The Evening World (New York, N.Y.)
November 26, 1887

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STK THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1887. 1 Pthe world. pp SATURDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 26. Hut R BVXBCBIPTIOIT XO TBS XTBSIKO Bt EDITION (Including Totfage), B JPJEB MONTH, 30c I PSR YEAR, $3.80. KiA 37l following comparison is an exact record Hm-' cf tM e&ttelr regular, bona-fide editions of Tub Kt, World prMtel during the week preceding and BW'1 tcctk following the last elections Hr.,1 1Ttr!m. 4fltr tUttfan. B' 8ady 807,000 805,000 pf Monday 02,610 205,040 K& Tneaday 807,000 809,000 mtgS Wednesday 808.000 317,040 WWJ Thursday 803,080 884,800 K'f Friday 800,180 377,800 Saturday 800,000 803,070 Hi Weekly ul' Beml. V Weekly 107,480 107,000 K Total 1,088,080 8,170,800 B, IFe, ft trndeTSfsned, Vie paper manufacturers B' tefto supply the while paper used by the New York Eft Wosld, hereby certify that we have carefully ex. Kfi'Bmined (he above statement of circulation, and Kt solemnly swear that it corresponds with the BT, amount of white paper supplied by us, used by Htfj Tax Wobls and charged up to them (in accord. BP once with our method of charging Thb 'Would jl ucs bat osly tub patch actually ssbb K jjrr Harxxs) during (As two weeks specified. Hfv BcXXXBT, DUWXOK Co., KL by Satis O. GIbabbamt. KS' J0MC Hatxm Patch Co. '(V Bu(junLunA Watzb-Powxb Kf aits Papbii Oo. HPr' Cunts Falls Patch, Mill Co., K- by AVu. B. Duaon. Kt& Manager of Bales. rf' W. H. Pabsoms A Co., g, by W. H. Pabsomi. HP Psrsonauyappsandbsforain Satis O. aaBAJUjrr, J of Ba&lty, BsstOD O0.1WK. D. Bnxra, uaair Hp of sales tor tba York Hans Paper Oo., the Susquehanna B' TTateePowsr and Paper Oo, and Olens Tills Paper Mill K? Co., and W. H, Pabsoxs, of W. H. Persona A Oo H" ho, being known to ma. did append their signatures H unto and im thai lb tontrtns statement 1 tros Kg, aadeomet. TfnxuM I. Bautxa, Hy OommlwtriniT of Deeds. CltT and County of Haw York. Kt Voir Teak, Hot. U. 1837. W 1 Hff ADVEBTI8INQ RATES. Hr& (Agate Uauamnaat.) Eh Ordinary, 85 eanta par Una, IT axtra prloa for a- Ki erptabl dljplay, Bnrlnoaj or BpaeUl ItotloM, oppoalt Hi Zdltortal pa, SO eata par Una, HiiHnt ItotloM, D' tUmdormukad "Adrt.ni Plrrt gasa, 91.00 par k XoatSbstkpasa, 81.80 par Un IsaUa pasa, 81 ME:' parhaa. HV' tUratJWadrUtime JU Sad fOXLOJt Ml ay Hk' VlfKilMXMalaftoM. Jrar m Im rXM 0 Ul m Hii' AtJKmifaf XdUtm. K OTV WITH THE WAB TAXES. B The Old Trills Journal that has, behind Hft tha mask of Domooraoy, stabbed one Bemo Kfv waUo Presidential candidate and erosaly In-LUi- BnlUd And abused another, keeps saying' that Eir the Democrats can be beaten next year K' only by trying to force free trade." Hr By "forcing free trade" it means the re Kfduotlon, by prer 10 little, of the unjust and B tauperfluous Var taxes on the necessaries of H' .the people. Kt't ItlsBepnbllcanUm, not Bemocracy, that Htt; ft Tfar tariff of 47 per cent, prodaclnjf a surplus otorflr $100,000,000 a year, shall be BR, perpetuated at the demand of the monopolies BSjfhat it has Created. BBy. An national eonrention and State oonren Bs;'tkais,in the messages of its President and pKfc. the reports of its Secretary of the Treasury, K toe Bemocracy has demanded that the rar. Jljj- plus be stopped by a reduction of the tariff. fcT Elections are sot carried upon broken w' promises. WMMMmmy BBr Where Our Anarchists Live I Bee (he Sunday W "WOBLD. mL he uohopolt at bat. BKjfc The agents of the Southern railroads plead' HB& excuses thiokas blackberries trhy they hare Hj!seriminated in their freight charges in favor KTlj'f the Standard Oil. R,-, But most of these exouses ore flimsy. They Bm all inadequate. They aro apparently PfeLjgianufactnred for the emergency. BBp'W The charges of discrimination ire main Vftained lu almost erery instance by ioou Lisaentary oTidence. The extenuating testi. KVxnony of the railroad agents is promptly KJ eontroTerted by their own letters produced BBby the complainant. Thus brought to bay, H"4the confused witnesses for the Standard Oil R, habitually offer the explanation of clerical R mors." K;; Their pretexts, excuses and apologies -will Kjt 'Wot aTaU. The fact remains that the grossest mjftl discrimination exists, and that it is always in Bh favor of the monopoly. HKT;' The necessity of the Interstate Commerce H law is established. How let it be enforced. HC The Sunday "Wojlld wiUteUKcns WiMt Collins H'f writes novels. H A BED-TAPE BTJLDIQ, E, There is too much regular army martinet TBfc am in Gen. Newton's insistence upon stop- IB ping the subway vrork on the 1st of Becem U' bar. HK It frequently happens that there is not H frost enough here to interfere with such work KP before Christmas. Why not go by the Hjr leather instead of the calendar Hature K$; knows nothing of the Boman dlTislons of H' time in the latitude of New York. HnjT It i for the interest of the puhllo to have Hffifc the trenching completed as soon as possible. KffkFor sanitary reasons it is better that the ex. Htff-' cavatlons should be made In cool weather. Hng 1Y an election were pending next month, Hn. trould the city authorities throw 6,000 work. H&; logmen out of employment on an arbitrary Wmr, rullngy Not much. ML Head about Robert Bonner's stables and horses Fji in the Sunday Wobls. Ef;t THE QEHTLE AHABOHIBT. B'- What a wonderful change has come over HHL the spirit of the Anarchists) According to HKk-, the testimony in Host's behalf, the wolf has B' feeoome a lamb. Hk Bis mild and docile nature has been BBj frlTouUy siisunderstood. Instead of eaU HJK, iagnre, instigating murder and brandishing K boajbs, Host talked quietly and peaceably, BtMkM ia a mournful, sorrowful ton thatf mi&,.A,MsW, t. vsWsjkssMitkmmAASibfiyi,,k brought tears to the eyes of his soft-hearted auditors. a'PBfiara.jigw that