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The address of the officers is the office of this newspaper. MfsTO at and recorded a great earthquake which or 11, ved to have affected a part of entr.i South America. The coffin of 1. Druce was evened at Highgate meter and was found to contain a mans remains; it is believed, will close the case. Japan is regarded in Peking as having strangled Russia's trade over the Chinet Eastern Railway: English stockholders displeased because Japan has forbidden the extension of the Hsin-Min-Tun Railway.

The Canadian directors decided to 336.000 of new stock, offered to stockholders on a basis of £0 per cent of their Billings; bir Thomas Shaughnessy denied that the company seeking to buy American lines The Canadian Pacific steamer Mourn Royal, from on December 7 lor St. John, with over thre. hundred immigrants on board, is nearly a week overdue. School boards of the cities Porto Rico adopted resolutions looking to a lame extension of the system of instruct The trial of Maximilian Harden reached it- closing stage: a deposition by frofessor Schwer.inger was read, witnesses testified for the state to Frau yon Elbe's actions and Count Kur.o yon Molike took the stand in his own dedcjtco The transmission of the iborg manifesto for distribution to the people was brought up as an additional charge against the Corner on trial at St Petersburg: the defence protested and the case was adjourned until Monday. President Roosevelt returned to Washington from his outing at Knot, Vat Aoki.

the Japanese Ambassador who left Washington on Ms way to Tokio. pressed friendly sentiments for United States and confidence that the immigration will be nettled amicably. Secretary Taft delivered three speeches at Boston. principal one being on the causes of the re.cent financial stringency, he upholding the policy of the national administration. Governor Sparks of Nevada called a special session of the Stats Legislature to meet on January 14.

The trial of George A. Pettibohe at Boise was postponed because of the illness of the defendant; ix "was stated that as his malady is thought Incurable the trial may not be finuhr-C After being; imprisoned three days in a coal mine at Ellsworth, John I tmilHsn. a Slav miner, was rescued, a raving maniac. Dispatches from New England and other Eastern States tell of a continuation of the reopening "of factories. Two barges were sunk off Point Judith, R.

1., and a fishing schooner was near Boothbay, Harbor, but no lives were lost. CITY. Stocks closed strong. -were arrested on a charge of grand larceny. Metropolitan Street Railway minority stockholders organized a commit to punish those who were guilty of acts in conducting the, company's affairs.

Receivers appointed to take over the Passalc Company. Interborough Rapid Trantit Company discharged three hundred men and 'stopped all permanent improvements. An Italian liner under attachment was halted by the court and a thousand passengers took another aaapv General Henry 1. Burnett refused to commit himself yet to Governor llugbes's randidacy. Magistiate P.utts decided that the alderjnen could not alter the state statutes and flnedshowinen accused of violating the Sunday lam-.

Mrs. Russell will restore the Governor's room In the City- Hall at a cost of 25.000, It was learned. THE WEATHER. Indications for to-day: Fair and colder. temperature yesterday: Highest, 52 degrees: lowest.

40. AX ADMINISTRATIVE BULLETIN. Mary jokes will doubtless, be cracked jit the expense of Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson and his latest project of setting a poveraiaent publication similar to and in some respects competing with the venerable yet often perversely misappreeiatod "Congressional Record." Innumerable gibes Lave been aimed at the Maid and unblushing organ of the legislative department which immortalizes eloquent never reduced to speech in either branch of 'on gress and records vociferous and long continued applause only to the typesetter in the Olovrrnmeni Printing office. -The Congressional Re has been disprized as dull perfunctory and lacking in color. Vet in the end it is necessary to go to It for any adequate of the transactions on the floor of the Iwo houses and for a complete understanding of tl.e arguments advanced for or against any li'gislative measure of national importance.

It is said that "The Congressional Ilecord" 1 few readers. But only the rash and flippant will dispute the essential value of such a periodical. The constituency, fit though few, which it a work of enlightenment whose political importance cannot be belittled. Tlio prime essential in the conduct of a progressive democratic government is publicity, and what a transcript of the debates and votes in Congress accomplishes in the legislative, department has iM-en embarrassingly lacking in the field of executive action. Congress sits only seven months in one year and only three months in another year, and publishes a daily record; but the executive departments carry on their work unceasingly the whole year through and for the most part keep the public informed of their through occasional and often long Relayed reports or bulletins.

