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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11. HOB. TTiis newspaper is otcrvd and pakiMei kV Tribune Association, a Yor7c corporations ofjlcc and principal place of Xo. loi street, Veto york; Mills, president; James M.

Bar- Irert. secretary and treasurer. Ihe address of itte officers is the office of thit ire paper. THE yEXTS THIS MORyiVG. Seaats: Several treaties and the nominations of Martin I- confirmed.

House: A MB providing for government investigation ef labor disputes -was discussed. rOREIGN. President Castro of Venezuela landea at Bordeaux the French government Laving- consented to this on the understanding Si- at Castro vrza prepared to negotiate on claims. The Haytian Chambers WEI be convoked on December 17 for the election cf a. President; General Simon seems certain of Russia received a note from Austria bearing- en the Balkan situation, which Is to hasten the holding of a conference the powers.

A delay In the negotla- Tions for the Russian rights to the Wright been caused by the Russian governssest demanding a test flight of three Chancellor yon Billow said in the Reichstag at Berlin that the German government did ret believe th" time ripe for the reduction armaments. It was officially stated fa London that, in epite of rumors to the cortrary, the Kick's health "was not Euch as to cause anxiety. It is planned in Panama to celebrate the completion of the canal 1915 by folding a -world's fair. DO3.TESTIC. Mr.

Taft. after a conference Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee, announced his belief that revision of the tariff would be honest and President Roosevelt declared that -would do -all in his power to have those re- Epossfble fc-r attempting to start a Panama scandal prosecuted for criminal libel Cannon. Ambassador Nebuco end others addressed the National Rivers and Harbors Concrcss in "SVashinston. The national conference ended its Fesslons at Washington. Extreme inter weather was reported la the Adirondack, with the thermometer £3 degrees below at Beaver Lake Speaker Wa devrorth of the Assembly called on Governor at Albany.

The lighthouse at "West Point, from destruction by fire by means of a bucket brigade. CITY. Stoclrs were firm and active. It known that eight banks in were Involved in the failure of P. J.

Keiran's Fidelity nndins Company. It was announced that Phelps, Co. was about to dissolve and to finite Its metal holding's under a new corporation. There was noted a decided advance fn cut diamonds. The annual port showed that the Union Pacific had earned 16.23 per cent.

Charges cf unti-uthfulness were mads each by counsel at the Standard Oil hearir-S- Controller testifying be- the legislative committee investigating- the city's finances, blamed the Board cf Estimate for exorbitant expenditures. Three real leases at aggregate rentals of nearly two end one-quarter millions were reported last cf the Manhattan Bridge cables carried across. Ex-Judge E. H. Gary entertained the presidents companies tved defended the Association of Manufacturers.

Magistrate Earlow said the Tombs court so run that It -was possible for prisoners to when arraigned. Captain Edwards killed a 30-foct whale off Amagansett. -jhf. jjaH of Casts st the Metropolitan tfaec of Art was reopened after being rearranged. The New York Association for the Blind had un exhibition many remauricable -of blind persons.

The Metropolitan Street Railway bondholders' protective retained R. E. Tripp, of Chicago, in ca advisory capacity. A Jury got Itself In trouble in FUushing 1 by going- out to eat against Court's orders. THE WEATHER- Indications for to-day: fclondy.

The temperature yesterday: Highest, £2 degrrees; lotvest. 20. PEXSIOXS AXD TAXES. In IMB the Trench parliament cnaotcd lawtor the payment of pensions of from $1 to si month to each man who was in real need, who firs incapable of eeiT-support and who was years eld or was suffering from an Incurable disease. When the law an proposed Jt estimated that it would cost a year, of Yrnicli one-naif was to be paid by the enfe-fourrij by the department and onefocrtb by the commune.

When the bill reached Senate it ni estimated that it would cost £8.600,090. The Senate ordered an Investigation. fcnd-2S a result thereof concluded that It would rest The law was enacted and put Into effect. In 1006 it actually cost It Is cow estimated that In 1903 it will cost 81E.000.00 1 The number of persons to be aided tvas" at 190,000 la 1901. It proved 1o by in 1907 and 47" 000 in and the estimate Is that it win be la 1909.

