrites
IRVING PLACE-2-Onke Tonio--S:2o-hster Lampe
KNTCK KERBOCKER-2:15 -sl5-The Red Mill
LBBRTY-2-S-Susan in Search OF a Husband and
LINCOLN soU ATiI5-2-s:I5-The Love Route,
LYCECAi-2 -2:l5-S:I5-The Lion and the Mouse.
LYRIC. .T.5-S:l5-T New York idea
MADISON I-AFE-s-S l5-The Three
MAJESTIC-2-S:I5-The Tourists.
Af MI aT'7~A s -o-l5-S.l5-Clothes
METROPOLITAN OPERA HOCSE-2-Ia Travista--s-
NEW AMSTERDAM -2l5-s:l5-Csesar and Cleopatra.
NEW YORK-2-s:l5-Forty- Minutes from Broad
PRINcEs-2 2:2o-s :2o-The Great Divide
ST NICHOLAS RINrI-Ice Skating
-2:I5-S:15-Sir Anthony
wALL4A CEl's-2:l5s:l5 :l5The Rich Nr Hoggenheimer
WIFI The Golden West.
WEST END-2-S-The Mprtons
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

giving hearings throughout the Dominion last
winter farmers associations everywhere pro-
tested against further concessions TO lhe man
ufacturers. They protested especially against
the high duties on American agricultural lnple-
ments and British woollens. The farmers asso-
Citations of all Canada issued JOINT manifesto
A fortnight ago against extending the protective
nrincple They point ouU that Canadian agri-
cultura has n capital investment four times as
great as have Canadian manufacturers They
regard the tariff as fayorlng less important in
dustries at their expense. They say that the
nrotection is responsible for the rapid growth
of urban population as compared to rural popu-
lation The manifesto declares:
If a halt is not at once called, we shall find
conditions in this country similar to those pre-
vailing in parts of Europe with a small class
of wealthy barons at the top and serfs at the
Observation-Disclosures being the barons and
farmers the serfs
Naturally this sentiment is peculiarly strong
in the western part of Canada. where the most
rapid growth of agriculture is taking place.
Despite the protests of the farmers. the new
tariff is an extension of the protective principle,
for the public of Canada, whose policy is
THE twentieth century Will be Canada's," are
determined upon fostering the country's manu-
factures- Both parties in greater or less
degree committed to protection. At a meeting
of the Canadian Manufacturers Association ut
Winnipeg it was asserted that the tariff was no
longer a political question and that both parties
were in favor OF a high protective tariff. There
fore. there is apparently little likelihood that
the farmers will prevail
without the schedules it is not possible to say
in detail how American trade with Canada Will
be affected. As the protective principle has
been extended, the general effect probably will be
adverse. Typewriting machines, for instance,
formerly on the free list, are to be dutiable.
Perhaps some concessions may be made to con-
ciliate the Canadian farmers which will also
favor American manufacturers.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
THE CANADIAN TARIEE-

The new Canadian tariff is before the House
pf Commons at Ottawa and the agricultural and
the manufacturing interests may now fight it
out over the duties The farmers and the man
ufacturers Of Canada are lined up IN hostile
camps II the farmers win the greater consid-
Grafton from Parliament. the duties will be
lower than Finance Minister FieIding's bill
provides If the manufacturers carry the day.
the rates will be as high as, perhaps higher than,
they are In the present draft OF the measure
The administration seems hardly TO have COM
mitted itself between these hostile interests for
the new rates make no great general advance or
reduction from those Of the tariff Of 1897. Their
tendency is increased protection-not in being
more highly protective than the tariff OF 1897,
but more widely protective. Industries which
have come into existence within the last decade
and which are now struggling to their feet in
Canada receive protection not given to them
under the old schedules
The preferential rate with Great Britain is
continued in this new bill, but not In the form
Of the old, undiscriminating fat reduction of
onethird off the general rate. In the new tariff
the preference Of each article is listed separately
In some cases the preference is little less and
In some cases a little more than one-third
which seems TO indicate an application of the
protective principle, In the determinations
ia favor of the mother country. We have not
the schedules at hand, but probably for articles
manufactured in Canada the preference is less
than one-third. Where the competition, how
ever, is simply between British and foreign
goods the preference probably is greater than
one-third.
The bill contains an application toward the
rest OF the world Of the maximum and minimum
tariff system, providing, as it does, for h ain
termediate division" between the general rate
and the British preference or 10 per cent off the
lower Will he
TO countries which make satisfactory tariff re
ducrons in favor OF Canadian exports. They
are essentially tariff war rates and tariff peace
rates Countries with which there is q tariff
war viii pay the general rate. Those with
which satisfactory negotiations conducted
Will pay 10 per cent less duties.
The great contest over the bill will be between
the farmers and the manufacturers. When the
hsxN commission which prepared this bill was
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
MRS. MCGOWAN STRANGELY INJURED.
Wife of President of Board OF Aldermen in
Hospital Unable to Explain.

