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New-York tribune., 1907-11-09

assumption of retroactive unpaid obligations
would cost the Treasury between S50.000OOO
and $6O,OO0,00O.
We can sec no justification for this gratuity.
Neither can the Civil Service Reform League
The federal civil servants never dreamed Of
such a windfall when they took office They
have had. in the main. easier hours, longer va
cations. better pay and more consideration than
persons doing the same grade of work in pri-
vate employment. and they have no special
claim the governments indulgence. If they
have been thrifty they have already saved the
portion of salary which would have gone into
the proposed annuity fund Why then credit
them with a retroactive allowance, equal in
amount, hearing / per cent compound interest:
That would be an eXtravag8nt price to pay for
sDaring the SenSibilities of department and
bureau chiefs who say that they lack the stern
ness of heart TO discharge enfeebed clerks
who have passed the seventy-year limit.
The approximation committee makes another
point against the Keep scheme which is worth
noting. 1t is proposed TO ask the govern
ment to collect salary assessments and hold
or them. allowing per cent compound
interest and meeting the annuitieS as they ma
ture. This procedure would put the Treasury
in the position of a borrower at much higher
rate than it pays in the open money market.
If it invested the annuity fund in It's own
bonds it would make per cent and pay over
per cent, and the taxpayers would have to
contribute TO make good the annual deficit.
Unless the Treasury were TO go into business
in the way savings banks and insurance COM
panies do, earning higher rate of interest
than it paid the funds it held, the cost of
operation of Il superannuation annuity scheme
would be vastly out of proportion to any ben
efts it could yield to the taxpaying public,
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
TO EXHIBIT WORK OF ST. GAUDENs.
Commemorative Exercises To Be Held by
National Arts and Other Bodies.

Spencer Trask. president of the National Arts
Club. announced yesterday that, in addition to the
commemorative exhibition of the work OF Augustus
ST. Gaudens. which VIII be held in January by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, acting I'm cooperation
with Mrs St Gaudens. commemorative exercises
will be held by the National Arts Club and the
leading bodies of the Fine Arts Federation.
Mr.. Trask said that shortly after the death of
St. Gaudens the National Arts Club began move
ment to hold appropriate memorial services, but on
hearing that the Metropolitan Museum planned to
hold exhibition of the sculptor's work IL deferred
action. As the Museum has now definitely decided
simply TO give exhibition of ST. Gaudens's work,
the club will go ahead with its plans to hold ap-
propriate memorial services. Mr.. Trask said
committee had just been appointed TO make the
necessary arrangements for holding these exer-
cises The exhibition OF St. Gaudens's work at the
Metropolitan Museum will last a month. and the
date for holding the commemorative services will
be fixed within that period.
The members OF the committee which has been
appointed comprise representatives of the Metro
politan Museum of Arts. the National Arts Club,
the National Academy OF Design, the National
Sculpture Society. the Municipal Art Society. the
Architectural League and several other organiza-
tions with which St Gaudens less
closely associated. The programme OF exercises.
with date and place. will be announced as soon as
II has been decided upon.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau


Washington Nov. S.-Mme- Nabuco and Miss
Nabuco, wife and daughter of the Brazilian Am
bassador who arrived the Lusitania elis MORN
ing from a visit of several months to Europe.
reached Washington this afternoon accompanied
by Maurtcio the elder son Of the family. and the
other children. Miss Nabuco will be among the
debutantes of this season.
The newly appointed Minister from Chilli. who
reached this country the Lusitania to-day, came
directly to Washington. and has established his
temporary legation quarters at the Burlington He
is accompanied by SenOra Cruz and SenOr Don
Alberto Yoacham. secretary and charge dafraires
pending the arrival of SerOr Cruz.
The Minister from Norway and Nine Hauge lett
Washington this afternoon for New York prepara-
tory to sailing Europe next Tuesday. They wfll
be absent from the capital three four months
part of the time be spent in Norway.
The Belgian Minister and Baroness Moncheur
who are now the returning from a visit
of several months abroad. will arrive In New YORK
on Tuesday and come at once to Washington
Baroness Moncheur in delicate health when
she left Washington but is reported to have en-
tirely recovered her strength.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
mNSe1ncntS.


