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New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
PERSONAL.
enough glory

Count Ferdinand Zeppelin, who mas Jus'
made the most successful aerial voyage ever
achieved in a dirigibe balloon. has spent many
years studying the question of aerial naVlsalIo'
and in his day has constructed many bylng ma
chimes He is a member of an old Wur'emoets
family. and in his first aerial endeavors was g[eaty
aided nv the King of Wtirtemberg. both WIN du-
vice and funds Count Zeppelin Is sixty -HliL7 nm
wears old He was trained for the army, ana @ uuI
Ing the Franco -Prussian War served on the S, Sgl
cral STAFF of the WGrtemberg forces, from MnICn t
hp retired some years ago with the rank OF IldJos
general He began the study or the pIooleHl u
flying at the age Of eighteen years
Harry b Glow who succeeds Fred G. McNally as
president of the Rand. McNalIy & Co publishing
house is a son-in-Iaw Of the late Andrew McNalIy'
founder of the big printing company. Mr.. Glow Is
thirty-nine years old He began his commercial ca
reer with the plumbing supply house OF James b-
Glow & Son
Walter Scott. the late inventor and builder OF
printing presses OF the thirty-nine invent
ors who were mentioned by the Commsso OF
Patents as having obtained patents each year for
twenty-five years
Sir Wilfrtd Laurier. Premier of Canada. on his
retirement from office. will write a history OF the
Dominion. In his early years he did considerable
newspaper writing.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
REGISTER TODAY!

The Tribune prints this morning list of the
registration places in Manhattan and TIE
Bronx arranged by election districts and AS
sembly districts. If you don't know where to
20 TO register look on the list. There is one ez-
cuse for not registering gone.
This is the first day of registration. There
will he three others, but it is always best to-
register on the earliest opportunity. The Off
GERS to be elected tfis year chiefly local,
but there will certainly he plenty of interest in
the voting If you neglect to register you Will
probably he sorry, for sooner or later you Will
become interested in saving the new judges from
Tammany Hall or in sending Assemblymen to
Albany to help carry out Governor hughes
policies Register to-day and get it off your
mind
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
THE AMERICAN MANS CHANCE.

The American man is at last going to have
justice done to him. He is being studied beneV-
Olently and is going to be made by friendly
hand the hero of novel an international
novel where we feel sure most undesirable
citizen will shine by contrast with the repre-
SentatveS of effete civilization. This is goOG
news. When other foreign authors, English.
German and French, have come here, and the
report was that they were gathering materials
for play story of American life, we nave
been most hopeful though they have generally
disappointed us. But Mrs. Glyn comes with the
avOwed purpose of writing Il novel about the
American man, and she approaches him with
sympathy and understanding She Will spend
three months here. 1t is enough. Authors of much
more serious intentions than producers of local
cOlored fiction have studied a whole nation in
less time. and have put their impressions into
three volume works. There is a learned and con
vincing book on Newfoundland for instance.
After you have read it and sufficiently admired
the authors rare grasp of his subject you should
go to St Johns and read in a sort of album In
Il little hotel there, over the signature of the
author: For me st. Johns has been Newfound-
land and the - House ST Johns" OF course,
this might be a mere pleasant compliment, but
local tradition is that It is true as compli-
mentary. In the light Uf this effective study OF
an island from a hotel window three months
will be ample time for the thorough under
standing of one sex, and that of course, Is all
of Mrs Glyn's task for the American woman Is
already we'll known To fiction. No foreign tic-
ton is so poor as not 70 have her in its gAAery
of characters. She is familiar unmistakablc
and, in foreign novels at least. perfectly well
understood. But the American man is uncX-
plored he is the Tibet of foreign fiction. Such
notions as exist about him inadequate
and unjust. They set him down simply as an
uxorious money grubber. They have no con
ception in his infinite variety, Of the man who
does things"
Mrs. GIyn already has an instructive insight
into his admirable possibilities n hero. Be
fore she set foot upon the shore she had. by
faculty of divinaton that amounts almost 10
genius reached these wise and incOntrovertible
opinions about the American man:
All the American men. they such dears
In intelligence the American man is millions OF
miles ahead of the Englishman. The
eve. more interesting than the women They
polite. and they would not insult a woman i'm
a railroad carriage they do in France. Then.
too. they have a well developed sense OF humor.
They are not superficial
We can assure Mrs Glyn that these opinions
will need no revision. No study could improve
her understanding of the American man. All
she will have TO do in her three months here is
to learn the local color. Some of Mrs. GIyns
books are not thought salutary reading for the
Sweet Young Person, hut we hope the forth
coming will lie under such imputatlon.
The golden opinions just quoted should be so
presented in the fiction to be available for
the better educ.tion Of that Sweet Young Per
son.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
BETTER GOOD ROAnH

