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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
GREAT WHITE WAY NOW PREPARING FOR SUMMER VISITORS

lobster palace in Second avenue another
IA East houston street. II anything con-
ouct Is more decorous on the East Side
IMAM IL is IN some OF the resorts Just of
Broadway. Beyond an ambition to mako
the town east OF the Bowery Sahara by
drinking up ell the available liquor In one
night there Is little TO characterize or dis
tinguish these East Side Summing parties
For the real slum is now in midtown. the
heart OF the city
The evolution OF the night restaurant Is
proceeding so rapidly that it already pre-
figures the day when the words cafe" and
theatre may become intercha ngeabie. The
proprietor-chefs from Paris and Rome have
paraphrased the Old World saying that the
King must be amused, or rather they have
decided that the American citizen with
money in his pocket is the king here, and
royal entertainment is the rule Remember
the little old after theatre restaurant of
twenty or thirty years ago? The prtm,
middie-aged folk, half grudging their hour
OF refreshment before bedtime. the young
fellow and his best girl sitting stifffy and
sef-consciously in the corner. the sea food
plain but good the strict prohibition against
smoking. the walters moving about like
wardens in a church, the words Ladies'
Restaurant blazoned on the window to in
dicate that TO roysterers must enter here?
Such places may still be found In the
provincial. cities, even in the bedroom
boroushs Of New York, but they would be
jokes in Broadway in the year 1910. Even
the Cherry Sisters from Ioway would fail
TO create half the sensation that would be
caused If. by magic, one of these old
timers could be set down next to the far
ing, aggressive. expensive occa sonally
-iotols lobster af1alace of to-day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
WOULD ELIMINATE WORTHLESS.

Bishop McVickar and others believe that
more than be done by the state on the line
of race development than merely to train
and educate its youth. They believe that
the state should eliminate the worthless
and incapable by rendering their propa-
CATION impossible. Never" say these
thinkers can the ideal race of the future
be developed until the great laws OF hered-
ity are observed and until the mating of
the physically and mentally unfit is banned
by law 1t is not enough that we do the
best we can with idiots and criminals and
the insane after they are born into the
world. We should, through the adoption OF
wise laws based on the scientific study of
heredity, prevent their being born at all.
We can dc this only by supervising mar
riage.
What could not be accomplished" ask
these enthusiasts. by race whose indi-
viduals all had healthy bodies. freed from
hereditary faint of disease. full OF good.
pure blood and with normal minds? Men
and women like this could do the work of
the world in half the time it now takes.
and could utilize the hours OF leisure in
thought and mental recreation"
The vision of a perfect race for the fut-
ure has been seen BY DR.. Henry Smith
williams, author and political economist.
of this city, who. in his suggestion of
practical method by which the ideal race
can be attained. goes a step further than
Bishop McVickaz p
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
GUESTS AS ENTERTAINERS.

I'm our city and country places" said
one restaurant keeper the other day, we
aim 10 bring together in pleasant conpan-
ionship the best representatives OF the four
arts-music, painting. architecture ana
sculpture-with people In society and with
the stars OF the Broadway theatres and
opera houses. We pay $4,000 a year for
paid entertainment. including fifteen reg
ular singers and musicians and operatic
soloists from Paris. Vienna and Rome
But the better part of our entertainments
is given by the guests themselves. The songs
that afterward become popular IN the new
operettas are tried out over our tables
We have a composer and librettist on
our staff who write many OF the new
things, and sometimes when the fancy
seizes irnprovise both music and words 10
entertain the company.
Blanche Ring or Anna Held will drop In
after the theatre and sing one Of her own
songs if she feels like it. Frank Keenan, or
George Beban will recite. a painter or a
sculptor. will tell a story; possibly young
matron of eminent responsibility will &C
company on the piano while one OF the
theatrical stars sings The doors OF the
restaurant are closed at I o'clock There
after the house belongs TO the company al
ready assembled. Ever one who gets the
ear of the guests and has something anus
ing to say or sing gets hts opportunity.
And there is none" added the proprietor
proudly who infringcs on the liberty thus
extended II is a critical and impatient
audience and the cheap. unrefned vaude-
VILE performer who comes here finds to his
establishment that he cannot face these IN
tellectuals He gets-ah. what do you say
In America2-cold feet
How many millions of dollars are spent
in all New York's after theatre restaurants
# Is not easy to calculate. The New Year 8
Eve celebration alone is said to have cost
81 900. 900 Undoubtedly ii would make a
serious hole in Mr.. ROckefeller's resources
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
HOW SHE ANNOYED QUEEN.

