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New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

had from that great country, and what immensities
OF worth and capablity believe and partly know
to be lodged especially in the silent classes there
have now. after due consultation tho feasibili
ties the excusablites of 1t. decided to fulfil fond
notion that has been lowering in my mind these
many years; and do therefore bequeath the books
twhatever of them could not borrow. but had TO
buy and gather that is, in general whatever of
them are still here) which | used in writing
Cromwell and Friedrich. and which shall be accu-
rately searched for and parted from my other
books to the president and fellows of Harvard Col
lege as a poor testimony OF my respect for
that alma mater of many OF my transatlantic
friends and token OF the feelings above indicated
toward the great country OF which Harvard is the
chief school. :"
or intrinsic value a collection OF old books.
the Carlyle library has little. But IL does have
sociation and symbolic value in high degree. and
this worth and interest greatly enhanced by the
death mask OF Cromwell which Carlyle. before his
death, gave To Norton and which the professor.
since Carlyie's death. has given TO the library.
that IL may be with those books relating to Crom-
Wei winch Mr. Carlyle bequeathed with such mem
orhble and affecting words" When Carlyle sent
the death mask to Mr.. Norton, packed by his own
AanA IA An Old ciSal hoA he sent also theSe WpIds;
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

One more resort of great interest 10 those who
make summer pilgrimages TO Cambridge is now
open In a of the Harvard University library
especially constructed for the purpose there are
being shown, or two afternoons week. the
books acquired by gift and purchase for the
Charles Eliot Norton collection the books left to
the university upon his death by Charles Sumner
and the very interesting Carlyle library, bequea thed
TO New England" by the will Of the sage Of Chel-
sea. Also here is the one book DoWnames Chris
tan Warfare" that survived the college fire of
1764. from the library left the college by the Rev
John Harvard two and three-quarters centuries
ago.
In writing of these books. as in examining them.
It is hard TO know where begin Yet there are
perhaps few to whom the Bible used by John Bun
yam will not give thrill This book is in the
Sumner collection. and IT has the distinction of
being the only autographed Bunyan book.-except
Foxs Book Of Martyrs. which has been
offered for sale. 1t is well-thumbed brass
nered Bible, and II bears the title page of the
New Testament the autograph of the Bedford
tinker 1t contrasts oddly enough In appearance
with the pretty blue morocco copy OF the Greek
Testament which stands next it on the book
shelves and bears in two different places the auto
graph of the French tragedan, Racine, who once
owned it,
The most interesting autograph volume in the Sum
collection is an autograph album which formerly
belonged TO Camillus Cardoyn, Neapolitan noble
man. who resided in Geneva from 1908 to 1870 and
who able. from his residence in that city, 10
get in touch with nearly all the of the period
who happened 10 be travelling 10 Italy. The album
contains several hundred autographs of people of
different nations, but its star entry is from the
hand of Milton, and is dated June 1G, 1883 The
English verses quoted the last lines of Comus
Heaven it selfe woulde Etoope to her"
Coupled with this is the sentiment, 'Caa,um non
animuTn muto dunn trans curro," an adapta-
ton, OF course. OF the famous Horace lines which
proclaim the truth that those who travel beyond
the sea change merely The sky and their own
mental state. William Ellery Charming who knew
Of Summers ownership of this autograph believed
that Milton, by altering the Latin from the third
10 the first person and linking the lines with the
Cornus one meant TO principle Of his life.
Another thing Of siIiAinglg iatimRte interest
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

of the sheets-afl OF which written in a fine.
clear hand-bear the wheat sheaf and crossed
stckles OF The COrnhlI Magazine whose editor
IhacReray then was, and others on the paper
or the Atheneum or the Garrick club. The manu-
SCRIPT Is dishGured here and there by thumbing
or compOsttors whose names are roughly scrawIed
IN pencil upon It, but these marks are OF course.
only addltional evidence OF the things authenticity
some professed originals OF the Roundabout
fapers' Sir Leslie has declared were bought
py collector of my acquaintance. who was an old
irlehd or Thackerays, He told Mrs Ritchis
tIhackerays eldest daughter) OF this and she had
10 explain 10 him that he had been cheated"
Forging Thackeray manuscript had in fact come
10 De a regular business In London by the date
.. 'his manuscripts presentation. For. though
ihacKeray wrote two entirely different hands one
upiish' as In this case and one slopIng, neither
mana would he hard TO initiate. Decidedly difficult
however would 1t be richly to vary an expression
"S lhaekeray so frequently does in this manu-
script or on the other hand. to invent lines so
o''irhiins as some he here entirely suppresses In
inc essay NH Nisi Bonum'' we find in the manu-
'V'p'' atter an alusion to Irving's untold love
a'or3' TINS sentence. which has never been printed:
ohe iancies the kindly simple smiling boy adyanc-
UA sa0 laying flower OK two on gyays.s
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
JEWS DISPLACE THE IRISH

