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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
THE PARTY AND THE BOSS.

Our neighbor The New York World"
raises the cry that If the Legislature
does not pass n direct primary law that
fulfils the platform pledges Of the Demo-
cratic party Murphy will control the
delegation from this state to the next
Democratic National Convention. and
may be in a position to nominate the
next Democratic candidate for President
This is going long way TO borrow
trouble Doesn't what Murphy has done
and is doing with the Democratic party
in this state present bad enough case
against the boss to make the Democracy
eager to get rid of his influence without
It's being necessary for THE World to
call attention 10 what may happen else
where in certain contingencies? The
has not responded TO the anti-Murphy
cry. It has witnessed Murphy's scanda-
lCus control of the Legislature with H.
difference. It exhausted its capacity for
moral reactions with feeble protest
over the boss's manipulation Of The
Legislature in the Senatorship contest.
All that the boss has done since has
been received by the decent Democrats"
with a shrug of the shoulders. Thus,
THE World is compelled to point to a
distant and prospective calamity in the
hope Of stirring its readers.
If the Democratic party or any con-
siderable element in it was earnestly
DESTROYS of getting rid Of boss rule !he
direct nominations system would have re-
ceived a support which has not been
given 10 it. The Democratic League
committed itself half heartedly to the
reform and did no more Governor Dix g
support Of it has been perfunctory. He
is merely DESTROYS Of getting some bill
passed which may be said to carry out
the pledge Of the platform. No bill that
he has Endorsed will inconvenience MUIR
ply in the least. Nor is there any
body of Democratic opinion in the Legs
lature or out Of it which favors heartily
any direct primary bill that would be
likely to do any good. The party is boss
ridden and contented. The Worlds
cry about 1912 will fall on deaf ears.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
THE SCHOOLS THIS YEAR.

Although the city's public schools
opened this year with about the usual
proportion of part-time children, the out
look is I'm some respects more favorable
than in the past The Board Of Estimate
end Apportionment, as result Of study
Of the city's needs as a whole and the
adoption Of corporate stock budget. has
made liberal allowance for schools.
The work Of providing additional build
ings, therefore, will go forward upon a
lis likely to be always necessary, at least
there is promise that the number Of part
time students may diminish in the
future.
Moreover part-time instruction Is TO
be the subject Of all investigation tbs
year as an incident Of the study of the
schools and their efficiency which the
Board Of Estimate and Apportionment
planned last year and for which It pro-
v!ded $4,000. Experts will go thor
ougbly into the question as 10 whether
the pupils attending part-time classes
really suffer in instruction when com
pared with those who are permitted TO
attend the whole school day. Perhaps
II will be found that they learn just as
much in their three and half hours
OF so day as the others do in their I'VE
hours n day and that the chief dis
advantage Of the part-time class Is It's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

effect of leaving the children upon the
streets too much. Or, again, it may be
demonstrated that the education Of the
part-time pupil suffers so seriously that
the city will be moved to extra exertions
in order to provide adequate school sit
tings.
This is only one, and not one Of the
most important, phases Of the investga-
ton which experts employed by the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
will conduct. Every question that con-
Germs the efficiency Of the schools will
be gone into by trained educators, who
will study the educational system OF the
city in actual operation, observing meth
eds Of instruction and examining into
the work Of every sort Of official, from
members OF the Board of Education, the
superintendent and his associates down
to the teachers. The city is doing what
the owner Of big industrial plant does
when he calls in a staff Of efficiency en-
gineers to find ont If it is being con-
Quoted TO the utmost advantage.
LIE ItSull vi lulS ibuuhy
to he useful to the public. The schooi
system needs such an overhauling'
Without one there Is no check upon IFS
management. for there IS no way OF con-
pairing results obtained here In New
York with the results obtained else
where or the costs here with the costs
elsewhere. The investigators VIII bring
to the schools of this city new ideas and
new point of view. If public education
here has got into any ruts, this inquiry
should show the people what the ruts
are and how to lift the schools out OF
them. No matter how we'll the schools
here are conducted. the stimulus OF in
teIligent outside criticism Will be sure
to be beneficial. SO, therefore, this year
is an important and suspicious one IN
the history of public education In this
city. Only one disturbing factor Is In
sight which threatens future OF IN
creased usefulness for the schools. ana
that is the Tammany plan for putting
them into politics by means of paid
Board Of Education.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
THE SPRING LAKE CONFERENCE

