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12' SUNDAY, JANt'AKY 11, 1014. Latere d at the Post omce at New York as Second Class Mall Matter. Sabscrlptlont by Mall. Poitpald. DAILY. lr Month 80 DAILY, Per Year SUNDAY. I'rr Month SUNDAY (to Canada), I'cr Month 40 SUNDAY. I'cr Year DAILY AND SUNDAY, I'cr Year BO DAILY AND SUNDAY. I'cr Month 1 Konr.m.v Hates. DAILY, rrr Month -- .. 1 9S SUNDAY. I'cr Month DAILY AND SUNDAY. J'cr Month...... 1 90 THE r.T..MNO SUN, I'cr Month a TIH2 KVlINlNtJ KPN, IVr Year 3 SO THE KVIININI! SLN (rorelgn).Pcr Month. 1 .1 All checks, money orders, Ac, to be made pay ble to Tint Hi n. Published dally. Including Sunday, by the Sun PrlntlnK and PublMilnE Amociatton at 170 Nassau trcct. In the Itoriiudi of Manhattan, New York. President anil Treasurer. UIIUm C. Uclckf 170 Nsausticcl: Kdward P. Mitchell. 170 Nassau street: Secretory, C. I.'. l.uilon, 170 Nassau tired. London office. Umnch.nn House, 1 Arundel tfeet. Strand. Paris offlcc, 0 Hue dc l Mlehodlfre. oil flue du Quatre Scptcinbrc. Washington offlcc. lllbbs llulldtng. Brooklyn ofllrc, ino IJvbigstoii street. It our frltnils vim later us irlth manuscripts and tUuttrattuns fur jiuDirofion to note rrjrcltd trtklts rtlurntil thtv must In all (asts itnd stamps for that purpose. ' There I - Time for All Thlnjss. Nobody lias Mated the situation more concisely, truthfully nml forcibly thiin the llou. Jumm'II It. Vokakur of Ohio In these three jiaruRiaphs from his recent peech at Iluinlltoii : \The tlmo has como to lielp business, instead of further attacking It. For the last ten years business, especially big busi ness, has been hurried and annoyed and bedevilled until patience Is well nigh ex- hausted. If wo were nut griming and de- veloping, unit compelled to du business In apltri of all there harassment, business would bo well nigh destroyed. \Tho railroad, stripped of tho control of their revenues, haw been stripped of their credit, and all railroad building bits practically Mopped. Wo nre all learning that war upon them is war lit the same lime upon practically all other kinds of business. YVe art' all Interested In the restoration of their prosperity, and there- fore In a policy that will glvo them a chanco to meet tho proper demands of maintenance, equipment and general lin provemcnt. \I believe there is a growing recogni- tion of the fact that war on business Is war on ourselves, and that if we would have that universal prosperity to which wo arc justly entitled all business should have a fair chance, and that in this be half all demagogues should bo relegated to the renr and ti sound, safe and helpful order of things be once tnoro Inau- gurated.\ Suppose we tnl;e the liberty to reduce the proposition to uu even simpler form: \The time has come to help business. \War upon tho railroads Is practically War upon all other kinds of business. \War on business is war on ourselves.' Bright nre the skies for the year 1014 and for business bis and little In very part of the laud If the widening perception of these truths has nlrendy extended to the optic nerves of the law makers and to the elbows of the power fill gentleman and conscientious scholar who Is travelllui; to-da- y from the Gulf hack to Washington. There Is n time for all things; and the time has come to help business. The help Hint nusiiiess wants is a chance to rest and recover. The .Menace of Radium. Our comments in Tut: Sun of Janu ary 6 have called forth the following noto from a physician: \Your editorial article In Sc.v on radium teems to be both commendable and condemnablc. It Is commendable as a warning to the public to beware of many useless products of radium on the market: at tho same time it l condem- nablc by developing in the public mind a fear of all radium products, both good mid bad, \To my personal knowledge there are radium products which by examination with the electroscope show exactly tho amount of radium emanation claimed for them. I therefore feel that you should amend your editorial article so It may give some hclcntitic process whereby a Joflnlto conclusion may be deduced. \The electroscople examination Is posi- tive.\ It Is hojied that the majority of our readers are more attentive than this correspondent npitenra to he. The Mlltorlal artlclo In question alined not only to protect the reader against ra- dium humbugs that are sure to spring up In multitudes, hut also to Induce the authorities to \subject the prepara- tions to tests, ns Is done In Germany.\ The electroscople examination was of course the test referred to, Tho chief object, however, was to wnrn Miffcrers from cancer not to de- lay operation In the earliest stage on account of tho reported wonderful suc- cesses of indium, tho efficacy of which was distinctly adverted to. An article In the Mcilkal ltcvtml of December J.'S. 101.'!, says: \Correct and scientific methods of ra dium and Ilueulgen therapy, methods which will lead to real progress n the futuro treatment of malignant growths, Imply tho correct selection of cases, cor-ic- dosage and filtration of thn rays, and constant clinical and microscopical control of tho patient under treatment, In other words, tho physician who takes up radiotherapy as his life work and wants to protect himself and his patients against great disappointments and serious mbi-ha- should not only be well acquainted with the physical and biological proper- ties of the rays, but must also bo n trained clinical surgeon and a pathologist. \Oveiinthuslasin i us Injurious to'scl. entitle work, as overprsalmlsm Is. Sober a (jCim research in thla Held of the iihyslelst. biologist and the clinician will surely be fruitful of far reaching results In the therapy of malignant tumors.