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New-York tribune., 1909-02-26

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nostage in sealed envelope
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
CORNELL on COURTS
Savs Police Magistrates Should Ro-
tate IN Special Sessions.

Magistrate Cornell testiIying before the legisla-
,,s committee to investigate the lower Of
mis- city yesterday. criticised the division Of work
.s.usen the Court Of Special Sessions and the
r1sgistrates' courts. lie said:
The poIoe court magistrates regard the Court Of
reason that can think Of why the justices Of that
eoTIrr should receive any different salary from
ri6e6 10 get I'D OF the old police court 13suceS
.he duties Of the police courts were divided, and
al given 20 Special Sessions and part to the
magistrates. think that y would be gooo tflhg
n re artificial dividing line between the two courts
could be done away with and the same justices or
magistrates rotate mack and forth between the two
Magistrate Harris said he thought the principle
Feod effected by the establishment OF the night
court had been the suppression Of large amount
Of graft the part Of the police but did not
.-snk il possible 70 eradicate the graft entirely
Senator Page disagreed with the witness in think
.rg that the night court had ninimized the graft
n regard TO the night court only. the witness dis
.e-eed with Magistrate Cornell. who thought that
criminals in New York and doubted the wisdom
NJ .'s+aytnE up all night to save them inconveni-
enoe"
frank L Fox warden Of the workhouss de-
zc-fhed the overcrowded conditions in the work
house and said that only about 10 per cent Of the
n-fsonsrs committed there came back repeatedly.
Mss Elizabeth Curtin, assistant matron Of the
uorkhouse. also testified TO the crowded condi-
lions,
Magistrate Cornell characterized the physical
,on5ttons at Essex Market court "a disgrace
N tfs city, He thought there should be more
cordial relations between the magistrates and the
police Commissioner. as it would be unsafe, he said,
$40 ynsn the courts with other than policemen
t5e said that the ms g4strafes' work arduous
.be+ they needed two weeks rest after each two
weeks Of work
The hearing will be continued to-day.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
CONFERENCE ON CITY TRANSIT.
Civic Associations Urge Repassage of Travis
Lee Constitutional Amendment Bill.

There was q large representation Of members
from The business mems and taxpayers associa-
tons conference held yesterday afternoon 10
urge the repassaEe Of the TTayisLee constitutional
amendment resolution, which provides for the
exemption OF revenue producing dock and subway
bonds from the city's debt limit
Calvin Tomkins president Of the Reform club,
who presided in opening the conference, said that
II the citvs hands were united by the passage
a The constitutional amendment, the city must
look for indefinite delay in transit matters he
said that s1Isoo0O1o would be released for docks
and slibways if the amendment was passed. ano
xroul5 he available next fall. Mr.. Tomkins an
ro,1nce6 meetings in Albany on March Il and in
COOPER Union on the following day. 9.
Senator Travis said that earnest work would have
10 he done 70 get the measure passed. F w Hin
-icnz said that the situation would be scandalous
,n The extreme If private corporations obtained
eontro! Of the subways.
Mr. Tomkins seid he Understood that Mr.. Nc
Clellsn would sign the amendment.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
GTBB PAVILION OPENED,
Nesc Structure for Surgical Opera
tiOns at Home for 4ged and Intrm.

In the presence OF more than one hundred city
officials physicians and persons interested in char
liable work the Glib operating pavilion of the
New York City Home for the Aged and lnfrm. on
BlackweIrs Island was opened yesterday. The
building was named in honor of DR.. w. Travis
Glib, chief surgeon of the home II is a one
story structure and is connected with the surgical
wards
The cost OF the building end equipment was PA
600 Commissioner Hebberd was prevented from
being present by illness. but his address was read
In il he told of DR.. Gibbs work for the pavilion,
and said his arguments before the Board of Alder
men resulted in the appropriation.
DR.. Glib will perform the first operation in the
pavilion this morning There about six hun
dred patients in the home. some of them suffering
from incurable diseases
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
cELEeRArEo MUSICIANS AT sgNgEvr