ACADEMY OF MUSIC-2-s:I5-The Lion and the Mouse
ALiAAfBRA-2-s-Eau audeviile-
ASTOR- -2lE-S:I5--A Yankee Tourist
BELASCo-2-s l5-The Rose Of the Fancno' ,oa,oss
BERKELEY the Opera; 9:45-A Japanese
Lady: 1O.30-The Van Dyck
BIJOU-2l5- -s:I5-The Master Builder.
BLANEY -2:15-s:l5-Faust
BROADWA Y-2:I5-S.I5-T Round Up
CARNEGIE HALL-2:90-Roston symphony orchesTa-
CASINO-2:15- -s:l5-The GAY White Way
CIRCLE-2:l5- -s.I5-Two Islands
COLONIAIs-2-s-XaU
cRITERION-2I5-s:l5-T DaiTl maids
DALY'S-2-S.2O-Thc Great Divide
DEWET-2s- Vaudeville.
EDEN MTsEE-The World IN Wax
EMPIRE 2:l5-s :20-My wife
GARRICK-2:l5-S2 2G-Artie -,
-2:f5-Maria Magdalena; S;l5-Dle Efzlehu4s
GOTHAM -2-s-Naudevile.
HACKETT- -2:2o- s-30-When Knights Were Bold
IAMAiETsSTEIN's- Vaudeville. -,
HIPP0DRoME- Daughter and Pioneer
HUDSGN-2:l5-s 10 Classmates.
KNTCKERBOCKER- -2:l5--S 15-The Hoyden
LIBERTY -2:15-S-I5-TI Rogers Brothers in Panama.
I.Y t,T- -I-215- s.3O--The Thief
I-YRIt'-2:lJ- Miss Pocahontas.
MADISON SQUARE-2:l5-s:I5--The Coming OF mrs
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN--1o a IN to II p, NJ
IAJEsTIS|2l5| |s:i5-The Top o tn World y,
MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE-2:3o-Carheh' IL
NENDEI.SSOHN HAIL. Recital
&EW AMSTERDAM s:15-The Merry Nido"-
sagoY-2:l5- :15-The OF the Hour.
ST. NICHOLAS RINK-Three Sessions Daily--lce Skat-
ST. I-F;sANT-2-s:15-A Grand Army
WEBER'S- S:15-T5ipi hip! Hooray!
WEST FENl)-2-s-The Girl Rafes.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN PEACE.

The coming American Peace Congress, which
will meet at Washington on the initiative OF the
United States and Mexico and which will have
for its object the establishment of permanent
peace and possibly Of some degree Of federal
unity among the five republics of Central Amer
ica, is to be regarded with sincere sympathy
and not without hope 1t may be that memory
will preclude anything like confidence or enthu-
siasm for the record of those countries for the
last eighty years is not inspiring to the lover of
peace and civic progress. Nevertheless, the
many failures of the past do not bar out the
possibility of success now or in the near future
On the contrary, there is something in that
dreary experience which may actually promote
the achievement of better things, now that an
attempt is being made under circumstances quite
different from and much more promising than
any of earlier years.
The story of Central America is a story of
broken peace pacts and dissolved unions. Begin
ming as one kingdom under Spain, the five prov
inces became separate in their act of indepen-
dence, but Immediately thereafter sought reunion
and incorporation with Mexico. Separation
from Mexico and dissolution of the union fol-
lowed, and then wars. truces federations and
secessions came in swift succession. Salvadors
appeal for United States protectorate, Guate-
mala's pretensions to hegemony the rise and
fall of the sixth state of Los Altos the patriotic
craftsmanship or Morazan, the atrocities of Car
rera, the United Provinces of the Centre of
America the Panama Congress- the Central
American Federation, the strenuous campaign
of Barrios, the Greater Republic of Central
America and the United States of Central Amer
lea, together with innumerabe other incidents,
names and essays, have passed into history,
leaving the states no better off than before ex-
cepting the ground that the longest lane
must have a turning. and that therefore the
further those states proceed In their unhappy
way the nearer they come to the inevitable turn
ing point
There are really strong reas 1ns why there
should be not only enduring peace but also
drm and stable federal union among the Central
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
THE NEWS THIS MORNING-