\ Not only may physicians for whom this article was written bo moved to tleeiicr study of the subject nnd to greater caution, but sufferers may de- rive a lesson that will prevent their being lured into lay or medical radium quackery, nn expensive and too often unprofitable field. Dr. Kllot't Religion of the Future. The opinions of Dr. Cuahles Will iam Eliot on \The Future of ltollglon\ nre Interesting, as most things are that come from that vigorous nnd Yetwhyshouldthe future of religion not he like its past or present? Most people aro essentially the same; their hopes nnd tltelr ldens of happiness here nnd hereafter are founded on simple and ancient beliefs. There will Iks no miracles In the fu ture religion, Dr. Eliot says. Then re- ligion will not be of this world or the next, since both to most men have been and are perpetual miracles. Indeed, the mere existence of men, women, fa therhood, motherhood, childhood, love, faith Is a miracle. The atmosphere of wonder and Incomprehensibility fills the universe; and the suiieruatural so cnlled may he stranger and more mys terious In degree hut not In kind than the natural and normal. So Dr. Ki.iot would extract the poetry from religion. And he supplants It by force : \The Creator Is for modern men a sleep- less, active energy and will. Ho Is recog nized chiefly In tho wonderful energies of sound, light and electricity.\ Yet \men of science have no faith In ma-gt- or miracles.\ What Is more mar- vellous than the mnglc or miracle of these marvellous energies' \There will he nothing like dogma or creed In twentieth century religion.\ Yet the majority must have a dogma, a creed, some sort of reasoned If not rea- sonable scheme of the universe. We fancy that the future of religion will he much like Its past. The Cathedral of St. John the lilviue. We make room with pleasure for the explanation by Mr. It. A. Cram of what he Is careful to describe as his \tentntlu'\ plans for the completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine: with all the more pleasure hecuuse It appears from his letter that his ex- planation was embodied In a reiort to the trustees of the cathedral, made be- fore the fcketches of his design had been publicly exhibited, to evoke an- tagonism ami protest ns well ns ex- pressions of adherence and contldeuce, and consequently before they became matters of controversy. The four \points\ made In vlndlcatlou of the amended design over the original de- sign are all the more valuable on that account. Everybody Interested In the subject will be gratified If not relieved by lenrnlng thnt tho consulting architect Intends thnt \the plan shall be de- veloped with explicit regard to the work already accomplished.\ The gratification or relief will be the greater because this Is not altogether the conclusion which has been drawn from the public exhibition of the \tentative\ drawings. It simplifies the whole situation to know that the ques tion to 1k resolved on Mornlngslde Is merely which of two itroiwsed solu- tions Is the more congruous, not with one or another plan for completion, but with the tedious nnd operose nnd costly beginnings, covering twenty years of time nnd two millions of money. It Is gratifying, or rellevln ns the case may he, to read Mr. Cbam'h opinion that \It would be Impossible to add to the work already accomplished ii uave an transepts of the traditional English form, that is, long sequences of Identical bays each approximately twice the width of Its depth.\ This opinion seems to Involve his recognition that the natural outcome of the scheme of St. John the Divine cannot' be com pressed within \Anglican\ or strictly Gothic forms. Unfortunately, this recognition seems to he obscured In the point next follow Ing, which Is thnt the rounding of the transepts should be wholly abandoned In favor of orthodox \Hat walls.\ Con- sidering the \crossing\ of the new cathedral nnd Its enlargement Into n great central auditorium as the gist of the whole design, the rounding of the transepts becomes not only legitimate but almost or quite aid to its logical development, nlthough It Is true thnt the precedents for such n dls position are not Anglican or even strictly Gothic, but Hyznntlne or Itomanesque. To nn architect Intent upon the development of this central space tho enlargement of It by means of rouuded trnusepts which outwardly abut the central feature and Inwardly enlarge the available space Is a far more pertinent consideration than \the great grouping of three roses,\ in cir- cumstances hi which the \grouping\ can never he apprehensible Ho nny spectator, or thnn tho maintenance of the \flat walls\ that undoubtedly \ap pear In practically all tho standard Gothic work of the Middle Ages, Tho standard Gotulclsts never had to solve the problem of tho great central space which constitutes not the me- - dlwvaltsm hut the modernism of this particular cathedral. There cannot, one supposes, he much question whether the central fact of the scheme, the \crossing already completed and nccepted by all con cerned as n \datum Is more logically expressed by the broad and spreading spire or tno original design, or by Mr. Cram's, proposed substitute of a flat roofed sexpnrtlte vault with two towers. The strictly logical expression would doubtless be the dome, which Mr. Cham concurs with the original designers in finding Inadmissible. There is as little imicsIIoii tlml that THE SUN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1914. which