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New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
METZ ON BUDGET.
His Viezo of Way to Keep
Dozen City ErpenScs.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune.


Philadelphia. JAN I5.-Declaring that in
reference of civic organizations i'm the
financial department of city. no matter
how 1audable the object is a hindrance
rather than help. when theories and not
practical suggestions are offered. Herman
a. Metz, former Controller of New York
City. said in address at the City Club
to-day that the only way to keep down
municipal expenses is to have scientific
budget"
He also declared, speaking of real estate
values for assessment purposes that these
assessments should be made public thus
approving this phase of the campaign now
under way in this city to equalize assess
ments.
The budget, he explained. in effect in
New York is distinct from the budget as
known in nearly all of the large cities.
Philadelphia included. 1t fixes the amount
for each department in the city for the
year, allows no transfers from one depart
ment to another except by vote of twelve
members of the Board of Estimate, and
no departments expenses can exceed the
sum allotted.
In this way we know every cent is go
ing before it is spent" he said ''Of course
provision is made for the emergencies, this
being done by special revenue bonds The
plan has worked we'll i'll New York, and
there is no reason why it should not do
the same i'll other cities"
Mr.. Metz declared that the scientific
budget is a factor that Is lacking in large
cities. The sooner cities adopt it the
nearer they will be TO ideal government"
he said.
All through his talk the speaker -empha-
sized the fact that 1t is mighty poor busi-
ness to transfer appropria tionS from one de-
partment TO cover up deficiencies in an
other This, he said. was the basis of
municipal extravaganza
OF the proposed separate assessments for
this city he said, i'll answer to a question,
that the subject has two sides. The theory
that unimproved land should be assessed
at the same figure as improved land was
not generally approved, he declared He
said he thought the assessment should be
based on the rental value of the property
But, after ALL he continued, "the real
and assessed value of property is never
known until the city buys il for some pur-
pose another. Then the difference is
evident"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
appliances for train service for the protec-

appliances for train service for the protec-
ton of its passengers and employees.
Abiding to the fact that President Taft
has recommended in his message Federal
incorporation. IN fact that practical ex-
ciusion OF state authority shall exist over
railways engaged in interstate commerce,
the Governor of New Jersey said:
while my state Is probably quite as
deeply interested in that as any state,
believe In this nation, i'm Its greatness and
in the union of the states, and If to solidify
and strengthens the Republic and to promote
the legitimate growth and development of
the industrial interests of this nation, fed
eral incorporation seems essential: / shall
not be found against the broadening of
national power on any theory of state lines
as boundaries
One point made By the speaker was that
regulation is not necessarily arbitrary con-
troll, but an intelligent supervision.
Chancellor Day said: 1.-The present age
makes it absolutely indispensable that the
chief man of the country shall he the man
to whom the responsibility of direction and
management shall be handed over. I do
not believe that the politician. OF necessity,
is the best man to manage great interests
represented in railway, commerce and man
ufactures The man who should manage
business is the man who creates business.
This whole matter of antitrust and anti
corporation agitation is largely due to false
principles and entirely erroneous concep-
tions We were not born equal, we have
not been equal we never shall be equal, and
the responsible authority for this, I say, is
the Creator who made us unequal. You
cannot legislate a man into state of
equality with his neighbor.
II believe that the men who have brought
the oil out OF the wells and have turned
iron into manufactures and have taken
fuel with which they have created power
and energy. believe these men are public
benefactors, even though they get a little
profit out of it themselves. Why Mr.. Nor
gan has not the same right 10 use twenty
combinations with twenty millions each that
farmer i'm New Jersey has to manage
twenty farms for purposes OF stock raising
or the dairy, do not understand. and you
can't tell me the ethical difference"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
NO MORE DARK CELLS.
Punishment Prisons To Be Installed at
Clinton and Auburn.

