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New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
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ACADEMY OF MUsIc-s:I5-Rsgged Robin.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ASToR-s:l5--Ssven Days.
REl,ASCO-s .15-ls Marriage FailureE
BIJOU-s:2 :2o--The Lottery Man.
BRoADWAY-s:i5-The Jolly Bachelors -
BEookLYN ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s;1s-Con-
CARNEGIE HALL-s:l5-coneert:
CAsINo-S:I :I5-The Chocolate Soldier
t,OLOSIAI-a-S-Na Vaudeville.
coMEDf-s:l5-The Watcher
cRITFRIoN-s: :oo--The Bachelors BABY.
DALY's-s:3e-The Inferior Sex
EDEN MUSEE-The World In wax
EMPIRES :3e-The Molluse-
FIFTH AyENUE-2-S-Naud NaudeVilie
q fsafF<Ty-s:is-The Fortune Hunter
0sRDEN-s:Is-The Little Town OF Be,hiehe'n'
GARRICK-S:I5-Nof Humble servant
S,IgOHI--s :l5-The Old Town.
HACK Prince Of Bohemia
Il RAMMERsTEIN's- s-2:is-s:ls :ls,Vaudeviile.
P5poiprRoNEN2-s-lA Trip TO Japan: Inside
The Earth; the Ballet of Jewels
HUDSON 3 Hinds Dances-s;l5-A Lucky
1pvING .PI.AcE-s:1a- Die Forster Christi
KNIcK KERBoCK CKER-s-The Dollar Princess
IIBERTY-s-The Araa6ians.
I,YCETM-s:20-Mrs. Dot
l.YPTC<:1 :15-The City. - 80.
MAXINE EILIoTT's THEATRE = $50 - The
passing Of the Third Floor Back
NFNDEI.S I.SSOHN HALL--s:l5--Recital. o.,
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoCSE-l:oo-Sies-
NEW MSTFRDAM-s:l5-The Barrier.
NFw NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s
SAyOY-s.r5-The Fai;h Healer.
ST. NICHOLAS RINK-s:15--Ice Hockey
SeTr-YNE@c N-r-s-1s-The Lily.
wAIIAcE'S-e:fs-Alas Jimmy Valentine.
WFSREP' SIS .iS-Mr Butt'es.
WEST FND-S:15-The King of Caconia
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
WANTS THE FENCE OF IRON.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In yesterdays Tribune 1 was much
taken with the letter "a Plea for a
Paiing" by "A Worker" and heartily agree
with him in so far as immigration is con-
cerned. I say stop it at once and entirely
as long as there can be no discrimination
1t has already gone too far.
One has only to read the extracts from
the report of c. V. Collins. Superintendent
of State Prisons, In your issue Of yester-
day, for one good reason, and there are
many others. Why should we maintain
prisons for alien criminals and eleemC sy-
nary institutions for other aliens? 1t
seems to me that the country should be
allowed to have q natural and healthy
growth in order that future generations
may have some chance of decent living in
homes of their own. If our forefathers
who framed the Constitution could have
foreseen the conditions now existing they
would certainly have provided against in
discriminate immigration.
In the next Presidential year the party
that puts into it's platform plank for
an amendment 10 the Constitution to stop
immigration and for conservation of re-
. sources will win: YANKEE
Brooklyn, Jan. 25 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28

ment Of local commerce and intercourse.
Other lines, extending through Eastern
Mongolia 10 the Ar9un, or Though East
ern Manchuria 10 the Amoor in the
neighborhood of Blagovestchensk Of
tragic memory. such as the now pro-
posed Tsifsihar- Aigun line, Juld lie of
inealcula BILE value; and Tough they
We're under Chinese ownership and con-
troll and were usable on equal terms by
oil nations. the logic of location would
make them most valuable of all to Rus
sia
The paramount interest of Russia" is
not TO be denied, but neither, we think,
is it to be successfully denied that that
interest is most surely and to the great-
est extent to be pr oted permanently
by the prompt renunciation of,anything
which savors of exclusiveness and by a
free opening of the regions concerned TO
development by China herself Tor the
impartial benefit Of the world.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
THE POINT JUDITH REFUGE