Is the less logical Is the more \Anglican for in fact Mr. Cbam'h hypothesis of \the earliest nnd purest Gothic of Euroie, while It was still one style' nnd before It had especially differentiated Itself between the differ- ent nationalities\ seems not to bo by nrchltecturul history. The nenrest nppronch to a common style In medlreval Europe was not Gothic, but lloinnnesque, before the builders of the lie de France began to carry the system of groined vaulting to Its logical conclusion, Incidentally evolving the pointed nrch during the process. Which of what must bo called the rlvnl designs for the completion of the cathedral promises to be the more effective, csiwclally In view from the flats to the eastward, which Is the most Important view of all, Is a question which It would require n series of studies to answer. In fact nn Interested volunteer has prepared some sketches, showing the crowning feat- ures of the two designs In mass unit In silhouette. These sketches will be found highly suggestive by the trus- tees. Iu nny event the trustees, now Appealed to to reverse the decision which their predecessors reached twenty-tw- o yenrs ngo, nnd lit accord ance with which the work has thus far proceeded, have a responsibility which no considerate person will envy thein In deciding which of the designs before them promises the better to elicit the ndmirntlon nnd the munificence of the laity of the diocese of New York, to whom the trustees must look for the execution of the design which meets their own approval. An Educational TruM. It Is to be hoped that the merger of the engineering departments In Har- vard University nnd the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will not meet with an unfavorable reception nt the Department of Justice. While this pooling of the scientific educational funds may lie regarded in some quar- ters us a violation of the Sherman law because of Its luterliK-kln- facul- ties and varlom subsidiary branches of research, still the terms of the agreement seem to be In strict accord with the requirements of the Federal Government. Evidently this Is the Interpretation that must be put upon the following sentence In the despatch to The Sun : \There Is no legal objection to the cooperation, in the opinion of ltlciiAKP Olnkt.\ The serious fact Is that years upon years of (tatlent executive and admin istrative skill have been spent on this Iiroject only to find that certain ob- stacles aiqieared to be almost Insur mountable. Hut when It became def- initely settled that the institute had to move out of Iloston and was to go on the other side of the Charles Itivcr the gain which would accrue to hot li Institutions took on an overwhelming ImiHirf that supplanted mere consid- erations of rivalry and professorial precedence. That there should be such a vast waste of funds In the erection and up- keep of modern laboratories by both Institutions In the same fields ami In the same community nmotiuted to nn educational sin In an age when the conservation of such available money Is Imperative. Indeed it may be truly said that this scheme of cooperation should give pause for reflection In other cities and sections of this country, with a view to making stronger schools not only In nilnt of financial savings In maintenance and Hrfcctioa of cqul-me- but also In the Improt cutout of faculties for the benefit of the students and the promotion of research. A Triumph of Appetite? The Republicans in the Assembly nre displaying a capacity for harmony Indicative of n considerable degree of adaptability In a party which a year ago was dead and buried In nation and State. Mr. Swr.r.T as Speaker will be supported by the man he defeated In thp \conference Mr. IIinman, who Is to net ns floor leader. The other aspirants for the Speakership concur In Mr. Hinma.n'k selection. The rules have been amended nnd may be called liberal by those who wish so to de- nominate them. Does all this pence nnd good will flow from calling a caucus a confer- ence? Or Is it the fruit of that strong desire for victory thnt has jxissessed the Republicans ever since they learned that defent wns iwsslble for them? Perhaps an unsatisfied appetite is not the worst counsellor that a gre.tt po- litical party can have. Troubled Parks. The troubles that now nillict tho Park: Department are u direct Inheri- tance from the Gnynor administration. Mr. Stover's odd personality Interested and amused Mayor Gay.nor anil ac- count fin his retention In a place lie never filled. Mr. I.a Ifociu:, a civil service employee of the city, was to do the necessary work Com- missioner Srovi.H did not attend to, and when Mr, Stover disappeared Mayor Ki.ink put Mr. La Hochi: at the head of the department. Ho was suimrsedcd on Mayor Mitcueis assumption of otilco by Oaiiot W.un, with whom, naturally enough, Mr. U Room; Is not now on the host of terms. The Immediate cause of their differ- ences Is said to lie the signing of n contract by Mr. La Rochi: on January 1, heforo the uew administration took office. Mr. W.un feels that this con- tract should have been left for hliu to dispose of. Whether this is the euuso or another incident nccounts for the friction in the department it Is clear that some composition of the dispute must bo made which will leave tho Commissioner free to give all his en orgy to piiTk nffalrs. Thers Is n vast amount of work to bo dime In Hie parks, niwl it cannot ho b'-i- m too foon. Mr, Stovi.h'b itduilu Istratlon had most unfortunate effects. Ho was n much better philanthropist thnn executive, and the results of his Incumbency have been detrimental to practically nil the parks. In this situ- ation the now city officers cannot n,\onl to divert their attention to bickerings and quarrels, but must concentrate their efforts on the reorganization of the department. It Is evident that Mayor Mitciili, recognizes the ne cessity, nnd he will hnvo small difficulty in putting matters on a proper basis if ho takes Immediate and decisive ac- tion In the premises. The trouble with tho Itepubllcan party now Is that Its leaden) have not the In- telligence to form ii policy of modern conservatism or tho courage to dcclaro such a policy. Kiiancis W. Uiiid. It Is encouraging to hear that a real Progressive stands for \modern conservatism\ In addition to \construc- tive llbcrallf in.