At the concert TO be given this morning at lis
o'clock. at the wzldorf-Asrorias for the bsreat oc
the Handicraft School OF Greenwich House Gll-
bert will sing Rubinsteins lie Rave du Prisornisr-
Costi's 'LAdieu.' z. Louis's Petit Noce.s Mes
sag>r's ''Souverancs' and his Les Bsrgeres - -
Loup" Pgreiners ''NaIgrs Moi and Aassezet's
"Criselidss-" Nine. Rappold Will sing ths vzlss
from Gounod's Romeo and juliet Schubert 8
"Sah Elm Knab' sin Roslsin Stshn." Bacbsset 3
"Chere Mutt and Van der Stucken's 'sFrIhIinks-
nacht." Ernest ScheIlins viii play scarlattTs
'sPastorale' and "LAppnccio.'' and the Chopin
nocturne In c minor and poionaiss IN A Sat
An amateur chorus OF young women. under the
direction OF Kurt SCHNEIDER vii sing 'Jois moi Do
Mai 'Voici Ia ST. Jean. 'Chanzon d'snfznt' and
three Canadian foIksongs. lie Vent FrfvoIanr .
LIE Canadien Enfant' and lis mont appees
Viaine."
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
SWEAR OFF s4,OOo,oOO ASSESSMENTS
Countess szechenyi and Brokaws Claim Resi-
dence Outside CITY

The Countess Szechenyi who was Miss Gladys
Vanderbilt; Clifford '. Brokaw and his sister Mrs
Florence satterwhite swore off s4OOO00O tax assess
ments yesterday
Henry B. Anderson appeared for the Countess
Szechenyi, saying the countess resident OF
Hungary and off the assessment of 81 600 900
placed against her by the assessors.
Mr.. Brokaw appeared with his sister and each
swore off a million and a half dollars. Mr. Brokaw
said he was a resident Of Mamaroneck and his
Island
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
THE TRIBUNE PATTERN.

The coat blouse makes one Of the latest de-
partures of fashion. II be utilized with an
gown or sern-princess sort. It be worn
with any ordinary skirt in combination with q
Eirde For immediate wear II can he utilized
in combination with a fur wrap, and later it will
be lust the snartest of ali things for upon
the street with or without the addition of some
neck ruff or ruche. This is double breasted
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
SEES BUILDING BOOM COMING.

Secretary Roswell D. Tompkins Of the New York
Building Trades Council, vino has canvassed the
principal cities as 10 the Of trade, said yes
terday that the reports from all the cities were
hopeful He said boom in the building trades
had started in Chicago and coming East.
In about three weeks there viii be a boom in
the building trades here he continued. Large
quantities Of building material are being shipped
10 tits civ b1 contractors and owing to the mild
pess of tie winter excavations for new buildings
ksvs been started ahead Of time"
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
WOMAN cHIEE HosPIrAL SURGEON.

The distinction of having the only woman chief
surgeon Of a hospital will fall to Brooklyn Mon
day when DR.. Mary NJ. Crawford will become
house surgeon of the Williamsburg Hospital. Or.
Crawford has served four months each inferno,
assistant house surgeon and ambulance surgeon.
She intends to remain with the hospital as house
surgeon for the required period and then begin
practice in Brooklyn AS head of The Williamsburg
Hospital DR.. Crawford will direct the work of four
male doctors
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

At the inquest into the death of George Spencer
NiIIett who died from stab wound of the heart
about three weeks ago. Coroner Dooley yesterday
exonerated Miss Gertrude Robbins. of No. 16S West
ast street who was arrested suspicious per-
son soon after the boys death. Besides Miss Rob
bins other empioyes Of the Metropolitan Life In
srrancA COMPANY where young Millett
ployed. examined. and the jury, without leav-
ing their seats found that the boys death was
cidentai
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26
4FED.- HOTEL READY WEDNESDAY.

The City Federation Hotel Company expects 20
have its hotel for smal-saIaried working girls az
No. 4s2 West 22d street ready for occupancy aext
wednesday. The repairs ordered by the Board OF
Health have ali been made and the furniture is now
being moved in The formal opening win not taxa
plaee until everythlng Is IN running order.
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26

be willing to run against Miss Boswell. a peaceful
election is assured Miss Boswell was OF tnA.
speakers Of the afternoon and there was an ad-
dress on Immigration" by Henry A CargnL
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26

Arthur Brisbane and Nathan Straus will be the
sneakers at the Acorn Forum tomorrow evening
In the auditorium of the Young Mems Hebrew AS
sociation at SD street and Lexington avenue Mr..
Brisbane will talk on Journalism and Especially
Yellov Journalism"
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26

