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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
LFrom The TrIhnr, Bureau. ]

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Nov. 12.-Mrs. l.. u. Letter
has sufficiently recovered from the illness
with which she was stricken In England
to be able TO return to this country. She
win sail from England on Saturday after
a visit to her sOns-in-law and daughters,
the Earl and Countess Of Suffolk and Colo
mel and Mrs. Colin Campbell. Mrs. Lett
the death of her sister. Mrs. Thompson,
was the cause OF much anxiety 10 her
friends In this country.
Senator Shelby NJ Cullom's eighty-third
birthday will be celebrated at his home
IN this city on November % by wedding.
The bride will be his favorite granddaugh-
ter. Miss Eleanor Cullom Ridgely. daugh-
ter Of William Barrett Ridgely, and the
bridegroom DR.. Henry p Parker. The
bride at first elected TO have a large
church wedding. but changed both the date
and place, and the ceremony will take
place in the home Of Senator Cullom, on
Massachusetts avenue, at noon. Miss
Ridgely will have her little niece, Eleanor
Ridgely Brown, as her only attendant. and
III L al NOT Will nave HIS btONlltlb Jbll4l
Donaldson Parker as best man. There
will be no other attendants, and only
members Of the family will attend the
ceremony. Many OF Senator Cullom's col
leagues will attend the reception after the
wedding.
Miss Rebekah Wilmer. a debutante OF
this season, daughter of Or. and Mrs.
william Holland Wilmer, was the chief
guest at a luncheon to-day, with Miss
Helen II. Squire as hostess. Other guests
were Miss Hildegarde Nagel, Mrs. Walter
Tuckerman, Miss Margaret Perrin, Miss
Ethel Noyes Miss sophy Johnston and
Miss Martha Bowers.
Mrs. John c. Fremont was assisted by
her guest Mrs Churchill Candee, at an
informal tea this afternoon
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

From The Tribune Bureau
washington, Nov. 12-The French Am
bassador. whose name will head the diplo-
matte list after the retirement OF Baron
Hengelmuller, Austrian Ambassador, dean
OF the corps now on leave until the end
OF the year. will have several changes in
his staff. NJ Lefebvre de Ia Boulaye,
whose appointment as second secretary
has Just been announced, will arrive at
the end OF the week Count L. de Sar-
tegls, attache, 10 succeed VI. Maugrss
who has gone 10 Toxic, is already here.
The Spanish Minister has been Joined
by Senora de Riano. They are moving
into the new legation in 18th street, which
was vacated by the Swedish Legation.
The change will give Spain an imposing
home near the homes Of the Secretary OF
the Treasury and Mrs. MacVeagh, the
French Embassy, Mrs. Marshall Field and
ex-senator and Mrs. John b. Henderson.
The Bolivian Minister and Sehora de
Calderon will go 10 New York on Thurs
day, taking with them the grandchildren
Of the minister, to join Sehora de Bal
livian and Sehorita Elena Calderon,
daughters Of the minister.
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NOT IN THE PARK.

1t is necessary to say again that Cen
trail Park is no place for stadium. IL
is necessary to say this at least every
year, for the promoters Of the stadium
plan are never satisfied with the YER
dict Of the public against filling Cen
trail Park with buildings. Just now
they are casting hungry eyes at sec
ton between 1O4th and 10th streets
which they think is rather "unsightly."
The one thing which they regard as
necessary to make it perfectly beauti-
full is a 100000 white marble sta
dunn. If the public yields to this plea
it will soon see other parts Of the park
"beautifed" with other buildings, until
the whole park looks like a fine sub
urban village, each house having
ground around II"
There is not an inch too much park
as it is, and there is no space to spare
for a stadium or for any other struct-
ure. Moreover the present administra-
ton Of the park has found that the
problem is not to attract more people
10 the park by having a circus there or
increasing the number Of athletic fields.
With its poor soil Central Park cannot
stand excessive use and retain its
beauty.
The idea of having in this city a
place for holding great athletic games
is a worthy one. But the place for
such a structure is not in the parks,
least of all in Central Park. More
over, if the city is to spend S5,OOO!OO0
on any sort Of athletic facilities, q
greater number would be benefited
through its use in increasing and i'm
proving Fairgrounds for children.
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SPANS HEAVY LOSS.

