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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Shortly after he had first attracted the attention
of the public Berlin paper said of Count Ferd1-
nand Won Zeppelin IF he thirty years old
his enthusiasm would be spoken of by all WIN
encountered 1t youthful and his perseverance
typical of young manhood 1t will surprise
many people to know that this energetic. hopeful,
industrious inventor is nearly seventy years old.
that he has been general of cavalry. that he car
ries the title of Doctor OF Engineering and is
what the English people call a good sport. He has
devoted ten years OF hard work to research and
experiment in the field of aerial navigation. and
despite his years confidently hopes to win the prize
of 25O0,GOO marks which the German government
will give to the inventor OF airship which will
remain in the air twentyfour hours under control.
take course agreed upon and return TO the start
ing point, and be constructed that 1t can land
without injury to itself on the ground well as
on the water"
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NR. TAFT or THE LAWS DELAYS.

Mr.. Taft's speech ar Hot Springs on the laws
delays is full Of practical suggestions for max
ing the processes Of justice quicker and less
costly. Simplify the codes of procedure. recon-
mends Mr.. Taft, as England has done. 1.-The
''code Of the State of New York is staggering
f'in the number of its sections" 1t is a familiar
observation among members of the bar that
no lawyer, however wide his experience. ever
really knows the New York code of civil pro-
cedure. Much of the time Of courts is wasted
in deciding whether the procedure in a case
is technically in accord with this staggering
document and many cases are delayed by the
failure Of attorneys TO master it
Appeals, too. says Mr.. Taft, should be re-
Buicted- The great body of litigation. he thinks
should be confined TO courts of the first in
stance and to intermediate appellate courts. One
appeal should be enough, except in certain
typical cases which involve constitutional uues-
tions or the construction of a statute; upon
these he would have the court of last resort
pass. Court fees should be reduced SO as 10
make litigation as cheap as possible. and the
judges should be induced TO render their opin-
ions promptly on the conclusion of trial. as
the English judges do. instead Of incubatins
the matter for protraeted periods, as is the
American custom. Arbitration wherever feas-
ibie should be employed on account of its
greater cheapness-
Mr.. Taft raises Il genuine moral issue and
one of which the country is sure to hear more
in the future when he points out that the pres
ent delays and cost of court procedure operate
10 produce virtual inequality before the law.
The poor Iitigant cannot afford the expense and
he cannot endure the delay attendant on get
ting Justice. If one of the parties to a contest
is poor and the other rich, the rich litigant
can wear out the others patience and exhaust
his resources 10y resorting to technicalities, de
lays ara appeals. 1t becomes between them not
So much question of justice OF endurance
and this relative advantage that the rich iiti-
CANT enjoys over the poor causes dissatisfac-
ton Just as surely if the judges openly dis
eliminated In favor Of wealth and porre4. Mr.
Taft's experience on the bench enables him 10
expose effectively the inequality before the law
that results from the present freedom of ap
bsAIs:
There is nothing which is so detrimental 4
TIE interests Of the poor man as the right which
II given 70 him. must be given to the other and
weather. party Of carrying the litigation 10 tbs
Scurt OF last resort, which generally means two
three and four years of litigation Could an.
greater opportunity be put in the hands Of pow
srfuI corporations 20 fight OFF just claims. &c
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

