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New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Miss Ethel de Forests marriage to-day TO Allen
dings scheduled for the month Of October 1t will
take place at noon at Wawapek Farm the country
place AT Cold Spring Harbor Long Island of the
parents OF the bride, Mr.. and Mrs Robert w de
Forest, Of Washington Square North. A special
train will convey the guests from Long Island CITY
TO Cold Spring Harbor in the morning. bringing
them back to the city IN the afternoon. Mrs w
A. w. Stewart Will be her sisters matron of honor
Miss Caroline Delano Miss Marion NJ. -Greenough
Miss Hilda G.. Tiffany. Mrs w Mayo Dudley, all
OF New York. and Miss Phoebe Lord Mccormick
OF Chicago. Will be the bridesmaids. and little
Ethel de Forest Stewart niece of the bride. will
the flower girl. w. \. W. Stewart. Henry L. de
Forest, Henry NJ. Crane. W. T. Rasmus. Edmund
]. Drummond. Frederick D. Sherman and Clarence
NJ. Fnke, the latter OF Pittsburg, will be in at
tendance on the bridegroom The young couple
after the termination OF their honeymoon will
make their home at No. % Waverey Place
Mr. and Mrs. J. Laurens Van Allen are receiving
congratulations the birth Of a son at.ther house
in East 50th street
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd s. Bryce and Miss Bryce
who have sailed tor New York. are due here on
Friday and on their arrival will go 10 their place
at Roslyn, Long Island. for the remainder of the
fall.
Mrs John r. LLvermore and her children who
have been spending the summer at Newport re-
turned yesterday To their country place at Hero-
stead. Long Island.
No date has been set for the wedding OF Mrs
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
FIRE ISLAND.

Fire Island, purchased by the state fourteen
years ago as a quarantine station during the
cholera scare. Is now being sought by a New
York investor, who Is willing to pay $4,000
fef what cost the state S21OOOO Let us SUD-
press the questions this decline naturally gives
rise to- The most interesting feature of the in
cident is the apparent willingness of the State
Land Board to unload the property. AS the
New Workers. offer has Oeen referred to a COM
mttee for investigation, it is proper to assume
that the board still considers Fire Island as the
state authorities long esteemed it. a white
elephant on its hands.
White the great sand ridge is. with the surf
pounding eternally upon 1t; white but not an
elephant. Just because the hotel maintained
on it by the state failed some people have pro-
nounced the land vaueless. But would it be
difficult for the state to reap handsome fixed
income from Fire Island by giving the New
York City Board Of Health and the various
charity organizations of the metropolis the use
of the property for fresh air and convalescent
camps? 1t matters little whether more than
nominal rent We're paid for such lease the
benefit accruing to the citizens of New York
State would be real and great. If New York
City. through either its government its pri-
vate organizations could secure at low cost such
a wind-swept sunny. sandy sea.girt tract, funds
would surely be forthcoming for large health
camps simple equipment. The number of sick
children in New York City will surely not
diminish with the growth of the town. The
host of poor convalescents needing salt air
will not dwindle. And the army of slum chill
dren whom a summer fortnight in a fresh air
camp would both reinvigorate and reform will
continue TO grow by leaps and bounds. In
view of these obvious facts, why should the
state sell Fire Island To private speculator
at a loss Of 100000? There might be some eX-
cuse for such action if the maintenance of this
stretch of Great South Beach were expensive.
But thus far the gray Atlantic has not sa>t In
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
THE INITIATIVE AT THE BAGUE.

One Of the least satisfactory acts of the in
ternational conference at The Hague has been
its disposition of proposals for future meetings
There has been a widespread desire among the
nations that such meetings should be held that
they should be held at stated periods, and that
If they were not automatically summoned the
functions of reminder and arrangement should
be intrusted to some international agency 1t
has been felt that the conferences at The Hague
might well be erected into stated sessions of
veritable Parliament of Man. quite independent
of the will or convenience Of any single power
or sovereign, and courteous proposals calculated
10 effect that end were made to the present con-
gress. These appear 10 have been defeated and
the questions whether there shall be another
meeting, when il shall be held and how il shall
he constituted are left unanswered, to be deter
mined hereafter according to- the will of a sin
gle sovereign. and he one who is by force of cir
cumstances peculiarly subject to opportunis.
influences.
At that there will be much disappointment
Nobody Of course, would wish to deprive the
Russian Emperor Of the credit of having taken
the initiative for the first congress and of hav-
Ing done much for the success of both gather
ings. For all that he has done he is entitled to
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