The Dominion of New Zealand is bow consldc-rin? the establishment of a National Provitieut Fund, which would practically amount to Ftste aided Insurance. Any resident of New Zealand between fciiteeu and foro-nve years and with an income of not more than a year will be entitled to its benefits. Each beneuciary must pay a weekly premium varv-Icp: in tsize acoordin? to the age at which tut enters the fund and the amount of benefit lo be neoelred. The payments of benefits -will at the ot sixty yearn. Thus to get 6 pension of $2 50 a week for life reaching: the age of sixty person entering at the of fcfvonteen mobl pay 18 a treek.

while a person ouiprin? at forty-five pay fi 22 a week. Any cae who vrfs-hes may pa) premiums in advance in a lump turn. ie provided for any one who rrears of and person may $rom the fond at any time and pet back til be hat paid in. Hal pensions payable free 52 50 to treek. it a contributor to the forS after paring- premiums for years or more, a pension of $1 87 a week will be "paid to each of his children until the age of fourteen years Is reached, and to Ml widow until the youngest child has reached the age of fourteen, and similar payments will be made to any contributor himself If he becomes incapacitated through accident or Illness.

The government is to pay into the fund a sum pqual to one-fourth of all the contributions. Great Britain recently adopted an old age pension system, under which the beneficiaries do not contribute at all to the fund. It was at first estimated that it would cost from 000,000 to 520,000.000. Now it is reckoned that the first year's cost will be at least 130.000,000 and probably $35,000,000, while there are In- creasing demands for the enlargement of the scope, for the lowering of the age limit and for 1 increasing the benefits, which, if granted, will send the cost up to two or three times the present estimates. The result of this and circumstances is that the budget is threatened with a deficit of $45,000,000 or $50,000,000.

and fiscal experts are eagerly looking for fresh sources of taxation. The rejection of the i license bill by the House of Lords was really a blessing to the treasury, for it gives an opportunity of now putting a much heavier tax upon the liquor trade. There is also' a pro- i posal to increase the land tax. This tax was first Imposed In 1692, and In 1798 was fixed by Pitt at the 1692 valuation of £9,000,000. with a rate of assessment not to exceed one shilling to the pound.

The tax now produces only 550,000 a year. On the whole, in dealing with the question of old ogre pensions the British taxpayer is likely to wish that the United Kingdom had Imitated 1 the New Zealand rather than the French plan. ALL OVER. Those journals and Individuals that have been seeking to make a scandal out of the Panama Canal purchase and to besmirch certain American citizens in connection therewith, have obtained in the statement of Mr. William Nelson Cromwell published this morning quite as explicit a reply as they will find It convenient to dispose of.

It is no longer open to them to talfc concealments, evasions and refusals to answer. Their only recourse is to denounce Mr. Cromwell bluntly as a monumental liar and to produce In proof an authenticated refutation of the records which he cites. If this could De done the resultant sensation would doubtless be prodigious to satisfy their loftiest ambition. In default of the ingredients requisite to the composition of euch an explosive mixture, their wisest course would seem to be to make a suitable apology and charge the whole thing off to the account of Journalistic and personal profit and loss.

QUEEXBBORO BRIDGE PAYMEyTS. Among the astonishing facts which have been placed before the public concerning the Queensboro Bridge perhaps the most astonishing is the account which The Tribune publishes in another column this morning, showing how the chance of recovery for the taxpayers en any claim which they may possibly be proved to have on the contractor has been jeoparded by the action of the city officials. The public will certainly be surprised to learn that the Controller, while the expert investigation into the bridge was pending, which he himself had helped to procure, after saying that he would make no further payments until the investigation was completed, did en September 2 pay to the contractor 5500.000, thereby perhaps releasing bis $2,000,000 bond. Moreover, these payments carried the total amount paid to the contractor to $865,000 In excess cf the original contract and the limit placed upon the supplemental contract by the Board of Aldermen. This excess was reported to the Controller by his engineer to be unwarranted, and the Controller's Justification for payment is based upon a most astonishing opinion of the Corporation Counsel that there was "nothing in the contract limiting the price "to be paid for the work to the amounts In the contract, plus the customary 5 "per cent margin," when as a matter of fact the contract a copy of which accompanied the opinion, states in terms that "no extras shall "be allowed tinder this contract Id excess of "the 5 per cent hereinbefore mentioned." Whether or not the for this 1865,000 for excess weight of material put Into the bridge in accordance with the working drawings made by Hie contractor himself was valid against the city we do not attempt to determine.

Neither do we attempt to determine the regponeibility for the failure of the structure to meet the stresses required by the contract between the Bridge Department and the contractor. The contract provided that the contractor should make detailed drawings, subject to certain general plans and specifications as to stress, which should be approved by the Department of Bridges, but that nevertheless the contractor should "alone be responsible for "the correctness of the drawings, although they "may have been approved by the 1 Assuming on the strength of both experts' reports, that the work was well done in accordance with the detailed drawings. It Is obvious that a mistake was made somewhere, for the bridge Itself confessedly nowhere near meets the stresses and the requirements of the contract. How far the clause concerning responsibility for tic correctness of the drawings would place the cost of the mistake upon the contractor, or how far acts of the Bridge Commissioner may have relieved him from such responsibility, we do not know, but certainly it was the duty of the city officials to find out and protect the city treasury to the last extremity. Instead of making the payments while the very safety of the bridge itself was under Investigation.