Anarchy's weapon is the bomb, but the pen, and that its real objootis "to have eTerythlng upright and straight" and a socioty where there are no criminals. The Chicago lesson seems to havo had a Tory salutary effect. IT WHLBEBVE, "Is Prohibition gaining?" inquires the anxious Tribune. Well, a gain from 25,500 to 42,000 Totes in this State within threo years isn't exactly a revolution, but It will do" for the Bepub lican party. At this ratio of increase tho Prohibition strength, in the full Tote of the Presidential year, will be more than 60,000 in 1888. Like Meroutio's wound, it will serve. OHLT A COLD." The young man who disappointed his bride-elect and a merry wedding party at Long Branch on Thanksgiving evening, by telegraphing at a late hour that ho couldn't come because of a bad cold," most have poor stuff in him for a bridegroom. Deterred by a cold,1 when from timo im memorial men have gone through fire and flood, through troplo heat and polar frost, In the face of parental displeasure and of a frowning world, and even over tho dead bodies of rivals, to wed tho woman of their choico I Put off a wedding for "a cold I" The chap ought to be doomed to live single all his days, and be subject to the tender mercies of a fourtluolass boarding-house keeper, in a back hall bedroom on the fifth floor. A cold," forsooth I Shades of Lxansbb THE QBEEBY CONTRACTORS, For a phenomenal samplo of monumental gall, commend us to the Aqueduct contrac tors. Not satisfied with the fat profits that they may safely be trusted to get out of their big contracts, they now come forward with a de mand for $3,000,000 extra allowance. Comptroller Loiw is true to his record in absolutely refusing to pay out a single dollar without legal warrant. Disclosures that will startle the taxpayers are promised. The most startling disclosure would be to learn that the work is being honestly done, but that is too much to hope for in this year of grace. FROM COT HALIi TO CITY HALL, The strenuous opposition of a few prop, erty-ownersto the proposed bridgo extension to the Brooklyn City Hall may defer but cannot prevent that improvement. The general sentiment of Brooklyn un doubtedly is strongly in 'favor of the ex. tension. The rapid growth of tho remoter sections of the city renders it more and more desirable each year that the main en trance to the bridge should be at the radi ating centre of population. It is futile to blockade the path of prog. rors. HALBTBAiys HOWL. Not content with a dally repetition of the old seotional cries in his own journal, Mubat Halstxas mounts tho Forum and emits an imitation of tho "yawp" that Walt Wbttmam sent forth over the universe. The wild-eyed editor gWes tables showing the number of voters in several Southern districts, the number of votes polled during the riot of carpetbagism, and the greatly diminished number cast at tho last Congres sional elections. His inference, of course, is that tho negro vote has been suppressed and the Constitution nullified." Chestnuts! Bats I Mr, Halstxas's own tables show that the Republicans ran no can. dldates last year in many of the districts. The national leaders of that party deliber ately abandoned their organization at the South in 1880, and havo made no contest there since. The Field-Marshal is the true Pre-Hlstorlo Man in Ohio. The sentimental gushers who kept sym pathy on tap for the unrepentant Chicago Anarchists will probably have none left for the latest of their victims a policeman who, after suffering two amputations, has lost his reason as the result of his sufferings. It is probable that one Englishman's mouth is stopped against sneers at the dollar loving Americans." With a fat fee for his eulogy on his most dear friend, Bxxcnxn, Dr. Pabxbb will be able- to look with charity upon a tendency to thrift. As no election is sending, it will perhaps do no harm to have the Princo of the House of Gould going through tho West indorsing the financial policy of the Administration." But under other circumstances it would not be sagacious campaigning. The election at Atlanta proves that the colored men vote freely enough when there is an issue that interests them. They are no longor moved, however, by the old bait of forty acres and a mule." The Harvard boys talk of protesting the football game on account of alleged unfair rulings by the referee. They should have done their kicking on the Polo Grounds. Young Mr. Gouls thinks the Interstate Low is working admirably. The people will reserve their opinion until the decision in the Standard Oil cases. Secretory Bixroon says that Mr. O'Bbxxh need not wear the prison dress. The British lion can now take back those trousers. Mr. Blabjb is going to the Biviera. The earthquakes there aro tame compared to the New York article. A Crown Prince who faces death with such fortitude, demonstrates his fitness to live. To M. Gbxtx 1 The way to resign is to I resign. MRS. HEItHAN 0L1BK TO'OITrTl RECEP TION THIS AFTERNOON. DIIh Edlifa JledBetd to be Married to Air. Frrderlo Taber Coopor, and flllao IjUctta Illrnhaaer to be Married to Air. Henry Ij. Wolf Next Tneoday livening Move ments of Well.Known Society People. tVf M Bf HEBE will bo several Sfe H' G I A events of sooial inter vf' J! JjjSL. H cst to-d"?" but no mar iR5(PV"wV 5 riages to toko place, as fiSK3 (w-cy f there is quite a general Vv&a" superstitious feeling jy 7ff iBiSm "bout Saturday wed IJMSfflJ I Yfl'll dings. Mrs. Herman StfeffiK Wfcg Clarke, of 48 West y .T- J 1 1 MJIJ4F Ninth street, will givo JJffii one of tho first largo ifis I J tii- 0C0Pon,, o' th-8 sea- r-ZJiX on tlj,s afternoon in jJ53jTMJKjU' i honor of Miss Clark. fewWJjuBflW Thoy will bo assisted :wmSynKiVbi.' A 'u receiving by the All UnvJ"a Misses Rutherford.tho i-lU iJlVlFt&.rrwf" Misses Battcrthwaite, Miss Cornelia Van Auken, Miss Louisa Jack. son. Miss May Byrd, Miss Walker, Miss Louisa Ward, the Missos Shipman, Miss lluth Lawronco and Miss Julia Lawrence. Mrs. Clark will recoive in palo-blus crepo and moiro trimmed with wild roses. Miss Clark will wear rose crepo over white and road. Among those that will bo present are the following named persons: Mr. uDd Mrs. Ttiomts CUrk, Mr. and Mri. Wlll lim II. Wloknam, Mr. and Mrs. Kobert Ruther ford, Mrs. U. 1L Van Anton, Mr. and Mri. Iiaao Larrnoe, Mr, and Mm. Prescott Lawrence, Mr. TJndernlll, Miss Louise Vloyd-Jonei, Mr. and Mrs, Henry E. Lawrence, the Mines Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Newbold P. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Cbsrlei II. Leisnd, Mlu Maud Lelind, Dr. and Mri, Cnarles Remaen, Mrs. Eastman Jobnton. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Livingston, Mrs. M. Taylor 1'jrne, Mr. and Mrs. William Dodge. Mr. and Mrs. Ilarber, choMU.ea Barber, Mr. and Mrs. Ilajard Cutting, Mrs. F. Brookholst Cutting, and Mr. and Mrs. ll L. Coning. The principal wedding of next week will be that of Mr. Frodorio Taber Coopor and Miss Edith Iledfield, daughter of Mr. Amasa A. Iledfield, which will take place on Tues day evening, Nov. 29, at 8 o'clock, at tho West Presbyterian Church. Tho Rov. William H, Cooke, of Trinity Parish, an uncle of tho bride, assisted by tho Rev. Dr. Paxton, will officiate. Mr, Lattimor Redfleld, a brothor of the bride, will bo tho best man. MIbs Edith Btratton will bo tho maid of honor. Mr. Charles Cushman, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Henry Buck, Mr. J. B. Elmendorf, Mr. Harry Learned and Mr. Lins J. Phelps will bo the ushers. Miss Eliza Gridley, MIbs 1'lioobo Gridley, Miss Nellie Davis. Miss Annio Whitney, Miss Mabel Lines and Miss Mamie Cooke, a cousin of tho bride, will be the bridesmaids. Tho bride will be given nwny by her fathor. A Tory large reception will follow at the home of the parents of the bride, 68 West Forty-eighth street. Auotlior large wedding on Tuesday will be that of Mr. Henry L. Wolf and Miss Lisette Bionhauor, which will take place in the even ing at the home of the parents of the bride, 012 West Fifty-eighth street. Mrs. P. Humbert, of 0 East Twenty-sixth Btreot, will givo a tea on Dec. 8, Miss May Dwight Foote has been during the past week visiting her grandmother, Mrs. John Tyler, at 853 Beacon street, Boston. Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokos, of 19 East Thirty-fourth Btreot, will givo a large recep tion this afternoon, for whioh 1,500 invito, tions have been issued. Tho guests will include Mr. and Mrs, Charles Stuart Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. John Bigelow, the Misses Bigo low, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Dodge, Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Held, Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Mills, Mrs. Grace Dodge and Miss Mary Dodge and many others. Mrs. Benoni Lockwood, of 114 East Eighteenth street, will give a large roceptlon on Dec 15. Mrs. A. E. Tuckor, of 10 East Thirty-sec ond street, gavo during the week a large theatre party to the Madison Square Theatre in honor of Miss Lillian Gwrnn, Among those who attended were the Misses Lentil lion, Miss Louise Floyd-Jones, Miss Thorn. Mr. Mortimer L. Thorn, jr.. Miss Sarah Floyd-Jones, and many others. A supoor followed at Delmonlco's. Mrs. Henry E. Lawrenoe, of 67 East Twenty fifth street, will give a tea on the afternoon of Deo. 8. Mrs. W. S. Hancock, widow of the late Gen. W. S. Hancook, is passing the week with Mrs, Nicholas Gwynn, of 40 West Fifty, eighth street. Mrs, Gwynn's daughter, Mrs. Russell Hancock, is tho widow of Mrs. Han cock's only son. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Lawrence gave a theatre party on Wednesday evoning at tho Union Square Theatre. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, of Elizabeth, will give a large tea iu honor of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac! Lawrence on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Thomas Cutter, of 2112 Madison ave nue, gave a dance last ovening, Mrs. Woodward, of 6 Grameroy park, will givo a reception on tho afternoon of Sat urday, Deo. 10. Mr. and Mrs. Herbort A. Sherman, ne'e White, will on their return from their South, orn trip live at 1 East Twenty-eighth street. Mr. and Mrs, F. A. Canchois, ne'e Gorman, on their return from their wedding trip vVill receive their friends at their new homo, 37 East Sixty-ninth Btreot. Mr, and Mrs. Ernest Longfellow, who aro making a short stay in New York, will spend the winter in Egypt. Miss Ella Jones, of 316 West One Hundred and Twenty-third street, gave a.cotillon last oveniug. Tho guests included the dancing class 01 which biio is a member. mrs. i.a warn jtmcneu, jars. Artnur M. Dodge. Mrs. Courtlandt D. Moss and Mrs. N. P. Rogers will all give large receptions next Wednesday. Mias Adele Cullon, of 148 West Fifty eighth street, gave a dauce last evoning. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. M, Peixotto, nco Sa dowska, will receive their friends on Tues. day evenings during the winter at thoir new home, 58 West Fifty .seventh Btreet, Tho Rev. and Mrs. S. Halstead Watkins will givo thoir first reception since their marriage at tho home of Dr. and Mrs. Page, 31 West Thirty.third stroot, on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 1. Mr, V.. B, l'laco and family sailed on Wednesday for Europe, where they will travel extensively. The annual banquot of the Board of Trado will bo held at the Hotel Brunswick Thurs day evening, Dec. 29. Sir. and Mrs. Augustin Daly, of 14 West Fiftieth street, aro at homo Sunday even ings, Mr. Henry E. Hawley and the Misses Haw. loy, of 10 West Thirty.third street, will give at homes" on Thursdays Dec. 1, 8, and 15, from 4 to 7 o'clock. Tho Arlington League Club will give a ball at Ferrero's