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Amusements. OK KTeschna. Al AIA Vaudeville. The Girl of the Golden Manic Marter. The Vandertllt Cup.

The Social Whirl. rciJUNI Vaudeville. The Mountain Climber. IUL.VS— Ball. EDEN 1 The World in Wax.

16 Peter Tan. riEIJJS H. GARDEN- The OoSIeRe Widow. -yV IIAKU3I OfBRA Mra. Mark Is nAMMEhsTEIN-S Vaudeville.

HKHAL.D Ceorse VI afhinEton. Jr. A SoclrtT The nuei. IRVIXO Die wester. JOE Twiddle-Twaddle and The Squaw Girl of Oie Golden Mile.

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AI'HIL 14. THE KKWS THIS MORXIXQ. CONGRESS. Senate: Over three hundred bills were passed, most of them for private pensions. House: In the Blondest session of the present Congress Representatives Dalzell and Williams became engaged in a violent discussion in which charges of falsehood were made.

Advices from St. Petersburg: pay that Great Britain is pressing negotiations for an understanding with Russia so as to exclude Germany and to relieve the strain caused by open questions In the East. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius Is believed to he at an end; the work of recovering bodies is being carried on by the troops. The strike of French postai employes Is reported to be gaining ground, especially in the provinces The carriage In which King Edward and Queen Alexandra were driving in Corfu was in collision with a peasant's cart; the royal carriage vmm not damaged, but several peasants were injured. The Rumanian government, at the request of the Rustlan police, has decided to expel Matusthenko.

leader of the Knlaz Potemkine mutiny. hard Garnett, the author, died at his home in London. The government of New Zealand has established agencies for the retail sale of Mate-mined coal, -j Marquis Saionjl. president of the Japanese council of ministers, will start for Manchuria on April 14; Marquis ma "is expected to meet him there. Arguments In the Smoot case were finished before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections.

It was charged at Albany that coal paid for by the state had been taken from the boiler house used for heating the State Capitol; Governor Hijrgins called on District Attorney Addington to make an investigation. Governor Hisgins at Albany signed the Insurance bills against real estate transfers and the giving of rebates. Governor Higgins announced that he had set Monday as I day on which briefs on the repeal of mortgage tax should be Bled with him. A young Englishman, supposedly disinherited by rich parmts. committed suicide at Middletown.

John Jacob Actor was reported ili at home of her father in Philadelphia. Members of the miners' committee, in s-Barre expressed the conviction thai strike would bo averted. Greene and Gaynor were fined $375.74990 each, and sentenced to four years in prison at Savannah. a Anthracite men In the Pennsylvania fields had little hope of peace between miners and Stocks were strong. It was learned that memben of the Stork Exchange had discussed a plan for big national bank to control the money market and prevent sharp flurries in call rates.

It was announced that the investigating committee of the New T'jk Life Insurance Company would have some interesting things to report on the return of Thomas FS. Fowler, thf chairman, who is expected Monday. An x-eavalryman shot and killed one man and wounded another in his flat in Kast 12th street Tennessee Coal and Iron Company fixed the price of steel rails for at PJU a ton. The crew of the steamer Hllarius. which arrived yesterday, told a tale of a seventy-two hours' battle with Spanish pirates.

Magistrate Whitman ruled that the New York City Railway Company must issue transfers whenever passenger who has paid his fare asks for one. A letter was sent by the Now York Chamber of Commerce to clearing house around the country asking opinions regarding the central note-Issuing bank scheme. Lexington avenue and Ridgewood trains met at a switch leaving 1 Bands street. In Brooklyn; two persous slightly Injured and traffic was delayed for hours. Charles W.

Home bought a large plot at Nos. 720 and 722 Fifth avenue, on which to build a dwelling house for himself. Fh-e Commissioner O'Brien asked for funds to lnFtall a modern fire alarm system. THE lndications for to-day: Cloudy and warmer. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 54 degrees; lowest.

42. tmnavAL LAW mysteries. irrationality of criminal procedure in this country If a cause of frequent and bitter complaint. This procedure been so twisted and amplified as offer an exaggerated protection to the criminal and to strip the community of a portion of its natural right to enforce justice against evildoers. Delays, appeals stays, rebearings and other legal creanons are put in the hands of a defendant who pay the casts of a contest, anil technicalities are allowed to over- Fhadow the real issue whi'-h are created to determine the issue of actual wrongdoing or innocent 1 Hm- process Is frequently overvalued and the end neglected in our criminal practice, and we have consequently the spectacle of judicial anWrs firing and wrangling over methods of trial or Indictment and treating the misdeeds themselves only as ansdi raw material for leg.ii exploitation, A dispute bow rnglng in Philadelphia between the Mayor of thai city and the District Attorney of Philadelphia over die prosecution or of coiiiraiiors and city charged v.

it Li in Hie ruction of a municipal lilt ia'. ion plant throws strong light on the of criminal etiquette. 11 Heenw that rnargea of fraud and collusion brought against the members of the which the nitration and retrain who signed the iratiii the defective work. An cdTort was made lavt summer, whoa tho dis of lottery lirst startled Philadelphia, la Induce Ibm District Attorney to undertake prnsacaxftsns. Hui thai official declined to move lv the matter, and the Mayor's private ex-Judge (lurd'Jti.

com; to go a magistrate Mf Individual capacity and action against three of the defendants. The were and acquitted, and tbon the cases ngainnt the nwit of alleged wrongdoers have been pigeon boled. The Mayor ami his private, counsel de i the other day to abandon criminal ings ami bring civil for restitution of funds. But In Making public this determination they sharply criticised inactivity of the Attoraey. and th" Mayor frankly said: 'With District Attorneys office jik constituted at and under the facts given at lPimili by "my counsel.

I do not think that tlie ends of "iuMi.p Tvil) be promoted by any further action "ufkmi my part at this time." To nti'isir. the District Attorney has replied thai was never unwilling to OB Operate in prosecuting tlie remaining raws and will still co-operate If some one else begins the action in I magistrates But lip declines to assume original "The Philadelphia I'rcss" assures its renders that "usage" in Pennsylvania sanctions this nttl tude. Itut we must agree with our Philadelphia contemporary that such usagp is bad usage and should be cured, along with many other of the irrationalities which have crept into criminal If there is substantial reason to believe that the city of Philadelphia has defrauded of the prosecuting attorney, elected by the people, should not be allowed to shirk his duty on the technical ground that some individual citizen must make the initial complaint- STILL LIKELY. Although negotiations between the and miners in tlie hard coal field have been halted by the formal rejection of President Mitchells revised arbitration programme. peaceful agreement is fctlll within reach.

Tlie two sides are nearer together than they seem to be, and ilie differences as yet unadjusted, though they may warrant some further rnauu'iivring for position, do not warrant a deadlock, much less rupture. If the two contestants have beeu sincere in their dealings so far, no breach is imminent. For each will tiud it difficult, after conceding the desirability of mediation and concurring in a choice of mediators, to justify a wreckage of the whole scheme through technical disagreements as to the fonu in which the questions at issue are to presented to the arbitration tribunal. Some allowance iias to made, of course, for the circumlocutiona and finesses of diplomacy. Mr.

Mitchell and the coal road presidents are playing a game to crowded galleries', and neither side wants quit without the appearance of having won at least victory Personal prestige wel! as economic at! vantage Is at stake. Yet, with due weight given to the desire of each group of negotiators to acquit themselves with credit it is hard to reach any other conclusion than that their differences can be and will be compromised This conclusion, we are glad to see. is accepted by the chief representative the mine owners on the permanent Board of On. iliatlon. established under the terms of the award of Mr.

William L. Conucll. of Bcranton. Mr. Council, who acts as president of the conciliation board, is thus (Voted in a Bcrantoa dispatch, dated Thursday, to "The Philadelphia In my opinion there will be no strike.

A compromise will be effected which will leave both parties in what they consider a position which does not humiliate them before the public. The agreement will be made for three as before. We have said repeatedly that when the two sides agreed to submit their present dispute to the federal arbitration board of or to any board controlled bj its and findings, the problem of arbitration was virtually solved. President Baer and the other heads of the coal roads have expressed their unwillingness to resubmit to mediation principles settled by the award. In that they were technically Justified.

But such a resubmission can be only nominal in effect now that the miners have acquiesced in the reconvocatton of the federal board. Disputes over the scope of the arbitration can have little significance if the board of is merely to meet again and review Its work, for that board definitely rejected the closed shop theory and the derivative "check off" theory by which the operaton would become the agents of a labor union for the collection of dues. Practically, it is immaterial whether thpsp principles are reconsidered or not. Yet. to escape technicalities and avoid offence it might be advisable for both sides to drop details and simply tlie federal board of IPO2-'O3 to reconvene, examine general conditions in the cool industry nodlfj its former award if any good cause for modification shall be found.

If the board could safely be trusted with full jurisdiction three years ago. it can safely be trusted with equal authority now. Neither con testant can lose anything in prestige by consenting to rejfeat an arbitration which both in method and outcome gave universal satisfaction. If both sides really desire peace, the way to on effective compromise is plain. KXCI BBS FOR SMUT BUOKE.

The samp old excuses for smut smoke are put forward by the culprits whom the Health Boanl brings to book. Some say they cannot gpt anthracite coal, some that it is hard to gpt, some that it would cost them more than soft coal, and some that they were Just kindling their fires when ihe objectionable smoke was emitted. "Tell that to the justices of Special Ses sions." aald a committing magistrate the other Say. Yes. or to the proverbial marines.

For Mich excuses are not valid. The objection is not to the fuel, but to the smoke. A man may burn hard coal or soft coal. or. like the historic Prairie Belle, rosin and pine But be may not emit black smoke from his chimney.

If he wants to burn a fuel that makes Mark smoke, he must employ some smoke pre venting device, or else who knows his business. Perhaps that will him money. Perhaps smokeless fuel will cost him more tliHti smoky fuel. That does not matter. That it costs something to obey the law is no excuse for breaking the law.

As for that worm eaten chestnut of an excuse that the fire was just being kindled, an chimneys thai have been smoking like Vesuvius and night for the last ten years. and whenever the firemen are arrested for the nuisance that plea is made in their behalf. How many years does it take to get a fire started? The fact Is, lot of men have decided that it is cheaper for them to make smoke with tlieir fires and to be occasionally liikhl for it than to comply with the law. and so they are deliberately, persistently and defiantly ignor Ing Mic law and charging the incidental tines profit ami loss. If a man can save year by breaking the law.

he will willingly pay one or two tines of $1" each. We are Inclined to think, however, that a way will be found to make law-breaking unprofitable. HOMEBODY ELSE. The old play of Codliu and Hbort is often per formed in international affairs, Kouietlmea dl rectiy. sometimes Inversely.

Given the doing of ji pood tiling, each is eager to claim the credit, "it was not the other fellow, it was Similarly, given the doing or the proposal of an unwelcome thing, there to file disclaimers. "It v. a-- IKM il the other fellow." That is httUiatj nature, and human nature pre vails among as. well as among individuals. The present case, happily, is not of saikitis importance.

The question has been raised. Who WH-. responsible for the suggestion of a date for the Poacf The Hague which would onflict with that of the Pan American Congress al Rio de Janeiro? The suggest ion was made by Knsflla, and wme bare sssumod that it was directly UMunrad by hostility to the ftayirlran republics and a malevolent desire to interfere. with their Bongress. Others, whether through enmity to or through excels of zpal for Russia, have intimated that the suggestion was inspired Qormany, because Gorman dislike r.nh Dnigo Doctrine.

Of tuero p.mpt and Mines! denials of iM.ti. these bnyuouiouc it is declared that Many had aothing whataoovor to do with it. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. APRIL 14. 1906.

and that Russia never thought about the Pan- American Congress Both of those disclaimers may readily be accepted. We have seen no reason for supposing Germany to be hostile to the Pan-American Congress. On the contrary, her prompt indorsement of the American request for a postponement of the congress at The Hague would seem to indicate just the reverse. But. if Russia was alone responsible for the suggestion of the unacceptable date, we can see no reason for that she was moved by anti-American feelings, but are quite ready to believe she chose that date without thinking of the congress at Rio a belief strengthened by her amiable to change the date in accordance with American desires.

There is probably no country in the world that chattahea fewer lUnsiofM than this concerning the MBttmenta and attitude of Messrs. and Short. There is none more ready to cultivate honest friendship with them both and with all powers. WHO PA Ift THE An intprpsting feature of the debate in the Senate just before the passage of the Tax bill was the argument against the measure (bonded on two opposite and Irreconcilable assumptions. The tisht for the repeal of the Mortgage Tax law was charged against two sets of corporations, the lending trust and the borrowing trust, each of which was said to be the sole prospective benefleiarj of a change.

Senator Lewis at one moment argued against the substitution of a recording tax on the ground that the Ryan -Belinoiit interests, the New York Central and other great corporations might give mortgages and escape taxation, thus dearly admitting that the borrower paid the tax. A few minutes later he charged that the Allied Real Kstate of New York had a campaign for the benefit of those who had millions invested in bonds and mortgages and desired to dodge taxation, thus asserting that it was the lender who paid the tax. Now. unless the anuual mortgage tax is far more iniquitous than we have ever believed it to and much more urgently in need of repeal than we had supposed. In spite of our strong objections to it, it oertalnl.r is not paid by both the borrower and the lender.

We have maintained that it was double taxation, bocanaa it was an added burden on the land, which was already taxed, but have never gone so far as ita own friends in insisting upon its double character. If the corporations when borrowing would, profit by the repeal, then the small iKtrrower would also. As a matter of fart, the experience of the last year has shown that the borrower, whether an individual or a corporation, paid the. tax. Its imposition lias been an annoyance to the real estate interests.

It has made leuding more difficult and so interfered with the business of the great loaning companies, but as they have uniformly raised their interest rates the only disadvantage to them is through the curtailment of loans. Their business is to make loans attractive and put out as many us possible. That fact accounts for their activity against the annual tax. which the borrower certainly paid. The considerable number of rural Senators voting for the repeal indicates that the country borrower has paid.

too. PROGRESS AERONAUTICS, In airships of the kind that Santos-Dumont has built and used there will be further im provements in time, no doubt, but none of muct consequence have been recently reported. For the present the development of the dirigible balloon seems to be at a standstill. The most significant advances of late have been in the design and operation of the aeroplane, which, for reasons that need not be discussed, had fallen into almost complete neglect. So far as the public can now the Wright brothers, of Dayton, Ohio, have accomplished more with this type of machine than any of their rivals or predecessors.

Doubtless in response to a formal request, these men sent to the Aero Club a few wefks ago a statement regarding their experiments in 1901 and 1905. The revelations thus made were surprising enough to attract wide attention and also to provide more or less skepticism With commendable enterprise, "The Scientific American" undertook not long ago to secure, if it were possible, independent of the Wright brothers' story. Tirst the were asked to furnish a list of a few persons who had observed their flights. Then a set of questions was sent to nineteen of these witnesses, ten of whom replied. Abundant testimony to the substantial accuracy of the Wright brothers' claims was obtained, for the catechism related to the dates and length of the flights, the paths pursued, the force of the wind, the absence of any connection between the flying machine and mechanism on the earth, the operation of effecting a start and the certainty that one of the aeronauts personally went with the machine.

In the current issue one of the answers is printed in full. It comes from Octave Chanute, an American engineer of high standing, who was a pioneer In this class of experiment. Like Lilienthal nnd the Wright brothers, Mr. has made almost countless ventures in gliding down an aerial toboggan slide, his headway being gained the force of gravitation. Ills word alone ought to dispel ali possible doubt about the Wrights' achieve tnents.

There is reason now to believe thai the Dayton inventors are the tirst who have personally accompanied an aeroplane propelled by a gasolene engine and screw. The longest of fifty voyages which the Wrights enumerate covered a distance of twenty-five and a half miles in thirty eight minutes, and it represents a mean speed of about forty miles an hour. Most of these flights were made over a rectangular course measuring about three-quarters of a mile a side. Several circuits were usually made, and the longest ended just before the thirtieth lap was completed. It is evident, therefore, that whatever aid was afforded at one instant by the wind was offset at another by its resistance.

The Lebaudy brothers, wild have experimented with tiie gas liag type of airship, are credited with staying aloft for three or four hours, but there is no evidence thai they bare matched the speed which the Wrights attained last October. From these few performances, of i-ourse, it is not feasible to reach trustworthy conclusion regarding the relative merits of the two classes of machine; but the outcome of the rivalry which is now promised will be awaited with deep interest. MOROCCO-BOUND TRADE. The most practical consideration for Americans concerning the Algeciras settlement is what effect the new arrangement is likely have on our IfOTOCCan trade. Hitherto that trade has been small.

Our exports to Morocco have been insignificant, amounting not more than $MMWO year. Indeed, the total Imports of Morocco have been small for so large a country. They have amounted, for a popull don of or more, to only about a year, while those of Tunis, with only 1,900,000 population, are and those of Algeria, with scarcely as large a population as Morocco, are 178,000.000. No doubt the increase of European influence In Morocco will ineau an Increase of that COUHtry's foreige trade, and in that the United States ought share. There are lo have prophesied otherwise, warning us that French dominance la Morocco would mean the dosing of doors against all hut Preach coin iinTco.

and they have pointed to Sfadagaacar ti confirmatory example. It is trllo that our trade with Madagascar has al st vanished store the French conquest in Lgng American miles to that island were 1226,728, and in IMB they Mly That does BBC however, by any prove lliat we slihH hi similarly exdudsd 'from Morocco. Our trade Wttil Algeria is not large, but it Is considerable, our sales mounting to nearly HMHOM a year, and steadily increasing. We of course, I'rance to have the lion's share of Algerian trado. just we aim to have thp bulk of trade with our outlying possessions.

But if the extension of French in fhience in Morocco means an of that country's trade comparable with that which hnt occurred under like Influence in Algeria and Tunis, and if the door is kept as open to us as it Is In Algeria, we ought to be able to profit therefrom to a BMUrked dotrree. It looks as if Thomas Jefferson would have to get alonp this year with a Murphyless birthday. Fear Is expressed th.it the Russian government. If it obtains the loan it is seekinsr, "will "try to terrorize the. Douma.

Just as it terrorized "the election." Seeing that the elections In about nine cases In ten are resulting in the success of Constitutional Democrats and other reformers. Liberals and opponents of the old regime of tyranny and repression, we might well pay: If that be terrorizing, let us have more of It, It's "dollars to doughnuts" that the attempt to reach Chicago from New York In a balloon which merely drifts with the wind will prove a dismal failure If the programme were changed so as to provide for a voyage from Chicago to some point on the Atlantic coast there would be a much better prospect success. All of the great lonjar distance records In America and Europe have been made by taking advantage of the upper current of atmosphere, which seta steadily in an easterly direction and moves at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour. To travel westward It would be necessary to rely on surface winds. The chance that these would blow from the same quarter for a distance like a thousand miles Is about 1 in The joyous Thomas Taggrart, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is again seeing visions and dreaming dreams of Democratic success.

The Hon. Bourke Cockran to remind the constitutional lawyers In the Senate that thero are a few of them also In the i'ousc. Justice Olmsted. In tho Court of Special Sessions, expressed the opinion that the new rule of the Metropolitan that no transfers shall be given except immediately upon payment of fare was "asinine." Of course the opinion Is merely obiter dictum, but the judge correctly denned the public's view of tt as well as his own. A not well authenticated rumor imputes to Mount Rainier, also called Mount Tarotna, a discharge of ashes on Wednesday of this week, the demonstration having been prefaced.

It Is said, with a "low rumbling." For many years the only sign of activity observed in the crater of this volcano has been the escape of sulphurous fumes and steam from tiny holes, the largest of which have a diameter of an Inch. Geologists have believed that Rainier has reached the last possible Ktage of decline short of being absolutely extinct. For this and other reasons the current story should be accepted with caution. North Yaklma, from which It comes, is at least sixty miles from the scene of the alleged eruption. Undoubtedly Mount Rainier and several of the neighboring peaks have been scrutinized with unusual Interest, not to say suspicion, since the beginning of the latest outbreak of Vesuvius.

Under these circumstances it would be easy to misinterpret meaningless symptoms. Besides, there is a possibility that somebody has told an impudent falsehood. THE TALK OF THE DAY. A Western railway manacpr received the following letter from a conscience stricken person: "Meestare Snut: Eet ees wit sorrow I approach before you. I stol one ride an eet has hodered me lake haall.

I got rellchlon now an so I sen one teeket ami five rents. 1 wish you much luk. pleas excuse me." A BALLAD OK THE LJTTLE GRAND DUCHY. Grand Puchy of liuiembourg added horse to Its cavalry and obtained a cannon on approval from KrupP- Essen. Unfortunately, were raised by the nelKViorlnf? powers, which complained that shots had fallen In their territories 1 The Grand Duke sent a summons forth.

And at his ducal call From east and west and south and north Hasted his barons all. quoth he. 'tis plain to see armies of the powers Each day grow more prepared for war- Hut what, my lords, of ours? "While France and Germany increase Their righting forces so. Can we be sure of lasting peace? My lords. I answer We.

too, must spend, would we? defend Our own beloved Spa. Do you agree?" Some answered "Oui," While others cried "Ja. The Duke has held a review. And all the folk in force Have gathered round to Fee the new Krupp cannon and the horse. The, drum was banged, the cymbals clanged.

And both the trumpets brayed; The people cheered, the new horse reared. The old one also neighed. Napoleonic frenzy filled The Grand Duke. Prurience fled. The vision of his army thrilled His marrow.

"Fire!" he Bald. A blinding flash, a thunder crash. And then a startled The people saw with sudden awe The shot had dropped in France. The Grand Duke frowned, but even then Ills zeal was scarce decreased. "Come! turn the gun about, mv men And let her face the east.

Again flame and thunder came Again at his command The shot sped this time, eheu' To hit the Fatherland. Thon frantic French and Germans came And protocols poured in Supporting every victim's claim From Paris to Berlin. The Grand Duke sighed, his martial nrlde All crushed and crumpled vp The extra horse was sol.i perforce The gun went back to Krupp Evidences of Christianity are believed to have been found in Pompeii. In some excavations on the north side of the city a terra eotta vessel was dug up marked with the so-called monogram of Christ, and surround- with the crown of thorns The vessel is attributed to the first century of th" Christian era. it was round twelve feet beneath the surface.

A Perfect Match. -The Portrait Painter On despair) Madam. I nnd it Impossible to procure colors that will match your exquisite complexion The Sitt.r (without reserve) well, the just draw the outlii es to-day, and w'ifn I come next tinin I'll bring some of my colors for LJppln- Buenos Ayree threatens to surpass! the record of North American cities in inhal that city now number mow Hum a million, j. in the last Rye years have increased by 257.00. The population will probably double Itself in the next eighteen years.

SI art- bargains you :i.l-n.aU-r res. ma'am, and they're going for little or nothing. The doctrine of educational equivalents has i now application. Noble, president of the Women's Whist League, of St. would bare whlft taught in the public schools.

She says- "it brings th- faculties into action and develops the mind more than some studies. If waist were erally taught it would take the place of pokor and bridge, and thus away the desire We have heard young women who. it i lesson for Instruction In the silent if been Included In the modem multifarious curricula of the schools they would have been "pared expense and have been better fitted for life. Mrs. Noble's name should go down in history of whist alongside of Mrs.

lUltle's. This Moral Wave Mrs West (recently you want the candy, Gertrude? Uttle Girl-No, thanks; It's against my i to accept that purchased with alimony Ut: About People and Social AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The Tribune Washington. April 13--Presldent Roosevelt ha little conferences over railroad rates to-day wun Senators' Nelson. Crane.

Simmons and I The two Democratic Senators called with a de gatlon from Charlotte, N. C. to Invite the President to' attend the celebration of the anniversary of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and after he had thanked his visitors for the compliment and expressed his regrets he asked the ators to remain for chat. Senator Fulton called to see the President about a protest lodged by Oregon stockmen against in Indians of the Umatllln Reservation, who refuse to allow sheep and cattle to be driven across in lands; Ban Johnson, president of the American BaaebaU League, came hand the President an annual pass for the games at American Park; and Representative Burton, of Delaware to urge the claims of his state to give Its name to the next big battleship. Other callers were Senator, Piles and Warner.

Representatives Alexander and Dixon. and H. St. George Tucker, president of the Jamestown Exposition Company. The Cabinet met at II a.

m. and remained in session until ISO p. m. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. The Tribune Washington.

April li-Baroness yon Sternburg. wife of the German Ambassador, will leave Was ington to-morrow morning for New York, where she will join her husband, who went there yesterday. They will remain until Easter Monday. Next week the Ambassador and Baroness yon Sternburg and Miss Langham will go to Pittsburs. where they will be entertained.

NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON. The Tribune Bureau. Washington. April 13. -Secretary and Mrs.

Shaw left Washington to-night for New York, and on Sunday morning Mrs. Shaw, accompanied by Miss Pansy Perkins, daughter of the Senator from Callfornia. and Cassiday. of New York, will sail for Europe. Mrs.

Shaw will chaperon the two girls together with her own daughters, during a trip covering the greater part of Europe. The New York delegation of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who will attend the national congress next week, will have their headquarters at (he New Willard. A large number of well known women will act as patronesses for the Princeton Triangle Club, which will present the musical comedy. "Tabasco Land." at Belasco on May 5. Among the number are Fairbanks Mrs.

Lodge. Henry May. W. J. Mrs.

Charles J. Bell. Mrs. Charles S. Bromwell.

Mrs Do den. Elkins Mrs. Foraker. Mrs. Gaff.

Mrs. HIM. Mrs. John R. McLean.

John F. Wllkins and Mrs. C. C. Glover.

ELECT MR. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT. Playground Association Makes Him an Honorary Official. Washington. April 13-At to-day session of the Playground Association.

President Roosevelt, who yesterday was chosen first vice-president, was unanimously elected honorary president of the ganlzation. Jacob A. Rlis. of New York, was was elected honorary vice-president. Myron T.

Scudder addressed the meeting on the subject of the needs of children In the country and in small towns and villages. It was his opinion that the children of rural districts are in mm greater need than the, boys and glrla of the ctty in the matter of playground facilities. He said that eight million children in the country do not know how to play when they have the opportunity. PRESIDENT TO LAY GUN ASIDE. Has Decided.

According to Colonel Lyon, to Give Up Hunting During Term. Chicago, April A dispatch to "The Tribune" from San Antonio, says that President Roosevelt will not hunt any more while he 1b President, according to Colonel Cecil Lyon, Republican national commltteeman from Texas. Colonel Lyon had made arrangements for another wolf hunt In Southern Oklahoma this spring, but has received a letter from the President saylngr the people make too much sport of his hunting. PRESIDENT NOT TO VISIT PINE KNOT. Washington, April The President had intended to go to Pine Knot.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Virginia cottage, for a few days' vacation during the Kaster SfSlnm. hut the fact that he was scheduled to deliver a speech in this city to-morrow prevented. family will remain in Washington for the Easter holidays. PROF.

RICHARDS TO GO TO BERLIN. Cambridge, Mass. April Notice was received to-day at Harvard that Professor William Thfodorc Richards, of the department of physical chemistry, has been designated by the German government as the Harvard visiting professor at the University of Berlin for academic year 1906-07. The term of Professor Richards will fail in the sf-cond semester. BISHOP POTTER PREACHES IN BERLIN.

Berlin, April IS. The Right Rev. Henry C. Potter. Bishop oi New York, preached at St forge's Chapel here YON BUELOW MAY RETAIN POWER.

DeiOa, April The "Grenzboten." a newspaper which is in relation with the Ftoretgn office, says to-day that Chancellor yon BBlow intends la retain the direction af the most Important affairs of state during his leave of It addfd that It ha? already been arranged in the Federal Council and In the Reichstag that Count v.in Pcsadowsky-Wehner. the Vloe-Ch licellor. shall have the official title of Representative of the Imperial Chancellor. LETTER FROM WITTE TO ROOSEVELT. Ethelbert Watts.

United States Consul General at St. Petersburg, was a passenger on the setamer Pennsylvania, arriving here, yesterday from Hamburg. He said thai he was the bearer of a letter from Count Wltte to President Roosevelt. GENERAL SMITH IN SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco, April James F.

Smith. Governor General-elect of the Philippines, who first went to the Islands as colonel of the Ist Regiment of California Volunteers, arrived to-day on steamer Mongolia for a few mouths' rest. He was met just inside the harbor by tugs, conveying Mayor Srhmitz. many military and officers and members of a citizens" reception committee. The general was cordially greeted, an! after landt was escorted to his ciuarters in the Palace Hotel.

He will be guest of honor at a public reception at the City Flail Saturday evening. TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS. among the passengers who will sail for Liverpool on the Lucanla nre: r(l MrS Mr Mr. sod Mrs. James Uom hiTy ler Van Mr J.

MUM Tfiomajt N. Jones. Browne. Tlu.se who will embark for London to-day on the Minnetonka art-: Mri IJUIan CtoJfce I E. Mr.

and K. Crocker j.r X. Mfljod Mr. ami Mrs. A.

H. ttllllam A Marshall tr itir-ti'l" Mrs. Frank Mis. Har.llm. The Philadelphia will sail to-day for Southampton with the following passengers: In Bush.

MUbank Hi.1.'...n ttwrnbt-ra I. Mr, Howard tTjIW. Ocurl S. i W.i.KinjrT sin Richard iSambrtll. The cabin list of the Konlgin which scheduled to sail to-day for Naples.

Includes: "non 1 H.nrv CUB Ml B.toh«Mer Ifraaaaw. H. M. I Mr and H. A.

In.er Ve atTIV II yesterday from Hamburg on the Pennsylvania were: "watt? Mr HA. WtlUain Uowtri NEW YORK Farewell bachelor dinners will given to-ni at Delmonlco's by Clarence P. WyckofT. marriage to Miss Esther TorriJinson will take on Wednesday at St. Thomas's Church, and Louis Starr, of whose Mhs Margaret Hammond Is fixed for next day.

Keith Donaldson, whoxe marriage to Evelyn Hunter will take place at St. April 23. also entertain his best man and to-night at Delmonico'n. among quests Grand Cannon Griswold and Percy while Dr. David Gordon Allen, who la to Mary at 'a in bridge.

on will have as his guests at Delmonlco's this Ashton Peysttr. Gouverneur Morris and Frederick F. Van Beure Mr. and Mrs. William A.

M. Burden congratulations on the birth of a son. 3. Burden, who was V. TworaMy daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. H. McK. Twomh granddaughter of the late William H. Miss Alice F.

Dv Vlvier. whose "f-rinsnu, Joseph Ew lng. son of Bernard Ewing and graanst of the late Robert of Philadelphia, Dssbmi been announced, is a daughter of Mrs. Charts 1 Dv Vivier. and related to the La ti, and the Montants.

One of her married a daughter of Dr. Edward William Fltzhugh has left spend the with Mr. and Mrs. AlfM a VanderWlt at their pfcice r-ar Newport. Mr.

and Mrs. Edward C. Converse are congTutulatlons on the birth of a son at house. In Madison avenue. Mrs.

Coaren daughter of Mrs. Charles H. Adams. Mr. and Mrs.

Payne Whitney have move! tsk their new house. No. 972 Fifth avenue, Is not yet quite completed. It la a gtlt of Pjj, Whitney's uncle. Colonel Oliver H.

Payne. will go to-day to their country place at MarJaZ set. Long 1 Island, but will return next week. Mr and Mrs. Cortlandt Field ibop lyxnto for Europe to-day.

Mr and Mrs. Walter S. Gumee. the Gurnee are in Rome for Easter. Dr.

and Mrs. Benjamin Tilton. who have y. spending several weeks with Mr. and airs.

Han F. Dlmock. are now at No. 121 East 38th stnet Mr. and Mrs.

