New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-23
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Practically every time the turbine flyers
Mauretania and I.usitania reach port the
Cunard Line receives letters from owners
of small boats on both sides of the Mar
rows protesting against the speed with
which these vessels come into port. The
boat owners contend that the big liners
have such big displacement and travel SO
fast that they send in combers big enough
to smash and swamp any small boat not
made particularly fast. The company
usually replies to the letters, explaining
that the United States government has
given permission to bring the two big ships
10 the Ambrose Channel at fourteen knots,
and it is not the fault of the company If
combers roll in on the beach. AS rule,
the fast turbine vessels speed along TO
within a mile of the lightship at the en-
trance of the channel at twenty-four or
twenty-five knots. Coming up the bay
from Quarantine to the company's piers
in the North River, the Mauritania and
Lusitania reduce speed to eight knots and
the swell sent out from them does not
greatly affect smaller craft close by.
Scribbler-I am going. to call my new
play The Wicked Flee"
Wigwag-I suppose yOul-er-try 1t on
the dog?-Phladelphia Record.
TO A RECKLESS REFORMER.
Now here comes "Fingey'' Corners
Who says that he will fight
And fight and fight the Tiger
To make it act just right;
And says many other
Correct things he will do
That really "Fingey" Corners
Sounds too good to be true.
What?
W. j. HAMPTON.
He SAYS he courts the fullest investiga-
ton possible. He has nothing whatever to
rs that so?"
yes. and he's hired three of the clever
est lawyers in town TO prove it.'-Detroit
Free Press.
At a meeting of hotel men in Vienna
many complimentary things were said in
regard to the hotels of New York. One
speaker said that the popularity of a city
depended so largely on its hotels that 1t
was the duty of all good citizens to en-
courage improvement. Gustav Won Ruling,
one of the leading men in his branch of
business declared that Vienna was sadly
handicapped because of the excessive taxes
levied on hotels. These are so burden
some he said, that they preclude i'm
provement.'
Pa said little George. i've chopped
down your favorite cherry tree"
That's a good start toward the Presi-
dency son." responded wise Mr.. Washing
ton. Now split 1t into rails. Washing
ton Herald.
"A matinee is a morning performance.
and the term is for that reason applied
20 performances which take place in the
afternoon and sometimes last until even
ing" says a writer in a German paper.
But here at Milan had real matinee
Yesterday The curtain raised on
Lozzi's opera 'Bianco Cappello' at $50
a. M The opera was written for Warsaw,
but in order to secure the composers rights
the work had TO be given for the first
time in the place where he made his home.
This city has had all sorts of stage ex-
periences, but early morning opera was
novelty"
A sinister woman in Ga.
once read of Lucretia Ba.,
And on poison intent
She spent her last cent
For the moonshine they make down in Ga
Philadelphia Record.
Clerks in the office of the North German
line were amused several days ago to see
a small boy leading elderly woman up
TO the booking counter of the first cabin
with the remark This is the place"
Thinking the old woman wished to pur-
chase a ticket for Bremen. one of the
clerks said: What can do for you.
madam" Well" she replied, my grand
son here wants one OF those toy steam
ships, and I'd like to know how much they
to buy him one. and he brought me here