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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-05
INSULT ONLY A JOKE
SWettenham's HumOr Cause
Of the Clash.
JAMAICA INCIDENT RECALLED
London Paper Explains that Gov
erBcr's ReSignation Followed Pub
miraI Davis, Through which a
Vein of Alleged PIeasantrfes RAN.

London, April 5.-The Standard pub
fishes what il claims TO be the true rea-
son for the resignation of Gov. Swetten-
ram. of Jamaica. The statement directly
traH erses Mr.. ChurchilFs announcement
in the House Of Commons that the COVER
E0r applied for permission 10 retire on
the ground Of age, and represents that his
resignation was the immediate result Of
perempt0ry demand from the British
government that he apologize to Rear
Admiral Davis
An intimate friend says the STANDARD.
has Just received a letter from Sir Alex
ander Swetteuham explaining his attitude
and revealing the steps taken by the gov
ernment to molhfy public opinion in
America. In this letter Sir Alexander de-
mics there was any dispute between him
self and Admiral Davis. He says: The
rear admiral and I were the best Of
friends, and during the whole time he
was here he had the use of one of my
carriages and drove around with my pri-
vate secretary.
Letter Written Privately.
The letter which caused the stir, says
the ex-governor. was written privately
and in a spirit of pleasantly. just as one
friend might write to another without
fear of ofense. The letter came into the
hands Of "a coIored newspaper corre-
.spondent, but Sir Alexander says he has
not yet been able 20 find how he got it,
he does not imagine for a moment that
il was through any design of Rear Ad-
miral Davis, whose sense of honor and
etiquette would prohibit any such action.
When the publication of what Sir Alex
ander regarded as a harmless private let
ter caused a sensation in the two coun-
tries, the government cabled him, asking
If he were willing to apologize TO Rear
Admiral Davis. He promptly replied that
if such a course were necessary ne would
do so with pleasure. but a compulsory
apology would carry with it his resigna-
ton of the governorship. The colonial
office replied that an apology was neces-
sary. The apology was consequently
made. and Sir Alexander asked 10 be re-
lieved of the governorshiD.
Asked TO Reconsider.
The day after the Kings speech with
reference to Sir AIexander's courage and
devotion, the Earl of EIgin. colonial sec
retary cabled, asking Sir Alexander to
reconsider his resignation. The governor
replied that he would withhold his ac-
tual resignation until such time as the
government saw ft TO send to him all the
papers relating 10 the matter. These
We're sent, and having perused them, Sir
Alexander informed the colonial Office
that his resignation was final and IL
revocable.
The Standard adds: 1T is maintained
by those in possession Of the foregoing
facts that the American Navy Department
would have apol0gized for the hasty ac-
tion, however well meant of Rear Ad-
miral Davis, if the British government
had not been IN so great a hurry TO apolo-
gize to America"
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ROME DENIES CHARGE
Declares Cardinal Merry Del
Val Did Not Incite Riots.
LETTER SEIZED BY FRANCE
Communication Said 20 Have Been
MisinterPreted-Date Ii Is Claimed, +,
aratiOn Law Was Passed by Cham
beF of Deputies-White Sees Ii.

Paris. April 4.-The Tribunal Of the
Seine. before which Able John will be
tried. has been advised that delegation
Of the committee Of the Chamber OF Dep
uties appointed TO examine Mgr. Son
tagninrs papers viii attend the trial on
April IL n. Mornet, representing the
government. viii then read the numerous
documents seized. which viii probably oc-
eupy two hours
The Figaro prints a letter from Mgr.
Montagnfui TO Cardinal Merry del Val. Civ
ing a talk with one of the Wears general
Of Bordeaux, who SAYS Cardinal Lecot will
soon visit Paris, but would not visit
President Loubet.
ThereupOn n. CIemenceau opened a
drawer and took out the letter printed
yesterday. and asked Mr.. White to read
it. The Ambassador was amazed, but did
not notice the date. Churchmen are ask
ing Whether n Ciemenceau also over
looked the date, and was therefore Hisled
Rome Denies Intent.
Rome, April 4.-The Vatican authorizes
the statement that Cardinal Merry Del
Vars letter encouraging demonstrations
against the French separation law,
printed By the Paris Temps yesterday,
merely referred to legal, peaceful demon
strati0ns such as protests and meetings,
not. as insinuated. as intended to stir the
anti-republicans 10 revolt against the
government. It is pointed out, in support
Of this, that the letter is dated August.
1905. while the separation law was not
passed until December. 1895.
According to an uncomfortable story
current in church circles here. when
Henry White, the American Ambassador
to France, paid his first call on Prime
Minister Clemenceau, he told the premier
that he had talked wiki the Pope. Car
dinal Merry del Val, and other cardinals,
and that all Of them seemed TO be hon
estIy convinced that Mgr. Montagnini' S
papers contained nothing that might COM
promise the Vatican.
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KILLS HUSBAND; DEFIEs POSSE
Woman Not Arrested Until Her AM
munition Is Exhausted.

