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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-17

other four cylinder or SIX cylinder on the market
European or American regardless OF price
But this is not all This light Silent SIX Matheson *
guaranteed to STAY silent Take any other that
reasonably silent when new-how long before began to
grow rattlv loose noisy? There are 50 many reasons
for that condition developing There are equally as
many reasons for the light Silent Six Matheson ang
sllent-these are some
% Every q n. 800 parts making %
light Silent inspected eabra:ed THREE TINES BY
DIFFERENT inspectors insure perfect workmanship
q Every absolutely correct TO the 0o OF ar '
81 Every bearing the uniformly LARGER thar
corresponding bearing other car OF ike type
Every bearing positively fabricated throughout the
TO the spring shacN bolts
=, The element Of heat (Which Is the most destructive
successfully eliminated a. 70 AVOID undle i7e'on
practically and eene OF he hight
Silent Six reasonable This due largely
or the valves the cylinder heads and " me sy To
lubroatns employed
" d ~ 5- constr5ctB Of h. respective parts for vhieh are used
the very finest OF specially prepared formulas
The construction Of lIatheson hsphazard SUB
4 - he s.v.r.st bo-atorv tests in order 70 make
- sd % the respective functions they perform
OUR GUARANTEE. WHICH Is The STRONGEST AND
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u The scientific TESTING each and The orak:
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chassis carving pounds roads
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located
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this IS our gIarantee-you the udgc-and II needs
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-17

- NERYONE will admit that the Packard IS beauti-
- fully silent-running car The same Judgment
rghtfuly applies to the Pierce Arrows and Peerless
cars also to the Renau Of the finest Of the French
machines These cars are also accepted as representing
the best in points of design materials and workmanship
and their success is due Justly to the highly scientific
combination of all these essential qualities. Of all the
worlds best machines perhaps none have been better
known than these for their Silence in operation.
A wear or two ago, however, the Silent-Knlght an
engine said to have been designed especially to eliminate
noise in operation was heTaded step in advance OF
anything yet produced in point Of silence in operation but
not many Of these have found customers in this country
due perhaps to their relatively higher cost
Now comes the new light Silent Six Matheson, Model
Is $500 car guaranteed to be even more silent IN opera
ton than the SentKnight and far more so than any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-17

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-17

Baltimore April ts.-Ths Johns Hopkins
lacrosse team, defeated Harvard to-day 6y
a score OF 70 3
Baltimore. April 1s.-Svsrth-uo-s Coil-x-
to-day met defeat az The hands % the
Mount Washington lacrosse team. The sco--
being 20 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-27

