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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The New Party in England

such opportunities, in life work and play
as will insure contented, patriotic race.
The concluding clause refers TO demobili-
cation and reconstructive measures after
the war. The peroration charges that the
old parties are not only inadequate but
actually obstacles in the way of national
reconstruction.
The projectors of the movement include
Lord Ampthill, former Viceroy of India;
Sir John Harrington, who commanded Ia
France during the early part of the war;
Admiral Markham, the explorer; General
Galley, Lord Montagu, Lord Leconfeld
end number of other Unionst members
Of Parliament, noblemen, military and
naval officers.
The information also is conveyed that
r,any Liberal NJ. P.'s and others are join.
ing the party, which has set up headquar.
tiers in the chief cities of England, Scot
land and Wales. The New Haven Regis
ter" which reviews the possibilities Of
the Nationalist, is Of the opinion that
"Ihe movement seems 10 be the result OF
a rising tide of opinion that there has teen
too mueh party politics and personal s'hol-
ton in connection with the conduct OF tho
war to date, and the new party hopes 70 De
able TO obtain enough votes TO suosulu''
for the policy of backing and sling
straightforward course of procedure WHICH
will give hope of an early victory
"The London Globe" is Of the opn-
ion that the founders are not going the
right way about it, but should make their
reforms from within the old parties, espe-
cially the Unionist.
With infinite scorn "The Dundee Adyer'
tiser" views the new party and its found
ers, claiming that what the country wants
is not more party politics but less In's
laper likens the founders to the 'tailors Oh
Tooley Street." an invidious comparison
frequently made by the English papers.
This journal further observes:
Now comes the National party Multi
tudes of people, who certainly will not Go so'
could subscribe to its profession OF Ems
The derisive thing 10 that twenty-six gen.
tlemen, none of them distinguished, most OF
them bearing names Of at the most MODE"
local celebrity, should be so destitute OF inc
sense of the ridiculous as TO arrogart !"
them selves the National name. They are
certainly among the growing brood OF the
tailors aforesaid"
And the London correspondent Of To
same paper sees in the movement mersly
camouflage for the revival of the old taria
reform agitation. This has been alwaySe
favorite with tho landowning and asran13
classes, who want to see breadstufs ~
agricultural products protected. 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
War MenaCes Russian Art

all of them are generally admitted to be gen
une
THE picture collection was founded by
Peter the Great, but it owed its chief devel-
opment to Catherine the Great. 1t is inter
esting TO recall that among her chief acquisi-
tons were Sir Robert Walpole's Houghton
Hall collection, including a number of very
fine Van Dycks, and quantity of pictures
which had been bought for Frederick the
Great, but which the real founder of Prus-
sian militarism was unable TO accept owing to
the impoverishment caused by his wars.
"On the lower floor of the Hermitage are
vast collections of Greek, Roman and other
antiques, porcelain. coins, gold and silver
smiths work armor and other objects Of
artistic, antiquarian or historical interest.
Many Of these things are priceless as works
of art. Others, being made of gold have a
nigh intrinsic value.
THE pictures in the adjoining Winter Pal.
ace are mainly of historical interest, but
the crown jewels, which are kept here, repre-
sent an immense fortune. The sceptre alone
is valued at 2,400 900 rubles (normally f24O.-
000). Among the jewels with which it is
encrusted is the famous 0rlok diamond This
stone, which weighs 1S5 carsts, was stolen
by Sepoy in India and fell into the hands
CT an Armenian merchant. II was bought in
Amsterdam by Count Orlof, one of the favor
ties of Catherine the Great, at the price of
100000 rubles in hard cash, an annuity of
1000 rubles and title. The purchaser, of
course, presented it 70 his imperial mistress.
The Crown OF the Cars is valued at the
comparatively modest sum of 10000 900 rubles.
II was ordered by Catherine ii, but she died
before she had time to wear it,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The Cost of the World War

The estimated cost of the world war,
to date, is, approximately, 100000, 900, 900,
sum almost beyond the comprehension
of the average individual. 1t means a
per capita cost of about $50 for every
man, woman and child on earth. That
expenditures for war purposes are not
growing less, in the aggregate, is seen by
the fact that the daily cost to all belliger-
ents is now about s117,OO0,000. This COM
pares with about 100000 900 six months
or so ago. Now that the United States
has entered the conflict, it is probable, from
this time forward, that the expenditures
will increase much more pidly-Chris-
tan Science Monitor,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
1.-THE Engineering News-Record" writes
thus of the operation:

