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Relief for the West Side.
A Promise That the Fumes From
EdgeWater Will Soon Cease.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: The
death of DIR. w. ]. OSullivan, whose
illness began with the inhalation Of
fumes from industrial plants on the
Hudson River near Edgewater while
on an official tour of inspection, brings
to mind the fact that for several years
the West End Association has made a
persistent effort to have this nuisance
abated
Physicians agree that these fumes
have caused illness and also discomfor
when they were carried across the river
by certain winds. Thesoutlook now is
that the West Side residents will soon
be freed from this menace 10 Their
health. as at the last meeting of the
West End Association the committee
which GAS this matter In charge an
nounce1 through Franklin p. Dur ,ea,
chairman, that tie principal Offenders
have promised to install devices at a
cost of several thouoand dollars which
will effectually cispel these odovs. and
II Is promised hat these devices will
be in operation early In February.
NEW YORK, January 81. MEMBER
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Mrs torbes-Robertson Hale will lecture
on The Cooperative Movement in England
before the League for Political Education
A. NJ -
Former Ambassador James w. Gerard and
John ID. Rockefeller. Jr., win speak at the
first annual dinner of the Westchestcr
G Gols p, Council Boy Scouts of America.
A citizens conference on education viii be
held IN Town Hall, 113 West Forty-third
street, under the auspices of the United
states Bureau of Education, this afternoon
and evening. The forenoon session, beginning
at D 80 O'clock, will be held In the auditorium
Twenty-second street
The Anawanda Club. entertainment and
dance, Hotel Aston. $3.50 p. NJ.
Washington Heights Taxpayers Association,
business meeting, Broadway ut 157th street.
There will be conference of TRANSPORTATION
companies in the offices OF the Downtown
League. l54 Nassau street, P. NJ.
Oscar 5: Straus and Mrs. William vanamee
VIII speak at a dinner given by the Thomas
Paine National Historical Association in
commemoration of the fS4th anniversary
F. NJ rh0"a' paine'' BIRTH Cafe Boulevard :
Everett Dean. Martin will lecture on IAN
Aristocratic View of Capitalist Society"
Miss Ethel l.. Bcdient will speak on '.The
Difference Between Solomon and Me-" at the
Recreation Rooms Forum, 1s6 Chrystic
The nlnety-ffth annual ball of the Old
Guard Veteran Battalion, Hotel Commodore,
Admiroi W. s. Benson will speak at the
Joint meeting of the New York section Of
the American Institute Of Electrical I'm
gineers and the metropolitan section Of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
for a discussion OF Marine Identification"
the Engineering Societies Building, 20 West
Thirty-ninth street, =. NJ.
The Society of illustrators. annual costume
party and dance. Delmonco's, p. M.
Gov. Everett J. Lake of Connecticut,
Robert T. Fisher and A. Lawrence Lowell
will speak az the annual dinner Of the Har-
ward Club, this evening.
Edith II. Abbott will lecture on Qualities
OF Painting before classes from the New
York Training School. Metropolitan Museum
OF Art at 2:15 =. NJ.
Charles Bright will lecture on Hand
licked Judges Culture Forum In Wadleigh
High School. Hath street and Seventh ave-
rue, S:1J T. NJ.
The annual charity ball of the Long Island
Chapter. knights of Columbus. Twenty-first
Regiment ArInory, Bedford and Atlantic ave-
nues. Brooklyn, this evening.
National Wooden and Trimming Association.
luncheon and meeting, Aldine Club. +. M.
Certified Shorthand Reporters, meeting,
Cafe Boulevard, p. NJ.
New York City Federation OF Womens
Clubs, meeting Hotel Astor, p. M.
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observers in various quarters is that
the country has seen the worst of the
reimbursement which was inevitable
under the memorable laws of nature.
The worst being over does not mean
that the best Is Immediately at hand.
1t would be folly to expect that. But
the fundamental principles which
have worked irresistibly to restore
normal relationships of commodities
and of all values work next TO make
those normal relationships count in
capital to be engaged, labor to be per-
formed, wheels to turn and commerce
TO flow. This is the rewinding of the
national handspring in the clock of
industrial life.
