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New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
THE CAREER OF TSU HSI.
Her Rise from a Stare Girl to the
Chinese Throne.

Ts1 Hsi. the Western Empress born
November J. 1894. She the child = poor per-
who lived in Pekirg II = early age follow
tlg e common practice in China. she sold as
Eisve bv her parents account OF their poverty.
sle became Tire property OF famous general. who.
ezchsnted with her beauty adopted hcr and offered
he- as = present the reigHing Emper r Hsien
Feng She 50 charmed the Emperor by her looks
aTd intelligence that he made her his secondary
VIE and on her bearing him q son the future
Emperor Tun- Chih. raised her the first rank.
On MS death she became the regent Of the empire.
administering the tfonsI affairs with vigor
tssn any % her predecessors. Her authority
complete over bout fourteen thousand officials and
over frs welfare ana lives cf the vast majority Of
ne Irkzbitant< % China, who number nearly
~ ssae
i aad been said of the Empress DoTaser that
would long outlive the Emperor Only few
months ago she appeared 10 be enjoying the best
q heaith: he- nair retained its black Mongoiian
gess her eye~ their Msnchu iustre- and her hands
aFrn grasp of the scepIre- During her long con
troi she hsd frequently proposed Z" HeF gran"
Councillors 70 resign her authority buf 81" re-
-ei7ed from zhena the resEsursnces Thleh "a"
coveted
ne E-r-p-ess Dowager was IN thiaa TOT
egner.~ beng q Hsncar. snd vas under me "Aii
Scnilnped On third psks
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
MARY M4CLANE SHOUS Up
Found LiuiHg IN Cheap Boston Hotel
-Hrting Neu Book.
H. Telegraph TO The Tribune.

Boston. Nov l5-Miss Mary MaCLane, the
novelist Of Butte. Mont has not mysteriously
disappeared as reported yesterday. She So VS. so
herself Two months ago she left her summer
home in Rockland. Mass. where she has been
living for three years She did not go South. as
usual. Instead she came right to Boston. and
is living in quiet. cheap hotel in the South
End. There she says she is medisting another
assault on the literary fcibles Of the world"
She adds that the change is due to financial re
verses once I wouldn't anything but
silk stockings" she says. but now I'm content
with cotton ones. with lise for Sunday.
The new book will be ready in couple Of
months Miss MacLane doesn't know that it
will be published, for she says it viii be worse
than her first
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
HEARINGS ONE SIDED.
Suggested That Consumers Submit
Lozcer Tariff Arguments.
tFrom The Tribune Bureau, J

Washington Nov. 15.-Certaln officials of the ad-
rairistration and. toe some members OF Congress,
are disposed to regard with concern the progress OF
the tariff hearings being cOnd1cte by the
Wavs and Means Committee of the House pre-
t,aratory 10 the revision of the D.ngley law
special session OF Congress Immediately following
March next. One OF the most effective arguments
made by Mr. Taft during the recent campa gn was
that the Republican party should be intrusted with
the revision Of the tariff schedules. and he pledged
his word that such revision should be honest and
Thorough and that the consumers would receive
equal opportunity with the manufacturers to be
heard regarding the cost of production and the
equity of the proposed rates the various pro-
tected articles.
T-he hearings now being cclducted b. the Ways
and Means Committee are. in so far IA the evidence
presented is concerned purely parte however.
There is present representative OF The con-
sumner except the members OF the committee itself
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
SHELDON TO FILE REPORT IN ALBANY
Republican Expense Account Will Be Easy OF
Access for Fifteen Months

Nfifv-a1kee Nov 1.-THE Republican National
Committee will file its expense account In Albany
according to the natior al treasurer. George R.
sheldon. wh5 was here -o-day
while I have had many inquiries as to what the
statement would contain and questions on t'ls OF
that point I have invariably refused to give any
i,,forn1a ton regarding ne details, said Mr.. Shell
don II shall file the statement on my return 10
Ner. York Il it is ready. and believe it will pc
Il is worth noting. however that our statement
viii he filed in New York state one OF the few
s..+ss u,bera such statement is demanded
- rther than this vouchers and other papers have
20 be kept for fifteen months and are subject 10
examination at any time
The Democratic report was filed in illinois. where
M sworn stltemeut IS required.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
STEAL $4,000 IN STAMPS.
There's Drill p. o. Vault 7Cith Clerks
One Hundred Feet 4zcay.
rBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune. ,