The Jew has come IN and displaced the I5st-z,
in practically ali the East Side-I say the Jsza
if he were an individual type, but he Is not H.t
made up Of dozen races, speaking dozen azs-,
and with different customs and traditions; v-,
even are pure Russians. having absolutely no Pa.
tine blood In their veins. Each year sixty tn
sand immigrants come into the district-sach II,
sixty thousand sO-calIed Americans 90 GU gt
scatter themselves over the outlying distrrr, 1.
Brownsville and Harlem, where a new type =
ing formed AS NJ. Watchorn Coruissionsr O.
immigration for New York. viii surely bear tssa.
mony. these immigrants are not criminal nor v.
cious nor diseased. nor the scum Of Rusza-s.
frgitives from a land of terrorism. where hsg
have received a good education and lsarlsi ts
art of thrift 10 a degree the Ango-SazOn ngh;
well initiate Even in their ideals. crude as taa;
religious conceptions and notions are. thsy hare
a ruggedness which stands aghast at he 'hsl
type civilization into which they cone,
These refugees are crowded together 1 re Ea
Side. not because they could not go esE1sEs but
because thev do not want TO go elssThss Tasy
come to iofn their friends in commuHrss F1ca
are grouped around a synagogue which 1H zen
transpIanted directly from their Russian or Honsl
homes. and they refuse to go out into tns Hfaass
heather land, as they feel a Christian eolaNs
to be-
AS walk down Hester street dhu "oA a -
venders of socks and suspenders win uar Us
boards and peculiar clothes, YOU little guess Ia
they have received a TaImud training e4la- q
cordfng 10 DR.. BIausteIn. formerly OF the h1l'1.
tfonaI Alliance. 10 two years OF our aW Sol"'
courses. Some have even been to the EasSA'
University.
often these people are very poor te! H1,' 80.
rived with little more than their 80 in tner p~I4
and can find work only i'm those lines in Vhicn ~.
friends and relatives can help them-thA1
most cases. TAILORING. which IS condae'sd SO
times in the big tailoring establishments - -
times IN a loft under the synagogue. s0ll''-'-
'.sweated' work in their very homes Inc ., =.
a true business man. and II he can save -,
pennies each day. even by the use OF moS' -. ~ = =
family in this work he soon digs his va! ". :
an Independence. which is we'll shown 9 u.' -
ords of the Hebrew charities. He is no' avn
his struggles either 4,
Groups OF men connected with the syhasus =,
charitable societies are ever trying 70 le''' -
wants and put him on a basis Of indepenasl' -
the Industrial Removal Society will place ma
Job in the West as soon as he can oVe.''-
prejudice against the great unknown thl''''-
which lies behind New York. Thrift IS ll' "a
and as long as he retains his Hebrew rislS :
religious consciousness no money IS VaS''s -,
wine or tobacco. nothing in the frivol's .
theatre or dance hall
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

from japan, Russia and other countries; some
dressed bv prncesses and duchesses. who knew
his fad.
Chicago misses and matrons. They arrived at the
consulate by bicycle and pony express and IN auto
mobiles not by ones and and dozens, but 10y
hundreds. almost daily-rag dolls rubber dois WIN
dainty lace gowns wax dolls and china dolls OF
every conceivable size IT reminded Chicago cluo-
man of the. Pied Piper of Hamelin.' with his
army of fathers, mothers, uncles. cousins fami-
lies by tens and DOZENS" and his other army OF
all the little boys and girls with rosy cheeks ana
faxen curls and sparkling eyes and teeth like
pearls
The doll market was good, but in all thesthrong
of thousands who attended the Red cross enter
tainment there were not enough buyers of dolls TO
exhaust the barons supply After the fair ne re-
stored to his apartments many as they could hold
for his amusement at odd times ana the rest
he put in a storage house where they still remain
Occasionally when the society women want
UNIQUE booth at some charity affair they borrow
Baron Schppenbach's collection. merely for snow
nurposes for the baron thinks much of his
gifts that he refuses to sell more unless the Red
Cross or Russia gets into straits and needs the
money.
BARON schlippenbach can talk business with just
as much force he used 10 eXpend Whlie an
officer in the Cars navy. He will tell you that
the door to Russia is open: that Russia wants TO
trade with the United States. whether it he by way
of Vladivostok ST. Petersburg Asked how New
York merchants might obtain a greater volume OF
trade with Russians. this was his reply
1T is a broad question. Generally speaking, they
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
FEATs OF RAPID COMPOSITION.