\ Tho cdunty chairman has now expressed a belief In both these tangible platforms. A tltemun was' up for trial before the Commissioner Thursday for knocking a man down with his automobile on Decem- ber 23 and making no report of It. The machine belonged to tho lire alarm sys-ter- n and was returning from the repair shops. .Vcu-- of the ilatj. If Commissioner Auamson desires to put a stop to failure to report the casunl striking of a pedestrian he must forbid firemen to rend tho newspapers. Elso they may quote Shuluck and say: \Tho vllluny you teach mo I will ex- ecute, nnd It shall go hard but I will belter the instruction.\ Siiakesckaio: foresaw tho speed of mall vans, as it Is claimed ho did everything else. Chicago city of gloom. Ienifffur. Is not I ted Stuhhs on your islllng list? Try him and be convinced. ctv lurk's I'lnnnclnl Supremacy ot ItciH-nilcn- l on lghlatlnii. To tii r. KniToit or Tin: .cs- - Sir: Thank you for our editorial article \New York City and tho .New llaukintr Sjstem.\ It is not so Important to New York ns It Is to the new system to have a pioperlv great reserve bank hero, if tho heart o'f tho system shall bo wwik the cln tilatlou of money and credit throughout tho sys- tem will be weak. However tho country may lie divided nnd however limited the New York district may be. It Is certain that loanable funds will continue to reach this city iu undi- minished volume. If th.-- cannot flow through the national b.inl. channel, they will use the ihannels provided by State banks, trust companies, prlvato baiik.Ts and the agencies of foreign hanks and hankers. All through the currency discussion there has been playing to the galleries by many men In high positions, but now that the Federal lleserve net li on the statute hooks it would nem to b. wise to recog- nize actual conditions. New York did not gain her tlnanclal supremacy by any act of nny legislative body, nnd Is not going to Ime It by any legislation or any Inter- pretation of legislation. J. IloW.MIIl CowrEKTIt WAIT. New Yor.K, January !. Mileage to Whom Mileage l Hue. To the Kditoi: oi' Tin: Sex Sir: My attention has Iwen called a number of times to estimates given In Tan SfN of January S of the mileage of the route taken by thn suffragi. pilgrims to Albany January 1 to 7. I that the esti- mate given in iur paper was made In a city office, since it gles the railway route and has no refcienre to the road taken by the pilgrims, lletwecn West Point and Cornwall, for instance, tlu railway Is four miles, while tin- - road taken by the pll grlms over the Crow's Nest was more than seven miles. Miss Itosnlle (5, Jones calculated tho distance coveted from the Automobile Itlue Hook, and she gives ltjti miles, My calculation, made from day to dav. culded or mlsculded liv hIimi ousts, wan 17., miles. 1 wat not aw'ate of the vagaries permitted on your sign posts, nnd Mh Jones's llgure, no doubt, Is the correct one. It will bo no mntttr for surprise If one ot the pilgrims aspires to be Commissioner of Highways nt no itlM.'int date, Nkw York, January 10. Kva Ward. More Aliiiut the Oeatnr of San I a lu. To tiii: UWToK el- - Tnr. Sis Mr; That tiler xhouM be any doubt in to Olemnt C. Mnnre's ntithondilp of \A Vlilt l'mm St. Nicholas\ nt Ihlc late iluy reenn to be It Is true that when It bs flrt pulilh-hei- l Iu tli Troy rmintl S3, ISIS, the editor of thnt Journal admitted be !M nut know its ntilhnr. Hut an ome of jour correspondents hn recenlly Informed our renter\ Ibe poem mbi flrt tiubtli)iHtl by Uu author In hli vol- ume of poem tu 114. I might remark In parentheses that Ir Mooro waa not a '\lte. eretnl.\ althouRli he a a sun of lllsffop Moore of the Kplirnpnl Church mid ihlef benefactor of the lienerdl Theolouleal Heiul-nar- y In New York city There ! a copy of the poem la tho hand- writing of Dr. Moore In the HMorlcal Ho. ciety of New ork, whtre those who 1ih doubts of Dr. Moore'a nuthorhhlp m.i) have thrm removed, lor au'oinpai Iiik the il copy of the poem in a short hUlory of the orlk-ll- l of the llttlo Christmas piece, It will be learned from this letter of T W C Moore, who I belle was not reluted to Ir. Moore, thnt Ibe copy wns matle by Dr. Moore, then, UC:, In Ids elKht) second yenr, nt the siiKuestlon uf a member of the tlletorlcnl Society, who desired n copy for the society's archives. Dr. Moore's entire life, Mhlch was nli.ts n.ulet, retiring uml modest, does not admit of the slightest hint that be purposely or Involuntarily nssumed the roho of another poel, Josreii JiCKo, I'mi ipr.i I'liu, January !. How to He a True Muslenl Soul. T\ mr. niUToH or Till! Kin Mr: Poor llachmmlnorf ! How he would turn In his urae could he bear th ltlierliiir denun- ciation of \Kialle rtekhurdt.