annual M*
Art. i:
Matthew Aster WKks ehart»rp.l th^ Pioneeryesterday for its trip «a ArArtey. His aarti ta-clud.d Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd. Miss P. Kami M:«»Lanedon and Schuyler SchiofJeli:;. Alfred •>. Van-derbllt drove.
Mr. and Mr«. Cirrct I?. Kip or* receiving -on-gndMattaOi on th*Mrth of a daughter. Mrs. Klj>was Mis3Cari'li I>"I'cyst^r. and SM m.irri-d abouta ye«S ago at Tlvoli-on-the-Hudson.
Mr. and Mr*. MaimIn L. r>elafleld and the Misses!••-!ari.-lil are at thetr eOOßtfy place at Riv>-r!al*-on-the-Hudson for the summer.
of Miss Georgiana Wllmerding. Sa threatened wlt»appendlcitts. snd may have to undergo sn opera,tion. while the children of Mr. and Mrs. George PCammann are down with scarlet fever.
Mr. and Mrs. Almertc Hugh Paitt have returnedto town from Aiken, S. C
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver K. P. P.elmont »re K^oked tosail from Liverpool IBS New-York to-morrow, andon their arrival will go to their place at Hemp-stead. Long Island.
Walter S. Gurnee has chartered the yacht Sctni-nole for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kountze leave town on Fri-day for their country place at Morriatown, X. J.
Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Longfellow have left townand have gone to Riverdaie. on the Hudson. las th*summer.
Mr. and Mrs. William M. V. Hoffman ar.» bookedto sail for Europe an Jun« 21. and will remainabroad until September, when they return to ti<<»possession el their new house at Tuxedo Bos ;a«fall season.
Mrs. HcboT Dishop and Miss Bishop will ltavatown on June hi for Newport, where they ha*itaken the Slater cottage f«>r the season.
Mr. am! Mr*.-
hav# arrived inare staying w.th Mr.
and Mrs. < -y.
Mkal D* Forest and Mrs. »w!ln Hoop#rmorrow on th» 0 M .Mary GMaa*Ma*S will
."•.ere a lia!e hater, before the end of th*month.
Mr.*. Marcus] • -
Mr. and Mrs. F. Burrel! Hoffman have rented t>.«Cortazza cottage. Sea View-aye.. st Newport, forthe. summer. Amade« Da Pai Moran has leased,the Hone place, in the old Beac. Road, for thatSSSaaaa.
Mrs Tii'h a parry of friends, ha*)\u25a0'\u25a0 at Rajcu »c, o:i her at ma.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Barton French left town yes-
terday for Hot Springs. Va., and ar>» establishedat their Barton Lodge for the early summer.
Mr?. John Van Pusen •>d. of Paris, and herdaughter, tha YlcaaßfeeaM As < IhcaaOeat have ar-rived in town for a short stay.
A number of people are- In the hands of tho doc-tors just at present. John C. Wi'.merdin-,-. brother
Bishop and Mrs. Henry I ICootwratowa, K. y.. at Urn rod ol
-naonth, and win remain Urn \u25a0•
Blabop and Mrs. Wottnnapaadlna Urn winti r *4 IIfft town Cot th.-!r country plac* at .Mass.
Tuesday, May IT.has been set as th« date of Urnwedding Of Miss Albrrtiua Winthrop and J. 11.Van Koijen. until recently eharajf d'affaires of theNetherlands legation at Washington. The cere-mony willbe performed at the house of the bride'smother. Mrs. Robert Winthrop. In East Thirty-seventh-st.
Mrs. Vanderbftt and her daughter. Mi?s GladysVauderbllt. are among the large number of w<-Uknown people who are booked to sail t>-d.i>- t i-
Europe. A feature of the programme for to-<!ay
will be. the second of the parades of the Ladies'Tour-in-Ha.nd Priving Club, under the psaaUaaeyof Mrs. Thomas Hastings. Ithi expected that at
least seven or eight coaches willbe in line.
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.
Mr. and Mrs. Krink K'!!s entertained a dinnercompany this evening.
Mrs. Henry May and Miss Uabs] May will leaveWashington the last of this month to BSend thesummer with Mi^s May's aunt. I.aly Bag"t, inEngland. They will visit Paris btfore returning inthe. fall.
Senator and Mrs. Heyhurn willvisit relatives ofMrs. Heyburn In N'-w-Ynrk State before going to
the Chicago convention. Afterward they willgo to
their horn* in Idaho.'
Mrs. William .1 Boardman. of Dupont Circle.gave a tea this afternoon, and will give anotheron May 'i. at the Chevy Chase Club house. Shewas assisted to-day by her daughters. Mrs. WardThoron. Miss lioardman and Miss Mabel Board-man.
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.[FROM Tin: TKIHTNE •CSsBAV.]
Washington. May 2.— Mi.-s Annette Townsend.who will be married early in June, has m! et*d forher attendants Miss Carolyn Postlethwaite. Mi :
Matildo Townsend. M."Martina J«>n»s. Miss Pansy
IJloomer and Miss Grace BeflL of this city; BOSSCoster, of New-York, and the Misses Phillips, ofBaltimore, the latter the sisters of the bridegroom.
Marshall Phillips.Mrs. R. H. Ward** will close her Washington
house on June 1, and. with her daughters, will
spend the summer at a cottage she has Just t:ik-nat Manchester-by-the-Sea. Mass. Mr. and Mr?
Ward Thoron and their children will be with Mrs.
Warder for the summer.Mrs. Oliver Cromw.-ll entertained at luncheon
yesterday at th© Chevy Chase Club.Mrs. i-it^-'-iin, mother of Baroness yon Stern-
burg, ho has ': •en a guest at the German Em-bassy since she arrived in this country, has gone
on a business trip to California, where her hus-band died a f- w weeks ago.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.[FROM TUB TRIBUNE BUREAU.]
