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New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
URTGHTS' TEST DELAYED
Il Big Crozcd at Fort Nyer Djsap-
pointed.
From Tho Tribune Bureau


Washington June 25-A big crowd was disaP-
pointed by the failure of the Wright brothers 70
make an aeroplau- flight Fort Nlv-r thiS eveninS
Neither Of the brothers had said that they would
fly. there had been general belief that the ma
chine would be- ready for trial spin rHis afternoon
or evening. and many had gone IN Fort Myer on
the chance Of seeing the aeroplana in the air
There seems IttIe doubt that there VIII be an
unofficial flight time tomorrow but IL Is not
expected that either the speed or the endurance
test Will be attempted before next week President
Taft having informed the War Department that he
wants 70 be on hand when the speed trial Il made
one of the tents for the convenience of visitors has
been reserved Tor him
After many adjustments and tests the motor was
to-day put in excellent working order Tomorrow
th,. Wrtghts will devote their time % testing rhA
motor further and 10 making final adjustments.
The starttu; apparatus will he st in place. and II
is probable that the Wrighs VIII select the course
over which OrviIIe Will make the speed trial This
course will extend five miles from FCTt NIyer and
return
Il has been decided. although not officially an
nounced that the training of signal officers 20
handle the aeroplau.s will be carried on at Fort
Nfva- Iieute-ants Frank 2 LaI-U and BENJAMIN
u f-oulois have selected 10 handle the Wright
machine They have been here tnroushout its con
strIction and Lieutenant Lahm was a passenger
with OrviIe Wright in Of the flights last year
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
FOR STATE FOREST SUPERINTENDENT
Commissioner Whipple Selects Professor
August Cary, Of Harvard University.

Alanv. juno &.-James :. WhipPe. state Forest,
Fish and Game Commissioners, announced to-day
his selection Of August Gary. of East NaChlas.
Nc assistant professor Of forestry at Harvard Uni
yer,iry as Superintendent of state Forests TO sue
c-,5 the late colonel william +. Fox. The office
paws am annual salary OF 500" The place is in
the competitive class Of the civil Service and the
selection viii have To pass tho scrutiny of the state
,..,I Service commission before it can become ef
fective.
Professor cary has had a wide experience in for
esrr, fn Eastern and Middle Western states. hav-
Ing been Identified with the work since 1898 He
has I-en With the Forestry Department In Maine
and with the forestry division of the United States
r,rs,rtr7cnt OF Agriculture tie was an instructor
I'm rb- Yale Forestry school and since 1875 has
hoar at Harvard. He spent some time in 1896 In
tina study, of forestry I'm Germany and Switzerland
, has made many contributions to the literature
Of forestry in this country
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
wooDILL WON WIFE AT HORSE SHOW
Attracted to Her Here When She Was with
West Point Cadet.
IRy Telegraph 20 The Tribune J

Los Angeles. June 2l.-Gihert William WoodiI
first met Edith May Thompson at the horse show
in New York in May. ls0S Tn box near him sat a
woman escorted by a West Point cadet Three
days later he had Won his bride from the young
soldier and Miss Thompson became Mrs. WoodiIl.
The young bride and bridegroom came to Los
Angeles the last day Of May 1905. and tte girl
introduced to her husbands mother. At the same
time Mr. Gage informed Of the marriage. For
a time he refused he reroncIed with his ward.
A short time ago he forEaye the girl for her hasty
marriage and met her husband.
When told of ,he dispatches from Baltimore in
reference the murder. Secretary OF the Treas
ury Lyman J. Gage said today:
My relations with my ward Mrs. WoodiI. We're
perfectly honorable. as Is well known 10y those VINO
know US. She was a sweet and Ioyabl~ girl. and
when I first met her became deeply attached 10
her. She has been fCully murdered. and ] think il
is a disgrace that the poor girls body should be-
made The basis for an attempted scandal Further
than that positively have nothing T." saE.'
is it true You first met her through President
Mckinley in Washington. when she about
twelve years oId2' he was asked
Yes"
Who were her PARENTS
I have nothing more to say" declared M Gage
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
DEMOCRATIC UNIONS NAME TAKEN.
Ernest Harvier Claims Priority and Says Plan
VIII Not Succeed

