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New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
~5efr Example Encourages ESofisfical
Cranks Like Gallagher tUbo Tried
TO Kill Mayor GaynOr.

were printed in the newspapers with al
most as much prominence as would be
accorded To the utteranceS of a candi-
date for the governorship, or even for
the Presidency. and the same attention
was accorded by the press to Iucchenl,
the slayer OF the Empress of Austria,
and to Sipido the vainglorioCs lad who
shot at Edward VII at Brussels not long
before his accession TO the throne OF
Great Britain. al this publicity con-
stitutes q powerful incentive to crimes
OF this nature. Sipido's attempt upon
the life Of Edward VII and the notoriety
achieved by the young anarchist was
followed by the murder of King Hum
bert at Monza. and there is hardly a
cri1ninologist of any Importance in
either the Old World or in the Western
Hemisphere who is not perfectly con-
WINGED that the most efficacious pre-
yantive OF outrages of this nature would
be to condemn the perpetrators to an
oblivion to which the newspapers should
be required to contribute for the sake
Of the commonwealth.
No special legislation should be needed
10 fetter the press. Until forty years
ago capital punishment was provided in
England for certain offences other than
murder and too atrocious to permit
Of more than passing reference. Without
any legal restriction the British news
uapers with one accord. forbore any
description of the crime or of the court
proceedings. Sometimes even the very
name of the man was left unrecorded,
the reports as published merely mention
ing that the court had been called upon
TO deal with a crime punishable under
certain act of Parliament and that cap
ital sentence had been pronounced. If
some such scheme were adopted by the
newspa pers with regard to the assassi-
nation or attempted murder of rulers,
chief magistrates and public officials
there would be far smaller numb of
these outrages to deplore. Justice could
readily he safeguarded without the re-
port Of the case in the press, and were
the crank TO realize that in endeavoring
to take the life of one in authority he
was consigning himself not TO lasting
celebrity, but to an oblivion as COM
plete as that which the English press
helped. until forty years ago, to en-
velop those incurring capital punish
ment for unprintable crimes, the chief
incentive to such outrages as that to
which Mayor Gaynor was subjected the
other day would have disappeared.
Moreover, il must not be forgotten
that when not only the periodical and
daily press. but even great poets, such
as Swinburne, and authors of Ameri-
can and English fame. write glibly
about the necessity of tyranny"
such as that popularity ascribed TO the
Russian gorernment. being tempered
bv assassination" and claim indulgence
for the murderers of Muscovite imperial
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
Calls for the Adop1'0n c1 1e'~
tain Measures Chat U0uid KemeoJ
ibis Harmful La>xHJ.

a svrnpathizer with the cause OF United
italy. was taken one night to a cafe as
NapIes. where in a back room a number
Sf men were engaged in a curious game.
There was a human figure painted on
the wooden wall. and each In turn
snrang on a chair, and as he cried "Ev-
viva il Rer' C'Long live the King, } hs
swung with apparent enthusiasm, IN a.
circle his soft hat. from the interior OF
which flew, as IL hurled by sing. a
roignard. which landed with unerrin9
precision exactly in the breast or tns
figure painted on the wooden wall Ina
men were coolly practising the feat BY
means Of which they intended TO assas-
stnate King Francis, and IL was only ths
Garibaldi uprising and the overthrow oe
his regime a few weeks later that saved
his life.
In fact. there is no end 20 the IN
genuity Of criminals and cranks bent for
one reason or another on the murder
of those in authority. and no matter
how elaborate the protection furnished
by secret service agents and by police OF
every description II is impossible to as
sure their safety. That is why IL Is In.
cunnbent upon parliaments. by means OF
special legislation. and upon newspapers
by abstaining from publicity Of a natUrs
10 crafty the vanity of the criminal, To
unite in deterring attempts on the lives
Of those who are. after all. the servants
Of the commonwealth, be they mon
archs presidents of republics, cabine1
oHcars 1rovarnorS or noaVOrS
EX-ATTACHE.
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