Tho actress-Countess of Stamford
who in her younger days had peeh
aa+ ynusic hall favorite, was OF
,a+,,er eccentric disposition, and in the
aa-,17 DAVIS of her marriage had enter
tanned all London by her battle with
o,aen Victoria. Barred from court ny
reason of her antecedents, she reFehseN
herself nv securing the box at the opera
;,,,,,,edfateIv adjoining that of the queen
IT, latter did not relish the proximity
80 eeneciallv as Lady Stamford was
wont to behave in rather iiFeis
ion there. as if TO show that she was II.
nou,ise impressed by the proximity VI
,-o,-al+,- Eventually the Queen de-
o1ired IN attend the opera as long as
1oav stamford continued TO inquire 80
oo,,enicuo,1slv in the adjoining loee' anu
Tho countess absolutely refused an
.,,a-.s on the part of the management
"a exchange her box for one III soi--I
other part of the house. the Queen "''D
.1,a Prince Consort remained away ION
,,,a onera two entire seasons.
,r,ha ninth Earl of Stamford-that IS 10
the one who has just dled-"hS IA
80 straitened circumstances Ahdeea
,,,,;,,q the eighteen years that inter
- between his graduation from the
-..-orsit,, and his succession TO the titie'
e we'll as TO comparative afnuehce' an
= 4,;s sueeches in the House OF Loiu''
- more frequently still in his platform
CO.. furnished. often uncoh-
oaio,,s,v Indications of the hardships
- ~. had undergone and of the odd
80 which he had gained WINE
ca :, tn add TO his scanty stipend
.eacher by other kinds of WORK
another peer who has brought 70 sne
- 7 .ords the knowledge OF what
= hove 10 toll for ones daily preao
II = T,,,,eaen. He is well known III
the United States as inc 0's@1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

perform their dance, now insinuatingly
slow and suggestive, now violent and aero
bate that has recently been the rage OF
the cafes chantants. Why, saw them
last week" you exclaim, "at So-and-So's
music hall, only they don't do II half as
well as they did It then" "Right-o. re-
plies your companion. They don't need
to. If they just slid across the stage the
booty folk here wouldn't know the differ
ence and besides they're not being paid
$500 or 500 a week, as in the music hall,
Now, just watch the quadrille dancers and
the other acts" he adds. It's all pro-
fessional talent supplied by an agency.
And. disillusioned and sore, you have TO
acknowledge that this Is SO.
From the bottom of the scale-the cafes
chantants, with their frank appeal to vul-
garity-there are all grades Of night res
taurants, with the easy or the strict code
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
Members of the House of Lords
Who Haze 6o1ed for Daily Bread

visits of municipal authorities and Of
Members Of Parliament to this country
for the purpose of instruction and of
promotion Of better understanding be-
tween the two great EngIish-speaking
powers of the world.
Lord Lyveden, as Courtney Vernon.
having failed to pass his examination
for a commission in the army, enlisted
in the Royal Artillery: then became an
actor in the Bancroft Haymarket COM
pany, migrated to New York, where.
losing his money, he became, in turn,
waiter IN a BoWery restaurant, a mar
ket gardener in Wilmington, Del;
hackman In New York and IN Charlotte,
n. c.; the part owner of z SMALL fishing
boat at Charleston, which .Jlndered on
the night of the earthquai.e in 1885: a
cabin steward on board the American
ocean liner City OF Paris, purser on
board some of the lake steamers, man
ager of a theatrical company touring
through the United States and caterer to
the General Steam Navigation Company
on its vessels running between Hamburg
nd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

