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New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
lFrom The Tribune Bureau. !


Washington, Jan. 4.-The Vice-P President
and Mrs Sherman have as a house guest
Miss Mary Baker, OF Utica, N Y, who ar
rived here o-day. She accompanied them
to the White House reception tonight.
The Solicitor General and Mrs. Bowers
entertained at dinner tonight the Attorney
General and Mrs. Wickersham, the Post
master General Miss Boardman. the As
sistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Oliver,
Mr. and Mrs. John w. Foster and Mr. and
Mrs. c. c. Glover.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter were hosts
at a ball tonight at the home of Mrs. l.
H. Letter, when two hundred, from the
ranks of the young married set. the debu-
tantes of a season or two. and number of
the younger diplomats danced. Instead of
the usual profuse decoration of palms and
flowers. Mrs. Letter had the ballroom dec
GRATED with frieze of rare plants over
each door and window. and swinging bas-
kets of flowers and plants in doorways and
other available places. dinner party of
twenty preceded the dance, when the house
guests Mr.. and Mrs. F.. ". Geary OF
Philadelphia; Amos Avery Lawrence. of
Boston, and Mrs. Henderson. of England.
with Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip Mcmillan, Captain and Mrs.
NCpl DullcT aIilcSs
Captain Butt and Mrs. Dorothy Williams
were among the guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Oracle enter
tanned large party of young people at
luncheon to-day for their daughter Miss
Edith Oracle. and her cousin, David Ogden
Of New York, who is their house guest
Mrs Beach Grant, the mother of the
Countess of Essex. is a guest of her sister,
Mrs. Wyeth.
Mrs. Isham G. Hornsby entertained at
luncheon to-day Mrs. Wyeth and her sister,
Mrs. Beach Grant, Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins,
Mrs. John w. Foster. Mrs. Lyman Tiffany.
Mrs. Pierce Crosby. Mrs Janin, Mrs. John
d. Lindsay Morehead. Mrs. Downing, Mrs.
Shales Mrs. Fremont Smith and Miss
Riggs
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS houses after adopt
ing resolutions of regret at the death of
Senator McLaurin, adjourned in respect
10 his memory.
notwithstanding to special
dispatch from London. the election cam
paign is being conducted with considera-
bic heat on both sides. = LONDON
newspapers printed appreciative notices
of the character Of y. O. Mills. accord
ing To special cable dispatch. =
Leon Delagrange. noted French aero
naut, WAS killed by fall from an aero
plane in Bordeaux. France - French
aeroplanists believe the action of the
Wright company in seeking an injunc-
tioD against Louis Paulhan viii deter
foreigners from entering the interna-
tional cup contest in the United States
tiTis year. =- DR. Frederick A. Cooks
original notebooks reached Copenhagen.
but If is said they are not likely to
change the uniYersitys verdict
OMESTfC.-Secretary Wilson of the
Department of Agriculture ordered
sweeping inquiry into the cost of living
in the United States 1t was re-
ported in Washington that the insur-
gents who attempted TO obstruct the
legislative programme of the admins
tl-ation would find their patronage held
up == The President expressed his
earnest approval of the measure de-
signed to bring abolr the raising of the
wrecked battleship Maine. - ]. Pier
Iont Morgan attended the meeting of the
directors Of the Boston & Maine Rail-
road. al Boston. - d. O. Mills died
al his winter home near San Francisco.
>= national movement was started
in Chicago TO obtain uniform reductions
IN fire insurance rates. = Thomas NJ.
Osborne. chairman of the State Demo-
cratic League at Albany, named a COM
rnittee 10 act with him in drafting meas
ures TO be introduced in the coming ses-
sion Of the Legislature bearing on ballot
and direct primary reform. == Senator
lothian p. Aids was nominated for
ma jority leader OF the Senate at the
caucus Of Republican Senators. held at
Albany. while Speaker Wadsworth and
Clerk Smith were renominated al the AS
sembly caucus.
CITY - Stocks closed strong.
Mayor Gaynor appointed as Civil Ser
vice Commissioners John c. Mcclure,
Richard yelling and Alexander Keogh.
- Fritz Augustus Heinze came back
TO New York to plead to further indict-
ments returned against him by the fed
eral grand jury. =- John D. Rookie
TELLER, jr.. foreman of the grand jury
that Will investigate the white slave"
traffic. said he would work earnestly TO
bring the guilty persons to Justice
Mayor Gaynor told Fire Commissioner
Waldo to eliminate politics from his de-
partment = c. F. Murphy called
upon Mayor Gaynor. but Tammany de-
rived no comfort from the visit.
THE WEATHER.-Indic for to-
DAY: Snow and warmer The tempera-
ture yesterday: Highest. % degrees;
lowest. s.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
A REPLY FROM "eRlTlsHER.r

