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New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
People and Social I1cidenzl

I SIR and Mrs. Thomas T. Car wsr~
hosts at a young peoples dinner part, ~
night in honor OF Miss Helen Taft
Miss Taft spent a greater par. ~
forenoon to-day in riding with a. ra,,, y
young people over the Virginia hfux
Mrs. Joseph McKenna was hostess =.
luncheon to-day I'm compliment "a -
Nancy NefT, daughter OF DR.. and Mrs -
who has just returned from a threa -
visit abroad.
Among the hosts of to-day were NJ -
Mrs Isaac T. Mann and Mr. and ~
Ormsby McCamrnon, who gave dinners -
Mrs. r. II. K. Benham and Mrs. Jarns.
BarDou, who entertained theatre and -
per parties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard g. Reside ,ntr.
duced their daughter. Miss Elizabeth p.
side. TO society ar tea this afternoon. a-a
assisting them we're Mrs Heybarn. ",
Claude Swanson, Mrs Frank AnSsr~,.
Mrs John Ross Martin, Mrs. Afexs,e-
Patten and Mrs. Lippincott. OF Philaa.I
phia: Mrs. Fox, wife Of the Minister rro-
Ecuador, and number OF debGtantes.
Mrs Charles Mum and Hiss Mum hxza
opened their house here for the hoiidav.
other members Of their family VIII fosn
them for Christmas
Miss Sheriff., sister or the Minister 4,
Argentina has gone to New YORK to scs,
her brother and his wife for TIE Cnristzns.
holidays.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
REBUILD THE MACHINERY.

If the legislative graft hunters follow
the advice of the City Club to give
proper consideration to ''the remedy of
legislative procedure they will he tax
ing up the important feature of the duty
with which they were charged by the
last Legislature. Their investigation has
brought out few facts strikingly new.
Conditions We're proved TO have existed at
Albany the existence of which has been
denied by nobody save certain Iegisla-
tive leaders of singular innocence. Yet to
the remedying of these conditions and
the preventing Of future graft, 81 far rs
artificial means can prevent it, the legis-
lative committee has as yet given little
attention.
Almost all the evils disclosed by the
graft hunt. the Aids Investigation and
Superintendent Hotchkiss'S insurance
investigation were made possible by
faulty legislative machinery. The rules
Of the two houses at Albany have been
framed more with the view of enabling
the dominant legislative faction to CON
trel the legislative output than TO as
sure the public that its interests We're
safeguarded in that grist OF bills. Sc
-crecy in public business has been fos-
tered. bringing in its train the possibility
Of graft and blackmail. individual or or
ganized. Faulty laws, long sessions and
much consequent expense TO The state
have been incidental evils.
Complete reorganization of the com
mittee system and the abolition of the
Rules Committee Of the Assembly ar"
suggested 10y the City Club as an initial
reform. Similar suggestions iii other
wears have received little consideration
at the hands of the Legislature. f"t
their merit is obvious. The Assembly
Rules Committee is an organization of
almost liinitless power, which it eXer-
cises arbitrarily. Prominent legislators
have said that the Rules Committee Of
the House of Representative in the
paInliest days of Cannonism never had
half its power. lis existence is de-
Tended On the ground that il makes DOS
sIble the winding up of the session with
out congested calendars and assures
adequate consideration TO proper bills.
Yet the Senate, with an equal volume of
business and fewer legislative short
cuts. has no such committee Assembly
man Merritt. majority leader. once said
that the Rules Committee was organized
originally to protect members of the
Assembly by forcing reluctant or lazy
Senators to obtain consideration of As
sembly bills in the upper house His
description of lis purpose club-Was
not greatly different from that given by
Mr.. James w. Osborne in the Aids in
guiry. when he portrayed the Rules
Committee as n blackjack in the hands
of legislative blachmailers, pistol in
the hands of the black horse cavalry"
Committees Of both houses now run OH
a biz or miss plan of delightful uncer-
tainty. Hearings are held OF not held
at the pleasure of members or chairmen.
Bills are kissed through" or "log-rolled
through" the commit ,es Chairmen
have been said 10 rNrort bills or hold
them up by the strength OF their good
right arms. Committee deliberation is
secret. and at best only fragmentary
records are kept of the formal action OF
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
A BIT OF HISTORY
Inside Story of the CONSTRUCTION OF
Professor Morse's First Telegraph.