Shipping records continue to demon
strate the immense utility of the Harbor
of Refuge at Point Judith. even i'll its
present incomplete condition. During
last year a total of 1,133 vessels made
use of it for safety. or an average of
more than three a day. The most nu-
merous class consisted of schOonerS, but
there were also many sloops, barges and
power boats, while steamers of consid-
erable siZe,. tugs, catb0atS, yaWls and
one lighthouse tender added TO the total
and illustrated the general need among
all classes of shipping of such a place
: of shelter.
The aggregate value of all that ship
ping cannot be stated CT even estimated
with any approximation to accuracy.
Neither can any one say how many of
the vessels would probably have been
lost or seriously damaged had they not
entered the harbor. But there can be no
doubt that the use of the harbor did pre-
vent number of disasters and consider
able loss of property, if not of life The
vessels did not enter the harbor just fo"
fun or idly. but because they had need
to do so to escape from really threat
ened danger
We should not he surprised to know.
if the facts could be ascertained, that
the more than six thousand vessels
which have made use Of the harbor in
the less than six years of it's existence
represent a total value many times
greater than the entire past cost of con-
struction and prospective cost of COM
pletion of the haven. and indeed, that
the value of the vessels which would
have been lost without the refuge is
much greater than the sum which has
thus far been expended upon the work.
1t should be observed. moreover. that
in the great plan for an inland or semi
inland waterway along the Atlantic
Coast from Boston TO the CarolnaS or
further, comprising Cape Ccd Bay AMI
Canal. BuZzard's Bay and Long Island
Sound. this port of refuge forms de-
sirable feature. In view of all such con-
s'deratiOns the request which is now
before Congress for the funds needed to
complete and adequately equip the har-
? Dor should be effectively supported.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
HONE RULE AND LOCAL OPTION
AGAIN

AS was foreseen and forecast in our
columns, the excise question is being
pushed to the front in New Jersey poll
tics again, partly under the guise of
demand for local option, which has been
familiar for many years, and partly
under that of "home rule" which
means very different thing and which.
in the directness of the demand for il,
is comparatively new. Local option
means system under which the peo-
pie of each municipality would be EN-
powered to determine by popular vote
whether licenses fer the sale of intox-
eating liquors should be granted in that
municipality. ii being assumed that. of
course, in any event such sales would
not be permitted ON Sundays. Home rule.
on the contrary, means a system under
which the people would thus decide
whether such sales should be permitted
on Sundays. IL being assumed that in
any case they would be permitted on all
other days.
The advocates OF each Of these plans
are the strongest opponents of rhe other
plan. and vigorously condemn II as un-
nj even 10 be tried or TO be seriously
considered. There are also those. com
mitted 10 neither side. who think that
coilpinatlon of both might be fair and
just. Ihe Governor the state Is
quoted. as saying that the granting of
the home rule demand without coupling
local option with IL is unthinlsable. in
which opinion NEST of the people of the
state probably agree with him There
is reason to believe. moreover. that both
he and they regard the former dema md
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
QUALITY OF GAS NOT LOWERED.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir. The statement of LUX in COM
munication printed in The Tribune to-day
is absolutely without basis OF fact In the
assertion that "the quality of Che gas has
never been so poor as at present" The re-
port made at the annual meeting of stock
holders OF the Consolidated Gas Company
of New York last Monday contained this
paragraph, which was based on facts.
"The average candle power of the gas
manufactured in 1909 by the Consolidated
Gas Company of New York and affiliated
companies has been at all times in excess
of the standard required by law"
The law requires 22-candlepower gas
in New York City, which is Of higher
standard than is furnished in any other CITY.
The law also makes it imperative that daily
tests be made at various parts OF Man
haitian and The Bronx by city authorities
to determine whether or not the companies
are complying with the law. A test that
would show that gas of lower standard
than % candle power was being furnisheo
would subject the gas company TO a nne OF
$1,000 for each offence. 1t is possible tha'
the zone family who are" as Lux says
obliged to burn such a varied assortment
of apparatus to light the home is family
that is occupying an old-fashioned building
with pipes of inadequate size for the drain
upon them.
A gas company has no control over house
piping However, if LUX" will make his
or her complaint TO the gas company or
which LUX may be a customer. an expert
will investigate. and locate the trouble. IL
any exist, and without any charge TO
LUX" If LUX is burning four gas jets
in "a dining room and five gas Jets In
sitting ROOM and has never done so before
it is but natural that "Luxs" gas bills will
be higher, but by no stretch of the iulaS-
ination can this be attributed to the poor
quality of the gas.
ROBERT Z. LIVINGSTON.
New York Ian Of 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
EiT.

