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New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
"A PLEA FOR JERSEY ECONOMY.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1t was gratifying 10 be reminded by
your editorial of the reduction in expense
effected in bank receiverships since the old
system of distributing appointments as po-
ltical perquisites was abandoned, and we
read with delight Justice Howard's frank
words on the scandal of eXtravagant con-
demnation proceedings They inspire hope
of improvement in that direction also
But you inform us also that 'the steering
committee" of our New Jersey Assembly
has arranged for sixteen doorkeepers. One
may call this matter only straw, but
straw shows the direction of the wind. In
this day of advancement along many good
lines, the citizens of New Jersey desire and
demand that a judicioUs economy mark the
acts of our lawmakers i'll Trenton. Taxes
arc high enough and inconyenient enough
to many already. Jobs for individuals, pay
without necessary service, are entirely out
of order. JOHN *. JONES.
Metuchen. y. j., Dec. so, 1909.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
SOME VIEWS ON COST OF LIVING.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS constant reader of your paper
permit me to mako few observations re-
garding the important question Of the cost
of living for workingman. Take, for in
stance, the rent he pays. For four decent
rooms the present rent is from $50 to S24 a
month. He could get them formerly for
SIS or s16. Look at the prices of meats.
butter eggs, etc--eggs 371h cents a dozen
and butter AZ cents a pound. | work as
checker in one of the biggest railroad
freight stations in this city. / get IS cents
hour, or, in other words. for ten hours
get only 81 80 u day. while the New York,
New Haven g. Hartford checkers get IS is
cents an hour, or for ten hours s2 SO Is
Thus there is a difference of 81 cents a day
between the rate of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. for which / work. and that
OF the New Haven road. phs does not
seem right to me- Any checker of freight
nowadays should receive at least % cents
an hour for a ten-hour day. or S15 week
What do the trusts want to do TO poor en-
pioyes? To make them paupers in free
country? Let this American government
step in and break UP all trusts of a grasp
ing and an illegal kind. Let there be free
trade, and let abolish once for all the
protective tariff. Let us have the meais,
eggs, poultry, milk and potatoes from Can
ada the Argentine Republic, Ireland and
Australia. 4 government that allows this
sitting of competition in trade is rotten.
In this free country workngmen are slaves
to a few monarchs of finance. who can
paralyze trade by raising the prices of the
necessaries of life. NJ. NJ B.
New York, Jan. >, 1909.
lit is not easy to believe that there is
q difference of "a cents day in the
wages paid in this city by different rail-
road companies for the same grade of
work. Undoubtedly the increase in the
cost of living is distressing to multi
tude of persons and a grave problem.
The country is likely to know more
about its causes when an investigation
which the Department of Agriculture is
making has been completed Perhaps
our correspondent is in a measure re-
sponsible, with millions of others of
varying financial conditions, who put up
the prices of the choice food products
by refusing to take any but the most
expensive and by generally wasteful
habits within their several limits. 1t
seems pretty clear from his denunciation
of American Industrial methods that he
has not carefully considered what is
going on in other countries. with less
advantage to those in whose behalf he ,
complains -
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04

there i are those who hint-what we
should refuse to believe except after alb
solute proof such as we do not expect
TO see-that the whole movement is
plot of Russian politicians of the Plehye
type to provoke some of tie inns into
acts which might be used a pretext
for invasion and conquest.
1t is in any event tragic that relations
should be such as they are between those
countries. 1t has needed only faithful
observance OF pledges to keep them ON
the best of terms. Finland no doubt was
at the outset reluctant to be torn from
Sweden and to be arbitrarily and un-
naturally connected with Russia. But
never did any people more loyalty accept
their fate. 1t is q hundred years since
Finland was connected with Russia as
the result of military conquest. in all
that time 1t has been more loyal TO It's
Grand Duke than Russia has been to IT'S
Car. Indeed, Finland has been conspic-
uously loyal to him as Car as well as
Grand Duke and to the Russian con-
nection. Thus in 1872, only three years
after the Russian conquest OF Finland,
Finnish troops were intrusted with the
guardianship of St Petersburg while the
Russians were helping the climate de-
stroy Bonapartes Grand Army, and in
more than one subsequent campaign Fin
nish troops have efficiently served with
the Russian forces.
The present strained relations have
been attributed by some to an attempt
of the Firms TO put new constructions
upon the constitution of their country,
to the disadvantage of Russia. That
does not appear to be the case. On the
contrary, Russia seems to have attempt
ed to do that, to the great disadvantage
Of Finland. 1t is quite conceivable that
the existing constitution and also the
act of union between the two countries
are antiquated and ought to be revised.
But justice would seem to prescribe that
the Firms themselves should have
voice in the matter They ought to do
the revising of their constitution and TO
share in the revision of the relations be-
tween themselves and Russia. But the
Russian view seems to be that in even
these matters Finland is to be ruled
absolutely by Russians at st. Peters
burg and that the Films themselves are
to have no voice in the disposition of
their own country. Whether the Firms
submit to major force or desperately
try TO resist. the case is an interna tiOnal
fra ppdy
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
COMPASSES IN THE NAVY.