Meanwhile everybody, employed or
unemployed, making money or losing
money, has had before his eyes the
world old lesson that the laws of ma
ture are supreme, alike in finance. in
dustry and labor. Capital cannot de-
cree price at which commodities
shall be consumed when the public
cannot or will not use them at that
price. Labor cannot decree it. Gov
eminent cannot.
The farmer with his wheat and
other crops, the stock raiser with his
herds, the mill owner with his manu-
features, the professional man with
his brains, the day laborer with his
hands have all come face to face with
the eternal truth. as mankind has
been doing ever since the days of
ADAM, that supply must go a-begging
when it is not what demand wants
at the price.
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present bankrupt and chaotic condi-
ton of our transit systems?
Politicians of both parties are
bowling themselves blue in the
face against the Governors de-
mand for remedial legislation, OBJ
vlously believing that the investiga-
ton proposed may reveal a situation
that will call for an increased fare
to meet the increased costs that have
come in railroading as in every in
lustry. But be assured that Cover nor
MILLER is not asking for a bigger
fare. He is simply asking for an
intelligent and honest investigation of
our traction systems, inventory of
property, costs of operation, costs of
upkeep and all that.
With this information and with the
figures giving the receipts from opera
tlons, common sense win at once die
tate the sound course to pursue with
regard to these traction properties.
Without such information no one can
lay out an intelligent policy for the
New York city transit problem, and
it is very, very big problem in q
city so vast and which is destined to
be two or three times i1s present
size.
We can understand the politician.
With him this transit question re-
solves itself into the miserable strug-
gle for votes votes at any cost and
without regard to the niceties Of
sincerity and common honesty. But
with intelligent newspapers, which
themselves have groaned under the
burden of increased costs and as
consequence have been forced to in
crease their selling price and forced
to put up advertising rates all along
the line-for these newspapers to
shrek damnation to the Cover
nor and turn red headed over the
possibility of an increased revenue
for the transit lines to meet increased
cost of operation, is utterly beyond
comprehension.
But in spite of the hostility of poll
ticians and in spite of the hostility
of certain newspapers Governor MIL
LEE will win out in this fight, and
win out because he is right.
FRANK A. MUNsEY.
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|. G. G. Needs Trained Men.

AS March gets nearer there Is grow
ing anxiety regarding the status OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The uneasiness is felt not only in
official circles in Washington but all
over the country among those inter
ested in the railroads, whether as
operators or shippers. The Commits
sion is in danger Of being left short
handed.
Two of the acting members, HENRY
JONES FORD of New Jersey and MARK
w. POTTER Of New York, who are
serving under ad interim appoint
ments, will have to relinquish their
work unless their regular nomina-
tons, now pending in the Senate, are
confirmed before March O.. they
are reappointed at once by President
HARDING. The Commission is in no
position to face a reduction of it's
working force. Messrs. FoRD and PoT-
TER have been wholesomely active and
highly efficient Commissioners. Their
colleagues earnestly desire the con-
tinuance Of their service.
In railway circles continuity of
service ON the Commission and I'M
broken and undiminished activity in
dlsposing of unsettled problems are
greatly desired as a practical need.
The wish extends to the reappoint-
ment of regularly sitting members.
There is no political interest in
volyed in the confirmation Of the two
acting Commissioners. The expert
ence which they have acquired since
their designation gives them value
il reaching results that new men
could not acquire for some time.
Those who know best and are most
concerned hope that in the public
interest the Senate will let down
the bars and confirm these two APP
Dointments.
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production ever made at his theatre. AS
Wallack was the author Of "Rosedale"
perhaps he might be pardoned for hold
ing this opinion, but 1 feel confident II
was not shared by the majority of the
patrons of Wallack's Theatre.
Again, through the kindness Of Mr..
Shaw. I have before me copies of the
lplaybills of three performances of
"Rosedale." the first on September 80,
1868, and the third March IA, 1877. In
this last Wallack and John Gilbert APP
peared-the latter in an uncongenial
part of gypsy rufIian. Miles Nc
Kennd-but there was no actor Of the
versatility and distinction OF Boucicault
and none possessing the good looks or
exceptional attractiveness OF Montague.