Mr Holison's posal, though it may not be altogether in its is therefore logical ani entitled to serious consideration: for the acts of the executive departments in construing and executing the lava touch the people even i lIBIU than the processes by which proposed are beaten into shape in Oonpress. An intimate knowledge of the swings of the executive branch cannot be less valuable to the average citizen than a transcript of the proceeding of the department in which laws pestate and are ushered into existence. The Keep commission, which did a useful work in invostiinitin- departmental methods and ctittinc the meshes of red tape. the publication of a bulletin in which the transactions of the departments should recorded at I tirst hand for the benellt of readers desiring such information. Publicity, it was arsrued.

would force uniformity in method and stimulate efficiency in administration. At present ea-n department gm-s its own way and a system of information suited to its own or 'convenience. The Treasury, the State and the War departments, for instance, collate and publish data with exemplary promptness and fulness On the other hand, the Navy Depart and the Interior Department show little expedition, the Navy Department being the slowest of all to furnish information which would be desirable to have promptly in the hands of the public. Economy and efficiency i would be served if a better standard were 1 set in this respect, and joint administrative publication something like that -which Mr. Hobson lines would meet a Ions: felt want on the part of seekers for current information about administrative matters.

rut: or run druce CASE. opening of Druce crave will probably, put an end to the Druee claims. A son of T. C. Pruee had testified that he had lived with his father, had been with him when he died and had SMS his body buried.

Against that testimony the claimant, a grandson of T. C. Druce. had contended that the grave contained only eonan filled with lead, and that T. Druee had ceased to exist only because the Duke of.

Portland determined no longer to masquerade under that name. When the coffin was opened yesterday It was found to hold "the body of an aged, bearded man." a description which in a general way coincided with that of th mysterious Drnce Beside this" direct testimony of the son. sustained as fully as possible by the evidence of the tomb itself, all the moonshine about mysterious coincidences of appearance and eccentricity between the duke and the and all the wonderful stories of the rent identifiers who seem to have flocked to London from the ends of the earth, and even the remarkable fact that Dickens, who used to buy handkerchiefs or something of the sort in Drune'fl wrote the of Edwin Druce. Drood. extraordinary, wasn't all these romantic, suggestive, coincidental bits of evidence which svemed to fit together so nicely become utterly unworthy of furl consideration.

Herbert Druee saw his father die. saw him buried, and the opening of the grave discovers bones which must be presumed to his father's. Thai seems to make an end of it. The ease had in it all the qualities of a first mystery. In the first place it concerned a duke, and that was enough to induce a great many men and women In England to buy shares in a stock company formed to explore the Portland skeleton daast.

Moreover, the late duke seemed to be just the kind of man to have a skeleton closet worth such a scrutiny. He was eccentric and unconventional. He had subterranean passages constructed from his mansion one. it is said, leading to Druce's bazaar. friends seem to have had doubts about what the fifth holder of the title did on his subterranean excursions, and the of curiosity were interested enough to invest their shillings and sometimes their pounds in order to find out.

The late is said to have looked so much like the late Portland that no one could say they were not one and the same person at opposite ends of the tunnel connecting their reaper live Druee was said to have betrayed stiriis of great agitation whenever one of the nobility entered his shop. Forsooth, only a duke running a shop and in danger of detection in bis double life would have done that Then there was Dickens, too, who knew a mystery, for he whs nipped off untimely as he was unfolding one to the public. Well, Dickens told a female witness. said, that he knew Drnce was Portland: This confidential disclosure took place in a certain park, and somebody swore, or somebody's journal showed, that Dickens did talk to some girl once in that park. This female witness had a diary about the Dickens conversation, but some one in a crowd had stolen it from her.

We summarize a little of the evidence to show how natural it was for a certain order of speculative hum: mind to conclude that "there must be something behind this Druce- Portland mystery." The interest of those so dearly love a lords skeleton closet that they will buy shares in a stock company formed to explore it is easily understood. But greater to us than the mystery of the late duke's subterranean habits is The mystery in the attraction which such a case baa for witnesses and identifiers. A host of le were ready to swear that they saw Druee after his alleged burial. Others knew both Drueo and Portland and knew that they were one. Dickens was info the case.

More than one person, we believe, was positively sure of the burial of when the duke finally laid aside his double existence. One American volunteered his evidence to that effect and crossed the water to testify to it. in spite of the prospect that the crave would be opened. This witness by some earlier exploits gained the name of the "great American identifier." and perhaps if we could learn more about British witnesses who eagerly took the stand we might find that they had figured similarly before. There seems to exist a class of persons who are ready to swear to anything If for a moment they an thereby participate in a sensation.

ooxqress. It would difficult to determine offhand whether a sense af humor or of the eternal (itnfss of thhaga, or yet an appreciation of the greatness of their opportunity, was iacking to the members of the Indian Ooacrna in their singularly strenuous session the other day. We must assume that men so intelligent and so conversant with the general affairs of tlio arorld were aware of the earnest movements in their behalf which had been on in various that in sssChnai there were men who in their passionate sympathy with their Aryan brothers approved even the preachments of Mr. Koir Ilardie; that iv the Ousted States men of light and loaaaag publicly organizing and agitatinj; for the af Indian interests, and that even in Russia there were statesmen capable of diverting their attention from the suppression of Douiuas long enough to contemplate the reluming of the Light of Asia by way af Evsajlsi Baal the Khyix-r I'ass. lii such rircumstan.es tic occasion seemed auspicious for Indian Congress to set before the world mi cxumplaaf unity, self coutrol ami orderly procedure, evincing eminent fitness for that self -government which an impatient minority af ssasUa desire.

