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New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
A POLITICAL PRIMER.
Editor of The Tribune

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Messrs Barnes and Woodruff, utter
Iy reckless of results to the party, are still
busily engaged in promoting fight in the
coming state convention to retain their
jobs and to defeat popular party measures.
Republicans who take active part in the
work of the local organizations would
doubtless be glad TO have Messrs. Barnes
and Woodruff answer &. few inquiries along
these lines:
You urge us to stand by You in this fight
against the Taft and Roosevelt influence
and other great party leaders in our state
whom you have driven from you.
What do you hope to gain by NARROWING
yourselves in this fashion?
Are you proud of the embarrassing posi-
ton in which you have placed Vice-Pres1-
dent Sherman?
You glory in the departure of Hughes;
but Roosevelt has arrived and stands for
Hughess policies.
Why did you presume to dictate TO the
LOIS members of the next state convention
whom they should elect as temporary
chairman?
You did this-naming Sherman-to give
the party workers and voters the false i'm
preston that your control was indorsed by
the national administration. Has your own
prestige gained anything from this mis-
leading performance?
You have declared II an outrage that Mr..
Griscom should offer Roosevelt's name in
place of Shermans for temporary chair
man. Since when has it become an outrage
70 offer honors TO a Republican ex-Presi-
dent in your state committee?
You said it was a pity to bring Roose-
velt's name before the committee TO be
buffeted around like football Was il not
you who did the buffeting and who pub
licly glored over the defeat of the Roose-
welt resolution? Why, then, this pity?
Do you see any evidence of bossism in
these performances
How do you think the Republican voters
look al them? AMMI PEFTIGREW.
New York. Sept & 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
IN THE BERHSHIRES
rp- Ta1aq~a-b n The Tribune. 7

IBy Telegram TO The Tribunal
Lenox. Sept. Every hotel in the Berg
shire Hills is filed tonight Tourists and
guests for over Labor Day have taken
every available room In some resorts the
cottages IN the village are being used to-
house the guests
Miss Kate Cary appeared this morning
with her new coaching horses. which she
will drive in the parade this month
Mr.. and Mrs Eustis f Tonl2kins and
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Iie. CT New York,
are at Red Lion Inn. in S;toekbridge.
Mrs Charles Horton and family. 1-- anu
Mrs F. W Thayer. Nr. and Mrs g. 4
Schrader, =. W. Davis and Mrs. George a.
Monopol. of New York. are AZ the Hotei
AspinwaH.
Miss Clementina Furniss gave a Iargs
dinner tonight at Edgscon-b-
Mr. and Mrs Newboid Morris were hosts
at dinner tonight az BrookhursJ-
Mr. and Mrs. Peyton T. Van Rensselaer,
. gave a small dinner tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlos De Heredia gave
reception a WheatIeish this afternoon. en-
tertaining two hundred cottagers and their
guests.
Mrs Joshua W Davis and Miss Eloise
Davis Of New York, arrived tonight a.
the Curtis Hotel for Over Labor Day
Mrs. Gouverneur kortright. Mr.. and Mrs
Fl. NJ Hurd, Alfred 3. 1Iaclay and NT-
and Mrs g Il Gsurse. OF New York. ar
rived to-day al the Curtis Hotel
The Rev. and 1Irs. William Morgan Jones
returned 70 Newport to-day after a visit
with Miss Ellen King AT Sunnys:de. in
Stockbridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Za5riskle Cray ar
rived tonight al the Hotel Aspl1wau for
over the holiday
Miss Pauline Robinson IS q guesr cf Mrs
William A NJ. Burden At Dsepdene-
Frank ". keating won The Saturday
handicap at the Lenox Gylf Club TO-DAY.
. John Sloane, Lindsay Fairfax. < Pa-kman
Shaw. David T. Dana. William Z o. Field
and Samuel Frothiusham also competed
Alton F'arrel OF AnsCnia. Conn, :
guest or Major and Ms Charles + Brookss
at the Hotel ASpiuwall
Edward B SHiIds and Miss Edith Cook
are guests of MIR and AIRS. Robert W Pat
sTSOu at BlaUtE-p
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