FoREIGN-Robert Caldwell, of Staten ISL
and testified in the perjury case OF Druce
aet. Druce to prove that the nfth Duke Oh
Portland was the grandfather OF the plain
tiff Emperor William and the Empress
Augusta Victoria left Berlin for Flushing, where
they viii embark for England; the German pup
lie is showing great interest in the visit. -
A Drinter's apprentice named Paul MlnoW, an
epileptic, confined in an asylum, has confessed
to the murders OF girls in Berlin last July. -
The Chinese order excluding japanese mail car
riers on the New Chwang branch of the I'M
perial Railway has caused Japan to postpone
settlement of the postal regulations; -
No new peers will be named in the list Of King :
birthday honors; Sir Charles Tupper viii be
made a Privy Councillor, and John Hare and
Charles Santley viii be made knights
DOMESTIC. The League OF Republican
C,IuEIs nIans 10 take a polI of the state of New
York to ascertain the sentiment of the voters
on the Presidency. =- DR.. David J. Hill, Min
lister to the Netherlands. has been selected to
succeed Charlemagne Tower as United States
Ambassador to Germany. - Two hundred
and fifty weavers in the plant of the Bigelow
Carpet Company, at Lowell, Mass, struck be-
cause OF an alleged broken agreement. ==
Joseph II. Choate was elected president of the
National Civil Service Reform League, in ses-
sion AT Buffalo. Attorney General Bona
parte, at Buffalo. said that President Roosevelt
would not abandon his activity against per
nicious trusts. = At a conference in San
Francisco Governor Gillett and local officials
decided to call the federal government for
financial aid in stamping out the bubonic
plague. - Jesus Garcia, a locomotive en-
gineer, lost his life in saving Nacozari, Ariz.,
from destruction; he hauled two burning cars
of powder outside the town, where they ex-
ploded, blowing the train and section house
filled with Mexican laborers to bits.
CITY.-Stocks were strong. = Timothy l.
Woodruff said he expected to settle the Provi-
dent Savings Life Assurance Society troubles
to-day. - The Public Service Commission
issued many orders regarding transit on Staten
Island - Commissioner Bingham COM
planned that ths Police Department tied up
by Controller Metz's refusal to turn over the
contingent fund. - Messrs. Woodruff Wads-
worth and Parsons. 1t was announced, will all
visit the President this week
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for to-day:
Fair The temperature yesterday: Highest 90
degrees: lowest, 40.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From The Tribune Bureau. ]


Washington. Nov S-The President hopes TO be
able to visit Hampton Roads on December 16 for the
purpose of saying farewell to the commanders OF
the batteship fleet before they sail for the Paclhc
If he makes the voyage to the place of departure
he will give reception TO the officers on board
the Mayfower and will review the ships OF the
fleet when they sail for Cape Horn and the Golden
Gate.
John A Stewart. president of the League of Re
publican Clubs of New York. and James b. Key
nods called to the President. and after ther
visit announced that poll was to be taken of the
Republican voters of New York for the purpose
of discovering their Presidential preferences
The President has called the attention OF the
Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior
to the recent murder of Walker, Secret Service
agent in Colorado and urged them to pursue un-
remitt'ngly the violators of the law Walker was
following when he net his death.
The Cabinet met at IL a. m. ond adjourned at
p. m. After the meeting Secretary Cortelyou said
he thought the financial situation had been re-
lieved to some extent. and he hoped to see con-
tinual improvement from this time
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
CIVIL OLD AGE PENSIONS.

