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New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

our taxicab drivers. whose assured skill
and delight in it fill him with admira-
tion.
Poor consolation all this, no DOUBT. TO
the numerous weekly victims OF the au-
tornobile within our city limits. let IL
is some satisfaction to know that III thls
regard conditions in our streets, Whlie
vet far from what they ought to be. are
at least much better than in the Kaiser
model capital much better than they
might be, much better than they were
quite recently-but that is q point upon
which our Berliner has not as yet Deen
enlightened: we. too. have our ittie
metropolitan vanities and reservations.
And the visitor from Unter den LIN
den. having praised the superiority IN
looks, grace. intelligence and drill or
our show GIRLS. and chorus girls, and
dancing girls and boating girls, anu
all the other kinds of girls in q cur
rent musical comedy to anything they
have in Berlin. and having paid hon-
age TO the fascinating spectacle OF the
American woman at supper in Il restau-
rant @ Ia mode. turned into Broad
way. where new spell was cast over
him by an electrical Buffalo Bill gall
iOping wildly over the roof of one house
and an electrical LADY doing swift
disrobing act on top of another. The
sum total Of his impressions Of q
crowded day he summed up in his pet
phrase, "fTiesig intercssdn..''
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

pieces of legislation-iu 1893 for tho
law repeating the purchasing clauses ot
the silver act of 1890. in 1891 for the
Dingley tariff law and in 1.p9 Tor the
Payne tariff law. They have rarely
been called merely for the sake OF com
plefing the unfinished tasks of short
session The chief trouble about the pres
ent short session is not that its tasks are
not generally completed. but that the
work is hastily and imperfectly done.
The fault of overpressure is permanent.
and if il is TO be cured by calling extra
sessions every odd year. as IDe sun
seems TO suggest. &c would be cheaper
and simpler for the government 10 ex-
tend the regular session by means CT tie
proposed constitutional amendment An
additional mileage appropriation and
much political unrest would be saved by
the latter method
Our neighbor ignores the advantage
of making the Presidential succession
more secure. That would also be accom-
plisled by the ratification of the Henry
amendment, and it might some day
save the nation a good deal of annoy
ance and anxiety There are substantial
merits 10 the proposition pending in the
House of Representatives other than its
not inconsiderable one of lodging the
eiarehacks" of March Inauguration
weather
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
BRIEF FOR PARK PEDESTRIANS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / am strongly in favor OF the plan
of the President of the Board of Aldermen
for making Central Park a playground for
women and children, who now eeem 20 pre-
fer the adjacent streets, but I can't agree
with Mr.. Mitchell in his statement that the
city has succeeded in esta blishing in Cen
traI Park eonveniences for pedestrians,
whatever he may have observed regarding
autonobiists and hofsemen. And when
say pedestrians I do not mean loafers.
The automobiles by their noxious gases
and the nurses with their baby carriages
and enormous headgear render the park
Impossible, with the exception of the top
of the reservoir, the only one open to the
public. and the only place where the pc
destrian can find peace and A focthoid
Let us have the other reservoir open for
a similar purpose, and then devote the re-
nlainder of the park to the women, chill
drer. automobi1ists and horsemen, and the
much talked of but little exercised art of
pedestriansm will have a chance to prove
its claim to moral, physical and civic i'm
provenient. Z. BROWN.
New York, May 70. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
PENSION LEGISLATION AGAIN.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The pension bill now before Congress
Is called the officers retirement bill, ou'
there Is added to its title land for otner
purposes" This means for the purpose OF
giving $50 a month TO Civil War veterans
under certain conditions
We are now forty-five years removed
from the Civil War. We have paid out
already more than s.. 500 100000 in pensions
as q. result of that conflict. The appropri-
alton recently made by Congress for the
coming year is 100000. only a few mill
Ions less than the very highest ever paid
The nation has been very generous, ana mas
waited patiently for the reduction in the
annual sum which has beer long predicted,
but has failed to msterialize, although we
are told each year that thirty thousand or
forty thousand more veterans have passed
away Present laws will in their opera
ton take hundreds of millions more from
the TreaslIryAthat IS. from the American
people. Is 1t not. therefore, unwise to ez-
tend present amounts? Reduction. not In
crease, is in order.
One special plea for the present bill is
that although it will add al least 100000
more to our gigantic annual appropriation
the money will come right back. Not a
dollar Is boarded; its diffusion is almost
instantaneous" Exactly One cannot build
houses or make garments out of money
nor can he eat II, but before the money
is diffused it must leave an equivalent be-
hind it for consumption by the holders 81
the money.
1t is a good deal to ask that men who
served only ninety days and perhaps saw
no engagements should be pensioned at 81
a month, and il may be for twenty years
simply because Of a little stiffness in tht
Joints which demands the attendance of wifi
or daughter in putting on coat, for sucf
is the generous provision OF the BILL L
says: Whose physical or mental condition
IS Of such degree of disability as to re
q,iire frequent and periodic aid and atten-
ton OF another person"
The question is: Shall the annual appro-
priation al this late day be sent upward
toward s1fo.GoUo00? AS the veterans pass
away Should not the pensions melt away
HENRY X DECKER
New York MAY 49, 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
TENNESSEE REFOLFS.