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: So THE EXAMINATIONS of Britisher"
have helped to amuse Mr.. Wixted. but thar
is no excuse for his TRADE in reply. 1t is
usual for charge against a mans We
racity to be followed by a mention of the
specific statement which is untrue
am pleased TO see that Mr. Mixted could
not imagine Ben" Tillman soliciting funds
to free Carolina. Neither could |, and Mr..
Tillman, i am sure, is far too wise TO do
any such thing, because Carolina would
make IL hot for him il he dared slander her
by such an act. But Poor Ireland" has
got TO stand for a slander by a group OF
slanderers that is just as bad.
Mr. Wixted evidently went off ..half
cooked" in saying that l said, Her popu-
lation would not be allowed to make Illicit
whiskey." l said "a part of her popula
tion," and IN that | can see no covert
sneer at America"
His remarks about Irish servant girls
money going TO support the British navy
and the Irish party being the army and
navy OF Ireland had better be classsa
among the remarks OF one who writes to
hear himself talk. TO use one OF our for
famed bulls
would also call his attention TO anotba-
England
build her Dreadnoughts." England as
England. builds no battleshlps. but the
British government sanctions the bulldin,,
Of a British navy to defend the British En-.
pire. of which Ireland is a part an
afraid that our Irish commerce would AZ
mend on a broken reed did il depend Co.,
protection on the so-called Irish party
America at the time OF separation was
a crown colony without representative
whereas Ireland Is represented more
strongly in the British Parliament in pro-
portion to her population than is either
England or Scotland. Therefore, Mr.. WY
ted's remark on the immortal Franklin
Is little alien to the subject at hand.
| would venture to bring another storm
OF abuse on my lad by saying that had II
not been for the Irish party and their
shouting Ireland to-day would be absolut,
mistress of her own internal affairs.
BRITIsHER.
Middletown, N. Y, Dec 80, 1soa
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Yaddo. the Saratoga home from which
Spencer Trask started on his fatal trip to
New York. is one of the show places of
the spa town. II derives it's name from the
utterance of a little daughter OF the
Trasks When she crossed for the first
time rustic bridge over the picturesque
sheet of water which lies near the home
she pointed and said: "Yaddo," which was
as near as her baby tongue could get to
the word shadow" and she did not know
that the childish utterance had given a
name II the place.
L'ENVOI OF THE HOOKED GOWN.
When the last hooked gowns in the rag
bag, and the hooks are rusty and bent;
When the buttoned gowns are buttoned,
and the dressmakers cease to invent
weary and worn and old
When our thumbs have ceased from their
aching, our heated remarks grown
cold
We shall rest--and faith, we shall need it,
at peace In a golden chair
Shall loll on a sort of throne like the man
who'd the nerve TO swear;
And the man who set out with the wrong
Shall hear the cold Ice tfnkling where the
drinks of the gods they mix.
There shall be no pads TO confuse us no
store shapes to get in their place
No foolish. silly contraptlons, embroidery
or Irish lace;
But all the hooking we do there. ON that
mythical friendly star.
Shall be with a sensible Harness up the
Back of Things as They Are
RED HEN,
The United States consular reports Of
December 80 contain some interesting in
formation about the military" preparatIons
made by President Zelaya in Octoher IN
defend himself against the Estrada insur-
recton. Hostilities began early In October
and on October is Zelaya issued am execu-
tive decree eXempting rice. beans and nour
from the payment of import duties for a
term of two months. On November "A Ze-
laya, realizing that his fight was lost un
less his troops received stronger" sus-
tenance. issued another decree exempting
onions from tarin charges fer a period of
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
YALE PLAYERS APPEAR AGAIN.
Maude Adams Among the Professional
Guests at the Matinee.