When the practice of building ships
of iron instead of wood began an un-
foreseen trouble with the compass was
experienced The indications of that i'm
portant instrument were so influenced by
the metal In the vessels hull as to be
misleading and hence a source of danger.
A Washington dispatch to The Tribune
says that American naval officers are
still perplexed by the problem thus pre-
scented. which, as can be readily per-
ceived. is rather more complicated in the
case of ships of war than in that of the
merchant marine. When the proper
compensation for the disturbing effects
of the hull and machinery OF transat-
lantic steamship has been provided the
remedial action is usually permanent.
On a battleship or cruiser, however,
some Of the mischievous agencies oper-
ate only in O transitory fashion. The
firing of the guns and any damage in
flicted by the enemy modify the mag
netic qualities of the ship and heighten
the untrustworthiness of her compass
Accordingly, the Navy Department has
undertaken experiments with a device
which it is hoped may prove safer
guide TO the navigator than the mag
Eetic needle, but the precise nature of
which has not been made public.
The attention of the department has
undoubtedly been directed ere this to a
German invention which is designed as a
substitute for the ordinary compass. 1t
is a gyroscope. or small flywheel, so
mounted in gimbals that a circular card
above 1t always remains level, In spite
of the rolling and pitching of the ship.
The gyroscope conpels nom metallic
index on the card to point faithfully in
one direction. When the device was ex-
hibited to naval officers at Portsmouth,
England, few weeks ago. 1T is said to
have been the subject of much favorable
comment. Enough is apparently known
about it to justify examination on this
side of the Atlantic, if, indeed, it is not
the identical piece of mechanism men
toned in The Tribune's dispatches. In
immunity from disturbances of a mag
netic character it seems to possess an
advantage over the compass. Whether
it has faults which more than offset this
virtue is a legitimate subject of inquiry.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04

Presbyterian church in 1909. After il was
abandoned by the Presbyterians it became
In 1916. the home of a Methodist Episcopal
church. IT vas so occupied until 1884. when
II was abandoned to secular uses. WITHIN
The hose wagon passed at a gallop and
then the hook and ladder truck Changed
along.
Look at that man stealin' ride" es-
claimed Uncle Jeb pointing TO the tiiier
man.-Buffalo Express.
MAYOR GAYNOR'S FEAR.
n fear there are good may people IN this
town who do not know Charles T. Murphy
Mayor Gaynor.l
Say. Judge. now, don't you worry,
Or be disturbed by fear
That so few are acquainted
With Charles T. Murphy here.
Just keep on doing business
AS you have said you'd try,
And we will get acquainted
With Charles +. by and by.
The changes you have promised
Are In themselves alone
Enough to bring out Charlie
And make him better known.
See?
". J. HAMPTON.
Tommy-Pop. what is the difference be-
tween a probability and a possibility?
Tommy's Pop-A probability my sou, -
something you want to happen.-Philadel-
phia Record
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Notwithstanding 10 a special
dispatch from London, the financial edi-
tors Of Cnionist newspapers are aiding
the Liberal cause by showing the large
amount of business on the Stock EX-
change and the easy money market pre-
Nailing. - Secretary Dickinson of the
War Department left Porto Rico for
Santo Domingo and Havana on his way
home. == Dispatches from Bluefelds,
Nicaragua. say that General Estrada has
begun his movement westward -=
General Stewart L. Woodford. chair
man Of the Hudson Fulton Commission,
and Mrs. WoOdford have been widely en-
fertained in Holland = Emperor
Nicholas followed on foot the body Of his
grandunole the Grand Duke Michael
NichclaieVitch. 10 the Fortress OF Sts.
Peter and Paul - A report was
submitted 10 the Manitoba Medical So
ciety 10 the effect that the progress of
cancer could be checked in a patient by
vaccine derived from his own body.
DOMESTIC President Taft, after q
conference with the presidents of six
great railroad systems, decided to
divide his forthcoming message to Con-
rreSs into two parts, sending in the sec
ton relating to the antitrust law on
Thursday and that dealing with the
interstate commerce law on Friday
The President has decided to ap-
point Judge Alfred G. Coke a member
Of the new Court of Customs Appeals.
Argument in the Tobacco Trust
case was begun in the United States Su-
preTne Court; Justice Lurton took the
oath of Office. Federal Treasury
operations in December showed a sur
plus for the first time in the fiscal year.
receipts exceeding disbursements by
s., 100000 - Charles W. Morse be-
gan his f1fteen-year sentence in the
federal penitentiary at Atlanta. =-
in his annual message Governor Har-
mon of Ohio recommended the rati-
Jicalion Of the income tax amendment to
the federal Constitution. William
Barnes, jr., in an editorial in his news
paper at Albany favored Senator Hin
man for majority leader in the Senate:
II WIS said that Representative Fassett
2lso favored Mr. Hinman, but that Mr.
NoodFuffS influence would determine
who would get the place.
CTTY.-Stocks We're weak and lower.
- A merger of the Guaranty, Morton
and Fifth Avenue Trust companies was
arranged, bringing them under the in
fuence of j. p. Morgan. --= John D.
Rockefeller, jr-, was appointed foreman
cf the grand jury charged with investi-
eating the so-called white slave' traf
- Tanmany control OF the Board of
Aldermen was made secure, and Presi-
deiIt Gresser of Queens aided the as
cendant party in the board. =- Louis
Pauihan. the French aviator. arrived
here and WAS served with papers i'm a
suit by the Wright brothers. - Her
man Ridder refused his appointment as
Park Commissioner. -= Mrs. Ellis died
from burns received in a restaurant on
New Years Eve. == Mayor Gaynor
rote q letter TO Commissioner Edwards
of the Street Cleaning Department indi-
eating his reappointment.
THE WEATHER.-Indicati for to-
day: Fair. The temperature Yesterday:
Highest, 30 degrees; lowest. 33.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
THE FTNYTSH TP4GEDy