New Orleans. April T. - Mrs. r. c.
Drew. OF Water Valley. shot and killed
her husband yesterday, using a rife.
Sheriff Carpenter came with several
deputies TO arrest her.
Mrs Drew. with the assistance of
another woman. stood over the body
and held the posse at bay for twenty
four hours, firing at any oae who came
within range of her rife. At the end
Of twenty hours, and when her ammu-
milton was exhausted the sheriff sue
ceeded in arresting the two women.
Mrs Drew refused TO give any ex-
planation for the killing.
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sCHIFF VALET SENTENCED.

Gets Thirty Years in Prison for At
tack on Millionaire.
brandt the former valet OF Mortimer
Schiff, who. on March 4, entered the
miIlionaire's residence and assaulted
him with a bowling pin, was sentenced
to-day by Judge Rosalsky to thirty
years in State prison at hard labor.
Englebrandt who claims to be re-
lated to the nobility in Sweden, came
to this country in 1903, and though but
twenty years of age has already served
several terms in prison.
This is one of the heaviest sentences
ever pronounced upon a prisoner by
Judge RosalslIy
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wAsHINGToN1AN QUITS JOB.
Too Aggressive for the Tax Dodgers
of Pittsburg.

Special TO The Washington Herald
Pittsburg. Pa. April 4-statistician J..
A. Lord, of the chamber Of commerce.
has resigned his job.
Lord came here from Washington eisht
months ago 10 take the position at a sal
airy of S7.000 a year. he had been in the
government service. Recently he ran
amuck with President English. of the
chamber and other members, because he
was too aggressive is preparing figures
to prove that some Of Pittshurgs million
5jres were Asegsise expert tax-evaders.
II was said that in certain matters
affecting the chamber he offended men. in
high position ia Plttsburg. At any rate
he quit the job Unexpectedly. and prom
ises a statement which IS expected to
make somebody's ears tingle
President English publicly expresses
high regard for Lords abilities. The
statistician viii return to Washington.
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WEATHER FORECAST.

For the District of Columbia
Showers to-day, followed by fair
in the afternoon tomorrow, fair
and colder; fresh southerly, shift
ing to northwesterly winds.
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CANNON PARTY SAILS.
MaFOoned Passengers Board shin.
VIII Reach New York Sunday.

:" III AtNtE-1I Wv TUX ounuay.
Nassau, New Providence. April 4.-The
marooned passengers from the steamer
Bluecher were conveyed to Southwest
Bay by the Ward Line tender Colonial
and boarded the steamer which had gone
there for shelter. All were loud in their
praise of the courteous treatment thev
received here during their enforced sfax,
ashore. Thanks were voted 10 tho man
ager Of the Hotel Colonial for opening
that hotel and caring for tie passengers
The Biuecher is due to arrive al New
York Sunday morning.
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POLITICS NOW FULL
OF BRAIN STORMS
Senator PenrOSe Tells of
Capitalistic Plot (?)
ROOSEVELT THE VICTIM
'FavOrite Sons" to Hold State
Delegations Intact.

Quay's Successor at Dinner Reveals
How s5,OOO,OOO Fund Is Secured,
and Object for Which IL Is TO Be
Expended-Next Morning lie. De-
mRE,ds tn Know Details of DiseIos-
ures-President Believes Reports.
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yellow Fever Near HAVANA.

