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New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
WATER WASTE AND THEFT.

The Committee of One Hundred does well to
call attention to the loss which the city suffers
through waste and theft of water for It Is
heavy loss and ii is due in great part directly
to bad administration.
The facts are practically indisputable. The
city'S own engineers have vOuched for them
again and again Water is lost wholesale, in
variety Of ways. Some is lost through leaky
and broken mains, which ought to have been
replaced long ago. Some is lost through defec-
tive plumbing, pipes and taps, which the city
government ought to have compelled house
holders TO repair. Some is lost through waste
full use from unmetered taps, at soda fountains
bars and elsewhere. Some is lost through de-
lberate theft, through tampering with meters
or through the use of unmetered pipes secretly
connected with the mains. The news of the
day for years past has contained innumerable
pieces of evidence TO these various effects, on
the authority of city officials A little has been
done now and then to correct the evil but there
has been no general, genuine and effective effort
10 stop the wholesale leakage.
More than One-third of the whole supply of
the city is thus lost. A certain proportion of
loss is doubtless inevitable, but 1t is cOnserva-
lively reckOned by competent authorities that
three-fOurths of the present loss, or about 15O,-
100000 gallons a day, might be saved through
the adoption of honest and enlightened methods
of administration The city has spent many
millions of dollars on its water supply systems,
and is now spending many millions more 1t is
scandal that costly a service should be so
grossly mismanaged. Something like a million
and a half dollars is lost every year through
preventable waste and theft of water. That is
big price to pay for the privilege of being ruled
Ey Tammany Hail.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15

comes in order to increase the states revenues
The expenditures of the state governments are
steadily increasing with the widening of the
scope Of state activities. New resources must
he uncovered and made use of to defray the
higher cost of administration. The states have
now practically pre-empted the inheritance tax.
They may soon be forced TO resort to an income
tax TO supply their enlarging needs, and the
surrender of such a rich reserve resource 10
the federal government may be bitterly re-
pented. The nation is not likely to abandon the
income tax again, as it did after the Civil War,
and its greater ability TO make collections wouIu
give it the right Of way in that field as against
the states. 1t would be well if every common
wealth should treat the ratification of the pehu-
ing amendment to the Constitution as Dusi-
ness matter quite divorced from partisan poll
tics. The Rhode Island platform is souhd III
declaring that the issue Is in no sense one De-
tween Republicans and Democrats.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
TAuuAyYs CoNSECRATED CANDIDATE.

TANMANY'S CONSECRATED CAADIDAIE'
The consecrated candidate of Tammany Hall
How inexhaustible are the resources or thls
campaign in amusement! We turn from the
Katzenjammer man. mistaken for a great edi-
tor to the nominee of Murphy and associate OF
ROesch. Sullivan and Hagan, who mistakes him.
self for an instrument of heaven consecrated to-
the cause of good government. Il made cove
nant then and there" he writes in his letter 10
his brother that from that time onward
should devote some time every year in work
against low, base and corrupt officials and
government and to lift up government And
SC this consecrated spirit becomes the candidate
Of all that is lOw base and corrupt in the public
life OF this city to end baseness and corruption
lie is consecrated to the cause of clean govern
nent, and he is helping to elect Roesch. He is
coJlsecrated TO the cause of better public morals
and he is helping to elect Sullivan and Hagan
He is COnsecrated to the cause of saving the
poor from the robbery of politicians, and be-
comes the reliance Of Tammany Hall in its hour
of need. He is consecrated to the cause of
economy, and he helps Murphy I'LL the Board
of Estimate and AppOrtiOnment with his Great
uTcS.
Has sef-deceptiOn, if it is not something
worse. gone further? He rolls his eyes to
heaven and murmurs: Gods will be done
when he is approached on the mayOralty queS-
tiOn, but all the while he is dickering with
Hearst and MIrphy to insure that their will
be done. When he is asked if he Is to have a
campaign manager he inquiries, What is that?
never heard of such thing. But he has one
in a few days One of his racetrack friends
offers him $500 toward his election expenses
and he declines it in his lOftieSt sacerdOtal man
ner. well knowing all the while that Murphy
will pour forth an abundance of money in his
support. Was there ever a candidate half so
solemn and absurd as this cOnsecrated candi-
date OF Tammany Hall? What a moving con-
trast the campaign presents Tammany with a
! consecrated candidate, ROesch, Sullivan and
! IIagan consecrated TO political purity and the
Katzenjammer man consecrated to wire pull
! ingi
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
POOR SPELLING AMONG FRESHMEN

