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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-03

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Commander Hazen in Tuesdays
Tribune suggests that the statue of Cen
patriotic sentiment, should appear without
uniform.
These rare historic characters rise above
the state they serve and the cause they
affirm and they become q worif posses
sion. Under the brightness of their genius
errors weaknesses. resentments-all are
buried in their graves.
Many at the conclusion of the war thought
that retribution should be visited upon the
leaders of the instruction Nothing OF
this kind was done, and all now see that 1T
was the fairest page in the history of this
land, or of any land. 1t is well, then, that
the statue of General Lee should stand in
full uniform in the Capitol. In the scope
Of his genius earth knows no greater stand
ard. and the wide reverberation of his name
will sound throughout the world when the
draperies of fame will have fallen from
lesser natures.
The State of Virginia has an opportunity
of doing a very graceful act in full accord
ance with her glorious traditions. and that
is TO give her Washington to the nation.
If Kentucky does the same In regard TO
Lincoln. with these two exalted characters
the whole country at large would also be
represented Here would be an opportunity
for a very noble work of art that would
test the highest skill and genius in its
execution. l. STERLING.
Bridgeport, Conn, March l, 1910
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party. and when. in November, 1905,
the Panaman courts decided that Dr..
BeiiSario PorraS. the leader Of TINT
party. was not Il citizen OF the republic,
he. together with DR. Pablo Arosemena.
the First Designate. publicly protested
against that decree In the Amador adj
ministration, it will be recalled, an effort
was made TO unite the two parties in
cooperation for the good of the country
by making Amador, 4 Conservative,
President; Pablo -Arosemena, Liberal,
First Designate: Obaldia. COnSerVa-
tive, Second Designate. and DR.. Men
duza IA Liberal. Third Designate In the
0baidia administration. through the
moral influence of the United States,
there was retained a similar arrange
ment, and that is why Il Conservative
President i now succeeded by Il Liberal.
Party names do not now possess. how
ever. the significance which they once
had in Panama or which they have in
other states. The accession of DR..
Mendoza will probably cause little il
any change in governmental policy. and
il viii be legally acquiesced in by the
people while his character and ability
basneak for him the confidence of all
and the cheerful expectation Of com
potent and patriotic administration.
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ton in the House of Representatives
directing the Secretary of the Navy 10
invite foreign maritime nations to par
ticipate in conference whose purpose
II shall he to fix limit on the dredging
ont of rivers and harborS. This is one
roundabout way of checking eXtrava-
CANT naval construction. If the navies
OF the world are to contain battleships
of 10000 tons. nearly all the present
naval larbors will have to be dredged
out and new drydocks will have to be
constructed in every port OF repair
This work would be as costly as the
construction of the new battleShlps at
s2O,00O,000 apiece, and it is Mr.. Moofes
idea that II a concert can be obtained
to limit the deepening Of harbors the
proposed naval behemoths Will be IefC
without a berth to coal in or refuge
in which to repair the ordinary damages
Of cruising or warfare. Certainly some
international limitation, either on ton
mage or Oh the capacity of harbors,
would be welcome if it forestalled the
creation by q dozen nations of inordl-
I:ately costly fleets.
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anparently recovered. In no ln''""
could any bad effect be Observed anu III
several cases there was notable lihpio'.
ment. But the remedy was appneo On!
TO tllnors on the surface of the pouS'
and there is 10 evidence as yet tiia' NV
relief afforded is permanent. Cancer has
q Iamentable habit of recurring a1'ei 'e
moyal Moreover no suggestion seeiiS
have been offered regarding the fe''ioh
ity of obtaining a constant supply OIL inc
find employed. Thousands Of victims u
tuberculosis shake off the disease NJ
covery from cancer is rare.
In the method followed by DIR. Hoden-
pyl there is hint Of that by WHICH
Behring obtained his antitoxin for diph-
iberia. An animal is rendered immune
against that disease and its veins tnen
WELD fluid which has preventive ana
curative properties. With q view or
bringing about similar result thou
sands Of mice have been inoculated with
malignant tumors in America and Eu-
rope in the last five or six years. S1ngu-
larry, too. as long ago as 1906. 1t was
reported that at one single laboratory
in this country more than hundred OF
these creatures. artificially infected, had
recovered Yet if they had produced
serum of value, would not the fact have
been made public long ago? There are
many good reasons for conservative
reception of Dr. Hodenpyfs statement.
One is that he himself frankly says: 1T
sis not at present my purpose to an
"nounce new cure for cancer"
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THE piRE POLICY.

