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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
WATER RIGHTS.

Current proceedings in New Jersey suggest
that that state like more than one other COM
munity, is waking up to the Importance OF con-
serving rights III potable wafer. recent legs-
lative enactment bears strongly upon the rights
OF riparian owners to the enjoyment Of a stream
without Impairment of its quantity or quality.
OF course, that right is not to be enforced abso-
lutely in its EXTREMIST sense since that would
prohibit any one from using any of the water.
The obvious meaning is that nobody NAV take
SO much as to make the stream useless TO those
below, or so contaminate 1t as to make the
stream unfit for use. This latter principle was
strongly brought out 4 few years ago in Con-
necticut, in the famous PiDers Brook case
Now the right 20 the use of underground
water courses is made matter of legal con-
tention. man complains that by sinking and
operating huge artesian wells neighboring CITY
has greatly injured some springs on his land. TO
his loss and distress Whatever may prove to
be the facts in this particular case. there is no
doubt that snch a thing is possible. \ well on
being sunk may easily tap or entirely intercept
the underground channel which sunplies
spring a long distance away, and utterly de-
stroy that spring. In such case the owner OF
the spring doubtless suffers hardship Yet it
might also be reckoned a hardship to forbid a
man to sink and use a well on his own land
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10

lest it should interfere with a spring a mile
away. Perhaps one man has no right TO mOnopO-
lie n spring at its source and to deprive all
others further down its course of the use of it.
But how much more right has man to mOnOpO-
lie it at its mouth and to deny those further
up It's course the use of its water?
The whole question is complex In the eX-
IRENE, and it emphasizes the need of legisla-
ton the most general and equitable basis
possible; and also the urgent need of protecting
the potable water supply from contamination.
For the majority of disputes now arise from the
circumstance that much once potable water
has become contaminated that the remaining
supply is scarcely equal to the demand. In this
latter view Of the case it Is gratifying to see
what measure Of success is being attained by
the Merchants Association of this city in its
admirable campaign for the abatement of pol
luton of the Hudson River and other streams.
Such work is fundamental to the whole question
Of water rights. The man who takes too much
water from a stream does injustice to his down
stream neghbors. in depriving them of their
full share. But the man who pollutes the stream
does far worse, for he makes it impossible for
any one else to use the water at all. There is
enough potable water In the world for all to
use, provided it is kept potable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
CONDUCTORS MANNERS.

If there are not several hundred unexpected
extra deaths by heart disease reported TO the
authorities this morning 1t will be because the
guards on the New York subway and 81" have
not found time to read yesterdays papers an
nouncing the decision of the Appellate Term of
the Supreme Court relative to the duties of con-
ductors on public conveyances. In awarding a
Bronx man $3.50 damages for rude treatment at
the hands and mouth of an IT, guard, the court
declares the latter to be under obligations to
accord courteous and respectful treatment to
all unfortunates CHANGING to travel within his
jurisdiction. Should the guard refuse to help
the passenger find standing room inside the car,
or should he call the traveller poor bum"
the latter may exc q neat roll of bills out of
the Golfers of the employing company. The cash
salve will be applied by the courts even if moth
ing save the travellers feelings are bruised.
This decision throws a great task upon the
streetcar companies. In employing conductors
and guards heretofore, superintendent have
simply had to pick out bury characters who
could overawe women with their yels and push
a crowd into a state of greater density. Ability
to distinguish good language from bad and TO
refrain from using the latter sort has never
been called for. 1t IS not impossible, therefore,
that superintendent will have to begin over
again and revise the personnel according to the
Chesterheldian dictates OF an enlightened court.
1t is not an easy duty, this; 1t Will prove par
ticuarly hard because of the VIGOROUSLY deteri-
Grating influence Of bad company upon the man
nerS of young man. Much as we sympathze
with the aggrieved BrOnxite who has just drawn
a 500 prize we fear that the best efforts Of the
transportation companies to standardize the de
pertinent OF guards will fail in large measure,
if not altogether.
The trouble is that much more is now de-
manded Of the poor guard than mere pOlteness
he must be capable of total selfrepressIon In
order to preserve the semblanCe of unvarying
courtesy. Like all other people, his manners
are formed largely by those OF his associates.
This fact alone should make the passenger toll
Grant toward the man who has To deal eight
hours n day with the New York public. \
lighming-like change of dcmeanOr Is demanded
Of the guard; but 1t Is hard TO buy this ad
mirabe social quality for 81 Il day, and still
harder for him who possesses 1t to be stern yet
obliging, calm yet swift In samming the gates
shut, cool in answering useless questions and
suppressiug disturbers of the peace selfrespect-
ing yet obliyious to snappy remarks, with in
variable regularity from day TO day. II some
philanthropsr will endow five thousand chairs
for conductors so that the latter need work only
three hours daily. in shifts OF one hour EACH
and may read the maXims of Chesterfield and
Pastor Wagner thrice every working day. things
may be different
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
PERSONAL.
orators.