lBy Telegraph The Tribunal
Newport. r. l., Aug. 6-The first baptism IN
the summer colony here for long while took place
this morning at the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Will
fam G. Rocker. when their infant was chris
tened Frederick Edmond Coudert Rocker The
Rev. Stanley c. Hughes rector OF Trinity Church.
officated and only few friends invited 10 be
present.
flower dance for time later in the season
is being arranged quietly by some of the women Of
the social colony This will be novel feature
for the Newport and will probably take
place at the Casino some Saturday evening.
The annual meeting OF the Newport Golf Club
will take place Saturday. August Is. The ques
ton of the future of the club Will again come up
before the members. but there is doubt that the
club will continue On the same day there will be
a match for the presidents cup and it is prob
able that dates will be selected for the Count OF
Turin and Hemingway matches
Peter F. Collier led in the social entertaining
to-day with large dinner at his summer home to-
night. The dinner followed by informal
dancing. Other dinner entertainers to-day were
Mrs Elbridge T. Gerry, Mrs. Henry Barton
Jacobs and Mrs. Richard Gambrtl. Mrs. James
Brown entertained with luncheon this afternoon
Mrs James B. Haggn has issued cards for a
luncheon on Sunday, and Mrs Seth Barton French
will have a musical at her home tomorrow after
noon There will be another musical on Tuesday,
this being given by Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs.
Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Thayer, who have taken
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defeat. in3ure or modify the legal rights of poor
litigsnts than to hold these litigants off from
what is their just due by lawsuit for such a
period with all the legal expenses incident 10
such controversy?
No man in public life in this country is better
qualified than Judge Taft to take the lead in
reforming court procedure. The defects of our
judicial system as compared with that of Eng
land for example have been recognized Tor
wears but the recognition has been academic.
No one has addressed himself persistently 10
the task of arousng and educating public "pln-
Ion 90 demand Il reform. Mr.. Taft regards the
reform of court procedure to do away with the
laws delays and inequalities as the greatest
issue before the public to-day. 1t is safe -
saw therefore that his interest in the question
is more than academic. He addresses hilnselt
naturally to the reform of the federal judicial
system, where. it is objected, the faults when
he points out yare by no means as prevalent as
in the state courts; but q beginning of REFORM
has 10 be made somewhere, and if something
is accomplished to make justice quicker ana
cheaper in the federal courts the states VIII not
be slow TO take mp the Improvement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
About People and Social Incidents

villa Rosa. are expected Monday for thu r..
nainder Of the season.
Miss Catherine N Cameron is the guest OF Mr.,
william B. Leeds at Rough Point Miss Narzsr..
cameron Of staten Island is expected soon to oav
A visit TO, Mrs Leeds. Mr.. and Mrs. Warner q
Leeds are also Mrs. Leeds's guests.
Mrs. s B. sproul Of New York. Is visiting ",
and Mrs Joseph Diiworth and Mrs FeIlows,
Davis. Of New York. is the guest OF Mrs William
Csrosvenor.
Daniel 3. Fearing will leave here next week for
Europe 10 spend the fall abroad
Miss Catherine y. Cameron. L. A schneiter. J.
Alexander, jr.. Seymour Johnson. Philip o. Mns
and H. r. Taylor registered at the Casino to-day.
Nfr and Mrs Lewis Cass Ledyard are preparing
70 return to Newport for the fall season They VIII
sail from abroad on August 49,
" s. Wells. J. D. r Baldwin and W p Thouap-
son returned from New York to-day
Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Ldriliard. who are abroad
arc having their Newport home opened preparatory
70 their arrival The summer home 81 Miss ANNA
Learv is also being prepared for occupancy.
The arrival Of the New York Yacht Cub Feet
.u Ia the main affair I'm the Newport social Slr-
ries Tomorrow Preparations for the entertainment
~ the aehtsmen have been going on for some tine
ara cards are out for large number OF dinners
and 1uncheons.
Mrs Rova1 Phelps Carroll and Clarence ". Do
Ian to-day won the golf cups offered oy l. A Fave
MEYER and william P. Thompson
vs-ilIiarn A Hazard Is the guest or Peser ..
c,o1lfar and Rene La Montague and J. NJ Water
hurv tr.. are visiting Paul J. Rainey
Tohn King is the guest OF Mr. and Mrs W. ".
Tompkin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
sn,tE CoBDEyTTE ARGUMENTS.

