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New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
WAR on THE COLOyyzEBs

raid made yesterday morning by Mr. VIII
lam Leary. State Superintendent of Elections.
on lodging house in lower Third avenue
brought to light the fact that of thirtv-two
voters registered from thar hospitabIe caravan
sary only one actually had lodging under its
roof This discovery should be classed as sensa-
tional and would create sensation were it
not that fraudulent registration like police cor
ruption, has long been so deep rooted i'm our
ScheIne OF local politics as to pass for an un-
avoidable afiictiOn. like miserable transit ser
vice, food adulteration, high rents. taxes and
death. There can be no question that the power
or Tammany Hall is propped 10 large extent
by the twin evils of partnership with the Grim
inal classes and fraudulent voting. In the
region below l4th street and UP and down the
two river fronts illegal registration has been
reduced TO fine ART, and hitherto the convic-
lions for this crime have been so few as IN
leave its patrons and practitioners with COM
Portable sense of immunity
II was observed in the mayoralty campaign of
1903 iEat the sO-called Sullivan districts I'm
lower Manhattan showed far less than any
"iher section of the city the effect Of the popuar
uprising against Tammant and Tammapv
methods. In these districts Tammanv held IFS
strength far better than elsewhere solely be
cause the vote cast there was 10 great extent
AN iiegitimate vote not to be affected by any
ordinary political considerations. These down
town districts with a stationary and declining
population cast each year more votes than can
b. reasonably accounted for. The character
Of the population has greatly changed in the
last decade. The lower East Side has been
filled up with aliens, large proportion of them
still non-y0ters, while those Of them who do
vote are little disposed TO affiliate with Tam
many Hall because of racial anita gonisms. MANY
of the newcomers-notably the Italians-be-
come Republicans and the Russian Hebrews are
inclined 20 socialistic ideas and follow social,
istic leaders of their own race and tongue Yet
Tammany Hall somehow retains its relative
strength. and the conclusion is irresistible that
1T draws its recruits each year not much from
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
THE. PANAMA CANAL LOCKS

The serious official consideration which is be
ing given to the question of the size of the Pan
anna canal locks is undoubtedly merited by rei-
son of the Importance of the question, and the
announcement that an increase of the width of
the locks by ten feet has been decided upon will
be generally received with satisfaction. Since
the lock type of canal has been adopted it GER
tainly behOOves its advocates and the executors
of their plans to vindicate it by obvlatng every
material objection and proving It to be, as they
have confidently declared 1t to be, essentially
preferable to the sea level type even at the same
cost Of time and money. They must therefore
make sure that the lock canal will give passage
to the largest ships with as much ease. security
and expedition as would canal without 10, ks.
That means, obviously, that the locks must be
sufficiently capacious thus to handle any ships
which are now atloat and any which are likely
to be built in the near future that they shall
be susceptible Of enlargement to meet the needs
of larger vessels without suspension or obstruc-
ton of commerce. II would be unwse to say
that ships of the size of the Lusltania will
ever be sent that way, seeing what large vessels
are already in use in the Pacific as we'll as the
Atlantic and how strongly the tendency in sev-
eral maritime nations is toward the construction
of mammoth ships. OF course to say that we
shall probably not want to use it much if at all
for great battleships would be simply stul-
tfying. Nothing about the canal as a great
national work IS more Imperative than that it
shall be adapted in the most perfect manner for
the use Of our very largest naval vessels.
Entirely apart from future Developments
therefore the present demand is for Il canal
which will give commOdious passage to ships of
IS feet beam and 7S5 feet length. We may we'll
doubt whether the locks rs originally planned
would do that. \ width of 100 feet would leave
only six feet at each side Of the NIauretania or
of one Of the new battleships which this country
IS about to build Theoretically, on The prin-
ciple that "a miss is good as Il mile" that might
be enough. Indeed, ship 90 feet wide would be
quite safe In a lock 100 feet wide provided she
could be kept perfectly true In the centre. But
in raising and lowering the ships in the locks
II would i'm practice be exceedingly difficult
without taking entirely too much time in the
procesS-to avoid some oscillation and the re-
suits of even slight impact Of q 25.OOO-ton
steel ship against the walls of a concrete lock
are not to be contemplated without much appre-
henSion. The additional ten feet now decided
upon Will increase the space nj each side Of the
ship To eleven feet That may be enough. but
we doubt If many prudent engineers will CON
slider il an excessive. if even an ample margin
of safety.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01