Calling themselves committee representing a
political organization known as the Democratic
Union or New York. pr. William J Stewart. ,,a-
than Greenhauu. Arthur l. Rosenberg. Thomas
Carroll and Timothy Coney fled certificate %. I'M
corporation at Albany. about week ago. and Il
was accepted A few days later Ernest Harv~r
ono Of the organizers OF the Democratic Union
also to Albany To secure Incorporation papers
for the original organization Nr Haryier was told
that a Democratic Union was already Incorporated
According to Mr.. Harrier, who is one If the dis
leaders OF the union. the scheme # the self
constituted i've will hav" no effect uu the union.
Il formed. he oaid. iu JauIIry last was or
Eanzed i'm every Assembly district and 500 had Iri-
oritv in its claim on The name He said that the
Incorporated organization had no following and
that the plans of the union 10 defeat Tammany
fall would be intcrter,d with.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26

Then. too, happen to have unpaid bill for
professional services rendered her that comes to
$12o It isn't much, you know, and at the time
there was so much mystery about the little woman
that never sent It TO Mr. Gage as she asked me
to"
Why didn't you send it to her husband, doctor2'
For the very good reason that I never set eyes
him. and three days after she told me of her
her again and didn't know her address Then,
too. you see, the girl registered here as an
unmarried woman and I couldn't very we'll send
a bill to her husband-even if / had known Where
to find hin1-for services rendered his Wfe before
their marriage I say girl. for she seemed scarcely
more 10 me. She wasn't much biEger than a
minute-just the smallest thing you can fancy. no
bigger than Toby Claude But I'm free 20 confess
that she didn't imress me pretty Her com
plexion very dark. and the blemIshes that
sometimes go with saIiow Coorng gave her
great deal OF concern.
I never saw her husband All I know is that
Miss Thompson came to me one day about eilhteen
months ago, and laughing asked me to guess what
she had done that afternoon. Now. of course. /
have been a house physician too many years ever
to guess what any woman has has not done 50
I smiled my ignorance.
- Married. she said
Yes, this afternoon I met him only three days
ago. too. He's college boy And she told me her
husbands name. It tailed with the name she bore
the day she was killed
7 remember I asked her how AIr. Gage would
take it. Oh she rippIed We're not going TO
tell him anything about it But 1 see it IS re
ported he gave her q very handsome present"
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
REFEREE FINDS FOR RAILROADS.
Tax Commissioners Cannot Make Special
Franchise Assessments Against Them.

jamestown. y. y. June &.-Benjamir : Dean, OF
this city has been acting for some months as ref
cree in nine different cases Of a similar nature
brought by the New York Central and other rail
roads entering Buffalo against the State Board Of
Tax Commissioners relative to franchise assess
n7ents made against the various railways in that
city
The first and most important OF the cases was
that OF the New York Central. and Mr. Dean this
evening sent to the attorneys of the road. Hoyt x
Spratr Of Buffalo, his decision. It Is understood
that the finds broadly In favor of the rail
roads holding that the state Board Of Tax Com
mssioners are without jurisdiction 10 make assess
ments for special franchises against the ordinary
commercial railroads The opinion In the case
goes exhaustyely into the history of the Ford
franchise law of 1889 and quotes Senator Ford him
self the effect that the act uo- intended 10
reach the corporate franchises OF steam railroads
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
COURSE IN REAL ESTATE.
College Instruction -4dJocatcd By
U'HIiam T.. Harmon
LHy re-ararh 70 Tne Tr-L.r- ]

Detroit, June 25.-At the convention NJ the M
uonaI Association Of Real Estate Exchanges TO-
day W = Harmon of New York. discussed The
Science OF Real Estate" lie pointed QUO that the
men who represent g." per cent ~ The wealth ot
the country act largely without any established
principles or exact knowledge or t.. work 81.
said that there should he university courses I'm real
estate handling He is now one oc several work. q;
this end. h. said
Joseph F. Day. president Of tie New York Real
Estate Board. made short address -IaN.Jla.
in Critics lie said ho would work % .et his pr-
ganization into the national association
a national law under which deeds y1 real estate
and wills executed in one state may H. f fr H.f
Is the greatest desire rf t-- Ea-.rE.
A committee Of ut" was appointed '. .-tulr 10
The American Bar Association ar lr- convent rI.u
here In AUGUST resolution advorat.r- the enact
ment Of such legislation and solIr'.- the COZ
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
NEW FIRE OFFICIALS EXEMPT.
Attorney General 0 Malley Renders Opinion to
State Civil Service Board

Albany. June 25-The positions Of superintendent
Of drae and fire patrol. created by an act OF tho
last Legislature % provide better safeguards
AGAINST forest fires, are exempt from Civil Service
.,.,ir,.,tf.n and the state civil Service Commis-
sion is required 10 certify their salaries the same
.s other stae employees Attorney General oMalley
So advised the state commission to-day i'm response
To a request for an opinion on this question
.It is very evident the Attorney General says
..,far tba LEGISLATURE intended to exempt all su-
perintendeuts Of fires and patroImen from all Civil
Service examinations. and the provisions of the
civil Service law as emergency employees"
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
o,1AsH srArE MUTUAL INDICTMENTS.