South Bend Ind. Nov. 1J-Burglars tunnelled
A 14-inch fire wall entered the vault OF the
postofice with an electric drill this morning and
escaped with nearly $4,000 in stamps. all while
a force of night clerks was at work
The theft was discovered this morning by q
clerk in store next 10 the postOf1ce. The clerk
found it impossible to open either door TO the
store. and called a patroimau. They forced an
entrance. and an examination showed that the
doors had been fastened by large screws. and a
hole Il by II inches. had been drilled through
the 14-inch freproof wall forming side or
the postoffice vault Through this hole one Of
the thieves had entered the vault and passed the
plunder to his confederateS- The burglars
worked 50 slciIfulIy that the mailing clerks.
within one hundred feet of the vault, had no
knowledge of what was taking place.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
SKID CHAIN BLOCKS BROADWAY CARS.
damned in Power Slot. It Gives Great White
WAY Added RrilIiance

An arms length Of ''non-skid" chain from the
tire of an automobile lodged IN the slot OF the
,or-Tbourd Broadway surface tracks at 34th
+raet last night and after giving the Sunday night
crowds a display Of pyrotechnics caused the lights
i, All .be cars 20 go and Held up traffic in
Fotb streets for tvyenty-three minutes
From Greeley Square 10 5sth street Diue ana Yel-
,or ea,,e belcbed from the slot feet into the
air causing wild prancing among the cab horses
Jo7n Casey the chauffeur of the automobile, was
bnoke6 from his seat when the chain caught in the
carle slot The chain dangled down on TO the power
rail and the show inspectors pusned the
sttarnobfle of the tracks and saved II from IRE
tsy,,or tho u,reckine wagon arrived the slot was
nried omen and the disturbing chain was removed
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
BATTERY GETS TASTE OF PROSPERITY.
Returning Anglers. with More Fish than They
Want, Divide Catch

\ wave OF prosperity landed ar the Battery yes-
+srr,av with a bang Fish % an kinds and sizes
came 10 the fishing banks They swan from al
points Of the compass. and some anglers VINO went
out for days sport had 20 give up Tor the nsh
came In too fast Buckets were substituted FOR
hook and line. and hsh were hauled aboard tha
fishing coats by the hundred
Prosperity showed itself when the fishing boats
landed their passengers at the Battery Every
angler had more fish than he could carry. and eoa-
owners refused 70 keep the catch aboard 80 men.
women and children who hravec the crisp air along
the Battery wall yesterday were loaded down with
dsh for the
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
TOM JoHNsoN's BANK ABSORBED.
Two Cleveland institutions Take Over Concern
Founded by Mayor.

Cleveland. Nov. 15.-The DepostOrs' Savings and
Trust Company. or which Mayor Tom l. Johnson
was the founder and president and said 70 be the
principal deuoseary OF the Municipal Traction Com
panv was absorbed by two Cleveland banks late
tonight as the result Of several days negotiations
The savings accounts. amounting to S5G5.0oo were
taken over by the Cleveland Trust Company. and
the chet king accounts amounting 10 S2SSe00 by the
First National Bank.
1t said by the officers of the Depositors Saw
ings and Trust Company and the officers OF the two
absorbing banks that the liabilities OF the absorbed
bank were fully secured and that the bank was in
good financial condition.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
PATRoLMAN KILLED BY LIVE WIRE.
Winding Up Broken Line to Protect Crowd.
Policeman Gets Fatal Shock

Charles a Berberich- forty Years old. patrol
man attached TO the ParxviIe police station. hils
trying Yesterday to keep crowd away from a
telephone wire that had fallen front o. No SO
East IN street. Parkville grasped the wire and
was killed instantly.
John F. Moen. In fronr OF whose house The wirs
fell telephOned the police station. and LieIre7-
ant Kelly sent Berbsrich protect the passers-hy
until Hnemen arrived TO adjust the fallen wire
In an attempt TO coil Up the slack and protect
curious crowd that had assembled Berber1ea
cIutched the end OF the wire and fell Or Ives.
of the Kings County Hospital said that the pa
troIrnan had died instantly
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
FIREB4LL HITS VESSEL.
ErpIodes on Masthead. Knocking
T7CeHtY U6H SeHseIeSs.
rBy telegraph to The tribune !