The superannuation committee of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform League deals the
Keep Ole age pension plan some heavy blows
in a report just presented at the leagues an
nual meeting in Buffalo. The Tribune has
freely criticised the Keep scheme on the ground
that II undertakes to cure small evil at an
extavagant cost and offers a remedy which is
worse than the original disease. We are glad
to have our general conclusions corroborated by
the league committees studies and findings.
The evils OF superannuation in the federal
Civil Service are not extremely fragrant. There
is undoubtedly appreciable loss of efficiency
on the part Of clerks and operatives who have
passed the age Of siyty-fve But under the pro-
posed annuity plan involuntary retirements are
not TO begin until seventy, and only IL per
cent OF the present federal employees are over
seventy. On that basis, counting the efficiency
OF those now on the rolls who are over seventy
at 20 per cent-or even at so per cent-the loss
TO the government in overpay is very small.
The eague's superannuation report of last year
estimated the loss from inefficiency of en-
ployes over sixty-ive years at only $1,000, 900
a year, or a fraction of per cent OF the annual
payroll.
1t may be conceded that it is highly desirable
to avoid this depreciation. But it ia even more
desirable to avoid spending two or three times
S1,200,O00 a year to eliminate the superannu-
ated. The Keep committee, composed of men
naturally interested in promoting the welfare
of the federal employees as individuals well
as in increasing their efficiency a body.
did not stop at recommending a compulsory
savings plan in accordance with which each
ofiiceholder should provide for his own retire
ment, the government contributing the expense
Of administering the joint retirement fund.
There would be no great objection to the adop-
ton Of such a scheme, especially if the Treas
ury were not called upon TO pay too high rate
Of interest on It's enforced loans from the en-
ployes. But such a project would have little
TO recommend it TO the civil servants them
selves, for 1t would bring them no greater re-
rlrn on the whole than if they individually In
vested their savings IN annuities or securities
It lacks the feature Of giving something for
nothing, and that attractive feature the Keep
committee supplied by proposing that the gov
ernment credit TO each employe now on the
rolls the sum which he would have paid In
had yearly assessments been levied on his sal
ary since ths day he entered the service. That
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
mo ROOSEVELT REACTION"
,om The New York World.

From The New YORK World
However anxious we are to ind somethins g N
wholesome and adequate rebuke TO President Roose-
welt. we have been unsuccessful
for the Democratic party and evidence OF brighter
Democratic prospects, the returns refuse 10 as
slSt
On the contrary the figures justify President
Roosevelt's exultant boast that the returns are
extremely gratifying and that whole the
shoWinS mas been an Improvement over whaI II
was four years ago and eight years ago"
Comparatively. the Republican party polls us
heaviest vote In Presidential years. the Democrats
party in off years. This was an OF year. There
should have been decisive Democratic victories
with corresponding Republican defeats. Where are
they?
Not in New Jersey, although in the early hours
OF Wednesday morning The World deluded 1tseI11
the state. and the President points out. by a
larger majority than they had in 1893. when VoOr-
years earlier Mckinley had a plurality OF $500
The bitterest anti-ROosevet sentiment in the coun
street Nowhere is this sentiment better reflected
politically than in the great cOmmuter vote OF New
Jersey TaklnS this fact into consideration, the
Saving OI thai state 10 the Republicans was a re-
markable achievement
Kentucky has gone Republican for the fourth
tlhe since 1884 and Wilson's plurality for Gov
ernOr Is greater than the abined Republican
piuraIltes in the three other elections Nebraska
Mr. Bryan's state has given Increased or
year majOrities to the Republican caudidates The
republican candidate for Governor in Massachu-
SeIts poIled more votes than all his opponents COM
ihepuohctns ~ carried Brooklyn and held their own
III ~ ths state Indeed they have done more, for IL
Iactor the Democratic party NAV be as sadly split
IN New YORK as IL is in Massachusetts.
trI, ey @ s 1hat tne results throughout the eoun-
~ cNIuelce no ammunition of Republican strength
and no abatement OF Mr.. ROosevelt's popularity
Ternaps Mr., Bryan and his vociferous admirers
which should show great Democratic gains and
hold out new hope and promise TO the Democratic
found.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
PEOPLES INSTITUTE OPENS NOV. 10
William Nj. Ivins and Judge Whitman To Be
First Night Speakers.

