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New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
Mr.. SHERMAN SILENT
Vice President Says He Has No State.
ment to Make on Any Subject.

Watertown, n. Y. Aug. 23.-Vice-Presi-
dent Sherman arrived here this afternoon
by automobile from Utica on business con-
nected with a trust company of which he
is a director When asked relative to the
letter of President Taft to President Girls
com on the New York State political situa-
tion Mr. Shesman said:
Il have no statement whatever that 1
desire TO make on any subject
He declined to discuss the report that he
would withdraw as temporary chairman Of
the Republican State Convention, and re
fused 10 be drawn into any discussion Of
political affairs
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
CANAL BIDS RECEIVED

Albany, Aug. 2a.-Bids were received h,,
Superintendent +. c. Stevens to-day sn-
one of the most important contracts ON tha
barge canal involving the reconstructio, q,
the locks at Lockport The lowest b,a
Sl.l49. i0l. was made by Larlin G. sansStar
of st. GATHERINGS Ort. The ensiraees.
estimate for the work was 1890. $50. There
were four other bidders on this contract
which is No. 67.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
ROOSEVELT WITH TAFT
Continued from first page.

will remain there all day Tomorrow
leaving Utica for the West at midnight
The trip to Utica was practically with
out incident. At Albany Mr.. HotchiHiss'
State Superintendent of insurance.
boarded the train, and extended a most
cordial welcome to Mr.. Roosevelt, VINO
said it was fine Mr.. Hotchkiss did
not stay long.
At Albany Mr.. Roosevelt made his
only back platform speech. Il shall
never forget the days 1 spent in AL
bany," began the ex-President. we
won't forget, either!" shouted man on
the platform. Then, his point made, Mr..
Roosevelt waived his hand and spoke no
more. Small groups greeted him at
Schenectady and Herkimer, but he con-
tented himself with shaking as many
hands as he could reach. G. G.- H.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
cHokEo TO DEATH BY COLLAR

pittsburg. Aug. 23.-Charles e. THOMPSON.
a tailor on the North Side, fell asleep in
chair in the rear OF his shop this morn
ing. and when q customer went to awaken
him he was dead His face was diseel-
ored, and deep red ridge marked his
neck "Choked to death by a high collar
was the coroners verdict.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
CALIFORNIA SPECIAL SESSION

Sacramento, Cal, Aug. 23.-Governor
Glllett issued call for q special session of
the Legislature to-day, 10 convene Septem-
Der 8. 10 raise s5.000,000 by bonding the
state for the benefit Of the Panama Pacific
exposition al san Francisco in 1915. pro-
Tided Congress designates the California
metropolis as the exposition city.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
SPEAKER wADsWoRTH MUM.

GBy Telegraph to the Tribune.
Rochester, Aug. Z3-When called to the
long-distance telephone tonight and asked
about the Taft letter, James w. Wads-
worth, jr, absolutely refused to make
statement.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
Griscom Warns President.

Mr. Griscom, this story goes. saw what
was going on, and on personal visits to
the President warned him of this mis-
chief making. Later he sent the teIe-
gram following the state committee
meeting which brought the famous letter.
1t might be noted that at the same
time that that letter was mailed to Mr.
Griscom copies OF it were mailed from
Beverly Ia Vice President Sherman
State Chairman Woodruff and Messrs
Ward and Barnes. Nothing is in evil
dence to show what was their opinion OF
this delicate attention on the part of the
President.
State Chairman Woodruff is expected
to be here some time tomorrow Prob
ably he and MI Barnes will have d con-
ference then
New-York tribune., 1910-08-24
Roosevelt's Name Surprise.


An interesting tale of the events lead
ing up to the Taft letter was related
yesterday by one of the Progressive
leaders. He said that the ''old guard
the Wadsworth- Barnes Ward
group-reaIized about the time of the ef-
fort to depose Woodruff as state chair
man that it had lost whatever portion
of President Taft's confidence it had
held. Thereupon. when. ex-President
Roosevelt returned to this country, eff
forts were made by the "old guard"
leaders to get him into their fold. Re-
ports were spread around that he Was
against Governor Hughes and opposed
to direct nominations, the "old guard"
arrayed itself enticingiy for his inspec-
ton, overtures were made and reminis-
Cences of the "old days" We're raked
up in the endeavor to bring Mr. Roose-
welt into camp.
But for some strange reason he re-
manned obdurate. Worse still, he gave
alarming evidences of being about to
side with President Taft and Governor
Hughes, and finally did so Then. ac-
cording 10 this story, the 'oId guard
began a deliberate campaign to estrange
President Taft and Mr. Roosevelt. send
ing emissaries to both to misrepresent
and distort the views each held regard
ing the other.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
WIVES APPEAL TO K0ENIG
Hope to Find Husbands Among
Licensed Chauffeurs.