Xorrie Sellar have left tseja spend Easter with Mrs. Harold Brown port. CITY OFFICES OPExT Good Friday Not Generally Observed as Holiday Here. Good Friday was Ignored by the the city government yesterday for the first In many years. It has been the custom of th) Board of Aldermen to pass a resolution each requesting heads of to close their offices from the Thursday before Easter ant following Monday morning, but this year torn was omitted on the advice of the Carpamm Counsel because many of the city employes are paid by the day objected to loss of mn days' pay.

Accordingly all the departments open for business as usual yesterday. The eelj city employes who were not at work wen tin teachers of the public schools, who hava had 1 whole week of For the second time in nearly forty- preceding occasion having been In 1333. when Spanish war was in New Tork Stack Exchange omitted yesterday to observe Rl day as a holiday. Many more brokers than lit been expected to appear were on the. floor at th) opening, and the members' the public pilery.

on the Broad street side, being closed for was thronged with sightseers, many of etes had come to the city on Easter excursions ducted by various railroads. Business was aotiw for the first hour, but for the rest of the day Jdness prevailed on the floor. total ulna at stocks were ahares. comparing an Thursday and 902,000 on Friday of List The majority of New Yorkers "hoi nwl buns" at breakfast yesterday, the bakers ot tV city having adopted the custom of service to customers every Good Friday morning. services In many of the city churches were ittended by the usual number of worshippers.

MASS FOR NIGHT WORKERS. An elaborate musical service will accompany mass for night workers In the Church of St. of Assist. In West 31st street, near Sixth Easter morning. Many church soloists and a of forty will take part, with a string orchesci from the Metropolitan Opera House.

gramme Includes selections from classical majMa Father Schlingman. O. F. will celebrtto mass at 2 m. HAMILTON GRANGE CHURCH PLAN 3.

Plans are being prepared for a new church ing and parish house of the Hamilton Grange Church, now at Convent avenue and street, on "Washington Heights. The present property is owned by the Collegiate Chcrch, of York, which some years ago bought four IstsS Convent avenue and Mth street. On this property the new buildings are to be erected 07 the Collegiate Church for the Hamilton congregation. SIR EDWARD ELGAR DUE TO-DAY. Sir Edward EJgar.

the oral composer, of don. is expected to arrive on the Celtic to-day England, to conduct his own compositions at Cincinnati Music Festival, on May Edward will he accompanied by Lady and while in New York will be the guest ef Professor Samuel S. San ford, of Yale. HONEYMOON READING. From Tit-Bits.

The house had quieted after the wedding: an.l Aunt Mary were In the parlor ting It CSSt "So its over." said Aunt Mary, smlllas; mother's eyes. "Yes." said mother, bravely, although a tearfully. "It's over "They'll be happy, I'm sure "Yes. They are very well suited to each I could see that. They both awdlous habits." "Yes.

Hut. Mary" mother paused, Ml VJ gleam of mischief evoked by Aunt Mary than anybody else darted into her eyes. they can't have much sense of humor. my own girl, i say It." "Why not?" wh "Do you know what she took to read wedding Journey." Stevenson Travels wln Donkey." THE FAT OX OF PARIS. Parts corresponder.ee of The 1..

.1 Standard- Paris la mainly carnivorous, and to-day JJ cession of the fat ox. or eras. th, densely populated quarters which. Ho rouE- cattle market of Paris. The apotheosis of ox In Egypt was.

no dovbt. a fete in agriculture, and li that sense, whea of Varls no longer exist. the celebration will retto Its original significance In i full and Th. re was a time when the child who by Ihe Parisian to represent the back of the ox. but that custom vieMiC ago to the cars such as we saw to-day, wntc.i v-y not only child, but a great many children, wearing every kind of fancy dresi.

Jr stem Revolutionists said. "Enough of this tt ol but Napoleon, with his Infallible instinct, the best way to govern the French people please them. So he ordained th. continuance of bo-uf ytute modem custom of naming ox. Paris has Oorlot.

which named after Haliac'S co isto, Porthos. Aramls. the Wanderiaf Bolfertno, and a great others. ox was called Atlas 11. His back as table, was covered with a snow paper said that when he returned to his had a supercilious smilr on his face.

That events, whs almost his last bells, which sounding as be through streets, were, his passing THE FRENCH SULTAN. From The London Glohe. tf One episode of the election of M. de the Presidency has about It something ol unique. lie has received from the ijj.

tender about as curious a letter to the head of a modern state. Invocation of the grace of God." runs tJUS missive, "ami under His power, and by an Hts divine benevolence, we have learned tf liveliest pteasure. the accession of Sal 1 the of the West-to happy ml my and The Itognl may be a bit fW distinction bvtween a sultan and president, but very clear In own of and i.