New-York Tribune (New York [N.Y.])
December 27, 1900

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“dxibnne, PRICE THREE CENTS. ve- LX....N® 19.765. NEW-YORK. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1900.—FOURTEEN PAGES.— un fii a en. LONDON DAY BY DAY. ORD KITCHENER NEEDS SINEWS OF IRON AND NERVES OF STEEL. LORD ROBERTS MAY BE REWARDED WITH AN EARLDOM AND THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. LONDON DAY BY DAY. ORD KITCHENER NEEDS SINEWSR O ORD KITCHENER NEEDS SINEWS OF IRON AND NERVES OF STEEL. LORD ROBERTS MAY BE REWARDED WITH AN EARLDOM AND THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. OF THE GARTER. [Copyright; 1800: By The New-York Tribune.] [BY CABLE TO TEE TRIBUNE.] London, Dee. 27, a. m.—Little light is thrown upon the military situation in Cape Colony by the official and press dispatches. The system of railway and wire communications has evidently been thrown out of gear by the Boer invasion, put no important town or station has been occu pled, and the raiders are not in sufficient force to accomplish any useful result. There is the worst possible weather not only for military operations, but also for ordinary railway traffic, for the rains are incessant, the rivers are at flood and the drifts are impassable. Ome body of the raiders is reported in Zuurberg and an other is moving toward Prieska, after cutting a wide circuit, but there is no evidence that all these rough riders in the east and west number more than two thousand, if they are so many. The pursuit of them is difficult when they are ready to break up into small squads whenever they are menaced with attack. Lord Kitchener needs sinews of iron and nerves of steel in order to endure the incessant strain of cam paigning of this kind, but the force of his will and energy is feit wherever he goes. Whatever glarm there was in Cape Colony was dispelled when it was known that he was personally di recting the operations at De Aar and Naauw poort.

There is a general tendency to credit the Cape Town report that a squadron of Yeomanry has been entrapped by the Boers in Cape Colony. Lord Kitchener, in reporting yesterday the re occupation of Britstown by Thorneycroft’'s Mounted Infantry, mentioned that the retreat ing commandoes were being followed up. From to-day’s news it would seem that the Glamorgan and Gloucester Yeomanry were detailed for that purpose, and that after a smart action they were captured.

The English people will be delighted if the Prince of Wales can see his way to accept the invitation which, it is reported this morning, is to be extended to him by the New-York Yacht Club to be present at the races for the America’s Cup. The Prince is an enthusiastic vachtsman and he has more than once expressed a desire to see one of the great yachting matches be tween England and America, but circumstances may arise to prevent him leaving this country next autumn. The Queen will not allow him to visit Australia for the Commonwealth celebra tions, and notwithstanding that New-York is only a week's voyage from London Her Majesty may, on account of her great age and increas ing infirmities, not consider it advisable that he should again cross the Atlantic Ocean during her lifetime. 1

Public interest here is centred upon the final stage of Lord Roberts's journey from Madeira and Gibralter and upon the honors which will await him when he arrives in England. The rumors are revived that his name will head the New Year's list of honors, but a dukedom seems out of the question, and an earldom is more probable, with possibly the Blue Ribbon of the Order of the Garter. The Queen has a rirbbon to spare, since no successor has been appointed to the late Duke of Argyll. Ballers friends will be sorely disappointed if his name does not appear in the New Year's list, and White, Hunter, French, Ian Hamilton and Pole-Carew are re garded as probable winners in the lottery of decorations. Needless confusion has been caused by the exchange of formalities between Lord Hopetoun and the Premier of the senior colony of Australia. Barton, by virtue of his leader ship, was the only candidate for prime minister of the new commonwealth, and Sir W. Lyne was the proper master of ceremonies for nominating him for the post of honor. Barton is an eminent colonial statesman of the same class as Sir Wil frid Laurier. The federation has been the dream of his political career. As an idealist and en thusiast he has not been interested in anything else, and he has lived to see his dream carried out as a new principle of the Empire. His name can hardly be omitted from the New Year's list of honors. Gilbert Parker has started for Egypt with Mrs. Parker, and will probably go to Dongola and Khartoum. Literary projects and the study of the Egyptian administration are the motives the journey. Lord Edward Cecil is credited with the inten tion of writing a book on the siege of Mafeking. Baden-Powell has been overwhelmed with pub lishers' solicitations for a book on the same sub ject, with illustrations. His own publishers have regarded this as an unlucky year for trade and are glad to have it ended. There was no money in war books, and the autumn trade was broken up by the elections, and the receipts from holi day sales have been disappointing. Drury Lane was crowded last night with the usuzl Boxing Night crowd, every seat for “The Bleeping Beauty” having been sold weeks in ad vance. The pantomime was one of the noisiest and most varied ever produced. Dan Leno was Cock of the Walk and Sparrow, the mad juggler, was unique among the attractions at Drury Lane. The crowd disported itself as only a Drury Lane crowd coulé. LN. FP DADY WILL FIGHT FOR CONTRACT. [Copyright; 1800: By The New-York Tribune.] TRY CARIE TO TINE aroror-sres 3 The English people will be delighted if the Prince of Wales can see his way to accept the invitation which, it is reported this morning, is to be extended to him by the New-York Yacht Club to be present at the races for the America’s Cup. The Prince is an enthusiastic vachtsman and he has more than once expressed a desire to see one of the great yachting matches be tween England and America, but circumstances may arise to prevent him leaving this country next autumn. The Queen will not allow him to visit Australia for the Commonwealth celebra tions, and notwithstanding that New-York is only a week's voyage from London Her Majesty may, on account of her great age and increas ing infirmities, not consider it advisable that he should again cross the Atlantic Ocean during her lifetime. Public interest here is centred upon the final stage of Lord Roberts's journey from Madeira and Gibralter and upon the honors which will await him when he arrives in England. The rumors are revived that his name will head the New Year's list of honors, but a dukedom seems out of the question, and an earldom is more probable, with possibly the Blue Ribbon of the Order of the Garter. The Queen has a rirbbon to spare, since no successor has been appointed to the late Duke of Argyll. Ballers friends will be sorely disappointed if his name does not appear in the New Year's list, and White, Hunter, French, Ian Hamilton and Pole-Carew are re garded as probable winners in the lottery of decorations. Needless confusion has been caused by the exchange of formalities between Lord Hopetoun and the Premier of the senior colony of Australia. Barton, by virtue of his leader ship, was the only candidate for prime minister of the new commonwealth, and Sir W. Lyne was the proper master of ceremonies for nominating him for the post of honor. Barton is an eminent colonial statesman of the same class as Sir Wil frid Laurier. The federation has been the dream of his political career. As an idealist and en thusiast he has not been interested in anything else, and he has lived to see his dream carried out as a new principle of the Empire. His name can hardly be omitted from the New Year's list of honors. Gilbert Parker has started for Egypt with Mrs. Parker, and will probably go to Dongola and Khartoum. Literary projects and the study of the Egyptian administration are the motives the journey. Lord Edward Cecil is credited with the inten tion of writing a book on the siege of Mafeking. Baden-Powell has been overwhelmed with pub lishers' solicitations for a book on the same sub ject, with illustrations. His own publishers have regarded this as an unlucky vear for trade and are glad to have it ended. There was no money in war books, and the autumn trade was broken up by the elections, and the receipts from holi dav sales have been disappointing. Drury Lane was crowded last night with the usuzl Boxing Night crowd, every seat for “The Bleeping Beauty” having been sold weeks in ad vance. The pantomime was one of the noisiest and most varied ever produced. Dan Leno was Cock of the Walk and Sparrow, the mad juggler, was unique among the attractions at Drury lane. The crowd disported itself as only a Drury Lane crowd could. LN. FPF. DADY WILL FIGHT FOR CONTRACT. HE DENOUNCES AS FALSE THE STORY OF A $50,000 BRIBE. 3 Hua SiN. Havana, Dec. 26.—Charges reflecting upon Mich eel J. Dady having been made in the Mayor's office in connection with the sewering and paving contract, Mr. Dady to-day denounced as utterly false the statement that $50,000 had been offered to Mayor Rodriguez with a view of influencing his decision. At the same time he declared that if any one would make an affidavit fixing the re sponsibility for the slanderous accusation he would take steps to procure the arrest and prose cution of the instigator, even if it should prove to be the Mayor himself. “This is not the only occasion,” Mr. Dady as serted, “when an attempt has been made t9 black mail me.” So far as the contract is concerned, Mr. says he will fight to the finish. Sefior Nunez, Civil Governor, is known to hold that Mr. Dady hes not followed the requirements of the law, and that, therefore, the contract is ille void and of no effect. it is understood that Wood will sustain the Civil Governor and the Mayor, but he awaits a final judicial decision. CUBAN CONSTITUTION NEARLY READY. Havana, Dec. 26.—The various sections into which the Cuban Constitutional Convention was divided some weeks ago for the purpose of preparing and submitting draft constitutions for the consideration of the convention as a whole are gradually getting together on the basis of a unitary government, with restricted suffrage. The convention leaders now hope to have this work completed by January 15, so that the results x A mitted to the United States Congress on

