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New-York tribune., 1906-04-22
OF SOCIAL INTEREST.
Continued from Page 5. Part 4.

The Vassar Students Aid Society will hold its last
social meeting for the season Saturday evening.
May .. when it viii introduce Mrs Blanche Martin.
OF Boston. a dramatic reader. who will appear in a
dramatization of Justin McCarthy's IF I Were
hlhg. Mrs. Martin, who, IL is said, has a remark
able physique. is advocate OF out-of-door sleep
ing the year round and attributes her perfect
health and yigor 10 this practice
New-York tribune., 1906-04-22

To commemorate the granting of the charter 10
Dr. Wallerstein, president OF the West Side Clinic,
the women Of the clinic are 10 give a surprise to
celebrate the occasion at her home, No. 121 West
soth street tomorrow afternoon at 2 O'Clock A
wreath or laurel will be carried by Miss Ida Reule
Hand' four years old. the Of the clinic,
hhite satin pillow with gold tassels. through an
Ssle formed OF white ribbons held by ushers.
PITS l. r. Ray, Miss Flora 8 Scott, Mrs +. b.
Snayesi 9y Miss G Crossley. Miss Edith Cooper Brown
INC MISS Ella r. Gray. The wreath will be pre-
sd ssnIed 70 Mrs; Wallersten by Dr. Catherine G..
xoNi!seno on behalf OF the clinic. A musical pro-
staIhiie VIII rollow. Mrs Ar1ador Andrews will
give a piano solo and Mrs. Camille Brnbohm a
the afternoon. f'
The Cotilon and Unique Assemblies. organized
Dy mrs Camille Birnbohm. will give their first
New-York tribune., 1906-04-22

Major General Frederick D. Grant L. 6. A.
mas accepted a review Of the 9th Regiment for
tuesday evening. May Is. in its armory. Com
pany has unanimously elected Second Lieu
-eAah' "ll-lain lie e Cameron first lieutenant
he nrst Joined the guard as q private in tba
"a Regiment In May. 1897, and served with tha >
command during the war with Spain. He was
elecleo IN the sth Regiment in April 1903 Bar
ney Pagan from the 18th Regiment Was ,,noni =
mously elected second lieutenant in COMPANY
II. OF the Sth Regiment, and was highly recon-
nended.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-22

At the wedding Of Miss Ursula woolley Banks
and Albert Shirts Williston. which took place
Wednesday evening at the Manhattan Hotel,
both the bride and bridegroom were unattended.
and only the immediate members of the two
families witnessed the ceremony which was
performed by the Rev. Allan MacRossie, of the
St. James Methodist Episcopal Church. Man
haitian. Miss Banks, who is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. William Edgar Banks, was gowned
in white chiffon and point lace and carried
Easter lilies Mr.. and Mrs. Williston will be
at home at the Lakewood after May IS.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-22

Delightful adventures said 10 await all who
believe IN fairies al the Peter Pan party which is
20 be given in the fairy gardens at the Waldorf
Astoria next Friday afternoon and evening. There
VII be Interesting Peter Pan novelties for sale
and q "Wendy House will be occupied by some
fairy taiors who will be pleased 10 measure dolls
for Peter Pan suits There Will be special ad-
ventures In ths evening for grown-upx
New-York tribune., 1906-04-22


