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New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
THE CONTEST At SARATOGA

Too much emphasis cannot be laid or
the real issue at stake in the contest
about 10 take place in the Republican
convention AT Saratoga. Shorn of tech
nicalities. the Saratoga convention is tC
witness a struggle between the forces
of good government. clean politics and
freedom from corrupt alliance between
business and legislation. on the one hand
and "boSsism." the domination of the
"old guard" and all that that implies. or
the other. The leaders in the fight fol
clean politics are William II. Taft. Elihu
Root. Theodore Roosevelt and their nu
merous lieutenants. Governor Hughes's
acceptance Of a iusticeship of course re
moves him from the list of militant
leaders. The leaders of the opposition
are William Rarnes. ir.. James W. Wads
worth and Timothy L. Woodruff.
To the assistance of Governor Hughes
who had been conducting the fight al
most single handed. came President Taft
and Senator Root. last March. when they
threw all the influence they possessed tC
the support of State Senator Hinman as
Republican leader at Albany. On the
personal appeal of Governor Hughes
made on the campus at Harvard on
June % ex-President Roosevelt enlisted
in the cause. and his course so enra ged
the "oid guard" that they deliberately
sought. hv tae selection of Nice-Presi-
dent sherman for temporary chairman
to bumiliatp him. The effort to becloud
the situation and begUile the voters into
the belief that President Tar was at
heart in sympathy with the old guard
was effectually checkmated by President
Taft's letter Of August %. setting forth
his posirion in unmiStakable terms.
Quite recently. when determined eff
fort was being made by those represent
atives of the old order whose political
fate will be sealed by a victory for clean
politics TO create the impression that MIR.
Taft and his predecessor were not in
entire symnathy. the President and the
ex-President met at New Haven and dis
cussed WAYS and means of comprising
the defeat of Mr. Barnes and his CO.
horts in an interview which has been
described by MFR. Roosevelt as cordial
and pleasant" and as enjoyable in
every way
Another effort 10 becloud the issue by
the injection of a question of national
politics, the Endorsement of a Presiden-
tial candidate for 1912. always a favor
itc method of "old guard politicians
when they seek To divert attention from
A local situation in which they are
weak. failed signally because of the
bread craftsmanship of President Taft,
who was quick TO perceive the purpose of
the machine and who promptly put
aside any personal advantage he might
have gained in order that no voter and
no delegate TO the Saratoga convention
might he deceived or might enjoy the
excuse that vote for the Barnes fac
tion was a vote for the President of the
United States.
The issue is therefore clear cut, and it
remains for the delegates To the Sara
toca convention Ia decide whether they
will align themselves with the discred-
tied remnant of the old machine or
will enlist under the banner of Taft and
Root and Roosevelt for clean politics
and good government in the Empire
State.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

loved a. capital dinner in fiction, the
kind Of dinner Dickens set before his
readers and Thackeray praised. it is so
long aga We have since sat at elab-
crate ba:nquets in the palaces of the
great i'm novels of high life. but our rec
ollection of them is restricted to beauti-
full clothes. jewels. crystal. silver,
flowers. tiunkies and nearscintillatlng
dialogue. The rest is vagueness and
hunger. Even so. no foreign kickshaws
for us. no table d'h6te French debonairly
transcribed by a fashionable author. but
an honest. juicy leg of lamb where love
is, or a softly Drowned turkey sizzling
on its platter as it is placed before the
host, carver and fork in hand. We have
it, Our last fctional feast was at David
Harun's house on that snowy Christ
mas afternoon when Aunt Polly broke
her pleGge as a Son OF Temperance by
taking a sip of Veuve Clicquot.
Turkey and cranberries! Their time Is
coming. Memory leaps from fiction to a
sister art. that Of the drama. We see
again that real Stove in Shore Acres.'
Will tHS itdi TURKEY III IT'S oven anu the
real cranber,ies bubbling softly on the
top. Some there were who said that the
play owed its success to its advocacy of
the single tax theory. but we know bet
ter. We shall never forget it. for it is
the only enjoyable dinner we have ever
seen on the stage. Here is a hint to
dramatists as we'll We do not plead
with them and with the novelists for
selfish astronomical reasons only. Since
the drama and fiction have been charged
with fareaching educational mission
and since the need of domestic educa-
tion for the housewife of Tomorrow is
being more and more insisted upon. they
will, we trust. see their duty to the race
and to the future without further words
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
NR. P4VNF 4ND TIE T4RLFF.