The people of Tennessee would be sin
gulsrIv indifferent TO the coed repute Of
their commonwealth were they not to
resent emphatically the recent extraordi-
nary conduct of Governor Malcolm X.
Patterson. The Governor is serving his
second term and is seeking denomination
and reelection. To promote his own
fortunes and to crush the opposition to
him within the Democratic party he has
grossly abused his power, not only as
party leader but as Governor. When
his chief rival. Mr.. Carmack. was shot
To- death in the street in Nashville be
cause he declined TO desist from wholly
legitimate newspaper criticism of Mr.
Patterson campaign manager. Colonel
Duncan Il. COOPER. a jury found Colonel
Cooper guilty of murder and the Sill
preme Court of Tennessee sustained the
verdict. But Governor Patterson fouted
the decisions of the two courts, declared
Colonel Cooper innocent as an unborn
babe and pardoned him n few minutes
after the decision of the Supreme Court
affirming his sentence was handed down.
Not only that. but n majority of the
members of the Supreme Court have
publicly charged him with trying 10 CON
troll their Judgment in the Cooper case
10y preventing their seeking ren0mina-
tons i'm the usual way from q separate
judicial convention and by compelling
them. through his control of the Demo
cratic state Committee. 10 offer them
selves with other candidates for state
offices in z Democratic primary
The three judges refused to submit 10
the Governors dictstion or to enter
primary conducted by Paterson. Cooper
and the Democratic State Committee. 4
mass contention of Democrats was held
last week in Nashville 10 approve that
decision and to nominate an independent
judicial ticket TO be voted for in lhe Au-
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

p1,st election It brought together about
five thousand Democrats determined TO
rebuke the Governor and maintain the
independence of the judiciary. Even a
hitter Patterson partisan like '.The Nash
vile American" had TO admit in its news
columns that the demonstration was an
imposing one, for 1t said:
The convention was not judiciary
convention It was an nti-PatterSon
convention. 1t was the most bitter. the
most revolutionary. the most determined,
fhe most confident the most enthusias-
tic. the largest anti-Patterson convention
that has been held in the state. Every
derogatory mention of the Governors
name-and every mention of his name
was in denunciatfon - brought forth
cheers, and the widest demonstration OF
the day went to the man who said the
most and the strongest things against
Patterson
1.-THE Nashville Banner" allied with
neither faction. testified TO the repre-
sentative character of the convention as
follows:
Nc atteruDt TO discredit the strength of
the movement represented by this con-
.yention will avail. 1t constitutes for
mida BILE force in Tennessee. While 1t is
trI1e the convention had much OF It's IN
spirafion in political anita gonism to Gov
eruor Patterson and his committee. 1T is
nevertheless true that the main idea OF
the occasion was the demand for the
freedom of the courts from any. sort OF
political influence or domination rms is
what every good citizen should desire q
consunlma ton which would mean the
best for the commonwealth.
It is announced that the Republican
Marty in Tennessee will make no sepa-
rate judiciary nominations, but will sup
port the independent ticket, which IS
COMPOSED almost entirely OF Judges
whose terms are about TO expire. Ihat
is sound and patriotic policy. The Judl-
cjary should be kept out of party politics
as far as possible. In Tennessee, more
over. an exceptional opportunity is no"
offered not only TO re-elect competent
Judges by non partisan effort, but to ad-
minister a crushing rebuke to q Gov
ernor who has grossly abused the par
douing power and who has attempted TO
reduce the Judiciary from position oil
independence to one of subserviehcy to
the executive. Tennessee is ripe Iof
revolt against the Patterson machine.
All seIf-respecting Tennesseeans Should
unite to smash it and TO retire the great
pardoner and the browbeater of judges
TO private life.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
THE HIGHWAY BEAUTIFUL.
Ie Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: recent letter i'm your columns in
favor of beaatifyins the roafsides leads me
to remark on the encouragement we are
getting in that line from our State Road
Commission.
live on a state road in northern wost-
chester County. This spring they re-
moved the sod which had grown since the
building of the road from the gutter up To-
the line of travel. the wisdom of which is I
think. open to question But there can be
no doubt as to the enhanced beauty of the
roadside caused by throwing the sods and
scrapinss in artistic disorder on the banks
and against the fences. AS for the moving
of it, as required by law. that Will be done
With a neatness and ease never before pos
sfble, as any one who has moved boes will
testify. VI RyDE,p
Brewster. n. Y. May 20. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
BOUQUETS FROM BERLIN.

