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New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
THE MERIT SYSTEM PROTECTED

THE MERIT SYSTEM PROTECTED.
4 unanimous decision handed down
few days ago by the Appellate Division
in the Third Department is Of general
interest TO Civil Service employees and
Civil Service refOrmers, since II checks
Il movement which would have opened
q wide and convenient side door Of en-
trance into competitive positions. For
several years the Civil Service rules OF
the state have allowed transfer from
an exempt to competitive position only
where the candidate is one of the first
three on the eligible list for fhe com
petitiye place At one time the rule
allowed transfer. as the law permits but
Goes not command. if the candidate had
passed the examination and attained
any place however low on the list. 1t
was found, however. that this gave an
unfair advantage to candidates Of in
ferior ability who had pull and
could secure temporary appointments to
exempt places merely TO lay the foun-
dation for transfers to permanent COM
petitiye positions SO the door to ia
yoritism was closed. and no dangerous
attempt was made TO open it until re-
Gently.
The case just decided was that Of
John T. Kelly, the personal clerk of
Justice Josiah T. Marean, of the Su-
preme Court, Kings County, an exempt
employe who wished a transfer to the
competitive position of court attendant
at a somewhat lower salary. The rea-
son was that Justice Marean's term eX-
pires in 1912. The new justice might
want his own personal clerk. SO it was
planned to protect Mr. Kelly by giving
him a place among the competitive
court attendants He had taken the
examination and been placed No. 129 on
the eligible list. Last January Justice
Marean asked for the transfer, but the
state Civil Service Commission held
that Mr. Kelly was not eligible under
the rule. Later the justices in Kings
County by resolution attempted to make
the transfer. and laid the foundation for
an action by Mr. Kelly to secure It by
mandamus.
The Civil Service law provides that no
transfer shall be made from an exempt
to Il competitive position unless the
."same be specially authorized by the
state or municipal commission" and in
addition forbids such & transfer unless
the candidate has attained n place
upon the eligible list" Mr.. Kelly and
| the Kings County Justices held that at
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
rsy Telegraph to Tho tribunal