When arraiEned before Magistrate Walsh. in JET
ferson Market Court yesterday. for stealing
watch from DR. Joseph B. Bryant while the doctor
was performing an operation in 81 Vincent's Hos
nital on wednesday afternoon Patrick Hennessey.
Of No 223 East e4th street, errard boy. waived
examination and was held in s.Ooo-for trial
New-York tribune., 1909-02-26

To celebrate the nftieth anniversary OF the
founding of their association. the Alumni OF the
College OF Physicians and Surgeons Columbia Uni
versity. viii hold dinner sherry's Tuesday.
Professor Samuel ". Lambert, dean of the college
and president OF the association. will preside. and
among The speakers viii be President Butler OF
Columbia former President Low. DR.. II. A Chris
tisn dean of the Harvard Medical School; DR.. Will
lam NJ Polk, dean of the Cornell University Medi-
cal College; the Rev DR.. Richards. OF the Brick
Presbyterian Church, and Professor John G. Curtis
Of the College Of Physicians and Surgeons.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
QUAKER A1EDITATIoNs.

GF,rom the Philadelphia Record.1
The higher education will soon include
aerial navigation.
Even the path of glory and the road
to success lead to the grave.
Every stage has wings, but that
isn't what makes the chorus girls fly.
In politics the man who shakes the
tree doesn't always get the most plums.
To borrow $13 on Friday is probably
bad luck-for the fellow who lends It.
In crowded quarters a fellow may
sleep at the bottom of the bed and still
sleep like top.
eff you are going to pin your faith
to woman" says the Cynical Bache-
lor, "use a diamond pin"
wigg-"Is Btones fond of work 20
Wagg-'Fond of work? Why, Bjones
always saves himself as much work as
he possibly can
He-"Yes, she married a man nearly
so years old. He said he would die
for her." She-"Oh. she should have
known that all men are liars"
willie's Mamma-"You were a naugh-
ty, bad boy to stick a pin in Mr.. Big
|hedde." Willie-"Well. heard Pop say
he was nothing but bag OF wind, and
il wanted to see the fun"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News.
Everybody knows that other people
make mistakes
Some men envy their hair-when it
comes out on top
Nobody admires a knocker, yet he
can always get an audience.
To every man is given the oppor-
tunity to do something worth while.
Some people tell the truth merely
for the sake of stirring up trouble.
A woman laughs most heartily at a
story of which she fails to see the
point.
The snow man quickly melts, but it's
different with the heart of the ice man.
It's dead easy to be an optimist
when only the good things of life are
coming your way.
After a girl has bumped up against
q case of unrequited love she begins to
dream Of a career.
The man who plays poker for past
time usually passes more or less coin
over to the other fellow.
A married man should come home
early at least one night each week
Just to show his wife that he can do it.
The worst thing about having money
Is the way everybody worries for feur
he won't be able to prevent you from
keeping II.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
JAYHAWKER JOTS