mating the cost Of each hat at s.. mod
est figure. This would pay the salaries
of seventy United States senator's for a
year, each member Of that body drawing
$500 per annum. 1t would pay the sal
airy of the President for two entire terms.
less one year. That gives some idea OF
the vast sum spent in the city for Easter
millinery.
If all these hats came into Washington
from the same place they would have to
be brought in on a train one and one
tenth miles long. On arriving it would
take over 800 delivery wagons to convey
them to their destinations.
Towering above the remainder of the
Capitol building is the huge white dome.
Standing within. in the rotunda, and
gazing upward. one realizes its vastness.
Supposedly there are not enough spring
hats in the world to reach any distance
inside this architectural dream-come-true.
but calculation reveals that Washington's
output OF millinery for Easter would form
a column up through it reaching from
the floor of the rotunda to the uttermost
pinnacle of the dome ceiling.
From almost every section Of the city
the Washington Monument can be seen
rising majestically a distance Of o55
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The German empress was born as
a princess of Schleswig- Holstein, and
the members of the family have hitherto
been regarded as full-blown royalties
The house of Holstein has supplied the
dynasties now occupying the thrones of
Russia and Denmark, besides that of
the grand duchy of Oldenburg. The
present head of the house. Ernest Guen-
Their, is the eldest brother of the empress.
He occupies no throne, but his claim to
supreme royal rank was conceded by
virtue of the fact that in bygone times
the dynasty owned it's own territory.
Now the members Of royal houses in
Germany enjoy certain valuable priv
leges denied to ordinary mortals They
are exempted from various taxes, where
by they are greatly enriched. They
cannot be compelled to attend a law
court as witnesses, but judges must visit
them in their homes and take down
their evidence from dictation Thus, if
ever they are dragged into lawsuit, they
are spared the horrors of cross-examf-
nation at the hands of ruthless lawyers
who would have scant respect for their
exalted birth and rank. Whenever they
pass a military sentry he must present
arms in a markedly conspicuous way,
more so than when he salutes just an
officer When they pass military guard
house the whole detachment on duty
there must turn out and render military
honors, with drums beating and
bugles blowing. Apart from these priv
ileges, they are the happy possessors of
number Of other exceptional rights
which make life more worth living. All
such privileges have been enjoyed here
tofore by the members Of the family Of
Suddenly, like a bolt from the blue. an
obscure law court in Schleswig- Holstein
NOW a province of Prussia) has destroyed
the illusion. In an unimportant lawsuit
Ernest Guenther, who was summoned as
a witness. claimed the right to give evil
dence In his own home, instead of at
tending the court in the ordinary way,
but the judges rejected his claim and
ruled that he does not belong to a royal
house. What applies to Ernest Guenther
applies also to his sister. the
German empress, and. the German en-
press being OF inferior rank, Is her hus-
bands morganatic wife,
The consequences of this judicial ruling.
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centuries and thereby revolutionize the
constitution of the royal family OF Prus-
STA. which is simultaneously the impepial
family Of Germany? The answer to this
question cannot yet be supplied. The
kaiser Is in dilemma. On the one
hand. his wife and children, his own
flesh and blood; on the other hand, that
which he and his forefathers have been
accustomed to respect and to venerate as
the unalterable law of succession. Which
will be- victorious? The living claims of
the woman he loved and welded, the
mother of his children, the interests of
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were sold. OF course a number of them
were untrimmed hats; one can readily un-
derstand that when a single department
store had 500 dozen hats. sans trimming,
advertised for sale one day last week,
and sold nearly all of them before the
week ended.
One rather expects the sales in large
department stores to run into the thou
sands, but 1t was astonishing to learn
from millinery shop which has been
for several generations in the business
that last year 5000 trimmed hats were
sold from it. And not only was 1t stated,
but proved. Their sales this year, they
claim, exceeded that number. At an F.
street emporium whose owners have also
been long in the trade, precisely the same
figures were given. In each case where
an estimate was given the writer con-
servatively Topped few hundred OFF. not
with any suspicion Of the total, but in
order to reassure the ultra cautious. And
figuring on the sales Of the largest shops
and getting the records from practically
all the department stores the result show
ed the average already mentioned OF
$1,000 hats.
Asked to give the average price of a
spring hat. all milliners agreed that for
some unexplained reason. hats daintily
trimmed. stylish-looking hats, or, indeed,
any kind of hats. are more expensive than
they were last year. A woman in the
business who was requested to figure the
average price Of hat, including the gor-
Partisan ateliers and were coaxed to
Washington at SO much per coax; the
dashing American-born effects which cost
almost high as their sisters from
across the sea; the medium priced ready
trimmed hat; the untrimmed hat for
which trimming is bought by the Gus
toner. and the untrimmed hat which the
customer takes home to trim. said that
any one possessed OF less than a ten
dollar bill might as well stop at home.
Others were less ambitious in their cal
culations, but all agreed on a sum higher
than that the writer selected as basis.
which is s.. It was taken after due con-
sideration OF the many women of wealth
who winter in Washington, and the cost
of whose hats ranges up from $50 to what
ever they will pay-usually about SIS or
$1OO-the woman of comfortable means
who orders her Easter hat in the plural
SO she can have change" and the al
ready mentioned woman who pays only
a few dollars for hers. For where there
is one very costly hat sold the stores
dispose of a hundred moderate-priced
ones So 81 has been selected. Not that
no one pays less or more than that for
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marry member OF another royal fam
lily. otherwise the match is a messal-
lance and only partially valid. The
royal families are those which are actu-
ally reigning families, or those which
have been reigning families in the past
Thus, for instance, the Bourbons, though
long ago elected from the throne of
France. are still regarded as full-blown
royalties, fit to wed the members of the
present-day ruling families. If MEM
Der Of a royal family contracts a mes
alliance by wedding an inferior in rank
then the marriage is termed morganatic
The marriage Is valid in the religious
sense, inasmuch as husband and wife
are united in holy wedlock, but the wife
never assumes the husbands rank and
the children take the inferior rank of
the mother, including her name They
are debarred from the succession to the
throne and their descendants are lost in
the crowd OF common or garden noble
men who are SO much in evidence in con-
tinental Europe.
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present views on the equality of birth, or
will he become rebel against his own
order?
The kaiser is pre-eminently a man, and
man of strong feelings and healthy SEN
timents. AS soon as his own wife and
family were concerned, probably his eyes
would be opened to the utter absurdity OF
the existing statutes relating to equality
of birth. This law of equality places the
King of Servia on a level with the mon
archs OF the most ancient dynasties OF
the world and makes him superior 20
noblemen whose ancestors were great
knights a thousand years ago. The kaiser
certainly would resent law which would
place the King of Sweden. the grandson
of a common French soldier, on level
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HE CAUSED THE TROUBLE.
Duke Ernest Guenther of Schleswfg.
HOlstein, Whose Claim to Certain Priv
leges Led the Court to Decide That ne
Isn't Really Royal.
higher than his wife, whose ancestors Oh
Schleswig- Holstein were mighty men IN
the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Inc
statute OF equality has already been aboi,
ished by the royal families of Englahu
and Of Belgium, two of the most demo
cratic countries in Europe. and II the rui-
ing Of the local court is upheld its disap.
pearance from the family laws OF Ins
will probably follow with
precipitate haste.
Copyright IN the United States and Great Br.s
BY Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reservoir
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as the Kasers Wife Really EmpressP- Germany Is Askn

