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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
A Victory for Fire Prevention.

The Court Of Appeals decision against Charles
Kaye convicted of miSdemeanOr for refusing TO
install automatic sprinklers in loft building on
the Fire Commissioners order, is Of far-reaching
Importance TO factory workers. II was test case
on which virtually, the enforcement Of most Of
the Fire Prevention Bureaus orders rested. If it
had gone against the city. the Fire Department :
ability TO take preventive measures against factory
fires like that in the Asch Building would have
been disastrouSly essened while factory owners
would have been able to continue to put dollars
above workers lives.
The city now has pending lawsuits Of a some
what similar nature in which the Fire Department
is suing property owners TO recover the expenses
Of extinguishing fires alleged to have due to the
owners negligence 1t is an accepted legal prin-
cple in some European countries that fire is the
result of careessness or negligence of the property
owner or tenant, and that he Is responsible for
damages from it. The favorable result Of that
litigation supplementing the case Just won, would
give tremendous impetus to the doctrine Of fire
prevention and thus save scores of lives and mil
lions Of dollars each year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
TO DULCINEA FROM HER MARRIED SISTER.

Darling little Sister Dulcie; so glad to get
your postal. What a good time you having!
That's right, 90 on and have all the fun you can
while YOU young and free. Not that ! am
so old, but certainly have my troubles, One is
so dreadfully tied dorm with baby and mine
such a perfect imp--never still minute. He is
just at the interesting age Ny dear, you wouldn't
know the child, he has grown so big. And he GER
tanly has developed his fathers nose, but | say
l don't care about his being good-looking so long
he is healthy and we'll! And he is good Now
poor Sally Browns baby is troublesome at night,
tell her it's all in the training. You can't begin
too early
Well, dear, don't suppose you interested in
all this baby chatter. but honestly ! have become
such devoted mother can't talk of anything else.
And the little dears such a constant source Of
conversation always doing something cute and diff
ferent
Hasn't the weather been cool? Not like summer
at all, but It's wonderful weather for kddies They
easily affected by the heat Well, must close
now and mil botics ("No rest for the wicked" they
ssy!D Always your loving sister
4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
The NAVY No Penal Institution.

Yesterday we felt constrained to comment on
the act of New Jersey judge in sentencing an
alcoholic to matrimOny. To-day we wish TO put
into the same category of mlschieyous and insult
ing sentences that Of circuit judge in Oregon
who recently paroled prisoner convicted OF lar
ceny provided he enlisted In the navy.
Undoubtedly both judges had in mind the vel
fare of the prisoners before them and shrank from
committing them to Jail the very graveyard OF
reform. But in picking out alternatives they have
shown surprising lack of respect for institutions
in every way entitled TO it, For years it has been
the aim Of Uncle Sans navy officers to improve
the navys enlisted personnel until the bluejackes
as a class have reused the admiration Of foreign
ers and become source of pride to their fellow
countrymen 1t would doubt have done the
young man convicted as a thief a world of good
to become associated with the enlisted men OF
the navy but no Judge has right to inhict him
upon them or to advertise the navy as refuge for
crooks.
Our sympathies are entirely with Lieutenant
Smith. the recruiting officer who rejected Judge
Kavanauchs candidate with the rebuke that the
navy did not serve the country as penal instl-
tuition" He has shown the women Of Jersey how
to treat the alcoholic sentenced TO matrmony
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
Berlin's Ambitions.