Such a of Brahmins and Pariahs. Moslems and I'arsees. sinking all individual fads and fancies and harmoniously to demand home rule on the grotnd of tiieir demon strafed capai'itj- to exefi-ise i' aright would have beeu most imjifessicf and inspiring to all Ihe friends 1 India foreign Ii would have wtvhl as efl'll live i-ouiiterfoil to the comuieuiorutio which was occurring at almost the tririVF TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1907. NEW- YORK DAILY ULiSIMl of the fiftieth anniversary of the oucllinff of the sreivfc Sopor Mutiny and the confirmation of the rule of the IVringhce over Hindustan. Instead, however, the members of the concress i-norin the regard of the outer world, surrendered themselves to domestic introspection and mutual suasion of a most vigorous and material kind.

Seizing upon the furniture of their meeting hall, they expeditiously dismembered it and applied the resultant fragments to various selected portions of one another's anatomy with an agility and emphasis worthy of a new Avatar. Complete details of the ealisthenic syniiK.s:uni are not vet at hand, but it is understobd that Yar Mohammed Vusufzai applied a hair leg to the cranium of Hurree Chnnder Hookerjee with such excess of zeal as to induce the irreparable fracturing of both the head and the leg: that Thimbu Singh, from Bikaneer. impelled the most substantial part of a chair back against the ribs of Tantla the BUI to such effect that four of the bones were promptly converted Into -iaht: that Killar Khan, the Marri chief. brought a large section of a table top into intimate contact with the countenance of Jowar Singh. Hie Sikh, so as to cause a yawning rift in each of tho impinging objects: while Abdul Ilaflq and little Boh Hla-oo with chair sear and desk lid expounded to Nubbee BsM Punjabi the convincing syllogisms of "India for the Indians." In fact, pertain historic scene recorded by Truthful James In the Transactions of Our Society upon the Stanislaus was vigorously rehearsed, until the advent of Messrs.

Mulvaney. Learoyd and Ortherta induced involuntary and precipitate adjournment. Meantime, the one solitary British flag in all the world which is not lowered at sunset, but floats mast-high by night as well as by day. continned to fly above the topmost roofs of MAJOR OR lt. The latest suggestion for sidetracking Mr.

Bryan emanates from "The Washington Post. It 'is ingenious and its soothing logic may persuade where the strenuous ratiocination of Colonel Wattersbn and other demonstrators ol the necessity of elimination has failed. he PosT to elect the Nebraska leader Vice- President and assures him that he would earn more glory and have more enjoyment in the second office of the Republic than in the first. It says: if the Democracy should win with an available Prey ntial candidate, with Mr. Bryan for Vice- President, where would the find himself? He would stand at the head of bis nartv iii Congress, and as presiding officer of the Senate he would be able to accomplish much for the party, even though Republicans were in the majority.

He would daily with the leaders on both sides, and would occupy a unique position himself as a leader. He would be. in name and in fact, a great commoner, capable of. accomplishing great good for his parts and for the country. His influence upon tion would be infinitely reater than It would be if he were President with a Republican Congress thwarting every move.

Pity the sorrows of a Democratic President with a Republican Congress thwarting every move! The post of honor is the minor station. But suppose a Republican Congress was as cold to the advice of a Democratic President of the Senate as it was to a Democratic President of the United States. And suppose the Demo eratic President neglected to consult the real leader of the party in the dispensation of Nebraska and other patronage. Theu the minor honor might not be sweeter and more sufficing i than the major. Mr will probably conclude to commend The Post's" suggestion of gain through loss to some other deserving Deini ucrat.

