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jESIPSIN WHIIE HOUSE 0. KEI.tr. IV TRIBUTE. kgfocrity Barred for Long Time to Come. Editor.

Dr. ClaJr McKelway. editor of "The Brooklyn was the guest of honor at a dinner given Lotos Cluh at Its clubhouse, in Fifth avenue. r.itl'-t- Prank R. Lawrence, president of the riub, acted as I At his right was Dr.

VeKelway. and at his -ft General Horace Porter. OtttTS at the guests" table were the Rev. Dr. Henry 0 Dyke.

President Nicholas Murray Butler of ivlumbiu University, Oscar S. Straus, ex-Judge iltoa Par ex-Mayor Seth Low, Timothy chairman of the Republican State Comjaittrt; Hart George H. Daniels, Chester S. Gilbert Evans and Dr. Truman J.

Backus. dining room and the reception room, which tf be used to accommodate the ISO diners, were jrafasely decorated with palms and other greens. ir.e:.; was a card, In a portfolio, bearing Striking likeness of Dr. McKelway, a picture of pie Building, ar.d what purported to be the of a part of the editorial page of jXjrit" of current date. Mr.

Lawrence, in the after-dinner part spoke of the change in the destinies club eince last winter by reason of the sail cf the Fifth avenue house. "The governors yielded to the temptation of filthy Jacrs sj sold your house over your heads," he Sftid. eaid a voice.) "I hope it is good. I shall contented with a modest when we plan for our new home. 1 hope tar rew home vill be a protest against the grow- Jrjr of things.

I mm tired of marble colv and painted ceilings. 1 don't think we incuM engage in keeping a hotel. We ought 10 cur distinctive aims. While we all can't be or journalists, we should admit no one not 'in lympathy tilth the aims of these callings." In Introducing the guest of the evening Mr. epoke of him as genius who for many has been a in journalism." Hs the original creators of great Journals." ha fiid.

'ho were dominating personalities. I guporr f- Mast to Dr. editor, publicist and orator." Pr McKehray MM that the Lotos Club had ul- Ttys felt the pulse i I the times and that the present appealed to it with moral and marked Figntn He referred to President Roosevelt as reformer, political genius and recipient of UN Nobel Of Governor-elect Hughes he Mid It should be an Influence to hold his for come, as well sa for their own time. JJarlc TVain. who went to in the same oounty with Dr.

McKelway, rame In for a fond-natured dig or. two at the hands of the Vt. McKeheay said in part: I have spoken often enough at the Lotos Club vhtn others have been honored, to know what to npect from these who will fellow me. They fire Ibt isrseieers. I am the target.

For wiiat I am tbout to rer-elve from them may the make me truly pachydermatous. In what I (-hall say to them they esn raw a long bow or a short gun mt I sincere, as always, but brief, as rarely. Keuer editors than men of other callings havo recfived litre. In my memory among editors only recall Murnt Halbiead, the lie Charles A. Dana tnd Whlt-'aw Reid.

Mr. Reid could have received either as an editoi cr a imblisher or i fiip'omst. Mr. Halstead wts received In of a distinguished Journalist who had Just I on Brooklyn. The representative lion of tin late Oiarl'E-R A.

Dar.a in Journalism, in and in public service we all know. Lotos, its foundation, has felt the of the surroundicg ar.d has prescribed kf right regime and the ethical I of each occasion it has confronted. The pree- i appeals 10 this ilub with moral ariii marked tag- nf.e2r.cf-. Our r.ition a spelling rmer. a I roUural ard the recipient of the Nobel ir.zo work as a as Us chief masist'tte.

Our state will soon have a reformer and a us Governor. We have had worthy and i rcflfcaiy Presidents. I doubt if for a long while to i we shall have, merely an ordinary President. A high generally impresses more than a period. Cleveland.

MoKlnley and Roosevelt preserved the White House from mediocrity Ketacmnery for many a year to come as well It own time. Governor-elect Hughes should an influence to hold his Euecessors for years to eorre to character, courage and rapacity. sm cead the heights of principle reach rammitw of achievement. department of human endeavor Measurably ever? other. Tlie period of political rr-fn craw? trt to hia-her levels.

It inspires literature ti tbc Btndy of Kreat examples and' to the aspira- tion of higher Idea! It Fhould stir journalism to lw of hopeful and tho clean In PjUuCt and in life. No great result Is rolitary. heroipra. whether I rioral martial, b-nh a force. republic aad our time are peculiarly favorable i fc'ataut or mediocre journalism magr.l- i PM material prosperity The better prosperity 1 spell opportunity, and PttaaJty obligation.

It prescribes to that Jour- the of and not merely tteap praise of possession. We are asking to-day 1 men have an 1 but bon and where t.3 they it: not iiow much one holds for him- bnt of how mach he will let gey for uplift i if r.u:nar.:tv. It v.as a poet whom this club hon- otic who said "All that bold in our dead I jpr.t hand what ire have given away." And to 'ivirr, the obligation to account for their stem wrbUa living, is made apparent on every buA. Ti.at which must be pardoned to the spirit Id in ihe national heart is due to the jenst? ffghaae and of wronc In the national conscience. The lt may be the reo-rt disdtMurea puts, to be.

frank, all wealth ijMer inquisition. There is no hostility toward honestly gotten. There pect for it. rahanced it at pist the earned Increment of It ved for mankind. But of Itself, and for itself vf-alt-i is no guarantee of standing, and Is BttM welcome as a helper.

of good causes. A man is what he Is and what be dots, not what has. Thin is the club of clubs for this gospel. I n.vers have re mere honored than getters. 1 is tbii which makes the club not merely an authority for hut for ethics the Republic and beyond It.