1. The sectional discussions have been bitter and prolobged, and therefore there will be in the open sessions, the hard fights meade in the secret sub-sessions in ve public wrangling. wy Hi]

io Pschorr Brau Bock, the Beer that wus awarded frond Prix (highest award) at Paris, now on ANXIETY FOR CAPE COLONY. LORD KITCHENER'S OFFER TO BURGH ERS WHO WILL VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER. London, Dec. 27.—The paucity and obscurity of the dispatches from South Africa give rise to renewed anxiety. Apparently the disturbed area of Cape Colony extends further south than it did last December, and Lord Kitchener does not ap pear to have had much success as yet in driving back the invaders. A Burghersdorp dispatch has a mysterious reference to ‘an unfortunate mistaking of the enemy for Brabant's Horse,” which resulted in the sounding of “Cease fire,” and enabled the Boers to occupy all the com manding positions, the British retiring from a difficult predicament. General Clements’s suc cess against the Boers in the Magaliesberg re gion is also dowbtful, the last dispatch report ing that “it was considered advisable not to force the Boers from their positions.”

Lord Kitchener, according to a dispatch from Johannesburg, has issued a proclamation, dated Pretoria, December 20, announcing that the burghers who voluntarily surrender will be al lowed to live with their families in the Govern mert laagers until such time as guerilla war fare has sufficiently abated to admit of their returning in safety to their homes. The procla mation also procmises that all property and stock brought in at the time of surrender will be re

spected and paid for if requisitioned by the mili tary authorities. NEW BRITISH DEFEAT REPORTED. RUMOR HAS IT THAT A SQUADRON OF YEOMANRY HAS BEEN CAPTURED. lp bd AAT A hii a. he Pht A *»h TREN Pur A i TN TN —_e. YEOMANRY HAS BEEN CAPTURED. Cape Town, Dec. 26.—A squadron of Yeoman ry which had been following the Boers from Britstown is reported to have been entrapped. There were several casualties, it is said, and the remainder of the force was captured. i General Kitchener has left Naauwpoort and «one northward. The rapid concentration of troops in the disturbed districts, through the personal energy of General Kitchener, has al layed the loyal uneasiness.

Maseru, Dec. 24.—The British are pressing Commandant De Wet in the Ladybrand district, Zeerust, Transvaal, Dec. 24.—The Boers capt

