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New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
DELINQUENT REPTBLICAN.S.

The secretary of the Republican National
Committee is to be commended for sending out
bis scare" message 10 delinquent Republican
electors. even though he inadvertently over
stated the number OF Congress districts in
which conventions have apparently not been
called for the election OF delegates 10 the Re
publican National Convention. The national
committee in it's call TO the state and district
organizati tons wisely laid down some lard-and-
fast rules 10 govern the choice Of delegates. re-
quiring. among other things, due uniformity,
publicity and deliberation in election procedure
II was sensible in the first place 10 annuI such
elections were made before the terms of the
csl were known. Ii was equally sensible to
stipulate that convention should he called
until thirty days after the national committee
had acted, and that 10 convention should be
held without thirty days advance notice in
some newspaper of general circulation. II was
also wise 10 rule that all delegates should he
elected Al least thirty days before the date set
Tor the meeting of the national convention this
last proriso allowing the national committee
ample time TO receive all credentials and TO CON
slider contests before making up the temporary
roll of delegates.
The convention is TO meet in Chicago al noon
"n June l6- Under the provisions of the call
no delegates can be chosen after noon of Nav
ia. and all convention calls must be out before
noon Of April Il. The secretary Apparently
overlooked the fact that May is a thirty-one
day month when he issued his notice that all
delegates must be chosen ION or before Nav is -
The information which the Wednesday call
10 delinqueDts WAS issued also not up-to-
date. As matter of fact. ali the state con
Kenfions have been called aud of the dis
iTcts enumerated by the secretary more than
half hare also given notice Of contentious. In
this STATE for example every district conren-
tion call is out, although seven districts we're
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
WANT JOHN JAY PARK DEVELOPED.
Plan Includes Closing of Street that Cuts
It in Two Parts

A movement has been started by the Municipal
Art Society and the Metropolitan Parks Associa-
ton for the development of john Jay Park, over
looking the East River from 18th 18th street.
The city owned the property for several years.
Seveny-seventh street cuts it into two parts. and
1t has been suggested that the be closed so
that the area of the playground viii not be broken.
The land commands a fine view of the East River
and is practically secluded from streets \
playground is conducted on the south part OF the
ment.
The playground committee OF the Municipal Art
Society, of which Harold \. Caparn is chairman
and the Metropolitan Parks Association have sug-
gested to city officials the acquisition the piece
OF land west of the north half OF the park for A
farm garden similar to the in De Witt clinton
Park. at El aventh avenue and 54th street. There
no buildings the land. which was used for
many years as truck farm The cost would be
about $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
fFrom rhe Tribune Eureau-


washington April 16.-The President ~ - -
-, ,ne neuIv appointed advisory coinn''ee "
.h national Gallery OF Art. in whlch ne = -
oarnastlv interested. The members are r-' ,
,,lasbheld of the National Academy o. D1
r-rsaere C,rowninsheld, of the FINE ANS
,ion or New York. Herbert Adams, oil the No +
scu,nture Society and Francis D. Miilet anu w" w
lam r. Holmes. Secretary Waicott Oh ui0 ~
o,ta, institution made the introducuohs-
ruIio I;arrinaga the resident cominisslonei 80 ,
porto Rico came to urge the President 10 'n
.on,. action that will result in the adop'io" "
I,or,o Fican coffee by the army and navy
T,enresentative Vreeland, of New ioih' -
s,,csd the members of the Currency CoI'li'S
~ the American Bankers Association "h' a.
bera 10 oppose the Aldrch bill
Other callers at the White House hciuIeu -
- odYa Crane Borah and Warner. Hept
..,iyes Reeder Hayes, Gardner, Bdtes. -,
JIaroi1ton Cocks and Fassett. Secretary ifi'
=, committee from the New YORK Saii',ii g
obareA tho came to plead for a PARDON io
-. ~ scbaick who is serving a Ten 7
sentence I'm Sing Sing for criminal hes'is
the Socum disaster. 49,. ,-,,,,aI
The President has given orders TOT 'Ii7 -.
Easter Monday egg rolling festival on the -
House grounds next Monday None Out -
and adults accompanied by youngsters VIII ~ =
,oitted to the lawns, and the Marine Bahd has
ordered to give a concert while the games are HI
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17