camden. y J. June 25.-Au the cases against
49,. o47rfals os the state Mutual Insurance Com
~7,- were quashed to-day. following the acquirtal
= corner Judge r Amber Armstrong on one
-, LAST SATURDAY. The who in cOnse-
-.-ca have escaped trial are J. @. Adams. the
o., Frederick BriCe Franklin Dye. secretary OF
81. state BOARD OF Agriculture; Edward GrOsscUp,
o. vr,rrfnent real estate man and member Of the
c-a-a r{1ard of Education, Robert Cvvynee. Mayor
-, salem \ J.. Henry n. NewcOmb Charles z
t,;c1r7ar : Stranger lizard and J. Frank ShuII
all prominent men and well known throughout the
state.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26

ROBERT n LEWIS e-h Field Artillery; and sec
rf-----l-- EDMUND PLCEtANAS. yJ1
months. First Lieut. -ranr " Al
C1TVIN artillery one month ana lEs
says from July L. with permission 70 80 abroad
Lieutenant J. J HAVVIANs. detached Naval Academy:
Paw I-.-zarSr n II RAMSAY detached navy yard.
P0--s-E- l-h- June so await orders ~ - -
yrarv duty as general s1reksepe-. navy yard Ports
mouth. June g"
MARINE CORPS
I54.-4aart colonel Fl O. HAINES. months leave
First TI-ureranr p Fl CoNGER. 10 marine barracks
yard Mare Island
secoa1 Iielr-nanrs r WILLING and r A OsTEFS-
Man qualified s7- pry-otl1u.
second Tt-r5-s-4r- john NARSrHN 81. detached naval
station II11o.ui-. +7 Tar.l- ltrrarks navy yard.
Mare Island. temporary duty
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS-T following
movements Of vessels have been reported 70 the
Navy Department
ARRIVED
r.- - -7ra HIST ar charleston. the Montgomery
Boston --e TouCpah. az N7~p'rt
SAILED
I'm "a The C-as-Iue the Cutr-efsH, Octopus. ths
--s-+----4 and \C-F1I< Newport.
ne Mississippi. from Philadelphia f1r Hampton
Roads, VI from ETovi1cstOw1
F-s-r~. from Boston r7- Portsmouth.
\ II The Vermont from F-0vinCetown for Hampton
Roads New Jersey. from Boston for Hampton
rs ,t-r. now A. Cor1u-o. Nicaragua ordered San
participate i1 E-Iks carnival Los Angeles
70 CorHrIerl1- ~ this duty. the A.
bary will proceed san Francisco
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
KENTUCKY AS LIQUOR MEMS REFUGE.
State Invites Distiuers and Plants Especially
from Dry" Southern States

Louisville. june 25-Ry resolutions passed by
Iouisvilles chief commercial organization. Ken
tIcsy has opened her doors 20 the liquor interests
OF the United States Particularly was the invita-
tion extended dstilIertes and plants I'm the pro-
hibition states OF the South which viii have to
move out shortly. notably Tennessea.
Both the Commercial club and the Board OF
Trade passed resolution against wide pr0ht-
bition. Telegrams from many Of the smaller Ken
lucky cities have been received iudorsug the reso-
Iutions and pledsing themselves against local
option.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
NEPHEW OF GENERAL GRANT KILLED.
Figures in California Tragedy in Which Two
Others Are Shot

Sar jose, cal. June 25-A double inquest was
hed last night over the bodies of W. Evans Dent
and Alfred Cleveland TrIin. The jury found that
Dent came TO his death from q Eunshot wound in
nicted by Trlin and that the latter came 70 his
death from a gunshot wound self-iufct-d with sui
cdal intent Police officers who were first on the
scene yesterday morning testified 20 the facts
and a statement from Mrs Ida Schiey the woman
in the case. was read. Mrs. Sahley shot in the
lungs and may not survive her injuries.
Il developed to-day that Dent q nephew by
marriage of General L. s. Grant his aunt, Julia
Dent having ma rried the soldier President
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
BY THE GOVERNOR.