Albany, July 23.-In preparing to put the
Callan automobile law into operation on
August l, the Secretary OF State, Mr..
deserted wives asking him to aid them In
finding their husbands. It appears that
these women believe their husbands have
filed applications for licenses as chauffeurs.
One woman, who signed her letter "A
sorrowing and deserted wife" wrote as
follows:
My husband deserted me more than a
year ago. 1 am left with a child by his
former marriage and three by the present
union. He had nice, red moustache when
he left me, and that has probably been cut
off. 1 wish you would hunt him up and let
me know what address he gives you
A letter was received to-day from the
United States government, through the
War Department, stating that II will expect
10 have its cars licensed usual, without
paying the customary fee. The request
probably will be granted.
Many persons who have been run down
by reckless drivers have written to Secre-
tary Koenig requesting that he refuse to
grant licenses to these men.
In reply to letter just received, the
attorney for the Russian Imperial Consul at
New York has been informed that mem
usual fee for licenses to operate machines.
Jack Johnson, the negro champion, re-
ceived to-day license No. IA.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
BRINGS MANY RARE BOOKS
James Carleton Young Adds to Large
Collection While In Europe.

lanes Carleton Young, who has been cot-
Iscting first editions Of living authors and
rare books and manuscripts for twenty
years. and who will soon give hts large
collection to the Congressional Library and
to the Public Library Of Minneapolis. ar
rived here yesterday from Hamburg on the
HamburS-American liner Kaiserin Augusre
Victoria
Mr.. Young bought abroad many sets
bearing the autographs OF the authors His
home in South Minneapolis is so filed with
his tome treasures that ne had 70 take
apartments at hotel n Lorlng Park
Most Of his book purchases abroad viii De
stored in several floors Of an office building
he has leased In Minneapolis.
Also on the Kaisertn Auguste Victoria
was Richard Won der Borght in charge OF
the statistical bureau OF Berlin He comes
here to study the American methods or
taking the census, which, he says. Is far
ahead Of the system used in Germany
where they have no counting machines
Professor John ". Burgess, dean OF the
faculty OF political science OF Columbia
University who was the first Roosevelt
professor at the University Of Berlin, ar
rived on the same vessel He has been IN
Germany a year and was entertained re-
Gently by the German Emperor on the I'M
perisi yacht
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
OBITUARY..
JOHN sUTcLIFFE.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]


Poughkeepsie, N. Y, July Z3--John SUIT
cliffe a widely known mining and consult
ing engineer. died to-day at the hcane Of his
son, Paul Sutcliffe, In Bellevue, Penn. mr..
SutclifYe was born In Halifax. England. In
1887, but passed most Of his life in Pough-
keepsie He built the Phillips Iron Works
at Cold Spring. y. Y, in 1853; also the
Hudson River Iron Works. in Poughkeeps
sie a year or two later, and managed for
several years the Franklin Iron Works,
near Utica, n. Y. Mr. Sutcline was also
manager OF the Eagle Slate Company, at
Hydeviile. Vt, and built the mills there.
and later remodelled the slate mill at the
Chapman quarries IN Pennsylvania He
built the first sand filtration plant n the
United States at Poushkeepsie, n. Y,
which IL still In successful operation, and In
1879 put In the citys sewer system with
private funds. In the seventies Mr.. Sutciffe
was employed by the valiecillo Silver Min
ing Company in Mexico. and prottably
operated It's mines for ten years. when he
was engaged to reorganize the Steel Com
pany OF Canada, In Nova Scotia. which was
in receivers hands. He established the
Londonderry Iron Company. Lid, Of which
he was general manager cor many years
and later consulting engineer.
Mr.. Sutciif7e was married In 1876 to Miss
Sarah E Swart, of this city. a descendant
of Major Thomas Swart, OF the Revolution
ary army. The deceased is survived by
three sons. Paul Sutcline. Of Bellevue.
Penn; Allan Sutcliffe, Of New York City,
and John W. Sutcliffe, OF Fall River, Mass
Mr. Sutclifre was member Of the Canadian
Society Of Civil Engineers. the American
Institute OF Mining Engineers and the Enst-
neers' Club of New York City.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24