70 the Editor of The Tribune
sir: In an editorial column of The Trio'
une recently, referring to the Vail fam'i!
connection with the telegraph, you say
.Hrhe names OF the Walls, father and son
of Morrfstowr, \. j.. the ore the head oi
the old Speedwell Iron Works, the otner q
student in New York University deserve
always TO be linked with that OF Sa"uel
It q. Morse.
This prompts me to give you DIT Oh
the inside history of the early connection
OF the Walls, father and son, with Pro
fesSor Morse, part of which [ think mas
never appeared in print. Stephen VAN was
the founder owner and operator OF the
Srcedwell works. His son Alfred was the
student in New York University, where ne
met Professor Morse who confided TO the
Young man his conception of the magnetic
telegraph Alfred became greatly interest
ed. and proposed having an experimental
r;iachine made during the summer vacation
at his fathers works. When the matter
WAS broached to Vail. sr., he became strei,-
uously opposed to the proposition, regard
inc it a only waste of time and money.
n this emergency Alfred went quietly to
James Davis, an expert machinist In Ste
phe.n's employ. Davis was found to enter
Vail but Alfred was persistent, and Davis
finally agreed TO make the machine without
il becoming known to Alfreds father.
Davis worked on the machine in the Speed
well shops as opportunity occurred When
Stephen Vail was around there would BE-
nothing doing and the parts of the little
machine would be hidden away in some
convenient out of the way place: but when
Vail, sr, was away the machine would be
brought from its hiding, and Davis and
Alfred would get busy.
Under these adverse circumstances the
completion of the machine WAS much de-
Iayed and Davis, having no heart in the
work. frequently wanted - give 1t up, but
each time Welded to Aifr"d's earnest en-
treaties and continued rn. When. finally,
the machine was co,nplete-i, Morse and Al
fred secured q large room in Morristown
and. stringing several miles of wire about
it. attached the machine. It was a success.
But Stephen Vail was not linked with it. ="
This story was given to me by the late
Rev John Davis, of Fsaritan, N J., a son
of James Davis, and who, then small
boy. assisted his father in minor way in
making the machine and was familiar
with the incidents connected with its con-
struction. j. g n
Raritan, " j. Dec. IS. 1910.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20

touches upon with good deal of co1ii1-
dence. He likes neither the zone man.
or military, type of organization, nor the
committee SYSTEM, which usually pre-
walls in colleges. He declares for
functional management following the
thought OF his school, by which we sup
pose he means that those functions which
are common TO practically autonomous
departments should be grouped each un-
der a single management. If this would
leave professors freer to teach or do re-
search work, relieving them OF details
which their labor i'll the committee
management of their departments loads
upon them. while preserving for them
that academic freedom or democracy
which they so iealousiy guard. its adop-
ton would no doubt be gladly wei
coined.
Mr.. Cooke certainly seems TO score
OF college buildings. His study showed
that the average use Of rooms by the
department of physics. TO which he con-
fined his observation. was rather less
than three hours q day. One of them,
In a building standing upon land worth
S25 square foot and in an institution
notoriously cranped In its quarters, he
found in use only six hours a week
This compares very unfavorably with
the use TO which the plant" is put in
industry 1t is perhaps natural that the
state universities should be the first to
appreciate the lack of economy in the
employment Of buildings. President
Van Hise of the University Of Wiscon-
sin has told teachers under him that he
will ask no money for departments un-
til the average use of rooms is increased.
The state universities have shown their
practical tendency in various directions
Lacking the rich endowment of their
older rivals. they may be the first to ap-
preach some of the questions raised by
this report on efficiency
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

