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The Washington times., 1906-12-22
Universal Transfer Bin.

There is even less doubt about the
favorable action OF the committee on the
street car universal transfer bill than
there Is about the gas bUl it seems
probable that the transfer bill. either
Mr.. Wiley's or Mr.. Madden's. viii get
out OF the committee ahead Of the gas
measure
II is more than probable thar both
measures will be amended. A PROPOSE
tIon has already been made that IL would
he good thing To have the gas bill 50
amended as TO compel Ihe gas COM
Danies TO make fuller annual reDOrts
and 10 require them 10 state iu these re-
ports their assets and liabilities. q state
ment which they 90 not now make in
their reports 10 the Secretary OF the IN
terror.
Also it has been proposed that Mr..
Madden put in his street car bill an
amendment stating a standard that
shall be observed by the companies i'm
the style OF car that they operate. This
Is intended 10 do away with badly yeu-
tilated and understood cars.
II Will also be suggested that soma
branch OF the District government.
probably the tax appraisers. be given
the duty Of supervising the schedules
and the conditions OF The cars operated
by the companies.
The Washington times., 1906-12-22
CHEAPER GAS
IS CERTAINTY
THIS SESSION
Measure Sure
to PasS-The Universal
Transfers Coming.

Unless the gas companies doing
business in the District of Columbia
can develop a powerful influence In
Congress, the Madden bill providing
that the citizens of Washington
shall have 75-cent instead of 81 gas,
VIII be passed before the END of the
present session.
That the District Commissioners
viii report to Congress favorabIy on
the Madden bin is not doubted. 1t is
a rule TO keep secret the contents of
reports on bills referred to the Com
missioners by Congress until Con-
gress has received the reports. II IS
the general opinion that the Conn
missioners, remembering requests
made 10 them by individuals and
recommendation of citizens asso-
Citations for cheaper gas, will tell
Congress the Madden bill should be
passed.
The Washington times., 1906-12-22
Boz SnuggIe With Do.

About O'Clock yesterday morning
Frank ieines. son Of Capt +. NJ
Heines, L. s. A. retired. was standing
Ia a doorway on T. street northwest.
when he was attacked by a mad collie.
The dog embedded its teeth in Hclnes'
leg. ana had such frm grip that he
dragged the boy out on the sidewalk.
a fierce struggle ensued between the
boy and the dog and d group OF men
stopped to wTrC7f, but none OF Them vys.
courageous enough 30 go to the boys
assistance. When il looked as fr The
boys leg would be seriously torn "a
woman came hurriedIy up the street
and without even a glance al the men
standing around she STARTED in with her
umbrella 10 beat of the dog Blow af-
ter blow was rained ON the animals
hedu until be was compelled 10 release
his hold As quickly as she had come.
sue woman made her way up the street
she wore dark SlIJ aud had evidently
seen the struggle going on between the
boy and the dog from the car window
as she UaSsed
The Washington times., 1906-12-22
Scores of Men Stand
Idly by and See Lads
Struggle for
Freedom.
HELD IN CLUTCHES
OF CANNES TEETH
With Umbrella Unidentified
Heroine COmpelS Rabid
Animal to Release
Death Grip.

IL remained for woman to demon
S'iate 10 a crowd of men that heroism
Is not confined 10 the sterner sex. even
"Aen IL comes 10 q question of muscle.
4 mad dog attacked a boy yesterday
morning and while a group OF men
stood watching the fierce struggle be-
tween the two, making no EFFORT 20 free
me boy. woman jumped on a pass
ing car, ran 10 the scene. and beat
thc dog numerically. until he was com
PEELED To release his hold. Then the
young lady made her way from the
scene without having disclosed her iden-
tty.
The affair happened so quickly that no
one thought 10 get the womau's name.
but IL IS believed she is an employe
OF the Bureau OF Engraving and Print
ing. as she alignted from an Eleventh
street car bound south. at Thirteenth
and l. streets northwest.
The Washington times., 1906-12-22

sun TABLE
The Washington times., 1906-12-22

Fair and colder tonight
Temperature below
freezing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
FINDING 1 LEVEL.