Representative Seneno r. Payne's
speech 10 the convention which renon-
mated him contains several interesting
statements. Mr.. Payne's name has been
attached 10 the tariff law of 1909. in
accordance with the custom which
awards that distinction 10 The chairman
Of the WAYS and Means Committee Of
the House Of Representative reporting
the original draft OF 4 tariff mea sure
But the tariff hin which becomes a law
IS usually different in many important
respects from the tariff bill which
enerces from the WAYS and Means
Committee. Much IN the Payne law
cannot trace its psrentage 10 Mr.. Payne
and if he cannot claim credit for all its
good features neither should he be held
accounta hle for all its shortcomings
The Representative from the 31st Dis
frict has the modesty and good iudg
ment 10 make that clear 10 his constitu-
ents.
The Tribune has always commendeu
Mr Payne for what IL considered his
sincere and painstaking efforts IN carry
ont in the tariff legislation of 1909 the
platform. As ne truly Saws. intelligent
'men generally familiar with The tariff
believed that such a revision lone i'm
accordance with the platform decara-
''1ions would he downward on most
articles II the chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee had had his WAY
The revision would have been decidedly
more downward BUt he was hamDered
ay The policy Of Speaker Cannon. who
worked - prevent scaling of duties
1snnwari. and who in the last stages
"f Il" tariff fight allied himself more or
less openly with the extreme stand
pat e,cinent in tho Senate. Mir. PayDe
,Iid moi have q free hand aud WAS forced
Ia ille end - accept compromises which
were Jess satisfactory 10 him aud 60 the
public tirsu were the rates Of the origi-
llal House bin lie expressed regret on
Friday that he coald not induce the
Ways ard Means Con- mittee 10 revise
The wOoi;en schedule. and there were
ingry other ias.acccs in which his
oosyIlwaro l,-.-...- IDEAS were over
rCiec by tie l..r.r organization. lie
rightly considers ll:c ian' Of 1903 a great
Improvement On tie DiDslcy law. Bnt
se freely admits thaI Congress could
have 1laSe a s1iil better revision.
NIr. Payne hearty faNnTs further ~
vision nn the piscenleai plan. That
..sethod Las fhe merit ef concentrating
st.ecr.~a Ok single sche3oie auG Gis-
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
ART AND APPETITE.