II 1 MISCHIEF. ihe pemeu aiiewted the Brooklyn Bridge the other day the charge of cutting the clothing of other- In the crowd may or may not be guilty nf the offence. That to 1m- proved. The incident is a reminder, bowerer, the frequent commission that ami simitar offell.es by persons, both there and elsewhere, in the itsr tew yean scores of com plaints have been made, nnd there luivo doubt t.een many mare in which public compl.uut has not been made. men and women have bad their outer jrara.entH deliberately cut mid dashed, burned with acids.

stained with ink or with tilth, and al most Invariably they nave boon unable to attribute the deeds to personal enmity or spite, but have been toned to the conclusion that they were by strangers sheer wantonness. It seems strange perversity of human nature that men should systematically commit such outrages through mere love of mischief. (Mm" usually has an object of personal gain or but in these cases none such risible. There is not even the monstrously perverted pleasure of directly witnessing and gloating over the pain and distress of the victims, because In the great majority of cases the victims have been unconscious of the outrages until some time after the infliction of them. The only satisfaction the criminal could enjoy.

therefore, was the knowledge that the wrong had been done and that at some time and In some place, unknown to him, the victim would become aware of it and would Buffer distress. It would be ditlienlt to conceive a more purely and wantonly malignant typo of perfectly malignant In the comparatively potty deed of soiling a dress as it could be In that of arson or murder. Sueb a person Is a monster Yet a-fto-r all he i- nothing more than a development of a common type The wanton mischief of certain of boys Is familiar tact. It seems a litrle iliing for boys to sineHr dirt upon a Hean to chip bits from ornamental stone work. to lirenk shrubs in the park or to commit any of the thousand and one acts by srhtch the world fiio.md them is disligured.

the principle in rolved is precisely the same as that in mere serious offences. It is the doing of evil for the evil's own sake. And suob a spirit tolerated in the boy may naturally grow into the grosser nalignaare of tho man. Il is. of course, the most hackneyed of truisms that "Ihe child is father to the mini." yet there is perhapsi Other familiar fact whleh Is more generally or more disastrously disregarded.

It is little less than wonder of the world that, with all the cost effort which we put forth for the pun ishment of wrongdoing; and with all tlie other matters which we so diligently nnd successfully teach in our schools, no greater -progress been made in tlie inculcation of the most ele mentary principles of ethics unless. Indeed, we are persuaded that "to be well favored is the gift of fortune, hut to write and "rend comes by nature." Colonel .1. l'( tui-hill, of "The Charleston News and Courier," sees all sorts of taasjMe ahead at Denver His soul is vexed because Democrats whom he refuses to recognise Democrats are to nominate a Presidential candidate whom he classifies uk a Populist. Mas. there is worse behind.

Colorado has Democrats of both fi'XfP. If the male worshippers Of Mr Bryan are false Democrats, he asks, are tlie female worshippers to be properly classed false Denaocratesses, Deanocfatmea or Democratices? If we were in the Colonel's predicament we should cut out Denver In making it somewhat easier for women teachers to secure places In the New York City schools Superintendent Maxwell takes cognizance Of actual conditions. The present shortage of more than hundred teachers indicates the practical impossibility of maintaining ideal standards of scholarship, and the Superintendent considers it far wiser to furnish seven hundred schoolrooms with teachers or moderate attainments than to deprive some thirty thousand pupils of proper Educational authorities arc largely arrayed against the examination system in schools: why should not superintendents share this sentiment to some decree when they come to deal with teachers? Even though the new mitigation of examination tests should enable seven hundred more teachers to secure appointments -which is doubtful-the advisability of establishing a businesslike "trying out" system rem Inn indisputable. If competent teachers are wanted, they can be found only by giving applic 1 a chance to teach. The weather bureau to-day issued the foil, n.c bulletin- -A distant earthquake of considerable was recorded by the seismosrraphs nt the weather bureau this morning.

at a. and lasting for one hour. The first pre Unsnarl tremors continued for floor minutes and fifty-five seconds, and the strongest motion occurred at 12:45 a. at which time the actual movement of the ground at Washington was about five millimetre' dispatch. Must have been the John A.

Johnson boom. That would produce just about five millimetres of motion in Washington. Who says that America is too sordid to have a proper appreciation of fine literature and literary penius" LM the slanderer read how an Indiana court postponed Indefinitely the trial of a novelist on the charge of havi 5 rashly the bucolic peace of his happy Indiana home. In delivering genius from the unkind meshes of the law the judge exalts him above tho vulpar herd of money grubbers and novel readers. The genius, by this precedent, now ranks at least with the Mnn Hlpher Up.

What more can the worshippers of Art ask? "The New York World." having evidently conreded the inevitability of Mr. Hryans nomination at Denver, has now turned its attention to a platform for him. Tt wants Mr Bryan to stand for "tariff reform" as a paramount issue. Mr Bryan is. however, his own campaign manager and his own platform.

There will be no postscript a la Parker attached to the output of the resolutions committee at the next Democratic National Convention. THE TALK OF THE PAY An advertiser in the "Hanover Courier" pays: "I am looking for a a wife. I am well educated and well to do. My ideal is Countess Rixa In Kelpe-s novel. -Mutterschaft, 1 and a woman like her 1 would take as my wife.

