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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
METROPOLITAN WAYS.

One of the great British weeklies has
felt called upon to protest against the
disgraceful mobbing of the members Of
a troupe of Japanese performers when
ever they appeared in the streets Of
London IN their native dress
Such things, we say with Just. pride
cannot happen in New York. japanese
may walk our streets unmOlested in
their national attire: the Chinaman. in
his sensible if unRsthetic clothes. we
long ago ceased even to notice The Hin
du stalks along among us without being
annoyed by overt curiosity, and in the
days Of Buffalo Bill the vain Mexican
vaquero, in silver studded sugarloaf
hat and picturesque costume, received
no more attention from us than he con-
stdered his just due. and probably far
less. 10 is always certain of following
OF boys, but then 1t Is wOrshipful. not
offensive. An Esquimau might cause us
to forget our manners, especially if he
were one Of DR.. Cooks companions, and
a Marian might need police escort
On the other hand, cat on window
sill suffices to block traffic in Broadway
Not but that we, too, have our prejrI-
dlces In the matter of foreigners What
gets on our nerves and causes us to
muttef is so simple and common a
sight as an Englishman who chooses to
carry his handkerchief In his cuff in
stead Of in his pocket, or a German with
a bangle on his wrist. an italian with
mandarin nails and jewelled rings on
his fingers, or Belgian with percepti-
bic weakness for scent But we disap-
prove in silence; we do not allow these
little provincial prejudices of ours to
betray themselves. We extend our re-
spect for personal liberty to others
notions of comfort, personal adornment
and elegance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
THE SETAGE PROBLEM

The same sewage problem which the
Passaic Valley has had TO deal with in
respect 30 New York Bay DOW confronts
the city Of Rochester in respect 10 Lake
Ontario. A few years ago there WAS a
wild and insensate demand that the
New Jersey communities should as one
Of the natural and inalienable rights of
man for which our fathers fought. bIed
and died. he permitted TO discharge all
their sewage into the nearest water in
its original cruditY and foumess. That
barbarous demand The Tribune. al the
cost of some reproacheS ard denuncia-
tions. persistentiy and. as we think. eff
fectiyely opposed. III the last few weeks
there has arisen demand which seems
10 us similarly unreasonable. that those
communities shall not he permitted to
discharge any cf their sewage into the
hay, eren though il be so purified as to.
he much cleaner than the existing
waters of the bay and thus actuallS, make
the bay purer instead OF fouler We
have no idea that that extraordinary
contention will prevail. The present
plan is for the passaic sewage 10 he so
treated that its liquid residue will not
add TO the pollution and then be poured
into the bay. That plan is reasonable
and will probably prevail.
In Rochester there has been a demand
for the pouring OF the crude and foul
sewage directly into the lake. and plans
10 that end are NOW in the hands of The
city government. They were prepared
by a competent civil engineer, and from
the engineering point of view are proba-
bly, admirable. IL does not appear. how
ever, That amy sanitary engineer or SAM
farian was consulted concerning Them.
or that amy ID WAS aimed III save
HAT OF getting rid of the sewage in the
most direct an. inexpensive way. Hap
ply some realization of the improprie:y
of thus p0lluting the waters OF the lake
has arisen in the official mind. and the
execution Of the plans has been DELAYED
until they can be examined and nassed
upon by the State Department of
Health We sho be greatly SURPRISED
If the latter body should sanction Them
in their present form or should fail TO
insist upon some such modification as
WAS brought about In the case OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.