Washington, .uay s.—Count*** Cassini has againchanged the date of the Russian Red Cross fair. It
will be held at the Russian Embassy next Thurs-day afternoon, instead of Saturday, as she had de-cided, as both Friday and Saturday afternoon will
b* given over to the Chevy Chase Horse Show. lathe mean time th* embassy is open to th- Inspec-
tion of those who desire to buy goods. The fair
will close with an auction sale.The. Charge d'Affaires of Bolivia and SWiora de
Zalles will leave Washington on Wednesday for
Mamaroneek. N. V.. where Penor de Zalles h.is
taken a cottage for the summer.
Senator S.-ott. chairman of th* sub-fommlttee onarrangements for th* C'hlcaso convention, saw thePresident this afternoon in regard to some of thedetails of the convention.
The President's callers to-day Included SenatorThomas C. Flatt. who talked with him about New-York politics and other matters.
Representative Babcock. chairman of the Repub-
lican Congress Committee, talked with the Presi-dent about th* location of the committee head-quarters this year.
A marble coping Is to b* laid on th* WUM BSOSSterra.-f. With the addition of this white atone thecomposition of the historic mansion willbo more ofa patchwork than ever. The original house was ofwhite sandstone. When the alterations were madea year or so ago the stone used In completing th«terrace to the east and the ier.ee that flunks theportico was brown sandstone painted white. Th«j
sidewalks about the old house are Just as varie-gated. Some of them are of the original stone
flags, some of granolithic, same of a?;phalt, andnow, to complete the collection, one of red brick isbeing laid to the east of the public entrance.
Representative Burkett. of Nebraska, was one ofthe early visitors at the White House. He hop«?s
to return to Washington In the near future is amember of the Senate.
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.[FROM THE TRIBUNB BCRSAU.]
Washington. May 2.—President Roosevelt shookhands with 190 school teachers frona Syracuse thisafternoon. They were escort**] to the Whit^by Representative Drisco":!.
Members and Friends at Reopening After
Annual Cleaning and Rearrangement.
Five thousand imitalics wen ssL:it uut for the
thirt--ninth \u2666\u25a0xhlbinon reception of the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art yestentaj aftemoun. followin*
the aBBOaI cleaning and HBlllliaailwrK of collec-
tions after the closing of the museum on April13.
The BWabesa tmi those speiUlly interested la th»
museum displayed BMtfcolai interest ha th* col-
kicttoa of asU«M Oriental Jades presented by th«
late Hebt-r R. Bis".: ;•
Among those present at the reception «er? Arch- .Uatep KarU'y. Mr. and Mr.-;. John Crosby Brown.
Mrs. Eric Bernard t>ahls: District Attorr.ey
Jerome. John Oetz. William P. Schmitt. Mrs. O P.
Slade. Dr. Her.ry Ling Taylor, rrofessor A. Costs.Pierre Mali. F. U. BTltll *\u25a0! I*'"i Admiral Henry
Erben. William Coltate. Miss Cooper K<nv;tr.
Tueuiluie B, Starr, ti. I* . giiarthnn. Mr. aad Mr*.
s. M. Xlduraoa. a. Krankiield. Walter BUitM*.OaorC* E. Hoe. S:\mufl I" Avery. jr.. Mrs. FrancisV. Nash. Miss Mary Hall Saj ;e. CstSieataS Z.l-brisk.it\ Wflttaao J. Qutalan. jr. Robert A. CMS*-brough. K. S. Sutra. Pierre 1.. 1..' Brun. Pr. RobeilA. Murray. Smith Ely. Fran* Waller. Fnutots B.Bwayne John H. i.'vwel!. William R. S;ir-.d».
Charles W Dayton. Mrs. Henry C. Potter. K. F.Holbronk John Townshend. Pi. Beverly RoMn-,
-Sim, the Rev. l^and^-r T. I'hamtMrlate. J. HowanVan Amringe. Mrs. Man A. Avery. QustaY Uoahr>r Louts C Stamai!. Theodore E. L**d», O^iieraiJninm M Varr.um. Julics N*. Jaros. Mrs. Kri1 \u25a0:«H, Saltos. Mrs. Alfred r'lerr.- Delrambr*. Jr.. M!s»Marion Davis Collamore. Miss Kleanor B'odgett.Arthur vn r»rit-s.!>. Mrs. Jam«>« Alexander Striker.Miss Clotse 3. Ereese. Arnold Marcus, .".'lon.'! Rob-ert W. Ueonard, Ralph E. Prime. (.ioorse a. [earn.
John Blgelow. tl. Oimpel. t'h:irlt>s H. Ludtngith« Rev. Dr. Sp«ncer S. .Roche, the Rev Dr.Thomas ?. H^stitms. John H. FlagU-r. Wil'.laraStew.irt Tod. Pr. lUctcaM M. Saj re. SenatOl (*\u25a0)<rrs;. Percival Kuhne. J. •. Brown, Pr. Edn G.Janpway. WiV.i mi 1.. Andrews. James Bishop.Natban Api>!et\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0:. Mrs. Anaun t*.. Pl'.'-lp?. AlexaOOttCrawford Chenoveth. Mrs. >;•l>r r^- fi. Bhehhra th»Rev. Alfred I.>\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 P. 11. Henry W. BooltttaTer.Lieutenant Loral] Farrasot, Alexaxtdet T. tti*n«iI'olontl Asa M.rd Gardi:ifr. l>r R. »>Rden Porfmuf.Thoaaa B. CUraerjr, J_nir >s T. Van Reaaeelaer.Mrs. Theron <;. Srrons; Profeseor Dante] Draperth.- Rev. Bradv FT. Backus, Miss Sarah Lajaruaami Wiiliam IW&MStOCII
ANSWER IN GOULD FRIENDLY SUIT.To hare the ». tea si Undhurst. th« home of th*
late Jay Gould, ct Irvin*ton-on-the-Hudson. prcr-t-rly appraised, and to enable her to obtain securetitle to tb- pawn. Miss Helen Miller Gould yester-day obtained an order from Justice Keo<h. inWhite PUhis. for the appointment of William O-
DaitM as rfferer. Miss Gould some time •«*brought friendly suits against all heir* of **\u25a0*estate. Yesterday the hMrs ftJei! answers to th*suit. !,y all agree thai Miss Gould should be Al-
lowed to purchase the estate.