Boston, Nov. 1J-Her rigging burned away
and the splintered to the deck. the fishing
schooner z. c. Hussey was tOwed into port to-
day by the schooner AppOmattox- The twenty
members of the crew report a marvellous es-
cape from death The Hussey was lying or
Cape Cod during a storm big ball of fire.
apparently yard in diameter, settled on the
peak of the mainmast. Il rested there min
ute and then exploded into thousands OF pieces
All of the crew were on deck. and the shock Of
the explosion knocked them all unconscious
When Captain Hopkins came 10 the rigging was
on fire and the flames were creeping 10 the
deck None of the seamen was seriously in
iured
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
CHICAGO PASTORS URGE cuaFew LAW

Chicago, Nov. l5.-From many pulpits through
out Chicago sermons were preached to-day urz-
ing the adoption IN Chicago of a curfew law which
would require all children to be of the streets BY
o'clock every evening. Already unofictal
regulation mas been put In force In quarter OF
the city the stockyards. and a citizens com
mittee has drafted ordinance for the enforce
ment of a eurtew law throughout the city II the
ordinance is passed, Chicago viii be the largest
city In the United States with eurfew law.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
COULDN'T CARRY TOWN He OWNS.
New Hampshire Proprietor Beaten by En-
ploye, Who Gets Votes-Recount Asked.

by ieiegrapE 70 Ine Tribune
Nashua. y H.. Nov 15.-CharIes n. Morey has
estate extending over thirteen miles. owns a
whole township and is the postmaster station
agent, chairman of the Board of Health and one
Of the selectmen of the little town of Hart's I.o-
cation. n II.
He expected to geJ the nomination for the I.egis-
lature hands down. for there are only four voters
in the town he ownz But TO his astonishment
three votes east for enploye Roland 3
Chase. who the Republican candidate Now
Mr. Morey demands recount Mrs. Morey is
the Board OF Education OF Harris Location and
looks after the interests of the three pupils in
town
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
LOCKED IN CELLS, CHEER FIREMEN.
Five Indiana Reformatory Buildings and Man
ufacturing Plant Burned-Loss $3.50, 900.

5effersonviile Ind Nov. 15--Five buildings OF the
Indiana state Reforr1atory and nearly the entire
plant Of the Indiana Manufacturing Company were
DESTROYED by fire to-day. The damage viii total
about $50 COO.
There we're no fatalities. the thirteen hundred in
mates Of The reforrnat tory remaining locked in their
coils They CERT cheer after cheer through the
e-a ted windows they watched the work Of the
nrenen. The ceIl house OF the reformatory was at
no time in danger
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
PRESIDENT FOR SEPARATE STATEHOOD
Promises 90 Recommend Such Action for
Arizona and New Mexico.
IBy Telegraph 20 The Tribune

Pheuix, Ariz Nov. IA few days after The
election Chief Justice Edward Kent wrote 10 Pres
dent Roosevelt suggesting that he recommend in
his message separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico. The President responded follows:
have. your letter OF the 9th. That is really good
business / shall, OF course urge separate state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico in my message.
n Governor Kibhey comes here wiz help him IN
everr zvav in the preparation OF and urging the
massage of such measure
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
BARBER STRICKEN. CUSTOMER CUT.

IBy Telegraph 10 The Triounsl
Evansville Ind No.. I5.-William Hoffer, local
barber was shaving a customer last night when
he suddenly grew rigid and the razor fell from hIj
hand In falling the razors edge passed across the
throat OF the patron and cut slight cash just
over the jugsiiar vein. Hoher sank TO I'll" floor he
had been stricken with paralysis and was uncon-
scious whe:i picked up.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
1RANsAMERIcA BALLOON RACE FAILS.

Los Angeles Nov. I5.-Because OF unusual at
mospheric conditions. the tFanscontnental balloon
race which was have started from Los Angeles
to-day was a failure The balloon America was
sent up and was carried by steady current of air
south and slightly west and directly toward the
T,acif, Ocean II is believed 10 have landed some
where on the beach The other balloon. the United
States proated by the example of It's rival and did
not ascend 1t NAV be sent UP tomorrow noon.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
RUMOR OF FOUL PLAY
Message to Sydney Regarding
Kudng Hsu's Death.