Inc lrlDunS bureau
Washington. May 2S-Next week will
mark the general breaking up of the Su-
preme Court circle. The Chief Justice and
several members OF his family will so to
Sorrento, Me. where they have a perma-
nent summer home. Justice and Mrs Har-
Ian will leave here on Thursday for Muir
ray Bay. Canada. where they have a per-
manent summer place. The Misses Harlan
end other members of the family will ac-
company them and VIII stop at Albany to
visit Mr. and Mrs Erastus Corning. the
latter Justice and Mrs. Harlan's grand
daughter. Justice and Mrs. LurtOn will
leave here on Wednesday for their hCme
in Tennessee. Justice aud Mrs .dcKenna
will leave here the middle of the week and
make series of visits 10 their sons-in-Iaw
and daughters-Mr. and Mrs. Pitts DuftieId
and Mr.. and Mrs. John Leggett Pultz. of
New York. and Mr.. and Mrs DavenI ort
Brown, OF Boston-5efore setting for TIE
SUMMER.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Van Reypen will
spend the summer at Weano. Cape Cod
leaving here in.a fortnight. They will have
with them for the season their son-in-law
and daughter. Baron and Baroness Korfr,
and their four-year-oid grandson. the little
Baron korf.
Mr.. and Mrs Larz Anderson closed their
Washington home to-day and have gone to
Weld. their estate at BrCokline Mass
Mrs Hunt Slater is closing her house
preparatory TO sailing from New York on
Thursday TO spend the summer abroad
She will make a series OF house visits and
then spend some time at Dinard
Mrs. Chandler Hale has gone to Penn
sylvanIa for q visit. She and MIR. Hale will
spend part OF the summer at Pleasant Val
ley Farm Gladstone. N Y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

North German brother. but it Is one OF
the achievements of the present En-.
peror's reign that the feeling OF raciai
solidarity has been strengthened SO
much and SO systematically WITHIN tue
empire. Tile Austrian. whose pail-Ger-
manistic enthusiasm has died out WIN
amazing celebrity. feels more kindly us
posed toward his ally than ever before,
seeing the dawn of Il new ERA for MS an
Client realm. The German Swiss acknowl-
edges himself a Teuton. racfally ana
culturally, but resents the Gerinah
brothers immigration violently. flnaiiy'
the Hollander. whom 10 call Il German Is
to borrow trouble. dislikes his Flemlsh
relative. and looked down upon MS
South African nephew until the boer
war, when he fell to worshpping him.
The three Latin nations. on the otner
hand, have come to Il state CT conscious
ness of racial solidarity which is reaching
out across the ocenn to the Latin Amefi-
lean republics. The French people long
ago attained tue state of national broth
erhood. with no divisions between north
or south. or east or west. but there Is
room for improvement in the attitude OF
the Romano di Roma and the Lombard
toward the Calabrian and the Sicilian.
As a national unit Italy is as young as
Germany The Spaniard has always
kept alive. amid provincialiSms and civil
strife, strong national pride. The
Slavs are not yet altogether happy
fanily-rather the reverse.
Among themselves the Anglo-SaxOns
We're amazingly good haters until they
awakened to the folly Of their course,
and worse. through n realization of the
mission and destiny of the race as a
far-flung whole
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
SOME CHURCH STATISTICS.
FIGURES Adduced to Show That Epls-
copaIians Are Increasing.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Several ministers and one other man
writing to editors of New York da1lles
have given figures, taken from the jour
nal of the Convention of the Episcopal
Diocese of New York, showing that tnat
Church lost heavily along several lines
last year as compared with the previous
year The figures quoted, being official
have disturbed a good many Christian peo-
pie.
The figures for the earlier year were for
eighteen months. owing to the fact that
change in the date of+hOldfng the conVeh-
ton was made three years ago Figures
last year were for the single year. The point
is plainly stated in the journal. There
has been no decline in membership, in
income or in other lines in the Episcopai
Church IN the Diocese of New York On
the contrary, there Is a steady growth
of 20 to 30 per cent each decade, and has
been for many years.
one letter writer speaks of DIR. H. K
Carroll of the United States Government
Census Bureau" and then goes on to quote
this authority to show that the Episcopal
Church in the whole country lost In mem
bership last wear. DR.. II. X. Carroll is
private citizen He IS not employed by
the government. The Census bureau
made no report on the subject last year.
IL never made report showing the Church
In question to have lost membership IN
any year.
The Episcopal Church growth in COM
municants last year 25.7O0. or per
cent and its growth by decades is shown
by the following figures: In 1870, 100000;
1880, 344 700: 1880 500, 100; 1900, $4,000; 1903.
the last year for which there are official
figures, 929. 100.
These people who figure out losses. es-
pecially in church attendance, fail to in
clude facts like the following:
From 1900 to 1000 men ard women every
week IN the year, almost 100000 each twelve
months, worship in Trinity Church and st.
Paul's Chapel, downtown, when no regular
services of any kind are, in progress L
don't mean sightseers who enter to look at
these buildings and their historic pews.
mean men and women who occupy pews
for considerable time, mediate, read the
Bible or prayer book and pray during
forenoon and afternoon hours when no
services are going on. To st. Paul's
Chapel alone 10000 go annually, and nearly
10000 to Trinity. And, besides these. last
Lent 10000 persons attended the noon hour
services in these churches. These num-
bers are larger than ever before and are
steadily on the increase.
EUGENE NJ. CAMP.
Nav
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