Women who believe that they resemble this character are requested to address" etc The editorial comment on unique advertisement shows that there is some doubt on the part of the paper as to whether the "Muttersrhaff enthusiast wishes to marry a woman of the Rixa stamp or to increase sale of the book. The "opportunity" ewer knock upon The poet If It did. it must have been disguised as a wolf. --Philadelphia Inquirer. Gesundheltslngcnlur" has an interesting account of the use of ozone in places of amusement based on experiments mc.d» at the Royal Intexlmstheater.

In Stuttgart. "To open windows and doors." says the writer, "in order to Improve the air of a room lowers the t'mperatuic. which must be raised again if the. people would be comfortable. This practice 1h also a menace to good health and productive of much harm.

At the Stuttgart theatre, after a performance, when the air wax heavy, ozone was conducted in small tubes Into every part of the auditorium, and in a few minutes the air was pure. The remarkable fart about the apparatus In that It can be run for about T. to 10 pfennigs an hour Mr- Nan" irMdiniri In some parts of Africa the more wives man has the greater his aortal Naggs- Well. I suppose the people admire brave Chicago News Referring to death of King Oscar. Pr Willieim KAhler tells this anecdote In a Mannheim papei About fifty years ngo Oscar, then a prince.

passenger steamer a' Marseilles for North African port. Shortly after starting the captain said to the young man: "IMd I pee you at Marse'tles yesterday in uniform?" "Quite likely." "And ray I what the uniform was?" "That of an admiral." "Admiral? you rot rather young for that rank?" "I owe It to my he answered, smiling, "than to my nautical knowledge." "And the name. If I may ask'" "Possibly a kinsman the great marshal." "lie -was my grandfather, later King of Sweden, and I am (Hear of Sweden, Ike King's brother." The captain a respectful bow. nnd nsked the young prince if knew that lie had relatives in Marseilles. naid "but I have BSVCr bad to them up" "There one on hoard.

May I present him?" "Do, by all means." The captain went to the speaking tube and called. "Hernadotte!" Presently a man came on deck, naked to 'be waist, covered with grime soot He stood nt attention, awaiting orders, when the captain said: "Your royal highness, I haw the honor to present your cousin." Tea, Johnny. Bants Causa bioushi you a si Johnny Great Beat! Another present that ain't any Tit-Bits. old-fashioned practice mentioned in the Druee case, that the fifth Puke of I'ortland had his carriage strapped to railway truck whenever he took to the railroad, and that he sat In the carriage In preference to an ordinary compartment, sounds strangely to the modern ear. says "The Dundee Advertiser." It was a common practice with moneyed people of conservative habits in the enrly days of the railway, and the companies made adeqnste provision accordingly.

A supply of trucks was kept at all the principal stations 0:1 the line, and no charge was made for embarking or landing the carriages or a messenger boy, tjiii-k cried the business man "Sir." paid tlif model office boy, paling perceptibly nnd visibly engaged in a mental struggle, "I cannot do It. for I have never yet spoken an untruth." Philadelphia Press. CANES FOR SELF-DEFENCE. From TbP CoiUSSSjeS I'lspaiih. "If you want to keep off hold-up men," i 1 an old detective to the observer, "carry a cane.

A hold-up man is more afraid of a than he is of a revolver. He's deathly afraid that the man carrying it will jab it in his lace or eyes or get the end of it in his mouth. On this account they're Just us much afraid of a small, light stick as they are of heavy one. -There an many different ways of using a cane thai a man doesn't know Just way to guard against It. And any man can use it.

men out of ten who carry revolvers couldn't hit the side of a barn with them, and the 'hold-ups' know It. but It doesn't tako any skill or practice to learn to slambang away with a walking stick." SPRING GUNS AND MURDER. ii Tsycostta Ledger. A King tjoiintj court convicted a staa arba sst .1 t-prinj; gun In lius trunk, which kilU-tl the landlady. of 111111.il ir, the decree.

Malice was not proved, ami the Supreme Court has just reversrd the lower court and dhected a new ami fair trial. Tlie IBW presents curious questions of law 1: aseans that the curiosity of the woman was the cause of her death, ii is .1 waniiiik' to all to keep of other people's trunks. Still. 11 man arhc trap Kun in liis trunk should not go acquit in such a case. Suppose the owner of the trunk left the city or died and it became lawful to opea his trunk.

Ii is a most dangerous method of protecting property. CHICAGO FIREMEN'S COFFEE CAR. From The Chicago Evening Fire Marshal Horan to-day made an announcement at was received by the members of his force in the same spirit as a Christmas gift. He told Mayer Mm that the "coffee car," which Is to aid the men working at bad fires when the weather is cold, would be in service at the end of the week. An old ambulance has been converted to this new use.

and three urns Installed. Two are for the coffee, holding five gallons each, and the third is to contain ten gallons of hot water. When a big alarm comes in the car, which Is to be stationed at -14th street and Michigan avenue, will make the run and be attached to a tire engine, eteam being used to make the coffee. About Teople and Social AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Tribune Bureau.) Washington.

