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New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

III 1897, the state first began 10 purChase
forest lands Timothy l. Woodruff was
chairman Of the Forest Land Purchasing
Board from 1897 until it was abolished, in
1902. Many eminent politicians served as
counsel at one time or another, among
them Senator Aids and cx-Senators Elon
r. Brown, William w. Armstrong, chair
man of the committee which investigated
the insurance scandals, and Merton E.
Lewis, OF Rochester.
What has been going on in the world of
commerce. asked Busy Man
president Taft, Spea king before the eX-
cepfionally representative audience of Re
publicans at the Lincoln Day dinner OF the
Republican Club in the Waldorf-Astoria,
assured business interests that the ad-
rlnistraton had not the slightest idea of
running amuck' But at the same time he
said unequivocally that the laws would
be enforced, and made this significant state
rnent: If the enforcement of the law is not
consistent with the present methods of
carrying on business. then it does not
speak we'll FOR the present methods of con-
Quoting business and they must be changed
TO conform to the iaw. There was no
promise on the part OF the Republican party
70 change the antitrust law, except to
strengthen 1t. he said, or TO authorize mo-
nopoly or a suppression of competition
AT the annual meeting of the Mackay
companies announcement was made that
the management had decided to sell its en-
tire holdings Of American Telephone ana
Telegraph Company stock, amounting 10
sighty-tWo thousand shares, valued at ap-
proxinateIy 1889, 600. Among the rea-
sons for the sale is Difference to public
opfnion, which, the report says, views
with suspicion this large holding OF stock
in company which has recently pur-
chased control of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company.
Henry s. Haskins, the board member
of Lathrop Haskins Co, one OF the
three Stock Exchange houses that failed
as q result Of the collapse of the Column
bus and Hooking Coal and Iron pool on
January 10. was declared ineligible for
reinstatement on the exchange by the gov
.rnins committee This amounts prac-
ticaIlv to expulsion for Mr.. Haskins and
the loss of all Stock Exchange privileges
for his firm, he being its only board mem
per.
The Hudson County Grand jury. sitting
=, J.rs.v Citv. voted to indict the National
Packing Company or the so-caued Beef
Trust. The allegation was that the trust
dPnrfSSSd
OF foodstuffs
The formation OF a ST. 600 600 bread com
bination. consisting OF twelve large bread
bakeries of Manhattan. Brooklyn, Hoboken,
and Jersey City, with a capacity OF more
than $4,000 barrels Of -four week and
nroducing more than 10 per cent of the
totai bread output OF New York City. vas
announced.
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy
sled against the Central Foundry Com
nanv of No 81 Wall street, a New Jersey
cornoration with an authorized capital
stock of $I4,000.000. resulted in the ap-
,ointment as receiver for the concern OF
waddiu Catchings. OF No. 49 Wall street.
THE property consists chiefly or seven
onerating foundries. the entire capital
stock OF the Central Iron and Coal Com
pauy OF New Jersey, amounting to $1,000
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20
PEAK ALL AGL0N
Hot Springs (4rk.) Mountain
a Midnight Beacon.

A full grown mountain lighted UP nil
and down by sixty-candlepower electric
lights is somewhat unusual spectacle
even in this electrical age But that IS
what has been done to tn. south spur or
Hot Springs Mountain. Arkansas.
The federal government is the power
that has done this, the paramount idea
being to protect the medical springs from
miscreants or mentally unbalanced wan
derers There are forty-nine of the hot
springs altogether. all being under United
States jurisdiction. and walled. sealed and
guarded like other national treasures.
Their combined outflow goes into two great
reservoirs of approximately three hun
dred and fifty gallons each, and IL Is from
these big trnks that the water is piped 10
the lighthouses at an average temperature
of lS- degrees which is only > degrees be
low the heat at which they come from
the earth and 80 degrees hotter than one
can bathe in.
Roth of these reservoirs are protected by
a mesh wire ENHANCEMENT through which
one cannot thrust a finger or approach
nearer than the length of fishing roo
and, as an additional precaution, by day
and by night tPc mountains are patroteH
BY mounted police in regular rounds of IN
spcction So far aS 9 kno7n nobody mas
ever attempted TO .ar-rer with the springs
but it is the vise p-ecaution Of locking the
barn before tie hcr=e is stolen.
In these days, when nearly every one IS
talking about the increased cost of living.
it .sa- be +rte-c=Ji1g to note that the
latest quotation on eggs IS s3GA dozen
These are ostrich eggs however, and if one
wants 10 order A dozen nc has 10 sign up
his ostrich in advacc- much as he would
q baseball DlaveT
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20
Constant Reader Tells Him What He Missed in
Last Weeks Papers.

