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IMPEBIAL LOIDON. fyoowoMl Rood and Whitehall- An Ever-Changing Capital. Cssional Road and Whitehall Ever-Changing Capital. London, November 30. imperial capital, with its medley of archi-1 ctyies and uniformity of 6mudge In tocco.

brick and terra cotta. is receiving during the King's reign. The most ft ctlve work Is the Processional Road, from 6 Itrar Square to Buckingham Palace and the a Memorial. This splendid enterprise. may compared with Nash'a thorough with Quadrant, from Carlton House t0 Regent's Park, the chief achievement of I Regency, is unfinished.

The ornamental tbe underneath the official residences of the Lord of the Admiralty and the First Sea at Trafalgar Square is designed, but not carried out. with the extension of the Mali 8 Crouch Spring Gardens. The spacious Road. its iT rows of trees, has been -remade nd enlarged with a narrow strip from St. James's Park, but the supporting arches and are still lacking.

The site of Mr. Brock's Victorian monument is marked by a circular vtSBS painted preen, and there are slgns of jj activity within; and only a portion of Aston Webb's design lor ornamental nd barriers In front and around the has been completed. The. Palace. Constitution Hill, the broad footpath across Green Park and the upper section of St.

James's Park to bo converted by architectural treatment ad landscape art into an artistic environment the monument itself at the end of the Processional Road. When this striking scheme of converging avenues, park and water vistas and c-namental barriers Is completed a new facade the unimpressive Palace may be indispensabk but that is not contemplated at present. Kjbe finishing touches are coming with characteristic British deliberation. Constitution Hill Is one of the component elements of a complex gchesie of environment the scene of several futile attempts on the life cl Queen Victoria and of fir Bobert Peel's fatal riding accident. The arch originally disfigured by an equestrian statue of removed twentyfive years ago from its first site to the western nd of Constitution Hill, sharing the fate of the Arch, designed by George IV as an ornamental triumphal entrance to Buckingham Pal- ce and subsequently shifted to the Oxford street cf Hyde Park, where It is utterly insignificant Lord Michelham has commissioned Mr.

Adriar. Jones to supply a quadriga for this massive arch, designed by Deeimus Burton as a companion piece for the gateway at Hyde Park corner, which carried reliefs copied from the Elrin marbles. A winged figure of Peace will be tbe chief figure, standing erect la a chariot drawn by four spirited horses, with a boy charioteer as driver. The quadriga will be completed by the addition of imperial emblems and the inevitable British lion. This will be a gift to the nation and may inspire other millionaires to gttpply the statues and other works required tor yie decoration of the Processional Road, more familiarly known as the Mall.

As the horses are. to be double lire size and the winged Peace more than fourteen feet in height, the quadriga, will fit into the background of the Victorian memorfsl. 5-v work at lower end of the Processional Bead, where an extension of the Admiralty and two residences have been planned, with the ornamental archway opening into Trafalgar at the entrance to Whitehall, has barely been begun. Whitehall Itself is in the transition cf Renaissance, which seems to mark the fulfilment of Inigo Jones's Falladian dream of as Italian thoroughfare of palaces. Opposite th? Horse Guards, with its diminutive clock is the new War Office, an immense mass of ornamented masonry standing not four square trat on an irregular site, yet with a cupola and to' at each corner.

It is not the Palladian palace planned by Inlgo Jones tor James with a long riverside front and a splendid facade, on Whitehall- Tl central portion of a single wing of that palace alone was built, and it remains as a museum, with renovated Rubens wiling, to remind Londoners of the superior and nore classical art of an earlier age. Beside It "War Office lacks both beauty of form and of mass, and in place of the exuberant imagination and felicity of proportion characteristic of the true Italian Renaissance there is wreiaboration of details of ornamentation. On the opposite side, beyond Sir Charles Barry's facade for the Georgian Treasury and Sir Gilbert Scott's Italian quadrangle for the Home. Colonial. India and Foreign offices, are the Ministerial office, which are barely finished.

As this immense structure fronts on Parliament as well as on Whitehall, it is brought lilo dose association with one of the noblest Gothic groups in the the houses of Parliament, patterned after th- Henry VII chapel, the Westminster Hall of William Rufus. St Margaret's and Westminster Abbey with the Wren towers. The spectator, as he stands in the Ssuar- with all this primitive, decorated and Gothic around him. cannot help wishftg that the Royal Courts of Justice could be transferred from the lower Strand to this congenial environment. Mr.

