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New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
NATIONAL GOOD ROADS SYSTEM.

The DEVELOPMENT or the American motor car and
the successful transcontinentaI and long distance
runs in the face Of difficult road conditions have
It is believed, narrowed the development OF trans
continental touring down to q question Of good
roads. With the idea that chains of good roads.
stretching everywhere, viii merely encourage
American tours and result in the establishment
OF more intimate and friendly relations between
the several sections and unite the automobilists
OF different sections into closer national body
for the maintaining Of pure sport. the present gov
erning body OF the club has determined to lend
every aid tc good road movements throughout the
United States. In New York State the clubs good
roads committee has been instrumental in gaining
the passage Of a law which calls for the building
Of 1882 miles Of state roads, which viii be OF
service to autornobiliss in adjoining states These
roads Will be connected by nine great crossroads.
making gridiron which will touch all Of the Iarg
est cities and also open 10 the automobilst many
OF the heretofore closed scenic show places OF the
state.
When these roads are finished the trausconti-
mental tourist can strike New York at almost any
point and find through roads TO any Of the great
cities or connecting with the highway systems OF
the state The club hopes that eventually the other
states may in laying out their highways. plan
similar trans-state routes. which gradually VII!
become part Of a road system running entirely
across the United States One difficulty, however,
now lies in the way Of extensive touring This
is the various automobile rules adopted by differ
ent states which put the tourist to much difficulty
each time he passes a state boundary Judge Gary
nd others however hope that by cooperation with
rho other clubs a system OF uniform rules can
eventually be obtained Under such system the
car driver who knew the rules OF one state would
understand those OF all other states ana oe IA d
Dosition TO comply with them, instead Of being
s,,biactad TO trouble and being constantly IN dan
per of r1nvittngly violating the Individual rules
o4 the several comrnonwealths
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

this short space of ten feet from stem to stem
was far too close to produce a beautiful effect
in long avenue. The trees did well on the
lower lying. deep, loamy part, but the stiff soil
Of the upper part was unsuitable for the elrn
and replantations had to take place at vari-
Gus times, especially the stiff clay above
the Double Gates. Long before the trees at
tanned two hundred years Of age many of them
began to decay fast, and in 1851 it was de-
cided by the Prince Consort in his capacity or
Ranger of Windsor Forest and Park, to clear
the worst parts of this famous avenue on the
high land and replant with young oak, more
likely to thrive the sitter soil. while blank
spaces on the loamy portion were re1lled with
elm.-Dr. J. Nisbet, in Blackwood's.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
KING EDWARDS UNPOPULARITY II
GERMANY


II is a popular impression In Germany that
Edward VII is not merely the Richelieu OF the
twentieth century, but that he is constantly
preoccupied in weaving plans of Machiavellian
deViltry for the purpose of weakening, injuring,
and, above all, Of isOlating the nation which
owes allegiance to his nephew. What is be-
heved to be the fact has often more influence
IN politics than the fact itself; and the real
King of England is of less Importance to the
peace and tranquility of Europe than is the
imaginary Edward VII he is pictured daily
in the German press, sinister figure donlinat-
ing the European situation, who spends his
days and nights in spinning, like some internal
spider, the meshes Of the net in which Ger
many is being encircled- His majesty Is not
prince with the intellect Of a Richelieu. He
possesses neither the overrnastering brain, nor
the dominating viii, nor the calculating ambt-
ton Of the great cardinal He aspires little
TO possess the conscience or the ethics Of
Machiaveln as to inherit the antlike industry
Of his illustrious father. His genius does not
lie in politics. He is an inveterate traveller.
and much enjoys change Of place and scene
He retained after his coronation the genial,
pleasuring loving disposition of the Prince OF
Wales and used It with sense and tact to aid
the policy Of his foreign secretaries But these
things, which are matters Of common knowledge
to us in England, are unknown to the believers
IN the myth of modern Germany concerning the
Bismarckian genius and dogged diplomacy OF
'OnkeI Edouard."
This myth continues to exert nischievous in
fuence upon contemporary politics When his
majesty. in fuIflment Of the plainest Of his
duties alike as a sovereign and a man. under
took to visit the Emperor OF Russia, this visit
Of courtesy and congratulation was the occa-
sion Of an outburst of comments in many Ger
man papers which suggested the need for writ
ing this article. It was openly asserted or cum
ninglv suggested that his majesty's sole object
IN vieitfug his relative, in Russia was the weld
ing Of a ring of hostile alliances around Ger
many 1t was seriously argued by journalists.
AT present outside lunatic asyluns, that MS
ma iestv was going TO Revai in order to con-
cIude a triple alliance, binding England France
and Russia TO make war on the Germans by
land and sea. It was even asserted that ms
majesty was prepared to purchase the RUSSIAN
aI1sarce nv making over to the Gar the rever-
einn TO ConstantnopIe and the Asiatic posses
sIons OF the Sick Man To give substance to
these alarms they printed garbled version OF
.te tle'e or5i1ary narade ground oratory of the
Irafser as If it were a challenge TO all to come
on ard reply to the attempt TO einkreisen
C.a-,1anv A soulbre and sinister. but sonorous,
4t,,oh og the war drum vbrated through the
ITatberland Contemporary Review.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
NATIONAL TOURS
FOR MOTOR CARS
YORK OF AUTOMOBILE
CLUBS BUREAU.
Furnishes Subscribers zrith Maps and
Data of the Best Routes Here
and abroad.