\ Ills reputa- tion, souitht In the trumpet's mouth, Is gone forever' h'Millf. however, has spoiled all his effect by one little phrnsei \I sat In the llrst row from the orchestrn,\ Now any one who does this Is worthy uf no further ennrlde riitlan. Perchance Ihulle Is unaware nf the fact that all true muslo lovers Kit In the gallery with their eyes shut, I fear Kmlle has not a true musical soul, 'P. H. New lUviN, Conn., January 9 I'nrtbbound. Many fathoms drep I lie I'nder Water. Ilnrth nnd HU . I, the firstborn, pi Irani I'lre, Hurled deep by deep desire! (iod, who culled me from the .om Shall 1 thus be Let me go buck whence I came, One with eltniental Hume' Prisoned In these earthly walls Winded, bound, my spirit culls. What need I of mmtnl life, All my soul with being rife! What remains for nie to le,nn, Who lit Thy blazing suns to burn! What remulna for mo to know, Who set Thy circling tides to flow! Is there might for me to find Who loosened Thine ethereal wind! Need have I for nioital birth, Who Uulped to swing Thy rounded earth! Bsek of all the knlpas I Know the Wherefore and the Wh) Uod, who wrought mo of deshe! riod, whu shaped my soul nf Ural I, the firstborn, wild nnd free. First of all to answer Thee, Why should I thus prisoned bs! , U. E, DVDLU, j4 THE VATHEIHlAt, PLASS. The Consulting Architect Hefrrs Inqitlr. rrs to Ills Hrnorl. To Tim Korroit or Tub Su.v Sir: As; your leader on \The Cathedral of nt. John tho Divine,\ published January 1, !h apparently based on certain mis- conceptions which are most natural In view of tho fact that you nre not In possession of all the facts bearing on the new tentntlvo schemes for com- pletion, .1 send you herewith certain extracts from tho report of tho con sulting architect submitted together with the tentative sketches. This report bears the date of November 21, 1913: Tho drawings, as I now place them before you, aro not to be considered In any respect us definitive or even as repre- senting ' , any matured convictions as to the lines of development that should bo to loweu, except as rcgurus uic .genera scheme of the plan, the composition and I mass. Tho tlmo available for the prepa- ration of these designs was of course quite Inconsistent with that careful study and consideration that must he given to any scheme of such commanding magni tude. This can' ful consideration, how- - ever, applies rather to detail than to gen- - era! principles, and these latter. I believe, I have been able to determine satlsfnc- -' torlly to myself and I trust as well to the',' trustees. The fundamental points to which I would especially call your ntcntlon aro as follows: (o) The plan should be developed with explicit regard to the work already ac- complished. This is so definite that a radical change In scale or treatment would be Impossible even If it were de- sirable, I ant convinced that It Is not desirable, but that the adoption of the principle of large square areas built to- gether to foim a complete plan Is sus- ceptible nf fine and monumental develop- ment. In my opinion It would be Impo slhle to add to the work already accom- plished it nave and transepts of the tra- ditional Kngllsh form, I. e., long sequences of Identical bays each approximately twice the width of Its depth, ns, for ex- ample, in the eases of the naves of Can- terbury, York, Lincoln, Winchester or Westminster. Transition would he to violent from such a nave and transept to the great crossing that It would bo most unfoi'tunito In effect. (b) I urn strongly of the opinion that the npsldal terminations of the transepts oilgliylly provided for should be wholly abandoned and in their place should be the flat walls that appear In practically all the standard (lothlc work of thn Middle Ages. These transept ends should lontaln, eacli of them, great doorways opening north and south, and above these doors would appear vast rose windows, with a third at the westerly end of the nave, thus obtaining the great grouping of three los-e- s mi characteristic of all the best medlieval work In France and to a certain extent In Knglnnd. tc) The great crossing I be roofed by an enormous sexpartlte vault echoing thoe of the n.i and Iran, septs. This vault would rise materially higher than the pri si nt temporary dome nnd It would bu lighted by two great windows on either face above the ridges of the roofs. The Increase In height nnd the breaking up nf the vault into sexpar- tlte form can only result In enormously Improving tho acoustic of the cathe- dral. (c) In the development of the exterior, I would particularly call jour attention to the position of the towers. In the original plan the traditional Ilyzantlne, ItenaissaiiC! and ICngllsh (iothlc scheme of a great Central dome or lantern wns contemplated. This treatment provided for a .ist tower mid spire with subor- dinate towers at th west uid. A most careful study has convliic.d mo that this Is InailmKMble, and 1 am fully persuaded that the original architects for the build- ing would have come to the same con- clusion on further study. It appears to m' demonstrable that n tower tin feet square and of the width of both nave nnd aisles cannot possibly be made to serve as a central tower that will bcir a proper relation In point of mass to the remainder of the building. Hueh treat- ment has never been attempted before In any architectural work. Wherever n crossing of these dimensions wns pro- vided for, it was lutarlahly covered by somo form of dome. Now a domical treat ment nf the crossing of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine Is manifestly out of question for a century efforts have been made to devise nnd to develop what may be called a \Uotliie dome.