the second 51,0n0 envelope, but that re did
not see the envelope handed TO Nixon,
though he introduced Moe to the Speaker
(Mr Nixon died fl 1851
That the $4,000 envelope was delivered
TO Jean Burnett in his (Conger'9 presence.
(Mr Burnett died in 1901
THAT the 1905 demands were made ny
certain persons for 80 no1 in consideration
Of which the highway bills affecting the
bridge interests then pending before the
Legislature would he killed
That At a meeting Of representatives
Of bridge companies in Syracuse it was
decided not 70 Re 'blacku1ailed, and no
fund mas subscribed
THAT he considered the bin introduced
by AssenbIyman John Yale, Of Putnam
County. affecting the bridge companies,
which became law in 1905, strike bill,
and that the MaIby-Stevens bills and their
SUCCESSORS of like provisions were regarded
as strike legislation
That in 1893 a fund of 500 sub
sc-il,ed by various bridge companies. and
that tho highway bills that year died IN
committee.
That in 1902 he visited Colonel George
W Dunn. then Republican state chairman.
in his office at the State Railroad Com
mission here. and afterward made con-
tribution to the campaign fund for himself
and some bridge companies. That year the
highway legislation died
That he did not consider the money
paid To Aids and the others bribery, but
bIackrnail.
''On Friday CongeT swore that what he
considered attempts to eXtort blacknlsi Il
were continued Up 10 time which clearly
comes within the period when a crime is
not outlawed under the statute of limita-
1ions. He said that in 1907 Senator Aids
told him that the legislative committee
drafting the proposed highway code was
putting into il some damn bad things for
you fellows and you'd better get UP and
see Us about it
one thousand contributions were turned
in TO me, and the bridge companies might
have been one: / am III no position TO say
whether they were or not said Mr.. Dunn,
ex-chairn1an Of the Republican State Com
r1itree, when questioned at Glens FAILS
about the evidence given by Conger
IF there were so many contributions like
that one that Dunn can't even remember
the need for deeper probing is amply dem
onstrated." said Busy Man.
That's lust what Mr.. Hughes seemed
"a think ." replied Constant Reader, for IN
order 10 set at rest stories OF graft IN the
p,jrchase Of forest lands by the state and
ia disclose the truth, whatever 1t may De-
regarding transactions which have been
questioned recently the Governor took the
first steps toward a general investigation
of tho MANAGEMENT and the affairs of the
c,a,. Forest. Fish and Game Commission
ana land purchases IN the forest preserve.
r-,ae, tho Moreland law giving him au-
tg,oris,. "a investigate state departments OF
bureaus under him. the Governor appoint
ed Roger p. Clark. his counsel. and b.
aro,, hustfn commissioners for this probe
This investigation probably will go back
10 the time Of Governor Black under WHOM,
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

will he devoted tn the swearing IN OF mem
bers and the clearing away. il possible OF
the difficulties confronting the government
The following Cabinent appointments were
announced: Secretary for the Home De-
rartnent Winston Spencer ChurchiH:
president of the Board Of Trade, Sydney
Buxton: Chancellor of the Duchy OF Ian
caster. J. A Pease: Postmaster General,
Herbert Louis Samuel
The lower chamber reelected the Right
Hon. James William Lnvther, member for
the Penrith Division OF Cumberland.
Speaker
Herbert John Gladstone, Secretary OF
State for Home Affairs, who. through a
recent appointment. is about 20 become
Governor General of British South Africa,
was elevated to the peerage-
Mayor Gaynor exploded a mine under
the Aqueduct Commission. Not having
power 10 abolish the commission. which
was created by an act of the Legislature
in 1889, the Mayor removed the commis-
sioners. appointing new men, with instruc-
ttons to wind UP its affairs at once and re-
port the completion of their work The
commissioners removed were John F.
Cowan, president and John !. Ryan. DEM
ocrats. and William Fl. Ten Eyck and John
pointed are J. Noble Hayes and Michael
Furst. Republicans, and jeremiah T Ma
honey and Ernest Harvier, Democrats
Surprising but not o'erhastv-' said
Busy Man, when you consider that these
gentlemen and their numerous hangers-on
have been filing fat sinecures ar the tax
payers expense for the last twentv-seveu
years What patient beasts of burden We
are"
Another blow" continued Constant
Reader, fell upon the officehoIders in citv
departments when Rhnelander Waldo
Fire Commissioner, issued an order that
all automobiles Of the department be
marked with letters one foot high as nron-
erty of the city"
This device. if adopted generally" said
Busy Man. would put an end TO a favor
lte recreation Of the Tammany of1ceholder
and his cronies"
John Boyle, ir.. Chief Deputy Superin-
tendent Of Elections. was elected secretary
of the Republican County Committee Of
this county. He succeeds Thomas W
Nhittie, who resigned TO accept the place
of Commissioner OF Public Works in The
Bronx.
tpholdins the title OF the Wright
orothers as aerial nonopolists. Judge
Learned Hand granted the injunction pen
dente lite sought by the Wright company
against Louis Paulhan. French aviator.
charged with using in his exhibition
flights machine infringing upon the pat
ent granted to Orville and Wilbur Wright
w. j. Bryan came out fatfooted for
county option in Nebraska He declared
the Democratic party must divorce itself
from the liquor interests"
Does he hope 10 inject some new spirit
into his next campaign chuckled Busy
Man
Formal announcement of the engage
ment of Miss Eleanor Robson and August
Belmont was made. Miss Robson closed
ner season a the Majestic Theatre Brook
lyn. where she was playing the part OF
Glad in Mrs. Burnetts play, The Dawn OF
a Tomorrow She will return to her
home. where she will remain until her
marriage with the noted banker. Her
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