Tour occasions shown this. Many of your members have eSBJBBVd this terrloe to fettera and to state, Lotos, ns I was formed by meif in professions or the arts, for Oner purposes 1 than conventual could easily eubsrrve. Tlie I.ctos drtw those who rated sentiment above rdi.i achievement above assumption. learning above The Lotos soon let in such bos men as I themselvt-e ftudents and lovers of humor and of of and of art- These men enabled '-c dak cuijitallze Li ethical and art advantages w. the of BOlvency.

as well as of literature and it art. The comforts of prosperity were not Incompatible Ideals never lowered or loet. No cti.er oiganlzatlon In New York has been bo Perfectly equipped for Lotos purposes as the Lotos All other cations concede the unique of this i iub ff its rare role, and the ttbi cf ti.e city to the ciub for its high function which ev-ry man of affairs or of sentiment well tncwj draw an interest of gratitude and of iTide fo Jong as New York is the metropolis of Usher values. They arc the values which can tatuUbly Invested bo is to eecure the best retsrr.g, whether this side or beyond the stars. According to custom, there Is only one pet speech the Lotos Club dinners, but after Dr.

McKelway fit flown Mr. Lawrence called on many of the at the pucsts" table for short speeches. First in og Geaenl Porter, who raid he had f-d pofaSe crib no long as a diplomat that lie would come back and eat tit the t-b for a teQlng many laughable anecdotes of -ik he that many of the largest move- touts now started by newspapers. Ht pkia a high tribute to Dr. McKelway sf edacatar.

writer, traveller find orator. It. he Fall, was willing to "hew to the in chips fall where they may." but was" Nt tj- lO thought it was an essential fs! eftf to infect a with OTteria, The editor, be Ssti. had ssssftvai the wward sssssssi la rive a man, the astsesa a feOon. Rev.

Henry van referring to the charge in the home of the Lotos Club, said so ersaai of architectural would from it 8 environment. "This ciub truly the true of New he ct you have kept true to your type. It is 1o Food pictures on the walls than Wt air of the decorator and furnisher. I ttr rat Sf men who have done snxne- las Intellectual life of America than to tun because they were very rich or very Dyke mm tliat the great thing about American Journalist was that be knew how the English and added this to 'WmpUfled language Is not a manufactured ar- Is 11 growth, In a long process The English language is not revision, either In regard Us con- or its 'Peeling by any committee or vsatevsj It is tbe living utterance of a to be the master of that utterance Is SMS flfu tsst tald that profession had Its even the mlssslil where fc great. The great dan- I Ulertture was the concert and the cowboy "lbs Jsurwdlit "but a man able to re st them I.

truly Wa as a man He "JX led1 ed the first citizen of New York npetl, nof hum Incidents of the a par Brooi which he had McKelwav Mayor Br He praised Dr. fi tan OUt always, sometime. no lfflcult 8. for what he believed was In 1, What hls Part bellevedrence Timothy L. Woodruff.

Mr. hu ly to the suit being brought allelod or damages by a Photographer, who alleged he had been bitten by a bear at Mr. Woodwldr a ff ni ald 0 1115 tO Pre ROOMY Mr II 1 MM to considered the p. tor i iJ" the world Blnce the German Em- i liv llls Parliament and has always controlled his. Mr.

Woodruff spoke of a dinner at the Lotos lul geven which he came with the 1 resident, then Governor, and he quoted the President as saying he was sorry the dinner came that "iglit. because there was a great prizefight In town. Of Dr. McKelway Mr. Woodruff said: He is now with us personally and politically, and i nope will continue to be with us, even if he Is 1 81 8 In Brooklyn we are proud of the bird I and are proud of its editor.

May we live to the day when "darkest Brooklyn" is the principal borough of this city, and he, as vigorous Hsa ever, is conducting a. supplement to Iho Eagle' to publish the news of Manhattan. Kx -Judge Parker, who was introduced as "an adopted son of New York City." referred to his campaign for the Presidency In a good natured way that esnasi both laughter and applause. He said in part: Governor Hoffman, spoke to us when I was In the Albany law School, advised us to keep out polities, at least until we had pained a competency. i followed that advice until the year 1904.

a time which some of you perhaps may remain her. I remember tlmt 1 did rot receive votes enough to make a decided impression on the country nt large, Up to that time another had held the championship the "great defeated." But I wrested it from with some assistance. It may not be generally known, but Dr. McKelway studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was the only student I ever heard of who cojnmitted the code to memory.