SECRETARY MOODY SAILS SOUTH.Washington. May Secretary Moody, accent*
panled by Senator* Hale. Penro** and Bacon andRepresentatives Hemenway. Dalsell and Meyer. l*?tWashington to-day on the Dolphin tor a trip to
Southern water*. Th« Dolphin will go first to Guan-tanamo, and then to Pensacola and New-Orleansreturning to Waahlnston In about ten d-iye *f
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METHOPOLITAN MUSEUM RECEPTION.
TREE TRADERS 01 OF WORK.The present lull in Ota British tariff eontro-.viersj is merely temporary, and indeed la appar-
ent raO^T than reaL Itwas IssnossMe to keepthe worrty conflict at fullpitch for the year orutorr- before the next general efKttOß* ami, de-ti'i'.e the authoritative and ii,-;.; declarations
\u25a0« f ii little while ago, that dissolution was im-p>udinj and was actually Axed for a few day«after Easter, it |a now sasn that, as we haveconsist assumed In these columns, the pres-/\u25a0nt House of (/oinipons Is likely to last untilthe end of its constitutional term. A year or»>o hence, therefore, we may expect to see thetariff reform campaign renewed with all pos-
'*Tljle visor. Meantime the American echoes£f the Cobden Club, at Washington and else-
Jrrl.<i.. an- mightily perturbed, as they have•<:au.se to be, and we may expect our own ele<--
"Toral cauipai£ii this year to be tilled with wild-<aid whirlingrepetitions of the abuse which has'§o copiously been directed against Mr. Chani-*l^rlain.I-.The temporary lull in Great Britain does not•dean, however, abandonment, or even Puspen-
.•.tjon. of the campaign of education which Mr.*-Chamberlain is directing. On the contrary.,that is beingpushed in a most effective manner.JThe appeal is made, m Mr. Chamberlain saiditwould be, chiefly to the working people of:JL>e United Kingdom. A recent article in "The<fortr.i.zhtly Review" by that accomplished an-''.«Jyst of statistics, Mr. John Holt Schooling,•Indicates the directness and strength of the-••rnpeal. He discusses occupation as a test ofTfcrosperity, rightly holding that remunerative
means prosperity, and lock of Itmeans hard times and industrial uecline. Now,\u25a0^»f the nine chief manufacturing Industries there~jh»re In five been an increase, and in four a-.'decrease, in numbers employed. in the. twenty,:cars from liSl to 1001. Inall there has beenan increase of 88,000, or nearly 8 per cent.
There say the Free Trader prosperity IslaHimsing. Not so, replies Mr. Schooling, forIn those twenty years there has been an In-crease of ijopulation of 25 per cent. With 25
"TJer cent increase of population and only 8 percent increase of employment, i:is evident that
proportion of person* employed has de-creased, and that the number of those left idlehag increased. Instead of the 1.380.000 st workIn the nine leading manufacturing trades, thereeiiouldbe 1.862.000, and would be ifthe numberhad increased eommensorately with the popu-lation. Instead of a gain of 89.000. there hasreally bean a loss of 282.000.
Ifnow we turn to the live jrr«at non-manu-Iscturlnff Industrie*, we find a considerable In-crease In all of t'.eru save one, agriculture,which has greatly declined. The net gain In
\u25a0umbers employed In twenty years has been472.000. or near!? 19 per cent. That 1* morethan three times as great a gain as that in thenmrmfactntlug tra^s, though «till considerably• Bbori of the £aln In population. Ifwe omitagriculture from the reckoning, however, themtm hi the non-manufacturing trades Is .-,:; vU i>cr . . v, or mure than twice the ratio of
ItHas Been on an Inspection of His Systemof Railroads.
Edward 11. Harrtman nnd his party, v. ho leftthis city on April8 on a tripof inspection of thelines of the Harrim.m system of railways, ar-rived here yesterday. Their jourr.oy to thePacific Coast was made over the Southern Pa-cific from New-Orleans, and the return trip wasby way of the Union Pacific. From Chicago toNew-York the special train came over t! \u25a0, Erieroad. In the party were James Stillman. presi-das! of the National City Bunk; James N. Hill,a son of James J. Hill,president of the NorthernSecurities Company and the Great NorthernRailway Company; William O. Rockefeller, sec-retary and treasurer of the Amalgamated Cop-per Company; Whitney Warren and W. V. S.Thome, director of purchases <>( the Union Po-clflc anil allied roads. Mr. Hillleft the parry atOmaha, going to his home in St. Paul.
NEW-YORK LAW INSTITUTE CANDIDATESThe members of the nominating committee of tha
New-York Law Institute—James l: I»i:I. CharlesE. Hughes. Henry W. Goodrich, Edgar A. TurreUand Norman G. Johnson— have selected the follow-ing candidates to be voted for at the ananas] meet-ing, to be held on Friday, May I*7, at
"p. m.: For
president, E. Henry Lacumbv; for vice-presidents.George L.Ingraham. Addlson Brown and John K.Parsons; for treasurer, rh.irles Edward Souther;for secretary, Jordan J. Rolling; for executive com-mittee. Robert E. Deyo and Henry G. Atwater:for auditing committee, William P. Dixon. LemuelSkidmore and William H. Harris.
JEFFERSON WINTER ROBBED.A thief entered the dressing room of Mr. Jeffer-
son Winter, of the Jefferson Comedy Company, atthe Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, last Satur-day night,and stole $125 from his pockets, and alsoa valuable gold watch, precious to the owner as akeepsake, and escaped with the plunder. Tl tuiefIs known, but has not been found. He BBS one ofthe hands employed at the Broad Btreel Theatre,and had been employed there for five or six months.He la thought to have made his escape from Phila-delphia and gone West. At the tlmo the theft wascommitted Mr. Winter was on the stage, actingJohn Peeryblngle, In '"The Cricket on the Hearth."