African scientific expedition arrived at
Gondokoro. in the Soudan. safe out OF the
wilderness All are Well and enthusiastic
over their experiences and the scientific
results OF their explorations
European hens eggs are now being
imported into this country. Their arrival
in the wholesale grocery district Of the
West Side is distressing to spectators
who had been holding domestic eggs in
storage. in the hope that prices would go
up in the first part OF Lent
That raises a nice question, said Busy
Man Under the Payne tariff eggs are
dutiabIe. at ) cents dozen. believe; but
birds eggs come in free. Now. is a hen a
bird or Is she not. AMI if not. what is
she?''
Nine. Curie. of Paris" continued Con-
slant Reader. who with her husband. the
late Professor Cure, discovered radiurn
has been successful in research work IN
connection with pOlonium, an element
which is described as five thousand times
rarer than radium. She has succeeded in
obtaining tenth OF a milIigramme (ool5t
sraln). OF the new element She states
tnar II possesses . radio-activity superior
to TadiuEn- As against this. however.
radium eonserves it's energy for an indeh-
Mate period, whereas polonium disappears
rapidly. During Mime Curie's experiments
which covered a period of one hundred and
forty days. the quantity OF pOl0nium which
she used diminished by )" per cent
A substance that fades away as rapidly
as that is not likely 10 be much USE" said
Busy Man but anyway its discoverey
proves TO my mind that Nine. Curie was
not the mere assistant of her gifted hus-
band in discovering radium, but a genuine
associate investigator. All the same. I'm
glad L did not marry a woman - N.
Qulsitiye rs shat
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

--The- have heer U7covering some un-
ga7-o-y details II legislative corruption uP
- Albany. a. / have seen by the heao-
lines said BUSY Mar. when ne met Con
SAM Reader last evening Tel me the
details wont ynu2"
ITO begin Tith- was the "oply, GOV
er7or Hughes declared at 4 dinner in TINS
CITY or Ldn,on's Birthday that the Re
publican party must faoe courageously the
yTtuation that has developed and purge
i.-eif + evil and of leaders who have mis-
-rpresenTed tho people This IS no time
81, -e-5-e ~ ,.isr7av from any disclosure
1-, said hut 20 reveal the truth and sho"
-ae people that the party does not stand
-eriuI anything tifat may have been done
r.. ars of IT'S repre~eutativeS in opposition
%, nc principles Of Justice and fair deal
F--
-.l,~--~l--..l.c-,,s of = Startling character
r.-.-.-ai -r7Iasda,-e sessions Of the Senate
,..r t.- senate committee Of the whole.
sitting 70 investigate the bribery charges
..-s,--sr 4U6s In chronological order they
iseluded-
-Tnc sutrcdac,ion .y Senator J MayheR
7,-zfnvriglr or NeStcblster County or
-.--aIutiau providing for Joint committee
ol The legislature 10 conduct general
---z.-sr 5Satiou oF the most sweeping char
scter into any matters indicating oorrup-
-5on q any legislature or legislator al any
time
Tho admission by Senator Benn Conger'
under Interrogation By Senator Josiah 7
Newcornb of New York. fiat there were
bridge doodle funds raised in 1872 and
lss and a partial fCnd in 1863
The further admission that ia 1893 the
tToion Bridge Company handled this cor
ruption fund
The statement oy Senator Conger thar IL
-e- tlie bridge companies made a contTilJIl-
ton from their accumulated fund to the
chairman Of the Republican state Commit
lee IL lS1- ih- state chairman was George
"a Dunn of Bnghamton-
Also. the days testimony disclosed The
Interesting fact that Ray 3 smith clerk
- The Assembly. had been investigating
certain evidence IN the AIlds-Conger case
IoI somebody VINO, he assumes, representc6
Senator Aids or his lawyers
Wednesdays testimony disclosed the
name OF another legislator, who. according
70 Conge-. received an enveiope contain
ing bribe MONEY That name was lean
Burnett who was Assemblyu7an from
Ontario County until he died in feg7 Mr
Burnett was the close personal and roIjr
.aaI associate Of the late Senator John
Rsines.
Senator Conger also swore that he was
approached regs riding the highway Iezi.-
lztion which figures in the Aids bribery
case, by AssembIyman Louis BedeU. Bedei
vas chairman OF the Assembly Railroads
Committee IN the old days He was
with Senator Goodsell the intrOducer OF
lie group o< railroad grab bills, so called,
which kept New York stirred up for sew
ersl Years
'-Testifying on Thursday, Conger de
Cared
That the name Of Fred Nixon. then
Apssksr ef tae Assembly. was wTittel On
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