Albany. June 2l-Governor Hughes to-day ap.
u0inrrI th- members of the board OF managers or
ne Ietchvorth Village. the new state charitable
institute They are. --,, -,
Marion r. Taber Thomas J. Cotton and Leopold
Snulheim all or New York. Frank A NanderliP.
,r S,itrbGro and Miss g. r Naston. OF TarrytoWn.
Tn Governor also appointed these managers Of
the Central IsIp state Hospital. Anita owen
F1pvd-JourS. Of NasSapequa. TO succeed Jennie
FIoyd-Jones Robson. Tesigned: BradIsh Johnson
EAST ISlip. to succeed Henry II. HOlllster. de-
ceased. and Richard O'Gorman. OF New IoEk. ~
succeed Hugh Kelly, deceased
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
poL1cYHoLDERs' RIGHTS GUARDED.
Pittsburg Life and Trust Company Can Do
Business in This State

Albany June 25-As a result OF conferences COW
erinE several weeks, an arrangement for the rein
etIranca Of the policy obligations of the Washing
ton tfa Insurance Company in the Pittsburg Life
and Trust Cornpapuy satisfactory to the New York
State Insurance Department was cOnsummated to-
dav The Pittsburg company will be admitted to
do business in this state.
William II Hotrhkiss State Superintendent Of
Insurance IN "a statement reviews the case at
length and says that the interests Of the Wash
.ugton Life poItcyholders are amply safeguarded-
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
IBy Telegraph to The Tnbune,l

Baltimore June 25-CfovernOr Frank Brown said
today that he paid for Edith May Thompson's
musical education at the Peabody Conservatory ana
the Ie Fevre School this city in 1885 and 1895
She then a child.
1t seemed to me- however" said Mr.. Brown.
that her mother was using the beauty and talent
Of her daughter 70 attain social advancement. II
was the frequent trips Washington that caused
me TO refuse continue paving for her musical
education She made favorable impression
Mrs Mckinley, who frequently took the girl driv-
with her
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
COLONEL TUCKER AGREES TO DIVORCE.

chicago June 25.-NouCe was given Judge
r7,r,es Of the Superior Court. TODAY that Mrs
,fa-,, Eliza beth Logan Tucker and her husband.
colonel William F Tucker. who was recently re
,ied from active service in the United states army,
pa4 reached an agreement whereby Mrs Tucker
will ask for a decree OF divorce on the grounds OF
dcsertiOn.
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
THE NEW YORK SAILS FOR ALGIERs.

Newport r / June 25--The cruiser New York.
recently p,I- into commission after extensive over
rau1fnl M the Charlestowu Navy Yard. sailed from
here to-day for AIgirrs
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26

ORDERS IssJ ED-Ihe IoII0"I0s 0TleFs n'lEe
been issued.
=, ,,-,-,,a7- or Colonel ERNEST II. RCFFNER. corps
~ engineers announced
Captains HENNING F. CoI.LEf and LJNLAN b
MOODY ordnance depor ,Tnrnt t-7sst -ieute'anrs.
4~tIlLeryt. relieved from lrtail IN ordnance
dspartrnent. take effect July !
Iar,,sDarr JULIAN /. DODGE. 10Th Infantry.
detailed acting quarteruast-r in army transport
ser,tre ot transport
JuFcrf with station at san Francisco
,,;-s, I feUtenaut JOHN A PEARSON, eth Cavalry.
! Frcr, FORT Mcdowell To- his regiment
,.t lieutenant ISAAC $ MARTIN. 14t1 Cavalry. TO
r. Sheridan northern pistol comPetI-
tfou. July - TO 81 r-~---
e,-,r5 iarIieuant CYRUS z STREET retired. de
tailed professor of military science Mount Ian-aL-
pats Military ACadeuy. san lsarde. 70 Ja<e erect
hrgust Is vice Captain JOHN A LOCKWOOD
(rrtrcdl. q his home
~barIsfn JAMES L. GRIFFES irh cavalry. t' Fort
Meade examination for retirement
- og absence. Captain CITY r CARL EToN. ord
-a,ra denartuent. TWO months. First Lieutenant
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS,

From The Tribune bureau
Washington. June .
ORDERS ISSUED-The following orders have
been issued
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26

Who were her PARENTS"
i have nothing more to say" declared M Gage
New-York tribune., 1909-06-26

- = n. H--- ~ |TarI-sT0r. tas Mo0ts0rery. a.
Boston. --a Touopah. Newport
SAILED
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-19
Mine eyes
Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beauti- ful. -Cymbeline.
South African Problems