ured :wo wagons containing Christmas luxuries destined for the camp of Lord Methuen. i Funchal, Island of Madeira, Dec. 26.—The steamer Canada, with Lord Roberts on board, arrived here last evening, receiving a salute of nineteen guns on entering the port. This morn ing Lord Roberts was tendered an official re ception by the authorities, and at noon, aboard the Canada, he proceeded to Gibraltar. FRENCH ROUT CHINESE TROOPS. REPORT, WHICH IS DISCREDITED, SAYS THEY CAPTURED FIVE FLAGS AND A NUMBER OF GUNS. Peking, Dec. 25.—The French report encoun tering twenty-five hundred Chinese, captur ing five flags and a number of guns and in flicting a great loss upon the Chinese thirty five miles south of here. The report is gen erally discredited. According to the rumor, the French did not suffer any losses themselves. It is believed, however, that the French probably met a roving band, which was dispersed, a num ber of the Chinese being butchered. Li Hung Chang says he is satisfied that the story is false. The Rev. Mr. Kelly, the Presbyterian mis sionary, who has reported to Minister Conger the burning by Boxers of nineteen Catholic Christians, now reports having received further confirmation of the burning of native Chris tians. He now says the number burned is twenty-one, and he adds that thousands of armed Chinese have been seen in the San-Ho country. Mr. Conger has sent a copy of the communication to Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, and Japanese and German troops have been sent to investigate the reports. The Germans to-day were reviewed on the occasion of the presentation of flags to two regiments. The event was made practically in ternational. All the generals and their staffs and detachments of their troops were present, with the result that a great military spectacle was witnessed. 2 No answer has yet been received to the joint note of the Powers. London, Dec. 27.—“Mr. Conger takes a hope ful view of the situation,” says the Peking cor respondent of “The Morning Post,” wiring Mon day, “and thinks that a settlement will be ef fected, but he declares that no one of the envoys will recognize the Empress Dowager officially, although all are aware that she has long exer cised the supreme power. He believes the crisis will result in the initiation of reforms in China. “Sefior de Cologan, the Spanish Minister, fears that the discussion of the joint note, after gen eral acceptance, will extend for a year or more. It is rumored that numerous villages rast of Peking are combining to exterminate native Christians, several of whom have been burned in a local temple. Li Hung Chang is a trifle better.” A dispatch to “The Pall Mall Gazette,” dated Monday, December 24, says much irritation has been caused by the activity of the German troops in the districts under British protection. 80 acute has been the feeling, the dispatch adds, that there has been a question of the British seceding from the allied command. This possi bility the Foreign Office later denied. SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON MILL GROWTH Columbia, 8. C., Dec. 26.—“The State” will print to-morrow statistics from the office of the Secre tary of State showing that in 1900 thirty-one new cotton mils were chartered in South Carolina and fourteen old ones increased their capital stock by reason of enlargements, the aggregate capital employed being $7,800.000 while in 1839-'00, the new mills numbered forty-two and the enlargements thirty, with an aggregate capital of $13,500,000. This does not Include twelve mills commissioned in 1900 but not yet organized, their proposed capital aggregating $1,600,000. This is a record unapproached in the South or in the country. Ogdensburg, N. Y., Dec. 26 (Special).—The Cen tury Club house, one of the finest clubhouses in this part of the State, which stood in Caroline-st., this city, was totally destroyed by fire at o'clock to-night. The fire originated in the billiard room and was caused by uncovered electric light wires coming in contact with the woodwork. The mem bers of the club were to have had their annual re ception and banquet in the clubhouse to-night, which, had it taken place, would have been one of the greatest social affairs ever held in North ern New-York. Everything in the clubhouse was consumed and the fire spread so rapidly that sev eral members of the club who were decorating the interior barely escaped with their lives. The loss is about $15,000, partially covered by insur ance. The clubhouse will be rebuilt at once. NATIONAL TUBE BUYS SEAMLESS PLANT Pittsburg, Dec. 26 (Spectal).—The National Tube Company has closed a deal for the plant of the Standard Seamless Tube Company, at Ellwood City, Penn., for $500,000. This includes ten acres of land and a plant with a capacity of sixty-five tons of finished steel tubes a day. R. C. Stefel, who invented all the machinery sold to the Shelby Steel Tube Company, and who has since improved on the inventions with the deal. This places the Nattonal Tu Company in competition with the Shelby Bteel Tube Company. It was reported last night that Paderewsk!, the famous pianist, had been killed in a duel in France, but inquiries made by cable by his friends In Lon don and Paris failed to elicit confirmation. Is along the Hudson River, through jhe Mohawk Yalley and on a level with Lake Er Lake Mich an, gh, Jom New-York to Clev etroit and is, course, pe New-York and al LORD ROBERTS REACHES MADEIRA. CONGER HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT. COSTLY CLUBHOUSE BURNED DOWN. WILD RUMOR ABOUT PADFPREWSKI THF LINF OF LLFARST RPRQIST ANCE PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM DE VILLIERS, VICOMTE GRANDISSON, BY A. VAN DYCK. Sold by Hermann Schaus to William C. Whitney for a large sum. TRIES TO CARRY OFF SON. MRS. S. D. MILLER, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF EX-ATTORNEY-GENERAL W. H. H. MILLER. CAUSES SENSATION. Indiarapolis, Dec. 26.—A sensational kidnap ping case, involving the family of exAttorney General Miller, occurred this afternoon, and led to a hot chase across the State to overtake the wife of Samuel D. Miller, son of W. H. H. Miller, who was supposed to be flying to New-York with her stolen son, Sidney. Samuel D. Miller and his wife lived in New-York for several years, and last summer he came W-st to go into his father’s office. is wife staved in New-York. Last Friday she came here to de mand possession of her seven-year-old son, whom the father had brought West with him, and who was living with him at the grand father’s house, No. 1,027 North Delaware-st. The husband and wife had a consultation at the wife's apartments in the Denison, and she agreed that if the boy was sent to her daily with the nurse she would not attempt to kidnap him. This afternoon the boy and nurse called on Mrs. Miller at the Denison. She sent the nurse out to get a check cashed, ana while the nurse was gone ordered a carriage and made arrangements to go away. When the nurse returned, Mrs. Miller an nounced they were going for a drive. They started in a closed carriage down South Meri den-st. toward the station. The German nurse, suspecting foul play, jumped out of the car riage while it was on a run, ran to a telephone and informed the father and grandfather. Mrs. Miller immediately ordered the carriage driven to Brightwood, and when the two Millers arrived at the Union Station there was no trace of the woman and boy. Two hours later they received information which led them to believe that Mrs. Miller in tended to take the Big Four accommodation train at Brightwood and then take the Knicker bocker train at Anderson or Muncie. At 6:20 o'clock the two Millers started on the Knicker bocker to overtake Mrs. Miller before she got out of the State. Mrs. Miller was Miss Helen Karcher, of Potts town, Penn. Samuel Miller first met her nine years ago at Washington, when his father was President Harrison's Attorney-General. They were married a year later. Samuel Miller re turned to Indianapolis with his father and sub sequently became a member of the law firm of Hord, Perkins Miller. Five years ago he went to New-York and jointed the law firm of Keating, Walrat Miller, with offices in the Mutual Life Building. He and his wife lived at the Rutland, near Central Park. Mrs. Miller still lives there. Last summer Mr.Miller was offered an opening in his father’s office and came West. Mrs. Miller refused to come, and since that time has lived in New-York. There has been no divorce, and Mr. Miller has been sending her an allowance. Last Friday Mrs. Miller suddenly appeared in the city with the announcement that she had come to get her son and take him home with ker. There were conferences between the father and mother, and Mrs. Miller employed ex County Clerk Fesler to represent her. It was hoped a compromise would be effected by which the boy should spend a part of his time with each parent and nothing be made public con cerning the matter. This seemed to be nearly accomplished till the incident this afternoon, when Mrs. Miller started for the Union Station with the nurse and boy in a closed carriage. The action of the nurse in hurfing herself from the rapidly moving vehicle caused a com motion in the wholesale district. She was so excited she does not remember where she tele phoned from to inform W. H. H. Miller and his son that Mrs. Miller had started with the boy. She later was joined by W. H. H. and Samuel Miller, and the former sent her home to an nouiice that the two had gone in pursuit, and would return later with Sidney, the boy. Finding she would be overtaken at the Union Station when the nurse threw herself out of the carriage, Mrs. Miller started at once for Bright wood in the carriage, evidently intending to take the 4:50 train. It is supposed she intended going to some point along the road, and then take the Knickerbocker for the East. When she left the hotel Mrs. Miller this afternoon announced that she was going to Union City for the night, and would return to-morrow. WwW. H. H. Miller and his son returned at 10:40 o'clock to-night from points along the Big Four. No trace of Mrs. Miller and the stolen boy could be secured. From the ticket agent at Bright wood it has been learned that Mrs. Miller did not buy a ticket or take a train there. The two Millers were met at the Union Sta tion on their return by three detectives and all went to W. H. H. Miller's office. It was learned that George Senour was the hackman engaged and he has disappeared after returning the hack to the barn. The entire police and detective force of the city was employed to search for the woman and boy, and every officer in the city is pow at work. At midnight W. H. H. Miller and his son were at their office waiting news of the detectives’ work. W. H. H. Miller said: “She has always said she never under any circumstances would live in Indianapolis. Sam tried to have her come here many times, and I have wanted him to come with me as my partner here for years. It is a clear case of kid napping. I have nothing to say as to the future.” A VAN DYCK FOR WHITNEY SAID TO BE THE COSTLIEST CANVAS EVER IMPORTED HERE. THE BUYER REPORTED TO HAVE PAID HERMANN SCHAUS $120,000 FOR IT— HISTORY OF THE PAINTING. A portrait of William de Villiers, Vicomte Grandisson, by Van Dyck, said by Hermann Schaus, of the Schaus Art Gallery, at No. 204 Fifth-ave., to be the highest priced picture ever imported to this country, will take a leading place in the collection of old English masters in the home of William C. Whitney, in this city. Mr. Whitney purchased the picture from the Schaus gallery last November, after it had been in the city for some time. Hermann Schaus, who bought the picture in Antwerp in 1899, re fused yesterday afternoon to name either the amount to be paid for the portrait or the figure at which it was sold. The portrait was originally in possession of the Buckingham family, the descendants of the Duke of Buckingham, who was the favorite of Charles I of England when Van Dyck became the court painter. Charles de Villiers, Viscount Grandisson, was another of the court favor ites, and his portrait was painted by Van Dyck at the time when both basked in the sun shine of royal patronage. The portrait, after being in the possession of the Buckinghams, became the property of Lady Grey. From her hands it passed into those of Jacob Herzog, of Vienna, a European jour nalist and art critic. From August to October, 150, the 300th anniversary of the death of Sir Anton Van Dyck was commemorated at Antwerp, his birthplace, by an exhibition of