The merchants of Mcpherson are
trying to get a firmer hold on the
business of the farmers, says the Gar
den City Telegram, by putting in bet
ter hitching posts.
The Ottawa Herald says it has been
disclosed that one of the conditions
of Ben Murdock's appointment as fish
and game warden was his pledge to
stock the streams with canned salmon
and the brush with pressed chicken.
I'm no public speaker" said a man
to Manhattan audience recently. But
at the end of the second hour Charley
Vernon declares that the audience was
ready to admit that if there was any
thing in practice he would be one some
day.
The Manhattan Nationalist makes a
bad pun. 1t says Manhattan is hav-
ing "a meaSley time,'' because there
are IS cases of measles in the city.
II it had written it "a measly time"
the joke would have been ortho-
graphically better, corrects-the Wichita
Beacon.
A Kansas woman sends in this crit
icism of the Kansas Magazine: "In the
March number Of the Kansas Maza-
gine a story writer in describing a
lynching in the early days of western
Kansas, has a convenient telephone
post on which to hang the villain.
However, there are no automobiles or
airships by means of which the mob
may escape"
To show how the anti-cigarette law
operates, the Liberal News reports:
''In a shed next to the alley, yester-
day, there were assembled five or sew
en- youths, ranging from z to IA years
of age. A secret meeting was in ses-
sion and conversation was conducted
in low tones only. 1t was not our in
tention to hear the proceedings, but
this much we do remember: Say, kid,
how much yeh got? "Gosh, don't
take ALL Then another voice: Say
fellers, yer don't dare to smoke too
much; this shed will leak smoke
'fThen let's chew the stuff" suggested
another. who's got match ?" quer-
led another. They were Schoolboys
and slightly fracturing the new law re-
garding the use of cigarettes and to-
bacco by minors.
DR.. Lagestrom, a Swedish resident
of Salina, has returned from Sweden
and this is a part of what he says in
the Salina Journal: 1.-The working man
in Sweden receives as his pay two or
three crowns day, which is equal to
from so to IS cents. A crown is equal
to 27 cents in American money Skill
ed labor receives about 10 crowns a
month, or about $50. A clerk in
store receives about 90 crowns
month. When the skilled workmen
and the clerk pays for his board, his
clothing, and few cigars, he can save
from $1.50 to SIS a month, while the
common laborer saves nothing. Eat
ables are very high in that country. A
pound of what we call beefsteak is 65
cents, butter is So cents pound, and
eggs are 54 cents a dozen. When the
common laborer receives only from
SO to S5 cents day for his work he
does not get to eat much of this kind
of food"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l

L
The fact is, none of US are treated
very well.
Doctors often doom men to death,
and the doom doesn't materialize.
An editor is not the only man who
doesn't give satisfaction; Wen bet you
don't.
There is one thing the fathers of to-
day can't do as well as the fathers of
80 years ago: They can't spank.
Do you feel that people pick at
you? You are probably right about it.
We never knew anyone to escape.
An Atchison man is wearing shoe
string as watch chain. and the people
are very much aggravated about it.
This will happen to you some day:
"Well," a man will say, we've just
buried Old Man (whatever your name
is), and 1 am glad it's over"
When a grocer carries home a paper
bag, it has to contain lobster or paine
apples, or something like that, to prove
that he is fond husband
my typewriter went lame the other
day. and fixed it, without sending for
a machinist That is the only really
important thing have done this year.
Drake Watson.
An Atchison young man. who has
gone with about every girl in town.
has started out with a new girl, and
his first present to her was piece of
music: Gottschalk's Last Hoper'
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
ALCOHOL AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

A meeting of the American Society
for the Study of Alcohol and Other
Drug Narcotics was held last week in
Washington, ID. c.. and during the fin
al session a forceful paper on "Alco-
hol and Public Health" was read by
DR.. G. o. Webster. Of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Illinois State Board of
Health. He handled the subject in a
masterful fashion and drew the fol-
lowing conclusions regarding the use
of alcohol:
''The alcohol problem is more i'm
portant than the tuberculosis problem,
because it causes the loss of more
lives. and more money.
Traffic in alcohol costs the United
States in direct money loss more than
$4,000. 100000 a year.
''It causes, directly or indirectly, at
least 10 per cent of all the deaths in
the country; it predisposes to infec-
tious diseases; lowers vitality, and in
creases mortality in all surgical oper-
ations. The power OF individuals to
resist heat and cold is lowered by it.
1t causes deterioration of mental work
Mans power to Withstand fatigue is
greatly 1essened by its use It should
always be classified as a poison. and
never as a food. 1t is a public health
and sanitary question, and should be
treated the same as smallpox. The
problem is a medical one and should
be studied scientifically
Most persons of any degree of in
telligence will admit that these con-
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
,CLEws ON TARIFF REVISION.