The Yale Dramatic Association gave the
last two performances in New York OF
London Assurance at the Waldorf yes
terday afternoon and evening. Miss Maude
Adams. an honorary member of the asso-
ciation: Otis skinner. Hamilton Revelle.
Miss Frances Starr. Mrs Walter HamPden
and the members of The Commanding OF
ticer" company were guests OF the associa-
tion at the matinee.
W. c, Bullitt. II, and H T. Warren 10
again carried of the honors. respectively.
as Lady Gay Spanker and Dazzle. A NJ.
HartwelL II. was fascinating as Grace
Harkaway. r NJ WOOley, II. as Sir Har-
court Courtly: W. De r. Aianice. II as
Charles Courtly. and T. L. Riggs. 10. ss
Dolly Spanker. interpreted their characters
with discrimination and force.
The performance was altogether a most
creditable one. and met with cordial re-
ception both in the afternoon and IN the
evening
In view OF the dignihed and scholarly oo-
ject OF this association. which is 20 revive
plays OF historical value IL Is a regrettahls
fact that so far Il has not been possible TO
avoid the playing OF feminine parts by
men. So long as this situation prevails IL
will be impossible TO eliminate farce from
womsn's parts There are no women at
Yale. 1t is said, save few in the Graduate
School Would II not be practicable TO Co
operate with Bryn Mawr or Smith or
Vassar in the plays OF the futurec
The association viii give its last perform
snees in Poughkeepsie on January and In
New Haven on January Is.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
4 FRESH PETROLETu FIELD.

A notable addition 10 the worlds sup
ply of petroleum is promised by recent
DEVELOPMENTS near the town of Maikop,
in Southern Russia That region. which
is Just beginning to yield oil. is entirely
distinct from the great Baku field, on
the shores of the Caspian. The former
is north Of the Caucasus range, which
separates European Russia from Asiatic
Russia while the latter is TO the south
of the mountain chain. MaikOp is sew
eral hundred miles to the westward of
Baku. and not more than fifty miles
from the Black Sea At least one
"gusher" in the new field has been pro-
ducing at an extraordinary rate for
about three months. and it affords indi
cations of what may be expected from
the wells now being sunk in its neigh
borhoOd. Owing to the Scant depth ut
which oil was there found, and to other
causes. it is said that the cost of drilling
Il well near MaikOp is much less than
i'll the Baku field Besides, though no
satisfactory transportation facilities ex-
ist at present. it is evident that ship
ment by way of the Black Sea will be q
Sill llldlltIs III OINltI ~ illdI bdhu
oil it was necessary TO construct n pipe
line $50 miles long to reach the seaport
of Batum.
For the reasons just mentioned Mai
kOp oil is likely TO be cheaper than / aku
oil. and the recent discovery. therefore.
will probably not be without an effect
OH prices in those markets in which
America and Russia now compete. Much
of the surplus of the United States goes
TO South America and Europe Russia
also sells there. For many years the
yield Of the Baku wells nearly equalled
that Of America. OF late Russia has
fallen considerably behind. but now that
she has large reinforcementS in sight,
she may prove formidable competitor
OF this country once more According to
q bulletin issued this week V the
United States Geological Survey. there
was an overprOductiOn of petroleum
here in 1903, and in consequence the out
put of American wells for the year lust
ended was slightly less than that of the
previous twelve months 1t is not I'M
likely that to those countries which are
so situated than they can choose he
tween the United States and Russia the
finding of oil north Of the Caucasus may
prove important.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
[Erom The Tribune Bureau


Washington Jan. 4.-rhe President held
two important conferences this afternoon.
Senators Aldrch and Root discussed with
him the legislative programme of the ses-
sion. The Attorney General and Frank B.
Kellogg discussed with him his antitrust
message. The President has finally decided
to send his recommendations on the Sher-
man law and the interstate commerce law
To Congress as one message on Thursday
The President will send all the papers In
the Ballinger- -Pinchot controversy to the
Senate on Friday.
President Taft read his special message
on the antitrust law to his Cabinet at its
meeting to-day, also his interstate COM
merce message.
Senator Elkins has made an engagement
for tomorrow morning when he will con-
fer with the President TO the proposed
amendments TO the interstate commerce
law. Senator Jones, accompanied by Dele
gate Wickersham OF Alaska, called on the
President this morning and asked MIR. TAFT
TO recommend in his special message that
all existing interstate commerce acts ana
future amendments thereto apply also TO
Alaska.
The President was asked by Senator ray
lor to-day to appoint Judge Edward T.
Sanford 10 the place in the 9Th Circuit
until recently occupied by Judge Hor-
ace H. LurtOn. United States District
Judge A NJ j. Cochran. OF Kentucky. and
Judge Henry F. Severens, OF Michigan.
have also been recommended for this post
The Presidents callers included Senators
Gamble, Rayner, Jones, Newlands. Gordon.
Crawford, Warner and Burrows, Repre-
sentatives Murdock, Stevens. Moon. Aus
tin. Henry and Needham, and Colonel
James Gordon, the newly appointed Sen
ator from Mississippi
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
THE TAFTS RECEIVE.
Brilliant affair in Honor of
Diplomatic Corps.
From The Tribune Bureau. I