Modern inventions, like water, are bound to
seek and to find their proper level, and when
they do so many of the excited comments and
predictions formerly made upon them appear
absurd. We remember u time when many peo-
pie became so enthusiastic over bicycles that
they were sure the days of pedestrianism and
equestrianism were ended. and that bicycling
would presently and forever be the nearly uni
versaI method of Iocomotion. For time it al
most seemed as though such would be the
case. But the wave subsidized. The water found
its level Many bicycles are still used, and
many, doubtless, always will be used But
there are to-day more people walking and more
riding horseback than ever before.
It will be the same with the automobile.
When that interesting and valuable machine
was first made practical there were eXtraya-
CANT prophecies both for and against it. On
the one hand men began talking about the
"horseless age" and gravely predicted that in
a few years horses would pass almost entirely
out of use, if they did not actually become eX-
tinct With the rapid multiplication of automo-
bfles and the use of electric traction for street
cars. it probably seemed to many that such
was bound to be the case. For time it may
be that fewer horses were used. But to-day, as
statistics recently printed in our columns de-
monstrate, the number Of horses in use in this
country is greater than ever before, and is
steadily ana IdplulA luCItdNllA-' anu lIit ut-
mand for and the value of horses Of all classes,
for work, for heavy driving, for pleasure driv-
ing and for the saddle, are similarly increasing.
The automobile has come to stay. The horse
also Is here to stay
On the other hand, there were those who de-
cIared that automobiles would have to he eX-
Guided from the common roads, that horses
would never become reconcled 10 them, and
that they would have to be kept under restric-
lions as severe as those applied to locomotives
on railroads But the fact is that thousands
of automobiles are now daily traversing com
mon roads in city and country without soaring
horses and without doing the slightest harm.
Now and then a horse is afraid of them, and
now and then a horse is scared by hen or a
! dog or scrap of paper in the highway. We
! fancy there are rs many TunaWayS from these
| latter causes as from the former. Some autOmO-
bilists grossly abuse the privileges Of the roads
! and violate the law. Concerning such there is
! little danger of speaking too harshly and upon
| them there is no danger of infictng too severe
! q ppnaItv. But their criminal antics must not
| blind us to the fact thai for every one of them
| there are many that observe the law and use
| the highways without offence. With the eXer-
| else of patience discretion and resolution, the
| proper level will be found and there will be
| no more incompatibility between horse vehicles
and automobiles than there now is between
bicycles and pedestrians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24

ne P-DI-sl ln another column a letter from
itauei 'i ihe Tribune taking issue with some
~ the arguments we have made in supuort of the
Payne Philippine Tariff bill We have favored
me passage Of that bin as a measure of relief
dictated alike by generous sentiment and sound
PoiIeE- The fllplnos have recently had to
struggle against an unusual succession Of mis-
fortunes which have depressed agriculture and
ualted industry. II is a national duty TO lend
them helping hand, for we have charged our
serves with their economic as well as their polit-
lcai destiny. Congress has, moreover. partially
incorporated the islands into our domestic sys-
ten. II has applied 20 them our Chinese exclu-
sion laws and brought them under the opera
ton Of our cOastwise shipping regulations.
Their commerce with Us must be conducted
after July next In vessels of American reg
,stry. But II, 10 favor our own shipping indus
Try we classify Philippine trade as domestic
we cannot fairly tax Philippine products as
Foreign after they have been discharged as cargo
at our custom houses. Free trade with the
Philippines flows logically from the extension OF
our shipping laws 10 Philippine commerce lust
as II has followed from the widening Of ouI
coast line 10 include Hawaii and Porto Rico
II there are any benefits 10 be derived from fire.,
entry az our ports, the Filipinos are in equity
entitled 10 them.
But, say some d0ubters like our correspond
Gil, We cannot auOrd 10 be just and generOu,
when generosity and justice clash with our do
nestle interests. We raise sugar and tobacco OF
the mainland Of the United States and shout,
mol expose our growers 10 competition from
the insular dependencies The Tribune is TN
last newspaper in the United States that cal
be charged with inhdelity 10 the principles O
protection Nor does il depart now from an
tenet o. the protective doctrine in advocatin
such relief for the Philippines as they NAV I'm
IL the free admission here Of their sugar an
to5acco. Years ago. long before we aunexe
Hawaii, we admitted Hawaiian sugar fire.,
We maintaiE no tariff barriers against Port
Rican sugar and tobacco. Our policy towar
Hawaii ana Porto RIO is 10y challenged fro,
any quarter. II has worked 10 harm TO an
American interest What, then, have we 10 fea
from legislation granting the Philippines
status which we have granted without injury
OGg Othc. i-.sI,,a- deqeIdenciesr
Ar Wilietts letter only echoes the extrav,
CANT prophecies OF woo and desolation wi.
which "a number o. eXcitahie tobacco and sug;
growers assailsd the Ways and Means CoInmi
Zee IL the House Of Representatives and Il
Philippine Committee in the Senate. His arg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24