Albany, Jan. l5.-Dark cells as a punish
nent for convicts in the various prisons of
the state are to be abolished. For years re-
iractory criminals have been punished by
solitary confinement in cells without raw
Of light, but with the completion of two
so-called punishment prisons within the
walls Of Clinton and Auburn state prisons
this mode of punishment will give way TO
isolation In large, light. airy cells
These new isolation houses will each con-
tain twenty-four cells. with q floor space
of by feet, each cell opening into a
yard where 1T will be possible for the con-
victs to exercise. although in solitary con-
fnement
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.

rFrom Tho Tribune BuresuI
Washington, January Is.
ORDERS ISSUED.-The following orders
have been issued
ARMY
Major GEORGE BELL. Jr.. inspector general
return to Vancouver Barracks.
Major MORRIS X BARROLI. paymaster. to
Cheyenne, report 70 commanding general
Department of the Missouri.
Second Lieutenants FREDERICK w
BOSCHEN, 18th Infantry; HENRY s.
BRINkERHOFF, Jr., 9th Infantry. and
FRANK c. MCUNE. 18th Infantry. to
Fort Leavenworth. February 1. exsmina-
tion for promotion
Second Lieutenant DONALD NJ. REERE from
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
FORAKER AT WHITE HOUSE.
EE-Senator's First Visit There in
Several Years.

Washington, Jan. 15.-Kx-Senator Fora
ker, of Ohio. called at the White House to-
day. Il was his first visit there in num-
ber of years, for in the last part of the
Roosevelt administration he seldom went
near the executive mansion. Mr. Foraker
said he merely called to pay his respects to
President Taft and thank him for having
reappointed his brother, Creighton Foraker
as marshal of New Mexico. The interview
was not long, and If any political consid-
erations entered into it they did not appear
to have been of consequence.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
N. Y. CENTRAL WRECK INQUIRY

Albany. Jan. i5.-The Public Service Com
mission, I'd District. on Monday will take
up the investigation of the collision on the
New York Central Railroad at Croton-on-
file-Hudson, on December 81, in which
Spencer Trask. the banker, was killed. The
investigation Will be conducted in the En-
gineering Societies Building in New York
City.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE MEETING

The Educational Alliance has prepared a
special musical programme for it's annual
meeting at the Hotel Gotham to-day, at
p. m. Jacob H. schin, Justice Samuel
Greenbaum, Edward Lauterbacn. Abran ].
Ellsus Miss Julia Richmsu and DIR. M. NJ
kapisn Will discuss immigration and citl-
zenship.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
BATTLEsH1P MICHIGAN SAILS.
Preliminary Trial Before Joining At
lantic Fleet.

Philadelphia, Jan. 15.-For the purpose
of shaking down" her engines. the new
battleship Michigan left the Philadelphia
navy yard to-day for her first trip since
being placed in commission The battle
ship will go direct to Hampton Roads, and.
after coaling. Will sail for cruise In
Southern waters.
During this trip the machinery will be
carefully gone over. After the trip the
Michigan will return to Hampton Roads 10
Join the Atlantic fleet for the winter cruise.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
SUBJECTS FOR COLLEGE DEBATE

New Haven. Jan. 15.-The questions sub
mitted by Yale to Harvard and Princeton
for a choice of subject for the intercolle-
giate debates are as follows:
Resolved. That woman suffrage would be
for the best interests of the country.
Resolved, That United States Senators
should be elected by direct vote Of the
people.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
EXPRESS LIQUOR TAX UPHELD.
Must Pay for Handling G. o. D.
Whiskey in Texas.

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 15.-In decision hand
ed down here to-day the Court of Civil Ap-
peaIs upheld the new law requiring express
companies to pay an occupation tax of
5000 for handling c. o. d. whiskey ship
ments
The court declared that the state has a
right to collect such tax police reguIa-
ton against traffic that is Illegal unless
sanctioned by the state. The case came
up from Dallas County in the suit of L.
Craddock ast. the Wells-Fargo Express
Companv
New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
LARGE MINING DEAL.
London Capital Acquires Big Prop
crtY in Mexico.

Mexico City, Jan. 15,-The largest mining
transaction ever made in Mexico was said
to have been completed yesterday in the
sale of the Santa Gertrudis mine at Pa
chuca, Hidalgo. 10 the Camp Bird Com
pany of London, for approximately a0oo 00l
pesos.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
AUTOMOBILE NEWS.

George W Wells has accepted the
Washington agency for the Cutting cars
Mr. Wells expects TO receive the first
shipment the early part Of tho coming
month,
E W White viii leave Washington
Friday for Philadelphia. Mr.. White IS
connected with the Hudson company, and
viii probably use a IS roadster.
II. l.. Clendening. or this city. has pur-
chased a Hudson roadster
Charles z. Meyers has received a ship
ment OF the new Hudson cars. the ship
ment consisted Of two rOadsters and a So
horsepower touring ear.
r. c. Smith, Of the Overland company
returned to washington yesterday from
his trip 10 Toledo
II NJ. T. Cunningham. who is repre-
sentlng the Marion ear, viii leave Wash
lngton Friday to attend the Army and
Navy game at Philadelphia. He vii
probably be accompanied 10y Cleye Camp
bell
l. c. Barber, OF the Irving Garage. who
is handling the Parry car expects to I'M
load a carload OF roadsters this. week.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
SHORT LENGTHS