AT the annual meeting of the New York
State Historical Association, held early in
October on board the Lake Champlan
steamer Vermont, ". Max Reid, of AmSter-
dam, suggested that a committee of five
be appointed To secure from the state of
New York, by lease or gift an island in
Lake George to be renamed Isle du st. Sac
rement and TO place on it d memorial III
stone or bronze to Father Isaac Jogues,
the first white man to cross its waters and
who gave it the name of Lac du st. Sacre-
ment The following committee has been
named: W. Max Reid, of Amsterdam,
chairman; Mrs. Harry W. Watrous, David
Williams and the Rev. Thomas J. Camp
bell, of New York City. and George 2.
Knapp, of Shelving Rock, \. y.
1T is the unexpected that happens" re-
marked the muralizer.
That's right, rejoined the demoralizer
II once knew. il 10 rain after the weather
bureau had predicted it.''-Chicago News.
A CITY HALL WINTER TRAGEDY.
Some day, His Honor, the Mayor,
Beside his open door
VIII wake up and find
The frost so unkind
AS 10 freeze him to the floor.
And the Mayor will yell for succor,
But SUccor can't come, from those
Who are there to succor His Honor,
For the whole darn bunch will be froze.
". j. HAMPTON.
The younger Dumas is said to have thus
passed Judgment on the efforts of would
be humorist.
OF this man some one said to him, Poor
fellow, he is always on a chase after a
joke
And the joke always wins" Dumas OBJ
served, mildly.-Youth's Companion.
woman entered a crowded subway car
carrying in her arms what looked like a
the new passenger stood facing. Even the
most confirmed don't give up your seat
fiend will almost invariably surrender his
place TO a woman carrying child. But
here was an exception. No man rose to
offer his seat SO, finally, the young wom-
an rose, casting contemptuous glances at
the men AS the woman with the baby"
turned to sit down she twisted the in
fant'' around and for the first time the
polite giri saw its fare. IL was wax The
baby was a large, elegantly dressed doll
MY new maid is a treasure
We'll trained, is she?'
Very: always gets possession of a call
er's box OF candy before telling him I'm
out Louisville Courier-Journal.
Hermann Haupt, of Dresden is the author
of a book just published entitled. New
Astronomical Discovery" III which the
author takes a stand in direct opposition 10
the accepted astronomy" In the English
letter. which accom- panes the work, the
author says that his book demonstrates
that there can be mo motion without pow
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Reginald Q Vanderbilt has 90 Tar ~
covered from his recent serious Illness tha.
he entertained four Of his friends a. dinrsr
| last evening in celebration OF his thiTtie.a
birthday. at the home OF his brother.
Alfred .. Vanderbilt, where he and his
wife have been staying since their arriral
in town from Newport, last month. Nr.
Vanderbilt. Who is able 20 90 out driving
twice a day now, will go with Mrs vander-
biIt and their little daughter CathIaea. 70
the home OF his mother. in West 57th stresr,
next month, 70 spend the remainder of IN.
winter.
Mrs William Douglas Sloane gsve 4 70
ception. with music. last evening, AZ hs-
home. in West sd street Frsnko's orches-
ira played throughout the evening. Srrs.
Sloane will give a dance on January .
The artists at Albert Morris Bagbv,.
musical morning at the Naldorf-Astorta
yesterday were: Nine. Sembrieh, Arthur
Friedman and Victor Herberts orchestra
The programme was an excellent one. and
there was, as usual, a large attendance.
Among those seen were Mrs Arthur N;urs
ray Dodge. Mrs. William Douglas Sloaus.
Mrs. James P. kernochan. Mrs T J. Ber-
wind, Mrs. Harold F. Hadden. r., Mrs
Warren Deiano. jr-. Mrs. Samuel Reading
Bertron. Mrs. Edward A. Nsnice Mrs
Snowden A. FahnestOck. Mrs WiIIiam IL
Sands, Mrs Beeckm8n IOri1lard Mis-,
Naude Gwynne Shepherd and Miss Hsn-
rietta Porter
Mrs Frederic Nelson leaves town "a.
day for Wellesley. Mass. to spend the
holidays with her daughter. Mrs Hollis 4.
HunneweII.
Miss Muriel Morris, daughter OF Mrs. Z.
Cass Ledyard, will be married to Ear
rington Moore, this afternoon. az the hom4
of Mr. and Mrs. Ledyar1. in East I'D street
Owing TO deep mourning the welding VIII
be small and quiet.
Another wedding to-day viii be that ~
Miss Beatrice Carpenter. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Whitney Carpenter, to
CandIer Cobb, in the Brick Presbyteriaz
Church
Miss Viola Townsend will give luncheon
to-day at sherry's for some OF the as
butantes OF the season.
Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin S. Guinness, vho
went abroad only three weeks ago, have
sailed on their return trip to New York
on the Lusitania-
Mr. and Mrs s Stevens Sands spent tHs
weekend at Oakdale, Long Island, as ths
guests of Mrs. William h Vanderbilt
Mrs Robert r Livingston will give
dinner on December q. at her home. No.
IL Washington square. for Miss Laura 5.
Livingston.
Mrs Forsyth Wickes gave a dinner last
evening at her home in Madison avenus
Mrs c. H. Strong left town yesterday Cor
Erie, Penn, where she and her daughter.
Mrs Reginald Ronalds. will spend the hoii-
days.
Mrs Webster Cummings Estes viii giFs
the first OF d series of small dinners. on
Thursday, at her home, in Riverside Drive.
Mrs Charles Fl. Baldwin lett here for
Boston yesterday 10 be near her Erand-
daughter, Miss Edythe Deacon. whoss
fiance. George Lee Peabody. is again very
i'll there Mr. Peabody's condition is 50
serious that II may be necessary TO posi-
pone the wedding for a second time Il
was 70 have originally taken place n
Newport on September Is. but Mr. Pea
body's sickness compelled a change Q;
plans. The date was subsequently set fGr
January T.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
SACRIFICING TIE HORSES.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: l am credibly informed that yes
terday twenty-five horses In Manhattan
died or had to be shot OH account of in
iuries received in falling on the slippery
streets No one knows how many such
cases were not counted or how great a
number were manned. 1t would be inter
esting to have count kept of the human
victims Of the slippery streets 1t would
hardly occur TO our long suffering citizens
to enter record or complaint or to de-
mand redress If their animals or their own
limbs are sacrificed TO the city's careless
ness. The Tribune is one of the few means
to which New Workers. look for help.
H NJ HANSON.
New York, Dec. Is. 1910
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

