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New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
BATTLE SUNDAY AT BRONX ZOO
Sanguinary Encounters of Goats, Buff
faloes and Bears Watched hy Crowds.

IL was a day Of war at Bronx Park yes
terday. but nigfltfall disclosed no casualties
The scene Of battle shifted from goats TO
bUffaloes and from buffaloes 10 hears.
The goat fight found Rocky Mountain
Billy, Curator Ditmar's own favorite. near
est the scene Of activity. and Billy retained
his laurels 10 the pain OF his antagonist
Wyoming. Che pugnacious buffalo, raised
some dust in the herd inctosure but after
a blow anlidships from another bull he
settled down. disappointing many cnIookers,
who had expected finish fight
Mike, The yellow bear, in the aien of as
sorted bears. after bringing on a row with
an inconspicnous American black bear. both
on high rock at the time, received such
!. severe trouneing that he fell to the floor
OF 'he pit, and almost took the count be-
fore coming to
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
GIRL RUNAwAYs SOON CAUGHT.

Beverly. y. j.. May 2 Especial. Though
they had the courage even to jump Hlov-
ing freight train and conceal themselves on
it in their endeavor to get out into tbs
world and seek their fortunes like the
Emma Davis and Marion Force seventeen
and fourteen years old. respectively, are
glad that they are home again with their
parents. They were discovered BY a bra ke-
man before they had gone ten miles. handed
over to the police Of Dobbins' Siding. and
at last when they broke down and told
who they were, turned over to their parents
here
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
MAY DISCIPLINE MINISTERS
Three Clergymen Joined Masonic
Order of the Mystic Shrine.
NV telegraph 10 Tho tribune. ]

By Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Philadelphia, May 2c.-Three ministers
may be disciplined tomorrow by the
Evangelical Lutheran MinisteTlum OF
Pennsylvania. in annual session here fer
joining the Masonic order OF the mystic
Shrine In Reading on Friday. They are
the Rev DIR. Cyrus Elmer Held, OF Sheh-
andoa1l: the Rev. r. e Snyder. OF f.aston,
and the Rev e. o. Leopold. OF Allentown
From the floor of the ninisterium the Rev
DR.. RI. z. Jacobs, dean Of Mount AIRY
Theological Seminary. denounced the three
new Sbriners and introduced resolution,
which was adopted by the ministeriunl'
calling attention TO constitution provision
forbidding members of the synod from
belonging to anti-Christian secret societies
and directing that an investigation be made
into the matter.
If is understood that the accused clergy
men viii deny that the Mystic Shrine Is
an anti-Christian society
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
TO CLOSE AMUSEMENT PARK
Palisade Residents Will Try to Have
Resort Declared a Nuisance.

There are breakers ahead for the Pail
sades Amusement Park, opposite Grants
tomb. The residents of the exclusive resi-
Dental section, Palisade. adjoining the
park. expect 10 obtain injunction that
vii; restrain the new managers OF the park
from opening it until such time as the pc
titioners can appear before the court to
argue that the resort is nuisance. A
mass meeting will be beld on Friday even
ing in hall not one hundred feet from
the park, and several residents, both men
and women, will make addresses
The Sunday Observance League of New
Jersey, through its counsel, Frederick w.
Park, OF No 10 Broadway. is planning
action against the park, so far as its Sun
DAY opening is concerned, and Mr.. Park
Is expected TO speak at the mass meeting.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
ST. ANDREW BROTHERS ELECT.

Saratoga Springs, N Y. May 22.-The sew
enteenth annual conference of the New
YORK state Brotherhood of st. Andrew
closed to-day with the election of the fol-
lowing officers: President. c. Lansdon
Perry, of Schenectady; corresponding sec
retary. Elmer C. Hutchinson, of Troy. and
treasurer. F. 3. Richards. of Giens Falls
Albany was selected as the place of meet
ing for 1911.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
MEETS DEATH AT LAUNCHING
Man Crushed by Power Boat he Spent
Three Years Building.

