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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
An IMPOSSIBLE DEMAND,

The hotelkcepers have gone as FAR as
they can I'm conceding virtually every one
Of the striking walters demands except
that for a closed shop. The proprletors
cannot permit the unions to say what
walters they may discharge unless they
wish to imperil their business. Quality
of service has much to do with the sue
cess of restaurant. and proprletors or
restaurants could not effectively main
tain the service at a high standard If
they had to obtain the consent of the
walters union to the enforcing of disci-
pine.
The walters will he well advised If
they abandon this impossible demand
and accept the terms now offered Dy
their former employers. Their condition
will he improved in various ways,
through increase in wages, abolition or
the fining system. better food and better
quarters. Moreover, the effect of this
strike will be that they will receive more
consideration In the future. for employ
ers will not care TO invite another SINH
lar disturbance of their business. The
|
strikers should take the gains that have
come to them quickly and not press a
demand which it seems impossible for
them to secure the granting Of and
which. If granted, would be injurious tn
the business in which they are employed
| They should do this all the more because
their places can in no long time he filled
for the country is full of walters who
would he glad to accept places at the
terms now offered Protracting the
strike TO obtain what they should not
have would result only in defeat prob
ably after collisions with the police,
which are already becoming feature of
the trouble. had changed the impatience
of the public with the strikers into
| anger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
4 HONE PILE REEORN.

An interesting detail of last weeks
elections in New Jersey was the voting
of Hudson County on the reform Of the
county board system. Hitherto the
county has had a board Of thirty-one
Freeholders. Of Il generally somewhat
lower mental and moral order than the
other similar bodies throughout the
state. Under its administration the
county has been i'll governed 10 an almost
incredible extent. the present graft
scandal in connection with the fine new
courthouse being only single example
out of innumerable cases Of laundering
and plundering.
Matters got so bad that there arose,
quite apart from political lines, de-
mand for relief from intOlerabe condi-
tions. Consequently last winter an at
tempt was made 10 enact n law arhitra-
rily substituting a smaller body for the
cumbersome Board Of Freeholders That
was what the people wanted. but there
was much objection 10 the bill on the
ground that it violated the principle of
| nome rune anu IL WIS HlE'u llht III
stead Of it there should he merely per
missive legislation, under which the
county could by popular referendum
adopt the reformed plan. TO this II was
objected in turn that the people could
not be trllsted TO do II, that in n refer
endum the reform would be defeated
and that the county must be saved I'm
spite OF itself.
The outcome was that the mandatory
| bill was defeated and The permissive
| legislation enacted. The proposition to
establish new county board Of only
nine members, elected not by wards and
districts but on a general ticket, was
submitted to the voters last Tuesday.
! The result was that instead Of rejecting
the reform the people adopted 1t by the
largest ma jority ever given in the county
on referendum, save only that which
was given last year for the adoption OF
| the civil service law and Of course the
moral force OF the reform Is far greater
! through its adoption by the municipality
itself than If it had simply been I'M
posed by the Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03