The use of the automobile as a means OF long
distance TRANSFORMATION from part Of the
United States to another has Increased within
the last two years that in the opinion OF the OIL
GERS Of the Automobile Club OF America. among
whom are the president, Judge E H Gary and
Cornelius Vanderbilt OF the board or governors.
good ira aascontfnentaI roads will mean that the au-
ton1obiIe will become common rather than an
unusual means Of travel for seeing all Of America
One of the most convincing facts in support or this
prediction is the experience the automooils cluD
bureau Of tours has been having OF late The cluo
now has a membership which includes proninene
automobilists in twenty-three states. and also mas
on its tour subscribers list hundreds OF CORE
spondents in every state OF this country ana III
many foreign cities.
The business OF the bureau OF tours Is 70 lay OUT
routes from any point here abroad to any other
point From it's representatives IN hundreds OF
localities it gets first hand data and furnishes 70
its subscribers a fully worked out Itinerary, and
where possible with road maps and data about
hotels and garages
AT first It's chief business IN supplying what
might be called local routes for tours Of three or
four hundred miles and in working out plans for
European trips OF late however. IL has been
surprised to get requests from many members IN
the Far West TO supply routes from their cities to
New York and in many cases members in distant
states desired, in addition, full road fnfora-
ton for making tours Of Middle Atlantic States
and New England. Frequently these routes are Tor
side trips for some Western or Southern auton1o-
bilists who preparing for extensive foreign
tours There is heavy demand for transconti-
mental routes which will bring many automobilists
and their cars direct to Savannah for the Grand
Prize race Thanksgiving Day.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

which they affected as characteristic Of their
arm Of the service. I had yet to learn that,
from the days of the Great Napoleon each corps
cultivated its own special traits. and that in
battle a commander could evoke its utmost
efforts by appealing to its cherished traditional
feelings In later years, when the French army.
to its sorrow and loss, became inbued with a
political spirit, the distinction between arms of
the service were those Of political opinions. The
infantry were Legitimist, the cavalry Bona
partist, and the artillery and sappers ultra-Re-
publican. have not mentioned the infantry
of the Line, which Of course formed the bulk
of the army at Mourmelon. They had little Of
the swagger that marked the corps delite. In
deed, all their best men had been taken to fill
the ranks OF these much favored units, and the
understood poUsse-cailloux were little considered.
When the day OF trial came, however some
years later, the Linesmen showed as dauutless
a spirit and died in their ranks as gamey as
did the brilliant Guard-CornhiII
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