Park Commissioner StoverS speech at
the dinner in his honor on Tuesday
night should set ut rest whatever fear
nav have existed that he would an
preach the park traditions of the city
with rude ard radical hands. His
announcements show, moreover, how
quickly his conception of the park prob
lens of the city is going TO bear fruit.
There will be ball fields for the boys Of
the city next summer in number hith-
erto unprecedented. Vacant plots of
ground belonging TO the public will not
Ii. idle Already the Bridge Department
has put nj MIR. Stoyer'S disposal the
open spaces under the bridges. Cooper
alton with Columbia University is like
" to open the fine baseball field Of that
Institution in 116th street TO the boys
of the city during the summer, and
playground will be made of the vacant
lets belonging TO the city lying south
of City College. Moreover. the direction
of all the Fairgrounds will be such that
the maximum use Of them will result.
This policy is an admirable change
from that OF half neglect with Which
park commissioners have hitherto re-
oarded the provision Of facilities for
public amusement.
Nor. according 10 the Commissioner
speech. need any one fear that his mind
is exclusively interested i'll providing
amuSements He has a broad view Of
the uses of parks and is as firmly Op-
posed 10 the erection of additional
buildings in Central Park as any one
else in the city. Moreover, he has no
notion that Central Park should be
thrown open TO the public to be used
at discretion. The traditions Of that
lark will be safe ia his hands. He. has
no sympathy with those who wish to
see it used in the same way in which
the little parks on the East Side are
used and reduced to the same state of
desOlatiOn. Indeed. SO far is he from
holding that opinion that he fayors
setting apart of small sections of these
much used parks for flower beds and
shrnbbery. and he would have users
taught to respect those reserved spots
and take pride in their beauty. That
i an experiment which is well worth
al lTIdI, anu tIe ulSltOSltlou " tIuueA ot,Ac
it shows that there is no fundamental
antagonism between the idea of the
parks as the recreation places of the
people and the idea Of them as natural
beauty spots in great city.
Mr.. Slower brings to the adminfstra-
ton of the parks wider conception of
their utility than most Of his predeces-
sors had. 1t is not a new conception,
for it exists in other cities; in fact. we
might say it was the prevailing concep-
ton to-day in the other great cities Of
tie country. When once it is thoroughly
understood it is hardly to be doubted
that it viii be regarded with as much
sympathy here as elsewhere.
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AT THE WHITE HOUSE
rFrom The Tribune Bureau }

E-Or-
Washington, March 2-Ihe
O list of nominations to the Sehd'e
including the name of Chafles ~ VI
New York. to be pension aseN. az
IF If Is possible for the President 70 get
away from Washington on May ~ ne
attend the annual shooting festival or the
National Schuetzenbund at Union nm
N. r. Tho invitation was presented oy
committee including Emil Berckmann, OF
Hobokeu. and Magistrate I,orenz Zeiler' OK
New York. MIR. Taft delivered a brief ad-
dress to the committee, Wnlcn "d0
troduced bv Representative Kinkaid
President Taft opposes in the interest or
economy the introduction of public Dulld-
ires hill at this session. He nevertheless
indorses Senator SCOTS bill appropriatlhs
10000 for the preparation of plans iol
buildings to house the Departments Oh
state. Justice and Commerce and Labor
The legislative committee of the Inter
national League of Highway improvements
consisting Of John Stewart, OF New ioiN'
Colonel b. Cameron, of North Caroilha'
president of the Farmers National Con
gress: J. H Pratt. State Geoloslst OF NOT ''
carolina. Colonel ]. II. Crook. or Alabama,
and z. c. Iargey. of Montana, acquaiiiteu
the President with the provisions OF d pm
being prepared by Representative NocA9
for federal cooperation with the various
states in surveying interstate highways
in the interest OF the good ROADS move
ment. 4.
Tho Presidents callers included the AT
torney General, Senators WetmoFe' PNi
rows, Dillingham;, Lorluer and Carter rep
resentatives Kennedy, Diekena, Haiioe''
Pearre. Mccall, Goldfogie, Graft, Inofhas'
Gaines, Stephenson. SABBATH, Moreheao'
Eeau. Hamilton, Weeks and Jameson
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KAIsER's GIFT TO B. 1. WHEELER.

