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New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
ACTORS COMING HOME.
The Philadelphia Brings Players
Here after Fast Passage.

The Philadelphia the most consistent performer
of the American Line feet arrived here yesterday
after q fast passage from Southampton for
steamer of her tonnage and horsepower. The Phil
adelphia invariably makes port on Saturday, but
her arrival at 7:So yesterday was unusual
Her time of passage was days l3 hours % min
utes She maintained an average speed Of 1874
knots
Many of the first cabin passengers were actors,
actresses and theatrical managers. Prominent
among them were Mr.. and Mrs. William Faver-
sham Harold Entwistle. Frank Goldsmith, William
Gould Miss Rose Melville. L. P. Walsh and Mr..
and Mrs Frank ]. Wilstsch.
The Favershams have just completed three
months vacation at Chiddngfold, their summer
retreat in Sussex England. Mr. Faversham talked
OF his plans for the forthcoming season, saying;
Edwin Milton Royie is going 10 write another
play for me will be a sequel 70 The odua"
Man It will deal with the life and development
in England of jim Carson's haifbreed son. have
attained the rights of Bernard Shaws newest play
Getting Married Mr.. Shaw is anxious LOT MISS
Opp to play the leading part in this country ana
will produce it soon after New Years. nope
to give a series of special matinees OF Inc fooE
House the rights of which I bought in London
Albert Chevalier played il there From NINE Freu
De crassac one of the authors of The Marriage
of Kjttv, I obtained a new play, The Right 10
Lie I will produce here new play by an amer.
ican author Edward Chds Carpenter The Bareer
of New Orleans Another new play is by Anthony
Hope.
MY first New York production, however, Will De
of Charles Frederick Nirdlinger's The World ana
HIS Wife I have sub-leased Daly's Theatre from
the Shuberts and after brief season IN Chlcaso
and the West I expect to return to open in that
theatre about November and remain all winter.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
ANOTHER GRAFT INQUIRY.
Citisens of Queens Investigating
BOrou chs Government.

Various citizens committees are collecting nlate-
rial for another grand jury investigation into the
alleged wholesale graft methods in the Borough of
Queens According to the heads of some OF the
COMMITTED the oldtime graft system has been con-
tnued with but slight interruption since the last
crusade and where officials have been forced to
abdcate they say, grafters have stepped into
their shoes In the present movement lists of men
holding city positions and positions with large cor
porations are being prepared and startling revela-
tlons are promised
1t is alleged that the city payrells carry bar
tenders, taors, real estate agents. clerks and oth
ers who draw money fro the city while they are
also occupied with their business 1t is also
said that there number of men whose duty to
the city consists walking around 10 the Borough
Hall on payday and collecting their salaries AS
vet nothing will be given out by the reform COM
rnitfees but they promise to have everything In
readiness when the October grand jury meets
The manner in which the highways OF that eor-
ough are looked after by the local authorities, it is
said will also be a subject of investigation. COM
rnittees from Flushing and Bayside have for months
lad competent keeping track of the money
srent Oh the highways and of the amount of work
done in return.
Everything indicates that when the courts open
in the fall committee will visit Governor Hughes
and lay before him the result OF the summer in
vestigation, and ask his aid in cleaning out the
alleged grafters
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
HIGHWAYS IN QUEENS.
Discharge of Useless Foremen and
Inspectors AdUocated.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have read with much interest the letter Of
A J. Emo of Jamaica. to Highway Commissioners
Hicks, of Queens Borough, relative to the dis
graceful condition of the borough's highways
have also read the answer of Mr.. Hicks denying
the charges / was more than pleased. too. to ind
that Mr. Hicks agreed with Mfr. Emo after he had
made partial inspection OF the borough's nigh
ways in company with Mr. Emo.
/ am told, by the way. that Commissioners Hfcks
drawing pay for about forty horses and carts.
Now the Rayside Farmers Association has agreed
to cooperate with Mr. Emo. which is good movs.
and would suggest that they begin by getting
list of all the employees in the Department Of High
ways the pay each eupioye receives and the labor
he Is expected so perform. This would show 20
the public the number of blaeksniths. saloon
keepers. bartenders ioafers, etc, who are now on
the departments payroll and whose greatest duty is
to draw their pay.
Borough President Gresser asked the Board
of Estimate for increase of $4,000 for the De-
partraent of Highways There is no doubt that
it is needed, provided tae taxpayers coutd GET
a fair proportion of IL spent for improving the
roads. But from past experiences the public gets
about 10 per cent of the amount arnropriated
Now I would suggest that instead of Increasing
the appropriation for highways over last year
amount the appropriation be decreased BIZ sfoaoeo
and the extra amount needed be made UP by dis
charging two hundred foremen and all the useless
inspectors who are now the departments pay
roll The workmen In the department cannot pos
sibly do less than they have been doing with the
foremen them
Here is a conversation recently overheard be-
tween foreman the department and the men
working under him.
Foreman-Come men; for heavens sake get
move on and get a little something done Some
darn fool will be mean enough TO report US II you
stay under that shade all day.
Men Din chorus)-You go chase yourself. Your
money don't pay us.
From this 1t is plain that the foremen In the de-
partment have not the slightest control over the
weFkmen under them BY discharg1ng these useless
foremen and useless inspectors and some OF the
other deadwoed there would be a saving to the de-
partn1ent of something like s1,5ee day or s45oWo
a wear which would about make up the increase
asked for by President Giresser- What Is more we
would have the same amount of work done for tne
very simple reason that woFkrnen can do no less
than they have done in the past on the borough S
highways with the forenlen over them
Jamaica. Aug. IS, 1906 AA-OfF4CIAL-
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
so INDICTED IN SPRINGFIELD RIOTS.