The success of two current German
novels is ascribed by a discerning Ger
man reviewer TO their authors cheerful,
sIcculent word pictures Of the pleasures
Of the table, that OF Berlin in the one
case. that of Vienna in the other. Here
Is IA suggestion for our own best sellers.
actual and would-be, though they might
have taken II long ago from Charles
Dickens. We hope that some enterpris-
ing American publisher will not tarry TO
provide US with English versions Of
these two chronicles of good cheer, the
more so as we need them very much as
antidotes 10 Mr. David Graham Phil
Iips's latest novel The Mans story
which lays depressing stress upon the
avfulness OF the domestic cookery to
which its hero vas exposed by his un-
trained wife
We do not remember when We last en-
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK.
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telegraph 70 me AFlb4le
Tr,xs5o Park. Sept 24-The golf matches.
together with a numoer OF house parties
in the Ramapo Hills, attracted larss
gathering of well known persons 20 Tux.
edo for the week end Several metor
parties passed the day at the club. vhsrs
a number Of dinners were given.
Mr. and Mrs. George Grant Mason. VITO
are spending the autumn at kincrais. en-
tertained a large number OF the golfers a.
a house party. ard Mr. and Mrs. c. &
Lee gave a luncheon to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs F. " s Crosby have moved
into their new cottage, in Continental
Road. and will spend the autumn az Tux
edo. Robert D. Wrenn has taken the In
gall cottage for the autumn. and HIr. aat
Mrs. Edison Bradley are at CarnwiI
Mr. and Mrs Adam G. Norrie have
opened Nuendo. ana 31F. and Mrs. Bernard
p Stefnman have moved into their new
house
Miss Rosalind Fish Is spending the week
end with Miss Harriet Alexander az ths
Alexander villa
nv. and Mrs G du Pont Coudert ars
AZ the Tuxedo Club for a brief stay.
Mr. and Mrs. Eben Richards have re-
turned from abroad. and Mr.. and N-s.
J. z. Davis are spending the autumn n
the Post cottage
Ar1ong those who entertained house
rarties today are Mr. and Mrs. O. : Lee,
Mr.. ard Mrs g. G Mason. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry VI. TiIford. Mr. and Mrs. " " v.
Hoffman. W. NacNeilI Rodewald. Nr ard
Mrs. Fv 5. crosby. Mr. and Mrs. Thso-
dore FreIfnghuysen and 31r and Mrs Rich
ard Mortimer.
Colonel John Jacob Astor and son. vins
cent Astor. started out 20 Tuxedo On FrI4
day for luncheon
Mr.. and Mrs Forsyth Wickes have ar.
rived from LenoX-
Among the other late arrivals are Mrs
and Mrs A 4 Robins. who are IN ths
Winter club. Mr.. and Mrs Edward y.
Taller, FindIay 6. Douglas. Nr. ard Mrs.
T. Gordon Douglas. Mr.. and Mrs J. Nelson
ForIsnd. Nr. and Mrs. Edward Z. Bur-
rilt. Miss Burrin Frederick r Thomas.
Mrs Russell Stebbins. 8 Schieffslln stsb-
rrns. Charles ". Gould, ". J. Curtiss
Elliott Clark. lIr and Mrs T ". sarrov.
Georee WfIIett Van Nest. Robert Brad
lev. William 2. ZelIer. William s. Moore.
Miss Edith Pulitzer. Mr.. and Mrs. f. c.
PeU Mr. and Mrs Grenville Kane, 8fr ard
Mrs Winthrop McEirn. Mr and Mrs ] 2.
Tans. Miss Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs j. D.
Iavng. tr. and Mr. and Mrs. = s.
Spencer
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
Ir4TER CONSERT4TION.

Reports of foods in Spain which have
inundated eight villages are merely tan
taIizinc to those suburbs of New York
which are suffering from lack of water
and 10 other cities whose water supply Is
threatened by the continued drouth- II
i, fortunate. indeed, that New York 5
supply is sufficiently plentiful 70 make
possible the proposed loan" of three
million gallons a day 10 Tarrytown
which would otherwise he unprovided
fer. even with the lordly Hudson flowing
at its feet Mount Vernon. while some
what alarmed. seems to be much better
off. and the Mayor of that city says there
is 10 cause for uneasinesS. Some of the
suburbs of Baltimore are suffering. and
il is said that unless rain falls at once
not a drop can be had by the thirty
thousand persons in the Canton and
Highland Town district while the city OF
Baltimore itself is threatened with a
water famine.
So accustomed are residents of Ameri-
can cities 10 having an unlimited supply
of water that il is difficult 10 give users
Of II any idea Of the importance of water
economy It is probable that at least oo
per cent of all the water flowing from
the reservoirs is absolutely wasted in one
vav or another and that with proper
conservation there would be no occasion
for alarm in any city. The use of water
for household purposes is, of course, only
one Of the many means of consumption.
and il is not SO much the fear Of having
the supply Of cooking and drinking
water cut off as the danger from having
l,o means Of fighting fire or flushing the
sewers of a city that alarms the officials
If municipality.
OF course. as the Mayor of Mount Yer
non SAYS regarding the supply of his
own city. IF the people will be little
careful and not waste the water things
will he all right" Probably. however,
people will not ne very careful in this
matter. They do not know how TO be.
II NAV he impr8cticabe and inadvisable
for cities TO meter the supply and charge
for water on the basis of the amount
consumed. and the use of plenty of water
NAV make for cleanliness and health.
hut il is unquestionably true that New
York's present water supply, properly
conserved. would be ample even for the
purpoees of a city of twice its size. In
the mean time the best solution of the
nrohIem will he for Nature to perform
her accustomed equinoctial task and re-
fiji some Of the empty reservoirs.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