Providence, MAY 22.-while launching a
tyyenty-ton power boat which he had been
three years building fer his own use. James
Savoi. of Edgewood, was crushed 10 death
and out of nearly all semblanee of human
ity to-day when the rope holding the boat
on the NAYS broke and allowed the craft
10 20 oger him as 81 entered the water.
Savoi mad lived in Edgewoed for three
years and T'as apparently possessed Of in
dznendeuI means, :
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
BOSTON BROKER A SUICIDE7
Body Weighted with Bricks and Dumb
halls Found in River Basin.

Boston, May "A body taken out of the
Charles River basin late to-day is believed
by the police to be that of Herbert Little
field a stock broker, who made his home
at the -Copley Square Hotel. around the
mans waist was tied bag which con-
tanned two bricks and pair of dumbbeIls.
LittIefeld was reported missing TO the
police a few days ago. and it is thought
he had become despondent over reverses
in the market
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

but their number has been greatly lessened
recently by the difficulty of securing sites
accessible TO the city where camping is not
prohibited. because the waters of adjoin-
ing lakes are controlled by water COM
panies. Social workers in conEested city
districts have been hoping that some day
great municipal camp might be secured
SO regulated and protected that people from
the tenement house districts could find q
place for rest and recuperation''
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
SHOWING IN NEW MEXICO.

Albuquerque, y. NJ. May Zs-Northeas-<
ern New Mexico is in the grip OF a heavy
snowstorm tonight. The storm Is centred
at Folsom. 1t is feared loss Of livestees
will result
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
UNION MINERS GO OUT.

Webb City, Mo, May 22.-SeveraI hundred
non-union miners employed at the Provi-
dence, Electrical and White Dog zinc
mines here struck on the refusal of the
company to increase the wage scale to the
figures which obtained before the decreased
price eff ore forced a 10 per cent reduction
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23
IRON The rrinune Rnreau.l

Washington. Nav -
TAFT HELPS LABOR--By the simple
act of instructinS the Commissioner OF
Labor to conduct an investigation OF the
labor conditions in the Bethlehem steel
works President Taft won for number Of
laboring men, estimated at seventeen thou-
sand. their Sunday rest. And il was purely
the moral effect of the Presidents order
which achieved this important end, as has
hitherto been suggested, but as is now sus-
ceptible Of demonstration. On March IL the
Commissioner of La Dor began his Invesu-
cation. On March u Judge E H. Gary
sent identic telegram to the presidents
of the subsidiary companies OF the steel
corporation urging respect for resolution
deprecating Sunday work which had been
adopted by the finance committee of the
corporation in 1907, and referring TO the fact
that Mr. Corey had written them on the
subject within day or two In other
words, just as soon as il became known that
the President had ordered the investigation
Mr.. Corey instructed the presidents of the
subsidiary companies to stop Sunday work
wherever possible, and within day or
two thereafter Judge Gary discovered the
resolution adopted two years before-appar-
emily for some purpose other than to be OBJ
served-and Immediately telegraphed his
subordinates TO respect its provisions How
much further reaching the moral effect of
the Presidents order for an investigation
would have been had he not deemed it ad-
visabe 10 forbid publication of his purpose
is. OF course, matter of conjecture. That
it would have been productive of greater
good, alarming the heads of other indus
tries which show little consideration for
their employees. is, however, reasonable as
sumption.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

PUBLICITY POTENT.-Few who have
not given serious study to the subject real
ize the influence of publicity on the rela-
tons of large employers and their en-
ployes. Some definite knowledge of tie heat
with which President Schwab of the Beth
lefem company protested against the pub
location of the governments, report on the
conditions in his plant would throw a strik-
ing light on the subject. Mr.. Schwab was
nable to point out any incorrect state
ments in the report, but that did not miti-
gate his anger-possibly it aggravated it.
The fact is that there are few laws which
can be invoked to protect the laooring
man. aid in majority of instances only
the moral influence of an enlightened pub
lie sentiment stands between him and, in
the corporation for which he works; in
others, the thoughtless ambition Of his more
immediate superiors to win credit with their
principals by means of a constantly in
creasing balance on the credit side Of the
ledger When strike actually occurs the
employer usually enjoys the advantage of
superior intelligence in the handling Of the
publicity end of the situation, and. more
over. there are usually to be found in the
ranks of every band of strikers some reck-
less characters who commit deeds of vio-
lence which not only incur the proper CEN
sure of all law-abiding people, but which.
because they make good copy are her
aided to the world with fmr1easurably more
oircumstantiality than can be the abuses
which occasion the strike.
New-York tribune., 1910-05-23