LONDON OPERA SEASON BEGINS.London, May 2.—At the reopening of tho opera,
season at Covent Garden to-night there were manyempty boxes. Owing to tho absence of KingEd-ward and Queen Alexandra and many members ofthe court, who are In Ireland, the occasion was de-prived of Its customary brilliancy, but a large audi-ence. In which there were many prominent per-sons, Including Mrs. John W. Mackay, Mrs. AdaJrand other Americans, listened to a fine perform-ance of "Don Giovanni," under Dr. Rk-hter's direc-tion. The cast Included Alice Nielsen, SuzanneAdams and M. Renaud.
E. H. HARRIMANS PAKTY RETURNS.
OLD RATES STILL KEPT IP.Our State Legislature adjourned without tak-
ing action toward the reduction of the rateswhich pawnbrokers are allowed to exact; andyet the present schedules, which wen. estab-lished many years ago, when the savings bankswere all paying tJ per cent interest, are no'. ilyunreasonable, but unjust. Loans, mortgages andinvestments of every kind In the p?riod whenthe existing figures were settled by the Stategovernment for the l>enefit of those lenderswho advertise their business by displaying thesigns of the three golden balls commandedmuch higher returns than they do now.
The men who advance money on pledges havebeen for decades a peculiarly and mysteriouslyfavored cla&s, and they are still permitted bylaw to get from their unfortunate patrons in-excusably excessive payments upon the prin-cipal of the loans which they make. Whyshould they not share the common lot of sub-mitting to a lowering of the profits upon capitalInvested? The pawnbrokers ruu no risks what-\u2666-ver. Tliey are careful and expert appraisersof the market certainties of the stuff uponwhich they pay out money, and few of them*ycr make the mistake of even ordinary liuer-slity. Their almost invariable rile is to refusea loan within any approach to the sums forwhich the pledges could be disposed of at aux
The moral effect of this Japanese victory canscarcely fail to !*> considerable. Russians, andAmericans and others, too, have been sayingthat, while the Japanese have shown themselvesclever at sea fighting, they would be beatenbadly the moment they en me in contact withthe Russian army on land. Now, here is thefirst serious meeting between the armies, midthe Japanese have won a victory on land asdean cut nnd Unequivocal as any <.n Ih<- sea.That does not necessarily me*n that they arepohag to k<''j, on winningall through the war:but it willmightiiy encourage them, and ir willpet the whole world to wondering when theRussians are L'oint to turn the tide and beginwinning victories. I" not at the Yalu, -will itbe at the Lino Hive-? <>r will they abandonLiao-Yang and sfookden, as ihey have aban-doned An-Tung, and fall back to Harbin :mdM-ek to contest the passage of the Bungari? Itis very well to speak of the losses :it the Yaluas "pawns in the game**; but a successful playerdoes not sacrifice v pawn without gaining somecompeusatory advantage, such as is not yet np-parent OB the Russian side. Moreover. Itis notmerely \u25a0 question of pawns, but also of po-sition. Kleht hundred men nnd twenty-eight.quick fJrtnu suns can easily be replaced; butnot so easily will the commanding hill fortsulong the Valu be regained and complete Kus-f-ian occupation of Manchuria be restored. TheJajfanese have now shown not merely that theywere able'to surprise nnd damage the Russianfleet with their own superior fleet, but also thatthey have been able with their army to cross awide and rapid river In tne face of Russian bat-teries and to defeat and drive back a Russianarmy by \u25a0\u25a0king a frontal attack upon its in-trenched position. That is an achievementwhich commands military respect.
THE JAPANESE ADVAKCE.Bif-mank's favorite method of deceiving or
misleading his diplomatic adrersmrles was bytelling the truth. They sssnmed he was tell-ing an untruth and something else was thetruth, and 6O deceived themselves. The Japan-
ese have applied Bismarck's diplomacy to war.They have been threatening to cross the Yataat Wiju. The Russians have assumed thaithey were merely feinting there and w«re plan-ning to make an unexpected rush elsewhere.Hut the Japanese have actually done ju-.! whatthey threatened to <i". ami as a result hareeasily beaten their opponents, who were look-ing tor them elsewhere nml preparing to repulsethem at some other joint. This, at least, i- the\u25a0oat plausible explanation of the doings of Bun-da* compatible with the reports we have hadof the Kussiun strength >>n the Yah:, if Gen-eral Kuropatkin has Indeed between two andthree hundred thousand men in Manchuria, wemust assume that be has put at least :iquarter
of them along the Valu to confront the Japan-ese advance. Where else could there be greater
i:<ed sf them? But we are now told that notmore than live thousand Russians were therei<» opjM.se the Japanese. Where were the rest?We assume that they wen* further up the river
ur along the shore near Ta-Ku Bhan, not dream-Ing that the Japanese would attempi a frontalsttack upon fi.rtiriel positions .-it the whl.s?part of the river. Yet that Is precisely whatthe Japanese hare done, with complete success.
That Russians at St. Petersburg bjeadquartersshould strive to minimize the lutportance <>f theeneratiOsßl is natural. We. an. however, scarce-ly agree with them In regarding the Japanesecrossing Of the Ynlu ns s mere matter <>f rou-tine. <.f bo real significance and as do reversewhatever i<>r the. Russian arms. There 1*stroim evidence that the Russians have forweeks been planning to bold back the Japanese
\u25a0t the Fata, and that ai the hist moment, whenihe Japanese Anally made their audacious front-al attack, they resist--.! them as stubbornly aspossible. The fact that the Japanese rapturedtwenty-eight pieces «.f artillery that theystormed Russian fbrtnications which the Rus-
sians had hoped to hold, if the Russians badmeant not seriously hi oppose the Japanese :<<iranee, but rather t.» lure them <>n to destructionIn the heart of Maneinnia. they would surelyn<>t have sacrificed their artillery In that fash-ion, but would have Lurried it <»?T. tearing onlya few regiments of quick moving Cossacks \<>
intlee the Japanese on with a Bbow of resist-ance. Whether the RtltSisnt had all their avail-able forces there. <>r. as we have suggested, had\u25a0rat them etoewhera and were caught nappingby a clever strategical tri'k. we cannot escapethe convletion that they have suffered :i posi-tive reverse of no little magnitude, and thatthey are now in a less advantageous positionthan a week n>.ro. instead of holding the Japan
<-se in Cord until they were ready to drivethem out of it. they have let them sjet a Strongfooting In Manchuria, and will have to drivethem out of it as well as out of Cores if theycan.