The conference of Governors at Spring
Lake, n. j., this week ought to be pro-
ductive Of good results. 1t will put the
states represented in closer touch with
one another, and may lead to helpful
cooperation In adjusting some differ
ences in legislative and administrative
practice over which they are at odds.
There is much work for such conferences
t. do even If II be conceded that extrav-
agant hopes have been pinned TO the so
called House of Governors as an
agency through which state laws are to
be reshaped in accordance with fixed and
uniform standards.
Our federal system was not designed
with view to securing uniform legis-
lation by the states within the jurisdic-
ton in which they were made supreme.
The natural Ideal Of such a system is
variety in unity. and the original states
were left free 10 follow their own de-
vices in local legislation. The gradual
development Of the sense of nationality
modified somewhat the ancient spirit or
particularism, and in the newer common
wealths especially the laws tended to
become more uniform, because certain
fixed standards had been established by
public opinion. Yet in essentials each
state has held itself to be at liberty 10
alter its laws to suit IFS own convenience,
without regard to the practices Of other
states, and any approach TO uniformity
must. therefore, be extremely gradual, de-
pendent not so much on the activities Of
Governors conferences as on the crea-
ton of general public demand, COM
pelling communities In dealing with GER
tain problems to accept the same en-
lightened methods Of legislation and
administration.
It must he remembered that If the
states are to retain their vitality they
must remain I'm large measure dis
similar. Conditions are not the same in
Vermont and Mississippi, IN Maryland
and Kansas, In New York and Nevada.
There are a good many business details
in which homogeneous laws would be OF
advantage. but when It comes to taxa
ton, the control of the liquor traffic,
marriage and divorce, and various other
state problems involving personal free
dom. uniformity will he difficult 10
secure, because existing differences are
based on widely different views and ten
denotes Uniformity is obtained gen
orally by levelling down rather than by
dwelling up and the states with the
more advanced views or the stricter
laws will have TO consider the necessity
of compromising with the others In
order To secure unifcation. On the
divorce question New York would nm
doubtedly be asked 10 make its laws
weaker, because it is almost alone in the
rigorous position on that question which
| il now occupies.
Conferences such as that at Spring
| Lake should he encouraged. however.
They can Go no harm, and will probably
stimulate cooperation in so far as it
| applies to questions on which a closer
approach to uniformity is both practi-
cable and desirable.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
NEW YORK FROM THE SUBURBS.

Now, II they could only build New
York's proposed i00-story building on
hinge so IL could lie down at sunset ara
let the tenants walk out OF its doors mo
their Jersey homes. what a lot OF commut'
Ing would be ed.-Louisville Courier
Journal
Public opinion in New York seems sLd,,
denly TO have taken enough lite 10 l,as
some theatrical managers there 10 ecu,
point blank and with noticeable hastT,
ginia murder case. Every such refus ~
however, is an advertisement for ~
money loving manager who finally cAhi"'tn,
her. and such will doubtless b. found ~
New York or elsewhere. Ad'e''
tiser.
New York congratulates Itself that Wy
bellboy who killed an old man IN hot,,
vas tried and convicted within five we'n'
from the time the crime was comnh.'
Rats, Suppose the convict had han
million for defence?-Philadelphia inquire
Down In New York City they say nlo.s
rain Ia needed TO MI the Croton resi-
danger OF water shortage. The metfopvvns
has had an unusually long dry speli, .Sy
one would think that the recent sss."-
downpours In that quarter would sun'o"
Troy Times.
New York burglars have managed
clean up so much loot within tire W.
two or three months that next year wv.
may take summer vacations whie ION
householders stay at home Washlhe"-
Star,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
FREE PUBLIC PHoNoGRAPHs.

