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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
Supreme Court Ends
Water Supply Fight, Re-
fusing to Enjoin City.
CAN'T GET MONOPOLY
BY FILING A MAP
Fight Started When City Re.
fused to Bargain with
Claimants.
From The Tribune Bureau. !

Washington, March 9Th, efforts OF
tine Ramapo Water Company TO re.
strain New York from building the new
water system were brought to fruit
less end to-day. The United States Su-
preme Court, declaring that ths Ram
apo company had no vested rights in
the watersheds now included in the
New York system, affirmed the de
cision of the lower court.
The Ramapo Water Company, organ
lied in 1887, filed maps covering sub
stantially the whole Of the drainage
areas Of Esopus, Catskill, Schoharie and
Roundout creeks. When New York
proceeded to take over these areas for
the new water supply the company
filed bill in equity alleging that its
rights were being transgressed after
its effort to supply the city with water
waI rejected.
Nothing short OF specific decision
Of the Court OF Appeals" the Supreme
Court said in its opinion today,
would make US believe that the act OF
1895 gave the plaintiff, without Lotice
to land owners or other preliminary, a
vested right, seemingly unlimited in
time, to exclude the rest Of tn, world
from watersheds it chose simply By
filing map
This last Lefeat will probably lay the
ghost of the old Ramapo company. In
1905 there was a bitter fight by Con-
troler Coler and others against what
they called the Kamapo steal. The
company had 2 franchise dating back
to 1887 and tried 10 negotiate con-
tract 10 supply the city with water for
forty years at s5,000,000 year. The
men back Of me company were never
revealed. but it was alleged at the
time that instead of selling the $780,
00J of stock the managers had handed
il around 20 politicians.
Instead of making the proposed bar
gain with the Ramapo company the
city started the CatSkill system. In
1911. when the report of the condem-
nation comm Ssioners on some lands "a
be taken by the city was up, the
Ramapo company popped up in court
and claimed heavy damages on the
ground that il had obtained right q
the head waters Of the system. Justice
Mills. in the Supreme Court in White
Plains. rejec ed the claim.
A year ago the Ramapo ghost ap
peared in the United States District
Court. The company asserted 1t hsc
paid $4,000 for options in the water
shed area. and that the city had later
condemned property in the area GOV
cred by its maps. II asked for an IN
junction and a receiver to take charge
Of the system as far as completed by
the city. Judge Ward dismissed thu
suit and the company then took an ap
peal.
The defendants we're the members o.
the Water Board-Charles Strauss
F. Calvin and Charles y. Chadwick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
School Pupils Have for
Civics Lessons MuniC-
ipal Problems.
EDUCATION BOARD
. A LITTLE BETTER
Some Improvement Is Shown,
Says Critic, but Body Is Still
Far from Democratic.
By HENRIETTA RODMAN.

Chicago children are learning ciyics
by studying Chicago" Professor
Charles Zuebin told me. Professor
Zueblin is himself perhaps the most
popular teacher of ciyics in the coun-
try.
THE only way 20 prepare for citizen
ship is to study your city, isn't 1t!
How much of that is done IN the New
York schools?'
admitted / didn't know. | wanted
to know more about Chicago.
They take different city departments
in different grades" said Professor
Zueblin. 81 believe it was IN the thlrd
grade that they studied the fire depart
ment. The large number OF fres IN the
tenement districts brought up questions
of space. air, light and social relations.
THE sixth grade followed up the
methods of the contractors In paving
and building, and then requested I'M
provements in the school grounds,
based on their own specifications. me
seventh grade studied the smoke null
sance and made an examination OF the
revised code Of Chicago.
Study Many Civic Problems.
"This resulted in special attention
being given to the disposition OF the
city's wastes, and an individual pro.
posal from each child of method OF
solution. The eighth grade folloWea
this subject into the Intrlcacles OF
sewerage and drainage, studying the
history Of Chicago and its most recent
accomplishments.
THE mechanical genius OF the boys
found expression in the construction OF
bridges. locks, boats and all appurte-
uances OF the drainage canal. inns SUP
iect was not left without considerable
survey of the governmental questions
involved
"Citizenship is life. why Try u
learn it from book!
"Nanv schools use the daily press IN
their civics classes. Public Libraries CO.
operate. as the library at Houghton'
/ Mich. High school s,nIors gather tneree
and clip the exchanges OF the local
paper. They have been told to look tor
noiitical. economic or social data, espe'
ciallv pertaining to Michigan. THESE
are classified and are used In the ewes
and history classes, and in the hngllsn
department also"
/ By-the-way, how much time is oelni
given in New York to the study of New
York's problems? And how Intelligent
are we as citizens. anyhow
Suppose we each had to take an ex
animation tomorrow on what Other
cities here and abroad are doing tC
solve the problem of unemployment
the needs of the Department OF Chari
ties: DR.. Davis's work in the Depart
ment of Correction; and comparison
Of New York and Chicago schools.
Would you pass?
You would not, and neither would !
and yet il anythinG is our business eN
cept buying our dinner. it IS the com
munity in which we live.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
CHINESE COUPLE TO WED
Dr.. Chung and Bride-to- Be
First to Marry in Church Here.