Berlin. March EMPEROR William has
presented a large sized photograph Of him
self inscribed with the words From an
Ardent Adnirer' above his autographed
Benjamin Idle Wheeler. president OF ths
University or California. who has Just
closed his service as Roosevelt professor
at the University OF Berlin Mr.. Wheeler
has also received from the Empress Au-
guste Victoria a photograph of herself and
the Princess Louise. This bears the auto
graphs OF her majesty and the princess.
Professor Wheeler will leave here for OK
ford tomorrow and Will lecture at the unit
yersity on Saturday He will sail fer the
United States on the steamer Rronprin-
zessin CecIie on March g.
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GRAY GOALS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Paul Dana in his letter OF Fehru-
airy 2S argues against the static of Lee
in the Capitol at Washington. and supposes
a case of statue of Grant or Sherman
erected at Richmond by decree OF the gov
eminent and judges that the Southern peo-
pie would be thereby affronted.
Well, perhaps they might. and with rea-
son. That would be rubbing it in" and
could not but be offensive to these people.
who, acknowledging themselves beaten.
have long ago accepted the situation and
are now living cheerfully and Loyalty under
an amended Constitution which bars
specifically everything which the founders
of the Confederacy claimed and for which
these people fought.
On the other hand. the Northerners
gained everything. The government was
saved and made stronger than ever. Vic
tors should be magnanimous. and il Vir-
ginians desire to put statue of their
strongest character in the Hall of Fame,
even though clothed with the Confederate
uniform. it should not incense any
Northerner. but should be welcomed as
something 10 eliminate almost the last
feeling OF animosity between North and
South.
Gentlemen, this war ended forty-five
years ago. Don't keep blowing on the
Goals 10 keep them alive: let the fire go
out. Grant 20 the vanqushed this slight
boon, which, while it gives them salts
faction. does no possible harm.
An equestrian statue of George Wash
ington stands prominently in London Does
any Engiishman look upon it as a taunt
or a reminder that he or his government
lost In the war OF the Revolution?
ALBERT r SHERWOOD
Waterbury. Conn. March I. 1910
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ENL4RGING THE FLEET

The Naval Affairs Committee of the
House of Representatives has acted
consistently and prudently, IN adopting
Secretary Meyers programme of naval
construction for 1901. No change of
policy is involved in the authorizations
agreed on. Two new battieships of the
sUper-Dreadnought class are to be
added TO the navy, but this addition is
necessary to fill out the squadron of
eight originally planned, the first six
members being the North, Dakota, Dele
ware. Florida, Utah, Arkansas and Wy
oming
The House programme is therefore es-
sentially conservative. The Secretary
of the Navy announced III his annual
report that he would recommend the
construction of only two battleshipS lin
order TO keep the appropriations for the
Navy Department within the economical
limit set for the government The total
OF appropriations carried in the naval
the total carried in the bill for 1909
10 as it passed the House of Repre-
SentativeS. The Taft policy of retrench-
ment in federal expenditures is there
fore being applied i'll the Navy Depart
ment. and the saving Of $5.OO0,000 eff
fected shows that no eXtraVagant
schemes of naval development are in
contemplation.
Some misleading emphasis has been
given TO Il remark by the Secretary of
the Navy that there might be occasion
within the next few years to lay down
battleshipS Of $1,000 tons and over. Mr..
Meyer was not forecasting q recon-
mendation by the department to that
effect, but simply specializing on the
possibilities of the future. If the new
14-inch guns prove q success, battieships
10 be used as platform for extensive
batteries of these formidable weapons
will probably reach or pass the limit OF
$1,000 tons. But this development is as
yet prOblematical. If for practical pur-
poses Pinch guns are found 10 be as
serviceable as 14-inch guns, there will
be- no need Of a material increase in bat
tleship displacement
4 marked increase in the size of hat
ileShips at this time would be regretta-
costly naval construction has gone so
far as 10 become a menace 10 the treas
urieS OF the leading maritime nations.
The sort OF competition between Great
Britain and Germany which has stimu-
lated the rapid and enormous enlarge
ment of the tonnage OF the heavier
fighting ships is one which is not
easily checked short OF financial eX-
haustion. If larger guns are to be con
structed and super Dreadnoughts doated
up TO displacement of 10000 tons, all
the nations of the world trying to keep
up the pace in the naval progress will
be saddied with a crushing military
burden.
The Hon. J. Hampton Moore. Of Phil
adelplia, has introduced joint resolu-
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"sYMBOL OF DlSLOYALTY."