tPy Telegraph 70 The Tribune
Newport June 2-Registered at the Ca
sIno to-day were Elisha Dyer, Goodwin
Hobbs and J. s Brown. tr. OF Newport
Ezra Gould. Of Washington, and Smith
Hempstone. e. r Berg, J. X. Robinson ana
n. VI hammers. T.. s. y.
Stuart Duncan has returned 10 New York.
Mr. and Mrs Theodore NJ. Davis Will
sail from Europe IN a short time for New
port.
Mr.. and Mrs Reginald Norman enter
tanned NJ luncheon yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs r. Livingston Reeckman
were visitors here to-day. making the trip
from Providence on their yacht Adrot.
Mr. and Mrs Ezra Gould, OF Washing
ton. are the guests OF Pay Director and
Mrs J. Goodwin Hobbs.
Mr. and Mrs Howard Spencer Graham,
Of Chestnut Hi, Penn, have arrived at
Milestone.
II IS said that Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Thaw will again occupy their house here
this season.
Mr. and Mrs. F.. Rollins Morse, OF New
York. are making an inspection OF their
property here
Elisha Dyer and J. Fred Pierson. jr.. have
returned to New York.
T. J. Townsend, who has been visiting
Mrs. Clarence Pell, will return 10 New
York tomorrow
Mrs. Brockholst Cutting IS reported TO be
much improved In health.
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ANONYMOUS LETTERS.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: read with interest your corre-
spondent's letter this morning concerning
anonymous letter writing, and I think, in
the main. he is perfectly right. However.
IL man believes that he may be able to
add little to the sum total OF human in
formation. and writes a letter for publica-
ton illustrating point I'm history, science
or any other subject Of general interest.
think he acts entirely within the bounds OF
good taste df he happens to be of retlr-
ing disposition to conceal his identity
through the medium Of the letters Y or u
as long as he does not attack personality
or refer sarcastically to a subject that
many people reverence and respect.
firmly believe that a man reveals the
acme of discourtesy and exemplifes HIM
self as a colossal coward IL he sends an
anonymous letter to newspaper for pub
lication attacking what has been written
by a man who had the courage OF his con-
victions and signed for what he wrote
He Is indeed n poltroon who attacks a
man from behind a curtain. The civil
authorities punish man severely II he
stabs another man in the back, and
think all publishers should punish severely
the anonymous letter writer who abuses
signed letter by completely ignoring his
epistle and by casting 1t into the waste
paper basket. The signed letter writer
should be protected and encouraged in his
endeavors and not discouraged and intim-
dated J. R. LEWIS.
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pOSTPONING THE FRAZZLE.

Since when did the temporary chair
manship of convention become an I'M
important thing? This whole state, this
whole country for that matter, resound-
ed two years ago with the battle over the
temporary craftsmanship of mere state
convention. A great fight was made,
one of the most vigorous In all Of Colonel
Roosevelt's militant career of distin-
guished services 10 the country. Was
the contest, which enlisted the attention
Of the colonel himself in spite Of his re-
luctance at that time to be drawn back
into politics, and Of practically every one
else Of prominence and influence in pub
lie life-was il, after all, over an unim-
portant matter? When the fight was
won it was a glorious victory. Can
there be, glorious victories in unimpOr-
tant contests?
What is it makes this temporary chair
manship an unimportant matter? This
is a national convention. and by so much
more important an occasion than that
at Saratoga In 1910. Principles were at
STAKE, IL may ne sdlu. Ut cdIdtOSd. oul
so they are if we may believe all that
has been said upon the stump, this year
at Chicago. If principles triumphed in
the choice Of a temporary chairman Of
the New York State Convention, why
would they not triumph equally IN the
| choice of temporary chairman of a ma
| tional convention?
There are the ropes. Why not knock
EN- over the ropes at the earliest oppOr-
tunity? Why wait? What could have
possessed the Illinois delegates to induce
the colonel TO forget his rule, Don't
| finch? What will the weak kneed and
wabbling. on whom so much depends,
think when they see the Roosevelt CO.
hOrts declining the issue over the tempo
rary organization Of the convention
which appoints the committee that de
cides the contests? UnimpOrtant? Not
bit of il, Every one knows that the
thing Of supreme consequence is to bring
on the fragile at the earliest possible
| moment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
woMEN's VOTES IN CALIFORNIA
Resident Observer Thinks They Were
Not Wanted or Appreciated.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: A morning paper here puousnes "
day an editorial criticising your recent one
ON woman suffrage. This prompts me 10
write YOU and tell you that equal suffrage
which won here by very small majority
cleaned in the farming sections. Is pest
Frosk legislation and sentimentality In
government promises TO reign supreme Inc
surrragettes CprofessionaD have had the
axe clause stricken from the registration
laws. they are out TO abolish capital pun
ishuent and they are suggesting parole
and probation for offenders who nave COM
!, Itted such serious crimes as murder etc
The vast majority Of women here did not
and do not want so-callcd equal rights nut
are whipped into line by the professional
sufrragettes. Only 2."o women registered
bcro I'm San Francisco after they didn
have 10 tell their ages. and even then they
were practically herded TO the registration
rlaccs during the last two days by female
politicians. who supplied automobiles Tor
shop girls and other women VINO nadh
figured on voting at all
In IN. heart OF the retail shopping district
here they have established a woman po-
litical Headquarters on the ground noor'
Here every day at p. m. when thousands
Of women are out shopping, speeches Tor
certain Presidential candidate are made
The other day ] passed at $50 p. m. and
saw exactly FIVE women at the meeting
three OF these women being sunrageue
sneakers. Meanwhile hundreds, IL not
thousands, Of women were out In the street
or looking at the fashions In the neighoor-
ing stores Does this show that women
want the ballot?
Your contention that suffrage Is bad
thing for the home IL correct. To the
writer's knowledge have come reports or
once peaceful homes having been disrupted
almost TO the point OF divorce by acrmoni-
Gus political argument and by wives neg
lectlng children TO attend club meetings.
The above are facts not born In the imagi-
ma ton OF an anti
Suffrage won in California. not because
IL was considered sound logical political
proposition but for the reason that thou
sands Of voters who did not favor suffrage,
and who looked upon II as Joke. did not
vote on the constitutional amendment. Now
they are sorry, when II Is all too late Don't
let the same thing occur In New York, or
the governmental puzzle Will be made 100
per cent more confusing and expensive.
w. c. PATTERSON.
San Francisco. May 10. 1912.
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THE DANGER POINT.