Brydon. In designing the Ministerial offices, considered it indlspensa- He that the Whitehall facade should correspond Mth Sir Gilbert Scott public offices, ana accordingly there Ik modern Renaissance ornate and fussy, with upper tiers of and square euch as Inlgo Jones introduced In his Canadian design for Whitehall Palace, and one steaming pinnacle- This costly structure, which Is to the Local Government Board, the Education Dtpartment and possibly Board of Trade, the character of Whitehall as a Italian thoroughfare under a dull gray In the turreted headquarters of the metropolitan police there may be a suggestion of the Scottish baronial style: there may be a of Franco-Scottish Renaissance In House, midway among the trees of Whitehall Gardens, and above and below the equestrian of Duke of Cambridge by the of the new quadriga there may be a admixture of sham -classic and styles, with a glimmer of light on the hlfl-oas ball tower of the Coliseum, cheek by Ml the raceful spire and exquisite Greek of St. Martin's: yet the dominating style the etreet is by this pretentious mass of decorative masonry, without simplicity of outtee. eyma-etry of proportion or orderly adjustnent of windows in surfaces of the facades. The elevations would have been improved if the towers had not been deprived cf their caps through belated economy, yet they would have remained commonplace in spite of the ornate main entrance and the triple archway thrown Charles street to the adjoining public a modernized substitute for the Holbein of Inigo Jones's time.

It is overdressed, restless, modernized Renaissance, with in place cf beauty and dignity of form; In a highway of public offices, where scores hundreds of well 'lighted rooms are needed for the civil service. it marks the survival of the fittest for practical use after Gothic revivals. I tiitra-clasEic manias, plaster imitations and and revels in red brick and terra cotta I kave ran their courses. Another ornamental archway like the one over Charles street will rJ Hi- way from Trafalgar -Square to the Pr' Road; another military building a. striking Renaissance design has been graced, and Whitehall destined to it highway of arches, cupolas and pin Rack i Is assuming a more definite during the King's and the Road and its approaches indicate an access of ceremonial splendor, there Is a bewlloerjng: maze of transition elsewhere.

Everything: chaneroa except sky and smudge. Behind the Abbey the Westminster slums are blossoming into rod brick and terra cotta flats, offices and residences with oriels, gables and ornate decoration; and higher. up in Ashley Gardens is the Byzantine cathedral in an environment of Queen Anno residential fiats. Piccadilly is losing the distinctive impress of Georgian and Victorian stucco with the erection of spacious hotels and business structures, and even the Regency curve of the Quadrant has been broken. Oxford street Bdvertises Its trading activities by ostentatious modern architecture, and the Strand, even with the Kir.psvray and Aldwych improvements dragging in rubbish heaps and empty sites.

is a fantastic masquerade of styles, with the two island churches and Somerset House, with Us colonnades and peristyles, struggling to keep up their oldtime dignity among modernized Renaissance. Queen Anne vagaries and French decoration in surrounding theatres, hotels, banks and offices. In Pall Mall, Fleet street, the Victoria and Chelsea embankments and the more prosperous residential sections the new is jostling against the old with flaunting pushfulness; and what a Jumble of contrasts and relics it is from one decade or reign to another! A Norman keep, an Egyptian obelisk, lines of Venetian balconies and Gothic arcades and gables along the Thames; reproductions of Greek temples, Roman archways. Renaissance palaces and Oriental mosques back of it; adaptations of St. Peter's and the Italian churches in Wren's work, and of baronial castles and French chateaus in modern mansions; a suggestion of the Acropolis here and a travesty of the Colosseum there; ancient timbered houses in Holburn, mediteval guildhalls In the city, and Italian cupolas.

Georgian stucco terraces and Queen Anne flats everywhere; and over all the gray sky. and on every wall, casement and pinnacle the black grime of the London smudge! I. N. F. END OF OLD SPEEDWAY PRIDE.

"Jimmy" March's Dick to Die at 32 Careless Hostler Discharged. Dick, at one time the pride of the Speedway, a horse owned by James E. March, the Republican leader of 3d District, and perhaps oldest horse in the city, will close his eyes for the last time to-day. is thirty-two plus. Dick was a beauty in his day.

but that was a long time agosome twenty years. For the last five years Dick lias done nothing in the shape of work. He wasn't fit for it. but his splendid constitution kept him going. His owner every day had some one walk him around the yard back of the March establishment.

in Lafarette street, and that, with care In choosing his breakfast food and drink, was enough to keep Dick feeling tolerably welL Dick's mate died nine years ago from old age, but Dick, having had plenty of fun amid mundane environment, stayed on as long: as ha could. He might have been stubbing around yet If a careless hostler had not got cay with him on Tuesday last, causing him to fall down In his stall and hurt his leg. When Dick tried to get up he couldn't. "You're not going la discharge me for doing a little thing like that, are you?" asked the hostler when Mr. March took him to task.

"Yes," said the boss. "He's been with ma for twenty-three years, and I think more of him than I do of a boatload of fellows like you. You're fired." Dick and his at one were considered fastest team In the city. Pick came from Lewis County. SLEEPING CAR LAW HELD VOID.

