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New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
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sENAToR BAILEY, OF TEXAS.

eohaos and slovenliness Of Incidence or
cenins were not present For the first time
,n his life Senator Bailey had been talking
of himself. ,-,..
.T have seen two thousand legislators
oo,oe and Co." he went on to say his
.n,es we're heavy, but their cadence was
so,t slow and rhythmic "Only very few
=, trem were aught but honest men Most
- tbem. however. were afraid 20 Jet Their
oarec,ence or their judgment govern their
votes. AZ. 4, ,,,t
"rhe people seem to fear venaiity III pup
10 ofsce. They have more cause To ne
afraid Of cowardlce. Bribery ana other
coarse forms Of dishonesty have srnah part
or no part at all, in our natiohai soye'',
mi Terror Of the electorate OF VI
nIosses in the electorate, on the other hailu,
90 common and dangerous fauIt WIN ou'
public men, ,.,,...
THE Bailey of the Senate ana the p"'e,
-, the world outside are violently uhliHe d.
tadividuals. In one particular theS ar
idonticaI-either Bailey viii hshi H'e"ii'''s H''7
.'','t on occasion both Baleys VIII use '"e'r
voices on their fists.
! Coming TO details tine Bailey l"iA''s "''
,', tarid. standing IN the Senate oi '"'N'
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HOW NEW YORK WOULD FIGHT

\ fifty-foot rise OF water would put Man
haitian Island entirely out Of commission.
OF course. if these depressions came on
very gradually the water fronts would be
dyked against their intrusions. In this
way New York City might be saved from
destruction for a very long time. II would
inevitably become a city surrounded by
high lcvee against which the ocean beat
with an ever increasing advantage. 1t
might porpetuate itself indefinitely by ar
tfcial means. but in the end it will be
put in an impossible position
The waters would flow over the flats
Of New Jersey and Of Long Island. They
would even beat back through the Della
ware and the Chesapeake and get beyond
the city, and cut off communication with
the main part Of the land. Finally, New
York would find itself a city down we'll,
far out from the mainland. Gradually the
people who dwet in il would desert it and
repair to the then mainland. The waters
ould eventually lap away the great walls
that have been built TO keep out the sea
and would tumble i'm among the skyscrap-
ers Perhaps they would fail TO reach the
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22

marble corridors that are now tho haoita-
tions of men and the sprites Of the deep
would reyel I'D and down the Great White
Way.
The same things would he true OF WASH
iugton. the nations capital. Pennsylvania
avenue, in front Of the Postoffce Depart
ment is only four feet above the lever OF
tho gea The White House. the Treasury
the State, War and Navy building the
Mall. with its proposed new structures are
all only little higher. The water In the
centuries that are to come would mount
and swallow all these That plan OF the
city beautiful which is destined 70 make
of Washington the Athens OF the future
is likewise destined to go down TO watery
grave The arch4ologists OF future gen
erations will hunt in the waters or the
Atlantic for the evidences Of our civiliza-
ton as we hunt in the ruins Of Pompeh.
The eminent biologists who have studied
this question eXhaustively would stake
their regulations that these conditions Will
come 10 pass. or course, they would not
he here to suffer If time disproved their
theories, for It will be long time bur
IL the rate at which the coast Is declining
NOW he not interrupted. New York Will be
a hundred feet lower than Il is now in just
ton thousand years This would be In the
wear 1911 Then Philadelphia would also
| have disappeared. and Washington and sa-
vannah and Jacksonville and Houston, Tex.
Tho coast line will have moved back an
| ayera1e Of fifty miles and other cities
will have taken the places OF those OF oid'
And the arch@ologist, with his suomarlns.
will revel In such a maze OF ruins OF oln
as have been denied the digger IN thS
mounds OF the past as we know him.
,copyr,gh,, .lall. BY william -Athsrton pa- -Fuy.y
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22

