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New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
OF PERENNIAL INTEREST.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Are the editors of three or four of the New
York papers related? They have such trouble
keeping President Roosevelt out of their columns
that one might suspect their descent from David
Copperhed's friend the late Mr.. Dick. VINO hao
similar difficulty with Charles I. perhaps from
that Cato svho ended every speech, If ii were only
about repairing the Appian Way or the dredging or
the Tiber with the remark: II would ike 10 add,
bv-the-bye that Carthage must be destroyed
Won NAV begin one of their articles the pros
poets of the oyster crop or apartments in The
Bronx with a reasonable certainty that before
YOU are through Roosevelt will get q good whack
somewhere on his ample person L wonder II ne
knows IT, Perhaps his Western experiences he
NAV have met that mining town giant who said TO
the bully Of the camp: They say yer goin 10
kick me fust chance you get. If You do and l
hanpen to hear of it I'll give you span<in' Ike
vour mother used make They know their
business though. Next something from Roose-
velt something about him is sure TO be read
EDWARD c.. HOLDEN
New York Sept T. 1897
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
MUNICIPAL WASTE.

Some time ago we had occasion to comment
Oh the remarkably efficient and inexpensive sys-
tenn Of private street cleaning that prevails III
the business section of Chicago. Its head IS
Mr. Richard T. Fox, who learned street clean
ing under Colonel Waring. y citizens commit
tee of Boston hired Mr.. Fox to come to that
town and tell why it is paying out a great
deal of money-a rapidly increasing sum eacn
year-and still having very dirty streets. Mr.
Fox's views are particularly interesting be-
cause he looks at the work done in Boston, the
methods employed, and especially the efficiency
of labor with the eye of a contractor dong just
that sort of work. The head of munlCipal de-
partmpnt is so accustomed to the easy ways OF
public employees that he might regard these
blessed idIers ns the finest examples OF e1nclent
labor Not so the contractor, whose success de-
pends on exact figuring upon the cost OF clean
ing block
Mr. Fox is used to having his street cleaners
work THERE'S assigned to them a certain space 10
keep clean enough TO keep them busy during the
whole working day, and they are held strictly
responsible for It's condition. Bostons street
cleaners. like most municipal employees, are not
used TO working any more than they can heip'
Mr.. Fox had some of them watched Ihey
Ioafpd one-quarter of all the time they were
paid to work. out of every eighthour day Two
hours were idled away In going for drinKS'
reading newspapers, conversation JdhluS iAIo1O
than an hour for dinner-one street cleaner was
even seen tending fruit stand for twenty MIN
utps while It's proprietor was away. Or the
SS2. 900 year paid to ''pushcart' street clean
ers Mr. Fox estimates that $4,000 Is wasted
through their loafing. Similar waste he found
elsewhere in the department. Street Cleaning
Department horses cost the city S43 IL month
for stahling shOeing, feed. medicine and veteri-
nary attendance 4 business house In Boston
paws S27 90 for the similar keep Of its horses
A business conducted rs is the average city
department" says Mr.. Fox. would be bank
rupt very shortly.
There is nothing novel about what the chi
cago expert found in Boston. Everybody has
seen the same waste and inefficienCy wherever
municipalities employ labor. We may see 1t In
our own parks any day. We have seen It In
our own Street Cleaning Department and we
have seen one man largely cure the evil. We
have seen il develop again. and lately we have
seen another man put life and energy into the
department and make ii fairly effective. When
he retfrcs the department will lapse again into
iupficicncv unless the fright man" is found as
his successor and the right man Is rarely
found Municipal government costs vastly more
than it ought II Is getting 10 he n luxury. so
much SO that in Boston there is now n com
mission studying how the city can live within
IFS means
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
IN INTERESTING DUEL