r,otbe- who has long played Mrs. Wigs
IN The Cabbage Patch. will also retire
from the stage il is said. Many ardent
admirers of Miss RObsOn's ac,ius recalled
the climax of Glad's part. when she
throws I'D her lands dramatically to heaven
and eyclainlz in tones of Joyous relief: I'm
goin' 10 be took care of now-l'm gOin' 10
be tool. care of now
.Tbe engagement was announced of Miss
Tarriot Dalv. the youngest daughter %
the late Marcus DAILY. of Montana and
Nau York 10 Count Anton Sigray. the
nrasen, head OF a Hungarian family of
that name.
..Despite the fact she has been married
70 Herbert NJ Hartman. OF New York.
for more than a year and haif. the
divorce Of Mrs Hartman from Major
Charles 7. Hall was not recognized IN Lon
don until this week. when her husband.
va;or Hall obtained his decree from the
English courts on the ground that his wife
has entered into biga nous relations with
the man 10 whom she was married in New
nor, nm August ls 1895 An American
sivorce from the British officer had been
ohtainea nv the present Mrs. Hartman in
Nav OF 1907 on the ground her husband
neglected 10 provide for her. but the Eng
usb courts would net accept the SUD
sequent marriage as legal
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and her daugh-
ter Ethet sailed for Naples on the steam
shin Hamburg. OF the Hamburg American
Line They plan 10 join CoIouel Roosevelt
at Khartoun about March 10
AT the request OF President Taft Col
lector Loeb viii arrange for The reception
OF Colonel Roosevelt IN this city, about
the middle OF June.
Colonel Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt and
the other members of the Smith1oniAr
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20
Winston Churchill Moves Up-Extraordinary
Extent of His New Duties Described
by Ex-Attache.

,cor-risht 1910 by the Brentwood COMPANY
Although all kinds Of stories have been
cabled and mailed 70 this country for
notification. TO the effect that the
brilliant son OF the late Lord Randolph
Churchill and Of his American wife, who
was Miss Jennie Jerome. Of New York.
rad forfeited the favor OF Edward VII
hv his vigorous attacks on the House OF
Lords in connection with the latter re-
lection OF the financial schemes OF the
government. Vet he has during the last
week been intrusted by his sovereign
with the seals Of Secretary Of State Tor
the Home Department. in succession 10
Herbert Gladstone appointed Governor
General of the South African Cnioh-
That winston Churchill should have re
ceivad this promotion. which carries
with il a salary OF $4,000 4 year, IN iIeu
II thz $4,000 which he was receiving as
president of the Board of Trade. ind
-ates more strongly than anything else
that he continues TO enjoy not merely
nc good win but also the confidence Of
he monarch. for the nomination could
Tot have been made without the latter
consent. and in view Of the fact that OF
all the members Of the administration
there Is none who is brought into such
constant and intimate contact with his
majesty as the Secretary Of State
or the Home Department, Winston
-hurchil would never have received the
Office had he been the object of any seri-
aus disploasure on the part Of the King.
Here il the United States the principal
Secretar. in the Cabinet--in fact the
.Bc who bears the title OF Secretary
y State-is al the head OF the depart
77cnt Of foreign affairs. In Great
Britain The principal Secretary Of state
$ not the chief Of the Foreign Office. but
ne head Of the so-called Home Depart
neut which Is the counterpart Of the
Department of the Interior at Washing
ton. The Secretary Of the Home De
uartment is. more than any other mem
Der of the Cabinet, the channel Of COM
rlunication between the monarch and
ais subjects All royal proClamations
are Countersigned by the Home Secre-
.a-v i the King wishes 10 COmmuni-
-ate some message TO his people. such as
notifica ton Of the birth. the marriage
or the death Of q member Of his family,
n his gratitude for manifestations Of
public sympathy. or his coincidence with
he victims OF some great disaster, he
Invariably does so through the Home
SECRETARY II is through tho latter that
all petitions 20 the sovereign have 70 he
presented. no matter whether from pub
r. bodies or from individuals, and it is
through tho Home Secretary that the
King exercises MS pre~ogative OF mercy
in the matter OF pardonins prisoners or
-ommUting their sentences TO some
ainor. penalty than that 10 which they
have been condemned by the tribunals.
The Secretary Of state for the Home
Department is also required 20 be in at
tendance al all royal births. This is in
tended 10 convey an assurance to the
nation that there has been no substitu-
fion. and also Is designed 10 relieve the
infant from any such suspicion as that
hich hung over the head Of the Old
P-etender, whose own sisters. Queen
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20
WINTER JOY IN SWITZERLAND.