Most of us wanted in commit it to the waste basket. I remember when lie wasn't permitted to run an independent paper, but ran an orcan an organ of Democracy. "The Albany Argus." I must pay that I admired hit editorials as much then as I do now. We all know that If he bad remained in law he would now be at the heHd of tha New York bar. and would be dividing his time, perhaps, between trying to keep some corporation solvent or trying to keep some client, of the class which some me has termed "the criminal nut of jail.

On the federal bench he might have had to scrutinise the President's messages to whether his rulira on the law met with the approval or disapproval of the Chief Executive. Mv belief, however, is that he has been far more useful as -in editor. We have sll profited by his work. President Butler of Columbia said the only way to head off the impending Brooklyn domination was to take up a subscription to move "The Brooklyn Eagle" to Manhattan. He said that the press apparently remained as the last refuge of omniscience, and he hoped the time would never come when there would he withdrawn from publio opinion the support of well considered and able editorial pase.

At this point Dr. Van Dyke Paid perhaps all at tlie table did not know that the poet Tennyson had written a. poem on "Tho Eagle." "I will repeat he said, "so you may judge of its apposition." He then recited the poem with great effect. In Introducing Hart Lyman Mr. Lawrence said: "He Is doubly and triply welcomed, as he stands as the successor of Horace and our beloved Whitelaw Reid." Mr.

Lyman added 'lie word of appreciation of the of the evening. Osrar B. Straus, who has recently been called to the Presidential Cabinet, paid: There has been some lament here to-night that the day of the editors, who injected their personality into their papers, has gone. I do not think it is a causx? of lamentation, lien those who live in want tho news In their papers, and they will do the thinking themselves. He said he en earned it a great privilege to have found his way under the roof of the Lotos Club.

esteem it," he added, "because In other literary bodies they usually wait" until a man is dead in order to nave a commemorative meeting." It seemed to the consensus of opinion that Dr. Keiway. who had been made the subject of much praise and not a little good-natured chaffing, should have a chance to reply. In it he said, In part: My friends, I am grateful to you: my enemies, I forgive you. Brooklyn needs no eulogy.

She needs more Here you grow into the air. and it is as near heaven as you may hope to be. In Brooklyn you may spread out. And when at the Judgment Day our cordon of cemeteries are the flrpt to eive up their saints, the saints will hear: "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou Into the Joys which you wculd have lost had you lived in Manhattan and which you have already experienced In part by your residence in Brooklyn." M. SAINT-SAEN3 AT THE LOTOS CLUB.

Camilla will be the guest of honor J-t a dinner to be given to him by the Lot "a Club, at its house on Fifth avenue, on Saturday. Several eminent artists and local musical men of noto have been Invited to meet the French composer. A CANADIAN OPINION ON LYNCHING. From Winnipeg (Man.) Telegram. President Roosevelt's reference to the practice of iyiicl.ing Negroes the Southern States siiows of careful study of a difficult question.

A whole lot of Indignation lifeS been wasted on the 1 wleesness of Southern mobs, but it has ed nothing. Lynching appears to be rather on increase, and President Roosevelt eeems Hide up his mind tliat the: only way to remedy Kltuation is bj partially humoring Southern peiitiment on the crime wtilcii Incites violence. When President Roosevelt proposes to make death the penaltj for criminal assault he contemplates the removal of one of tne governing motives which prompts Southerners in taking the law into their Own hands. DECLINE OF CHINESE TEA. From The Youth's Companion.

Some Interesting statistics have been collected by Vice Consul Arnold at Foochow concerning the e'eat lecline in China's tea trade. From when tea was first introduced into England, until IJC.7 China held exclusively the tea trade of the world Then India began to enter the tea market. The Chines" trade reached high tide In IMS. with a total export of MO.MO.OM pounds. In China furnished about 72 per cent of the world's total, India and Ceylon IS per cent and Japan and Formosa lTSer cent.

But In 1904, when the total consumption had Increased to 644,000.000 pounds, China contributed only 20 per cent. India and Ceylon tiO tier cent Japan and Formosa 10 per cent, we decline in China is ascribed to careless methods of cultivation ar.d preparation of the leaf. POSTAL BANK FACTS From The Chicago Daily The British postofflee savings bank is continually adopting -n Interest of depositors On July 3, 1905. another innovation was made in form of a system of "withdrawal on Under system a depositor by presentinir his book at any posta.Tice open for savingsbunk business ran withdraw Immediately any sum riot breeding to. This not only obviates the delay Involved in communicating with the centra bank by "letter but does away with the necessity for telegraphing in order to withdraw email amounts.

Di Hug the tiret six months the system was In operation the number of withdrawals on demand was nearly 5.000.000, representing cent of the whole number of withdrawals. The telegraphic withdrawals at the same time Ml to about half the former number. The. latest report gives the number of depositors for the jnlted Wnifdora as 9,963 043 the total deposits, yeing in excess of The proportion of depositors to population Is 1 to 4.3. THE WILSON MYTH A BRYAN AID.

From Washington Star. Alexander Troup, of Connecticut, fresh from a vlt-tt to Mr. Bryan at Lincoln, has In to have a little fun with the anti-Bryan Democrats of the East. In him New Haven newspaper he prints a story about a recent meeting held in New York, at which a scheme was concocted for heading off Mr Bryan for a third nomination. Those present millionaires and their and the man fixed upon for race in wan President Wilson of Princeton UnlveitJlty.