Massachusetts is watching with bated breath
g duel in the Bay State Democratic organization
between the logical and the illogical The log
ical corner of the prize ring-if prize ring can
logically be said TO have corners-has been pre-
empted boy the Hon. Henry NJ. Whitney, who is
famous for nsoer saying or doing anything
til he has consulted the logic Of the situation.
Both this year and last year he found it written
IN the stars that he should head the Democratic
state ticket. though last year circumstances
over which logic had no control compelled a re-
runciatioD on his part in favor of the Hon. ].
3. Moran. an eleventh hour intruder. This year
Mr. Whitney's logical instincts again
aroused, and ne is laborng busly to con
vince the Democratic voters that they have only
TO look into their hearts and conscences 70
find his image there trimmed with laurel leaves
and slIperscribed "Our Natural Leader
The illogical role in the Massachusetts set-tO
is assigned 10 the Hon. Charles w. Bartlett.
Two wears ago Mr. Whitney and Mr.. Bartlett
were as two brothers living under the same
vine and fg tree They were, in fact associates
on the Democratic state ticket General Bartlett
ranking as commander in chief and Mr.. Whit
nev as his lieutenant or ancient. General Bart
lett seems 10 have accepted the Bryan theory cf
nominations in cycles. He believes that one
unsuccessful turn deserves another, perhaps
third or fourth. and that good man can be
considered disposed Of until he is elected 10
0tice or, still fighting for it, falls dead on the
Geld Of honor. He cannot understand why there
should be new deal after every campaign or
Why the ranking officer should be asked TO swap
Commands with the lieutenant That is where
be shows his inability to grasp the elusive Whit
nev logic, according to which true merit should
not be too long cribbed, cabined and confined in
subordinate positions. Young blood must have
q chance, and the claims of seniority must yield
to those of self-evideBt eminence and natural
fitness.
The Democratic electors in Massachusetts are
pondering this interesting case. We regret to
notice, however, that extraneous issues are be
ing allowed 10 interfere The Joint champions
IN 1905 OF special trade relations between Mas
sachusetts aad the Dominion of Canada have
allowed their attention to be distracted momen-
ta-ily to matters of vastly less consequence
Xba shadow Of q proposed railway merger has
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
Amusements.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-2s:15-salomy Jane
ALBA MBR BRA-2-S-Vaudeville
ASTOP-2I5-S:15-A Yankee Tourist.
BEI.ASCO-2-S:15-The Rose Of the Rancho
OIc-2-3o-S:3 S:30-Comtesse CoQuette
Brothers In EaIlaiia
CASINO-215-S-15-The Orchid
CIRCIE-2-S-From Across the Pond
CONEsY ISLAND-Dreamiand-L rark
Vaudeville.
CRITERIoN-2:1 -2:16-S:15-The Dairymaics
-2o-The Great Divide
EDEN AIs-SEE-T'he World Wax
ENPTRE-2:I Wife
GARRICk-2:15-S S2o-When Knights were t'e--
OTFTkN-c-S-The Cav Toreac0rs-
HACKETT-2 -S:1A-The Movers.
HAdMERSTEIN'S ROOF-2:l5- :l'-N auaeYlIte-
HERALD SQUARE,: -2:I5-S:I5-Anna Rsrenlna s,-
PPCTRoAfF-2-S-NsptuIe' Daughter ana f4'"eo'
F4T-DecN- -e.1s-s s:I5-Classnates.
KNICE CEERBOCKER-2: :l5'-Mlle- Mod-suT
ITFERTY-e-s: I5-Follies cf 1907
LINCOLN SQUARE-2-l5-S lf-The Spoilers
I,YCFT- NJ. 2.l5-S-2e-The Thief =, o,
MADISON SQUARE GARDElN--ll a n 40 II p "
Tobacco Show -, - -. Csse
MADISON SQUARE -2:l5-s :So--,Fhe Man on the Oa7'
81 AJTcSTIr- 2lE-S:15-The Other House
NFcTv AMSTERDAM -2:15-s:1@-1he Round Up
NEW Advanced NauoeNllie-
< a OF the Hour
xvATEaCNS- -2-15-s:1h-The RarEer
WEST FND-2-S-The Mascot
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

considered at all surprising The fact thaF
China and Japan both belong to the Mongohah
race does not necessarily imply union or even
sympathy between them, any more than theh
belonging to the Caucasian race implies similar
relations among all the European powers IL
must be remembered that for almost uncounted
centuries the two have been radically different
we might say Numerically opposite, in SOCIAL
and political organization in ambition. in prac-
tice in temperament and in the whole national
genius. Two nations more essentially dissimilar
it would be difficult to imagine. 1t is not to be
expected that such differences of a thousand
years duration are to be abolished In day.
or that two nations. any more than two men,
can walk together unless they are agreed
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT


Newport, r L, Sept. 13-The arrival in Newpors
to-day of the Dowager Duchess Of Manchester IN
be the guest Of Commodore and Mrs Cornelius
Vanderbilt at BeaueU. promises to keep the social
ball rolling for another week at least She came
to Newport with Commodore and Mrs. Vanderbilt
and a number of the other summer residents on
the steam yacht North Star The duchess was
the guest of honor a dinner given by Mrs Ogden
Mills this evening. while Mrs Vanderbilt will give
a large dinner party in honor Of her guest to-
morrow evening Mrs. ogden GoeIet will give
luncheon Sunday
There were several home entertainments among
the cottagers to-day. Mrs. William T. Bull Mrs.
Ralph n. Ellis, Mrs Harry S, Lehr and Mr. and
Mrs. Emile BrugUiere hostesses at dinner
parties. and luncheons given by Mrs J. G..
Johnson and Mrs H. A Johnson
Center Hitchcock. president Of the Newport
Clambake Club. viii give his annual luncheon TO
the club members tomorrow afternoon
General and Mrs. C. F. Pierson and Miss Marion
Russell. Of Prides Crossing. Mass. who have been
the guests Of Professor Alexander Agasiz. have
ended their Newport visit Professor Agassiz viii
remain at his cottage until October
The Outer Fountain Fishing Club each year holds
a fishing contest off the BrentOn's Reef Hghtship
and September % has been selected as the day for
the contest this year.
Mrs. Charles T. Hoffman gave a chiIdrens party
this afternoon
Samuel F. Barger and his daughters Mrs Barger
WaI!ach and Miss Edna Barger have decided to
remain at their Newport cottage this season until
the end OF month
Mr. and Mrs. Harry s Lebr intend TO remain
here until the end .of September. when they will
go to Hot Springs for the remainder OF the fall
Mr.. and Mrs Oliver H P Belmont will close
their Newport season Monday, and 31r. and
Mrs. Richard Stevens will close their season On
Tuesday
Ex-Commodore and Mrs. Edwin d Morgan have
decided bring their season close next week
Mr. and Mrs Benjamin Thaw have closed their
Newport season and have gone to Tuxedo
Several men of the summer colony guests
Of Senator Nelson w A1drich luncheon given
at his home In Warwick to-day. The party in-
cluded George Peabody Wetrnore. George B. De-
Forest Major Edmund J. CurIey. Robert Sedgwick.
Herbert c Pell. Nathaniel Thayer, Augustus Jay.
Robert l. GammeI and few others
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
woMAN'S DAY AT THE STATE FAIR.

Syracuse. Sept, 13-Woman's Day at the state
Fair drew a crowd of 5000 people. Sunshine dried
the track and it in the best condition OF the
week The exhibition of Audubon Boy and Major
Delmar resutin, in the fastest pacing and trotting
miles of the year wthou( wind shield. was the star
feature of the days contests
A spectacular parade of school children. in which
thousands took part, to-niGht's carnival card
tomorrow with the unfinished circuit races and
6ravorxs AT night will bring the fair and carnival
end.
The attendance yesterday was o9.So2 the largest
In the history Of the fair.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
KINGS AS lINGUiSTS.
Frnn Tit-Bits.


Perhaps the next best linguist to the King among
those sitting upon European thrones is the Kaiser,
whose French is extraordinarily pure and diomatic
and who also speaks excellent English. although
he has never been able TO rid himself of a strong
German, accent But the Emperor employs Tor
eign tongue only state occasions when 1t is a
cnse of noblesse oblige and even while fully
of the Cars dislike 10 most things German. IN
cluding the language, he speechines to Nicholas
IFS polite French toasts In sonorous cultural Ger
man The kings OF Spain and Italy are also good
lin g1ljsts and among the queens and prncesSes or
Europe the talent languages is quite extraordi
nary and adds greatly TO the grace and charm OF
modern court life
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
EATING THE SPLEEN.
Suggestions of Correspondents Regarding 1t.

