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New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
THE COMPLAINT or MR.. sH0NTs,

President Shonts of the Interchangeable
poIitan is reported 10 have written TO the Pun
lie Service Commission complaining that it has
injured the credit of his company. You have
started out wrong he is quoted as saying ;
money is the basis of everything. Witungiy
cor unwittinCly. YOU have injured our credit
"and your first duty now should he 10 help 10
restore it. for working together. we are to
accomplish the results are both striving
for"
We fail 10 see what the commission has done
10 hurt the credit of the traction company
Has investigation hurt its credit: Then 1t IS
not any action of the commission that mas
caused this result but the acts of the company
itself. The records of a properly managed com
pany ought to be able 10 stand the Hight OF day
without injury 10 its credit Is IL the prospec-
tive order for an increased service that mas III
iurod The company's credit? Then that IS tan
tamount 10 saving that the city should not hope
for an Improvement in its traction facilities
The conlpanv confessed a few months ago by its
refusal 10 hid on the new subways that 1t WIS
unable or unwilling to build new roads and II
the prospect of having TO give fuller service
on the existing roads is regarded as ruihouS'
how is betterment 10 he accomplished: These
are the only two things the commission has
done and We do not see that in doing either OF
them il has started out wrong.
An investigation into the management OF the
traction company was absolutely essential
preliminary to any action looking 10 the I'M
movement of transit conditions The commits
sion was faced hy a situation in which surface
elevated and subway systems were indecently
iammed and yet the earning Of dividends on all
tho outstanding stock was uncertain. Why was
this snt Was il impossible To furnish an ade-
auarp service and do SO profitablyE Obviously
the commission had 10 know the answer 10 that
question before proceeding to order the running
of additional cars.
No one wants to see the credit of the traction
company injured. certainly not the commission
nor the people of this city The solving Of the
traction problem does depend. as Mr.. Shonts
saws. upon the company's being able to get
money for improvements. And ii will not hurt
the credit of the company 10 have the future
share purchaser know from the commissions
s,,,,ervision that his money is 10 be put 10 some
substantial use and with a reasonable prospect
of profit.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
PEDLERS.

Pedlers are dreadful nuisance In New York
City. The huge volume of traffic i'm the narrow
downtown streets the hordes Of hawkers and
the Ienient blindness of the police combine 10
make the nuisance treby great. Last Satur-
day night a squad Of policemen. eXasperatcd by
the congestion of traffic caused by the pushcart
men In five downtown lanes. dispersed nearly
eighty obstructionists in a small region and
rested twenty-sevcn who were peddling without
licenses. The only exceptional feature of this
episode was the apparent seriousness Of the
police. Usually bluecOat approaches drove
Of hawkeTs slowly. openly and with n signid-
cant nod from afar whereupon the drove mean
der into a side street for minute and a half,
emerging and resuming their posts as soon as
the officers back is visible. It is not uncom-
mon 10 seq trucks forced 10 file painfully be
tween rows Of banana pedcrs. while the string
of wagons held up by these usurpers Of the
highways lengthens out indefinitely. II the
banana pedlers happen to he condeScending
they NAV kindly favor the mercantile interests
Of the American metropolis by ohstructing only
one curb during rush hours: such considerable
ness. however. is usually due not 70 potenesS
but to the amount Of fire in the eyes Of the
hindered tru"kmen.
The intelligent traveller from Naples or Con
stantinople doubtless wonders at the camneSS
with which the owners and managers Of the
thousands Of COmmeTclal hulldlngS ana enter
prises endure the daily insoIence Of several
hundred pedlers. Are Americans anxious 10
keep alive the tale that immigrants can pick M
gold in New York streets: Or do business
men gladly submit 10 the dictates of that radi-
cal democracy which ordains that every man
shall be free to do as he pleases even II he
thereby nterferes with everybody else: No.
the intelligent Neapolitan or Constantinopoli-
tan must guess again. The streets are surren-
dered to any visitor from Ellis Island who VIII
use them. because in this lovely stronghold OF
the Democratic party the privileges of any ele-
mcnt of the population are prOportioucd To the
number of votes that element can deliver. Fur
tbprmore because the merchants and wagon
driving public generally have not the civic en-
ergy requisite for the correction of stubborn
abuse.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16