In the first place early in the development
of the West everybody wanted to be a
successful farmer and went West for the
purpose of finding rich soil that would grow
big crops with as little cultivation as pos
sible, and the Maine man played the larg-
est part in the development of thaIwest-
ern country.
But now all the rich soil has been taken
up; now We are issuing bonds in order to
put water on the dry soil in the West that
otherwise would not grow crops, and the
thoughts of many of the wisest men of
the country are being turned to the aban-
doned farms Of the East, where modern
science in agriculture shows that crops can
be raised If only proper attention and rules
are followed in the cultivation of the soil.
You have in Maine broad acres of land
that can be availed Of for this purpose
Farmers to-day are our millionaires. and
there is no reason why Maine should not
have farmer millionaries as well as the
West. Nor do I see any reason why the
young men who come out Of your agri-
cultural schools should not stay here on
the farms of Maine and raise crops that
will make them comfortable and enable
them to send their children to colleges and
universities and continue their political and
moral influence throughout the state and
the nation
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
NO FEAR OF WAR AEROPLANES
Rear Admiral Swinburue SAYS Navies
Are Safe for Years Yet.

Among the passengers On the Ameri-
can Line steamship Philadelphia, which
reached her pier here yesterday afternoon.
was Rear Admiral ". T. Swinburne, U. S.
N, retired. He has been away since about
the first OF the year. OF the use of aero
planes in warfare he said:
THE aeroplane IN its present state of
development is not to be feared by the
navies of the world The aeroplane must
attain 30 a state OF progress about five
thousand times what ii has now before 1t
can figure against the navies- A navy Is
not to defend harbors. It is to destroy
other navies or proceed against harbor
fortifcatfons, which latter IT can do at a
distance or twenty or thirty miles. which
is too far out for the aeroplane to go on
an important mission
Again. the aeroplane, il it wants TO
drop bombs on a warship must go to too
great height to try the feat, for other
wise II can easily be reached by the
marksmen Of the warship. Getting to
height great enough TO try business she
will find her bombs detected by air cur
rents. When I was on the Texas we had
a number Of gunners who could easily
pick out, take 1t, any Of your aeroplanes
at the height at which the aeroplanes can
do mischief"
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
OH, YES, THEY WILL MARRY
"Trifling Misunderstanding Ad-
justed, ]. H. Wood, Jr., Says.

J. Harvey Wood, jr president of a realty
company. at No $50 Broadway. and Miss
Mod1eska r Clarke OF No. $50 Bergen
street. both Of Brooklyn, will be married on
Thursday, the date originally set. in The
Little Church Around the Corner"
Mr.. Wood had requested a Brooklyn
newspaper to make the announcement to-
day. with picture Of his bride-to-be- Yes
tarday he asked the newspaper TO Withdraw
the announcement declaring that the cere-
mony would not be performed until later.
probably IN the fall Subsequently he told
the newspaper TO publish the announcement
as at first requested These changes ulys-
titled the friends Of the couple
When Miss Clarke was told that Mr.
Wood had ordered the announcement with
drawn she said:
II am astonished- I have heard Of 10
postponsment Of the ceremony. and. as L
am vitality concerned. think I should have
heard Of IL
Miss Clarke only smiled when asked the
reason for Mr.. Woods action Mrs Emma
c. Clarke. her mother. murnured some
thing about "a little misunderstanding
"OnIy a trthing Misunderstanding as &c
dates" said Mr.. Wood last evening as ne
helped Miss Clarke into his automobile u
front OF her home The wedding VIII taAs
place on Thursday. No; not another WORD
Miss May Dnlard friend Of Miss Clarke.
is to be the latter's only attendant Inc
best man will be the bridegroom's brother.
Lieutenant William 5. Wood, U- 3 A Inc
wedding will De at I o'clock in the arter-
noon Miss Clarke is said 70 De wei KNOWN
IN the South.
Mr. Wood Is a son of Mr. and Mrs James
H Wood Of Briston, Va He was sradu-
ated from the Virginia Military Academy
and was a captain in the Virginia naconA
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
NEW yoek FROM THE SUBURBS.

Gotham Is to have another s., co., 900 hotel
20 helm welcome the coming, bleed the part
iDg aiIest-Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
The fight pictures are to go on in New
yo-E rftv But then Ii must be rernem-
bsred that IN New York people are still
-;dtng in horse cars.-Savannah News.
The protect OF building large new
t,otai as far downtown as Greenwich street
Is a reminder that the whole life of New
YorL does not centre at Broadway and
1od dcrreet-Providence journal.
After a New York man had shaken pep
,,er tnto the soup he was seized with an
pttsck IF sueezing that killed him. Evil
San+Iv some of the New York restaurants
CONTINUE to serve genuine pepper.-Chicago
Record Herald
A Russian princess after spending four
.sar nonths In one OF New York's swell
as+ hotels has gone home complaining that
she couldn't get rid or a million dollars.
rnere must have been a strike among the
beiIbops during her sojourn.-Batimore
News.
Nay York has located a woman who is
unable To spend more than $4,000 a year.
hnt II IL not explained why she has not
,ntned the smart set.-St. Louis Times.
Mayor Gaynor who put siouch hat
for disguise and in mis- automobile made d
tour under guidance or New York all
night cafes says he was amazed at what
he saw. And he's an old New Yorker. too.
Boston GLOBE
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
PERSIAN CONSUL GETS OUT
Wasn't Seated Next the Turkish
Ambassador at Dinner.