Havana. April A case of yellow
fever is reported at Nueva Para, in the
province OF Havana.
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coNTINrEp oN ~ 20.
The society Event at Bemning

Saturday. The Chevy Chase Hunters
Steeplechase race. gentlemen riders ia
hunting costumes. distance about two and
a half miles Also the Washington Nur-
sery Stake race of four and one-haIf fur
longs, and four other good races.
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The Chevy Chase Hunters steepIe-
chase Race Saturday.

At Benning, nearly two and one-half
miles, The society event of the present
Benning spring meeting. Also the WASH
ingt0n Nursery Stake race FOR tRro-vpar-
olds, and four other first-elass races.
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Fifty Cents Per Ton Reduction
During April, family Goals. J. ETaurv
Dove Company.
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GENTRY SUSPECT TN
WORLD WIDE FLIGHT
Constantine Tells of Chicago
Woman's Death.
DENIES He is GUILTY
Says He Fled Through Fear,
Although Innocent.

Reveals Facts in Crime which Was
One of Series that stirred Chi
cage a Year AEO-PrIsOner Insists
Mrs. Gentry Committed Suicide.
bat Cannot Explain How She
Came TO Have HIS Razor.
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HERALD NEWS SUMMARY.
TELEGRAPHIC.

Pages. TEBEGRAPHIC.
1-Gentry Suspect Tells of His World
wide Flight.
1-Piusburg's Honest 2S' Made Known
London Paper Defends SWettenham.
I-Pians for French Church Trail.
1-Harrim,n's Former Secretary Arrested
1-Carnegie to Give Sl500,000-
I-Douma Nearing It's End.
3-Commission Finds Thaw Sane.
2White's Art Treasures Sold.
EBaroness Moncheur Takes Rest Cure
3-Taft Faces Cuban Crisis,
4-News of Maryland and Virginia.
LOCAL.
1-Penrose Named in Hartman Deal.
2-Deny Building Law Is Violated.
2-Alton Deal Defended.
2-Wellman Outlines His Plans.
2-Pace Conference Programme.
S-Brownsvhle Senate Investigation.
EPromotions in Consular Service.
12-W. r. Deeble Is MOurned.
12-Methodists Favor Union Church.
Tells Of Destroying Letters.
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Ten Thousnnd Tailors on strike.

Berlin. April "A general strike OF
tailors and cutters was inat>gurated
throughout Germany to-day. Ten thou
sand men are involved.
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- 10 RaItimore nnd Retnrn-

Via Pennsylvania Railroad every Satur-
day and Sunday. All regular trains ey-
eept the Congressional Limited. Tickets
good 70 return until Sunday nIght
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CONTINUED on THlRD PAGE.

A la Carte Lunch Served Daily
At Eckstein's s from y 70 3. 14l2 n. Y. ave.
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Gentlemen Riders in the Chevy
Chase Hunt Steepfechase
Race Saturday

At Benning. over q distance of about two
and a half miles. Also the Nursery Stake
race for two-year-olds. and four other
good races. First race at 3 o'clock
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Baltimore and Return, Sf.25.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

Every Saturday and Sunday. All trains
both ways, both days except Royal Linn
tied. City Offices, 1sl7 G st. and el9
Penna. ave ap5,6,7
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Boards, wide, bright. $40 per 100 #.
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Boards. wide. all heart. s2.o0 per 100 It.
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Libbsy < Co.. 9Th St and New York ave.
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Alabama Flooring. mostly edge grain.
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Libbey & Co, 9Th st. ana New York ave.
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Lumber trust broken-Libbey & Co.
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Tells of His Flight.

I went said he TO my sisters houss
on East IO9th street. Her name Is Rose
Yeccia. I met my brother-in-law there.
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Richard Mansfield.