Deo. President and Mrs. Roosevelt returned to the White House this evenin after spending four days at Pine Knot, their cottage near Charlottesville. Va. The programme for the President's New TOBTS Day reception is as follows: Ua.

Vice-President, the members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps. 11:20 a -The Chief Justice and the associate justice- of the Supreme Court Si the United the judges of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, the judKPS of the Supreme Court of trip District of Columbia, the Judges of the United States Court of ci a i former members of the Cabinet, ambassadors and ministers of the United States. 11:20 a. Dl Representatives and Delegates in Congress. 11:45 a.

m. -Officers of army, officers of the navy, officers of the marine corps, commanding and staff of the militia of the District of Columbia. 12:15 The resents and secretary of th- Smithsonian Institution, the Civil Service Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, assistant secretaries of departments, the Solicitor General. Assistant Attorneys General, Assistant Postmasters General, the Treasurer of the United the Librarian of Congress, the public printer, the heads of hureaus in the several departments and the president of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. 12-30 p.

rn--Tiie Society of the Cincinnati, the Aztec Club of 1847. the Associated Veterans of the War of 184S-'47; th- Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Medal of Honor Legion, the Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veterans' Union, the Society of the Army of Santiago, the Spanish War Veterans, the Army and Navy Union, the Minute Men. the Sons of the American Revolution and the members of the Oldest Inhabitants' Association of the District of Columbia 1 p. Reception of citizens. Men to be re.ceived.

whether in or on font, will enter the "White House by north portico and will leave it by the eastern entrance, opposite the Treasury. Carriages will approach the "White House by the northwestern Rate and depart by the northeastern gate, and be parked in East Kxecutive avenue, where they will remain until called to tho east entrance, from which all will depart. Miss Ethel Roosevelt joined her brother. Theodore Roosevelt. at the White House last evening, after several days spent In New York.

THE CABINET. I From Tribune Bureau. Washington. Dec. The Secretary of Mrs.

Root have as their Riiests their son and Mr and Mrs. Klihu Root. of New York; their younger Edward Root, an.l son-in-law and daughter. Lieutenant and Mr? Ulysses S. Grant.

3d. The Secretary of War and Mrs. are in mourning for the mother of the Secretary, and will neither attend the New Year's reception at the White House nor hold their usual afternoon reception 'or the officers of thn army and navy. They have retired from official entertaining for season. Meyer, wife of the Postmaster General, who has Indisposed for several days, is much better, and firms to attend the New Year's reception at the White House and hold the usual afternoon reception at her home.

Mrs. Bonaparte, wife of the Attorney General, will arrive in Washington to-morrow afternoon to remain until after the first of the year. She will have several out-of-town guests, among them Mrs. Mosoh Williams, of Boston: Mrs and Miss Gozzaldi. of Cambridge.

and Miss and Miss Katherine H. McSherry. of Baltimore. The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. James R.

Gartleld have as their puest until after New Year's Mrs Stanley Brown, formerly Miss Mollle Garfltld. sister of the Secretary. The and Mrs. Gorfleld will a luncheon on Friday in honor of Ambassador to Great Britain and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.

Straus have as guests two iJ.iUKht.-rs. Mrs. an.l Schaffer. of New York, who arrived this aft-rnoon. Mrs.

nil.ll will remain with her r.ir.-iitf for about month, while her sister will return to New York th- New lsi.lcr Straus, brother of the Spcretary. ami Isidor MM are also quests the Secretary and Mrs. Straus. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. IKrom Tribune I Washington.

Dee The Italian Ambassador and BanNWSS Mayor dcs Planches entertained at their Brat large and formal affair of the season when fully two hundred people, from th- Cabinet the diplomatic corps ami resident soei-ty thronged the music an.l drawing rooms of embassy The Ambassador. and the Baroness received their guests, while Professor Consolo. an Italian pianist Rave the musical programme. Sigaor Glullo Caaara Montagna, couns-Uor and until recent return of the Ambassador charge d'affaires for the Italian Embassy, delivered a lecture at the Masonic Temple before the Dante Society, taking for his subjrrt "Th- Italian People in the Modern Intellectual Province." IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY. From Washlnston.

Dec and Mrs. Stephen Elkins were hosts at a dinner to-night. tn.Mr KUceta the PsetaaaatM General and Mrs. Meyer Lieutenant and Mrs. Ulysses S.

Grant. Mr. and Mrs, Stephen H. P. Pell and Mrs.