The contract made ample provision for the fiscal officers of the city to go back of the re port of the Bridge Department, and they were' not bound, one of the engineers has said in a published statement, to accept the Bridge Commissioner's certificate without question. At the very time when the Controller was paying this large Rim for work under investigation he was holding up a great number of minor claims and paying in per cent Instalments to contractors about whose bills there could not possibly be any dispute. The request of the City Club for an Investigation of the Manhattan Bridge comes before the Board of Estimate, we believe, this morning. A thorough investigation of the financial and legal ends of the Queensboro Bridge transaction to determine responsibility for the loss to taxpayers, and to find out if they have any claim against anybody tor recovery, is also very much in order. Ay OUTRAGE FORBIDDEX.

It is a relief to know that sense and humanity Lave prevailed at the New Jersey State Prison aud that the revolting proposal to try to resuscitate a man who had been judicially pot to death will not be carried Into effect One of die official physicians Is said to have planned Job and to have intended to perform It. Hut the warden of the prison has vetoed his design and will not even permit him to be present at Hie execution. Now and then the suggestion lias been offered that the state should surrender certain criminals cohylcted of offences to physicians and Burgeons for vivisection and other experiments. It has not been received with favor and is not likely to be. In absence of a specific provision of 11 is difficult to Bee what legal authority there would be for any each work.

On the contrary, there Is grave reason to mnpect -that tbe proposed resuscitation njijriit be judicially regarded as a criminal interference wWb or attempt to defeat the processes the law. if successful experiment certainly might cause embarrassing complications. For 1 pfemtbsi that the criminal DAILY FRTOAY. DECEMBER 11', JtgOg- shall be put to death. If the experiment sbo-wed that he had not been killed by the electric shock It -would be necessary to subject him again to the deadly current, a most revolting thin? to do.

If it were held, however, that he had actually been killed and then restored to life, either the intent of the law would be defeated or It would be necessary to pat him to death a second time. When a criminal under legal sentence of death has to all appearances, intents and purposes been legally put to death there should be no meddling with the course of the law or with the laws of nature. Decency and humanity forbid It, and it Is gratifying to see that it nlso forbidden by the warden of the New Jersey State Prison. THIS YEAR'S NOBEL PRIZES. With the latest awards made by Nobel's representatives for scientific work there will be little dissatisfaction.

Metcbnikoff and Erllch, who divide the prize for valuable contributions to medicine, have fairly won their honors. Of the two the Frenchman is rather the better known- Like his fellow countryman, Laveran, who received a prize last year, he was a disciple of Pasteur and has devoted much time to bacteriological research. More original, however. if not more useful, have been his studies of the possibility of postponing old age. Erlich, now at the head of an institution for experimental therapeutics in Berlin, has directed his investigations to the successful fighting of several diseases; tuberculosis, diphtheria and anaemia among them.

The number of medals and other honors already upon him testify abundantly to the esteem in which he Is held abroad. to whom Is given the chemistry prize, Is one of the most ardent and painstaking students of the phenomena presented by radium that the world has known. First, at M'Glll University, Montreal, and later In Manchester, England, he has followed up the discovery by the Curies with zeal and intelligence 60 helpful and sane have been his writings on radio-activity that It would not have seemed premature to accord him a Nobel prize before Sir William Ramsay. Llppmann, who now secures the prize 1 physics, is a devotee of both acoustics and optics, but perhaps Nobel's trustees have had chiefly In mind at the present time the Frenchman's invention of a system of color photography. A few weeks ago It was rumored that Marconi would receive the physics prize.

In the eyes of the world there would have been conspicuous propriety in thus recognizing the pioneer In wireless telegraphy. He has many rivals, some of whom might begrudge him such a distinction, but It may be doubted whether any of the other men who have achieved feuccess in Hertz wave communication would have entered the field except for the inspiration of Marconi's example. Inasmuch as Euchen has written on scientific philosophy and philology it is not MM? to perceive why he was deemed worthy of the literary prize. Still, Nobel in his will allowed an exceptional degree of latitude in interpreting "literature," and those who have acted for him have evidently availed themselves of privilege. Arnoidsen and Bajer, who divide the peace prize, may not have rendered euch conspicuous service to the cause of international amity some of those who have received this honor before, but the award Itself in respect a notable exhibition of good will It is made by the Storthing of Norway, one of the three Scandinavian nations.

The recipients are citizens of others, Sweden and Denmark. MR. CASTRO'S MISSIOX. Mr. Castro has made the world his debtor by giving it a genuine and by no means unimportant surprise.

