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New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
SEABURY CUTS FEES
Justice Denies Motion for Pay
ment of SO. .92O.

Justice Seabury denied yesterday the mo
tion made by Arthur u. Truax. Patrick
J. Conway and Lawrence Kelley, three
commissioners for the Riverside Drive I'M
provement. for fees amounting TO $3.50
and threw I'm for good measure con
demnation' which the commissioners had
not sat upon previously.
These commissioners had previously been
allowed S,673 for certain fees and disburse-
ments prior TO July CO. 1907. and the mo-
ton denied yesterday asked for total
of 60, ,4cs for fees and disbursements since
that date. The court allowed s1i,4 OF that
amount for disbursements. but on the
matter OF fees he ruled that as Kelley had
been at ninety-three meetings while ne
held the place of Deputy City Paymaster.
and. further. that as the commissioners had
declined the offer OF the Corporation Coun-
sci of EXPERT clerks and assessors they
were not entitled to any fees.
In addition, Justice seabury in his de-
NAL of the motion cited that Of the S42
meetings mentioned in the report OF the
commissioners, asS had been executive
sessions
TT does not appear" said the decision.
"yhat the commissioners did at these 'ex-
ecutive sessions other than that they
from the report. considered assessments
and considered the area OF assessment
and worked on the area of the assessment
and worked on the assessment preparing
the preliminary report
These general statements do not show
the necessity for the work claimed to have
been done It is apparent that the num-
Der OF executive sessions was excessive
and unnecessary and exceeding any rea-
sonable estimate Of time within which The
work should have been completed
Proof before the court. the justice said.
showed that the calculation of assessments
could have been done for 800 and that the
commissioners incurred instead for that
work an expense OF 5000
II the commissioners had availed them
selves OF the offer OF expert computers of
the city's force they would have been en-
titled to fees for meetings at which that
work was done. said Justice Seabury.
but he continued. ''as they failed to
avail themselves Of such assistance. which
would have expedited their work. it is i'm
possible for the court now to determine
what period OF time would have been nee
essarily spent IN this work, and the court
is not required under such circumstances
to determine what would be necessary for
these services
When the motion was argued Corporation
Counsel Pendleton, then in Office. suggested
for the city that allowance ror the fees be
based on the city's computation. which was
that Trua2 had attended 162 meetings, Kel-
ley 40 and Conway 1Z7, for which he sug-
gested that they be allowed $40 a meeting.
making s1,520 for TTuax, instead OF the
s.. .430 he asked; $1,400 for Kelley. instead
of the $3.50 he asked and sl,270 for Con-
way, instead OF the $3.50 he asked. but
the courts decision brushed aside those
allowances on the same ground on which
he denied the entire bill.
These commissioners were concerned with
the improvement between 15Sth street and
165th street, and their total awards were
about s7S9,316, which have been confirmed
by the court.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
MILK PRICES GO Up.
Dealer Tells of Competition and
the Way 1t Worked.

At the investigation into the business
methods OF milk dealers yesterday betors
William G. Brown, referee, at the ofica OF
the Attorney General, Henry Youngs. or
Goshen, a member OF the Milk Exchange.
testified that the farmers are accustomed
10 pit the Milk Exchange prics OF ths cola-
modify against the Borden prtce-
He made the admission that he vas n
the habit OF getting the price for his G,tTk
fixed by the exchange. though hs krsw os
no agreement 10 that effect He expected
10 get the exchange price for his product
unless he disposed ofit at the Borden price
Mr.. Youngs was asked II the majority OF
farmers IN his section sefd thei. produce AZ
the exchange price. he said that some OF
them sold az exchange prices. but the1 there
were also independent prices In answer
to question, he said that he regarded ths
exchange price as the market price, al
though he didn't have any cantract to thar
effect He added that the farmers wers
accustomed TO sic Bordsn's on the ex-
change and the exchange on Borden's, II
order TO get better prices.
John WierlS, president OF the Empire
State Milk Company. testified that at some
of his purchasing stations in the Country
he paid the farmers the price set by the ex-
change exclusively
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
MiSCELLAN EOUS.