"1hey do say we nowadays. "such
things better in Germany Not all
things. to be sure. but good many of
them. and if some get done by what is in
our eyes excessive paternalism, done
they are none the less. In the days of
our bicycle craze. for instance. the nerve
racked pedestrian. who had no rights on
our streets, sidewalks or country roads
that the lovers of the sport would re-
spect. listened with envy and satisfac-
ton to the indignant complaints made
by returning American bicycle tourists
of the Irritating restrictions and regula-
tions placed upon them by the German
police. They were even deprived over
there of their supreme pleasure that Of
grazing the heels of tie man afoot who
offended their dignity by not running
fast enough at the peremptory SOUND Of
the bell. To-day we are convinced of the
superiority of Germany's regulation of
the speed of motorcars: they must do
that particular thing better over there.
And yet
Berlin is the youngest of the worlds $
us Diith dS III
from the early SOS, or from the late
1O's at best. Your Berliner claims
for his city little more than mere
equality with London. Paris and New
York in some respects great deal
more. as, no doubt. he has n right 10 do.
When he visits one of the sister capi-
tails his attitude is likely TO be one of
nil udnliFdii, and it is not pose but
the outward manifestation of an inner
conviction Therefore the tribute paid
by one Berliner, now among us, to New
York requires no proof. 1t is q volur-
tary admission made by a witness for
the other side.
This Berliner wakes enthusiastic over
the perfect control Of New York IS auto
mobile traffic by its police. Nay, more,
he pays compliment as well to our
gift of self-government. for with us far
less than in his own city does he observe
tendency TO indulge the speed mania
the moment no policeman is In sight.
Crossing Broadway with ones hands In
ones pockets is said Ia be the supreme
test Of the true New Yorker. Our Ber-
lin visitor declares himself willing tn
take II. but refuses to commit himself
on the subject where Berlin is con
cerned Instead. he adroitly changes the
subject By offering a second bouquet TO
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

rORETGN.-King George in the first
ect of HIS reign has rennitted and re-
duced sentences of culprits; his majesty
has also issued an address to his people
thanking them for their affection ano
sympathy. Rival Irish factions met
in Cork and many persons were injured,
Including Daniel Sheehan, Nj. r Tor the
city. John Redmond was among the
speakers. -= Count jacques de Les
sens abandoned his attempt TO make
rnfrru trip in his r1aonoplane from Dover
10 Calais, owing TO high WINDS. -
General Mena. has sent word 10 GeneIai
Estrada that he has surrounded the
Ns6riz forces near Rama and expects
their surrender. - A dispatch from
ST Petersburg says that negotiations be
tween Russia and Japan regarding the
Far East are assuming definite form-
Elections were held in Belgium
the Socialists and Liberals uniting IN an
attempt TO defeat the Clericals-
OMESTIC.-Secretary Knox and Am
bassador Bryce have signed treaty de-
limiting the boundary between the United
states and Canada through Passama-
suoddY Bay and Grand Manan Channel
= Services were held all over the
world following the programme or the
worlds Sunday school convention. whlch
Is holding its sixth annual meeting IN
Washington. - The compromise OIL
ract nominations measure to be submit
ted TO Governor Hughes was drafted at
Albany by Senators Hinman, Cobb ana
Meade and Governor HughesS secretary
and counsel. = 1t was announced at
Albany that Attorney General OMailey
had collected $4,000. coo of special fran
thise taxes man was crushed to
death at the launching OF power boat
at Edgewood, near Providence. -
Three clergymen may be disciplined by
the Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium or
TraT11 IN a.
tlelphia, for joining the Masonic order
of the Mystic Shrine.
CTTY.-A Princeton trustee and a
classmate of Isaac c. Wyman, VINO lett
:10.000,000 for the university, said the
credit for obtaining the gift belonged TO
Dean West. = Services liz honor OF
King Edward were held IN ST Jamess
Church under the auspices of the British
Schools and Universities Club. =
A scientific legal battle is forecasted in
the test case which comes before the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
over the right Of citizenship of Parsee
from Bombay, India - The advisory
board of the Jewish community adopted
measures TO counteract the influence OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
among the Jewish students in the col
leges of New York = The 18th Regi-
rment cor1me-norafed its muster into the
regular army. twelve years ago. by at
tendi1lS ulNlne service dl 81 tdhlch
Cathedral -= fIutzon Borglum, the
sculptor brought taxpayers suit
against fhe Riverside Drive extension
c1ntrsC CT. alleging that IL called for $780,
600 more than the work should cost
=- The Rev. Or. John Wesley Hill, in
a sermon in the Metropolitan Temple
accused the police of completely in the
white slave" traffic. z= The congre-
cation Of Temple Enlan El will decide
tonight on the reelection Of Associate
Rabbi Magnes. who recently attacked
Reformed Judaism.
THE HEATHER.-1ndica for to-
dAN: Probable showers. The :empera-
ture yesterday: Highest, e5 degrees;
lDR est, IS.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
THE KINGS DOG.