uent ia no way sustains the contention that the
free admission of the 14.6T3 tons of sugar from
the Philippinos-al that came here in the cal
endar year 1905-would have affected In any
way the domestic price of sugar or the general
conditions of the sugar market. In 1905 52222j
tons OF sugar were delivered here on which the
full Dingley rate was paid, and 1,101,611 tons
from Cuba-on which 80 per cent Of that rate
was collected. So long as these two highly taxed
sugars continue TO enter our market-and they
now furnish more than co per cent of our
annual consumption-it will make practically no
difference what rate the tiny contribution from
the Philippines pays 1t will be time, too, when
the sugars taxed 100 per cent disappear from
our market to talk of the effect on the do
nestle Industry of the 20 per cent rebate al
lowed to Cuba That rebate is terminable and
can be terminated if it really menaces the
American producer. But competition from the
Philippines cannot enter into the problem ut
ALL so long rs we continue TO buy from cuba
from twO-fifthS TO half of all the sugar we
consume If the sugar alarmists were logical,
they would at once begin an agitation for
tariff on Porto Rican and Hawaiian sugars.
For Hawaiian sugar. imported free long before
we had a beet sugar industry and continuing TO
come in free while that industry was being
developed. has Just as much or just rs little to
do with fixing prices here Philippine sugar
will have when it comes in on the same basis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
Pure or "pRESERVED" MILK.


This is to be said concerning Dr. Darlington's
crusade against preserved" milk, that at any
rate people have a right to know what they
are buying, ana it is an imposition to sell them
as pure milk fluid which has been treated
with any sort of preservative drugs, no mat
ter how harmless, or that has been pre-
served" by boiling, "PasteurizatiOn" any
other method. 1t may be that some Of these
stcrilizing processes are not merely harmless
but actually desirable at any rate in certain
circumstances. But that is not the point If
consumers want TO boil or sterilize milk, or put
chemicals into it. they have a right to do So
Or if they cannot conveniently do so them
selves they should be able to purchase milk
which the dealers have openly and cOnfeSsedy
thus treated What DIR. Darlington rightly OBJ
iects to is the sale of artifcially treated milk
as pure natural milk That is simply selling
goods under false pretences and is a fraud
which should be suppressed.
If any milk dealers think they can improve
upon nature, let them try il openly and fairly
Let them label and advertise their milk and
cream, not as pure" but as "Pasteurized'
boiled" 'steriIized." treated with boracic
acid" preserved with formaldehyde," what
not Then if people buy it they will be doing
so knowingly, and will be getting what they
expect to get. But if it be protested that people
would not buy goods thus labelled the corollary
they are being imposed upon by having pamed
off upon them goods that they do not want and
that they would not buy If they knew what
they were. Ia addition there is also, as DIR.
Darlington points out, this grave objection, that
the use of representatives. often enables deal
ers to sell stale and tainted milk, which is
great abuse.
As for the pretence of some dealers that it
is necessary to use some sort of representatives.
in milk and cream, as also in butter and cheese,
and that it would be impossible to market the
products without so doing. that may confidently
be dismissed tOmmyrOt. Every man familiar
with the subject knows that milk drawn in
ceanly manner from healthy COWS put into
clean receptacles and properly cooled and han
died will remain fresh and sweet for sutti-
cient length of time for marketing and consump-
ton, and if there is any milk that will not thus
keep sweet without artificial personalities there
IS something radically wrong with it and it
should not be used at all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
THE JUDGMENT OF KUROPATKIy.