bend its attention to developing auxiliary sys-
TENS of transportation. Wherever 1t is possible
to transport the produce of the country in
cheaper way than by building additional rail-
ways X must be done. Mr. Hill says navl-
gable channel in the Mississippi River from
II. Louis 10 New Orleans would save three TO
five cents a bushe freight charges on the
grain exported. We hope that the whole coun-
try VIII come TO see the necessity of develop
ing the inland waterways. The interior or
the country is most yitaly affected, but dl-
version of some freight from the railways VIII
relieve the general pressure upon traffic. The
transportation problem is a national one ana
the whole country should feel vitally inter
ested in the movement for navigable waterways
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

and will receive the gratitude of the worh.
But there is not the slightest incompatlDlhV
between such sentiments and the desire 10
have the future congresses placed upon a
different basis. Just because the Emperor
so generously took the original initiative IS
no reason why the conduct and direction
of all the conferences for all time should be In
trusted to- him and his successOrS-or. rather,
thrust upon them. for have no idea that
the Emperor is covetous of the burden. The
selfsame motives of altruism which led him to
issue the original invitation doubtless would
now move him to regard with profound salts
faction the reference of tffSse functions to some
other agency, constituted by the congress Itself
In this there is no room for mere sentimental
it7. and there should certainly be none for par
tsan rivalry. The questions involved are those
of consistency and practically. 1t is axIomatic
that an international conclave should be inter
national in its origin. its constitution and its
direction. 1t is a contradiction in terms TO have
an international body dependent upon the pleas
ure of a single nation or its ruler. Moreover,
important circumstances connected with the
present conference strongly emphasize the ne
cessity. for the sake of practical efficiency of
some different control from that hitherto exer-
ciSed. 1t will be recalled that dual initiative
had to be taken and that there had TO be Il
change of date from that at first contemplated
in order to- avoid conflicting with another great
international gathering. There would be
danger of any such clashing if the time of meet
ing at The Hague were fixed in advance.
There will be, as we have said, widespread
regret because through what seems like mis-
taken excess of zeal in honoring the Russian
Emperor the generous ambitions of that. mOu-
arch have been hampered and their fulfilment
has been delayed The highest respect for him
would have been shown not in thrusting upon
him as a permanency a responsibility which lie
temporarily assumed but which there is no rea-
son to think he desires to retain, but rather in
adopting a course which would have assured
the fullest possible realization of the aims
which he had in view in calling the first meet
ing at The Hague.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
MINNEHAHA. FROM LONDON.
GREAT DEMAND FOR BASKET WILLOW

7
New York State leads the Union the produce
tiOn of willow for the manufacture of baskets ana
wicker furniture, and many of her farmers are
making good profits from its culture. The Iact
that % per cent of the best grade basket willow
used in the United States is imported from Europe
is positive proof that its domestic production Is
still undeveloped industry This latter tact Is
moreover set forth in a report recently made BY q
Massachusetts manufacturer to the National FoIes.
Service This firm has tried obtain Willow
grown in this country. but has given up the llSs
and now imports it's whole stock from France Iho
Mohawk Valley is the leading section IN the pEo-
duction of willow rods at present Everything PIT
duced finds immediate market. and the deindnu
is rapidly on the increase while the supply srows
steadily more inadequate. the result being tnal S
growers receive excellent prices. European manu-
facturers compete keenly for the best produces "a
the countries the other side OF the Atiantlc aIid
until recently only the inferior rods were snippe
to America The prices now prevailing are ln.se
times those quoted for similar stock a Ie" ss~As
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
CENTENARY CELEBRATION ENDS
Two Receptions at St. Naturalization
Greer One of Speakers.

Nv" receptions were held yesterday at St Nj
chaeIs Protestant Episcopal Church. Amsterdam
avenue and seth street in honor Of the celebration
or the centenary Of the church. The first was for
the former and present members of the parish and
was held in the parish house. The Rev DR. John
+. Peters, rector of the church. received the Wis
itors and introduced the guests of honor the Rev
George S. Pratt the Rev. +. Vicors Stevenson the
Rev G. b. Smith and the Rev. Mr. Jules
The reception last night was given under the
auspices of the Mems Guild of the church and was
held in the auditorium After the reception several
addresses were made the meeting being presided
over by Bishop Greer. who congratulated the mem
berS of the congregation their prosperity and
growth and upon their good fortune in having Dr
Peters as their rector. Archdeacon Hicks of the
Diocese of Maryland. spoke on The Churchman'S
CAL to Service" The next speaker was Dean Van
Amringe Of Columbia College. and he was followed
by Professor A '. W. Jackson. of Columbia who
spoke on The Church and the Orient" The re-
cepton last night closed the festivities in honor OF
the centennial celebration of the church.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
About People and Social Incidents.