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS one who had part in defeat
ing the attempt to destroy the Union dur
ing the years 1876, will you permit me
to express my appreciation of the letter of
Paul Dana, published in your paper this
morning?
The old soldiers feel bitterly the seeming
Indifference with which the placing of Cen
eraI Lees statue in full Confederate uni
form in the Capitol at Washington has
been received by the people and the press
of the country, and it gladdens our hearts
TO find that AL of the prophets of the
Lord are not dead.
The charge that either the Loyal Legion
or the Grand Army of the Republic has
ever sought to keep alive the animosities
of the war of the rebellion is false, and
none. I venture to say, will bear more will
ing testimony to this than the survivors
VINO wore the gray.
From the time we shared our TatiOns with
them at APPROXIMATION until now We always
have been, and still are, ready to offer
them q SOLDIERS welcome" But, while We
gladly extend to them the open hand. we
set our faces as sternly as in days of old
against the Stars and Bars and the uni
form the Confederates wore.
They were and can never cease to be
symbols of dsloyalty, and our blood is not
get so thinned by age that it does not throb
in protest against any attempt to pay them
honor The memories that cluster around
those symbols, the deeds Of valor they re-
call, belong not to the nations glory. They
will never be forgotten by the brave hearts
that served them to the uttermost and
finally in sorrow folded them away, but TO
drag them from their resting place and
seek to crown them with national recogni-
ton is to impugn the good faith of those
who furled them and accepted brother s
welcome to a reunited household and to
dishonor the loyalty and valor that made
such reunion possible.
The old soldiers feel that the present gem
GRAFTON should see to it that the animosi-
ties of the past should not be rekindled by
honor paid to the flag and uniform that
symbolized the attempt to drive govern
ment of the people. by the people, for the
people from off the earth. and welcome
every voice raised to smother the attempt
WILLIAM S. COGSWEIL,
Late Lieutenant Colonel 9Th Regiment.
Connecticut Veteran Volunteers
New York, March 1. 1910.
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Poodle and Social lncfdenfs

visiting in Washington. entertained guests
at luncheon to-day
Mrs. A. T.. Barney was hostess az a din
ner party Of young people to-nlshr IN cer-
plirnent to Miss Mary McCauley.
Mr.. and Mrs. James r. Garfield. who
have been the guests of Mrs James W
Pinchot for some time. are now the guests
NJ Major General and Mrs Gillespie. and
will remain with them for week
Miss Gwendolyn Burden. daughter Of
MIR and Mrs. l. Townsend Burden. OF New
yor,. will arrive here tomorrow, 70 be tia
guest of the Misses Fish. daughters OF
Representative Hamilton Fish, for soma
DAYS. Miss Burdens hosts VIII give 4
dinner IN her honor to-morroT night
Mrs. Robert Mccormick entertained a.
dinner tonight In compliment TO the Ser
rotary OF the Navy apd Mrs Meyer. and
had among her other guests Senator and
Mrs. Crane, Senator Dillingham;. Mira,
Mark Hanna and Miss Mabel Boardnaa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-03
DIR. HODENPYL'S EXPERIMENTS

So many disappointments have fol-
lowed the announcement of successful
methods of treating malignant tumors
without surgery that every new one is
likely to be regarded with suspicion.
Only few years ago the world was told
of the wonders accomplished with tTyp-
sin. but it is now known that the ply
sician who first made a practical trial of
the remedy has already abandoned it.
Reputable Trenchmen, Germans and
Americans have all been confident that
they had solved the problem and have
aroused momentary faith in others, but
sooner or later their representations
have ceased TO attract attention
Such may be the fate Of the method 50
conservatively described by DR.. Holden
pyl, the pathologist OF the Roosevelt
Hospital, in this city, in the columns Of
",rhe New York Medical Record" First
with mice which had been inoculated
with tumors, and then with human sub
jects in whom diseased conditions had
developed spontaneously, he used a drop
steal secretion taken from n person who
had suffered from cancer but who had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-03
TIE P4N4M4N PRESIDENCY.