done by Colonel Gorgas and his staff. and their
significance is the more marked when we re
member that about ten thousand more men
were employed in July, 1907. than in July. 1905.
The contrast between the white and negro en-
poyes emphasizes what has often been said in
these columns about the desirability of employ
ing whites rather than negroes. Nor are the
benefits of our sanitary work confined 10 the
canal employees. They extend to the entire pop
ulatiOn of the canal zone. rs appears from the
fact that the death rate in that population has
fallen from as thousand in 1906 10 "a in 1894
These two sets Of statistics. published side
by side demonstrate clearly that at last we are
making the dirt fly and are also making the
isthmuS a place fit To live i'm. The physical task
of canal construction is being performed at
rate which promises its completion at an carrier
date than that cOnservatvely estimated. ana
region which was formerly regarded as one OF
the deadliest plague spots in the world is hethS
transformed into one of-for the trOpics-eX-
ceptOnal salubrity. There could be. in connec-
ton with that undertaking. no more Credltaple
and auspicouS achievements than those.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
PITY POOR JACK.

II is h1miating to reflect that this city. Whlcn
boasts itself to be already the second seaport Oh
the world and to be the first. has no Tree
hnsDitaI for sailors suffering from colnmunlcaoie
diseases And the humiliation IS seen 10 pe
disgrace when it is learned from DR.. William
T. Jenkins. president and managing director
of the Merchant Marine Hospital Service, that
more than one hundred thousand sailors visit
inc the metropolis annually need treatment II
New Workers have thus far failed to provide a
commodious and we'll equipped sailors nos
Dital il can only be because they have never
had the facts brought properly to their notice
For no wealthy and humane community could
remain blandly inactive after learning OF the ter
rihle ravageS caused by the numerous diseases
prevalent among visiting and native SailorS.
We cannot doubt for a moment that DR.. Jen-
kins's appeal for $75oO0O wherewith TO erect
and maintain a sailors hospital will find a
hearty response as soon as New Workers have
had time 10 grasp the significance of the state
ments which he has just published We are
told:
These communicable diseases are worse in
their results in some respects than all the COM
bined communicable diseases under the control
Of health regulations. They supply Il large per
Centage-pTohabiy as high as 80 per cent
the inmates of the asylums for the blind 80 per
cent Of the feeble minded and a very large per
centage of cases in insane aSylumS. these sta
tistical facts have been gathered by competent
ObSerV ers, and their accuracy cannot u" que9-
toned.
There are no adequate hospitals specially de
voted to these cases. More than one hundred
thousand Of them, to which no law applies. enter
this port every year. for which and against
which no rational protective preventive meas
ures are taken. The heredity Of these cases
stuns and appalls.
Doubtless many philanthropists have turned
their wealth in other directions because n sick
sailor is not SO dainty an object of sentiment
as is an invalid mother or n crippled orphan
Jack Tar IS ignorant. uncleanly and given to
eXcCSSps. and his worst ills are caused by these
imperfcctions But the time has passed when
charity can plausibly he refused to the stupid
and the hameworthy. Leading philanthropiSts
now see clearly that q well managed hospital
is not only place of healing. but also school
for teaching the ways of health and virtue. And
every intelligent man knows that money spent
In stamping out disease is money spent for self
protection. Poor Jack Tar has had To wait his
turn in New York very long time, and while
waiting he has surely made many others suf-
fer with him and he has been bringing i'm from
foreign lands new maiadieS and strange com
pliCatiOnS But. now that the most urgent de
mandS cf the native sick have been hOuntifuliy
met. let us hope that New Workers. rich and
poor, will try 10 do at least as much for Jack
Tar as London has long since done in her Sea-
mems Hospital Society and other institutions.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
PERSONAL.

Senator William r. Allison OF Iowa has the dis
tinctiou of having refused Cabinet portfolios from
Presidents than any other American states
man. His first invitation TO enter the Cabinet
from President Garfield. President Arthur also
asked him to sit his council table, did Presi-
dents Harrison and Mckinley. In other words
every Republican President for than a
quarter Of century. with the exception of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, has sought obtain the venerable
Iowa statesman member of his official family
Edward Morris, who succeeds his father the late
Nelson Morris. the head of the big Morris pack
ing concern. was born in Chicago October I,
1866 He received his education in the public
schools of the city and embarked In business with
his father I'm 1880 Rapd promotion followed. and
at the time of the death of Nelson Morris the son
vice e-preSident and treasurer or the company
He is also president and treasurer of the Fair
bank Canning Company. Ice-president of the Con-
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
CLEVELAND NOT SERIOUSLY SICK"
Ex-President Himself and Nurse Say His
Condition Is Not Alarming.
rBv Telegraph 70 The Tribune 7

