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New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

From The Tribune BuresuI
Washington. May S.-The Italian Ambassador has
issued invitations for dinner party. to be fol-
lowed by a large reception at the embassy to-mor-
row night IN honor Of the Duke OF the Abruzzi.
who will arrive here tomorrow afternoon and make
the embassy his home. The Ambassador has
planned a number of other entertainments for his
royal guest. among them being visit to Mount
Vernon.
The Ambassador from Austria Hungary will go
New York on Friday to join a house party
being entertained by Mrs. James Kernochan.
Lady Grey, the daughter of the Governor Gen
eral Of Canada is expected to arrive at the Brit
ish Embassy Friday 10 visit the Ambassador
and Mrs Bryce. She will accompany them to
Richmond on Sunday and TO jamestown the fol-
lowing day. on Monday night she will attend the
ball to be given on the Italian ship Varise, with
the Duke of the Abruzzi as host
Sehor Portella, minister this country from the
Argentine Republic. united with Captain Moneta.
Of the Argentine naval cadet training ship Presi-
dente Sarmento. in the harbor here in giving
a luncheon board the ship to-day in honor Of
Secretary Root. The minister's other guests were
Assistant Secretary Bacon Assistant Secretary
Newberry. the Ambassador from Brazil the Minis
from Bolivia. the Minister from Chilli. the Min
lister from Uruguay. the Minister from Nicaragua.
Major Lands and the attaches of the Argentine
Legation.
Embassy went TO New York this morning. ac-
cOmpaned by Nine Korner and their children.
Mime. Korner will sail tomorrow for Germany
10 spend the summer. and Major Korner will
turn to Washington in the evening. He will join
his family in Germany later in the season.
Nine de Blaupre. wife of the naval attachs of
the French Embassy. and NJ. de Thai. OF the Rus
sian Embassy staff Will join Mr.. Oderstetter in
giving musical performance at Friendship during
the two days OF the charity fete. which has been
postponed until the last two days OF next week
Both Nine de Blaupre and NJ. de Thai are accom-
plished musicians
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09

national politics, It indicates that Maryland Is
still debatable state. In 1896 and 1900 It's
electoral vote was given to Mckinley and in
1904 divided Electoral College was chosen.
The elector with the highest total Charles J.
BOnaparte, now Attorney General In President
Roosevet's Cabinet, was q Republican, but the
seven others elected were Democrats. In the
campaign last fall for Representatives in Con
gress three districts were carried by Democratic
candidates and three by Republican candidates
But the Republican majorites were larger in
the aggregate than the Democratic majorities
The total Democratic vote was 923G6 and the
total Republican vote was 9S,906, showing q
Republican plurality Of 6,540. Last year the
Democratic plurality for Congress in the dis
trlcts included in the city of Baltimore was
about $500. On Tuesday the Democratic plu-
rality was little less than 4,JOO. There are
no indications, therefore, of q vigorous reaction
toward Democracy.
Maryland Is more Republican on national than
on local issues, for, although since 1894 the Re
publcans have only once elected Governor,
there has never been a time when they have
failed to elect at least three of the states Rep
resentatives in Congress Three times-in 1894,
in 1896 and in 1900-they elected all six and in
1898 they elected four. The fact is that in West
ern Maryland, Southern Maryland and Eastern
Maryland the Republican party has been stead
lily gaining ground, and in Baltimore and
i'll the section Immediately surrounding it the
oldfashioned spirit OF Bourbonism to which the
German and Rasln machines appealed is pass
ing away The decisive defeat of the Poe
German grandfather suffrage scheme in 1903
was the deathblow of the old order. The re-
habiitation of Baltimore after the fire and the
rapid development of Western Maryland have
served to put the state more in touch with pro-
greSSive ideas in business and politics and to
detach it from its old alliances with the South.
Delaware and West Virginia have become
stanchly Republican because their interests are
now Republican. and Maryland though still
showing signs of indecision, will sooner or later
follow suit
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
EAST ASIAN INTERESTS.