classed as delinquent. The convention III lhe
9th Virginia District has not only been calleu'
but held. At least four of the New Jerse! uia-
tricts have complied with the terms of the na-
tionaI CALL as had every district but one IN
Ohio by April IA. In fact up TO yesterday
there were only nine states. instead OF nineteeh'
in which action had been delayed, the chief Of
tenders being North Carolina, South Carolina
Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Kentucky
Michigan, New Jersey and Texas. 1t Is prop
able that most of the belated distriets-about
fifty in all-will have got out their convention
notices before noon to-day
A curious disregard of the terms OF lne caii
is reported from Texas The regular kepup-
lican organization there has set May ID rs llle
late for the state convention. and VIII prop-
ably be found to have set the same date Tor an
the district conventions. The 'reofSanlZeu
faction has called a state convention ana uis-
trct conventions for May 2G. 1t is contehded
that tue state primary law of Texas requires
all party conventions to meet 'on the loufu
Tuesday of May" But We cannot see now
STATE law can govern the action Of party
convention rot called 20 nominate candidates
for state offices. Probably electors could not ne
named at a party gathering held on anotner
date But the Republicans of Texas can assem-
HE at any time they choose. within the reSulc-
tons laid down by the national committee 10
designate representatives TO national conVeh-
ton or to do any ether business not connected
with nominations OF domestic concern or inter
est 4 convention held on May % Wouio
plainly disqualify itself under the terms "i lhe
national call, while convention held on May
16 would be entitled TO recognition at chicago
whatever action might he taken subsequently
I'm the Texas courts to rebuke those part'ci-
patinc in il for asserting their right TO transact
at their convenience business in no way al
fectinS Texas elections
There has been too much careiessncsS IN the
past in choosing delegates to the national con
vention and an insstence on stricter rules VIII
be of considerable benefit TO the party.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
now TO BEAT THE ICEU4N.

\ chance listener i'll the vicinity of kitchen
doors these days will hear, in the course of any
forenoon all shades of invcctive from THE horrid
thing" up to ''efTrontery. highway robbery" and
criminal MONOPOLY These terms, he may cas-
lily discover. are being applied to that perennial
theme Of ribald song and revolutionary speech.
the iceman. The iceman has just drawn down
fresh torrents of wrath upon his head by boost
ing the wholesale price IF ice with d certainty
that retail prices will follow ami. usual. h..
is receiving the torrents 50 cOoy, so frgidy,
that they will probably freeze up before long and
give him an extra ice crop 1t doesn't pay the
icenan To get hot over the hard names by which
lie is called. and he knows it. too. So long as he
refrains from irritating the public with open con
tumely no great competitor will break into his
field and force him to sell ice at n reasonable
figure. And from small rivals he has nothing to
fear because he can either wrest their lake and
river rights from them or crush them by under
selling, as soon as they begin cutting into his
business seriously. So. at least the situation has
appeared, to iceman and victims alike. The Ice
monopoly. however unreal in technical sense,
seems foreordained by the nature of things to
continue a real monopoly in methods and III
prices until the Styx is ready for cutting.
But il is darIes: before the dawn. \ German
has discovered an avenue Of escape from the
iceman Like many great discoveries, this one
is so simple that you must wonder why you
didn't think of it fifty years ago. and It is SO
cheap and unpatentable withal that poor maa
may become successful competitor of the ice
monopoly As described in scientific journals,
the Germans contrivance is nothing more than
a two-stOry scaffolding, at the top of which
common garden hose sprinkler, connected with 4
water main, throws a spray over the structure.
As the water falls upon the numerous cross
beams a cold winter day. icicles form aud
soon fill the whole framework with thick crys-
tai columns, which the ice trust buster easily
breaks off and lugs into his nearby icehouse In
NurtcmbcrG. where the first iciclc machine mas
been IN successful operation for some time.
scanolding twenty feet square and twenty feet
high produces twenty cubic yards Of ice in ono
niLTing night. The cleEer German does not
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
rrror, TIL. Tribune Bureau. ]