GARDEN AND FARM ALMANAC FOE IYi". ~.
Real Almanac and References BOOK Tor
the Home; Farm snd ar6sn for owers and
Vegetables, rules for foretelling tno
Of farm animals. information for build,
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fertilizers. how TO use service COUPONS
Compiled by Claude u Miller: Ph y:
Illustrated from ph1tographS witn s1o 'onTs nn.
from direct color photograph. oNo, pp'
21a Doubleday Page & Coz
Man: BY Edward Edward Ward es GsTmfiGis: a5npiis:
The MoQuiddy Printing Company
An address delivered by the late senator
it may be developed
THE LIBRARY AND THE SCHOOL BY
Claude G: Leland. Helene Louige DickeT'
H6tf1man Hmaa Mgq6 a6raer Mcffe Il sserey. g Cary
!. ". Olsen. illustrated. Emo pp. l%'
ST. rs. xviii (IIarper Ss Bros)
The value of school libraries and their
educational influence; the method anu
scope of reading circles. school t9ach.ers .-
and travelling libraries in the western
States.
CENTRAL BANK. BY Robert Emmett Ire.
ton, Associate Editor The Wall Street
summary" 12mo, pp. 216. (The Anthony
Stumpf Publishing Company
concise statement OF facts in relation
to our present currency system, the func-
central banking systems. etc.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF RE-
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TUITION. Showing the operations. expendi-
lures and condition of the institution for
the year ended June so. 1908 Illustrated
Svo. pp X, sol. washington: Government
Printing Office.)
In addition to the various reports by the
secretary and executive committee and
the proceedings of the board Of regents
the volume includes chapters military
aeronautics, aviation IN France, wireless
telephony. photo -telesraphy. recent inves-
legations in electricity development of gen.
eral and. physical chemistry, the Antarctic
question. birds, beats and fish, and science
and art.
NATURAL SALVATION SALVATION BY
SCIENCE). Immortal life on the earth
from the growth OF knowledge and the
development Of the human brain. By
Charles Asbury Stephens, NJ. q. 12mo, pp.
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INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATES. Being Briefs
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Including all the questions discussed last
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New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
TRAVEL AND TOPOGRAPHY.

Jamaica, Hayti, Porto Rico. Dominica.
Trinidad ami the West Indies. Honolulu
santo Domingo, ST. Thomas and Martinique
With copyright illustrations. BY Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. 12mo PIP 24s (Chicago:
The w. 3. Conkey Company
GUATEMALA AND HER PEOPLE OF To-
DAY. Being an Account of the Land It's
History and Development; the People Their
Customs and characteristics: to Which Are
Added Chapters on British Honduras witb
References 70 the Other Countries OF Central
America. Salvador. Nicaragua and Costa
Rica. BY Neviu O. Winter. Illustrated
from original and selected photographs bv
the author. 12mo, pp. xii. S07. CBoston:
l.. c. Page K Coz
ITALIAN HIGHWAYS AND BYwAYS FROM
MOTOR CAR. BY Francis NIiltoun With
pictures by Blanche AIcManus. I2mO, DID. tx
$50 Boston; L. c. Page x Coz
The record Of a lelsurely automobile trim
through the large cities and little towns ana
villages of Italy. With many illustrations in
color and black and white
SICILY. THE GARDEN OF THE MIDITrp
RANEAN. The History, People Institutions
and Geography OF the Island. Bv viii :
Monroe. Illustrated. 12mo, pp xx 4O5
CBoston: l. c. Page & Coz
In this volume. which is the result NJ ,
tour through Sicily during the winter ~
19OS-09. the author describes the rnanners
customs. habits and institutions OF the SIcu
ians and devotes some chapters 10 the ana
arts. Some information is given rerardir'o
the geographic features OF the island and th
of the recent earthquake e
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
MAKING TIE BOON
W. r. Clark Tells Of Buying
Chanler Interviews.