CAUSES OF STRIKES.-The records of
the Bureau of Labor reveal that il is sell
dom that the public is informed to the
real cause of labor strike. The immedi-
ate occasion is given wide publicity. but
the conditions which have led TO that oc
casioR and which constitute the actual
cause are seldom accurately portrayed,
even if they are described at all. Take the
case of the Bethlehem strike. The imlnedi-
ate and widely published occasion was the
discharge of three men who had made de-
nlands on the company behalf of their
fellow worknen. The actual cause was
overwork. For instance, Of the total num-
ber of men on the January payroll 2,S22
worked regularly twelve hours a day for
seven days q week, while 2,2S3 worked regu-
larly twelve hours day for six days
week. Among the seven-day workers there
were seventy-nine who worked thirteen
hours and ten minutes on each OF the seven
days of the week. Of course, there are
some processes in the steel industry which
are necessarily continuous, and in these
Sunday work IS unavoidable. but by the
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
"The Refugee"

By Captain Charles Gliso1. Published by the
Century company, New York. Price Sl25.
This is a story brimfui of adventure
of the good old fashioned kind the
scenes set near the east coast of Eng
land during the French revolution. The
Vicomte des Ormeaux is the chief
character, ajpolished fascinating refu-
gee and rascal, with no care for any
thing in the world but himself and his
own ends; and to help him carry out
his plots he employs as his aids the
villainous Gypsy Yates and Jerry Aber-
shaw, the kind of adventurers who hold
up the stage on the kings highway
and scruple not at all to shoot the man
who resists. Jerry, at least, is a real
historical parsonage, whose fame has
come down as that of notable high
wayman who terrorized certain coun-
ties of England for several years and
finally paid the penalty of his misdeeds.
How the Vicente came to England
and there betrayed the hospitality of
Neither Hall even to the carrying off
of bonny Cieely Paeke by force; how
he, too, finally paid the penalty of his
life of violence; how Roland and Cicely
were happily wed; the boyhood of the
great John Constab BILE; these and many
ether matters Of much interest are told
in tale that thrills to the very end.
The author has written many stories
of excitement and adventure, some of
which compare fayerablv with the
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
Loves Young Dream

Minister etc, Published BY the Macmillan
company, New York. Price $3.50.
Back to the Galloway country again
with Mr.. Crockett. and we know he
loves it, for he writes SO tenderly of
the place and the people OF story
there is little enough in Loves Young
Dream" but we like the people and
read on through many pages of the
most commonplace doings just TO be
with them.
Almost at the outset we are taken to
haunted house, "a big, gaunt man
sion, long deserted, sunk in the woods"
All the countryside is in fear of the
place and when smoke is seen coming
from a chimney they are paralyzed
with terror. The entire village arms
itself and goes in a body to investigate
1t is a comic scene. for when they have
broken in the gates and demand en-
trance at the door it is flung open and
a young girl Of perhaps IT and small
boy. her brother, are the ghosts. The
brother in is Sir Louis Maitland, heir
to the old estate, and his sister has
been obliged to flee with him to save
him from an unscrupuleus uncle.
One of the invading party, Duncan
MacAlpine, loses his heart to the young
girl, 1rma Maitland, at once. He does
not receive much encouragement for a
long while, but he loves her to the end
of time. The trials and tribulations he
suffers have an unreal air, and as one
reads on and on he cares less and less
what befalls these people. II is still
q never ending pleasure to read of
them. Mistress Mary Lyon, the grand
mother of Duncan, is the one character
in the book who stands out with clear
ness She is consistently drawn
throughout and is one of the best
characters ever created by Mr.. Crock
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16

plains her purpose 10 Blake and he
leaves her. but she is crushed and he is
miserable. Their sympathies are in a
curious state here, for we seem to
have both Max and Maxine te handle
and Blake too.
Mrs. ThuFston has done some of her
very best work ia this book. She has
caught the spirit of artistic Paris as
few writers have done before and her
descriptions Of cafe life are vivid and
colorful. The love story is cleverly
handled and one closes the book loving
Max quite as much as Maxine. The
book is sure TO be compared with "The
Masquerader." the authors greatest
success. and most of the readers will
decide it a better story and more ar
tistic in every way. The heroine is an
original creation. charming In either
part she chooses to wear-boy or
woman. The book contains some ex-
cellent illustrations by Frank Craig.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
The Lost Ambassador"