The secret of his purpose in visiting Europe was well kept. The story that he was going abroad for the sake of his health, to have a surgical operation performed, was plausible and was generally accepted as true. Indeed, it seems to have been true, or largely true. But it apparently was not the whole nor the major part of the truth. His prime object, we are cow assured, was and is tuft of a peacemaker.

He expects to negotiate directly with European governments settlements of the various controversies which have vexed the relations between Venezuela and other countries. That extraordinary commission is quite characteristic of the man. Another would have sent a minister. Mr. Castro is his own minister.

much as Francia or King Louis, he is the state. As dictator under the name of President he has long been executive, legislature, Judiciary and diplomatic service all in one. Nothing could be more natural, therefore, than that ho should himself set forth to treat with his fellow monarchs. The only surprising thing Is that thould have intrusted supreme authority In Venezuela to another man. But perhaps he knows bis man, It is sincerely to be hoped that his extraordinary mission will prove successful.

The world has not liked Mr Castro. It has had little occasion to like him or to trust him. It has bad much cause for animosity against him. Nevertheless, It Is not unwilling to give him "a square deal" a 6quarer deal than he has at tames given to others. He is unquestionably a man of ability, resource and uncommon fores of character He may be able to impress the statesmen of Europe favorably, and be may also be so impressed by them that he will assume a more sweetly reasonable attitude toward the world In general.

It is earnestly to be hoped that such will be the ease and that his visit to Europe may mark the beginning of greatly improved relations between Venezuela and other nations. THE TURKISH PROPOSALS. The tedious processes of international dickering over the proposed conference of the powers 011 the Balkan question continue, apparently without making much real progress. Eden power has Its own pet programme, in which it Insists that certain Items shall be Included and from which others must be as Inexorably excluded. And apparently no two of £he programmes agree.

Meantime Turkey continues a peaceful but exceedingly effective boycott of Austrian and Hungarian commerce, and Austria-Hun c-ary pushes forward military preparations. Amid all these things it is of profit to recall the proposals which were made weeks ago by the Turkish government concerning the conference of the powers. They Included seven points, proriding for determination of the Juridical status of Bulgaria and of he pecuniary obligations to Turkey, and of the juridical status of Eastern Rumelia and of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and of the compensation due to Servla and Montenegro; for the abrogation of various articles of the Treaty of Berlin which have become obsolete and logically null and void by reason of the establishment of constitutional government In Turkey, the modification of the Capitulations so" as to abolish the foreign postofllces and grant commercial freedom to the Turkish Empire and the withdrawal of the Austrian police and quarantine administration from the Montenegrin const. These proposals must be regarded as eminently temperate and reasonable ihd. as presenting creditable contrast to some of those put forward by other powers.

They are shrewdly drafted, no doubt, 80 as to conserve Turkish Interests, but there la really nothing hi them to which any other power would seem to have good cawM to object. Their formulation Is another and a not gratifying exposition of the new mind which now prevails in the Ottoman government, aud which promises to exhibit to the world one of the most interesting examples in all history of the renascence of an apparently moribund people The spectacle of a Liberal and professedly Free Trad-? Housa el Commons at sitting up till 20 In unerring second reading of a purely and strongly protective measure is fit to make the venerated of CoMen, Bright and Millers sit up and take notice. Mr. Color cays he la a "dead one" politically. Let us hope he'll stay dead this time.

The rule of setting rid of college professors as Boon as they are sixty-five years old seems wise to the authorities of the University of Minnesota, but If it had hitherto prevailed American collete students would have deprived of some of the best Instruction they ever received. The Joy of the Bridge Department at discovering that the Queensboro Bridge will do for a bird roost, anyhow, would melt a heart of stone. But that dead duck the Democratic party, who killed that? There will be few "Joy rides" after it becomes well established that they are morally certain to end in prison "Bryan a Bar to Impossible. The Peerless One is himself incarnate harmony. He embodies tbe whole gamut, with every possible combination of chords.

As well say that pure white sunlight Is a bar to the harmony of colors In the spectrum as that he prevents harmony in the party of which be Is himself The "Whole Thing. THE TALK OF THE DAT. In an article on the successor of Rachel a writer In the Paris "Matin" says: "Maria Favard, who in the 60's and Ma of the last century was the star of the Corrode Franca Is dead at the age of seventy-five. In the course of fifteen years, when she was at the zenith of her career, she appeared in nearly all the great tragedies, but deserted the Moliere house for a time to play at tne Varletes. She returned and took final leave shortly alter Perrin became the director.