James Loriard Kernochan TO Alexander Butler
Duncan. whose engagement has just been an
nounced Mr.. Duncan is the of W. Butler Dun
can of No. 1 Fifth avenue, and is brother OF
Mrs. Paul Dana. Of this city, and Of Mrs W VIII
ton Phipps of London. Mrs kernochan Miss
Eloise Stevenson, and is the widow Of James LoriI-
lard KernOchan. whose death about five years aEo
due tc accident in the hunting field He
a of the late James P. KernOchan and a
nephew of the late Pierre Lorard. Young Mrs
Kernochan makes her home at The Meadows.
Hampstead. Long Island. but spends much OF her
time with her mother-in-law. Mrs. James P. Ker-
nochan. at the latter's house in town and at her
place in Newport.
Miss Katharine Kendall and Archibald ". Denny
were married Saturday at the Church OF s.
Mary the Virgin. in West 18th street. shortly after
the departure of the brides parents. Mr. Mrs
W. Beals Kendall, of No. 70 Gramercy Park for
Lenox- Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall had wished to delav
the wedding until the spring. owing to the youth OF
the bride, but the latter unwilling TO wait 50
long and on Saturday evening dispatched tels-
gram to Lenox informing her parents that she had
been married in the afternoon receiving their for
giveness and blessing the wire. Miss Anni.
Livingston Best and her fancs. Elzur Yale-Srnth
who to be married November s, of1catei
as witnesses of the ceremony and bridesmaid
and best Archibald Denny. the bridegroom.
is of Mr.. and Mrs. Harmar D. Denny. OF
Allegheny, Penn.
their return to New York and VIII remain N Lon
don for another fortnight before sailing.
Mr.. and Mrs. AUguste s VatabIe ara at No .,
East SD street for the winter.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt will bring his coaching sea-
son to a close next Tuesday, as far as the dary
runs Of the Venture between the Holland House
and Ardsley. for public hire. ara concerned The
season has been cut short. owing 70 lack OF pop-
ular support. and il is improbable that Mr. Van-
derbilt will repeat the experience next year The
string of horses used, and which were bought for
about A fortnight hence.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur r Manice have leased No
IS West i1th street for the Writer
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt have left
London for Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rogers Winthrop. who are
now in England. and who have been staying with
Mrs. Waldorf Astor at CIiveden are booked 70 sail
the day after tomorrow for New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman ?. Tape have left the
Wyoming, in Seventh avenue and 56th street where
they have been staying since their return to town.
and gre now established at No. 81 West list street
for the winter
Mrs. Arthur B. TwombIy has returned 10 town
from BriarcliH. and is staying at the St Regis
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore a. Havemeyer. on their
return from abroad at the end Of this week Will
go to their country home in the Meadow Brook
district for the autumn. Mr.. and Mrs Harold
Minott, who have been occupying the Havemeyer
place on Long Island. have returned to town.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
4 nlUsements.


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ALT!AMBRA-2-s-Vaude
ASTOR-s-I5-A Yankee Tourist
BELASCO-S-15-The Rose Of the Rancho.
BIsOU-s .i5-Thc Master Builder.
BLANEYS-S :l5-Dion O'Dare
BROADWAY-S:15-R Brothers in Panama
COLONIAL-2-s-Vaudev
CRITERION-S-i5-The Dairymalds
DALY'S-s -30-The Great Divide.
EWEY-2-S-Naudeviile
EDEN MTSEE-Thc World in Wax
EMPIRES :20-A1y Wife.
CsAKRICK-S .20-When knights Were Bold
GERM Ans -2D-Ijpr Richter Zalamea
HAM-2-s-Vaudeyile
HACKETT--s -l5-The Struggle Everlasting
HAMNERSTEIN' 'S-2:I5- s:15-Vaudevfle
HERALD S{IFARE-N:15-The Cir Behind the ouil'i
HIPPODROME-2- -s-Neptune's Daughter and Pioneer
HTDSoN-S J I5--C Classmates
kNTCKERBOCKER 6-15-The Evangelist
IIBERTY-s -gE-Lola from Berlin
I.YCFT-N-C -20-The Thief
IT-S-15-NIrEinius
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-i0 a. m to II p NJ
Electrical Show
y NAJESTIC-C -15--Anna Karenina
NEW ANSTERDAN-s:15-Th Round Up
KEW WORKS. -36-A AdYanced Vaudeville
EANoY-S 1.-THE Man Of the Hour
WALL X SIS -15--The Hurdy Gurdy Girl
WEST END-S-Faust.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy Telegraph 70 The Tribuue. !

