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Spooner finished his reply to Mr. Bailey on the Rate bill: tne private nsion calendar was cleared. House: Mr. Williams replied to Republican speeches on the tariff; a bill making emergency appropriations for work on federal property in San Francisco and at Morf- Island was passed The homes of leading Royalists, labor leaders and anarchists were searched at Paris by the police in the hope of finding evidence of a plot to overthrow the republic. Natives of Tunis revolted, killed three Europeans and made an unsuccessful attack OB the town of Thais Negot.ations betwef Great Britain and Turkey continue, but the former government la determined to enforce the withdrawal of TurkiFh troops from Tabah; It Is reported that the have El Arish.

The statue of Benjamin Fntnklin. presented to the city of Paris by John H. Harjcs. was unveiled at the Trocadero. King Edward and Queen Alexandra, arrived at Naples, and in company with the Duke and Duchess of Aosta visited the region devastated by Vesuvius.

Stocks were weak. Th' complaint was served on "Judge" Andrew Hamilton but not made public in the suit for an aecounttag of moneys spent by him as legislative agent for the New York Life. William A. Brewer, of the Washington Life, was indictod tor perjury by the grand Jury. Deuel filed his answer to the ap- VIU-ation made for his removal brought by Disliit Attorney Jerome and others.

Presldeni Alu-arn of the Bsroaan of Manhattan arf solution at the meeting of the Board Kstimate which practically would take all r.Tv.-r from the Bureau of FYanehises. Magistrate Crane, after hearing the complaint of a woman, denounced the Prudential Insurance Company, calling the alleged act MaThway robbery. There was an unconfirmed rumor of the suspension of several fire insurant on account of the San Francisco conflagration Senate leaders In Washington believed that a date for a vote on the rate bill would be set early next week; conservatives claimed fifty-one votes for a liroad court review amendment. The Parsons Reapportionment bill was reported ln the Senate in Albany and was advanced to third reading. A eta.t«ment from the Rev.

Dr. Crapsey was read by Congressman Perkine, of the rector's ounse! at the trial In Batavia; arguments were presented by both sides. Governor HlaTSina elanefl the last two of the insurance reform measures. The refusal of the coal opf-ratore to accept mine workers' propositions made It look as If a strike would be ordered, according to a dispatch from Scranton. H.

E. Kuntlnrton gave $30,000 for the relief of the professional classes impoverished by the Ban disaster. A warrant was Issued at Cambridge, for a Harvard instructor charged with murdering his wife. The physician appointed by the Newark court to examine Mrs. Lillian R.

Duke, alleged to be asscrtlnjc a false sickness as an excuse for nonattendance at her husband's divorce suit, reported ehe was in bed. tut that she was apparently suffering from no illness. Coal operators opened a large new coal breaker in Morrletown, N. and are said to have a ten months' supply of lump coal, which they are breaking Into marketable sizes. THE lndications for to-day: Fair.

The temperature yesterday: Highest. 7derrees; lowest. 46. INSURANCE REFORMS. Ail of the Insurance reform measures have now been put on the statute book.

The work is finished, and the present session of the Legislature will have to Its credit on that account alone, regardless of all other thlnjrs, a ret-ord for efficiency and devotion to the public welfare which has not been surpassed In many years. We do not recall any body of remedial legislation of large volume, dealing with a complicatel subject about which experts might honestly differ, which was so favorably received on all sides as were the Armstrong bills. Nobody ever qoestioned the intelligence and pood faith with which they were drawn, and even the insurance officials whose operations were subjected to unwelcome and drastic regulation conceded the general wisdom of the plan, and asked only modifications in detail, some of which were granted. It may possibly be that the regulations in a few particulars have gone too far; if so they can be modified after practical trial. But in general there can be no doubt that a great work of reform has been accomplished, which is st once thorough and conservative, free from demagogy and yet responsive to the moral sentiment of the community aroused by the revelation of insurance abuses.

For all this too much credit cannot be given to Senator Armstrong and bio supporters In the committee and to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Mo The public owes them a debt of gratitude for their unswerving fidelity and their handling of a inoet difficult and dan gerous problem. The Republican party also owes them thanks, first, for boldly facing the Issue and going to the bottom of scandals regardless of possible political effects, and moond, for helping their party 6nce more to de monstrate its ability us a responsible and efficient instrument of government. Governor Higglns also is entitled to a great deal of credit To him more than to any other man is due the high character of the committee.