The good roads which have been built in this
state i'll recent years are good. but those which
are TO be built hereafter should be better. With
the development of the automobile the character
of traffic on roads has changed in the last ten
years so greatly as to call for an improved type
Of construction. The attitude of the public has
also changed to make such Improvement
feasible. AT the beginning of the good roads
campaign there was much opposition from
some of the very people who We're to be most
benefited, and there was also a too wide desire
on the part Of local politicians either to make
personal profit out OF road building or TO gain
favor as stern economists by keeping down
taxes at the cost of vetoing improvements.
Those conditions have largely passed away, and
1t should now be possible to build roads as they
ought to be built and as they have been built In
Massachusetts, Connecticut New Jersey and
other states.
We have hitherto dwelt upon the need of
making the roads more substantial. so as better
to endure the wear and tear of heavy automo-
bes moving at high speed and so as to give
off little dust possible. In many places
they should also be made wider than mt pres
ent On rural roads where there is cOmpara-
lively little traffic what we might term a sin
gle track road may answer that is, a road so
narrow that vehicle going in either direction
will keep in the middle of it and be compelled
to turn out on meeting another. But all
roads where there is considerable travel so that
the meeting of vehicles is of frequent occur
renee, the foadbed should be made both for
convenience and for safety, so wide as TO afford
a full width track in each direction and so that
all vehicles may keep to the right of the cen
tire and so meet and pass one another without
having to turn out into the cutters. There is
also need In this state for more vigilant and
expeditions system of maintenance and repairs,
under which roads will not be permitted to get
so badly out of order as TO be almost impossible
before they are repaired.
Still another point is worthy OF attention, to
w.t. the desrability of planting shade trees
along the roads at the time when the roads
are built. This is a work which might well
be taken up by the state as part of either
its road building or its forestry policy. 1t is
as truly a part of road building to provide
needed shade along the highways as 1t is 10
construct roadways and CUTTERS; and it is as
legitimate part of forestry to set out and care
Tor trees by the wayside as to plant them
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
NO ENTANeLEMENT TO BE FEARED.
From The Navy.

From The Navy.
PreslGeht fooseVeits announcement in his speech
at ST. Louis that the battleship fleet wOnld go
tainly go to the Pacific. and that 1t would pres
emily return TO the Atlantic, adds a little defnits
ness 20 the project. The Presidents right to or
der TINS cruise seems TO be beyond challenge The
constitution makes him the commander in cbise
OF the navy; and in this regard his functions as
commander In chief are purely executives ana ~
subject to Limitation by Congress The Prest5anDss Ds
is also charged with conducting the diplomats
relations OF this country with other nations SS
the Navy has repeatedly said, il sees not a
SHADOW OF reason for anticipating a war with
Japan Tor years TO come. But IL the President and
his advisers deem It desirable for diplomatic rea-
sons 10 nave the fleet in the Pacific IN is the
PRESIDENTS prerogative to order the fleet fbers
The backing up OF diplomacy is sometimes one Of
Ine most valuable functions of a fgbtinr faet
I Tmat Jne Toyage of the fleet in the Pacific will at
an absurd assumption. We do not attamnt 70 nass
lldsment on the diplomatic necessity for sending
sne meet vss. e3lt We find difficulty in conceivinsS
tnat II Is sent for other than tsssssnrstsS reasons
~" enlargement Is to be feared from its going
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
THE AeLEsT AMERICAN JOURNAL.