Youssouf Zia Pacha, imperial Ottoman
A Ambassador to the United States, was
guest OF honor last night at d dinner
given by the Armenian General Progress
sive Association The dinner marked the
second anniversary of the re-establish-
rnent of constitutional government in the
Ottoman Empire. There were fifty Arme-
mans. Greeks. Syrians, Hebrews and Arabs
present.
H H Topakyan. Persian Consul General
in New York City, who was also guest
al the dinner left the room Immediately
after the diners were seated, because he
was placed four seats away from the guest
of honor, instead of Immediately next the
Turkish Ambassador. he considered
dfulonlatic usage required. Topakyan went
TO the Republican Club, where he dined by
himself.
The ambassador said:
Il want TO say only that the task which
confronts the Ottoman Emperor of our
epoch is very complex In effect his I'M
neriaI majesty Mehemed ' has the DIFF
TcuIt problem of concIliating the prin-
cipIes of the conservative influences that
work intangibIy throughout the empire
with those caused by the pressing de-
nands of our century. You have observed
that the efforts Of the government, in ac-
oorr with the representatives. of the peo-
~le are employed to place constitutional
government upon a solid and broad base
and at the same time to preserve the pre-
negatives assured by the constitution OF
certain powers which represent national
sovereignty as well as individual rights"
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
FOR GOOD ADIRONDACK ROADS
Conference To Be Held at Saranac
Lake on August 90.

Elizabethtovn, N. Y, July 2s.-The first
organized effort to secure good roads
throughout the Adirondacks was taken to-
day, when more than two hundred owners
of automobiles who are residents and sum
mer visitors hereabouts appointed a COM
mittee, which has arranged for another
good roads convention in Saranac Lake
village on August 30.
The session of the general organization
was presided over by Judge Richard L
Hand State Senator James A Emerson
announced his intention Of introducing at
the next session Of the Legislature a bill
for special appropriation Of 8. coo 900 with
which to complete the chain Of state high
ways through the Adirondacks to the Cana
dian boundary
S. Percy Hooker, chairman Of the State
Highway Commission, one of the
speakers and gave the movement his in
dorsement.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
sMoKELEss POWDER ExPLoDEs
Similar to That Used at Fort Monroe
Cause Not Known
TBy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Wilmington, Del. July 23.-Two thousand
pounds of navy smokeless powder, the
same kind used at Fort Monroe Virginia
on the occasion of the fatal accident last
Thursday exploded this afternoon at the
smokeless powder plant of the Du Pont
Powder Company. at Carney's Point. N. J..
on the Delaware River. The powder, which
was in one story frame storehouse, ex-
ploded from an unknown cause, completely
destroying the structure.
The fact that the works shut down at
noon for a Saturday half-holiday doubtless
saved lives. No one was in the storehouse
at the time and one injured Great
trouble was experienced in saving other
buildings at the works. The grass was ig-
nited by the burning powder and the fire
was within seven hundred feet of the main
magazine when IL was got under control
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
COLONEL c. q. YATES.

Philadelphia, July 4-Colonel c. G.
Yates. well known in insurance circles
throughout the country, died here to-day
following a cerebral hemorrhage.
Colonel Yates was q native of Maryland,
and after serving IN the Civil War went
to Missouri While there he was elected to
the state Legislature. Later he became
vice-president of the Washington Fire In
surance Company, of Seattle, and was in
charge OF the company's Chicago office.
About a year ago he resigned TO become
secretary of the Peoples Fire Insurance
Company Of Philadelphia
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
STOVER'S APPEAL TO PUBLIC
Commissioner Asks Aid in Keep
ing Parks Clean.

