THE KEWB THIS UORXIXG

FOREIGN.—

spread of cholera in Eastern

Prussia created alarm at Berlin and at the Ger-man f=°aports precautions are taken to detainemigrants until all danger is past; an outbreakof th<? disease in the Vistula portion of RussianPoland waf reported. ===== The conference of

the Swedish and Norwegian delegates over the

dissolution of the union of the countries was

continued and it was intimated that Ifan agree-

ment Tia* not reached within a we*>k the confer-ence might break up without result.

———A

French ultimatum was presented to the Sultan

"of Morocco, embracing three further conditionsin addition to the release of the Algerian pris-

oner. under threat of coercive measures. -——The Greenland expedition of the Duke of Or-leans discovered an unknown land, which was

named Terre de France. . News of peace

was made known to the Russian army In Man-churia, and was received with evident delight.

DOMESTIC. -Italians in Patterson, La..

threatened to burn the emergency hospital, de-claring that the yellow fever experts were kill-Ing their countrymen. =The Board of on-su'ting Engineers for the Panama Canal prac-tically decided to accept Chairman Shonts's m-vitation to visit the isthmus. == Secretary

Bonaparte announced the detail of the court•

martial to try Commander Young and Ensign

TVade for the explosion on the Bennington.—-—

It was announced in Chicago that the Presby-

terian ministers throughout the United States•would speak on the labor question to-day.

CITY —Stocks closed higher. == It wasthought unlikely that there would be any fur-

ther changes In the Eqaltable'a organization.. Labor leaders "officially" estimated that•here would be fifty thousand men In line in the

'

LAbor Day parade. == The Nippon Club

planned to* invite the Japanese peace envoys to

a dinner at which the peace terms willbe frank-ly criticised. ===== A Long Island woman

-was shot by a neighbor, on whom she was play-ing a joke ===== It was announced that a con-tracting company was about to tear up 42d-st.

for another pavement. =Park CommissionerBehrad*r defied criticism of the. racetrack he \*building in Pelham Bay Park. ===== Crowds ofpleasure seekers left the city to spend the doubleholiday.

THE WEATHER.— lndications for to-day:

Bain- southerly winds. The temperature yes-terday: Highest. 12 degrees: lowest. <>i.

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Among the arrivals this w*ek from Europe, willbe. Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth Wlckes. who on landingwill go to Lenox to stay with Mr. and Mrs. G. OkHaven. Mrs. Wlckea was Miss Marion Haven.Lord and I^ady Batenan are also due- here- thisweeK. Lady Bateman was formerly Mrs. CharlesKnapp. of New-York, and her maiden name wasMiss Marlon Graham.

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Mr. and Mrs. O«oTs;e J. Gould, who arrived herefrom Europe last we«>k. havei gone, to FurloughLodge, their place In the Catskllls. Their son.Kinjdon Gould, Is about to resume his studies atColumbia. Mrs. Gould haa not yet entirely recov-ered from, the- effects of her motor accident InFrance.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Qntnness have returnedto America, and willsp*nd the winter In New-York.Benjamin Ouinness was formerly an officer of theBritish navy, but Is row connected with a WallStreet banking house. Mrs. Qulanesa. who was MissBridget Williams Bullreley, and who Is a niece ofthe Dfrwagw Duchess c t Wellington, was the guest

of Mrs. John Jacob Aaior throughout the season inI.iondon. at th« housa which Mrs. Aator had rented.In Portland Place.

On the other hand. Tuxedo is becoming gay. andthere Is every promise of a brilliant fall seasonthere. Most of the. regular residents have already

arrived for the autumr, and to-day many week's-end parties are being entertained. The sam« may

be said of the Meadow Bmok district, where coun-try houses are being opened in every direction, andwhere the outlook for the next few months is ex-ceedingly animated Of course, that portion ofLong Island willb« at its best next month, whenthe racing «t Belmont Park will be. macta the. oc-casion of many house parties.

Many villas and cottages at Newport have already

been closed for the summer. Mr. and Mr?. James

A. Stillman have, gone to Tuxedo, Mr. and Mrs.

G. G. Haven to Lenox, Mr. and Mrs. TV. Starr

Miller to Btaatsburg-on-the-Hudsou; C. T.Berwlnd

to Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Brooks to Hemp-

stead. Mr. and Mr*. Alfred O. Vanderbllt and Mrs.

F. Ormond French to Sagamore lyodge. In the

Adirondacks. and Mr. ;ind Mrs. Edward C. Potter

to their place at TV*e»t Chester. !Mr*.Asfu* and Mr.

and Mrs. Edward R. Thomas leave the city thisweek and Mrs. Ogden Mills and th« Misses Mills

on Monday week.

Newport's season virtually ends this week, and

Mrs. Fish's dinner dance last night at the Cross-ways was in the nature of her farewell entertain-

ment previous to her departure a few days from

now for her country- place at Garrison-on-the-Hud-son. where she will spend the fall. On Tuesday

night The Breakers will be the scene of an amateur

theatrical performance -in a stage which has been

constructed on the grand staircase, while the big

entrance hall is to be the auditorium. Mrs Van-

derbllt has issued several hundred Invitations forthe affair, and a number of dinners are to be given

In connection with it. Miss Rosamond Street, Mrs.

Hamilton Fish Webster. Sheldon and "William F.

