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New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
THE NEW ERE FIGHTING.

The pew high pressure water system success
fully tested in this city on Sunday marks as
great an advance In fire fighting as did the
change from old hand engines with volunteer
fremen to steam engines with regular 1orce.
When the new system has been completely in
stalled New York will no longer have to trust
TO luck for immunity from a fire attended
with high wind, bursting hose, inadequate
water pressure and other circumstances adverse
to successful fire fighting which, taken together,
might mean such confagration as swept Balt-
more few years ago. With high pressure
supply in good working order and hose equal to
the strain fire in the future can get beyond
the control of the iremen. But the hose be-
comes an even more important item than ever
before 1t will do the city little good to have
q pumping system equal to supplying three hun
dred or five hundred pounds pressure If be-
cause of the poor condition of the hose the Fire
Department is afraid to use 1t freely.
The new system probably means sooner or
later the disappearance of the present steam
engines from the service. The change is In har-
mony with the universal tendency toward con-
centration Instead of the citys having lot
of little pumping engines TO rush to the scene of
a fire and supply water pressure. it VIII have
great central pumping stations capable of vastly
greater pressure and always ready at a mo-
ment's notice to supply it. The first cost of in
staling such system is great, but the opera
tion of it should be economical, and the saving
through losses by fire and through the lowering
of insurance rates may he expected to make 1t
wise investment for the city.
Throwing Il stream Of water from the street
TO the roof of a twelve story building is an i'm
pressiye demonstration Of the capabilities of the
new system. BY using the standpipes in the
buildings taller than twelve stories fire in the
top of one skyscraper can be fought from the
roof of its nearest neighbor. A fire anywhere
within the limits of the district served by the
new system, high or low, which can last more
than few minutes and can spread TO more than
a few floors of the burning building is hardly
conceivable
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
THE PANAMA ELECTIONS.

The municipal elections In the Republic Of
Panama on Sunday last We're invested with
exceptional interest by the circumstances in
which they were held, by their presumptlve
bearing upon the coming Presidential election
in that country, and also by the predictions
which were made concerning them. Only local
officers were elected but IN all cases the candi-
dates were selected and the contests were waged
ON the lines of the national parties, so that the
general success of the candidates of Mr. Obal
dia's party-if the full returns bear out the in
dications of the reports already at hand-may
not unreasonably be regarded as a promise Of
Mr. Obada's election to the Presidency. 1t
will be recalled also that week or two ago
il was freely declared that the Panaman gov
ernment was improperly influencing the cleo
tions in favor of Mr.. Arias and his party. and
that unless American troops were stationed at
the polls there would probably be gross frauds
and violence.
II NAV be that passions will rise higher at the
Presidential election next Sunday than they
did on Sunday last, and indeed that the result
will be different from that Of the municipal
contests The probability is, however, that
such will not be the case, but that peace and
order will continue To prevail, and that the
government will not interfere with the free
exercise OF the popular suffrage. What is GER
tain is that the recent alarmist talk is shown to
3
along declared ii TO be. There was, of course
no American Intervention, and there was no
approach TO an occasion for any. There were
no more disturbances at the polls than there
are at American elections, even at elections in
the city of New York, and the fact that the
so-called Opposition candidates won by hand
some majorities is sufficient TO dispose OF the
stories of government interference.
There are few things easier than TO invent
tales OF impending crises and catastrophes In
some place which is far enough away to make
instant refutaton of them difficult impos
sihe and Panama and other of Southern
neighbors are often victims of that facile but
detestabIe practice. 1t is n wicked thing 70
assume that Panaman or other Central
South American election is bound 10 be marked
with force or fraud, and il is stupid thing
because Ii is likely to be disprovsd by the re-
sult In the case of Panama such aspersiOns
have been particularly improper, because Of the
speciaI relations between that country and our
own and because the Panamans have from the
beginning consistently displayed a sincere de-
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
4 LEGITIMATE INQUIRY.