The step was probably hastened by brutality on the part of the director, who had taken a dislike to Favard. At a rehearsal she noticed that ha kept his eyes steadily fixed upon her, and, growing nervous under the strain, she asked. do you stare at me 'I he answered, 'that you are growing There was nothing in the remark at which ehe could take offence except the tone, but shortly after the incident she resigned, and, although she appeared at various theatres later, her ambition had been crushed. Eight years ago ehe made her last appearance en the stage." "His wife boasts that she made him what he is." "HuT She seems to have neglected to work any higher than his neck." Puck. "There Is one place you can your bedroom.

Ventilate that." is the warning of a recent Chicago Health Department bulletin. The bulletin urges the need of fresh air in the winter to combat consumption and pneumonia. It advises riding on the platforms of streetcars and warm clothes, but no bolstering of Daeka, and as much avoidance as possible of places where air circulation is poor. A QUESTION. If there Isn't any Santa.

Clans, who Is it turns your Toward'the shop where gifts are emHing as you Who a it though you're bury and.laughter 'round children's hr you "this Christmas business la a work that th The small tin trumpet sounds a blast that wakes your soul serene To homags for the doll who a lady and a cueen. And once prosaic world where it has your Ib a. some mystic fairy Is a mlmot fascinations "neath some rustic fairy If Qurn tent any Santa who is It. day by That turns our thoughts to Christmas, strive to shun it as we may? Who comes at this bleak season armed with tele- And by generous suggestion dominates our minds hearts? -Washington Star. "We find repeatedly how figures convey to the ordinary mind the magnitude of objects." says the "Welt Spiegel," "and how much more readily they are comprehended by comparison." To substantiate the assertion a picture Is produced of the Catbedrsj at Cologne.

Which is 160 metres in height, and next to it is placed a picture of the Zeppelin airship, standing on end. reaching away beyond the middle of the highest section of the steeple, and to within twenty-six metres of the ap-x. The picture also chows the Triumphal Column at Berlin, elxty-one metres in height, and next to It the airship Parsifal, fifty metres high. as it on end. sparrow nuisance.

I wonder how It would be possible to exterminate him. Make him fashionable mm en 1 Philadelphia. Record. Universal Interest Is manifested. sauye Berlin "Morten Post," In the trial notching on at Munich resulting trora tfte discovery of spurious paintings.

It is not fully known how widespread this business, of counterfeiting has become. Old statuary Is made in great quantities In Italy; Bohemia and Belgium furnish glass of the Middle Ages, and every European capital has Its makers of antiques. Berlin and Vienna makers are kept busy with the home trade, but Paris. London. Brussels, Rome, Florence, Smyrna and Munich are commercial centres for this claw of merchandise.

The business has grown to such proportions that Nuremberg, Vienna and Llvorno have started museums where counterfeit works are exhibited and where the" of manufacture may be studied. called with my wife en the lady next door ast night, and she started her phonograph plavinj? "II Suppose you Imagined yourself at the yes: the two women were talking to beat the Tonkers Statesman. TAFT'S SPEECH ON THE SOUTH. From The Atlanta Journal. South feels grateful to Mr.

Taft for the quasl-lndorsement he has given to our efforts to purify and elevate the franchise, and if he cooperates with us to that end he cannot fail to make a favorable Impression on our people. NEW ERA DAWNING. From The Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr Taft spoke like a peer and philosopher. It row remains with the South to meet his generous Invitation.

If it fails to do so the fault lies in itself. We believe that a new era is dawning, in which them will be a reunited country In a sense that a generation ago seemed impossible. AN INVITATION TO THINKING MBit. From The Philadelphia Ledger. It Is an Invitation to the thinking men of the South to come out from the graveyard of outworn prejudices and fears and take their part once more in shaping the common destinies of the.

American people. SPEAKS OfT SQUARELY. From The Boston Post. Mr. Taft speaks out lie does not admit the possibility of coercing the Southern states by reducing their representation In Congress because of their constitutional restrictions upon the (suffrage.

He upholds these laws as fully competent under the authority of the states, and.lnsists only that they shall enforced equally and without discrimination. BTATKSMA XI-IKK BTJRV KY From The Times. The tumultuous reception given Taft by the gallant sons of the Tar Heel State, tho admirable of mutual respect anil admiration which informed the occasion anil the survey of existing political anil industrial disclosed by the distinguished guest combine to build a picture of harmony and completeness eminently gratltyins and of encouragement the most honest "SINCERITY AND WELL MEANING." From The New Orleans Times-Dem Mr. Tat r.i message to tbe South, delivered before the North Carolina Society of New York last iiis'it. will be received in the same friendly and temperate npirlt in which it Ik tendered.