Washington. Jan. 4.-The President and
Mrs. Taft held their first state reception
tonight, in honor of the diplomatic corps.
and in every detail it was a brilliant affair.
So many changes had been scheduled for
the large receptions this winter that the
several hundred visitors were on the out
look from the time they entered the east
door. and from that time on agreeable sur
prises awaited them.
For many years the line of those invited
reached through the lower corridor up
through the front hallway into the state
dining room and on through the Red Room
into the East Room. where the visitors dis
persed. Tonight the entrance was directly
into the East Room from the lower cor
ridor through the Green Room and on
through the Blue Room. where. almost be-
fore the guests were aware. they were
presented to the President Mrs Taft and
the wives OF the Cabinet members.
Mrs Taft received with the President
and Cabinet women until the guests of
honor. the diplomats, had passed down the
line. She then retired to the other side OF
the room. where Miss Helen Taft. Miss
Elizabeth Parsons and few friends en-
gagged her attention Later on Mrs Taft
went TO the Red Room, where she held an
impromptu reception.
In the state dining room a table was laid
the full length OF the room. and pink car
nations and pink shaded candles. with ferns
and silver and china. made a most at
tractive spectacle. Ranged along the table
were salads. sandwiches. confections and
ices. while coffee and punch were served in
other parts OF the room Everywhere were
flowers. and all OF the furniture. even To
the big white enamelled piano in the Blue
Room, held its accustomed place
Big palms relieved the bare aspect OF the
long corridor before the guests gathered
there after leaving the state dining room.
The Marine Band was In It's usual place In
the front entrance hall and so happy were
the guests and so perfectly at home that
one caught the young people taking dance
step now and then. IL Is considered the
most comfortable" reception held in the
White House in many years
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05

four months. Apparently the supply OF
onions in Nicaragua has been exhausted
and recent advices say that the govern
ment troops have been subsisting on
bananas, with the result that the forces
have become demoralized.
why do you call your engine Central
American Republic?" .
Because" answered the inventor, II
yields o maximum number of revolutions
with a minimum application of Initial
force. Washington Star.
Musical people can sneer all they like
about monographs" remarked homeless
bachelor marooned In New York on
Christmas Day but for me they are all
TO the merry. I've got one, and 1t made
me feel almost at home on the day or all
days. Why? Well. my mother talked TO
blank record and my sister sang into
one out in the West a couple OF weeks
ago and sent them on to me. You can
bet that | almost wore them out"
My wife always forgives my faults
I've got you skinned to death
How
My wife forgets mine."-Cleveland
Leader.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; For years q constant reader OF your
paper | have liked your attitude on all
matters athletic ] was pleased at the way
you handled the college situation during the
last few weeks particularly football. and l
can only echo the sentiments of President
Pierce of the new college association.
Being an old college man, L can recall
that during many years we had in college
circles men of the standing OF Tracey Har-
ris, Big Bill'' Edwards, John c. Bell, Dr.
White, II. l.. Geyelin c. II. Mapes. A. j.
II. Magrath. A. S. Draper. DR.. George w.
Orton, ]. Hamblen Seers. William I Reid,
Robert Wrenn, Frank Ellis. c. L. Pstter-
son. j. W. Curtiss, Walter CaEnp; Harry
Brooks. Charles Sheriff., l.. p. Sheldon.
Bob" Cook, Wendell Baker. Evert Jansen
Wendell, George B. Morrison, Gustavus I.
Kirby, Thornton Gerrish, Oliver Shires. Guy
Gundaker, c. Gillett, Barlow s. Weeks, c.
E. Bangs. DIR. Hammond, A. B. Cox, L r.
Fisher c. Duval. John De Witt-but why
go on? Fifty other prominent collegians
have for years worked for college sport
But in reading carefully over your paper
1 find no mention of the names of these
gentlemen to help President Pierce in his
good work Is it a sign of the times when
dominated by the body of professional
coaches? AS 1 look over the committees
and read the reports. 1 find that it's the
man that holds the position of coach in
nearly all the colleges that seems 10 be do
ing all the talking.
Is II the beginning of the end OF the ath-
letic gentleman in college athletics. and is
his place to be taken by the man whose
livelihood is depending upon athletics?
Perhaps it is. Perhaps we are going for
ward. but it don't look so TO the old
timers.
While no one can question the standing
of the professional coach in the college
world, has he not his own place? Should he
make the laws for the government of col
lege men? DR.. Sargent, Foster Sanford.
Stagg, II. S. Williams, DR.. Mckenzie, DR..
McCurdy and all other professional ath-
letes. who were so prominent in the meet
ing of last week, are all reputable citizens,
but is there not more to college athletics
than having the professional coach the i'm
portant factor?
In discussing this at the club the other
evening it was suggested that the A. A. L.
law in relation to who shall represent clubs
is very good one. 1t eliminates the pro-
fessional instructor from such conferences.
New York Jan g. 1910 "'95"
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
TIE NEW TRENCH T4RLEE