NJ Bompard a French musician. who for a
wager has composed the music to a song In ten
minutes is a formidable rival to H Trotere, of
whose feats of rapid composition some remarkable
stories are told His beautiful song, ASHORE,
it is said. both written and composed within forty
minutes in BIanChards restaurant; the famous
melody OF In Old Madrid" was jotted down in
a few minutes biscuit bag in a little public
house in Rochester Row, into which the composer
rrched on his way from the Aquarium, lest the
air should escape him before he could reach home;
'C,o to Sea- was composed under similar conditions
in a West End music shop; and.crOwninS feat OF
aII-t is actually said that Mr. Trotere composed
THE Brow of the Hill" wrote a letter and ran
four hundred yards catch the post. all inside
eight minutes After this one learns without sur
Drise that Sir Arthur Sullivan completed the over
ture to ''Iolanthe'' between p m and Z O'Clock
the next morning and that to The YOemen OF the
Guard' within twelve hourS-Dundee Advertiser.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
EAST SIDE is NO
LONGER THE SJJTv7
CHANGES WROUGHT r,
FIFTY YEARS.
Danger Is from Too Rapid an.s
canizotion Of Foreign Time,
The Congestion Problem
By T. stagg Within

Fifty years nave wrought great cbsr
York, and Five Points, the centre ~ So. "a ss,
district" IS no more 4 beautiful uark -,ss ia
baths and Fairgrounds. occupies the -. q
makes many happy. The same Is trua 40 =, al
tricts in Boston and other cities, yet m .
lar mind the thoughts os slums Ard - "'s
have taken such a decided hold and -;
pictured so wildly By snapshot photor-.-..- -
nected with our papers that II Is har4 ,.... u
to realize that Dtczeas's descriptions OF ~. -
Of New York are not true to-day. a
New York Is not static-it il eve ,-,-
changing There is a double nlovsrns,+ !, u
absorption OF outlying districts and the ,s,..-.
industrial localities Its people are div,s.5
many races. each having a distinct es,,
some of these are divided again into uar,y.-,' -
communities There are also districts m.
BOwery and the Tenderloin. where vies - -
vice which IS as much the result OF risusss -.
as Of poverty. These districts are the rs,r -
of New York. and the sensational writer, r.
ply the term ''sIum" TO the foreign aiv.-..
the city simply show how out Of touch ts.
with the real lives Of the people who dv.s
them.
The district which lies east Of the Bower =.
below 18th street used 70 be the habitasru :. -
Irish in their less prosperous days via, -.
were the immigrant class To-day thev hsv. 49,.
uptown &c better things" For long xHgs -
left behind them their dregs, which a7s .,,,,
from the popular accounts Of the rowing Ess n,
gangs well typiieG by Monk Eastman" sus :,
rest. Monk and his kind are upstate
gangs are no more
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

When the government at ST. Petersburg decided
recently hand of the big keys to Rus
siss trade a new consul general in New York
City the honor fell 70 Baron Schlippenbach, for
fourteen years Russa's consul in Chicago To this
newly promoted agent of the Car the metropolis
is no stranger for years ago he held here the
knew him then there are few who will need
introduction 10 him now. Times change; do
Russian diplomatists
Looking at Baron Schppenbach, would
suspect that the quiet. unassuIning nobleman. well
Eroomed and apparently a prosperous business
man. who is back reign supreme where he
once a subordinate. is a who likes to play
with dolls. No would guess that he has more
in his list than any other official. perhaps. who
ever aspired to ink great nations more firmly
together.
In Csesar's day the ENJOYS Of the provinces TO
Rome yielded TO the softening influences of the
Southern capital and became changed men the
same might he said, thought the same de-
gree of the representative of modern Russia. Once
his hands were hard and rough; now they are as
soft as woman's. Once il his joy TO heave a
line in competition with the most expert Of his
colnratriots in the Cars navy. test his
nerves by standing at the cannons mouth while a
batleship beched forth the deadly contents Of its
magazines. Now he prefers swing golf club,
and the orchestra's music at q charity ball is
sweeter him than the roar of guns. Neverthe-
less, he stands ready battle for his country at
any minute.
In truth il might be written down that there are
in reality two Barons Schlippenbach- one is the
cautious. guarded official, representative of SOW
ereign whom he tries to serve without making a
single nisstep. The other is the frank. open
handed jo1ial exponent of the untitled democracy
an which his official life is being passed.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
ADVICE TO EXPORTERS.

