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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
WANTS BANKERS TO HELP
Loans on Farms and Estates Wotlo
Reduce Cost of Living, He Says.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. with great interest 1 have read the
article in last Wednesdays Tribune con-
corning the meeting of railroad men, lesiS
Isters and asriculturist5 held IN tHs
Produce Exchange. The resolution adopted
to ,1elift agriculture and to induce capaoie
persons now living I'm the cities 10 go pdck
TO the farms is indeed q very important
one. but I'm my opinion it could be further
amended so that the association shoulo uo
all in its mower to induce capitalists. cor
norstions and trust companies to make
mortgage loans to poor but otherwise sood
farmers. enabling them to improve their
farms and double the crops. 1t Is not alone
the education many farmer in the At
lantic states needs. Thousands of farmers
especially in the Southern States, own large
farms but have either 10 ambition or no
money to work their land right. and mill
ions of acres of the best land are lying
idle The cultivated land could produce
threefold the present crops.
Probably the majority of the city people
are proud of the yearly growth of their
respective cities. not considering that just
this growth is followed by the Increased
difficulty in getting the necessary food
stuffs. But while this difficulty is now in
the foreground and rests heavy upon the
city people the capitalists and corporations
still go ahead and invest their money In
new apartments and flats and induce peo-
pie to stay in the city.
If a large part of this money would be In
vested in farms the questions OF inereas-
ing agricultural production and cost Of liv-
ing would solve themselves within a few
years.
A few weeks ago / advertised for a first
mortgage loan Of $4,000 on very large
estate (worth s1G1OoO only seven miles
from the White House. Washington, and
also wrote TO five mortgage and trust
companies of New York City, but the re-
suit was that l received answers in the
negative, stating that the companies oper-
ated only in city real estate.
OF course, there are in many cases proba-
bly, better chances for quick money making
I'm city speculations. but it is still a game
of chance, and with all the money made
this way the country as whole will go
backward
There is many an intelligent man who
with proper financial assistance would
gladly work the SOIL but who could not
be induced to go ahead and work probably
day and night for a so-called "hayseed' at
from 4I5 10 so month II able men of in
Guencs would give this matter a fair con-
sideTdtion it is my earnest belief that great
changes for the better would be obtained.
b. MILTzGW.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
GERNAN INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE.

GERnAN INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE.
1t is not merely a law which DR.. Won
Bethmann-HollWeg proposes for the full
filment Of the great Work Of Peace"
conceived by Count Posadowsky many
years ago, but really Il whole code of
legislation. At the present time the
state insurance of the Industrial classes
il divided into three departments and
is provided for by means of eight sep
arate and not particularly simple laws.
The Chancellor in the bill which has Just
been introduced proposes considerably
30 extend the scope and the complexity
OF the system and to have It ali admin
istered snder a single statute The pro-
posed law consists. however, of no fewer
than 1.754 clauses, some of them clab-
crate and complicated, sufficient to fill a
good sized volume.
Under the existing system there is
insurance against illness. accident and
old age and infrmity. The new system,
if adopted, will provide pensions for the
widows and orphans of worllmen. and
il VIII also extend insurance TO various
classes Of workmen who hitherto have
been outside the scope Of the law S
operations Among these are agricultural
and forest workman. domestic servants,
theatrical employees, clerks. musicians,
teachers. and to some extent those who
work IN domestic shops OF their own.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
PrrFNrE IN ABUNDANCE.