couraCing log rolling combinations. by
which support for excessive duties in
one schedule is snapped for support for
schedule The House of Representatives
has ample power 10 pass single sched-
ille bill under the present rules. and the
Senate could easily exclude irrelevant
amendments by treating tariff bills as 1t
now treats appropriation bills. There as
no obstacle whatever TO n revision
schedule by schedule if majority in
each branch wants IN employ that
method No Republican member of
either branch has so far expressed the
slightest hostility toward President
Taft's suggestion that changes in tariff
rates shall he made hereafter in single
schedule measures.
The chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee failed 10 commend the crea-
ton through President Taft's insistence
OF tariff board to collect the informa
tion needed TO enable Congress To act
intelligentIy on tariff rates He is un-
derstood 10 have opposed the Senate's
provision for full-f1edged tariff com
mission and 10 have co-operated with
M Dalzell in cutting the Senate amend
ment 10 the bones. But his admission
Of the difficulties which he encountered
In taking up the wocIlen schedule is in
itself an argument for the necessity of
expert and impartial research into diff
ferentials of cost Mr.. Payne's long eX-
perience and his ability TO see that new
methods must be adopted in tariff legis-
lation make his return to Congress high
~ advisable. He has still work to do
there for the benefit Of the state and the
nation.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

Amid the unrest in India and the de
mands for native rulJ it is not irrele-
want to observe that the executive and
judicial esta blishments of that empire
engage the activities of more, than a
million and a quarter native Indians
and of some eleven hundred English
men. The ratio really does not seem to
suggest that India. is crushed beneath
the burden of vast horde of overpaid
foreign taskmasters. as some of the ''In-
pose.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

dropped 1t. made himself comfortanie. ne
was as well dressed any OF our
was not at all Objectionable because oi ni7
looks. and on inquiry we found ne was
highly respectabs. Yesterday, ho"efri'
the pitcher went to the well and erohe
note was handed to me by q mcsssnse'
asking us to page Mr.. X. and ASK niih W
call I'D certain number on the teiephohe
That was crowding the mourners. ana We
told Mr. X a few things and ne Is no
longer one OF our unregistered guests.
Come on and go to the theatre WIN me
this afternoon"
Anything special?" A..
"A professional slocutionist is going 10
trv to recite 'Curfew Shall Not Ring TO
might with her hands tied.'-Houston
Post.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
COLlIES AS FARM GUARDS,

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your recent editorial on "RuraI
Law and Order" in New Jersey. you sug-
gest an armed patrol ito protect the
farms, gardens, orchards. henroosts and
other possessions from depredation.' This
would be expensive, and perhaps difficult
to obtain
Let me suggest a few Vatchdogs as the
cheapest and easiest way of driving off
tramps. village pilferers and thieves The
most reliable dogs are ,colIies. which are
clean and can also be used i'm the house at
night. The writer has a country house
and grounds in Northern Jersey. and finds
collie dogs very useful
A CITY FARMER
New York. Sept a. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

What has become of that standby of
tial storm? In these days when the
ground hog finds few to do him rever-
ence it is a breach of professional COM
ity for the euuinoctial tempest to fail
to come to time Pretty soon all the
old oracles of weather wisdom will ba
as dead and disregarded as the deities
of Valhalla or Olympus
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