THE Philadelphia Record usually accurate
and fairminded, takes us undeservedly to task
for saying that the campaign publicity BILL In
stead of being ''mysteriously done TO death" in
Congress, as The Evening Post maintains,
failed of passage only because of Democratic
opposition in the Senate The Record" thinks
that we Intentionally conveyed false impress
sion In charging the sdetracking Of the bill to
Democratic threats to filibuster against It, be-
cause we omitted TO state that attached to the
publicity bill as il passed the House of Rep
resentatives, was section providing FOR the
collection by the Census Bureau at each decen-
nial census of figures showing TO what extent
the suffrage had been abridged by the several
states on grounds different from the constitu-
tional ones Of participation in rebellion or
other crime Our Philadelphia contemporary
mistakenly describes this provision as "a totally
Irrelevant proposition for reducing the repre-
.'sentation of the South In Congress" 1t could
have had no such effect, since it merely au-
thorized an inquiry to be made in every state
in the Union for the purpose Of furnishing in
formation in itself entirely legitimate and Per
tinent which Congress has an unquestioned
right 10 ask for. We cannot think that the at
tachment of such provision vitiated the bill
or could have rendered 1t objectionable TO any
body really interested in making our national
elections cleaner.
THE Record" says that what the Democrats
in the Senate opposed was 1.-The disfranchse-
ment of the South What they really opposed
was an official demonstration of the extent to
which states, both North and South, have chos
en- to disfranchse themselves under the pro
visions of the federal Constitution. Congress
has shown a disposition to deal very literally
with the states which have disfranchised q
large proportion Of their electors. 1t does not
attribute this disfrsnchisement to evil motives.
r,o,,% tn, TOW
census showing exactly where the various
states stand in the matter of constitutional and
extraconstitutional representation in Congress
and the Electoral College.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.
Newport r. l., June 29.-Seyeral jewelry losses
were reported to-day by summer residents, though
the names of the owners are withheld. Among the
lost articles gold brooch set with diamonds.
diamond and pearl star pin, while two val
liable hatpins were dropped by guest of Mrs. W.
W. Sherman. Mrs. James P. Kernochan has lost
her tOrtoiseshel1 eyeglasses, and offers a reward
for their recovery Mrs. r. H. Powell has lost her
small Yorkshire terrier.
Mr.. and Mrs j. 3. Hartman looked for in
Newport in August for the remainder of the sum-
mer.
Felowes Davis. of New York. who has been a
guest of Mrs William Grosvenor has returned to
New York.
William R Stewart. jr., who has been visiting
his uncle, Lspenard Stewart, at White Lodge. has
gone to Bar Harbor.
Mrs. Alfred c. Vanderbilt. Mrs. F. o. French.
Mrs. Amos Tuck French, Mr.. and Mrs Samuel
Wagstan, Willing Spence and Maurice Roche
have gone to Mrs. Vanderbilts camp at Chester
N. H, where 1T is expected that they will spend
the greater part of the week, returning to New
port in time for the Fourth
Mrs. Fred Pearson and Mss Pearson are ex-
pected for the late season in Newport.
Henry Walters. Of New York. is the guest Of
Mr.. and Mrs Pembroke Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Biddle ere having their cot
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
STILL ( "MYSTERY."

Our talented neighbor, THE New York Sun y
is still wrestling with the great mystery. How
did VI. ]. Bryan get the delegates?' Was it a
triumph of brain over numbers, of hypnotic sug-
gestion over logic, or of tradition over common
sense: Our neighbor demonstrated last year
TO its own satisfaction that the Southern States
were altogether weary of Bryan and Organism
that the party leaders were out of sympathy
with the perpetual candidate from Lincoln that
the Southern newspapers with few exceptions
unfriendy 10 him and that the rank and
fle had lost all Interest in his policies. If the
voters. the press and the leaders in the South
were all ant-Bryan. it was logical TO assume
that he would get practically no support from
The South in the Denver convention.
Yet somehow logic refused TO do its perfect
work. State conventions in West Virginia. Nir-
gnia. North Carolina, South Carolina. Missis-
nippi. Texas. Arkansas, Oklahoma Missouri,
Tennessee and Kentucky instructed for Bryan.
The Louisiana convention indorsed his candi-
dacy. He carried Alabama on a popular vote
and got nine Of the ten delegates elected from
Florida. Georgia alone elected an unpledged
delegation What hidden and abhorrent forces
thus altered the normal trend of events? THE
Sun" is almost impeed ito give it up" As To
South Carolina. neighbor frankly says T.:
Nobody knows 10 this day exactly how South
Carolina for example. instructed for
cured We told that ANY bold and strong
man who chose 10 make a fight against the
"insensate clamor of the Bryan henchmen could
easily have defeated them and left Virginia
free" But apparently the bold and the strong
IN Virginia were all taking week off while the
Iynchburg convention was In session.
We are also informed that local controver-
sies' accounted for Bryan instructions in Ten
lcssee and Kentucky. There two factions
i'm the party. and each. although fully recogniZ-
ing. with '-The Sun" that Mr.. Bryan had lost
his grip with the leaders the press and the voters,
Inagnanimously declined 10 embarrass the other
10y associating itself with movement to sidetrack
The enfeebled peerless leader" Neither was
willing 10 jump man when he down,
both agreed To- give the delegates 10 Bryan.
IL is plain that the same indisDosition Ia take
advantage Of Mr. Bryan's unpOpularity led the
bailey and anti-Bailey factions in Texas 10 vie
with each otber in indorsng his candidacy for
President. and in Mississippi brought John
Sharp Williams and Governor Eardaman to-
gether q Bryan platform
Strange things can happen outside Wonder
land. "rhe Suns" dispatches from Denver have
tried TO throw iittle light on q much dsrkened
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
SUBWAY SIDE DOORS.