THI TT HITT HI IT NT i i iI II OR Er Tra Ty ee Tr those of his works which could be obtained. His masterpieces as well as his paintings of lesser fame were scattered all over Europe, and those which were exhibited at Antwerp had among their number representatives from the principal galleries of England, Germany, Russia, Austria, Folland, Italy, and other European countries. The portrait purchased by Mr. Whitney was No. 82 in the catalogue, and described therein as “Portrait en Pied de William Villiers, Vicomte Grandisson.” It is 2.05 metres in height and 1.22 metres in width. Hermann Schaus selected it as the only one of the Van Dycks offered for sale worthy to be im ported to this country, and when he returned brought it with him He said that the price he paid for it was much higher than that paid for the Rembrandt, “La Doreur,” for which a sum large even for the best work of the old masters was recently demanded and received. Mr. Schaus did not exhibit the picture, and it was not on show at the Schaus gallery; hence its presence here was not generally kncwn. Mr. Whitney saw the picture in November and bought it. Jt was taken to his home in this city immediately. It was reported that Mr. Schaus paid 250,000 francs, or $50,000, for the portrait, and sold it to Mr. Whitney for $120,000. Mr. Schaus said these figures were incorrect. Mr. Whitney's gallery contains some of the best work of the old English masters, prominent among them being canvases by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough. The portrait represents Villiers as standing erect, dressed in the court costume of the time of Charles I. It is regarded by Mr. Schaus as one of the best Van Dyck portraits in existence. SAYS HE WAS ROBBED OF $1,900. NEW-YORKER FOUND SLEEPING IN A NEWARK BRICKYARD. Newark, N. J., Dec. 26.—Andrew Gavan, who said he was the proprietor of a livery stable at No. 110 West Thirtieth-st., New-York, was robbed of $1,900 in Newark yesterday, he says. Gavan had stayed at the Palace Hotel Christmas night. Before re tiring he gave the clerk §1,900 for safekeeping. Yes terday morning the manager returned him the money, and Gavan gave him a receipt for it. Last night Gavan was found sleeping in Cook Ge nung's brickyard, two blocks from the hotel, His money was gone. Willlam Robinson, who found him, took him to the hotel, where he be came abusive when told he had received his money. The police were called in, and both Gavan and Robinson were held. MARVELLOUS (CHAMPAGNE FIGURES. In eleven months this year 108,321 cases of G. RB Mumm’'s Extra Dry were imported, or 72,168 mor than any other brand. Specia attention is called to the remarkable quality of the Extr ry ~Advt STOCKS STILL SOAR. PROPHETS WHO PREDICTED A DECLINE DISCREDITED-THE END APPAR ENTLY NOT IN SIGHT. The prophets of Wall Street are confounded, for the boom in prices, which it seemed a week ago to many cautious observers must have reached a height beyond which it could not ad vance without an intermediate ‘decline, con tinues day by day, with no immediate indica tion of being near its culmination. The end must come some day, of course, but money is still easy, and after the first of the year, when the mass of interest disbursements will be made, it will be reasonably abundant for several weeks; the export trade of the country is con stantly swelling—the exports from this port alone last week were more than $35,000,000 in ex cess of those for the corresponding weeks of last year; railway and industrial earnings con tinue to make a satisfactory showing, and each week brings the news of some fresh extension of the “communes: sf ownership” plan among the railways, tendtsg to insure the stability of railway rates and the permanence of railway

dividends—a principle which the future may see extended to the field of industrial competition; Burope has no vast stores of American securi ties, and consequently there can be no great liquidation by foreign interests; and, not least in importance, the assurance of at least four years of permanency of the gold standard has given a powerful stimulus to public confidence in the ability of the manufacturing and trans portation corporations of the United States to make monev and enlarge their facilities. The resumption of business on the Stock Ex change yesterday after the triple holiday was marked by the desperate efforts of tlie brokers to execute a tremendous accumulation of or ders. Unusual excitement attended the initial transactions. Six or seven stocks opened “wide,” and prices were in many instances materially higher. Particularly was this true of Sugar, with a gain of more than 3 per cent, much of which it soon lost; St. Paul, more than 2 per cent; Atchison common, 23: Baltimore and Ohio common, 2 per cent; Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit, 23 per cent, and another 2 per cent soon after; Tennessee Coal and Iron, 258 per cent, with many other gains of from 1 to 135 per cent. Operations were unsually heavy all through the first hour, and it was sald that they broke all previous records for that period. The stock tickers were at least ten minutes behind in the early .part of the market, and the specialists were so rushed with business all day that they were obliged to decline to deal in lots of less than one hundred shares. A feature of yesterday's market was the ex tremely heavy profit-taking selling, which came from what the Street calls good sources. This movement set in soon after the opening, and was so steady as to give a few room traders a chance to hammer the active list, though with indifferent success. After the first one or two reactions the buying power seemed to grow stronger, and in the last hour prices again rose rapidly, the close showing important net gains in many issues. Gossip affecting almost every stock in the list was heard on all sides. The “tip” on Sugar was that the alleged differences between the Ameri can Sugar Refining Company and the Arbuckles were in a fair way of settlement, a story which lacked confirmation from authoritative quarters. The strength of Tennessee Coal afr TTOR Way ascribed to well founded rumors of a change in the Board of Directors. Of Brooklyn Rapid Transit it was said that prominent new interests would soon be found in control. Commission houses operated extensively, and London took part in the selling movement. The total sales for the day were 1,423,469 shares. One of the largest net advances for the day was in Brooklyn Rapid Transit, which touched 887 and closed at 8773, a gain of 4% per cent. St. Paul closed a trifle under the high fig ure of the day, at 138%, a net gain of 1% per cent. People’s Gas soared to 106% and closed at the very top, 4% points above Saturday's last price. Federal Steel gained 2 per cent, closing at 57%; and Tennessee Coal and Iron, after sell ing at 69%, closed at 67%, with a net advance of 274. Colorado Fuel and Iron made a gain of 135, Tin Plate of 21%, and Amalgamated Copper, 1%. Sugar closed at 1417, 25 points under the high est of the day and 1}5 over Saturday's final price. Consolidated Gas gained 33% per cent, closing at 193%, the high level. Manhattan ad vanced 3 points, closing at 116%; and Metro politan, selling ex dividend, closed at 172, a net gain for the day of 1 per cent. There is said to be no likelihood of the Stock Exchange closing on Monday, the day preced ing New Year's. CAREER OF A WEALTHY STOCKMAN HOW A. H. PIERCE, WHO DIED YESTERDAY IN TEXAS, MADE HIS MONEY. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 26 (Special).—News was received here this morning of the death of A. H. Pierce, the well known and wealthy stock man of Pierce, Tex., best known as “Shanghai” Pierce. It came in a dispatch to his daughter, the wife of Henry M. Withers, former prosecut ing attorney of Jackson County. Mrs. Withers will go at once to Texas. The cause of death was Bright's disease. Mr. Pierce was a remark able man in many respects, and had a National reputation among stockmen and financiers. In his youth he received the sobriquet of “Shang hai,” and it stuck to him through life. He was a giant, physically and mentally. He possessed great business energy, and accumulated a fortuna variously estimated at from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. It was commonly said of him by stockmen and bankers in this city, where he was particularly well known, that he never “flickered” on his paper or his word. Mr. Pierce was born in Rhode Island sixty-six years ago. He stood 6 feet 4 inches, and weighed 275 pounds. He was one of a family of ten children, and at an carly age was sent to live with an uncle in Virginia. This relative was a rigid Puritan of the old school, and young Pierce chafed under the restraints put on him. At the age of twelve he ran away from his uncle's home, and set out for Texas. On leaving home he said he would not return until ha had $100,000. When the Civil War broke out he served the Confederacy, and at its close he set about to make his word good. Two years later he went back to “Rhody,” as he called it, and he had the money with him, or at least the documents to show for it. After the close of the war Mr. Plerce formed ‘a connection with the firm of Allen Pools. He traversed Texas for three years as the repre sentative of the firm, buying droves of cattle and sending them to Galveston, where they were shipped to New-Orleans. In 1869 this firm dis continued business. Mr. Pierce had an interest, and drew cut $100,000 as his share of the profits. In 1871 he went to Kansas and em barked in business on a large scale. Three years of experience there convinced him that he was in the wrung place, and it was only by exercis ing sound business judgment that he managed to save aimself from heavy loss, and returned to Texas.

His property in Texas consists largely. of farming and grazing lands and cattle, His estate covers six hundred thousand acres, and much of it is in rice land. It embraces more than one whole county. There are also many fine farms in the holdings. In addition he owned thirty thousand head of cattle. DFEFERFOOT WARM SAUSAGES. Mada of the tender meat of little pigs and choice spices. You have never tasted sausage in perfection ubless you have tried them. Beware of imitations. ROBERT C. MORRiS CHOSEN. HE WILL SUCCEED GENERAL GREENE AS COUNTY COMMITTEE PRESIDENT. Robert C. Morris, chairman of the Campaign Committee of the Republican Club and presi dent of the Republican Club of the XXIXth As sembly District, was yesterday selected by the local leaders as successor to General F. V. Greene as president of the Republican County Committee. The County Committee will meet to night at 8 o'clock at the Murray Hill Lyceum. William H. Ter Eyck will be re-elected chair man of the Executive Committee, George R. Manchester will be re-elected secretary, and George R. Sheldon will succeed John Sabine Smith as treasurer of the County Committee. The name of Mr. Morris will be presented fo night by Alexander T. Mason, leader of the XXIXth district, who suggested his name to the Republican leaders. Senator Platt said last night that, so far as he was concerned. the selection of Mr. Morris was satisfactory. He had been assured that Mr. Morris was a man of independent proclivities, and liked hard work.‘ He believed he would be a worthy successor to General Greene.

Robert Clark Morris comes of Revolutionary stock. His father, Dwight Morris, was Judge of the Probate Court of Connecticut and a colonel of Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War. Mr. Mor ris was born in Connecticut in 1368, and was grad vated from Yale, receiving the degrees of Bache lor of Laws, Master of Laws and finally Doctor of Civil Law. He began the practice of law in his native State, but came to this city several years ago and opened an office. Since 18385 Mr. Morris has been a lecturer in the Law School of Yale Univer sity. Since he came to New-York he has lived in the XXIXth Assembly District, and has actively in every campaign with Alexander T. ROBERT C. MORRIS. who is to be chosen president of the Republican County Committee. Mason and others in that district. He has been helper, assistant captain, and then captain of his election district, the ban district of the Aggem. bly district, and has n elected p of the XXIXth District Republican Club. He lives at the Savoy Hotel. He married at New Haven in 1890 Miss Alice A. Parmelee. ro e last cam Mr. Morris waz nominated b of the PL A Court, and s rised his friends by running votes ahead of ticket. He was largely instrumental in establishing the Bowery and East Broadway branches of the Re publican Club, and the work done in the heavy Democratic districts last fall favorably impressed the Republican leaders. His office is at No. 3 Nassau-st. He belongs to the Tuxedo, the Yale, Lawyers’ and Republican clubs, to the Bar Asso ciation and to the Order of the Cincinnati. THIS GOVERNMENT NOT A PARTY TO SET: TLEMENT THROUGH CONTRACT WITH THE CRAMPS. Washington, Dec. 26 (Special).—The United States Government is not a party to the solution of the Turkish indemnity claims understood to have been accomplished yesterday by the con tract of the Sultan's naval administrator in Constantinople with an agent of the Cramps of Philadelphia for a warship to cost $2,500,000, and, nutwithstanding a general misapprehension to the contrary, the State Department will not receive from the Cramps the $100,000 due to American missionary organizations, the payment of which has been so indefatigably urged by this Government for several years. Much of the credit for causing a settlement of this exasper ating case is indisputably due to the patient persistence of the State Department's repre sentations to the Sublime Porte, which has never been permitted for an instant to overlook the debt in its weekly examinations of the Ottoman Treasury, but there will be no authoritative par ticipation in the final payment by State Depart ment or diplomatic and consular officials, The cancellation of the claim by the award to the Cramps places it exactly in the category of any suit settled out of court, so far as the Govern ment of the United Sates is concerned, and, ae cording to the understanding here. the first and only information this Government will have that a settlement has been effected will be a notice from the claimants that they do not care to have the matter pressed further as they have been compensated to their full satisfaction for the damages incurred in the Armeaian uprising. While much is made of an implied compliment to American shipbuilders, compared with Eure~ pean competitors, in the execution of such a large contract in this country, it is predicted that later developments will show that Turkey has adopted ‘an identical plan for liquidating certain English and German claims, and that warship contracts will be given to builders of those nationalities within a shert time. DETAILS OF THE CONTRACT UNKNOWN. Philadeiphia, Dee. 25.—Charles H. Cramp said to day regarding the construction of a warship for the Turkish Government: We have received a cable dispatch from General Williams informing us of the signing of the com tract with the Turkish Minister of Marine for the construction of a first class cruiser. The provisions of the contract we do not know, nor can say Jat when work oa the cruiser will begin or when it is to be completed. General Williams is now on his way home, and he is expected to arrive here in about fifteen days. We will then be better able to know more about the contract. PSOUIMAUX FOR ARCTIC EXPLORATION London, Dec. 26.—Mr. Evelyn B. Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, who is arranging for the Bald win-Ziegler expedition, has purchased the Esqui maux, the largest and stanchest of the whaling fleet, fitted her with modern appliances and named her the America. The rival bidder was the British Antarctic Expedition, whose organ izers desired to secure the Esquimaux as a sab= atitnita shin TPRONATT ANDREE'S WILL OPENED. London, Dec. 27.—The brother of Andrée, tha missing aeronaut, says a dispatch from Copen hagen to “The Daily Mail," despairing of his re turn from the Arctic regions, has finally opened tudes ward In through tourist cars every day in the year. Two fast trains from Chicago via Chicago and North western, Union and uthern Pacific Best of everything. Tickets and full information at Northwestern Line Office, #1 Broadway.—Advt, MR MORRIS'S CAREER. INDEMNI TY FROM TURKEY. 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GOVERNMENT PREPARED TO MEET THE PHYSICAL PROBLEMS. FULL INFORMATION READY FOR HOME SEEKERS-THE QUESTION TREATED FROM A BROAD POINT OF VIEW. 11 [EY TSLEGRAPE TO THE TRIBUNE.] m— Washington, Dec. 26.—If Congress accepts the principle involved In the Federal reclamation of arid public lands, the Government is fully pre pared to meet the physical problems which wil immediately arise. The rapid irrigation devel opment of the West in the last ten years is tc 2 remarkable degree due to the thorough and valuable work undertaken by the Hydrographic Department of the Geological Survey. With limited appropriations, the experts of this di vision have made a systematic study of condi tions in the arid regions, giving the results in timely bulletins or in annua! reports. They have acted as a bureau of information and ad visory beard to the irrigation farmers. Field parties have penetrated the most remote sec tions in the search for the fountain heads of streams and the starting points of watershed divides. There is no section of the United States where the intending settler need remain without the geological and hydrogrophical data neces sary fully to acquaint him with all local possi bilities. The work done has not been to aid the capitalist seeking an investment, but the head of family seeking a home. He has only to ask, and he will be told at once all about his land and water, how to build his reservoir, dam, ditch or windmill in the cheapest, most prac tical and safest way. Incidental to this de tailed work, however, the Government has handled the question from a far broader point of view. The present check in the reclamation of public land by private enterprise has long been foreseen. It was inevitable that, with public land passing to private and corporate owner chip at the rate of over thirteen million acres a wear, as was the case in the last twelve months, it would be only a short time until all the water easily available would be appropriated and con servation upon a large and expensive scale be demanded. WHY BIG ENTERPRISES HAVE FAILED. The progress of irrigation work has been care- fully watched. The small irrigator has been assisted in every way. To the great enterprise the necessary data and advice have been fur nished, its usual failure has been noted, and the causes have been ascertained. These have been found to rest on several general reasons, the principal ones being the greediness of capi tal, lack of good engineering and management, inability to securs absolute control! of the water supply and land, and a failure on the part of home seckers to take advantage of the oppor tunities offered to acquire farms. The original expense of near!’ all extensive irrigation plants is generally much larger than the first estimate upon which the capital is secured. The returns are much smaller and slower in coming in than was expected. The companies are generally loaded up with a lot of high salaried officials, who are merely dead weight. The distance of the plant from the home office and the distance of the home office from the stockholders are conducive to careless and expensive administra tion. This combination of circumstances has generally proved sufficient to wreck the most promising scheme. No relief is possible by in creasing the cherge for water, for in nearly all the arid States the local authorities reserve the right in granting charters to fix the price at which the companies shall sell water to the settlers. For political” reasons these water charges are kept down to the minimum, often below the actual cost of operation, and this ele ment in the situation has done as much as any thing else to discourage large investments in ir rigation works. These conditions have long been understood by the Government irrigation ex rerts, and they have anticipated the time when demand would be made upon the Nation to