ny Ieiegftph 10 me tribune
Newport r L. Sept 3O-Nr- and Mrs Reginald
c. Vanderbilt gave a large dinner this evening at
Sandy Point Farm in honor of Mrs Cornelius VAN
derbit and Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. Mr. and Mrs
Vanderbilt and party of guests depart to-rnor-
row for Brockton, where NIr- Vanderbilt viii ex-
hibit his horses.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. who has been away from
Newport for some time. will return on Tuesday.
Mrs John r IIvermore and her children left
Newport to-day for Hampstead for the autumn
season.
MI ana Mrs. Hugh De L. WillOughby viii close
theT Newport season next week. returning 10
their home in Philadelphia for short stay They
VIII then go TO Palm Beach for the remainder OF
the winter
Mr. and Mrs James B Haggin have again leased
Arleigh for next season
MI and Mrs. Elisha Dyer and Miss Laura swan
departed to-day for Hot Springs TO remain for a
month or So
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
cHILDREN's EYEsIeHT POOR.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: II is much TO he regretted that the eyesight
of children IS so defective. There seems to be
reason that is little thought OF. How frequently
in walks abroad do We see nurses or mothers.
who ought To know better, who have a little Cue
in charge I'm a carriage. lying comfortably as 1ar
wraps are concerned. but on their tender eyes
the full glare of the shining Is il any Won
der that the eyesisht of so many OF the tnuocents
is inturedS = IT begins in the cradle ofttimes
FRIEND OF THE BABIES
New York Sept - 1907
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

After considering the expedency of initiating
electric express service between Stockholm
and Trelleborg at the southern extremity Of
Sweden. the government of that country has de-
cided not to undertake the task. In order TO
operate road safely at the proposed speed
6rom 100 TO 125 miles hour it would be
necessary to make costly changes in the exist
ing line. Unless curves and grade crossings
were eliminated there would he a fine pros
pect of fatal accidents. The transformation
having once been effected. however, the way
would apparently be opened for great econ
omies. Electricity generated by mountain
streams which have not yet been utilized and
in which Sweden abounds should be less ex-
pensive than the coal now used there in loco
motives
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
A sKoWHEGAN NATURE YARN.
From The Kennebec Journal.

tTOIn henneDeC
Here is nature story from Skowhegan which
will bear investigation: Mrs Henry Harris broke
common hens egg in a bowl the other morning
In so doing she noticed another little egg in the
bowl with a shell IL, which proved 10 be a
sparrow's egg. Mrs. Harris called Mr.. Harris to
explain what this strange discovery meant. Mr..
Harris took the sparrow's egg and broke II. In
side the shell he found a little sparrow alive
Mr.. Harris solved the problem. The hen. had
swallowed the sparrows egg whole and In form
ing the shell about her own egg the little egg had
got within, and the warmth OF the hen had been
the required aid ITO hatch the little sparrow: The
sparrow. though not grown quito enough to hatch.
IS alivA.~
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
THE AUTUMN SALON AT PARIS

Paris sept So-The Autumn Salon was opened
to-day at the Grand Palace Though there are
many fantastic canvases. the critics commend the
healthier tone OF the painters The display is nota-
Ole Tor hne exhibitions of the works of Jean Bap-
tiste Carpeaux. Berthe Morizot and Cezanne and
The rehgious COMPOSITIONS Of LosA Maria Sert
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
LAW AND HUMOR.
From The London Globe.

French military law presents some divertins con-
trastS OF rigor and extreme indulgence. An illus
tration of the latter tendency may be wit
messed at the barracks OF Rostoan, near AK in
Provence, where a soldier named Traverse, who
deserted in 1898. has just presented himself. with
wife and hve children, to surrender. expecting 10
benefit himself by an amnesty law. AS he is yet
too young TO benefit by this law, he is being kept
In comfortable quarters, with his family. who
furnished by the officers with all the good things
of life. including school for the children until their
fathers thirtieth birthday shall send them away
not altogether rejoicing
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE AT WORK

The Art Students League of New York began its
twenty-elgnth year yesterday in it's building. in
West 67th street with an enrolment of exactly two
hundred' the largest yet recorded The officers
hau reared 'hat the fight with Anthony Comstock
might reduce the attendahce
The registration included two students from
Japan several from France. Germany and Spain.
and representatives Of several okhAr countries
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
AN ENGAGEM EMIT.