not yet fully succeeded in regulating is that
relating to the capacity of potato barrels
When investigation of potato measures was
begun it was found that, though 25,0o0 bar
rels of potatoes in early Virginia shipments
We're being received in this city a day not
one barrel came up to the standard re-
quired by the New York State law. This
says that a potato barrel must contain 100
quarts, or ia pounds Those shipped from.
Virginia contain only 40 pounds. The
produce men laid before Mr.. DrscolI the
fact that if immediate observance of the
law were required the Southern shippers
could not get barrels OF the size demanded
here. and that as result potato famine
in this city would eusue
Mr.. Driscoll admitted the reasonableness
Of this suggestion, and accordingly has
given the produce men sufficient time In
which to effect adjustment with the ship
pers Some of the shippers however. show
no eagerness to conform to New York's
statute and a member of the Board or
Trade OF Norfolk. Va. has sent a com
munication TO q correspondent in this city
to the effect that If New York doesn't like
the barrels Norfolk shippers use II can
look elsewhere for potatoes. because Nor
folk shippers can find plenty OF markets
where their present barrels will be ac-
ccpted without question.
From this II may be seen that not every
thing in the Bureau Of Weights and
Measures is plain sailing" and that the
energetic young chief can't have every
thing his own way without struggling at
times But he doesn't intend to budse
from the stand he has taken and has pa
tience as we'll as energy.
1t is held by many persons who are in
touch with the situation that the most
benefcent result so far attained through
the recent campaign in behalf Of honest
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

United States. The measure failed OF
enactment, on the plea that the at
tempted assassination of the President
was no more serious than .murderous
attack upon an ordinary citizen.
But an attempt upon the life of the
President is a crime, not against an IN
dividual, but against the nation, and
should be punished as such by special
national law. just as is the counterfeiting
of money, postal frauds and smuggling
The law should be extended so as to
safeguard in a similar fashion the mem
bers of the Cabinet and the officials of
the federal government, and in the same
way each state should take steps to Sc
cure legislation of a similar character,
legislation possessed. by the French Re
public, on the ground. first of all. that
public officials, especially when in the
performance of their duty, are exposed
to risks of far more serious character
than ordinary citizens at the hands of
criminals and cranks; and, second,
because murderous outrages of this kind
are offences, not against the individual.
but against the commonwealth.
AS the matter stands now, and assum-
ing that the recovery of Mayor Gaynor
continues, his assailant will escape with
a more or less brief loss of liberty. In
deed, it is by no means certain that even
if the Mayor succumbed TO his injuries
his murderer would be sent to the cleo
tric chair. Probably some plea would be
put forward to the effect that he was not
altogether responsible for his actions,
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
Easy Fate of Many Who Assault Men i'm Authority

and he would escape with a perioo Oh
detention in some Iunatic asylum, from
which he would subsequently be turned
loose upon the community anew, as
cured The penalties at present I'M
posed upon offenders of his stripe are
altogether too light, and the means OF
evading them too numerous, to consul
tute any deterrent to the crime
Thus, Luigi Luccheni, the assassin OF
Empress Elizabeth has recently been
visited in his prison at Geneva by the
explorer. Harry de 5Windt. who found
him, not incarcerated in a dungeon.
but in a light and airy room. over
looking the beautiful lake. enjoying
an abundant diet. a pint Of vine and
a package of cigarettes daily. and en-
ployed in bookkeeping, the work. now
ever being purely voluntary HIS room
is furnished comfortably. with well hilec
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

on the part OF their employees Injuries any
can in transit
Another commodity over which the new
chief is keeping Il watchful eye is butter
packed in cartons Already he has caused
to be hailed TO court representatives of
one of the largest dairy firms operating in
New York City in an effort to secure a
court decision obliging the concern to have
its supposedly two-pound cartons contain
actually two pounds of butter. This con-
cern," says Mr.. Driscoll, has been selling
cartons which contained less than two
pounds, and the weight has been made up
by the carton. Forty cents a pound for
pasteboard Is too high price"
The dairy company, on the other hand,
makes the assertion that its butter is sold
by the package and not by the pound, and
that in consequence there is no reason to
claim fraud or intent to deceive. This case
is pending.
Mr.. priscou holds the practically unique
distinction OF having won out over the
Beef Trust in at least two points that his
department has had at issue with that
Formidable aggregation. No longer Will the
citizens of New York be obliged TO pay
from Is TO 30 cents a pound for the
wood used as spreaders and skewers In
meat 1t is estimated that over Slo0,obe an
nually has gone into the pockets Of meat
dealers from customers who have paid for
wood when they supposed they We're pay
ing for meat No longer will housewives
who buy fancy hams he obliged to pay for
several wrappings OF heavy paper and bur
lap at the same rate pound that they pay
for the meat Nor will they pay for shrink
age On the alleged weight of the ham be-
fore il was cured. All hams now sold in
this city must be weighed at the time or
sale
Il violation OF law which Mr.. Driscoll has
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

