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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
The Coming Tower
THE ITALICS ARE MOORES.


on. erer thus from chHdhood's hour.
re seen my fondest hopes decay;
7 nerer lored tree or foicer
But 'tras the first 10 fade atcny.
MY varicolored hues turn grey
The cream I skim is ever sour-
Now, always. It will be for aye
on, euer thus from childhood's hour!
The storm clouds always seem to lower
Before ] make sufficient hay;
I've longed for sun and seen it shower
Tue seen my fondest hopes decay.
HAPPY I meet lovely fay,
And breathe, with all my poets power,
Don't you love nature?" She will say:
II never loved tree or foicer.'
Or holder, in some shady bower
grow. She says, Don't get so gay :"
never knew fair And-Thouer
But 'tUas the first to fade duGv.
try to tril deathess lay
And then the jinx begins 10 glover.
have to steal from Moore to-day
10 get a leader for the Tower.
oh. erer thus!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

There s only this in his favor. he is far from
numerous. And the percentage of unfairness In
tennis commentators is unusually low.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
1T TAKES ALL KINDS, ETC.

There's nothing to that is quite distressing,
These days when the Fahrenheit scars 'mongst the
trees,
As to see young fop who's gone daffy DRESSING
With trousers that flap halfway up to his knees.
c. A. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

Progressive Is entered in the fourth race at En-.
plre City to-day but so is Rolling Stone and We
are noDplussed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

Sir: Please pin flower the politician who
pronounces circumstance" "coicumstahnce,' thus
conciliating all classes. FREDDIE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

The golf fan is pest and the baseball flbert
nuisance But the tennis nut is the unfairest Of
all You should hear him rave about the Davis
Cup team selection To his notion, the choices
were made solely so that Australasia might win.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

~. -,,s,,. r.s. its best endeavors 70 ,rs and 10
ev,rv advertisement u prints ms
avoid the publication or az
or claims
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL pEPYS.

July Ebay late. until little Carol came to call
me- and bid me good morning, which she did very
sweey and did sit at table with me whilst did
have breakfast and then Mistress Lillian did take
me to ride over the country in her petro-waggon
and in the afternoon all for plunge into the
Sound and swan y mile With c. Riegemau,
who is a fine swimmer and the best host | have
had in near fortnight. In the evening he and
L. to dance but despising such frvolities did
stop at home and read little in X. Browning =
''The Ring and the Book, very fine and the first
time | read IT.
26-Ip and TO Edgemere and saw some fine ten
mis- playing in especial Mr. Aric Mans And t
did dishearten me to think that could never play
so well as some that are deemed inferior players ::
and to play we'll Mr.. Wilding ! would give
all | possess. TO the city in the evening and
laboured until eleven, when 10 a publck with g..
Rice the poet aud had some gingerbeer and some
what to eat but Il. did warn me against his grilled
oranges with maple syrup. which was needless
counsel, foresmuch | would not order such fod-
der to keep me from starving
27-Sept very ill., what with some mosquitoes
that buzzed noisy. and just after my telling j.
Pemberton Of the horrors Of them in Long Island.
Aud now hey are in my own ROOM in the city I.
Up early and to the courts with II. kellock and |
played well but not well enough to beat him more
than one sett in four and then we TO cheap
fly filled publIck and had some soup and bread
and cheese Thence with Margery TO the ballgame.
and saw the Pittsburghs defeat the Giants and
won S.. from w Trumbull on it. To the office and
hard at work and thence TO the playhouse to see
Julius Tannens first performance in the part Of
"Mawruss Per- mutter" in NJ. Glasss dro play
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

Offhand now. you who talk about the war
what's the capital Of Servla? What are its bouu
diaries?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

That hiatus between the Giants and the Cubs
standings remains gappy ever Miss Ara.
bella Cinch is the o. f. coquette, apparently; no
neo- feminisin for her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

The athaeic Playboys Of the Western World
are having regular massacre.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28
Ode to New Bri,ain's City Commissions.