TFTom The Tribune huTedu-I
Washinston April 16-The British AmDdssddor
and Mrs Bryce gave informal luncheon at tne
embassy to-day to the Governor General OF Canaoa
and Lady Grey There also dinner party OF
fourteen tonight 10 meet them Earl ana IauS ~
Grey will leave the capital tomorrow lot BIZ
more where they will visit Mr.. and Mrs George
W Vanderbilt before returning to Canada. Lazy
SibyI Grey. their daughter, who Is A HeInOer Oh d
house party being entertained by MISS Nora A>aiis
horne at her Virginia home, will join ner parents
Oh the way to Biltmore.
Mr. CoromiIas the Greek Minister. VIII entertain
q number of guests at luncheon tomorrow 10 meet
the Russian Ambassador and TO bid MIN iareNeh
before his departure for home, where ne goes iol
a stay of several months
Herbert Grant Watson, British third secretary
will leave Washington tomorrow for BrooklSH'
where he will meet Mrs. Watson and thelr Ht'iS
daughter who are the guests OF MT o. 49, - =,
xaents ur aud Mrs William Low. They will sail
from, New York on Saturday for three months
leave of absence in England
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17

tion of the bill 1t may be "clalmed u! soiho
that forests cause rain to fall, put those
who claim il are surely very lew Gnu "i'
growing fewer That theory has long peen
abandoned hv the best authorities. Ihe vaiue
of forests in relation to water supply is not
that they cause precipitation, put 'ha' 'ho!
nrovide natural reservoirs for the storage OF
water after it has fallen and that o! giving 1t
out gradually they regulate and equallze the
so,, of streams To suggest that this function
of forests is .rather speculative, as Mf. Jen-
kins does. cannot be regarded as judicious. Inc
fact is all but universally accepted as per
fectlv well established. There are lnnuinerapie
streams. large and small. III the Chi'eo "'"'o'
which provide concrete demonsualions Vi ''1
truth While the land around thelf sources an"
along their upper reaches was coFefeu WIN i''
natural forest growth. their HOW was pretty
evenly maintained the year around; nut no"
that it has been denuded they fuctuate between
food and drouth
Other lands. older in settlement thhh oti =
nroscnt many more examples. The French AM
bassador, speaking in this country last winter
cited the cases of the Loire and other rivers III
France and of the rivers of Spain, as proofs
Of the disastrous effect of forest ues'ruc,i'h
upon waterways. 1T is. he said an apso
lutte principle--no forests. no waterways tui-
rent news from China affords another strIkins
oxan,nIo Tho 1Suaf spring floods are occur
ring in the rivers of that empire. With loss oi
thousands of lives and incalculable destruction
of propertv. The cause is no secret emma IL
largely n treeless land There are no great
forests to receive hold and gradually give ou'
The rainfall The result is that when the heaNN
snrin- rains fall ALI the water rusnes ap "i''e
into tho rivers and disastrous h0ods are Pio
duced and when the dry season comes on the
rivers dwindle so as to be unnavigahle Ihefe
is no reasona ble ground for disputng that tlie
,nointcnoncn Of forests on their upper reaches
is essential tn the continued utility or rivers
as waterways.
For five years this measure for forest preser-
vation has heen urged upon Congress sup
ported bv agricultural, commercial lhdosttldi
and all other interests. and especially py thost
seeking the protection and improvement o'
inland watprwavs The President has repeat
odIv recommended it. Two years ago II pasSe"
tbe Senate without dissent and was unahi-
mouslv recommended TO the House ny tne ,oi'i-
mittoe on Agriculture. and majority OF 1he
Uousc was known TO favor IL. but It was not
aer,nittcd 10 reach A vote. The governments
of fourteen states have officially made repre-
sentationS 10 Congress in its favor. anu
m,1nicipal organizations. boards of trade ana
other representative organizations have don'.
the same There is little doubt that ma
should Il now ho held M on techniCal anu
very slcnderly supported plea of unconsttu-
tionality:
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
4muSementS.