N.w York the naval the Italian Embassy and Slgnora Pnster. Mr. and Mrs. Guy PRAISES FULTON MONUMENT SITE. German Sculptor Wants Memorial To Be Made an International Event.

Gustave Elwrleln. a German sculptor, was the tenant of William 11. Fletcher at dinner at the Engineers' Club last night. In speaking of the proposer! site for the Fulton memorial monument Mr Elvrleln said: "It is beautiful, and In my estimation It is superb spot. The American P-o-plf.

have a (treat opportunity In this work, and the proposed site affords tho possibilities ever on UN hunks of your rtver. th- Hudson. 1 am told that the parkway sloping down to thbanks of the river is almost a solid piece of rock. Mr Mid that the Kulton memorial monument was much talked of in Germany and was widespread interest In Kurope. Mr.

Fletcher nald that unless It was decided to make the monument an international MM Mr. KberlrMn would not be associated with UN work of desl ninj; It except In an advisory capacity. Among Mr. Kletcher'B guests last night were Isaac Guggenheim Walter Scott and H. O.

S. Helstand. MISS VESTA VICTORIA Justice Green, in the City Court, yesterday for January 6 the trial the suit brought by Cooper, theatrical manager and sons composer, against Miss Vesta Victoria to recover per cent of her salary for thirty-two weeks. Cooper says he obtained a contract tor Miss Victoria at BH si week, for which he was to receive the percentage claimed. Counsel for Miss Victoria declares that Cooper didn't get the contract.

QUEEN RECEIVES MRS. EGAN. Copenhagen, Dm. Mrs. Maurue F.

lM wife or the American Minister to Denmark, had an hour's audience with Louise to-day. Her majesty expressed interest in th. development in America of hospital and Red Cross work, and said that only her many duties to her own beloved country prevented her from paying a visit to the United States. COLONEL MURDOCK SERIOUSLY ILL. Wichita.

Kan. Ivc. Colonel Marshall Murdock, editor of 'The Wichita Dally Kagle," who has benn ill with catarrh of the stomach. Buffered a hemorrhage liist nluht. His physicians have little hope of his Colonel who is aeventj years old, has been prominent it.

Kansas poUtiCa the time of border warfare His tion. Representative Victor Murdock. hurrying frum Washington. Norman. Mr.

and Mrs. William Corcoran Mrs. Huntington Wilson, Miss Grace. Jarvls. Edith, Sanger.

Miss Katherlne Elkins, Edward Wales Root. Robert Hltt. Joseph Letter. Lieutenant Edward McCarley and Stephen B. Klkins.

jr. Miss- Christine Kean Roosevelt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs W. Emlen Roosevlt. is the guest of her grandmother.

Mrs. Kean. an.i her uncle. Senator John Kean, at their I street home. On Friday she will ko to the White House as the guest of President and Mrs.

Roosevelt. Miss Giadys daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis Roose- Tett. of New York, will also visit the President and Mrs.

Roosevelt in the social season. The Speaker and Miss Cannon have Washington from th' home, in 111., and brought Mrs. Leseur. the slaughter. with them to spend the winter.

Mrs. John W. Foster was at home this afternoon to a larae contingent of the social world. James R. McKee and Miss Mary Sett McKte were with Mrs.

Foster. Mrs. Robert Hinckley gave a large dan- toniKht for the friends of her schoolgirl daughter, Miss Gladys Hinckley. A number of dinner parties preceded the dance. NEW YORK SOCIETY.

This is 'he last day of the year, and its departum as well as the arrival of 130 S. which is leap year, will be observed to-night in the customary manner at the various fashionable restaurants and smart clubs. Many country bouse parties will be given In connection with the celebration, and at Ardsley. at and especially at Tuxedo, there will b- much gayety. The gayety will culminate Tuxedo in the New Tana's Eve ball, which always takes at IBM clubhouse- of the and cottages are full of guests for will be brought on to the dance after dinner by their respective hosts and hostesses.

Mrs. William H. Anderton Rave a -lance last night at her house in Madison avenue for her daughter. Miss Alice Anderton. who made her Mai about a year ago.

and her son. Walter P. Anderton. Among the features of the evening was the first appearance since their marriage of young W. Gordon Coogan and Mb bride, who was Miss Dorothea Potter.

Others present were Miss Lucy Margar-t Roosevelt. Miss Emily Sloar.e. Miss Clara Wright Ba-clay Miss Frances Alexander. Miss Antoinette Heckscher Miss Constance and Miss Beatrice Pratt. Miss Eleanor Duane.

T. Chesley Richardson. F. Stephen Van Lanief Winslow. Francis and Maurice Roche.

Alexander D. B. Pratt and Monroe Robinson. Another dance of last evening was that of James A. Glover at the Hotel Gotham for dm-ghrer.