take the matter in hand. The rapid extension of forest reserves has held in escrow many desirable sites for irrigation exploitation, ang uvon the recommendation of the hydographic engineers many available sites for large storage reservoirs have also been re served from settiement, so as to reduces the cost of the enterprises when they should be finally undertaken at public expense—an outcome re garded as inevitable. In all tha surveys made especial attention has been paid to the future of the work. Whenever it was apparent that a large section of country could be improved by the proper regulation of its water supply, a plan for such regulation has heen worked out, the effect upon already established communities estimated and the amount of Government land which would be made salable determined. Hence, if it is decided to spend money in decreasing the public arid land area, the manner of pro c=dure is already mapped out in ietail.

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CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE RESERVOIRS The legislation and accompanying appropria tion asked from Congress propose io take ad veatage of the work done by the Government engineers dy the construction of one or more of the storage reservoirs which have been se lected as promising the greatest results for the investment. The reservoirs cre to be built in regions where the rainfall is entirely inadequate for erep growing, but their purpose will not be solely to furnish water to farming land. In #8ll such places there is a vast amount of flood water in the winter or early spring, when crops are not ready to be served with moisture. This water passes away in a very short time with almost torreatial force. Immediately following these floods comes the dry season. No rain falls. The snows have all melted. Streams dry RAR EI———— TRY +I PARAPE TO THE TRIBUNE.) Swallowing A sword is a trick not conducive to health or lon. gevity. But; it is not more injurious than the hasty OT et ead AG Pt ea, 43 SWEEG 36 2 TICK [OL ConQuadcive 10 nealin or lone gevity. But it is not more injurious than the hasty swallowing of half masticated food washed down by gulps of ice water in summer or cups of hot coffee in winter. Hasty eating is the foe of health. Soomer or later it must result in indigestion or some other form of stomach disease For the cure of the dissases of the stomach and allied or gans of digestion and nutri tion, there 1s no medicine so effective 2s Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Jf alweys helps. It almost al. Ways cures. Mrs. Mary E. Lewis, of Tanner, Glimer Co., W. Va. writes: "I will always recommend Dr. Pierce's Golden Medics! Discovery, Favor ite Prescription’ and Pleasant Pel lets’ for cured me when doc tors and other medicines failed For $flced years I suffered untold misery. When I commenced tak. ing Dr. Pies Medicines, I had given up a of ever tin well 1 eouid nok lie down to sleeps and I ate would almost cramp me to death. Was very nervous and could hardly walk across the room. Rap hed minety pounds when I commenced taking these Six years ago; now h one hundyed and fort pound: and am heving better health than ever before. My friends all Say they can hardly believe that I am the same person; after being sick so long. 7 haze changed to be vobust and oy Becket. Rave taken fifteen bottles of the Dis 3 n t *Presc—intio and fiftec k Savery ot Pei 7 3 re y fifteen of the Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, paper Sovers: is sent fre on Sh puipt of 21 one-cent Stamps to pay expense of maling only, or if cloth binding is desired vag send 31 stam Addr R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N%Y, OP a Dr I only SWwauowiag Oi [all masucaica food washed down by gulps of ice water in summer or fo ype he, i For fifteen I suffered untold When I commenced tak found: and am having better bh than ever before. My riends all Say they Sah hardly believe that I am the same person; 80 long. 7 hae changed to be vobust and rosy checked, of have Fon fifteen bottles of the Dis covery’ fifteen of the ‘Pres~=vtio and fifteen of the up. The country scon becomes desert, and all vegetable life departs. The purpose of the stor age reservoir is to hold the floodwaters in a great artificial tank, allowing the water gradual ly to flow away in the dry season, and thus keep all natural stisams alive throughout the year. From these streams canals can then be dug in which water is carried to the farm for various uses at 2 time when it is most valuable, and, in fact, absolutely necessary. The guarantee of a living stream in the West means more than its mere value as a raiser of crops. It means water for live stock, homes for people, towns, railroads and development of 2ll kinds. In many sections of the West It means the wérking of mines where the ores are of low grade, needing cheaper supplies and a more elastic labor supply than is now possible. In its widest significance irrigation means the support of a denser population than is found in the agricultural sections of the humid States. It is the most powerful and effective expansion and civilizing agent known to the West. The general principle governing the selection of reservoir sites Is that all works should begin at the headwaters, and be followed in course of time by a utilization of the resources further down stream. It is a well established fact that a large percentage of water used for irrigation finds its way back lower down to the stream whence it is originally taken. Hence it is that in many places the entire stream may be di verted at a given point, and yet resume its flow not far from where its bed has been entirely depleted. MANY SITES ALREADY SURVEYED. Over two hundred reservoir sites have been surveyed and passcd upon by the Government engineers. Nearly all of these are in Colorado, Montana, Arizona and California. About twen ty of them are considered as without possible flaw. They have been chosen as likely to perform the greatest service in return for the invest ment in the reclamation of the land, the re vivifying of streams and the general benefit of the country. The thoroughness with which this work has been done is illustrated in a Govern ment report, which will shortly appear, giving the results of an investigation as to the cause of the breaking of the dam at Austin, Tex. The building of each of the proposed reservoirs means an expensive and formidable dam, and the disaster at Austin has been used as a time ly object lesson in construction. It would cost about £10.000,000 to build the twenty reservoirs mentioned. The waters from the artificial lakes thus created would make permanent the flow of adjacent streams and irrigate about ono million acres of land, which would directly and indirectly support a population of at least one million people. If Congress should refuse to gc into the mat ter upon so large a scale it will be urged that at least two of these plans be carried out, re quiring an appropriation of less than $2,000,000. One of these is the building of a dam across the Gila River, in Arizona. The other is the turning of the St. Mary River, in Montana, from its natural course toward Hudson Bay, and adding its flow to the usually dry bed of the tributaries of Milk River, which empties into the Upper Missouri. Thus the water of the St. Mary, which originates in the United States, would be retained for the benefit of Americans instead of passing into Canada. The Gila River enterprise is urged for the reasons that the Papago, Maricopa and other Indians are now without water for their 150,000 acres of farm land, and therefore entirely de pendent upon Government rations, while at the same time at least 100,000 acres of additional public land ¢ould be irrigated, thus affording an illustration of the working of the general scheme of Government reclamation. The St. Mary plan is considered particularly valuable as an illustration of the power of the Govern ment to render a large area habitable by re newing many small streams, from each of which many thousand acres could be irrigated. NOT LESS THAN TEIRTY THOUSAND LEFPERS IN THE ENTIRE ARCHIPELAGO. Washington, Dec. 26.—An appended report to Gen eral MacArthur's review of the civil affairs of the Philippines. for the last fiscal year gives some rather startling facts regarding the introduction and prevalence of leprosy in the islands. 1 According fto the estimates of the Franciscan fathers, says Major Guy L. Edie, the writer of the report, there are no less than thirty thousand lepers in the archipelago, the greater portion of these being in the Visayas. Leprosy was intro duced in 1633, when the Emperor of Japan sent a ship with a hundred and fifty lepers on board to the Philippines, to be cared for by the Catholic priests. Thus the seed was planted, and as no practical methods ever were adopted to eradicate