The sincerity and well meaning of his overtures will be welcomed and appreciated as surely his argument on the race question will be attacked. HI Judgment is sound when ha cites the Republican party's attitude toward the negro as one of the primo causes of the Democratio solidarity of the South. There- will be many who are not prepared to concede that It Is the only oauss for there ttrn other Questions upon which South Ie arrayed difainst Republican party, frw deny that If tho problem were rlfhtiv solved and out of wav the, Southern voters be more squally divided In theb politics) About People and Social Incidents AT THE WHITE HOUSEfFrom Tribune Bureau. TTasbtngton. Dec.

President recerwd a 7 rde.e tlo in the East the committee of hundred of the Deep Water way. Congress, which he ths Council of Commerce and a party of friends of Representative Goulden, of New or The President received new Panama Minister. C. C. Arosemena, In the Blue Room, in the Taft called at th.

In the late afternoon to pay hi- respects, but found discussed matters relatins to the Japanese President was thanked by a the Chamber of Commerce for 111 interest in the conservation of al ent A delegation of Georgians Invited the to visit that st.U While President-elect Tatt hi President shook hands with Grant, of Charleston, S. and U. mtle known at the last Republl- an National Convents "the little girl ln the President, were Wight. Vice-President-elect Sherman Clapp, Hemenway. Simmons.

tH XO Scott. Bey- and Owen. Representatives McGuire Kahn. HolMday. Page.

Welsse. Sabath raider. Richardson. Hardwick. GUhams.

Ash brook. Foelker. and Beals. Governor Noel of Missfesippl. ex-Governor Carter tin A.

Knapp and F. K. Lane, of the Commerce Commission: Governor-elect Stubr-s of Kansas. H. Bayard Cutting, rk Koenig.

of New York; Emerson Hough. J. T. and J. E.

Ralph. THE CABINET. Tribune Washington. Dec la-Miss Ethel Roosevelt was ertertained at dinner to-night by the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Newberry.

Invited to meet her Miss Bacon. Miss Munn. Miss Miss Carolyn Murray, Miss Helen Downing. Miss Newhsrry, Captain Cheney. Lieutenant Commander Cleland Davis.

Lieutenant Shackford. Slgnor Centaro. of the Italian Embassy; Franklin Ellis, Frederick Brooke and Huntlngtoa Jackson. THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS. The Bareaa-1 Washington.

Dec. Italian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor dcs Planches have with them at the embassy Professor and Signora. Ferrero. who were guests at the White House. They entertained at dinner to-night to meet them the Austrian Ambassador and Hengelmulltr.

tbe French Ambassador and Mms. Jusserand, the Brazilian Ambassador and Nabuco, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Lodge, Mrs.

Nicholas Fish. Countess Rospoptchine. Dr. Wiley, Mr. Thayer.

Viseounf de ChamtTun and Professor Ravaloli. Italian commercial delegate. The Austrian naval and Baroness Preuschen yon und zu tialiuilieln had dlninc with them to-night the French naval and M.m». de Blanpre, the German military attache and Mrne. yon Livcnius, Mr.

and Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield. the Italian naval attache. Lieutenant FUippo Camperlo, and Baron Haymerle.

Count Torok and Prince Wlndisch-Graeta, of the Austrian Embassy; Commander Russian naval attache, and Baron yon Bichthofen, of the German Embassy. The British military attache and the Hon. Mrs. James had as dinner guests to-night the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Garfield, the British Ambaaaador and Bryce, the chief cf staff and Mrs.

J. Franklin Bell and Brigadier General and Mrs. Wotherepoon. The British Ambassador entertained Professor Ferrero and others at luncheon to-day. Professor Sha dwell, of England, who has been his gnest for tlms, left here for New York to-day.

IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY. IFrom The Tribune Bureau. Washington, Dec. President-elect and Mrs. Taft took luncheon to-day at the home of Brigadier General and Mrs.

Clarence R. Edwarde, who Invited to meet them the Secretary of War and Mrs. Wright, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop. Mr.

Batteries, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. BfoCawley, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.

Keep. Miss Boardmaji and Lieutenant Commander Qstaaal bavta Mr. Taft attended a reception thai afternoon at the home of Thomas F. "VTalsh for the Trans- Mississippi Congress, and to-night he and Mrs. Taft dined with Miss Mabel Boardman.

who Invited all members of the party which eat at the table with Mr. Taft on the voyage to and frcm the They were Senator and Mrs. ZYewtaads. Representative and Mis. Laagworth, Representative and Mrs.

Herbert Parsons, Brigadier General and Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards end Representative F. H. Giliett.