Ode to New Brians City Commissions.
r. J. Easan in the New Britain Conn Record
We have new Collector OF property tax
Who has already begun TO swing his axe.
In collecting back taxes he'll have uphill work
Because his predecessors their duty did shirk
The Town and City Clerk record all events
Births. marriages. and interments
Mortgages. loans. bills OF sale.
Dog tax and license to sell liquor and ale.
The Board Of Health has three NJ. De in number
bacterologst. businessman and plumber.
The bugs and germs will have 10 die
Agains, this combination they cannot get by
mo RELIEF IN SIGHT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

Entered AZ the Postorice al New 1orE ="
h"''''N - ~ Mail Matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

Yesterdays street temperature: so; Yesterday
Coming Tower temperature: SO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-28

owned and published DAILY ~ TIE Rea President
New York corporation centh ,i Address Tribune
.rncr Rogers Secretary and IreasTI,L
.ufdirg, No. l54 Nassau ST. Ne" A''N
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ONE-CENT POSTAGE.

Boston, prolific in suggestions, and
usually in good suggestions, comes
forward with the latest plan for
meeting the demand for decrease
letter postage. 1t involves the ad-
mission to the mails of sealed let
ters bearing a one-cent stamp, but on
conditions that such letters shall not
be entitled to the special privileges
Of first class mater.
The plan was formulated by the
Boston chamber Of commerce and is
described in the Springfield Repub-
Ecan as follows:
The chambers suggestion is that
scaled letters, for which speedy trans
portation and prompt delivery are not
expected by the sender, be admitted to
the mails at one cent. This arrange
ment would meet a large part of the
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- send for two cents large quantity
OF bills, checks and other matter for
which prompt delivery is of no special
Importance, and for which the present
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IL II admitted sealed envelopes.
In other words, persons would be
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rally reduced by this arrangement, and
IN. preference now accorded Il in all
stages of its transmission would be cor
-espondingly more effective.
Whether the plan is feasible in
every way, it is ingenious certainly
and merits the attention of the pos
tai authorities.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

to the army officers, anent Ulster.
1t would be fine if his royal atten-
ton could be kept absorbed in ad-
justing card-room difficulties, and
away from the less grave problems
of statecraft.
We learn from the dispatches that
this card performance was in con-
nection with a poker game. Last
time royalty was dragged through
the white circle of the spotlight's
ray in a card scandal, it was over a
baccarat - pronounced raw game.
Americans didn't know much about
baccarat, and half their ediication
over the affair was spoiled on that
account. Therefore it is gratifying
to note the concession to American
prejudices and provincialism that is
indicated by the adoption of our
own beloved national institution of
draw poker as the medium in the
present instance. 1t may mean
either that the American invasion of
Britain has got to the point where
poker is crowding ouS baccarat;
which would be in itself most pleas
ing to national pride; or it may in
dicate that, in the desire to culti-
vate the amiable sentiments of the
American cousins, the best circles
have adopted game that we un-
derstand, so as to strengthen the tie
of common institutions and interests
that binds. Either way, it cannot
but please folks over here to note
the arrival of one of our distinctive
institutions in such high favor that
royalty is called in as umpire, to
determine whether j. is good form
TO have royal flush and four aces
turning up in the same round of
hands.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
TREE PEST DYING OFF.