Whitehouse. jr.. Francis Otis and the Viconite d«

Perigny are in the cast. Mrs Reginald Vander-

hilt will also give a dinner dance at Sandy Point

Farm this week, on the opening day of the New-

port Horse Show, which marks the grand finale ofthe season.

Labor Day. to-morrow, is the last of the public

holidays of the summer, and as such will be ap-

propriately celebrated at all the various summer

and suburban resorts, and especially by the yacht

and country clubs. There will be regattas, gym-

khanas, sports of one kind and another, horse

shows and dog shows. On Tuesday people will be-

gin to flock back to town, especially those who

have children of a schooling &S". and whose

studies will be resumed a few day? hence. Houses

in town are being prepared for the impending ar-

rival of their owners, and many of th* country

places have already been opened for the. fall.Fashionable clubs begin to present a more ani-

mated appearance, friends and acquaintance? are

to be met at every step in sth -ave.. the theatres areplaying to fairly full houses, and women Of the

modish world have to a great extent taken theplnro of the strangers who throughout the summer

have monopolized the tables at the leading res-

taurants.

Mrs. Root, wife of the Secretary of Stare, is at

the country home of the family at Clinton, N. V..

where she will probably •\u25a0.•m.un until she returns to

take possession of the Bourke Cockran residencehere, which the Secretary has recently leased. Mrs.Shaw, wife of the Secretary of the Treasury, whospent part of the summer at Squirrel Inn. Me., isnow in town for the early autumn; Mr?. Taft. wife

of the Secretary of W; r. went to England withher little children at the time h^r husband sailedfor the Philippines, and will remain at Oxford untilhis return. The wife and daughters of the Secre-tary of the Interior are nt the Hitchcock home, in

Dunlin. N. H., where, as is th»ir custom, they willstay throughout 'K-toher. The Postmaster (Jeneral

anrl Mrs. Cortelyou fire at their home in Henip-stead, Long Island: Mrs. Bonaparte, wife of theSecretary of the Na\y. Js now at I>ennx. and upon

her arrival in Washington for the season will live

at the Portland.Miss Wilson, daughter of the Secretary of Agri-

culture, has been studying abroad for a year andmore, and is now travelling in Ireland and Scot-

land. Mrs. M*»tcalf. wife of the Secretary of Com-

merce and Labor, went early in the summer to herhome in Oakland. Cat., where she expects to stay

until the opening of Washington's official s»af»n.

NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

OFFICIAL SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.[From Th. Trßmm Bureau 1

Washington. Sept. 2.—The Vice-President and

Mrs. Fairbanks, who have .',ust closed a visit to the

Controller of the Treasury and Mrs. Tracewell. ofIndian.', at Thousand Islands, are about to return

to their Washington ho?ne. Later they, will j"in

their sons at Atlantic City.

IN THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

(Fri)rn The Tribune Bureau. JWashington. Sept. 2.

—The members of the dip-

lomatic colony usually return to Washingtonwith the first crisp ilnys of autumn, and alreadyseveral of the embnsnif>s and legations here•show preparations, for the homecoming of theirowner-. Tho Italian Ambassador, who. sincethe transfer of Count Casslnl, has becomertenn of Hie fuielgU forr'S. has no lrlra. ofclosing hi* summer hesdauartera :«t MancheetesSon the Massachusetts coast, until th^ do* of theseason. Both the Ambassador* and Oatoness Mayor<les Planches are Identified with the soda! life a|

the resort, and hay»- made their summer home there

ever since coming to this country. The French

Ambassador and Mine. Jnsserar.d «re at New-port: the Gorman Ambassador and Baroness Speckyon Bternburg have been spending tne summer onthe former's estate, near Berlin, an.l. so fnr as

known here. no d.-.t* has been set for their return;

the Austrian Ambassador and Mme. Hengel-

miiller nre nt Lenox, »n<l doss neighbors, ns bersjof the British Ambassador, who went there early

In the season with bis family nnd official stiff. Sir

Mortimer Durand la a prominent fisuro In the out-

door -ports Of Lenox, nnrl. with his son and daugh-

ter, will rido In the Berkshire hunts, which l.opln

next Tuesday. The Brazilian Ambassador and

Mme. Nabuco are in the White Mountains, and

the Russian Ambassador, with Baroness Rosen nnd

their daughter, Mile. Rosen, has been spending

the season at Magnolia. The Countess Cassinl.ivlio m-ido such an attractive feature Of the Rus-

sian household while Count c.-issini represented the

Cz-.r at the national <-n:>ital. has been succeeded]

by an equally brilliant chatelaine in the person of

Baroness Rosen, who has already achieved distinc-

tion for her personal charms and exquisite taste Indressing. The Chinese Minister, with his young

daughter and two sons, Is at Amherst, but willbe

back at the Washington legation shortly to put hisyoung people to school.

The first dignitary of th" corps to arrive is the

Persian Minister, who signalized his departure from

Atlantic City by distributing among the friends he

made there «nd the attendants who served him

souvenirs nnd tl!;s of curious gold coins of his

native land. Aniomr the diplomats already estab-

lished here Is M. Adhemar Defcolgne, first s.cre-taiy Of the P>rlKian legation, who. with his wife,

arrived In Washington this summer, and who finds

life comfortable, in th* pretty homo which he tooksoon after reaching her*. Mme. Delcoigne's mar-riage to the secretary too* place two years a?o.

Bhe Is young, slender and attractive looking, and

r,t present is busily engaged in mastering the Eng-

lish language.