Assembly Rooms next Thurs day evening. William M. Tewksbury entertained at the Hoffman House Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. John A. Logan, jr., and a small party of friends. JVb other newspaper can compare with the Sun. day Would. Entertaining reading for a day for Oiree cents. Alaaonle rllmpllclly. From Harrtr, baar. He (als first call on 'she," whom lie met this summer In the mountains) So your father Is a Mason, llowhlga des he aland 1 Bhe-Well, lot me think The hlshest I've ever known him to was when he was at work on a very till factory ciilmoe? ever and ever o high, Jouknow. Tftat was tef we he was a rota. Now e Just stands round and gives orders, and we cooatdsr aim about ss blah up as ns can be. FOREST FIRES WORE WIDE RUIN. Stiles! or Vertllo Oemetnr la .Taastaaes auU. Arkansas Devaatatad-Cattla Perlab. larxciit. to m womr-n.l Mbupsis, Term., Nov. 26. Nothing llko tho extensive forest fires whioh are now slowly smouldering away bos ovor boon known in this part of the country. Tho ro ports of destruction aro widespread. Thou sands of cattle havo perished In tho open fields. In Tennessee the principal damago is dono along the lines of the Louisville and Nashville and the Chesapoako and Ohio roads. The latter runs through a heavily timbered country from this city to the Ken tucky line, and a great part of the freight that it handles consists of lumber for North, orn markets, especially oypress, which is bo coming very valuable owing to its compara tive scarcity In other lumbering localities. This timber will be deadened or killed by the fires, and the monetary loss must bo enormous. The lumbor town Of Harris has been burned and Bovcral others partially are destroyed. Along tho line of the Kansas City, Memphis and JJirmingbam road tho county is afire nearly all tho wav from Mem phis to Birmingham. The coal mines in Northwestern Alabama were threatened for a time and hundreds of miners laid down their picks to fight tho flames. The coal in that region lies very near tho surface, cropping out of the hill aides in many places, and should fire get a hold on the fields tho loss would be incul able. In Arkansas the flames have caused almost as wide. spread devastation as they havo in Tennessee. For fifty miles back from the Mississippi River the desolation is general. A groat number of cotton gins and dwolling. houses In the prairie country have been de stroyed. In the neighborhood of Okolona, Ark., forest fires are swooping tho moun tains, valleys and bottoms alike, destroying fencing and other property. Hundreds of cattle are annually wintered in the cane belt. It is all burned. Julian Hawthorne will give some interesting information about athletic training in the Sunday Wobls. m m MR, SCHWAB INSURED FOR $60,000. His Bon Denies the Horn or of Rnlclde and Expects to Fay the Creditors In Full. The door of Schwab Son's offloe at 655 Broadway was locked this morning whon a Wobls reporter called, but a stout man on guard openod it and called Mr. Emanuel Schwab, the son of the late head of the firm. Ho is about twenty-three years old, and his manner showed that ho felt the heavy burden thrown upon him by' the tragic death of his father by a fall down an elevator shaft and tho assignment mado necessary as a conse quence, "Yob," ho said, "I am to meet my cred itors to-day, and expect to pay 100 cents on tho dollar. The liabilities are somewhere about 890,000. I made the assignment in order that all tho creditors might have an equal chance.'' The report that suits wero brought against tho firm by Oberheuffer. Abegg Co., Ballin Bierman, Loeb Sohoenneld and Auff. mordt Co. is not true. Tho only suit is by Hart Lindgens, and that is for $600. My father was on of the oldest subjects of life insurance in the country. For twenty years he has carried large policies, aggregat ing about $60,000. We used to laugh ut him at home about this. "Ho traveled eight months in tho year and that is why he got accident policies. After the terriblo railroad acoldenta of tho past year he has increased them. "My fathor' stepped down the elevator Bhaft by accident. He uttered a cry as he fell. I was standing here when it happened." Mr. Schwab was standing at the door of tho store at the timo he made thlB remark. The firm has been embarrassed for several weeks, and Bradstreet's took away their rating several months ago. Tho policies wero made out in favor of Mr.Sohwab's wife. Mr. Schwab's life was insured in the New York Life for $10,000; United States Mutual Accident Association, $10,000 1 Travellers', of Now York, $10,000, and the New England A magazine and newspaper combined, The Sunday Wobls. Only 8 cents. a DEBUT OF JOHN SHEPARD'S DAUGHTER. Brilliant Gathering of Society Beauties at the Hotel Tendome In Boston. ISriCUX. TO TH WOKLD. Boston, Not. 26. One of tho most brilliant social events of the season was the ball given in the state apartments of the Vendome last night by Mrs. John Shepherd in honor of Miss Jossie Shepherd'B birthday. A large number of distinguished people woro present. Among them Gov. AmoB and wife t Mr. and Mrs. R. Ferguson 1 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ames Mrs. Leopold Morse Mr. and Mrs. Jonas French Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Maok and Miss Mabel Wood; Miss Har riot Ames of Bwampscott; Miss Gertrude Bemls, Miss Kittle Convorso, the Missos Button, Lester Leland. M. L. Powers, of Springfield Miss Maud Barnaby, of Providence-, Rev. M. J. Savage, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butterfiold (ne'e Miss Duvernet) Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bomis (ne'e Ctfmmings), and Miss Addle Tapley, of Lynn. Miss Jessie Shepherd woro a chormiug gown of white tulle, made over white Batin, with a full moire sash the waist of white satin, with V-shaped neck. A beautiful neck lace of pearls, with diamond clasp a birth day gift from her mother and a pearl pin were her only ornaments. Sbo received with her mother, Mrs. Shep herd. From 0 till 11 the young lady re ceived the good wisbos of her many friends and from 11 until 8 dancing was in ordor, Baldwin's Cadet Band furnishing the music. Mrs. Leopold Morse woro a beautiful French gown of yellow brocade, with a neck, lace of superb diamonds Miss Tapley on imported costume of light blue Batin. Miss Kittio Convorso woro an exquisito droBs of pink and white moire and Miss Gertrude Gumming a becoming gown of black tulle. Tho ushers wero Mr. G. Mandoll. Mr. Carleton Hunncmau, Mr. Horry Bemis, Mr. Frank Kennard, Mr. Howard Edwards and Mr. Charles Rutterfleld. An ample collation was furnished by the Vendomo caterer,