Mrs. Chung Fun Ping. former mead
mistress of a girls school in hong
Kong and another in Canton, Will De
the bride, Thursday, at the hrst wed
ding ever performed in the Chinese
PRESBYTERIAN Church. at 223 East
Ibirty-frst Street. The bridegroom
viii be Dr. Chung Wing Kwong, for
merely dean of Canton Christian Col
lcge. srI,
DR.. Chung was Commissioner OF Edu-
cation of Kwang Tung Province. I'M
mediately after the overthrow OF the
Nanchu monarchy, but when the sec
ond revolution was defeated. in 1918
he was forced TO fee. lie got TO japan
and made his way to the United states.
Roth he and his fancee arc students al
Columbia. and Chinese there are plan
ming to give the couple reception
when they return from a honeymoon
trip in the West.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
STATE CAN SUE MORGAN
Virginia Allowed to Seek Re
turn of Washington Will.

Washington. March s-The Supreme
Court to-day formally granted the ap-
pication Of the State of Virginia for
permission 70 sue J. r. Morgan for the
return Of the will Of Martha Washing
ton. The state alleges the will was
taken from Fairfax County Court
House during the Civil War, and
eventually was sold TO the late }. Pier
pont Morgan His son has declined to
return il to the state.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
MAYOR RAPS LAWSON BILL
Satisfied with Woods-No
Place for Goethals Now.

at ia n splendid instance Of inter
fering with home rule" was the com
mcnt of the Mayor yesterday op the
Lawson bill. which would do away with
the present organization of the Police
Department and put in it's place de-
partment headed by Commissioner APP
pointed by the Board Of Estimate for
ten years, and Chief OF Police.
The Mayor expressed the greatest
satisfaction with Commissioner Woods
and frankly stated that the city no"
had no place for General Goethals, who
is seeking to retire from his place as
Governor OF the Panama Canal Zone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
fFrou Tn. Tribune Bureau
Washington. March
AuMy

fFrou The Tribune Bureau
Washington. March :.
ARMY.
Ma JOSEPH CASHIER. BIS, Inf assigned as
sIu'snt militia Of District o; Columbia 70 'Ae
W." noBTRT G. PAXTON. Q G, 10 Army ard
Nv, Genera Hospital Hot springs
cant THOMAS A PEARCE from 2sh 10 81 I'M.
=, al. c-s-, June ]. On expiration OF pfe,eht
is.ve - absence Capt pEAR'E all pfef'eel TO
Manila 10 oin regiment n which transferred
can CYRUS A DOLPH q. e.. assigned 20 'th
IN 10 faEeerect April ! ,.
c.of WILLIAM u NOBLE q 9. tlui'. assignee
s9th Inf To take e1eSi June !
NAVY.
r,,,, cop W W GALBRAITH detached -a'k'
Tredgar CO. Richmond and Raleigh Iron "or"
Itspt 'unior GRADE T. CONNOR. detached
EivsuEee. 70 temporary duty. Bureau o' ora
nance
~, r n GRAYsON detached navil training
d ,.flro Newport. 20 Brooklyn.
H.. L PEARSE. detached usTL training STA
IN, q :. DALE detached receiving ship Al Nor
rn o " II. o'BRIEN. detached Paul Jons' 10
rn., o'i0 B. ROBINSON. detached YOrs'o.n: to
Wv W. n DAUGHrRY. detached whirpl. -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
Wilson Cancels Frisco Trip,