The yarn would travel better and live longer in warm than in cold weather, reins of the midsummer variety, maybe now it will serve Mr. Troup's purpose, which is that Bryan men. North. Soutn. East and West should take notice that the opposition to the ceerloM leader in the party Is still con- i fined largely to Wall Street and its connections.

i Ail Mr Tro'JP knows, while that Impression con- i tlnuei. Mr. Bryan's hold on his old following Is RETURNS NOT ALL IN. From The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. nr found in the crops of Honesdala J.

A dog scratches the surface of Darby and a uaniet mine. A PunxsuUwnev porker of money. Over In Plalnflefd. N. I man cold a cat for round hundred Arid the returns of national prosperity etill cominr in COAL UNDER A SCHOOL.

cull 1 vjnd i.n<l«r a. portion of East Council School, a I It or of the Hoard of Education, la eubjert to Collltry for liability tent ct ihe bulMlnca ft oontequecce of the NEW-YORK DAILY TRTBUNE. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 16. 1906.

MEDAL PRESENTED TO COMMANDER PEART LAST NIGHT. The star near the top of the medal Is a Montana sapphire, placed at the point where Peary planted the American Hag. Tiffany makers. New York, 1308. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

APPEAL FOR THE CHILDREN. Consumers' Leagne Renews Request to Shop Operation of Child Labor Law. Vo the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: This year, for the first time, Christmas may be a season of rejoicing and bring gladness even to the thousands of little children who toll in the department to the cash children and messengers, and especially to the little package wrappers and delivery Jsoys. For in past years, to the shame of community, latter have often worked past midnight on stormy winter nights to serve the thoughtless shoppers who delay their shopping till the last week before Christmas.

But this year should usher In a new era. According to the new child labor law which was passed by tho last Legislature, all children, however employed, are to be freed from work when the clock ttrlkes the Department of Health and its inspectors see to it that the new provision Is really enforced. Here is an opportunity to show whether the community Is genuinely Interested in checking child labor. By shopping before December 16, and always early in the day. the merchants will be relieved of the temptation of keeping the children beyond the legal closing hour.

It remains to be seen what showing the. people of New York will make, In this practical test of their principles. CONSUMERS LEAGUE. New York, Dec. 13, 1906.

TO SPREAD PRESIDENT'S IDEAS. Suggestion of School Reader Made Up from His Messages and the Speeches of Others. To the Editor of The Tribune Sir: We find that many new things suggested by The Tribune become facts, because the public sees their force and adopts them. I have been thinkingthai if some of the truths, such as those in President Roosevelt's late message, could be put before the young, the increase in feeling and true patriotism would be manifest. If the truths concerning right dealing between corporations and their employee, concerning Juat dealing toward all races of men, and concerning fair business among Individuals and corporations, could be placed the minds of youth could be influenced by them, the fruit would appear In young men and women broad views and' kinder sentiments toward their follow men.

Would it not be a practical way of doing it to embody portions of President Roosevelt's messages, of the address of Secretary Root in Brazil and of his late speech In the West, of Senator Loose's speeches, of Senator Bevertdge's speeches and some of Mr. Blalne'a gnat speeches in a school reader to be circulated throughout the country? Footnotes might five the occasions and dates of thepe messages and addresses, so that the older pupils could turn to end read the whole from which these parts are taken. I recall some portions of President Roosevelt's "Life of Oliver Cromwell" that teach what the highest forms of true citizenship are most admirably. Would not gome firm of publishers which makes specialty of petting up new school books be willing to undertake the work? Rev. S.

M'NEIL KEELER. Danbury. Dec. 11, 1506. AMERICAN CRAFTSMANSHIP.

To Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I am pleased to see the position you take regarding "American craftsmanship." I have myself challenged the position taken on different occasions by Mr. Vanderllp, and In an article in November number of "Caspler's Magazine" stated my views at some length and my reasons for same. I feel that there Is danger of a wronsr impression abroad unless it is counteracted by our American press. Another point on which I "differ with Mr.

anderllp is on the question of the trade school being the principal means to develop skill. While I feel that there is a field for the trade schools, I have for some years emphasized the needs of the extension of the apprenticeship system In its modern development as the best means to develop such skill. L. D. BURLINGAME.

Providence, R. 1.. Deo. 12. 1906.

IS DR. CRAPSEY IN ADVANCE OF HIS AGE? To the Editor of The Tribune. Bir: Rather frequently of late the Scribes and Pharisees" have taken pen In hand to explain that they are much better people than Dr. Crapsey. They are groat mind readers, tno.

for they know about Dr. CYapsny's motives, and tell us. In effect, that he was moved by vain and frivolous reasons, and doomed to suffer tho of illsappointed ambition. Al! this exposition of the matter Is very refreshing. We are much obliged to these oracles for informing us what we may be allowed to think and believe hereafter.

Still. It may be a little disconcerting If It Is discovered a few years hence that a correct diagnosis of the ease reveals the fact ttiat Dr. Crapsey simply been a little in advance of his age. and that the bestowed upon him were only selection from the assortment which it is usual mid customary to hurl at nil who do their own thinking. We lire reminded of the late Christopher Columbus and several other gentlemen who experienced dltllcuUles and disrespect when they ventured too ahead of the crowd.