II must be some five and twenty years
since RICHARD MANSFIELD at the Union
Square Theatre, beloved OF all the an
cient race Of playgoers, achieved his frst
great success as Baron Chepriai in "A
Partisan Romance" He never surpassed
his performance of that part. The mix
ture in that role Of personal popularity,
of the theatrical. the mechanical and
the intellectual, appeared in differing
proportions, but always palpable, in the
other characters with which he sought TO
invest himself. The supreme art of sub
merging his own personality, too salient
and insistent for that, in the person he
was representing he did not attain. He
might fulfil the illusion TO the eye. He
could not fulfil it to the mind. He vas
not Brutus or Nero or Richard Ill.,, how
eve much he insisted upon the identity:
he wa RICHARD MANSFIELD, playing so
and SO.
Yet, in gratitude TO an actor and a man
ager who aimed and stood so high when
the stage was but a shop 10 sell such
entertainment or excitement as they are
capable Of to plethoric and prosperous
citizens after dinner, let it be recorded
that RICHARD MANSFIELD did keep alive
and communicate to his hearers some
spark Of a finer intelligence and a more
sympathetic study of the art of the stage.
He exCelled in the depletion Of natures
touched with physical infirmity or oddity
or the shadow Of mental lesion, devia-
ton or decay. His own ebullient tem-
per and habit Of lashing the public in
creased his attraction for his audience.
For the public loves TO be lectured and
is pleased TO see the actor act himself.
But not in a spirit Of mere criticism
should the playgoer wish to take leave
Of a player who has given him so many
eager and charmed hours. In every
favorite actors death there is a certain
selfish melancholy for many of his old
followers and admirers. Their youth has
gone with him, and with it the uncon-
scious surrender to the actors art, how
yer imperfect. the easy hal~lucination.
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More ON the Disadvantage NJ owning
stock IN American Railways.

To THE EDITOR on The Sry-Sir: IL Mr.
Roosevelt speaks what he really thinks a. TO
the causes contributing to the severe declines
on the New York Stock Exchange. does he
not convict himself OF even less intelligence
on the subject than has been suspectedp
And II he thinks otherwise than he speaks,
then il the membership In the Ananias Club
not yet complete.
But. for his enlightenment. let him COM
pare with the prices Of our standard railway
stocks those OF the Canadian railways. which
are free from the operation OF -his policies"
those whitening. blighting. value destroying
and senseless policies. let him compare the
return to the investor Of the stock OF the
Canadian Pacific. for example. paving 7 per
cent. and selling above 100. with the return
from the shares Of Pennsylvanii. a much
more seasoned" affair. paying the same
rate as the former and selling around us.
with many others on the same basis.
Here is an object lesson easily understood
by even the most lmpromptu Statesman.
q. F. voS ARNIM.
WEsT FALMOUTH. Mass August ~
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To TBE FDITOR OF TuR SrN-!cJr. A SDectal
bulletin of the Forest Service announces that the
production of lumber. Iath and shingles IN the
United States I'm 1900 was the Iarycs, ever recorded
census bulletin recently issued gives n 800 oo OOo
feet as the actual cu, of the u ON Tepor,ing mills.
AT nrs, these figures indicate A very alarming
condition thai the country had in the last wear
cut more than % per cent, more than I'm ieo,. in
the face Of the fas, waning supply. The difference
Is. however. chiefly duc IN the fac, tina, ?, ono con
GEMS reported their cuts "a ,v,,n., less than ~ ON
a year ago. The gain is the result OF responses
from the smaller mills made because the rank
and Ale of ,umbermen now apprec,ste that these
returns are Impor,ant 20 the trade.
II the returns were comp,ete the ,os cut wound
prohabiy foot up 40 mo ooo Ooo feet. The figures
are alarming enough. taken in connection with our
available SUNNY of who'd The total quantity N,
available American merchsptable timber is believed
to be less Than , oOo o0 Oo Oo0 feet. W,tbou, fores,
nres or lnreer demand we should have twenty year,
from now only what our forests have grown IN the
interval.
Half Of our timber supply ,s ives, Of the M,ss,s.
s,ppa. while three fourtbs of our manhattan i've cas-,
OF the Father of Waters. The Yves, has IN ia
,or..ts ,ir,h., 10 las, a, %, AIR. y..r. a.. -.
capita copsumption IL no greater than that Of III,
country AZ large. hut A dcyeiopinS country AWAY.
has Increasing demands. The Eas, has no, enough
saw timber Of its own In last aftren x,ears tn
conserve and pre.eryc therefore the umber In
our pat,ons, forrsts Is where the work Of our Forc,t
Service. under clifford ptnchot. is so valuable
In the censuses Of 1870. 1880 and 1890 Michigan
h.,a A.. -. - -.-
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The e Code.
efficiency