Mr. and Mrs. I«evi P. Morton and Mrs. Hele-Morton have returned from their camp '.n the Ad'-rnndacks. and are at their country place atEllersli---on the Hudson.

Kdward Doer bj to sail from Europe for Xew-Yorkon September 20. and willgo \n Lenox for the fall

Announcement Is made of the engagement nMiss Isabelle Taylor, daughter of Mr. and MrtGeorge M. Taylor, to Joseph Ewing. son of Mr. airMrs. Bernard Ewing, of Maple Tree Farm, Wycio/N. J.

NOTES FROM TUXEDO PARK.[By Telegraph to The Tribune

'Tuxedo Park. N. V.. Sept. 2.—Although the weath.

er to-day was disagreeable, many well known per-sons arrived to pass Sunday among the colonist?.Many of those who went away early In the sum-mer are having their homes put In readiness fortheir arrival next week, which willmark the open-

Ing of the autumn season al Tuxedo. Some ofthose who returned last week entertained largoparties at dinners and hous« parties over Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. P. Lorlllard entertained a larg»

party at Keewaydin. and Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Cut-ting. Mr. an.lMrs. W. M. V. Hoffman and Mr. an'lMrs. J. D. I^ayng. jr., were among thesa holding

the largest dinners.Mr. and Mrs. George Huntington Hull also en-

tertain»(l a lars;e party to meet Captain and Mrs.Richmond P. Hobson. who are. spending the weekat the Hull cottage. Some of the guests were Mr.

and Mrs. John R. Dunlap. HsM Osleboy and MissPowell, of Cleveland, and others of the. Tuxedocolony.

Mr and Mrs. T. Wyrnan Porter, who pa*.«ed tb<«summer at Southampton, have- returned to their

Tuxedo cottage, nn.l Mr and Mrs. Howard P*K->and the Misses Page, who were at Bar Harbor,

have opened their Tuxedo villa, Others •who re-turned this week were Mr. and Mrs. R» F. Cut-ting, Mr and Mrs. A. D. Jullllard an.l Mr. andMrs. William Kent.

Mr. and Mrs. Foray th Wlckes. who went abroadearly In May. are expected to return to thoGreenough cottagn next week, and Mr. and Mrs.N. Thayer Robb will occupy the N'ewbold cotu*a

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, who went

to California last week, are having thair lar»« cet-tag« and grounds put in readiness for th«ir return

about September 15.Cecil D. Landale, who kns Just arrtv»d frotq

Europe. Is staying at the- olub.Other arrlvala ar« Miss Merrlam, TX C. Kent.

B. H. P. Pell. J. Coops* Lord. H. C. Btarr\ A. B.

Gardiner. H. B. CoUlno. Miss Glfford. Mr. andMrs. W. X Underbill. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. PicAs!*J\Mr. and Mrs. E. E. fiapv. Mr. and Mr J. R. D

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lap. Mra, T. P. FV>wler and MIMFowl**,_ . .tt&IN THE BERKSHIRE 3. ~^?\IBy Te!«Kr«ph to Th» Tribune. 1

"Lenox. Mass.. Sept. 2.—Many things are plsssßSl

for September here. Besides the two Shakespearlaplays out of dcors. on the 14th and l«th. there- will

be a dance at Stoneover. tho country place of Mr.

and Mrs. John E. Par».-is. on the evenlns otth*Tin: a concert by Ml»s Jane Olmstead. of New-York, and MtaoH Tokoloff. at Wlndysld*, the. coon-

try home of Dr. and Mr?. Richard C. Gresnleaf, o:i

the r.th. and the Berkshire Hunt to-day announ^.ithe following meetinss of th« hounds for tn«

Captain Henry Durand. son of the English Am-basaad >r. who has been spending the summerwith his parents at L<-nox. sailed yesterday forKngland. on his way to rejoin his regiment, the 9tnLancers, in India. Sir Donald Mackenzie Wal-lace, the principal representative o" "The Ty>r.do;i

Times'" at the ;ieace conference at Portsmouth, IsFtayliifT with the British Ambassador and Lidy

Darand at I^-nox for 8 few days before sailing

for Europe. His friendship with th^m dates backto the days when Sir Mortimer was at the hea<iof the foreign and political department at Cal-cutta and »ir Donald was the private secretary to

the Viceroy, or. rather. t<» two of them, namely.

lo Lord Dufft-rin. and to his successor. Lord L*ns-down«:

Mrs. J. Stevens T'lman will give at her country

place at Southampton the weddin? breakfast fol-lowing th? wedding of her sister. Miss MildredBarclay, to Samuel Oakley Vander Peel, nMt Sat-urday week. Miss Clara Barclay, the maid ofhonor: Miss Nannie Brown, daughter of WaldrOnP. Brown: Miss Louis*- Kobbe. daughter of Mr. andMrs. Oorge Kobbe: Miss Sallie Dixon. daughter efDr. and Mrs. George A. Pixon. and Miss GretchSWHoyt. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hoyt.

the bridesmaids—

all of them, save the maid efhonor, debutantes of last winter

—will wear white

chiffon cloth frocks, with white muff? and 'arf>white hats trimmed with orchids. W right Barclay.

Edward Delafield. Douglas Green. Theron Strong.Arthur Moore and John Read win be the ush»r*and Halsted Vander Poel the best man. The newly

married couple will begin their wedding trip In amotor cai,

The Mayor of New- York and Mrs. Oeorge B. M^Oellan are at the Grindstone Inn. Grindstone Neck.Me., and will return to town in about ten days.