Melbourne. Nov. 15--The Sydney correspond
ent Of The Age" says that the Chinese reform
party in that city has received cable message
70 the effect that the death OF the Chinese En-
peror was due TO foul play and that a rebellion
in China was feared.
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
ARMY.NAuY FooraALL

sa tiIr1ay November 3S, Franklin Field. Phiiadei-
phia Pennsylvania Railroad special trains direct
10 grounds leave New York $50 and lo9a A NJ
RetIIrninc thirty minutes after game. PariOr cars
and Dining Car only. Round trip Pullman tickets
sold Consult g. Studds r +. A. 1p3 Futh Ave-
New York. Augmented regular seryice-AdyL
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16
RRiARcIIFF MILK.

owing Increased supply additional orders
ssf now be filed Rici pure milk ffcm healtay
Jerseys. ~ East 10th Street. Phone s2Ts-ss-AdYt
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16

co TO SAVANNAH RACES
or Florida via Seaboard Air Line r. ShoEta<r~
quickest route. once, 11SS 5roadWay.-Adse
New-York tribune., 1908-11-16

Shanghai. Nov. X. On account o the deaths
% the Emperor and the Empress DowaEor.
Tusn Fang, the Ticeroy o. Nsnkin--. has left
me scene Of the autumn TnauPuvTes and VIII
srarr AZ once for PekinC Tritn troops.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-03-27

E0TICE--IIerry VolIand Night
Scayeuger. Enquire at The Mil.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-08

when committed in any olner connec-
ton. But strikes themselves. are.
and should be recognized to be entire
ly legal. Combinations of working
men have peculiar reason for their
existence. The very wealthy individual
employer and still more the very
wealthy corporation, stand at an enor-
nous advantage when compared to the
| individual workingman. And while
there are many cases where it may
not be necessary for laborers to form
union. in many other cases it is in
J dispensable, for otherwise the thou
sands of small units, the thousands of
individual workingmen will be left
helpless in their dealings with the
one big unit, the big Individual or cor.
porate employer.
Stands Firm on Boycott.
twenty-five years ago, by the act.
of June 20, 1886, trades unions were.
recognized by law, and the right of
laboring people to combine for all
lawful purpose was formally recog.
nized, this right including combina
ton for mutual protection and bene
fits, the regulation of wages, hours and
conditions of labor and the protection
of the individual rights of the work
men in the prosecution of their trade
or trades. And in the act OF June l,
1898, strikes were recognized as legal
in the same provision that forbade
participation in or instigation OF force
or violence against persons or prop
erty, or the attempt to prevent others
from working, by violence, threat, or
intimidation. The business man must
be protected in person and property
and so must the farmer and the wage
worker. And as regards all alike, the
right of peaceful combination for all
lawful purposes should be explicitly
recognized. The right of employers
to combine and contract with one an
other and with their employees should
be explicitly recognized and SO should
the right of the employees to combine
and to contract with one another and
with the employers, and to seek pe,.ce-
ably to persuade others to accept their
views, and to strike for the purpose
of peaceably obtaining from employers
satisfactory terms for their labor.
Nothing should be done to legalize.
either a blacklist or a boycott that
would be illegal at common law, this.
being the type of boycott defined and
condemned by the anthracite strike
commission.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-08