The Fonr Oldest Titled Families In Europe. (Von Medtrn Sotltly.) The tour oldest titled families In Europe having a living descendant are (according to Dr. von RleU) 1. The family of Colonna, whose ancestor was one of Julian's lieutenants when this Romsn succeeded the Emperor Constantlus, A. D. SSI. The descendant of that family Is the Prince do Co lonna (who a short time ago married an American heiress with a fabulous fortune). The Vandalrs, whose ancestor was cue of the chief, of ibe Van dals, when these barbarians Invaded Spain, and founded a kingdom In Africa, A. D, m The de scendant of tills family la Prince von Vanaale. 8. The family or Unaaey, of Bucer, vrnoie tnceator was one of the roo-t powerful Franklin chiefs who Invaded Qaul In A. 0. 783, ami settled at Ilnclu cum, now Uuci-j, In France. The descendant of this family la the Marrjnla Rohaolt de Longneville de Bucey. 4. The family of Rohan, whoae ances tor was one of the last Borgondlan kln.'S, A. D. There are several branches of that name now living. The head of the family Is Prince ds Rohan ChaboU m Ul caslnga of Poverty. (Van lk OmaXt World.) Flrst,Omaha Man I see the Crown Prince's con dition is pretty serious. Second Omaha Man Seems so. I had a throat trouble like that once, bnt I got over It easy enough. you did J" Yes, but then you see, I only had on doctor." NEWS ABOUT THE .THEATRES. THE 0A8IN0 ATTRACTIONS SECURED BX A CHICAGO MANAGER. John Hamlin's Acconnt of the Enormous Business Bone nt Ills Hsaae Increased Kecelpts at the Theatres on Thanksgiving Companies on the Itoad Tho Yonthfnl Musical "Prodigy" Arrives. !flXJ Trn CONTRACT has been wjlM LJ '(med by Manager Jflfjll S l John namlln, of tho A f 'mt. JL Chicago Grand Opera-f-SV-W'r House. with Rudolph lllto!! (FO S TonBon' by which he vy1 PZhdTfk secures tho Casino at "fJjYiA I trac"ons fr bis the. JjrJJirji'ilr atre next season, In YTrryT" eluding tho principal company. Manager (flllllfSa Hamlin said yesterday f5JU!Jri& 'kat the Casino com-aglSi-"; pany had dono an -.j"53rvViViT vW enormus business at "laSjTJm-I Ce n's hUBO this season. rpgggpa 7 Pulling from his pocket a small note bookthat is tho latest way managers havo of giving to thoir figures a semblance of truth he announced that in three weeks the receipts were $30,860. Atthe last seven per formances the average roceipts were $1,412 per performance. This extremely fertile engagement occurred during the excitement attendant upon the hanging of the Anarch, ists, and with such Btarsas Joseph Jeffer son, Booth and Barrett and Nat Goodwin in the city. Thanksgiving receipts throughout the metropolis wero, like the breakfast cocoa, grateful and comforting. They exceeded those of last year by a very considerable sum. Wallack's was crowded atboth performances, and the Grand Oporo-Houso, with A Porlor Match," took in ovor $2,500 during the day. The Lyceum Theatre roceipts wore the largest known at that house since the night whon it was openod. Tho Bijou Opera-House ex. cceded its business of last year by about $500. Louis Massen is playing the leading part in "The Martyr," nt the Madison Square Theatre. It was created by M. H. Pitt, and in it that gentleman scored a big "roast." Mr. Massen has been enjoying promotion for tho past two years. He was formerly the prompter of the theatre. Ex-Judge A. J. Dittenhoefor decided yes terday not to tako any action against tho pro duction of She at Niblo's, (n view of the fact that it is his belief that this is an author ized production of tho work. H. Rider Hag gard has written for a copy of the dramatiza tion. It is said that H. Clay Miner is negotiating with Robert 0. Hilliard, He wants the gen tleman to aBsume in Mrs. Potter's company rdles similar to those he adorned in Mrs. Langtry's organization. But Mr. Hilliard is anxious to star in False Shame," and has telegraphed to Mansfield to see if he can se cure from him the week beginning Dec. 19 at the Star Theatre, which Mansfield holds. Duff's Opera Company will begin a tour of the prinoipal cities beginning Christmas Day. It is Mr. Duff's intention to carry a company of sixty-fivo people, and to pre sent ,r Dorothy and "A Trip to Africa." What the unfortunate outsiders have done that they should be afflicted with Dorothy is not clear. The company will bo headed oy Miss Lillian Russell, Little Josef Hoffmann, Henry E. Abbey's musical "prodigy arrived yesterday from Europe. He will give a private pianoforte recital to the press at Wallack's on Monday afternoon, and on Tuesday evening will appear at the Metropolitan Opera-House. He will give three pianoforte concerts in this city. Since the production of "Pete" at Harri gan's Pork Theatre there is no doubt that Mrs. Yeamons, in the role of the alderman's wife, litis' apart that exactly suits her. Mrs. Yeamans says that she is very pleased with it. This clever actress would be acceptable in any rOle. Mrs. James Brown Potter note this well will rocite 'Ostler Joe at tho Actors' Fund Benefit at the Grand Opera-House next Thursday. 