Preceding King Edwards bodyguard
of the princes of the earth on bis last
progress through the streets Of his capt.
tel: preceding the King Emperor his son.
the Emperor his nephew, and rul-
ers from the four corners of the CONT
nent; preceding princes of the blood. so
many that their rank was cheapened
almost by their numbers; preceding even
tne royaI standard of the realm, there
walked dejectedly, without conscious
ness of the ready sympathy of the
masses gathered to bid their dead King
a last farewell, the humblest mourner OF
them ALL and, it may be ssid without
fear of being misunderstood. th. most
sincere as well. For him alone the light
of life had gone out cornplet sly. without
hope of the future or the compelling con-
sniation of the worlds work that viii
not stand still and wait Oh grief. He
was face to face with the unconpre-
hnnded twilight Of his deity, with the
ttlaccountable desertion of the being
who to him was all-wise and omnipotent,
tue source of all his happiness.
MY name is Cesar" said lis collar,
and Il belong to the King" No state
| ment is ever graved by human hands on
marble or granite or precious metal SO
| true as this; no tribute is ever more 10y
ally earned At the foot of the throne.
in the palace Cesar was wholly the
Kings. and his alone, as he would have
remained his in exile. in a hovel. In all
| Edwards proud domain, among all the
millions that faithfully served him and
| sincerely loved him. there was EGlle so
| sublimely Indifferent TO his rank and
station, none so unconscious of the sig
nificance of his favor, none so disintef-
| ested.
The King is dead. long live the
| King Life rolls Oh. There is work to
be done. There are changes coming-ili-
| significant changes in the court, porten-
| tous ones in the state and in the family
| OF nations. Grief Will soften into MEM
| ory; tomorrow it will fade into history.
| But Casar was the Kings alone. His
only mission, his only interest in life,
| was to love him and to watch over him
as only a dog can watch over his master.
with vigilance that never tires. Life
| has lost all meaning for him. In desc
! late places. at closed doors, beside an
empty chair his lnournful eyes will him
bly, patiently beg an answer to the
| mystery of the desertion of his friend.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
n quusemeHtS.

ACADEMY or MUsIC-s:15-The Chorus
Lady.
AlHAMER RA-2-S-Naudeville.
aSTOE-S .15-Sereu DAYS.
PIJorJ-S :2o-The Lottery Man.
RR0ADN AY-S:15-T Jolly BacneloIs-
CASTNO-s:15-The Chocolate Soldier
CoI,oN1AI.-2@s-Nsud -,
s-fo~ry rSI.aNf1-Ierearnlar and Luna Park
s-RTTERIoN-s:2 :2o-The Bachelors Baby
DALY'S-S: ga Matinee IDOL
EDEN MJSEE-W Grid in Wax.
JsMPIRE--s:15-Caste-
FIFTH ANENUE-2-S-Tau5e
GksETy-Ss15-The Fortune Hunter.
ssRgICK-S :So-Her Husbands Wife.
s-IpPr-s:15-The Old Town.
EACKETT@s:1o-The City.
HANMFRSTETN'S2- :i5--f audeviile
HERALD SGT UARE-s.l5-Tillies Nightmare.
ETDSON-s :15-The Spendthrift.
ENlCKERBoCKER-s: :l5-Tae Arcadians
IyCEUN-s: :ao-The Spitfire-
IyRTC@s:I5-Jim the Penmsn
NtZIMONs'S THIRTY NINTH SlhbhA
THEATRES :3o-Little Eyolf-
NEW YORK-e .15-Three Twins
wAiI-ACK' 'S-s-I5-Aiiss Jimmy valentine
WEBER'S--S:20-TheC Climax
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