CONGRESS.-Senate: BY vote of
81 10 Ia the upper house refused to ac-
cent the ruling of Vice President Sher-
man that a Senator having q pair with
another Senator could be counted to
make UP a quorum; the omnibus claims
bin was further considered =
House: 4 parliamentary wrangie deVei-
or,e6 over the consideration of the bin to
codify the postal laws
FoREIGN-The final pollings in tlc
British elections viii not change the po-
Iitical complexion of Parliament --
The murder OF three policemen in Lon
don has started an agitation for the
zrning CT constables at night -- The
Nav League gave q brilliant bali in
LONDON in honor of, the officers Of the
American feet in British waters. ---
American bids have been invited for bat
tleships OF various grades which Portu-
eaf proposes to build == Twenty Ger
1nan officers have been elected TO go to
Brazil To give instruction to the army.
-- Ballot boxes deposited under
guard in Fort de France, Martinique,
after Sundays election were rlf1ed-
DOAESTIC-Edw Douglass White
was formally elevated from associate
justice Of the Supreme Court OF the
United states to the chief justiceslip
states sunboat Hornet. reported to
have been purchased by Honduran revo-
3tsio.,ists under ex-President Manuel
Rouila. sailed from New Orleans for
Cape tiracias with crew OF twenty
5l-cn: il was reported that Soniiia ana
general Lee Christmas would join the
vessel later It was reported at
washington that the widow or the Chill
ian Minister 10 the United States, who
died on Sunday night accepted the offer
Of President Taft 10 have the body con-
xeyed to Chill on 4 United States war
ship Schenectady police prevented
q ten-round fight between Jack Suiti-
Van and Perky Flynn. at the Anneri-
can Athletic Club. by arresting the lat
ter and three others Interested in the
bout. - The senior class of Harvard
University finished the election of COM
nfencement committees and officers.
rTTy-Stocks were strong. A
terrific explosion in the yards of the New
York Central Railroad. at Lexington
7line persons, injured more than hun
6red others and did enormous damage
TO properly for two blocks in every di-
section; an explosion of Pjntsch gas
from z main broken by q runaway train
aK-2s generally believed 10 be the cause,
according to those who investigated the
disaster. An insurance man teStl-
fed at the legislative inquiry that New
York through the continual under
ground construction and dynamite eH-
r!osions here. was always i'm danger or
= disaster as great as that caused DN the
San Francisco earthquake.
THE wEATHER.-Indicati for to-
cav Snow or rain. The temperature
YESTERDAY: Highest, II degrees; low
es1 sd
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
TIE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