F. H. LANGWORTHT. Warren. Dec, 13, 1904.

THE STOKES Socialists Will Live Close to Nature in a $5,000 House. Stamford. Dec. 15 Mr. and Mrs.

J. G. Phelps Stokes will live after February 1 In a at they call it a hut. Unliko the usual hut, it has bathrooms and a few other like conveniences. This hut coat about $5,000 to tuild.

It Ib In this town, across the bay, on Carltas about a mile from Brick House, tho more protentlous norm of Mr. Stokes's father. The hut Is a small two Mory cottage, the exterior of rough and the Interior finisher! with common boards. Rag carpets cover the rough board floors. Earthenware dishes, instead of china and silverware, are found in the pantry.

A caretaker and his, wife are the only servants. DOCTOR'S WIFE TO GET DIVORCE. Greenwich, Dec. 15 lt became known to-day through a motion by counsel for Mrs. EX Grlswold.

wife of Dr. William L. Griswold. of this town, that Mrs. Grlswold was to get a decree of divorce ami $4,000 alimony.

The motion was acceptance, of Referee Elmer's report, but owlnr to an error In the report the case was continued for a week. WEDDINGS PAST AND TO COME. Invitations have been Issued for the marriage of Miss Virginia Gilroy. daughter of Thomas F. (511-roy.

former Mayor Of New York, to John pon of Thomas J. In the Church of Mary Star of the Sea. at Far Kockaway, Island, on Wednesday. January 2. A reception I.i to follow the ceremony at the residence of the.

bride's father at Ocean Crest. Far wa jr. bride's attendant will be her Bister. Claire rilroy William will act as best man. The ushers will be Thomas F.

Qllroy. Oeoreo James A. Foley. Hoy Iv Rlchey. John J.

Mulcahy and John B. Curtis. Telegraph to The Tribune. Boinervllle. N.

Doc State Senator Bloomfield M. Finch, of Cumberland County. N. and Miss Marlon A. Kenny were married to-day by the Ilev Charles Fiske, rector of St.

Johns Kplacopal of tills place, at home of bride's at South Finch It tire of the Btidgeton National Hank an.l li a candidate for presidency of the State Senate. LOUISIANA HONORS ITB NAMESAKE. Now Orleans. Dec. 1n a torrential rain the presentation to the battleship Ixiutslana of silver punch from the state was made to-day.

The ceremony was performed under a canvas on the afterdeck. Goverfr N. C. IJ anrlmrd. making ke of the fript at to-day two other nte 1 rifts to men-of-war named after them.

He that. Louisiana favored a-gr-at navy. Captain CoaatEU ci Renaud as the Son. Yesterday was a red letter day at Mr. Hammer stein's new opera house, for in the afternoon Maurice Renaud made his long delayed appearance as Don Juan, and in the evening "Carmen" was repeated to the largest audience which the house has held since the opening night.

At o'clock there was alnsoat a mob at the box office window, and many who wished rallery seats had to be turned away. Bressler-Ginnoli was asrain the Carmen, and Pahnores the Don Jose. Olllbcrt. singing for the third time In two days, repeated his fine performance of Dancairo, and the small parts, the chorus and tiie dances fitted even more admirably and stirringly into the picture. The changes from Friday were two: lime.

Gilibert sang Micaela and Sevellhac was the Kscamillo. Roth are intelligent artists. If not so good as th.rir predecessors of Friday, and the performance was not allowed seriously to lapse from its plane of xenoral excellence. The au'lipnrs was unusually enthusiastic. A much smaller number of people caw Renaud as Don Giovanni In the afternoon, but they were quit" as carried away with enthusiasm, pressing down to the stage cfter final curtain.

Renaud was still a long way from perfect vocal condition, but in every other rasped hla performance vaa a marvel. His grace and abandon of bearing, his picturesque and beautiful costumes, his extraordinary charm of face and figure were sufficient to credence for all the Don's amatory conquesta and more besides, and from hia first entrance to nls final display of bravado in the face of the avenging statue while the trombones blared, and his tragic end, was a figure as real, convincing to the audience as the creaturp or one's own imagination. Ills splendidly picturesque and dramatic pose at the of the equestrian statue neirr tbe dose of the fourth act was a thrilling moment in his performance that will not be soon forgotten; it made the superb in his defiance, tragic in his proportions. The part of Donr.a Elvira was sung by Mme. Gilibert, which for Improvement over east, though her? was fr.r from an ideal performance.

Otherwise the rast was the Including Gilibert's fine M.izetto nnd Band's voc-illy lovely Don Ot The tempi were all taken faster, nnd there not dull mome.nts in the entire opera. It might be added that the last has eeert an increase of 60 per cent in attendance at Mr. Hammerstein's house over the preceding A' the older house the audience was present in the afternoon, when Caruso, Scnttl, Mme. Mme. Alten and rest sang again Giordano's "Fedora," and the smaller andJOWCe in the evening, to hear Mme.