The Hotel Owners Association of Berlin has
pettioned the newspapers of that city TO suppress
the fact that it is suffering from of the most
oppressive heat waves in its history. The hotel
owners are afraid, Of course, that such news will
deter tourists from visiting Berlin. All Of which
reminds of the charge that at the instgation,
or with the hearty approval OF the Kaiser Ber-
liners have consciously and with certain degree
of success lost years Of Sleep and an invaluable
digestive ability in an attempt to give their city the
greatest reputation for night life on the Continent.
Nietzsche recall, despised Berlin for its enter
prise 1t was enough for him that Beriners took
great pride in calling Berlin the Chicago Of
Europe" But, heaven help us, If they keep on at
this rate-and how Mayor Gaynor would rejoice
in their solcitude for the good name of their city
we shall have to refer to Chicago the Berlin
of America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
SOME OF T. RS DOINGS
In Private Life His Accomplishments
Are Noteworthy.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The President knows little
Of business of any kind. His life
has been passed in college towns as
a student and teacher. He thought
the diatribes Of the Republican press
on his trust regulation policy we're
due to political animosity, and that
the business depression was a result
of this merely psychological"
But when the champion of the
laboring man came out of the wllGs
OF South America and attacked the
administration on its attitude TO big
business. as such, and deplOred pres
ent conditions in the speech TO the
crowds at Pittsburgh, the summon
ing Of big business men to the White
House began.
MIR. J. p. Morgan made pilgrim
age. the great automobile manufac-
turer. Ford, was asked to come, a
man of big business and a friend OF
the laboring man as well. The Presl-
dent suspected that his encourage
vas provincial ne has been summon
ing men from the marts OF commerce
and standing by them.
The Colonel can do lots Of good
just as private citizen. What a
bcncfcent object lesson was given
when he refused 10 sit at the same
table with Senator Lorimer, And how
succeeding developments have justi-
fed his act.
What a fine boost the temperance
cause had from his Michigan libel suit.
One sees that even in private life he
can put few rivers on the map.
II. ". NOBLE.
Jenkintown, Penn, July IL, 1911.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
BARS UP AGAINST A SONG
Correspondent Glad to See This Ef.
fort at Theatrical Cleanliness.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When several scores OF theatres
have agreed to prohibit the use OF a
song it Is about time the public De-
came interested. The song | have IN
mind is, "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs.
Rip Van Wrinkle When Rip Van Wrinkle
Went Away The newspapers state
that Mr. +. +. Albee, general manager
Of the 3. f. Keith circuit OF theatres
has issued an order TO prohibit the
use of this song in any of the eighty
three theatres in his circuit. One can
not but see the double meaning m this
song. and il is just such suggestive
ness as this which is detrimental TO
the younger generation. ! am glad 10
see that the crusade against unclean
songs of this nature has begun m
earnest. These so-called hits appeal
only to the lower classes. and the pub
lie should follow MIR. Albee's example
in prohibiting the singing of Sugses'
tive songs and help abolish this IN
cleanliness which seems to have swept
the country. PHI. GEO. OfFlN'
New York, July 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
The Real Test of the Wilson Mexican
Policy Is Still to Come.

Some of the Presidents adhercnts are celebrat-
ing the retirement of Huerta a sensational
triumph for the administrations Mexican policy.
The administration must be relieved at Huertas
fall. Its programme was based on the expectation
that he would "crumble" Immediately after learn
ing that Washington did not intend to recognize
him. That was fourteen fifteen months ago.
before Villa had even captured Ciudad Juarez. The
Wilson ryan programme in Mexico could not real
" get going until Huerta had been forced out of
office Ii has had to wait fifteen months to get
started. and is only half started yet. All that the
President has 10 his credit so far is the negative
triumph Of the negative phase Of his programme
II was much simpler to keep on saying that
Huerta must 90 than to undertake anything def
mite In the way Of restoring order in Mexico and
protecting the lives and property there of Amer.
cans and Of Europeans whose governments prop
ery looked to ours for protection % their nationals
"Wachful waiting the name given TO the
Wilson programme and it turned out to be tedious
painful and costly waiting also. Had the military
genius of Pancho Villa not flashed like rocket
out Of the obScurity of bandits past and had an
American naval officer off Tampco not insisted on
a certain kind Of salute reparation for a chance
insult to the flag, the United States and Mexico
would probably sun be waiting for Iuerta $ exit.
The real American problem in Mexico has been
TO protect national interests there and to perform
obligations which rest upon under the Monroe
Doctrine. We have given little attention to either
Of these duties. Now fate is about TO compel us
TO take hand since the Wilson administration
cannot dodge before the world complete response
bility for the COnstiutiOnaliSt movement OF which
it has been active partisan. The government
al Washington must step i'm and compel the Con-
StitutionaliSts TO make good" That will test
for the first time the constructive value Of the
Wilson programme.
General HucrtaS government. far. at least.
as appearances are concerned lived pretty uni
iOrnly up 10 civilized international standards
IL rarely failed 10 be technically correct In its
conduct toward foreigners. Can the Constitution
alist regime be depended upon to do as well:
Many will doubt it, Certainly Tucrta never made
=" uncivilizcd record a. was made by Villa in I'm.
Benton murder case.
Instead Of claiming that all its troubles in Ne1
leo are over sensible friends Of the administration
must see that lis difficulties are only really been
ming The period Of looking on from the outside
is ended. Pacifying Mexico aud putting il In n
way 10 pay the debts and damages clargcablc 70
the civil war are tasks for the largest statesman.
ship The Wilson policy will be Judged By what il
does to build ~ Mexico under Huertas successors
not BY what 1t did merely to pull Huerta down.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
HOW KANSAS DRINKS
Prohibition There Said To Be Signal
Failure.