Judge HENRY s. DEWEY is reported
by the Boston Transcript TO have Sprung
a sensation" on the American Bar Asso-
citation at Portland the other day. He
offers articles of faith upholding the I'M
written law. continues the transcripts
scare headline.
The Transcript should tread the paths
of sensationalism with more circumspec-
ton. We do not deny that Judge HENRY
s. DEWEY moved a resolution of which
the general purport was that the I'M
written law is, or should be. supreme in
this country: but evidently this resolu-
ton by itself could o at this day spring
a sensation" on any body Of reading
Americans. All such are well aware that
the supremacy Of the unwritten law has
been proclaimed for a good while past by
a much more prominent person than
Judge HENRY S. DEWEY. The Judge, so
far as this goes, is a mere plagiarist and
back number.
Written trash, as il may fifty be called
for the next eighteen months atleast. was
put in its proper place not only at Prov
incetown but on several previous occa-
sions. The omnipotence Of that which
il conspicuous by its absence from the
Statute Book has become a commonplace.
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\ Closet Soldiers Criticisms Of the

Army.
Certain criticisms of the American mill
tary establishment and comparisons of
Continental troops and American regu-
lars no hattering to the latter have been
made by General MCCoSRRy BUTT, for
merly a brigade commander in the New
York National Guard, who has been
following the manpuvres of the French
and German armies this summer, as he
has done for several years.
As General ROBERT SHAW OLIVER,
Assistant Secretary of War, says, General
BUTT annot be regarded as a military
specialist. His service with the New
York National Guard II distinguished by
rapid promotion has been brief, and he
never commanded troops OIL the battle
field. He is a closet soldier, but it may
be said for General BUTT that although
"A good many Of his fellow guardsmen
will approve Of General divers esti-
mate Of him, he is more familiar with
the work done by the French and German
trooTs in their annual mannuvres than
are the majority of the American army
y Iicers who naturally resent his strict
ures. So that if General BUTT canDot
qualify as an expert, some opinions may
come from his lips that arc worthy Of
cOnsid, ration.
At st. Michael General BUTT saw, he
declares, 600 French soldiers march
twenty-five kilometers to meet the
enemy, cover ten kilometers more during
a sham battle, and march twenty-five
kilometers back to camp, a total Of
fifty-four kilometers, or more than
thirty-three miles. Only twenty men in
a thousand struggled and fell out. A
very remarkable performance II il can
be verified, even allowing that the French
roads, over which most of the marching
was done, are incomrarably better than
ours. General BUTT. who has seen
German infantry trying 10 outmaneuvre
an cne,ny, says that the French are their
superiors in marching, and men who are
admitted to he experts share his opinion.
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Crude Remarks From Colorado.

On the New York Stock Exchange the disturb
snces have been particularly scvcre-mosi OF IL
! believe 20 be due TO matters not particularly COZ
nncd TO the United States and 10 matters wholly
unconnected with any Governmental action. but IL
may wen be that the determination OF The Govern
ment. In which, gentlemen, II will not WAIVER To
punish certain maiefactors OF great wealth. has
been responsible for something OF the troubles.
Al least TO the extent Of having caused these men
to combine TO bring about as much financial stress
As they possibly can In order TO dlscrcdit the policy
OF the Government and thereby secure a reversal Of
that policy so that they may enjoy the fruits Of
their own evil doings. From President ROosepehs
speech Of PropincetoWn.
This sounds like Clarence barrow telling
the Idaho jury that the mine owners blew up
their property in order to discrcdit the West
ern Fed OF Miners 80 that the former
might continue their unholy policy Of OPP
pressing labor and taking unjust profits.