Springfield, III, Aug. 2-Tventy more iholce
rients. making a total OF fifty in connection WIN
ths recent race riots. returned ey tne spec@4
grand fury of Sansanon County late to-day Ihe
latest batch OF accusations includes ave
against Thomas Marshall and twelve other negroes
whom be Is accused OF having led In muraerous
assault Upon William Bo.e. chief clerk OF ths
county tFeasurer's Office
Bews has been lowering between life and aeatn
fer week.
The other indictments returned to-day are against
whites and are upon the destsleton aad loot
Ing Of L0peF's restaurant
This the third day on which the grand july
had returned indictments against the alleged rioters
and their leaders Thus far however, only one per-
son. Abraham Raymsr, stands accused OF nauFder
having been charged with eemphsify IN the
Iynching Of william Dcnnegan-
About thirty-ivs in jail awaiting the dis
position their by the grand jury Several OF
these indicted to-day been arrested yet
and their suppressed al the order or
Judge Creighton of the Circuit Court, VINO issued
bench warrants for their arrest.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
DIRECTOR oF NEW HOSPITAL HERE
Professor Cole Said to Have Accepted Post
at Rockefeller Institute Annex.

was reported here yesterday that the head
OF the new hospital to be built as an annex 10
me fAVsheieHer Institute IN 65th would be
A04esseE ffaIus Cole. of Johns Hopkins University
In Ann Arbor. Mich it had been expectaa tbat
froiesser Cole would accept the chair Of medicine
IN the University Of Michigan. He declined IT, and
1t was reported there that he gave as his reason
1Na' ne hao accepted the post Of director of the
new hospital. offered to him bv Johr n F,oc.e-
feller.
Dr. William Park. the head Of the research lab
oratory Of the Health Department said Yesterday
mat ne had heard the report He said that Pro-
lessor Cole was known exceptionally abie
bacteriologist- He thirty-six years old and has
done much original work
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
CALLS AMERICANS FOUNDERS"
English Professor Makes Caustie Criticism on
Lack of Culture in Education.
Thy Telegraph to The rrtbun. ]

Chautsuqua- N Y, Aug. 22.-American education
has been advanced at the cost OF culture and re-
hnement. # the statement of Watson Selvage, one
OF the three American professors in English uni
versites, is true. The professor declared, In his
address here to-day. that the universities of OK
ford and Cambridge and behind the
American colleges but centres Of culture. and
because American athletes and Rhodes scholars
lack the essentials Of gentlemen Mr. SeIvage be-
lieves Englishmen unwilling to accept them
equals. The professor also affirmed that the infu-
ence of Germany making graduates of Ameri-
universities irreligious
1t is true that American universities ahead
Of any in England, said the instructor. but edU
cation has advanced at the cost Of appreciation of
culture and good taste The Rhodes scholarship is
absurdity, because the entrance requirements OF
the English university one-half those Of Amer
lea. but oxford is centre OF culture ard resents,
with other English institutions, the aIl-prevailing
presence OF American bounders.''
Germany's liberal treatment of American schol-
ars in contrast to England's narrow policy. Mr.
Selvage declared to be the cause Of the strong
German influence in American education, and he
said that this influence would account the ire
ligious feeling which characterized American in
stitutions and American college men.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
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WI TING-FANG TALKS TO STUDENTS.
Tells Young Cinnamon Their Ideas VIII Be
Accented by Their Country.