A year ago be andured much misrepresentation concerning his attitude and motives, which malicious critics have not failed to repeat this year. He might gained a little applause from the sensational press last summer by starting at the Cm demand an Investigation which would have been controlled by the Insurance lobby and would Lava been directed, not by Charles K. Hughes, but by Andrew Hamilton. Ills resistance to clamor until he could be sure of the right kind of an investigation was a great public service. Then at the critical moment.

when some of the most Important provisions of the committee bills were Id danger, he saved the situation, as everybody acknowledges. The Insurance reforms are emphatically his reforms, and the will identify them as the wort of bis administration. The seventh insurance bill which the Governor has just signed Is one In "which The Tribune takes special interest Before the Armstrong committee report was made we urge. that the promotion of legislation under recret retainers be prohibited, and called attention t. the example of Massachusetts and which require the registration of legislate agents.

It may be. as Governor IHgglns points out. that the New York law might be improved by closer approach to that of Massachusetts. Perhaps the list of lawyers who appear to make public arguments respecting measures should bo separated from the list of those who do private lobbying work, legitimate though iM be Certainly there should be provision for the disbarment from the busings of promoting legislation 01 parsons engaging In improper practices Nevertheless, the measure is long step in advance. Civilization goes forward here, notwithstanding the difficulties incident to metropolitan conditions, vast population and complex interests, and New York keeps in the van as an exponent of moral improvement in business and politics.

THE OONVERSIOy OF KAVSAS. muse an orator addressing a Democratic convention in Kansas the other day pointed one of his periods with an allusion Samuel .1. Tiltlen and drover Cleveland-two statesmen long under taboo the land of the Raw and the Wichita-there has teen poo! teal of fluttering among Eastern Democrats srrratcrt to the cause of "safety an 1 Kansas has been back to the conservative fold with the enthusiasm customarily evoked by the return of the notorious bur repentant sinner. -The New York Even lac PosT chants paean of joy over the prodigal's unexpected reformation. -'Out there the pods have had their day of adoration.

it claims, "and now the party is returning to "what they call in Nebraska 'the J. Sterling -Morton brand of The will be serious one. upon clear issues, -and'" if the Judgment of local observers is to -he trusted the party has an even of "winning." "The New York World" is little more skeptical. It is encouraged by the discovery that speaker in Deniocnitic convention in Kansas can mention the name of Groyer Cleveland and vet "get away alive." That suggests prog rasa, and our neighbor cheerfully observes that -the state of mind of ttio Kansas Democrats healthy and Because the same Intrepid the Hon. "Bill" who took his lif- In his bands by venturing to utter Mr.

Cleveland's name declared himself in favor of free hides "The Springfield Republican" sees new color in the Western sunset and hopefully fimslsuliiws a union of Democratic hearts and Democratic bands for the purpose of giving New England the raw material which sh especially wants and thereby relieving the suffering of the sole-worn and the shoeless. Kan- BBS and Massachusetts united on this "safe sane" platform is a picture which naturally tors a certain section of the New England im- nation. We do not want to interfere with the jubilation now in progress. The Hon. "Hill" may be an actual convert to "safety and sanity." But we read on the list of the nominees chosen for state offices the names of William A.

Harris. H. P. Farrelly and David Ovcrmyer. Mr.

Harris is an ex-Senator from Kansas, elected as a Populist, and still a radical in his opinions. Mr. Farrelljr and Mr. Overmyer have been the bom active managers of the party in Kansas for the last eight or ten years, supporting WiKiani J. Bryan and nil his policies.

If these men bare suddenly renounced their political heresies and adopted the Sterling Morton brand of Democracy." that fact is known us ye: only In inner "safe and sane" circles. Moreover, some traces of Popullstlc depravity still linjrer in the corpus of Kansas Democracy. if are may judge from the outcome of a lit lie cwai over ill- selection of chairman for the recent Topeka convention. It appears that the state oomntlttee, with the redoubtable Sapp at its bead, selected for that dignity the Hon. B.

P. ITaggener, of Atchison, more or less actlre candidate for (be (Jovernorshlp. The voto in committee was 23 But within a few hours thereafter mass meeting of lolejrntes was hold, among its promoters being Mr. Orermyer bJoiself, which denounced Waggoner, so "The Kansas City Star" tolls us. as "a candidate and unlit for association with "decent Democrats." Sapp and his followers on the committee were so Intimidated by this action that they reconsidered their choice, and the vTaggener boom for the nomination for Governor was fatally floated, It may be that Sapp tried to pet even with the radicals by incidentally the existence and services of Mr.

Cleveland. At any rate, he seems to have sold a good deal of a gold brick to gullible Eastern conservatives. A Kansas convention which deposes its regularly selected chairman on the stogie ground that ho is "a railroad candidate" is certainly not educated up to the Eastern level of "safety and sanity." The conversion of Kansas is far from being accomplished. We fear the halos manufactured hereabouts for Kansas penitents have been prematurely bestowed. RAILS IX CITY STREETS.