Increase, in population. But including agricult-
ure there has been a net loss. While the in-crease has been 472.000, it should have been, inproportion to the population. 828,000; so thatthere has been a proportionate loss of 150.000.There are I>J,<XK> fewer men employed in thosetrades than there should be, to maintain thestandard of prosperity of twenty years ago.Finally, putting the two categories together,we find that in the fourteen trades there hasbeen in twenty jears an Increase of .000,
when, to keep pace with the population, thereshould have been an increase of 8981,000. Ileally
there has been a proportionate loss of 435.000.Now that Is an impressive fact, that 435.000
persons are out of work who would be em-ployed if conditions of industry were now aspood 86 they were twenty years as;<>. It is afact that must appeal etrouuly to \vorkinj,'men---
trade unionists and non-unionists alike. More-over, it is highly significant that the greatest
loss has been in those trades in which GreatBritain has to meet foreign compel andthe least loss has been in those in which, fromthe nature of the < a>e. there is n<» competition.The gist of the matter is. then, that foreign
competition is driving British workmen intoidleness at the rate of 22.000 a year. Such aprocess as that is not compatible with prosper-ity. The only answer the Cobdenlte makes isthat itcannot he helped, for it would be wickedto protect British workmen against foreigncompetition. Hut we are inclined to think thatwhen British worktngmen have \u25a0 chance to
choose between the "wickedness" of protectionand the what -you may-call-It of being thrownout of work and into pauperism, they willpret-
ty promptly decide i" favor of protection.
Some day. with a groan, when the trumpet hasblown.
Why. this camera crankWill rise from th.< gloom of his stuffy old tomb-
Will thin camera crank.He'll c.ff withhis little black box In his handTo take a snapshot at the Beautiful Kami.Anil Ptter will say. "Take mo Just as 1stand.
Mister Camera ''rank'"—(Strickland W. Oilman, In Leslie's Weekly.
Tba manufacture and sale of tobacco la a statemonopoly tn Austria which nets the national treas-ury over m.ttMM a. year. The government pur-chases the raw material, manufactures It into ci-gars, clKarettes, smoking tobacco and snuff, nndsells to the consumer through licensed agents, whoreceive a fixed commission, averaging about 10 percent, on the proceeds of their sales.
"Whatever are yon children doing?" "Oh we'vefound pa'B false teeth, and we're tryln* tn tit themto the baby, 'cos he hasn't got any!" -(Punch.
A leading King's Counsel recently said at his clubIn London that he was Indebted for his rise In theworld to the. active co-operation of a humble butresourceful Individual.
In the days when he was a briefless barristerhe went one afternoon to read In the Inner TempleLibrary. He had not been there long when hissmall errand boy appeared, greatly excited andbreathless from running.
"If jou please, sir," the boy gasped, "a gentle-
man Is waiting for you nt the chambers with abrief. He cant get out, sir. I've locked him In."
Together the barrister and the boy hurried backto the chambers, and the gentleman with a brief,
who was amused at his capture, afterward becamea most valuable client.
A MOUKNFUL BALLAD OF COOKS.We were talking of servants this evening.
Recalling the. number we've had.All my wife's reminiscences showing
How this one or that one wae bad.There was Mary, the first, 110-v discordant
My wife's recollection and mine!She declares she was slow and deceitful—Iremember her coffee was fine.
When we BDOks of poor Mary's successor.Fat Dinah from warm "nixie's land."Irecalled, though wife mentioned the thieving.
Her flapjacks and muffins were grand.So It w.-tit through our list of domestics,
Matilda Rose. Gretchen and Kate—Ah! saucy tonßued Kate from Klllarney—
Her corned beef and cabbage were great!
O! girls! who made Joy of dyspepsiaAnd nn me some pleasure In life,
Why weren't you otherwise perfectEnough to get on with my wife?
Why couldn't you keep up the standard.Drop Impudence, lazlneas. pelf,
And not make her vow. to my sorrow,
That she'd do the cooking herself?—tCathollc Standard and Times.
lie often does good— who would think that hecould?
Does this camera crank:A tale good as gold la but haltingly tol,l
Till the camera crankHas brought th- COW facta m the wondering eye
80 clearly and briefly that none can deny:Dame Nature ha« spoken— she never can lie-
Through the camera crank. .Though seldom there's wealth, yet there always Is
healthFor the camera crank;
This world ne'er can seem Just a wearisome dreamTo the camera Crank.
There's a beauty in winter and summer and spring.There's beauty In autumn tfiat'» tit for a king—There's wonderful beauty in everything.
For the camera crank.
Benati.r l>o!llver. of lowa, tells this story on him-self: "Ireathed a rerta'n small town during a
campaign." said he. 'and found that the proprietor
of the, hotel where Iusually stopped was in Jail.Hf> hml cone there of his own accord rather thanpay a Judgment which hei considered unjust. Haaskel the Sheriff i>lrus« to let him out for two
hours to bear bis old friend Dolliver ?;>.'ak. The
Sheriff acrsed, and sent an order t< r the release
of the, prisoner for two hours for that purpose.
Then he considerately added at the end of th«
order: "The rest of your punishment la remitted.""
A WORD FOR Till-:CAMERA CRANK.
Wherever you so in thi* vineyard below.There's the camera rank:
On highway or street you invariably meet
with the camera crankId s sometime! alone and h« sometimes m nocks;
li.-\u25a0•: her* there and yonder, as «iy as a fox;An.l always he's armed with a little black box-
He's the camera crank.
Tel harmless Is l.*> n*a bird In & tree.is th" camera • rank;
What hurl could he do. or what harm could ensue!'r.,m th« camera crank?
He pictures the. imp' ant from vanguard to rear.He's aye on the lookout for things that are queer.And folk* that are honest have nothing to fear
From the camera crank.