Madison. Dec. The State Supreme, Court to-day held the Wisconsin sleeping car law unconstitutional. decision is based on the ground that the law leaves it to the occupant of th 9 lower berth to decide whether or not the upper berth shall closed or open. Instead of unconditionally requiring an unoccupied berth to be closed.

PROMINENT ARBIVAIS AT THE HOTELS Mr. end Mrs. Winthrep Chanler, Robert Ramsay, Baltimore; fry WoodfTi, Owensboro. Norman K. Mack.

Buffalo. Dr. and C. H. Smith.

Cincinnati. ST. Mr. and Robert S. Bradley.

Boston. E. J. Ravenscroft. Cohoes; Fred ronlon.

Bethlehem, Per.n.; I. M. Mack, Philadelphia. WALDORF A6TORTA-F. B.

Kellogg, St. TauL WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAY. admission to Metropolitan Museum of Art. American Museum of Natural History and Zoological Gardens. Regular of Association of New Torlc and vicinity.

No. 47 44th street, 10. "0 a. in. Regular meeting of Recreation Teachers' Foclatlon.

School. No. 15 West 4.M street. mat a. m.

Luncheon for boy tramps. Bowery Nix 53 2 p. m. R-CT-pHnn end opening of second annual exhibition of new books of year. National Arts Club.

3 p. in. Dinner of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Hotel Astor. 7 p.

m. Dinner of the West End Association. Hotel Marseille, evening. Meeting of the- Alpha. Delta Fhl Club.

No. West 44th evening. Meeting or the PanVrvan Association. Harfcm Branch V. M.

CL No. f. West 125 th st 6:15 p. in. Jacob A.

Rlls on "My Nelrhbor." for Political Education. Hudson Theatre. No. 153 -44ta street, 11 a. m.

of Woman's National Pmicressiv- room 204. No. 200 William street. p. on.

Cobden-Sandenon on "The Movement of English the. auspices of ths Inlerurban Woman Suffrage Council. Memorial Hall. Scherroerhorn street and V.atbush avenue. Brooklyn.

8 p. m. Christmas festival and bazaar for the benept of Mothers' Aid Association. Waldorf-Astoria, afternoon and evening Free lectures of the Beard of Education. 8 p.m.— Public cJ-hoo! 1 Henry and Catharine Churchill Harden PubllS School 165.

lOsth and Amsterdam avenue. Mm. Stella Alexander. -Great Types of the Best public School 184. 116 th street, between Fifth and avenues.

Preston W. Search, ''Face to Vlre with the Great American Museum. and Vw'ral Park West. J. Ruwll Bmlth.

of a Plec- of Board 1 SL oS. MB Bnt Ot etreet. Pro- i-rr. yon Toung In New Tork Public Library. Tremont i-Bth street and Washington avenue Jo- "A Journor HoOand" (Illustrated).

THE WEATHER REPORT. Official Record and Dec 13 The Southwestern I. apparently dividing, one centre appearing In Alabama, the other in Western Valley and he northern Rocky states. Another anow owr tha plateau and ra.n the northern Paclfle Coast Fat urday In the lake remmmmm On Sunday thearca or prec I and and the nort hern S3TSS. tfflTwOSg i Gulf coast.

resn est at ri 33 aya for European will cloudy weather to the Grand Banks. Forecast for Special New fair iTMrth. snowor rain In south portion. Saturday: rain or snow; northeast on the south coast. rn i Pennsylvania.

New For Eastern New probably rain Jersey and 'll, northeast winds, and warmer to-mcrro oo i urat) and Virginia, ra Or 'el-ay warmer Sun.a/; ln Kofvo Wl probably fair Sunday; southeast, comlnc south. local Official following official record shows the changes In the S. last rr -i- jj li jt £:::::::::: gjatsEEEa NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1907. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A BISHOP IN OREGON. The Work the Rev.

Mr. Paddock Will Have to Do. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Having 1 Just seen a copy of your Issue of Sunday, December 8, containing an article on "A Bishop with No Fixed Abode." I desire to correct a impression which some paragraphs may convey. You present a very spectacular picture of Mr.

Paddock, the new Bishop cf Eastern Oregon, but it is imaginary, and based on ignorance of the conditions of which the new Bishop is to become a part. Eastern Oregon is not like the wilds of Wyoming. It is neither populated by foreign immigrants, who form the "tenement problem" of our great cities, nor by cowboys who carry bowie knives in their teeth and six-shooters In their hip pockets. It is rapidly settling with sturdy, stalwart American citizens, who have the courage to leave the East and Middle West and come to a state which has the greatest undeveloped resources In T'nion. The rolling, drinking, shoot-on-sight cowboy exists only in Bowery melodrama.