Fleischer-Edfl, Mr Burrlan and associates in Weed sang Venus, without seriously shaking th laurel leaves upon Miss Fremstad'a brow, but Cioritz gave a fine performance of Wolfram, and the entire work was conducted with poetry and spirit. The afternoon repetition of "Fedora." which brought out such a large audience, was an improvement In precision and srroothness over the first production. Mme. Cavalieri both sang and acted better than before, and Caruso was at his best, winning great applause. The finale of the second act had to be repeated.

COUNT LAMSDORFF ILL. St. Petersburg. Dec. Count LamsdorJT, ex- Minister for Foreign Affairs, is seriously ill.

He is Buffering from heart disease, accompanied by other weaknesses. APPRAISE! FOR SPENCER ESTATE. Surrogate Thomas, on the application of State Wilson, yesterday made an order appointing Joseph Levenson as appraiser to value the estate left hy Spencer, the president of tha Southern Railroad C'-mpany. In this st.ite. Mr.

Spencer, wlm was kJOed in a railway collision two weeks ago. lived at Washington, where his will was admitted to probate on December 6. J. KING LEFT $3,500,000. Tho appraisal of the estate of James C.

King-, of Chicago, who died on November 1, 1905. aa filed tn the Surrcgate's office yesterday, that he left an estate valued at $3.. in personal property of which $163,200 is in New York State. NASSAU COUNTRY CLUB ELECTION. The Nassau Country Club held ltn annual dinner lust night at tho Waldorf and elected four directors M.

Pratt. W. C. Adams, J. Coles.

F'att-n Howard MaxwelL QoTernor-eieci Hughes, a member of the club, sent this note to explain his absence: "My public dutlea demand 'my whole attention, and prevent me being present at tlie annual mc-oting to-night." FUNERAL PLANS FOR COLONEL BROWN. The funeral of Colonel William L. Brown will be held at Locustport, Great Harrington, the country homo of the family, at 2 p. m. on Monday.

The pall-bearers will be David. B. Hill. Edward D. Furrell.

Hamilton Busbey, Justices Henry A. Glidersleeve and Edward E. Mi-Call. ex-Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, Jacob A.

Cantor. Justice James Fitzgerald. George C. Clarke, Frank Curtisa, Justice James A. Rlanchard.

J. I. C. Thomas Byrnes, William Penney, I. C.

B. Dana. John A. Hennery and ft. B.

Mclntyre. The train leaves Grand Central Station at 8:49 a. returning; leaves Great Barrinffton p. m. HAS BATHROOMS.

PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS BROADWAY Captain iiermudii. HOTEL Chief Justice H. Gotlsw, Bermuda, If Captain Im A. Shlmer 17. H.

Surgeon J. T. Kennedy, U. S. ST Sir Weernvin Pearson, London.

Major Kluman, Knslani. THE WEATHER REPORT. Official Ilt-rord and Forecast. Washington. Dae.

15. High temperat ire for icaeon prevails In the Middle Atlantic mates and thence southwestward to lower Valley. In portions of the Middle Atlantl. States, the Ohio Valley, Tennessee, Arkansas. Texas and on tho North Pacific Coast rains have fallen, the drift of the rain area eastward being- unusually slow for the reason.

Rain Is probable Sunday In the routh portion of the Mldijle Atlantic EtaUS, the west portions of F-outh Atlantic Stntos and 001 in which districts the will fall to SO In the lake fglon llcht Is Indicated, but In all other of the country weather will be fair, with slowly rising Uropcraturc Monday "ill be generally fair, with Upl -r temperatures In t'e Interior valley. The winds alrne the England and Middle Atlantic coasts will to west; nth Atlantic Coast. re southwest; east Gulf Coast, fresh south, becoming wtsi Gull fresh northeast to north; Great Lakes, fresh west. 4 Forecast for Special I.ocnlltle-. For England.

cloudy and older to-day; itondty fair; fresh west arts For Eastern New York. Pennsylvania. New Jersey, Delaware, fair and much colder to-day; Monday fair; fresh west vvliidn. Kor the District ColumMs Sad Marylan.l. fair and decidedly colder preceded by rain In early raortvlr.p: Monday fresh northwest For Western Vet nsylvanla and Western New York, fair and colder tn-diy.

Monday partly cloudy; fresh west winds, heeOBBIBI variable. Official oacial record from Weather Bureau shows chances in the temperature for the last twenty-four hours, in comparison with the correipondlns date el last year: 100 C.I 1808. 130 ft. 8 a. 22 13 6 p.

27 oa. 22 9p. 27 63 23 Bill p. 27, 12 28 63112 ip. .27 Ml Illchest temperature yesterday.

derr.es; lowest! 43. average. average for date of last year. 25; fcr eorretpondlng date of last twenty-flve years. 84.

Local I recast; Fair ccWm to- uir Monday I west nit-da. MUSIC. THE DAY'S OPERA. A MEDAL FOR PEARY. Presented bti Mr.

Roosevelt in Behalf of Geographic Society. The Trlhune. Bureau 1 Washington. Dec. Tho President at the annual dinner of the National Geographic Society to-night presented to Commander Robert E.