Mr.. and Mrs. George c. Kobbe. of Short Hills
N. J., have just announced the engagement of their
daughter. Alice Leavitt Kobbe. to Curtis Gordon
Rand. son of the late George c. Rand a coffse i'm
porter. OF Lawrence. Long Island. Miss Kobbe is
the granddaughter of the late William A Kobbe
and II. s. Leavitt- Her father. George c. KobbA
is a member OF the law firm OF Roosevelt & Kobbe
of No. q Wall street. this CITY
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

OF the fifteen members of the Assembly from
the greater city indorsed by the Citizens Unioh
as useful and deserving reelection nine are
Republicans. OF forty-three not indorsed
twenty-nine Democrats. OF six Senators
praised by the same body ave are Republicans
Fourteen Democratic Senators and Repub-
lican Senator from this city condemned.
Though the Republicans elect few legislators
from this city those few are mainly useful and
intelligent.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
J. B. JACKSON GOING TO rEHgRAN.

Vienna. Sept S0-John B. jackson. until recently
United States Minister to Greece. who last sum
mer was appointed 10 Persia. left here to-day on
his way TO Athens TO take official leave before
starting Tor Teheran. While in Greece he will
spend one day with Crown Prince George and the
Duchess OF Sparta
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
AeYssINIAN MISSION IN ITAly

Racconigi Italy. Sept. SO.-King Victor En-
manuel to-day received the members of a mission
bearing him letter from King Menelik of
Abyssinia- His majesty entertained his visitors at
luncheon and conferred decorations on them
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
MR.. KIPLING STARTS WEST.

Montreal. Sept So-Rudyard Kipng. accompa-
MED by his wife. left here to-day by the Canadian
Pacific Transcontinental Express for the Pacific
Coast, 1t being their intention to visit Wnnipeg
Vancouver and Victoria
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS.

Among those who will sail for Europe to-day are
KAISER WILHELM II FOR BREMEN.
y w Mr.. F c. Have
DR. and Mrs. J. II. Carver.
Mr. and s l. Depew DR.. and Mrs F. Rcessler.
II E Duncan samuel W
Arthur Groves Mr.. and Mrs II. p. VIII
Miss V b. Hadden- Jams.
Among the passengers who returned from abroad
yesterday
MINNEHAHA. FROM LONDON
Lieutenant Colonel E. D. Mrs J. Grant
Card. Of the English Miss Grant. =
Major Gerald Mansneio-
Miss NJ CoddingtOn. r A. IT. c.
Mrs Hughes FawCett Miss Clara NJ. Verbeck.
c. Wilson ForshAy
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

A woman has left $1,OOOOOO to a Pennsyl
vania college condition that it discontinue
all intercollegiate sports. The college always
has a good football team, too. We shall now
have a chance to find out whether a football
team is worth as much to a college as 81 600,
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

This newspaper is 0icned and published bu
The Tribune Association. a Ne,C York corpora
tion; Office and principal place of business Trib-
ame Building, No. 154 Nassau street Net0 York; i;
Ogden Mills president; Nathaniel TuttIc. sec
retOry and treasurer, The address of the Of
15cers is the office of this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

Women's hats the experts tell us, now
the same as they were a hundred years ago.
That is doubtless the reason why they seem to
be looking backward
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

a bill to Albany for services rendered in piling
up and pounding down the sand that makes
Fire Island
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01
aetp7lork DYilp G1ibmste

TUESDAY. OCTOBER !. 1907.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

Mrs Arthur B. TwOmbly has returned 10 tow
from Briarcliff. and is staying at the St. Regis
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman P. Tape have left the
Wyoming in Seventh avenue and 56th street where
they have been staying since their return to town.
and gre established at No. 81 West list street
for the winter
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore A. Havemeyer. on their
return from abroad the end Of this week Will
go to their country home in the Meadow Brook
district for the autumn. Mr.. and Mrs Harold
Minott, who have been occupying the Havemeyer
place on Long Island. have returned to town.
New-York tribune., 1907-10-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Rogers Winthrop who are
now in England. and who have been staying with
Mrs. Waldorf Astor at Cliveden are booked 70 sail
the day after tomorrow for New York.