Two items in the current news are SUI
fciently grave In their import to cause
the least timorous citizen TO pause III
alarm One relates the fact that the
Chicago brewers have announced rise
of 80 cents a half-barrel IN the price or
beer. The second tells Of similar IN
crease of two cents a package In the
price of bird gravel. So long as only beer
and potatoes went skyrocketing the pun
lie. though inconvenienced. need not have
become alarmed. Now that the relent-
less grip of the advancing cost of living
is embracing the Injuries as well as the
necessities, those features in the daily
life of the nation which represent. rest
recreation. solace. comfort and JOY, the
situation cannot he regarded too seri-
ously.
Manifestly something must he done
about it. and at once. Marie Antolnet'e
brought about several sanguinary incl
dents I'm the French Revolution by re
marking that the peasants should eat
cake if they hadn't bread. AS well might
the grasping Money Demon to-day say Ia
the starving workinGman Enjoy your
beer. as You can't buy beef and 10 the
worried typewriter Give your canary all
the comforts which you can't have for
yourself"
The necessity for remedial measures
even for government intervention, Is I'm
perative II should he a simple matter
for Congress TO enact law providing
that beer should be sold II by the glass,
Mt not more than five cents tho half-pint,
and that no beer should be sold In any
glass which did not have stamped upon
it its capacity. liquid measure. And the
Department of Justice should proceed
Immediately to an investigation-or, bet
ter, to immediate prosecution without
investigation-of the bird gravel trust
So only will justice he done and the feel
ings of the populace held In check.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
GREEK BULGARIAN RELATIONS.

Another significant sidelight is cast
upon the Balkan situation by the news
Of negotiations for healing the ecclesl-
astica breach between Greece and Bull
garia, which has been for many years
perhaps the most serious feature of the
diSSensionS among the Christian peoples
Of that corner of Europe. 1t is now
forty years since the Ecumenical Patri-
arch Of the Greek Church pronounced a
decree of accommodation against the
Bulgarian Exarch and his followers.
That was because two years before the
domination Of the Greek clergy as Il han
dicap upon the aspirations Of Bulgaria
for political freedom, and had secured
from the Sublime Porte a decree recog-
nizing il as an Independent ecclesiastical
organization. There Is little doubt that
this establishment of the independence
of the Bulgarian Church was long step
toward the achievement, few years
later, OF Bulgaria's political indepen-
dencc against which continued Greek
would have seriously initiated.
In all the years since, however, hos
fifty between the two churches has been
bitter and aggressive. Much of the agi-
tation In Macedonia has been conducted
through the churches, the Bulgarian
clergy intriguing against the Greek and
the Crooks similarly intriguing against
the Bulgarians. This schism has been
the real cause Of Macedonia's failure 10
secure independence from Turkey. Had
all the Christian peoples of the provinces
united in an uprising they would prob
ably have won. But they were divided
and at least one Of the factions was
ready at all times to help the Turks
against the other. preferring continued
Turkish rule to the triumph OF the other
Christian faction.
few days ago we spoke OF the efforts
which were being made to unite the
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IN THE BERkSHIRES.
inv Telegraph 10 The Tribune. ]