Y,ne on any other matter OF importarce
wears black frock coat and dark brown
Iock over his forehead. His face seems
long and pale and sometimes distressinely
sad The corners of HIS mouth are pulled
! downward Gravity and gloom pervade his
discourse and his manner
The other Bailey is infinitely more of a
human being. Physically, except in meas
urements, no is a changed man. There is
color in his round tovial cheeks No one
IN the world could discover any trace OF
Rajley OF the Senate when the face Of the
other Bailey is wrinkled in laugh. The
boast of Baley-in his mind, more than in
his speech-is that he does his own think
ing and his own talking
young as I was" he remarked to me-
without bravado. ~ suppose l had as much
IN do with the introduction of the shotgun
into Mississippi politics as any one
The confession will do him no harm ir
TEXAS but probably no member Of tho
| Senate except Bailey would have been SO
nIa;n. BY the canons Of politics he often
,mperils his standing and reputc as a party
man He disagreed with Bryan, even in
1906 and said so on the stump. III he Is a
ramocrat I am not" he proclaimed
pack in Mississippi. when l was seven
teen wears old" he said. "the old men ha(
hean running the party for years ! wa,
at home from college on a vacation. Their,
was some discussion about state railway
commission. Ny father opposed the limo
vation, He said that railroad could max,
nrices for carrying freight exactly as .
merchant could make prices for his calic.
or shoes.
81 didn't know anything about law jus
then but replied that railways had Ger
tain rights denied to other kinds of bust
ness They can take our home, told m,
father. for station, though we may wan
g, keen IL and live in IL ourselves. Nor cu
/ ve fix The price; three appraisers will ii,
mat for u.s. and we must accept their vau
alton
.Jf a railroad, | said, 'can condemn
,yivate propcrty and have its value cstab
, lisbed by a commission of appraisers th
, state can create commission 10 REGULATE
, ! the nric, Of hauling freight While only
r boy, ] go; pretty close TO the logic Of th
situation The doctrine crudey stated q
ms father. il old now, but 1t was new then
while We were arguing the case, some
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Celerated and a more rapid drop is taken.
There is an ancient sill in the Charles
town navy yard at Boston with regard TO
which there is definite information as to
its elevation. 1t was put in place seventy
years ago. It's elevation was given with re-
lation 10 mean high and low tide and also
with reference to surrounding landmarks.
With relation to the tide this sill has sunk
en- seven-tenths of a foot With relation
Ia the landmarks thereabouts II has the
same position John r. Freeman, the en-
gineer for the Charles River dam, takes
this as a positive proof that Boston Harbor
and the city about It has sunk seven
tenths OF a foot into the sea in the last
seventy years. Engineer Freeman has also
studied New York and vicinity with refer
enco 10 the same thing. and reports his con-
viCtion that the same degree Of subsistence
has been going on there.
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
SALT MARSH EVIDENCES.

The same evidences may he found at al
most any place from Maine to Texas. Al
any rate, they may he seen In any salt
marsh along the coast and these are
abundant. In the salt marshes there is
an influence at work which is counteract-
ing the sinking coast. Season after season
luxuriant grasses are being grown on these
marshes. These grasses are allowed to re-
main where they have grown and there
decay.
Each season adds Just so much to the
elevation of the ground The amount of
vegetation produced is self-regulating, and
is just equal to the sinking of the coast.
If an over amount is produced the ground
is raised too much, gets insufficient water
and a lighter crop the next year or the
next century. If the ground sinks a little
more rapidly more water is let in, more
vegetation produced and deposited and the
level maintained. This is up to a certain
point. which is the limit of production.
After that the deposits give up the con-
test and the land is given over to the
waters
Now a geologist can dig down through
these deposits and determine what manner
of vegetation made them. This has been
done all along the coast It has been found
from Maine to Florida that at a level Of
from ten to twenty feet down there was
originally the bed Of a forest Stumps of
great trees still in a reasonable state of
preservation are found at these depths, in
dicating that al no remote period all this
land was AT the level where forests grew.
Then following the forest growth, there is
a vegetable deposit that is not forest, but
still Of sort that does not grow in salt
water When this was deposited the land
was still above the level of the tides. Then,
finally. there are found the grasses that
grow in the salt marshes.
There is an average deposit of salt marsh
growth from New England south that is
ten feet through. The surface Of this de-
posit is now at the same level that its bot
tom was when the process began. Yet the
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
Youths Mastery of Economics Startles Experts

knowledge on that subject"
'Do YOU expect to write on financial
subjects?"
Il cannot say, although have an out
line of several themes in mind intend
10 prepare a number of bond pros
pectuses for my firm. OF course no
added smiling, "if my views on any
financial. problem are sought | might
furnish them"
Conservative bankers OF the elder gem
Grafton declare that this youth has
brilliant future i'm the financial world.
few months ago. owing 10 the death OF
his father. he was obliged 10 leave the
University Of Pennsylvania without
! finishing his course. The burden of the
/ family affairs fell on his shoulders, and
/ he was unable to give his attention both
/ To- them and TO his studies. He is an
Iunassuming, straightforward young man,
| OF extreme dignity of bearing. He has
always been prominent among his fell
! lows in school and college, both as a stu
/ dent and athlete. His favorite exercises
now are horseback riding. baseball and
| tennis.
The young economist comes OF fam
/ ily both sides of which have been en-
gagged in mercantile business. His father
was Henry Burgunder. Of the clothing
firm of Burgunder Brothers & Co, of
Baltimore His mother was Miss
Bernei, also of Baltimore. Bernard
Rernei Rureunder was born in 1891
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
Th Nav One Dv Feed Among SeaCbed Towers of Manhattan
Hungry oah- but Don't
Worry; VIII Take Watery Ten Thousand Years to
Accomp Its Ruthless Task