ACADEMY OF MISIC-S-GTRnd Opera
AI,fsAMBRA-2-S-Naude
.aa-Psid I'm Full
Cos: :l5-The NarTens or lrci'fa-
TI.ANEY-S-S -S:l5-Unce Toms CABIN
FSE0A sT-s:l5-A Waltz Dream
- :is--s. .l5-Nesrly & Hero
S-Naudevile.
lrIDFcN MUSEE-The World IN WAY
F-NIslEF-s: s:so-FstheT and the b"A
sSArRlCk-s: :i3-The Royal Mountea
GERMANS :2o-Die Crosse leiderlscnai'
TTaf~LrTT- fa-The NitchnS Hour.
TssxxFr,STFfN "a So s:1S-N audeNlIe
IIFP SIIe sol Girl Behino ti and
rpTsapROAiE.-2-S-Battle OF Feri AI1n1i' D
rsT-rSoN-s :ea-The Honor or the Famiiy- x-L
y s-1,.TS f~r F01 s5-The Talk ot New Aofh'
fTRERTY-s: go Polly or the Circus
: yyrT-T-F-S s Thief
TYRIf--s-Don QuiXote. g.. -;rcu.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 49,
sa 1S-Rsndarra Lana. Pain
NATIONAL. ACADEMY OF Dt-Si''->- O. "
sculpture So ,xi5oN
N-F-AS- 2e-The Soul kiss
SkxOY-S -an-Thc Servant IN the ffolSt-
STr-S-N-r,s A>T-s:I--The Music Master.
- knight for l'aN Merry
vTEF-P MUSIC Halls l5-burtesque q i-'o
WIDOW
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
LFrnn The Trihune Bureau. !

JFrom The Tribune Bureau
Washington. April 15-The Nice-President ana
Mrs Fairbanks have had their Easter house party
increased bv their son, Robert Fairbanks. a Yale
student and their sou-in-law. Lieutenant John
Timnlons L. s y. vino has short leave.
Charles D. Walcott. secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution. gave dinner tonight complimentary
tn the advisory committee of the National Gallery
of Art Invited to meet them were Senators Lodge.
Bacon, Wetmore and Sewlands, Representatives
DaIzeH, Howard and Mccall. DIR. Alexander
Graham Bell, ex-senator John B. Henderson and
Mr.. Rathbone.
their plans for spending tho summer IN Europe
and will go TO Newport at the end Of this week
The last dress rehearsal for the prince of Par
chest" which will hold the stage next week. will
be given tomorrow night. The all-socfety cast is
up of this and last seasons debutantes. with
a number of young matrons and the best known
men OF the capital There viii be fancy dances
catchy songs, "skits'' and a little of everything
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
WILL OF MISS CLEMENCE STEPHENS.
Leaves Bequests to Many Charitable Insti-
tutions

The will Of Miss ClemenCe stephens who died
April 1 at her home, No. 2S East 54th street
filed for probate yesterday IN the SurrOgate's
Court by Richard L. Lydon. attorney for Mrs EIiz
abeth S Cooke. sister and exeCUtrix of Miss Stc
phens, and Robert i. Redfeld. executor. Miss
Stephens died at the age Of eighty years. She was
for twenty-five years resident of this city, and
although her life quiet. almost to the point Of
seclUsion. she widely known for her many
charities. She the daughter of Benjamin and
Maria Stephens, of New York
Bequests Of $4,000 Cach have been provided for
the Home for Incurables. the American Female
Guardian Society, the Home for the Friendess and
the Five Points House of Industry. The sum Of
5000 is given to the New York Circulating Library
and the same amount to ST. Thomas's EpScOpd I
Church for the purchase of a free bed at St
Luke's Hospital. More than S55n0 is given in
smaller charitable bequcsts.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
FORESTS AND STREAMS.