We are not sure how our friends the SimpH-
fed Spoilers will regard the wOful tale of or
biography gone agley which comes from a lead
ing Western university, of freshmen who spell
irregular "earegular," and apprentice ''apren-
tase" and intelligence "enteligance," and so
forth. 1t is not improbable that some persons
will in it another demonstration of the diff
fculties of English photography and of the
urgent need of reform; though others may hail
the freshmen as precious recruits to the cause
of simpfed spelling, particularly those who
spelled counterfeit 'counterfit' and apprentice
"aprents"
To us, however. the chief significance of this
wretched showing is that which is suggested
by the head of the department of English in
the university in question-namey, that the
grammar and high schools at which these young
men were prepared for college" were remiss in
their duty or were inefficient in their work
We should say that boys ought to be taught to
spell better than these freshmen before they
are promoted from the grammar school to the
high school. But while thus illlterate-nO
milder word will serve-that they should be
graduated from the high school, as fit for col
Iege is disgraceful The blame is not to be laid
at the door of English photography Such ill
taught lads would blunder Just as badly if our
spelling were purely phonetic. The trouble is
not that the words too difficult to spell, but
that the boys were not taught to learn spelling
by the most practical and most successful
method-namely, by liberal and studious read
ing in which they carefully observed the forma-
tions of the words which they read.
We well aware that the spelling of some
English words is puzzling, and also that some
persons of otherwise excellent education have
SO poor n sense or memory of literal form as to
he Indifferent spoilers But believe that in
majority of such eases as those to which we
have referred ability to spell correctly would
have been developed if proper teaching meth
DDS had been employed with the earnestneSs
which was given to other studies and if ability
to spell had been insisted upon equally with
proficiency in other studies as prerequisite to
promotion, graduation and matriculatiOn. Make
the grammar school boy understand that he
cannot enter the high school, and the high school
hoy that he cannot be graduated and enter col
lege, until he has learned to spell with rea-
sonable degree of correctness, and we shall
have fewer such exposures of downright igno-
rance as that which has Just been reported.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
ST. ANDREW BROTHERHOOD MEETS.
Twenty-fOurth Annual Convention Opens in
Providence

Providence. Oct. 1.-THE twenty-fourth annual
convention Of the Brotherhood Of ST. Andrew
opened in Grace Church here to-day. Proceedings
began with celebration Of Holy Communion this
morning, followed by address by Bishop Nc
VickaT. of this state.
The charge to the brotherhood was delivered
by the Rev. r. P. Williams. rector Of Trinity
Church, Washington.
The speakers at a general conference held late
in the afternoon were H. d. W. English of Pitts
burg: the Rev. F. H. SIN. Of Kent. Conn, and
Professor c. s. Baldwin. Of Yale University To-
night a public meeting in the MathewsOn Street
Church was addressed by President G. Stanley
Hall Of Clark University and the Rev. Paul B.
Bull. of Mirfeld, England.
The following officers elected: Chairman,
Comteney BarbOr. Chicago; vice-chairman, H. c.
Trumbull jr-. Baltimore; second vice-chairman.
Henry NJ Hewitt. New York: third vice-eharman.
j. C. AstredO, San Francisco; fourth vice-chair-
man, Charles s. Baldwin, New Haven; secretaries.
A. B. CargiIl. Milwaukee; F. o. Zezzinger, Phila-
dephia and Richard H. Ranger. Boston.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
AmuseInents.


ACADEMY OF MUsIc-s:i5-The Battle
ALHAMBRA-2-s-Naude
tSTDl-Ss1S-The Man from Home
ASCG-S:16-Ts Matrtmony a Failureg
BIJOU-s :30-The Debtors -
BaIGHTON BEACH NOTORDRoME-S-AutomoDle
BRoADwAY-sls-The Midnight sons
GASINO-S:l5-The Girl and the Wizard
CIRCLE-s:l5-In Hayti
COIlONrAI-2-S-Yaudeville
COMEDY-s:lb-The Melting Pot.
CRITERION-S2O-The Noble spaniard. preceded by The
pALYrS-S:15-The White Sister
EDEN NCSEE-The World IN Wax.
EMPIRE-S S:15-Inconstant George.
GAlETR-S:15-The Fortune Hunter.
GARRICk-S:3 :30-Detective Sparkes.
IANMERSTEIN'S-2:l5 :l5-s:l5-NaudeTi
HACkETT-s:fS-Such IAttle Queen.
HfPPODROME-a-G-A Trip Japan; Inside the
Earth: the Ballet Of Jewels
HUDSON-s-15-On the Eve.
IRVING PLACE-S:lS- LumpenEesindel
NORTHUMBERLAND Dollar Princess
IIBERTY-s:l5-Thc Widows Might
LINCOLN SQUARES S:l5-Billy.
irCEUM-S.l5-Arsen lupin.
MADISON Sc. GARDEN-lo a. m. 10 II p m-Eiectric
ssAJFSTIC-s:fA-A Citizens Home
MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSB-s-Louise
MAXINE ELLIOTT's THEATRE-S:SO-Ihe Passing
Of the Third Floor Back
NEW AMSTERDAM: :l5-The Love cure.
NEW YORK-S:l5-The Man Who Owns broadway.
SAVOY-s:lB-The Awakening of Helena Richie
sTUYVT1SA MS :15-The Easiest Way
WAII.ACK'S- Fourth Estate.
wFBER'S-S:15-The Climax
WEST EHD-S:15-The Dawn Of a Tomorrow
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