tree stumps are beneath IT, and they were
once many feet above the present surface,
and this was not so long ago. In fact,
this estimate Is conservative, for il Is
conclusively proven that in many places
the New England salt marsh deposits are
fifteen feet thick, and in Florida II Is
twenty feet through the deposits.
The marks of man during the last three
or four hundred years offer no great
amount of proof Of the sinking of the
coast line. No thought having been taken
of it, no marks have been made by which
II might be measured. Back from the
coast on the lands that were originally
used in farming and as pasture there is,
however an interesting evidence OF the
sinking Of the land. With it goes pas
toral story of the milk of the COW
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=, william Atherton Du Puy,

H.. will come when that coast line
IF rated states which boasts such
q u' Vow York Boston, Baltimore,
cues e., and Galveston will he three
Nas,..,I N,.,5 miles out 10 sea and those cities
hah'. bosn submerged. The whole At
vD i.,,s, is slowly sinking into the ocean.
hH"1 a, &c the sinking THAI evidences c: it
% l"''' ,,r.rornts OF il within the last
rro -, NOW to be had That the rate
c'aoe -'.,i,r is being accelerated, and that
q uF -, much faster in the future than
il nay I'm i'm the past. is the claim made
p Dayis government geologist. who
y - late been piling up masses Of evi-
p, /, this connection.
csI,' T,yis has for years been one Of the
M and progressive members of the
SOW, s,s,es Geological Survey. He is a
th''' hat service which has recently
l"' ,be bureau Of mines, created in to
t''V'- r..,rrsss. His associates call him
as' ~ I,rfs because his special study has
n the deposits Of the marshes Wh'ch
nsn -, themselves as possible fuel.
oa &C.. Studies Of marshes has led Mr..
,r5 down the Atlantic coast line
Jaw, more exhaustive his study the more
an Ns ~ be has become with the decline
| nf','s, .so, region. Finally, he is ready 10
O. 1u ..s evidences of his findings. He
S."", 49,, there is no need on the part Of
hus .,,.rts of the coast cities 10 scramble
u' .t..,ssfors to-day or tomorrow. But
cure as the geologic tendencies Whlcn
cone on unchanged for hundreds OF
h,5s hA'o NJ years and are now at work
uo-so. the neorla Of the nations great
On 3. cities will ae gradually pulled be-
,ssts the water le't"
''' THE OLD COAST LINE.
..,.ss,s have long recognized the fact
Atlantic coast line was once much
Va. ~. ~, Than if is now. There is a line
l-.u' bypdrea 10 three hundred miles
".| resent coast az which the water
-, gets much deeper. out 10 that
-. tho water is generally some three
Il - ,es, deep Then il plunEes sud
ga il becomes ton times as far 10
i -, ocean bottom. The men OF the coast
l - rave traced this line throughout the
- n ogr coast and find il similar all
Tho spor0c..,s say that the conti-
,,ss reached out this far and that
i .,-,s the coast Inc But a gradual de-
.r.. .5r,,rb the AGES has caused that line
II :. ,.,rsst until now IL is where we know IT,.
l r,,- geologIcal standpoint this has
L ,.,,,,,d in comparatively recent times. 1t
Il ,-,su been done since tho glacial period.
Il r1.. brings il into the present geological
4 I'D and makes the action new. In fact,
- T. ,astlyely known 20 be now going on.
I That this decline was gradual throughout
II q, entire course is not 10 be believed, for
n II, time has not been long enough for this
II IL nave brought about the known results.
H. more probable that the decline goes
,..51y on through the ages. and at given
-.-.,5s under certain influences, it is ac-
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
Texas Senator Admits He Had Lot to Do with lt-les
How He Defended Prisoner He
Knew Was Guilty.