70 thc Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. William II. Anderson. State Su-
rerintendcnt of the New York Anti
Saloon eague. wants to know why the
editor of The Tribune does not give
the facts relative to prohibition in
Kansas. MIR. Anderson believes, Of
course, that the Sunfiower State makes
q better showing under its prohibition
law than does the State of Maine. |
beg perm ission TO come TO the assist
ance OF The Tribune in answering this
question by offering the statement Of
James r. House. of Kansas, an editor
Of n prohibition paper and we'll
known figure in that state, who said in
an interview recently on prohibition
conditions in his state:
at is claimed that as result of FRO
hibition in Kansas there are no insane
persons in s. of the l05 counties. This
is true All Of the insane of the state
are kept, however. in state hospitals,
and there are now 4,300 lunatlcs in
those hospitals. SO fast is the number
IF insane people increasing that bigger
hospital must be built constantly.
1T is aid that there are thirty poor
houses without single tenant because
Of prohibition. There are, however,
i.t'U DcliS N4Ltu lOt a. DduDtIS
Where the pOOrhouses are without ten
ants the population is too sparse 20
Justify the maintenance of poOrhouses.
There is more drinking in Kansas
now than ever before. In June last
10000 quarts Of liquors were registered
~ imported into Topeka. or two quarts
for every man. woman ard child in the
city. Under the seats of all the auto
mobiles in Kansas there is good
sized canteen.
prohibition in Kansas is fetch. a
sort Of blind worship. II has failed
sgnally fer thirty-eight years"
Mr.. Anderson takes consolation out
Of the fact that liquor was not Haunted
in his face in Maine. ! don't doubt
this statement ut all. But we have the
statement of Holman Day. the we'll
known writer Of the Pine Tree State.
who says that wandering bootlcggers
mtuitivcly know prob ibitionists when
they meet them or the street IN any
Of Mines communities. Probably this
is the reason why Mr.. Anderson cs-
capped the faunts. Besides. none are
so blind as they who will not see. 7
noticed that when Mr. Anderson was
transferred from Maryland TO New
York he took rooms in certain hos
tlery not very far from Broadway and
Ihirty-fCGrth 81. which is a licensed
hotel. j. ALIEN ROLLINSON.
Newark, n. j.. July Is, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
This vou Colonel? Thanks You've put under obligation
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