( FoREIGN-Anti- Spanish an6 anti-religious
demonstrations. prompted by the execution of
Professor Ferrer were held in Paris. Rome.
Vienna and other leading cities of Southern
europe - A lieutenant and five sailors of
the Dutch navy were killed by an explosion of
Bier1c acid aboard a ships pinnace, near Mass
slis, Holland. =-= The opening of the twenty
sne provincial assemblies. Ihe beginning Of par
.iamentary government IN China, was ignored
IN Peking. - The Chinese government is
planning a slO0O0OO0 lottery in place Of the do
fnestic loan Of 1908 which failed Prd5s-
dent FaIieres and his Cabinet and Ambassador
Trance - The stear1shin Afl1abasc Of the
Canadian Pacific Line, is ashore on Flower Pot
Island, Georgian Bay, Ont == The revolt in
Mica ~lgua, led by General Juan Estrada against
the President Jose Zelaya, reached serious pro-
portions.
DOMESTIC-President Taft accepted The res
lgnation OF Charles r. Crane as Minister to
China, and Mr.. Cranes name was dropped from
the rolls Of the State Department. - The
President spent the day at the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado. In Arizona. - II was
ported that the War Department contemplates
continuing aeronautc tests at some Southern
point this winter. == DR. Ernest Fox Nichols
was installed al Hanover, Y H. as the tenth
resident Of Dartmouth College in the presence
Il 4 distinguished gathering. == receiver
was appointed for the Ware Kramer Tobacco
Company, OF Norfolk Va which recently asked
damages Of $1O00,0OO from the American To-
bacco Company in an antitrust suit. === The
annual convention of the Brotherhood of ST
Andrew began al Providence. r. I -- The ab-
sence of the head Of the hOdy which has been
found scattered at I1yert9n r. l. hampered the
CITY.-StOcks were strong and active. -=
William NJ WINS again attacked Justice Gaynor
al meeting IN Cooper Union and told why he
was with Hearst. =- DR.. Frederick A. cook
denied the statement contained in an affidavit
by Edward Barrill that the explorer had never
bern nearer than fourteen miles TO the summit
OF NRunt Mckinley. - William NJ WINS
accuses. Justice Gaynor or trying to nullify the
state conEtltution by reversing Governor Odell's
dismissal of Sheriff Guden of Brooklyn -=
Adrii Mar- Baker Eddy approved the deposition
of Mrs. etson by the directors OF the Mother
Church OF Christian Science. == Charles r.
Murphy said he knew nothing Of the attempted
tneft OF the Civic Alliance by Tammany men.
=@= Ross Williams, the Tammany leader
Fas indicted and arrested for ''stuffing' ballot
boxes. = Charles r. Flint, returning from
Europe said he had backed the Wright brothers
nnaiacially for two years and that he believed
the government had made a mistake in not buy
ing their aerOplane secrets. == The Missouri.
Kansas & Texas Railroad Company elected a
new board with Edwin Hawley chairman and
Al A, Allen president of the road, succeeding
Adrian H Joline. The Japanese CONNER
Sial commissioners were the guests of the Cham
per Of Commerce.
( THE WEATHER. Indications for to-day:
Rain ano colder. The temperature yesterday:
Highest IS degrees: lowest, 80.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Society especia1ry the Long Island set. VIII De
out In force to-day for the opening OF tne NoI.i
shore horse show on Piping Rock Field Long ISL
and and the affair will be made the occasion or a
number OF weekend house parties. One or the
features Of the show will be the four-in-hand driv-
ing competition by women for cup offered Dy MfS'
Thomas Hastings. president OF the Ladies ROuL-
INLAND Driving Club. Many members or tne ciuO
have entered. among them neins Haas. NE ras
Hitchcock. Miss Eleanor Mortimer, Miss Harriet
Alexander Mr.. Arthur Isen. Miss Virginia Os-
born and Miss Marion Hollins-
Mrs French-VanderbfIt. who has been In town
for few days. staying at the ST. Regis. leaves to-
dav I'm her touring car FOR Newport, going by way
of wilIamstown. Saratoga and through vermont
arriving in Newport on Monday
Mr.. and Mrs Royal Phelps Carroll have closed
their villa at Newport and have come to town for
the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Bayard Cutting are az their
country place at Oakdae. Long Island, for the fall
Mr. and Mrs. J. Norman de r. whitehouse have
returned to town from Morristown. N. J., where
they were the guests for few days OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther Kountze.
Lord and Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox who re-
turned from Lenox Wednesday. are at the VOL
colt.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sampson. jr. who were mar
ried last fall will spend the winter with Mr. Samp
sons parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sampson, No.
IA West 5sth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. George +. Baker. who recently
turned from Europe. at their villa at Tuxedo
for the fall
Dr. and Mrs. Curtenius Gillette have arrived in
town and at their home in Park for the
winter
Mr.. and Mrs Dulany Rowland have left the city
for Tuxedo. where they will spend the remainder
of the fall
Mrs Jesse Hoyt win give reception at her
house in Park avenue the end OF next month TO
introduce her daughter, Miss Isabel Hoyt.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cortlandt Field Bishop, who have
been in Europe for several months. are booked 20
sail for New York tomorrow
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbri will return %
town to-day from Bar Harbor. Me-. where they
spent the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Sanford will return to town
from Richfeld Conn. to-day. and occupy the house
which they have taken at Seth street and Lexing-
ton avenue for the winter.
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
coon BREEDING AND GOOD FEELING.