According to q report made by G. 8.
Smith the British Consul General at
Odessa that place and other Russian cities
will soon be good markets for American
footballs THE game has become a fash
ion' D." says the report, having been intro
duced partly by soldiers who served in
Crete, where they saw it played by British
soldiers and partly through tho British
club At Odessa the authorities have set
aside ground for the use OF those who
wish TO play, and ono may see boys and
men "at play on open spaces at any time
of the day
Pop, what is the lulI before the storm ~
The honeymoon, my son. n.'-Boston Tran
script.
Replying to a correspondents question
''rThe Richmond Times-Dispatch" says that
il believes that half of a United States
Treasury note would not be good" Unless
the Treasury Department has changed its
rules recently Major Hemphtlls paper is
wrong. 4 member of The Tribune stair
who received one-half OF a dollar bill sent
it along to Uncle Sans money men and
received In return a bright new 6o-cent
piece. So long as the number of the bill
is preserved the government stands ready
to make good.
Disguised Fisherman complying his bait
into tho stream)-Hanged If I'll wait on
You any longer. Herel help yourselves
Life.
China must be soothing country for I'm
successful authors A Paris paper gives
the following translation OF the rejection
Slip employed by a Chinese editor: I'VE
have read your Ms, with infinite delight
BY the sacred ashes OF our ancestors We
swear that wa have never read such a
splendid piece of writing. But if we printed
1t his majesty the Emperor, most high
and most mighty ruler would order us 10
take this as model and never rrint any
thing inferior. As this would not he posi-
bic In less than a thousand years. we, with
great regret, return thy divine Ms. and ask
a thousand pardons."
People who live in glass houses shouldn't
forget to pull down the blinds.-Phiiadel-
phia Record.
The Journal of the American Medical
Association highly commends the action
OF Harvard in Offering the degree of doctor
OF public health i'll its new department of
preventive medicine and hygiene, and sees
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
4 FINE APPOINTMENT.

President Taft has placed in charge of
the Bureau Of Mines. established by
Congress at its last session, a man ad-
nirabIy qualified TO perform the duties
Of the office. The appointment Is one
which seemed TO dictate itself. DR.. J. y.
| Holmes, who has been transferred TO the
new post was long at the head of the
archaeological Bureau Of the United
States Geological Survey. His eXamina-
tion of the Goals of the country. to deter
rhine their fuel value, has enabled buy
ers TO discriminate more carefully than
was possible before in making large con
tracts. When once attention is drawn TO
the matter, it is easy 10 perceive the
advantage of hasing the price Of fuel
On the number Of heating units it con
tains DR. Holiness service has greatly
heped the consumer of coal, and yet
he also appears to enjoy no little popu-
laritv among producers Of that com
modify.
An opportunity of large usefulness Is
opened TO the new head Of the Bureau
of Mines Ia order to prevent an lnVa-
sion of state rights Congress refraIned
from giving the national government au-
thority 70 control the collieries of the
country It did, however. empower the
new bureau to investigate accidents and
10 recommend preventive and curative
measures. The federal government will
, 20 q step further and itself establish
rescue stations, at which will be kept
en- duty men especially trained ip the
humane work of extricating imprisoned
miners and extending the prompt and
intelligent aid on which may turn the
question Of life or death.
Mr. George Otis Smith, who accepted
temporary assignment to the office now
permanently filed, was doubtless eager
10 help the President by giving Mr.. Taft
ample time for a satisfactory choice. 1t
Is safe to assume, though, that he will
be glad to devote himself exclusively TO
bis former responsibilities as director
Of the United States Geological Survey
an Office having d broader scope than
that of chief Of the Bureau of Mines.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
PEOPLE and Social lncfderfS