BY Telegraph 10 The tribune.
Lenox, June 2-Bishop Thomas F. Davies,
of the Episcopal diocese OF Western Massa-
chusetts. who leased the Judge Bishop cot
tage for the season. is a great grandson Of
Thomas t. Davies. n missionary. who es-
tablished the Episcopal Church in Berk-
shire County Bishop Davies will take part
| I'm the 10th anniversary OF the founding OF
the church in Sheffield in September.
Mrs. William G. Weld. OF Newport, and
Mrs. Charles A. Kidder. OF Southboro. will
be Mt the Curtis Hotel for an indefinite
| r-riod.
Miss Clara Field, of Washington, Is a
guest OF Mrs. John A. McCreery at Sunset
cottage. In stockbrIdge.
Mrs. Clinton Wright and Miss Fanny
Turnbull. OF Baltimore, will remain for the
Set son with Miss Caroline T. Lawrence
Miss Sarah p Francks. of Salem. Is now
the guest Of Miss Lawrence.
Mrs. Pringle Mitchell. OF New York, is in
| Ienox looking for n cottage for this sea-
| sou.
Mrs. David Ives Mackie is entertaining
Mr. and Mrs. ]. Edwards Wyckoff Mt her
country place In Great Darlington.
Arriving with Mrs. Isabella w. Jex at
the Curtis Hotel was Mrs. Gregory Sutton,
OF New York.
Miss Margaret Livingston Lee has ar
rived and joined her grandmother, Mrs. J.
Lawrence Lee. at the hotel
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Underhill Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles d. Wright Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry r. Johnson, of New York; Mr.. and
Mrs II. C. knight, OF Boston. and Mr.. and
Mrs s. q. Morse, of Newton, are at the
Wendell. In Pittshed
| Mr. and Mrs NJ. s. Barnet and Sylvan
Barnet are making a motor trip in the
Berkshires
At the Red Lion Inn, in Stockbridge. are
Mr. and Mrs. II. ID. Best, Miss Best. Mr.
and Mrs W. y. Flint, Mrs. c. r. Bement
Miss Bement Mr.. and Mrs f. p. Shattuck
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. III. Shattuck and Mr.. and
Mrs John p. Taylor, of New York
Professor and Mrs +. T.. Peabody and
Mrs John Parkison. who have been motor
ing IN the Berkshires, have returned "a
! Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Il. Silverthorne will
occupy the Tanner cottage on June %.
At the Maplewood are Mr.. and Mrs
Henry l.. Phillips. Miss q. w. Bostock, OF
New York; Mr. and Mrs. III. Hooper
Lawrence, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel r. Field
of Boston. and Mr.. and Mrs Arthur p
Dana, OF Wellesley, Mass,
Mrs George Griswold Haven has closej
her house In New York and Is now with
Mr.. and Mrs. Forsythe Wickes. In Tuxedo
for fortnight before opening Sunnybank
her Lenox country place.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Woodward Haven enter
tanned at luncheon at Ingleside this after
noon Mrs. George Westinghouse gave
luncheon In Erskine Park in honor of Mrs
William r. NJ Croft, who later to-day re
turned to Albany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03