AT sunrise, with perfect weather, the span
was foated out from it's erection supports.
using the same scows that did the work a
year ago. 1t reached the bridge site and
was moored to the hanging moorng trusses
by 1880 The four chairs under the ends of
the span were attached to the eyebar lift
ing chains, and at $3.50 jacking was begun,
raising the span clear of the scows in an
tour. By 4:4O p. m. twelve two-foot lifts
had been made, and then work was stopped
for the night, the span being first anchored
against wind.
lacking was resumed at a. m. Tuesday,
and except for the noon-hour interruption,
continued till $3.50 p. m, twenty-five more
lifts being made, total from the start Of
thirty four, or sixty-eight feet Of lift The
work was not hurried and it was interrupt
ed from time to time to remove the freed
links of the lifting chains
Acclaiming the magnitude of the under
taking, "The Boston Herald" says:
"The victory of the engineers at Quebec
yesterday should not pass unnotced, for in
it there is much of encouragement and in
spiraton. The worlds greatest bridge is
completed, an epoch mark in itself. But
more than this alone is the significant fact
that, in spite of two catastrophe failures,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

@NE of the reasons why Spain has
II failed to join the Allies is the
~ Spanish enmity toward Great
Britain for its seizure Of Gibraltar. In
England there has been existing for more
than sixty years an organization de-
nouncing the British hold of Gibraltar as
Immoral, antisocial and hypocritical.'
The chief spokesman for that organiza-
ton is Frederic Harrison. In remark
able contribution to a rec mt issue OF
"The Manchester Guardian" he outlines
the arguments for the return of Gibraltar
to Spain. He begins his exposition by
laying down the following three postu-
lates:
| "First-Britan cannot appear at con-
gress for the pacifcation of Europe with
| honor, even with decency, unless we are
ready TO cede Gibraltar to Span-so soon
as peace IS assured
Second -Tmpregnable is the Rock from
naval attack, the town and port on its west
ern front is at the mercy OF great army
posted on the heights to the north on the
continent of Spain and armed with the enor-
nous modern guns.
"Third-For sixty years now an organized
group of British publicists have urged, and
they still do urge, their countrymen TO see
that our retention of a Spanish city and
| fortress is an indelible blot on the honesty
of our boosted respect for nationalities,'
our horror Of "imperialist domination
"The town, port and fortress Of Gibraltar
is not only an integral and vital key TO
, Spain, but to all who sail up and down the
! Mediterranean, to all who come east from
the Atlantic; it is the most conspicuous
mark of Spanish humiliation, Of British
| bride. We won it by arms; we have retained
it by arms, in defiance Of all that Spain and
| her allies could do by sea or land, by nego-
| tiations, by treaties, and by incessant re-
! heart Of every Spaniard; it is thought to
swell the heart Of every Briton. Napoleon
said, very truly, 1T secured SPANS hatred
of England 1t has been well said: TO have
lost it is SPANS misfortune; to forget it
would be her disgrace For the two hun
| dred years that we have held the town we
I have made il resort of smugglers, gypsies,
vagabonds, African rogues, Spanish rebels
a Sentinn gentium. As a systematic en-
porium of the smuggling Of Spanish prod
ucts into Britain, Of British goods into
| Spain, for generations Gibraltar was notori-
Gus. This is now less general, but some
forty years ago my own brother was capt
ured by sort of piratcal smuggling craft,
and was an unwilling witness of a vast sys-
TEN of organized thievery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
n Hr. Shaw Says a Bad Mother
wi Eclipses a Good Beadle