Monistown's horse show at t;ie Fi»M club therehas now been «et for October 5. *< and 7. while tnf-week the Richmond Cooaty Agricultural So^-iet\will op*;i Its county fair at D«n»sar Hill?. It de-serves notice by reason of the fact that it is prob-ably the only county fair that is held within N»w-Tork City limits, iuiss Dai?y Cameron. W. TFloyd Jones and a number of other well knownpeople have entered her for th<- horse -hnw nel.in connection with it.

Miss Mary Sands, whose marriage fo LoiillardSpencer, jr.. takes place at Newport "r. Sept»mbe-

K>. will have as bridesmaids Miss Anita Sand?.Miss May Sands. Miss M irgarel Buffum and Mi?=»Emily Mayer. Mis.~ Jnlia Sands win be the mai<l«.f honor and Miss Elizabeth Sands the flower gti"l

Robert Sedgwtek. jr. will be the best man. an>:the ushers will be L RiKe:=. jr William Wnod.George Philips. L. S. Wttberbee, Chahnen Waadjr.. and H. R. Sedswlck.

Mrs. Bfackay, as .\ rn»mh»r of th«» Srhnol Rnar/of Rosiyn. is to serre as one of the judges for th»educational department .-if the annual fair arMllieola, held from September 2*i to S«»ptemb»r 30.undor the ausplt of the Qneene-Nasaai] Airr!f-iilf-ural Society. The Mtoeota Fair ,in<l Bone BhOWin i-onn^ction with it are always among th» prin-cipal features of the fnll season on Long Island.

Bernardsvill*" win \<c k.i>- this week in eontMettssiwith its annual Hors*> Show. Among the row ar-rivals there Is Urm George B!i«<«. who has r«nte.iBlythewocd. the Kunhardt place, for a t*rra ofyears.

On Friday la?t the. last dance of the summ*: sea-son took place at the Meadow Club, at Southamp-ton, thus virtually marking; the sad of the Baranstrth*>re. Many cottages ar-> already rloacd. Incladkscthat of Mr and Mr.-<. Charles T. Daiuejf. who ha\i»gone to th^ir •\u25a0:i!!in In the Adirr>nd.-icks. M.ir.ypeople will, however, remain for the huntlusj. wssMopened yesterday, and there is still ro be a horse•bow, as well a? many golf tournaments.

y.T" booked to sail for New-York next SaturdayMrs. Tuckerman will remain for som» time In tin-rope. She Is now at Carlsbad, and will afterwardgo to Switzerland.

I,ord and I>ady Moruson sail th* day aft^r to-morrow, with L«i<ly Monson's mother. Mrs. RoyStone, who will spend the winter with them a-Burton Hall. Lincolnshire. General Roy Stone,U. S. A., died at Morrlstown a few weeks ago.

Mr. and Mr«. Fr«-d»rlck R. RasMJT wiH arrlv-here on Tuesday from Europ*. an'? or. landing; wll!go .-it once to Tuxedo, where they will open theircottag*- for the fall season.

On Wednesday next St. r;»>orse'.«. 3tU3rv«smi!*Square, will be the scene of th* wedding of <"*h]irR, Howland to Ml«s Virginia l/azarus, daughter o'.Mr. and Mrs. Frank I.Azaru.«, of East <>«th-sf• 'h.'irles B. Howland is the son of Mr. and Mrs.Henry K. Howland.

On tlie foHovrlng day I^awrence F. Abbott, son nfUrn Rfv. Dr. Lyman Abbott, wll!marry M!s.« Wini-fred Buck, daughter of I>r. Albert Buck, of N»w-York. at th<» latter.* country place, at Bay-port.Long Island.

At Cednrhurnt a horse show and gymkhana wV.',take place to-morrow on tIM grounds of th* Rork-away Hunt < "lub. Dnder the rasgleiM of that. Insti-tution. fWie Ls) Mniillllim and Fletcher Harperare among those who have it fcj hand, and l.if«r1.-tii" v.ie-k there i« to be a dog show.

NO DIFFERENCE.Oh, woman, in your hours of ease.Uncertain, coy. and hard to pleas*.In all th« other hours we* nameAlso, why, you are Just UUe same."\u25a0 - _ Z ~UJtBk.

Modern Methods.— The Contractor— What Inthunder is the matter with that new hod carrieryou hired? He's let another hod of bricks fall tothe pavement.

The Foreman— Oh, he learned his trade by mallfrom the Hodcarrlers' Correspondence Institute—(Brooklyn Life.

"The Washington Post" comes to tUe fore witha suggestion of a clean dish supply system forcities, like the clean towel supply systems In down-town office buildings. There should be a centraldishwashing- plant and wagons should call aftermeal time and carry' away the used tableware,bringing back elaan dishes before the naxt meal Itwould rob housekeeping of H* worse tsrror to themaldless housewife. But why not carry the Ideafurther? A clean underwear system, calling daily orweekly, according to the fastidiousness of its pa-tron*, would do much, to mak« life simple andJoyous.

"Ithought so!" shouted the old man. "And nowI lay before, you, gentlemen, fifty temperance

pledges. Who willsign the first?"

All for Him.— "Tour fiancee seems to have a willof her own."

"Yes. and sometimes Ihalf regret that I'm th«sole beneficiary."— (Philadelphia Press.