The arguments presented by the InterborOugh
Rapid Transit Company against an order of the
Public Service Commission for the Introduction
of side doors In the subway cars confuse the
issue. 1t Is objected that the public would not
enter by one door and leave by the other, thus
providing that circulation which the traction
experts say would be accomplished by providing
side doors. The ready acceptance of the pay
as you enter" cars Madison avenue seems to
indicate that the public is quick to perceive the
advantages of separate exits and entrances But
suppose the subway crowds more stupid or
obstinate than the surface passengers Suppose
they should insist upon entering and leaving by
either door With two doors 1t would be twice
as easy to load and unload trains as 1t is now,
stops at the express stations would need 20 be
only half as long, and the discomfort of getting
on and off would be much less. The further
argument that an additional door would do no
good is SO absurd that it can hardly have been
seriously meant. Two doors In place of one
make loading and unloading of a crowded train
twice easy no matter how they are used.
The old Brooklyn Bridge cars prove the advan-
tage of the type.
The situation calls for any and every improve
ment in the subway which will enable 1t to carry
more passengers No traction lines can be built
which will relieve the strain upon the existing IA
cities for several years. The passenger traffic in
creaSes steadily every year. Meanwhile the sub
way at present operated has reached its maxi
mum carrying capacity. The only possible pro-
vision for the immediate future is to increase
the frequency at which trains can be run in the
subway by doing away with delays in loading
and unloading at the express stations. 1t is es-
timated that with certain slight and compara-
lively inexpensive changes the cost Of which
would fall in part upon the operating company
and in part upon the city the capacity of the
subway might be increased from 33 TO 70 per
cent. One of the changes, the necessity for
which is so plain that there really cannot be any
dispute about it, is the Introduction of side
doors. As the completion of this Improvement
will take two years II cannot lie begun too soon
The interests of the operating company and Of
the public are one. Increased carrying capacity
for the future means increased earnings and
lessened need Of competing city constructed
lines.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
THE MEXICAN TROUBLES.

The serious feature OF the sO-called revou-
tiopary movement in Mexico evidently is the
region in which it is manifesting Itself, and
that also suggests much of the real nature OF
the thing. Had it occurred in the central or
southern part of the republic, the disturbance
would have been quelled with little fuss and
might not have been heard Of outside of Mexico
itself. Occurring along the northern border 1t
became something like international affair,
and has engaged the serious II not anxious at
tention of both countries, though happily the
worst seems to be over.
The scene Of disturbance was doubtless chosen
by the insurgents" with malice aforethought.
Their hope was that they would be able to em-
broil the two countries. in which case they
might find some such gain as the hyena finds in
the conflicts of nobler brutes, else that along
the border they would be able to use one coun-
try as base of operations against the other or
find in it asylum from the others pursuit. In
both those expectations we have cheerful con-
fdence that they will be disappointed. The
United States and Mexico understand each other
perfectly and are on the best Of terms and are
not going to let gang OF bank looters cause
trouble between them. and although that from
tier is a long one ard difficult to guard at all
points the United States will not let its neutral
ity laws be violated.
That there is the slightest reason to sympa-
thlze WIN the insurgents Is hol ior d "oiheiI
to be supposed They, or fellows Of their kid
ney are we'll known in this country, particularly
in St Louis where they have for years been
itfully conspirng against Mexico, or rather
against Mexican shops and banks which they
itch to punder They are insurgents and revo-
tionists for revenue only, seeking In the disturb
ances which they create opportunities Of loot,
and of course hoping to screen themselves from
the penalty of ordinary brigands and thieves
under the specious pretence OF being at worst
political offenders" The sharpest Of sharp
treatment is all that they deserve on either side
of the Rio Grande.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
IN THE BERKSHIREs.
lBy telegraph 70 The Tribune ]