, Is1and who was in Newport with the At
laptic Deeper Waterways Association dele
gates. The boxes had all been taken. and
tbfs mart Of the attendance comprised for
the mos. part the members from the New-'
mort summer colony. owing 20 the DOUBT
fuI weather. many Of the women vera
wrapped in long cIoaks. but still there Were
nanv beautiful gowns shown. 5otn IN tho
boxes and on the sTa 1stanG5
The leading entertainment to-day was y
6inaer-dance. given at the Newport Cole
Club this evening by Mr. and Mrs =
Iotbrop Ames in honor OF Mrs cecil Hls~
gins. OF London, sister OF Mrs. Afnes>
There were eighty-four guests at dinner.
,,bieh was served in the tearoom ef the
climb All the tables We're decorzted with
baskets OF flowers The ballroom was also
decorated. Several hundred guests came an
for this part OF the entertainment
7Tra + F. A. Clark and Mrs. Richard
GanbriII entertained with iunc0eonS this
afternoon. while this evening Mrs William
C;rosvenor, Mrs. Henry Barton JacooS-
Mrs. George Peabody Wetnaore. Mrs bo-
ward ]. Berwind. Mrs Joseph L Videnef'
Mrs. Elisha Dyer and James J. Van Aien
were dinner entertainers
Registered at the Casino to-day were
Norman de r. Whitehouse. Chauncey Ne
Keever. Philip .. Mills a guest OF MFs-
James z. Kernochan; Charles D. Drsps'-
n. de y. cruger, Of New York, and Charles
c. Wfns1ow, OF Boston, guests o. = l.
threp Arnes; Ernest IselIn, Norman :. DiSe
and Arthur D. Weeks, Of New York, guests
Of DR.. J. J. Mason; Jean de Bos, OF Paris
aud lanes Arthur and r. o. Russell OF
Scotland.
Err and Mrs. Payne Whitney and II o
1Isx-e,,ayer ir. have closed their seasons
and returned to New York
Maurice Roche and Francis Roche. of
New York. are making . short visit here
Charles Hayden has returned from New
York on his steam yacht Wacondah-
Charles NJ. Bull has returned 20 his sum
ner home for the week end, with ms an
lily
Max Agassiz has returned to Cambridge.
n1r and Mrs William G. Rocker VIII
remain in Newport this year very l2te-
Ltspenard Stewart IS to go 70 Hef
Springs Va, this week
Miss Maud Van CUtsen. OF England "49
has been visiting here since July IS III q
the Newport Hospital
Lord Arhumney and Lord E-lto5. o. Lor-
don, are guests Of Charles Hayden aboard
his yacht. Beverley Bogert ard John A
Gade, OF New York. are guests Or Il W
Sibley on the steam yacht Thetls- FRED
erick VI Goodwin, OF New York, is visiting
Dr. Roderick Terry
Monson Morris has joined the mousse party
being entertained By Mrs. French Wander
bilt J. {. Gray, of New York, is a gusss
of Mr. and Mrs Reynolds HitJ-
Devereux Mnburn. of New York, IS
guest OF Mr. and Mrs Reginald Brooks
and MI and Mrs. Richard Ward Green. OF
Worcester. are visiting Mr. and Mrs Mars
den J. Perry.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
ARTISTIC INTERIORS;.

The time has come to protest against
the intoierabIe conventionality OF our
artistic interiors. They no longer ex-
press individual taste: they have become
monotonous in their slaviSh repetltloh OF
one scheme Of furnishing, decoration anu
Arrangement inspired mostly by q cer-
tain class of periodicals, whose merit
certainly does not lie in their originality.
There Is the ubiquitous shelf Win us
brass candlesticks and plaster casts;
there are the photographs of the same
masternieces of the same masters, IN the
same frames, purchased, like the rest o.
the rooms contents, with pathetic re-
lance on the "home department Oh
some magazine or in emulation or the
neighhors. The artistic" interior is no
longer vita1izing; it has become aead-
eninc influence in our lives, as fhllls-
tine as the plush and gilt which 1t cast
out some years ago with just tiui uiSia
ton and abhorrence.
It's weakening influence upon taste IS
hest seen where an Independent attempt
is made TO elaborate the genera
scheme The original touch IS geu-
erally meaningless. aimless and often
inccngruolrs. It may consist of an
eighteenth century warming pan, which
should be kept in a bedroom or a samo-
var or q brass bowl-another conVen-
ton, since upon the same authority
brass is the proper artistic thing just
nov-or it may be a narghile, or a
SAMPLER. or a totem from Puget Sound,
but whatever its nature, 1t usually only
Strengthens the negative impression ana
accentuates the total absence of aesthetic
understanding
Almost any kind Of change would
be welcome TO break the depressing,
meaningless conventionality in which an
artistic revolt is ending. Even cary
Victorian antimacassars, the Rogers
groups, wax flower pieces and buffalo
horn footstools of our grandmothers
would have the merit Of unconyention-
atty and independence of taste.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
FEMALE PTChpOCkETG.

The discovery that a group of young
female pickpockets is working the
subways deserves serious attention and
calls for immediate and energetic action
TO be sure, according to tradition, 1t Is
nothing new for women to go through
the pockets of men folk, but hitherto
the custom, as countenanced by operator
and victim, has been confined TO the
family circle or rather to the nominal
head thereof. and to the seclusion Of the
silent watches of the night 1t has no
standing in law, but has come TO be
looked upon as an underlined right of
wifehood. However loud the modern
wonlan's now somewhat superfiuous as
sertion that she is not her husbands prop
erty, she continues 10 be convinced in
her heart that he is hers.
How mans status is chaDgingi Once
his women folk ventured forth at their
peril without the protection Of his
doughty arm To-day it is he who is ex-
posed to dangers uncountable when he
sets out alone from the safety Of his roof
tree He may need at any moment the
watchful eye, the determined hand, the
fluent speech-in short, the protecttion-of
the emancipated sex in our streets and
public conveyances. BY himself he runs
10 slight risk in attempting TO deal with
a female pickpocket, for the defence of
this new class of precocious criminals is
likely to take the form of an Internal
accusation
This young feminine criminal cannot
be suppressed too soon, for she Is one or
the most dangerous of laWbreakers,
whom man can hardly dare to appre-
hend and hand over to the police for fear
OF the possible consequences Perhaps
the most effective way of putting an end
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04