Tn the consolidation of the British South African provinces into one great confederation the color line came up. The natives were on the spot and they had to be dealt with. In the union par liament which is to be the supreme legislature for South Africa no one can sit unless he is a British subject of European descent, and it is further provided that where the native is ex- cluded from the ballot there he is, for the present, to remain without a vote.
 Premier Asquith has concluded to accept the act of union as it has been drawn up. That act does recognize the color line. but Premier Asquith ac- quiesces in it because it takes from the native no right that he possessed be- fore, and he considers the entire ques- tion as a domestic South African mat ter to be dealt with, not in London, but in the union parliament on the spot.
 The Boers are not as kind toward the untutored natives as the English are, but there is no great friction be- tween whites and blacks anywhere in South Africa, and under the act of union it is believed the natives and the white settlers will get along with out any of the mistakes that attended reconstruction in the south. There is no acute hostility between them, and the acceptance by the home govern ment of the act of union promises to give the natives reasonable opportu- mites to get on without creating any antagonisms that would initiate against the general prosperity of the new federation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-19
THE DUCAL TAFT ESTATE.

From the New York World.
 The Taft family ranch at Taft, Tex, which the President will visit in October is situated at Taft for very good reason "The town of Taft is itself situated on the ranch" There Is room on 1t also for @ score of other towns and a first-class city or so. As Texas ranches go, 1t Is still not so very large. It is not a royal, but only ducual domain of 10000 acres
 Texas is so far from complaining of it as land monopoly that 1t will be pleased and proud to have similar ranches estab- lished by all the other presidential fam flies, including the families of ''possibill- ties" and near-possibilities. When they visit the private towns situated on their ranches and bearing their family names, Texas will assure them of its most dis tingulshed consideration and invite them to announce that there Is always room for one more.
 This Is hospitality, not logic. Logically, the beautifully improved ducal estate is as transient as it is pleasing. It will dis appear like a scene in a living picture show The logic which will abolish 1t will replace 1t by homes, not lordly, but owned by families self-supported on highly cul- tivated plots of grounds around them. AS l Texas ranches go, the Taft ranch Is joy l to Texas, but the logic of the situation | is that all ranches of that kind are going. | There will be not one left finally, even | as a curiosity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-19
No Break in the South

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat an Intensely republican paper, sees a great light. In the action of the Georgia senate in postponing to next summer action on the income tax amendment it sees the long-expected ''break In the solid south." The Globe-Democrat goes on to explain the southern situation, as 1t sees it, as follows:
 There has long been a divergence of ideas between the industrial south and the political south. The manufacturers, the bankers, the merchants and the rail- road interests of the south have favored the republican policy. while the political south, which learns nothing and forgets nothing, clings from habit and inertia to the democratic party The industrial south, in a small way at least found 8 voice in the recent session of Congress in the votes by democratic members in fa- vor of the tariff. Was the industrial south talking, too n that vote by which Georgia's legislature gave a setback to the income tax? Probably it was. What ever may be the cause of the reverse, however. it shows that the tax proposi- ton will not go through with a rush. Alabama Is tied up on that proposition, for 1t cannot consistently undo the work of ratification which it performed a week or two ago. It is committed to the tax, and cannot recall that affirmative vote without embarrassment, even if 1t wants to recall it. The states will give a little fore they act than Alabama did, and more than any southern state was ex pected to give. The people, of the soutt as well as the rest of the country, ar, discovering that this proposition ha. more than one side.
 This is simply "tommyrot" It i simply predicting what one desires and the desires of the Globe -Democra are not the desires of the south. Tn, south thinks that wealth should bea its share of the burden of government and in the course of events every stat in the south will vote to ratify the Six teenth amendment. Georgia will lin up all right when the people are hear from. The Globe-Democrat has wis ions, but its visions are merely cres lures of Its overworked imaginativ powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-19

son of Tuskegee to prohibit the sale or giving away of coca-cola and other drinks that contain caffeine, or any substitute therefor, on penalty of fine and six months Imprisonment. Inasmuch as caf- feine Is obtained from coffee and is chem ically identical with the stimulating sub stance contained in tea, the law would prohibit the sale of coffee and tea by hotels and restaurants and would also prohibit a host from serving such drinks to guest at his home. Naturally, a cup of coffee contains more caffeine than a glass of coca-cola, and 1t would become tabooed under this wise and beneficent law.
 We must say that we rather admire the dauntless nerve of the Alabama states men. If you are going to be fanatic, be fanatic. If you are going to be fool be a darn fool. Fuller of Blob, Sock Thompson of Tuskegee and the other immortals have legislated against booze, against near-beer and far-beer, against coca-cola and all its kind, against coffee and tea; and before the legislature adjourns we would suggest that they lift hand against sweet milk, butter, milk and water, and that the watermelon be quarantined against, because it con- tains the latter deadly fluid. If Alabama is to go dry, let her be as dry as one of Corners speeches.