No 425 Franklin avenue. have just announced
the engagement of their younger daughter.
Miss Elizabeth Meribah Thurston, 20 Albert D.
washington. OF Putnam avenue.
Another engagement recently announced is
that of Miss Jessie Boynton LIBBY daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Libby. OF Manhattan, 20
Robert Halstead. until recently Of this borough.
Mr. and Mrs. Israel J. Merritt, of whitestone,
N. Y. announce the engagement OF their daugh-
ter. Miss Marie Merritt, TO Charles lie Roy
IIendrfckson, Of Cedarhurst, Long Island.
Next Tuesday at the Fort Street Presbyterian
Church. I'm Detroit viii be celebrated the mar
rage OF Miss EstelIe Barbour. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs George H. Barbour. and George S.
stillnan, son OF Mr.. and Mrs Joseph T. still
has chosen for her attendants Mrs. Edwin Scott
BARBOUR Miss Ruth Stillman, Miss Mildred still
man and Miss Kathleen McGraw' AIRED sun
man ID will be the best man. and the ushers
VIII be walter StiIlnan, Arthur Comstock. Louis
z. Stoddard and Hugh Inman. OF New YORK
Next Thursday Miss Edith Lefferts Bergen
and Albert George Mendes will be married in
Grace Church. on the Heights. Mrs. Frank
Emnons Nfendes viii be the matron OF honor
and Miss Margaret Van wyck and Miss An
toinette Barclay Of PIainfeld. VIII be brides
maids The best man is to be Frank f. Mendes
and the ushers will be Leslie ". Mendes. Add
son Leavens. Dudley McGrath and Frank Ber-
zen Mtdgley There VIII be no reception,
TIE brides family Is IN mourning. The Ber-
eens formerly lived at No. 236 Berkeley Place.
S1,- are now stopping at tho Standish Arms The
hour FOR the ceremony Is set for o'clock.
The wedding OF Miss Mira A Kelly. daughter
OF Edward J. Kelly. OF No SO South Portland
avenue. and Ralph Irving Bartholomew is set
for Monday evening. April so. Miss Isabelle
Keuy and Miss Marjorie Bartholomew will at
tend the bride, while the best win be
Clarence Howard Montgomery, and c. Paulsen
ytsel Charles Henry Paradis and Adrian F.
Paradis will serve ushers- 1t Is 10 be
home ceremony. at T:30 o'clock
large dinner party was given Thursday
evening by Miss Mary Pinkerro ID In honor OF Miss
Bessie S. Jordan and Henry L Maxwell at
whose wedding on Tuesday she Is TO De maid OF
honor. The tables We're decorated with ATneri-
can Beauty roses and maidenhair fern The
guests. besidss Mr.. and MrH Ptnkerton and TIA
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The Degree of Affection.

At the time of the crisis in Cuba the
wires were hot and the wireless was
vibrant with communications in cipher
between the President at Oyster Bay
and the Secretary of War at Havana.
These secret dispatches accompany that
part of Mr.. TAFT's annual report which
is made public to-day. They contain
much that will hold the attention Of the
considerable for some time to come; moth
ing, perhaps, of greater historical interest
than this declaration Of Mr.. ROOSEVELT
TO Mr.. TAFT OF September %:
Ny onhand judgment is that II would be better
20 follow your first impulse and agree to the formA-
tion OF a provisional Government under the pro-
vlslonal President in spite ofits not being constitu-
tional. Upon my word. | do not see that with Cuba
In the position It is we need bother our heads much
about the exact way in which the Cubans observe
or do not observe so much OF their own Constitution
as docs not concern US . I do not care IN
the least for the fact hat such an agreement Is IN
constitutional"
OF course, everybody will perceive
that President ROOSEVELT is not speak
ing here Of the Constitution Of the United
States, which he has solemnly sworn to
the best of his ability to preserve, pro-
tect and defend, but of the Constitution
of the Republic of Cuba, which he has
neve sworn to uphold, support, cherish
or even respect. His personal estimate
of the extent of his obligations to that
fagrantly e%xtrinsic instrument is set
forth with candor as above.
That day, moreover, the President was
about TO sail for Oyster Bay on the May
flower to witness the target practice of
the battleships under his command.
Some of the later information impaired
by the chief representative of his Ad-
ministration at Havana reached him by
the difficult and sometimes uncertain
process Of atmospheric transmission.
Eleven hours after the despatch already
quoted we find Mr.. ROOSEVELT tele-
graphing to Mr.. TAFT concerning inter-
vention in Cuba;
III 1t were possible to tide over AFFAIRS for two
or three days. until I could he back in Washington.
] should be glad. This is OF course not essential"
Therefore it is to be remembered that
President RoosEvELr's declaration Of
indifference to the Cuban Constitution
was uttered under pressure of urgent
official duties of a domestic character.
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Florida and Georgia, who would dream
Of frying @cawn po'k' with their @aigs'
unless that were the only barrier be-
tween them and a condition OF limited
starvation. Picked, or corned, pork is
mighty poor stuff at best. II doesn't
even make good pot liquor though you
were to cook it with the very best OF
turnip greens or white heart cabbage.
We don't believe II is a Southern dish in
any proper ms Of the word, and herein
the whole South will stand by us to a
man. II "Inquirer's' Northern friends"
had been taking pig tails. or chine, or
cracking with their -aigs," that would
have been a very different matter. But
Gavin po'k'i Who ever heard of it in
any such relation?
Northern people are always hearing
funny things about the South. They
stay at home, however, refuse to inves-
tigate for themselves, and 30 perish in
their ignorance.
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KILLING Elk FOR TEETH.
An Appeal to . Benevolent Order Which
Uses Their for Tokens

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: j have
read with great interest the article Killing
Elk for Their Teeth" in THE sun. Though
the article merely says that the ELK tusks
bring fancy prices owing to their use In the
badges OF members OF a great secret order,
there can be no question. I suppose. that
the order indicated is the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
I know many Elks, and to a man they are
generous and kind. l know Of no set OF men
who more truly express benevolence and
protection than they do. / have known OF
instances in which the manifestation Of the
virtues enjoined in the title OF the order
amounted to nothing less than nobility.
There would be no mtnation OF the
elk, no animal suffering, no further brutali-
EatIon OF men in this direction II members OF
the B. p. o. e. would simply stop wearing
badges, pins, watch charms. &c, made OF
elk teeth, and let 1t be known. officially, that
no more would be worn by members OF the
order.
why cannot the New York lodge initiate
the movement by adequate resolutions. ask
ing all other lodges to follow its example?
Why cannot the Rocky Mountain members
taxi up the matter2
have no doubt all SUN readers among the
Elks (and In New York that ought to mean
all Elksl have been stirred by the article in
question. Won't they help bring the cruelty
and waste to an end by rging their lodges
to take action at once?
HARRY DOUGLAS ROBINS.
NEW YORK, December 10.
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Old wisdom From Young Lips.

Mr.. JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER, Jr., has
become a national professor OF ethics.
Modestly and quietly, without affecta-
ton or pretence, he has been engaging
the attention and sven the affection OF
his countrymen. II is not too much to
say that the eyes of millions scan the
Monday morning newspapers for the
report Of his Sunday talks. Young in
years, but in sage counsel old, he has
accumulated a surprising collection of
wisdom; and his advice, generously
given, is treasured by a countrywide
audience. Often there is a sort of gnomic
sagacity in his Sayings. II one thinks Of
SOLOMON, SoLoN, HEsIoD, MARTIN FAR
qUHAR UPPER, it is not because Of
any suggestion of borrowing, but be-
cause the irrefragable new discovered
truth assumes already an air of ancient
prescription.
The refined and standard gold OF Mr..
RocKEFELLER takes its place at once in
the currency of mankind. Is there any
heart so black and grabbed as not to be
frightened by a coin or two of it?
"A mans wife has much to do with his success
In life.
IF you get the right kind Of wife you will be
greatly helped.
There is hardly a question more important
than the choice Of a ~helpmate."
What could be sounder? The weary
King Ecclesiast never could have reached
these heights. He was too much Of a
pluralist. Here are two more Rookie
fellerisms, or standard aphorisms, which
We place together since, though not
Immediately related in the text, they
complete and illuminate each other:
Some men have picked out wives only for their
money. They have realized later on that II was a
huge mistake.
Don't marry a woman simply because she is
pretty"
Certainly not, though you will if you
get the chance. There are pretty women
that have money.
We might string out these pearls in
definitely, but time forbids. Only this
Rockefellerism seems to need an expla-
nation:
You must decide whether your life shall be
devoted TO the pursuit OF selfish gain or to the ser
vice OF the LoRDl"
The pursuit Of unselish gain is per-
missible. Mr.. ROCKEFELLER might well
have quoted the text: The two sons of
oil stand by the LORD
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The Summers Stores.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Your
editorial under the heading OF Some Flaws
In the Flawless." printed in The SUN of Sat
urday. December 8. has just been brought
to my attention. / wish 20 say for your in
formation, and for the information OF such
as may have read this editorial, that you have
been misinformed as to the supplies carried
on the transport Sumner.
You state that the Sumner did not sail on
time; that she left a considerable portion of
her stores behind: that the army authorities
borrowed freely from the navy authorities
In respect to meat and other supplies lndis-
pensable to the army ration also. had not the
naval storeship been on hand to remedy the
summers deficiencies our troops would ha We
found themselves on painfully short
About noon Tuesday. October ?. the fol-
lowing telegram was sent by me to the Com
missary-General. Washington: Sumner sailed
ll:3S. fully supplied and carrying portion
thirty days stores and property for chief
commissary. Havana. Balance thirty days
stores and property will go forward on char
tered transport Thursday"
The Sumner was fully supplied with all
essentials and nan luxuries for the troops
in Havana. and l am in possession Of letters
from the chief commissary complimenting
this ONCE upon the thoroughness with which
the vessel was fitted out. l will further state
that the Sumner did sail on time: tina she did
not leave any of her supplies behind; that
the army authorities did not borrow meat or
other ration essentials from the navy author
tiles. and that the army was self-sustaining
in every respect. Its equipment being COM
plete. A few stores. a portion OF the thirty
days rations referred to In my telegram to
the Commiesary-General, were left on the
pier from which the Sumner sailed, but those,
In accordance with a prearrang ed programme
were, for warded three days later on the char
tered transport, Monterey. or the sixty-odd
thousand pounds OF fresh beef for warded on
the sumner, about Is. 900 pounds were trans
Ierred TO the navy supply vessel Celtic, but
this was for the convenisnoe Of the army.
although It was not absolutely necessary, for
the summer, had ample cold storage space.
A. q hnal word. II may be stated that no
military expedition Of any nation. sailing TO
q foreign country, was more completely sup
Piled with all essentials than the United States
expedition sent to Cuba in October, 1905.
D. l., BARNARD,
Lteutenant-Colonel. d.. G. O., Y. y. Army.
Purchasing Commissary.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-18

Pictures from central Africa nowadays
show the most unexpected things, A
photograph just at hand seems merely to
tell the old story Of grass huts and lightly
attired natives. till You spy a black man
half way up the hill leaning on his bicycle.
The vision suggests something better than
the tortuous native path as a bicycle high
way, and as the scene is in Uganda this
is doubtless true. for good roads are spread
ing there in all directions and gangs OF
men are constantly at work keeping them
in repair. Missionary LLOYD wrote a while
9 that he easily made a bicycle journey
from Mengo to the capital OF the western
province at the rate Of sixty miles a day.
What a magnificent business opportunity
this bicycle picture would suggest to Colonel
SELLERs. Good roads are multiplying.
The whites simply decline to trudge through
the tall grass when they can hire thousands
of men for a yard Of calico s.day to make
good, wide roads. There are 200, 900, 900
people in Africa, and they need bicycles.
Let the dismantled factories be restored to
their ancient efficiency. 1t is time for them
to get busy supplying the demand.
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~
made under q law Of May 8, 1904, TO stock
the Adirondack region with elk a. well
as with moose, caribou and antelope.
but at best it will be a doubtful expert
ment so far a the elk Is concerned, for
this animal seems to thrive only in the
wilderness, and compared with such a
region Is the Olympics the A~dirondacks
cannot be called primeval nowadays ex-
cept by courtesy. The elk a be pre-
served in its natural state only in such a
country as that to be designated for the
purpose by the President in sequestered
northwestern Washington. = The wapiti is
dear to the heart Of the author Of Hunt
ing Trips Of a Ranchman' and it will
give him great pleasure TO sign the
Humphrey bill.
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ZEE NAYAL PEKsoxYEL DrLL
Provisions OF the Measure the Prcs,den,
sent 70 Congress Win a Message.

eEmh W AoRBTNbs WIN " MNNNdEc.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE draft of Tho
proposed naval personnel bill which The
President sent to Congress to-day, ac.
~oompanying his special message on the
subject, provides that the list of seagoinc
officers below the flag rank shall consist
of $500 officers, exclusive Of those carrie!
as additional numbers. Until such limit o.
strength is attained the increase in every
fiscal year must not be in excess of seventy.
Ave i'm addition to the annual vacancies
normally created.
1t also provides that there shall be on
the list OF ~seagoing line officers three Vice
Admirals and twenty -ope Rear Admirals.
exclusive OF those carried by additional
numbers, and that the number of Vice
Admirals shall be increased by one for every
increase OF 5000 men over the present
authorized strength of the navy. Vice
Admirals are to rank with and haya the
same pay and allowances, except forage.
OF a Lieutenant-Gener OF the army and
are to be retired at h age of "a without
the privilege OF voluntary retirement.
The grade OF Vioe-Admiral is not 10 be
treated as the next higher grade for the
purpose OF promotion on the reserve list
or Of retirement from the seagoing list.
Immediately after the passage Of the
bill and on July 1 OF each year the whole
number Of commissioned officers below
flag rank on the seagoing list is TO be dis
tributed among h ariou grades in the
OF commissioned officers below flag rank
on the navy list, as regular numbers
Captains, 2 per cent; Commanders, I per
cent. Lieutenant Commanders, ls per cent
Lieutenants, Lieutenants Gunior grade and
eusigns combined, 90 per cent.
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Japan, Great Britain and the United
states.