General Kuropatkin's last order, scathingly
arraigning Russian bureaucracy as responsible
for the defeat Of Russian arms, might be dis
missed as the peevish effort of a defeated boaster
at self-exculpation were it not so strongly con-
frmed by antecedent conditions and attendant
circumstances. 1t is true that Kuropatkin did
make n foolish boast about debating peace at
Toxic" But his earlier history, when he was
the pride of the Russian army, shows him to
have been no mere braggart, but a soldier Of
ability and yalor. 1t is true also. that he failed
disastrously in his campaign against the Japan
csc But so, too. did his successor fail. even
more dsastrously, and if it were argued that
Kuropatkin was responsible for all the bad
work Of the army. there would remain the sim
ilarly bad work of the navy. for which he was
/ certainly not responsible.
The fact is that all that the world knows
about Kuropatkin and all that it knows about
the conduct of the Russian army and navy in
the war with Japan confirms in the strongest
4 manner his indictment Of the bureaucratic sys-
TEN. II may be regarded as automatic that
three qualities are essential 10 military efficiency
and success These are intelligence integrity
! and loyal affection. IL is quite evident that the
Russian army and navy were largely lacking in
/ all three and, moreover that such lack OF these
/ qualities was due chiefly to bureaucracy, which
! for it's own sordid purposes, has sedulOusly i'm
posed ignorance, organized corruption and pro
| voked disaffection. In the face Of such condi-
| tons as General Ruropatkin rightly says, the
iron nerve and heroic spirit of the soldiers were
Of no avail Defeat and disaster were fore
/ ordained
This lesson, II no other should profoundly
! affect the rulers Of Russia today. We do not
sa- that Russia should be set free and enlight-
ened primarily or chiefly for the sake Of mill
tary efficiency But We suppose that the gain
ing Of such efficiency is Of the very strongest
motives that can be brought 10 bear upon some
autocratic minds. There men in Russia who
cnre little for the rights the happiness Of the
people but who 60 care much for Russia's pre-
dominance as a military power. They would not
give the people freedom and education for their
Own sake. but they may be willing to do so as
the only possible means OF restoring the prestige
aisd might of Russian arms. That will not be
the wOrthiest of reasons for making the great
reforms, but the world viii accept the reforms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington, March 23.-Presdent Roosevelt had
a conference this morning with Senator Doiliver
railroad rate matters
Il look for a vote the bill in week or zen
days" said the Iowa Senator when he LETT the
Presidents Office THE longer tho discussion lasts
the better the chances are for the general bill
Major II. L. Scott, Governor Of the Sulu Archi-
pelago. who has been in this country since the
first of the year. paid his respects TO the President
before starting for his post Major Scott gave the
President his views the recent battle Of Mount
Dajo. and emphatic in the assertion that Cen
eral Wood compelled to exterminate the band
Of hostiIes.
Those fellows surrender he said. and
as long they live continue to be menace to
civilization
day were Senators Spooner Sutherland and Full
ton, Representatives Lacey, Calder and Scott, and
Delegate Mcguire. OF Oklahoma. The Cabinet met
at IL a. m. and continued in session until 30 p
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24