inferior capacity in assemblies of which
she was formerly the first lady, all the
princesses of the Prussian royal family
and any other princesses who happened to
ballroom in front OF her would sit at bet
ter places at table and would be entitled
to more respect from the assembled
guests.
to other courts she would be unable to ac-
company him, or If she chose to accom-
pany him she would have to remain dis
creetly in the background as an unrecog-
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y
The ensuing complications would not
end at this point. The crown prince. no
longer crown prince, but merely Duke
William Of Schleswig- Holstein. would at
one stroke be deprived OF all that fiat
terry, cajolery. homage and adulation
which have been showered upon him in
his capacity as heir to the throne. Bit
ter experience would teach him the real
value of the attentions which he has re-
ceived in the past and the motives which
have prompted the words and actions of
his cringing satellites. They would aban-
don him in hot haste and would turn
their attentions to the prince who sup
planted him as heir apparent to the i'm
perial crown. And the ex-Crown Prince
William Of Germany transformed into
Duke William of Schleswig-Holstein would
be able to devote himself exclusively to
his sporting pastimes and in his idle in
tervals to reflect and to philoSophiZe on
the vanities of life.
The crown princess, who married her
husband in the expectation of one day
ascending the most coveted throne of
hopes and ambitions destroyed and the
place in history which she hoped to oc-
cupy taken by another. She, too, would
lose her admirers and fatterers and syco-
phantic followers. AS Duchess Cecilie of
SchleSwig-HOlstein life would present It
self to her in a remarkably different as
pect Now an optimist, she would prob
ably become under the stress a bitter and
disappointed pessimist. So II would be
with all the other princes and princesses
of the imperial family-Prince Eitel Fred
erick and his wife, the royal sailor, Prince
Adalbert; Prince Augustus William and
the ka1sers two younger sons. His only
daughter, Victoria Louise, instead of be-
ing able to aspire to the hand Of one of
the greatest royal personages in Europe.
would have to content herself with be-
coming the wife of a mere noIieman. 1t
would be bitter and unique experience,
a remarkable test of fortftude and char
acter Perhaps none OF them would suf-
fer so keenly as the proud and imperial
kaiser, who would be obliged to watch the
degradation OF his wife and children.
.*
Would the kaiser passively submit to
these revolutionary changes In his own
family? The case has yet to be fought out
in other law courts, for Ernest Guenther
Of Schleswig- Holstein has already lodged
an appeal against the decision of the local
court. This appeal viii be heard In due
course and IL decided against him will be
carried to the highest court In Prussia. II
this court should decide against him the
case will then be carried to the supreme
court Of the empire at Leipzig. No efforts
will be spared to reverse the ruling which
would cause such disastrous consequences
But supposing that all courts, Including
the supreme court OF the empire. unhoid
The decision that the members Of the
SchIeswtg- Holstein family are not Of ROYAL
'irth' VIII the kaiser continue to hold his
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If upheld by the higher courts. will revo-
lutionize life at the German court during
the lifetime Of the present emperor. To
begin with, the German empress would
be deposed from the throne which she has
right to occupy. She would no longer
be the first lady of the realm, but she
would take rank after all the ladies OF
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throne on which the Hohenzollerns have
sat for many centuries. A serious law
court decision just pronounced makes it
necessary to answer all these questions
tn the negative.
If this decision is not reversed by the
higher court to which 1t Will be carried
at once the kaisers wife is not. an en-
press, his eldest son, is not really the
grown prince. and none of his sons are
members of the royal family. but merely
dukes of Schleswig-Holstein. His daugh-
Ter is not Princess Victoria Louise of
Prussia, but merely Duchess Victoria
Louise of Schieswig- Holstein. The
ka.ser's wife is not entitled to share the
chrome with him. iflasmuch as she is his
morganatic wife: His children are not
princes because, being the offspring of a
morganatic UNION, they take the rank
OF their mother, who is merely a duchess
pr Schleswig-Holstein. This lady. who
has hitherto been I-..1wn empress has
been occupying this position in defiance
Of existing laws and statutes for quar-
Ter OF a century, and now, Ii the decision
OF the court be upheld. she will be
obliged to vacate it in favor of another
lady, her own sister-in-law Princess
Henry of Prussia
For the disqualification OF the crown
prince and OF all the other sons of the
KAISER from the "esson TO the throne
transfers the rig. IF inheritance to the
kafser's brother, ace Henry of Prus-
STA, well known In America since his
memorable journey through the United
States eight years ago. The kaiser, the
greatest living stickler for the most rigid
forms or court etiquette, is revealed as a
monarch who in his marriage transgress-
ed the most fundamental principle of
birthright on which the royal snasties
Of Europe are based: instead hitting
himself with a princess OF the 3D. his
own equal IN rank and position !, we'd
lied a girl OF inferior order u duchess,
whose family simply belong TO the higher
nobility in Germany.
In consequence of this blunder the
entire German court is turned topsy-
turvy. CONSERVATION prevails and every
one awaits with burning interest the
kaiser's next stop. VIII he take this
succession OF blows meekly and in ac-
euiesence. will he submit to the sight of
his wife and children being elected from
the birthright which he and they have
always regarded, In common with the
rest of the world, as theirs, or will he
sweep away the laws and traditions of
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nTY WOULD BulD A SOLD WALL AROUND
THE TREASURY DEPT.