\ but with lamentable rt suits. That this crossing must be carried higher than the roofs of the nae, quire and transepti U Inevi- table In view nf the slie of eiosng area Itself, but 1 btlleve this central lantern should be kept down to th lowest pos-flbl- o height that would result in con- taining the necessary Interior area, nnd that the towers should bo provided for elsew here. The same argument that holds against the great central tower holds also against the two great western towers after the fashion of Cologne Cathedral, with none others to back them up except the of the cruising Ureiit western towers would, I think. i;lo u poor com- position and an unfortunate general ef- fect In view of the enntmous m.isi of the Inevitable lantern. Therefore It necessary to develop the impera- tive great towers at some other part of the plan. 1 have trlid Innmuuniblo schemes fur the placing of these tower, but have invariably been driven back to my tlrst conviction thnt these should stand appioxlmately at the Junction of the nave and transepts and toward the wist Hy assigning the towers to this position they ale brought Into the centie of the ciiniixiHltlon, they combine them- selves happily with the great lantern and make it less conspicuous In lis gigantic proportions, and lifting, ns they do, T.OO feet In lh. air, they can, I think, only i- nsult In piling the whole coinpoxltlon up Into a pyramidal form that will lie strik- ing and Impressive to a degree. It will be seen by referring to the plans nnd peispectlvo views that these great lowers ale now shown closely associated with the cintrnl lantern. 1 am of the opinion that further study may make it appear desliable that they should be re- moved further from this lantern, so that they will stun I clear from the level of the parapets, with light between them and the lantern. However this may be, 1 am convinced that the position as- signed to these towels Is at present right. (li) In rhe treatment of the exterior the stylistic basis should be that of so called transitional limbic, I. e., the ear- liest nnd puicst Untitle of Luiope, while It was Mill one style and befoie It had especially differentiated Ittelf between the different nationalities. This Is a style of great simplicity and classical beauty. II depends to a gnat extent on Its form, composition and cnrctull) studied line, together with lis brilliant light and sli ule, for itH iff.tt. It Is nut ovi n helmed with detail and W Iu every respect a monu- mental and enduring st.vle, In the adap- tation of this foi in of (inthle for the com- position of New York Cathedial further study would result Iu it comtunt working away from those elements which at pies-ou- t may iieem to bo too iloael.v icpitltlw\ of ic cognized examples. Tho west front may appear to susgest too closely the west fiont of Notte Dame, the tianseptal towers may seem to follow too faithfully the linns of tho \old towel\ of Chaitie-i- , thn Irausept facades niuy seem too sug- gestive of Ithelms. It should bu remem- bered, however, that the studying of this problem Is one which should Involve U'liis and not nioiilhs, and that, theie-for- e, in working out a piellmluary scheme such ns tills, It is possible only for the architect to determine for himself those models of the past which ft em to him most noble and most adaptable, va ug to the future the elahointe and careful study which will mm It in a constant dif- ferentiation from these accepted general types. Willi the lieceafiuy yeain nf study all those elements in the present design which may seem to suggest undent models would bo obviated and, little by little, nil parts of tho building would take on an aspect ot modernism which would ero to Indicate the fact that this Is indeed a cathedral of the twentieth cen- tury In the New World and not an nrchreologlcal recreation of a medieval structure. I should bo glad If you found It pos- sible to publish this letter. It. A. Cram, Consulting Architect. New York, January 10. \.T The Forgotten Helm. To tub Editor op Thk Sun .S7iv The New Year article in Tub Hun on cathe- dral plans Is the most Intelligent I have seen on tho subject, llclns seems to bo utterly forgotten. He was a great architect. Greater than Cram although Cram can do better work in pointed Gothic than any one living or who has lived since the fourteenth con- - tury If fvnM'm itnalirnfl a nnnlA,! It n.tll bn almost as bad for the renutntlon of Ct.m ,a. -. T.. wii hVB k.led ! ' each other, and Itelns Is not to blame. Cram does not appear to appreciate llclns, nnd the details added by LaFarge would seem to show that he did not com- prehend his partner. Ileitis. s grand and unique conception, 1 \ \ V..hi J I, v ,i,'i,,,nf!i,i?,M tf i wr ifv i\?0811 \nTf e, d?ne onJy i nal than nny since tho thirteenth cen tury, nor excepting lllchnnison s. One must know the rules of whist be- fore venturing to \distinguish.