Peary, on behalf of the society, a gold medal awarded to the Arctic explorer in recognition of his feat in reaching the farthest North. The dinner was attended by a distinguished company, including members of the ambassadors and their wives and many scientists, and the spirit of the evening was one of felicitation over the recent exploits of American explorers, notably the expedition of Commander Peary and the aacent of Mount McKinley by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of New York, who wad a guest of honor, sitting next to Commander Peary. At the wers seated four hundred guests.

Willis L. Moore, of the National Society, presided, and the committee assisting included Alexander Graham Bell, W. J. Boardman. Edward Everett Hale, John W.

Foster, Arnold Hague, Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester. General William Crozier and John B. Henderson, jr. Toasts were responded to as follows: "Congratulations from Italy on America's Farthest North," by tne Italian Ambassador.

"The United States Navy," by the Secretary of the Navy. "Farthest North," by Commander Robert E. Peary. "The Top of North America," by Dr. Frederick A.

Cook. President Roosevelt arrived shortly after 11 o'clock, and his entrance Into the hall was tho signal for an outburst of applause. The President in a brief address paid a tribute to Commander Peary. He spoke as follows: I count myself fortunate in having asked to bo present this evening at such a gathering and on behalf of such a society to pay a tribute of honor to an American who emphatically deserves well of the commonwealth. (Applause.) Civilized people usually live under conditions of life so easy that there la a certain tendency to atrophy of the hardier virtues.

And It is a relief to pay signal honor to a man who by his achievements makes it evident that in some of the race, at least, there has been no loss of hardy I said some loss of the hardier virtues. Wo will do well to recollect that the very word virtue, in Itself, originally signifies courage and hardihood. When the Roman spoke of virtue he means that sum of qualities that we characterize as manliness. I emphatically believe in peace and all the kindred virtues. (Applause.) But I think that they are only worth having If they come as a consequence of possessing the combined virtue oJ courage and hardihood.

So I feel that In an age which naturally and properly excels, as It should excel, in the milder and softei qualities, there Is need that we should not forget that in tho last analysis the safe basis of a successful national character must rest upon the great fighting virtues, and those great fighting virtues can be shown quite as well in peace as in war. They can be shown In the work of the philanthropist. In the work of the scientist, and. most emphatically of all, in the work of the explorer, who (hew and overcomes perils and which the average soldier never in his life knows. In war.

after all. It Is only the man. at the very head who is ever lonely. All the others, from the subordinate generals down through the privates, are cheered and sustained by the MOM of companionship and by the sense of divided responsibility. You (turning to Commander Peary), the man whom we Join to honor to-night, you.

who for months In and months out. year in and year out. had to face perils and overcome the greatest risks and difficulties, with resting on your the undivided responsibility which meant life or death to you and your followers you had to show in addition what the modern commander with his great responsibility not have to show. You had to show all thu moral qualities in war. together with other qualities.

You did a great deed, a deed that counted for all mankind, a which reacted credit upon you and upon- your country, and on behalf of those present, and speaking also for the millions of your countrymen. I take pleasure in handing you this Hubbard Medal, and in welcoming you home from tho great feat which you performed. Commander Peary. (Prolonged applause.) In his response Commander Peary referred to the feats of Abruzzi and others, and said that he had the most unbounded admiration and respect for who devoted their time, their abilities and their money to adding to the sum of human knowledge. "ALL IS NOT GOLD.

Nor Is It All Marble in the Hall of Records. It had been hoped that all the blunders made in the construction and fitting up of the costly Hall of Records had come to they have not been few. But it seems that some of them were left to be disclosed after the building had been occupied. Those who had cherished the Idea that after all the Hall of Records was a monument of granite and marble that would be an example of what a public building should if not of the manner In which it should be been astonished and shocked to ilnd that much of the dignity of the halls has been spoiled by the substitution of a plaster composition for marble in the decorations above the windows and doors. This is said to be a result of the unfortunate difference of opinion as to the money- to be spent in cons i ruction by the various administrations that have had a hand In the building, originally planned in the term of Mayor Strong, nearly ten years ago.

The composition. it seems, was put In in accordance with the final specifications, and does not represent any attempt to make money at expense of las city. This "bogus for the construction made to represent marble, and is calculated to a casual 3 above the doors and windows In the corridors on all the floors above Mm second. It appears in the form of or panels, more or elaborate In design, to represent caned marble. Placed, as they in the completion of a marble scheme, they detract to a marked degree from the architecture and arouse a feeling of disgust.

The original plans of John R. Thomas called for marble throughout in the trim of the halls. Mayor Van Wyck thought the J2.500.000 estimate for the finishing and equipment was too much, and ordered It cut down. The plans were revised then by the substitution of the composition for marble in many places. When Mayor Low took up the problem of the Hall of Records he had the contract, which had already been let, changed so as to take out the substitution for marble In some parts of the building, but not throughout.

In passing through the corridor a casual observer would not notice the imitation, but a good look at the decorations shows them up In all their and Thomas Riley. who has been the inspector from the office of the rit-diaent 011 the. work since it started. says these decorations are known as "plaster enrichments," but those who have seen them declare that "plaster detractions" would-be a better name BAILEY BORROWED MTJCH. Says He Got Hundreds of Thousands from H.