In its latest issue "The Railroad Gazette" re produces a short talk in which the president of the New York, New Haven Hartford road indulged last month at a conference in Hartford. He asked for a chance to try an experiment which would facilitate the electric service between that city and neighboring towns. Mr Mellen wants to be able to switch cars from the company's right of way to the tracks of local street railways Such a practice would bring the rural customer almost to the very of the principal shops and other business houses without a change. The grooved rail now in service In Hartford. Mr.

Mellen pointed out. is not adapted to the heavy wheel flanges of the rolling Ktock he intends to use. Hence he begs for the privilege of substituting for it the rail. The change would be made in only a few streets, and assurances are given that If It did not prove satisfactory after a fair trial he would restore the old tracks. This proposition should interest a great many cities besides Hartford.

Both inside and outside of New England an electrically operated suburban system Is contemplated by corporations that have hitherto relied ou Steam alono for traction purposes. It appears to be a part of that policy to buy existing trolley lines. Interchange of cars by local companies and In terurljau companies is already an old story, but the transfer of cars to local tracks from those of the great steam is a new development We do not know what response has been given to Mr Mellin. Perhaps he has not yet received one. If it should be unfavorable, lie would probably try elsewhere.

He made the application first to Hartford, because in some that city presents exceptionally good conditions for a trial. Trade may be expected there from all of the compass. New Haven, bounded on one aide by the Sound, offers a less Inviting Held. Too much Is involved ln the general scheme, however, to justify a premature abandonment of K. From many of view It is desirable that it should receive a test expanding arms a nedod of two NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE.

SATURDAY. APRIL 28, 1906. or three years would be a valuable object les- Kon to the whole country. The chief objection to the rail In city streets is that it is injurious to the wheels of ordinary vehicles which follow the cur tracks. From a shallow groove it Is easy to turn without harm If the driver exercises reasonable care.

A furrow four or five Inches deep would strain or break rarriaKe wheels which were caught in it. As Mr. truly remarks, however, a city which made the change would derive marked ad; vantages through' increased trade. When a rural customer could avoid a change of cars at the station and save time and a trolley fare he would be tempted to visit city shops more frequeutly than before. Hartford merchants and citizens In general will doubtless try to deter'mioe whether or not the sain would fully compensate for the loci sustained.

They might also ask Mr. MtfUen, with iuncti propriety, whether a new of rail could not be devised which would serve his purposes as well as the rail, and which would do less harm to light vehicles. OUR GREATEST YEAR IS TRADE. New high records both in the export and the Import trade will be made in the fiscal year end- Ing June 30. litoti.

Figures for the first eight months of that year compiled by the Bureau of statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor indicate that the trade totals for OS hitherto the greatest In our history will be easily distanced. In OS our exports were valued at a gain of $81,000,000 over the largest previous total, that for I'JOO-'Ol. Our imports were valued at iil.ll7.r>l2,t;'J9--a gain of $92,000,000 over the largest previous total, that for 1003-'O3. Bui in the first eight months of the current year exports have run $190,000,000 ahead of the total for the same period last year, while imports show a gain of $71,000,000. The volume of our foreign commerce has been swollen by $261,000,000 and the balance of trade in our favor, which in was $400,955,000, will probably be 'increased in to $530,000,000 or $540,000,000.

This unusual expansion in our foreign commerce is due primarily to the record breaking American harvests of 1905. In 1904 we raised barely enough wheat to supply home demands. But in 1905 our crops both of wheat and corn were superabundant, and we had an old fashioned surplus to sell abroad. Wheat exports increased in value from $3,710,000 In the first eight months of 1904-' OS to $22,621,938 in the first eight months of 1905-'OG. and flour exports increased in value from $26,723,000 to Corn exports showed a gain of $19,000,000, oats of $11,000,000 and barley of $3,000,000.

Less cotton has been sent abroad this year than last year, but an increase of three cents in average value a pound has resulted so far in a net gain In selling value of about $30,000,000. In the first eight months of 1905-'O6 we have exported agricultural products valued nt The highest previous total for any similar period was reached In 1900-'Ol. and again in 1903-'O4. It is interesting to note, however, that notwithstanding this enormous spurt in agricultural exports the ratio of agricultural products to other commodities exported is smaller this year than in any year since 1895, with one exception. In 1904-' OS, when our wheat crop ran short, the percentage of agricultural products sold was 57.2.

This year it is 59.3. But in it was 63JJ and in it was as high as Our export trade in manufactures is, in fact, growing much faster than our export trade in raw In the eight months ended February 2S the gain made in the value of manufactured exports was $45,000,000. This represents a steady growth, not an accidental spurt due to harvest conditions. A decade ago we were Belling to Europe 75 or 80 per cent of the amount of raw materials we ship abroad to-day. But to-day we are exporting to Europe and the rest of the world three times as many manufactured commodities as we were able to sell ten years ago, Our import figures tell the same story.

For. while we are only slightly increasing our purchases of manufactured goods and luxuries, we are buying greater and greater quantities of manufacturers' materials, In this class of Imports a gain of $40,000,000 was made in the eight months ended February 28 last, out of a total gain in imports of $71,000,000. The growth of the United States as a manufacturing nation has therefore been the second contributing causa in the remarkable trade expansion Indicated for 190.V00. BMOKE AKD SMELL OV WHEELS. Comment on the ami smell i mitted by many automobile trebicles hitherto been made In these columns, and it has been suggested that the nuisance should be abated the same principles as those on which the campaign against unui smoke from chimneys is being namely, that it is a nuisance Injurious to public, that it is unnecessary.

and ii ii it is actually cause of waste and needless expense to those who commit it. We notice that the matter has been taken up in London with characteristic energy and with a prospect thai something will be done about it. Thai city is now provided with a system of automobile omnibuses, which seem to be pretty good things for transportation, but in other respects to be decidedly offenslTe. Thus we find Mr. Sidney Colvin savin? of thorn in the London Along their linen of route the whir of these monsters Is already deafening out of doors, and all but deafening to those who sit indoors with open windows.

And their stink hi even a worse plague than their din. The noisome steam discharged in the trail of these vehicles hung blue and thick and low in the Streets; It penetrated the parka; to draw a clean breath was impossible. If you sought refuge on the roof of one of these machines you only found yourself choked the reek of another in front, and came home sickened in all your senses. Is there no public authority which can check the multiplication of these machines until they can be made tinklesa? Mr. Colvin's vigorous words will find sympathetic echoes in many New York heart.

The state of affairs here is not, we think, as bad as he describes it to be in London. But it Is bad, and is growing worse. Huge "touring cars" pass through quiet residence streets at all hours of the night, making, more noise than trolley cars would, and nearly as much as railroad trains. Sometimes one is left standing before a house for an hour, at midnight or later, with its engine "chug-chugging" loud enough to wake everybody on the block. As for the stench of gasolene and other combustibles, on some frequented avenues and In parts of the it is often pretty nearly as bad as Mr.

Colvln describes it. One may drive through Central or Prospect Park from end to end any tine Sunday afternoon without being able to draw one full breath free from those nauseous fumes. That these things, especially the smoke and fumes, indicate Imperfections In the engine or Ignorance or carelessness in the use of it and a costly wear and tear of the machinery an! waste, of fuel must be obvious to every thoughtful observer. For the sake of the machines and their owners the nuisance should be abated. As to the legal abatement of It under the antlemoke law, it is to be noted that the law, speaking of "every building, vessel or place in or upon which a locomotive or stationary engine" Is used, declares that no person shall "cause.

"suffer or allow smoke gas. steam or "offensive or noisome odors to escape or be to the detriment or annoyance "of any person or persons. it cor tain that many motor cars do emit and discharge smoke, gas, steam and offensive and noisome odors, to the detriment and great annoyance of many people. It is certain that no man would be permitted to run a stationary engine that did such things In his own house or yard. Is it any more permissible for him to run such a movable engine pobUa streots, whore It annoys a hundred times more I pie thnu It would if It were stationary? Now that the Dewey has reached the Suez Canal a fresh opportunity is afforded for calculating its progress.

The course for steamships from Gibraltar to Port Said Is 1.920 miles in lenKth. This has not been strictly adhered to by the towing expedition, but the essential fact is that thirty- two days have been consumed. The apparent rate of travel from one end of the Mediterranean was. therefore, about sixty-two miles a day. Should this be maintained for the rest of the distance to Manila Bay (0.4^ miles) days more would be required to finish the voyage, and the dock would reach its destination by the mifirlle of August.

Congressman Boutell advises his adventurous colleagues to "go to New and there try to live it down." The Chicago Congressman haa been here, and presumably his advice is born of his experience. Roll the relief fund In this city up to thf t4.SSa.SM mark stopping to rest, and see how it looks! An Alabama admirer of Richmond Pearson Hobson declares that tho captain Is "a Jefferson, Tilden. Cleveland and John Paul Jones into one There will evidently be some San Franciscolike disturbances When Hobson begins to make good in the nexf Houae of Representatives. finston has r.i!«en to the occasion and started a whole carload of baked beana for San Francisco. The ratification by the United States Senate of the Alaska boundary agreement finally flares that dispute, which once threatened a disturbance of the peaceful relations of the I'niti States, among the res adjudlcatse.

It is one of victories of peace of which both parties to the controversy may be proud. Professor William Lyons Fhelps. of Yale, thinks "it is possible that the whole history of in the next twenty years will be changed "because (Jorky came here with a woman who "Is not his wife." This would seem to be taking the Russian novelist at his own exaggerated value. Had he l.een a Tolstoy or a Russian Victor Hugo the opinion would appear more trsdl ble. but even Professor Phelps would not dream of him in that class, for he frankly admits that Oorky's "fiction and novHs ntain a vast amount of mere drivel and nonsense." THE TALK OF TIIE DAY.

A Sunday school teacher had done her utmost to hnnfess upon the children In her charge for authority. One child asked her. "Who wrote the Bible'" She told him as intelligibly as she could. Drawing a long sigh, ho said. "I always thought Mr.

Twttmeyer (tiie Sunday school superintendent) wrote the Bible." THE LOST GRIP. It was a joy to be alive. When I could always see My (jolt ball, from a drive. Go soaring off the tc-. When, as my lowered handicap Fell ever nearer scratch.

I held my own with any chap In medal play and match. Then foozles never made me groan; Then, grlppli like a visa. I swung ray club; then all ur.kr.own Were top and pull and slice; Then all my deft approaches sped. Dire to their goal; Then all my longest putts lay dead. Or fell into the hole.

Oh! cruel Fate that bade me look. On one ill omened day. Upon the pictures in the book Of Vardon's hints on play! For. though I quickly laid it by, That one unlucky dip Into its pages made me try The overlapping grip. Now all my Onsen are like thumbs.

My club turns round and round; A divots, it downward cornea. Fly upward from the ground. My golf ball skips to right or ft A few abort yards, and stops; Or, with its surface deeply cleft. Into a bunker drops. And though I swear and fume and fret.

My efforts are in vain; And, what is worse. I cannot get old style back again. So no.v with sighs and tears and frowns I curse the diagrams That cost me numberless half-crowns. And all! so regrettable comments. "We always like to read about the doings of Denver "society." There la no "aloofness" about your newniade millionaire.

The writers of society news pat their heroes on the back In every paragraph with a delightful Western joviality. The men are breezy, and naturally they furnish breezy items to the social columns. "We quote from a Denver paper; note the pardonable pride that the colonel sat on the back seat: Salute Colonel Thomas Keeley. He has a red wagon tit for family use. with a coachman as bit? as a side show giant.

The vehicle Is different from anything In the city. It is the color of the dish of you wanted but didn't get because you thought they looked too pretty to eat. There was much riding on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Keeley Sunday.

Stalwart Thomas sat back whew he belonged, beside Mrs. Keeley. and the overgrown coachman did nobly, like the colored troops at San Juan Hill. There was much stopping at a candy store and bargaining, presumably to placate the nursery at home, for wouldn't small children just to ride about in that wheeled piece of fairyland that is as red as a sunset at sea? It must be fine to go through the world in a rig 1 like that. Nobody seems to know where the style cornea from, but it's clever as a happy thought, nevertheless.

Autos may come and autos may Into ditch and but the trusty span will along with that Keeley carriage, with its twinkling red spokes, as long as the Congo flows into the sea. It's great surprise, though. Nobody ever thought Mr. Keel, ha.l such hectic taste in vehicles. When a man of his quiet habits rides in a red wagon he is going- some.

Of the practical effects of the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court a test was had In Chicago this week. There were many applicants for the legal severing of domestic relations, not a few residents of different states, from the partners of their joys. In all such cases the Judge asked each compla'nlng witness if he or she understood that under the recent decision a decree granted might not be considered legal In case of removal to another state In each case the complainant was familiar with the new situation and anxious to proceed with the i rial The court proceeded to call the witnesses, and the divorce machinery worked as smoothly as ever. A little thing like, doubtful validity deterred no one who wanted freedom and a new deal Do you know I've Induced my husband to un clears? that so? Well. I've known him for oeven years and I never saw htm Rive up Illustrated Bits.

AN UNPREJUDICED CHOICE. From (Term.) Free Press. A fair subscriber nst us to name our farorlte pome cheerfully compUcate with request by saying it la "Crossing the Bar" Our favorlt- orator Senator Beverage. We never aeea of 'hii. we know from the namm they air our favorite STRENUOUS PREACHING.

From i positions. A theological studfnt waa one Sunday to supply a vacant pulpit In a Connecticut Valley town. A few daya after he received a copy of the weekly paper of that place with the following Item marked: "Rev. the senior olasS of Yale Seminary ttupplled the pulpit at the Congr-futtonal church last Sunday. the church will now be closed three waeka for repaira." BAGGED AT THE KNEES.

From The Troy Times. It is difficult to avoid "talking anon" a bpt which Illustrates this Is told of the late H. O. Toler. the noted horseman, who died in Wichita.

A Kentuekian was speaking of Colonel Toler and said: "Colonel Toler raised John Gentry and many other famous horses. The turf has Buffered a great loss In htm. A better of horsejlesh and a pleaaanter man never find I used to love to watch him atudytng horsea. lii was very keen. He waa at hla beat then.

A rloh tailor once brourht him to see a new acquisition a trotter of doubtful quality, for which, however had been raid. The tailor was full of enthuslaam about his horse He little knew he hud been done. 'Look at htm." he cried. 'There's a horse for you. Look at them 'Very i.rotty Colonel Toler.

grinali 'Very nice irvdeed. But doat you xhlak a Ut About People and Social AT THE WHITE HOUSE. (From The Tribune Washington. April 27-President Koosevelt railroad rate legislation with Senators Allison and Cullom to-day. The Senators were in ference with the President for half an hour, dvi after their talk said there was nothing new in tne situation worthy of publicity.

Before the Cabinet met the President received visits from Senators Piles and Hansbrough. Representatives Qrosvenor. Calder. Cocks. Meyer Hill and and State Senator A.

J. Stade Goodnow Torrlson and A. O. Sather. of North Dakota who are about to make a trip Sweden their native land, to witness the coronation of King Ilaakon.

The Cabinet met at 11 o'clock and remained in session until 1 p. m. The President has arrangements to sit for his portrait to Irving Wiles, an artist connected with the University of Berlin. Theodore Roosevelt, who haa apent the last two weeks Washington, has returned to Harvard to resume his studies. He has almost entirely recovered from the operation performed on one of his eyes about ten days ago.

although ihat orgnn Is still giving him some pain. He was accompanied by son of Mr. and Thomas Blagden. who Is also in school In Massachusetts. NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.

The Tribune Washington. April A large contingent of society went to the Belasco Theatre this afternoon to see Miss Ruth St. Denis, as the reincarnated Hindoo goddess Rhada, in her dances explanatory of the five senses. Misa St. Denis was brought here through Mrs.

Barney and Mrs. Herbert Wadaworth to give a performance for the benefit of the Home for Incurables and the Barney Settlement Club, a neighborhood clubhousu. Occupying boxes wsn Lady Durand. Baroness HengelnvUller. Mrs.

Wetmore. Mrs. Newberry. Pinehot, Mrs. Hope Slater.

Mrs. Guy Norman. Mrs. Townsend. Mrs.

Elkins. Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Henry May.

Mrs. Spalding and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. Over seventy women and men from the younger set appeared in the tableaux vlvantH at the New Wil'ard to-night, a spectacular entertainment written and arranged by Miss Edith Miller, daughter of Lieutenant Commander and Mrs. Frederick A.

Miller. Before the tableaus small dinner parties were given at the New Wlllard by Mrs. Perkins. Gardiner Williams, Mrs. Charles J.

Bell. Mrs. Waleotl Tuckerman, Mrs. Miller. Mrs.

Richard Barlow, Mrs. Wayne Parker and Mrs. Jennings. Following the taMsaas were a number of supper parties. proceeds from the supper, like tho9e from the tableaus, being devoted to the benefit of St.

John's Orphanage. Mr? Metratf. wife ad the Secretary of Commerco and recalled her invitations for dinner last evening and has cancelled all social engagements for the present on account of the uncertainly sf the fate of some of Mr. Metcalfs relative, as AliT WORKERS ORGAXIZE. National Society of Craftsmen Plans Exhibition for Autumn.

A call Issued by Spencer Traak. president of National Arts Club, to workers In arts and crafts throughout the country brought about one hundred and fifty craftsmen to the clubhouse in West 34th stroet yesterday afternoon and evening. Among those present were workers In woodcarving. metal work. Including jewelry; textiles, all forms of woven stuffs and loom work, bookbinding, stained Bliss and ceramics.

A permanent organization was effected, and arrangements were made for an exhibition of arts ar.d crafts next fall the new home of the National Arts Club In Gramercy Park, to the home of the organization. The announcement was made that Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. was In hearty sympathy with the movement and would give to it his active support in every possible way. Frederick S. Lamb presided.

The organization was effected with the election of Spencer Trask. president; Arthur W. Dow. vice-president; John J. Murphy, secretary, and Emerson Mlllin.

treasurer. Directors, elected to serve three years, were Amy M. Hicks. Frederick S. Lamb.

Charles Volkmar and Charles de Kay; directors elected to serve two years were Anna B. Leonard. Florence Foote, Charles H. Barr and Edward D. Page, and directors elected to serve one year were Mrs.

Charlotte Busck. Miss E. M. Heller. J.

William Foadick and Miss Louise Cowperthwalte. The name of the organization will be the National Society of Craftsmen, and Its objects will be to promote the creation and sale of products of the arts and crafts; to maintain a permanent exhibition, and to establish a bureau of Information for craftsmen and clients. The membership will be professional and associate, the former to pay an annual fas of $3 and the latter $10. One of the provisions of the constitution Is that there shall bo jury committee of fifteen, with power to add to their number, to be elected by the professional membership, whose duty it Shal be to pass upon all work submitted for exhibition or sale. Five members will constitute a quorum, one member of which must be a craftsman in the work judged.