With tn. approach Of winter the deou-
tsptes of the impending New York season
ars beginning to engage the attention or
society, ID plans are already being us
cussed for the entertainments which are
to siznaIizs their coming out. The list Is
an exceptionally long ons- and this' oi
course. gives promise of gay December
and January. since not only their parents
but also their relatives and family friends
will be dispensing hospitality and giving
dances. theatre parties. dramatic aralrs'
dinners. Iuncheons. and. OF course. the IN
evitable teas, in their honor
Among the debutantes will De MISS
Marion Van Rensselaer, Kennedy. second
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. III. Van Rensse-
Iaer Kennedy. Miss Agnes lie Roy Edgar
2 daughter of Mfr. and Mrs. Newboid I'd
gar: Miss vivien Gould. daughter or MI
and Mrs. George J. Gould; Miss Marion
HoIlins daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs hairy
& Hollins Miss Lsta Pell Wright. daugh-
ter of Mrs Eben Wright. and granddaugn-
ter of Mrs. Walden Pell: Miss Leonie Bur
rilI. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Middleton
s. BurriI; Miss Claire Bird, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver W. Bird; Miss julia
Nevboid. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
NewboId and granddaughter Of I Jerer-
son Coolidge Miss Elizabeth Sands. daugh-
ter of Mrs Frederic p Sands and sister
of Mrs Lorfllard Spencer. jr.. and MISS
Margaret Rutherfurd, who would nave
come out last winter had II not been for
family mourning. and Who is a daughter
of Mrs w X Vanderbilt. sr. II IS posi-
BILE too. that Miss Alice Drexel, daughter
of Mrs John r DrexeI, will come out this
winter.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
Is the state campaign to be resump-
ton of the Hearst Gaynor controversy
temporarily laid aside last November?

Census returns for Massachusetts,
cities vindicate the state enumeration Of
1865, which indicated decided slacken-
ing of growth for the state as whole
Thus the increase reported i'm Cambridge
between 1900 and 1910 was only IA
per cent. against gains of 33 per cent
and 31.2 per cent in the two previous
decades. Fall Rivers increase was onIv
1873 per cent. compared with inCreas ases
of % per cent and 409 per cent in the
decades preceding. Massachusetts will
evidently gain no seat in the House Of
Representatives under the apportion-
ment of 1911, though it gained a seat in
1881. in 1891 and again in 1901.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

The too familiar story. Four ioy
riders in an automobile raced with q
railroad train and tried to cut across
the tracks ahead of it. Result-smash:
four 10y riders badly hurt and crippled
or dishgured for life Four fools!
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
aflu.11ork Gribu11f'
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER %. 1910.

This nolcSpaper IS olcnod ana puo-
lsshed bg The Tribune association.
Nerr York corporation: office ana prtn-
CHM ulgoe Of business. Tribune Build
spo. No l54 Nassau streef, Neo 1oFh :
OGDEN Mius. president: ogden A. Re'd'
secretary: James II. Barrett. treasurer
The address Of fhe officers Is the once
OF This newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

Juvenal's question about guarding the
Controller of the Currency purposes to
give A practical demonstration of exam
lining the examiners
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
PROBABLY.

From The New Orleans Times Democrat
\ negro manual training school in Wash
ngton has added @viation to its study
courses in the belief presumably. that ne
gro porters will be needed on the aerial
nasSanser liners.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
WORSE AND WORSE.

From The Chicago Record Herald
'TonsoTial doctors" will scorn t!pE-of
course But the rejoicing OF customers Is
premature. Fees will replace tips. and fees
cannot we'll be email il professional dignity
counts
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
THATLt- Do.