with skyscrapers. There has been lou
of nonsense talked and written about
that tvpo of building 10y architects ana
lovn,on who have worried themselves
over it's purely aesthetic poSsibllities'
Rurnham let the cognoscenti rave whlle
he drove straight at the heart or the
matter. From the engine room TO the
roof garden he kept in mind questions
Of usable space, of light and air, OF eV-
cryday convenience which he knew 10 he
IMPERATIVE and then. instead OF stralnihg
himself TO lend originality To his facade'
he made the latter the simplest possible
expression of the practical purpose vi
his building. 1t is scarcely even once
i'm the proverbial blue moon that an ar
cbitect has the advantages, including the
transcendent advantage Of site, whlch
the designers of the Metropolitan Tower
in this city enjoyed. As n rule, he SUD-
mits TO that fact with groans and makes
wild guesses at a new way Of Disgusting
If. In Burnhams rational acceptance
Of irving but inevitable handicaps lies
the secret Of his solid achievement as
we'll as the certainty of his fame.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
REVISION OF THE HYMNAL
Episcopal Commission Earnestly Re
quests Further Advice and Help.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The Joint commission to revise the
hymnal desires TO obtain new matter. words
and tunes, and new music for familiar
hymns, which might very well have new
musical settings.
The ioint commission desires to express
It's great appreciation of the assistance
and many valuable suggestions OF many
persons from all parts OF the country. who
responded to the call OF June "a. 1911. which
call was put In the Church papers. The
unanimity with which certain hymns were
listed either to be omitted or to be retained
was most striking.
Following this former call a letter was
sent to every bishop. asking that he APP
point a committee In his diocese to con-
slider the hymns that should be retained
Thus Il will be observed that the commits
sion has looked at its work from two points
of view. First. what hymns should. In the
opinion of persons who cared to suggest
be omitted: second. what hymns should
in the opinion of the diocesan committees
be retained. Its inquiry from these two
points of view has brought much light to
the commission from persons OF ripe judg-
ment. whose opinion the commission par.
ticularly values.
II will be remembered that the Joint com.
mission is to report Its findings for the con.
sideration Of the general convention OF 1913
II is. therefore, desirable that persons in
terested and able to pass Judgment upor
the literary and musical qualities OF the
hymnal. and 20 supply new words and
tunes should act promptly.
To return manuscripts forwarded for con
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liar nrogress has been made. Thus the
yearly death rate from pulmonary tuDer-
culosis has decreased steadily from ST
in the thousand in 1901 to .GS in 1908
and to 10 in 1910 Moreover. In the
whole native population of India, as II
result of improving conditions, the death
rate in 1910 was 1920 in the thousand,
against 80 40 in the preceding five years.
while the birth rate rose from SOL to
3o.j2. Such results as these, achieved in
countries all around the world, are sig
nificant Of more real good to the human
race than many achievements which are
more vociferously acclaimed,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-03
DANIEL II. BTRNHAH.

The artist in all ages has been man
of dreams, but 1t often happens that he
wins success the more richly and the
more legitimately through the simple
process of facing things as they are.
This was the great virtue Of the noted
American architect whose death at
Heidelberg has just been reported. Dan
lei II. Burnham was completely in har
mony with the world in which he lived,
a practical world, not by any means in
sensitive to beauty and the things of the
mind, but necessarily concerned, in the
first place, with business interests. When
Burnham designed building he attacked
his problem not only with artistic ell
tnusiasm but with the common sense Of
a man Of affairs who knew that his
client was not erecting monument but
making an investment. In thus recog-
nizing the weight of business principle
he was also faithful to a high ideal Of
art, the ideal which Identifies fitness as
one of the elements Of beauty.
Some six or seven years ago the War
Department sought Burnham's advice on
certain improvements projected in the
Philippines. Among his ideas was one
for the development of part of the water
front of Manila in such wise as TO make
it an adjunct to the social life of the
city, and the architects report embraces
this characteristic note on the subject:
The delightfulness of city is an ele-
ity for those who make fortunes will
stay and others will come II the attrac-
tons are strong enough; and the money
thus kept at home, added to that freely
spent by visitors, will be enough TO in
sure continuous good times. The aim
should be to make Manila really "The
Pearl Of the Orient"
That was like Burnham. When he
undertook, with McKim, Saint-Gaudens
and Omsted, to frame a plan for an
improved and beautified Washington,
when he elaborated in similar schemes
for Chicago, Cleveland and San Fran
cisco, his solcitude for "the delightful
ness of a city" was matched only by his
resolution TO promote material prosper
ity as we'll as architectural loneliness
and dignity. He never would ask a
municipality 10 make sacrifices for
schemes that merely looked pretty on
paper II WAS his task rather. and bis
high ambition, to make art and utility
interdependent.
II was the breadth Of bis mind. the
quickness of his sympathy for existing
conditions. that gave him such com
handing rank In the movement filing
| the great cities Of the United States
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Christian peoples of the Balkans IN an
endeavor to take advantage Of Turkey
present embarrassment. Now IL IL
known that negotiations are in progress,
under the partial patronage OF the Nus
sian Car, for the healing Of the ecclcsl-
astical breach. This, It Is expected, VIII
be done on the basis Of withdrawal OF
the decree Of accommodation ana IL
recognition of the autocephalic status OF
the Bulgarian Church. similar to that
of the Russian. Servian and other ma
tional churches of the Eastern faith.
What the effect of this would be upon
political relations between the two coun-
tries and upon their rival ambitions In
Macedonia is matter for conjecture. 1t
would probably he important.