GOOD BREEDING AND GOOD FEELING.
Several recent incidents. the latest in an in
Vulnerable series extending through many years,
have again suggested the desirabty of more
general cultivation of international good man
ncrS an Indispensable adjunct to international
friendship 1t should be perfectly obvious that
among nations as among individuals complete
good feeling can be maintained only where there
is due regard for the decences and courtesies of
intercourse.
The treatment of flags is an important case in
point There are perhaps a few persons who re
gard even their own national flag as nothing but
fabric of parti-cOored cloth. which may be
used for advertising purposes or for door mat
or be treated like any old rag. To such the
presentation of the claims of courtesy and
srect would be in vain But to the great
jcrity of people the flag is a sacred emblem OF
national character, national integrity and
tiOnal sOveignty, and therefore imperativcly
entitled TO the most respectful and even reveren-
tial treatment, and to such the regard which
they have for ii should certainly-thOugh un-
happily ii does not always-dctate the treat
mcnt which is to be accorded to the flags of
other nations.
There is a formidable and perhaps insuperabe
objection to the raising of any foreign flag on a
public building here in such manner or posi-
tion would suggest the sovereignty of u
loIelSn country. Inc ulSpldy OF lndJ nag III ap-
prOpriate subOrdinatiOn to our Own-such sub
ordination only as that which the host who sits
at the head Of his own table exacts Of his
guests who sit at his right and at his left hand
lis not only permissible but often is necessary
to courtesy, and the same is to be said Of the
decoration of convention halls and banquet
halls and all other places where there are inter
national assemblages.
There are no doubt occasions when the public
display of foreign flags might be indiscreet or
improper, but such breaches of propriety are
few. In the great majority of instances in
which violent demonstrations have been made
against foreign flags in this country their dis
play has been entirely proper, and the hostile
manifestations have been made chiefly by those
who. if they were travelling soiourning i'm
foreign parts would probably consider il de-
slrabe and indeed necessary exhibition of what
they conceive 10 be patriotism 10 flaunt their
own flag in the faces OF their hosts on all pos
sible occasions, fitting uniting and tO de-
nOunce remOnstrances as an insult to the Stars
and Stripes and to the American nation There
is no respect in which scrupulOusly equitable
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15

aaontea country: but If all this is to be consid-
cred sacrifice or hardship, surely the privilege
of American citizenship is not so mean ana
cheap thing not to be worth the price
That may be sound and true. Yet the nat
uralized citizen will be prompted to ask, If the
franchise is worth the price "The Sun" names
to him. why 1t is not worth the same price to
the white native. If the right to vote is not to
be considered 80 mean and cheap thing" why
shouldn't the same valuation be put on 1t for
all classes of electors? The naturalized voter
is to be penalized simply because he is foreign
born If that is not KnOw-NOthingism. -whnt
is
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
AN INCONSISTENT KyOW-yOTByyG.