Lenox. Mass, June 2s-The British An,bs,,..
who has been entertained at Inglesfde rfau -
stockbridse for several days by Miss Emily TI,eI
erman, OF Washington. departed to-day for Posse
to go to Manchester-5y-the-Sea. where the Rr,,g,s
Embassy is established for the summer W..
Bryce remained with Miss Tuckerrnan FOR a p,
days The Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce will san
early in July for England. where they will snAnd
the summer.
Sir Shirley and Lady Ogilvfe. OF Montreal vb,
arrived at the Hotel Aspinwan last week with a
party OF friends. recalled to Montreal TO-DAY
Mrs. Thomas Shields Clarke will entertain AZ
luncheon at Fern Brook tomorrow afternoon
Mrs. William Kingsland. who has been IN Ieuo<
for some time. returned to town to-day. Later
this week she will go to Bar Harbor for the ho,
months.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins. who has been With he,
sister. Mrs. Thatcher NJ. Adams. departed today
for her country home, in WillIamstown-
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Parsons gave a dinner en-
tertainment at Stoneover this evening.
Mr. and Mrs Giraud Foster have issued cards for
a dinner entertainment at Bellefontaine tomorrow
evening.
The handicap committee Of the golf club an
nounced Fourth Of July handicap.
Mr. and Mrs John z. Heaton. OF New Haven to-
dav leased a cottage on the Aspinwau Hotel prop
critics.
Colonel and Mrs. S. ". Bovine and Mr. and Mra
Samuel Austin, OF New York, are at the Hotel
Aspinwall.
Mr. and Mrs Joseph H Choate, jr., who have
been with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph II Choate, IN Stock
bridge. departed to-day for town.
Miss Gladys Ingalls,. OF Cincinnati. is guest Of
Miss Nora Iasig. in Stockbridge-
Mrs M I. Stone who has been IN Lenox for her
health started to-day for Long Island
Mrs George H. Morgan. who lately sprained an
ankle at yentfort Hall. able TO go for drive
to-day Mrs Morgan is compelled to crutches
because Of her accident
Harold Wood William c. Wood and R. Mex
Thomas have arrived in LenOx in automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Gardner and Mr. and Mrs
E. D. CIary Of East Orange, are at the Hotel
MapIewoOd. in Ptttsheld-
H Livingston Lee and Guy A Ward have or
ganized a gun club and will establish traps mid
way between Lenox and PittsdeId. The club will
be known as the Berkshire Gun Club.
Mr. and Mrs W. A Douglas. of Buffalo. arrived
In Lenox tonight.
E. H Weatherbee, Hicks A Weatherbee and
Miss May Weatherbee, who have been at the Ma
pIewood in Pittsfeld. departed by automobile to-
day.
Mr. and Mrs J. R. Ogden. OF Newark and Mr..
and Mrs John H Brewer. Of Brooklyn. at the
Maplewood-
Mr.. and Mrs. H S. Carpenter. Mr.. and Mrs Il.
A. Van Liew, Of New York, and Major and Mrs.
Duncan c. Phillips and family, OF Washington. ar
rived tonight at the Hotel AspinwalL
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
TO CLOSE CH1LDRENs DINING HALL
Relief Committee Will Now Send Provisions
to the Homes.

The executive committee of the Childrens Relief
Society decided yesterday to close Its dining room
at Forsyth and Canal streets after Friday, owing
to the closing of the schools, and TO begin q
system of caring for the children IN need
of on Monday. This system will con-
sist IN sending equivalent of the luncheon given
to the children to their homes. Dealers Will de-
liver the supplies. consisting of milk eggs. bread
and cereal. Orders will be furnished by the
committee and the bills will be paid by the treas
urer, James H Hamilton, who is head worker In
the University Settlement.
The committee will engage agent, who will
investigate all requests for aid, and will also
examine those on the old list. He will also
operate with other charities, so that all the de-
serving possible may obtain relief. The society
has 5000 left of the 1900 collected for
its work. A benefit entertainment will be given in
the Bijou Theatre by Gus Edwards
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
WILLS 100000 TO A UNIVERSITY.
st. Louis Institutions Profit by Gifts from
West Orange Man.