twenty years" he said 10 me. We we're sit
ting at the big brown table in his Office.
The letters of the morning were In a me-
thodlcal pile upon his desk The room was
as orderly and precise as its master. Moth
ing had been fung down and left. The
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ing off those waters and preventing the
overflow of the lands surrounding, and the
river will gradually become dyked
stream above the housetops of the people
on the farms and in the cities. Galveston
has already felt the encroachment of the
waters and been forced to build itself sea
wall. and the decline of the land level
may have played no small part in the
devastation of the waters during the Gal
weston food.
II this encroachment of water upon the
land goes steadily on without interruption
by nature or by man what will the sun
look down upon ten thousand years from
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
BY James 3. Morrow.

his the belief Of Joseph W. Bailey that
I. pso1le in their government suffer more
.,n c9Wards than from crooks.
i have been ia Congress for almost
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22

tina
escrgers
The the
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22

p,c,opiAI DIAcRAm SHOWING SEA WILL HAVE EN-
ON SEA6oARD CITIES TEN THOUSAND
WEARS FROM Now OF OUR COAST LINE CON-
TIN,IEs AT THE 1 HAS DONE IN THE PAST
New-York tribune., 1911-01-22

Mrs JawbaclI-l wonder what I saw In
you to admire when | married YOU.
Mr.. Iawback-My nerve, / suppose-To-
ledo Blade
Evening star., 1911-01-27
AMERICANS MAY PARTICIPATE
International Commission to Study
the Plague in China

In response to the invitation of China
directed to all the leading powers of the
world to send commissions composed of
medical experts TO study the plague con-
ditons of the empire. the State Depart
ment has cabled to Minister Calhoun at
Peking. asking if there are any American
missionary physicians now in China will
ing to serve on a committee of experts to
represent this country. The department
will take the matter up with the Navy
and Treasury departments with view of
obtaining naval surgeons and doctors of
the public health and marine hospital
service to accept positions on the Amer
ican commission.
The foreign commissions are for the
purpose Of making an exhaustive scien-
tific study Of the situation for the pur-
pose of suggesting practicable repressive
measures in the campaign which is being
directed against the pestilence. China is
seeking the talent of the world to assist
her in suppressing the plague.
Evening star., 1911-01-27
SEEKING DISABLED VESSEL.
British Steamer Reported to Hav,
Broken Propeller,

PHILADELPHIA, January 27.-The
steamer Toledo, especially equipped for
the trip with wireless telegraph plant.
left Marquis Hook today to search for
the British steamer British Sun, which
was reported in trouble 100 miles east of
Cape Race, n. F., by the German steamer
Breslau
The British Sun spoke the Breslau on
January IL and reported having broken
her propeller. The Breslau failed to re-
port whether the British Sun was to-
tally disabled or was proceeding under
reduced speed. The British Sun is owned
by the Sun Oil Company and was bound
to this port from London with a cargo
of creosote.
Evening star., 1911-01-27
GOV. DIX MAY Be ASKED
TO BREAK DEADLOCK
Quorum Lacking on Ninth Vote
to Choose Senator From
! New York.

ALBANY. n. Y, January 27.-The ninth
joint ballot for United States senator to-
day was declared mo CHOICE owing to
the absence of quorum.
The vote was:
Democrats-Sheehan, 10; Shepard. 8
Herman, Z; Littleton. 3; Gerard, 2; Var
Santvoord, .; Parker, /; Taylor. /; Dix,
Glynn, l.
60.
For the purpose of reaching an under
standing on the deadlock the State Dem
ocratic League has proposed conference
which would put the matter up to Gov.
Dix.
The leagues proposal calls for "a con-
ference to be held within the next twenty
four hours, TO be participated in by five
representatives of the legislators wht
are voting on the election of a United
States senator, in accordance with the
decision of the caucus, and five represen-
tatives of the legislators who have de-
clined to abide by the decision of such
caucus, such conference to be presided
over or attended by Gov. Dix, the object
being to bring about an amicable solution
OF the situation that now exists
Interest Is Waning.
Interest in the contest preceptlbly
waned here today, on account OF the gen
eraI understanding that nothing would
be done before next week Many Of the
legislators went home last night after
arranging the usual pairs.
If the deadlock lasts another week the
members may be relieved of the neces
sity of casting useless ballot Saturday
without the presence OF a quorum. BY
Monday the attorney general is expected
to render his opinion on the question o
whether the law requires baloting or
that day or on Monday, when the legs
lature usually does not meet until even
ing. If he concludes that the statute
means by Legislative days only those
days on which the legislature holds Its
regular sessions joint ballots need be
taken only on Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday and Friday.
Charges were made in the senate yes
terday by Senator Bracket that patron.
age was being withheld to influence the
senatorial vote. Majority Leader Wagner
declared this an untruth and followed
with a bitter attack on the insurgents
leader, Senator Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1911-01-27
LLOYD ]. IREDELL DEAD.
Prominent Newspaper Man of Allen
town, Pa, Succumbs to Injuries.