The understanding, which Will presently be
embodied in a treaty between Japan and France
! concerning their respective interests in East
Asia IS regarded by the petit Parisien" as
renunciation by Japan of the asian Monroe
Doctrine of Asia for the Aslans." We should
on the contrary, regard 1t as a reafflrmatlon of
that doctrine by japan and as a recognition and
acceptance OF 1t by France. For it must be re-
called that our own original Monroe Doctrine,
while in measure meaning America for the
Americans" was also practically guarantee
OF title of the then existing European posses
slons In America. We assume that the agree
ment between France and Japan Is of similar
purport 1t presumably provides that there
shall be no further French conquests in East
Asia and also that the existing French Empire
| there shall be secure against attack or seques-
tratlon-at least so far as Japan Is concerned.
1t Is eminently appropriate that such an ar
rangement should be made. One to q similar
effect was long ago made between Great Britain
and Japan, in consequence of which the former
power has been relieved of mucn of the burden
OF protecting her East Asian holdings and inter-
ests France has extensive holdings and inter
ests there, and 1t will be a great relief to her
TO be rid OF the necessity of continually guard
ing them against the growing power of japan.
Now Japan is the only power In that region
against which there could be any need of pro-
leClIon' oHIud is HOt likely 10 take the aggreS-
sive and Siam is a negligible factor But Japan
is great power. If Great Britain felt con-
strained to defend Hong Kong and Singapore
and France to defend Indo- China against Japan.
each would have to maintain in those waters an
enormous feet. If they are freed from such
constraint they can withdraw practically all
their fleets, save a few light vessels for police
service, since there is no other formidable foe to
fear.
The notion that the arrangement is hostile 10
Germany and that Germany is thus isolated" is
put forward. We cannot see that 1t is we'll con-
ceived Germany has large commercial interests
in that part Of the world sbut she has no terri
torial or political interests comparable with
those of Great Britain and France There does
not appear TO be any such reason for Japan's
making an agreement with her as there is for
making one with them. Yet there Is no indica-
tion whatever that Japan would not be equally
ready and willing to make precisely such an
agreement with Germany If the latter desired If
There is apparently no obstacle to an amicabe
compact between Japan on the one hand and all
European and American powers Iegitimately in
terested In East Asia on the other for the main
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau.I


Washington, May s.-The President exercised ex-
ecutive clemency by approving to-day the recon-
mendation OF Attorney General Bonaparte that the
sentence OF William January. the Kansas City
Jean Vatican. be commuted to three months i'm
prisonment and that he be pardoned at the end OF
that time.
Representative James s. Sherman, Of New YORK.
chairman OF the Republican Congressional COM
mittee, came TO the White House to recommend the
promotion of Edward B. Moore. of Michigan. AS
sistant Commissioner of Patents, to be Commits
sioner OF that Office.
Announcement made that on Friday the
President will entertain at luncheon the Duke OF
the Abruzzi commander of the Italian fleet, and
the Italian Ambassador. On Saturday night the
President will entertain large company at dinner
In honor OF the duke and General Kuroki followed
by reception.
The eighteen cadets that will be graduated this
year from the Nazareth Hill Military Academy, at
Nazareth. Penn. were introduced to the President
Chaplain Brown. now stationed at Fort Myer,
Virginia, and chaplain of the Presidents regiment
in the Cuban campaign, called to introduce f. W.
Harne general secretary of the Young Mems
Christian Association in Washington and Arthur
Smith. who has charge of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association work at the fort.
Among others who the President Secre-
tary Root, Secretary Taft. Secretary Metcalf. SEN
atOr Newlands. Senator Culom. Senator Edmunds
John l. Sullivan and ex-Delcgate Dennis Flynn. of
Oklahoma.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
EVOLUTION EVIDENCES IN MoLLUsKs.
Professor Champion, of Columbia, Going to
Tahiti on Scientific Trip.

Professor Henry F. Champion OF the department
of zoology, Columbia University announced yes
terday that he is planning trip of investigation
TO the island OF Tahiti In the Pacific. The Car
negie Institution is sending him to investigate the
evidences of evolution found in the island in the
terrestrial molluskS that abound there. His trip
win extend over period of four months.
DIR. Champion expects TO take up his residence
among the natives. There is only one large set
tlement on the isand-the village of Papeete-in
which there about two thousand inhabitants
The natives. who speak French. live in bamboo
huts. DIR. Champion will do most of his travelling
foot. although there is trail that extends all
the way around the island. which horses can be
used He says he has reason 10 believe that there
has been recent evolution IN the mOllusks
that has important bearing on the general prob
lem. and his efforts will be directed toward a COM
parison the varieties found in the different val
leys. with special regard to the development that
IS found at different points.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09

logued as diluted sample Of insanity, while
the same Latin name covers the intoxication Of
a football game and that caused by simple
fluids. Now, If the doctors recommending In
carceratlon are in earnest, as they seem to be.
they are rank state socialists in thin disguise.
For the end Of their plan is TO throw practically
the whole population upon the government for
board and lodgings. Probably the doctors, alb
sorbed in the purely medical aspect of the prob
lem, have overlooked It's political bearings. They
have not seen that their scheme dispels the old
supposed antagOnism between capital and labor
and arouses a new, less soluble one between
the Body Polite and the Body Neurotic. With
every man liable to any form Of inebration or
insanity living on the state socialism will at
last have triumphed. Doubtless the socialists
victory viii be marred by the reflection that
the children of the state are all neurotics but
then they would be under any socialistic scheme
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
COyDEuyATIoy PROCEEDINGS