But the baron makes pretence of promoting
Russian American matches, much as he would like
to see more OF them He has long been a lion in
Chicago society He is as much at home at pink
tea as at charity ball a living picture en-
tertainment. fact, all society entertainments
in behalf of charity he is prominent figure. IL
is such occasions that the public catches q
glimpse of his galaxy Of dolls
If 1t had not been for the Russo-Japanese war
the public might never have known of this fad
OF the Cars trusted official. During that war,
however. the Red Cross needed funds to enable 1t
TO succor the wounded on both sides Chicago so
ciety people got up a big entertainment to help
raise the money Baron Schlippenbach was asked
what he could do. Then he said he could sell
dolls.
1t was given that the consul had the great
est private collection Of dolls in the world; that
he would exhibit them in booth. and sell all he
could for chartys sake. Before the day arrived
for the entertainment TO open the baron had one
hundred times many dolls as his original col
lection had contained. Originally there We're dolls
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

Great" The correspondence by which this trans
fer was accomplished is very interesting. for the
story told chiefly in fourteen-page letter writ
ten to President Eliot by Emerson in his hand
and dated Concord. May II. 1870. Here it is ex-
planned that Carlyle had wished to give the books
and that his friends Norton and Emerson had sug-
gested that he leave them the library in his will
This what finally done, and when Car
lyle died the books here, in accordance
with the following individually stated provision:
Having with good reason. ever since my first
appearance in literature variety of kind feelings
obligations and regards toward New England, and
indeed, long before that, hearty good will. real
and steady which still continues. to America at
large, and recognizing with gratitude how much of
friendliness of actually credible human love, have
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
ETIQUETTE OF THE BEER HALL

E,arrn is organized for eating and drinking ana 50
are the Berliners organized for it. Scattered an
over the city are enormous places "NeI .I
80 inc halls where only wines are served,
od baer halls which deal In beer alone some OK
them most respectable and some not SO inpeccaoe'
II is the rule that it is perfectly proper 10 take
vour mother or your wife or your sister TO a peer
hall or wine hall that is frequented by '1e oihcI
of the army They go only to the proper ones
,,bric,v The etiquette places is most for
NAL If the hall is crowded and tables are scarce
before you sit down you draw your heels together
and make military bow to everybody sitting at
the table you select. Then, also. you raise your
,1oss or stein TO those at the table when your
Tefreshnent is served. On leaving you bow all
around again Or the other people at the table bow:
~ thew leave before you do The American way or
asking the others at the table for permission 10
sit down is not ceremonious enough for the Ger
mans who are the most formally polite people IN
the worId-San1ueI G. Blythe, in Everybodys-
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
HIS CHICAGO DEN"

There is nothing austere about this room or lle
connecting one in front into which the hgnt OF
the street shines through a big French plate WIN
6ov of the front apartment, through a ir'hse
6raned doorway, is the 'den' Of Schlippenbach me
unan not Baron schlippenbach the consul Al
though he is a bachelor, the rooms which The puD-
lie enters are homelike and suggest domestclty-
There are comfortable Iounging chairs more brio
a-brac and paintings and mementos Ihere are
little tables TOO; some of teak, carved with all the
ingenuity Of the East Indian. The baron taps d
quaint gong that rings silvery note, and in strides
noiselessly a tall, straight-as-an-arrow man. Win
let HACK hair and curied and waged mustache.
what shall it be-" asks the host. Before you
can reply he suggests: "A little vermouth?' at the
same time nodding the sphinx, who looks as Dig
as giant that awaits mis- masters bidding
Whether the baron has a mod code is a mystery,
hit seemingly he has, for whether it is creme de
uenthe or permouth sparkling champagne, he
merely bows and IT lie brought.
ITO the health of Americas smart and beautiful
women" toasts the guest, who may be a grand
6uke making q tour of the world incognito or a
Chicago business who would like 10 sell few
more harvesters a few pounds more Of bacon in
the Cars domain. A guest who sat at one OF the
harou's tables the other day looked as If he might
le the original Of a portrait Of Emperor Nicholas
H. Another with broad shoulders and military
Ikasr1ax might have been the calst OF Ae sseIst
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
THE REAL DANGER