The magazine editors are becoming
positively insufferable Not fewer than
two of them have erupted into print
this month in defence Of fat. No, not
strictly in defence of fat; worse than
that, fat is Oh the aggressive In their
pages, and leanness is calmly placed Oh
the defensive Fat. coolly remarks one
of them. lis normal" What, after we
have been persuaded for these many
years that fat is a malefactor of great
girth. which flourishes only because OF
our failure to follow natures laws?
After the whole nation has been pros
trate morally before the man with
out q superfluous ounce upon him,
whose muscles are like steel and play
visibly over his form with his every
movement?
The third blunder" remarks one of
these writer's on Nitrogen Starvation =
1.-The third blunder is the assumption
that these fat-free trained men with
"cordlike muscles are normal, whereas
they are abnormal to a degree. We
must repeat that the normal man has
"a layer of fat under his skin" What
the other two blunders are we will not
disclose. One blunder at a time, when
If is of that dimension, is all the world
can stand learning about.
But the damage to mental equipoise
is not the worst of it. What we eSpe-
cially resent is the .nappropriateaess of
such a disclosure at this time. Here
is all the world protesting at the high
cost of living. Everybody is making
virtuous resolutions TO boycott this,
that or the other article of food. A
Declaration of Independence of the
stomach has been signed with all due
solemnity. The humble egg is casas
bclH, while a pound Of steak is an act
of war. Hearts never beat SO high,
and even those of cooler blood are rec
Onciling themselves to the privations
Of long campaign by saying, well.
we all eat too much, anyway" when
bang. into the middle of this splendid
movement the magazine editor tosses
a bomb labelled Nitrogen Starvation"
and bids the world beware of getting
thin. Will nothing restrain him?
Doesn't he know that to-day only the
most prosperous can afford even to be
thin?
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28

carry concealed deadly weapons. The
only reason for which a man In this
part of the world carries a pistol is that
of being able at will to kill fellow
man. So the possession of noiseless
rifle would seem to indicate at least
an expectation OF wanting or needing
to shoot somebody without being
known. and that is an expectation
which in law-abiding communities ought
never TO be fulfilled. If the device in
question is as effective as il is said to
be, 1t would probably be desirable TO
have all departments OF the military
services equipped with it. But the
more effective II is the more dangerous
and mischievous ii would be TO have
ii promiscuousIy available for the uses
of evil disposed persons
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
ALIEN INTEREST IN CHINESE
RAILROADS.

Mr.. korot0VitZ, the Russian Minister.
to China. is reported to have empha-
sized, in discussing the Manchurlan
railroad question, the paramount interest
of Russia in the matter of railroads
entering the Russian railroad sphere in
China or approaching the Russinn Tor
Ger. From the general proposition of
the existence Of that interest there can
be no. reasonable dissent 1t is entirely
natural and inevitable. But if would
be serious eIrCr to assume that It
therefore necessarily implies hostility
TO the construction of new railroads in
the region named or grounds for on
position TO the ownership CT the existing
roads by the sovereign power of the
country through which they run.
The Russian railroad sphere" in
emma Is nothing more than a temporary
thing, and even while it exists It is n
thing of limited significance For few
years Russia has the privilege of own
ing, operating and policing certain rail
road lines and of exercising some limit
ed administrative authority in some Of
the territory through which they run.
Ihat is all. A few years hence she is
bound to surrender all those privileges
ana that property 10 China and to with
draw from Chinese territory. And even
while the present temporary arrange.
ment lasts she is bound to give all na-
tons equal advantages with herself IN
the use Of those railroads. We should
certainly say that il was therefore to
her interest 10 have China construct AS
many other reads in that region ms pos
sible. In order TO develop its resources
and its industries and commerce. and
so to enhance the business and the col-
sequent profits of he roads which Rus
sia for the time possesses.
similar principle appears to apply
to the constructio of roads ;pinging
upon the Russian frontier. II is highly
desirable for Russia TO have trade be
tween China and Siberia deveIoped and
increased. But that is to be done most
surely and most expeditiously by multi
plying the routes and facilities of trade
and travel. AT present only single
line Of railroad connects Siberia with
Manchuria. ard IT is designed chiefly for
through traffic and not for the deveIon.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
trrom the Tribune Bureau