His place has been taken very largely by the college graduate, who now works a ranch on scientific principles. The new Bishop will not be required dress like a cowboy." but will need his evening clothes and most immaculate linen In his wardrobe, for he will find the men as well dressed and women as well gowned as most of the men and women with whom he is accustomed to The Bishop will find a far lower average of vice and sin and crime In his new diocese than In New York. Oregon stands third among the states for. the small number of Illiterate persons in proportion to the population, while New York ranks forty-third. Twenty thousand homeseekera came Into Oregon during the last few months, for the most part a rine class of young people attracted by the equable and salubrious climate, the fertile soil and the fact that the profit this year on Oregon apples was $SOO an acre on cherries $EOO an acre and on prunes 5200 an acre, and by many similar facts.

The problem for the bishops and clergy of Oregon to-day Is not that which Is supposed to belong to a "wild and woolly West," but the problem of trying to make the Christian religion and good citizenship keep pace with the remarkable commercial developments. I believe Oregon Is to-day the strategic field for the Church and that now is the psychological moment to advance. Thanking you for tho space. Faithfully yours, CHARLES SCADDING. Bishop of Oregon.

New Tork, December 13, 1007. PROTEST AGAINST NEW PRISON SITE. Correspondent Says It Should Not Be Where Old Fort Clinton Stood. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Laat week, through the columns of your paper.

It was announced that tho commission appointed by the Governor to select a Kite for the state prison had practically closed negotiations for flvo hundred acres of land lying In Rockland and counties. I had expected to havo en vigorous protests against this decision, but have Fecn none yet. Is it possible that in this Empire State, with nearly fifty thousand square miles of territory, a suitable site for a penal Institution cannot found without desecrating this, one of the most wildly romantic and beautiful regions on the Hudson River, and one hallowed by most interesting associations in connection with our struggle for independence? Theee five- hundred acres practically include site of old Fort Clinton and Its outlying defences, pome of which are still in existence, and the beautiful than which is none finer In this state, with its many beautiful ones-called Hessian Lake, or, by many. Highland Lake. The Sons and Daughters of the Revolution should bestir themselves to save this historic region, and the nation at large should be Interested, for our own West Point Military Academy la less than six miles above it, and United States naval magazine, at lona Island, only one mile f-outh of it.

Shall this state prison sandwiched In between them? A Peeksklll. N. Dec. 9. T.

ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I beg to thank you or your kind reference to the late meeting of the Kaiser and King Edward. Whatever ill feeling may have existed between Germany and Britain of late years was not the wish or work of tho German ruler. When Triple Alliance between Germany.

Italy and Austria was entered Into a few years ago. the British government was Invited to Join. Lord Salisbury, who was Premier at the, time, refused. The Germans were offended, and very properly so. I think.

Time passed, however, and at the outbreak of the Boer war it was the boast of United States newspapers that England was isolated and did not have a friend among the governments of Europe. To an onlooker It would seem that Britain of years was trying to Isolate Germany as England was Isolated during the Boer war, and a great part of the telegrams that come to New York from Europe seem intended for the purpose of setting Britain and Germany by the eara. Germany has Russia on one slue und France on the other, and requires a very large army to insure her safety. The leading French newspapers have at different tlraea declared that France must always regard Germany -as an enemy until she restores Alsace-Lorraine to France. WILLIAM BOTLE.

Maplewood. N. 8.. British North America, Dec. 6.

1907. WANTS MR. ROOSEVELT IN SENATE. To the Editor of Tho Tribune. Bir: Now let tlm slogan be.

"Theodore Roopoveit for the t'nilcd States Senate!" W. R. P. rrince Bay, Staten Island, Doc. 12.

1907. HAND GREN. Relics of Draft Riots Found Unexpectedly in Old Custom House. finding yesterday of 130 hand grenades, charged and in good condition, In a vault on the third floor of the old Custom House struck terror into the hearts of the workmen engaged in tearing down the structure, and the Italians, with the thought of the Black Hand outrages fresh in mind, could hardly be persuaded to return to work. There are several iron doors In the building, which the workmen removed without trouble, but a door in one of tho corridors proved to bo too much for them, and James Trant.

a locksmith, was called. After much trouble he succeeded in getting it open. As soon as his eyes became accustomed to the darkness he found that he was looking into a room lined with Bhelves. and that these shelves were punctured with holes at regular intervals, while from each hole protruded a grenade, which the men took to be a bomb. Instantly there was a rush for safety.