II the parks Of New York are to be kept
clean the thousands OF persons who frequent
them must refrain from scattering rubbish
over them, Park Commissioner Slower said
yesterday. With a force of men not large
enough to cope with the present conditions
it now remains for the people themselves
to make matters better or worse
We will be more short handed next week
than last" said Commissioner Slower, for
many additional members OF the working
force went on their vacations to-day. II
the people will help by throwing papers
and fruit skins into the trash cans the
situation can soon be remedied-, hope this
appeal to them will not be in vain.'
The northeast corner Of Central Park,
according to the foreman of the department,
Is at present in the worst condition 1t has
been in for five years. and if the picnic
parties of to-day are as careless as here
tofore the men Will not be able to get 1t
cleaned up before the autumn leaves begin
to fall
Superintendent Beatty said the men were
doing the best they could, but it would be
weeks before things could be got in shape
again.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
BODY OF DIR. WARD ON oAMPANIA
Arrives from England, Where Official
of Insurance Company Died.

The Cunard liner Campania, from Liver
pool and Queenstown, and the French Line
steamship La Savoie, from Havre, reached
their piers here yesterday. The Campania
brought the body OF DIR. Leslie D. Ward.
Of Madison, n. J., first vice-president Of the
Prudential Insurance Company, who died in
London on July Is
The Campania had among her passengers
Engineer Commander William Clarkson,
a representative Of the Australian govern
ment in the manufacture in this country
of a number Of machines that are to be
used in the establishing OF rifle factory
In Australia.
Among the passengers on La Savoie were
Mr.. and Mrs J. Frank Davenport, Eliot
Gregory, Charles Origet, Mrs. Laura KIM
ball. H. e. Toussaint, H ". 8 Pen R H
Crunden and Mrs B. D. BIackman
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
DR.. ELIoT's NEW RELIGION
It Sounds Like the Vapid Mutterings
Of Pitiable Senility,' Says Divine.
IBv Telegraph to

by Telegraph to The THbune.I
Chicago, July "a bitter attack was
made on the new religion" Of former
President Eliot OF Harvard University by
the Rev. Charles Edward Locke. of Los
Angeles, in a sermon to-day at the Metho-
dist camp meeting at Desplaines.
Near the close of his sermon on Does
the World Need a New God?" DR.. Locke
said: In the presence Of these majestic
truths the new religion of the old gentle
man from Harvard sounds like the vapid
mutterings of piuabie senility, as he offers
to humanity a liberal education five feet
long. DIR. E1iot's pragmatism is not a re-
Iigfon, and II Will not survive one winters
bitter storms. Every generation has made
these attacks. DR.. Eliot only makes him
self ridiculous in trying to masquerade in
these old clothes. In every battle between
truth and error, God has won. He won at
Marathon, Waterloo and Gettysburg
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
COLONEL BOWEN SENTENCED
Reprimanded and Deprived of Com
mand for Interview in NeHspaper.

Manila, July 23.-Colonel William H C.
Bowen. of the 18th Infantry. stationed at
Fort William Mckinley, has been con-
Tcted by court martial of disrespect to
superior officer In the Endorsement in a
newspaper of the cause Of Chaplain John
E. DalIam, who had been tried for using
improper language
Colonel Bowen. according to the findings,
is sentenced to a reprimand and to be de-
prived OF his command for three months.
He was acquitted on the charge of having
violated the regulations in obtaining
pa ssage on army transport for a person
not a member Of his immediate family.
Lieutenant Colonel Ames. of the same
regiment, was recently before court mar
tial in connection with the suicide of Lieu
tenant Janney in the formers quarters.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
PRAISE FOR CoLUMBIA's HEAD
David Starr Jordan Supports Butler
Stand in the Peck Case.

David Starr Jordan. president Of Le-
land Stanford University. was among the
passen gers on the Atlantic Transport liner
Minnetonka- which sailed yesterday for
London. Regarding the trouble at Colum-
bia University in which Professor Harry
Thurston Peck figures, President Jordan
said:
f'If many of the things that have been
printed in the newspapers in regard to
the case are true, then 1t does seem that
President Butler has but one course open
to him. College presidents the country
over have to keep their eyes open IN re-
gard to just such matters as those that
have arisen in this particular case"
President Jordan added that DR.. Butler
was strong and big man" and held
peculiar position in the city of New York.
New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
NEW PLAYERS IN SEVEN DAYS
Members Of the Western Company Per
form at the Astor Theatre

The players of Seven Days" at the Astor
Theatre had a holiday yesterday TO provide
the actors of the Western company an op-
portunty to show what they could do II
public. Everybody in the company was
new except Ned Finley, who has been play
ing the part of Dallas Brown for number
of weeks
The performance was a creditable one.
and it is probable that Western playgoers
will laugh as heartily over this merry tale
of a quarantine as the patrons of the Astor
have laughed during the last nine months.
The cast was as follows: