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The Pott ft tha leading newspaper of tha National Capital bcauM Washington readers want tha newa of tha world avary day In the yaar and they find It only In Tha Post NO 11555 M0 ff Weather Fair to day to morrow rain or snows light to froah winds btcomlng southerly Temperature ysatarday Maximum 83 minimum 29 WASHINGTON TUESDAY JANUARY 28 1908H3IXTEEN PAGES THREE CENTS i SAFETY IN UNION Railroads Win Labor Decision in Supreme Court HAVE RIGHT TO DISCHARGE May Dismiss Employes for Belong in to Organization Section of Act of June 1 1898 Making It a Crime to Get Rid of Men Because of Union Membership Declared UnconstitutionalNo More Far reaching Ruling Ever Handed Down Workers and Companies Hare Same Rights LABOR AND ITS HIRE So the right ot the employe to quit the service of his employer Tor whatever reasons Is the same as the right of the employer for whatever reasons to dispense with the services of such employe It was the legal right of Adair however unwise such a course might have been to discharge Coppage because of his being a member of a labor organization as It was the legal right of Coppage If he saw fit to do so to quit the service because the defendant employs those who were not members of some labor organization Inconstltutional was wrlttn across Miction 10 of the act of June 1 189S by the Inlted States Supreme Court yesterday This section prohibited Interstate railroads from discharging an employe on the ground that he was a member of a labor organization and is one of the provisions of the law providing for arbitration of disputes between common carriers jnd their operatives No more important or far reaching decision on the suoject of labor was ever handed down hy the court and it will be worth while for students of political economy public men and organized labor to watch Its effect The section invalidated reada as follows That any emplojer subject to this act and any officer agent or receiver of such emplojer who shall require any employe or any person seeking employment as a condition to such employment to enter Into an agree i ment written or verbal not to become or remain member of any labor corporation association or organization or shall threaten any employe with loss of employment or shall unjustly discriminate against any employe because of his membership in such a labor corporation or who shall after having discharged an emploje attemoj to conspire to prevent such employe from obtaining employment or who shall after the quitting of an employe attempt to conspire Is hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a floe of not less than 100 or more than 1000 Orders Dismissal of Case The case in question arose over the discharge by William Adair an agent Of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Cov lngton of Coppage a fire man because of his membership In the Order of Locomotive Firemen Adair was arrested and pleaded not guilty before United States Judge Cochran but was nevertheless convicted and fined 100 Adair backed by the railroad filed a demurrer to the indictment before he was tried but the court overruled it where upon after his conviction the case was brought to the Supreme Court which at the close of its decision yesterday de clared that Judge Cochran should have sustained the demurrer and discharged the defendant from custody on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the section under which the arrest was made The lower court was directed yesterday to act accordingly now The Supreme Court held the section of the law referred to to be unconstitutional on the ground that It was violative of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution which declares that no person shall be deprived of life liberty or property without due process of law The court decreed that Qpngress has no more right to prohibit Interstate carriers from discharging men because they are members of labor organizations than It has to require them to employ only members of labor organizations or only those who are not members Two Dissenting Opinions Associate Justice John Harlan Republican wrote the decision and read it from the bench Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices White and Peckham Democratsand Associate Justices Brew er and Day Republicans concurred As soclale Justices McKenna and Holmes Republicans each filed dissenting opln Ions while Associate Justice Moody abstained from participating inasmuch as the case was started while he was Attorney General In its salient features the decision is as follows While section 10 of the law makes it a crime to discriminate unjustly against an employe because of his being a member of a labor organization it does not make it a crime to discriminate against an employe because of his not being a member of such an organization This question arises May Congress make it a criminal offense for an agent or officer of an interstate carrier to discharge an employe from service simply because of his membership In a labor organization This question is admittedly one of Importance and has been examined with care and deliberation And the court has reached a conclusion which in Its judgment Is con sistent with both the words and spirit of the Constitution and la sustained by sound reasoning The first inquiry la whether section 10 la repugnant to the fifth amendment to the Constitution In our opinion tnat section la an Invasion of the personal liberty as well aa of the right of property guaranteed by the Constitution Such liberty and right embrace the right to make contracts for tha purchase of the labor of others and equally the right to make contracts for the sale of ones own labor each right however being subject to the fundamental condition that no contract can be sustained which the law upon reasonable grounds forbids as Inconsistent with1 the public Interests or aa hurtful to the public order or as detri mental to the common good Right to Sell or Bny Labor While as suggested the right of liberty and property la aubject to such reasonable restraints as the common good or general welfare may require it Is not within the functions of the government at least in the absence of contract between the parties to compel any person in the course of his business or against his will to accept or retain the personal serv ices of another or to compel any person against his will to perform personal services for another The right of a person to sell his labor upon such terras as he deems proper is In its essence the same as the right of a purchaser of la oor to prescrme me conditions upon which he will accept such labor from the person offering to sell It So the right of the employe to quit the service of his employer for whatever reasons is the same as the right of the employer for whatever reasons to dispense with the services of such employe It was the legal right of Adair however unwise such a course might have been to discharge Coppage because of his be ing a member of a labor organization as it was the legal right of Coppage if he saw fit to do so to quit the service because thedefendant employs those who were not members of some labor organization Have Equality of Rights In all such particulars the fmplojor and the employe have equality of rights and any legislation which disturbs that equality Is an arbitrary Interference with liberty of contract which no government can legally Justfy in any free land Cop page was at liberty to quit without assigning any reasons and Adair to discharge without assigning any reasons But it Is suggested that authority to make it a crime for an agent of an Irter state carrier to discharge an employe simply because of membership In a labor organization can be referred to the power of Congress to regulate interstate com merce without regard to any question of personal liberty or right of property arising under the fifth amendment This suggestion can have no bearing In the prerent construction unless the statute is a regulation of Congress whic It Is not We hold there Is no such con nection between Interstate commerce and membership in a labor organization as to authorize Congress to make it a crime for an agent to discharge an employe because of such membership If such power exists it is difficult to perceive No Internationalization of Morocco Reply to Delcasse PICH0N GIVES ULTUMATUM Paris Press Full of Stories of Bow Crisis Came About CONGO EXPLORERS BEPUDSED Socialist Organ Says Kaisei Threatened to March Troops Into Lorraine if Del casses Policy Led to a Treaty with Britain Another Says Bovier Told Foreign Minister He Ought to Be Stood Against a Wall and Shot Paris Jan 27 The recent speech by Delcasse former minister of foreign af fairst in which he said he had been forced out of office by a German bluff at the time of the Morocco crisis which led to the Algeclras conference brought about an Interpellation on the Moroccan situation to day The speeches in the Chamber of Deputies showed plainly a disposition to support the government in its policy after Picarn now minister of foreign affairs had made a significant declaration in connection with Morocco which was received with cheers His words were France on account of Algeria could never permit the internationalization of Morocco While pointing out Europes Interest in seeing Abd el Azlz the Sultan pre vail over his brother who had declared war upon ail foreigners Plchon made it clear that France would remain neutral France was forced he said by increasing anarchy which the Algeclras act had not foreseen to exceed the letter of the convention and the present danger Is that she may be compelled furtheer to widen the zone of her military operations for the purpose of restoring order But every step thus far had been approved by the signatories of the Algecl ras act He defined Frances policy as the defense of Frances legitimate rights and the execution of the European mandate of loyalty toward the Sultan but no Intervention In the Interior and no expedition either to Fez or Morocco City In conclusion he said If Abd al Azlz falls we will treat with his successor in I the name of Europe but we cannot admit the internationalization of Morocco The reception of PIchons speech makes it manifest that the chamber Americans in Jungle for Syndicate Arc Driven Back by Natives Brussels Jan 27 Advices received here say the American expedition led by Dorsey Mohun which was seeking to penetrate into the wilds of tha Congo Free State In the Interests of the Amer ican Congo Company was attacked by natives arid compelled to withdraw The expedition left for the Interior of the Congo Free State several months ngo In addition to Mr Mohun who was the former American consular agent at Roma the party Included Verner general manager of the company A Chester Beatty a mining engineer 8 Ball also a mining engineer and several other Americans Its object was Xo pave the way for the large American investments which Thomas Ryan and the Guggenhelms and other capitalists are to make in that country In the exploitation of th rubber mining and railroad concessions made to them by Belgium WOMAN SUICIDE UNDER TRAIN WALLS PALL WITH FIREMEN Score Hurt and Body of One Supposed in Fire Ruins Chicago Jan 27 One fireman Is sup posed to have been killed more than a score or others were injured and property valued at half a million dollars was lost in a fire which destroyed the Mayer building a seven story brick building and the Hotel Florence at 163 167 Adams street early to day The fire broke out In the basement of the Mayer building and spread so rapidly that when the first detachment of nremen arrived the entire building was In flames A strong north wind swept the flames to the adjacent hotel building and in a few minutes that structure also was a roaring furnace The walls and roofs of both structures collapsed about an hour later carrying dowm with them an entire company of firemen All except one James Galla gher of Truck Company No 1 were rescued His body Is believed to be In the ruins Leaps to Death in New York After Losing 2000 in Real Estate New York Jan 27 Mrs Florence Caliche a handsomely dressed woman who had taken precautions toShlde hey Identity threw herself before a Ninth avenue train at Sixty sixth street and Columbus avenue to day and was Instantly killed Her daughter Tlllle Caliche said her mothers suicide was due to her having lost 1000 in a financial venture last WCCK Ms Caliche who wore a tailor made suit of stylish cut purchased a ticket at the Columbus avenue station Then she went to the station window overlooking tne tracks ana stood mere xor more than enThour She appeared nervous and was apparently greatly agitated When she left her place at the window and walked out on the platform a southbound train was Just approaching the station and the woman threw herself on the tracks Mrs Caliche husband Is a traveling salesman The daughter Is engaged to be married and she end her fiance had arranged to go to city hall to day to obtain a marriage license CURATE AIMS FOR HIT WEDDED TO COUNT Miss Vanderbilt Becomes Bride in Bower of Orchids TRUST HUNT LIKE BEAR HUNT CEREMONY IS IMPRESSIVE i Couple Steal Away in Motor Car Eluding Curious Thronf Three Hundred Guests See Heiress Married to Hungarian Magnate Amid a Bower of Costly Orchids and with a Courtly Effect Given to Occasion by Presence of Ambassador from Sovereign of Austria and Hungary Why Shouldnt Mr Verden Write Musical Piece A SAMPLE SHOWS HIS GOODS BIG FIRE HALTS BUSINESS Portland Firms Barred from Buildings by Lines for Safety Portland Me Jan 27 A dozen business houses in the wholesale district suspended business to day because of the fire which destroyed a brick block containing the wholesale establishments early this morning Owing to the danger from falling walls the police maintained fire lines at safe distances that prevented the transaction of business Revised estimates place tha aggregate losses at 830000 and the insurance at 708000 The principal firms affected arp MUllken Cousens Co wholesale dry goods loss 1415000 Insurance 350090 A Cox Son shoe Jobbers loss 250000 insurance 215000 Parker Thomas Co loss 75000 covered by insurance Russ Eveleth Ingalls loss 10000 covered by Insurance building loss JSOOOOi insur ance 4S000 The cause of the fire has not been ascertained If a Young East Side Parson Can Turn Out Stuff Like The Great Whiie Way Theres a Kind of Chance that Some Manager Will Let a Tenor in White Ducks Sing It will support the government against both why Congress might not by absolute reg 1 extremes Jaures who wants to aban ulation require interstate carriers to em don and Delasse who wants to con ploy only members of labor organizations or only those who are not members of labor organizations a power which could not be recognized as existing under the Constitution This decision Is restricted to the question of the validity of the particular provision which makes it a crime for an agent to discharge an employe because of his membership in a labor organization Justice McKenna delivered a dissenting opinion favorable to the law in which he said the courts decision proceeds along very narrow lines Right to Encourage Unions Justice Holmes also expressed the opinion that the law should be construed as constitutional He thought that the rieht to make contracts had been stretched to the limit by the courts decision In this case That Congress had a right to so legislate as to encourage labor organiza tions was another suggestion of Justice Holmes This is the second momentous decision of the Supreme Court within a month on labor questions The first was when It declared unconstitutional the employers liability act on the ground chiefly that the language of that law did not make it specifically applicable to interstate carriers over which Congress alone has jurisdiction A new employers liability act was immediately afterward introduced to meet the objections of the court and It is expected it will pass before Congress adjourns But In view of the unequivocal tone and sweeping character of yesterdays decision it is difficult to see how the objections raised by the court to section 10 of the act of June 1 1898 can be circumvented by further legislation The administration was keenly disap pointed with the courts decision At torney General Bonaparte and several of nis subordinates were present when it was handed down and apparently it was a painful surprise to them for it is understood that they had expected a favorable ruling The government was so deeply interested In the outcome of the case that it intervened early In the proceedings and virtually prosecuted it in the interest of Coppage the discharged fireman As soon as Justice Harlan finished reading the decision the gist of it was communicated to the White House It is not known whether the President will recommend the enactment of substitute legislation POOR HOUSE INMATE RICH New Day Train to Pittsburgh With Pullman Drawing Room Parlor Car via Pennsylvania Railroad Leaves New Union Station Washington at 1010 and arrives Pittsburgh at 800 mXNo change of cars rlsburg Dining car from Har Woman Believed to Be Mother of Man Who Left 25000 Detroit Mich Jan 27 Mrs Mary Jtfc Glynn who has been an Inmate of me Wayne County poorhouse at Elolse since last summer has a prospect of receiving a legacy of 25000 if she can identify her seu as ine mower or Edward McGlynn who died In Louisville Ky According to Mrs McGlynn her son Edward a wireworker left here several months ago for Louisville and she has never heard from him since Baxter an undertaker is administrator of the estate of a man named Edward McGlynn who shortly before his death re ceived damages of 25000 as a result of Injuries Baxter writes he is positive the dead mansvas the son of the Mrs McGlynn yfeSlolse Youll Derive an Income From funds deposited In banking lept of Union Trust Co 15th and sts Interest paid on all accounts Deposits subject to check Under control of Treasury quer Morocco The Kaisers Threat The Action a Socialistic organ publishes a statement that Delcasse the former French minister of foreign affairs resigned office because the German Emperor discovered that he was secretely negotiating an offensive and defensive alliance with Great Britain When Emperor William learned that this treaty was under way according to this newspaper he told the Italian Ambassador at Berlin that on the day It was signed he would march German troops into Lorraine This threat reached France whereupon Rouvier who was then premier accused Delcasse of carrying on secret negotiations Delcasse admitted that this was true and at the request of his confreres he thereafter resigned Denys Cochin in an interview to day pronounces the statement In a great measure untrue and says it is an outgrowth of the alarmist campaign that was conducted at the time of Del casses downfall Said He Ought to Be Shot The Patrle supplementing the alleged revelation In the Acton of the secret of the downfall of Delcasse says that only Delcasse and Loubet who was then President of France were aware of the Anglo French negotiations When Rouvier took Delcasse to task it thp famous cabinet meeting of June 6 1905 for keeping his colleagues in Ignorance of these negotiations and demanded his resignation within half an hour he used according to the Patrie the following words Your attitude is criminal You deserve to be stood up against a wall and shot Continuing this paper attributes Em peror Williams failure to congratulate President Loubet on his escape from as sassination in 1905 to his knowledge of Loubets complicity with Delcasse Growe from Germany Berlin Jan 27 The reappearance on the scene of International politics of Delcasse Is the subject of an Inspired article In the Cologne Gazette to day which says Whether or not the present is a suitable moment for France to bring up old controversies is a question for the French government and people to decide We are ofthe contrary opinion The Moroccan question cannot yet be regarded from a historical standpoint it should be considered rather as a center of the liveliest Interest and it may yet lead to discussion between France and Germany which will not be made easier by a leading politician such as Delcasse striking chauvinistic notes amidst the applause of the Chamber The fact that Del casses declaration regarding Morocco in the Chamber of Deputies last week called forth applause from a large section of the house confirms our view that clever chauvinism always Impresses a French audience We must under these circumstances maintain the same calmness as formerly when more violent discourtesies were extended to us NEXT PRESIDENT FROM OHIO But Gen Keifer Avoids Saying Whether Foraktt or Taft Gen Warren Keifer a former Speaker and one of Ohios representatives In Congress addressed a meeting of the Ohio Repuolican Association last night in A Hall Bell presided Gen Keifer referred to the array of statesmen soldiers and diplomats Ohio had furnished the country and said that while Ohio had been accused of being a little greedy the State was In for what it could get We are going to give to the country Its next President said Gen Keifer and we are willing to give the nation all of the Presidents after that He made no reference by name however to either Senator Foraker or Secretary Taft in connection with their candidacy for tht Presidential nomination Gen Keifer predicted a great victory for the Republican party next fall HITCHCOCK TO RESIGN Will Quit Post office Saturday to Become a Taft Manager It is understood that Frank Hitchcock will retire from the office of First Assistant Postmaster General on February 1 His resignation has not been tendered yet but he has made known his Intention to leave the government service While no official statement on the subject is obtainable there Is good reason to believe that Mr Hitchcocks decision to resign Is due to an acceptance of an offer to be one of the campaign managers for William Taft NEVADA POLICE BILL PASSES Law Creating Force to Deal with Trou bles Up to Governor Carson Nev Jan 27 The Nevada police bill passed the assembly this afternoon by a vote of 31 to 7 It already has passed the Senate The bill if signed by the governor provides a State police to deal first with the situation at Goldfleld and at any time with any outbreak or danger of one whichlocal authorities are not capable of controlling This force once established will make unnecessary further retention of a detachment of United States regulars at Goldfleld MR DAVIS AT HIS OFFICE No Ballot for Kentucky Senator Frankfort Ky Jan 27 No quorum was present at the Joint session of thej legislature to day and no ballot for United States Senator was taken Former Senator Entirely Recovered from Recent Illness Henry Gassaway Davis former Senator from West Virginia has entirely recoered from his recent Illness He has been confined to his apartment at the Shoreham for several days as a result of a severe cold which he contracted last week He was able to walk to his office 1517 street northwest yesterday and disposed of several business matters that had accumulated during his illness NEW CRUISER IN COMMISSION South Dakota ProbablyWiIl Go to Mag Ifalena Bay for Practice Mare Island Navy Yard Cal Jan 21 The cruiser South Dakota built at th Union Iron Works went Into commission to day Her commander Is Cant a Fox She probably will go to San Francisco for a few days and then proceed to Magdalena Bay for target practice Special to The Washington Post New York Jan 27 The curate of St Augustines Church In East Houston street Rev Daniel Hugh Verder Is ambitious to write a musical comedy that will hit Broadway straight between the eyes and give him a lower berth along with George Cohan Irvln Cobb Bill Irwins brother Wallace Harry Smith and George Hobart in Fames twentieth century limited Young Mrr Verder likes the life of the alley and Aas a pretty well delevoped hunch that he can give it original ex Dresslon The fact is he has written al ready quite a buncft of lyrics and light merry little verses which would ne says fit nicely In the libretto of a musical piece He doesnt see any reason why a curate shouldnt produce a musical comedy If as Paul Armstrong says Is goon enough to get over the fcotllghts So far the Shuberts Klaw Erlanger Dillingham and Frohman havent bothered Br1 Verder Wlthr Insistent requests tht he get a move on and inrn out a laugh maker before Lent puts a damper on the theatrical business but wait a bit Maybe they havent read his book of poems The Snow Bride or his latest lric The Great White Way At any rate as Mr Verderlaays he is willing to go slow always with a handful of salt to spill on the tail of that coy bird Success if it should Art its wings anywhere near him The other night Mr Verder went to the Casino and heard Iron Hand the Boy Usher beat his hands into a pulp when MauJe Fulton skipped out and sang the newest Bioadway song Got His Inspiration Whereupon Mr Verder got an Idea He would write a Broadway song that would be a bigger smash than The Troubles of a Workln Gel but It wouldnt be so light minded and frivolous It would be amusing but not too merry full of a deeper note containing a hit of the darkei side of the alley a contrast In short of the gayety and the gloom of Broadway At the same time it might serve as the nucleus for the musical comedy he had In mind So he dashed bff The Great White Way one verse of which runs No monks nor cowls nor any such thing But steady burns the electric light No shadows does the darkness trine But Ilka the day is the livelong night Oh the Great White Way Is always gay It Is indeed a wonderful sight Of course If a piece Is a hit and the audience splits Its gloves and calls for more therell have to be additional verses because It is very embarrassing for the little soubrette or the naval lieutenant or the young millionaire to run out of ammunition and have to repeat the same old stuff It is extremely girding to one that loves his or her art merely to do a diddle de bum diddle de bum diddle de bum bum bum step and go clear back to Chapter One Mr Verder was quite sure to day that he could have new verses by the time the comedy was presented Verses1 Lost and Found Its only by the greatest of good luck though that he has The Great White Way at all He lost it the other day in Sixth avenue It was found by a man who appreciated Its merit and who mailed It to the author If that isnt a good omen Mr Verder would like to know what is As a curate of St Augustines Mr Verder is familiar with the life of the East Side and Is convinced so he stated to day that there is much good material there for the right sort of man to bring out In the form of stage entertainment drama or musical comedy I have written what I call Songs from the fllums said Mr Verder diffidently but the opus Is not nearly completed I have finished only about 100 verses They deal with the life of the submerged their Joys and sorrows their toil and their amusements It should be stated that Mr Verder while in college ne is a graduate of Trinity 90j wrote many sonnets and is the author In his riper art of Loves Unrest Special to The Washington Post New York Jan 27 How the Count Laszlo Szechenyi carried off his bride Gladys Vanderbilt escaping the populace that crowded the streets about the Vanderbilt palace worth telling before the magnificence of the wedding to day Is described The marriage was sclemnized In the Vanderbilt mansion the immensa red and gray pile that occupies the whole blcck front in Fifth avenue between Flftj seventh and Fifty eighth streets and looks upon the Central Park Plaza While there was no repetition of the disgraceful street scenes which have been enacted at other prominent New York weddings notably the wedding of Miss May Goelet to the Duke of Roxburghe in 1903 the police at times to day had their hands full caring for the crowd that gathered near the VanderbIt house There were at one time probably 3000 persons most of them women standing In Fifth avenue and the side streets hoping to get a glimpse of the bridal couple They were all disappointed Ruse Fooled Police At 230 oclock Inspectors Schmlttberger and Walsh who had charge of the police arrangements were called to the Fifty eighth street entrance of the Vanderbilt house A carriage bearing the Vanderbilt monogram was pointed out to them That was said to be the carriage that would take the bride and bridegroom to their private car at the Grand Central Station They would leave at the Fifty seventh street entrance it was said That was enough for the Inspectors They Immediately stationed about twen Representative Bannon of Ohio Makes Defense of Business Honesty Waterbury Conn Jan 27 That too much publicity has been given to the prosecution of trusts was the opinion expressed by Representative BannOnT of Ohio in an address before the chamber of commerce to night He likened the method to hunting bears with a brass band and declared that it had had a widespread evil effect When certain great corporations ere attacked on account of evasions of the law and on account of their Illegal re lations and unlawful dealings with great transportation companies said Mr Ban non In the common mind tbe charges made against such corporations were1 cepted as being proven and actually ex lsting against all corporations and all forms of corporate wealth Let confidence be again restored In the business world Let the demagogues qui preaching the doctrine that because ore corporation is dishonest all others are necessarily so Let us not keep up a constant agitation before during and after the prosecution of such corporations I as may have violated the law MRS EDDY DRIVES OUT WILL ASK NO Mi Bryan Says He Bid Not Come to Consult on Candidacy POLITICS BUZZ AT CAPITOL Five Presidential Aspirants There Inclndln Taft One Wag Says the Next Executive Was i nthe House Yesterday and that Hia Name Was BUI Bryan and Taft to Meet Nebraskan Confers with Speaker and Gives Out Currency Interview Guest at the Newlands Dinner Familiar Carriage Runs Into Snow Storm and Returns GAZEBS HANG ABOUT HER GATE Attorney for Interests of the Christian Science Church in Massachusetts Denies that Founders Removal from Her Home in Concord Has Anything to Do with Lawsuits Pending or Expected entrance and this number rwaas erir rorced a rew minutes later wnen the carriage drew up at the curb The crowd made a dash for Fifty seventh streets the photographers drew up In battle array and there was scarcely even a policeman left at the Fiftv elghth street side The expectancy of the crowd of women was at Its height when word was sent out from the house that the couple were gone The curiosity seekers started a rush up Fifth avenue mixing things up generally with Fifth avenue traffic but all they saw was the tall end of a red automobile go ing east through Fifty ninth street The count and countess had started on their honeymoon Wed Among Orchids The wedding was a spectacle almost theatrical in its impresslveness The setting was one of the most splendid city homes In America Its superb mural decorations being enhanced by a lavish use of orchids and of Japanese asperagus vines It was an orchid wedding An orchestra of sixty musicians with Nahan Franko as its leader played in the grand Caen stone hall of the mansion large enough In itself to Inclose the average city dwelling before and during the ceremony and later while the wedding breakfast was being served The vocal music of a choir In red cassocks and white lace cottas was Interspersed with the instrumental harmony The 300 guests began to arrive at the Vanderbilt house at 1 30 oclock The wedding ceremony had been set for 12 sharp but at that hour there were fully one third of the guests who had not yet got into the house At one time there was a line of waiting carriages extending nearly around the Plaza to Fifth avenue The guests as they entered from the Fifty eighth street side laid their wraps away and were taken on an elevator to the hall on the first floor This hall runs the length of the building It wras decorated with palms ferns and Southern smilax There the guests were received by Mrs Alfred Gwrynne Vanderbilt who wras dressed In robins egg blue with a blue and gold hat The wedding ceremony was performed before an altar erected in the drawing room on the Fifty seventh street side of the house This room was abloom with orchids Special to The Washington Post Boston Mass Jan 27 Boston was completely taken aback when It learned to day that Mrs Mary Baker Eddy had taken up her residence suddenly in Brookllne and much gossip has been occasioned by the secrecy which attended the whole affair Everyone wants to know the whys and wherefores but the only answer received Is that the Christian Science leader had long contemplated giving up her Concord residence in order to live nearer the Mother Church in this city Mrs Eddy toos up to day the routine of her daily life Just as if she were at her home in Pleasant View Out and In Again Although the roads were not In an ideal condition for driving the aged ty nve men at tne itty sevemn street leader took her usual daily drive leav in her new home shortly aXUr oiocJ mu unving over iseacon ana Hammond streets The black horses and black carriage which have become famaliar In the neighborhood of Pleasant View Concord arrived at the Lawrence estate Chestnut Hill at noon Immediately on their arrival preparations were made for the dally drive and the carriage emerged from the grounds within an hour In the carriage were Mrs Eddy her coachman and Calvin A Frye her secretary A brisk snow flurry cutf short the first drive She had been gone from her new home only tlfteen minutes when the clatter of horses hoofs announced her return The gate was swung wide by an attendant and Mrs Eddy when the carriage reached the porte cochere was assisted to tho house by several members of her household Persons who were curious about Mrs Eddys goings and earnings hung around he estate to day but were warned not to enter the grounds No Dodging of Suits Samuel Elder of Elder Whitman attorneys for the Massachusetts Interests of Mrs Eddy and the Christian Science Church said to day There is absolutely nothing behind the removal of the Christian Science leader from Concord here so far as I know other than what the official Christian Science statement states that she has established her residence in Newton to be nmir ik mother church The assertion that Mrs Eddys change of rssldence is a coup to avoid possible future litigation in the New Hampshire courts is absurd If there more litl gaton coming her move would not thwart it The Massachusetts courts are always open and her move to this State would not hinder any next friends suit In any wa JAM CUBE MAKES A JAM Had Thats Because Brooklyn goers News Too Good to Be True New York Jan 27 A new through train system on the Brooklyn Brldee which does away with the old cable shuttle tracks that moved back and forth between the terminals the bridge was Behind the altar was a bridal put Into effect to dayi The new system arbor of palms and orchids Some of the was devised to do away with crowding 1000000 FOE MUSEUM Bequest of Morris Jesup to New York Institution Special to The Washington Post New York Jan 27 By the terms of his will Morris Jesup who died on Wednesday last bequeathed 1000000 to the American Museum of Natural tory in tfils city Other cash gifts to the amount of 115500 are made to a library and three churches There are bequests to friends servants and members of his family and the rest dUe of the estate goes to Mrs Jesup The entire amount or tne estate has not yet been determined and the will will not he offered for probate for several days Xj Governmemt Vju Johnson Bros A premium on coal Buy our selected at and save money Office 1312 at guests stood in the drawing room and some in the ball room which adjoins it Bride Selected Music The orchestra choristers were concealed behind a wall of palms and ferns in the hall The bride had herself selected the music which the orchestra should play The programme while the guests were assembling included two movements from Tchalkowskys symphony Pathetl que the love music from Wagners Tristan and Isolde and the bridal procession from Rubinsteins Feramors Mrs Vanderbilt the brides mother entered the drawing room first on the arm of her youngest son Reginald She wore a pearl gray brocade with her famous string of black pearls She took a seat to the right of the altar with her youngest son on one side and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney her elder daughter on the other side Mgr Lavelle and the Rev Father Byrne master of ceremonies both of the Cathedrals who were to officiate were In the drawing room when tne guests began to enter The bridegroom entered with his best man Count Anton Slgray a cousin The bridegroom wore the full diess uniform of a lieutenant of the Hungarian Hussars red knickerbockers a dull gray CONTINUED ON ELEVENTH PAGE in the rush hours Its Inauguration to night was attended by a heavy crush caused it is said by passengers who were not acquainted with the new arrangements For nearly a quarter of a entun na sengers for Brooklyn in the rush hours took the shuttle trains for the BrookrynTeientatlves yesterday and held a re ici iiiiiiai ui me Dnage wnero tny had to alight and take elevated trains for their destinations The old way aucd a Jam at both ends of the bridge Brooklyn elevated trains will now cross the bridge by electric power at all hours of the day and it Is possible to take train for any part of Brooklyn at the Xw York terminal William Jennings Bryan the Democratic leader and prospective nominee of the Denver convention concluded a somewhat strenuous day yesterday as the guest of honor at a dinner given by Senator Newlands last night at Woodley his country home to fourteen Democratic members of the Senate To night another dinner will be given to the remainder of the Democratic Senators The guests last night besodes Mr Bryan were Senators Bacon Bankhead Bryan of Florida Clarke Clay Culberson Daniel Jeff Davis Foster Frazler Johnston Latimer and McCreary The list was made up for each dinner In accordance with the alphabetical order of the minority membership Mr Bailey sent his regrets Mr Daniel was disinclined to attend on tho understanding that It was to be a political dinner but en being assured there was no political significance attached he accepted the Invitation While the friends of Mr Bryan asserted positively that personal politics so far a Mr Bryan was concerned would not fig ure at this gathering Mr Newlands suggested that Democratic poircles In mat ters of legislation might be discussed Senators who are supposed to be against Mr Bryan are said to be Bailey Clay Daniel Martin and McCreary Senator Frazler of Tennessee is supporting Mr Bryan but Is represented as holding the opinion that he cannot be elected If he the candidate If there Is any discussion of the Bryan candidacy these Sen ators probably might be wining to express their personaljConvlctlons Bryans Aepresentatfre Talks Tnetn before Mr Bryan started for Mr rNewlands country place the following statement was given out by his personal representative as Mr Bryans position but with the injunction that Mr Bryan could not be quoted In connection therewith There has been much talk among undemocratic Democrats about the possibility of Mr Bryan retiring from the candidacy for the Presidency Most of this talk has come from men who have never stood either for Mr Bryan or for real Democracy Its publication has been mainly In newspapers unfriendly alike to him and to the principle for which he and his followers stand Mr Bryan has been in Washington for forty eight hours During that time the newspapers have been full of stories to the effect that certain self appointed committees were to wait upon him and ask him to retire from the Presidential race No committee waited upon him no man up to the present moment has suggested to him such action And Mr Bryan In conversation with me today said I do not profess to quote his exact words If there is any committee In Washington or elsewhere whose purpose was to wait upon him and Induce him to withdraw aa a possible Democratic candidate for the Presidency the committed in question has not materialized Mr Bryan went on to say that he seriously doubts its existence His position on his candidacy has not changed He 1 not seeking the nomination but will accept If the rank and file of the party decide that he is the most available and the best man to make the race He further said that his Judgment on this matter will not be swayed by the counsel of a few men or of a few papers whose lovalty to the party la of doubtful character but will be determined by the opinions of the minions of men who have loyally stood by the party since long before 1S96 This Is the definite and explicit statement made by Mr Bryan to day The circumstances under which it was made preclude the possibility of quoting him literally But tbe sense Is that of his intention and the language Is nearly his own It Is sent out with perfect assurance of its authenticity but not as an Interview with Mm but as a report of his con versation with an intimate friend Holds Reception at Capitol Mr Bryan visited the House of Rep POET COMMITS SUICIDE Found He Had Said World Was No Place for Dreamers St Louis Mo Jan 27 Louis Goodman thirty six years old lawyer poet and journalist committed suicide to day by taking carbolic acid Last July he attempted suicide by cut ting his throat because he explained later he found the world had places only for men of action and not for dreamers Tne MeConus Sale Coattaoed The McComas sale continues at Sloans 1407 st to day and to morrew at 11 a and 3 The law library of Judge McComas will be sold this evening at 8 oclock ceptlon In the room of the Commltte on Ways and Means Many Democrat dropped In to pay their respects an to discuss political matters with then leader and several Republicans wer I among those who shook him by the hand Mr HUchcoeV rr tebraslca who made a speeVh fayjrfaBryans nomination a few days ago acted as master ot ceremonies and rushed the Democrats Into the room where Mr Bryan wax When one of these members asked blrri If he had yet been advised td withdrawn as a candidate iln Bryan replied that he had heard some self constituted committee was to call upon him and that he got up early In tho morning bycandle llghCand patiently awaited Its coming but no one cam to make the suggestion Then Mr Bryan chuckled and several of those around him urged that he pay no more attention to the sclrames of the enemies of the people Asked by some one to same his Choice a running mate in the event.