At the commencement exercises of Dickinson Col
lege last week General Horatio c. King delivered
the annual address before the graduating law class
The attendance of the alumni larger than in
forty years Preparatory to the 18th anniversary
of the college. in 1905 General King was elected
graduating class numbered sixty.
Patrick Calhoun. principal owner of the San
Francisco street railroads. is a grandson of South
Cardinals antebelum statesman. John c. Calhoun.
He has been interested in street railways all over
the country.
John R. Booth the leading lumbernnan In Canada,
owns 1850 square miles OF timber land From the
Atlantic to the Pacific this would make strip one
mile wide across Canada His mills employ $500
to 1900 men In the summer, saving season. and
400 in the winter. while in the latter season there
are between 1000 and 5000 men and 1000 horses at
work in the woods telling the great trees which
ultimately reach his lumber yards.
One of the original "townsiters'' OF Leavenworth
is still living in that Kansas city. He is A T.
Kyle. who. in 1854. with few associates. selected
in Kansas. He made the first survey for the town
just outside OF Fort Leavenworth then a frontier
post for the protection of settlers from marauding
Indians. He has lived there since. II took
him two months to survey the site. and then two
or three more months were consumed in clearing
the brush from place not bigger than the present
business district.
EX-Chief Judge Charles Andrews OF the Court OF
Appeals celebrated his eightieth birthday last
week at his home. in Syracuse. Judge Andrews is
regarded Syracuse's foremost citizen. He has
served as District Attorney of Onondaga County
Mayor Of the City Of Syracuse for three terms.
Appeals. He retired from the bench In December,
1897, owing to the age limit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

Sales of securities have continued small and
little outside interest has been aroused yet oper-
atoms Of floor traders last week indicated 4
somewhat better feeling and the sixty most
active railway stocks gained an average of about
one dollar a share. Professional manipulators
who attempt to direct stock movements evil
IDENTIFY decided that adverse news had been fully
discounted by the preceding advance including
damage TO crops. restricted spring trade and
gold exports. At times there efforts to
force prices up sharply by rumors of new deals
having vast significance. but the extreme diff
Guilty experienced in raising money of late rather
dscredited stories calling for more syndicate
underwriting operations of magnitude. In too
many instances this year syndicates were dis
solved without having distributed their securi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
SOME ODIOUS FIGURES.