One of most brilliant and interertlng features SEATTLE'S EXHIBITION Metropolitan Museum. May Send Some 'Paintings. George L. director of arts at the Alaska-Yukon -Pacific exposition, to be held In Seattle from June 1 to October 1909, on hi return jesterday from Washington told a Tribune reporter the plans for the proposed art exhibition In Seattle's Palace of the Fine Arts. The co-operation of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of Metropolitan Museum of Art.

to make the exhibition noteworthy, la expected. "Our art exhibition will be composed of three hundred paintings, one hundred fifty of which will come from the foremost private collections in this country and the leading museums," said Mr. Berg 1 "Sir Purdon has shown an unusual interest in this exhibition, and oar hope Is to obtain several of the Important pictures of the Metropolitan Museum, representing the old masters. Contemporary painters of recognUed standing will be represented by one hundred and fifty pictures. "I have takeai out an Insurance policy for about the broadest ever taken out for any corporation in the United States.

which makes it possible to invite, pictures regardless of their Insurance value. "The art exhibition will thoroughly representative in character. We are Inviting only the best pictures to our exposition, so that when a man buys a picture In Seattle he Will own a good one. Our object is not only to show some of the beat pictures that can bo got together, but to give us a lasting ownership in some of the best pictures. "The Palace of the Fine Arts Is an absolutely fireproof building, of Moorish and Doric architecture.

All three hundred paintings will ha hung 'on the riving each picture an individuality not before made possible at any exposition." DR. HILLIS TO HAVE MILTON WINDOW Will Be Placed in Study of Plymouth Church Poet Seated at Desk. A stained glass window, showing John Milton seated at his desk, writing his plea for religious liberty, will be placed soon In the study of the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight UlMs.

pastor el Plymouth Church, in Grace Court, Brooklyn. Dr. ill id had the window mado because of his Interest In the personality of Milton and the help he cave to religious freedom through his writings. Tha work was executed by Frederick S. Lamb.

BHONTS FORGETS GRANDSON'S NAME. Theodore P. Shoots, accompanied by his daughter. Miss Marguerite Bbonts, arrived here yesterday from France on White Star liner Oceanic They had beea abroad bo near the Dacha de Chaulnes. Mr.

Shonts's daughter, at the Mrth of hrr ftrsf child. Mr. BhosU said thai his grandson was a line child, and that the mother aad infant would probably return to New York In April. When asked for the name of the young Due de Chaulnes Mr. Shi-nts an effort to repesr it.

but failed. Miss Theodora iShonts then smilingly said. is Emrainvl Theodore Bermui Maria d'AUly, Due Chaulnes of visllt of Mr. and Mrs. Taft was given by Miss Boardman to-night, all of the Philippine part- 11 aaltnnt and Mrs.

Fairbanks the members of the Wafxways Congress a. ception this afternoon. They the luncheon to-day of Senator and Mrs. Crana. Mr and Mrs.

Fairbanks were at Ncr aajhl by Mr. and Mm. W. E. had as additional guests Assistant Illiailj and Bacon.

Mr. the Swiss ister: Senator Flint. Mr. and Mrs. Ten Eyck vzmo.

dell Mr-. Norman Williams. Miss New York: Mai Curtis and John B. Henderson, Gifford Plncaot gave a small weeptica night to dM Governors who are visiting citr. with their wives and the members of tlon Commission and thai.

wives. iln. Pinchot to receive were Mn Fairbanks, non Mrs. Garfleld. Mrs.

Charles P. Richard Butler. Mrs. William Eno, Herbert Knox Smith. Mrs.

Becker and ZCn Bte' enp Mrs Charles P. Wood, who has bees In, Mrs. Gifford fall hit, for a wOl return to New York to-morrow. NEW YORK SOCIETY. Mr- Henry C.

-Emmet wfll a Sherry's this evening for Miss Latira. Receptions will be given to-day by Mrs. Hoyt at her Mali in Park avenue, her daughter. Miss Cornelia Hoyt; 07 Mrs. Ooarlea P.

Howlsnd for her sister. Miss Elsie No. 13 West 11th street, and by Alfred Pell at her home, in Fifth, avenge, for m- Crorby. Miss Daisy Taylor, aJ Mr. and Its, James Taylor, was married yesterday afternoon to Stephen Chase, of Boston, at the haaai of ilr.

tad Mrs. Frederick Kasy. No. 10 West 56th stre-t. whom bride has made her tons for svrertl years ceremony was performed by the Parks, la the drawing room, which decorated with and cut flowers.

gown -was of crepe chine, and wars hat of taupe MM and carrtM Uiies-of-Uie-vaCej; Miss Kathleen Taylor was her sister's xaali rt honor and only attendant. Her gown -was of tttgt Cloth, and dM wore a hat to correspond. Harcourt A-nory. a brother-in-law of Mr. Chase, ben man.