New York correspondence OF The London Daily
Telegraph
Public opinion. reflected in the leading news
paper editorials in this city, regrets the decision
of the New York Yacht Club rejecting Sir Thomas
Iipton's challenge to for the Americas CUP
next year. There is a general desire to see the
authorities hesitate before combining international
races to freak boats. eff the club is determined
not permit a race under its own new rules OF
measurement" says The New-YOrk Tribune ''but
Chgs for purposes OF the international contest to
the old rules. that pat premium on freak boats
think that yac5tsmen. both here and abroad
will regret this attitude. There seems to be no
good why this. the greatest of all Yachting
contests, should be conducted on principles out or
harmony with those found necessary in other
races
That ia a remarkably strong comment from the
ablest ard most dignifed journal in this country
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

among the mountains There is no time when
trees can be set out along roads so easily, so
cheaply and to such good advantage as when the
roads are being built or rebuilt. We believe it
would be for the public good if all plans and
specifications. and appropriations, too, for I'M
proved roads should hereafter include prOvi-
sion for the planting of shade trees along those
hiphWaVe
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07
areu91orlf DniIp Gribm,rs
MONDAY. OCTOBER Z, 1907.

This newspaper is oicred and published by
The Tribune association, @ NelC York corpora
fion; Office and principal place Of business, Ifi6-
aHe Bull ing, No 154 Nassau street, Aeic YORK;
Ogden Nils. president; Nathaniel Tuttle sec
FetGry and treasurer. The address of the Of
7icers is the office of this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

Ihe hagpoie on the Singer Building having
been anchored. New York City will straight
way annex another large section of the "FJinter-
land" For nobody who can see from his attic
window the banner floating from the cty's
latest eminence will hesitate long before sub
dividing his henyard into building lots and
reckoning his geographical position by the num-
ber Of blocks his estate is removed from Broad
way 1t is lucky for Chicago that the Allie
ghenses interrupt the view from the west of
Manhattan cloud puncturers.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

Justice Vernon H. Davis has been studying
criminal court methods in England. and finds
them much speedier and simpler than ours In
England the accused is supposed to be the man
on trial. while here the judge is much on trial
by the defendants lawyers the defendant Is
by the puDlic prosecutor. Ne have sauch to
learn from the direct English procedure. which,
as Justice Davis rightly says, guarantees that
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

Traces of a New York drummer have Deen
found in the land of the Himalayas a Hindu
nrince ordered by his physician seek high
altitude has taken a suite in a New York sky
scraper hotel. Probably the drummer the poor
fellow met back Punjab way told him that the
Roof of the World looked about like Broadway
snow piles eight weeks after blizzard. If the
ina gina ton cure will work on the sick prince
the drummer will be forgiven.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

1.-THE Birmingham England Post says that
"The sending of the United States fleet to the
Pacific is attributable to American idiosyn-
'crasy" This "idiosyncrasy.' we learn. is due to
the peculiar American nervous system. which
gives us "a certain indefinable individuality
We wish our English contemporary might have
been equally explicit in describing the nature Of
the "idiosyncrasy" which prompts its editor to
suggest the above explanation of the naval
transfer
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

For La Provence to change her sailing day
from Havre last month as to be able to COM
pete with the Lustania was an audacious per
formance-something like racing with the
Deutschland last year. Inasmuch as the Frehch
steamship succeeded in getting into the Am
brose Channel an hour before the latest ac-
.cession to the Cunard fleet. 1t was ruihoEeu
that the experiment would be repeated Inc
arrival Of La Provence on this side Oh the "
Iantic on Friday last indicates tha' any iIesi.
ottor,nt has been abandoned for the present. if
not ;ndefniteIv. The owners and officers of the
vessel probably feel that they have already won
GLORY
New-York tribune., 1907-10-07

no time 'is wasted with senseless arguments
souabbles and long drawn out technicahties.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
A Large Nothing.
Special to Daily Panhandle.