The other day heavy truck drawn by two
powerful Norman horses, sank quietly TO rest In
smoothly rounded hole once presumably oCcu-
pied by five or six Belgian blocks. This hole
adorned n narrow downtown street in the mid
die OF a long block. The street being too mar
row for one vehicle to pass another that was
stuck in this particular hole, il happened that
string Of five or six other trucks was brought
TO standstill by this slight mshap. Twenty
minutes elapsed before, with the aid of another
team and several bystanders, the stalled truck
was coaxed out of its resting place The Incl
dent supplies US with bristling sheaf of stats
ties which submit TO the proper department
with our best wishes Leaving out of account
such uncertain things as bad temper and idle
curiosity, the missing Belgian blocks were re-
sponsble for the following waste
The use Of four horses for about twenty min
utes, the work of two drivers for the same time
the eXertions of six bystanders for about ten
minutes, the delay Of five teams in the rear for
about ten minutes and the attention of seventy
three onoOkers for twenty minutes. The ind-
rect losses are ncalculable, as nobody knows
what the seyenty-three onlookers and the vic
Tins of the hold-up should have been doing dur
ing the episode But it is safe to assume that
the remoter waste of time and energy on the
part OF people VINO were waiting for the one
hundred and odd participants was even greater
than the Immediate waste. The cash value of
the time and energy frittered away through a
mere indentation In the street might he con-
servatively placed at $l5, though it could easily
have risen to ten times that amount
The five or six missing Belgian blocks could
be replaced properly for less than 75 cents, if
the work were done by permanently employed
repair gang; but because public officials have
not taken the proper measures to keep the
streets free from holes private citizens pay from
twenty to one hundred times the cost of the re-
pair for-what? For enduring the perpetuation
of the nuisance.
Is not the business instinct of the man in
the street. astOnishingly feeble as soon as he
has to deal with bills payable that are not for
warded to him personally through the mail?
Among all the one hundred and odd participants
in the little scene we have described not one
was heard to comment on anything save the
carelessDess of the driver and the uneven pull
ing Of the off horse. And yet people wonder
why the city Is misgOverned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
BEATING THE SLOT MACHINES.

Orange (Mass) dispatch to The Springfield Union.
The various clubs and orders in town have been
somewhat surprised well as veXed to find upon
counting the money in their cigar slot machines d
quantity of iron pieces similar in size and weight
TO scent piece but amounting to somewhat less
in value. The club officials keeping quiet about
IT, but mean to deal harshly with the offenders ii
they can be discovered. 1t seems hardly possible
that this little scheme could have been invented
by Athol people. but II is said that certain ind-
viduals in that town doing thriving business
at cutting out these of iron and selling them
TO Orange people. The average price Is said 10 he
cent apiece. or one hundred for 10 cents
In this way certain Orange people are saving four
every cigar they smoke, and for this rea-
son they can afford to enjoy more than the usual
number. However beneficial this may be 10 a few
individuals. 1t comes hard the clubs golfers and
they at loss TO the best method of stoppIns,
the nuisance 1t Is thought that the Offenders are
not members of the organizations but outside ner-
sons who have access TO the clubrooms -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
TmNSemenfS.

ACADEMY cF HTsIC-s-Ronleo and Juliet.
.sER!AL GARDENS-s:3O-The Hoaeyn.oa2eEs.
sLHAMBRA-1- Vaudeville.
SEI4A6CO-s:l5-The Rose Of TIE RancAo.
S1JOC-S :30--5rategss CQGuet:e.
BRcADwA Y-s;IG-TEe Partisan Model
- Ma PSEE-SoIGea CITY.
CASINOS 5-Fascinating Flora
col O%IAI-2-s-Na lille.
COMFY ESLAND-Luaa I'or6-)rearr'aa3
EDEN Mi'SEE--The WoTG Wax.
GARRICK-S .30-CaUEht IN tire Rain.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE-s:1t--CGCrnen.
EAMMERSTEI%'S VTCToRIA-2:l6 -S :lS-- 'g-2ov'-i',
HERALD SQCARE-s:15-The 0rchid.
HUDSON-s:I 5-E rewster's Millions.
JARDIN DE PARTS-S :3a-EaudHr!HS
RNICKERBOCKER-S: lG-The Red NH
LINCOLN SQUARE-S:l5-The Girl Raffes.
LYCEUM- :20-The Boys OF Company =.
EYRIC-s:15-The Read to Yesterday.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-Roller s,<at'n--
SAVOY-S:15-The Man Of the Hour.
-. NICHOLAS GARDEN-e-Kaltensorn concert.
-TkLI4ACK' S-s:15-fI!s Honor the IayOr.
WEST END-s-FauFt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
GO TO CHURCH FOR MAIL.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