Trenton y J. Sept 15-The statement that
Grover Cleveland was fatally III and would never
see his oca again was denied by the former Pres--
dent himself this morning
Mr. Cleveland is not entirely vel. but his con-
dition is not in the least alarming, saws his nurse
Mr. Cleveland said there was no truth whatever
in the story published this morning He charac-
terized il absurd
Il feel prettv ComfortabIe this morning" ha said
'T have felt 50 well lately that have been cut
driving several times this week
Al the time Mr.. Cleveland was sirt1E in An easy
chair in his study. almost fully dressed reading
the Sunday newspapers. HIS nurse sald MS col'I--
ton could be Judged by the fact that Mrs cleveland
and the children had been in the White Mountains
all summer The statement thar Mrs Cleveland :
attending TO all OF Mr.. CIevelard's work was also
denied
From persons who live near Mr. Cleveland a1l
who are in a POSITION 20 know II Is learned t-At
the former President has fallen or n weight
through inability 70 be about much
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
SOCIAL NOTES from NEWPORT.

TTy Tel graph The IrtbfiHAf -
NsV-port r l. Sept. I5-To-morrow prohlis
he a sort of closing up day here. for Bailey 0ere
and the Bennett will he closed for the season
Nav-nort Golf club however. Will remain ope" -,
IN the end of the present month or the ISL oi ''-
next. +bstr
Mr. and Mrs EIbridge T Gerry viii ti'Se 80
season tomorrow and start for New NofN @"
steam, Yacht Electra. Miss Gerry went a""S \,
dav and will join her parents IN Ne" i"'N
Tuesday , ,bsfr
MIR. and Mrs o. H. p. Belmont also enI - -.
se,so, to-,norrow and will spend the fdH at '''-
Long Island estate. ~, .na
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Garter an" - -,
Mrs Howard Gushing closed their Newport So -
to-day and went To their winter homes. WINE - n
and Mrs Joseph T. Widener sailed on the - -
vacbt Josephine for Sea Gate. They were -
panird by Miss Margaret DAILY. who has Dee" -"
guest. . -+ az
William NJ Meredith, OF England Is tiie s
Mr. and Mrs Theodore NJ Davis IN ocean ~-,.,.
Mr. and Mrs J. Trevoir visiting MIS- J. -''~-
olas Brown. H., q,
Naximilian AgaSsiz who has been visiting
Cambridge Mass returned Newport to-day =,
Mrs Philip Schuyler. who has been the su7s -,
her daughter Mrs. Royal Phelps Carroi hds
her Newport visit and returned 10 New YORK
Mrs T. g Roy returned TO New YORK to.., .'.S,.
She has been the guest of her sister, MIS- D.
ell Clark .,.s--
ConsueIo. Duchess of Manchester was I.s
tanned to-day az a luncheon by Mrs ogdeh ~ ~ :.
Mrs AureI Batonyi has gone 10 Ne" i''A
visit her father
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
+ nuSementS.


ACADEMY OF MT-SIC-s:1 :15-Salony Jane.
ALHANBRA-@- Vaudeville
AsTOR-s:I5-A Yankee Tourist
l3Esf-ASCS1-S-l5-The Rose Of the Rancho
-t' ToqBerte
13ROADWAE-S 1A-RCgers Brothers IN Fanane
CASINO-e-15-The Lady from Lanes
ts-IRCT.E-s-From Across the POND
Ss9NE.Y 1SI1ANTo--Is4na Park
L. Vaudeville
s~T2rTF-ERTDeI-s Ssf-y-~at6s
DaLY'S-s:2o-The Great Divide.
vaudeville
EDEN NJ-SF-F,-The Norld in Wax
EMPIRE -s:2o-MY Wife
GARRECK-s:Se-W Knights We're Bold
GOTH S-Tvventieth Century Maids
:I5-The Movers
FIAMNFFSTFI%'S ROOF l5-s 1s---N auoeNlle
SClI-A AF2E-S-15-Auna Karenina
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES eptuns's Daughter ana fl'i7-'
Days.
rTT-DSON-e-T5-,-la Classmates.
rSNTC-K ERHOCK S:15-Mlls- Modste-
J S.15-Isoa from Berlin
IL SOJ-ARF-S-15--The Spoilers
1sYCET-M The Thief
1.YRIC-s15-E Eirginius.
NaJFSTTC-S:I5-The Spell
-cF-vV ar4STERDA A9i-S:15-The Round Up
NEW TORK-S :30-Advanced vaudeville
q the Hour
:15-The Ranger
WEST FNT1--S-R -RiE0lettc
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
GENERAL MILES AS A soNesTER.