lord WeIhy's naive confession that the out
look for free trade was somewhat gloomy will
prohablv rank as. after ALL the most judlcious
and convincing utterance-at least, among those
reported here-at the international Free Trade
Congress in London. 1t is certainly preferable
TO Mr., Winston Churchills still more naive ar
gument that free trade must be a good thing
because Great Britain has been practising it for
a long time and yet is powerful and prosperous.
With reasoning like that man might prove
ANYTHING Certainly no free trader who accepts
Mr.. Churchilrs logic could deny that protection
was also good thing.
Most extraordinary of all however. was Mr..
Asouith's Characterization, of Americas foreign
commerce as "a comparatively insignificant fac
for The total value of our foreign commerce
in 1907 was S3.315 2725 03 or considerably more
than that of any other country in the world
save only the United Kingdom, and it greatly
exceeded even that in exports. To describe
commerce of about three and third billions,
the second largest in the world. and by far the
largest export trade in the world. as compare
lively insignificant provokes wonder as 10 what
volume of commerce would be regarded by Mr..
Asquth and his free trade colleagues as really
significant factor.
1t is suggested that Mr. Asquith meant that
the foreign commerce of this country was insig-
nificant in comparison with its internal com
merce. II So IL may be answered mat Ine COLI
parison is quite irrelevant. 4 thing is TO be
compared with another thing Of the same kind.
not of different kind. The foreign commerce
of country is to be compared with the foreign
commerce of another country, of other cOun-
tries. and not with internal commerce. When
English free traders dwell on the advantages of
free trade TO British commerce they point TO the
magnitude Of their foreign commerce as COM
pared with that of other nations and not rs
compared with their domestic trade.
If however, for the sake OF argument we ad-
NIT the comparison. what does it prove? Not
much to the free traders aid and comfort we
imagine If our domestic trade is so much
greater than our stupendous foreign trade that
certainly is an indication OF the great pros
perity which this country has attained and
which II continues to enjoy under a protective
tariff II is n pretty safe general rule that the
greater a country's domestic trade is the more
prosperous 1t IS Only prosperous people can
afford large domestic trade. Now. our export
trade is the largest in the world, and our whole
foreign trade is the second largest in the world
and vet according to Mr.. Asquith it is insignif-
cant by the side of our domestic commerce.
What a degree of national prosperity and what
a degree of financial competency among the
masses of the people must be indicated by such
a volume of domestic trade We are quite
ready TO accept Mr. Asquiths suggestion of the
| results Of protection upon our national pros
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adopt other figures. "The Scientific American
recently found itself in the same dilemma In
referring to the relative merits of the three
scouts the Salem the Chester and the BIZ
mingharn 1t felt obliged to evince doubt ABOUT
the correctness of the "2652" in footnote.
On the Saem's return from an endurance
trial on July l one of her tunnels bore the
figures "262S" These might have referred to
a squirt in the course of that trip or have meant
that when corrections had been made for wihd
or tide or both her best single mile, run several
days before. should be credited with something
less than 26.SS5 knots. Whatever the signil-
canoe of the inscription. it is known that the
fastest ship built for the American navy. the
world will he warranted i'll conceding the claim
if as is probable. there has been serious, even
If not wiful exaggeraton regarding the Ches-
ters four-hour run
1t is understood that the Navy Department
intends to employ steam turbines for the propul-
sion of all new battleships hereafter. Quite
aside from considerations of national pride.
Americans want to see the best engines obtain
able adopted for the purpose but would unques-
tjonably take additional satisfaction in the dis
covery-if Il has really been made-that one OF
their fellow countrymen can supply machinery
equal or superior to a foreign product. Any
thing which the bureau of engineering could do
to clear I'D the existing uncertainty would IN
ouestionably be regarded with favor by the
rl1hlic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
IN THE 6ERkSHtHES.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune

"
r Az 6-CortIandt Field Bishop viii 10.
hn,Id a villa at the MapIewood. the property 10
inherited from his aunt. Mrs Joseph NJ WINE,
this wear Mr. and Mrs Bishop nave aoandoned
the plan to erect big country place TOT me pres
ent They are now in Paris. autornooihns and oaS-
looming. and will arrive AT lh'ellaH0"' ''l D'ANs
estate here in October.
-. r,as+ins NJ the I.enox Horse show Associa-
ton at the I.enox Club to-day Giraud Foster John
z Alexandra, Frank K Sturg1s. NeWoold MOTIFS.
u5liaun d. Sloane and DR.. Henry r Jaqdes vera
rrasent II was unanimously voted not 70 nod
show this year because there are no aVailaols
grounds. and also because there would NOT oe a
sna5cient number of entries 20 keep the exnloiton
I'D TO the former standard
MIS- Richard c. Dixey gave a dinner THIS even
,np at TaneIewood for Miss Nina Gauthler, OF BAL
+fe,ors and E BurrfI Hoffman. who has lately
returned from Paris
NJ ard Mrs John H Hammond. who have been
tel Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sloane, viii return
TO New York tomorrow
c.renvfIIe l. Winthrop is spending week IN
town. ,..,,,..
r-oon have arrived at the Curtis Hote- Iol me t.
wintbrop. tr.. Lewis NJ Norwood, the
zt,ssss Norwood Miss Ti1lotsOn and Miss BUSCH
mar If New York; Miss c. c. Wentz and Mss L
7 Hardness. Of Philadelphia have arrived
The Misses Grace and Susan sedgVick have gone
70 Manchester. Mass
Mrs. S. w woodward. who has been at James
town r I. and Miss Helen woodward. VINO mas
bsen in the Adirondacks. have returned 10 Easn
HILL IN Stockbridge ,.-...
MRS oscar Iasigi and Miss Amy lasis1 departed
yesterday for the White Mountains
Mrs walter Cutting and her daughter, Mrs Al
+h,,r C,,mnock. who have been guests OF VT and
Mrs Henry W. Bishop. have departed 1or M0un'
Kisco. -. - nv and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ware are guests OK H. anu
Mrs. Henry P. Jaques at Home Farm
Hamilton Holt Of New York. is 70 De the spsaAer
-. +La Ola Home week exercises IN New Marlooro'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
BURLEY HILL BURNED.
Letters of Oiuer Crom1ceH De-
stroged-Loss S25O,000.

london Aug 6-Damage TO the extent OF a
ouarter Of a million dollars was done by a fire
which broks out at an early hour this morning
and practically Quilted Buriey Hall. near Oaknan'
the residence Of Frederick Guest, whose wife IS
daughter OF Henry Phipps- Of New York. formerly
a mariner Of Andrew Carnegie. Mr.. and Mrs
c.uest had only recently leased this historic man
sion and they had spent thousands OF dollars n
renovating it. They took up their residence in the
hall on August l. and the members Of the house
party which they were entertaining for the house
warming were aroused soon after they retired last
night by the alarm Of fire. They all turned out
in their night clothes. and Winston Spencer
Churchill and others Of the guests, including the
women worked all night long and saved many
valuable pictures and pieces Of tapestry Many
historic articles, however, including some letters
Of Oliver Cromwell, were lost.
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THE FACTS or THE CASE.

s,v way, of coutributin. its mite to the politi-
cai .n,isbiIitv and cheerfuness which happily
prevail ut this stage in the campalgA' Inc
Tribune recently printed quiZzical htue TWO
line agraph asking if somebody Wouldn
Give 10 cents 10 the Bryan war chest. Being
apparently rather hard up for an editorial topic
The indianapolis News takes this harmless
pleasantly as the text for solemn and labo-
rous djsousition on the insolence of wealth.
The distortion might readily enough be par
doned to our intellectually straitened contem-
porary If in the development of its subject II
had only adhered to facts instead OF producing
a Enthusiastically erroneous sequence of incidents
in support of its contention.
Having referred to the failure to put cam
paign fund publicity plank in the Repuoilcan
platform, 1.-THE indianapolis News goes on 10
say:
Then came the Democratic platform deca a.,
ing for publicity and followed promptly by the
action Of the Democratic national canhldates
and committee, announcing that no contrlpu-
tons from corporations would be accepted ana
limiting the highest single SUBSCRIPTION 70 s!V'-
O0O ali gifts be published before the election
Thereupon there was hurrying to ana fro by
the Republicans, and as Mr.. Tart announced at
Cincinnati treasurer for the Republican cam
paign was chosen from New York. where he
would be compelled. under the law. 10 make
public the contributions-after the election!
A rather neat point, if it only had the truth
IL w
day, July s. the Republican National Commit
tee appointed Mr. Sheldon its treasurer and
publicly announced that in selecting him 1t
had been Influenced by the consideration that
he would be legally subject to the strict pub
LEFTY law of the State of New York, this policy
and action exactly conforming TO the views ex-
pressed by Mr.. Taft long before, and more
than supplying, in the most practical manner,
the omission in the Republican platform. TWO
DAYS later, in the early morning of Friday,
July TO- the Denver convention adopted It's
platform. and it was not until the following
week that Mr. Bryan and his conferrees at
Lincoln announced their intentions regarding
the size and publication of campaign contribu-
lions As for their virtuOus refusal to accept
gifts from corporations it is sufficient to say
that Republican law explicitly forbids them
TO do
On due consideration of these facts our In
dianapolis contemporary may find its recent
sermon somewhat less impressive than it now
s1lpposes it to be- The truth is that in this mat
ter of campaign fund publicity Mr.. TAFT has
been ahead of Mr.. Bryan all the time, as Mr..
BRYAN has had the pain Of discovering as often
as he has tried to make the contrary appear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN TURBINES.