Medicinal herh far.Tis wilt become a necessity Inthe fnlted States. Spltjella (pink root), serpentarlaand senega (the two varieties of anakeroot), whichwere formerly found In abundance wild In Mary-
land un.l other Atlantic State*, are boomingscarce. Banna, colocynth. gentian and th<i poppy
have been grown to some extent, and diK'.t.'tiisporpttrea (foxglove), atropia belladonna (deadly
iiUht»had>>. sanß'itnarlß oannd«nsl« (blood root)
and etmldrasa rarrmoaa (blaefe cohoah) have beenprown «"xj'ertm»ntany. Farmers near Kalamaroo.Mich., raise annually ts\.flCt.oW pounds of pepper-mint. Valerian Is a wild product of Vermont.
••!!« i« the flower of the family"TomlMj Ha seem to be a blooming Idiot.""—
(Puck.
TilE TALK OF THE HAY.
The English are wonderfully patient underdirect taxation. Their Income tax goes up evenIn times of peace They may sometimes grum-
ble a bit, but all the same they usually pay upwithout much vociferation, no matter how big
the bill may b*.
The days draw near In which Panama may ex-perience the unwonted sensation of having
money in her pocket with the privilege up to acertain limit of spending it as she likes. Sucha condition has hardly b*en heard of there sincethe days of Balboa and Las Casas. There may
be some danger in too much pap for the little,
newborn republic, but everybody willhope thatIt may thrive under the regimen instead of be-ing foundered with it.
Court proceedings now in progress over ex-tensive dealings in the 6tock and bonds of the
Ice Trust make it clear beyrmd peradventure
that burning quarrels of amazing heat may beset afire- by even so chillya fuel as the frozen
winter crops of river and lake.
Has Togo sworn a dreadful oath that he w-illpound away at Port Arthur until either he orthe garrison of the Russian stronghold reachesthe last gasp? Charles Martel of France wonhis title of "The Hammer" by his persistentstrokes on the anvil, smashing Into fragments
the plans and schemes and hopes of his ad-versaries. Togo seems to be the Charles Martelof Japan.
A decision of the Supreme Court of Nebraskais to the effect that breweries must not be al-lowed to take out barroom licenses except intheir own names. But what is there to pre-vent the brewers from acting as "angels"
—to
use a theatrical term and furnishing capital tothe applicants for licenses while they protect
their Investments by mortgages on the prop-
erties? It is known everywhere that a system
of that sort, or somewhat like it. is practisedon a most extensive scale by the richest brew-
ers In the Empire State and elsewhere.
The United States Senate intends to have anoffice building of rare proportions and dignity.May it prove to be as impressive architecturally
as the splendid edifice of the CongressionalLibrary! Washington is surpassing all othercities in this country in the planning of struct-ures which are not raised for passing fancies orfads, but which will be monumental and willendure for centuries.
Venezuela has extended its Presidential termfrom four to six years. Is this an expedient forlengthening the intermissions between revolu-tions?
Quick" Miller and of the so-called "Colonel"Ammon, every one of whom was sent to prison,
that it was only reasonable to suppose thatprudence would have kept even the purblindfrom paying any attention to his vulgar, brazenexploitation of his plans
Try-again candidacies for the Presidency aregetting to bo the rule. The Socialist NationalConvention in Chicago is prppartng- to makeEugene V. Deba its standard bearer for the\u25a0econd time.
Dr. Woodend had a name so full of ominoussigntfleanee that it is difficult to comprehend thefatuity which led so many oversanguine spec-ulators to repose Implicitfaith In his assurances.In countless ways his methods so closely re-sembled those ofFerdinand Ward, of 'Gat -Rich-
BUSY LEGISLATORS.More than fifteen thousand bills introduced in
the lower house of Congress, and more thansix thousand in the Senate! How amazing suchtotals! It is true that only a comparativelymoderate percentage of these proposed enact-ments became laws. But was not the task ofsifting out so huge a grist of projected legisla-tion almost appalling, nnd, with the constantndditions to the statutes as adopted at Wash-ington and at the various State capitals of theUnion, will there ever be an end to the makingof lawbooks?
Thousands of years ago the Wise Man InEcclesiastes declared that of the making ofMatty books there is no end. Nevertheless,there were no Parliaments, Senates, Congress-men or other bodies of legislators when the au-thor of the Book of Ecclesiastea was writingIds comments on men and things.
With the Introduction Of the now typo ofVCBSCI there will lie less disposition than therewas before to build cruisers with the Intentionof having them perform more than one kind ofset rice, lust as battleships should be designed
with special reference to the class of ships
with which they willbe called upon to contend,
so cruisers should be planned primarily withregard to their ability to meet cruisers. Kussiais credited with the intention of usin^ theNovlk occasionally ns a scout, though she Isnominally \u25a0 cruiser. While her high speed,which is said to be 2."> knots, would fit heradmirably for the former purpose, her arum-inent is too light to enable her to fight anyother cruiser. Nevertheless, it Is heavier thanis needed t<> drive off a destroyer. Slu» repre-sents a waste of money, since she is too ex-pensive for a mere scout nnd useless in anengagement with a ship of her own class.
A question over which there w.is some dis-agreement when the Sentinel was first projectedr< lnted to her offensive armament. AdmiralFitzgerald, one of the earliest advocates or1
this type of vessel, wanted to put Into themsix 4-inch rapid fire guns nnd a doxen machineL'uns. Mr. Watts, now director of naval conKtructlou, would have substituted for the formerheavier jrmis and more, of them. Ho wantedl«i see tli" scouts carry eight 'Much ritle^.Smaller guns than either of them favored havenow been adopted. Ten 12-ponnders, whosecalibre js a little over two Inches, will be theheaviest weapons of the new boats. These willenable the latter to cope with destroyers, whichmount nothing heavier than a 12-pounder, andfrom cruisers the scouts nre expected to runaway. Bj dispensing with heavy guns some-thing Is saved in the displacement of the ixiats,
speed is enhanced accordingly, and a materialeconomy is effected. in cost If the plan ofMr. Watts had been carried out, England wouldhave paid £310,000 for each boat, whereas thecontract price now is only (280,000. Here js areduction of about 10 per cent, which has been« n"e<t. d without any apparent sacrifice of prac-tical efficiency.