ithe disease or prevent its spread it has taken firm root. A house to house inspection began last Jan Lary found more than one hundred lepers concealed in dwellings. These were sent to San Lazaré Hospital in Manila, but many others escaped into the surrounding country. A commission is now en gaged in selecting a suitable island or islands for Ins purpose of isolating all the lepers in the archi pelago. SUICIDE OF CONSUL-GENERAL SHAW. GREAT REGRET EXPRESSED BY STATE DEPART MENT OFFICIALS. Washington, Dec. 26.—~The State Department offi cials ‘were deeply concerned over the reported suicide. in Philadelphia of W. Irvin Shaw, late Consul at Barranquilla, and recently appointed Con. sul-General to Singapore. Mr. Shaw was in Wash ington last week arranging to secure transporta ticn to Singapore, and appeared to be perfectly satisfied with his prospects. Assistant Secretary Hill, who was acting to-day as Secretary of State, because Secretary Hay was confined to hs home by a slight indisposition, sent a telegram of con. dolence to the Consul's widow.

Clearfield, Penn., Dec, 26.—The news of the sui cide of W. Irvin Shaw, Consul-General to Singa pore, in Philadelphia yesterday was a severe shock to his many friends in Clearfield, which had been his home from childhood. Mr..8haw left Clearfield after election, and wrote to Assemblyman Harris, of this place, from Washington on December 1 that he would sail on December 4 for Colon, and would return in about six weeks and start for Singapore. He seemed in the best of spirits after his appoint ment which he said he considered a good place, The funeral will be held on Friday at the home of Mr. Shaw's sister, and will be attended by the Clearfield Bar Association, of which he was 3 mem Washington, Dec. 26.—The battleship Kearsarge touched at Key West to-day to report a vessel in distress, and then, with the Massachusetts, pro. ceeded to Pensacola. The Solace and the Monad nock arrived at Hong-Kong to-day. The Albany wii CR ave I» p= ong, where she x 2 x has arri Norfolk Navy Yard. ved at the Philadelphia, Dec. 26.—" The Evening Telegraph” to-day says that plans for the reorganization of the Pennsylvania Steel Company were completed to-day, and will shortly be submitted to the stock holders. The company owns plants at Steelton, near Harrisburg, and at Sparrow's Point, Md., be sides owning all the capital stock of the Maryland Steel Company and of the Baltimore and- Spar row’s Point Railroad, and 50 per cent of the capl tal stock of the Juragua Iron Company, Limited, a corporation owning and operating. iron mines in Cuba.

Of the $20,500000 preferred stock 10 be issued, $6,500,000 will be for the retirement of the outstand ing preferred and common stocks of the Pennsyl vania Stee] Company, $2,000,000 for the retirement of 2 like amount of the 6 per cent bonds of the Penn sylvanie and Maryland Steel Company, $4,000,000 for the acquisition, by purchase or otherwise, of are properties, manufacturing plants or other enter prises useful to the company, and $8,000,000 for pro viding funds for working capital for improvements at Sparrow's Point and at Steelton, and for such other improvements as may be deemed advisanle.

A syndicate has been organizeq to purchase from the com the $10,000,000 prefe ceeds of which will retire. £2.000,500 A a por cont bonds 28 Provide the $8,000,000 quired for nal working