The formation Of an endless headline
has always been a favorite idea with
George Bernard Shaw, who, intensely in
terested in any steps toward a realization
If his dream, writes thus in "The West
minister Gazette" of Judge Neil:
Judge Neil had the great advantage OF
having no other business in England than TO
save the babies Also he seemed to know by
instinct what the Germans had demonstrated
at enormous expense in Berlin by the insti-
tuition of the Empress Augustus House
where children are given all the costly ad-
vantages that can be conferred on them by
an institution which is exhibited to all Eu-
rope as a model of its kind and a wonder of
the very latest scientific hygiene and baby
culture, with the remarkable result that a
child brought up on the mud floor Of Con-
naught cabin can have had its life insured
at a much lower rate than a Kaiserin Au-
gusta child if anybody should happen to
think Of insuring it at all. Judge Neil, a
man. Of powerful originality, conceived the
startling notion that as child must, after
ALL be looked after by somebody until q
Trustworthy combined incubator, stomach
pump and vacuum cleaner is invented, that
somebody may as we'll be the child's mother.
He proposed, in short, 10 tear the children
from the aching arms of the official guar
dams of the poor and the beadle, and fling
them naked on the maternal breast I'm
natural as il seemed, the notion had its goo'
points IL was much cheaper, and the chill.
dren did not die of 1t as they did in the
constructing caresses of the official custodl-
ans. Within reason even a bad mother is
better than a good beade.
" No doubt this arrangement
tends 20 abolish class hatred by encouraging
affectionate relations between the proetariat
and the bourgeoise, but Judge Neil could not
be made to understand why respectable
married woman, struggling to bring up six
children. should have a starvation pittsnce
Coled out to her with every circumstance of
bitter, humilating and continuous insult
whilst less scrupulous one should have
twice as much without any worse ordeal thar
facing just once smile from magistrate
and his staff"
Commenting on the state subsidy OF
birth, "The New York Medical Journal
quotes "The Lancet" as maintaining that
'the war is familiarizing the whole civil
lied world with the notion of endowino
motherhood in one form or another, anC
more is likely to be heard of it," and re
marks:
More should and will be heard OF II, fol
| just the reason of this advance into truer
community life. 1t was the herding instinc
that gradually brought man out from hi,
early isolation to make him a social being
Socializing has always cost him something
first, a curtalment of personal freedom il
order to build up more extensive liberty il
safety and opportunity to pursue cultura
advance Just so, likewise, his herding bring
bin always n certain material cost as il will
in this case Of state subsidy the preservation
| and increase of population"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
What Sort Of Place the
w Rock" Really Is.

my present argument is one Of interns.
tional justice, good faith end plain DEALING.
But | will add few words on the scientific
and military problem, about which happen
to have some special information. have
studied Gibraltar on the spot The town
and port lying under the Rock and facing
west may be impregnable from any naval
attack, and fifty years ago might be safe
from any land attack Of the old gunrery.
But even a layman can see at glance that
that town and port to-day may be absolutely
pulverized by a great modern army posted
or and over the range Of hills on the north.
I challenge military denial Of my statement
that neither town nor ship could stand
against modern artillery on the Spanish
mainland. The Rock may be impregnabe,
and might hold 10000 men, but it could not
save town and port from being destroyed by
invisible cannon served by 100000 or 100000
men many miles distant
"Many years ago | met a colonel Of srtil.
lery who had just left a very important
command Of three years at Gibraltar. He
told me that with the recent improvements
in guns. the port had become indefensible
and unfit as a station for our navy He
added that he had felt it his duty 10 tell
the commander in chief at home Of his con-
viction.
"On later visit to Gibraltar was shown
over the Notifications by an officer of rank,
who explained the system and took me into
bastions which he said they neve, allowed
foreigners to see. Standing high up near
Signal Point, and looking across to tho hills
around, said: NO ship could lie If attacked
by a great modern army out there Ny
friend agreed to this. This was some years
ago, long before the days of twenty.srmy
corps and 16-inch shells. Where would our
feet be if in 1914 Spain had agreed to put
such German force within ten miles Of
our imuregnable Rock? Every one knows
that the great depth of water on the eastern
side of it gives no possibility of practi-
cable port The Rock might stand siege
for years but the harbor and town are now
idle bluff 20 u.s."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