There was not a man among all the
subjects Of the King of Spain whose
death would have been a heavier loss
to both sovereign and people than that
Of Jose Canalejas. No man is indis-
pensable, but he was the most useful
citizen Of the realm, and his services
were Of peculiar value in a time Of
peculiar trial. At home and abroad he
found Spain involved in troubles and
surrounded by menaces. He grappled
boldly yet discreetly with problems
from which others had shrunk or with
which they had sought TO temporize,
and in less than three years brought
them we'll toward solution. Instinct
with radicalism and republicanism, a
pupil Of both CASTELAR, and Sagasta, he
was in sympathetic touch with the
people and with the working masses;
vet his love Of order and his realiza-
ton Of the need Of governmental au-
thority modified his progressive zeal
with prudent conservatism, so that he
became not a destructive but con-
structive statesman.
He viii be remembered as the man
who broke the artificial ties between
Madrid and Rome and established in
Spain the principle of free church
in a free state; who transformed in
dustrial legislation and gave working
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men a Cabinet Minister to look after
their interests, and who brought TO
settlement in an honorable way the
long standing dispute with France
over the respective interests of the
two countries in Morocco. There Is a
bitter irony in the circumstance that
he fell a martyr to the cause or MS
own good works. If those who call
themselves anarchists had really at
heart the welfare and the greater
emancipation of all citizens as indlVld-
uaIs, they would have followed ana
applauded Mr.. Canalejas instead OF
marking him for murder. In thls
atrocious tragedy Spain has the sincere
sympathy of America and of all the
world, with a hope that she may also
have consolation in the fact that her
strong minister did his work so wen
that. though uncompleted, 1t VIII en-,
dure and will be satisfactorily hniSheu
nv his successors and disciples.
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NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Miss Marjorie w. Noyes gave a dinner
last night at the Ritz-Carlton for the
bridal party at her wedding tomorrow TO
Herbert c. Serck in the OIL South Church,
Park avenue and S5th street. The guests
ton to the bridegroom, Miss Hope Hamil-
ton, Miss Viola Townsend, Miss Mildred
Poor, Miss Dorothy Wilde Mrs. Edward
Paul Al<er, a sister OF Mr. Sierck. and
Miss Doris Andrews. who are to be in at
tendance on the bride; Edgar A. Slerck.
who is 70 be his brothers best man; Ed
ward Paul Alker julius w, Noyes, Amos
C. Schermerhorn, Harvey S. Ladew, Rob-
ert Meyer and George Isle Forman, who
are to be the ushers.
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sTRAPHANGERs' CHAMPION.

Our old friend Sergeant Cram is
again in action. What New York
would do without him it is hard to say.
From time TO time he has happy
thoughts, and when he prOmulgates
them in the Public Service Commission
meetings they always come, like the
archangels trump, as happy If rather
startling announcement Of the millen-
mum. Mr.. Grams previous inspira-
tions are too we'll known for their far
reaching practical benefit to require
enumeration. Yesterday he surpassed
himself by announcing suddenly out Of
clear sky that when the operating
contracts for the new rapid transit
lines were drafted he would propose an
amendment to compel the operators to
furnish a seat for every passenger on
the new lines.
Good, we say, for Mr.. Cram. Only
he should be sure TO enforce his de-
cree with suitable penalties. " any
body has to stand, the fact should oper-
ate automatically to plunge Theodore
Shonts or Tim" Williams, as the case
may be, into boiling OIL. Mr.. Grams
associates have fooled ineffectiyely with
this problem long enough. They have
ordered maximum service at needed
hours, and when they have found
trains under ordinary conditions were
being filed beyond their seating ca
pacity they have ordered more trains
If they could be run. But they have
been easy in letting themselves be
beaten by the laws Of physics. If more
persons rushed into station in a given
hour than could possibly be seated in
trains running as often as It was safe
to operate them they weakly threw up
their hands.
Nothing Of that kind for Mr.. Cram.
The voice Of the people demands seats,
and the voice OF the people is the voice
Of God. Before that demand operating
possibilities must yield Mr.. Cram will
be satisfied with no mere meeting Of
the average demand for seats in the
off hours or with maximum possible
service in rush hours. The operators
must always be ready instantly to pro-
vide seats, no matter what sudden
demand is made upon them and no
matter how empty the next train to
follow may be. Mr.. Cram knows that
the people want what they want when
they want It, Every man seat, al
ways and everywhere in the subway"
Is his motto. It's a grand idea. The
fact that it will take miracle rather
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AT NEWPORT.
by Telegraph to The Tribune.I