TO the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Apropos of an item in The Tribune
headed Park Commissioner Slower Secures
Canned Music ian automatic piano for a
Playground may | suggest that the season
for park and recreation pier concerts hav-
ing ended some canned music be given the
public? II might include recitatlons and
other instructive and amusing entertain
ments through the medium OF the phono-
graph, and be given in the Easements or
some of the public libraries where the
buildings provide such halls or in the as
sembly rooms OF some of our public schools
This would provide an inexpensive diver
sion for a multitude of working people. Es-
peclally would IT prove moral uplft for
some young women, better than the stoops
of tenements or the dancing academy en-
vronment. a CITIZEN
New York Sept Q, 1911.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
ANOTHER TURN OF THE TURRET.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Tribune deserves the common
dation of all lovers Of justice and truth
when treating alike both sides OF the tur-
ret controversy. which We are most sorry
70 have had opened I'D by the Ericsson
side at a time when the Timby side would
give burial and fitting honors TO an Amer
loan who surely will be known as worthy
If the same treatment accorded Captain
Ericsson whose body was sent abroad on
an American warship
II will be remembereD that the true
friend Of Ericsson will honor Ericsson
best when honoring Timby. for 1t is con-
coded by every Timby friend that Ericsson
made Timby (when applying his-Timby'
invention of the turret TO the Monitor
quite as much as Timby made Ericsson
by inventing and patenting the turret In
connection with Colonel Church's letter In
your issue Of August 81, 1t Is due the
Timby side to give brief answer.
NV reply 10 MacCord in your issue Of
septembcr s. in which was reprint Of a
document which will become famous II
history, /. e, from "The New York Ex-
press" of June 10, 1Si3, will help to clear
Colonel Church's befogged conception Of
things This article was not known OF
when the Court Of Claims decided against
Timby.
Permit me to say also that the remark
able records OF the Battery Associates,
who built the Monitor, and of which Erics
son was "A one-fourth interest member anC
which records and mass of correspondence
were discovered the day after Or. Timby
was placed in n receiving vault, were alsC
not known Of then. These books charge
Timby with royalties OF $4,000 for the tur.
ret used on the Monitor, and on each ol
three other vessels OF like type like roy
atty payment OF like amount.
These two discoveries, after the yer
dict of the Court OF Claims, forever silence
any articles like the one Colonel Church
has published through your columns, II
the minds OF those who think and reason
for they establish without the shadow Of {
question that Timby conceived the ide;
nineteen years before the Monitor history
and showed his ideas by the wonderful ex
hibit in City Hall in June, 1S4S.
Second-They show that Timby not only
received the only basic patents ever issueC
on the turret IN all the world, but that
Ericsson and his partners, who were Tim
by's hackers and friends paid Timby roy
alties on his turret. TURRET-TRUTH.
Brooklyn Sept 9. 1911.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
people and Social Incidents.

go to Hot Springs. Va, and Mr.. Berwin,
will make his annual inspection OF his coz
lands They will then go to New York IA
the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones are To "a
main until the end Of the month, and Ma
and Mrs. William Earl Dodge are TO pro-
long their season until the middle OF oo
tober.
Arthur Astor Carey OF Cambridge. is 4
guest of Lorillard Spencer.
Henry Walters left for New York on thu
steam yacht Narada. The steam yachi
Rambler has also sailed for New York.
Mrs. Frederick Busk has returned 10 Ne1
York after a VISIT with Mrs. J. r. Busk.
Lispenard Stewart has returned from
New York
Mrs William b. Leeds. who ha. bees
abroad for the last two years, Is 10 return
TO New York in short time. and n r. bst
intention TO again occupy her villa here
next season.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.

by Telegraph 10 The Tribunel
Newport. Sept 1.-THE officers from the
German cruiser Victoria Luise were ex-
tensiyely entertained to-day. They were
the guests OF Captain and Mrs. 2. w. Hou-
rigan at luncheon at the naval training
station, and later I'm the afternoon were
invited to the roller skating party given
by the officers of the station and their
families. This evening the German visitors
were guests at dinner given by Mrs.
Frederic Bronson.
Mrs Pembroke Jones. Mrs. Leonard NJ.
Thomas and Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard en-
tertained at dinner this evening.
John r. Drexel, jr, became OF age to-day
and in his honor his parents gave birth
day party. There was dinner for the
younger members OF the social colony and
which were twenty-one lighted candles.
Dancing followed the dinner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis G. Morris. OF New
York. have arrived and are occupying MARI
bone for a month. Both were registered
at the Casino to-day.
The work OF closing Beechwood. the AS
tor summer home here, was begun to-day
Vincent Astor will enter Harvard this fall.
Mr.. and Mrs Brahdin Hamilton have
closed their season at Hawthorne villa and
have gone to New York
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Stevens also closed
their season to-day.
Mr.. and Mrs. James p. Duke will close
their first season here o-morrow and go
TO their place in New Jersey before opening
their New York home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Goadby Loew, Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore w Cramp, Of Phiadel-
pha, and Mrs. and Mrs. William S. Patten
of New York, are preparing 10 close their
seasons this week
M. and Mrs. Edward J. Berwind are IL
stay until October, when Mrs Berwind will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
ROCKEFELLER SENDS FLOWERS
Oil King Decorates Hall for Old Set
tiers Association Gathering.