As the result of what may have been slip
Of the pen. a typographical error or an unin-
territorial mistake of another kind, an unfortu-
nate degree of uncertainty has been created re-
qardina the comparative speed of the two
United States scout cruisers which were
equipped with steam turbines. In press dis
matches. the accuracy of which, with one excep-
ton has gone unchallenged the following state
ments have been made: The Salem. provided
with the Curtis engine. an American invention,
is credited with having made a short DASH not
under official observation, at the rate of 259
miles an hour, and the Chester, propelled by the
Parsons engine. Of English origin with a speed
of 254 knots under the same circumstances. In
the government trials the Salem's best single
run over a measured mile course Is said to have
been at the rate of 26.SS5 knots. and the Ches-
ters ut 26O7. The average of the Salem's best
five runs on the mile course is put Mt 2o95, and
the Chester's at 251. On the four-hour run
June % the Salem is said TO have sustained
a mean speed of 25.946 knots. In the corre-
snonding trial, several months before, the Ches-
fer is reported to have developed a speed of
265o knots. but this particular announcement
seems to be open TO question
It will be noticed that the apparent superior
itv OF the Chester in the four-hour run is incon-
sistent with the inferiOrlty shown in the other
triale Moreover 1t is hardly credible that the
cruiser would make better showing in a sus-
tanned run than In single mile squirt Still
another reason for hesitation in accepting the
report about the Chester's speed for four hours
is that her Standardization trial Ito ascertain
the number of revolutions required TO deve1bp
various gpeeds) was not carried above % knots.
On that account an engineering expert who
comments on the two cruisers in THE London
Times" of July %, 1908, thinks it possible that
the Chester may not have attained a speed of
1852 knots yet he does not feel at liberty to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-07
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

,--,,,,e to-day on hoard the Mauretania from
Liverpool are Mrs. George Won L. Meyer WE oi
the Postmaster General. and the MISSES Meyei'
Mr. and Mrs F. Ashton de Peyster, who nave pee"
snendiup their honeymoon abroad and will join
Mrs Frederic J. de Peyster 1T Lake Minnewaska'
n Y; also Ogden Mills and Mr.. and Mrs ROBERT L.
Parrish
Among those who sailed yesterday were Mrs j.
Pierpont Morgan jr with her son and daughters;
Mr. end Mrs. Paul @. Thebaud and George T. Fol
lock.
Mr. and Mrs s Oakley Wander Peel. r.. ore re-
cetv4ne CONGRATULATIONS on the birth OF daughter
at their place at Short Hills. n. J. Mrs Wander
Peel was Miss Mildred Barclay. daughter of Mrs
Henry A Barclay
Lord vickiow's brother. the Hon. Hugh Howard.
who arrived last week from England. Is staying at
Southampton. Long Island, with Mr.. and Mrs Ben
tamin AynIar Sands. the parents of his harcee'
Miss May Sands.
Mrs OIL yer H. p Belmont is booked to sail from
Europe for New York on September 2 and on her
arrival here Will go at to her place at New
port.
Mrs Charles H. Baldwin has arrived from Eu-
rope and has gone to Newport. where she will be
at her villa Snug Harbor. IN Bellevue avenue. for
the remainder of the summer.
Mrs Russell H Hoadley her daughter. and Mrs.
George L. Ronalds. jr, have gone to Homburg.
where they will be for the next three weeks.
Dr.. and Mrs. Louis Faugeres Bishop. who have
been abroad since June. booked to sail for
New York by the Oceanic September 9.
William Douglas Sloane who has been in town
for a few days. staying at the Manhattan. has re-
turned to Lenox.
Mr. and Mrs Moses Taylor Pyne accompanied
by their sons and their niece, Miss Ethelberta
Russell. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald d.
RUSSELL are making a motor tour through Holland
Belgium and Germany.