\ llelns never violated the rules of any style he followed. Why Is so great a man Ignored? Had lie lived until now there would be no thought of changing his design, nnd even If It was lcs worthy than It Is, It Is now too late. The gentleman from Connecticut who wrote Tun Hon does not seem to be par- ticularly intelligent. Quiuam Ionotus. Nkw York, January 10. THK OPES WiSHOW. Kvery season has Its scapegoat. This season It Is the tango. Clergymen and lAymen are knocking It hard, which leads me to wonder how much they know about It. The tango Is not a viipjar dance unless it Is made so by the dancers. Its origin lias nothing to do with Its present form. When the tnngo was first danced In this country it was danced vulgarly, probably Just ns It was on Its native heath, but It has becomo very much tnodllled and Is now, as danced by decent people, as little vulgar as the minuet danced Jy our ancestors. A woman may walk down the street vulgarly and at- tract unpleasant attention to herself, but that Is no reason why walking should be condemned. It seems to me thnt the people who are talking to violently against the tango h.iv- - simply lost their heads and nre not open to reason. They talk about \sex appeal\ In this dnnce. You can tlnd rex appeal In everything if you nre looking for It, In the boxes at the opera as well as in the dancing at the cabarets. Un- professional dancing Is sometimes not what it should be. but In the best places vulgar dancing Is stopped at once. These remind me of a woman who cancelled her subscription to the 1'ontn'j Co'iipoiitoit because there was a picture of a ballroom In It with ladles In low neck dresses. She wrote to the editor that she had a grown son and that she could not allow a paper In her houe which had In It so much of what Is now called \sex appeal.\ The fact that the Queen of Kugland f i owns upon the tango has done thnt dance great harm In high society, and yet Sir\ Cornwnllls West, who was formerly Lady Randolph Churchill. Is said to be one of the most expert tnngo'.sts In lin-do- n siiclety. I don't know how they dance the tango In Kngland, but I do know how It Is danced at the best places in New York and I can see no more harm In It than In a Virginia reel. I do not wonder that Kngland Is nghast at the great Individual wealth of this country. A man worth fifty million dies and until the day of his death and this announcement Is made comparatively few people ever heard of him. Some time ago a man who was virtually un- known died and left million nnd that was a nine day's wonder. Now Charles Appleby of .Mlneola, L. I.. dies and by his will divides the sum of fifty million dollars between two sons. If Mr. Appleby htd held a conspicuous social position everybody would hive known Just how- - much money he had and his estate would have been discussed from one end of the country to the other, for If It be true that lie left tlfty mill- ion he was worth very little, less than the late John Jacob Astor, whose wealth mado hlni famous on two continents. Lord Howard do Walden, who was the tidiest utimariled peer ill Kngland, Is now that he has committed matrimony not the richest peer but at the s imp time a man of much wealth. Lord Howard has literary aspiration. Some years ago 1 read in manuscript a play that he had written, which I do not think was ever pioduced, but that npptiently did not discourage him, for lie has written the libretto of more than one opera, and that these operas have not made a great sue-Ci- ss has not discouraged him either. Lord Howard Is a man of simple taste, He will attend a fashionable tea arrayed In a flannel shirt and soft collar, he wears no Jewelry whatever and his watch chain Is a leather boot lace. That he has aspiration Is to his credit, for the aspirations of most young peers of wealth run in other dliectlons. A man told me the other d,i that his brother, who was an Intimate frlnid of lldghr Allen loe, said that Poo completed \The Havin\ while walking up Hroadway one evening. The poet wns calling oil this friend. Cornelius Mathews, to whom he read \The Haven\ ns far as he had writ- ten It They walked uptown together and l'oe becoming suddenly Inspired, stopped miller a street lamp and wrote the con cluding stanza of what Is certainly among the three of four most famous poems ever written liv an American poet, nils Hory was told me hy the brother of Mr. Mathews, who got It at first hand. J. I C. I'uel for (.'cuius. To tiii: KniTor. op TilK Sun .Sir; The record of Important achievements in the wot Id of art. poetry, polltiis nnd beauty doesn't bear out \Strlnus'.s\ Idea that ex cessive eating Isn't stimulating to people of brains, wit and humor to better work. It may he that Ksklmns, after dining heaitllv on tallow candles, feel lazy nnd fall Into protracted slumber. Hut they're a dull inople anyway. Take, for example, Cenernl liosallc Jones and her army on their pilgrimage to Albany: it has required seven meals a day to keep their brains in sutlleleiit fuel and their bodies in perfect pulchritude. It Is also a well known fact that the iild Hoard of New York, the New Haven foot Ctinrds and other less noted defend- ers of our coast are only nt their best when eating many meals not only days but nights Kxce.sslve drinking ha be, n known to Interfere with better wink, but only camels', 1 believe, drink copiously, Iambs O. Dnwr.i.i., Jr. Nmv IUvkn, Conn., January b, for the Museum nf simli. Webster was cninplllnp: his dictionary \1 wunt to preserve that strange word 'economy' that ilnvernnr lilMiu uei In his mt singe,\ be explained. Approved .Method. Knlikcr Per whom did ou name thu babyt Hoeksr Huerla, we Intend to bring htm up the same u.o I ucle Sam is Mlslng Mexico. Musi Id I'lillosophy. First I'D There will nlwuju be s.MU.ors, KtKnnd Kly Yes, there tan never be u foolproof fl, WOULD FIX NO LIMIT TO PRISON SENTENCE T. Al. Osborne Gives Imlicnlinn of Sweeping Chnngcs in Tcnnl System. TALKS BEFORE CITY CM I! Calls Present Theory Fail nre Yvpca Principle of Reformation. An Indication of the sweeping eh.i'.t.s his commlsslo'n will recommend In N York State's penal system was given v terday afternoon by Thomas Molt in borne In a talk before the City Club. Mr. Osborne, who spent a week n' fall In Auburn prison, Is heud of