'Ostler Joe was the first step token by Mrs. Potter stogewords. It shockod Washington. After 'Ostler Joe came tho complexion cream indorsement. Mr. A. M. Palmer's Eastern "Jim the Penman" Company are playing to big busi ness ovorywhere they appear. On Thanks giving Day, at Scronton, tho piece was seen y no fewer than 2,500 people, whioh, when tho size of tho place is taken into aocount, is an extraordinary showing. Col. McCaull saw John Stetiion at tho Fifth Avenue Theatre last week in earnest conver. sation with H. Clay Miner, J, Charles Davis and J. Barton Key. Col. McCaull declares that Mr. Stetson now wishes to bo known as J. Jonathan Stetson. m 1 WORLDLINGS. All but four of the its newspapers printed In Georgia are against the continuance of the war taxes. Gov. Bodwell, of Main, has granted Mrs. Eliza beth Colby, of Bingham, authority to solemnize marriages and take acknowledgement of deeds. Mrs. Cleveland has written a pleasant fetter of thanks to little Janle Speer of La u range, Ga. who presented her with a bouquet during the Presiden tial visit to Atlanta. In the few months that have elapsed since It was discovered that the country surrounding Wcllston, 0. was rich In mineral resources, that town has Increased In population from T5 to over 4,000. The credit of Inventing the chestnut bell Is now ascribed to Senor Robledo, formerly Spanish Min ister of tho Interior, who used to use it In the Cortes ten years ago when any speaker's remarks became tiresome. Michael Roch, a laborer on one of the coal docks In Chicago, lit bis pipe and leaned up against a post for a smoke. Half an hour afterwards a compan ion saw him In the same attitude and towed a piece of coal at him, but he did not move. He was dead. Deputy Sheriff Lewis Wahl, of Owensboro, Ky., recently made a trip through Daviess County and bsts that he met scores of people who not only did not know that the Anarchist had been hung, but in many Instances did not know who the Anarchists were. The grave of Thomas H. Marshall, the famous Kentucky orator and wit, Is In an open field one nd a half miles from Versall'es, It Is uncared for and the mound has been rooted up by hogs. The stone at the head of the grave Is .small and insig nificant. A ghost In ibo form of a woman of prodigious height, dressed all in black, terrified the negroes of Birmingham, Ala. for a long time until one of the braver of them investigated matters with a hickory stick. The ghost proved to be the son of a re spectable farmer. A party of picnickers from Orlando, Ky., who explored the big cave in Rockcastle County re cently, found nine dinner plates of glased ware which were apparently of great age. They bad become so softened by the action of the air that the; crumbled to plsces when touched. LEFR08I ON THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS. Aa TLforta4:iCh)ayilBiAh TfsvniS:Af aa Finrehe Anotbat In Vermilion Purist. Nbw Oblzakb, Not. 25. The discovery of two lepers in Philadelphia and tho excite ment which this event seoms to havo caused was a modified reproduction of a far more serious affair, which, indeed, reached tho dignity of it panio, in a Southwestern Loulsl ana town this BUinmor. It is a notorious fact that leprosy has .existed and exists to-doy in Southern Louisiana, but with rare ex ceptions it is confined to certain woll deflned localities, where the lepers live by themselves in colonics, holding no intercourse with their neighbors and Boparated wholly from the world. The two principal le)er colonies are on the lower end of Bayou La Fourche and a prairie in Vermilion Parish. The La Fourche lepers are tho most numer ous. Thoy live in a swampy country, out of all linos of travel and, indoed, not easily reached. They are quiet, well-behavod peo ple, intermarrying with each other and thus perpetuating the fearful heritage to their children. The State Board of Health has mode several attempts to investigate them, but they were so fearful of being arrested and taken up that they fled to the swampa when the officers visited thorn. The existence of leprosy In the La Fourcho district is well known, but the fact that tho lepers held intercourse with those in good health caused little alarm on their account. Early this summer, however, reports became current that leprosy existed in the town of St. Martinsvillo, the principal town of that section, St. Martinsville is known as the Acadian Paris. It is a town of 2,500 poople, beautifully situated on tho bonks of tho Teche, and one of the oldest settlements in tho State. It is the seat of Longfellow's poem of "Evangeline," has a population mainly of Acadian origin, with old-fashioned houses, streets lined with orange trees, and with the civilization of Franco a century ago. It lies at tho head of navigation on the Teche. and since a railroad has been built there has become an important trade centre, and does a large business with tho surround ing country. The rumor of leprosy was first heard this summer. The story gathered strength as it travelled, and within a couple of weeks had reached terrifying proportions. It was de clared through all tho surrounding country that there were from six hundred to ono thousand lepers in St. Martinsville. Tho town was shunnod as though it was plague stricken. The people of the country refused to venture within its limits its business died away, and a lino was drawn around tho town into which but few Tentured. Every one suspected his neighbor of leprosy. Kissing and handshaking went out of practice, and the barbers had nothing to do because no ono was brave enough to be shaved by a razor which might have been used previously on a leper. Two or three families who suffered from boils became pariahs, as every one re fused to have any relations with them. This condition of affairs, which continued for a few weeks, becomo finally intolerable, and the citizens of St. Martinsville requested the State Board of Health to send a commit tee to the town and investigate the alleged prevalence of leprosy there so as to relieve the town from the panicky feeling. The President of the Board himself went, and an investigation was begun, the like of which has never before been seen. Every person in the town who was suspocted, every one who had so much as a pimple on nisface or hands, was examined. Tho investigation showed that the leprosy story had this muoh foundation, that there were four porsons,two women and two children, undoubtedly af fected with this loathsome and disgusting disease, and two others who appeared to have it, but of whom it could not be fully deter mined. The lepers were removed and iso lated, and tho panio disappeared as rapidly as it had originated. The town of St. Martins ville is now free of the disease, and doing its usual very good business. Julian Hawthorne win give some interesting information about athletic training in the Sunday Wobls. t m m PECULIAR TO CITY HORSES. HlpBons Skinned by Contact with Passing Wagons. Two young men of fox-hunting proclivi ties walked along lower Broadway yesterday. Their leisurely pace indicated that they were out for a stroll. "I say, Tommy, old boy," said one of them, "you're o pretty good hand with a horse yourself. Tell me what's peculiar about those work horses downtown. I'll go you a soat at the theatre that you can't tell." Give mo five minutes to look at the horses In," said Tommy, and I'll go you." Done," said tho other. Tommy looked earnestly at every horse that passed him, but could see nothing pe culiar about any of them. To his unobserv ing eye they all seemed to be well-fed, well, groomed, strong, .patient and willing. Ho gave it up. My dear boy, where are your eyes?" said his friend. Don't you see that seven horses out of every ten have a bare spot on each hip bone With some only the hair is off, while with the rest both hair and skin are gone." It's a fact, upon my word," said Tommy. How does it happen that way You will observe," continued his friend, by way of answering the question, that tho soint of the hip-bone is the only part of the horse that is skinned. Now, why is it? you naturally ask the question. I confess that I cannot give an infallible answer to the ques. tion. In the first place these bones aro the two most prominent parts of the horse's an atomy. When the horse is caught in a block, ado downtown, he sometimes gets squeezed by other horses or passing wagons. His hip bones strike everything that comes along. I suppose that the rubbing of the horse against his Btall has something to do with it. This is peculiar to city horses. Real fat horses, you will notico, are not skinned in this way, as a rule, but some of them are. My dear boy, you've seen so many things in New York that you now can't see anything. Let us go and get those seats." m m Kitty AIcKernan Not III Vive Days Ago. The Allman House la no longer the abode of Dr. Cleveland Goff and Mlaj Kitty McEernan. Five days ago the doctor packed up and went to parts unknown. Miss McKernan accompanied htm snd appesred to be In the best of health and spirit., aithongh now It Is reported that she is dan.erously 11L. Since the charges of larceny and abduction made against him by the girl's father on St iten Island were disposed of, Dr. Golf has sued Kitty's father tor falae Imprisonment. He has also begun other suits with a view of vindicating himself. In Town lor a Bay. Joslah Jewett, of Buffalo, la at the Windsor, William C Enalcott, Jr., Is booked at the Bruns wick. Roswell Randall Hoes, U. S. N., la registered at the Sturtevaut. Col. Floj. i-Jones, TJ. 8. A., makes the Victoria his headquarters. Secretary snd Mrs. Endlcott left the Fifth Ave nue for the Esst this morning. Lieut. John Banker, of the Annapolis Naval Academy, stops at the Union Square. Sir Edward Elnge Ilutchlnion and daughter, of Envland, are at tne Murray Hill Hotel. Horace II. Coolldge, a prominent Boston mer chant, to-day wrote his name on the Murray UU1 reguter. It. II. Harrison, who Is connected with a largo Nenrsska cattle company, occupies a room at the Hoffman House. Ex.Congreisman e. II, Wilson, of Providence, and'lheo. Butterfleld, General Passenger Agent of the P. W. X O. R. It, sitk the shelter of the Brunswlok. Lieut, and Mrs. David Price, who have been spending their honeymoon at Fortress Monroe, are at the Grand Hotel, where they intend to stop lor some dais. Staying at the St James are 3. Loyd Pleroe, of London, and P. D. Beard of Buffalo, who la en- aha laiS'iDlDfinS. pnoriun 0l Niagara Fai a S?i? S&Sj5al4fe',&fa'jiteilS.'iiA &r2!& SPQRTS OF HELD ANDBUfQ. Mm j 'M TflE TROUBLE OVER THE N. Y. A, 0. AND 'Mtnxvy OLYMPIC CLUB FOOTBALL MATCH. 'A? M" The Imte Trots at Fleetwood a, Big Har prlae to Johnny Murphy The Manhattans fsearj to Have a FlrsuClnss Slutting Team this Fr' Year The New York Athletic Clnba ,,e Coining Entertainment for tho Ladles. Ha I rV?J OTHING whatever V mPYI came of the talkof a I Zps VI row 0Ter Proposed iOW- football game between ST flfi Mr tho New York Athletio Mil Y$L JlrX ond Olymplo Athletio ffCT yrs "r club's teams on tha nL A fi M J 1 Manhattan's grounds. -g iJOX. k J wl Mr. Walton Storm and F iv jOSJP other "cherry dia SJ$S W7kw'v I i mond men deny that mlu ir J y' 'uo UBe no Bounds jjl f nU Iv C&y r was refused partlou. yl m JH) b'ar'y Pky a tamo a NkTA C$ CH witu tho New YorkB I i XykANXThey say that tho LJ iStTvOAX Olympics, whose lease flu1 nSvo of tho premises had ox. II pired,askod to practice on tho grounds Thurs. day morning and wero given permission pro. a001 viding tho Manhattan Club didn't want to lnKa play. There was no collision, for only three of the New York Athletic Club men probably UP8 the rest feared the publicity of a squabble salary showed up. Halpin, of the Olympics, only "So laughingly spoke of