Washington. March 8.-Formal an
nouncement that President Wilson will
be unable to attend the Panama Pa
cifc EXPOSITION at San Francisco this
month was made to-day at the White
House. The President said his reason
was the necessity Of keeping in close
touch with "the various matters which
tho government has 10 deal with"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09

think that this Board OF Education
* more Democrat, than previous
boards in its ideas OF the relations OF
teachers to principals and superintend-
ents. Il has n rather wholesome lack
of reverence for authority, other imam
its own and that helps.
But il is certainly autocratic enough
in its own relations with the teachers.
Take its treatment Of married women
and mothers as an example.
The teaching force as whole has
less self-g6 than the pupils
have. and vely much less than MI.
Osborne established in Sing sing IN
two months. Constitutional rights OF
teachers as citizens have been ignored
by the Board of Education.
You suggest that my opposicion 70
the boayd is petty. SO 1t Is II my mo,
tive is to get advancement Tor myseI
or TO hit back at the board.
| wonder if any one thinks me I'M
beetle enough TO believe that opposing
the school authorities when tnlhS
they're wrong will win me promotion
I've no doubt, however ina, mos
neople who've noticed me at all nave
decided that am Nlhdlc'l'e' pu''
really, I'm not
THE whole board, with the single eN-
contion Of Nr. Barondess, voted for my
SUSPENSION. But | have great respect
for about a third of them, and anec-
ton for several.
I,'s true that | think even the best
of them are comparatively futile as
members of the b. Of h.
Mr. Flexner's Case.
lake Nr. Abraham FleXner as an eX-
annie. Mr.. FleXner has earned an IN
ternational reputation as an expert on
educational affairs. As result OF a
study which he made. the e'hcIehcy OF
medical schools was raised IN all parts
Of the country
But what has Mr.. tle%ner accom- .
plished on the b. Of T.?
that is why I'm opposed to the pres .
ont board. or rather 10 any board OF
2 fortv-siX people. The few exceptional
neonle who can be persuaded TO take
nosi,lons on such board are over
wbelmed BY the representative major
lty. 80, ~ ..o,.
hoard i that il represents IA, good
average citizens As We are, but nov
intellectual giants.
We may get ourselves appointed 10 the
r of F.. YOU and !, or we might nave
dane so. before Mr.. Mitchel's day. II we
Eadn't been teachers. but that wou!dn I
have given US power 20 direct me
scbools Eight hundred thousand chill
dren-eight million years OF human
life.
Giants clothing doesn't make giants
If us little folk. 1t very often makes
US ridiculous.
The annual meeting Of the Frank 4.
Young Alumni Association Of Public
schools % and 81. The Bronx, will be
held in the auditorium OF Public School
50 on Friday evening, March II, 1915
at 8 o'clock.
The regular business Of the meeting
- TO be followed by entertainment and
social hour.
Miss Margaret {. Cummings. secre
tary Of the League for the Improve
ment Of the Comic Supplement OF the
Newspapers. will be the speaker at the
meeting Of the Mothers Club, Public
School S, Manhattan, Madison Avenue
and s5th Street, held on March TO- al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
Will Inspect City's Workshops

Colonel Roosevelt, Ebert II. Gary,
CITY Chamberlain Bruere, Jacob II.
SchiF. William H. ChilIs and Mrs.
James Speycr will visit the twenty-five
workshops Of Mayor MitchePs unem-
ploymcnt bureau tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
CLYDE La borers to Strike

Glasgow. March s.-Over $4,000 la
borers and unskillcd workmen IN the
CLYDE shipyards have decided to strike
next Saturday if an increase of two
cents an hour in their wages IS not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09
Democracy and the b. Of f.

A friendly teacher wrote me. yester-
day: Don't you really think that TINS
Board Of Education IS mucn more
democratic than any preceding one, and
that Mr. Churchill Is honestly trying
TO improve the schools?
1--WE noticed your tendency to nam.
mer the board. 1t seems 10 SAVIOR OF
smallness and is very unlike you.
you must remember that you are
still in the system and your direct ad-
vice may be interpreted as new at-
tack"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-09