Mr.. Driscon feels that II honest labels
are insisted on the honest merchant and
the honest manufacturer Will thus be pro
tected from those who are dishonest, and
the heartiness which the merchants are
showing in their desire to cooperate with
him he believes indicates that they will
be as cordially glad to be rid of this trade
custom Of false markings as will the
public.
Commissioner Dr'scon gave the drygoods
men three months in which to get correct
labels on their goods owing to the large
stock carried by many of them, but Col
lector Loeb gave less than a month to the
importers in which to arrange with their
foreign agents that correct markings be
put on all goods before they are shipped TO
this country. Gables 10 Ireland, Germany
and France have been burdened with rush
messages containing orders that the houses
abroad adopt the novel practice OF mark
ing a 72-inch piece OF goods Y inches, and
IL is expected that few goods not correctly
marked will reach this country from
now on.
Mr.. Driscolls Investigations have shown
that milk dealers and farmers, and butter
men. as well the Ice men and the coal
men and the butchers have taken hand In
giving short measure to the long suffering
consumers of greater New York. Upstate
farmers and famers In New Jersey and in
Connecticut have thumped their milk cans.
and in some instances actually pounded
dents into them. that instead OF hold
ing forty quarts they have shrunk To
capacity OF thirry-nine. But Mr.. Driscoli
has given the farmers and dealers warning
that hereafter dented cans will be sealed
by the Bureau of Weights and Measures
and put out OF further use, ana he has
called on the railroads that haul these cans
into New York to sec that no care!essness
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

The recent order of the Collector Of Gus
toms. William Loeb directing that after
August Is the United States Appraiser at
i he port of New York shall refuse 10 Turn
4 over TO the consignees any goods received
here that are inaccurately labelled IS to
their measurement or quantity has created
an impression in some quarters that the
Collector had unearthed a system by means
of which importers have been defrauding
the customs
This. however, is an entirely mistaken
idea, for the false markings TO which Mr.
Loeb calls attention have in no way al
fected the assessment Of duties and IL no
way lessened the customs receipts.
What these false markings have done is
TO deceive the ultimate purchaser or con-
s,lrner OF the goods into thinking he was
getting a larger quantity for his money
rnau he actually received, and Collector
I.oeb's lew order is intended 70 furnish a
guarantee by the United States Treasury
Department that imported goods are, II
size or weight, al least. what they pur-
port ID be
This new effort OF the government 10 pro
tecr its citizens from fraud has also q
broader significance. u is in line with
the cry for honesty in public affairs and
honesty in private life that is being heard
on all sides and that takes form in anti
graft campaigns and good citizenship
leagues.
II would seem q huge undertaking for
even q powerful organization Of men TO
SCI itself the task of making a great city
honest In all its business operations. but
this is about the size OF the problem that
Clement G. Driscoll, Mayor Gaynor's Com
missioner Of the Bureau OF Weights and
Measures, IS working on.
Mr. Driscon has conferred with the ice
men, the dealers in rubber, in meat, in
Vegetables. in eggs and butter. in jewelry
snc with the drygoods men. He has dis
covered what curious business methods
have been mesquerading in good old New
York under the title OF trade customs, "
and now he is helping the honest business
snen TO get rid of these incubus-like Gus
toms, both for their own sake and for that
Of tie purchasing public.
He has Interviewed sroceTs. unarke;
men and packers and. as soon as cool
weather comes, he is going TO have some
very lively conferences With the coal deal
ers. Beyond all this. he has put into con-
crete form statements of the abuses he
found and has obtained the passage Of
& long ordinance which is destined TO cor
rect these abuses This is a good showing
for three months Of hustle. but Mr. Dris-
coll says he has only made a beginning.
Il was when Mr.. Driscoll began going
among the drygoods men that he made the
discovery which was followed By the re-
cent order from the United States Treas
ury Department relative TO the marking
and labelling OF imported goods. Some one
had given to Chief Driscll the Information
that on the shelves of shops eli over the
city were TO be found goods stamped with
measurements in excess of their actual
measurements.
II cid not sound good" to him when 6
woman investigator said. Il can buy in
almost any store bedsheets 6e by S. inches
which ere stamped 2 by 50 can buy so
inch shoesrings which measure only q
iaohes. i can buy pillow slips which are
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