The ceremony was followed by Among guests were Commodore ar.d Mm EJbridge T. Gerry. Mrs. A. Gordon Mr.

and Mrs. Royal Carroll, Mrs. WEiiani D. Mar. Mrs.

Robert R. L. Clarkson. of Tivoii-oa-ths- Hudaon: Mrs. Theodore Chase, of Bostsa; Urs.

Harcourt JMIIJ and Mrs. Howard Itownai Ca the completion of their wedding trip Mr. Chase will make their home at Dedham. Mr and Mrs. W.

Hoadby Loew left town day for California, to for two BSM Mr. and Mrs. James Brown Potter, who mod from abroad, are at the St Reg's. Mrs. George T.

Bliss and 133 Baal "aSc-n possession of house No. 9 East for winter. Punch and Mr, vaudevilla. ar.i singing by Mrs. Robert Oat and Mrs.

Dana Gibscn figure on proftMagui oi its of the Ladles' Auxiliary the Of the, Maternity Hospital, which takes en Saturday next a- Sherry's. Mrs. "TClZiam Parsons, Mrs. Charles lt Mrs. Dallas Robinson, Mrs.

William MM C. Ledyard Blair are among dM patronesses. Tickets can obtained from Mrs. Louis Stanton, at her house. No- 30 Mtk street.

free to bazaar, tot are 52. Lord and Lady are st with W. Butler Duncan at his house, is Filta avenue, until they sail for to-mcrro-r. Lord Northcots win be entertained at taaefcaaa at the Lawyers' CMi by the, president sat cf tie Pilgrims Society. Leri lillllllllll as Governor General of Australia, took a leading part in the welcome accorded to Oxm Amssloan battleship fleet at Melbourne.

Mrs James A- Burden Wai not occupy hsr zrm in Fifth avenue this winter, but taken apartment at the St. Regis for feascn. Mrs. H. wffl a Miss May Weathercee ax tha St.

Rests ca. ii. Walter Brooks will give dance at on December 29 for her dsbutanta daughter. Edith A. Brooks.

There will be genera' fibers the early part of the evening, followed by and a cotillon led by Victor Jr. Mr; and Mrs. William A. M. congratulations en birth a sen at house, in East 73d street.

Mrs. Burden was Florence Twombly. a fiansbtsx of Mr. and Mrs. K.

McK. TwomWy. HALL OF CASTS KBOFEYA Department of Hetropolitori scum Rearranged. The public had Its first opportunity yestarfiaj the many changes wbich hare te-r. mii la the Hall of Casts of Metropolitan Art.

when ft eras reopened after closed summer and fall to permit the caarn cf the casts. In the centre 01" the hall staads tho figure of Nike at cf a galler a originally set up la The of the cast and west walls arc taker, up tea pedlmental groups from the east and west en-is cf the Temple of Zeus, at have been carefully restored, and are ta JM seen for the first time at a bexsttt which s-ves t. effect sought by the scu-ptor. Many of the well known pieces in collection have put in their eld pU9es. some of the larger casts from Johnson and Marquand collectors have In the hall.

The -walls and screens hava rtjj painted In a gray tone. aaJ xhr selected by the New York Chapter the Institute of Architects rtbfflU ar.i logned. A new catalogue of the plaster reproductions and architectural been prepared by maseim. A selection of objects from Egypt, purchase or by the museum expedition, r.ns 1 arranged in the recent accessions rooms Lythgoe. Several ot colored reltel forming part of the two tempi chambers are to be set up later in tha museum, aw and ISM I are also wo inscribed jainSs ot a doorway, bearing the name of AmetwmUat St of early kings, small oujects of various setts pictures showing tha country and el museum expedition ara also shown.

The committee en reception at openiSS exhibitioa of contemporary German art t35 Monday. January 4. lor a. private 4 lection. The man Ambassador and CUJM eral.

the president of museum. Mr. 3ters the trustees and directors wtU rtceive There will be music by the TorSs Sjmt" Orchestra. GENERAL OLELLAN ORDERLIES Mayor Thinks Father Must Have Had Thousand in Army of Potomac. How many orderlies did B- Clellan This is the question at the City asitaUne the men ivlio scour the roarbla tLaI without charge to the city.

WllUaxu P. aged but man. at the hearing tic emulators' ordinance before Mayor eita declared that ha was an orderly on tha Coneral McClellan much of the tUna McClellan was In command of trie Army or Potomac. After the hearing was over and the Mayor way to Me onlce the floor below nlt mentioned Maher. "I haven't kept tab on ike of honored father had whlla was In the Army pf the Potomac." his honor.

estimating I shouM that bare. been cu-s of at least nine. lUu usWl ido set ioeai ataw 1 1 MjsM.