Suggestions of Correspondents Regarding 1t.
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: have read in your paper to-day about the
idea Of DIR. Williams that the spleen ought TO be
eaten by people / think he is right. and those
men who laugh about it. and especially DR. Dar-
lington the fools and not DR.. Williams
know II Is eaten by many persons First Of all
any should ask the packing houses what they
doing with the spleens OF the Carcasses. Sec
ond I suppose OF our physicians understand
something also, of this kind Of food. and never
did any Of them a laugh by mentioning
that spIeens can be eaten. And sure other
authorities IN the United States except DR.. Dar-
nneton know that the spleen is served IN many
Of The best restaurants In Europe (where hardly
think live Apache Indians). and If anybody laughs
about the spleen now he will not laugh In Few
years when the price of meat will continue TO be
raised as in the fifteen years.
The spleen is very good and healthy part OF
any healthy carcass. IN spite Of the statement IN
the dictionaries and II l should invite DR.. Oar
lingtou 20 a spleen stew I am sure he would hex
OF all his fingers 1t, and never would try TO
make out to be a fool like DR.. Williams. OF
Nassau I remember twelve or fifteen years ago
nobody ate what call soup meat The soup
was made from It and the cooked meat was thrown
away Naturally. this the case at a time
when the retail price OF soup meat was TO
cents pound with plenty Of bones). and some
times YOU could get Il for nothing. Look now IN
the dining rooms laborers or middle class men
sometimes of rich persons)-they all eat the soup
meat with some kind Of gravy catsup. mustard
etc They do not throw It away any more
The same will be the with the spleen
There might be or many persons VINO DO
not eat it now. but the time Is near when br-
Williams. Of Boston. will be right. B. VIOLA
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
TWINS MIXED IN THE BATH.
The London Daily Mail


An amusing story of the mixing of twin children
In a bath that their identity became confused.
was told before the magistrates at Chatham when
a man named Philip Barling, Of Rainham Road,
was summoned for not having his child Archie vac
cinated.
The defendant did not appear, and the prosecut-
ing solicitor said that letter had been received
from the defendant stating that his child Archie
was dead. Archie a twin child the other being
named Cyril Inquiries were made, and the regis
nf deaths showed that ii Cyril who was
dead. The defendant then explained that the chill
dNpn got mixed in the bath. and the ribbons tied
upon them got changed, but II really Archie
who died and was buried at Maidstone.
The bench made order for the vaccination OF
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
A CONSUMERS DITTY,
CRIME IN IRELAND.

From The London Daily Mail
Crimes against morals are so rare in ireland that
in tho western counties OF Mayo. Leitrim and Sligo,
and also in Cavan. they We're fewer during the
year 1906 than offence per 100000 OF the popu-
lation.
This fact is shown in the Blue Book on Irish
criminal statistics issued yesterday. -
The whole range of indictable onences was $500
which represents rate OF only very little over two
offences u p for every 100 OF the population. The
cases of drunkenness G7. .26) We're less numerous
than in any of the preceding ten years
The Royal Irish Constabulary, numbering 9.94O.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

The Republicans of Essex County n. j., in
this years campaign the 'pivotaP' county or the
state seem to have done particularly well IN
their convention. That body was pretty evenly
divided between the regulars and the New
idea" men though the former had a majority
But an anicable spirit of cooperation prevailed,
and while the regulars controlled the conven-
ton and dictated the platform. they adopted
most Of the principles of the New Idea" move
rnent as planks of the platform That spirit
carried into the state convention should assure
a handsome victory at the polls
Mr.. Bryan drops aptly into poetry in the latest
issue OF "The Comnoner." when he write1
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
GENERAL WILLIAM BOOTH SAILS.

General William Booth. head OF the Salvation
ARMY left England yesterday for this country 20
begin his American campaign The general "-
go To Quebec and come this country by way OF
canada He had planned. 10 come TO New 4orA
direct but could get passage on the STEAMSHIPS
leaving for this port they were all overcFoWdeo
The army in New York is planning to give tho
general enthusiastic welcome when ne arI''''
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
- +bs Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Having read in your paper OF september
% tho idea or DIR Williams about the spleen.
7 want to say the doctor is right. as II Is an
eatabIe part Of the animal In France and italy
many persons eat the spleen. what we call In
French rate" I have eaten II myself GeneralIy
from pig II weighs about eight ounces ana II
is situated on the right side OF the pig touchnS
the liver 4 spleen from a or bull weighs
about two pounds. but is a little more sponsy than
the pigs Spleen which is the best. If some one
should start the fashion would. after WHILE
nav rs cents a portion in first class restaurants
especially IL some person of mark should start
the habit. VALERIE BRAGuEHAAo VAoD-
Lake Placid N Y. Sept. u. 1907
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
GENERAL AINSWORTH.
,Tbs washington Star

From The Washington star
once an army medicO. now major genera; r.iS;;+ers
,,'.ant GENERAL and boss of the whole military
works Fred Crayton Ainsworth Is nfty-nvs Sss5o so
ola and stiu climbing. According to people W.
know Ainsworth is ambitious as JuIus CFS-
or Napoleon BonaDarte, and has heaP II s.O "a
Sanee man either Just now the government - -
saving 10000 with every passing year OWLS ~
its adoDtiOn OF a card index system 1nventSo =,
1.eneTaf Ainsworth which makes the full history
Of each and every pensoner and soldier IIns HninS
diatpIv available. He knows everybody IN NaS -,
ington and everybody knows him-and Akes hi'A-
Happy days generali
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
1sao-1ors DsriIl Eribn:1G
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER II. 1907.