difference between the old plan and the new In
this particular can fail to perceive the enormous
loss in time, trouble and nervous energy when
would be avoided IL the change were made. Ihe
more ignorant people are the more they would
be benefited by such revolution. Popular con-
venience would be still further promoted by the
elimination of all uncertainty about the size Oh
an ounce or Of a pound, or of ton. or OF a
quart To-day there are in use ut least TWO
standards for each of these quantities Absolute
uniformity would be insured by the reform for
which DR.. Bell appeals. whether one were buy
ing medicine gold, groceries or coal. The al
vantages Of the metric system certainly justify
the zeal of its advocates, which is by no means
equivalent TO saying that it is likely to be gen
orally adopted in this country in the near
future
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among the passengers who will sail to-day for
Naples on the KONG Albert
Captain and Mrs. y. NJ Mr.. and Mrs. Charles X.
ftrooLs OvingtOn.
Me-. TIlrabeth l. Burton Mrs w Ralston
Mrs r w. COttle. Mr. ana Mrs. George Lauder
Mr. and Mrs " p. Red Miss Ethel Dane Roberts
ington.
Those who viii sail to-day for Antwerp on the
iceland
Mrs. Charles Brady. Mrs Rene Halewyck
Mr. and Mrs. Vance ThoHp Mr. and Mrs Stuart Lansing
The st. Paul will sail to-day for Southampton
with the following passengers:
Commissioner r Cadman- Mrs Thomas HASTINGS.
Mr. and Ms r. j. TAR Mrs. Thomas watson.
Wyse.
The cabin list of the Umbria which sails to-
day, includes:
William 3. BarW1s Or T. W. Eden
George Balm. Captain J. C. soden.
Travellers who arrived yesterday from IfvernooI
the Cedric
Mr. and Mrs ". Scott Mrs C. " Martin
Cameron Mr. and Mrs Horar. w
Sir George Howard Darwin Oicott W.
and Lady Darwin. James j..
Miss Laura A. Day. Richard ScAuster
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
DIR. BELL ON THE METRIC SYSTEM

DIR. BELL on THE METRIC SYSTEM.
One Of the most ardent champions of the
metric system is Alexander Graham Bell. in
ventor of the telephone The National Geo
graphic Magazine reproduces an address which
he made last month in its favor before the
House Committee on Coinage Weights and
Measures. When DR.. Bell had finished what
he had originally intended to say he replied to
q number OF questions prOpounded by members
Of the committee. lie was thus led to express
himself in regard TO the supposed necessity for
throwing away old machinery in certain indus
tries and introducing new.
He pointed ont that the proposed law applies
only TO the government not To manufacturers !;
TO the arithmetic of the departments not TO
shop equipment. The question then arises, How
much restraint would be put on possible bid
ders If specifications couched in metric
phraseologyf Or. Bell comedies that any man
ufacturer who wished TO secure a contract might
be obliged 10 translate these into the old faniI
! lar terms Of commerce; but the BELIEF WAS OK
! pressed that ii would be possible to produce
! practically anything the government wanted
/ with the machinery now in use. II DR. Bell is
/ right in this matter, one Of the most Formidable
objections to the legislation contemplated would
! be removed. In most lines Of manufacturer,
/ the renewal Of the more expensive machine tools
| becomes necessary every few years anyhow IF
! may be taken for granted that when such q sra,,
was no longer avoidable an equipment which
! was designed with special reference IN tho
metric system would be no more costly than
| that which it replaced The Inconvenience then
! would be limited to the transition period and
would be felt by only those few who sought
| government patronage Nobody else would he
! lncOmmOded.
Dr. Bell laid great stress on the simpIifcation
| of most of the computations Of trade and every
day life which would result II the country
/ standards Of weights and measures should he
made 10 conform, as does its coinage now, 70 a
decimal system. No one who considers the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
MISS TOMBSTONE BENNETT ILL.

Montclair. n. j.. March 23.-NIiss tombstone
Bennett. the actress. is critically i'll at the home
Of Frank Petit in Myrtle avenue, Bloomfield.
and her death is said to be only a question Of
days. While appearing in Denver, about two
years ago. Miss Bennett caught a heavy cold.
which settled on her lungs. She sought relief
in a sanatOrium in Southern California. where
she remained until February I, when, learning
from her physicians that there was no hope for
her recovery, she returned home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-24
cAMPANINI 10 CONDUCT.

Oscar Hammersten announced by cable yesterday
that he had engaged CleofOnte Campanini. the
Italian conductor at the Scala, in Milan. 70 preside
over the orchestra at the Manhattan Opera House
Campanini has been for many years connected with
the Scala and with Covent Garden, in London The
season AT the Manhattan Opera House will begin
early in November and extend over twenty weeks