the bona fee residents of the section as from
Heaters, political doubles and casual sOjourners
III the classic haunts of the BOwery.
Recent changes in the registration laws have
made it easier TO trace the pedigrees and quail
fcations Of intending voters since every hotel
or lodging house is compelled to make return
full month before Election Day of those main
taning n residence there. The new Supern-
tendent Of Elections in this city, Mr.. Leary,
deserves credit for employing the extra time
allowed him to compare the lodging house re-
turns with the registration lists and TO inquire
ly personal visitation into suspicious dlspari-
ties. The political colOniSt and the political
col' nizer should he eXterminated and they can
he eXterminated by pursuit and exposure. One
distinguished Tammany professional Niger
Nike SalteT. has forfeited his bail rather than
stand trial for registration frauds. There are
hundreds Of other Tammany workers who have
assisted in colonZing enterprises. and they
should also be caught and cured of the habit We
hope that Mr.. Leary does not overstate the sit
uation when he says that yesterday mornings
raid is only the precursor" of serious dis
closures vet to come
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
TRUST COMPANY RESERVES.

The chief question at issue between the trust
companies and the banks regarding the terms on
which the former shall be permitted 10 enter 5he
Clearing House Association appears TO be- the
percentage Of reserves which the trust com
panes shall be required to maintain. The Clear
ing House banks are inclined TO insist that the
trust companies keep the same reserves which
the national banks required by law to keep
namely. - per cent in cash Some of the trust
companies are reported to be ready to concede
the reasonableness of this requirement, while
others incline to think that their business so far
differs from that of the banks that they can get
along safely with less cash on hand.
We understand that ii is proposed by the
Clearing House TO separate the time accounts
from the demand accounts Of the trust com
paneS when il comes TO reckoning the reserves
they should maintain. If this is done there
seem TO be good reasons why the companies
should keep rs large reserve against their de
mand accounts, that is, the strict banking side
of their business the banks do. The trouble
hitherto i'll fixing a proper reserve for the trust
companies has been that it has been set by
guesswOrk. The trust companies have said
that their business was only partly banking
business. Well, then it has been estimated, -
per cent will be about right. That was the per
centage formerly demanded by the Clearing
House. and that was the rate fixed in the state
law. although the latter permitted the invest
ment of one-third Of the reserves in bonds. No
one ever ascertained what proportion Of their
deposits subject TO checks. If large part
of them was, then obviously their reserves
should be larger than if only a small portion of
them could be withdrawn without warming
The Clearing House, if it comes to an agree
ment with the trust companies. will 90 about
settling this question in a scientific manner
The present state law with regard to trust COM
pany reserves is Il compromise measure and
works inequitably. 1t requires Is per cent
reserve of companies which do no banking bust
ness, but only the old-fashioned trust business
and the same reserve of companies engaged
mainly in banking. In the one case the reserve
is too large and in the other too small The
state law should discriminate as the Clearing
House proposes to do. between demand accounts
and time accounts
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01

high rentals which are charged for dwellings,
the working people of the Hungarian cities are
compelled TO live more like rabbits in a warren
than like human beings In Vienna and Ber-
lin the situation is bad enough, 2S per cent Of
dwelling houses being Overcrowded but in Buda-
pest, with all its wealth and splendor and the
modern improvements" which mark it as one Of
the most progressive cities in the world. the
percentage of Overcrowded dwellings or tene-
ments reaches the appalling height of "A. The
effect of these conditions on health and morals
is, of course. disastrous.
The thought is that these evils could and
Should be- corrected largely through legislation
and that such legislation might be secured if
a system Of true universal and equal suffrage
were adopted, under which the working people
would be able to send their own Representatives
to Budapest and to exercise for the first time
an effective force in politics That these ex-
pectatiOns would be IN some measure realized
Is probable. We know how much has been eff
fected for the public good in this city by legis-
latiOn for the regulation of tenements and work
shops. And though there might also be some
disappointment since legislation is not after
all omnipOtent, it is not unreasonable to believe
that on this ground Of social and industrial re-
form alone universal suffrage would be amply
vindiCated and Of course there are other and no
less important grounds for its establishment.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
4nlnSementS.


ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s:I5The Lion and the Mouse
AIHAMBRA-2-S-Naud
ASTOR-S:I5-The Yankee Tourist.
RELASCO-6:l5-The Rose of the Rancho.
PJJOU-S:i6-The Master Builder
BI-ANET' 'S-S:l5- -Pinafore-Ca valera Rusti'ana
BROADWAY-S:I5-Th Round Up
CASiNO-S;l5-The Gay White Way.
COLONIAIs-2-S-Vaudeville
CRITERION-S15-The Dairymads.
DALY'S-s.20-The Great Divide
DEWEY -2-s-Nauoevile
EDEN MUSEE-The World in Wax.
EMPIRE-S :2O-Afy Wife.
GARDEN-S:2tp S:2tp-Madam Butterfly.
GARRICE-S.2C Artie.
GERAAN-S:20-Der Gruene Kakadu, I-ctEten Masken
ard literatur
GOTHAM M-2-S-Naudeviile.
HACK ETT-S:30- Knights Were Bold.
IEAAiA- ERSTEIN- -S:l5-Vaudeyile
HERALD SQUARE-s:15-The Girl Behind the counter.
PPODROME-2-s-Nep5unes Daughter ana Pioneer
HUDSoN-s:ia-Cassn
KNICkERBOCKER- -s:I5-fhe Hoyden.
LIBERTY -i5-Rogers Brothers IA Panama.
LYCEI -:}p--The Thiet.
LYlTf-S:I5-& Hiss Pocahoutas
NtTf,S7-t' 1=-Tle Top IN World
McNDFI.SSOHN HALL<-3.l5-Piano Recital
NEW AMSTERDAM S.15-rhc Merry WIDOW
>.r-s- t.RCI.y.-e 1.-Two Islands
NEW york;: s:30-Advanced Vaudeville.
SAVOY s:15-G'he Man Of the Hour
ST'r-E fcSA vt S-15-A Grand Man.
wall ACK'S- s. -I5--The Silver Girl.
WFPER'S S:15-FIir, Hip! Hooray'
WEST END-S-At Yale.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
from Tho Tribune Bureau


Washington. Oct. 2l.-The Third Assistant Score
tary OF State and Mrs Huntington Wilson have as
Their guests Miss Huntington and Irwin Laugh
Hh' second secretary OF the American Embassy
at ST. Petersburg.
Liirz Anderson. who has been in his house in
massachusetts avenue for some davs past has
gone 70 New York to meet Mrs Anderson. who ia
spending some time there. Mr.. Anderson viii h.
mere again within two weeks. and a UttIa I,,ar
IN the season they Will open their house for tbs
winter '0i the
S' martina Scldmore has her guest for q
week or two Mime. Inazo Nitobe for WHOM, -,
siderable entertaining will be done esnsciaI1, -
washington people who have spent much rirHa -
Japan. "''i uille IN
Rear Admiral and Mrs. John McC;ovar to...
leased their house in street to Repraser,ati,.o
anu MIS- j. Soat Fassett. OF New Yorj, srd iii
30 ABROAD 10 remain for a year
mutations have been issxed for the vvAddi,e, -.
MSS Emily Cotton and Lieutenant Co-,,,,, a., =
Archioaid Hlard Davis. L. s N for 70 o.oI
"euhesoay' November 90 at St Johns Cbrrct
"euulhs breakfast at the home OF Misc Co,to..1
ta1her' Francis Cotton, in Connecticut avar,o IN
follow the ceremony iNe' VIII
me marriage OF Miss Gertrude Rrov,r -,
t ei o1 Mrs Sevellon Brown. and George T -
IeSS' j. took place at 8 O'Clock this aftar,r- -.
'''e NOME OF the brides mother and IN tn -
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
THE MANLY ART IN COLLEGES. !

President Winston of the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College of North Carolina is
gifted with original ideas. deep sense OF JUS
tice and total immunity from all moycoddle
affections. He is the only educator in the
world who has discovered method of stimuli
taneously abolishing the hated custom of haZ-
ing assuring to every collegian fair play in in
terclass fights and maintaining the highest de-
gree of strenuosity and excitement in under
graduate life. President Winston is reported
~ have suppressed at his institution all the old
fashioned forms OF student warfare and substi-
tuted therefor the time honored Philistinism of
man-to-man combat. Already, under the new
rules. the freshman class has twice met the
sophomores on the athletic field On each oc-
casion upper class men and members OF the
faculty presided and ruled out all rough and
tumble tactics. well as hitting below the belt
Sixty-fve pairs of ungloved warriors fought
Loyalty under Marquis of Queensberry rules and
succeeded in smashing four noses and displac-
ing several dozen teeth Owing to the pugiI,st,c
inexperience of some of the contestants a num-
ber of faces were deeply scratched and one or
two friendships broken.
Here and there protesting voices have been
raised and the senior class is said TO have
Dassed Condcmnatory resolutions Rut the
president should triumph Too long has the
great American college system failed TO educat.
Youths in the manly art Of self defence. The
tendency has been constantly toward .anass
plavs' in which collegans acquire skill onIv in
the ruthless art of combining the forces of
many against a few. Glass rushes hazing Ia
crosse and football are imperfect educationaI
devices III so far as they fail to make those
who participate in them self-reliant rbasa
sports, furthermore. have the serious disad
vantage of encouraging players to do things
Jointly which they would be ashamed to do as
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
WEDDINGS.
LEY Telegranh tn H.