Of behavior. according to the whim OF the
proprietor or the nature OF his clientele
Responsibility and the camaraderie of good
fellowship are the standards prevailing at
the larger palaces" Much talk floats
across the tables among friends and &C
auaintances. the diners are not above sing
ing the songs of the day when the orches-
ira plays them. and occasionally divers and
sundry of the gay wine bibbers Will insist
on usurping the places Of the professional
entertainers and singing song executing
some fancy steps or doing vaudeville turn
on their own account But Drawing, fight
ing and actual coarseness are no part Of
the evening in these places
But is there anywhere a real Bohemia.
the dream OF poets. Htterateurs and artists
from time immemoriaI? Admittedly that
sort of thing is hard to find. and often
when the seeker thinks he has hit upon II
he discovers a mere mirage and phantom.
a sorry disguise for cellar made claret. cold
storage food and bourgeois company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

indeed; she's the wheel horse of the place
Often works twelve hours at stretch, ana
when any OF the other performers falls
sick she's Johnny -on-the-spot to fill in the
vacant turn. That real champagne shes
drinking? Nonsense! The house fixes her
UP little cider in bottles with champagne
labels, and the greenies pay 81 so quart
to see her drink II. Straight? Perfectly.
Let me tell you. the White Slave sup
ports a widowed mother and three younger
sisters up in Harlem-thats the kind Of
slave she isi''
Seated at the other side from the stage
are a man and woman whom you dis
tinguish as Paris "Apaches." Their faces
look familiar but you cannot place them.
Presently they make their re-entry and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
Reproducfion 90 B.
Denied TO The DeSen-
crate and Criminal.

If Bishop McVickar of the Protestant
Episcopal Church CT Rhode Island could
have his way Father Knickerbocker and
Mistress Columbia and the whole family OF
worthless that shape the destinies of states
and nations would at once become match
makers.
The Bishop does not believe that love
should be allowed TO go on its ''own sweet
way unmolested-at least, not In all cases
He would have the state act as sponsor for
every marriage that takes place, not mere
" by issuing licenses. as now, but by re-
quiring certificates of mental and physical
fitness on the part OF persons desiring TO
marry He would also forbid marriage in
case either of the wouId-be contracting
parties failed to prove possession Of such
fitness.
In a recent address Bishop McVickar de-
clared: Il fully believe that in less than
a generation we shall see national legisla-
ton that will check indiscriminate mar
rage and which will prevent the propaga-
ton of disease, both mental and physical
There should be laws passed which would
make it impossible for the habitual, hope
less criminal, the person showing incipent
idiocy or insanity or the tuberculosis pa
tient to get married and transmit that dis
ease to descendants
Bishop McVickar's dictum as to the mar
rage of those affected by tuberculosis will
probably meet the approval of many per-
sons. Since the great campaign against
the white Plague" has been started there
has grown up a well defined sentiment that
it is scarcely a fair thing to permit the
marriage OF tubercular man or woman.
The same feeling exists against marriage
for a simple minded person or for one who
is known to have a tendency toward in
sanity.
But there does not seem TO be the same
public sentiment against the marriage Of
moral degenerates and criminals. The
transmission of moral diseases through
heredity is not as generally believed in as
is the transmission of physical and mental
in spite of the fact that many
modern medical and sociological investi-
gators have come to regard crime an ex-
preston or symptom of physical or mental
disease rather than purely vOlitional
The question of how to produce race OF
physically and mentally capable human
beings is as old as man, since all human
achievement and progress are based on the
of individuals. All nations
strive to train their young and develop
them in conformity with their respective
national ideals Greece tried to train physi-
cally perfect men and women; Germany to-
day is training a nation of soldiers. A vast
public school system in the United States
is aiming to give To the children of the
American commonwealth ideals of Justice
an aoua1itI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29

The Bishop says: The working out OF
pIan that would make those things entirely
feasible is. of course, a hard proposition
1t might be possible for a man and
woman TO have the certificate of their fam
lily physician as a guarantee that they were
fitted for marriage 1t would probably De
necessary to establish a sort OF marriage
commission in each state or large city, the
members of which would decide on each
applicant"
The Bishops plan would render marriage
or the unfit Illegal: DR.. Williams believes
that reproduction for this class OF persons
should be made not merely Illegal. but a
biological impossibility.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
IN LAWRENCE PARK, sRoNxvILLE.