Miss Margaret 6. Cummings. secre-
tary Of the League for the Improve
ment Of the Comic Supplement Of the
Newspapers. will be the speaker at the
meeting of the Mothers Club, Public
School S, Manhattan, Madison Avenue
and s5th Street, held on March 10, al 3
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09

sort Of opposition that Mr.. Sundays coming
should prove beneficial
The Vipiaidn has no. felt that it was incum
bent upon ii to advocate or oppose. previous TO
action by the Ministerial Union, the proposal to
invite MIR. Sunday. That other journals, never
cspecials noted for their support of religious
or moral movements. have felt called upon TO
oppose such step. and to act spokesman in
attempts 10 minimize the majority aud magnify
the minority OF tn" Christian ministers who
have been called upon TO decide this question
Aas not deferred rs from sticking to orr original
intention Of Withholding opinion until those
shosc business il Is to decide these matters
should haye taken final action
Now tina. the ministers, by an exceedingly
large majority despite assertions Of the after
aeon papers TO the contrary, have decided to eE'
tend this invitation. VIC trust that the union
HAY b. able no bring the evangelist here. For
cur, part We are Away willing to hear man
who serves God aud does good. That he does
his WORK differently 'rom what might do. or
from What members OF our own community
might do. does not alter IN the least the fact
HAT Mr. sunday has done and is now doing.
vas amount Of good There is too much evil
In the world Tor peorIo to spend their time
lighting good influences 1t will not be CON
tended we take it, that Mr. Sunday is "a bad
AS the sin he fights He hehta in the way that
has been given him to use.
II Mr.. Sundays influence is evil, if he is
wicked il he injuries the cause Of the church,
ar Judge thai one Of two things would have
happened In the first place the church o.
" bica he is an ordained minister would with
draw from him its credentials. In the second
place the church people in places Where he has
gone would unite to protest against his being
further allowed to carry on his work As neither
Of these things has happened and there appears
20 prospect that either of them will happen. We
are willing to believe that Mr. Sundays efforts
have accomplished good results.
Now that the matter has been settled and the
Invitation Is IL ba extended. Richmond will give
Mr. Sunday cordial welcome. and assist him
in his work As II will be at least two years
before he can come, n then. there will be ample
time to watch the results of his work elsewhere
and In that time part Of the opposition to his
coming will bave been convinced OF his good
works by the results he attains.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09
s~
FIRE AKs OF TIT. NEWS.

In one paper. Monday morning paper, 1t is
almost needless to add, came across three
OF those news freaks that SO often creep into
print when. live copy is scarce.
The first freak story OF a hair-cutting
contest in Philadelphia in which the "hairiest
man In the. city was trimmed to style by
barber In -four and half minutes, for which
exhibition prize of one thousand good, hard
dollars was paid Hair beard and moustache
were reduced from flowing locks to ordered neat
ness in four minutes and thirty seconds, And
there were six other "hairiest men" being op-
Grated On at the time. Evidently Mr.. Sun
day hasn't fayed the hide off all the Philadel-
phianS yet
Then Nc saw that out in Indiana man has
counted up all the dogs in the State on which
taxes are paid and finds that there arc in 1n
diana 166,3i7 licensed, so to speak, dogs. Then
the story went on to estimate that there are at
least that many more dogs that escape taxation
in Indiana, and we thought if Indiana is any
thing like some other places the estimate is too
los-there are about three times as many strays
as there are licensed dogs And then We read
little further and found that it agent
for dog soap who took the dog census. so We
decided to abandon our original intention OF
advocating the creation OF dog censustsker
III Virginia.
The last story about tat man VINO go,
up on top OF two-story house to mend his
chimney, and when he was ready 10 come down
had nervous prostration and made the neigbbors
take him off with derrick for fear the ladder
would break and the fall would kill him. We
thought he must De 4 very delicate man until
finished the story and in The last line it said
Tie man weighed four hundred pounds and
then We decided he had a lot more sense than
either The 'hairiest man" TOR letting the barber
practice on him. or the dog censustaker for
counting tire dogs. But even at that it was some
freak stor,- fer that four hundred pound man to
climb that iaGder the FIRST time without break
Ing il So We decided they were three freak
stories,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09

