New-York tribune., 1906-07-08
Constant Reader Tells What He
Missed I'm Last Weeks Paper.

'sI didn't read IT In the newspapers Dut
heard there was a shortage in the WnlteWash
market last week." said the Busy Man.
Fright" said Constant Reader. THE Fo"ler
investigating committee Of the New York Lire
Insurance Company and the Truesdale investi-
eating committee Of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company made their reports and exhausted the
supply"
Anything doing" asked Busy Man.
mo" replied Constant Reader. THE Fowler
committee accepted the resignation OF george
w. Perkins as trustee and upheld the manage
ment which the public indorsed so highly dur
ing the Investigations Of the Armstrong COM
mittee. The Truesdale committee made such an
incomplete report that President Peabody de-
clared it was holding something back. and de-
manded that he be furnished with every fact 1t
had unearthed. The New York Life trustees
met and nominated the administration ticket
that is, men to succeed them in the management
Of the company OF the twenty-four chosen, for
whom the policyholders will vote, thirteen are
men who have never been officers Of the COM
pany and who have never been associated with
the present management"
Anything in the Thaw case,' asked Busy
Man
Getting to be a FROST" returned Constant
Reader. Mrs. Thaw has been having confer
ences with her husbands lawyers and telling the
fence. All sorts of rumors have been afoat
concerning the dOings Of Thaw and Stanford
White, but the case is simmering down. and the
yarns that were reeled off for day two after
the murder are being proved empty imaginings.
The latest Of these is story that Thaw was
sued for robbery and assault by Evelyn Nesbit
before they were married. and that Stanford
White caused her TO bring the suit
Seems to me I heard from afar off the voice
unless you insist" said Busy Man
Eyes you heard IL from London said Con-
slant Reader. Bryan said there that he didn't
consider the planning OF a reception for him on
his arrival here an Endorsement Of him as a
Presidential candidate The lists should be open
until the time came to choose the man. he said.
But reports from all over the country show that
his boom is booming and that Democrats and
Pops and Socialists and the Muck-Rakers and
the DOuma Of the Disseminated will pick him as
the only man who has any chance against the
Republican nominee. whoever he may be- Bryan
made a speech at the Independence Day dinner
Of the American Society in London on 'The
White Mans Burden and discovered that it
was a dark cloud without trace Of silver lining
On that same day the Tammany Tiger howled
Joyfuly at the mention Of his name in the annual
patriotic Wigwam ceremony, and licked its chops
with a hungry whine when Mayor Mcclellan was
spoken Of. Oyster Bay. the Fourth, too, had
its political sweetmeats. President Roosevelt
who has gone there for the summer, shaking
everybody by the hand and delivering speech
What were they doing on the Continent? ?'
asked Busy Man.
Having accidents hailing a new heir to a
| crown, and discovering political crises, was the
rej0inder "TWenty-three Americans were killed
In wreck on the London & Southwestern Rail-
road near Salisbury, England. most Of them
being on the way to London after having landed
from the steamer New York. Among the Ameri-
cans killed were Louis Cassier, the we'll known
magazine publisher: Henry Cosstt. of New York
who was on his honeymoon; save for the father
the entire Sentell family, of Brooklyn. the mother
two daughters and a son perishing and John z
Mcdonald. of New York. the well known turf
man. The wife of the Crown Prince Frederick
William OF Germany gave birth to an heir, and
Sir Edward Grey. the British Foreign Secretary
warned Parliament that the government faced
a crisis in Egypt. The French Chamber Of Dep
uties decided that Count BOni de Castellane ap-
proved OF American political methods as well as
| OF it's women and currency, and unseated him as
deputy on account of bribery at his election
! The famous church Of 81 Michael con,nIete1 IN
! 1885. was destroyed by fire in Hamburg"
ANY new plotsh in the DOumavitch?" quer-
! led Busy Man.
New ones all the timeski" answered Con
stant Reader. THE DOuma is frOthing like a
freshly spiked keg OF lager. and the discomfort
and mutiny in the army are spreading on all
sides. The Douma's committee found that the
massacre OF the Jews at Bialystok was planned
! by the authorities and that they even announced
] IN advance the date set for the massacre. Mar
! tial law on account OF mutinOus troops was de-
clared at Odessa, and two more regiments drove
their brave commanders to vOdki The govern
ment presented 20 the Douma a land bill which
comedies in part the peasants demands The
Douma viii have the whole loaf or none"
I'VE celebrated the Fourth: I didn't sleep +"
said Busy Man.
some ave hundred OF us were killed. MANNED
burned drowned or crippled replied Constant
Reader. Accidents. though not OF the Fourth
variety. were also responsible for the deaths of
Professor Henry A. Ward, the noted scientist
who was killed by an automobile in Buffalo and
G4natiton Nok. TWoublX. lr. who was dro1.uad