From The Boston Transcript
At the annual reunion of the Past National on
cers' Association OF the Grand Army General Mel
son A Miles the principal guest. The reunion
was held al the Bass Point House. Nahant. and III
spita OF . weather there was good attendance
Previous to the dinner there was a reception in
the parlor OF hotel. after which the association
marched to the dining room. where a fsh dinner
was served. Colonel J. Payson Bradley presided.
and the speeches were all informal. The comrades
sang and exchanged war stories. and when the
turn came to General Miles he given his
choice between song and story The general
responded by drawing forth some printed sheets
next Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn
n Republic written by General ..
" Baird formerly Of the 5th United States In
fantry. during a three -hundred-mile ride in tho
winter between two forts Its title was The Army
Blue" and il Is the tune of The Wearing
of the Green" The song sung by General
Miles and the rest of the company Joined in the
rhOTuS.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
A CATHOLIC TEMPERANCE IDEA

TipHl Inc IdIiIpIu CuuFdnt.
Inc leading Roman Catholic paper in Gre1t
Britain. The Tablet has had a letter from ,n
Irish correspondent named MacDermott who inaL-
yet md himself famous. He has an idea and it:s
an interesting, striking idea. He suggests :. rc-
vision OF one or the time honored precepts of the
throughout the world be required abstain ON
fridays ana other days of obligatory ahstfpe,ca
from alcoholic beverages instead of CAS- row nv,
meat. Archbishop Walsh. OF Dublin. is disposed to
thlrk well or the suggestion and The 6,atbcIc
Iranscript, of this city. seems To regard il ms
worth cHhsideTlhg- considering seriously, too The
author or IL advances an array OF arguments Soma
OF which certainly appear to have point and v,aieht
M greater boon could the Church extend to ,,sr
falthtul children In our northern ciimes he writes
NO such opportunity has fallen to lot Of nv
rope since his predecessor sent Patrick To IraIand
and Augustine to England w " N
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16

baker in Med. a village near Frankfort
on Main had fine batch of plum cakes Whlch
we're cooling on his roof ruined the other Day
bv a shower of sand ballast thrown over from
above by a passing aeronaut His misfortune
calls attention TO new discomfort OF oiEl"|a-
,ior When airships are as common as auto
r,obues and the air is as full of falling sand as
:. - ,o,,. of qasolene fumes must roof over
tha ertira earth in order TO be protected from
aerial assaults? or must nature readapt US 70
our environment. so that We shall ENJOY sahd
in our plum cakes as much as We no" ENJOY
the delicious and refreshing aroma of gasoieh7
as an Indispensable element in pure" air!
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
COBURN OF KANSAS
ON The Los Angeles Times.

Angeles Times
F. D. Coburn is becoming a national character
lie is the secretary of the Kansas State BOARD ~
Agriculture. menial position officaII, consi'Iered
but one found I'm this case to abound in npDor-
tuhlties as IT already radiates great influence 4
honih ago Coburn was being doomed for Governor
OF tne stare The boom travelled like a native
cyclone ana spread over the state like a cloud of
grasshoppers But Coburn had not been consulted.
lie told the people in his unmistakable English
that he did not want the nomination aid not want
TO be Governor, would not have the nomination and
would not serve If elected. is of the
rare feilows who cannot be allured from his chosen
work lie mas been shown that more than half the
people wish 10 give him the highest office within
their power and he realizes that he would sweep
the state IL he would only say the word Hon0rs
and duties-he chooses the greatest honor of all
duty
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16

The phrase socialist by disposition undoubt-
edly describes a large number of the protesting
followers of socialism. Most Of them are moved
not by an intellectual persuasion but by grlev-
ance against the established order They have
curious ''disposition." these socialists, and are
not at all fastidious how they show it, Baroness
Grippenberg. of Finland in a recent magazine
article the women members of the Finnish
pa rliament SAYS that the Socialists elected six
women OF bad reputation to the parliament
merely 10 show their contempt for established
society 1t is not to be supposed that the elect
ors felt that these women were any better
qualified than the respecters of human conVen-
tions to represent them or to express the eco
nomc principles of socialism. They gave the
world an example of what socialism by dspo-
sitiOn' leads to-
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
MEN AS STAKES IN GAMBLING GAMES.