At the end of the tenth month of the
current fiscal year the federal Treasury
finds itself in an unexpectedly strong
position. Instead Of facing deficit on
June 30 next it faces substantial sur
plus. The receipts for the ten months
have exceeded those for the correspond
ing ten months in 19GS-'09 by SOC. 500
600. This is an extraordinary gam due
in large part TO the stimulation OF the
inpnrt trade which has occurred since
the massage of the Payne tariff Law.
The duties collected on imports In
creased about S3S.000,000; internal reye-
rue receipts increased nearly $18,o0oo0o'
Int there was q decrease of more tina N
s.. oa9. 600 in receipts from misceliane-
Gus sources On the other hand, ordi-
nary expenditures for the ten months
have been about 100000 less than
those for the corresponding ten months
CT 190S-'09,
The dehcit for the ten months Is
S16. T0o. 900, against q deficit in the pre-
vious year of S69, 236, 600. But the
Treasury has paid out since July L.
1909. So. o0o. 600 on the Panama Canal
account. No bonds have vet been sold
To make good this expenditure. SO that
the Treasury has really to its credit on
the operations for the year SO far about
$40. 10000. The next two months will
probably show SURPRISES and at the end
Of June the corporation tax will be
turned into the Treasury. Allowing
S30000.000 for the corporation tax and
the surplus receipts in May and June,
the surplus for the year would be over
$4,000. 600. OF course, there remains
the possibility that the Supreme Court
may hold the corporation tax to he in
valid, but even in that case the Treas
ury will end the year with a surplus of
probably S15,o00,000. The lean days fol
lowing the panic of 1907 are now a
memory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.


washington. May at was announce
at the japanese Embassy to-day shaf
Prince Tekugawa, President of the Hohse
of Peers OF Japan. will arrive here 90
THURSDAY An elaborate programme VII
be arranged for his entertainment mere
besides the dinner and reception IN MS
honor. with Baron and Baroness Uehida as
hosts
Dr. Nakajirna- OF Japan whe was enter
tanned by the Ambassador and baroness
Uchida- IS at the Cosmos Club
The Minister from Portugal. who has
been i'm San Francisco 90 attend the ar
rival there of the Portuguese cruiser Sac
Gabriel, will return here in few days
The Minister from Belgium, who went to
PittsbuTg the last Of the week TO deliver
an address. has returned
The Minister from Ecuador and Sehora
de Carlo and the other members Of their
family will leave Washington soon for
Blue Ridge Summit. Penn. where they will
spend the summer.
Baron DR.. Herbert Won RIchthofen. re-
Gently appointed third secretary Of the Ger
man Embassy. has arrived in Washington
and assumed his duties
f L. Chernont who came here about
five years ago when the Brazilian Embassy
was raised to It's present rank and was
first second secretary and more recently
first secretary, has been transferred TO the
Brazilian Embassy IN Mexiee- he sc-
cempanied the body Of the late ambassador
to Brazil, and will leave there tomorrow
for short European trip before assuming
his new duties. Mime. Chermont. who was
formerly Miss Helen Sloan. OF Baltimere.
is here arranging her household affairs so
that she may meet her husband In Europe.
She will sail from New York On the MauFe-
tania on Nav IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: How many more lives must be sac
rificed, hoW many more hours OF anguish
must be passed by parents and friends. be-
fore the laws relating to the muzzling and
leashfng of dogs on the streets of New York
are enforced? Where is the dog catcher.
who is supposed to take up and impound
all dogs whose owners do not conform TO
the law with reference to them?
Since Great Britain has not only enacted
but enforced such stringent laws in regard
to dogs rabies has become an unknown
disease within her borders. Few people
admire or love dogs more than I do. and
for their sake also 1 ask this protection.
When a whole pack of valuable hounds has
TO be sacrificed on account of one vagrant
cur it Is time that the owners and lovers
of dogs, as we'll as the public at large.
should demand that these laws be en-
forced.
If those TOmen who desire so dTdently
the suffrage wguld use their influence to
see that good and wise laws like these after
they are passed should be carried out they
would not only merit bu. receive the graft
tude of their fellow citizens
CLIFTON ELLIS.
New York. May 2. 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
SENATOR coBB's "coBPRouIsE.