From The Florida Times Union.
To he afraid of riding i'm an elevator is a
sign of being victim of .phobia" ex-
plains a certain New York contemporary
To be afraid to ride In an airship would De
named ''OXyphobia"?
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

So many Democrats have bolted Bryan
that it is only fair play for him to en-
joy the privilege of boiling a Democrat
in his turn.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
PEOPLE and Social incidents

from BowdOin in 1906 and took his r1~a-
cal degree az Johns Hopkins University IN
June, 1910
The Rev and Mrs Herbert Shipnsn. WIN
are spending the fall at their eottags a.
Tuxedo. expect TO move into their new
house. on Madison avenue. near 5Oth street
In a few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence W Dolan viii ar.
rive in town from Newport on Thursday.
and will be at the 81. Regis during thar
stay in town.
Mrs. William H Sands has arrived In
New York from Newport
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

ENGAGEMENTS continue To be announced
and carry with them the assurance not only
of many weddings during the next 70"
months. but also Of much festtvity ar
ranged in honor Of the Young people oy
their kinsfolk and friends The engage
nnents of the last week have included those
of Miss Hortense Rowland daughter of
Louis NJ Rowland. and granddaughter Of
CoIonel Frederick Newbold Lawrence, TO
Court1andt p Dixon. son Of William p
Dixon. and that Of Miss Marie Winthrop.
daughter of Mrs Buchanan Winthrop. and
sister of Henry Rogers Winthrop. 10 Nor
ris ". Kellogg
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25
RELATION OF DIET TO DISEASE

New York. Sept. "a. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

Miss Marjory Ismene Waite. daughter Of
Judge and Mrs. Byron S. Waite, OF No.
ssi North Broadway. Yonksrs. will be mar
ried on Tuesday al the home of her parents
to Or. Crowell ciarinton Hall. OF Dover.
Me The wedding will take place at $50
O'Clock, and will be soemnized BY the Rev.
DR. William p. Stevenson. pastor OF the
First Presbyterian Church OF Yonkers.
Miss Waite vas graduated frcm s-rith
Collage Ia l9Oa Dr.. Hall waS graduated
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

Mrs. Cornelius &. Cuyler has leased for
a year the house of Mrs Gardiner Sher-
man. No. N East 54th street.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

Perhaps the chief feature on the pro-
granlme Of society for this week ~ the
Vanderbilt Cup race. on Long Island. on
Saturday As usual. many house parties
will be given I'm connection Herewith. and
the concourse Of motors promises TO be
larger than ever.
New-York tribune., 1910-09-25

Lord and Lady Northcliffe are in town
and staying at the Plaza
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-04
WILL VISIT
OTHER CITIES
Seeking More Light on NUM-
Cipal Lighting
Plants.
COUNCIL IN EARNEST.
People Are Demanding Re-
lief From Exorbitant
Charges.

At meeting Of the city council
committees Saturday night. Council
men Higgins and Galbreath were
authorized to visit Greensboro and
Henderson and inquire into the
information possible on the
electric light plants operated by
those cities. in order to get all the
problem of municipal lighting. AS
Madisonville also has a municipal
plant, they may stop over in that
city also.
1t is believed that $4,000 will
build and equip the plant in this
city at an interest cost of $1,000 a
year. The bonds, if voted, will not
raise taxes a cent. The present sink
ing fund levy can be divided, all of
it no longer being required for the
old bonds, now $4,000 with $4,000
in the sinking fund after the pre-
sent years collections are made. The
new school bonds will be taken care
of out of the school fund and do not
affect the general levy. The proper
ty assessment is now $4,000 600 and
a rate of l23cents, lone half of the
present sinking fund rate fixed on a
basis of SCI 900 Of bonds in 1901, }
will raise S4.500a year. enough to
pay the interest on the new bonds
and create sinking fund of 81 1000 a
year, which will be constantly in
creased as the assessment increases
from year to year.
AS against this statement, the city
will save $1,000 now paid for electric
lights, to a corporation clearing 16
per cent clear profits on its capital
stock of $685. 900, if the disclosures
in the recent court proceedings are
to be believed.
This does not take into account
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