The Peoples Institute will open its tenth sea-
son tomorrow. when William NJ Vlhs' Dr-
David B!austein DIR. George William Knox and
Judre Charles 5 Whitman will be the speakers
at q meeting To be held in the evening IN Cooper
Union All Of the speakers will deal with the
general topic of The Outlook for Social and
Civic Reform
The courses OF the institute will be on sun
day Monday. Tuesday and Friday evenings
Among the Sunday evening speakers are Presi-
dent Schur1nan of Cornell University who VIII
deliver an address on November Il: Mrs. Anna
Garland Spencer. who will speak November
"a, and DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, Dr. Samuel
Schulman DR.. Lyman Abbott the Rev. Charles
F, Aked AIgernon o. Crapsey and the Rev Ste
phen s. Wise. The. weekday evenings will be
devoted to the practical study of present social
problems. Professor L. L. Wilkinson. OF Cam
bridge. England; Professor Franklin H cid
dings. OF Columbia University, and Leslie Willis
Sprague will be among those who will give
courses.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.


Washington Nov S-Invitations have been re-
ceived in Washington from Lady Rowland widow
of Sir William HowIand. first Governor General of
Canada for the marriage of her daughter, Eliza
beth Louise Bethune, to the Rev. Thomas Camp
bell. of Christ Episcopal Church, Cincinnati. The
ceremony will take place on Thursday. November
H. at 3 o'clock, st. Pauls Church, Toronto
Canada.
Mrs NJ. A Hanna who spent last winter in
Washington. will return here for the season. ar
riving the middle Of next week She has large
apartment in 18th street Joseph Medill Mccormick,
the son-in-law of Mrs. Hanna. is now in Washing
ton and was the guest of the President and Mrs
Roosevelt at luncheon yesterday.
The first large dance of the season will be suo-
scrpton affair be given at Rauschers on Christ
mas Eve Mrs Fleming Newbold and a number OF
other young matrons are sponsors.
Brigadier General Arson Mills U. S. A. retired
and Mrs. Mills have gone TO Mexico to remain
month or six weeks.
Miss Carlisle. daughter Of the late Calderon Car
isle of this city. will accompany her aunt and
New-York tribune., 1907-11-09
ELECTRICITY IN THE NAVY.

The description of the educational work con-
Quoted at the Brooklyn navy yard which we
printed yesterday must have been to most of
our readers a novel well as an interesting
revelation Few persons realize to what a
variety of uses electricity is now put on a mod
ern war vessel, or of the need of qualifying
a number of enlisted men to operate or re-
pair. the electrical appliances which form
part Of it's equipment
Electricity wonderfully facilitates the work
which has to be done on a warshp It elevateS
the guns, brings up ammunition from the maya
zine and communicates advice to the gunner
regarding his aim from a post Of observation
In one of the tops. The same magical agency
supplies lights inside and outside ship, opens
and closes doors and hatches actuates auto
matte indicators drives ventiatlng blowers
and winches which control a great variety of
hosting tackle and even performs the hum
bic office of mixing dough for the cook. Tele-
phones are already in use for the distribution
of orders, and are to be employed to pick up
fog signals transmitted through the water.
Wireless telegraphic apparatus is another essen
tial to the outfit of battleship or cruiser.
Some of the applications of electricity here
enumerated have been made extensively In the
merchant marine. Others are distinctively mill
tary. A few are OF such recent origin that their
development is still incomplete. The oldest or
them, with the exception of telephone CONVEX
saton, has career which dates only from the
invention of the dynamo, twenty-five or thirty
years ago. In Nelson's day electricity had not
rendered the slightest practical service to man
Its uses were hidden in q remoter future than
the propulsion of ships by steam.
With enlarged opportunity, however comes
enlarged responsibility. Courage and profess
sional ability are much needed to-day as
they ever were, but the increase In the size of
war vessels and the remarkable diversity of
mechanism employed them impose a tax
on administrative talent unknown a century
ago Moreover not only are there larger ships
and crews, but the duties of the enlisted men
have become more specialized. If most of these
can be learned on board. for some, at least, an
adequate training can be had only on shore
Instruction In the elements Of electrical art