The forest tent caterpillar, which
has infested the East for the last
three years, is at last falling vic
tim. entcmologists say, to the evils
- its own congested life. The pest
is worse this year than ever before,
rUt its great numbers are expected
10 be fatal to it.
This caterpillar. as every one who
has been in the country this spring
knows, builds large community webs
or tents in apple and wild cherry
;rees and comes out in the daytime
TO devour the foliage. Increasing
numbers have made these tents like
the crowded tenements of slums, and
disease has followed as naturally as
it follows where too many human
beings are huddled together. Wilt
aisease, which is sort of cholera,
has broken out among the cater
pillars and they are dying by hun
dreds as they fall to the ground from
weakness. Thus nature restores her
balance by reducing the colonies to
comparatively harmless sizes.
Tree owners could hasten the dis
appearance of the pest by burning
the tents at night, when the insects
are at home. Most owners of apple
orchards have been busy at this for
month, but the wild cherry trees,
not being considered valuable, arc
neglected, and it is there that the
caterpillar has a security which
would be alarming if the wilt did
not promise to reduce the horde.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
A ROYAL CARD SCANDAL.

With thrilling interest the world
reads that memocr of the royal
British household has been accused
Of cheating at cards, and that the
King is awfully upset over it. In
decd, he omitted, if the cables are
correct, a weekend trip to the
country; also, various unnamed per-
sons were absent from the latest
court function because of the asso-
ciation Of their names with the gos-
sip about the card affair.
This is very awful. The King is
holding conferences with high, or
theoretically high, persons con-
cerned in the matter. 1t is gathered
that matters will go hard with
somebody: presumably, with the
person who introduced the bowie
knife. the fifth ace, the stacked deck,
The six-shooter, Or whatever other
Instrumentality of prejudice was
brought to bear in the scandalized
Poler game. The King is arbitrat-
ing the affair; and doubtless he, will
do better at it than he did in han
ding the relation of the government
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
THE TEN-DAY CLAUSE.

1t is perfectly safe to say that the
validity of the ten-day clause in the
contracts of organized baseball will
not be settled by the decision of the
judge of an Illinois State court, who
has held it to be valid and binding.
Against that view are opposed al
ready those of the judges of two
Federal courts and body Of profes-
sional opinion entitled to largest
confidence.
1t is not without consequence eth
er that the Illinois judges decision
does not accord with the principles
Of equity and fair dealing as they
ere resolved in the public conscience.
The ordinary man in the street can
see no justice in a contract that
binds one party for a term of years
and which the other may ter
inmate on ten days notice. Nor will
the man in the street be impressed
by the manner in which, in the ILL
Eois case, this difficulty is surmount-
ed. The decision says:
1t seems improbable that the many
members constituting the great frater-
nifty Of baseball players should have for
score or more years voluntarily
signed such contracts Il the practical
effect of the clause resulted in the in
fiction of an unconsclonable hardship
on the players.
of course, the very heart of the
controversy lies in the fact that the
baseball player had no real liberty
Of choice, but was compelled either
to sign the contract presented to him
or find some other way of eNercis-
ing his baseball talents. Organized
baseball, moreover, n;onopolized all
the profitable ways. There may be
certain variety Of mutually in the
alternative, "Sign or be banished and
hlacklisted," but it is scarcely of the
Kind that the law is supposed to
approve.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

literature the foundation of the his
tory of New England.
A curious item in the survival OF
the manuscript is that at the time Of
the evacuation of Boston by the
British during the Revolution, IL dis
appeared, to be discovered eighty
years afterwards in the palace OF
forty years after this discovery, the
manuscript was returned by the
diocese of London to Massa chusetts.
which now preserves IL in the State
library at Boston.
The Massachusetts State Library
publishes a quarterly called The
Mayfiower Descendants" which has
long been the recognized authority
on Pilgrim Eeneaiogy. The society
also publishes separate volumes Of
town and cemetery records Trien-
NAL meetings of the general society
are held at Plymouth. Col. Thomas
Hopkins, Of this city. is the gov
ernor general. and member of the
local organization
Gen. Leonard Wood Is the governor
of the District of Columbia society.
Former President Taft is a member
registered here. Recently moru-
ment was erected at Plymouth Rock
by the general society in honor OF
the Pilgrims
The District society holds four
meetings each year. The first is usu-
aHv a dinner on the anniversary Of
the signing of the compact, No.
vember 81 Many prominent speak
ers are heard. Mr.. Taft was ini-
tiated at one of these dinners
In a recent article on patriotic
societies. the writer says: There
are more women than men in these
societies, more women's patriotic or
ganizations than mems. probably be-
cause wCmen have more time to de-
vote to such matters than men,"
The women were the first at the
Cross and last at the sepulchsr Of
the Saviour. Was this because they
had more leisure than the men?
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
ANSWERING MELLEN.