Mrs Patrick F. McCiowa1. wife OF rha prssidanr
or the Board of Aldermen. is at the PoIyclinc Hos
pltal suffering from compound fracture Of the
Ie1t leg Just above the ankle a wrenched back and
cuts and bruises on the side OF her head The IN
Juries Wee received at 18th street and Second
nue. at about o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
but the causes are still shrouded in mystery as
Mrs MCGOWAN. because OF her pain and inter1nit-
tent Inconsistencies. has been able herself 70
police record of the case
7dI. ~ is thought that she may have been knocked
Gown IN the rush TO and from the streetcars az
mat hour She was taken home in a cab which
MltheSSes or the accident called for her The doc
LOTS VINO are attending Mrs MCGOWAN at the hos
pltdI say that no grave consequences are appre-
ilehoed. although up TO the present her recovery
ferinc ~ ~0-'' F'- - - -
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
(Frcm The Tribune Bursau-


washington Nov. 30.-President Roosevelt dis
cussed the Japanese situation at some length to-day
with benjamin Ide Wheeler, president Of the Unit
Versty or California Professor Wheeler made two
visits 10 the White House-the first before the Cab
met meeting In company with Secretary Metcalf
and the second after noon. when he took luncheon
with the President.
Three Pueblo Indians. wearing flaming red Navajo
blankets. called at the White House this morning
to see the Great White Father but, they ar
rived just before the Cabinet hour, were dsap-
pointed. John Baca, James Pueblo and Governor
Jose Manuel are the names they gave to the door
keeper. They said they wished to see the President
about some land matters.
Samuel Gompers. president OF the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. presented two English labor lead
at the White House to-day-J. N. Bell OF New
castle-on-Tyne. and Alderman A. A. Gee. of Man
chester. who have been attending the annual con-
vention Of the federation at Minneapolis.
Among the callers at the White House today
were Representatives Da1zeI Prince Loudanslager
and Overstreet. Speaker Cannon. General John G..
Black. of the Civil Service Commission; Assistant
Attorney General Cooley, and Captain Seth Bullock
United States Marshal for South Dakota.
The Cabinet met at IL a. m and adjourned at
120 %
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
TFrom tine Tribune Bureau


Washington. Nov. 3o-Persons in official society
are arriving in Washington in large numbers just
now preparatory to the opening of Congress, and
plans are under way for an unusually brilliant II
brief social season. Mrs. Kean and the Misses
Kean have opened their I street home, and will
be Joined tomorrow by Senator Kean of New
Jersey. Senator and Mrs Dryden are expected
here tomorrow. and Senator Beveridge. who Will
again make his winter home the Portland
Murray Crane have taken possession Of the house
In Rhode Island avenue which they leased from
Rear Admiral Upshur.
Miss Helen Cannon. daughter of the Speaker
Will reach Washington in the morning and Join
her father at their home. in Vermont avenue
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Patterson have had their
Dupont Circle house opened for the season. and
will probably return here the first OF next week
Captain and Mrs. E. H. c. Leutze gave a large
luncheon party to-day, at which their daughter
Miss Marian Leutze. was presented TO society The
guests were entertained at Captain Leutze's home
at the navy yard, the party including Miss Kath-
crime Jennings, Miss Olga Converse Miss CaryI
Crawford. Miss Natalie Magruder Miss Ruth
Tanner Miss Evelyn Chew Miss Frederfca
Morgan. Miss Juliette Williams, Miss Laura Wells
Miss Margaretta Symons. Miss Mary Dodge Miss
Joanna Schroeder. Miss Helen Wilson, Miss Jean
Loring, Miss Frances GoIdsborough Miss Kath-
crime Clabaugh and Miss Esther Denny.
Mrs. Charles H Campbell was hostess at a tea
this afternoon.
MT and Mrs. John r. Mclean have issued invita-
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
GIVES DINNER TO HISTORIANS.