his own party machine at the polls, Just
as they did the trick in 1910.
Compromising principle never ala
and never will win a moral victory.
Colonel Roosevelt and the Progress a.
sives stand on the moral principle OF
decency and honesty in public life.
True, we have not many politicians
but we do have thousands in our ranks
that will stand up and be counted as
men-men who will fight it out on
this line" until this state and country
will have been made a better place IN
which to live.
Colonel Roosevelt would have moth
ing to gain and everything to lose If he
should lend his great ability to our
state and accept nomination for Gov
ernor this fall.
Where else shall the believers in
civic righteousness look for leader
great enough for the task?
And why not set a SPECIFIC date to
bring these things to pass and make
November 3. 1914. the date on which
the whole bpartisan-l4th st.-Albany
combination shall be sent TO oblivion?
W. r. PORTER.
Prince Bay, \. Y, July 10, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
HE'S A ROOSEVELT FAN
Let's Free the State on November 3
Next, He lmplorcs.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
SIR: The writer has read with great
interest The Tribune's editorials as we'll
as the letters published relating to the
coming campaign in this state.
We cannot fathom the minds Of men
who seem to fully realize the condition
and relations Of the two old parties
in New York State between elections,
but righ. about face whenever cam
paign looms up ahead. And will you
pardon me if ! say that The Tribune,
great and clean as it is, seems TO be
not entirely free from these peculiar
spasms of party zeal?
You. for couple of years now. have
been telling the Republican party that
Barnes mus: CO." until all at once you
begin 10 emphatically state that the
fight this fall is 10 be Tammany or
anti-Tammary.
Well. Of course, it should be and it
Will also be Barnesism on Barnes
ism.
II is rot just Murphy and Barnes
that We want 10 see 60, but il is the
whole intricate invisible government"
that must go.
You say further. as do some OF your
contributors, that the only place for
tho Progresslves this year is with the
Republicans, on progressive Repub-
lican ticket.
We have been vainly waiting for
that species we hear so much about 10
appear and assert itself. to hear IT
come out into the open and proclaim
its progressiveness and independence
Isn't 1t fact that there is not a
man in the Republican party big
enough and broad enough for the job
who darcs To come out into the open
and declare himself candidate for the
nomination for Governor and at the
same time say that he is against
Barnes and Barncsism and all that 1t
stands for?
He wouldn't get even look-in after
the party machine got busy. Why.
even If by accident he did win at the
primaries he wculd be overwhelmed by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
GLAD HE GREW UP IN MAINE
For He Didn't See a Saloon Until He
Was Twenty Years Old.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: You have recently published
several letters on Names prohibition
law which interested me.
II is easy to sit in New York and
write about the failure Of prohibition
in Maine. It is not a failure. Every
New Yorker who goes TO the State Of
Maine and by devious path gets into
some back alley and buys a drink
comes back and crows about the fail.
ure Of the law. The law is enforced
80 per cent better than the excise laws
in this state, as the side doors Of most
saloons in this city on Sundays
testify.
Names prohibition law is her most
cherished ideal and always will be.
The open saloon is not a constant temp
tation to her sons. The Maine law
makes the liquor business disreputable
and those who attempt TO carry II on
criminals. The children of Maine
grow to manhood and womanhood with
out knowing what a liquor saloon
from Maine in all parts of this coun-
try are evidence Of the laws good
results.
The first saloon | ever saw was IN
Boston when ] was twenty years Old
and | was ashamed to pass II.
crossed to the other side Of the street
As travel about this city and see
little children playing about the door,
Of saloons thank God / was bonn and
brought up in a state where sucn
sights are not to be seen. a. r. :.
Brooklyn. July Is, 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
Making the "Pluckine Board" Look
Foolish
Foolish.

Rear Admiral Knights attack on Captain John
n Gibbons at a hearing before the House Com
mittee Naval Affairs tops off the scandals of the
ported as saying with one breath that Captain
Gibbonss record as naval officer is hawless and
with the next that the captain ought 10 have been
"plucked" because he had been at sea only three
years out Of the last thirteen and that he had
contributed nothing material to the advancement
Of naval science
According TO the prejudiced views OF some Off
GERS who get on "pluckng boards the distinctions
~ serving a. military attache TO Great Britain.
the leading naval power Of the world and Of act
ing as superintendent Of the Naval Academy ought
10 be- charged up disqualihcations against Cap
tain Gibbons They kept him off sea duty and
consequently marked him out for fOrcbe retire
ment with its inevitable stigma Of professional
jpferiority That is the attitude OF the one-idea
martinet 10 be short Il sea service In any g-ade
means deficiency in knowledge and training no
matter how educational the shore assignments
may have been 10 which an officer has been o.
dered
Such Philistnsm shows how little the judg-
lnent Of "plucking board IL worth Moreover,
how many members Of these boards in recent
Years could have passed the test by which Admiral
knight prcsumes 10 Stay Captain Gibbons-that of
having contributed something material 10 the ad-
ysncement Of naval scienceF Promotion in the
navy would DC at d standstD II every officer pro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
He Admires MIR. Redmond.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The not in to-day's issue o.
The Tribune from W. G.. Kelly. Of ho'
bokeu. re John J. ODriscoll's interest.
ing information. breathes more Of the
dying gasp Of one imbued with any.
Home Rule tendencies. The name he.ly
seems out Of place when signed und'e
such sentence rs III II went e.
general election tomorrow ASQ'hs
Redmond & Co. would be swept ft'S
office" Mr.. Redmond is entitled to tn
everlasting gratitude Of the Irish race
for his devotion TO the cause for whleA
Grattan. Emmett. Fitzgerald. Wolf Tone
Smith O'Brien. Parnell and countless
others sacrificed their time and their
means and their lives.
WILLIAM j. CUSACK
Rrooklvn, July II. 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
The Coming To1ver
m FIRST LANDING IN THE COMING TOWER