The personal equation OF whether me Mayor
the Board Of Police Commissioners the Chiof Of
Police, or the police force have been responsible
for nouenforoemcnt Of the ia3 .s n1t now the
question In Which the public IS interested. What
the public IS interested in IS getting tie law
enforced
Mayor Ainslic msg 1o, have been responsible
-lor the Law not being enfoFced The Police Com
missioners may not nave been responsible. the
Chief may rot have been responsible the force
may not hav- been responsible any one OF
them sepsrately-but the public knows that the
Law has not been enforced. The Vice Commits
sion has declared that the social evil has reached
al extent IN tais city that would not have been
credited previous to its report Had any
one else said. On our ogn Information. what the
commission nov says officially our testimony
would have been attacked as unreliable and We
u untrustvorthy.
The facts are thai t,e enforcement u the law
rests with the Police Department, which is com
posed of Mayor Commissioners. Chief and pa.
'folmen, and that the Law has not been on.
forced As The rjrgja,aa pointed out months
aae. and as the repor. Of the commission now
states as public record aud offcial fact. the
iav has not been enforced, Why not?
Mayor Ainslic is bound by his campaign
promise, and the statement made to The tjr-
giiilaa that he would stand on those promises
nov that the report is before him. to see that
the law is upheld as recommended by the Vice
commission
The board Of Police Commissioners, through
statements made by its members 10 the pres,
since thc Vic Commission made its report
seem 70 have had their feelings hurt by the re
pert because The commission complimented the
Chief OF Police and members of the force and
urged that h1al responsibility and power be
gwen the chief in dealing with the social evil
Ne sorry that anybody's feelings are hart
nut Official responsibility must be met regard
lHss Of feelings We do not believe that this
hoard can successfully combat tho logic Of The
assertion hat the Chief should have power tc
control and direct the enforcement Of the Law
The bosrd contends through statements OF ~
Z members that the Chief has not been restrained
in sis actions but as the public sees the situa
1ion the law las NOT teen enforced In the past
aaa mayor. toMu@ssloioFS, Nh}Ff ana baiTniuen
knew that il MAS not enforced, Vet the Mayor
did not order the law 70 be enforced the Com
missioner did not order it enforced. the Chief
did not order il enforced and tho force did no,
eniorcc Il The responsibility, Therefore rests
pn the whole department, and the commission :
report places il squsrely up to the department
- give the city That II wants NOR than it
i wants Individual explanations more shan il
wants official dignity upheld. more taau 1T wants
division Of authority -~ha tbe publi5 wants is
tito suppression of VIC through tie enforcement
Of The Law. Ne MAI contends that tbe law has
been enforced. tae Wee Commission re,ites con
ditions that should demand immediate enforce
sncn', and he question is UP 10 The department.
viii we sot l4v cnforr ement and abeue
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09
ONLY $4,000 BORROWED or
GREAT COTTON LOAN FUND

Washington. Feb. s-Announce-
faeat was made nj tire Treasury De-
patsment II The closing OF loans irons
the Wade cotton fund, and OF plans
&c mpletsd whereby the $3.50 actu-
ally loaned would be covered with
ust resort II calls upon subscribers.
The Federal Reserve Board members
who acted unofIicially as central
committee for the administration of
the fund. have arranged to borrow
this amount upon collateral received
by II in the completion OF the subscrip-
lions. or the 500. 900, 900 subscribed.
only $4,000 was borrowed. the fund
MOI proving popular
4 statement issued at the Treasury
Department exprrssed the belief that
tine bencficinf effects or the fund
should not he guagcd by the extenk
10 which borrowers had made actual
resort to III 81 II
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09
PAULINE STONE
IS FATALLY BURNED

faaline stone, -FOUR years old. re
sidlng with her parents At els Holly
street. died in the Virginia Hospital
about $50 o'clock last night, from
burns received when her clothes
were ignited from lighted gas JET,
during the absence OF her parents from
a room of her home in which she WAS
playing about $40 o'clock yesterday
afternoon Her screams of agony At
tracted the attention of her. mother.
who rushed into the room to find the
little girl rolling about the floor with
her clothes In a blaze. The flames were
extihguished by the parent with the aid
Of clothing which she grabbed from
a chair and wrapped about the burning
child
Ambulance Surgeon Stern was called
but after rendering temporary relief
from the young childs suffering, he
rushed her 10 the Virginia Hospital
She succumhed Il few hours later de
spite every effort of the City Hospital
PHYSICIANS 10 save her life
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09
llespectfullN
W. +. ST -TTON.

> 7
as the article appeared in the Virginia Cit-
zen, refer the correspondent to that paper
for informaton.--Ed Nirginian.1
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-09
APPLICATIONS ARE
COMING IN FOR WORK

The Richmond Public Employment
Bureau was opened officially sest'r-
day morning., and many applications
for positions We're received.
Manager Dickie asks All persons
who may have positions 10 offer TO
get in touch with the bureau al once.
and he advises all persons out of EN-
ploy ment TO file their names In the
office.
Absolutely no charge is made for
either supplying employees or furnish
ing jobs.
"By cooperation, said member of
the board, the bureau may be made