Wallack was an admirable actor and
''Rosedale" a delightful and agreeable
play, but 1t contained not half the orig
inal or picturesque or thrilling or anus
ing qualities OF THE Shaughraun."
l had the good fortune to know WAL
lack well. or, at least. as young man
knows an older man. He was fire.
quent and intimate visitor at my IA
TIERS house and many and many night
we occupied the Wallack box at the
Thirteenth street theatre. do not re-
call that Wallack ever made mention
of "Rosedale," but I heard him talk for
hours Of THE Shaughraun" and of the
cast. which he spoke of with justifable
pride. When the piece was produced in
London I remember Wallack came to
my fathers house and said 81 have a
cable from Boucicaut saying "Shaugh-
raun' n marvellous success. but oh. for
Montague, Dyas and the others"
A. NJ. S.
New YORK, January 81.
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MIR. Schwab and His Accusers.

The making of discriminating
charges against men Of standing and
repute, whether prompted by vicious
motives or by mere irresponsible stu
pidity, is a crying evil. 1t calls for
the strongest condemnation Of the
reckless accuser, Indifferent to the
pain that he heedlessly inflicts. The
assassination of character is a moral
crime of the highest degree.
In the charges made within the last
few days against CHARLES NJ.
SCHwAB, as sequel to his great SER
vice to the Government as Director
of the United States Emergency Fleet
Corporation during the war, there
was exhibited an extreme of reck-
less cruelty. Mr.. ScHwAB is a man
Of very big stature in the public eye
he Is not merely large I'm the sight
OF his own country, he is n world
figure. Through his own inherent
genius, through hard and Intelligent
work, above all by rockribbed in
tegrity, he has grown into a great
force, a great power in the realms
of industry and finance.
When the Government was sorely
put to It in the darkest days of 1917
and 1918 to produce ships enough to
get men and supplies across the seas
to thwart the deadly U-boats, when
on the swift and assured production
Of ships, as If by magic, depended
the outcome of the war, il was to
Mr.. ScHwAB the President turned as
the man who could put the maximum
Of inspiration and Of effective method
into the work Of construction. Mr..
ScHwAB responded TO the call and
devoted to the task all his high ex-
ecutlve qualities. He gave himself up
to It with absolute dlslnterestedness
his first step was to make impossible
the diversion Of any profit, direct or
indirect. to himself or his companies
through any act Of his own.
The natural recompense for the
great work he performed and for his
absolute devotion TO 1t without
reward was. naturally. the generous
recognition OF his fellow citizens. He
received 1t far and wide in unstinted
measure. Then, just few days ago,
came Colonel EUGENE RI. ABADfE,
former general comptroller of the
Shipping Board, launching upon i'm
perfect information and without In
vestigotion MS to It's truth the charge
that Mr.. ScHwAB had profited in
whole or in part from the proceeds
Of an expense warrant for some 5000
600 paid by the Government. The
charge likewise was put forward by
PERLEY MORSE, nm accountant, on the
fragile basis Of an incomplete audit
Of the Bethlehem Steel Company
hooks.
II has since been convinclngly
proved that the warrant was never
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Not Lodz but Wudsh.

The alphabetic and chronological
corps of the Royal Geographical So
ciety is now engaged in clearing up
territory acquired by the Allies dur
ing the world war. 1t is not an easy
task, for while African, Asiatlc and
eastern European towns may have
surrendered almost with a shot their
names have remained unconquered.
The trouble started when the British
Admiralty could not make up its mind
what to call the former German
Southwest African harbor OF Wal
fisch. The name looked simple, though
evidently it was not English. First
Ii was traced to a German origin,
next to Dutch, and then bushman
wigwagged in from the veldt that it
was neither and showed that its real
origin was Hottentot.
In the early days of the war we
had scarcely Appropriated to pro-
nunciation Of Przemysl before the
Russian advance in Galicia, the Aus
trian in the Balkans and the British
In the Near East opened up new and
marvellous alphabetic combinations.