The new French tariff bill. which
passed the Chamber of Deputies last
week and is now before the Senate is
the product OF tariff commission
which was expressly constituted for the
purpose last winter The reporter gen
eral of the commission was Mr. Morel, a
political and fiscal disciple OF that
stanch protectionist. Mr. Meine, and in
drafting the new bill he was guided by
the general principles Of the Mellne tar
if of 1892. The result has been various
ly described. MIR. Morel himself has
said: 1t is work of economic de-
"fence. Ii menaces no one. 1t is aimed
"at no particular body OF competitors.
1T is adequate to our general situation,
Ito the conditions imposed on our pro
"ductiyity." On the other hand the
Temps" declares il 10 be n veritable
customs revolution" and the journal
des Debats' pronounces 1t the work of
"prOtectionist extremists" Those two
papers are, however, confessed believers
in free trade.
There can be no question as to the
general character of the bill 1t was a
foregone conclusion that 1t would be
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05

changes in the law consist largely of the
old predictions that railroads are to be
ruined. their credit destroyed and their
capacity for development taken away
from them? If so, experience has taught
the managers OF public service prop
critics nothing II should be an incident
Of the deepest significance TO them that
half dozen of the leading railroad
presidents of the country appear in OPP
position TO proposed legislation and that
the public takes that opposition as a
matter of course, regarding 1t as
negligible factor in the formation OF
fair and intelligent opinion about the
merits of the proposals.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
DIXIE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: No wonder Dixie is popular in
New York. There's a reason, an historical
one 1t is simply a case OF the subliminal
consciousness finding expression on occa-
sions of gladness. Witness the Century
Dictionary, as follows:
"Dixies Land. Said to have been orig
inally negro name for New York or Man
haitian Island. later applied TO the South.
The phrase originated in New York early
in the nineteenth century it developed into
a song, or. rather, into many songs, the re-
refrain usually containing the word Dixie
or fDixie's Land In the South Dixie is
regarded as meaning the Southern States,
the word being supposed to be derived from
Mason and Dixon's Line, which formerly
divided the free and slave states. 1t is said
to have first come into use there when
Texas joined the Union, and the negroes
sang of it as Dixie
In the popular mythology of New York
City Dixie was the negro's paradise on
earth in times when slavery and the slave
trade were fourishing in that quarter.
Dixie owned a tract of land on Manhattan
Island. and also large number of slaves
and, his slaves increasing faster than his
land, emigration ensued such as has
taken place in Virginia and other states
Naturally, the negroes who left it for dis
tant parts looked TO 1t as a place of unal-
loyed happiness and it was the old Vir-
ginny' OF the negroes of that day Hence
Dixie became synonymous with an ideal To-
caltty, combining ineffable happiness and
every imaginable requisite of earthly beati-
tude.-Bryant, Songs from Dixie's Land"
No wonder. then, that when the strains
of this wild. gay song shrill through ban
quoting hall, Northerner and Southron
alike flash into electric enthusiasm The
North was. the South has been America is
Dixie's Land, the land of every ina ginable
requisite of earthly beatitude"
PURITANO.
New York Jan s. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-01-05
BUDGET.

The British controversy over the bud
get Is by no means much ado about
nothing" yet there are probably very
few OF the millions who are interested
in it and who eagerly discuss it who
could tell the origin and literal meaning
of the word which is the storm centre
of ii all. What is budget? 1t is the
estimate made by the Chancellor Of the
Exchequer Of national income and ex-
pendtures for the year and of the ways
and means for providing the one and
applying the other. That is true enough.
but 1t does not answer the question what
the word budget" originally meant or
whence ii came.
The word appears 10 be of Celtic or
Gallo origin and to have been adopted
into the Latin language more than two