Uasbineton Jan. 27-The President sent
a cable dispatch to the President or france
to-day expressing the sympathy OK the
American people for the food sufferers and
offering assistance
The Secretary of State. who conferred
with the President. said he had received
from the American Ambassador at Rome
a note expressing the gratitude OF the
Italian government for the relief extended
by the United States TO the earthquake
sufferers year ago.
Representative simmons and ex-Represent-
ative Wadsworth presented TO President
Taft John A. Merritt, who seeks reappoint-
ment as collector OF customs at Niagara
Falls.
The President discussed with Representa-
tive Perkins his trip to Rochester, some
time in March, to attend a dinner OF
the Rochester Chamber OF Commerce Mr.
Taft was invited by Governor Hughes on
his recent visit to Washington to pay
visit to Albany, which invitation was ac-
cepted. The President will probably visit
the two cities on his trip to attend the
meeting of the Yale corporation at New
Haven ON March q. and probably 10 at
tend the dinner of the American Peace
and Arbitration League in New York on
the 22d.
Senator Burton asked the President to
visit Marietta College. Marietta. Ohio, on
June Is, at the celebration of the seventy
fifth birthday of the college. Of which the
Presidents father was an honorary mem
ber of the alumni association Senator
Burton was accompanied by Alfred T.
Perry, president of the college, and several
members of the alumni.
The President discussed District matters
with Cuno III. Rudolph, General John ~
Johnston and Major w. j. Judson. Com
missioners of the District of Columbia
The Presidents callers included the Sec
retary of the Interior, Senators Depew.
Stone, Cullon, Smoot, Warren, Crane.
Paynter and Scott; Representatives Hub
bard, Hughes, Wood, Simmons. Young.
Calder. Wanger, Tawney. Hayes, Denby
and Slemp: Brigadier General Arthur Muir
ray, Captain Lucien Young, William Bardel.
consul at Rheims. France, and Frederick
Upham, of Chicago, Western treasurer of
the Republican National Committee
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
JEFFERsoN'S HUGE CHEESE.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The recent presentation of a big
pie three feet in diameter to President
Taft brings to mind the mammoth cheese
which Elder John Leland. by the help of
the dairymen of his parish. in Cheshire.
Berkshire County. Mass, in 1901 presented
TO President Thomas Jefferson. 1t came
about in this way:
Elder John Leland. a noted Baptist
clergyman born of farmer parents in
Grafton, Mass. May IA, 1854 went to vir-
ginia and became acquainted with Thomas
jefferson, later President. In 1890 he re-
moved to New England and preached In
Cheshire. Mass.
After the election of Thomas jefferson
he proposed from his pulpit on the Sab
bath that on a certain day the cheese
makers in the town should bring their
milk. or the curd which it would make. to
the cider mill of Captain John Brown, to
be made into a mammoth cheese for the
President. A large hoop was prepared AMI
the cheese curd placed in it and pressed
by the powerful press. So literally had
the people responded that when the cheese
was taken from the press and properly
cured and dried 1t weighed sixteen hundred
pounds. 1t was said to be the largest
cheese that had ever been made.
There were no railroads in those days and
II was not practicable TO take it to Wash
ington on wheels. but about the middle of
the following winter it was carefully
packed and placed on a sleigh and driven
to Washington by Elder Leland who pre-
sented his peoples gift to the President,
with an appropriate speech to which Mr..
jefferson replied.
The great cheese and it's reception had
already become noised abroad, and Elder
Leland made kind of triumphal march
back to Cheshire and to his people. He
died at North Adams. Mass. January Ia.
lS41. eighty-six years and eight months
old. J. ROYcE
Brooklyn. Jan. II. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
IFrom The Trihune Bureau.1