Judge Simeon E. Baldwin. or yale prss'HsH -
the American Historical Association. gave a -. -
last night ar the Metropolitan Club. az which -
following were present: Professor George o :,
Adams. OF Vale: Professor Herman v Ai-e~ I,-r-s.
the University OF Pennsylvania: Professor a.,
Lincoln Burr OF Cornell: Professor Charies .Iss-r
Andrews, OF Bryn Mawr College; ProissS', ,,,r,an,
Bushnell Hart. Of Harvard; Professor 49,. 's--s,-
fsaa, nm ~ swarthuore COlless; ProfessU, sr,
oliver huntington richardson. Of Yale ~. Pro
Shaw. editor of The Review OF "s Columbia:
fessor William Archibald Dunnin2.s;, in2.ss;,v5encs: Pro
William BahcOCk Weeder. o o., tns university o.
chicago A Howard CLARK. OF tas saskins. OK
stituton: Professor ChaTies - BostOn; Dr. ~,
fred ar Mahsn% % Of ,Siyerssy NEW sGsS q PsnRsvsssy
Bach McMaster Of ,tna sns Garrison OF the Wis
e Tssas Reuben Cola 51g TATaiSis RdSSsCa Or GSam'A
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
PROSPERITY AND MATINEEs
From The Philadelphia Record.

One curious evidence of the prevailing seneral
prosperity is pointed out by local theatrical man
who says the attendance OF men at matinee per.
formances @ has fallen off pereepubly this season
The The men are all busy now" Is the explanation
larger theatres there is always goodIv sprinkIfne
of men at the matnees, made up largely Of those
who do not have to work within prescribed hours
or perhaps not at ALL but at the minor places OF
to to mon. the difference Is marked Luckily for us
the business thus lost Is made up at the evening
performances. Where these men get the money to
go TO matinees with in duh times is a mystery,
just like the mystery OF the large attendance az
ball games during seasons OF depression n
condition that all the professional bali magnates
familiar with" ~ e-'o'
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
NEW ROCHELLE FORUM OPENS SEASON.
Series of Sunday Afternoon Lectures Begins
Tomorrow

The fifth season OF the Peoples Forum Of New
Rochelle will open tomorrow afternoon in the New
Rochelle Theatre. with lecture Bible Etnlcs
Versus Business Ethics by Mrs. FREDERICK
Nathan president OF the Consumers Leasua
Professor J. C. Monaghan. editor OF ths Cned
States Consular Reports. viii follow with paper
on America, a Land OF Unlimited Opportunites,
These lectures are free. United States Suprenls
Court Justice Brewer VIII be the speaker on De-
cember 16. Justice CfaynOr on January Q FrsSl0esa
Schurman OF Cornell University on January =.
Lyman Abbott on February and Martin w LIZ
Teton and Henry LOomis Nelson on March 10
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

In Boston, II their "u's" are irreproachabe, II
they are uniformly precise and accurate In
speech, then will their little charges make a
punctilio Of each letter. This Is suggestion
of much value Persons who have the future of
the English tongue at heart will be as nice
about their nursemaids as they are about "gs,"
"a's" and "us" In the interests of the cause,
however, the society should engage to send
on application to letter saving parents the
names of desirable letter saving nursemaids.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

We read In one of the Texas papers words
attributed to Mr.. Hearst while In San Antonio
some time ago. He says he Is for Mr. Bryahs
nomination and expects his election. These
words had escaped us. but probably the watch
FIJI, eva or Mr. Rrvan did not miss them. They
are good for optimism.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
THE FRUGAL JAPS.
From The Boston Globe.

from Tie Boston GIObe-
A college professor. who had spent four years at
Yale and two in Berlin acquiring his foreign edu-
cation. lives with his wife at Kyoto. city, in a
rented house having little garden at a total cost
Of 46S yen year or about s2S3 This is divided as
follows; Rent $40; house tax, s.; servants wages
$B fuel. $l3; light, s.; clothes, s25. and food $50
His salary is S4OO and he is applying SlOO year 10
the debt he incurred to obtain his education A
peorle who can conquer domestic problems as do
the Japanese find no terrors In the economic bur
den of q debt. -
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
BISHOP WILLIAMS ON hEREsY.

From The Hartford Courant
. Tne only bishop who has been pains make
IL quite clear to every body that thinks the trial
OF Dr. Crapsey a great mistake is Bishop Williams
or Michigan Even in extreme cases I do nor
believe in the weapons OF excommuncation or
deposition for purely intellectual errors" he said
TO his diocesan convention 81 do not want 10 de-
fend the truth. want the truth 70 defend ne.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

to be permitted to transform nav1gable coast
waters and the Atlantic Ocean itself into pri-
vate preserve for their own exclusive profit
But until the case is SO decided by the highest
authority 1t is to be hoped the fight for the free
dom of the waters will be vigorously waged.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Of the work Save for breathless haste IN ths
sCherzo. the symphony was most syupathercaIy
read and much of it beautifully played also. Love-
iy serenity hung over the adagio ike benedio-
tion, and there WIS fine Beethovenian sweep In
fba finals
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
NEW YORK SOCIETY,"

and Mf uas and 1,, Mss Atsinaa Yn1 vandeo. and NJ
Europe on board the Ansrika on Jann.. - sH FOR
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Mrs. Nellie Grant sartoris has .,.
year lease Of an apartment at the Co,,s.IFes lnFes
where she purposes TO make her houn, ror sood .o
time to come ' sons
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
DOGS, AUTOS AND HUMANS
New York World