Much have Travelled in the realms Of news,
And many goodly journals have seen;
On Western papers been, so fresh and green,
That small town folk with eagerness peruse
Oft read all the iestS-w ithOut-a-bruise
That Pepys, the second, rules as his demeShe'
Yet did | never wreathe my hopeful bean
Till contributed. and, landing, lost the blues
Then felt ! like some watcher at the polls
When a repeater swms into his ken
Or like stout Tesreau-when with optic Goals
lie pitched his team to triumph-and all his men
Lookd at each other with rejoicing souls
Smiling since Giants hits had totalled ten.
Err.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17

Secretary Franklin X. Lane has been getting
good deal of praise for the speech that lie made on
Flag Day II was good speech, but we quarrel
with the papers-among them the Evening Post
that call II "a venture original. The nag, IN
the Grafton. Is speaking II am the Constitution
and the courts statutes and statuenakerS, sol
der and dreadnought. drayman and street-sweep.
cook counselor and clerk. ! am the battle of
yesterday and the mistake of tomorrow. am
the mystery Of the men who do without knowing
why. ain the clutch of an idea and the reasoned
purpose of resolution. am no more than what
you believe me to he and am all that you believe
! can be-" And more to the same excellent effect,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
ABOUT NEW YORK'S FOUNTAINS
Most of Them Useless for Drinking
Purposes, IT'S Said.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Winter will arrive IN due
course of time. SO it Is possible that
am hypercritical. Yet. # you will
have the fountains Of Manhattan writ
ten up, those that are supposed 20
furnish TO the public free drinking
water. believe you will be surprised
at their condition.
Between sth and i2d SITS. about two
blocks east Of Broadway. some eight
fountains arc useless as far as little
children are concerned In Union
Square, Madison Square and Bryant
Square parks no little child can get
drink. But note peculiar phase
Of the situation: I'm all three are
private fountains, attended by uni
formed men. and sign informs the
thirsty drink can be had for cent.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
WHY DR.. WATSON MOVED
Landlady. His Lawyer Says, Refused to
Provide Heat Enough-Not
Matter Of Rent.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: As the attorney for the Rev.
DR.. James b. WATSON ! desire 10 cor
rect an erroneous impression conveyed
by your account of the suit brought
against him for non-payment Of rent.
The implication Of your article IS
that he was compelled to move by the
landlady either because he could not
or would not pay the rent. whereas the
real fact Is that ne moved out because p
the apartment was insuiiiciently heated.
The lack Of heat during the whole OF
the preceding winter was so great that
il caused serious illness IN his family.
Nevertheless. he continued paying the
rent regularly through last summer up
to the first Of October. 1913, IN the
hope and belief that the landlady
would heed the numerous appeals and
protests which he made 20 her and IN
stall an adequate system of heating.
But as she had not done so on Oc-
tober | and after further representa-
lions refused to do so. DR.. WATSON IN
formed her that he would move, and
did so. In the subsequent suit brought
against him. in which | defended him,
Re won: but the decision was reversed
by a higher court on a technlcallty.
and hence the judgment against Or.
Wasson. He is gentleman Of the
very highest integrity and honor and
has always been most scrupulous IN
meeting every obligation, whether
financial or otherwise; and ! submit
that your article. by failing to state
the essential facts in the case and lay
ing undue emphasis on eXtraneous
matters, is calculated to do him "A grave
injustice.
HUGH GORDON MILLER.
New York. July Is. 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-17
Wants Democracy Defined.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: want TO unite with T.. W.
Van Nalkenburgh in requesting Mr..
Brennan TO state his definition of de-
mocracy. And would extend this in
vitation to all other readers There
~ so little reason to believe that any
,enablc definition will be forthcoming
that | promise 20 offer good one
after all others have failed No
egotlsm is involved for the reason
that ! am
4 DEMOCRATIC DEMOCRAT.
Tompkinsvllle, Staten Island, July
2, 1914