Hiram K. Russell, a former professor of Englishat Northwestern University, has put hts trainedskill in English to a good and useful purpose,which every man who has a. stomach willapplaud.Mr. Russell has written a cook book Ingraceful andcharming English, in a style which will lure themodern maiden as the exquisite diction of one ofthe "best six sellers" does. Speaking of his workin a general way. Mr. Russell says: "Ibelieve it

is the trite, monotonous language of the moderncook book that arouses an aversion In the collegebred girl. Idon't see why the cook book is not aslegitimate a part of literature as science or history,and Ilook upon it In that light. Iam nnt surethat my book will make every college girl a do-mestic, but Ibelieve that a gtrl who has beentratned Sn the classics will find more pleasure Inreading a cook book that uses good English and Iswritten in a readable style,"

THE TALK OF THE I>AT.

TN CITY HALLi PARK.

He M;»n<ls. a simple soldier, there.Who deemed one life too small a fee

For him to give in that great strife

That made his country free.

And it is fr<*e: High o'er the dinAnd turmoil of the city's ways,

Ijo! Justice holds her sword and scalesAbove the land *he sways.

The commerce of a giant worldMoves at his feet. Within Ills reach

The tongues of nations meet; the airIs vibrant with their speech.

He sees where science delves and wrestsThe rock ribs of the earth apart.

And fills, with teeming floods of life,The arteries of her heart.

In sober garb and quiet mienHe stands; from out the western skies.

Athwart the calmness of his face,The peaceful sunshine lies.

And while our land endures to reapHis sowing, memory shall not fail

Of him who died that she might live,The patriot, Nathan Hale:

M. E. BUHLBR.-Saplelgh-Why do you dislike cigar-

eMiss Knox-Because they are dangerous.S-ip'eigh— But Ihave smoked them for ten years

and they haven't killed me jret.Miss Kjiox—Yes, Iknow—and that s on« reason

why Iobject to them.— (Chicago News.

"'The Philadelphia Bulletin" tells how a. temper-

ance worker caught a nymlifr of men in a smoking

car. "A corkscrew: Who's got a corkscrew?" hecried. Ascore of kindlyhands sought pockets, andtheir owners cried out:

"Here you are, sir."

What th*» Duke of Orleans? is said to have ac-complished in the way of discovery is to tiil in

n part of the gap in the coast line of Greenland,

which has hitherto been unexplored. Peary, go-

ing up on the west side, and then along the

north shore, several years ago. found himselfat length working down to the southeastward.After reaching latitude 82:34, he r-traced hissteps. The Germans followed the east coast up

nearly to latitude 77. and named a conspicuous

cape there after Bismarck. As the Duke of

Orleans turned southward after getting to 78: Hi.there are more than four degrees of the easternfrontage which must yet remain uncharted. Still,

the discovery that Cape Bismarck is on an out-

lyingisland and is not a projection from Green-

land proper is a geographical detail worth re-cordlng.

_^_^__^___^___

An unfortunate identity of names led to asuspicion that both of the steamers which went

aground in the St. Lawrence on Friday wereowned by the same company. There are two

Virginians, owned respectively by the Leyland

and the Allan lines; and the one which sufferedwas not. as might havp been supposed, the newturbine driven steamer which is the mate of theVictorian.

The death of the aeronaut Baldwin seems to

make it necessary again to warn adventurouspersons against playing with dynamite or carry-

ing lighted torches into powder magazines.

A few days before the rifle tournament opened

at Sea Girt Tho Tribune called attention to the

fact that New-York would be represented thereby .isuperior team, and that it would be no sur-prise to many persons if the New-York soldiers

came out victorious. There were selected teams

present from the United States army and fromthirty-twostates, but the New-Tort men provedthemselves superior to all competitors for thenational trophy. This is tho third time in asmany years that this match has been won by

New-York citizen solHjers. and the twelve menwho by their work brought the coveted emblemto this state deserved the medals with whichthfy were decorated.

There is a tim* to speak and a time to keepsilent, which KUfrg*>sts that tho present Is an a<l-

mlrnbie time for Mr. Jerome to make a few re-marks as to the mayoralty situation.

Two departures from precedent are hinted atby Mr. Fiala as possible contributions to futuresuccess. It has occurred to him that perhaps Itmight bo feasible to station several ships nt in-terva s between a land base and the Pole, tluiflcutting np into short stages the sledge trip

over the j.-o. It is doubtful if such a programmeCOUld be carried into execution. The density ofthe ice pack would make it difficult to force thevessels into the prescribed positions; and theInequality of the drift would embarrass the task

of keeping them in a straight line after they

were once there. The other new proposition isto construct a steel ship and intrust it to thecontrol of the ocean current*. Regarding thisscheme, it may be said that In order to achieve

more than Nansen did by drifting it would bewise to secure a more experienced and giftedleader than the famous Norwegian. Further-more, it may be noted that Nanson's ship, thePram, was built of wood, and. although sheafterward spent three years more in the Arcticregions <io the westward of Greenland), she isstill in an excellent state of preservation. Whatbetter material could be found than that of

which she was constructed? Peary has a con-viction that steel Is distinctly Inferior to wood.The most novel ideas advanced by Mr. Fialaeeem to be the least promising.

requisite to the efficiency of a leader. Mr. Bald-win's successor in the command of the Zieglerenterprise recognizes the wisdom of taking sev-eral years for so formidable an undertaking asseeking the Pole, and advises storing supplies.:( a number of available points on the route.These suggestions, like the recommendation thatwirelesK telegraphy be adopted, lack originality;but testimony from an independent source re-garding enterprises of an unusual kind is not

without value.