Major Bridgman og Squadron A has ordered
drills by troop to begin Monday night. Octo-
Der 1s. The annual meeting OF the squadron VIII
be held Friday night October Is There VIII bs
drill OF the entire squadron at the armory on
Wednesday night, November L The major desires
every member OF the squadron TO try his best TO
perform 100 per cent OF duty.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

ceIlent motion to thy gart in sernictrcled far
thingale."
when Sir Peter Wych," says Butler, in his
Pedigree of the English Gallant, was sent
ambassador to the Grand Seignior from James
I, his lady accompanied him to Constantnople,
and the Sultaness, having heard much of her,
desired to see her; whereupon Lady Wych, at
tended by her waiting women. all OF them
dressed in their great farthtngales, which was
the court dress Of the English ladies' at that
time, waited upon her highness. The Sultaness
received her visitor with great respect but,
struck with the extraordinary extension of the
hips of the whole party, seriously inquired +
tion of English women, and Lady Wych was
obliged to explain the whole mystery Of the
dress in order TO convince her that she and her
companions were not really deforTned as they
appeared to be-"
The hoop followed, and although no article Of
costume has been more abused, it long retained
its favor among women In Sir Roger de Cow
erley's picture gallery. his great -great-grand-
mother is said to have the new-faShioned
petticoat, except that the modern is gathered
at the waist" It may be inferred that the old
lady had the wheel-farthingale. which pro-
jected all round for the knight adds: My
grandmother appears as if she stood in large
drum. whereas the ladies now walk If they
were in a go-cart." When the whaIebone petit
coat was first introduced it presented a tri-
angular rather than a rounded appearance. This
was in I'LL, and what ladies lost in height they
gained in breadth. The style changed. for in
1876 We read Of it that it projected all round
like the wheel-farthingale. The petticoat was
short and without a train. a pamphlet
brought out in 1745 under the title of The
Enormous Abon1ination of the Hoop PetticOat
as the Fashion Is Now."-WilIiam Andrews in
Chamberss Journal.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
AUTOMOBILE HEGIRA TO NEW YORK.

Fer years there has been a sort OF hegtra OF au-
torobilists from distant states TO New York City,
either on business or pleasure Many Of these now
make their New York headquarters at the club II
is noticed. however. in the garage office OF the
club, which operates for its members and guests a
huge machine shop and storage plant, that, where
as many OF the Westerners' cars formerly arrived
at the club IN clean condition. which would tndi-
cate that they had been brought by rail or
boat, the majority Of the cars now arriving from
distant points show by the dust and mud on their
guards that their owners have used them for long
journeys. And in consequence, the members privi-
Ieges extended with OF the garage gradually
reaching members clubs at increasingly greater
distances. In year the club had under guest
privileges in it's garage more than one hundred cars
coming than five hundred miles to New
York
There is also a large touring movement in the
other direction More New York members than
ever are calling touring schedules TO reach New
Orleans, St Louis Chicago. Minneapolis. St
Paul or other inland points Therefore, the bureau
OF tours is now preparing copies or long inland
trips.
This increasing demand for routes that will help
the autornobiIists to "see America has stimulated
the clubs touring bureau experts to extend its
work Of mapping states still further into the West
Already the club has published complete road maps
OF New York. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. and
it hoped that soon. with the cooperation Of the
other clubs throughout the United States, COM
plete road map library covering every state will
be available The club has collected all data about
many of the important roads and trips thousand
miles from New York, and in every district where
automobiling has active it has gatherers OF
information who furnish II with accurate accounts
Of road conditions over wide range Of territory.
In the East, complete is this system OF special
correspondents that the bureau gets almost i'm
mediate reports of dangerous crossings. OF roads
which have been changed OF speed traps estab-
Lshed. These are Immediately recorded and fur
nished TO the membership, local and national
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

Company 3 Of the 22d Engineers has unanimous
" elected a second lieutenant IN the person ot
Battalion Quartermaster Sergeant Lewis Philips
who has been member OF the regiment fifteen
years and who served n the Spanish-Anaertcan
War. He has exceIlsnt duty record
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
THE GOOD MOMENT.