This newspaper is olcnod and published oV
The Tribune Association, a Neic York corpora
tioa Office and principal place Of business ITo-
une BaSJdiRg, No 154 Nassau street. Ne" fo'"'
Ogden Mails. president; Nathaniel TuffIe sec
retary aud treasurer. The address of rye o'-
foers is the office Of this newspaper
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
u - ROGERS ON YACHTING CRUISE.

Fair Haven Mass. Sept. 3-Henry II. Rogers.
the Standard Oil and Amalgamated Copper man,
was cruising on his steam yacht kanawha with
party of friends in BuZzards' Bay to-day. Mr.
Rogers and his friends started during the forenoon,
and # was understood that they might so to Mar
tha.s Vineyard before coming back to Mr.. Rogerss
summer home here. 1t was said that he was en-
towing fairly good health.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
a GIET TO MR IOEB.

oyster Bay Sept. 1S-President ROosevelts Sec
retary William Loeb. jr.. to-day received sllt
from Ernest Lijon. the American representative III
iberia Africa of the tip brush OF an elephants
tail having a thick tuft Of hair whlch Wis
mounted on a crooked leather handle MI Lyon
wrote that IL is an African badge OF honor borne
aloft by the herald who precedes the KING
The President to-day appointed John g. Mattos.
T. appraiser OF merchandise at San Francisco
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

Since the cut in the price of gas in Boston
from SIS to so cents sales have increased
10 per cent A cut of per cent in price
raises consumption more than three times that
nercentage. We have not the figures. but there
ought to be enough additional profit from the
increased consumption to make up for the loss
from the reduced rate, and perhaps more. There
is \ pOssibIe lesson in this for all corporations
aehting rate reductions.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14
About People and Social Incidenfs.

day were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet who 70
to-day to Newport. and the recently widowed
Countess Of Dunmore and her daughter Lady Vic
toria Murray. who are bound for Boston, wher,
they will attend the Christian Science Congress-.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

apropos of recent criticism by Colonel Waiter
son:
Henry is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom most he likes
When the chastened feels thus toward the
chastener a renewal of amity cannot be far off.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

II seems strange that with the Democratic
nartv searching so diligently for a presidential
candidate the claims of Attorney General jack
son should have escaped attention so long, put
this oversight is corrected A correspondent ol
'"The New York World has proposed MI JACK
SONS name for the office. and from now on MS
candidacy will have to be seriously consid-
cred - Mr. Jackson is the busiest trust buster
in the country Every day the courts throw out
one of his anti-merger suits and the indetatlga-
BILE Attorney General files hundred new ones
in its place The next laws delay commission
will doubtless report that the courts are so IulI
of Mr.. Jackson's trust busting suits that they
have no time for other business. Merely as a
measure of curing the laws delays the people
will have to promote this mighty hunter or the
octopus to some other job.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

The Lusitania is not yet -four day boat
in esse but it is pretty safe to regard her as one
in posse.
New-York tribune., 1907-09-14

The other day an English contemporary spoke
of road hogs as jailbirds," and now we dio
assured that only white men may be tted Nell
And there is no nature taking" about H. either
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-06-08
Sharp Practice.

Andre Autard, who makes John D.
Rockefeller's wigs, is a plump and ele-
CANT F%renchman with thin black hair,
a rich black mustache and black and
sparkling eyes.
Autard has a shop in the best quar-
ter of Paris. Here all the world goes
to be shaved, ondulated, massaged.
And here an American talked to the
great hairdresser about the exorbitant
duty that MI. Rockefeller had to pay
on his last wig.
"It was sharp practice" said Au-
tard in the fluent English that he
learned in London. ITO compel Mr..
Rockefeller to pay such a duty was
hardly honest. Sharp practice it was
like the way I was treated in my ap-
premiership. When l was learning
balbering 1 applied for a post in Lon
don. The patron engaged me at a GER
tain wage and at the end of our talk
he said: OF course it is understood
that you speak both French and Eng
lish.'
yes, SIR l responded quickly. land
Dutch Also
1--WE have no dealings with Dutch
men here said he. therefore l will
take one-third OF that salary"