There would he widespread disappointment
and regret IL the Judiciary Committee of the
House Of Representatives should adopt the re-
port of its chairman on the Appalachian White
Mountain forest reserves bill and the House in
turn should acquiesce in that unfavorable
action, and there will be strong dissent frem
some Of the views which the chairman ex-
presses and from some OF the grounds on which
he bases his condemnation of the bill The
bill was referred TO that committee for its
opinion to its consttutionality, some CLOSE
constructionists" having suggested that the
Constitution did not specifically authorize the
acquisition of land for forest reserves Mr..
Jenkins holds that the bill is unconstitutional
for the reason suggested. and that it is doubtful
If 1t would be proper for Congress TO acquire
forest lands for the aid and betterment of navi-
CATION in rivers, since there is no universal
agreement upon the theory that forests increase
the rainfall and thus increase the flow Of
streams.
This last point is really amazing and the
making Of it by Mr. jenkins viii prohab
arouse grave doubts of the intelligence aud dis
cretion which have been applied TO considera-
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17

have TO wait for lakes and ponds to freeze 'hicA'
He does not have to employ gang or ice cu.-
ters horses and ice saws. lie does bot ha'e :"
bauI his product by wagon or by moving pia'
form 70 storage. His ice is made of pure drins
ing water. not of the dubious fluid which se',
into much natural ice And bis own pachy al"
is when measured by It's productivity, as Dig hs
a good-sized river. :,
II is interesting TO reflect that thousanu u
dollars or thereabouts would set small lcichS'
I'm in business and that vacant lot' soino
rouob lumber rubber hose and an oralnaiy
American winter would make the tiny scanoln.
ING of the Wiirtemberg man yield between slA'y
tbousand and one hundred thousand CUBIC iee'
of ice. few enterpTisng men next door " 'no
omen country in the outlying boroughs ahu 'no
suburbs beyond might undertake TO serve .he'
respectiye ncfghhorhOods with hign graue icioie0
If half the price of cakes. And Wouiuh ~ po
Interesting TO watch corporation Worr! 'itli-
haitian ice despots by putting up truis u's
scaffoIdfpg and shed on the upper emu U, '.o
island? Wouldn't it be rare JOKE II iahulois'
made jrices on their apartment mousse roo's'
stored them in cellars and sold them 10 'neii
tenants at neat profit and yet below nohopoiS
nrices, But of course, all this IS mere iahtd'!
rho icicIe factory is SO exceedingly simple anu
ohvious that suspicious Yankees scent III 1t Il
econ game" They will continue 10 prefer N'
bauIed hundreds of miles from pools OF uii-
known purity and sold at iapis lazull prices
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
GETTING RID or THE "PIkER." "