The death of Jose Domingo de Obal-
tiia bereaves Panama in the loss not
only of her chief of state but also Of a
statesman of distinguished talents and
a man Of peculiarly attractive person
aIfty. Intellectual attachments and So
cial and personal graces of q high order
are characteristic OF the cultivated peo
pie of Panama, but in probably no man
of his day We're they more marked than
In Don Domingo. His death, following
the deaths of Amador and Arrange. con-
spicu0usly diminisheS the group of lead
ers OF the revolutionary period. He was
not, il is true. one Of the revolutionists.
On the contrary, down 10 the very crisis
he was an earnest opponent of that
movement, and he did more than any
other man-lnough vainly--to avert the
need of revolution by seeking to secure
from Colombia Just treatment for
Panama But when his appeals at 30
gotta Were sighted and the revolution oc
CURED he accepted the accomplished
fact. and thenceforth the isthnian reDUb-
lie had no more loyal supporter, as it
had 10 more loved and trusted citizen.
III tGl-tS ~ s1tflitLd, NliD SENtfPu>
To The presidency, was one Of The early
revolutionists. He joined the movement
soon after il was organized by arrange
and Anador, and with Juan Antonio
Henriquez and Eusebio A Morales
drafted the formal declaration Of pana-
man independence. He was Minister Of
Justice in the first Panaman Cabinet.
signer Of the constitution, and III ANA
doris administration he was Third Des-
ignate, or Eice-President, and IN Obal-
dia's administration he became Second
Designate The death Of Arrange, less
than a year ago, consequently placed
him next in line Of Presidential success
sion.
The most interesting feature of the
case, politically, is that now for the first
time Panama has a Liberal in the pres
idential chair DR. Mendoza has always
bean an active member OF the Liberal
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: The admins
tration postal savings bank bill was UP
for its final discussion before passage
House: The bin appropriating
100000 to purchase embassy pulloihss
abroad, was defeated.
FOREIGN-Russia has submitted to
China proposal to extend the kalgau
line with foreign capital instead of the
Aigun and Chin-Chow railway scheme
Sa:ah Bernhard appeared IN La
Reffa," q tragedy. and was warmly
praised for her presentation of grew
some subject - The Empress OF
Russia suffered another nervous break
down. and her condition is regarded as
serious. - Advices from San Juan
del Sur say that General Chamorro was
defeated at Tipitapa and reached san
g Tincente with sixty out of fifteen nun
dre6 men: many insurgents. according
TO adyices from towns held by MadrlZ,
have deserted to the government i~fces'
DOMESTIC-Senator Gallinger intro
duced in the Senate bill for the moor
poratioI under special act OF congress
of the Rockefeller foundation TO pro
mote the Nellbeing and to advance the
civilization of the United States through
the expenditure of a great part of MS
enormous fortune. 80 Senator sen
Davis, of Arkansas. failed in an effort TO
have stricken from the records OF the
House Committee on Public Lands that
in litigation affecting public lands. -
Henry J. Daniels, former clerk of the
Assembly WAYS and Means Committee.
and the insurgent Republican Senators
who refused to support Aids for tenn
Jorary president OF the Senate were the
leading witnesses al the Aids bribery
Investigation at Albany.
CITY-Stocks were strong. - j.
p Morgan, T F. Ryan and II, C Dem
ing resigned as directors OF the Ma
tionai Bank Of Commerce - En-
ployes of the Hartman lines testified
in contradiction Of previous witnesses
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
A tentative compromise Of the
Consolidated Gas Company's franchise
taxes and the lighting claim of the COM
pany against the city showed balance
of 100000 in the city's favor. - The
Jury in the case Of Magistrate Henry J.
Furiong, of Brooklyn. charged with cor
ruption. returned verdict Of guilty.
- Prosecutor Garven declared he
would go to Chicago to supervise the
extradition fight against the indicted
Magazine" stopped publication, and the
subscription list was sold TO Current
r.iterature"-Mr Mrs. Ida Gallatin sued
Jack" Gallatin for a separation. alleg-
ing non-support. - TWO patroImen
were dismissed and several fined as q
result OF the Mayors fnyestigal ton -
A man arrested in Yonkers was said
by the police 10 have confessed to killing
Moses Goodman, while robbing his home
on January go
THE WEATHER-Indicati for to-
day: Fair. The temperature yesterday:
Highest, 42 degrees; lowest. 3S.