tEy Telegraph The Trbuns,
rertba -, =, O''' SL-The wedding of Miss
A g. ou9ntS stone, daughter Of the late Byron
-. ~ stone 10 Thomas Chanting Moore. az New, yorl-
CI'y' look place tonight at the home ~ Mr. 1s
- stone the brides mother in this village The
- wa" sINeh away by Louis T. Stone her
. toc.er' OF New York City, and she was attended
DS MISS Iodine Austell. of Baltimore as maid OF
honor DR.. u. B. Stein, of Buffalo was Nv
Moores best man. The ceremony was performed
oy the Rev. DR.. Macy MCGEE Waters OF BROOKLYN
Mr Moore Is son OF the late Colonel T. w C.
Moore. U. s. A. OF the staff Of General Sheridan
and a grandson OF the late General F. E Spinner
United States Treasurer under Presidents Lincoln
and Grant General Spiuner's homo was In this
village
Tho marriage of Miss Mildred Blanche Farmer
daughter OF Charles Wesley Farmer editor of ."The
Millinery Trade Review to DIR. Harvey Edwin
Stah. son OF the Rev. Philip StahI OF Yonkers
took place last evening in ST Johns Protestant
Episcopal Church, in New Rochelle and was per-
formed by the Rev. Sherman Rouse of Scotia
N. Y, brother-in-law of DR.. Stahl. assisted by
the pastor. the Rev. W. Wofford T. Duncan. II
was u rainbow wedding-the maid Of honor In
pink and the bridesmaids in yellow and pink and
blue. Miss Evelyn Kolbe OF New Rochelle and
Baltimore. was the maid OF honor. and Mrs. John
Krepps, OF White Plains matron of honor. The
bridesmaids were Miss Theodoria Harrison and Miss
Mary Agnes Hubbard. of New Rochelle; Miss Edith
Granger. OF Mount Vernon. and Miss Dorothy True.
of this city. There two flower girls nieces
OF Dr. Stlnl, Ramona Bell or Lawrence, Mass.
Lucille Rouse. of Scotia N Y. The best man was
Joseph w. Cook, OF this city, and the ushers were
Harold L Todd of New Rochelle. and Harold E.
Humphrey. of this city. cousins OF the bride;
John Krepps. OF White Plains Alfred Bailey.
of Yonkers: William c. Citing and Rodney Gibson
of New Rochelle. After the ceremony there was
a reception at the home of the brides parents No
q Davis avenue. New Rochelle On their return
from trip through the South Dr. and Mrs. StahI
will live in New Rochelle.
Miss Helen Armstrong Howell. OF New Bruins
wick N j., and DR.. John Joseph Moorhead. OF this
city were married yesterday afternoon IN the
Rutgers Presbyterian Church. Broadway and I'D
street the Rev. DIR. ]. Ross Stevenson OF tho
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. officiating. The
matron OF honor Mrs. Joseph Day Lee, and
the bridesmaids Miss Marion Winkhaus. Miss
Beatrice Jones and Miss Helen Moorhead. sister
of DIR. Moorhead. The ushers William Null
Ian Campbell John Henry MacCracken, Or. A.
Schuyler Clark and DIR. Bruce c. Phillips. Follow
ing the service reception was held at the home
of the brides cousins. Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest II. de
Coppet, No. l West I'D street
Baltimore. Oct. 3.-rhe wedding OF Miss Marie
McMechen Buchanan. daughter of Mrs. William M.
Buchanan, and Mark Sullivan associate editor of
Golfers Weekly. took place at the residence of
performed in the bedroom of Miss Buchanan's
grandmother. Mrs. c. T. Mckay, who is ninety
years old and unable 10 leave her apartment
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[From The Trihune Rureau.