The will of William Barr, of West Orange was
admitted to probate in the Surrogate's office in
Newark yesterday Barr died on June 16. The
will gives 100000 to the Washington University
at ST Louis. the money to be used for the ex-
elusive benefit of the manual training department
of the university and shall be known as the Will
lam and Jessie R. Barr fund
Bequests of s.. O00 each are made to the Orange
Memorial Hospital the Record ambulance OF Or
ange and the Orange Orphan Asylum in Harrison
street. East Orange. Several bequests OF IS 900
and $4,000 made to st. Louis institutions Be
quests amounting to about 5000, 900 are made to
relatives, while the widow is made the residuary
legatee- Mr.. Barr for many years In the
drygoOds business in ST Louis
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
Abozxf People and Social Incidenfs.

tase prepared for occupancy, and they ar. ~,
pected the latter part of the week
Mr. and Mrs Sidney g Love- who hav. t,k.-
the Jennings estate. will arrive in Newoort 80
Wednesday A
Samuel f. Barger, who has been III at HIS N
port cottage. is now reported as greatly Irnoroz,
MI and Mrs. Edward j Berwind and tbs,
guests. Mr.. and Mrs Torrey. are visiting in NJ.
York for few days
The Fourth Of July promises to be gay in Ns,
port Already Mrs. James p. Kernochan bss a..
nounced that she will give s. large reception =
that day The Newport CIambake Club will o.
Its season with bake. and James j. Van Allen ana
Mr.. and Mrs Edward J. Berwind have announces
that they will entertain at dinner on the nigh. :,
the Fourth Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt will also an
tertain at dinner on the night.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. DrexeI intend 70 rst,-.
TO Newport from Europe IN October.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
AN OLD LESSON.

The intercollegiate boat races OF this year
appear to have taught no new lessons Har-
wards fine performance on the Thames and the
superb contest on the Hudson did not reveal
the superiority Of any particular stroke, for
the winning crews snd those that almost won
exhibited the usual American diversity OF
STYLES in rowing. If there Is one method OF
propeIling a racing shell through the water
which constitutes the true art OF Craftsmanship
and which, other things being equal or nearly
equal is sure to be approved by the result, IN
tercollegiate contests in this country have not
yet demonstrated the fact beyond dispute
But IL last weeks races taught no new les
sons they made one familiar truth more con-
spicuous. 1t is folly to give a seat In boat
to man who is physically unfit to withstand.
not the strain Of ordinary practice pulls under
unexcting conditions, but the extraordinary de-
mands which may arise in the final arduous
contest This, of course Is admitted and In
deed proclaimed by everybody, but the melan-
choIy collapse of the Yale stroke on Thurs
day shows that in one instance the rule was
was not at fault 1t was not for him to caicu-
late his own powers Of endurance and his tenn
peramental fitness to confront an emergency.
persons retained to prepare the Yale crew for
the race with Harvard. Somebody ought to
have known in advance from his study of the
man that what happened might happen in
Griswold's case 1t is not province to say
who is wholly or chiefly to blame for O fiasco
so utterly inconsistent with Yale's record, but
we assume that the boating authorities at New
Haven will put the responsibility where 1t be-
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30

situation. They declare that ex-senator Petn-
grew. OF South Dakota, captured the delegates
10 this convention for Bryan" No one had sus-
pected Mr. Pettigrew before. but Ine sun
CORRESPONDENT maintains that he WAS the wiz
ard of the BRYAN canvass Mr.. Pettigrew may
have lIrked behind the scenes and pulled the
strings in the Southern conventions. But Ger
tainIy nobody saw him at work. We like better
the original explanation that there is no e1-
planation. 1t is more interesting to think that
the election of so many Bryan delegates from
the Southern States was due to the malevolence
of some unknowable force. When we get frst
class mystery in politics why not hold on
10
New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS

Among the passengers who viii sail to-day fos
Europe
- - ,,.x,,, VII tts.t NJ DER CROSSE FOR BREMEN.
"a, -, Ms George A. DR. and f. r. Dencn.
Crawley. - n ,.,-
siI siiu ' NIr Mrs. Frederic Cror-
Stanley vel
"t ,,r aaH '' THE Rev. f q.
,rr.a,,.rs who arrived yesterday from abrOs~
were:
rHE, ,,INNEAPoIIs FROM LONDON.
eOionet aNN $780, n II kestsr
s, AnaIe w;u.,, aruo sir Raymond MsnendsA