What are you kicking about :
What. indeed? Think, says a Western
acribe Of the poor baseball scribbler who
Mas TO pound out a story on the pOssibil-
ity Of spring training camps in order 10
make BLUM at earning his pay.
What Is needed-WANTED-
capable managers. one to take charge OF
the St. Louis Browns, one to look after
H-r-ce F-g-l Of The Philadelphia baseball
club. Alienists preferred.
Backward, turn bacISward-EddIe
Wray, In the Post Dispatch, says that
the receipts from the first worlds base
bail series played by the St Louis and
Chicago clubs in 1885 were less than was
paid TO each member OF the Athletics for
the 1910 struggle. And they talk about
the good old daysi"
There Is nothing surprising In the
news that the boxing game in New York
is being done 10 death by promoters.
That pastime has been INDUCED in by
promoters ever since the game was
strong enough to require a box office.
We are Informed that auto racing
has been inaugurated in the Philippines.
Possibly the army is not killing off the
natives fast enough 10 suit the admin
istratiOn.
Add to "basebaITs sad IexicOn."-
Where are there words that are sadder than these:
Planning 10 strengthen next year,"
Where is the edge on this late summer Wheeze:
Planning 10 strengthen next year,
Now while the others are ont for the rag
On the pazzz or the top Of a snsg.
All do is TO swallow this gag:
Planning TO strengthen next year.
Cricket being diSense, IL Is
hardly proper for Americans to kid the
Britshers about their aff1iction. With the
professional refOrmers encompassing a
strangle hold on our red-blooded sports,
it may be that some day tile epidemic will
become prevalent in this country. Who
knows?
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

The Business basketball team reported
for their first practice yesterday. and the
following men appeared in uniform:
Scott, Rathbone, knight, Wilson, Dodge.
Nash. Schram, Goldsmith, Holland,
Tracy. Zappone. Bridget. and Burnstine
DR. Hudson. who is coaching the team,
expects TO win\the championship OF the
high schools. Their first practice game
viii be to-day. when they meet one of the
strongest section teams in the Intersec-
ton League,
The popular choice for captain at the
Capitol Hill school lies between Weaver
and McCaffery The members of this
years team will give a banquet Friday
night at the school,
The Western High track team is SLOWLY
rounding into form as the days roll by
and when the time comes for them tC
show their hand they will spring a sur
prise on the followers of the cinder path
Outdoor tr8ckmen at Central viii be
out during the next week If the weather
viii permit. Coach Bill Foley will have
the pole vauiters doing stunts.
The Eastern High School football team
will play its last game to-day, when they
meet the strong Cathedral School for
Boys at the American League Park This
game viii show Mhat Eastern can dc
against a team of their own weight.
Tech will give their football team their
annual banquet Thursday after Thanks
giving Day. Morris, who is the popular
choice for captain. will probably bt
elected
Upman. who has been elected manager
of the track team al Western, expect;
10 arrange a good schedule, including &
race with the Maryland Aggies. witt
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
LINEUP OF THE TEAMS.

At $50 o'clock on the American League
Park gridiron this afternoon two of the
best lightweight teams In the District
will meet in a game to decide second
place IN scholastic circles. Coach
Green's National Cathedral School team,
which has defeated all of the private
school teams in and around the District.
with the exception of the Georgetown
Props, whom they have not played,
tackles Coach Donnelley's Eastern High
team.
This game viii be of considerable in
terest TO all followers of high school
sports.
Both teams are about the same weight,
and il will be we'll worth the money to
sec what Eastern can do against a team
of it's own size for the first time this
season.
Both teams of confident OF victory.
Rival coaches have been putting their
respective teams through hard signal
practice every day and perfecting trick
formations for the game to-day
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
.DONOHUE WANTS
Old JOB AGAIN
Jiggs Says He Can Now Play
First Base.