Nauport. Nov. Ex-senator ana NsA
c,.orre Peabody wetnorc and Miss "e'-
NOR. left here to-day for washington fo'
tho winter
James V. Parker has returned 70 NV
yor. closing his season here Hs VII -
main In New York for shor: time oe'ofs
going South.
.rrs French Vanderbilt has decided to -
main hero all next month before openfns
her New York house
Mrs Marsden J. Perry has closed Der sss-
son here and returned TO Providence fof
the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Little, OF New fofA'
ar, tho guests OF Mr.. and Mrs sidney
Jones Colford, IT.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry A C. Taylor naNo
dac.ded TO 60 to New York on next MOI
day. ..-.
Miss Edith Colford IS visiting relatives
here.
Mr.. and Mrs z D. Morgan have re-
turned to New York
Mrs John Nicholas Brown Will go 10
Sev York tomorrow for visit
Mr.. and Mrs. prescott Lawrence have re-
turned from New York.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
THE NEGROES OF BALTIMORE.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The morning news from Baltimore
showing that the West ordinance, seeking
to segregate negroes, is practically GER
tain to pass the city council is a matter
Of solicitude to every right thinking Amer
lean.
Twenty years ago the negroes of Baitf-
more lived principally under the worst al
ley conditions. Since that they have strug-
gled saved and bought valuable property
Druid Hill avenue, which they practically
own. would be one of the best streets in
the city II the city would pave II decently.
But one street cannot house 10O,0C people
The negroes have, therefore, begun buying
mot renting. but buying) property in ad-
jacent streets. The result is fragrant at
tempt to curtail the simplest economic
rights OF men by establishing ghetto out
side Of which negroes cannot live.
With this extraordinary move must be
coupled the words of Samuel H. Gompers
at ST. Louis. Mr.. Gompers did not say
apparently that negroes already In the
trade unions would be put out, but he did
give emphatic reasons for stopping further
accessions of negro members.
What does this all mean? It seems 10
me perfectly clear. After the succe ssful
assault on the black mans political rights
there is coming to-day an attempt all along
the line to curtail his right to work and
to acquire property. Just as the negro was
largely disfranchised before the practice
was translated into law, so to-day the
unions have, with few exceptions, largely
kept black men out of work and the labor
customs of Southern states have stolen his
wages Now gradually but surely the at
tempt is made to put these customs into
law Is it not high time for the long ST.
lent champions of decency and fair play
in the race problem to voice mighty pro-
test against these latest manifestations OF
race prejudice? W. f B. DUBOIS-
New York Noy. %, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
PEOPLE and Social incidents
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mie. charlotte Ie Roy Giovers vef6fn.
% Lewis Roberts, OF Yonkers. takes pIae,
today I'm St PauIs Church, Fairfield
Conn and will Be followed by a breakfas.
and reception given by her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Sheet Glover. Of No. los1
E,,.h Avenue. at the MoorIands. their coun-
try place near Fairfield
Among the debutantes who will b prs.
sented to society to-day Is Miss Margaret
Kernp. for whom her mother. Mrs Georz.
william Kemp, Will give large reception
at her house. I'm East list street. followed
by a dinner and theatre party
Miss Katharine Shaw comes out to-fsv
at a reception given for tho purpose by her
mother. Mrs. Thomas Francis Shaw, at hs-
house. In West 51st street AfterTard Mrs.
Shaw will entertain the receiving party
and some additional guests at dinner, fol-
lowed by an informal dance.
Mrs. George Sherman Weaver will also
/ give a reception this afternoon at her
| bouse. In East 9th street. for the debus q:
| her daughter, Miss Annetta Weaver.
| Mrs. William 9. Edgar gave a reception
Yesterday afternoon at her house. IN Eas,
| 10Th street. for the debut Of her daughter
Miss Mary Chapman Edgar In the rs
| ceiving party were Miss Anita Merle Smith.
Miss Alice Damrosch. Miss Susan Colgate.
! Miss Eleanor Baldwin. OF Baltimore; Miss
Charlotte Cheney. Miss Beatrix BueI. Miss
Ruth Comstock. Miss Dorothy Dennis and
Miss Sara McAIpin Pyle a dinner and
dance followed. and among The additional
guests were Donald Sinclair, Joseph Hoax-
land, Julien Thompson. John 5I.,ey, Of
Rochester; Henry Colgate, Frank Larkfn.
! Philip Fisher and Forrest Buttsrworth-
Mrs. Edgar will give a second reception.
followed by a theatre party. next Friday.
Mrs Edward Menocal also introduces
her daughter. Miss Marjorie Dodd. yest.r-
day afternoon, at a reception at her horns
in West 18th street. The debUtante was
assisted IN receiving by Miss Margaret
Kemp, Miss Martha Brevoort. Miss Hem
rtetta Thaw, Miss Marjorie Lawson, Miss
Mar1orfs Bryan, Miss Dorothy Camp and
Miss Mary Bovee. Informal dancing fsr
lowed the reception
Mr.. and Mrs Dave Hennen Coddington
gathered around them a few friends yes
terday afternoon at their house. in East
18th street, for the christening OF their twin
boys The Rev Dr. George c. Houghton
offlciated. Mrs Coddington was Miss Violet
cushman, daughter of Mrs William Per-
kins Draper by former marriage.
Lady Maxwell, who has been spending
few weeks with her father, John B0nFnge,
at the Belmont, sails to-day on board the
Carmania TO rejoin her husband, Major
General Sir John Maxwell, at Cairo. where
he is in command Of the British army of
occupation in Egypt.
Mrs Charles Luther Burnhan Is rec0T-
ering from a recent operation for appen-
dicitis. and will soon be able to return 10
, her home in 5Tth street
| Mrs Frederick Abercroubte-Anier and
her daughter, Miss Edith Abercrom1is-
Miller, whose engagement to Walter Rupert
Tuckernan, Of Washington. Tas announeea
a few days ago, were tho guests over
THANKSGIVING Of Mr.. and Mrs Frederic
Ashton de Peyster At Morristo"n' " =
Mrs de Peyster Is daughter OF Ars.
!, Abercrombie-Milier
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