Cleveland. Sept. n.--John d. Rockefeller
declined an invitation TO attend the annual
meeting Of the Cuyahoga County Old Set
tiers Association to-day. but complied with
a request from Secretary J., T.. Mellen, that
he furnish flowers TO decorate the Chamber
OF Commerce auditorium, in which the
meeting was held.
As result the hall was fragrant with
the odor of coXcombs, verbenas foxgloves,
marigolds. dahlias and other old-fashioned
posies. plucked by the oil kings gardener
from the Forest Hill estate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
WEDDING FEES OF $4,000
New Orleans Rector Found Ministry a
Profitable Profession

New Orleans, Sept. 11.-That the ministry
Is paying proposition from worldly
point Of view was borne out by a statement
made to-day that from wedding fees alone
in his twenty-seven years as rector Of
Trinity Episcopal Church. Of this city, ths
Rev. a. Gordon Blackwell has received
$4,000
The Rev. Mr.. Bakewell's statistics show
that during his pastorate here he has per-
formed 1926 wedding ceremonies. for which
he received an average fee OF s. He has
baptized 1,os9 babies and has OBLIGATED ss
2,ool funerals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

The Rev. William r. Merrill was born ia
Orange, n. j., on January 10. 1861 He was
graduated from Rutgers College Ia 1851
and from the Union Theological Seminary
three years later. He was then ordained IS
a Presbyterian minister and accepted the
pastorate OF Trinity Church, Chestnut Hill,
Philadelphia. where he remained until 1885,
when he became pastor OF the Sixth Pres
byteran Church, of Chicago. In May OF
this year the congregation OF the Brick
Presbyterian Church, OF this city. gave him
a unanimous CALL which he accepted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

revising the tariff in ignorance and doubt
now and then revising it over again a
little later. But does the public want any
such incessant tinkering with it? Does
Il not prefer TO have the revision made
once and for all in Mr.. Taft's way, so
that the relief may be not partial ds
Governor Harmon proposes; but COM
plete?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
SAYING NOTHING, JUST DIGGING
From The Schenectady Union-Star.

Uncle Sam isn't Dragging about 1t be-
cause he Is too busily engaged In construct
ing twelve miles OF channel. varying from
450 TO 500 feet in width, in the Detroit
River at the entrance To Lake Erie. The
channel is to have a minimum depth or %
feet The government has already expend-
ed the sum of $4,000, 900 on the work and
another 100000 is to be expended
Nearly one-half OF the excavation Is IN
solid limestone,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
CHEESE AND RECIPROCITY.
From The Watertown Times

TT"NI III" NdleTIUWH IIIHts.
WITH cheese selling at Brockvllle, In
Canada. Just across tho river at l3l. cents
as against l2i4 on the WATERFOWL bosrj
last Saturday. II doesn't appear that n
these conditions continue the reciprocity
lean dalryman any Indeed, the Canadian
dairyman has cause for the most anxiety
In the matter Of breaking prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
BOOSTING cHAUTAUoUA COUNT,

T IVTH IHV DUIIdIO EApTtsE.
The glrls who come miles to work I'm
the grapes OF Western New York are prac-
tically sure Of their Jobs. as most OF them
are engaged for certain places before thew
leave home and many OF them arc en-
ployed by the same grower year after wear
Moreover. the pickers, as they are called
are as rule girls OF more breeding than
one would expect TO find In field work. The
grapes call on a class OF their own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
, more use of the brake, rather thah VI
the horn or the steering wheel.