Hot Springs. Ark. Nov. 22-"Jiggs'
Donohue, first baseman OF the Chicago
White sox al the time that Charley
Comiskey's team was at it's best, has
visions OF being back at his old stand
next season. lie has been here for the
last two months. and is running the big
gest tenpin alley In Hot Springs.
An eye expert has been tinkering With
his manned lamps and tonight Donohue
said he had been informed by the expert
that his vision would be as good as ever
by springtime In fact. that his sight
was as good as ever right now
Il started having poor luck in baseball
because my eyes began to trouble me. %
said DonOhue. Honestly. for a while
pop fiys were hitting me on the head and
in the chest, and / could not follow a
curve ball 1 have just got back from
a hunting trip and bagged enough birds
TO know that my eyes are ali right
again
Pretty soon ] win make Mr.. Comis-
key an offer that think ne VIII accept.
Anyhow. he always has been my friend.
l viii agree 10 work FOR nothing just %
get the chance 10 show him that my eyes
are all right again.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
GEORGETOWN In
LIGHT PRACTICE
Hilltop Eleven in Wake OF
an Unfortunate Wind.

The Blue and Gray football squad was
given its final instructions yesterday aft
ernoon in preparation for the Thanks
giving Day game against Lehigh. which
viii be the last Of the season. as only
the lightest kind of work will be the
order to-day.
Everything went off smoothly yesterday
the work opening up with short signal
drill by the two first elevens. followed by
a short scrimmage. in which the second
eleven used formations which Lehigh IS
expected TO pull off and the varsity
breaking themNp in a theoretical rather
than in a practical manner.
Although the players have come TO real
fZe that much depends on the game to-
morrow, still the team will suffer much
by injuries which have cropped out dur
ing the past week Coach Nielsen has
been especially unlucky in this respect
this year. and now that Dunn and Walsh
are beginning 10 get back into condition,
several of the other stars have been in
jured Furey the half back. viii not be
able 10 play, and coming on top OF this
yesterday is the return Of an old injury
10 Costello, which has put him in the hos
pital, with no chance 10 play any more
this season Barrieello, the big end, is
A much-bruised player, and with a lame
shoulder can hardly go the limit against
Lehigh
During the signal drill of the varsity
Sitterding was used at quarter the whole
afternoon. indicating that he will be the
choice for this position Thursday, while
Walsh played at full with Kelly follow
ing closely the plays. Dunn was in left
half, while Carrigan and Kraft viii prob
ably alternate al the other half-back po-
sition
The Lehigh team VIII arrive in town
tonight and will be quartered at the
Ebbitt House.
Manager JOliat is making arrangements
for a record-breaking crowd. Tickets are
on sale at Spalding's and Whites stores
anG on Thursday morning at the Ebbitt
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23

whom they ran nip and tuck until the
final squirt. when the Maryland Aggies
won out by a.few yards last winter.
The Business candidates for the track
team will be called out for practice Tues
day Capt Scott expects a large squad
10 report. and some close finishes viii be
witnessed when the men get going good.
Holland and Schoeiield have been out
practicing the past week on Rhode ISL
and avenue, taking long runs TO Nc
Devitts field and return.
Myers. who caught for the Western
High School baseball team, is the popular
choice for captain of next seasons nine.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
NATIONALS SPRING CAMP
WILL BE IN ATLANTA, GA.
McAIeer Decides on the First Stopping Place of Trip
Through the Southland Sporting Gossip.

/ house and said he'd like TO talk business
with me. He said he was Connie Mack,
and I almost dropped dead ] wondered
what the deuce he could be doing after
me.
Il didn't have long to wait. he told
me he wanted me for his team and told
me how much he would pay me. / told
him ] didn't want to quit college until
had finished. and he said that would be
all right. that could keep on COINS
TO Holy Cross until the commencement
! in June and then / could report to him
I'VE fixed matters up, and that's how
came 10 the Athletics. But YOU can Oct
/ had a headache for a couple of hours
after / came to realize that Connie Mack
wanted me, mind you. for hts team. But
l came and here I am
I We have been shOwered with queries
| from people who had wager on the
Yale-Harvard football game last Satur-
day. The Yale adhereats want TO know
| if they are entitled 10 the stakes. since
the Harvard men gave odds that "Har-
ward would vim No real sport viii try
TO claim bet on the game. AS neither
team scored a point, all wagers should
be called a draw.
a Baltimore dispatch says: Al HEREFORD
for many years the peer Of boxing pro-
motors OF this city. bat who has not ruf
any shows Tor some time, is likely &c
break back in the game any time now
Al says the ring game in this city has
been given an uppercut by the high price
that must be paid Is hold a show. In
former years s. was the price OF permit
| but now SIS is charged. This does not
| hurt the big promoters. but kills tho
| little clubs around town who used TO hold
bouts every week or so. And Al believes
| these little shows do the same for box
| ing as the back lots do for the nationa
| sport-baseball Boxers. as well as stars
/ Of the diamond, have 10 be developed
and when the Youngsters with fistic abil
/ igy are not given a chance 10 develop
| the ring game is receiving a blow thai
viii finally make il take the count.
There are very good local fighters IL
the limelight now. and as Baltimore fans
would rather see a fair hght between
local lads than good fight between out
| of-tOWn boxers, the reason for the pres
ent slump Is very evident HEREFORD alsC
says that cheap prices have hurt thi
/ game, and that promoter can't put OF
/ any topnotch scrappers and not los,
money, AZ didn't have anything 20 d
with the Kaufman-Kubiak match, anC
says the fight fans know his shows have
always been on the square.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
sTEPMoTHER OF MINT JULEP.
Kentucky's Claim as the "ReaP
Home disputed by Missouri.