tanning place on the lis. eve wa' reouire-
plete alternative to the 49, com
ment. and that in such case .ne e. ~
mission had no discretion. 'usue @ t,.,ad
Beuf, before whom the case was ..ieu, y,
upheld this contention on the strens.h gu
Of decision ~ Justice woodward sew
eral ycars aoo sustaining Similar
transfer III Buffalo as pein5 ~ 1u,o tho
with the Buffalo rule, "n,on, E .uons
state rule at that time, alioweu uans n.
fers TO persons attaining any p,ace ~.
the list Justice lie Beuf held Una. Inc :.e
Civil Service commission exceeded us
powers in restricting transfers withln u
narrower range than the Id" ~, . ro-
The Appellate Division uh"ii,i I,,,+ioo
verses that judgment fresioins 49, ,o+
Smith points out that the Ia" uoe ~
establish any right of transfer pul on,s .hs
puts Limitations on the powers Oh uie
commission to grant tr'ihsie''
says:
1 can see no reason why one .,o iLoiu,mo Iar'
a position In the exempt class VI 't,o ooio, p,
vice should be entitled 10 aiiS 81 or
consideration in an appncailln n,ass It
pointment in the competlti'e ett he
would almost seem that he might ~
content with the special IaVol IN
him in his appointment to the posisiol, on,oI
the exempt class Moreover, IL tno "a
mission were by it's rules Ieq ri,h+
give such an application prlofils C in a
in the certification it might reSu.. 80
Generalization Of the system ps w. av-
curement of an appointment TO tlie 20
emDt class for the special purpose VI
obtaining a prior right in the aPP,,i:.
ton to a position In the compe'i'i'o
class
Justice Smith holds that the eAls'iiis
rule is legal and that Mr.. Kelly has no
right TO transfer under it. In separa,e
opinion Justice Kellogg says tnat "h,io
in his Judgment the transfer might pe
legally allowed, discretion rested Will
the commission to allow or refuse II.
This decision is of great Importance lof
the preservation of equal opportunity
in the Civil Service and the attainment
Of the highest efficiency. Whiie 'no
single transfer desired might nave peel'
harmless. or even convenient, SO lai 10
tho work Of the courts In Kings County
went. the establishment OF the uoctilhe
that the Civil Service Commission was
without the discretion II had long eAer-
c,sed. but must allow any transfer lroii'
an exempt to a competitive place ~h1ch
was not a promotion, provided the can
didate had passed the examination, even
though there might be hundred oettei
enuipped men above him on the nst
wouId inevitably have had most de-
moralizing effect on the service.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
from Tho Tribune Bureau


washington Nov Z5-The Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy and Mrs Beekman
winthrop will have as their guest for a
week, beginning Monday. Miss Margaret
Ide. younger daughter OF the Minister to
Spain
Mr.. and Mrs Winthrop will have as their
guests at the Army and Navy football game
Captain and Mrs Cameron Winslow, Miss
Adele Colgate, Of New York: Captain Sow
erby, British naval attache; Goodhue Liv-
ingston. Henry du Pont and Erskino Wood,
Of New York.
The Assistant Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Huntington Wilson. who arrived In New
York yesterday afternoon after three
months in Europe, reached their Washing
ton homo to-day.
Among those from Washington going tc
the Army and Navy game are Rear Admi-
raj and Mrs. Mason, Rear Admiral and
Mrs Wainwright, Lieutenant wainwright
Representative and Mrs Richmond P. Hob
son. Senator Brandegee. Rear Admiral and
Mrs Hemphill, Rear Admiral and Mrs
Sands Rear Admiral and Mrs Brownson
Representative ]. Van Vechten Olcott
Senator Taylor. Miss Nina Van Arsdale
Miss Ruth Halford, Miss Mary McCauley
Miss Alma RuggIes. Brigadier General an6
Mrs Henry G.. Sharpe and Captain e. q
Moore.
The Assistant Secretary OF War and Mrs
Robert Shaw Oliver are entertaining fol
| the week end their son-in-law and daush
i ter Mr.. and Mrs. Choate.
| Miss Isabel Clark entertained at dinner
| tonight In compliment to Miss Eleanor
Terry and Lieutenant Filfppo Camperio
Her other guests were Lieutenant and Mrs
| Charles Russell Train. Miss Margery Col
ton, Miss Gilmore Miss Amylita Talbot
| Captain L. Mason GuIick, Newton Gulicl
| and Lieutenant William D. Leahy.
The license for the marriage Of Leuten
| ant Camperio and Miss Terry was procured
| to-day. The wedding will take place OF
December I.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
ROOSEVELT TO MEET BALDWIN
Governor Elect Of Connecticut and Ex
President Invited to a Dinner.
tRy Telegraph to The Tribune