r4,ron1 The Tribune Bureau
washington. Dec. 1e--The Mexican Am
bassador has cancelled all of his soclai en-
gagements UP to Friday on account OF the
death of the ChiIian Minister, Senor cruz,
. large number of South and Central
American diplomats are observing the same
rules.
DR.. Salvador Castrillo, recently apponte"
Minister from Nicara qua, arrived here TO-
dav. and arrangements will be made toI
him to present his credentials soon- Df-
C,astriJIos country has been without DIP
Icmatic representative here other than an
agent for over year, and If Dr. CastTliio S
credentials are satisfactory it will add one
more foreign minister to the list 10 meet
the President on New Years Day
The naval attache of the Austrian En-
bassy has gone to New York FOR a snort
visit He and Baroness Preuschen Won uhd
zu Iiebenstein will spend Christmas with
Senator Du Pont at his Delaware estate,
with several other diplomats
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20

err and expresses his new sheoiie'
revolution of sun and earth "hi'" "
ras,,It of INV personal experiences in forty
go. .nd tn whom has been paid much
attention and token notice oil III us'i'a'
,,,x.. but is filled with a heavy, liquid,
,.,,,aroo+ and co,orless mass. The moon
does not move around the earth, but the
o.rth naeses around the moon in twenty
si da.-s The astronomer also contends
that ain eighteen years and eleven days
the sun with the earth moon ard countess
planets revolye around a central sun Nhich
revoves on it's own axis
Tommy (who has been told TO go 10 peo)-
Pa how long is "a iiffy'? .,
Fatber-It's just about the length OIL ,llne
you've got to go to bed without hehihe.-
Boston Transcript.
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
Efficiency and The COLLEGES

Efficiency and The COLLEGES
We do not suppose that the intent Of
the Carnegie Foundation in causing 4
study IF the organization of several uni
,ersftfes and of the organization and
methods of a single department in them
bv an efficiency engineer WAS TO press
the analogy between an industrial con
seru and university too far. tvi-
IDENTIFY the idea was merely 10 have the
report suggestive. like most OF the other
criticisms Of educational methods PreSI-
dent Pritchett has fathered. II Is not
TO be expected. therefore, that the uni
z,ersities viii at once call in Mr. MoTrls
Ilewellyn Cooke or another student Of
industrial efficiency ami set him ia work
eliminating their waste There is.
nevertheless. Il real problem before the
university authorities. as DIR. Prltchc:t
IcintS out when he SAYS in his intro
duciion: The cost of university edu-
cation has risen throughout the world,
..l.ut nowhere So rapidly in the
II -aiteI states Single universities in
America are ROM spending larger in
.-,.omes than any educational institu-
lJgh HIS Ehfs spent sst 'slf f't'At = hiH7
--fory Not only is this true, but the
whole demand of the American uniyer-
''>ity today il for more money. II
j. not improbable that the educational
world viii find hints for economies in
The methods Of industry.
Mr. Cookies criticisms. al might ''e
expected 20 most forcibiy 10 details.
II gardeners and japitors ape the lei
surely hours of professors il would he 40
violence To the academic atmosphere to
make them find their models in the in
s5iistriaf world L;feness Of college pro
fessors ~ lectures is GemoraliZing and
might be avoided. Research work,
paici, Mr. Cooke finds u source of
waste. causes more heart urnings than
ANYTHING else III the university world.
Doubtless many university president
has had his nisgivings about seine of it.
1.,It the more or Jess nebulous state OF
authority in the academic world coin
pared with authority in the industrial
world has made interference impracti-
G. BILE
This question Of authority Mr. Cooke
New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
DIRECT PRIMARY ARGUMENTS.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: VIII YOU kindly, through the columns
of The Tribune, inform me of the merits
and demerits of the direct primary system
as advocated by its friends and foes? Your
highly esteemed views of this question will
be greatly appreciated and anxiousiy
awaited. WILLIAM Fl. WADSWORTH-
Brooklyn, Dec. is, 1910.
Hts friends say that it reduces If it does
not entirely eliminate the control of par
ties, and through them OF elected officials,
by political bosses and selfish interests;
that it increases the sense of RESPONSE
bility to the public on the part of men
in office and, as modified in the Hughes
plan, of the parties also; that it pro-
notes interest and participation in the
primaries; that in general it is a cor
rective of many of the abuses in pOlitf-
cal life and makes cur system of govern
ment more truly representative. Its foes
deny that it does any of these things.
Moreover. they say that it has evils of
it's own; is expensive and cumbersome:
breeds demagogues; is disruptive Of par
ties: and. to use their pet phrase, is
contrary to the spirit Cf our institu
''tions and destructive of our representa-
tive system of government. Ed