The examination into the Borough Presidents
office shows how the city payes streets. and
similarly the report of an employe of the finance
department published in The City Record
shows in how unbusinesslike a way the city
buys land. 1t is very slow and very expen-
sive process.
Here are the facts, as they appear in THE
City Record" regarding one purchase. The
piece of land in question was acquired for the
new Manhattan Bridge. The usual process of
condemnation proceedings was gone through.
Three commissioners were appointed by the
courts. They were paid, as the custom is, $40
Il session. an arrangement which puts a pre-
mium on long drawn out proceedings with
many brief sessions. In this case it took
about one hundred and thirty sessions to de-
termine the value of a small parcel of land. The
commissioners were sworn in on March 10.
1903. and finally reached conclusion on July
81, 1905. Thus it took them more than two
years and four months TO fix the value. The
reasons for this long delay are apparent from
the account of the commissions meetings. Per
hapS only one witness was examined at a seS-
sion, or a few exhibits were submitted, or, in
one instance, the commission met and, upon
receiving a telephone message that a lawyer for
the property owner was delayed, waited twenty
minutes and then adjourned, secure in the feel
ing that each commissioner had earned his SO
by attending Most of the sessions were APP
parently extremely brief. As the city took title
at the beginning of the proceedings, interest
charges ut per cent We're piling up, and finally
amounted to 5000 81. The other expenses of
condemnation ran the total cost up to ST.
S3S rs. The price of the property was $550636.
The writer in THE City Record" says the aver
age condemnation case would occupy jury
about a week. But then jury is not paid $40
a session.
OF course the city is not responsible for the
method of condemnation. 1t is laid down in
the law. The proceedings are supposedly neces-
sary to prevent colluslve buying at high prices
and also to protect the city from eXtOrtionate
demands, but it is desirable that some way
should be found of conducting them in bust
nesske manner and of making 1t no longer
to the interest of commissioners to protract
them as far ms possible.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
ACADEMY OF DESIGN ELECTION.
Frederick Delman Again Chosen President
List of New Academicians.

At the annual election OF officers and council Of
the National Academy of Design last evening az
1Oeth street and Amsterdam avenue. Frederick
Dielman was reelected president Herbert Adams
president and Harry W. WaJroUs corresponds
ing secretary. Kenyon Cox was elected recording
secretary and Francis c. Jones treasurer Inc
members OF the council elected Ben Foster
]. c. Nicon. VIII H Low. William Sergeant Ken
dali. ]. Alden Weir and Henry B. Smell
The ten associates nominated by acadenicians
and associates as candidates for acaderlctanShlp
who received the greatest number OF votes IN no1l
nation all elected academcianS by the requires
two-thirds vote OF the fifty academcians presel-
yesterday The academcians-elect are William ''e1
ney Bunce. Charles Melville Dewey, Paul pousI.
erty, Edward Gay. William L. Lathrop, Charles =
McFim, Howard Pyle. w. Elmer Schoheld. X W.
Van Boskerck and Charles n Woodbury.. Aea1e
micans and associates dined together last nls., ,,,
The annual exhibition OF drawings by the ~. :.
dents of the academy made in competition Wlls Wllsrss
open In the ciassroors to-day and tomorrow,
distribution of prizes for the year Will be nlale "
morrow evening by President Dielman- -
The summer classes for study in the open a
from the living model still life and 1o!esIIu---s
landscapes will be maintained within the 3-s
OF the National Academy OF Design durins ~
July snd August. under the direction or GeofSe We
MQYnard n.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
tenance of the statls quo and the development Of
Asian affairs the basis Of existing conditions.