FIIIPS FOR SCOVTIXG.By the launching of the Sentinel at the Vick-
en yard a few days ago attention is drawn to afeature of naval policy which (Jreat Britainlias carried further than any other power. Thisphip is the first of eight now under construotion designed expressly for scouting, llitlurtoother kinds of vessels have performed, that classof work. Usually a cruiser is selected for thepurpose, although a destroyer is sometimesequally serviceable. Both types of craft, how-ever, are planned primarily for other duties.Dren though they can be spared for scouting,they are not always the beat agents to employ.
The cruiser is essentially a fighting ship, and,though faster than the average battleship, she
cannot easily penetrate the enemy's lines farenough to execute her mission and then get
away without being overtaken by the swiftestof the hostile cruisers. Destroyers have therequisite speed, but their limited coal capacityImposes great restrictions on their activity. Bydegrees the necessity for building a distinctclass of vessel, therefore, lias been recognizedby experts. Kn;:land. more alert and moreprogressive than her rivals in this respect, willsoon have »t her disposal n Dumber of shipsdesigned exclusively for outpost duty.
Though there will be triflingdifferences be-tween these, the proportions nnd equipment ofthe Sentinel win be closely followed in hersisters. Their displacement will range fromL'.'MHl tO 2.900 tons, but will ill no caSC exceedthe tatter figure. They willallbo lighter, forIn-stance, than the American unannored cruisersAtlanta. Boston and Cincinnati, each of whichdisplaces over :?,<hh> tons and develops something like 16 knots. The Olympia, Dewey'sflagship at Manila, displaces MOO tons, or justtwice ;»s much as the British scouts wilL «>nher trial trip she achieved a speed of -l'-jknots.The Si litiiiei is expected to show at least 25knots, having engines of 17,000 horsepower,which is exactly the same uh those of the Olym-pia. Iti^ mainly by providing abundant powerin proportion to size that speed will be securedfrom the British scuts.
To the influence of The Tribune and of theRepublican County Committee has been addedthe sanction of the grand Jury, which Ina recentpresentment urged the passage of such a law as
Alderman Davics has fathered. It is to behoped that the aldermen at their meeting to-day "illscud the measure to Mayor MrClellnn.Ifit had been on the statute book, the Darling-
ton disaster. In all probability, would not have
occurred. It should become a law at once toprevent another such accident. The aldermenshould act and act quickly, on the theory that"an ounce of prevention Is worth a pound ofcure."
PABB THE BUILDIXG LAW.Itis greatly to be regretted that the Board of
Aldermen has not yet taken favorable actionon Alderman Davies's ordinance designed toprevent su<%h accidents as the recent Darlington
collapse. This measure gives to the Superin-
tendent of Huildings summary power to stopwork on structures in process of erection whenin his judgment such work is a menace to lifeand limb. This ordinance was introduced atthe instance of The Tribune and of the Republi-can County Committee. It was drawn underthe direction of ex -Judge Mayor, former counselto the liuildings Department and an expert inthlfl branch of law. The aldermen have re-ceived the measure In a friendly spirit, but onething after another has so far interfered withIts becoming a law.
tim^ at a forced sale, and too many of themhave a. cruel disposition toward grinding thefaces o" the poor. How many pawnbrokers Inthis metropolis whose places of business werein thickly populated parts of the town andwho gained a considerable patronage have ever"been sold out by the Sheriff?
Among the average tradesmen in other linesof business in this city, outside of the biggestand most important establishments backed bymillions of dollars, the percentage of failure'nnd foreclosure* it by no means insi?nitirnnt.Pawnbrokers, as \u25a0 rule, are prosperous. Theyare still allowed by law to charge oldtime rates,
which in present conditions have become extor-tionate.
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. TUESDAY. MAY 3. 1904.
About ¥eo&ie and Social Incidents.*\u25a0 Amusements.ACAIiEiITOF MDaiC—K:l% 7»o Uttle Sailor Boys.W•:UA^ <• THEATKiC—+-Hw»-et KKt> BelUlrsItROADWAV TUEXTOEr-
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CASINO—<:IS -I'tff I.if!.Pouf.CTK<:ia:- S:ja
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—Vaudevtn*.
CauTKß'.i'X s::;(>—The Dlotato::>ALVi5—s 15-Tlie Crown l'rii.ceEIJES MlSKE- Trie World In Was.<»AKlt;'-j. » IT. .\>i.j> Mary AnnHAtU.tai OPERA ?lOl•SE— f-:li—The Pit.IHtRALU j-vIAKF THEATRE- 8:1^ -Tt« Girl from
K«> aH»t:.'KKRBOCKEK THBATRE—«• A Venetian Ro-
man \u25a0_•».
PTItIC TUCATPX- y-IT. WansMa;ill- BQUAKE GARDEN -MilitaryTournament.MAJKET;-: TUEATOS—«—Tb« Man from < hina.Mt'RitA'. li:i.3. TJ! t;.\-n:ic 2—R--Prince Otto.NT.W-AM.-TrHIAM-sir. -The Two Orj*»n».NEW EMTMHi:-6:20
—\V!,en Kr.i^hthoou Wai InFlow^r.
S"EW LTCEUH—«JO Th* Otlwr Girl.KEW-TORK—«:1S The Tenderfoot.J'RINiT.SS .si:, The S»tTet of Pollchlnelle.I7»OCT<>B*6— Tvventy-Uilrd Street
—Vaudeville. F:fty-
eighth Street By P-ttht of Sword Ft'lh Avenue—""•\u25a0\u25a0 on 'rutr-h>b ani \audevllle. One-hun*rcd-a.ul-_'n<-nly- ft'-r, (Tliiiil ItlM* •' !'!>mouth Town.
THIRI^ A VEST ri-^-8—The Plircai lights of Port Arthur.TinuHlA 2—8:1»—Vanerl.-'
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Index to Advertisements.