II had a peculiar reason for stopping gambling,
among my walters said large restaurant keeper
Yesterday. ''It was not because they took ND
time from business but because they shifted Gus
toners often. Every man OF them true
sport and they would bet their heads
could be transferred from their shoulders so when
they ran out Of money in card game thev bet
their best customers. One man. who comes in
every day and who gives liberal tips had a differ
ent waiter almost every dav. and he complained to
about II. I investigated and found that ,e
was a big asset of the man who waited or him
and had been bet back and forth In every game
other liberal tippers treated in tht. same
manner, and in order To keep things straight 7
had TO give notice to the walters TO cut out tbs
gambling" "
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
HEAD OF RUSSIAN CHURCH COMING.

The steamer MosNva. Of the Russian N'..'-
fleet which Is due Wednesday from 1ihdu, mas .
a passenger Archbishop PIatou. who comes mere -
succeed Archbishop Tikhou as head 81 the ~ -
dox Russian Church of North America AFI'N7
rnents have been made to meet the AfchosUup -
representatives of :ne Russian Embassy al "N
inlton and by the Russian corsuls here
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16

President Jordan of Leland Stanford Junior Uni
versty Is quoted saying that If two-thirds of
humanity would die. only the best mentally, NOR
ally and physically surviving, we should have a
pretty good sort OF human left. If we
must have an arbitrary standard for improving
humanity by elimination, why make il mathe-
matical? Why not weed out every man so
"ornery" as not to be up to the standard of
Democratic Presidential timber?
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16

It was very thoughtful of Or. Parkhurst TO
allow himself to be interviewed on the general
course of human events some days before sailing
for New York BY giving out in advance his
opinions on everything from the Presidents
policy down to "affinites he charitaby allows
the United States of America ten days in which
to put its house in order without his personal
supervision
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
1esp11ork DAILY Gribrnrs
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1907.

This newspaper is oicnod and published by
The Tribune Association, a NeIC York corpora
sion: Office and principal place Of business, Trib-
.ne Building No. 154 Nassau street, NelO YORK;
Ogden Mills. president; Nathaniel Tuttle, sec
setary and treasurer. The address OF the o.
zfcers is the Office Of this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
AmRAssAnoR cREEL MAY RESIGN.

Chihuahua. Sept. 15.-Since the arrival ttree ud!s
ago Of Don Enrique Cresl Governor Of TINS s'a'S
and Ambassador Of Mexico TO the United ota'e>'
the eport is current I'm official circles that al l7
close of the present year Governor Creel VIII = =
sign his ambassadoriaI post in Washin-ton al'A
will devote all his energies and time 10 the eN70-
tie lIlltirs M I'hihnHhua.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16

is ready to mount any old band wagon. Yet II
IS polite enough to say to Mr.. Bryan: we
will keep on riding with you If you reaIE
"insist on il and take the trouble to stop Ile
sale of tickets at all the side show booking
Offices
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
CAPTAIN AMUNosEN's BOOK.

Chrfstiania Sept 15--The first part OF tapldIi
RoaId Amrndsen's book entitled The NorthSes'
Passage has been published IL Is said O. oe a,
important contribution descriptive Of the 'eoou".
regions Of America. Il is well illustrated. anu
contains se.-eraI poems.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
PRESIDENT AT EARLY SERVICE.

OYSTER Raw Sept. 15-Tte curious ones who gam
ered AZ Christ Church this morning at the usual
hour TO see President Roosevelt arrive and depart
were disappointed. for the President this morning
drove in with Mrs. Roosevelt for early COMMUNION
AZ : o'clock
New-York tribune., 1907-09-16
II is said that the toothbrush" mustache Is
sanitary The name sounds 50.

Mr.. Peter cooper Hewitt confded 10 a London
CORRESPONDENT the other day that nothing Ike
"tha coming Presidential election WAS ever seen
.'in the history Of country; its eject Tor
good for evil. viii he greater than that OF
ANY mast event in America" Mr.. Hewitt also
added that. although the immense resources ana
commercial enterprise of the United States made
utter ruin impossible. yet that is the direction
in which We are now going These forecasts
Of n highly intelligent citizen and good man
NAV serve to suggest whv prophet is so often
without honor in his country.