William +. CIark's SUIT TO recover s7ona
from ex-LAeutenaBt Governor Lewis stuy-
vesant ChsnIer for his services as pub
licfty agent in promoting the latter's Press-
Dental nomination chances with the Demo-
cratic party was started yesterday IN tas
Supreme Court before Justice Bischofr and
jury.
Clark was the only witness examined
Yesterday and he was occupied for n.
most part with identifying printed inter-
views and cartoons, OF which he had a
large scrapbook full. and all OF which duly
praised the former Lieutenant Governor as
a young Democrat Of great promise ana
the right kind OF man TO lend tAs party
to national success.
Besides an Office force and equipment.
Clark testified that he had paid money 70
various newspaper men. Washington cor
respondents some OF them. for getting inter
views with prominent Democrats boosting
the stock OF Mr.. Chanler. He himself. hs
testified, wrote out interviews with such
men as John Fox, president Of the Ma
tiona1 Democratic Club and an old friend
Of Richard Croker. and Senator Big TIM
Sullivan.
In washington man he hired. Clark
said. wrote an interview with Representa-
tive .JO1n W eSley t1dllcSs u AcLA-coSo1s II
which Mr. Gaines said that Chanler as TIA
Democratic nominee for the Presidency
would receive solid support in the South.
Mr. Fox and big Tim" both said in their
interviews that Chanler deserved the norn1-
ration OF his party as a progressive Demo-
crat who had supported all the tinsly
legislation advanced by Governor Hughes
The original drafts OF these tnservieTs
Clark kept In his scrapoook. signed BY
the men from whom they were obtained.
and he produced proof OF their publication
in numerous papers. together with cartoons
depictins Mr. Chanler at the helm Of tas
Democratic ship. with Bryan struggling On
a nearby raft, the idea OF which, Ciarx
testified, he had originated and explained
to the artists. Clark testified that the
Lieutenant Governor had accepted his
terms os $4,000 for the service, and instruct
ed him to work under William T Manning
In answer 70 questions OF his counsel
Clarence ]. Shearn, Clark then tod TIA
fury that he had conceived the idea oc
making it appear that the Standard Oil
interests and Thomas Fortune Ryan wers
opposed to Chambers Presidential aSpira-
tons
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
DISCUSS LACK OF WORK.
Problem of the Unemployed Holds ths
Legislative Commission.

Lack OF employment in New York Cit--
was the subject taken up yesterday BY the
legislative commission which is fnvasdzaf-
ing the question Of employers liability.
unemployment and the scarcity OF farm
labor.
Many speakers were heard and nun,srouz
methods OF improving conditions were sus-
sested- Mrs Florence Kelley. secretary OF
the National Consumers League, suggest
ed that the state should build home for
the younger unemployed. as is done IN
England Assemblyman Lindon Bates, II.
thought that the state should hold over
some great public works for periods OF de-
pTesSlon, and also advocated labor ex-
,,aa CLtange. 10 be founded by the state. as a
means or distributing the workers
rank j. Warne, secretary OF the State
immigration Commission. said unernplov-
nent would always exist. and added fhat
ne hoped II would always exist as il was
one or the hopeful things in this country,
us worst features should be prevented.
however, ne said This was probahly the
iaSt public hearing of the commission. and
II rs PROBABLE that it viii at once begin the
preparation OF its rsDOrr
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08