r IKE poverty war makes strange bed
fellows. Coalition cabinets have
been formed in some of the allied
countries as a means of unifying and
strengthening the executive functions, and
the British Cabinet to-day is melange Of
nearly all parties--Unionist, Liberal, La
bor Radical and Irish. Some such scheme
as this for the United States was preached
in the press not long ago; but now Eng
land is going further on the line of ANAL
gamation and new party has been
formed to embrace all amenable factions,
the reports tell the public.
This contemplates the formation of an
entirely new party from the ground up,
and is thus differentiated from a coalition
cabinet in that the latter includes the lead
ers only and is by way of being merely a
wartime modus rivendi. 1t may be re-
called that the present Unionist party
was formed from the old Tory party and
the great Wing landowners and others Of
the Liberal party opposed to Home Rule
for Ireland number of years ago.
According to the special correspondence
c. The Tribune, which has been confirmed
and amplifed by the English papers sub
sequently arriving, the National party, as
it is designated, is launched with the
avowed object of promoting reform"
union" and defence and gives promise
Of becoming a major influence in political
affairs.
! Generally speaking, the manifesto of
the newly Matched organization extols
courage, honesty, thoroughness and indus
try in public men as qualities which the
war has shown would be rated above mere
cieverness, eloquence and skilful self -ad.
vertisement.
This manifesto also charges the Union
ist, Liberal and Labor parties, in coalition,
with delay in providing men, aeroplanes
and other mechanical needs; failure to
punish the incompetent; for permitting
sectional interference in diplomacy, and
for leaving the country in state of uncer-
tainty and encouragement as result of
vague statements, in which the whole truth
was rarely divulged.
! Most significant is the clause which
suggests an alliance between capital and
| labor to share in the benefits of economic
defence, with "due regard to the interests
Of the consumer" Socialistc measures
are seen in the proposal to adopt ma
tional social policy based upon the Pr:rci-
PIE that the people shall be rea:ed in sue,
surroundings, in such conditions and with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

DETRoGRAD's invaluable art collec-
tions are in danger of being plum
dered. This is the warning of the
Petrograd correspondent of "The London
Daily Telegraph" issued after the recent
pillaging of the great historical museum
of Grand Duke Michael, when 100000
rubles' worth of treasures and pictures
were stolen. He writes:
Zone of the earliest acts of the first Pro-
visional Government TO order the prep
aration of law for the protection of the in
Vulnerable valuable pictures and objets dart
which had been accumulated in the palaces
Of Nicholas II and his family. II was not,
however until the middle of July that this
measure was submitted FOR confirmation, and
the official in charge of what had been the
Ministry of the Imperial Court then reported
that many precious things had already been
flched from the Alexander Palace at Tsar-
skoe-Selo, where the exCzar lived till his
removal to Tobolsk.
"Nor is that the only case in which the
subordinate agents OF the revolutionary gov
eminent have been unable TO resist the temp
tation to plumber the premises intrusted to
X.
dered at, for it was necessary to improvise
a vast public service on the spur of the mo-
ment, and there was no time thoroughly TO
check the credentials of those who offered
themselves.
Thus, after the palace Of the Duke OF
Leuchtenberg had been turned upside down
and plundered by band of anarchists, it
was found that their depredations had been
connived at. if not actively promoted, by the
chief of the militia for the district in which
the building stands.
"No other collection of art treasures in
Russia, and few in the world, can stand COM
parison with that of the Hermitage, which
adioins the Petrograd Winter Palace and is
connected with II by flying bridge The
galleries on the first floor contain some 1000
pictures by the worlds greatest masters, and
while the collection is not in every respect
very well balanced, its superlative qualities
in some directions make up for its defects IN
others. Its strong points are its representa-
tions Of the Flemish and Dutch schools, and
Of the former of these it holds larger num-
her of works than any other gallery, Rubens
icing represented by fifty pictures and the
Van Dycks by thirty-two. The special pride OF
TIE Hermitage is. however, its collection OF
I.embrandts. There are Il fewer than forty
two works sscribed to this master. and nearly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Bombarding Blindness