Home Disputed by Missouri,
From the ST. Louis star.
Romance and poetry have delighted to
weave gay garlands with which TO ceie-
brate and perpetuate the glory of the
bluegrass in old Kentucky. famed for lis
fine horses, beautiful women. and mint.
Kentucky has been designated as the
home of the mint iulep. and its colonels
hsSve become famous all over the world
for the easy and graceful way in which
they drink whisky with a little dash of
sugar and sprig or two of mint in order.
chiefly. to overcome the necessity for a
large amount of water in the beverage.
The true Kentuckian doesn't want his
whisky drowned.
II transpires, however. that the real
home of the mint and the mint Julep is
right here in Missouri. whose crop of
mint last year amounted to 1853 pounds,
or enough to make 1924. 800 juleps This
amount includes the marketed product
only, no account having been taken Of the
countless thousands of juleps which were
compounded during the year with base
of the undiluted moonshine whisky that
never paid a cent of tax.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
MAeer Selects Atlanta Ga for the Nationals Spring Training Camp
CHICAGO CUBS FINED.
Costs Murphy 5000 for Putting
MaLeshift Team in Field.

Cincinnati. Nov. '22.-The national base
ball commission to-day fined the Chicago
National League club 500 for playing a
makeshift team instead of its regular
team against the Ottumwa uowa) team
in an exhibition game September last
The Ottumwa club claims TO have been
deliberately dnped by the Chicago club,
in that Manager Chance had promised 10
play his regular team and had Insisted
on the guarantee of 500 and percentage
amounting In all TO over $1,000 The game
was extensively advertised. prices OF ad-
mission We're boosted, and people tray
eled over 100 miles 20 see IT,
The Ottumwa club presents among It's
evidence pages OF hotel register with
the names Of -. Evers and a. Hoff-
man as among the Chicago players
neither of whom, II is claimed. was with
the Chicago team. The brothers Of theSf
two players, it is alleged, appeared in
stead Of them IN the game.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
HARVARD FOOTBALL PROFITS.
Crimson shows $4,000 on Right
Side of Ledger.

Cambridge. Mass, Nov 22-Harvard' 5
proceeds from football this fall was
about $1,000. Last year tie amount was
$751; The difference is accounted for
by the fact that the stadium seats more
persons than Yale Field, and the Har-
vard-Yale game last year was played in
the stadium.
Capt. Wilmington. OF the team. said this
morning that he did not think he and
Capt. DAILY. of Yale, would Toss for the
possession OF the hall used last Saturday,
which is now in possession u the referee.
DAILY wrote. asking Wilmington to name
a time and place 10 toss for the ball. but
il seems that bali that represents a
0-to-0 score is not regarded as a particu-
larly valuable trophy here.
Il shall probably write TO Capt. DAILY
to-day" said Wilmington, "and tell him
he can have the ball if he so wishes"
The Washington herald., 1910-11-23
GEORGETOWN PREPS ELECT.
Edward Mnrum to Lead 1912 Foot
ball Team.

At "A meeting Of the Georgetown Prep
football team. held yesterday. Edward
Marum. - was chosen 10 lead the eleven
for next season. The election was a
popular one all around, as the new
leader put up a great game all season
az left half and was the logical choice
for this honor Marum lives In Chicago,
and has been a student at the Prep
school for the past three years. He is
fast. and with his weight should make
good varsity material when he has COM
pleted his course in the lower school
The team closed a successful season,
and as many OF this years players will
be eligible next year. Capt Marum is
looking forward with bright prospects 10
putting out a championship eleven.