Names that flowed off the Slavic or
Levantine tongue like oil from a
Texas gusher throttled the American
or western European speech at the
first effort at utterance. The words
never sounded as they looked. So
familiar a name as Pir9us, the sea-
port Of Athens, is not what it APP
pears, but Plre-efs; Eubea is Evvia
and Qena is Elmer. Think Of the
harmless looking name of the Polish
town LODI being pronounced some
thing like Wudsh
But conquering one of these names
is not half the job. When the Serbs
took Uskub they changed the name to
Skoplje, but the Greeks, Albanians
and vallachs have each an entirely
different designation for the town and
will recognize no other. CONSTANT
nople has half dozen different
names. Danzig Is Gdansk to the Poles
and Gedanum to some of its Latin
tongued neighbors, and easily spoken
Pennsylvania is Erdely to Magyars
and Ardealu TO Rumanians.
The job OF the chronological corps
is to arrive at one name and one
spelling for geographical names, and
to make the appearance correspond as
nearly as possible TO the pronuncia-
tlon to make the as and o's, long and
short, behave themselves; to repress
! or put It in its place, and to mar
shall the c's with all their accents into
n uniform international force.
The corps has almost finished with
tho acquired African territory. and Il
has started on Arabic, Turkish, Polish
end Russian names. When it has
completed these tasks why not let It
tackle the subway guards street calls
ana discover which one Of the ten
different ways or calling Thirty.
third street should be adopted?
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Ship Owners Mulcted.
Public Piers Source of Profit to
Certain Individuals.

To THE New YORK HERALD OF course
there Is profteering on the part OF per-
sons who lease piers frem the city and
then sublet to ship owners. but in my
opinion the worst thing about the
wharfage situation in New York is that
it is almost impossible for ship owner
or shipping firm operating vessels for
the Shipping Board to obtain directly
from the city the right to use an open
wharf-that is wharf which is open
to the public.
Practically all the covered piers
owned by the city are leased. most of
them 10 steamship companies and few
to people who make a business OF sup
plying berths to steamships. However.
there are a great many piers in the
city which are not shielded and are
open to the public Any one who wants
to use one OF these piers may do so
by applying to the dockmaster of the
district.
In practice, however. It Is almost i'm
possible to locate the doclimaster OF a
district, and there are many districts
and consequently many dockmasters.
The dockmasters go to their Offices early
in the morning for a short time. They
are then out around their districts until
after o'clock, so that IT Is simply i'm
possible to reach them In the way that
ordinary business people are reached.
If anybody undertakes to talk to all
the dockmasters in the city, either by
telephone or personally. 1t will take him
several days to do so. If he calls up
the Dock Department he will be re-
ferred to the dockmaster.
The consequence of this Is that GER
tain people who make a business OF 1t
keep track Of the open berths or the
berths that are about TO become vacant
and also keep in touch with steamship
companies who need berths at the open
piers. These people charge the steam
ship companies or operators from $40
to 500 day for each ship. and pay
the city the legal rate. which may be
s12 or S14 day. The Shipping Board
is constantly quarrelling with the oper-
ators of the vessels over the fact that
they pay more than the legal wharfage
rates, but they accomplish nothing. 1t
seems impossible to obtain berths In
any other way
This is an abuse which I think could.
be stopped very quickly II 1t were prop
erly gone into The practice would not
stand the light OF day. 1t would be
very easy matter to ascertain what
wharfage rate a certain steamship COM
pany has paid for a. berth at a certain
pier, and then find what the city has
received for that berth. The steamship
companies are not overcharging. They
are being overcharged. H.
NEW YORK, January ~.
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Symphony Society Plays Brahms
Continues Historical Cycle With Fritz Kreisler a
Soloist- Philharmonic Concert.

The Symphony Society continued its
historical cycle at Carnegie Hall yester-
day. The programme was devoted to
the music of Johannes Brahms. who
thus arose to the dignity of an epoch
maker. There was time when 1t
founder of school OF composition. but
where are the imitators OF his style now?
1t was soon found that limitations Of
Brahms were mere masses of mannerism
which without the vital spark OF his
creative genius were quite as worthless
as the earlier limitations of Mozart.
To the comfort of thoughtful music
lovers the young worshippers of heroes
have abandoned the Brahms cult and
have set up in his place new gods whose
religion is called modernism" Buddha
has been deserted for vodka or the har-
monte scale and the seven tones of the
ecstasies Of Scriabine. But Brahms is
still Brahms. the majestic singer OF In
strumental hymns. and when such a
simple programme of his music as that
of yesterday Is given the nearer knows
that he is listening to the voice OF a
seer.