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Washington. Jan. 27.-The Italian Am
bassador and Baroness Mayor des Planches
entertained at dinner tonight the Secre-
tary of the Interior and Mrs. BalIinger,
the French Ambassador and Nine. Jusser-
and, the japanese Ambassador and Baron
ess Uchida. Senator and Mrs. Burrows, the
Gillian Minister and Sonora de Cruz, the
Danish Minister and Countess Moltke,
Count and Countess de Chambrun, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Howard, Countess Luise-
Alexandra Won Bernstorff. Mr.. Mitchell
Innes. British Counsellor. and Signor
Sentaro and Signor de Luca, of the Italian
Embassy staff.
The German Ambassador celebrated the
Emperor's birthday with dinner tonight.
having all the members of the embassy
staff as guests, and in addition Represen-
tative Bartheldt. Representative Gustav
kustermann, r. Schroeder, Julian Ditt-
mar. Ernst B. Brunck. Mr.. Won Schwerd-
ner. of Annapolis. and Mr. Volkner
This afternoon charmingly arranged tea
was given by two of the bachelor attaches
of the German Embassy staff in honor or
the kaiser's birthday. They were Mr. Won
Stumm, third secretary, and Lieutenant
Won Breuning. attache: Countess Won Bern
storff, wife of the ambassador, and Mime.
Won Livonius. wife OF the military attache.
poured tea. and Mrs. Hichborn served
chocolate. stringed orchestra played all
the afternoon. and the young diplomats re-
ceived a large number of guests The
German fag hoated all day from the en-
bassy and the homes of the attaches.
The British military attache and the
Hon. Mrs. Bernard James entertained
number of young people at dinner to-uignr
Tor the sister OF the latter. the Hon Rachel
kay-Shuttleworth. All the guests after
ward attended the dance at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Wadsworth.
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY,"
IFrom The Tribune Bura.n

lrloune Bureau.l
washington, Jan. 27.-The Vice -Presi6er,
and Mrs. Sherman were entertained . din
ner tonight by Mr.. and Mrs. s. C. NeaIe
Senator and Mrs. Root were the guests
OF honor at a dinner tonight, with Repre-
sentative and Mrs Dwight, OF New yorp
as hosts. Other guests were Senator and
Mrs Crane. the Assistant Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop Renrs-
sentative Hamilton Fish. Colonel and Mrs
McCawley, MIR, and Mrs. Larz Anderson
and Miss Josephine Patten.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsvorth savs
their regular Thursday night dinner party.
and followed it with dancing. when more
tnan hundred guests from other dinner
parties joined them,
The British Ambassador was the cusst or
honor AT dinner tonight, with DIR. and
MIS- Fremont Smith as hosts Mrs. Bryce
could not be present, on account OF indis
position
mrs- A Z. Barney was hostess at a din
her party Tonight. and Mrs. Jack" BIddle
was hostess for a large luncheon party.
Tue speaker and Miss Cannon were the
guests OF honor at a dinner given tonight.
win General Black and his daughter Mrs
Frank Vrooman, as hosts.
MISS Carmel Egan. daughter of the Amer
'ean Minister 10 Denmark. was the guest
Oh honor at tea this afternoon. with Mrs.
sha'ies Harper Walsh and Miss Walsh as
nosts, Assisting were Miss Florence kirby.
MISS Nina van Arsdale and Miss Louise
Walsh
mrs' Jack Gardner. OF Boston. Is the guest
=, .ne Secretary OF the Treasury and Mrs.
Macveagh
captain and Mrs. Edward w Carpenter
s, 'a'hed a number OF young people at
er n'r Tonight, and Brigadier General
ahan NJ. entertained guests In honor of
ehusetts. ~ '"'''S'
New-York tribune., 1910-01-28
REGULATING THE USE OF ARMS.


That is an interesting and suggestive
proposal which has been made at AL
Dany-to legislate against the common
use and even ownership of the in
eenious device which has been invented
for silepci3g the noise Of firearms.
That device is said 10 be so effective
as TO make the discharge of a rife or
pistol nearly nciseless, without Ie-
creasing the lethal effectiveness of thu
weapon. 1t is easily conceivable that
such an attachment 10 military fire.
arms would be of inestimable advan-
tage in warfare. a noiseless rife using
slnokeless power giving practically no
Information as TO the location of its
user. But il is obvious that precisely
The same thing would make a gun or
q pistol a far more dangerous tool for
the use Of assassins.
81 may, indeed, be said that there is
no legitimate use for the silencing de-
vice, save in military doings and In
actual war. If we grant that citizens
now and then need to use firearms
against burglars, highwaymen aid
others, it should be obvious that the
most desirable and most effective arm
for such purposes is not the most
silent, but the most noisy. The report
Of the piece is almost as useful as the
bullet in frightening away marauders
und giving an alarm for the sum-
mOniDg Of help. There may be those
who would if they could shoot all the
members Of q burglarious gang. and of
course for the execution Of that design
a noiseless weapon wonld be useful;
but we cannot concede that such n
course should be generally pursued.
Burglary and highway robbery are not,
after all, capital crimes, and it is not
well to kill unnecessarily those who
commit them.
The Constitution properly guarantees
80 the people of this country the right
IL bear arms But that is not assumed
10 mean that man has right TO