The only complaint Pittsburg has to make
against America is that things here are too
cheap, cheap, IN fact, that Pittsburger has
to work hard In order to spend his money The
recent complaint of some vulgar plebeians in the
Smoky City against the high price of food sup
piles there naturally aroused the Indignation
of the better citizens. one of whom is determined
TO sQuech the SANDER by erecting a $45O,OOO
chicken farm in the most fashionable residence
district. Each hen Is to have a lady's maid,
mantcurist and a dentist the latter being
enormously expensive on account of the scarcity
of hens teeth. In this wise the average price Of
"just-egg'' will nearly equal the cost of
murder trial. so that Pittsburg's reputation may
still be saved, with little strenuosity.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
DRAKE WINS EVANS ART PRIZE.
Water Color Painter Gets Award for The
Lions Lair"

w. II. Drake Monday awarded the prize
of $3.50 given ny Wli8m I. Evans for the most
meritorious water color in the annual exhibition
of the American Water color Society. painted BY
American artist in this country. without lInita-
ton OF age. The title of the painting is 'Ths
Lions Lair
Mr.. Drake is associate Of the National ACld-
envy of Design. and animal and landscape artist
This prize has been awarded annually since ISIS
The American Water Color SOciety, with the CO.
operation of certain art museums. is organizing q
rotary collection of water cOlors 10 Be on eXAl0i-
ton through the ensuing year in various cities IL
will he first u 81. Louis for the summer then
20 Buffalo and other cities. finally appearing at
the regular water color exhibition Of the Chcaso
Art Institute, in May
Charles NJ Kurtz. director OF the Albright Gall
lery. in Buffalo was in New York yesterday as tho
representative of various art museums In con
nection with j. g. NicON. president of the Arlefi-
can Water Color Society. ard its jury of selection
Mr.. kurtz selected 1SS water ColOrS from the cur
rent exhibition in the Fine Arts Building. in West
51th street for the forthcoming rotary exhibition
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
AN EDUCATION IN PATIENCE.

The recent complaints Of the Cathedral League
of the Diocese Of New York about the slow
ness with which funds come in for the great
editice on Morningside Heights have probably
not been uttered in vain. The leagues next step
is to raise 100000 for with this I'm hand It will
secure Ike amount from conditional donor
and the 100000 will be enough TO carry the
building forward so far 10 permit four thou
sand persons to worship there Only $4,000
of the desired sum, however, has been secured
and some of the members are downcast. But in
teTested as we are in the stupehdous enterprise
Of erecting world famous cathedral In New
York, we cannot fully share their gloom. Indeed.
there may be some cause for rejoicing I'm the
fact that twenty years have already passed
since the project was initiated. While much OF
this long period has been consumed in prellm-
inaries of fund raising and plan drawing,
considerable part of the delay must be attrib-
uted to wise deliberation. Unmoved by the
eagercss of donors to see their gifts trans
formed into granite and marble, the architects
and builders have refused TO push the work at
a more rapid rate than they deemed suited TO
assure the durability OF the great church
There is a perpetual lesson in the slowly rising
mass of stone Possibly the finished church
will be a better teacher than the present gigan-
tic arch But even the phlosophic crane whose
arm swings almost invisibly, dropping a stone
or two in place each day, ought to help tone
down the furious haste of fiat builders whose
structures begin to need repairs before their
roofs are glued on.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Rain. according TO the weather prophets official
and otherwise. threatens TO mar the brillfancy OF
the opening Of the racing season at Belmont Park
, to-day. and preparations which had been made
for most picturesque and fascinating display os
feminine spring hnery the lawn and in the
club inclosure will probably have 20 be abandoned
When the weather Is fine the Metropolitan IS al
ways the most brilliant event of the spring sea-
son. serving IL does to attract to the track all
those of the fashionable set who have not sailed
for Europe. and advantage is taken of the rendez-
to discuss plans and projects for the summer
Mrs Stuyvesant Fish gave a dinner last night ar
her house in East 18th street for those who
assisting her the floral booth at the Actors
Fund Fair Among them Mrs Hermann OeI-
richs Mrs Harry 7. Peters. Mrs. Sidney Dillon
Ripley. Mrs Glen Collins. Mrs ]. Lee Taller Mrs. F.
Moses Taylor Campbell. Mrs James Russell Soley.
Miss Gwendolyn Burden, Mrs J. Frederick Pier
son. jr. Miss Bessie Yoakum. Miss Harriet DAILY,
Miss Rosamond Street Miss Ada and Miss Maria
de Acosta. Miss Janet Fish and Miss Marian Fish
Mr. and Mrs John E Alexandra sail for Europe
to-day.
Rear Admiral Willard II. BrownsOn, recently IN
command OF the Pacific feet. accompanied by his
daughters. Mrs G. D. Tooker and Miss Caroline
Brownson. returned yesterday from the Orient TO
his home in Yonkers- After short rest there
Admiral Brownson will go to Washington to take
up his duties Chief OF the Bureau OF Navigation
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles de Loosely Oelrtchs, who
married IN this city about three weeks ago.
have returned 10 town from their honeymoon tip
They will spend the summer at Newport
Mrs T. ]. Oakley Rhinelander and her mother.
Mrs. Charles E. Sands. are booked to sail for
Europe May %
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick o. Beach have sailed for
Europe They Will remain abroad Throughout the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Blake Baker have arrived &C
Biarritz and stopping az the Hotel du Palais-
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Spies Kip Will return from
Europe in July and go TO Newport FOR the remain
der Of the summer
Mr. and Mrs. William A NJ Burden viii spend
part of the summer with Mrs Burdens parents.
Mr. and Mrs Il. Mex TwombIy. at Florham. their
country place in New Jersey
Mrs. Alexander 7. Van Nest will spend the sum
mer with her daughter and son-in-Iaw. SIr- and
Mrs ]. Stewart Barney. at Newport
Henry T. Sloane and his daughter. Miss Emily
Sloane are booked to sail for Europe next Thurs
day.
Mrs. II. Casirnir De Rharn has gone TO Newporo
and is stopping at the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VLls
there
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Endicntt and the Misses
Endicott have sailed for Europe They will remain
abroad for several months.
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
Amusenlcnts.