Miss Susanna Livingston Glover, one- botanies ad the season, with whom Charles 11. Woodruff, led the cotillon. The favors comprised fans, card and cigar eases, match boxes and oth. trifles. Among the three hundred guests Charlotte Mm Gladys and Rooaerelt.

Miss Mercer Atterbury, Mfsi Harriet C. Glover. Miss Katherine Fairfax. Constance Schernerhorn. Miss Nathalie Bailey.

Hamilton Fish. jr. J. R. -Suydam.

Ashton da Peyster. W. A. Madden. Theodore Roosevelt, Alexander S.

Webb. Henry H. Beekman and Robert L. Gerry. Mr.

and BaaasTl Oaasvi who nasal the early part of rhe at Mrs. Ogden Goelet's house at Klfth Bweaaaa and 4Sth street, have now moved Into their own home. No. 647 Fifth avenue, opposite of Mr an.i Mrs. DaMslBS 51oane.

ar.fl join ng that of Mr. anJ Mrs. W. B. Oagood Masai are anana sm la Philadelphia ta-day to attend the of Sidney J- Colford, to CUra Knight, in St.

Bartholomew's Church. Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Crosby, of Boston, is staying with Mr. and Mrs. .1.

Pierpont Morgan, at their house in Madison avenue. Mrs. Crosby Is sister of Mrs. Morgan. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest are entertaining a large party at their country placs at Cold Spring Harbor. Long Island. Mr an.l Mrs.

John R. Drexel give din dance for their niecs. Miss Mary Astor Paul an 1 Miss Francos Fell, the latter a daughter Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer, on January 23. at their house in East CM street.

Mr Mi Mrs "iiliam TMnsmore return ttwar villa at Tuxedo to-da from Mrs. Francis M. Scott will be at home on Thursdays until Lent, at her house in Park avemi-. and will be assisted In receiving by daughters. Mrs.

William Henry Tew an.i Miss Scott. Mr and Albert gsllllbtl Gray have left town to spend Year holidays win and Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt. at tfcelr place near Newport.

Mr and Mrs. Anson Fhelps Stokes are the Now Year holidays at their country place Noroton. where they are i.r.:r= a large family party. Mr and Mrs. Edwin D.

Morgan, who are abroad soon, are spending the New Tea' at their country place at Long Island. Mr and Mrs. Arthur Delano taken Mr? James G. K. Duet's house.

No. East 63d street, for trie winter. Mrs Pawlnad Davbl Base i "mall niKht at her home in Madison avenue. PEACE DINNER GIVEN Conclusion of Central American Agreement Celebrated in Washington. Washington, Dec.

was termed a dinner" was ivcn here to-night by the to the recent Central American conference in celebration of the conclusion of an agreement of Toasts were drunk to the Presidents of United States. Mexico it-. I the live republics parties to pact. and speeches were expressing good will and a desire for lasting peace. In addition to Central Americans there were present Ambassador of Mexico; Assistant Secretary Bacon.

iho Haytlan Minister, the ministers of the South American the Spanish Minister. John W. Foster. Secretary- and several officials or ths Stats Department. ENTERTAINED BY MR.

WILLCOX. William R. Willcox. chairman of the Public vice. Commission, gave a dinner at his home, No.

It East street, last evening, for Abel E. Blackmar, the commission's retiring counsel. "When JudKe Wlllanl takes oath as a of the Court of Appeals to-morrow, Governor Hughes will appoint Mr. Blackrr.ar a justice of Supreme Court to till vacancy. Besides Mr.

Blackmar. the guests included the other merr.ber* of ttic commission and the secretary, also S. Coleman. the newly appointed counsel: of tho associate counsel to the commission, and two or three personal friends of Mr. 'Willcox.

SMOKER FOR CORNELL MUSICAL A smoker will be given to tha of Cornell University musical clubs at Club. No. West street, this evamng. ThS members of the musical clubs will arrive diately after their concert at the Waldorf. YARNELL BEQUEST FOR CHURCH.

Philadelphia. Dec. the terms of his wUU I which was probated to-day, the entire estate the late Ellis H. Yarnell. of this city, Ing to more than J300.000.

is given In trust to Ms widow, and upon her death to St. Clement's 'estant Kpiscopal Church, of this city. Mr. TSi- nell was a well known lawyer. PROFESSOR SEYMOUR.

OF YALE, ILU New Haven. Dec. -Professor Thomas V. BeT mour. senior professor of Greek in Yale Vnlrsrsny.

is dangerously 111 at his home, in HlUhouse I After exacting literary work outside of his res -3 college duties. Professor Seymour several wee i ago had an attack of grip, which developed IW pneumonia. Two physicians are attendance OSS) his condition is extremely serious..