THE KEY TO JAPAN.Tsn-Shima, or Tsu Island, midway in the

Corear. Strait, which separates Japan and

Ci>rea. was merely an island to many persons\u25a0 'before the battle of the Sea of Japan, and has

remained to many only a point which marks

/the meeting of two great hostile fleets. It is

1 the key to Japanese expansion, and. as expan--«ion Is"necessary to the insular empire, it may

.b« called the key to Japan. Just before the•

battle which ended in the effacement of Russia'as a sea power for a long term of years somejudicious observers publicly said that a glance

at the map should remove all doubt of the loca-tion of Adm'rai Togo* fleet, and that the war-

ships on which Japan's existence depended werelTing at some point between the nearest c<-»sts

of Corea and Japan. Whether the Russians

took a course ea«tward of Japan, they add<>d.made no difference. As long as the strait was

held Japan was safe, and the arrival of Ad-mJrai Rojestrensky's fleet at Vladivostok would

mean only that the Russians would be forcedto put to sea and fight.

The soundness of thU reasoning was soon

proved. Admiral Tojro had not divided his

licet. His warships had not been attempting

tn close the waters adjacent to Formosa, farfrom a base of repair, or to prevent the passageof Tmgaru Strait, on tiie course to Vladivostokon the ea«t. Confident that the Russian ad-miral must, in order to accomplish an effectivemovement, gain control of the waters acrosswhich Japan could maintain her armies In thefield. Admiral Toco wnited off Tsu Island. Thetirr-X report of the Japanese admiral after thebjrttle, saying that the strait had been held,

fchows the thought uppermost In his mind.IfJapan and anotbT country should engage

Ivk war— contingency which the world hopes

may never cumo to pas—

the SfraJt of Coreawo-jM stiil \>" the crucial point of the struggle,

an<i Its possession would mean victory or de-f«*at. Jar.T.;:"s recognition of this strategic factIn the present war and her ability to gain fromlessons learned at cost would make the task ofher ene.-ny far more difficult llian the problemwhich Ttuss!.) tried Id .so futile a way to solve.

:> Raids on commerce are now generally admittedto be dispersions of effort. Funire aggressive

uuval warfare i« likely to be based on the prin-ciple of finding and attacking as s{;eedily usDOSBible the main b<xfy of an enemy's fleet, It

MR. riALA'B POLAR PLAKB.

The recent return of Mr. Fiala to the T'nitedStates has enabled Americans to gain a bet-ter comprehension of his work in Franz JosefLand than has been possible hitherto. His ex-ploration was limited to the archipelago inwhichhe resided for nearly two years, and was onlyincidental to the main object of the Ziegler ex-pedition, an object which, it is needless to re-mark, was not attained. Nevertheless, it wouldbe a mistake to underrate the addition of sev-eral Important details to the map of the regionIn #hlch he stayed. Whether or not Franz JosefLand Is ever opened up to settlement, It Is asdesirable to chart its coasts and channels as Itisto survey those of Ellesmere Land or those ofany other uninhabitable region.

AVhar Mr.Flala has to say about reaching thePole willnot he read with less curiosity becausehe did not get there himself. He says severalsensible things on the subject. He corroboratesthe opinion of Commander Peary and EvelynBaldwin that the training of men and dogs Isone of the great essentials to work In the Arcticand mny require years. If there were no dan-ger that the statement would be taken amiss,it might be added that years of iraluing are also

We are not unmindful of the force of theargument that there is need of trolley connec-tion between the Hudson River towns. It isipilte true that such a need exists. It is anurgent need, and should lie supplied at theearliest possible date. But this should bedone In pome other way than by destroyingthe very thing which is one of the most valu-able assets of those towns. We needed elevatedrailroads in New-York thirty years ago: butthe supplying of that need did not necessitatethe building of Buch a structure along Mh-ave.True, there is now no alternative road travers-ing those town.-. But there ought to be one.There is no doubt that there will soon be one.There must be one. Itis simply impossible thatthey should for all time get along with ouly asingle narrow street connecting them. If theyare not going to grow big enough and developenterprise enough to get such a street, then theydo not deserve to have a trolley line.

<>ur argument is, and we are convinced it isthe view of the most thoughtful members ofthose communities, that the trolley line fromYonkers to Ossining should be built along somenew street, planned for the purpose, and shouldnot be built on a road which was never meantfor such use and which by such use would beirretrievably ruined.

The Albany Post Koad. which this preciousscheme aims to give over to the "Huckleberry"or some similar trolley concern, is an historichighway of peculiar' charm. Prom Yonkera toOssining it is practically a parkway, excellentlypaved, richly shaded with magnificent trees, sothat it looks iv places like an aisle in aprimeval forest, and bordered much of the waywith parklike estates. Its one defect, practl- jcally irremediable, is its narrowness. However, jit is sufficiently wide for ordinary driving pur- jposes, though if a trolley road were built alongit driving would be impossible excepting uponthe tracks. Nor would that be the only evil.'The erection of the poles and wires would in-volve the mutilation and often the destructionOf the trees which now shade the road. Nodoubt the trolley promoters will deny this, andwill say that all injury to the trees would bescrupulously avoided. For answer we have onlyto point to the abominable slaughter of treescommitted by the trolley folk on some of thestreets of Yonkers. as well as on almost everyshaded road they have been permitted to in-vade.