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fciook }xv Tropt-r!yIor Meetings 1* «*«*lp 8 ? Mjrieasfi 8 »wia'.w Chance*... .10 l'Partition Sale 11 B-*
<»»rp,t fleanln* 10 11FoilAmi Meeting• «
-^v Hotels % e'rjuiro«d» 13 IMICTh»np» or Name 10 1
'R*.| T^srate *» 6
Cliy iio-»:i m I! U«-I:ei"\is Notice* » «ri»v Pr^'cti forSal» « « Removal Notice 8 6r-Ajmrr F-*rd a 4 -:\u25a0\u25a0::.. Notice* 0 5-«Cgontrr Prcperty fir '6pr!nK Reaarta * 8pip 8 1:.*.tea_-rboata 8 2V^untn- Property to Hummer P.eßortu *3-1i." 8 IBurroirat*'* Notioe«...
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Rale or in l#t 8 ITo lA't for Buslneea"J*nldf!)(J Notir«-» 11 p Purposes 8 5IVini. Situ Wanted.. .lo 6-t*| Triune Suh'n Rates.. 9 B-«l>*e«ianinklnr in 2' \u25a0• «• C>mpanl<-x 11 6fzmjJ'-ymt Arendes.lo 2 t.'nfuTT.'shed Ai»artm't.«V.nar. .«1 .11 || to 1*!
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Business Notices.Kidney and" bladder Diseases.-
\u25a0 CRIP ACID DIATHKSIS. FTOVB. GRAVE!, ETC.'-^r:«» fT pamphlfts ah ut th* Mineral Wairrs of BAT
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TUESDAY, MAY 3, I<*M.
77/ .V/7TT-.S 1 THIS ifORXIXG
—FOREIGN.—The Russians who fell Lack fromIvulit-n-ChfUg on Sunday were driven from their,second position and the Japanese mov.-d for-,jvard in three divisions, their lines extendingfrom Antung northwest to a point on the Liao-
":,Yang road and theme norths st to a point above:JCulien-rheng. -
Details >f the encounter Inevhlrh Kussian guns and many prisoners were<ak>-n show that the Japanese enveloped the•"^tussians on three sides at close ranee.
-.JUaron Hayashi, summarizing the Japanese view*rt" the .-nmr.aign, paid that the present moves..\u25a0J"* 1"*1"* all beinc conducted with the idea of mak-ing in the future a stand against a RussianInvasion; Japan relies on disease, famine, andpossibly \u25a0 Manrhurian rising, to harass her
r«aemy'» troops. ===== The Russian battleshipOrel ran on a sandbank in the Neva, and diffi-culty is anticipated in floating her.I>OMESTlC— Republican party leaders, al-though confident of retaining control of theHouse, are planning to conduct an aggressive
'jesmpaign in the Congress elections, with theobject "I" increasing the majority. :_ At the-tjuadreimial session in Chicago of the Interna-tional conference of the African Methodist Epis-
,,fc*>pal Chun h. great enthusiasm was aroused by« -prayer that President Roosevelt be returned
:•»\u2666> the White House this year.-
, \u25a0 The court~.a,T inquiry which investigated the explosion onlie battleship Missouri exonerates the officers
-iwid crew from blame, and recommends that nofurther proceedings be taken.
ClTY.— Stocks were dull and heavy. =The stay stopping the Globe Security bank-rupt, y proceedings here was made permanent.
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Two large gifts, one of $60,000, were re-ceived by Columbia University.
—\u25a0 Members
-of th? "Monk" Eastman gang put part of the•TVpnderlcin in terror; three were arrested
« harped vith arson. =r^^r-rThe threatened strikeof. the employes of the Brooklyn and Coney
"Island Railway was preveh.cd by the officials•of the union. pending a conference with th»superintendent to-morrow. z^= Justice Qaynor
'derided that playing baseball on Sunday wasnot illegal,and he rebuked the police for mak-ing arrests in su'h cases without complaint ofpersons living near the ground. -. Deputysheriffs recovered, at Sayvillf. Long Island, anumber of horses stolen in this city.
——= Abullet crashed through a window, and hit anImage of the Madonna, putting a family interror,
-——The winners at Jamaica were;
1. Mart Mullen: 2, Madrigal; 3. Lord of theValley; 4. Ostrich; .".. First Born; »',, Kohinoor.THE WEATHER.
—Indications for to-day.
FWir. The Temperature yesterday: Highest, 62degrees; lowest. 4\
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Weatherbee have ar-'.>'<! InLondon for a prolonged stay.
The Hon. Maurice Baring, brother of Hus-» nr.lCecil Hariri. maA l*erel Rrvelstoke. wh<-> i3almostas well known \u25a0-. N- w-Y-rk v th. -y. h:<* c^r.e ||Manchuria as war correspondent for "The- LondonMorning Post." Lord Brooke, who spent part oflast winter here. Is likewise among th* war <-->r-r \u25a0spon.i.-r.ts. representing Reuters Agency, withthe Russian forct-s.
l.nr'. asd laflj Yarmouth hay« rak»r N- UItruton-st.. In London, for IhS MHa TfeS cou-t-«33 was M133 Thaw, of Plttsfc :rs.
Mr. a:..: Strm J. Norman As R tfWMEMMi»r«•till at their house. In Madison-aye.. where th«?celebrated the sixth anniversary of tltetr weddlaj
on last Saturday with a d!i:r.-r.
Mrs. Julius C.it'.'.n ar.-l IDsi EdtUl CMS* W»8returned from Europe a few days ago. ar» staying
with Mr. an.i Mrs. Trenor L.Park, at theirtry place, at White Plains.
Mr:
Mr. am! Mrs. Frederick Ambro.«* Clark, waaWere luaillofl about a s>.*r a;o. km left town
lor Omtt country place, m CesVtfSCWB, N. v .which «mj a VCdAM Vn» '\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0 I*o*lMr*. BSBJJ C.
Potter to iMf KB Mr-. <'!ark is a ttstn of Mrs.
Albert «/. BO twick.
Colonel Oliver 11. h|M has rwtuini M t^wn
from his pla..** mar ThmasvUle, Gj.. whew n*
spent the later.
For:- announcement has Jost been made of the
•aaaSHDBKI of Miss SUM! Plummer BUBIWdaughter of Mr. ar.d Mr- Bwn ETOOtI Power.
or PUilr.fi. U. N. J-. to Pr Kr.ir.kUn barren White,
of Boston.
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