The list comprised the second SYM
phony the aademic Festival over
ture and the violin concerto. The solo
list was Fritz Kreisler. who has long
held a special brief for Brahms. The
audience was one of good size and evil
IDENTIFY was deeply interested In the con-
cert.
In the evening In the same hall the
Philharmonic Society gave the seventh
in the list Of it's Thursday subscription
concerts. The programme was one
which calls for no comment. 1t con-
sisted of the Tragic overture of
Brahms. Beethoven's fifth symphony,
Rachmaninov's third concerto for piano
and orchestra and the prelude to die
Meistersinger." Mr.. Rachmaninov again
played the solo part In his own work.
The audience was large and there was
much applause. Josef Stransky con-
Quoted
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Take Convicts OF the Taxicabs.

1t is good thing for Judge RosAL
SKY Of the Court of General Sessions
to denounce in open court the lax
reprehensible licensing of habitua
criminals to drive taxicabs, but 1t Is
not enough. The outrageous and dan
gerous practice, as THE NEW YoRE
HERALD has said before, must not
merely be condemned by judges and
newspapers; 1t must be stopped by
those who have the power and whose
business and duty it is to stop it.
This means the Mayor Of the city OF
New York, whose municipal bureau
issues the public conveyance licenses
and the Secretary Of State, whose
automobile bureau issues the driving
licenses.
If the Mayor in New York city and
the Secretary of State In Albany
with the local police cooperating, do
not take away his taxicab license
from every thug, gunman and convict
in this town and keep him from
driving such public conveyances the
Governor Of the State must give his
attention to those who are really re-
sponsible ut the top.
The specific case which aroused the
indignation and wrath of Judge Ro-
sALsKY was that Of q man who is
habltually In conflict with the law
and therefore must be notorious to
the police He has served three
prison terms. He has still pending
against him indictments for robbery.
grand larceny, assault and receiving
stolen goods. Yet man with such a
criminal record could be licensed as
q taxi driver to the danger of the life
Of anybody getting into his cab.
Nobody knows how many scoundrels
Of that breed are cruising in the
Streets of New York sanctioned by
municipal and State authority and
observed by detectives who know
their records when to license them to
such opportunity TO prey upon the
public is as reasonable and safe as II
would be for the Police Department
to give those iailbird drivers permits
20 carry blackiacks and six shooters
with which to make sure Of their
thieves work on the defenceless pas
senCers at their mercy.
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Coon Hunters Routed.
A Blue Ridge Theory About Satan
and His Soul Hunting Hounds.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your edi-
torial reference to the Poltergeist recalls
to me a vivid picture in the land of
my memory.
Back at the time when the spirit OF
Nimrod was strong within me / went
coon and possum hunting along with
old man Harvey and his tribe in the
foothills of the Blue Ridge Old man
Harvey was an ebony hued son of the
Old Dominion and what he and his six
stalwart sons did not know about night
hunting was of no account.
To the south the crescent moon,
headed west seemed to be making for
Spencer's Gap. on the left we looked
down nto a valley which for fertility
might we'll have been the site OF the
Garden of Eden. To the right. looking
upward. the wooded tops of the Blue
Ridge formed the bounds of our view.
So we rested and talked until far on
the distant air fell the music of hounds
in full cry. Our dogs pricked up their
ears and listened. Nearer and nearer
came the sounds. Howler and Loud be-
gan TO whine and tremble and orawled
under their masters knees. His face
took on a serious look and the nerves
of all were drawn to extreme tension
as the approach of the pack became
more and more apparent, until unseen
right through our camp they seemed to
pass with all the rush and noise of
real pack.
For a moment all seemed paralyzed
until old Harvey springing to his feet.
yelled THAT was old Satan and the
hounds Of hell chasing up the lost souls
of those that died to-day"
This broke the spell and 1 wasn't the
last one to reach the Earney homestead
In the valley. No. sir / was not.
RICHARD HuNrERsrIELD.
Afor-,-- UrpNo>y January 27.