(Ry Telegraph TO The Tribune.l
New Haven. Conn. Nov. 25-Unless ex-
Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin, Demo
cratic Governor-elect OF Connecticut, falls
In line with the action OF ex-president
Roosevelt when he refused to eat with
Senator Lorimer. in Chicago. the Judge
and the ex-President will sit down TO din
ner together at the Yale dining hall. De-
cember 1a. at the annual dinner OF the
New Haven Chamber Of Commerce
When Judge Baldwin was running for
Governor he was criticised In a speech at
Concord. N. H. by Mr.. Roosevelt az being
retrogressive Judge. Judge Baldwin
then said that he would sue Mr.. Roosevelt
for slander. New Haven people think the
estng.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
From The Tribune Bureau.

Washington, Nov 3--The Japanese Min
lister and Baroness Uchida entertained at
dinner tonight for Lieutenant Commander
s. Kurosi, who Is on his way TO England
to Investigate the latest methods Of con-
structing big guns. and the new military
attache Colonel K. Inouye- Their other
guests were the members Of the staff and
few others
Countess Moltke, wife Of the Danish Min
lister, will join him at the legation in 18th
street on Sunday morning. She has been
with her parents In Lancaster and Boston
since early summer
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
uc aND MRS. DIX AT THOMSON

Albany. Nov. 25-Governor-electa ana a,is
John A. Dix left here for Thomson 'O-ua,
In their automobile. The Governor -,
said he was devotins most OF his unie :,
readiusting his private business 80 -,
after he becomes Governor he can ~ So stata
Whole attention TO the people or 'nr 'nn9roooossd posed
he uoes fs to public Offices untA ~
month. MONTH Mr.. and MrA DIX rs<aFns~
baay to-niGhA
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
~Ien1-1lori Wibnan.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER &c, 1910
This .elcspGper is olenled and pub |

This newspaper is ol07led and pub
Iiyhed by The Tribune association. q
Aelc York corporation; office and prin-
cipal place Of business, Tribune Build
iug, No. 154 Nassau street, Neto York; ;
ogden Hills. president; ogden IL Reid,
secretary; James IL. Barrett, treasurer.
The address Of The officers is the Office
OJ tHis newspaper
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
FOR REGENERATION,

from The PittSburg Gazette-Times.
switzerland Is to invite the nations to a
.,onielehce ., on the subject of improving
tne calendar One needed reform would
seem 10 be the Introduction of a day Of
rest sxtsr Thanksgiving Snd ChxistmAA
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Is It unreasonable to suggest that 1t is
time the 0aynor administration had sub
way policy which means construction ana
not indefinite delay THE New York World.
The Mayors lack OF definite policy ls
n striking contrast with the attitude Of
Controller Prendergast and President
Mitchell Of the Board of Aldermen. They
have got beyond the point Of going 'on
their knees" over maps.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Advice from the Chamber OF ooiil-
merce committee on rapid transit shouio'
of course, be welcomed, as Mayor Gay
nor says, but the public may not De
greatly Influenced by 1t. 1t was that
committee which opposed the constltu-
tional amendment making funds avail
able for subway construction and whfch
recentlv reported that the triborough
subway could never be made to pay.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
OR MET AN AUTOMOBILE.

From The B.nghamton Republican,
Thirty-fonr au aviators have met wiSh fata!
&c ,hsm rnieht the last year sun soa na
" they had Nua1asd o. 1ho ground
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Senator Aldrich said that the United
States government could save S3oooO'-
900 a year by business methods. AND
now experts say that the railroads
which use business methods could save
$500, 100000 by scientific" management.
What could the government save by
scientific management?
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Imprisonment for the window smash
ing sufrragettes. but without hard labor.
Is that another example Of invtdious
discrimination against the unfranchised
sex2
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Another reduction of running time be-
tween New York and Philadelphia tndi-
Gates the progress which this city Is
making IN the Improvement OF It's sub
urban traffic
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Three cheers for the United Services
united in the tumult and the tussle Of
the football field.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

MARKS ana there will be the usual hu''''''
OF lesser prizes.
r.estIe ome orators said Senator Sorsnm,r, mar
rot" me 'hiiih
IRE .Tne one 9 whose head you chopped on on for
,ha. res so ne had to take all the blame savl ivl
i,n, Mt,at S4Wn,eppooy else insisted on MS
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26
THE CHARLES DICKENS STAMPS.