Fright at the sound of the guns during
the recent Saturday morning raid on Lon
don resulted in Miss Ruby Rugg, of Rose
bank Road, Hanwell, recovering her sight
after being blind for four years.
She complained Of terrible pain at the
back of her head, and then, in her own
words, something seemed to snap" and
she rushed to her mother crying, "Oh
mother, can see"-London Globe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

at time of superhuman demand on men
and nations, a gigantic and difficult piece OF
work has been quickly, quietly, successfully
done under the direction of a democratic
government. There towers the Colossus OF
Quebec astride the st. Lawrence, to those
who know its history an inspiration for un-
conquerable perseverance"
And after the previous difficulties the
same paper draws this moral:
an our great national military task OF
establishing the safety of democracy We, like
the bridge builders, face an inscriptions,
ever watchful destructive foe. The labor
and the sacrifice great. We can take
inspiration from this bridge, both as an ex-
ample of what democracy can accomplish,
and from that indomitable spirit which has
resulted in the ultimate victory
Referring to the previous disasters,
"The New York Post" pays this compli-
ment to the engineering profession:
"Only when there is a failure, as in the
case of the st. Lawrence bridge, or the Pan
ANA slides, or the right Of way across Salt
Lake, which swallowed up so many of the
Southern Pacifcs millions, does the public
marvel. Here you have the greatest pos
sible compliment to engineers. They are
not supposed to have the word fail in their
bright lexicon. And, as a matter OF fact,
they seldom have"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
hosting into place Of the five
thousand ton central span of the


Il cantilever bridge across the st.
Lawrence River at Quebec marks in a
single dramatic incident an unprecedented
mastery by man over the materials and
forces of nature. The span is $40 feet
long. and was brought down the river on
rontoons. Thence it was raised by hoist
ing jacks to its position 1872 feet above the
water level. Thus was completed the final
link in the largest bridge of the kind in
the world.
But there is a tragic background, and
even a hint of sinister influence at work,
behind the recent "fulilment of fifty
wear engineering dream" In 1907 a
bridge being erected in the same place by
a private company collapsed, killing sew
enty persons. About one year ago the
Canadian government, nothing daunted by
the previous failures, undertook the task
and similar disaster occurred, September
II, 1915, this time killing fourteen. AT
the time it was intimated that this failure
might have been due to the work Of an
enemy, but if so the traces were ably con-
cealed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
The Rock of Gibraltar Stands Z
Dominant Check on SPANS
Friendship for the Allies

atty, geography. race, thrice as irresiuIAl.
in the case Of GIBRALTAR Could our a..
mics, our rivals, our critics, find q m...
speaking instance Of British hypocrisy II :.
open a peace congress with the axiom W.
bar discussion of Gibraltar?
LET me say a. once that any idea Of e...
sion whilst this war continues is ovt =,
the question. We need Gibraltar ae,i,,,
submarines With or without the cons>n,
of Spain, il might be made a resort Of n.
boats Of we leave it now. Any cession AZ
Gibraltar as part Of the terms of Europ.,,
pacifcation should be made with guam.
tees given by Spain 70 Britain, France, italy
and the United States that Gibraltar should
never be used in any way 70 close or restriet
absolutely free navigation Of the Medsr.
ranean.
"If this we're made a several and rener,,
guarantee by an international congre..
what right could we allegc 70 hold hi,
Spanish port? To say that il is essential
TO our command Of the sea, that it is N.
key of our imperial dominion is exactly
the plea of our Pan German enemy TO hold
Antwerp Namur, Metz, Strasburg, Trieste
as indispensable strongholds for their Nit.
tel-Europa Empire. To the whole world
Gibraltar is the conspicuous symbol Of our
maritime world-empre, which Germans no,
unreasonably defy. which few European,
like, which all Americans envy or hate,
How can we go to a peace congress with
the proviso, Remember that ours is world.
empire which the Germans have in vain
tried to break and to succeed. We are al
for the principle Of acknowledgements
it does not trench on our indisputable com.
,a,nJ 81 uoriJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30

the Napoleonic war it was thought ex-
pedient to extend the limits of the order.
This was effected in 1915. But the order
was still purely military, and it was not
until lS47 that it was placed on its pres
ent footing by the admission of civil
knights. commanders and companions. In
1861 it was further enlarged. London
Globe
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-30
Four Queens the Great War

to be the tool of suave Teutonic agents, and
thus stayed the hand Of his country at the
critical moment in the struggle. For his
fatuous devotion he pays the price in the
solitude of Sberia-alone and unhonored.
"And now comes into the drama Gustavus
of Sweden, last of the Bernadotte dynasty
tn. rule. Events of the last week have