In trying 20 defend the determinations against
naturalized citizens which the pending suffrage
amendment. If adopted. will write into the con-
stitutiOn of Maryland, The Baltimore Sun"
falls into curious inconsistency. 1t says that
the Democratic party in Maryland has always
opposed Know-Nothingism and favored equal
rights for native and naturalized citizens But
The sun" and the Democratic party are now
supporting a suffrage restriction scheme which
will put the naturaliZed citizens of the future,
into class by themselves, inferior III privileges
to white natives who can show patent of IAN
cestry" Naturally it is hard work to prove to
the naturalized white element, which is going
to be put on a par after 1909 with the colored
voters whose claims to ancestry" are also
thrown out of court, that the provisions of the
amendment are not tainted with Know Nothing
ism.
The SUM- eXhorts the disrated naturalized to
cheer up and by accommodating enough property
10 qualify as voters or by educating themselves
50 as to pass the educational tests to secure
franchise privileges which natives with "ances-
tors" can acquire without practising frugality
or burning the students lamp. Says our Balr-
more contemporary by way Of encouragement:
II may be that il will require some effort
perhaps some sacrifice the part of the for
eigner-thus TO qualify himself to take part in
the governing of this country Of ninety millions
of fTeemen. II may be that he will have to
practise economy, cultivate habits of industry
and self-restraint and work hard TO acquire
the $500. il he prefers TO take the educational
test, he may have TO devote himself to the study
OF the language and the institutions Of his
New-York tribune., 1909-10-15
Abo1f People and Social Incidents
IN THE 8ERKsHIREs.
IBy Telegraph 70 The Trlbuns

LenOx. Oct. -Chestnutting part,e. =.
Mountain are one Of the amusernents ~ t5 ..ooei
Tomorrow afternoon large party VIII =, + -
Whitney preserve to whip trees Ne
Mrs. S. Parkman Shaw gave a H,ncb.,- -. =.
wood to-day for Mrs. John L. Thorndu-. =,
George Westinghouse. Mrs. George vv...,. '1ia
r.. Mrs. Frederic Bull Mrs NJ Dyvirhs c,o,,,@ ~,
Marie Bramwell. Miss GeorEiana sarao,+ ~,
Harriet K Wells. Mrs Ross Whistler and ~,
w. S. KeTnOchan were among the Rueqfy
Mrs. Thomas Shields Clarke gave = A.. -.
tea at Fernbrook this afternoon. az wbicb ss--
thirty were present. --
Mrs. Joseph Fl. Choate has gone to yfoB,+ VI.
20 visit Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph r. Choats = '-''''
Mr.. and Mrs. James r Walker have eIo,.a a.
Owen cottage In Stockbrdge after the ss.go- .s e'
and have gone to Chicago
Mr.. and Mrs. Gardner Weatherbee oe Ns-- W.,
Mrs NJ S. Jones. Mrs. D. T. Flint and yr,, ~.
Manning Of Boston; Mrs s c. Dayson Mrs. p Il.
Anes and W. V. c. Lincoln. OF Brookifna a.. =.
the Hotel AspinwaI
Mrs John a. Hadden ir win entertain A. ,,,,,.
tomorrow at the Curtis Hotel
Mrs. John J. Staples, who is with Mrs. Franz
K. Sturgis. Will spend the rest Of October A. ~
Curtis Hotel
Miss May A. weatherbee OF New York. -
guest Of Miss Carmen MARTINEZ at the Maplevyood
in Pittsfeld- Mr.. and Mrs. c. A Weed Miss T1or.
ence NJ Weed OF New York. and M and Mrs. r
Albert Blake. OF Boston. at the SIapewood
Mrs Franklin Osgood. who has passed the a-,r,
nner in Lenox. has returned TO the Hotel Manhsf
tan, IN New York Mrs. Osgood gave a farewell
bridge party Wednesday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Vreeland. OF Jersey Civ
and Mr. and Mrs. ". B. Wilson, OF New Yorl, are
at the Curtis Hotel
o. Skyba1 secretary OF the Norwegian Legation
has gone to Washington
Mrs. John F. Reyburn and party. Of PhiladeIphia
are motoring in the Berkshires.
Mrs Charles H. Baldwin. who has been at the
Curtis Hotel. is a guest Of Mrs. Morris K
Jesup Mr.. and Mrs. c. @ Chapman and George
H. Quincy have gone 20 New York.
Hlldreth K BloodgoOd Howard WilIets, New
bold Norris Miss Isabel Shotter Joseph W Bur-
den, Miss Charlotte Barnes Miss Constancs Fol-
som. Frederic Bull. Miss Heloise Meyer and Miss
Helen Alexandra will show saddle horses and hunt
ers at the Lenox horse show.