the cum. mission appointed to suggest revision nf the State's penal law and methods. T men and women who heard him, Includ, c Dr. Katherlne Dement .Davis. Comm sloner of Correction, seemed to feel thu Mr. Osborne would do his best to embed In the State's laws the conclusions he Ins readied. The most Important chango suggested n absolutely Indeterminate sentences fur crime all crime. \The prison system based on the theorv of punishment bus failed conipleteb said Mr. Osborne. \Wo cannot and never will be able to tell Just bow 'guilty nn man really Is, because we cannot look ,i his soul. As lo a theory of prisons based on the deterrent effect they may have we are Just as hopelessly off. It never win bo possible, to tell whether or not we ,'i'e deterring a person from crime. Tho on safe ground on which to hulld a prl on system is the principle of reformation of tho prisoner. Mmy Keep Men .rtr. \It Is tho only safe ground because It Is the economic attitude toward the prob lent. It Is tho principle of keeping men from coming back to Jail. \Nobody ever expressed the ideal in handling crime any better than W. S Gilbert In 'The Mikado,' where he rliym d about 'making the punishment lit th crime.' Hut It Is nn unattainable lib.ai because, as I say, we can't find out how gulltv a person Is. \Therefore we must give up utterly th method of trying to tit a certain m cent, of punishment to a certain p centuge Iu crime and adopt th\ lndc mlnnre sentence absolutely. \Look at the absurdities of the pies.' system. The same crime pets wld-- i varying sentences, often irom the saint Judge. There Is a crazy chaos of penal ties for 'misdemeanors' nnd Monks an I other artificial divisions of crime. \We must say to the wrongdoer' 'You are to go to prison, not because wo lit ow how guilty ou are, nor to serve as ,i example to others, nor to lit you with certain penalty for a certain crime. Ni You are to go to prison because . e have done u crime. You have done ,i unsocial thing. Therefore we cut you ot from society for an Imb-tlnU- time how long will depend upon you,' \Such a method would pievent nny thing like the Thaw scandal.\ I.lfr fur Worst Offender. The understanding from .Mr. Osboriu wouls was that the gieat body of the penal law can lie swept aside, tll.it w In a man Is proved to have done n crlni\ t may be possible not long hence to go 'o further In court, but merely to give bin a prison sentence nnd send him awav i' he can be reformed he will be freid f can't, because of degeneracy or n i cusseilniss, he will be kept in prison, i e life IT necessary. \t freely admit that theic aio nun w . should be quarantined for life from s' ciety,\ Mr. Osborne said. He told a good deal about Ills own we k In Auburn prison, llx-l'- ri sldi nt Toft. s.,d Mr. Osborne, attacked him without know- ing the fact, \something that even an presldent shouldn't do.\ \t am no wild eyul theorist, ns M Tnft seemed to think,\ Mr. i marked. \My tlrst Idea was to go t o Aubutn Incognito, but I gave it up on the advice of a very Intelligent convict, w told me, 'We fellows are pretty s clous and If J ou do that It will take n two mouths to get acquainted.' \Tom Hrown was useful an an al for the teuton that It didn't rein ' every one who I was each time 1 was dressed. \of course our prison system na to be. changed, Itscornert.toue.it p- - - Is to make everything natural a fm no- thing. When I emerged from 'In \\ room of Auburn prison and wei i to w in the basket shop my cb.-e- -t ft e couldn't tell me amniii the othei corn I know this because the warden, n knew me well, and other friends wa. thnnuli the shop within twenty feel me and fallnl to recognize me, alt i\ wcie there expressly to llml The next day my secretary tried i \ me a man win. sees me almost mo ! of my life and lie couldn't do it eithi Volhlnu t Hulld On. \Tlieie Is 'the saaie frantic efl wipe out a man's mental and mora vlduallty the only thins you lav build on when you're trying to m !e better but tills effort laively You can make a man v sometimes', but It Is not always to destiny bis soul \I would ask each of you to g your homes and picking out a rug feet one way by I feet the oihei e yourself upon It for foil: ti en hour- - out a break. You will then have taste of what contlnement mean '\ cells nt Auburn. \Prison labor doesn't mi. cced. be. .i Is slave kinor nn-- fjived to wo do well. The allotment of work Imbecile. A husky man - set v. lawn, u frail boy Is set s.ol.ln,.- - a fi, \I refuied to work o as to be the cooler, or dark eel's. I t . ,o, .. Ktono tloor. Tile sill, lit WAl clad was waslud especially f\i u.e Isn't for the ordllin.-- y consi '. set cooler. \1 lind two plects of uiiik no sers and a Co old chfi covering was allownl me. I had i water nnd a slice of bread. II n. of water to last a man twe itv-f- I used to be the i lib- - in tin. . niioi of-.- i u to Inx.uilty. II it ended that. \M. handkerchief wa, i.i.i fioin me. Once n chap ' cell had stranilid hlnirelt v.'., kerchief, o th\.v look mine nv.i. had I Intended sulcldo It vtouhl much easier to achieve It w.tb n \ ' clotliliu' than with n handke.' bo ' was much voniiiu. \I'll confi si: .lie i no nl'Jhl i I knocked me emlwa.w, allium h ' i ; very good physical sliipe when ' \ i Into Auburn mbon I bu: we. .si. then I was rather l id of thai th. r wise. My flliall sou said to me w. ' heard what I was going to do. do you good,' it did, but pcrnape in r.s him uneNpectid. ' or I iilloin Heller. Wahiiiniiton. Jan. P1 e llllll Of lllllllllH, Willi bus UC\\. ' \ ills bed for several days by n se wns much impioved y anil a SU MS,