THE GOOD MOMENT.
Here are the heights and spaces-here in view
OF love and death, the silence and the sl,v
we are content to put contentment by
And work our sad salvation out anew:
Here all mean ways of living all untrue
Measures Of life. are done with-you and
Can gauge our deeds by Gods eternity
And IND the right simple thing to do.
But when the uplifting moment passes-when
The piuful happenings Of every day
Encompass u.s. and windy words of men,
VIII not the years beset. perhaps betray
Now, it's not hard to plan the perfect way;
VIII 1t be easy to walk IN it then?
Gerald Gould, in The F'crtnightly Review.
THE INNS AND HIGHWAYS OF OLD ENG
LAND
The history OF English roads is broken by long
periods of neglect After the splendid achieve
ments Of the Romans. who pierced mountains
and sTanned rivers that travellers might save
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

about my own size" Lord Wilton asked "r,oas
that print give correct likeness. according 70
your graee's impression" The duke looking
height" Lord w. said, "T remember beartnp
You say that he talked only Of himself" Duke:
Weh ana so he did It was all about him
Just come from the West Indies" Lord w. said
your Grace met Soult once in FraIlce?" "Oh
yes so they told me- I was fast asleep in the
carriage and my servant said that Soult looked
IN; and dare say he said, oh. he's asleep
III u hlfa; and turned away This was after
TOULOUSE V. B.. in Cornhill.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

Company I OF the 47th Regiment has unanimous
" elected sx-CorporaI L. SwentzeL second leu
tenant Plans ara under way to organize the regt-
ulent az q twelve-compzny command
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

foes, as q candid friend he occasionally makes
his party vince also. In truth, there many
forces in the House of Lords. To pick out
rev names at haphazard, there is Lord Cawdor,
always an effective speaker; the Lord Chan
celior, to whom all men listen with pleasure,
even when they disagree with him, feeling that
every word that he utters comes from his honest
heart; the Duke of Bedford, whose complete
mastery Of army questions has given him real
authority; Lord Newton, witty, caustic and sa-
gacious: Lord Balfour of Burleigh, with his
sledge- hammer; Lord Mayo, of whom the late
Duke Of Devonshire mean authority,
said that he was always worth listening to;
Lord Roberts, q great personality; and last not
least the peer who still signs himself John Nor
ley. man OF whom not only his party but the
House may be proud.-National Review.
THE FRENCH CAMP AT MoURMELoN
Let me go back to 1864 and a visit to the
French camp of instruction at Mournelon, near
Chalons. Marshal MacMahon was then in
command, the most trusted he the most
popular leader in the French army. He had
only recently gained his baton and the title of
Due de Magenta in the italian war. The Eng
lish officers were received and greeted by his
senior aide-de-camp Comte de Vogue one of
the handsomest, most agreeable and most
soldierly men I have ever met. He was d per-
feet representative OF the chivaIrous gentlemen
of France Having already served gallantly in
Italy and Algeria. he full Of enthusiasm
and hopes of a brilliant career. Alas! he was
doomed to an early and glorious death-shot
through the heart on the disastrous day Of
Spicheren-
What imposing spectacle was a parade on
the plains OF Mourmelon! The uniforms of all
the corps. reminiscent to a great extent of the
First Empires paraphernalia. were picturesque
and gorgeous in the extreme. There were the
Lanciers de lInlperatrice in white and gold, the
magnificent Guides the Grenadiers the Zouaves
and Horse Artillery of the Guard. The Cuiras-
siers, soZnbre in equipment and superbly
mounted looked irresistible men-at-arrns. They
were the "Gros Freres," famed in history and
romance, and had a staid and half solemn air
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20
MASTERS OF THE DESERT.