sans diary of an afternoon when young
Miss Julia Ward came to cali upon
young Miss Warner. 1--WE had a good
zeal of conversation about various books
ana authors, study, practice and mas
'ers.' wrote the girl Miss Julia criti-
clSed my saying mighty pretty and one
and tother,' and said some things which
rather made me wonder, such as that
novels only showed one the romance Of
hfe not the reality that there was no
such thing as love in the world now,
that 1t was all calculation, that marriage
Tor love was quite obsolete and that she
wished she had been born a hundred
years ago; said laughingly, to be sure.
but which sounded rather strangely in
my ears. The girl who as Mrs. Howe
was afterward to write THE Battle Hymn
OF the Republic" had moro of a sense of
humor than her young friend. Susan
Warner, as we see her in this volume,
was serious and intense. As years went
On there was need for all that was
strong and fine in her. for financial mis-
fortune came. and it was with difficulty
that the final family home. on Constitu-
tion Island, opposite West Point was
maintained and saved from the hands of
men shrewder than book loving, tender
hearted Henry Warner. The develop
ment of Susan's character and of her
literary powers is matter full of interest,
and not less effective is the story of the
home life on the island. life full of un-
selfish affection, OF study, and of hard
work. Miss Warmers first and second
books did much to ease the strain of
poverty and to rescue the old Revolu-
tionary home and it's island. Sue.
believe If you would try you could write
q story" said the beloved old aunt at the
head of the household to Susan, helping
her sister wash the supper dishes: and
Us the girl went to and fro with the
spotless china the misty idea Of the
wide, Wide World" rose in her brain.
1t is amusing to read of the cold fashion
in which a succession of New York pub
fishers received the MS. One of them
sent it back with "Fudge." written
across it-and had to lament the loss of
one of the most popular books of his
time.
1HeTe are not SO many notes mere on
the celebrities of the past as we might
have expected. 1t is worth while, per-
haps, to quote an anecdote of the oft
mentioned Tom Appleton. Not David
with his sling and Goliath in his armor
of brass were more unlike" than Apple
ton and Susan Warner. and the man of
the world was hardly at his ease during
their interview:
He remarked that Paris is the place
where good Americans go when they die
and finally came this most comcal clash
OF swords:
Miss Warner. do you know that you are
very like Florence NightngaIe?
~ have been told So"
THE resemblance is striking. Have you
ever seen her picture?'
Yes
''Horrid, isn't it?'
No said my sister, with kindling zeal;
beautiful
Then each realized what each had said
and the well of silence was profound.
oh, how I wanted to laugh! But Mr. Tom
Appleton was too much of a stranger. and
nobody led the way.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
BIOGRAPHY.

THE LIFE AND MEMOIRS OF CoMTE
REGIS DE TROBRIAND. MAJOR GEN
ERAL IN THE ARMY OF THE UNITED
STATES. BY his daughter Marie Caro-
line Post 6Ars Charles Alfred Post1
with portraits In photogravure Svo
PIP. tx. $50. (E I. Dutton Il Coz
The subject of this biography was horn
in France in 1915. He visited America
for the first time in 1S41. but returned
again to France He finally took mn bIs
residence in this country, was apnointa1
sub-edltor OF the Courier des Etats
Unls" and fought with distinction I'm tbs
Civil War. S
CESAR FRANCK, translation from, ,-,l,a
French OF Vincent D'Indy, with an IN
PRODUCTION by Rosa Newmarch nm
trated. Svo. pp. 2S6. (The John Iana
Company
An appreciative study of the cor,n,
and his music by one of his pupils
ROBERT BURNS. By Colonel John
Joyce FrontiSpieoo. 12mo mn a. ~
(Chieago: The Resan Printing and pnh-
lishing House) NO
A short life Of the poet with nur,.ro,,.
examples OF his verse. 'eio"a
JAMES GRANT. a MODEL. AMERICAS,
Willis Bruce Dowd uIustrated bS
PIP. a.. (Hoston: The Riverside Pr..s~'h ~'ho'
An appreciation OF the life ana -.
OF Judge James Grant. OF Iowa "oFK
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
GOULD PARTITION,
DiUision of Mothers Estate
asked by Elder Brother.