According to a telegram from Berlin
the possibility of a conflict between
Japan and the United States is much
discussed in military and nav"l circles
and the opinion is expressed that at the
outset of such a war the Japanese would
take the Philippines and impose upon
us the necessity of conducting across the
breadth Of the Pacific prolonged sea and
land campaigns for the recovery Of those
islands. IL is also said TO have been
knownin Berlin as long ago as last June
that the British Admiralty had likewise
been considering the possibility Of war
between Japan and the United States
and had arrived at the conclusion that
such a contest was likely to occur within
twenty-five years, though some naval
men svowed the belief that it would
occur within five years.
Such discussions will not prove wholly
academic if they shall arouse the British
people to ask themselves whether they
would suffer the treaty of alliance con-
cluded by their Government in 1905 to
array their military and naval forces on
the side of Japan against the United
States. We cannot doubt that if such
a question were brought home to the
British people the answer would be in
the negative. For obvious reasons, how
ever, the ooner such an answer is re-
turned the better. Neither in five years
nor in twenty-five will there be a contest
between Japan and the United States
against the will of Great Britain, which,
owing to its vast actual or possible pre-
ponderance Of naval strength in the
Pacific, could at any time veto such a
conflict.
We may doubtless assume that in the
first half OF 1905, when the treaty Of
offensive and defensive alliance between
Japan and Great Britain was negotiated,
the British Foreign ONCE regarded as
negligible the chance OF Japan and the
United States becoming involved in con-
troversy. Had such a contingency been
foreseen it would have been a for the
British Minister for Foreign Affairs then
Lord LANsDowNEJ to persuade the Japa-
nese to exclude the United States from
the oper1tion of the treaty. As a mat
ter Of fact, nc such exclusion was in
sisted upon and it is manifest that the
United States, as owner Of the Philip
pines, comes within the purview OF a
compact which binds each OF the par
ties to assist the other in eastern and
central Asia in the event Of its becom-
ing involved in war with ever a single
Power.
The agreement was intended on the
one hand to guarantee Japan against
m attack by the French or German navy
IN MH
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Saving the Elk.

The elk or wapiti once ranged North
America in great numbers from the
Carolinas to Alaska, but this splendid
deer can no longer be encountered in
bands in the United States outside the
Olympic Peninsula, in northwestern
Washington, and Jackson's Hole, Wyo-
ming. 1t is said that only 500 head of
elk remain in the Businesses of the
Olympic Mountains. To protect and
multiply them a bill was passed by
the House OF Representatives the other
day. The sportsman will not be so
much interested in this matter as the
naturalist, for under the terms Of the
bill hunting, trapping, killing, capturing
or pursuing game animals, birds and
fish in the preserve of $50, 900 acres to
be designated by the President in the
is to be prohibited under heavy penal
ties. AT the same time, when the elk
increase under the fostering care Of the
Federal Government it is to be sup
posed that some of them will stray of
the reservation and become the target Of
the sportsman after October 1, 1915, when
it will be lawful under the statutes of
Washington to kill elk during an open
season Of six weeks.
The heart of the Olympic Forest Re-
serve will make an ideal game preserve.
It is probably the most rugged and in
accessible wilderness in the States. The
peninsula itself is bounded on the west
by the Pacific Ocean, on the north by
the Straits Of Juan de Fuca and on the
east by Puget Sound. The reserve ia an
untracked forest containing dense groves
Of mighty trees, above which rise the
peaks Of the Olympic range, some of
them reaching a height Of 1000 feet.
Perpetual streams break from their
TANKS and attain the volume Of rivers
before they empty into the sound and
ocean. In this primeval wild almost
every animal known to the American
fauna is to be met with. The waters
abound with fish and the underbrush
with game birds. Formerly the elk were
very numerous in the forests Of the
Olympic Peninsula, but for the sake Of
their horns and teeth they were slaugh-
tered by Indians and white hunters. It
is Mr.. HORACE NJ. GUPTILL Of Port
Angeles, one Of the old settlers, who
estimates that not more than 500 elk
remain in the foothills of the Olympic
Mountains. In a letter to Representative
CUsHMAN Of Washington, read in the
House, he says:
Il would consider 1t emlnently desirable TO set
aside territory In the olympic Mountains TO be
used for the preservation and propagation Of elk,
and hunters rigIdly excluded thcrefrom. II some
action is not speedily taken the elk will be soon
e1termlnAted."
The only objection to the bill in the
House revolved around the question
whether it would not be an infringement
Of State rights. for the Federal Gov
eminent to extend over the preserve a
system of game laws which would con-
flict with the statutes Of Washington,
but the doubters were silenced by an
opinion Of Attorney General KNOX given
in 1902 that Congress has ample power
to forbid and punish any and all kinds
OF trespass upon or injury to the forest
reserves, including the trespass of
entering upon or using them for the
killing, capture OF pursuit OF game"
In New York an attempt is being