ALLENTOWN. Pa, January 27.-Lloyd
]. Iredell, business manager and par,
owner of the Chronicle and News, died
here late last night from injuries re-
ceived by being struck by the propeller
of an overland wind wagon. the ma
chine, which is an automobile equipped
with machinery similar to that Of All
aeroplane, was placed on exhibition here
Yesterday and Iredel was a passenger.
After leaving the wagon he uncon-
sciously walked within range of the pro-
pelIers while brushing the dust from his
clothing and was knocked a distance OF
twenty feet. His skull was fractured and
he died without regaining consciousness.
Evening star., 1911-01-27
STATE DEPARTMENT
SOUNDED BY JAPAN
Early Initiation of Negotiations
for New Treaty of Trade
and Commerce Wanted.

An inquiry at the State Department as
to the possibility Of the early initiation
of negotiations between United States
and Japan for a new treaty Of trade and
commerce to replace the Gresham treaty
of 1894, which will expire by limitation
July Il. 1912. was met by the statement
that 1t was not possible to tell whether
such negotiations could be undertaken
this year. 1t was pointed out that, al
though Japan's treaties with European
powers would all expire in July of this
year. there was no reason for haste in
preparing a substitute for our own treaty
which. according to our interpretation
will not expire for at least year there
after.
Sounded by Japan.
But it is known that the Japanese gov
ernment would be much pleased to dis
pose of all these treaties at one time. and
that it has been sounding the State De-
partment to ascertain whether or not 1,
would not fall in with that plan, so fan
as the American treaty is concerned
The State Department undoubtedly vii
accede to the Japanese desire and con
sent to begin negotiations for new
treaty in the near future. But the de-
partment is desirOus of first. learning the
precise extent of the concessions made
by Japan to the European powers in the
new treaties she has already prepared il
order to make sure that the United States
will receive similar consideration.
May Omit Obnoxious Clause.
1t is believed to be possible that Ii
dra fling the new treaty the provision
that the American immigration laws sh.l
not be affected thereby will be omit ed
That would be in Difference TO Japanese
feeling, but of little substantial signiti
canoe There is nothing to prevent Con
gress at its pleasure from enacting ex
clusion laws directed against japanese
coolies regardless of any outstanding
treaty, and so far the existing treaty pro
vision regarding immigration has never
been invoked SO that there seems to bt
no reasonable objection to the omission
of the Objectionable provision l. Japar
so desires
Evening star., 1911-01-27
ELOPE BY AUTO AND TRAIN.
Couple, Eluding Girls Father, Fle'
to Another State.

SPARTANBURG, 5. G., January 81
Outwitting the police of Raleigh, y. G..
and eluding the father of the bride. S. w.
Jenkins, twenty-one years old, lumber
dealer of Clayton, n. c.. and Miss Mayme
Honeycutt, the eighteen-y ear-old daugh-
ter Of w. r. HOneycutt. prominent
merchant OF the same place. made a
night flight of fifty miles in an automo-
bile. followed by railroad journey of
more than 800 miles. and upon crossing
the state line yesterday afternoon were
married in this city by Lewis Nj. Can
trell. notary public.
After the ceremony Mr. Jenkins tele-
graphed to friends in Clayton asking
how the land lay. They advised him
to remain away for while.
Evening star., 1911-01-27
CHOLERA AMONG TROOPS.
Several Turkish Recruits Sent to
Quell Arabs Stricken.

HODEIDA. Arabia, January 27.-Cholera
has appeared among the recruits recently
sent from Constantinople to reinforce the
troops who are fighting the rebellious
Arabs in the Lemen district. A few
cases among the inha bitants of this place
are also reported.
AS Hodeida Is the base for the Turkish
operations and the depot for supplies and
munitions, the outbreak Of the disease
is likely to add seriously to the difficulties
of quelllng the insurrection.
Evening star., 1911-01-27
FUNERAL OF D. G. PHILLIPS.
Services in St. Georges P. E. Church
in New York.

NEW YORK, January 27.-Last honors
will be paid today to the memory of
David Graham Phillips. the author, who
died Tuesday as the result Of a swiftly
enacted tragedy in Gramercy Park Mon
day, when he was shot by Fitzhugh CoyIe
Goldsborough. young musician with a
fsncied grievance, and who killed himself
after he had shot Phillips.
After public funeral services I'm St
Georges Episcopal Church this Afternoon
the body will be placed temporarily IN
a vault In the Marble cemetery for buria
later.