as a result the mills are in better po-
sition to take care of new buying
movement than they would have been IL
such a movement had come earlier in the
year. Actual buying of pig iron anu
steel has not yet increased to an appre-
ciable extent, but sentiment has I'M
proved at a rate which suggests that tne
placing of heavy contracts Will not De
long deferred. Copper market conditions
also are stronger
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

clerk replied 70 the young woman tna' sns
did not have to marry just because sne n'o
a license.
your only hope" said the lawyer. Is 10
simulate insanity v,r,.
.sBut don't know how replied tne pis p,
oner I haven't the faintest Idea Oh "H"'
I ought to say" -ho
''WeIl. I'll get one of these men va" 80
o~ite choruses for popular songs TO nx Up
Something for yoi, Washington Star
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
DULL WiTTED UNCLE SAM

From The Utica Observer.
a woman charged with smusp,,ns o,at,,s
that she bought the false botfnr, ..', era,'is us
her trunk 10 use az an ironing board The
STUPID customs officials should have known
h,Ia's AN dro,,gy eaery woman travelling abroad
i. LOOKS like,a false bottom is no faul, Of the
wonan- ana then, too. the woman haa :
customs officials arc very d,IvI rit,.d st these
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
Aftu'Uurk Grtbn'tf'
MONDAY, MAY %. 1910

This newspaper is otcned ana puo-
ysbed by The Tribune Association. q
Mem York corporation; Office and p'i'l-
cipuI place of business, Tribnnc Bmtd-
snc, No. 15a Nassau street. Aeao forE'
Ogdeu Hfils. president; ogden H. Reid,
secretary: james II. Barrett, treasurer
ghe address Of the officers is fhe once
of this aetcsP0per.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
SUSPICIOUS.

Prom The Schenectady Union.
spessine Ct the Presidential noom ~
ferinei ooV sriior Folk. The Houston Pfst
sssis ,. nne 70 have friends. bur SAD 70
colonei saiisy Is turning RACK n MS nrs,
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
REPORT CONFIRMED.

From The Toledo Blade.
one town in Switzerland celebrates ,hs
arrival OF spring by burning winter in es.
ss9: we Understand that the coal dealers
w NOT partiClpate in the festivities
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

The project Of a worlds fair In New
York Is doubtless attractive TO many.
from various points of view, but it would
be for the good Of the rest of the world
rather than of New York. This city needs
no such aid to its prosperity and growth,
and no such indueement to invite visitors
hither.' 1t is all the time one of the
biggest worlds fairs ever seen.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
MIGHT CURE ALL EAarulv u,s

From The Nashville American
A new and sure cure for rha,,,pat,S,,.s -
aanounced. An Alabamian was RESIN ,,is II
a.lic,eu arm ON a wire fence that was
struck by lightning He has hsan ,..t.,sas va
an acne or pain ever since TRY n bssors
ringing In the short ana ugly " S''"io
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
SENSIBLE ONES. APPARENTLY

From The Wheeling Register.
The two Oklahoma boys riding bors.b,c1x
10 New York to greet Rooseveit ref,,s -,
allow Wheeling ladies to kiss fha,, HSvu esl, 70
anyhow? All ohiahOma
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
OZARK DAYS"

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1 am an old man and nave a WV WV
recollection OF seeing Haliey's comet HUM
the roof of our house In New ioIn-
Now. it is noted that May ~ IS tiie low, low,
anniversary of the famous dark oas
which prevailed from II O'Clock a. M. 90
evening over New England and the Midoie
states.
7 cannot quite claim to remember tha''
but do remember my srandmothers s'oIy
of IL, how lamps were lighted all Day the
fowls went to roost. the frightened cattle
ran lowing through the fields, men ana
women were hystericai with rear tnat tie
end OF the world had come and many De
came insane.
Can YOU give us any further Information
concerning IT. and especially the cause OF
it and the reason for its Limitation 70 that
region? H. n. EHiHOh
New York, May 20, 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

BESIDES the one especially notaoie
dark dav here referred to. others less re-
noarkabIe are on record. some of them
occurring I'm Europe. Different causes
have probably operated on different oc-
casions. but it is believed that smoke
cloud and fog, singly or in combination.
give rise to these strange dissertations
of the sky.-Ed.1
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

If the sun docked the comets tail we
hope the Society for the Prevention oi
Cruelty TO Comets will get after him.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

If the battleship Michigan keeps on
beating her own record for speed at the
present rate, the Navy Department may
be tempted to classify her as dispatch
boat