Washington, Oct 1.-The President received a
visit to-day from Senator Scott of West Virginia,
who has just returned from trip to Mexico. The
Senator said that President Diaz and all the peo-
pie of Mexico were much gratied over Secretary
Roots visit and believe that great good Will re-
suit from the closer relations it will bring about
Representative Dwight. of New York. discussed
state politics with the President National politics.
he said forgotten for the present and will be
taboOed until after the election.
David LubIn. of California. who has been active
in the movement in behalf of the international
Institute of Agriculture. which meets in Rome next
spring discussed the appointment Of American
delegates with the President The departments Of
Commerce and Labor and Agriculture will be rep
resented he said. and the meeting will probably
be held in April
Secretary Loeb, who has been hunting
pedition in the West for the last five weeks.
turned TO his desk this morning
Callers at the White House included Director
North of the census bureau Attorney General Bo-
naparte and James L. White.
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
THE HUNG4RTAN FRANCHISE

Comment has already been made upon the cir
which has led 10 universal suffrage in Austria
without herself securing that boon. 1t was In
September. 1903. thar an imposing public
demonstration for universal suffrage was made
at the hungarian capital Two months later
n similar demonstration was made in Vienna
avowedly in emulation of that at Budapest. with
the result that the Emperor was moved to com
NIT himself TO the reform and to force # to
fulhlment even against the will of his advisers
Universal suffrage has. therefore become an No
cOmplished fact in the Csleithan empre with
important results In the Transleithan king
dom. however, it still lags so that now it has
been thought well to organize a second and for
greater demonstration in favor Of it. This was
done fortnight ago, when nearly a hundred
thousand men paraded the streets Of the conitoI
before the eyes of twice as inany spectators and
a stupendous popular petition for the franchise
was presented to Parliament
The provocation of this movement is Iargol
political but even more largely social and in
dustriai. the hope being that the extension %
the electoral franchise to the WORKING n,iIl;oa'.
OF the kingdom will enable them through noI,t
ical action to ameliorate their condi+ion oe
such ameiioration effected in some way tboro
is certainly much need. We are told that IN tt
industrial trades the average wapas 90 -
workingmen are only 50 20 week. and of a..
working women only half that plttance W.
sun is the status of agricultural labor men 70.
ceiVlng only 81 93 and women only 50 cents =
"'eA AS result OF these low wages and the
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribuns.I

IBy Telegraph to The Trfbune.l
Newport. r. L, Oct 31.-Newport society did not
forget that tonight Halloween. for there wers
several small parties in various parts Of the sum
mer colony in cOmmemoratiOn OF the night. Ths
largest party that which given by Mr. and
Mrs. Reginald c. Vanderbilt at Sandy Point Farm
Their guests numbered about thirty. and after din
the regular games which always popular
at Halloween parties were indulged in
Mr. and Mrs George s. Scott have closed Bel
mead and returned to New York for the winter
Mr. and Mrs James Griswold wentz will bring
their season 10 close on Saturday. and will spend
the remainder OF the winter at their New York
home.
Mrs. Charles H Baldwin and her granddaughter
Miss Edith Deacon. will leave here on Saturday for
New York.
MT. and Mrs. - Lanfear Norrie announced to-
day that they would close their season on Novenn-
Der Is.
1t was said here to-day that Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Szech-
enyi would not return to Newport until Saturday
at least. and possibly later
New-York tribune., 1907-11-01
PAPAL CENSORSHIP.

The news that the Pope has excOmmuni-
Gated the unknown authors Of The Programme
of the MOdernsts," an answer to the recent
encyclical, is less interesting than the report
that the Cardinal Vicar has issued decree for
bidding as a mortal sin, the selling, reading
or keeping Of the pamphlet Nobody questions
the proprety Of the Popes communicating
order. The great ecclesiastical society of which
he is the head has perfect right to set It's
own requirements for membership and to ex-
pei members who do not obey its prescriptions
But il Is difficult to believe that the Vatican
officials even family hope that by entering n
pamphlet in the forbidden lists of the Index
EXpurgatOrius they have thereby hlndered
hereSy and delivered the faithful from con-
tamination. There is much evidence to show
that the anathema pronounced against heretcal
books is the most valuable and cheapest adver-
tisement for the condemned literature and
that the Index Expurgatorlus has rendered
real service in causing to be preserved the con-
tents OF many interesting books which but for
the publicity they gained through Papal dsap-
proval might have lapsed into oblivion.
large body of modern liberal Catholics, aware
of the actual effects of Papal censorship, freely
express the hope that the Vatican will soon
learn TO display in It's attitude toward unorthO-
dox books the same practical wisdom which
has characterized its activities along other