One hundred and ninety members o, the
Minerva Club attended a luncheon and
bridge party at the Hotel Gramatan. Law
renee Park, Bronxville. on Tuesday. The
annual meeting OF the Federated Civic
Leagues OF Westchester County was held
on Friday in the ballroom OF the same
hotel About two hundred were present
The balconies were filed with women prom
inent in the social life OF Westchester
County. Two sessions were held Dinner
was served IN the banquet hall
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
No Need 10 ViSif CHINO
fohUn 10 See Vice
and Folly.

r-n.n ordinary citizens are putting their
3D.. IN cold storage and actors are ex-
,,eneins theirs for pawn tickets, when
T4o-Ieua reseunds with the cries OF Yankees
- Giants partisans. when hoboes find the
-o-t benches comfortable to sleep on O.
.g,-+s when the operate songbirds have
Aov-n. the heavy tragedies are being stored
!, ,srnphor and the stage directors are con-
oocriug summer nonsense shows; when
moreover, society is on the wing to Europe
ens high class Bohemia" longs for beach
lakeside or fell, then-that is, now-the
B-uaduRy restaurant keepers curtan their
toun service somewhat and fit up their
-oadhouses for the hot weather trade.
The show places on the Great White
TVsv'' viii stay open all summer. OF course.
there VIII still be q good after theatre or
stter roof garden patronage. and hundreds
n thousands OF summer visitors from the
south and West Will make things hum
But many winter fTequenters OF the Ten
6erloin. especially Il they be users OF the
automobile, VIII prefer spins into the open
country Out there-ten, twenty thirty
eftv miles from New York-in westchester
or Long Island. the Broadwayfte viii find
his Gallo or Teutonic or Tuscan host
awaiting him. installed for the summer in
and prepared TO titillate the inner man
with hot weather menu OF food and drink.
Each world capital has its own peculiar
fashion OF night revelry. That OF New
York is changing so rapidly that story OF
the Tenoerloin even three years ago would
not Fl the present For one thing the
hounds OF the Night City have been enor-
rnously enlarged. To do Broadway now.
one cant stop at Columbus Circle, or even
AZ 20 street Every few blocks as far as
18th street there IS a so-called lobster pal
ace with its lines of taxicabs, its idIing
chauffeurs and its blare OF music Beyond
that point are the motor car inns peFched
on the ridge overlooking Fort Washington
Park. and past the greater New York
limits. even into Yonkers. the night revel-
le-s speed. awakening with their Gabriel
horns and siren tooJs the quiet commuters
who. have paid 800 down, the balance
sane as rent for their little frame or
sruc0o cottages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
EFFECT OF USE OF AUTOS.

Tie automobile. Of course has worked
this enlargement, and 10 the automobile
also Is probably due the wiping out Of the
old distinctions betwixt slum and Tender
loin. II the reveIler bids his chauffeur drive
south instead Of north, he knows he viii
encounter the same sights and scenes on
the East Side as in West 42d street, framed
g little differently. that is all. There is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
MILLION INDIVIDUALS AIDED.

1T is probably fair assumption 70 say
tina. one million individuals. or one TO
every family, receive aid OF SONS sort IN
New York each year. These figures ara
appalling TO contemplate.
There are 121 institutions for dependents
children IN New York City which receive
money from the city. Nearly all OF these
children, Il must be remembered. arc the
ofrsprings OF marriages between the
physically and mentally unit The aopro-
priation for 1910 for these Institutions
amounts TO s47340O0. This comes out OF
the taxpayers. The properties OF all these
institutions. city and state. practically
none Of which pays taxes, aggregats
tremendous valuation
Most OF the persons cared for in these
institutions are rendered physically OF
mentally incapable OF holding their own
In the struggle OF life through hereditary
Affections. II normal members OF socisty
decreed that this class OF persons should
be gradually eliminated, then their own
burdens would be Hghtened IN mary
ways"
When asked what he would do with tbs
present generation OF children who ara
the progeny Of incompetent and the USE
less, DR.. Williams said:
iho HTsI IniHe Wooic GO Wouic % u
get the twenty thousand depentent chill
dren out of the city and start them on
farms. AS they are cared for now they
scarcely have a chance 10 grow I'D 70 be
useful citizens I would turn sons OF the
homes in which they are now placed into
agricultural institutions. whers scisntffo
farming would be taught, and 7 would
bring the children I'D with an attachment
for the country"
Among the many benefits which DR..
Williams sees for New York City II tho
sterilization plan were put into effect here
is the elimination OF the institutions on
BIackweITs Island. He says this would
be no longer needed and New York could
have, in place of this blot on our river
front. as he characterizes IL. a noble
marine park A. P. NJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
HAS EQUIPMENT OF WIT.