1t will be time enough TO consider
Senator Cobb's compromise direct
primary bill after a vote has been had
I'm both houses of the Legislature on the
TIinman-Green bill The people want 10
know not how some committee stands
upon that measure but how each indi-
vidual member of the Legislature stands
upon ii. They want a vote for future
reference. 1t will guide them in forming
their oHn opinions Of their representa-
tives when the latter come up for re-
election next fall.
The compromise" bill OF Senator Cobb
offers so little that it IS probably de-
signed rather as basis for conpro-
mise than as itself compromise. In
applying. the direct primary system only
10 candidates for the Senate and Assem-
bly, it does not go as far as Mr.. Woodruff
and other opponents of the system early
in the session expressed a willingness to
60. If the Hinman-Green bill cannot
pass there will be no objection II enact
ing such a law as Senator Cobb proposes.
But the gain from IL would probably be
comparatively SliSnl. anu dS JeSt Oh tue
Hinman-Green system it would not
possess much value. 1t will be impossible
To interest the people generally in nomi-
nations for the Senate and the Assembly.
Therefore direct primaries TO nominate
for those Offices would give little indica-
ton Of the effect upon the manag cement
of parties and the making Of nominations
which would be produced by attracting
to the primaries the class of voters that
now remains away from them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT

TBy Telegraph to The Tribunal
Newport, May 3.-Mr. and Mrs. Marsden
J. Perry, of Providence, have arrived at
Bleak House, their summer home here, for
the season
Fairlawn. the summer residence Of Mr..
and Mrs. I. Townsend Burden. Is being
prepared for occupancy for the frst time
in three years
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Fred Person. r., who
were absentees here last season. ara 70
return this year.
Mr. and Mrs Frederick NJ. Davis will
also spend the season in Newport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster are
making an auto trip through the Berk-
shires.
Mrs. William Grosvenor has gone TO New
York to visit Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt are
expected for the summer on next Saturday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
Nav YORK RON rHg susuRns.

+. Augustus Eeinze Is again on trial N
New York. this being ore of the annual
attracttops in the bis city.-peJrCit F'res
Press
New Yorker-We don't have any grass
growing in our streets
Phtladelphtan-I suppose your srreStCar
horses nibbls it all of as they brow "a
along. -Phiadslphia Record.
Lord Kitchener has pronounced the New
York girls the prettiest he ever saw What
a pity the lighting one has ~ leave Amer
tea with such an impression of the fair
sex. Why didn he come 90 Richmond -
Richmond Times Dispatch
The second generation OF skysorapsrs IN
lower Manhattan has appeared The TWEEN
ty story building az the corner OF Wall
and Nassau streets IS now being torn down
a. obsolete, m order - make way tes
new and much higher thsrtv-ewo story
structure New York sAzvscraDers NAY soon
be classined like Oattleships-at the ard o.
ter years 'OcSOlsScsnt 90 ar tire and q
twenty obsolete. and thar tbs scrap
.-Srripfnsld Republican.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Last autumn we were able through
the courtesy of the press to give public
ity TO the work done at the Mortified
schools and its needs. Your cooperation
has been of untold value to US. and we
wish to thank you heartily for IL.
This present year with us is one of grave
anxiety. We have a burden Of $4,000 to
raise before We close our fiscal year. on
July 81. This is the last part of an origi-
nal effort &c raise $4,000 for the year
work, and. being the last. is the most diff
ficult. However, there are friends who
would lift this burden If they but knew
our needs.
ANY help. however small. will be grate-
fully received, and will so far enable US
to carry on the work true to it's original
aim of assisting young men and young
women TO secure an education which other
wise would be beyond their means
w. Il. MOODY.
East Northield, Mass, May ., 1910.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
IN THE sERksHiRES-

tBy telegraph to The TFtSz1si1
Ienox, May 3-Nrs- Lindsay Fatrfax Is
entertaining Miss Isabel III. Hardis. OF New
York
Mr. and Mrs Henry n Pease will arrive
tomorrow at their country place
Arthur q. Sedgwick has taken a lease OF
Miss Helen Buffers villa in Stockbrtdgs.
Mr.. and Mrs. George worthington are al
Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge-
Miss Eleanor Crosby is in Lenoz.
Mr.. and Mrs Peyton Van Rensselaer,,
who have been IN Europe. have arrived II
Stockbridge for the summer
Grenville L. Winthrop and Miss Win
throp arrived to-day az Greton Place.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Winthrop Folsom
have arrived az their country place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry W Munroe and Miss
Adele Kneeland started this afternoon fsr
New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
SIR G. FURNEss UNsEATED
Shipowner Agents Held TO Have Vic
lated the Election Law.