The danger TO the country from the HaS. : "a
not that which comes from nest Oh I.--- 1-.-,u
vice The danger is too rapid Amer ,r-s-.
these people. mean Au,ericanizatoh u .soa
type Go 10 a great play centre N d -. 10 s,s
and you will see that every 10y anu -, f0r tn
been in the country one year Woulu - u.- III.
far- and all are extremely fond OF V1 .,,tse.
+ba,, az, 5oIpo so Rut the tendency Oh -
with the wrong type of American IS y 20. .srs-.
tuna of lew which is extremely ooorisn -, 10
+s51,, vulger II Is this type which mas O'' t.s
-aril,v from, the rigor OF the old fal'n .s.t -
strict confinement Of the Russian pa, ws:s.
acts into the radical anarchist anu
ever wav their radicalisn leads tie.4 ,-srss.
The congestion Of the East Side = -. . ,,s ro:
edged fact. several ot the Gistrl''S ~. &c,
derseIy populated in the world ,ns his,Sf
more easily explained when We ~ s,si psrt o
of the Jewish ghettos winch nav 90 and hs''
the history OF every great clty 'i -. - No rrarA
become a tradition among 'hSSV -, ~ Rrssisa
ba+ tba wealth OF the first generauv.. ...u,ssisls
&c .,,,,,v,, II is weIlEish HlpV- .,isrs
- -. =, brsaL with their friends anu !, ss-
p, - -. .,s congested districts -, soalA
49, Tbs advertising OF the nesNS =, =, ,,ucs %
81 y,-,s+ q, rsgard 70 Immigrants ",-, - ia yssri
6saact the current Of immigration ~ more rsp-
-. IT,, +bs district and VIII "'@ 70 10
is1y T., draw out the younger S. ,o-ssy Wv
,,rs ,,r,durtfve fields. kno" ~ ,,,,y SosIa-
ar, ,,1s,i,c n, so TO the South. ans. lew voaH
,,rr,u,it,es where the rich ',hsr cliissa-
,,.,,cor,s then, and train them ~ s-sat Jews
:. a. ,,,s+ this work that ule are eoS-
s'-'t, .,., ,,,a cha Educational Aii@- Ths r.
.,at energy and wealth - -. ron ~
- g. ere pressure upon the u's,s tos ro0las
,r,,,s Immigration. and thus 'l'' - the deas'
Whine wIn tsod l to reduce rent and iH'fSA'' !.
for better tenement houses v,.t side rlas :,
' The whoio problem Of the ..'ou Eass problem %
sested. 1t will never be 'ns%sISu '.,n the red a''
nlac, as a stun or BY sWiHs"S
CHARITIES and the Commons
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07

Baron schlippenbach began his diplomatic service
in 1855 For long time he was attacheu - .''1
Russian Embassy In TOXIC ioiil -, - ,co
eod m Nev York City. where he was wee
consul. Afterward he was sent to Chicago he was
trdee advocate in the Russian navy oeIore De, pc
corning a diplomatic agent He has tra'eneu OH
over the world and speaks excellent F-nsii9l- ~ 60
o.. ~ ~ - ,,aa nnoficiaIly Informed from ST.
,,.ars,,,ro earIv in May that he would be trans
farred to New York the transfer to date from may
Russian calendar. which would De May - III
,be IuIian calendar. He expects the onlciai notc'
IN come by long mail route TO reach 1iiii 'ei0''
tho middle June
New-York tribune., 1908-06-07
COMING RUSSIAN CONSUL WHOSE FAD Is DOLLo S18B

,,. -, c, Pe.ersburg but his identity and his
-,,sston were secrets OF himself and the baron
"May Russia know them better. and America s
men. too responds Baron Schlippenbach to the
toast
II you happen to be the guest and do not relish
the ver1nouth tie creme de menthe or the charn-
pagne or any kind of liquor which the baron 5
lavish hospitality affords. il is because your taste
is not educated up the finest product of Euro
pean manufacture.
Speaking of international marriages says the
baron. did it ever TO you that those CON
tracted between Russians and Americans have In
ysrtably proved happy ones?"