Papers were filed in the Supreme Court
yesterday in a suit brought by George ].
Gould against his brothers and sisters for
a partition of the estate OF the lata Helen
d. Gould. widow of Jay Gould. to which
the six Gould children were made heirs in
Mrs. Goulds Will. Edwin c. Gould and
his wife. Sarah c. Gould; Helen Miller
Gould, Howard Gould and Katherine Glenn
mons Gould, his wife; Frank j. Gould.
Anna Gould. formerly the Countess de Cas-
tellane and now the Princess de Sasan:
Elizabeth X. Gould, wife of George ].
Gould, and Charles B. Samuels are named
as defendants. The estate sought TO be par
titioned is placed at No. 4S East 18th street,
Nos. 81 and 50 East 5eth street and Nos
and Walker street.
From the papers filed comes the infor-
Nation that the Princess de Sagan. then
the Countess de Castelane. borrowed from
her brother. Edwin Gould. $1,000 in Febru-
ary, 1900, and $4,000 a year later, for which,
as security. she assigned him an equity in
this estate. amounting to whatever of her
loan from him was unpaid at the time the
estate should be divided.
Since that time payments have been made
from time to time. out of the rents from
the property, which would otherwise have
gone TO the Princess de Sagan. as her share
TO Edwin Gould. so that now there is s1s.-
800 IS of the $4,000 loan unpaid
Also against the Princess de Sagan's
share in the estate there stands a Judgment
obtained against her by one Eugene Fish
hof, amounting to sto2s6 IS. which he as
signed to Charles B. Sanluels, who is there
fore named as one of the defendants to the
suit.
Frank j Gould's wife. Helen Kelly
Gould it appears from the papers, released
her claim TO dover rights on her husband
when she obtained her divorce, and She IS
not named as a party in the present suit
The estate is TO be divided in the proportion
OF one-sixth to each of the children OF the
teStator.
David H. Taylor. lawyer. of No. 81
Nassau street, Is counsel for the plaiutifr,
and it is understood that there will h. no
opposition TO the partition of the est7.s
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
RELIGIOUS.

HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS OF
CHRIST. practical handbook for
teachers and Bible students. BY Alfred
A: Butier. d. D. 12mo. pp. 49,. (Thomas
Whitaker, Inc.)
guide TO the study or the Bible At
the end of each chapter there are oues-
tons which the student should be able TO
answer from material gained from the
foregoing pages.
EZRA STUDIES. BY Charles c. Torrey svo
np. Nv' S45. (Chicago: The University OF
Chicago Press-)
Concluding that the history OF Israel after
the fan OF the kingdom and the exegesis
or the literature OF that period written
during the last generation have been
built on q false foundation and need 20 be
completely revised, the author here pre-
sents the first sketch Of an historical re-
construction
THE MASK OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 4
history OF the rise and growth OF the svs-
tenn, together with comparison on meta
PHYSICAL healing, with matters scientific
Christian and Biblical. illustrated. Emo
pp 192. tThe American Tract Society)
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
Literary Nesa,S and Criticism