When Mellen, preSluenC ol lhe
New Haven railroad system during
its plunge from fabulous prosperity
to financial ruin, gave his sensation
al testimony before the Interstate
Commerce Commission there were
two kinds of men that did not be-
lieve all he said.
There was the man sophisticated
as to the aims and career of the
leading figure in the financial world
for years; to him the reputation OF
Morgan dead was worth more than
the allegations OF Mellen, alive and
to all intents and purposes turned
informer, anxious TO save himself
whatever the cost to others.
There was the man not at all
versed in the ways Of any banker,
but thoroughly familiar with the fact
that until the United States Gov
ernment was hot on his trail, Mellen
had always snapped his fingers in
the face of authority and baited the
public with a joyous abandon.
On the same stand as Mellen had
occupied, Lewis Cass Ledyard yes
terday challenged the veracity of
Mellen. He asserted that Mellen
mad expected and invited him to do
with the property of AN express
company which he represented and
with the property Of the New Haven,
of which he had become director,
things which as a gentleman and
faithful steward for others he could
not think of doing He declared that
Mellen, who had posed as martyr
in offering himself for a sacrifice to
save Morgan from grand jury pro-
ceedings, had really believed that
when he went before the grand jury
and told the Grand Trunk story as
he had told it to his fellow directors,
neither he nor anybody else would
be subjected to further bother or
suspicion.
AS between the cynical testimony
of Mellen and the quiet recital of
Ledyard it is as yet only one witness
against another witness. But, with
out forming final judgment as to
what really happened to the vast
wealth of the New Haven, who was
responsible, what was the purpose
and who personally benefited, there
is little doubt that to both the
and the unsophisticated
in such affairs the word of Ledyard
will stand for much more than the
word of Mellen.
It is not for newspapers to de-
eide that Ledyard in rebuttal of Mel.
len vindicates those who held the af-
fairs of the New Haven in the hol-
low of their hand. Big financial
and industrial builders make mis-
takes, some of them huge, like big !
soldiers, big statesmen, and big
business men, and what seems stu
pendous folly in one generation can
be justified by the results in the 4!
next as stroke of genius.
Until all the witnesses are heard |
and there will be others to answer |
Mellen as Ledyard has answered him
and until al the record of the
New Haven itself is worked out |
there will he no occasion to deliver
a last opinion as to the good or the
evil intent back of the events which
led TO the financial stress of the New
Haven. the downfall of Mellen and
then the astounding shifting of the
blame by him to a man in his grave.
But everybody can feel satisfac-
ton that now Mellen begins to be
and answered with words
IF responsibility and facts of sub
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

pass an effective dog law through a
State legislature is well-nigh impos-
yible, in fact in most States has been
quite impossible thus far; while to
enforce it after it is passed is still
more difficult.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
I ruths By Women Who
Know Organization
The Mayflower Descendants

Many patriotic organizations require descend
of male patriots Not the Society Maylower Descendants
Here eqnahty regns, not only sexually but socially.
Mrs. Mdud Lipscomb GreendwaH of the
District Society and president the District Chapter Daughters
OF the Revolution tells accomplish
mcntS of this society.
By MRS. MAUD LIpSCuMa GREENAWALT
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
Some of the Features in
TOmOrrOW'S Times