by IeleEraph 10 Inc lrDune.l
Newport, Nov. l2-The latest additions
to Viewpoints winter colony are Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Henry w Lyon. They
have recently been visiting in Paris, Ne.
They are occupying the Weaver cottage,
in Ayrault street.
Mrs. James Lowell Putnam, Of Boston,
is house-hunting here. She is the guest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Allen Clark.
The estate Of Mrs. Slater, known as
Hopedene. will be greatly improved sor
next season. Mrs. Slater is visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Ives Gammell in Proy!-
dence.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Shaw Safe, with their
son, Kenneth Shaw Safe, will be IN New
port before December l. They have been
a long time in Europe.
Senator and Mrs. Wetmore viii end
their Newport season soon and go 20 New
York for a visit before returning 70 Wash
ington.
Miss Alice KeteltaS returned 10 New
York to-day after having been the guest
here Of Senator and Mrs. Wetmore. The
Misses Wetmore went with her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Dyer and MISS
Laura Swan will go to Baltimore 10 visit
relatives on closing their Newport season
at the end of the month. Mrs. Dyer and
Miss Swan plan to SO to Europe later.
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SAFER IN CASE OF FIRE
Correspondent Defends Opening OF
School Doors Inward.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: II thorough investigation is made
among the teachers of the schools 1t Will
be found that opening classroom doors
inward Is best In case OF fire. Outsiders
do not understand the methods of disci-
pine in the schools. 1t is fact that a
teacher can more quickly form line In
the room when pupils know that they
cannot get out except in an orderly man
ner so that they are more easily con-
trolled and keep in line to the street.
II one finds he can push open the door
the others will follow like wild sheep.
An instance of this kind will be remem-
bered by old residents. when at school
fire many children were trampled on In
the halls and on the stairs before reach
ing the exit In those days classroom
doors opened outward and exit doors
opened inward, and thorough study Of
those conditions led to the opposite
change. EA'
Railway, n. j., Nov. u, 1912.
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RIGHT CHARTER BUILDING.