every CLASS or employe TO wnlcn .ur
power of congress can extend.
In addition to liability law protect
ing the employees of common carriers
the government should show its good
faith by enacting a further law giving
compensation to its own employees for
injury or death incurred in it's SER
vice. 1t is a reproach to us as a ma
ton that in both federal and state
legislation we have afforded less pro-
lection to public and private employees
than any country of the world.
Asks Relief ON lnjunetions.
also urge that action be taken
along the line of the recommended
tons l have already made concerning
injunctions in labor disputes. No tenn
porary restraining order should be is.
sued by any court without notice. and
the petition for permanent injunc-
ton upon which such temporary re-
straining order has been issued should
be heard by the court issuing the
same within a reasonable time-say
not to exceed a week or Whereabouts
from the date when the order was is
sued 1t is worth considering whether
it would not give greater popular con-
fidence in the impartiality of SEN
fences for contempt if it was required
that the issue should be decided by
another judge than the one issuing
the injunction, except where the con.
tempt is committed in the presence
of the court, or in other case of ur-
gency.
| again call attention to the urgent
need of amending the interstate com
merce law, and especially the anti.
trust law, along the lines indicated in
my last message. The interstate COM
merce law should be amended so as
to give employers the right to make
traffic agreements, subject to those
agreements being approved by the in
terstate commerce commission and
published in all of their details The
commission should also be given the
power to make public and to pass up
on the issuance of all securities here
after issued by railroads doing an in.
terstate business. A law should be
passed providing, in effect, that when
a federal court determines to pass a
common carrier or other public utility
concern under the control of a receiv-
ership, the attorney general should
have the right to nominate at least
one of the eceivers, or else in some
other way the interests of the stock
holders should be consulted, so that
the management may not be wholly
Tedelivered to the man or men whose
policy may have necessitated the crea-
tion of tho receivership. Receiver
ships should be used not 10 operate
roads, but as speedily as possible to
pay their debts and return them to the
proper owners.
Antitrust Law Amendment.
In addition to the reasons | have
already urged on your attention, it
has now become important that there
should be an amendment of the anti.
trust law, because of the uncertainty
as to how this law affects combina-
tions among labor men and farmers, if
the combination has any tendency to
restrict interstate commerce. All Of
these combinations, if and While ex-
listing for and engaged in the promo
ton of innocent and proper purposes.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-08

Miss Erma Naeve gave an exqui-
site rose bud luncheon to the o. C.
club Wednesday. The polished table
adorned with cluny lace had center
decoration of pink rose buds arranged
IN fiat design. crystal candle sticks
tied with pink ribbon and with pink
candles also added their beauty to the
table. Pink baskets containing sailed
nuts and tiny pink and white rose
buds together with place cards with a
rose bud decoration completed the
favors. The luncheon was served in
five courses and terminated in ice
cream moulded in rose bud form and
served on rose leaves. What ap-
peared to be dainty favors were passed
and proved to be an April fool joke.
Mrs. Naeve has exquisite taste and
gives that attention to detail that
makes perfect effect.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-04-08

eral states or with foreign nations
| should continue to be declared illegal,
provided, however, that some proper
governmental authority, such as the
commissioner of corporations, acting
under the secretary of commerce and
labor, be allowed to pass on any such
contracts. Probably the best method
of providing for this would be to en-
act that any contract subject to prohi-
bition contained in the antitrust law,
into which it was desired to enter,
might be filed with the bureau of cor
porations or other appropriate exeou.
tive body. This would pro.
vide publicity within say sixty days of
the filing, which period could be ex-
tended by order of the department
whenever, for any reason, it did not
give the department sufficient time
for a thorough examination. The ex-
ecutive department having power
might forbid the contract, which would
then become subject to the provisions
of the antitrust law, if at all in re.
| straint of trade. If no such prohibit
ton was issued the contract would
then only be able to act on the ground
that it constituted an unreasonable
restraint of trade. Whenever the
period of filing has passed without any
such prohibition, the contracts or
combinations could be disapproved or
| forbidden only after notice and hear
ing with reasonable provision for
| summary review on appeal by the
courts. Labor organizations, farmers
organizations and other organi-
cations not organized for purposes of
i profit should be allowed to register
under the law by giving the location
/, of the head office, the charter and by
| laws, and the names and addresses of
their principal officers. In the inter
est of all these organizations, bust
ness, labor and farmers organizations
alike. the present provision permit
| ting the recovery of threefold dam
ages should be abolished and as a SUBJ
stitute therefor the right of recovery
allowed for should be only the darn
ages sustained by the plaintiff and
the cost OF suit, including reasonable
attorneys fee. The law should not
affect pending suits. A short statute
of limitations should be provided, so
far as the past is concerned, not to
exceed year Moreover, and even
more in the interest of labor than OF
business combinations, all suits
brought for causes of action heretofore
occurred should be brought only if the
contract or combination complained
| of was unfair or unreasonable. 1t may
be we'll to remember that all of the
suits hitherto brought by the govern.
ment under the antitrust law have
been in cases where the combination
or contract was in fact unfair unrea.
eonable and against the public inter
| est.
1t is important that we should en-
courage trade agreements between EN-
ployer and employe where they are
| just and fair. A strike is clumsy
weapon for righting wrongs done to
labor. We should extend, so far as
| possible, the process of Cancellation
and arbitration as substitute for
strikes. Moreover, violence, disorder
and coercion, when committed in con-
nection with strikes, should be as
promptly and as sternly depressed as