ANOTHER ROAD RAW.Hie old scheme to despoil the Albany Tost

Road is up again. This time it uses an "Im-provement Society" as a stalking horse andworks through a "Lawn Party and SummerNlcht's Festival." It is. however, the same oldruthless, sordid grab, that, for the sake of put-

tine nickels into the till, would ruin one of thenoblest highways in the world and destroy oneof the <-liief charms of some of New-York'sloveliest suburbs. N<> grimmer Irony can be Im-agined than the promotion of such a scheme bya so-called "Improvement Society." The organi-zation should promptly rename itself the "Vil-lage Vandals." "Suburban Spoliators" or "DObbsFerry Destroyers."

EXPERT VIEWS OF THE \ERMO\T.Concurrently with the launching of our new-

est battleship there conies to hand an expert

Japanese estimate of what the battleship of theImmediate future should be. based upon obser-vations of the battle of the Sea of Japan andstudios of its resulls. The prominent naval of-ficer of Japan who is cited as authority con-cludes, from the data of Togo's mighty objectlesson, that the battleship, which is of supremeimportance in a fighting fleet, should have aprimary battery of 12-inch guns, and also 10-inch. 8-Inch and 8-inch pieces; armor capableof resisting an armament equal to her own: speedof eighteen knots at least; 'coal enough for along voyage, and. necessarily. ir,.iMW» or more

tons displacement. Weobserve that the Vermont,

which was successfully launched on Thurs-day, is to carry four 12-inch guns, with sec-ondary batteries of eight 8-inch and twelve 7-Inch guns. Her armor will be eleven inchesthick, which is strong enough to resist evensuch guns as her own. She is to have a speedof al least eighteen knots, and to be able tomaintain it for four hours, while her coal ca-pacity will be ample for a long voyage. Tierdisplacement "illbe 16.000 tons. On the wholeshe seems to come pretty close to the Japaneseidea of what a battleship should be.It may be added that this shrewd Japanese

observer thinks the first class cruiser of thefuture will have four 10-inch and n lot of 8-inchguns, and a displacement of 15,000 tons, andwill be able to make a speed of at least -'.'knots— truly a formidable creation: Lighter

cruisers will lie necessary, as scouts and com-merce destroyers, with at least "_'."• knotsspeed. Torpedo boat destroyers he regardsas of comparatively little value unless theirseagoing capacity c-'in be improved. Torpedoboats are valuable, but submarines are still inthe experimental stage. Bnt first, last and allthe time, he holds, the supreme factor of efficiency is the man behind the gun. That. too.accords with the ideas of the American nary.

of slips of pold leaf hanging downward. These.having ]><>en positively electrified, repel eachother and By apart. If the most minute quan-tity of indium Is hidden in a chunk of stone, itWill relieve the gold leaf of its electricity with-out actual contact and the two slips will falltogether. An alteration has taken place in thequality of the air (ordinarily an insulator* whichenables the charge to escape without the assistamp of any recognized conductor. The altera-tion in the condition of the atmosphere is im-puted to the passage of tiny particles through

it. These particles are called "ions."' ;;lthough

the name is not used in quite the same sense as

that in which Faraday employed it. That genius

applied it to the fttoms of a substance in a solu-tion which was being disintegrated by elec-tricity. Disciples of •'. J. Thomson use it to

designate bodies very much smaller than theatom, and in their judgment consisting of nega-tive electricity only. They nn- thus led to callthe change itself the "ionisation of the air."Now. merely as a laboratory phenomenon, thisis really a wonderful thing: but it may be play-ing an active part in terrestrial and celestialaffairs on a scale of enormous magnitude. Ar-

rheniufl and others fancy that ionisation per-mits solar Influences which were once believedto be unable n> reach the globe to operate inthe earth's aerial envelope and below it. Ifthey are right, the study of ionisation may revo-lutionize a number of sciences.

Not the least remarkable effect produced di-rectly and indirectly by these substances ist hat the conductivity Of the air Is Increased sothat electricity will pass where before It wouldnot. The easiest and most delloate test forradium, for instance, ip to hold the mineral sus-pected of containing it near an electroscope, th<->

essential feature of which instrument la a pair

HADIOLOGY AND 10SI8ATI0X.Vext week-s international congress "for the

.tudv of radiology and ionisation"-the first of

its kind ever held-grows out of n series of sui

rational discoveries within the last ten years.

Histoncar.v the leader of the group and n

Borne respects the most Important 'fI»1-:of ".as the observation by RSntgen in is«. t.iat

there was an Invisible radiation from a vacuum

tube which would penetrate certain opaque ob-

Zt< which would affect a photographic plate

and' which would excite the phenomenon of

fluorescence. Shortly afterward Recoup an-noun,ed that the metal uranium P«««**£

' «

»me properties, though exercising them feebly.

ruriosUv concerning uranium led eventually to

finding in the mineral containing It.pitchblende,

wo other elements, polonium and radium whichwere much more intensely rad.o-a.-me. and

radium it was Immediately perceived, might

make a valuable substitute for the Crookes tube

provided it could be had cheaply enough. Bj

degrees other marvellous traits revealed them-

selves to those who carefully examined radium.