The views of Henry -Clews, the New
York banker, on all public questions,
representing as they do the ideas OF
the conservative and decent men in
Wall street, have always been inter-
esting. And in this category comes his
recently expressed opinion on the tariff
revision, the uppermost question today
in the minds of the people. He says:
Now that the tariff bill has been
actually introduced q sense of relief is
felt in the stock market The changes
tion of tariff reform than were expect
ed, are in no sense radical or disturb
ing. The bill as announced can only
be regarded as line of battle. or a
starting point for fresh discussion and
changes. All the forces for and
against revision are now drawn up
clearly divided, and from now on the
tariff struggle must continue with in
creased warmth until a conclusion is
reached. The opinion is general that
such changes as may be made in the
proposed bill will be in the direction of
advances rather than reductions. In
other words, the measure proposed is a
minimum schedule. 1t is predicted
that the steel schedule. the most inn
portant of all. will be advanced. and it
is noticed that the cotton, wool and silk
schedules have been treated with great
leniency. A very important element in
Ln6 new Dill Is lLS
qualities; there being serious question
as to whether these will prove as great
as anticipated. Under normal condi-
tions, and as business improves, GUS
toms revenues should increase; in fact,
they are already beginning to show i'm
provement, and the treasury outlook is
less gloomy than one or two months
ago. The great increase of federal ex
penses, however, continues unabated,
and there is little or no chance OF their
diminution. The proposal, therefore, to
issue treasury certificates and addi-
tional quantities of government bonds
would have the effect of further in
fiation in an already overexpanded
currency system. The ultimate effect
of this proposal would consequently be
to largely stimulate gold exports and
weaken our financial strength This
feature has not received the attention
to which it is entitled, since it is an
element of danger that should not be
lost 70 view"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.

There are hardships in the country.
struggles are necessary to wrest a live
lihood from the soil or from business in
a small community. But every stroke
can be made to count for permanence.
The food and the air are better; mans
independence is more real, where he
can own the roof that shelters him and
the ground upon which he can grow his
provisions. Every COW or horse added
to his holdings is an increase of his
capital. Little by little, year by year,
he can, with industry and good judg
ment, increase his store of worldly
goods and give to his children a tangi-
BILE inheritance. a foothold in their own
land, an anchorage from which the
shifting tides of trade cannot dislodge
them. And while such family is 1iv-
ing its own life, solving it's own prob
lens, it may enjoy the same literary
and artistic pleasures, and the same
general advantages that the city family
has. With the advent of the rural mail
delivery, rural telephones, automobiles.
mechanical pianos, typewriters. phono-
graphs, the man on the farm need
never lack instruction or entertain
ment.-Columbia Is. CO. State.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23
FROM OTHER PENS
PAssING OF THE DRUM.

The dispatch from Russia to the ef-
ect that Emperor Nicholas has signed
an order abolishing the use of drums
in the army in time of war will serve
to call attention to the fact that the
drum has been rapidly passing out of
use in the armies of the world. 1t was
long a picturesque feature of all mill
tary movements, and had it's recog-
nized place not only in parade and on
marches, but on the battlefield itself
1t is still little more than half a CEN
tury since Daniel Webster. describing
England's greatness, declared that her
drumbeats never ceased. 1t was at
that time almost, if not literally, true.
But England's drumbeats are ceasing,
and have, indeed, almost wholly ceased.
There is no use for a drum on a firing
line of modern warfare, and the move
ments of bodies of men on the march
or on parade can be much better di-
rected by the bugle. In Russia, it ap-
pears, the drummers are to be taught
to shoot which will doubtless appeal to
military men everywhere as the most
practical use to make of them. The
drum and the drummer boy passing
away along with many other features
of the old-time pomp and circumstance
of war.-Manchester Union.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23

clusions are correct ones even though
some Of them are far-reaching in their
scope. Yet there are men who still
hold prohibition up to scorn, who be-
lieve that the best solution of the IL
quor problem is in the regulation OF
the sale of the poison though a high
license imposed upon the business.
through local option, or in a variety OF
other ways which will permit of its
promiscuous sale to all who know no
better than to care for it or who are
too weak to resist the temptation to
use it. They insist that prohibition
is a failure because it cannot be en-
forced.
As a matter of fact prohibition can
be enforced If there is any disposition
on the part of peace officers to dis
charge their duties in this regard
faithfully. That has been demon
strated right here in Kansas and in
the city of Topeka in particular. OF
course, it may not be possible to en-
force absolutely a prohibitory law;
that is, to prevent beyond peradven-
ture the sale of liquor in a prohibi-
tory commonwealth. 1t is equally i'm
possible to enforce any other law to
the exact letter. All of them are viol-
ated with frequency and many with
more 'or less irnpunity. But the honest
of a prohibition law will
put saloons and joints out of business
as it has done in this city and reduce
the traffic in liquors to minimum,
and that's great step in advance of
legalized rum shops. 1t is a great
agent, too, in the promotion of public
health and the elevation of public
morals