Special to Daily Panhandle.
FIT Madison, Iowa, June 16.-Ft.
Madison came next in the Cowboys
invasion OF the north and in the
game this afternoon the Iowans took
their defeat straight at the rate OF
to 0. FIT, Madison had stiffened
her line up for the occasion by the
addition OF four league players but
the importations were merely among
those present,
Wicker was in the box for the Wis
itors and surprised the Iowa team by
pitching a no hit game The Ft.
Madison men went down before him
in one, two, three order, and only
twenty-seven OF them faced the
pitcher in the entire nine innings.
The team plays in Galesburg, ILL.,,
this afternoon.
Battery for Canyon, Wicker and
Hubbard.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
NEWS FROM HEnRFoR1.
speeInI 10 paIly ranhandla.

Special TO Daily Panhandle.
Hereford, Texas, June l6.-Th,
farmers here are getting ready 70 cul
their wheat ans oats although the
yield is not so good as has been foi
the past two or three years, there are
some good wheat and oats in the
country.
We are needing rain for forage
crops. The ground has about all
been prepared for planting and quite
number have already planted with
crops up and a good rain will assure
an abundance OF feed.
The First National bank is near
ing completion. II is a two story
and built OF cement blocks. When
finished II will be an ornament TO
any city.
The sidewalk enthusiasm has
struck Hereford. We now have
nearly 500 feet built and under con-
structlon and more contracts are be-
ing let every day. All this is being
done on the principal business streets
but the residence portion OF the city
is keeping pace with the business
part OF town,
Yesterday was pay day on the
Panhandle Short Line railroad and
many souls we're made happy by pre-
sentlng their claims at the counters
of the First National bank. Work
on the line is progressing rapidly.
The new brick opera house, size
5OxS0, on Dewey avenue is nearing
completion ana when finished viii
be a credit to any town in the West.
The odd Fellows lodge of Here
ford, No. 476, have let the contract
for their new hall on Dewey avenue.
The building will be 25xS0, two
story, built OF brick, the lower floor
will be occupied by drug store and
the supper floor for lodge purposes.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
Herbst-Steyenson.

(From Mondays Daily Panhandle
Al the residence OF Mrs. McGill on
Van Buren, street yesterday evening
az $40, Rev. Jewell b. Howard, OF
the Christian church performed the
ceremony that united In marriage
Richard Herbst and Miss Myrtle Ste
venson, While to most OF the friends
OF both parties the time OF the we'd
ding was not known, a few friends
had been let into the secret and
made up a Jolly wedding party Rt
the residence.
Dick Herbst has been a citizen OF
Amarillo about four years and for
three years OF that time was the
driver OF the hose wagon OF the fire
department. He was the first reg
ular driver for the department and
so faithfully and well did he perform
his duties that, on his resignation
from the office OF driver some time
ago, he was given by his companions
in the companies. a handsome medal
concentrating his work. At pres
ent he is under the chief car clerk at
the Denver freight office. Miss Ste
venson has been a resident Of ANA
rlllo for several years and has made
many friends here, The couple will
receive the heartiest we'll wishes OF
wide circle OF friends.
For the present Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbst will make their home with
Mrs. Herbst's sister-in-law, Mrs. B.
NJ. Johnson on Harrison street
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
EPwoRTH LEAGUE CONFERENCE
First Independent conference Meets
Here This Week.