er's sympathy, the value of the story be-
ing found rather in detached episodes. in
thumbnail sketches OF minor characters
and in the local color, which Is really
charming. For one thing, Diana's hus-
band fails to attract us-the author
rather neglects him-and, for another.
when the goddess finally awakes, one
sees a dawning comprehension OF q
wife's full duty rather than an emotional
rebirth. Diana appears 10 be unworthily
thrown away upon the human material
that goes to the fashioning of her exist
ence
The author OF 'Dorrien Carfax" ex-
hibits the stuff of his narrative in pic
torial fashion. unfolding the career of
his hero as though in a series of dis
solving views" The book has a plot,
but the workings of this are not con-
stantly kept upon the surface. On the
contrary, Mr.. Griffith seems almost in
different TO the development of his
drama II is as though he had left it to
natural Intervention of this or that fig
ure at the proper time. The main thing
is to carry his hero from infancy to man
hood through paths not at all adventu-
rous. but tending steadily toward rather
grim climax. The lives of his people are
Intertwined not by any violent processes
but in the inevitable manner of ordinary
life, and when the stroke of fate falls it
may seem to have a little Of Inelodrama
hnTf If hlIf iS Srtfirio-tl-- yala
There is much light talk in the tale, sup
plying an effective counterweight to the
tragic elements in Dorrien's experience
Audacious, indeed, is the central mo-
tive in Mr.. Marriott's amusing volume
Somewhere in the innermost spaces Of
the Sargasso Sea, we are asked to be-
lieve, the derelicts of centuries have ac-
cumulated, pressing their battered hulls
together until they have formed kind
of floating island. 1t is easy for a wreck
TO find Its way to this mass of dead
shipping and to become part of it. But
the men who may be helplessly carried
to the ISLAND may never hope to escape
therefrom. The water all about them is
so filled with weeds and so large an area
is covered by this growth that there is
no way of winning back to clear water
And yet the heroine of ''The Isle of Dead
Ships" and the two men in whose COM
pany she passes to what promises to be
living death ultimately return to their
friends. How do they do it? BY proc
esses that are almost beyond belief But
Mr. Marriott starts with too amazing an
hypothesis for us TO be surprised at any
thing, and we follow the adventures of
his people in all good humor 1t is a.
creditable yarn that he spins, and in the
spinning thereof he contrives to tell a.
pretty love story.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
FICTION.

PASSERS- By. BY Anthony Partridge. Win
illustrations by VIII Foster. limo. pp'
323. (Boston: Little, Brown g. COZ
The scene of this novel. which has Tor
its heroine a street singer. Is laid In Lon
don The fortunes of Christine ana an
English statesman are curiously inter-
twined.
THE Up GRADE. BY Wilder Goodwin Win
Illustrations by Charles Grunweld. 12mo'
pp. 3Sl. (Bostou: Little. Brown ~ CO..
A story of the Sou3hwCst aud how the
regeneration of SteFhen Loring was ac-
compshed.
ECHOES OF MYSELF. Romantic Studies OF
the Human Soul BY Ivan Narodny-
Illustrated by Eugeps Higgins. limo pp'
@31 (Mitchell KenneTly.)
Short stories of Russian life.
THE PRIDE OF THE RANCHO. BY Henry
e. Smith. Frontispece. 12mo. pp. lso.
(The ]. s. ogilvie Publishing Company
A romance OF the West.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
REPRINTS.

LTELLS TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA
IN THE YEARS 1912 Abridged and
edited by John p. Cushing. Phi D.. head
master OF the New Haven High School.
l2mo, Pr; IT,. CThs Charles (. Merrill
Company
In this edition. Maynard's English
Classic Series,' the technical geological
portions Of the work have been omitted
THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT. An Arabian
Entertainment BY George Meredith
Illustrated. 12no, pp vi. 29s. Charles
Scribner's Sons)
This is Volume I of the now Memorial
Edition cf Meredith's works.
THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVERELE A
History of a Father and Son. BY George
Meredith. Illustrated. 12mo, Rp. vii, 542
Charles Scribner's Sons)
Volume II OF the above edition.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-08
TO RESTRAIN B. & O.
Realty Company Seeks to Keep Rail.
road Off Staten Island Strip.

The Rourke Realty Company. OF wes,
New Brighton. Staten Island. applied tn
Justice Kelly In the Supreme Court
Brooklyn, yesterday morning for an in
junction restraining the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company and the Staten Island
Rapid Transit Hallway Company from
using tracks across strip OF land which
the COMPANY says 1t owns. running sixty
feet along the Kill van Kuu The sta,os
Island railroad company claims tIt,a -,
the right OF way since 1854, bur the rsa,
estate company says that Il was ouatns
by recent foreclosure 2. ocedure and rnT.
has no right to cross the strip
The property involved is in the villas.
OF New Brighton.