A lantern was obtained, and in addition to the grenades a bag of powder was discovered. On the end of each of the grenades were found the words "Patented, August 20, 1561," and one the inside of the doors of the room were found pasted directions how to use them. The bureau of combustibles was informed, and it took charge of the grenades and the powder. It was learned that the grenades were placed in the building by the federal government at the time of the draft riots, and were to be used in case the Custom House was attacked. CARR OUT OF "THE GAY WHITE WAY." Alexander Carr was out of the cast of "The Gay White Way" at the Casino last night.

An understudy filled his place. It was said that Mr. Carr bad a slight cold, and would probably be back in cast on Monday THOMAS FITCH ROWLAND. Thomas Fitch Rowland, living at No. 529 Madlpon avenue, died yesterday.

Mr. Rowland was tho founder of the Continental Iron Works, in Brooklyn, and one of the builders of a monitor designed by John Ericsson. Mr. Rowland was born in New Haven, March 15, 1831. He was the son of George and Ruth Caroline Rowland, and a descendant of Henry M.

Rowland, who emigrated from Kssex County. England, and settled at Fairflcld. Conn. His early education was obtained at Love 1" a School and at the Collegiate Preparatory School at New- Haven. Instead of entering college he accepted employment with the New Haven Farmlngton Railroad.

Later he became associated with the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad, where he was employed as fireman and engineer. Subsequently he left this position to become second assistant engineer on the steamboat Connecticut, plying between Hartford and New Tork. In 1552 he accepted a position as draftsman with the Allaire works, in New Tork City, which he left in 1553 to become general superintendent of the Atlantic Dock Iron Company, in Brooklyn. In 1559 established a business of his own at Greenpoint, which subsequently became the Continental Iron Works.

Among his more important achievements was the construction of a quarter of a mile of wrought iron tube. and one-half feet In Siameter. which was placed on the top of High Bridge to carry water from the Croton Aqueduct to the new reservoir in Central Park. At the outbreak of the Civil War the government gave him several contracts, and he constructed the gun carriages and mortar brds for the Navy Department and fitted out some of the steamers purchased of the merchant service, which took part in the capture of Port Royal. He also constructed all the vessels composing the Port Royal mortar fleet.

In October, 1861, John Ericsson and hia associates gave Mr. Rowland the contract to build an iron floating battery in accordance with Ericsson's plans, and the vessel waa launched January 30. 1862. In ISS7 the business was Incorporated as the Continental Iron Works, of which Mr. Rowland was president and general manager.

Mr. Rowland was granted over fifty patents for machinery which he used In his own factory. He was a member of a number of enigeerlng societies, the New York Chamber of Commerce, and was vice-president of the American Society of Civil Engineers In In 1855 he married Mary Eliza Bradley, the daughter of Charles Bradley, of New Haven, and had three sons, Thomas Fitch, Charles Bradley and George Rowland. THOMAS JEFFERSON HURLEY. Thomas Jefferson Hurley, a mining expert, died at No.

47 street, Brooklyn, yesterday from the results of illness contracted by exposure when he escaped from the tire in tho Long Beach, Hotel last summer. Mr. Hurley leaves two daughters and one son. He was born In Rochester, In 1547. In 1861 enlisted as a private in the Bth New York Cavalry and served with his regiment until 1864.

From IS6B until 1875 he served as color sergeant of the 54th Regiment, N. G. N. T. He was breveted a Colonel of Volunteers for distinguished service.

He married Miss Annie March Field, of Newton, Mass. Mr. Hurley was the president of the Precious Metals Corporation and a director of the Linden and Rosedale cemeteries. He was a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Mueeum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Atlantic Yacht Club, the New York Chamber of Commerce, the New York Stock Exchange and the Lawyers Club. The funeral will be held at the Brooklyn address Sunday afternoon.

The burial will at Newton, Mass. ISAAC C. BUTTS. Teleirraph tt Catfkill. N.

Dec. Isaac C. Butlu. proprietor of the Butts House, at Eaat Windham. died there to-day, at the age of 79 years.

During the Civil War he was United States Provost Marshal, and was badly wounded white arresting a deserter In Delaware County. He leaves a wife. two sons and two daughters. His father was Barney Butts, a well known bear hunter. DR.

WILLIAM WELLS. William Wells, for many years professor of modern languages and literature and current history at Union College, died from grip at his homo, in Pchcnectady, N. on Thursday night. Bfter an Illness of only forty-rtght hours. Ho was born In this city in but spent many years In study and travel In Europe, and was at different times attti'-htd to of the American In 1848 he was the representative in Berlin of "The Now York Herald." and Is believed to have bivn the first regular foreign correspondent maintained by a New York newspaper.

His active association with Union College began In when he accepted the chair of modern aid literature, and continued until 02. when, at tho age of eighty-two years, ho was retired on a pension. Dr. 'Wells was formerly well known as a writer, editor and lecturer. He was popular with the ttudents and had long been affectionately known among them "Uncle Billy." COLONEL A.

S. COLYAR. Nashville, Dec. Colone! A. S.

Colyar, ninety years old. distinguished Jurist, statesman and author, died at his home here to-day. Arthur Sinclair Colyar was a native of Washington County, where he was born in ISIB. He i supported himself while gaining an education, studied law. was admitted to the bar, and had a successful career as a lawyer.

He waa active In opposition to secession 1861. but followed his state into the Confederacy, and later served as a representative from Tennessee the Confederate Congress. At the cIG-ie of the conflict he saw that the future prosperity of tlse South lay In ita industrial and commercial even more than In Its political reconstruction, and ho devoted his energies to the reorganization of tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, of which he became and waa for I many years the president. lie was also interested In various manufacturing i enterprises, and In many ways was instrumental la developing the resources of his native stata. WILLIAM BLISS.

Boston. Dec. William Bliss, president of the Boston Albany Railroad Company for the twenty-seven died at his home here this morning. Mr. Bliss was born in SDringtield.

December 11. 1834- He entered the railroad service in October, 1863, and became assistant to the president of the Western Railroad of Massachusetts He was appointed general freight agent In 1566. In 1872 he became general manager of tho Boston Albany system, and was elected president in ISBO. He was also a director of the New York Central Hudson Klver Railroad Company. IES CAUSE TEBfiOR.

THE REV. DR. WALTER T. GRIFFIN. N.

Dec. 13 (Special Rev. Walter T. Griffin, of this city, formerly United States Consul at Limoges. France, died this morning at the home of his physician, In Now York- He returned from Switzerland a month ago.

111 with typhoid pneumonia. Mr Griffin was born In Now York In and entered Rutgers College In the class of On the completion of his theological course, in IS7S he filled several pastorates in Now York State, which hi became pastor of a Reformed church in Brooklyn. That was his last regular charge. A year ago ho resigned as consul that he might devote his time patent fuel of his own invention. A wife and one daughter, Mrs.

Charles Clark, survive him. OBITUARY NOTES. MAJOR JACOB rARMERTKR, who, following service In the Union army during the Clvi! War, was collector of customs for the District of Champlain from to 1576, died at Plattsburg, N. yesterday. He was born at Vergennes, eightyseven years ago.

CHARLES E. COLK, forty-live years old. for twenty years connected with "The Watertown Times" and well known throughout the state In newspaper circles, died yesterday from heart trouble ut Watertown, N. Y. MRS.

MARIA M'MANUS, mother of Senator Thomas J. McManus, died ut her home, No. 453 West 40th street, ut noon yesterday, aged seventy years. She came to New York from Ireland when three yoars old. Mrs.

McManu? was mother of sixteen children, of whom seven are still living. JAMES SMITH INGLIS, president of Cottier died yesterday at Malda Vale. London, England. OBITUARY, MUSIC. THE PHILHABMONIC SOCIETY.

Music of an unusual nature was heard in some of the streets to the west of Central Park yesterday, and those who threw open their windows to Fee whence It came caw an unusual bagpiper. He clasped the immense bag In front of him and, reaching around It with difficulty, governed the stops of the melody pipe, which sang a short phrase In compound triple time over and over again, which was almost drowned by wheezlngs of the drones. It was an Italian piper, mayhap one of the pifferari of the Abruazl or from the Roman campagna, and his instrument was a zampogna. He was following the example of his fellows In Rome, who are now wandering through the streets, playing the music that to old and young proclaims the coming of the kind of music which Handel transmuted Into the pastoral symphony in his Christmas oratorio. The Incident was recalled when the third afternoon concert of the Philharmonic Society, in Carnegie Hall yesterday, began with the first tribute to the Nativity which we can recall.

The muslo was that of the second part of. Berlioz's sacred trilogy. 'The Infancy of Christ," the part descriptive of the flight Into Egypt and called by that title. Many years have passed since this naive music was performed In New York, and It is much to be questioned If any of Mr. SafonofTs predecessors would ever have dreamed of including it In tho scheme of a symphonic concert.

Yet under the circumstances It fell graciously into the ear. and. had it been heard by an audience assembled In the spirit of the thousands who will foregather next week to hear the "Messiah." It would doubtless have evoke.i enthusiasm Instead ol merely respectful applause, for the performance, though far from flawless, was a good one ana particularly admirable for the sincerity and loveliness of Mr. Beddoe's singing and the excellent voice quality of the Bach of Montclair-the choir which under Mr. Frank Taft seems to have set for Itself the mission of giving an annual spring festival of Bach's musio in our pretty Jersey suburb.

Whether Berlioz's composition was responsible lor the performance of Scriablne's first symphony, which was a choral close that is perhaps the most Inconsequential piece of music ever dignified by performance at a Philharmonic Society, or the desire to give the symphony brought with It the suggestion of this Nativity music cannot be said here. A choir being on hand a larger use than was called for by either work alone was to have been expected. A better might easily have been suggested. Scrlabine's first symphony, with Its six movements and two moods (all but the final movement, which enlists tho TOtces and reechoes the mood of the first section, based on a modest rnelism in the pentatonlc scale), was heard in Carnegie Hal! as late as the last day of last February at a concert of the Russian Symphony Society, which the composer and Mr. Modest Altschuler conducted.

Its. jocose movement made a pretty impression then, a prettier one, Indeed, than it made yesterday, but as a whole, the work awakened no cry for a repetition. Its fifth movement gained In dramatic Intensity from the tonal weight of the Philharmonic band and the splendid compulsion of Mr. BafonofTs conducting, but the Interest which an admirably constructed climax had created ran out rapidly as dry sand through a child's fingers when the choral music began. It was scarcely necessary that the annotated programme should have directed attention to the fact that this music composed by a conservatory pupil: the music itself proclaimed the fact only too loudly.

Nor was the fault In the performance, for Mr. Beddoe and Miss Rosemarie Campbell labored with supreme devotion and the choir did Its best. The desire to make propaganda for Russian composers Is having a woful influence upon our orchestral concerts. The season is six weeks old. yet the Russian novelties that have been brought forward outnumber all the new contributions from the rest of th.

universe- And all the novelties not one baa established Itself In the local repertory. Another is set down for the next pair of Philharmonic concerts. Between the cantata and the symphony Chopin minor pianoforte concerto waa played-the solo rl-irt by Mr. Ernest Schilling. It was a clean, manly, straightforward little sober in perhaps, but better sobriety than mawkish sentimentality.

AT THE OPERA. Fine audience- listened to the operas at both houses last hlgbt. though the. bills acked the attraction of novelty. At the MetropoUten JV asnert "Flvlng Dutchman- had first repetition.

At the Manhattan Miss Garden. M. Renaud, M. Dalmorc, and their gave a fourth performance Of Ma-senef. "Thais." General excellence marked both representations.

LIFE IN BALANCE, PLAYED BANJO. Lincoln. Dec Clarke, a negro, waihanged at tha penitentiary this afternoon. Efforts were made the execution by filing a pemion eTle'fng Insanity. While life hung In the balance Clarke sat i his cell unconcernedly drumming a LIST OF SPATE'S MISDEEDS GROWS.

to Plttsburg. Dec. IS. -The PUtsburg police, are now convinced hat they made an important capture XT they arrested Reginald Spaulding. or Oscar spate To-day Edward McGough.

captain of detectives received three letters, one from tho Jo of Montreal. Canada; one from the police of Kent! England, and the third from a London barrtsTer, telUng of Spauldins's alleged misdeeds in those cities. Uot Arkansas. ar.il backed by th- TV P. rrrat a- wof hf anil Government and offers and propleasure, baths i that winter climate.

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Marrlace In THE TRIBO.T3 will be repnbllsbed in the Tri-Weekly Tribune without extra charge. TTNnT AS PEAMAN On Thursday. December 1007 at All Souls' Church, by the Rev. Thomas Sllcer. Mary Stuart Huntingdon to Dr.

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C. Jotter. Sarah H. Reeve, Henry V. Reynolds.

Margaret. Rowland. Thomas F. Smith. Granvllle B.

Testevln. Harriet. Townsend. Arthur B. Anna 11.

Wilson. James U. Wood. William H. S.

Wright. Martha A. S. Marsaret. Zerfass.

John. er. Clarkfon. Rev. A.

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Duncan. Catharine B. Dunlop. John. Haeselbarth.

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Inrlls. James S. Jones. At.Me A. McDonald.

Alfred J. Martin. T. wight. iRKSON'-fn Tuesday.

December 10. 1907. at 16 West 4Sth st. Key. A.

Vallete Clarkson. formerly rector of the Church of Saint Augustine. Croto'n-on-the-Hudson. Funeral services at Trinity Chanel 20th st. and Broadway, on Saturday the Hth.

at 10 o'clock. COVWAT Moncure D. Conway. In Paris. November 15, Funeral service for family and friends of deceased will be held at No I'JT East Neir York.

December 14. at 10:30 a. m. Interment at Kensico at convenience of the family. lV the residence of his son-in-law.

EllwooJ V. "Titus at Glen Cove. Lock Island, on Wednesday. December 11 IWJ. Daniel.

D. Cox. in his Slst year, Frneral services at Reformed Church. Manhaxset. Lens Island? on Saturday.

December 14. 1907. at 2:30 p. m. December 10.

1907. at Geneva. N. KlUabeth B. Demurest, widow of David M.