BIG PKOFIT ON A CONSTABLE. Dealer's Testimony in the Case Against Charles M. Schwab. London. April The suit begun yesterday by a picture dealer named Rothschild against Charles M.

Schwab, of New York, for breach of contract, was again adjourned in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice to-day. The plaintiff tn the course of his cross-examination admitted that be had Constable's picture. "Dedham Lock," "sale or on return" for He first asked Mr. Schwab 55.000 and then CO.COO for the picture. Ultimately Mr.

Schwab offered $15,000. which was accepted. Thereupon plaintiff admitted that he had tried to prevail upon the owners of the picture to reduce the price to $3,260. The plaintiff described his letters to Mr. Schwab as "trade bluff." It also was brought out at to-day's hearing that another picture agent became aware of th- negotiations for the sale of Constable's picture, saw the owners, and offered it to Mr.

Schwab for $10,000. whereupon latter refused to conclude the arrangement with Rothschild. ALPHA DELTA PKI CLUBHOUSE. Cornerstone of Fraternity Building in "West 44th Street Laid. The cornerstone of the new Aloha Delta Phi Club house, that Is being erected at 136 and 138 Weal 41th street, was laid on Thursday with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of about one hundred and fifty members of the fraternity.

Owing to the absence from the city of Frand9 Lynda Stetson, the president of the club, anil also of the Club Realty Company, which la erecting- the buildings, the exercises were conducted by Colonel Charles E. Sprague. a former president of the fraternity. A prayer waa offered by the Rev. Dr.

Joseph N. Blanchard. of Morrlstown. N. and remarks were made by Joseph H.

Choate. for many years president of the fraternity and also of the club. and. In the absence of Hamilton W. Mabte.

Colin Armstrong, vice-president of the fraternity, responded for the society. Louis F. Dodd. secretary of the Club Realty Company, read a list of articles deposited in the box. which was placed in the cornerstone.

Among those present were Arthur Man. Henry J. Hemmans and Joseph M. Allan, the committee in charge of the exercises; ex-Judge W. N.

Cohen. Benjamin Barker, B. W. Franklin. James Armstrong.

W. D. Leonard. Charles May, Jefferson Clark and P. L.

Kleck. The club building Is being erected upon a lot 36 by nd in )ll J. lncludln the land, about Xt TT, U1 bo f. nt "torlea high, two stories of which will be used for club purposes and remaining floors for for members. It in expected that the building will be ready for occupancy in the fall of tht4 year.

E. BENEDICT HURT ON YACHT. to Orenwloh. April yacht Onelds, Commodore B. C.

Benedict, the owner aboard and Dr. L. P. Jones, his family physician, arrived 1" New York last evening after a three thousand mils trip In South, of tlve weeks duration. Benedict waa thrown to urn far waes at ana rt well as distant relatives of her own are in San Francisco.

Mrs. Daniel Laniont and Miss left Washington for their home In xorls. NEW YORK SOCIETY Among the set for to-day th Miss Harriet Delafleld to Jarvts Pora WO7 in the Church of the Heavenly Rest, sad Hallburton Brldgham and Mrs. H. G.

East list street home of Miss Mary VaA Miss Harriet Delafleid will have her sister vi Maizte Delafleld. as her maid of honor tad bridesmaids will be Miss Grace Justine Ervlng. Miss Florence Bates sad vr" liopeton B. Atterbury Russell 3. Carter tend his brother as best man.

and the njhsaa be Marcellus Hartley Dodge, Edward Delafleld. Edmund L. Brown. Charles inkT Douglas S. Carter, L.

G. Price and Robert belgh. After the ceremony a given by the bride's parents. Mr. and Mra Uatx L.

Delafield, at their house. In East Mth sajeai' Mrs. Vall's marriage to William Brldgham will be a quiet affair. The brida la widow of the late Robert Van, to whom aha married at Constantinople, where her Greek banker named Gargulio, made Ma baaa For some years she has lived with her law. Miss Mary L.

Vail, at No. East Cm. strait Another of her sisters-in-law la Mrs. bins. The bridegroom is a graduate of Cohuaam.

class of "71, and a member of the Union. bocker and Racquet clubs. One of Us brotisn, Samuel Eridgham. married Miss Fanny horn. Mr.

and Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings. Has garet S. Loew, Miss Angelica Gerry and lbs. Lee Taller ware among the guests whoa Elbrldge T.