London. May Sir Christopher Furness.
the shfpoWner who as a Liberal has rep
resented the constituency of Hartiepool in
Parliament since 1900 WAS unseated to-day
by the court and his recent election de-
clarsd void on the ground that there had
been an Illegal employment OF demonstra-
tors and payments made through hts
agents.
The court emphasized its conclusion that
Sir Christopher was not personally guilty
of any corrupt or Illegal practice. but added
that he must suffer for the acts OF his
agents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
TIE CONSUMERS LNFLUENCE.

The recent decline in wholesale prices
If commodities, including not only mia
serial for manufacture but also most
food nroducts. is so general as 10 SIG
rest a hope that q reaction has at last
set in against the upward trend. Inc
reac4ioa. II it Is one, may be only TEN
norarv. TO be followed by resumption
of fha upward movement winch Has
been going OH for several years, or II
may he deGs,tc and mark the turnlhS
poinf IN thl, ing series OF price
changes. Be- "a amy rate, counter
current has Sc; Ia. as is evident FROM
the present prices OF various commodi-
tios as compared. in 1.-THE New 1orh
Journal Of Commerce" with the high
.,s4 prices quoted for those commodities
.n recent wears.
4 few Illustrations Will snow what
has taken place: Nheat, highest, Au-
gust. 1900. 81 49,. now 81 10; Hour
June. 3aG9. So 80. now 50 80; corn. JrI",
1900 S. cents. now G5l2 cents; pork,
i,arrel. March. 1910. So -. now sd;
ham. April. 1910 49, cents, now Is
cents: bacon. April. 1910. =" cents, now
% cents: sugar. eranuFated. March. 1910,
ao5 now 2 Il cents; rice. August. 1909.
ba, cents. now 4ss cents: cotton. Deem
Ter. 1870, 1913 cents, now 1523 cents /;
,roo, March. 1910. 81 cents. now 81 cents:
rir iron. January. 1919. SIS -, nov
$685. In general, commodities, exoept
beef ard rubber. show declines, and the
manufactured products from wool and
cotton iren and I'm have also fallen or
somewhat in price OF course. these
Gre wholesale prices. Retail prices 90
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
oENVER's GIFT TO ITSELF.

From Denver Municipal Facts.
Young shade trees TO the number Of t7.1T4
were given away by the city TO citizens on
las. Saturday. and at last accounts prac-
tieally all had been planted and were doing
we'll.
The distribution OF free trees Is an an
nual custom in Denver. The idea origin
ated during Mayor Speers first term. tive
years ago. and has been such a success
that many other cities have copied the plan
and pronounced II a municipal undertaking
worth while
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
sHURFEEFF WINS EVANS PRIZE
American Water Color Society Gives
Award for Picture June

TIE Evans prize OF $2no for the uless
merftorious water color PAINTED in thls
country and by al American artist has
been awarded 10 r. NJ Sh1rtleT for his
picture entitled June This announce
ment was made last night b. the American
Water Color society
William T. Evans some time aga CHersd
the prize TO the society. specifying that Il
be awarded by the jury O. selection OF rhs
American Water Color Society 70 the ar
fist producing the best water color. Theirs
is no age limit 70 bar out either very Young
artists or those OF advancing years. bur
the one who once wins thu prize is there
after ineligible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
THE POST Ro4D BATTLE.