The captain has a dear brother. who
has been fearfully wronged by a real
villain; this brother being q hopeless
invalid, the captain takes the quarrel
upon his shoulders and swears veHge-
anee, For this purpose he is apparently
idling his time, away in Paris. He is
aecosted by = man. whom at first he
can not remember but the unusual
surroundings are the cause. He Is the
maitre d'hatel where the captain lives
in London, but seeing him away from
the restaurant, he does not place him
in his memory at once. Being bored,
Captain Rotherby enters into conver-
sation with Louis, who offers to take
him to cafe where he will not be
bored At >this very cafe, weird
place, the haunt of all sorts OF erim-
inals, Rothefby meets the man he has
been looking for, and attacks him at
once. He has no weapons, but he sue
eeeds in putting him In condition for
the hospital. He is taken away by
Louis, who protects him. and no move
is made by the police to find the assail-
ant of the wretched man.
This almost chance encounter places
Rotherby in the debt of a curious and
mysterious bunch of criminals, two OF
whom are very interesting to him-a
Brazilian named Delora and his niecs.
Felicia, and 1t is some time before he
can make up his mind whether or not
Felicia knows the scheme her uncle
is involved in. In the course of time
it appears that part of the mystery Is
over the sale of two wonderful battle
ships, built In England for Brazil, which
has no use for them. The DeleFa family
proves quite as interesting and as mys-
terious. but the really remarkable char
acter in the book is Louis, The tale
takes us from Paris to London, to the
country and back to London again. all
in the maddest haste. 1t is real true
thriller of the best class
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
(EAL
"The Husbands Story"

By David Graham Phillips author of cold
Wives for New" etc. Published BY D. Ap-
pleton & Co., New York and London. Price
s1.5G
David Graham Phillips plans his sto-
rfes to interest his readers as stories
and then when he knows the interest Ia
reused he commences TO lecture. Al
ways his book takes up some particu-
lar evil of civilization OF today and
always he makes his point so forcibly
that for months afterward the lesson
Is actively in the mind Of his reader.
His newest book is entitled The Hus-
bands Story" and Is perhaps the most
powerful book from the pen OF this
fearless author. The man tells his own
story and 1t Is bloodcurdIing in spots.
While still very young man. en-
ployed In a railroad company's once at
$1,000 year, he marries the under
takers daughter. his next door neigh
Dor, very pretty young girl who has
been spoiled by foolish mother. This
mother wishes her daughter to be
lady" consequently the child is al
most helpless for fear she may spoil
her hands with work They live in the
small town of Passaic and before the
wedding choose an expensive nat in a
better part OF the town. The husband
IS always the hard working business
man and Is one OF those who make
money easily. AS his income increases
his wife develops a tremendous ambi-
tion and with the skill OF a general
plans her campaign. They soon move
to Brooklyn and by joining the church
she becomes leader in Brooklyn soci-
ETY.. Then comes New York and the
difficulties of that climb are gone into
with the utmost detail. Charity is the
opening wedge. but 1t takes q lot OF
patience and untiring struggle.
They have a daughter and have
placed her in fashionable school just
before she is to make her debut her
mother thinks she can do better in the
way OF q marriage if she takes her to
Europe. so or she and the girl go and
divide their time between Europe and
England. Finally they buy a title for
of their troubles. The wife has ac-
quired so much culture by this time
that she thinks her husband common
and vulgar, so she divorces him. great
ly to his relief, and marries an Italian
prince
The husband. who tells the story.
does not make any bid for sympathy.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
Max