agents his suspicious were verified. and
he was enabled to work Il revolution
I'm surgical practice which was attended
by almost incalculable benefit. Koch
doubtless acted unde" the same inspira-
ton when he sought and found the
microbes of tuberculosis. cholera and
other human disorders.
The most important of his trlumphs
was the discovery of the bacillus Of
consumption malady which has
caused heavier mortality than any
races. The achievement naturally sug-
eested practical methods of preventing
the spread of tuberculosis and served to
correct various errors regarding the dis
ease. such as belief that it could be
inherited. II also led to almost count
less attempts TO develop new remedy.
Tn to the present time the most etfi-
cient antitoxin yet produced is that de-
rived from the germs CT diphtheria.
Yet if kocb's tuberculin proved disap-
pointment TO the world. some Of the
blame should rest en- those who advised
him to make n premature announce
ment Of his experiments. Moreover.
the product has been useful in dag
nosis. and in many sanatoriums for the
treatment of tuberculosis no small use
is made OF serum manufactured
in substantially the same way as
Koch's. His work has given decided
stimulus to other psychologists who
are seeking the same end as he
BY the expression Of an opinion that
bovine tuberculosis is not transmiSSlDle
to the human race Koch created ire
mendous sensation If he was correct
seine Of the precautions hitherto deemed
essential to prevent infection could be
omitted As a majority of those who
have made special study of consump-
ton in America and Europe remain I'M
convinced or accept the doctrine only
with aualifica tons. the utterance has
brought down on him severe censure.
1t is possible. however. TO give him
credit for honesty of belief without
fully adopting his views, and it is cen
ceivable that more extended obSerya-
ton may yet show that he was partly
right
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: Mr.. Lorimer.
Of Illinois. denied the charges Of corrup
zion in connection with his election and
introduced q resolution directing the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
TO make an investigation. - House:
The dav was devoted to consideration OF
The sundry civil appropriation bill: led
by the Democrats, the House curtafie0
. the appropriation for the protection of
the public domain. cutting in half the
amount authorized to be used in bring
ing the work up to date, and prohibiting
the use of any of the money to meet the
existing deficiency.
FOREIGN-English Liberals fear that
the Unioaists may sweep the country If
an election is forced: IT is believed that
TIE King viii not give guarantees; Par
IiamCnts duties after reassembling will
he perfunctory, though there may be
discussion regarding a change in the
oaJh regarding Catholics. - Thirty
Thousand troops are under arms in Paris
10 prevent Il Communist demonstration,
and fire engines are also held ready to
disperSe demonstrators. =- The Trib
Uns's correspondent in London says that
queen Mary viii probably become the
honorary colonel If q German regiment;
the season in London is exceedingly dull
ewing Ia court mourning; concerts are
we'll attended =- Protests are being
made in England regarding the appoint
-ment OF Lord Kitchener to Malta, his
ability being regarded as wasted there.
---- Advices from Paris say that eleven
DAYS may elapse before the lost sub
marine Pluviose is raised.
Following speech by
Senator Lorimer in the Senate at Wash
ington in which he vehemently denied
HAT there was any bribery in his cleo
ton State Senator ID. w Holstlaw con-
fessed before the Sangamon County
grand jllr, al SnriDgfield Ill that he
mad received $3,2e0 to vote for Mr.. Lori
mer. 500 Of which was paid out of a
general jackpot" The Ballinger-
Pine hot inquiry ended. counsel for all
parties completing their arguments.
Commercial bodies of Augusta
Ca. offered Mr.. Taft $50 600 TO meet the
6eliCit ia his travelling expenses but the
President. v hile greatly approaching the
sentiment could not accept the gift.
--- Charles ]. Glidden and COM
rarion were severely shaken up when
their balloon landed at Bethel, Conn.
,TTY.-Counsel for the remaining de-
PENDANTS IN the sugar trial arranged to
present the case Of Charles r. Heike,
secretary o the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company last of the three when the
case is resumed on Tuesday. = A
prisoner At Police Headquarters made a
bold dash through 2 window and was
caught By an Italian schoolboy. -
Customs men seized three hundred pieces
OF jewelry from an alleged Italian no
blerlan and also took his family tree
which WAS canned and sealed. -
Hearsts friends, having failed to win
W. ]. Corners over to their side against
Marphy, were said to be greatly worried
by the truce between the Democratic
state chairman ana the Tammany leader
THE WEATHER.-Indic for to-
Cay: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest. - degrees; lowest, 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
THE Talk or THE DAY.