The present state of affairs in Finland
is of tragic omen. The Russo finnish
commission has ended its work with
perfunctory vote Of the Russian major
ity-the Finnish minority vainly dis
senting-in favor Of reducing the grand
duchy TO the rank of a province of the
Russian Empire. As a result, the Rus
sian government looks for widespread
insurrection in Finland, to cope with
which il has massed troops in or upon
the borders of that country and has
promulgated what amounts 10 military
law for the regulation of the ordinary
activities of the people That there is
real cause for such precautions is ex-
ccedingly bard To believe: though if
there were the case would be singu-
larly tragic, since an uprising of the
grand duchy against the empire would
be quite hopeless of success and would
surely result in the conquest and sub
jugation of fhe smaller country. IL
is far more probable that Russia has
been deceived by false rumors, though
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04

and the federal government have Tor
some time been turning to the idea OF
taxing personally indirectly. since the IN
direct method is much less costly and mas
proved more effective. Personally con-
sists chiefly nowadays of the stocks ana
bonds of corporations. But it has peen
found easier TO tax the resources ana
earnings of corporations as corporations
than TO follow them into the hands OK
individual owners and then tax them. Id
many states corporations pay taxes on
their franchises. which is only round
about way of taxing their profits. The
new federal corporation tax falls on the
net income of corporations, ana every
holder of stock in a corporate enterprise
will be obliged, if the corporation tax
section of the Payne law stands, TO sur
render ] per cent of his income from
dividends. This dividend income is also
subject TO taxation under state law i'll
some commonwealths, so that the indi-
rect burden put upon personally has
been largely increased and is still in
creasing.
TO insist now on the application of
high direct tax rate on personally would
mean an undue penaIiza ton of that form
of property Realty is less easy to assess
because of the lack of an active market.
II may get on the tax list at an under
valuation, while stocks and bonds, hay-
ing A definite face value and selling in
a wide and active market, cannot well he
undervalued. Taxed at the same rate
Ia
weld larger return in proportion to
their value. Moreover, the earning
powers of corporations are subject TO
restriction 10y legislation. Railroads and
other public service corporations cannot
raise their charges beyond certain
point without the sanction of the state.
Their dividends are thus limited. while
returns from real estate are not limited
in that way. The owner of realty can
usually pass on an added tax burden TO
The tenant, who pays the extra imposi-
ton in the form of rent But the rail-
roads and the other public service cor
porationS cannot pass along a similar eX-
ira charge without question. since their
rates are subject TO the supervision of
both the state and the federal authorities
The direct personally tax has been large
IL abandoned as an anachronism. To re-
yive it and enforce ii on a complete
assessment basis, as Governor Harmon
suggests would be 10 ignore modern
tendencies in taxation and would aggra-
vate. rather than remedy. inequalities in
the apportionment of burdens on taxable
property.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
WINE AND WORK.