feet and some inches. Yet il those
$4,000 hats. each in it's box, were piled
one on another in solid column the
total height would be a trif1e greater
George Washington. Disregarding the
greater thickness of the shaft and rear
ing the boxes singly they would form a
crude suggestion of Cleopatra'S needle,
piercing the ambient air at a height of
more than fourteen perpendicular miles.
Lowered gently to the ground. as q
professional juggler does his stacks OF
cigar boxes, and placed in row side by
side along the ground. these hats
meaning always, unless otherwise
stated, the hats in their boxes-would
cover a distance Of twenty-eight miles,
or two-thfrds Of the railway journey
between this city and Baltimore.
Remembering the great width of
Pennsylvania avenue. which awakens
the envyfng admiration Of every for
eigner who gazes upon it. and the vast
concourse of soldiers and number Of
horses abreast which pass along it with
uncrOwded ease on inauguration day.
it does not appear likely that the hats
would make any striking impression
when compared with it. But, used as q
paving for 1t. including both sidewalks
and the street, layer OF the bOxsS
would cover one-fourth the distance
from the Capitol to the Treasury.
The latter building occupies three
acres of ground, yet the hats bought
Tor Easter by washington women, or
bought in Washington by women. would
build a solid wall entirely around il
102 feet high, or Is feet and inches
above it's roof. Placed like a blanket
over the ground, the hats would cover
an area OF seven acres.
And IL the hats. without their boxes.
were placed inside the post Office tower
a further interesting comparison can be
made. This ornamental adjunct to the
place where Uncle Sam plays postmas-
ter is PSI feet and few inches from
the ground to the top OF its masonry
wall. Piled solid in the lower part OF
this tower the hats would rank up 14S
feet from the ground floor.
The number of hats sold was obtained
by an individual canvass of the largest
department stores and stores given over
solely to the sale of hats, from order
books, and sales checked up to few
days before Easter; from a general per-
centage arrived at by figuring the least
against the largest number: and by TAX
ing the estimate Of several men thorough
ly familiar with the local hat trade. The
result showed that. at rough but con-
sentative estimate, $4,000 Easter hats
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mate. the dealers say, is conservatINe
one for the six weeks preceding Easter
Sunday. 1t is based. too. on last year
output which was nearly as large. ms
year for some reason known only TO the
feminine mind the display OF easter
ffnery will be greater than for many sea
sons past.
And they cost the women who wear
tlem over a half million dollars, est-
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S the kaiser S Vile
really an empress?
Is his majesty's
eldest son the gen
uiHe crown prince
and rightful heir to
the imperial crown?
Are any Of the
kaiser's sons full
blown royal princes
and entitled to the
ordinary line Of
succession to the
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must of course allow for the distance be-
tween cars necessary for coupling and en-
abling them to turn on curves, and in this
instance three feet of air space has been
figured upon. This makes a total length
for the 149 cars of 5.S0S feet, exclusive OF
the engine and its tender. There being
$3.50 feet in a mile. the result shows a
train one mile and One-tenth in length.
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Wife OF the Kaiser, Whose Status In
Affected by the Decision that Her
Brother IL Not Entitled to the Rights
and Privileges of Royalty.
his son, or the dead, obsolete and alto
gether antiquated and absurd statutes
which underlie the idea of equality OF
birth in reigning families.
Ihls statute OF equality of birth is the
root OF the whole Trouble. The European
reigning families have all adopted it with
the exception of the English and Belgian
dynasties where it was long since swept
away as being utterly incompatible with
the modern spirit OF the present era. But
In Germany and Austria, In Russia and
italy. In all the other countries of con-
tinental Europe. this statute Of equality
OF birth is supreme and unalterable It
may De summed up as requiring that