T,avos. Switzerland, Feb. t2.-Thsre are
now nearly five thousand visitors here, the
English and Americans being already Two
hundred in excess Of last season. Among
the latest arrivals = \ Santos-Dumout,
the aviator. All present are bent on having
a good time which the glorious weathe-
has favored. and the carnival of winter
sports has. been in full swing
The fancy dress ball. the principal social
affair of the season, proved the most sue
CessfuI in years Three hundred took part.
As Indicating the extent To which bob
sleightug is now carried on at Davos, IL
need only be mentioned that recently the
so-caHed bcb train brought uP to Davos no
fewer than dfty-fOur bobs that had made
the descent OF the Davos-KIosters course
New-York tribune., 1910-02-20

Mary and Queen Anne. endeaVored TO
strengthen the popular impression to the
effect that he was a supposititious child
and not the real offspring Of James IL
and of Queen Mary Beatrice OF Modena
There are hundreds of other matters In
connection with which the Home Secre-
tary is brought into close and intimate
contact with the sovereign and with
members of the reigning house, and
under the circumstances ii is inconceiv-
able that any statesman should be ap
pointed to that office who was in any
way personally objectionable to the
monarch or TO his family.
All told. there are in Great Britain
nowadays five Secretaries OF State-tlle
principal one. who is at the head Of the
Home Department the Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, the Secretary for the
Colonies. the Secretary for India and the
Secretary for the War Department. The
Secretary for Scotland and the Secretary
for Ireland are not secretaries of state
and are not qualified TO fulfil the duties
Of the latter. In spite OF there being
thus i've Secretaries of State. they con-
stitute. in reality, but one, the division
OF their work being merely matter Of
arrangement for the more convenient
dispatch Of business.
Each Secretary Of State has conse-
ouently. power TO transact the business
Of one OF his colleagues should occa sion
arise and there is nothing to prevent
Winston Churchill. as Secretary o. State
for the Home Department taking the
place and doing the work Of Sir Edward
Grey. the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
or 0f Lord Morley. the Secretary for
India. in the event of an emergency-
Thus. in June 1878. when the Cabinet
desired to give instructions to Lord Bea-
consheId, the Premier, and Lord Sails
bury. the Foreign Secretary, concerning
the policies 10 be pursued by them as
British plenipotentiaries at the Congress
OF Berlin. the document. dated from the
Foreign Office, was signed by Lord Cross,
as Secretary Of State, although he was
at the time at the head of the Home
Department.
Originally there was only one Secre-
tary of State, who was in reality the
chief secretary TO the sovereign, it being
his duty to conduct his royal masters
correspondence and to communicate his
commands in writing to the high officers
of state when these functionaries did not
receive them verbally from the monarch
in person Until the reign Of Queen
Elizabeth the dignitary in question was
known as the King secretary It was
this Queen who first gave to Robert
cecil. son Of the great Lord RUrleigh,
the title OF Our Principal Secretary OF
state" and there is in existence. in the
library Of the British Museum in London,
9 pamphlet written by him. after his ele-
vation to the Earldom Of SALISBURY. en-
titled The state and Dignity OF Sec
retary OF States Place. with the Care
and Peril Thereof in which he describes
the duties Of his office The opening
paragraph Of the pamphlet IS just as
opposite to-day as II was at the time
II was penned. It runs as follows:
All officers and councillors Of the
sovereign have a prescribed authority
by patent by commission or by oath, the