Correspondence. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Great punches of mail sometimes delivered
at uptown churches, and much OF 1t belongs not
to the regular wOrshippers. but TO persons who
drop In for an occasional service. They most
ly comparative strangers IN town. When leaving
home they have no idea where they will be To-
Gated or what they will do, in order to relieve
the anxiety OF their friends they give instructions
to send their mail to some church of which they
have all heard. The mere fact that the wan
derers have to call at such place twice a
week for letters Is considered guarantee OF their
safety. The pastors here welcome such an ar
rangement: and. while it may be additional
responsibility TO take care of the letters It keeps
them In touch with many strangers who other
wise probably would not go a church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10

Mixed feelings aroused by the statement
given out the other day by DR. Billings of the
Health Department, concerning the difficulties
encountered by the city officials in caring for
poor consumptives. In reporting the abandon
ment of free milk and egg distribution because
of lack of funds DR.. Billings remarked that the
department found several persons who did not
appreciate the good work of the municipality
and collected food supplies shamelessly for the
sake of selling them. Other persons gathered
in as much as they could force down their own
threats and down those of their friends and
relatives. But in the great majority OF cases
patients respected the laws of decency and con-
sumed only so much of the supplies as was
good for them, When funds are again provided
for these supplies-and we cannot believe that
they will long be withheld-might il not be well
TO require some payment, however small from
the recipients? The diet is not designed for
destitute patients, who are cared for in insti-
tutions. Those who receive the eggs and milk
are able to feed themselves and the only i'm
portant thing is that they should have suitable
food. Free food should be reserved for the
absolutely destitute and given out only for con-
sumption OF the premises or in some place
under the supervision of the authorities 1t is
to be hoped, however. that the petty fraud of a
few ungrateful patients will not deter the city
from rendering inexpensive but important help
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
to thousands of persons recovering from the
first stages Of tuberculosis.

The Hobson scheme of getting farmers to
solicit the aid of government experts WILL II
generally followed. bind on still more tightly
the bonds of a distant central authority as the
saying goes in certain quarters. But If the ex-
perts make only one potato bug thrive where ten
once fourished, and thereby weed out a few
million mortgages the farmers will probably be-
come miserable vassals of an imperialstlc
bureaucracy enthroned at Washington" In spite
of the dreadful warnings framed In the highly
pliable vocabulary of certain free silver-tongued
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10

We desire to remind our readers 1rho are
about to leGUe the city that The TRIBUNE tciH
be sent by mail TO any address IN this country
or abroad, and address changed as often as de-
sired. Subscriptions ncy be gircn to your reg
alor dealer before Tearing, or, if more conven-
fent, hand them in at THE TRIBUNE Office
See opposite page for subscription rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10

Another demonstration of the Americans ir
regular notions CT the work to be done by a
regular army is seen in the protests being
lodged almost daily by privates against the
weekly practice marches These marches are
said TO be so thoroughly dslilled that their con-
unuance is affecting enlistments seriously: par
tcularly are re-enlistments being reduced in
number because the men in the ranks regard
the work as too onerous. The unhappy army
officials are confronted with something like
paradoX-they must maintain a regular army
but may not keep it in order And the soldiers
display the desire of many fellow countrymen to
get something for nothing. Regular army service
without stiff and frequent drill Is soldering in
all the worst imputations of that word
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
FISH KILLED BY A GOLF BALL
From Tit-Bits.


Henry Beevor, solicitor, Newark. has had a most
unusual golhng experience. When driving to the
fourth green on the Newark golf links he drove his
ball into the River Devon. killing fish nearly two
pounds In weight Both ball and fish were found
injury. - -
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-10
A VERDICT ON HUGHES.