by catherine Cecil Thurstoh, snthor Of The
Masoueraaers." Published by Harper a
Brothers, New York and London. Price
sl.5e
The night express from Berlin to
Paris carries four passengers in one
car. One is Russian boy. evidently
poor and queeriy dressed. The other
three men look at him with curiosity
and two OF them do not hesitate to
oecide that he is an anarchist The
third, however, Edward Blake. an
lrishman with a keen sensitiveness.
feels that there is a mystery OF some
sort about the youngster and tries to
open conversation. His efforts are
met with coldness and rebufs and he
feels very seriously disappointed. The
next day Max. the boy. is tramping
about Paris seeing things. In the
Place de Ia Coneorde he stops 10 zee
a parade Of soldiers and accidentally
meets his friend of the night before.
Blake enters into conversation with
him and almost at once these two
strangely assorted beings become
friends While sitting in a cafe Max
shows his new friend that he can draw
by making q rough sketch on the table
top and Blake sees at once that the boy
is a real artist. They do not give
each other any condolences about the
past-ail their talk is OF the present
and future.
Max takes an apartment in the rue
Muller and as soon as II is settled he
and Blake begin q systematic search
for the idea for his great picture, Max
shuts himself UP TO paint. He denies
himself even 10 his dear new friend,
Blake: bat at last the picture is fn-
ished and he sends word to Blake. The
picture Max has painted is of a beau
tlful woman looking In a mirror The
woman marvelousIy resembles Max,
and he tells Blake il is his sister Max
Inc. Blake promptly falls in love with
the picture and insists upon meeting
her. Max is disappointed. He finds
Il difficult TO express his ideas. He and
Blake quarrel. but finally he consents
TO the meeting OF Blake and his sister.
Blake falls more deeply tn love with
the original than with the portrait.
Affairs are at high tension for few
weeks-then the truth has to be told
Max is Maxine.
Maxine is a sad woman. She has
had a cruel blow from fate. but she is
a genius and has resolved to give up
everything in life to her art She ex-
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16

ett There is much Of the quaint
Scotch humor of which MI, Crockett is
a master, and many little twists of de-
seriptien and expression essentially
Scotch which are a delight to read and
to quote, such as this. Now in Gal
loway farmhouses there is front door,
but no known use for 1t has been dis
covered except 10 be door. Later it
was the custom to open 1t to let in the
minister on his stated visitations. and
later still to let out the dead But at
the period of which / write it was a
door and nothing more"
The authors graceful style known
SO well to Lovers of Scotch stories is
unchanged and though this tale is
weak 1t is a pleasure to read 1t for the
pictures of Scotch life and customs.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16

By E. Phillips Oppenheim. Published by Lit
tie, Brown s Co., Boston. Price $3.50.
e. Phillips Oppenheim has long been
known as the prince of Story Tellers,'
and his latest book only adds one more
leaf to his crown of laurel. This is a
tale of mystery and intrigue, and the
readers interest is not allowed to flag
for single instant.
The hero, Captain Austen Rotherby.
is apparently drawn into the most ex-
citing web of adventures by the merest
chance, but it is afterward evident that
1t was fate, for no other person could
have taken his place in the series of
experiences in which he found himself
involved.
The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16

He tells the tale with no embeIIish-
ments of the imagination, nor does he
leave anything to our Imagination. He
tells in minutest detail just how each
step of the climbing was accomplished.
He hated the society life and despised
the people and condemns himself that
he told his wife anything about his
fortune. He loved her so much that he
spoiled her by giving her everything
she wanted and. OF course. she out
grew him. He outgrew her. too. and
found woman who seemed to UNDER
stand him and he is quite sure he loves
her truly and unselhshly. They marry
at the last line and sail away.
The pictures of artificial life in
every grade of society are so appalling
that it makes one III to read, and no
of the financier OF today. cold blooded
and calculating. absolutely soulless.
In this particular family fault was on
both sides and the husband admits it.
He makes no effort to find excuses for
himself. He recites his tale. IN the
fewest possible words. and though they
fill 46S pages there is scarcely a word
too much 1t is a remarkable book.
but one to keep the nervous reader
awake at night. 1t should teach a
lesson.
Warrington Dawson, author OF The
Scar" although hard at work on a
new novel. takes daily relaxation in
the cheerful form OF entertaining Ker-
nit Roosevelt at his home In YER
sailles. whence the two sally forth.
seeing Paris without a megaphone- A
veteran journalist makes the best of
city guides, and when he returns the
young man will probably be prepared
to tell his father all about the fauna
and flora of Paris. and to defead him
self If accused of human nature taking.