The real masters Of the desert are the re-
doubtable Touareg, descended from the original
tribes that colonized North Africa They are
perfectly distinct from the Arabs who overran
the country in the year following the Hegira,
and who hold the original BerberS in as much
couternpt as the Berbers hold them in hatred.
The problem for the French is How to cross the
Sahara" LIE Chemin de Fer AIgerienne has
been projected 10 link Algiers TO Senegal, to
recolonize the Sahara by means Of oases rem
dered habitabIe by means Of artesfan wells. etc.
and lastly to win the Touareg by force or
good will to protect the commercial caravans to
Timbuctu or Katsena- 1T has got TO be done,
and France has TO do it, BOnne chance, mes
amis!
The latest book on the subject of this little
known but highly interesting tribe or confedera-
ton of tribes is by Harding King in Search
for Masked Fouareg'' Cor, more properly.
"veiled") He remarks that barely one English
man in a thousand knows aught of these wild,
untamable sons of the desert" which is un-
doubtedy true. Quite lately. on the authority
Of Mr.. Boyd Alexander, in his interesting work
From Niger to Nile quoting an opinion OF a
Captain Cotton, the ancestry Of the Touareg IS
traced to the Saracens, and said TO date from
the time of the Crusades (about HOO A d.,
thereby tnferring an Arabic or Syrian descent
while a picture is given of a Touareg (properly
Targui singular) armed cap-a-pie, with helmet
and coat OF mail.
country to the north of Lake Tchad. and had
encountered the nomad Touareg, told me that
these people are supposed TO be descended from
the Saracens, a theory that is supported bY the
device of a cross which the men still carry on
their clothes knives and shields, and the women
on their ornaments, in much the same way as
the crescent has become Incorporated in de-
scendants of the Crusaders Many OF the Toua-
reg still possess ancient coats Of mail which
their ancestors took from the Crusaders.
This is all faIlacious as. according TO the best
authorities-and the French are entitled to all
credit in this respect-the Touareg are descend
ed from Immense famille de Berberes. who
spread themselves all over North Africa and as
far south as the Soudan centuries before any
Arabian tribe was even called Saracen Other
branches of this family are found In the
KabvIes in North Algeria, the "Aures" Noun
tsins and the ''Diudjura," and probably in the
T7ifY tribes of Morocco well as the "Mza5.''
tha merchants of the Tell and Algerian Sahara.
sir Alexander Muir Mackenzie. in Chamberss
Journal
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

ing clerk OF a company do the writing necessary
in the examination WILL IL Is also thought. save
considerable work for the doctors.
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

Iong-That violinists execution was simply
marvellous.
audience hanging every note.-Boston Tran
script
New-York tribune., 1908-09-20

I Company F. I'd Regiment. has unanimously
chosen First Lieutenant Matthew G. Addison cap
| tain vice OnderdOnk. retired after more than
| twenty-five years service The new captain has
served with the z3d fourteen years. and is known
as a popular and efficient officer. Sergeant Charles
P conn of Company c. has been made first
sergeant The regiment will parade for divine
service in its armory Sunday afternoon. October
3 First Sergeant William Robinson OF Company
has been placed the retired list after twenty
five years service with the brevet rank OF second
lieutenant
There IS considerable speculation going On SIS TO
who will be elected colonel OF the 18Th Regiment
to succeed Austen. appointed chief OK coast ar
tiIIery While several names have been mentioned.
there Is little doubt that the successful canadats
viii be Lieutenant Colonel Charles O. Davis II is
said that he has the best technical knowiedgs OF
artillery among the field officers OF the regiment
cssneral David l. Austen. chief os Coast Artii-
Ierr who was appointed to that Office last week.
has received many letters Of congratuiaSion rom
military men. yachtsmen and others Among the
first to congratuIats him were Colonel Ludlow, o
9 A and other officers duty at Fort Hamilton
Colonel Edward Duffy OF the 69th Regiment; Gen
eraI William II. Eddy, commanding the Second
Brigade: Major David Wilson. commanding tbs
1zt battalion of Field Artillery, and Colo1al Cort-
land St John. commanding the vetsrazs OF the
9Th Regiment. Under the law General Austen -
not allowed any STAFF, but after he gsts 70 work
in his new Office arrangements will PROBABLY be
made to have certain officers detailed as his az
siztants The sth 9Th and 18th regiments of Coass
Artillery OF which General Austen ts now chief
are attached to General Roe's headquarters ae
nreseut In order TO make the work OF the new
chief OF artillery effective. the generals new
command It is claimed, should be organized into
provisional brigade.
CAPTAINS r. A De Russy and Reginald Il Fostsr.
of the 18th Regiment. have been unanimously elect
ed majors to I'LL vacancies. Major De R1ssy
toined the regiment private IN Company D
September IS 1883. and subsequently, served as
sergeant. second lieutenant. first
lieutenant. battalion adjutanr resmental adturanr
and captain OF q company He served with the
regiment in the volunteer army in 1888 Major
Foster Joined the guard 4 private IN Company
OF the 7th Regiment in May. 1895, and served there
in as corporal and sergeant He was elected nrst
lieutenant OF Company G. Of the Eth Regiment
April 4. 1900 and captain OF Company z April "a
1903.