he no discrimination either for or against
the unions. but union men and non-union
men would he equally treated. The
strikers demanded closed shops, in which
none buG, union men would be employed.
The outcome on this point is a compro-
mise in which both parties gain some
thing and both yield something, though
the manufacturers certainly seem to have
gained more and yielded less than the
strikers. BY 10 means the least I'M
portant and farreaching result Of the
strike was the eliciting of judicial de
cision to the effect that q demand Tor q
closed shop, making union membership a
prerequisite to employment, was tanta-
mount TO conspiracy TO establish no
uopoly in restraint Of trade That is an
interes ting and suggestive theory. OF
which we shall doubtless hear more here
after
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
THE DICKENS TESTIMONIAL.
Opportunity for Americans to Pay a
Debt Long Overdue.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: If | understand the matter rightly
then Erving Winslow is altogether wrong;
the Dickens testimonial is neither char
itabl fund nor thank offering. 1t Is
simply an effort to induce certain persons
to pay a debt too long overdue.
For wears upon years the American peo-
pie have been getting the highest intel
lectual happiness from the books or niah
who that they and others might be thus
made happy, killed himself by overWork III
bis fifty-eighth year; the cause or tllis
overwork being that the aforesaid Alherl-
cans stole his copyright. The pubhsner
was paid and the printer was paid and the
booksellers were paid; because they had
to be paid Neither the author nor MS
descendants received an American cent
Yet there is not house IN America "here
his books cannot be found; there Is not an
intelligent man or woman here who mas
not read them. Besides which, mere anu
everywhere, the cause of goodwill between
man and man was helped by him as 1t mad
never before been helped by any one since
the Apostles.
1t may or may not be true that some of
the women Of the Dickens family are III
poor circumstances, and that two Of them
are IN receipt or a nllSefdDIe foV d S0oi
from the English government. This, II
true, could easily be put right by real
Charitable fund got up among few rich
people. What is important is this: that
Brother Jonathan has made a bad record
in the matter of the Dickens copyright
By sharp practice, if not by actual crime,
it was stolen by Brother Jonathan, and
every English literary man knows it and
oJic CHI ul1n c n knows
1t and remembers it, and the friends of
America are ashamed. Sharp practice
against Charles Dckensi the man who was
the friend and the champion of every suf-
fering man. or woman or child and with
such gifts, too--music, poetry, wit, hunor,
pity and iove-a whole literature in him
self and which will last while the world
lasts! J. z. YEATS.
New Nnrk Sent Z 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
BEARING ON STATE ISSUES.
he Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Am ! right when l say that there
are two main ISSUED TO be raised in the
coming Republican state campaign viz
that of bossism lthe "eld guard versus
the Progressive elemenU and the question
of direct nominations?
In the 18th Congressional District j. Van
Fechten 0lcott is endeavoring To obtain a
denomination to Congress and William NJ
Bennett, who now represents the 18th As
sembly District IN the state Legislature, is
endeatoring to obtain the nomination for
the same office.
Plain facts, uncontradieted assertions and
his credtable record speak for Mr.. Ben
nett, He IS opposed TO the selection of
Cannon as the next Speaker of the House
OF Representatives and is in favor OF
changes in the rules OF that body which
Will lend aid 10 the disposing OF legislation
therein with Justice, fairness aud speed.
his attitude relative To the tariff is surely
Republican and American III every respect.
man better fitted for Congress would he
hard 70 find. LOUIS :. RAPPAPoRT.
New York, September /, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
E4BoR UNION FUNDS IN POLITICS.