Tho racefracL manage arc keener than SOME
Of the state Senators in their appreciation of
laIblic sentiment. The betting reforms WHICH
they have instituted at the opening of the local
season are obvious response 10 the severe
criticism to which the gambling features of the
tracks have been subjected Making 80 the
minimum bet which it is permitted to boo>-
maker in the regular ring 10 accept, II the RUE
is strictly carried out will bar the cheaper class
of bettor. Hitherto the hookmakers nave OK
dinarily looked upon s. as the minimum, though
it was not difficult to find layers of odds who
in dull times would gladly take 81 wager
The worst of racetrack gambling has been Its
attraction for men Of small means, who rlshed
only dollar or two on race-often money
which ought TO have gone to the support OF
their families
The small bettor may still go into the field
under the present plan and make his y beI,
and the practical effect Of the rule may be TO
mako the field" more respectable than it
was sending the 81 bettor who used to frequent
the ring into the cheaper section. OF course.
lie enforcement of S. minimum in the field
will bar out its old habitu6s the worst victims
of the racetrack gambling habit. men and
women for the most part 50 nearly fmpecunolS
that they could not afford TO pay the entrance
fee TO the grandstand ard could make only
small wagers even fractions Of dollar-for
there was almost sum that would not be ac-
cepted in the field" Whatever be the moral
question involved It is practical consideration
that the betting ring is 10 place for the man
who cannot afford To lose, and If this class OF
bettor is turned away the actual evil Of race
track gambling Will be much diminished. The
managers Will do well to watch the operations
of the s. rule in the field, for they may find
it 10 their advantage 10 drive away the "pikcT
altogether.
The racetrack managers have evidently
started in To prove the truth of their contention
that il is better 10 regulate gambling than ID
attempt its suppression. But it is doubtful Il
this eleventh hour effort will have any effect
upon public opinion. The device by which the
constitution is made 10 mean one thing on one
side Of fence and the reverse on the other
side goes too strongly against the popular con
science to be forgotten just because the race
tracks have taken away the bookmakers stools
and driven the "piker' from one ring TO another.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
TBy Telegraph 20 TIE Tribune

,--- p April 1s-Niss PauIin. Franca,
- - - -. married on May 3 arrived IN Newport
+bia evening accompanied by her fance saTn1ei
IvasstafT, Of New York They are the guests o.
Mr. and Mrs Amos Tuck French. MISS French
parents
Mr.. and Mrs George L. R1ves arrived 'hls even
te - make an INSPECTION OF their summer hons
here
Mrs stuyvesant Leroy. Guy Norman and Co-on'l
G. 7. f. Robinson have returned from New York.
Mr. and Mrs William Wat-s Sherman and ths
Misses Sherman expected TO arrive for the sea-
son next Thursday.
MI. and Mrs craig Biddls and Mrs John Garter
Brown are expected in June for the season.
Indian Spring. the summer home Of Mrs J r.
F3usk has been opened for the summer season.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
DR.. KOCH DRIVEN FROM CHICAGO

Chicago April 16.-I literally driven from
Chicago. where I came Monday for a weeks
Icst. by over-solicitous friends and citizens and
newspaper reporters. and obliged TO leave
Chicago at once.'' testify declared DIR. Robert Koch
the German scientist. last night. He packed his
five large trunks and had them shipped 10 St Louis
by express tagged Hold till called for within two
or three weeks" paid his bill. bundled his wife and
his brother from St. Louis into carriage and cabs
and was driven to the Union Station, where he
boarded a train for Milwaukee.
Dr. Kochs itinerary includes Milwaukee ST. Paul.
Minneapolis and possibly Detroit and trip South
by way of Omaha and St Louis.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
FAVoRS POSTAL DEPoSITARIEs

Washington April 1.-THE Senate Committee ON
Postofices and Postroads to-day voted TO report
Gavorably the postal savings bank bill drafted by
a subcommittee. of which Senator Carter is chair
man. An amendment adopted changing the
name OF the proposed Institutions to postal denosi-
tories which meets the objections raisc, bv bank
The amendment does not chance tho purpose
of the bill. which is TO furnish conNeneut deposi-
taries tho small ssVng1 of people remote from,
adequate banking facilities.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-17
CHARITY ENTERTAINMENT PLANNED.

The Junior League Of the Sisterhood of Personal
Service connected with the Congregation Shearith
Israel the Rev. DR.. H. Pereira Mendes rabbi. will
give an entertainment for charity on the evening
of April 80 at the Hotel Majestic. The principal
feature will be a series OF living pictures In which
the following members of the slsterhOod will take
part Mrs. Miriam Adler. Mrs. Tolidau the Misses
Mordecai Miss Nita Wolf, Miss Reitlinger Miss
Hays. Mrs l.. n. Levy. Mrs. De Cardova Miss
Cordozo. Miss V. Levy and Miss Benann
There will be dancing after the tableaus