Three dissimilar forms of radiation from it were

observed a gaseous emanation from It appar-ently turned into an entirely different element(heliumi. while there wns a slow hut continuousoutput of heat that seemed to defy one of the

best established laws of physics. Just prior to

the last of these revelations a statement wasmade by Thomson which In itself was start-ling but which derived greater significance

when it was seen that it might afford a key to

some of the other puzzles. The Cambridge

nhvsicist declared that there was evidence of

the existence of particles much smaller than the

atom, and that in all probability the atom was

composed of them.T'p to the present time the practical value of

these discoveries hs« been Terr limited. Thesurgeon can detect the position of objects whichhave accidentally lodged In the human body out

of sight Ifhe u«e«> an X ray tube and a photo-

graphic plate, or he can do so by employing the

tube and a fluorescent screen In a dark room.The same means can be turned to account, too.

in diagnosing disease, though to a limited ex-

tent: and both the tube and radium sometimes

exert a remedial Influence upon cancer. Theonly other kinds of service rendered by invisi-ble radiations just now are the exploration of

sealed packages by customs officers and the test-Ing of diamonds by causing them to fluoreace.Radium has been tried in a variety of scientificexperiments by eager Investigators. Ramsay

thinks that perhaps it may prove a potent agent

in the conversion of one material Into anotherthat mnn wants: and Dr. Burke Imagines thatpossibly itmay evolve life in sterilised gelatine

and beef ten. Neither of these hopes Is yet

fully Justified; but, whether they are realized ornot. It seems highly probable that the forcewhich Rontgen was the first to observe, andwhich is now being investigated by a host ofother scientific men. will in rime fll! a muchwider tield of usefulness than it does now.Even a better knowledge of its habits, regard-

less of its nature, may lead to Important re-sults; because inconvenience in many ways hasalready resulted from the ability of a host of ob-jects temporarily to absorb the unseen radiationsfrom radium and allied metals and then tothrow them off again.

So far as America is concerned, it is to beborne in mind that this country does not con-

tract alliances In the common European iuenn-mg of the term, but that It is ready, <'n suitableoc<nsi.)ii. to cultivate a friendship even closerend stronger C«an is commonly known amongEuropean nations. America cherishes no tradi-tional animosities and no legendary feuds. Atthe very outset of her national career the prin-

ciples were established of honest friendship

with all and entangling alliances with none,

and there has since arisen no cause and no In-clination to depart therefrom. M:uiy Interna-tional friendships have been cultivated. They

hnre. however, invariably arisen from duecauses and from practical causes, and. if everthose causes have unhappily ceased to be op-erative, there nas been danger of the waning

of the friendships. The community of origin,blood, language, law and aims has. of course,

made friendship—or more than friendship—be-

tween America and England the strongest anil

most constant of all. Toward other peoples

not thus connected with us by ties of nature

our attitude has varied according to the degree

of their sympathy with our Institutions or of

their approximation to our ideals. To cite, with-out invidiousness. a single example: Americanfriendship with France under the present re-

public has been far stronger than it was vr

could have been under the Second Empire.

Now. the friendship with Russia which Amer-

ica would be glad to cultivate must be basedupon something moie than an incident or twoIn history. To be lasting it must have the lasting basis of conditions and circumstances ofnational life. To speak very frankly, there isnothing in autocracy, nothing in Jew-baiting,

nothing In repression of civil liberties, nothing

In massacres, to inspire American friendship.

There was much in the Liberation of the serfs

to do so. and there would be much in the grant-Ing of a representative government and the en-

lightenment Of the people. "IfRussia can fre^herself from the St. Petersburg traditions." wrote

Hertzen forty-six years ago. 'her best and most

natural ally Is the T'nited States of America."

Sot her ally In the technical sense, but cer-

tainly her most sincere and sympathetic friend.Of that there can be no question. To cite an-other example, the interest and sympnthies ofAmerica were strongly engaged by Japan whenthat nation freed itself from the traditions of

the Shopunate and turned its face toward civil

freedom and enlightened popular government.

A similar movement in Russia would not fallinstantly to produce a similar result in America.

Hertzen's suggestion of 1850 is. In the highest

ninl most precious sense, possible and prac-

ticable lor fulfilment in 15*">.V. but its fulfilmentmust come through the ways and menus whichHertzen himself indicated, and not through B

persistent clinging to the things which be dep-

recated and which he denounced as obstacles to

the attainment of the desired eno:.

RVBBIAX ALLUXCE SCHEMES.The republlcotlon of Alexander Hert»en'i ol<i

•ssriy on a Rassb-Ainerlcau alliance In the"Novoe Vrem.vn." of St. Petersburg. ta " sonie-what noteworthy Incident, In virw <>f existing

cirrnmstnmes. That napei1Ims lieen conspicu-ous for i;s critMsms <>l and antagonisni towardAmerica; It is supposed to hare particularlyrlose rplations with the Russian ROVemment;Itnd the cenaonhtp is just now more active anilexartine than at any time for ninny years. Ifwo add to these the further facts that reformof the Russian governmental system is now

the dominant topic of official and popular In-terest in that empire, and that Russian penceplenipotentiaries are at this moment the .miestsof the American government, the peculiar sig-

nificance of this repuMicatlon is strongly su?-pested. It means it good deal that there cannow lw» made, with jrovernment sanction, a pub;lication which less than half a century apo wasforbidden and which brought upon its authorthe penalty of exile.

1s to the Strait of Coren thnt wp imist look foranother grent oonfllot IfIpowor attempts to

vrest from Japan tli<i control of the Ea«t«rt>seas.

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SuJtaAY. SEPTEMBER 3. 1905.

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