The Hal Chi is a novel visitor to Amer
lean waters, but is welcome. AS mat
ter of courtesy all ships Of friendly Tor
eign powers are welcomed. but this one
deserves an exceptional greeting, party
because of Americas exceptional inter-
est friendly and unselfish, In China ana
partly because OF the progress In the
arts which this vessel indicates CHINA
To he making.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
GARY AND MEYER co.voYAceRs

London. Sept. n.-Among the passengers
sailing on the Lusitania to-day for New
York are George Won I. Meyer, Secretary
OF the Navy, and +. n. Gary, chairman
OF the board OF directors OF the United
States Steel Corporation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
kEENE OUT OF DOCTORS HANDS

London. Sept Thames r. Keene. who
was operated upon for stomach trouble ar
nursing home here last week, els making
such good progress toward recovery that
his physician left London to-day on a
vacation Mr.. Keene expects to be out
within fortnight as we'll as ever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

1t is not quite clear on what GROUND
the Central Federated Union is entitled
TO intervene in the question OF the num-
Der Of employees required in the munich
nal departments. 1t may be, Of course,
that the city Offices are already under
manned and that further reduction or
the force would prove disastrous, though
interested citizens who have had occa-
sion to visit some Of the offices and OBJ
serve their operations have very DIFF
ferent impression. But the question
whether there should be fewer or more
clerks seems to be one which should be
determined by the responsible heads OF
departments on a purely business basis
and not by outside labor unions. IL
would be discreditable and unjust 10 the
taxpayers to retain even single man
who was not needed for the doing OF
public work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

The. Virginia voters seem to nave re-
nominated Senator Martin on the
theory that palnstaking attention to the
wants OF Individual constituents covers
multitude Of epistolary indiscretiohs'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

This newspaper is O,cncd and puo-
lished on The Tribune Association, a
Ne,c York corporation; Office and pr'n'
cfpal place Of business, Tribune Bud
ing, No. 154 Nassau street, Ne'o fofk;
ogden NILS, president; Ogden NJ. Reid'
secretary; James II. Barrett, treasurer
The address Of the officers is the once
OF this no,cspdper.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
BRICK CHURCH'S NEW PASTOR
The Rev. William P. Merrill Released
by Chicago CONGREGATION.

Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE Rev William T.
Merrill. for sixteen years pastor OF ths
Sixth Presbyterian Church, Vincenres ave-
nue.. this city. was to-day released 10 tbs
Brick Presbyterian Church, OF New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
A GOOD SUBSTITUTE.

| From The Syracuse Herald.
| Syracuse hasn't contributed as vet 10
| the casualty list OF aviation. but then II
| has its grade crossings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mr. and Mrs Frederick W. "hil'ius s.,
,,ho have been abroad for the greater pa :
=, Tho summer, sailed from England TOT
NJ, very Yesterday on the Lusitania'
others on the same ship are MIR. ana VIE,
Reginald De Koven, who went aploa..
earlv in the summer. and J. sersean.
Cram. who sailed from New YORK Few
weeks ago and spent most Of his time III
sco,Iand Mrs. Cram is in the Berkshires
WITH Mr. and Mrs. J. woodward Haven.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
IN THE PROPER KEY.

From The Albany Journal
Oklahoma has a politician named T.bsa
which name harmonizes we'll with the tons
Of Oklahoma politics. >N'-S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
where on Thursday evenings they "o'''
have a jolly time

The population Of China as Go ~ the ab
the imperial maritime customs ,a,n - ~ nlaced at
sbo SSt ssai esn than E the estimated popSu
laton in 1903 but the figures are a T%s to ang
population in 1906 was placed at d, fSs' ports
while the population OF t TS. dgures for
the total population were allowed 10 re-
main the same until 1909, when the tn M ssn.
mate OF population Of Fengtlemd the Total
churia was Increased 10000, anu Tie Re.
was fixed at i39, 214, Oo.-Daily 'oh'"'
mort
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12

Mrs. ". X. Vanderbilt. jr., Is sailing
from F,urope for New York this week, and
nm her arrival. about the middle Of next
week, will go to her country place near
RosIyn Long Island, for the fall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
GENERAL pIAz TAKES THE CURE

Baden Baden. Germany. Sept ll.-Gen-
eral Porfrio Diaz, former President of
Mexico. arrived here to-day to take the
cure.