From The New York World Dem1.
1t is only five months since Mr.. Hughes became
Chief Executive Of New York. The World cannot
believe. in the light Of the events of those five
months. that there are many voters left IN the
state who would wish that the issue Of the cleo
ton had resulted otherwise than II did.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
4 Bath FOR ONE CENT.


Zalnan Lebmau. Jewish pedler. is i'll with
pneumonia at his home. No. 12S Hopkins street.
Brooklyn. which he attributes 20 the treatment he
received AT public bath at Montrose and Union
avenues, Brooklyn. He was passing the bath last
Wednesday. when he saw a notice that for one
cent any could get bath in the establishment
equal to that given in any Turkish Russian bath.
cold plunge. hot room and all. Mr. Lehman felt
tired and dusty after pedlng his wares around the
brooklyn streets. and thought that a bath would
be very refreshing. he decided to venture into
the place.
He says two young men. whom he believed TO bo
employees. forward and asked what they
could do for him He told them he wanted a bath.
and they volunteered TO escort him to the dressing
room. He thanked them for their courtesy and
followed them into room in which there was n
large tank OF water. While he looking for a
place to disrobe he says the polite young men
suddenly seized'h and threw him head first into
the water, which was as cold as the East River I'm
mldwnter lie came TO the surface, his teeth
but the young men playfuy pushed him back re-
marking that he had not begun 10 get yet.
him in the tank. ducking him whenever he tried
10 get out; Finally. when he was half drowned and
and dragged him out of the water and into another
room, which ne says was so not he feared he was
for help they kept him in the steam laden
him out. and he started for the door de-
termined never to venture into public bath again.
grabbed him again, and said they could not think
81 letts nun go om IN lhe cod IN ms wet clothes,
Mr.. Lehman says that this time they dragged him
downstairs to the furnace and tried to throw him
into Il. he thought such was their intention He
struggled fercey he said at the sight of the red
hot Goals through the gaping door of the furnace
that he succeeded In breaking away. leaving
eral handfuls Of hair from his beard in the hands
OF his tOrmentors lie rushed into the street and
until lac was almost exhausted, finally reaching
home, Since then Ire has been confined 10 his bed
with pneumonia.
His friends told Rabbi Joseph Fnkestein. OF the
Congregation Plum, or which Lehman Is "A
ber what had happend, and at meeting held al
the synagogue yesterday a committee appoint
ed TO cali on District Attorney Clark and Law the
facts before him, with request for immediate
action. Mr.. Lehman says he identify the
who gave him his first and last bath In
public bdthhouSe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-25
MARY CLAY, OF AUBURN, FOUND.
Girl in Search of Titled Parents in Germany
Worked as Nurse.

Mary Clay. the fourteen -vear-oId girl whose
disappearance a week ago was reported to the
police was found yesterday at the home Of =
Mrs Breeze, Of No. 2O7 West 135th street. where
she had obtained employment az a nurse girl.
The girls disappearance was reported I'm the
newspapers Yesterday morning and a photo
graph was published. It was through this pub
hcity that the police We're able TO find the girl
Her father, Alvin NJ. Clay. Of the United States
Shoe Machine Company, was told that she had
been found. and she turned over to the
Children's Society for the night
The girl. who looked older than her years
came to this city three weeks ago from Au-
burn, n. y where she had been going to school
when she first got here she had little money
and applied TO the Young Women's Christian
Association in East 10Th street She was sent
to the House for Respectable Girls, in East 10th
street While out shopping "A week ago with a
companion she disappeared
Interest I'm the girl had been aroused by stories
she told of her parentage She said she had been
told that she was really the daughter Of the
Countess Marguerite Won Graft" Of GERMANY
She repeated part Of this tale to the police she
said that while in Auburn a strange ,voroor
came TO her and told her that she was not the
daughter of her supposed mother Mrs CIaI,
who died three years ago. The woman she said
showed her some timewOrn papers which she
was told proved her real identity She said che
came TO New York to earn enough money IN nav,
her passage TO Germany.