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BlJOU--S:20- Comtesse Coouet;e
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CAsINO-S:l5-The White Hen
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HERALD SQUARE-S:15-The Orchid.
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HUDSON -s:15-Brewsters Millions
x1lttnING PLACES 20 -Zapfenstreich
hNlCkERBOCKER-S:l5 Red
3-1SERT1-s;l s;l5-Salomy Jane.
S>lNCOLN SQUARE,: :I5-Nrs. Temples Telegram.
-1CECM- -2:15-s 20-The Boys of Company B.
!.fRlC-s; ;l5-The Road TO Yesterday
AADiSON SQUARE GARDTN-2-S-Wid West
MAJESTIC-S:I5-P Path.
AEIROPOLIrAN OPERA HOUSE-12:30 20 p. M.
I;So 70 Inidnight-Aetors' Fund Fair
lew AMSTERDAM-S:1O-T Venice
SANOF-2:l5-s:lb :lb-The Man of the Hour
NALLAcR SIS :30-Dvcrcons
WEST END-S-u Trovatore
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
A MICHIGAN APPRECIATION OF HUGHES
From The Detroit Journal.

From The Detroit Journal
II is going 10 be difficult matter 20 deny SIS -Ss
a this The evils he has attacked toEDSais toE 20
people of New York he has corrected for Ias Soa IN
achievement. In following and in promise ,bs
bound to figure prominently. powerfully u ,sxt T
councils OF the Republican party IN Ihe anrsiis neii
Presidential campaign. IL President toosS,s r,sv
holds to his resolve TO remain out or u ana -
favorites, there is telling Just What reMaat
Governor Hughes OF New York may not, nos NSrset
but meteoric public career. Daily ne Is i0oa>
larger on the national political horizon
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
JULIAN STORY NOT TO MARRY.
Report That He Would Wed Miss Anne
Thomson Vigorously Denied.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune.l ]

Philadelphia, May s.-The report that Julian
Story the artist and former husband OF Nine.
Eames would marry Miss Anne Thomson. was de-
MED tonight by friends of both Mr.. Story and
Miss Thomson In this city.
Neither was accessible TO newspaper men to-day.
but DR.. George Mcclellan. cousin OF Mr., Story.
said:
''It is Infamous lie. There is absolutely not
a word of truth in It, Miss Thomson merely sat
TO Mr.. Story for her portrait, many another
young society woman has done"
New-York tribune., 1907-05-09
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From The Tribune Bureau. J


Washington, May s-A large number of diplomats
and people in society attended the amateur the
atrical performance given tonight by number OF
the young members of the diplomatic set in honor
of the Mexican Ambassador and Sonora de CreeI
Roth Of the plays presented-"David Garrick' and
"El Novla de Dona Ines"-were we'll adapted to
the talents of the young people. and the ambas-
sador and other guests gave them frequent loud
applause. In David Garrick' Senorita Mercedes