The SO-CalIed Osborne judgment bids
fair 10 rank in interest and Importance
with the Taft Vale decision. which in
deed. it closely resembles in the circum-
stances Of its PRONUNCIATION and the at
tacks which are being made upon IT..
We have already in these columns called
attention 10 the occasion of the judg-
ment. Last year certain labor unions in
the United Kingdom, which had been or
saniZed and conducted as friendly so
cietieS and had amaSsed considerable
sums as such for the benefit of their
members. attempted TO use those moneys
as political campaign funds and for the
payment Of salaries TO Laborite mem-
bers Of Parliament Objection was
made TO this as a perversion of the
functions of the funds and as a WRONG
against the members who had contrib
uted 10 the funds for other purposes and
who had a vested interest therein. The
case was carried TO the highest legal
tribunal the law department of the
House Of Lords, and the Osborne tudg-
ment was given. declaring political use
Of trade union funds Illegal.
Now the trade unionists are violently
denouncing that decision and are agitat-
ing against it and are threatening the
government with all manner Of dreadful
things if it does not forthwith annul the
judgment by act Of Parliament 1t Will
be remembered that precisely that
course was taken with the Taft Vale de
,cision and that at q time when the
government was not nearly as dependent
as it now is upon the support Of the
Laborite members. Last winter, indeed,
a bill for the annulment Of the judg-
ment was introduced at Westminster,
but il was dropped or withdrawn. Now,
however, the matter has been taken
I'D again and viii doubtless be pressed
without thought of compromise. More
than a hundred mass meetings through
cut the country have already been ar
ranged. and when the autumn session
OF Parliament opens We may expect 10
see this the foremost issue Of the Labor
party. Its importance 80 them is ob-
yiOuS Enforcement Of the decision
means paralysis of the political efficiency
Of the labor unions and Also the nom
payment Of the salaries of labor mem-
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
A Birdie FOR COMMITTEE POWER

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The largest portion of the voters of
the State of New York takes comparatively
little interest in or gives scarcely any
time to political management On EIec-
ton Day more men are moved by senti-
ment than by direct interest; and when
outspoken leaders, like Theodore Roose-
welt or Charles E. Hughes, arise and lead
in fact, thousands of men shout and cast
their votes to back up such men without
any reserve, and this sentiment exists
strongly in the State OF New York and
III each Of the sixty-one counties.
Tho Republican State Committee has
made political blunder i'll turning down
SO far as 1T vas concerned. ex-President
Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt, to-day an
unofficial citizen OF the state. is by right
the first citizen of the State of New York,
and if present III the convention approach
ing he should. by common courtesy. be
made temporary chairman. For the state
committee to go out of it's way TO place
Nice-PreSident Sherman formally as
nominee not only an error but it
places the President of the United
States in a position that he has no busl-
ness to be placed in AS Vice-President
let such officer, during his term oe
office, keep out OF party conventions as an
official.
The matter of direct primaries Will prob
ably lead to more persons taking interest
to attend caucus or primary election. eau
cuses outside tho larger cities notori-
ously neglected. and the consequence is
that in practice our whole system of pop
ular choice runs into the committee plan
and is dominated by a few men, wise or
otherwise To overcome this very general
apathy IS the aim OF direct primary
BENJAMIN HAMMOND
E.snlxll lll-1aL- lIuASnN \
New-York tribune., 1910-09-04
yNBTNG THE RIG STRIKE.

Labor nav NAV we'll be celebrated
this wear with more than ordinary inter
o. 10y thousands of members of this
community because OF the ending of u
r7rotractpd strike which is said 10 have
involved 4 larger number of persons than
aIlv other In local history. and which.
while il did not perhaps disturb general
business conditions rs much is some
smaller strikes have done, entailed eX-
ceptionally great distress upon 4 large
7roportion Of its actual participants The
thousands Of eviction cases in the East
Side which last week clogged the courts
bore witness TO the suffering caused 10y
lhis suspension Of employment by class
of workers who were conspicuouSly Ill
prepared to forcgo their wages for weeks
and months.
The terms of settlement viii he vari-
ol:sly regarded. 80 far as they result IN
improved sanitary conditions in the
slioJss and a better standard OF living for
the working people they viii be heartily
approved. It is 10 be believed that there
has been need Of such reforms. and their
achievement viii I've for the good Of ali
concerned. When labor unions strive for
such ends they are doing good work
end should enjoy the sympathy Of all
right thinking men. We may doubt, how
ever, whether the means employed in
this case were necessary. 1t has been
stated that tie manufacturers were long
ago willing To grant the demands Of that
kind which were made. and, indeed, ii
Is not easy TO understand how they could
have refused 10 do so. The sanitary
laws are much more effective Dow than
tliey were a few years ago, and serious
abuses In workshops could be corrected
through them and through the force Of
spublic opinion when the conditions were
known II was not solely or chiefly for
such ends that tie strike was under
5aken, and so far as the strike aimed at
them It WIS unnecessary
Tie cruK of The dispute, as mas been
frankly stated was the question of rec
ognitioD OF the labor unions and Of
closed or open shop, and thereon the set
element appears 10 have been effected
through compromise. The employers
wanted open shops. In which there would