fCopyrsg;st 1910, by the Brentwood Soiapaii''
Much has been printed on the SUBJECT
OF assassination OF people IN high once
since the rl2urderous attack upon the
Mayor OF New York a little more than
ten DAYS ago. But there are a few points
which seem TO have escaped attention.
and which are worthy Of consideration
The first and foremost of these is the
egregious vanity which has been tie
dominant chara creristic of the perpetra-
tor of wellnigh every attempt upon 'he
lives Of those in authority, no matter
whether monarch uresident OF republic.
,,,nistar OF state. governor or chief mag
istrate. II Is 8 characteristic which as
might nave been expected, made 1sef
a,,,,a-er,t from the very first in Mayor
f.a1-nor's assailant, who IS said to express
b.ttar disappointment when a day passes
without his name figuring in the head
lines Of the newspapers and whose one
plaint in prison is neither as TO the fate
in store for him, nor yet concerning his
more or less Imaginary wrongs in the
past. but the Joss OF his spectacies
which prevents him from aScertaining,
IL IIs4tl pl lilt VI l4tt
what is being written about him.
What the great Prince Bismarck was
wont to describe as THE lust Of fame,
end what Professor Lombroso diagnosed
as "';he craze for noJoTiety, in the case
Of wellnigh every assassin Of personages
OF high rank and Office that came under
his notice, are in ninety nine cases out
r.fT Til.a
crime. The authors thereof are. in nearly
every instance men who in no other
manner could ever hope 10 attract the
attention or TO arouse the interest Of
their fellow citizens. but who as more or
less successful perpetrators Of an at
tempt on the lives of the great are as
sured not only Of worldwide publicity
for the time being, but also Of a niche
IL history-of a lasting place, If not in
the Temple of Fame. at any rate IL that
of Infany.
The names OF the assassins Of King
Humbert, OF the Empress OF Austria of
Sadi-Carnot. President OF the French
Republic: OF Presidents Lincoln, Gar
field and Mckinley. are bound 10 endure
as long as those Of their. victims, and
the knowledge that this is certain to be
the case is as powerful an incentive to
g man in whom vanity has reached the
stage Of actual disease as is the extraor-
dinary prominence given by the news
papers to everything relating TO the life,
the antecedents, the appearance, the
tastes and the views Of the murderer. 1t
is the thirst for notorieJy, the delight OF
being in mems mouths. that brings these
cranks-for il is difficult TO describe
them by any other name-to the execu-
tion Of deeds that deserve, if they do not
always receive, the sCaffold.
Mayor Gaynor's assailant was inter
viewed after his crime, and his remarks
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
AMERICANS cRoWOING ZURICH.

Zurich, Aug. 20--It would almost appeat
as il the United States had determined t1
take a general holiday and had agreed tn
meet in this city, which, being the COM
merciaI metropolis of the Swiss Confedera-
ton, is always a favorite rallyins poina
for the sturdy sons and fair daughters ot
the ever popular Uncle Sam" Americans
are indeed, so numerous here, that any
evening where crowds do congregate,
were a rollcan OF the states 70 be called.
eacn would be well represented; while al
the large cities would have considerable
contingents.
Zurich is the official headquarters %
Robert Emmet Mansfield. Consul Generak
for the United States in Switzerland
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Sweeping lnsurgent Republican
Victory in California.
lRv Telegraph to The Tribune. J