From The Dundee Advertiser
The biography of Sir Wilfrid Lawson
which has just been published, contains a
good story of Mr.. Gladstone's physician,
Sir Andrew Clark He once recommended
his illustrious patient to take wine Mr.
Gladstone expressed some surprise at this
as he believed Sir Andrew was tenn
perance Doctor Sir Andrew replied: "Oh.
through work. For instance, | have often
twenty letters to answer after dinner and
pint of champagne is great help" In
deed" remarked MIR. Gladstone does a
pint of champagne really help YOU TO an
swer the twenty letters?" mo. no." Sir
Andrew explained, but when I've had a
pint of champagne | don't care a ran
whether ! answer them or not"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
People and Social Incidents

Ogden Jones both of New York; Mrs. Bur-
ton Harrison. Mrs. HELEN and Mrs. Arthur
Addison. A number of this seasons deou-
tantes were with Miss Whiting
John Barrett. director OF the Bureau Of
American Republics. entertained at dinner
tonight the Postmaster General, Mr.. and
Mrs Larz Anderson, Mrs. Joseph Stickney.
of New York: Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. CroInin-
shield, Miss du POnt, Miss Carolyn Rey-
nolds, of Providence. Miss Isabel MAY,
Oden HorstmaRn and r. Foster Reyu-
olds. of Providence. The entire party oc-
cupied boxes at the Belssco following tbs
dinner and then attended the Charity Ball
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
SHOPPING IN RETROSPECT.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Christmas shopping spirit in
Minneapolis we'll other cities this year
was manifestly an Improvement over that
of preceding years. Many OF the shoppers
got in line as early as November, a cir
cumstance which greatly spared the tenn
pers of the merchants. as well as saving
both them and their clerks a considera BILE
amount of trouble and worry.
Hitherto in most large cities the shoppers
have kept putting off their buying until
just a few days before Christmas The
newspapers have been of inestimable value
In changing this condition. The merchants
and their employees have greatly appreciated
this movement, and hope to sec it repeated
until it becomes an annual custom
LEE Nj. BOURQUIN.
Minneapolis, Dec. %, 1909.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
THE "KryD WORD, roR vrrpHv

I. Y
y subtle man is Mr.. Murphy. While
his correspondents study the temperature
or the satellite Hyde, and while Yankee
Doodle" delivers to the source of SIM
plies an eloquent and moving talk upon
Democracy. the boss lays siege by ex-
presslons OF sympathy and hearty CO.
operation. He counts that there is moth
ing 10 be gained by making demands or
presenting slate or in any way fall
ing into the fatal error of Croker's man
ner of dealing with Van Wyck. which
had scandalized a high judicial officer at
Lakewood. The new Mayor reouired
delicate handling. To ask little was
evidently the way to obtain most.
So it has proved. If the boss had pre-
sented slate he would not even have
obtained the very handsome tribute to
his disinterestedness, public spirit and
lofty aims which his skilful address
gained for him. 4 subtle man. He has
evidently surprised and pleased AIayor
Gaynor. Whether or not he continues TO
show his sympathy with the new execu-
tive's anti-machiDe predictions. he will
probably have a splendid opportunity of
demonstrating his belief that political
ideas and virtue" not patronage. keep an
organization alive. Since he will have
little else, we hope no one will refuse the
kind words which Mr.. Gaynor requests
for him. The statue of Purity came
down just in time. With Murphy on the
pedestal upon which the Mayor has
placed him without SO much as a twinkle
of the eye at the humor of taking him
literally, that symbol of virtue would
have been superf1uous
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
GETTING EVEN In ST. LOUIS.

st. Louis dispatch to The Chicago Tribune
IF you enter car and find il dirty or
Uttered with refuse. or if is too hot or too
cold. hold on TO your nickel and call the
police"
This is the official edict of the Board
of Health and the Police Board for resu-
latioa of the cars of the United Railways.
inst issued -
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
Nesu~11nrk Grib1s.re.
TUESDAY. JANUARY 4. 1910.