Asbburham Mass Aug 22-The feature Of to-
day's session at the conference of the Eastern
Alliance of Chinese students here was the ADDRESS
to the students of WI Ting g-fans, the Chlnese
Minister to the United States
Minister Wu's remarks were of general nature
He urged the students upon their return 10 their
native land help the government Of that country
In every way possible He told them that they
must be patient, and he said ne believed that IN
time their ideas would be accepted by the Chinese
government He spoke Of the present great op-
portunities the Chinese students had to get an
education and expressed confidence that when
they returned to China they would md plenty OF
places to occupy
prominent among the new visiting arrivals to-
day were Professor H. P Beach. Of Yale Univer-
sity: w ". Yee, of the Chinese Legation at
Washington and Mr. Chang. Chinese Commissioner
of Education 70 the United States
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
HAS NO ULTERIoR PURPOSE.
Harry K Thaw Makes Statement Regard
ing His Bankruptcy Case.

Poughkeepsie. N Y. Aug. 2a-Harry K Thaw
made public tonight statement which is reply
to various reports regarding his financial dealings
that have out since he filed his petition in
bankruptcy. Thaw, in his statement, says:
able to say that a statement attributed to
Mr.. Sernple not made by him. Mr.. Sernple will
assure any inquirer that | have never given a
draft of any kind upon my mother. At my request
my business attorney, Mr.. Lyon, obtained a loan
June ss, 1906, from my mother, but that
is very different from drawing upon her l have
not drawn upon her at any time.
Regarding the that he has Interior
purpose In being adjudged a bankrupt. Thaw en-
ters a specific denial. His lawyers, Colonel Bart
lett, Mr.. Morschauser and Mr.. Peabody, have had
charge of the conduct of his case, ne says, but
they have paid attention his business matters,
which were in his hands until heavy claims,
some of which he believes gross overeharges.
forced him to protect himself and his legitimate
creditors by making application in bankruptcy.
The bankruptcy proceeding. he declares, was no
subtle scheme of his lawyers.
burg as he believes that Mr. O'Mara and Governor
Stone will protect his interests but If his presence
is required his counsel will add their word TO his
that he will return, If a bondsman not Of coun-
sell is needed here in Poughkeepsie he has friends
who will put up $500 Ne.01o which he thinks is
ample as security for citizen charged with no
crime whatever and detained under commitment
which no lawyer of authority considers TO be legal
and constitutional.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
TO ATTEND HAMILTON FUNERAL.

President Herbert Parsons OF the Republican
County Committee has appointed the following as
committee to attend the funeral services of
Thomas L Hamilton, a member OF the Board of
Tax Commissioners. who died on Friday: Job E
Hedges chairman; William Halpin, Representative
William s Bennett Abraham Gruber. George ".
Wanna ker William N. (. Olcott. Herbert Parsons,
Edward I.auterbach, Samuel Strasbourger Frank
x Bowers Ferdinand Eidnan John P. Windoiph,
Michael H. Blake, Joseph T. Hackett, Jacob A
Nawstead Max s Grffenhagen. James Z March,
7 C Williams and Edmund c. Lee.
The funeral viii be held at the Collegiate Church
of ST Nicholas 18Th street and Fifth avenue, at
II e. n. tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
A NEW TECHNICAL DICTIONARY.
From Daily Consular Reports.