Clarkson, Md, Nov. "a, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Mrs George Sherman Weaver will also
give a reception this afternoon at her
house, in East 9Th street. for the debut q.
her daughter, Miss Annetta Weaver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-11
ARMY BILL PASSES.
Bill Carrying Statehood to Arizona
and New Mexico Is Introduced.

Washington, Jan. 11.-Carrying an
appropriation Of $95, 100000 for the
maintenance of the army for the fiscal
year of 1911, the army appropriation
bill passed the house today by a vote
of 1873 to 106; present and not voting
9. The opposition was due to the fact
that the department estimates were
exceeded.
Representative Hamilton, Michigan,
chairman of the house committee on
territories today submitted to Presf-
dent Taft, the draft of bill granting
separate statehood to New Mexico
and Arizona.
The bill includes the recommends
ton of President Taft that separate
selection should be had for the adop-
ton of constitutions at another time
from that of the selection of state Of
ficers, the president has stated that he
did not desire another Oklahoma in
cident."
The president approved Mr.. Hamil-
tons bill, and the latter expressed the
hope that statehood would be granted
to the last two territories at this ses-
sion of congress.
Chairman Serene z. Payne of the
house ways and means committee, met
a temporary reverse in committee to-
day in his effort to have President
Taft's railway and antitrust message
referred it its entirety to the commit
tee on interstate and foreign COM
merce. Representative Gaines moved
that the usual form of referring the
resolution be adopted which meant
that the message would go to the in
terstate and foreign commerce and
judiciary committees and Mr.. Payne
finally accepted the amendment. A
Democratic motion referring the mes
sage specifically to various commit
tees according to the subjects treated
was lost.
When the resolution reached the
house today no action was taken, and
it will lie on the speakers table.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-11
JOKE ON MAYOR GREEN.
Invited to Deliver an Address to the
Brewers.

The brewers of st. Louis have a good
one on Mayor Green or else Mayor
Green has good joke on the brewers.
It seems that the brewers have a big
league formed and with the newspapers
under their control they make great
features on the present prohibition
laws. This league is called the National
Model License league.
They have a big national gathering in
st. Louis in February and they have
asked Mayor Green to deliver an ad-
dress to them. In their polite request
they ask that the mayor say nothing
that would oppose their ideas On pro-
hibition.
When asked if he would accept the
invitation Mayor Green laughed and
said:
IT wish I had the tongue of John j.
ingalls,. I would arrange to be at that
big banquet and national gathering and
after they had given me the floor ]
would tell them just what thought of
their work and their attempts to break
up prohibition in this country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-11


ing. will be held from the house at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon in charge
of Amity Lodge No. 231 K. p.
The Fraternal Aid will hold a social
dance tomorrow night.
All members of An1ity Lodge No. 231
are requested to meet at their hall at l
o'clock tomorrow afternoon to attend
the funeral of George Cooper in body.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Stahl, formerly of
Auburn, now of Los Angeles, Cal, were
the guests of Rev. wv. Waldron, pas
tor of the Kansas Avenue Methodist
church over Sunday
Paul Priddy of Elmont is visiting at
the home of Roy Boast, 800 Jackson
street.
Miss Ethel Neiswender of Kiro has
returned home after a visit with her
cousin, Miss Alice Peyton.
Rev. David H Lyons, pastor of the
Central Avenue Christian church, has
requested the members of the Sunday
school to always bring their Bibles with
them. "a fx
We have a very fhe line of children's
Bibles and Testaments. Why not get
the boy or girl a fine one for Sunday
school use. We have them at So cents.
BARS Wall Paper and Book store.
Bijou tonight, great western film,
ION the Western Frontier" Other
subjects. Orchestra.