When John A Strosnicer was arragned
before United States Commissioner Morle
In Brooklyn, charged with aiding young
Coleman To rob the National CITY Bank of
Cambridge, Mass, Of large amount of
mCn ey, ii policeman of German extraction
said: That's the first time I've heard =
card sharp called by that name. The name
was surely Strohschneider once on time
Strohschneider Is German for straw cutter.
but whenever Germans play cards they
have only one name for the who
makes Unpardona bic mistakes. who trumps
his partners ace. who can't count thirteen
and who disregards rules. and that name
is 'Strohschneder If / were in the card
business I'd never have any confidence in
man with that name"
II thought L overheard you and your wife
Qrarreliing IL little while ago. What was
the trouble"
She brought home new hat, and after
~ tting il on she turned TO me and said she
didn't believe fl was becoming.
Il agreed with her.''-t'hieago Record
Herald.
An interesting scene was enacted in the
main room of an office suite In one OF the
large buildings In the lower part OF the
city. The employers and their clerks as
sembed there just before the closing time
and the junior partner led one of the
stenographers into the room, where she re-
ce.ved q handsome present from her as
soclstes and another from her employers.
1t was her last day In the Office. for she
viii be an early June bride in suburban
town. Seven years ago she answered an
advertisement for an office boy" and
stood In u hall with lot OF boys until her
turn came. and then said to the man who
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
UNEoUAL COMMUTATION RATES

UNEQUAL CON MUTATION hA1ES.
The published schedules Of changes in
Communication rates on several railroads
fail to solve the problem of the pro-
priety of the changes. In some cases Inc
qualities are corrected. which is COM
mendable, but In others they are re-
tanned if not increased 1t will occur
to most minds that in similar conditions
there should be similarity of rates, and
if there were to be general revision
Of rates to that end there would be no
good ground for complaint. At present
some strange and inexplicable inequali-
ties exist not only between different
roads but between different branches Of
a single road.
There lies before us, for example. the
schedule of fares on one Of the cher
suburban roads, the Lackawanna. Let
us compare two stations, Montclair ana
South Orange each fifteen miles out and
only few miles apart, the road branch
ing shortly before 1t reaches them,
They are places OF similar character and
similar train service. The single fare
to Montclair is 80 and to South
Orange 40 cents: the excursion fares
are respectively 80 and so cents; the
monthly Communication fares are So so
ard So 20: the ten-trip rates are the
same, So each, and the fifty-trip rates
are respectively IS 10 and $40. Or take
two other places, Murray Hill and Chat
ham, similarly situated on two branches
of the same road, each twenty five miles
out Their single fares and excursion
fares are the same: but the monthly
rate TO Murray Hill is Sc 80 and to
Chatham Sc so, and the ten-trip rates
are respectively 81 and 81 Is: while,
strange to say, the fifty-trp rates are
respectively S17 80 and SIG %. the place
having the lower monthly and ten-trip
rates having the higher flfty-trip rate.
If we compare two stations of similar
character and situation but on different
roads we find strange variations. Take.
for example. two which are each fifteen
miles out. Montclair on the Lacka
wanna. and Roselle, on the Central of
New Jersey. Their single and excur-
sion rates are the same, 80 and 30
cents: their monthly rates are s. 80 and
Sc. their ten-trip rates are 81 and 81 %
and their fifty-trip rates are So % and
SO 80. Two others, on the same roads,
Chatham and Grant avenue, twenty-five
miles out. have the same single and eX-
cursion rates 60 cents and 81, but their
monthly rates are Sc so and 81 60. their
ten-trip rates are 81 IL and 81 % and
their fifty-trip rates are SIC p and SIS.
1t is certainly not easy to explain such
discrepancies on any logical or equi-
table basis Moreover. the existence Of
them provokeS irritation and suspicion
that the rates are determined more by
caprice than by reason. We should think
that good feeling and confidence between
the roads and their patrons would be
promoted by the establishment of uni
form rates for the various Communication
classes. SO that there would be equality
of treatment fer commuters who were
similarly situated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