Gerry took out yesterday on the Pioneer to luncheon at Ardsley. Alfred Yaaderbllt drove. Another wedding this afternoon wQ to that of Miss Elizabeth Truax, daughter of Jnstlcs Charles H. Truax. of the Supreme Court, to William Henry Furness.

at the East Stta street home of orkie. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin have returned to from their place on J-kyi bland, where that? an, Edwin Gould, has been ill with typhoid trm. Their other boy mwtil a fractured ant, he broke in Central Park other day.

Mias Amy Baker gave a vesteniay noon at Sherry's, assisted by Tom Daatel, the basso, who aang to the accompaniment of Brass Huhn. Among those present were Mrs. James w. Gerard. Mrs.

George J. Gould. Mrs. F. P.

Klnalcw, Roosevelt, Mrs James ud Mrs H. a Vail. William Ruloff Kip, of New York, who Has ban wintering in Cairo and on the Nile, has returaet to Paris. KING EDWARD AT NAPLES. British Sovereigns Visit Region Devastated by Vesuvius.

Naples. April King Edward and Quean andra arrived here to-day from Messina, after ft stormy voyage. It was feared that their csajestits would be unable, on account of the weather, to make their proposed ascension of Mount but later in the day they started for the yolcaaota as automobile with the Duke and Duches3 of Aosta. The roads were heavy, for the ashes had tunal into mud. King Edward was cheerful, and turoei every discomfort into fun.

Their majesties gave ROOO to the fund for tha relief of the sufferers from the recent eruption. Shortly after the arrival of Kir-s Edward talegraphic communication was established between shore and the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, his majesty hanged most cordial dispatches King Victor Emmanuel, who i 3 at Milan lot opentiig of the International Simplon Exhibition tomorrow. Considerable importanca Is attached King Edwards visit, especially as it follows tie indications of a new grouping of the outlined at the conference. Kins Eawirt, however, is not going to Milan. Weather ting, hr- expects to leave Naples on Saturday naning.

GOLDEN ROSE FOR PRINCESS Esl Marquis of Tovar Also Bears Letter froa Pope to Future Queen of Spain. Madrid. April The Marquis of Torar, Spanish Ambassador to the Vatican, has arrived here heaving the Golden Rose a letter boa. the Pope to the Princess Ena of Battenbers, wbe to be married to King Alfonso on 1. Since Joanna of Naples received the Golden from Pope Urban V.

la many churches and cities have received this from the head of the Catholic Church. Henry ID of England received three from three differest Popes. Isabella II of Spain, Napoleon the the Republic of Lucca and the Basilica of St. Mark's at Venioe were amon; the recipients. The Golden Rose noAidays is given chief sovereigns who have rendered some Important service to the Catholic Church.

It consists aa omv ment which is blessed by the Pujpe on Lae-ara Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Utat, Originally it a single flower of wrought sold, but new rtt HSU of a thorny branch, with several tons: leaves and one principal flower at top. gold. ELLEN TERRY AGAIN WELCOMED- Noteworthy Scenes of Enthusiasm at His Majesty's Theatre. London. April ft Terry's Mistress in 'The Merry Wives of at His Majesty's Theatre this evening waa by noteworthy scenes of enthusiasm on the pa.

an audience which crowded the building to tv At the close of the a had been arranged tor the presentation o- goers' Club stiver box and an melioration of the actress 1 jub.lee. an Tree, still In his costume ad Falstaff. recitea ioU of congratulation, at close of which fluttered down from the flies carrying a which was taken by a con- It to the heroine of the. evening. The sere tamed a rhymed response, which Miss cited.

She shook hands with Mr. Tree great emotion, said her ft-ellw would her to express In words what she and a deputation of the PUy goers' Cluo aanted the box. which la embellished la reuw pl-turea of Olympian games and entertainment In Athens. the Hundreds of people were camping ou jj theatre Uus afternoon to get ja gallery. The arrivals began as ibl and the line rapidly grew longer.

resembled a huge picnic. Most of brought camp baskets aa" PRINCE YON BUELOW Berlin. April Chancellor yon Bulow. tfc been slowly Improving since his falatlnS Raichatug on April 5. wan able to take In his garden to-day.

DINNER FOR NEW CUSTOMS OF? About hundred persons were jn dinner given last night, at the Uotel honor of Frederick J. 11. the ef pointed naval officer of at New York, by hia friends In the part men of the State of York. nn years Mr. Cracke waa first assistant KENYON GIVES LL.

D. TO MR. CAR ir with 3 Gambler. Ohio. April 27 In oB Jt celebration of.

Stanton Day at Kenyon (08 terday. the degTee of Doctor of ft aj i ferred on Andrew Carnegie. Mr. party went to rieveland last IOWA SOCIETY DINNER rS The newly organised lowa Society of aa will hold flrat annual to-ms "Waldorf- The guests of -M lowa of the Cabinet, Sena House. The Dr.

N. Dwtgat doa of. the society, will pronounce an lowa Society organized tn IW vl :00 fl.