He is a tall, breezy man, with plenty
OF conversation of an amusing kind,
especially when he is relating his ex-
periences, and with q considerable dose
of wit, as is only right and fitting in the
chief of the family which produced that
celebrated wit, raconteur and divine.
Sydney Smith, canon of st. PauPs Cathe-
dral, for If the present patronymic Of
the family is Vernon, it was formerly
Smith.
About sixty years ago the first Lord
Lyveden, brother of Sydney Smith, OBJ
tanned permission from the crown to
change his name from Smith to Vernon,
on the strength of the fact that his
mother had been q member of the Yer
non family. Lord Lyveden is now very
well off. has country place in Hert-
fordshire and a house in London, enjoys
the personal friendship and good will Of
the Kaiser, who finds much entertain
ment in his stories, and has developed
into one Of the most useful and popular
members of the House of Lords.
Lord Egmont, too, had a very varied
career before he succeeded to the earl
dom and to the historic Cowdray estates
in Sussex, which he managed to sell a
year ago for a very large sum to Sir
Weetman Pearson, the multi millionaire
contractor OF q number of great works
in New York, elsewhere in the United
States and in Mexico. Born in New
Zealand, he received his education on
board the training ship Worcester. on
the Thames, but failing to graduate as
mate in the merchant marine he shipped
as sailor before the mast.
firing of the sea, he Joined the Lon
don Fire Brigade as a fireman, married
an American girl, a Miss Kate Howell,
of South Carolina, who was earning her
living as barnaid at the Sloane Square
station on the underground railroad, and
then got employment as janitor of the
Chelsea Town Hal. He lost his berth
there through having been led by his
pronounced Tory sympathes to turn the
fire hose upon the members of Radical
political meeting which was being held
in the hall.
Then he worked as an ordinary la
borer in a salt mine in Cheshire. and
was a sergeant of the Natal police when
the death OF a remote cousin sent him
home TO England as eighth Earl OF Egg
mont and as chief of the historic house
of Percival. which figures so largely in
the annals of England. one of its best
known members, Spencer Percival, hav-
ing been murdered in the lobby Of the
Uouse OF Commons nearly q hundred
wears ago while holding the office of
prime Minister. Lord Egmont has no
children. and ON his death his honors
and his money will pass TO his only
brother, who until recently was con-
nacted with the Natal police.
lord HardwiclSe, last winter, during
E>ntinued in ssyeQtb c0j2Up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
PLANNING TO Make Us Nation
of Ideal Men. tUone7 and Children

normal, self-controlled and urfettered BY
bad heredity.
Take the enormous waste thar goes On
each year In expenditures for charities.
corrections and paupcrs. A total OF $4,000
cases-not all individuals. but IN point OF
expenditure amounting to the sane-re-
ceive some form OF public aid from the
municipal funds through these depart
ments. In other words. 10 per cent OF the
population of New York receives aid
through the municipal departments alone
from the earnings OF the other 80 per
cent. About 10000 individuals received
dispensary or hospital treatment In New
York City from these institutions under
state inspection This does not include
treatment OF insane, care OF criminals, or
the benehciaries OF private charities. Az
for private charities. one society alone,
that for the Improvement OF the Condition
OF the Poor, gave aid TO $3.50 individuals
last year IN the form OF clothing. rent OK
food