Washington who have entered the law medicine
and other professions have attracted wide attention But
did you know there large number OF feminine cap
tains of industry in the capital? Stories of how Washing
have built business houses of their form
series interest tales that will be told in
rows Times by j. R. Hildebrand.
Cooling Congress.
If it for good pure air could breathe and
live. Coop up than 400 persons in room without
proper ventilation and they would die In order
second wind fill the Congressional Record and the col
of the press in hot weather. Congress must be prop
erly supplied with fresh air. Readers of The
Sunday Times will learn what is done comfort Congress
during the hot weather.
Interest Fad of Society Leader.
If YOU are interested in Indian and Mexican baskets,
rugs pottery: and beadwork read the story which Mary
Edna Noyes has written for The Sunday Times telling Of
collection of these things which has been made by
of the society leaders of the Capital City, The collection IS
the result years. and rivaed only by the exhibit Of
Indian things at the National Museum
Jean Eliot's Gossip of Society,"
Do not fail to read the Jean Eliot in The Sunday
Times 1t is full of interesting tbits of gossip
coming and going of the social set In other way
can we'll acquainted with the inside
cernng Washington society by reading this letter written
especially for The Times.
Finding Prehistoric City.
Ruins of cities occupied by prehistoric race, clothed
with and history heretofore unknown the lay
have been unearhed in faro New Mexico under the
direction of the United States Government. With the
ception of few scientists there but few familiar
extent with these findings. Washington who
has spent years in surveying and studying these ruin fields
will tell the readers of tomorrows Sunday Times of these
explorations.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

With 1e,ooe southern Europeans on
their way to rail down homesteads, 1t
looks as IL trouble will be forced to
brew in the OZarks instead of the
Balkans. Forces the editors to pur-
chase a new rubber stamp.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
THE OLDEST INHAB SEZ-
Seems strange
that no patriotic
Americans have
offered t raise a
regiment fer ser
vice 1t Niagara
Falls

Mediators had better shake a leg.
June is the month of roses. brides.
and trips. to the Niagara Falls. Ro-
nance before everything else.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

Eminent authority on electrical
lighting says that too brilliant IL
Elimination of city streets is bad for
pedestrians. Bet you can't convince
Mt. Pleasant merchant of this.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

Nobody protests whenever a lot of
Americans are killed at motorcycle
race. This should give Huerta a new
angle of the game to operate from.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

The Aquitania encountered no ice.
That is. none outside that which was
safely confined to tinkling glasses.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

Good prima donna thinks she can
cook Which is better than having
a good cook think she can sing.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

TimoroTs cits. have no cause for
alarm. All those New Workers sun
daying here on those bargain cxcur-
sions nave round trip tickets. Were
alarmed ourselves until we looked it
up.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

Senator Cummins' admonition not
to give England more than she asks
for. is well meant, but unnecessary.
She has asked for everything. Can't
give her more than that.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
An usements.

National Martha" s:l5 D. NJ
Columbia-"Li Liberty Hall" s:I5 D. m
Polrs-''fhe Spendthrift, 2:lj and SIS D. m.
Keith s-vaudeN illc, 2:I5 and SIS u. IN
Iosmos-NaudeViile. continuous
CssiEo-Feature photoplays. afternoon and
evening.
Crsndalrs-PhotoplAys. afternoon and even
ing.
Clan Echo-All Am ussmsnls
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

In this Mexican imbroslio the trou-
bic seems to have shifted from our
southern to our northern border.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

Ladies now wearing hosettes. Same
thing, but sounds much more stylish
than socks
The Washington times., 1914-06-06
What's S on The Program in
Washington
TODAY.

Odd FelIows-Canton WashiD2to M pa
friarchs Militant.
National Union-Government Printing Office
i-LitnEll-
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

Sir Moses Ezekiel was a guest at
dinner last night of Col. J. F. Reyn-
olds Lands and Mrs. Lands at their
home in Twenty first street. He Wis
tied Arlington yesterday morning and
will go to Mt. Vernon today.
The Washington times., 1914-06-06

Mr.. and Mrs. william Reyburn have
given up their house on Nineteenth