Itfy Ie!eSrap7 70 me ITlbune J
San Francisco. Aug. S0-The sweeping
victory of inSurgent Republicans through
cut California this week was a compIets
political surprise and even veterans IN
the game OF politics have not yet recovered
from il. Any one who travelled through ths
interior of California during this campaign
could not fail 10 be impressed with the in
surgent spirit shown everywhere among tbs
farmers and fruit growers. but il was ex-
pected that the larger towns and cities
would neutraliZe this movement. On ths
contrary. all the cities in the state. excspG
San Francisco. added their quota 20 ths
big plurality OF Hiram Johnson. the san
Francisco criminal lawyer. who was chosen
as leader of the Lincoln Roosevelt I.eagus
and who Will be elected next November as
Governor OF California by a much larger
vote than he received az the frst direct
primary ever held in the state
Johnson is an eloquent campaign speaker.
and devoted himself to a denunctation ct
the Southern Pacific Railroads political
machine. which he declared had controlled
California politics for twenty-five years
His slogan was to smash this machine and
thus permit the people OF the state 10 have
a hand in making the laws Alden Ander-
son, the regular Republican candidate al
though considered by far the ablest man in
the field. proved to be third in the race.
Curry. who ran second. was the favorite
candidate of the saloonkeepers and pro-
fessional politicians, and deveIoped sucn
great strength in San Francisco that is
would surprise no one to see him apps4-
as the next candidate for Mayor OF the
city.
So strong was the revolt against the old
Republican policies that IL carried to VIC
tory nearly the entire Lincoln -Roosev-~
ticket. as we'll TWO members OF Congress
William Kent. who gave the Muir Woods
10 California fedora! park defeated
Duncan McKinlay in tho 2d District. and
w B. stephens Los Angeles lawyer,
beat James McLachlan in the 9Th District
one OF the oldest native sons OF Cali
fornia died this week in san Leandro.
which his father founded. He was j. NJ
EstudillO. Hs father was Spanish COM
man4ant at San Francisco presiCio in 1882
and ten years later he obtained a grant
from Governor Alvarado of the rancho OF
San Leandro. four leagues square contain
ing seven thousand acres. All this land
slipped away from the latest Estudillo.
and for twenty-five years ne has worked
as clerk In the auditing department. OF
the Southern Pacific Company
Stanford University has acquired the
Jarooe collection of the French Revolution.
numbering $500 pieces and very rscn In
original sources
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
NOVEL SPORT AT 5RoNxVILLE.

Those in the western part OF Westchestec
County have taken up an oldtirne sport
with modern appliances Starting next
week from the Hotel Gramat tan, the day 70
be announced later by the committee, a
hare and hounds chase will take place IN
automobiles The leading car VIII nave
start of twenty minutes and the first car
TO reach the final point will be awarded q
silver cup providing the speed limits haVs
not been violated a number OF cars naNa
already entered and the event is arousinS
much enthusiasm
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

ures. and that the dishonest merchant VINO
has been giving false quantities is in the
minority. IN spite OF the recent revelations.
A P. NJ
New-York tribune., 1910-08-21

Stanford University has acquired the
Jarooe collection of the French Revolution.
numbering $500 pieces and very rtch In
original sources
The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1910-03-12

Investigation of the cost of living does not get
very much beyond the self-evident fact that things
are as a rule rather more expensive. -Walla Walla
Statesman.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-05-20
connectieut Patents.

The list of patents issued in Con- nectfcut on the I7th day of May, 1910. as furnished from the office of F. H. Allen. follows:
 Ebben S. Allen, New Haven. cleo trically controlled gas igniting and eX- tinguishing device; August Arens and E. l.. Teich, New Britain. hotel lock. latch mechanism for emergency doors; Warren J. Belcfer, Hartford, drive chain constructions; Luke J. Belcher, Waterbury, siphon valve; Harry A. Chippendale. New London, cigar cut ter forming part of a combination tool; Keros l.. Comes, Danbury, heating utensil; Lyman G. Glazier, Pomfret Center. burglas proof safe door; Gill; bert w. Goodridge, Bridgeport, cleo trrc lamp socket cap, 2: Henry Green. Hartford, X-ray tube; James T. Ham mond, Winsted, handle; Walter A. Hol- den, Ansonia, buckle; Thomas C.. Johnson New Haven. repeating fire arm; Burton l.. I.awton, Meriden, vii orator for induction coils; Thomas Peterson, Hartford, line holder; Fran cis H. Richards, Hartford, coiling and feed mechanism, machine for nalkin s types and type bars, rolling mechan- ism, type bar. making type and type bars; Frank W. Slady. Bridgeport. pull socket: Herbert Vanderbeek, Bridge port, brake: Henry G. Voieht. New Britain. door controlling mechanism.
 Design: Joseph R. Smith, Water bury, buckle.