Two automobiles were overturned and five per-
S Sons injured IN Mercer County, n. j.. Wednes-
uay because the cars over dogs When thara
Is Is, not better game In the form OF human beings
running down dogs IL favorits sport OF cartain
Automobile drivers. but IT has Is dangsrn.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Miss Dorothy Ffcken will make hsr sa,r. q,
afternoon at reception given by her notbs- ,-H
II. Edwards FTcken. at her house In afh Ms
will be followed by dinner and thsatr. - A'
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
>, ReeIsTRATioN GROWS

Philadelphia Nov, sN-Ths '0tS, pa,nsyivania ms
students In the Univers'S - public today. :
fall according Sc Of 5e over ths h. q s eOsunts
Fortythree states and aInons studsn~
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01
Abouf People and Social Inciden,.

tions for dance for young peopI. =,
December i5 - eio night q
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Announcement is made that the Dutch have
at last brought to successful close the
which they have been conducting for two hun
dred years against the natives in Southern
Celebes. Latest advtces indicate, however, that
the war in Acheen is still doing business at the
same old stand.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Mrs ]. Stevens Ulrnan gives a dinner on Tues
day night at Sherry's for the debut OF her sister
Miss Clara Wright Barclay. and Will afterwart
take her guests TO the junior cotillon-
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

DR.. Nicholas Sem, of Chicago thinks that
cancer is a product of civilization" and that
susceptibility to 1t Is enhanced by impaired
physical vitality. The rule is apparently apph-
cable to number of other human disorders.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Jennings return to-day
from Cold Spring HarbOr. Long Island. 70 occupy
the house, No 10 East 50th street, which they
have rented from Mr.. and Mrs. J. Laurens Van
Allen for the season
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

And now basketball is denounced as lone OF
"the greatest evils with which the colleges have
Ito contend" Why. thought 1T was real
nice. Iadylke game, since 1t is such prime ia
vorite at most of the girls schools and colleges.
Can it be that the higher education of woman
kind has entailed upon us hideous evil. worse
than football, hazing, or those bacchanalian
orgies which hot air imaginatiOns conjure up as
constituting the salient features of academic
life? What game then, shall be approved? The
insidious and seductive tiddledywinks must
surely 60 and humble the-peg, with lis fear
full unoosing Of savage primal passions, is
thing abhorred Cannot some philanthropist in
vent a game warranted permanently innocuous
and aseptic?
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Lady Johnstone. who. with her r,o,ba- -,
James w Pinchot. has been staying with NJ - a-s,
Mrs Henry F. brnock since her arrival in town
from Washington. sails to-day for England 80
route TO Join her husband Sir Alan IobD.,,1- "a
at Copenhagen. where he Is the British 1T,-,-.~'
Plenipotentary to the Court OF Denmark
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

1t is proposed in Philadelphia. where an auto
mobile driver was killed racing track the
other day. to build ponds at the dangerous turns
In the track. The chauffeur, taking a header.
will alight in the water. probably with life
preserVer on.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Helicon Hall has solved the janitor problem.
The Jungle naturally has lot of tropical
plants in it. The janitor is profoundly attached
to one rubber plant. AS he stokes the furnace
he thinks of the beloved rubber plant. Incl
dentally the human "junglers" keep warm.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

February has been set as the date OF ,b. .,
ding. at ST. Bartholomews. OF G. Maurtcs r4.cs-
scher. OF Mr.. and Mrs August Hsckzcha- :.
Miss Louise Vanderhoef. daughter OF Mr.. and NJ,
Harmon B. Vanderhoef
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Kenelm Winslow whose marriage 10 Miss Emily
Foster takes place at the Church Of the Heavenly
Rest on Tuesday next, gave his farewell bachslor
dinner last night at the Yale Club. among his
guests being Philip Gordon Birckhead. Chalner,
Wood, IT., and Fenwick Beeknan. who are 70 %
his ushers.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-01

Mr.. and Mrs, James I. Breese are at the Hots
Gotham for the season.