First Independent conference Meets
Here This Week.
(From Mondays Daily Panhandle
On Thursday and Friday OF this
week. the first independent confer
ence OF the Epworth League for the
Clarendon district will be held in
Amarillo. Heretofore all conferences
Of the League have been held in
connection with the conferences OF
the church but the gathering this
week marks the beginning OF meet
ings for league work exclusively.
Although the Leagues Of the Pan
Panhandle have not made extensive
preparations for the first conference,
there will be a large attendance OF
the representatives OF the various
organizations and the League here is
making thorough preparations for
their entertainment, The new
church will not be in readiness for
the convention and the sessions will
be held in the old church. Several
influential men are on the program
for talks during the conference.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
Jones FINED FOR
SHOOTING LEMMONS

Fifty dollars a shot is the fine In
flicted by the jury in the case against
]. NJ Jones for shooting at John
Lemons last New Years day. Aft
er an all night session over the YER
dict the jury finally reached de-
cision this morning finding the de-
PENDANT Jones guilty of aggravated
assault and fixing his penalty at
$3.50 and costs,
The testimony introduced by the
defense in the case detailed the diff
ficulty Jones had had with Jim Lem
mons and the circumstances which
caused him to believe that his life
was in danger from the brothers.
On one occasion Jim Lemons ran
at Jones wit ha long knife and Jones
narrowly escaped injury. After that
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
POWLES FACE
UGLY CHARGE
For. Struggling and RObbIng
John Kennedy, Charge
Capital Felony
(From Thursdays Dally)

Not guilty Of the charge of capital
felony as charged in the Indictment
was tho plea which H. A, Powles
made this morning before the dis
triet court when his case was called
for trial.
Powles is under Indictment for
the robbery and alleged attempt to
kill John Kennedy in the Pecos Val
ley yards last December.
Bought -Four Quarts in Canyon.
This afternoon, the young man
Ward, who has been out on bond
since his arrest, told on the stand the
story OF his connection with the de-
PENDANT and Kennedy,
On the day after they cashed their
checks at Canyon Ward says they
bought four quarts Of whiskey there,
When they arrived In Amarillo a few
hours later they had only one quart
left and ennedy specially was "pret-
ty full" They were at the Savage
saloon a short time, ate supper at
the Saddle Rock restaurant and re-
turned to the Gem saloon, Then
Ward did not see Powles TIL late
that night when Powles came mp to
him as he was standing near the
Gem saloon. lie said that he had
made a raise OF $40 and that they
would have to get out Of town, Ward
asked no questions but went to pal
hart with him,
After the marshal In Dalhlrt
came to him and asked him what he
had done In Amarillo, Powles came
up and found out what tho marshal
wanted. I'm the man they want
he sad. 81 guess III get across the
line into Mexico" Before eithe: Of
them could get away, Marshal Snider
and Ranger Thomas came TO the sa-
loon whore they we're loaiing and
brought them back here.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-20
NEW OPERA HOUSE SCENERY.
Deal Completed for Stage Equipment
and Curtains.

Through the representative, F. r.
Megan, Manager Henry Elliott, of
the Amarillo Opera House company
yesterday completed contract with
the Kansas Scenic company for the
curtains and stage equipment for
Amarillo's new opera house. Ac-
cording to Mr., Megan, the equip
ment ordered for the new house will
be better than that of many houses
in larger cities Of the Southwest and
will compare favorably with the
equipment in any theater in the
state.
A big asbestos safety curtain will
be swung on automatic rollers so as
to completely cover the stage open
ing. This curtain will be arranged
to be dropped in an instant at any
time so as to effeCtually stop the
progress OF fire from either side.
The asbestos curtain will be finished
in high class scenic work and will
be free from advertising of any kind.
The drop curtain for use during the
performance will be Immediately be-
hind the asbestos curtain. OF the
scenery there are a number Of COM
plete sets all arranged to be operated
from the fly loft above the stage.
Settings and properties accompany
ing the scenes will be operated from
the wings. The contract with the
company calls for fall delivery and
the equipment will be ready for in
stallation as soon as the builders
leave the stage part of the building.