Mayor Gaynor contributes to the Cos
sip regarding charter revision born OF
Tammany Halls heavy majority in
the Legislature and the approach of a
municipal election a word of wisdom
acquired from his experience in 1911.
He has discovered that the present
charter while verbose and involved, is
workable. Also. he thinks the only
way to get a good new one is to place
the work Of revision in the hands of a
scientific" lawyer. There are two
ways to build a new charter-a right
way and wrong way. The Mayor
worked hard at the wrong way in
| 1911. Indeed, most of the attempts in
recent years to make a new charter
for this city have been the wrong
way; for, whether Republicans or
Democrats were in charge, those con-
cerned in the work seemed to conceive
the municipal government to be a
political prize and a new charter the
easiest and best means OF grabbing
the pickings for one set Of politicians
or the other.
The right way is TO take charter
revision out Of politics. That Is pos
sible and simple. The present char
ter, which the Mayor says is worka-
bic. must be the basis for any new
charter. But it is verbose and in
7olved, and some Of its provisions are
subject TO construction in conjunction
with other laws. The natural thing,
then, would be to have it Simplified-
reduced to a state Of absolute clarity
and precision, within as brief compass
as possible and without one change
in its meaning and intent. With that
as a starting point and partisan poll
tics eliminated, progress could be
made on a rational new charter. With
out such a starting point, one political
party or the other may be able to
lam through a new charter, but neither
the party which does it nor the city
will profit.
The agency for this work exists.
In 1911 Senator Wagner Democratic
leader, introduced a bill empowering
the Statutory Consolidation Commits
sion to consolidate all laws relating to
the territory within the boundaries OF
the City of New York. This bill passed
the Senate but died in the Assembly.
The Statutory Consolidation Commits
sion is a non-partisan body, which was
intrusted with the duty of CONSOLE
dating the general statutes Of this
state and performed that work credit
ably. 1t is now preparing, under legis-
Iative authority, a plan for simplifying
civil procedure. 1t is well qualified to
reduce the New York charter and all
other laws affecting the city to basic
simplicity and brevity. If the Legis-
lature of 1913 should adopt the Wagner
bill of 1911 it would gain credit for
itself and confer a distinct benefit on
this -harassed city.
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INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING
Such Are the Modern Newspapers,
SAYS Our Correspondent.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Ae an evidence Of the wonderful
advance In education we have but TO
enter one OF our public cars. There we
have the means OF realizing 10 what a
remarkable extent the desire for educa-
ton has taken hold on the average lay
man. out OF the occupants OF these cars
we find about 90 per cent engaged In read
ing some form Of literature. Whether this
be newspaper or book f. of little account.
or. for that matter, the fact that the
material which these forms or literature
supply may not be OF intrinsic value Is
also a secondary consideration. The un-
DERIVING fact remains that there IS a
healthy curiosity evlnced, and that curl
osi.y Is being satisfied I'm a healthy way.
Curiosity leads to investigation, and in
yestICatlon leads TO knowledge, and
knowledge Is the one great factor in our
march OF civilization.
I. therefore, wish to commend the daily
newspapers as the most effective institu-
ton OF learning that we are at present
ENJOYING, and | attribute our present era
OF education to great extent to their
good Offices.
BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD.
Bronx, Nov. II. 1912.
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WORK OF ST. JOHNS GUILD
Last Year Best in It's History,
Says President.

The annual meeting OF st. Johns Guild
was held yesterday afternoon in the Re-
public Theatre. Professor William II.
Burr, president Of the guild, in his an
nual report announced that more pa
tents had been taken care Of last year
than in any other year since the guild was
organized, in 1866 The Floating Hospital
carried 55.617 patients during its forty
nine trips, an increase OF about eight
thousand over the number carried last
year The total admissions to the Sea-
Side Hospital amounted to 1929.
Isaac N. Seligman, treasurer reported
that out Of grand total Of $1s5,6i4 re-
ceived last year, .S26 was expended by
the guild in caring for the sick and needy.
At the business session the following
trustees were elected for Ave years: John
NJ. Weed. w. w. Flanagan, and Carleton
Montgomery, reelected. DR.. Alvah II.
Doy. formerly Health officer of the Port
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should not only see to It that Great
Britain had the final say In the selecton
Of the Prince OF Bulgaria, but that Prince
Ferdinand should be appointed TO thal
position. Both Russia and Germany Wouiu
have desired that a totally different choice
was made. and the former country IN
particular desired to place one of its own
nominees In power in Sofia. LORD sans
bury, however, bore down all opposltioh
I'm his usual aUtocratic fashion and Prince
Ferdinand was elected. The bulgarian
throne had. however, previously been OF
fered to Prince Louis of Battenoerg IN
place of his brother, but he aosoiutelS
declined II and preferred to continue "
serve in the British fleet, where he sun
remains
'I prefer the theatre TO the BAH pa pa n
You never see baseball team RESPOND "
Neither does an opera ever go extra
innings. Washington Herald.
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NO LONGER PIERS.

The refusal of the Secretary OF war
TO give permission for further extern
sion Of piers into the fairway OF tlie
North River seems to be regarded III
some quarters with CONSERVATION anu
dismav as a serious blow at the COM
mercial interests of this port. Ihose
sentiments may, however, be easlly
exaggerated. It is, perhaps, regretta-
Bile from one point of view thaC tiie
nrofessedly temporary accommodation
desired Is not to be granted, but the
more mature and discerning judgment
will he that since the limit of SUCH con-
cessions must be drawn somewhere ana
at some time, it is well that 1t shouid
be drawn here and now.
For many years it has been obvious
that the terminal facilities of New YORK
were obsolescent and inadequate ana
that they ought 10 be Complementary
reconstructed. But almost nothing mas
been done I'm that direction. The fine
Chelsea improvements did not solve
tbe nroblem. for they were a mere bet
terment of the old system ana ala not
introduce those new elements or much
longer piers and direct land commuhi-
cations which are more and more I'M
neratiyelv needed. As Mr.. Stimson
aptly points out, for nine years by four
OF his predecessors in Office, requests
for extensions into the already con-
stricted fairway of the river have been
consistently denied. Thus the munich
pal authorities and the shipping COM
NAMES have been abundantly reminded
of the need of providing facilities III
some other way. But nothing has been
done. There has been much talking
and there have been numerous plans
Of diagonal piers, or new terminals on
the Bayonne shore, Of Jamaica Bay, Of
Montauk Point, etc. But the upshot OF
It all has been continued reliance upon
the complaisance OF the federal gov
eminent TO grant further temporary
extensions into a fairway which mas al
ready been reduced nearly 80 per cent
Mr.. Stimson therefore holds that II Is
time to call a halt on such encroach-
ments and on this policy OF temporizing
and dallying, which IS encouraged by
every act Of grace on the part OF the
government. If any real detriment be-
fell this port through the refusal to
countenance further encroachments and
further delay, the blame would rest
not upon the government, but upon the
city and the shipping companies, which
have for years neglected an obvious and
pressing duty But we believe that
there will be no detriment, that not u
ship will stay away from New York on
this account that emergency accommo-
dations will be found at existing piers
for the three or four vessels which re-
0uire extraordinary docking room. And
now that they are confronted by the
resolute veto Of the federal government
TO the makcshift policy Of damming up
the North River for the sake Of few
long piers, it is to be expected that
those who are directly concerned in the
commerce Of New York will go to work
in earnest mt the arrangement and con-
struction Of terminal facilities worthy
Of the first commercial city Of the
,vprl1
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ward revision to make the duties fairly
compensatory to American producers
for the higher cost of production in
this country. The insurgents should be
willing to help them, and even stand
patters" might think such revision less
dangerous to business stability than
the probably long drawn out wrangles
of a new Congress. Thus the tariff
might really be taken out Of politics.
The possibility of so taking it out rests
not in President Taft, but in the sin
cerity Of the Democratic desire to re-
wise the tariff, as Mr.. Wilson has pro
posed, in the spirit Of Mr.. Tafts plat
form
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AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

From L ne LilpuiAC
Washington, Nov. l2-Mrs. Tart, accom-
panied by Miss Taft, made long Trip
to the shopping district this forenooh'
walking from the White House.
Miss Taft accompanied the Secretary OF
War and Mrs Stimson to New York TINS
afternoon, leaving here at O'clock anu
will sail with them for Panama to-mor-
row. She decided only this morning 10
take the trip Miss Taft Is great
traveller, already having been more than
once to the Philippines, and having visited
japan, England and other foreign couh-
tries. She Is an excellent sailer
Mrs Taft and her secretary, Miss Let
terman, are busily engaged In arranging
the official social programme Tor th'
White House. which, on account OF the
Lenten season, will begin unusually early
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Knox
will entertain the President and Mrs Tart
before the middle of December.
The programme Of receptions and din'
ners at the White House for the season
of 192-'13 was announced to-day as
follows:
December p. Thursday, Cabinet din
ner 8 p. M; January 1. Wednesday, New
Years reception, IL a. m. TO l:6O p. III,
January 3, Friday, diplomatic reception,
$50 p. m; January Z. Tuesday, diplomat
dinner. S p. M; January a., TUESDAY
judiciary reception, $50 p. m; January Il.
Tuesday, Supreme Court dinner, 8 p; m.
January %, Tuesday, Congressional re-
ception, $50 p. m; January 81, Friday
Speakers dinner, 5 p. M; February T.
Tuesday, Army and Navy reception
$50 p. m.
President Taft intimated to friends TO-
day that he would like to entertain Presi-
dent-elect and Mrs. Wilson at the White
House before March 4. No invitation has
yet been sent to the President-elect ana
no time set for the visit