Clay Pierce. San Antonio, Dec Joseph W. Bailey, in an Interview to-day, said relative to statement that he had borrowed meney fmm Clay i'terct, president of the Oil Company, that in so doing he had never considered that it was anything that the people of would object to. He said: Why I have borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars from Mr. Pierce, and I told the people time and time again the Tennessee bankruptcy cases were talked about that I not only had transaction, but many others, with Mr.

Pierce. I once went to him to borrow $155,000. I knew of Home securities I could buy by which I could make a few thousand dollars. Mr. Pierce told me then that he did not hove that amount of money, at hand but went to a bank and went my security.

I paid the money back to Mr. Pierce and 1 made several thousand dollars In the deal. The Aton Oeneral office did not need to go to the records of Mr. Piercers office to know that I bad borrowed money him. I could have told them that.

The voucher printed by the Attorney General showing I have received money from H. C. Pierce to the amount of $1,500 relates to a sura that I borrowed when I wanted -to buy a horse. A MON3TER CARPET. A notable Axmlnster has Just been completed at Royal factory.

Wilton, for a well known London It Is entirely hand male, and although woven In pi- measures over 02 feet In length anJ 85 feet In breadth. An lm.m over forty feet long 'had to especially erected to make It. and thirteen were continuously encased or more la -JLaaAan Cb-tmleJa. WANTS DIVOECE AT 103 YEAB3. Aged Woman Drove Third Husband from Home Because He Wai CrueL Sallna.

Dec Martha Hurt. 105 years old. yesterday filed suit for divorce aratost her husband, fifteen years her Junior, on the crottnd of extreme cruelty. She asserted that she drove her husband from home In IS3B because of bis crualtji to AWAKES TO FALL DOWN MINE BHAPT, TeUa-nph to The Trlrune.J Dec. Michael miner of Mount Hope.

is In All Souls' Hospital, this town, with his left arm. both and several ribs broken, and suffering from Internal Injuries) from a fail down the mine shaft at Mount Hope today. Leedblock wan asleep on No. 1 level of the) mine. The descent of the ski? aroused him suddenly.

lie got up half awake and stumbled the shaft. over a hundred feet to Its bottom. Thomas Railway, also a miner, was climbing a ladder In the shaft when fell. He wm knocked off the ladder and seriously Injured. Married.

Marriage appearing La THE TKIBL'X-B be repabllched la Tri- Weekly TrUn-M wttaoaa extra charge. On SatHrdar. 15, st Oraee Church Chantry, by the Her Hugh MlMred. daughter of roullaey to N.weil TUton. Esq.

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John. Etfreworth. Merlam. 4. Caspar SkLUman.

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Edith. Ward. S. Ol Wood. On Sarnrdar.

15. of at Court. No. 277 Gatee Francis Ramsey only son of John Plat, and the) late Far.nv Ramsey Allen. axed 24 years, 11 mirtlla and 33 days.

Funeral No. Monroe Brooklyn, at 2 p. m. Monday. Boyntotv: V.

oaiciatlnr. On IfWS. Marr, wife of the late Oeorve Edceworth. aged at years. from her late residence.

No. 850 rVn Brooklyn. Sunday. December 13. it 3 p.

On 15. Caspar man. ex-necretary at the Board of Health. N'ww Ties) ty Funeral will take en Monday. 17.

1800. at h. at So. 14 Place CWest 3d Torlc City. nBNDRICKS At her inn Kti, ST New Tori.

City, on Saturday. December 13. 19M, a short Illness. Emma 8.. widow of Joshua Hendrickti and daughter nt late an.l Rachel BrutuSon.

In the 78th year of her Funeral service at her Xafm on Monday, the 17th a.c 10 a. m. Kit requested that no tiowvra be tetrt. I On- Saturday. December 15.

S. Bdlta. ef Lester Kean and daughter of Reuben AmaadSk Rlley. No. 84 th Brooklyn.

On December 14. Anna the Uto Amasa A. an.l A. Marks. Funeral Stone Church.

Sound Beach. on Mood-Mr. ber 17. at 2:30 p. m.

On Friday aftemeoo. December 14. st his No. 4 West 84th st John M- la hU -ear. Fnnaral service, private.

at o'clock. Interment at convenience of family. omit flowers. On Friday, December 14. widow of SiTaa Austin Funeral from her late No.

20 Vina Hill. if. T. Sunday. December at 2 p.

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Josephine widow of Fklliman. Fune-rai nervlces will be held at her residence on Monday, December 17. at 2 o'clock p. m. Carriages will await the arrival at of the train due there at 11:43 a.

to. BPRAGUE On Thursday. December IX. at her late residence. No.

2314 Broadway Manhattan. Anna J. Fprague. widow of the late J. cl Brooklyn.

Funeral private. East Oracle. N. December 14, Stltes Osborn. wijrw or Sidney Seymour Ward Funeral services will be held from her late residence.

No 28 Hawthorne on Monday. December 17. st 2 o'clock- Carriages will be In waltlas at East station, via Delaware. Lackawanna Western. WOOD Suddenly on December 13.

1906. Stamfcv-. James Wartna; Wood. only son of Myers and Jamea Waring- Wood, of N. T.

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