Demarest. Formal services will be held at the residence of Henry Demarest, No. 967 Park Plalnfleld, N. on Saturday, the 14th at 2:30 p. m.

Trains leave "ot of West 23d street for at 1:20 p. aid foot of Liberty street at 1:30 p. m. nL'NCAN Thursday, December 12, at No. BO 68th New York City.

Catharine Bartow. wire of the lata Rev. Henry E. Duncan. D.

and daughter of the late Hubert and Maria Lorillard Bartow. Funeral services at St. Luke's Church. Matteawan. N.

on Kaiurdav December 14. at 11:45 o'clock. Carriages will meet train at FishkUV-on-the-Iludson New lorn a. m. On Wednesday.

December 11, 1907. John Dunlop, in the TOth year of hU Funeral from late residence. Prospect Hackensack, N. on Saturday. December 14.

at 2 p. m. Interment at Cedar Cemetery at fainlU- Died. Tmmmmm at p. m.

Train leave. Chambers st at 2p. m. msmm mmm noon. Pervicea na Funeral Sunday after- Paper, FF rt 4 st Conn Thursday, Funeral wldow of tomm.

fnK J' 1 to St Edward's Church, where a o. soul. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. iN December 11. IM7.

fa the 1 th ES Thursday mornlngr. 12. IM7. at 8 co daughter. Mrs.

W. W. Church rectory. Utica. N.

Catharine Hcks Clayton. aged 70 years, wife, of William H. allies and daughter of the Uta John G. and Catharine Clayton. Funeral services will be held at St.

Marys Church. Classon and -W-Hlonghby aree Brooklyn. Saturday. December at 2 p. m.

At Sorrier-. on Thursday. December 12. Sarah widow of Jonathan D. Potter, la the 70th year of age.

Funeral services at second Reformed Church. SoznenriHo. N. on Satursiay. December 14.

at 3 o'clock. Train leaves Liberty ft. at 1:10 p. in. REEVE December 13.

at No. 207 Keap Brooklyn, Henry Vail Reeve, aged 72 years. REYNOLDS At her No. 91 Hart st Thursday. December 12.

Margaret, widow ok Thomfu Solemn requiem mass at St. Ambrose's Roman Catholic Church. Tompklns are Brooklyn. Saturday morning. December 14.

1907. at 10 o'clock. Kindly omit flowers. Newark papers please copy. ROWLAND In this city, after a protracted IBiKsa.

Thomas Fitch Rowland, In the year of his age. Notice cl funeral hereafter. December 11. at the of his son. No.

1323 Madison Byans Smith, sen of the late Thomas L. Smith, of Washington. D. C. Is 81st year of bis ape.

Funeral services Saturday. December 14. at the above address at 10 a. m. Washington and Phtladedlphla papers please copy.

friends and members of Lafayetta Post. and Veterans of Second Company. Seventh, levited to attend. TOHTEVIN On December 11. Harriet, widow FrMerick N.

Tostevin. Funeral services at her Whitestone. L. 1.. Saturday.

December 14. at 11.30 a. m. Interment at Foster's Meadow, Loss On December 13. 1907, Arthur Bremen Townsend.

son of Catherine Branson Townsend and late John J. Townsend. In the 44th year of Ms) Funeral services will be held at Trinity Church, Broadway and Wall at 12 o'clock noon. Monday. December 16.

1907. At If. 11. 1907, Anna Hague Walters, wife of William Walters. Funeral service will be held from her late home.

No. 13 NortH Maple on Sunday. December 1.1, at 2.30 o'clock. Interment at convenience of the family. On Friday, December 13, Jamn see Mary Irving and the late John D.

Wllscn. FUasml cervices from hLi late residence. No. 143 West 34th Sunday. 15.

at 2 p. in. WOOD On December 11. at r-sddenco. No.

14 East 56th H. 3. Wood- services will be held In St. Bartholomew's Church, Mad aye. and 44th on Saturday.

Deceosber 14. at I o'clock. Interment at convenience of family. Kindly omit Cowers. On December 12.

190 T. Amelia Sear- Ins, widow of Alonzo D. Wright. Funeral services at her late resl3er.ee. No.

122 North lltb Whttestone. Long; Island, on Sunday. December 15. at 3 p. m.

On December 12. after a liar. caret Young, daughter of the late John Young, sr. Funeral Saturday. Dwrember 14.

at 2 p. ex. from the residence of sister, Mrs. Janet Murphy. Ko.

Clinton street. Brooklyn. Mount Yemen. N. December 13.

1907. John Zerfasa. sr In his year. Faaeral will at the residence of Ms daughter. Sirs.

William F. Chambers. No. 109 Washington Mount Vernon. N.

on Sunday. December 15. at 3p. m. Interment at Greenwood at convenience of family.

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