Prom Daily
Consul General Richard Guenther, OF Frankfort,
notes that the annual meeting of the Association
of German Engineers. lately held at Dresden n
nouncernent made that the great work OF COM
Milling and publishing the technical dictionary,
which was conducted under the auspices OF the
essocIation had TO be stopped because il was fOuEd
that the expenses would amount to more than four
times the estimates Ar- Gusnther adds:
THE great progress in science and industries had
created. a vast mass Of terms and matter
largely in excess OF what had been estimated at
the beginning This stoPpage is to be greatly re-
era+ted as the want OF q new technical die
tionary and encyclopedia as acUtely felt by thou
sands of persons engaged in scientific research. in
ali lines of commerce and production, In literature
ioI1rnaIisnl and in administration OF state and
ynunicipaI government u is however satisfactory
10 note that the executive board or the Associaton
on German Engineers has made strenuous enorts
70 take IN and complete this valuable work and
has succeeded obtaining therefor the ala o. the
federal government of Germany and or the Minis
trv Of EducltIon OF the Prussiau Kingdom"
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
STAGE AFFAIRS
BIJoU THEATRE.
Douglas Fairbanks Emerges as Star IN
fAll for q Girl

The Bfjou Theatre was reopened last night. and
Douglas Fairbanks presented as the leading
actor in the play of "All for Girl" by Rupert
Hughes. Both the play and the player were heart
ily received by an audience composed for the most
part of friends of Mr. Fairbanks and Of MI
Hughes. Mr.. Fairbankss Efforts heretofore have
been confined to auxifiar parts. and he was last
seen here at the Savoy Theatre. IN The Man of
the Hour" In this piece he appears as Har-
old Jepson. OF a broker who had killed himself
after losing several fortunes. The young man re-
solved to begin the bottom There was no other
place for him to begin since he was psnn1iess.
He meets the man who was supposed to have IN
vented the scheme by which his father went to
the wall He proves to he auiable old fellow.
AT his place he becomes acquainted with elderly
woman who plans to arrange marriage between
him and rich young woman named Antofnette
Hoadley
Following her advice he goes 10 farm where
he thought to meet the girl. Neither the elderly
woman her ward vas there. but females
were not wanting that farm. And the most
attractive of them was one clad In ginghann. with
sunbonnet thrown carelessly oyer her head. The
new made him forget the old, ana his love making
prospered. The lass in the rural attire was An
toinette She promises TO be his wife. but be-
comes disguised when she learns that Jepson mad
prearranged the affair with the elderly woman
She calls him fortune hunter
Jepson vows to give her admirable exhibition
of his integrity They married. In the fourth
act lney are discovered IN a HdfIen1 1Hc
husband is industrious. He is also heroic. He re-
fuses to put his hand on gold that he has not
made. BY and by he becomes the partner Of the
old broker. and-well, the curtain falls on Mr
Hughes effort.
There are problems in this little play, and
neither murder suicide chilled the blood of the
spectators 1t is just effective story OF over
grown boy with the heart of man and of a little
woman who is looking for the one thing needed TO
make her happy-Iove. Mr.. Fairbanks is the big
boy from beginning to end, nothing more and not
whit less There is maudlin sentiment in his
lines in his Interpretation OF them Adelaide
Manola impersonated Antoirette Hoadley simply
and effectively as the character required. A word
should be said for Miss Jane Corcoran's Mamie
Broderick. That young came mighty near
being a star herself-since stars are made IN a
night nowadays. She brought 10 the happy char
acter OF the shop girl a minicry that created
many a hearty laugh The cast follows:
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
THE ROMANCE OF PIGEON RACING

From The Dundee AdVertiser.
The great pigeon race from France to England
reminds those OF us who have connection with
this interesting sport that the pigeon racing sea-
son is once more with Half century ago
there were probably not than hundred per
sons who knew what homing pigeon was; to-day
there can scarcely De fewer than half million
racing birds in Great Britain. ranging in value up
10 G2O each and There at least eight
hundred horning pigeon clubs, each Of which offeTs
priZes TO its members ranging from &20 20 E200.
as many as sixty thousand birds. belonging prfn-
cipaiiy Lancashire and Yorkshire fanelers, have
been liberated at Worcester. very popular racing
stage, on the day. and races in which the
cor1pettfors number ten thousand or more
olIIte frequent. As might be expected, many OF
these birds never return home. AZ mnny As foru
Thousand birds have been lost IN single season
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
BISHOP HENDRICKS GOING BACK.
Will Return to Cebu-Urges Open Door for
the Philippines.