trouble. His idea was ft There to play up at Mott Haven if thero was any M f Tacan opposition. Kte 6l eg8- cheap Tho trots at'the Fleetwood track on Thanks. a mes giving Day wore a big surprise to Johnny prico. Murphy and his friends. Murphy, it is said, liangi loBt $2,100 backing Kcnilworth, The Red that Prince told his friends he would surely win servei the third heat of the purse race and he did. usher Ferploxed went off her feet passing the three. and 1 quarter pole and Company boat her home. night have Capt. Boecher, of tho Yolo eleven, was ten- bad n dered a complimentary dinner by his father tunes after his team beat the Harvard boys. I t0,h8i Mike Cleary is attending steadily to work jfe cl in tho blacksmith shop in Thirty-seventh toket street, between Broadway and Sixth avenue. j. It speaks well for hiB condition that he put nacke in six days' work in tho first week after nlno icore years of sporting life. Jjgje ward! It seemed a pity the burlesque gomes of tho and t Nassau Athletio Club, at Washington, Thurs. A re; day afternoon, couldn't have been regular. (w1 but too many of tho athletes have gone out u sh of training. Over 3,000 spectators were pres. fourt ent, and this gathering reminded ono of vmj intercollegiato or championship days. hand, I c The Police Gazette Book of Rules, contain- dCv ing fifty-threo pages of cloBely printed mat- of sti ter pertaining to the regulation of twenty- affilO nine branches of sport, has just been issued caxe 1 by Mr.' Richard K. Fox. Too much care f could not be used in getting up an authority want on matters so changeable as sporting rules. 0 v good The Manhattans will have a first rate skat- "8 ing team this winter with suoh athletes in it disco as Tim Donahue, of Nowburg, Ed. Kraft, R. suspi J. Schoefer, H. M. Banks, jr.. and P. D. in far Skillman. The value of skating as an exor- S dized ciso will be appreciated when it is told that I papci many people think that New York Athletio 1 ment Club man, G. Y. Gilbert, got second to Car- j I ing. ter in the championships race this year on I look account of the long distance skating he did mi he th last winter. "I Wcoml No one regrets moro than tho writer that the t; the unapproachable middle-weight, Jack Th Dempsoy, has injurod himself with the olnb m Jmovt men by his conduct while seconding Mo. f what Auliffo against Carney. The gentlemen who name were yesterday asked to contribute to a purse I as to for Reagan and Dempsey said We do not Willi wish for further doalings with any one in. note Btrumontal in robbing Carney of a well. ushe earned victory." expe: hew Tho next fortnightly Saturday evening en- JS5!? tertainment of tho New York Athletic Club 3 Ir will be held on Saturday, Dec. 17. Aster- W0T eopticon and some choice musio will be tho features. Thi Work on Ledgemere, the old English noma wood of the place, as Sheffield Island, in tho Sound. I 0I n the new quarters of tho"Morcury Foot" vl tth Club, will do called, has already commenced. -1 Considerable survoying and filling in was I ttat done last week. The removal of tho New I taoni Yorks from tho Harlem and their acquisition Jj" on the Sound has made quite a sonsation j?. among athletes. "n 81 derbi Probably a larger crowd than ever of tho HS' flower of the city's fair ones' will crowd tho rr big building at Sixth avenue and Fifty-flfth street on next Saturday afternoon. It will bo imei the first Ladies' Day of the club this season, t. and 1 and special efforts will be made to have it an pem entertaining one. Besides a gymnastio ex. 2,"' hibition and the throwing open of the entire J building for inspection Prof Mike Donovan V iuj and a pupil will dox and Prof. Senao and ono Tier of his scholars will appear in a fencing bout. v. soda Jesse Rinehardt, Charlie King and Alex. t as hi Jordan are taking the places around Billy aletl Sexton's once occupied by Lon Myers and S Harry Frodorioks. A committee of tho old National Associa tion of Amateurs has been appointed to con- Et for with the now organization, with a view to Issi amalgamating. 111 Mil It is said that there will bo two or more tickets in the field for the Secretaryship of the Manhattans at the election on Deo. 12. If you want to know something about the taB Bin men of Ootham, ready the Sunday Wobls. Jjjj tih Mrs. Hqnlldlg Becomes Jealous. -1 "m fVom tht Pitttburg CKronUli. "Who is this new female acquaintance of yonl "jtl e- husband's T" asked Mrs. Snsgga of Mrs. Bqulldlg. 1 Female acquaintance t I don't know of any. J What do you know about ber.t" "I heard him talking to Mr. Snaggs about a IT Molly Cnles, and I thought I'd speak to you about 1 111 Just see what Mr. Bqulldlg has to say for sV fi Not the Kind or Patent Ho Wanted. '17 Irrom JIarptr't Jttuir. Patent Agent I've got Just the thing you want. fj It Is a book-bolder, and g German Profeisor Veil, I don't vant htm. I was hold on to my books poody veil. Vat I vant (M lah a padent ash vill prlng back dot books vat was boriowed Irom me. J Mumptuoua Faro In Georgia. J IFrem th La Qranqt (Oa.) JitporUr.) H A travelling man from LaGrange says tha fare at the country hotels Is now splendid. Tha other day be dined on possum, pork and turnips, Yl potato pudding and pumpkin pie. j IL m m Vfi Bhe Hpolte In Bostonese. 'Vr. IFrotn IA, Chicago IXtnM.1 be Miss Howjames (at queensware store) I am r J ski looking for an appropriate present to send to a U aid cousin in Kansas City. What is the price of a 'E V11 dozen of those beautiful china ah Individual v Qu oleomargarines t tJ o jtia uat Always fllorr Room. J I I Yon IA. Kamai Oily Journal. Irate passenger on cable-car" Conductor, J "ei there aro fifty-five people on this car." j Conductor Flfty-riveT Thank yon," Stops ne the tar at s'reet corner. Now tasn, harry up. j. Boom for fifteen more people on this oar."

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