In the career OF the distinguished
German bacteri0logiSt whose death has
just occurred there is II fresh reminder
of the fact that for their most valuable
and famous service men are often in
Gebfed 10 other workers. Fulton would
not have perfected the steamboat. il is
altogether probable bad lie not been
allied. directly and indirectly. by pre-
yiCl> efforts in this country and in Eu-
rope. T.:e principle on which the motor
Of a trolley car operates was discovered
by Faraday three quarters of Il century
before il was applied. Pasteur laid the
foundations If bacteriology. Shortly after
the Frenchman revealed the relation ex-
listing between certain diseases of ami
lnals anthrax and hen eholera) and liy-
ing organisms OF micI oscopic size n new
iGea came 10 Lister. He suspected that
many cf the unfortunate consciousness
of surgical operations were due to an
invasion of wounds 10y somewhat SINH
lar germs. When he employed. anti
septics to thwart these mischievous
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
SAVINGS BANK RATES.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: As one of your constant readers, l
wish to inquire why yoc advocate the 313
Per cent craze that possesses the savings
bank officials at present. You wholly ignore
one item which is very apparent to many
depositors. This Is the large and expensive
corner building that brings no return what
ever.
All recent arguments for reduction will
fall fat. and ought to receive universal con-
demnaton. until every banking building is
erected as strictly business proposition
for the benefit of the depositors. The full
statutory limit of 3 per cent could easily be
paid. WILLIAM W. FERRlEN-
New York May rs, 1910
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

New York Is deserted frcm social point
of view. for although Memorial Day does
not take place until tomorrow, vet bust
ness In town WAS virtually suspended yes
terday. and a perfect exodus from the city
began on Friday afternoon to the various
suburban resorts and country seats on
Long Island. the Hudson Valley and West
chester County. where weekend house
parties are In progress and viii last I'M
I'll Tuesday morning Tuxedo and Meadow
Brook are exceptionally gay. so much so
as to convey the imDzsssioa that the soms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
SUBWAY RUFFIANISM.

To the Editor or The Tribune
Sir: Houdlunisrn In the subway seems
Ia have become a permanent Institution.
certain efforts of the Police Department Ia
the contrary notwithstanding.
This class OF youths should be dealt with
before they become so obstreperous as TO
defeat any attempt by passengers TO quiet
them. just as soon as they begin to talk
loud and IT mp Is the time. Step up 10 the
guard, point out the principal offender and
ask the former To watch him. Don't wait
till the matter becomes so serious that the
police have to interfere. 1t Will stop
New York. May 70. 1910. y BROWN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

Ethnology was an uncultivated science
when Congress declared more than a
hundred years ago that only free white
persons" should be admitted to naturali-
cation. The courts now wrestling with
that phrase have the hard task of har-
monizing what the lawmakers a century
ago really meant with what they proba-
bly, would have meant if they had had
the benefit of later chronological re-
searches
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

We never like TO knock free show, but
we must say that Hailey's comet disap-
Evidently the comet has failed to play
its expected part as force for uplift
and regeneration among trembling sin
ners at the South. But times have
changed and so have the functions of
comets as promoters of fear and repent
ance In the hearts of the .ungodly. Hal
ley's comet was an inglorious failure
this year in its appeal to the popular
imagination. AS a celestial scare man
ufacturer it seems to have seen it's best
days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
THE CABIN EFT.
rEro,, Tba Tribnn. Bureau. !

From The Ir1bunc bureau-I
Washington, May 2s--The Attorney Cen
eraI and Mrs Wickersham will close their
Washington house on Thursday, and Mrs
Wickersham Will go to Marshfeld. al Ce-
darhurst, Long Island. to remain until fail
Mrs Nagel will leave Washington on
Wednesday for her summer home at Mar
ion Mass She will be accompanied by
Miss Hildegarde Nagel and the younger
members of the family. The Secretary OF
Commerce and Labor will Join them there
for short visits. Mr.. Nagel is planning a
trip to Alaska in the summer