This newspaper iG Ot0ned and pub
iisbed 6y The Tribune association. u
Neio York corporation; Office and prfn-
cipaI place Of business, Tribune Build
fSlg. No. l54 Nassau street, NetC YORK.;
ogGcn Mills. president; Henry ".
SacEetf. secretary; James IL. Barrett,
treasure. The address of the of'cers is
ihc Office of this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
We shall now have "kind words" tested
as a substitute for the cohesive power
of public plunder,

The disabling of the Staten Island
ferry will doubtless be of short duration,
but while it lasts it serves as a reminder
of the old days when crippling of the
archaic triremes which fitfully strove to
ply between the Battery and st. George
was a matter of almost daily occurrence
end when days on which the service was
unimpeded were marked with red letters
in the Richmond calendar. With all its
faults, the new service is so vastly su-
perior to the old as to incline the philo-
sophie wayfarer to forgive it much
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04

ner which moves .his friends to acclaim
him as a great secretary. 1t VIII be an
interesting and auspicious commemora-
tion of his fathers centenary to nave
him go as peer to represent the SOW
ereign In one of the chief divisions of the
British Empire.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
BlCCBOARDS.
From The Milwaukee Journal.

From The Milwaukee Journal
The time will come. and that at no late
day, when the use OF billboards will be far
more restricted than is tne case to-day
And it is right that such restriction should
come. for tho billboard Is neither a thing
of beauty nor an educator of public taste.
1t is rather sign OF commercialism ram
pant and civic pride siumbering
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
BABCY.

From The Rochester Post-Express
"A Pennsylvanian,' according to ''Th.
Philadelphia Ledger. has had a boy ~
cigars thirty-eight years, smoking one q
year" Perhaps they are Pennsylvania
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
EXPLAINED,

From The schenectady Union.
Walter Wellnan says there are no able
economists in Congress. This explains his
absence from that body.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04

dance at the St. Regis on January -.
Nine Tetrazzini. NJ Gilbert and ssrgs
Rachmaninoff were the artists yesterday
at Albert Morris Bagby's musical morning
at the Waldorf. The ballroom. as usual.
was crowded, among those seen being Mrs
John e. Wilmerding. Mrs William Kings
land. Mrs. John E Alexandra. Mrs. James
p. Kernochan. Mrs. E. Clarkson Potter.
Miss Emily Potter. Mrs. Samuel r. Bsr-
tron. Miss Elizabeth Bertron. Miss Anna
and Miss Pauline Robinson. Mrs. Albert
Gould Jennings and Miss Jean whitridse
Mrs. Edward Dean Adams VIII give 4
dinner this evening for her daughter. Miss
Ruth Adams.
The second dance OF the Junior CotIlons
will take place this evening az Shsrry's.
Many dinners viii be given previous 10 the
dance. 10 which the hOstssseS aftsrward
viii take their guests.
Mrs Munroe Smith gives a dinner this
evening for her debutants daughter. Miss
Gertrude Munroe Smith.
Miss Emily III. Bedford will be uarrtet
to-day at the home of her parents. Mr.
anu MIS- EuNdIu l. be0Ic-us NO -S- Nith-
ton avenue. Brooklyn. 10 Preston Davie.
Only relatives and few intimate friends
viii be present at the ceremony.
The Motor Car Touring Society viii give
dinner for Commander Peary. u. 5. ~.
at the Union Club on Saturday. Among
the other guests win be Andrew Carnegie.
Seth Low. William Trayers Jerome and
the Marquis de Bsauvoir- Albert Eugens
Gallatin is president OF the society and
orne Wilson. jr.. the secretary. AnonS
the twenty-five members are Cortiandr
Field Bishop. Il. Thornton Wilson, Malcolm
ID. sloane. Percy r. Pyne. ID. Newbold
Morris. Marshall r kernochan. Aynar
Johnson Phoenix Ingraham, r. L Y. Hop
pin, Lawrsncs L. Gillespie and Stuyvesant
Fish. jr.
Mrs Charles Phelps and Mrs. Anset
Phelps will give a reception at their new
house, No. Us East slst street. on ths AZ
ternoon of January II.
Miss Mary and Miss Carol Hartman, re-
turned 10 town yesterday rrcm their coun-
try place at Arden. n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Searls Barclay n.
sail for Europe tomorrow TO spend the Ta-
mainder OF the winter abroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. stephen H. Ohm have gcnA
70 Quebec ter stay Of few dayA
New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Miss Electra Haveuaeyer. daughter os
Mrs. III. o. Havemsyer. win be married
to j. Watson Webb. son OF Dr.. and Mrs.
". Seward Webb. on Shroys TUESDAY.
February S. The wedding will be small
and will take place in St. Bartholomew
Church. 1t viii he followed By a small
reception at the home OF the BRIDES moth
er. I'm East 6sth street.