Mention has already been made of the
renewed contest over the old Albany
Post Road. A bill now before the Legts-
lat11re purposes to remove restrictions
and thus make it available for the uses
of a trolley line. Against this. earnest
opposition Is made by property owners
and residents along the road especially
in Yonkers. Hastings, Dobbs Ferry,
Irvington and Tarrytown, who want the
read kept in its present condition. A
hearing on the subject is TO be had be
fore q Senate committee at Albany to-
day, at which it = TO be hoped the op-
position to the bill will be effective and
triumphant.
The building Of trolley road on that
thoroughfare would be an act of in
justice to the residents. who have set
tied and spent large sums of money
there en- the specific understanding that
the street was to be kept for all time
free from trolley roads. 1t would be an
set of vandalism in the mutilatien and
destruction Of a great number of fine
shade trees. It would be a detriment and
a menace TO traffic, for the street g al
ready frequented by vehicles almost 10
the limit of comfort and safety. 1t
would be handicap to the towns which
are traversed by the street, since it
would continue the foolish policy of try
ing to confine them to a single north
and south street instead Of opening adj
ditional thoreughfares.
The Post Road was never meant for
railroad uses. 1t is essentially drive
way and parkway. To give IT over to
railroad operation would be a peI'ver-
sion similar In character, in folly and m
injustice to the giving up Of park space
for building sites. In it's present at
tractive condition it Is one of the most
valuable assets of the communities
which it traTerses. Despoiled for trolley
uses, its value would be greatly i'm
paired. The attempt to gridiron it with
tracks should be opposed and defeated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
LORD GLADSTONE IN SOUTH
AFRICA

AFRICA.
To the observer appreeiatiye Of piCt-
uresque incidents, striking and unex-
pected contrasts and dramatic effects
few announcements of recent years have
been more rich in interest and suggestion
than that Lord Gladstone sailed last
Saturday from southampton to take his
place as Governor General Of South
Africa.
There is much food for thought in the
simple fact that Mr.. Herbert Gladstone
is now NiScount Gladstone of Lanark in
the peerage of the United Kingdom.
That change Of style is historically ap-
pTopTiate, for the first of his ancestors
of whom we have record was Herbert de
Gledestan, of the County Of Lanark. who
was one of the signers Of that "Ragman's
ROLF which acknowledged the sovereign
ty of Edward !. the English Justinian,
over the Scottish kingdom. Yet there is
also a suggestion Of incongruity in the
acceptance of a peerage By the son of
William EWart Gladstone, the great
COmmOner who diSdained such nominal
distinctions. and in his entry into the
chamber which his father pu1posed
either "to mend or end"
Equally impressive, in contrast is the
spectacle Of the assumption of what is
practically the Viceroyalty of United
South Africa by the son of the statesman
who negotiated the surrender after Ma
jUba. Gladstone the Commoner reIin-
qufshed authority and sovereignty, at
least in great measure, over the richest
part Of South Africa, and probably would
have regarded with satisfaction the en-
tire withdrawal of British dominion
from that quarter of the world. Glad
stone the peer goes thither to maintain
renewed and intensified British sover.
eighty over the whole of South Africa.
Between the two policies, in respect to
their wisdom and benefcence, we need
not essay to institute judgment The
contrast stands, suggestive and admoni-
tory. against hasty verdicts and as
sumptiOnS that any policy is necessarily
perpetual and impeccable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
aempork GrIbnt1e.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 4, 1910.

This newspaper is otcned ana pao-
hsbed bv The Tribune Association, q
Aet1 York corporation: Office and priri-
cipdl place OF business, Tribune Bud
s,q. 10. ia Nassau street, Aeo for6;
ogden Mills. president; ogden ". Reid,
secretary: James II. BGrTetf. treasurer.
The address of fhe officers is the once
OF this newspaper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-04
HUGHES, "BiG TIM" AND w. J. q.

From The Syracuse Herald.
Big Tim Sullivan says that he will
'lay 10 to 1 right off the bat now that
Governor Hughes makes good" on the
Supreme Court bench. When William j..
Bryan cannot manage TO attain the level
of big Tim" Sullivan in either good judg-
ment or good taste. don't see why he
should aspire to the Presidency.