Rochester Aug. 22.-After being away from his
charge at Cebu, Philippine Islands since the 10Th
of last January most OF which time has been spent
in Rochester Bishop Thomas A Hendricks con
Quoted his farewell reception at the Hotel Rochester
yesterday. He will sail for Ireland early next
week where he win visit number of religious
communities in the interests Of his work in the
Philippines He will also visit communities IN Eng
land France and Italy and will report to Pope
Plus some time IN November, after which he will
sail directly to the Philippines and once more take
UP his abode in cebu-
AS a last word TO Rochester folk. Bishop Hen
bricks said
..I1o all Won can with your Congressrnen TO secure
an open door In the Philippines
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
QUEENS WHO SMOKE.
From The Dundse Advertiser


Somehow il seems uuimagirable that Queen
Alexandra or the German Empress or the Queen Of
Rumsnia should have taken 70 the cigarette
habit 10 which most Of the younger cessorts OF
European rulers confess Yet Carmen sylvia is on
Tst ~ ..f111eens who smoke" which has Just been
published and explains that she has never yet put
a poetic thought Into writing withoGt that oes1 ot
The Doyager Empress OF Russia. Queen Amelia Of
Portugal and the Dewager Queen OF SPAN are also
ton the Empress OF Russia, who Rad never smoked
a cigarette before her marriage, is now probably
the one whose daily allowance of cigarettes Is the
largest But then. ladies cigarettes in Russia
are Of the very mildest kind-almoet as mild as
chocolate irnitat tons
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
r Il. DAVIS as STREET CLEANER.
Novelist Head of Department in Massa-
ehusetts Town.
EBy Telegraph to The Tribune,l

Marion. Mass, Aug. Z.-Richard Harding Davis,
the novelist, began his duties here to-day as
superintendent of street cleaning in Marion. He
gathered a band of boys with push carts and steel
prods to pick up waste paper and started in amid
the cheers OF the popuace the streets of Marion
lower village.
Mr. Davis takes his appointment director of
the street cleaning department seriously, as do
Of his fellow townsnen. He and Mrs Webb
Dexter offered share the of the street clean
ing and the members Of the Improvement Associa-
tion elected him 10 take charge. He is paying the
boys z monthly salary out OF his pocket.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
DIsCoBoLUs REPLICA FOR HARVARD,
University Also Gets Interesting Memorial
Of John Harvard.

Canbridge, Mass. aug. 22.-Announcernent was
made to-day that two interesting monuments had
been added to Harvard Universitys collection this
summer.
One is a bronze replica of the Discobous of the
Vatican. the gift of Ernest W. Longfellow of the
class OF 90, and has been erected in front of the
HemenWay gymnasium The second is a small
fragment Of archway from St. Sayfour's Cathe-
dral in Southwark England, the church in which
John Harvard baptized in 1907. The frag-
ment has been erected in the left hand archway of
Appleton chapel.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
Mr.. CONVERSE ADOPTS NIECE AS HEIR

TBy Telegraph The Tribune
Philadelphia, Aug. 22.-John H Converse, the
philanthropist and manufacturer, filed in the Or
phans Court to-day a petition asking for order
of adoption of Miss Alice z. Page. Miss Page, who
Joins the petition is niece of Mr.. Converses dead
wife ard he has become attached to her since
she has been at the head of his household that he
desires to make her one of his heirs-at-law.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23
MISS nAskiNs REMAINS IN BELLEVUE.

A c. Haskins, Of A. / Haskips, auditor Of
the American Tobacco Company, went to Bellevue
Hospital last night take his sister, vho escaped
from Plainheld sanatorium on Tuesday, TO his
fathers home While he calling for carriage
she acted so strangely that Dr. Mtnas s Gregory,
head of the psychopathfc ward, decided that Miss
Hasktns ought better 20 stay at Bellevue for fur
ther observation. He said later that Miss Hasf.ns
would remain at the hospital over Sunday. She
cannot recall where she spent her time between
Tuesday and Friday night. when she Was arrested
at the Battery.
New-York tribune., 1908-08-23

,hah the engine suddenly reversed by Bryanite
oliFer Continuity should be maintained In the
hse"i system TO which American business inter-
aoJuseeo' and no fatuous attempt
siouio De made TO bolster up the Free Trade
cause at a moment when England Is 6iSaar5ir,r
II for higher revenue tariff