improvements and extensio 8 Dropossa "for the

000,000 preferred stock will it Prope 3 pis 310. C the syndi Cale managers, he offer to the holders will be, for preferred stock, Roo eat Stock Cn rm MATT V- TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. LEPROSY IN THE PHILIPPINES. YVOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS PENNSYLVANIA STEEL COMPANY. DETAILED PLANS OF REORGANIZATION NEW-VORL: DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER Zi. 13900. new preferred stock and 50 per cent fn new com mon stook, and for common stock 100 per cent new preferred stock. The fixed charges of the com pany as reorganized will be about Divi. cent on ,000 pre IT fi a dends at the rate of 7 per ferred stock will call for $1,435,000. AMERICA A WORLD FACTOR. BERLIN RECOGNIZES THE UNITED STATES POLICY. Berlin, Dec, 26.—In its yearly financial review the “Frankfurtér Zeitung” peints out that one of the most important facts ci the last twelvé months has been the growing infiuence of the United States upon the economié situation of Europe. Says the writer: In the first months of the year, when German industries had not the remotest fear of reaction, it was the report from America regarding the iron market and the fear of flooding the German market with American manufactures that terri fied our markets and agitated our boerses. This was the case even when there were no important changes in the business situation in the United States. In short, all the incidents indicating, however remotely, that country’s competition were discussed in their bearings upon our busi ness situation; and they thus became very im portant factors in determining the attitude of the German boerses and the quotations of se curities. Wall Street quotations frequently became the standard for all other exchanges. The entrance of the United States into thé ranks of creditor nations signifies a change in the times. Ever since the war with Spain the United States Government has pursued undeviatingly a world policy of world conquest. European Statés must familiarize themselves with the thought that the United States will have a very weighty word in determining the new political constellations among the leading nations. American action in undertaking the Nicaragua Canal also proves that the military, and still more the diplomatic, participation of the United States in the chief troubles shall bear fruit. SENATOR SPOONER ON TREATY. PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY HAY NOT OFFENDED BY AMENDMENTS THINKS GREAT BRITAIN WILL ACCEPT THEM. GREAT BRITAIN WILL ACCEPT THEM. Madison, Wis.,, Dec. 26 (Special).—United States Senator John C. Spoonér to-day declared that the President and the Secretary of State were not offended, so far as hé knew, at the ac tion of the Senate in amending the HayPaunce fote Treaty. He also said he believed that the treaty would be acceptéd by the Government of Great Britain, but if it were not accepted the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty would not long be al lowed to block the construction of an American canal. “It would be very unfortunate,” Mr. Spooner continued, “if it should become thé rule that Senators are to withhold amendments to pro posed treaties, lest the dischargé of their duties and the exercise of their indépendent judgment upon the subject be offensive to the American negotiators of the instrument. Such a rule would require Senators to abdicate functions with which they are charged by the Constitu tion, and for the fearless exercise of which they are responsible to their immediate constituents and to the country. It would nullify the constitutional provision on the subject, and practically constitute the Executive Depart ment the sole treaty making power, which, under the Constitution, it is not. I ought to say that- outside newspaper gossip I have not known Of any sensitiveness on the part of the President or the Secretary of State upon this subject. One thing is certain: It seems to be settled that thdre must be a canal, and that the TTnited States shall build and main tain it. Nothing in the amendments was in tended to be oiiensive to the Government of Great Britain or should be considered offensive by Great Britain. I hope and believe that the amendmenisy will receive the approval of that Government. If it shail he otherwise, I am quite certain that the Clayvton-Bulwer Treaty will not be permitted” by the United States to prevent the construction by the United States of a wa terway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but in attaining that end we will not, I am very sure, be led into any breach of Na tional honey or international courtesy. BRYAN’S CONSOLATION PRIZE. WILL HAVE AS MUCH INTELLECTUAL EN JOYMENT AS EDITOR AS HE COULD HAVE HAD IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Lincoln, Neb., Déc. 26 (Special).—The first an nual banquet of the Jefferson Club was held at the Lincoln Hotel this evening. William Jen nings Bryan was the guest of honor. The club was formed to assist Mr. Bryan to gain his polit ical ambitions. W, M. Morming, a Lincoln attor ney and a bosom friend of Mr. Bryan, voiced the latter's sentiments in replying to a toast, “Com mercialism a Menace to Liberty.” Mr. Bryan spoke of “Principles That Live.” In his address he stated that defeats had not lessened his interest in political reform work, but it seemed that he was destined to advocate reforms rather than to execute them. Believing this, he has arranged. he said, to start a weekly paper, to be called “The Commoner.” “I am sure,” he added. “that an editorial position will furnish as much intellectual enjoyment as 1 could have had in the White House.” He said principles live through defeat, and cited the instance of the continued fight of tariff reform ers against the protectionists, and the fact that to-day free trade is an issue before the people. He dwelt on the success of the gold standard advocates, and argued that it had come through persistent work. ‘Shall we, whose cause is just,” he added, “lose faith in our principles because of defeat? Must we now advocate an imperial policy because our opponents have won? The

defenders of trusts did not lose heart when all parties denounced combinations in restraint of trade. Shall we give up the fight because monop oly has triumphed by stealth?”

i In regard to his future Mr. Bryan said: Whether 1 shall ever be a candidate for office again is a question which must be determined by events. No one can speak with certainty of the future, for one's destiny is not known until his life's work is complete. I shall be content if it 1s my lot to aid in the triumph of the principles, while others enjoy the honors and bear the responsibility of office. The RJplding of public office should be an incident, and not the extreme aim, of the citizen. It should net be an end, but the means for the accomplishment of a purpose,

The principles for which we contended in the last campaign still live, and we who believe in them must continue to fight for them. An election does not change principles; it only determines what principles shall for the time being be applied. f we are successful in diverting present tenden cles and in carrying the Government to its o'd foundations, we shall rejoice in the victory and profit by the reforms secured. I am confident that we shall ultimately win, but if the trend toward plutocracy cannot be checked, it is still better that we should be defeated in a righteous undertaking than that we should join hands with those who are ignoring the inalienable rights of man. In regard to his future Mr. Brvan said CHRISTMAS KILLINGS IN EENTIUCKY. NO LPSS THAN THIRTY REPORTED-—MOUNTAIN FEUDS MAY BE RENEWED ga a a a Ate em ed Tod Toa NT FEUDS MAY BE RENEWED. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 26 {Special).—Reports re ceived up to this time show that thirty killings were the result of the Christmas Day celebration in Kentucky. In a half dozen instances, on aos count of local conditions, serious results may fo] low the original crimes. By the shooting of E. T. Garrard, by “Dil” Holland, the Clay County feuds will in all probability break out again, In Wij. lamsburg, Mrs. J. C. Bryant was ghot by Thomas Kidd. A lynching is threatered. John T. Cole was by at and th s Sturgill, 3 other cases of similar char are number ut acter. Mayfield, Ky., Dec. 2%5.~Two men dead and an other wounded is the result of a tragedy that occurred in the southwest Section of the city at a late hour last night, Dep x J Were if wh latter t dead. The Tag in a small room and fifteen shots were fired, LEr was arrested. tra THREATS FOR DEVERY. LIKELY TO BE INDICTED IF HE WON'T RESIGN. STORMY INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND A TAMMANY LAWYER. §TORMY INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND A TAMMANY LAWYER. There were strong indications yesterday that efforts are being made to frighten Chief Devery into resigning. The sword held over his head is indiétment at thé hands of the new District Attorney. That would entail dismissal and loss of pension. By resigning the Chief could pre serve his pension of 33,000 a year. Commission ers Abell and Sexton are ‘upholding Devery. Théy will not vote for his removal from the head of the force. President York has tried all the methods he ¢an think of to induce them to retire the Chief. Nothing moves them. They will see the local Democracy hopelessly split first. Now the pressure has been turned on

Deévary himself. President York's most powerful ally in this fight is Hugh MecLaughlin, of Brooklyn. Mr. McLaughlin yesterday sent his trusted lieuten ant, James Shevlin, to Mayor Van Wyck for the purpose, it is believed, of demanding the dis missal of Devery, on pain of Willoughby Street's opposition to the Tammany ticket next fall Shevlin and the Mayor had a long secret con ference. A few hours afterward a well known Tammany lawyer who has close relations with the Mayor, with Mr. Whalen and with Mr. Croker, called on Devery at Police Headquarters. A stormy intérview followed in Devery’s private office. The door swung open once, and the lawyer was seen shaking his fist vigorously in Devery's face. Devery was shaking his at the same time in the lawyer's face. It is said the lawyer threatened Devery with indictment if he did not resign. He pointed out to the Chief that 1» new District Attorney was now in office, that the pliable Gardiner cculd né longer be used as a shield, and that if Devery’s resigna tion was not forthcoming immediately, evidence could be quickly furnished to Mr. Philbin which would result in the Chief's indictment by a Grand Jury and the loss of his pension. When the lawyer came out of Devery’s room he almost ran from the building t9 avoid the re porters. To one who succeeded in detaining him for a second, he declared that he would not say a single word about his visit to the Chief. When Devery came out he was ¢qually reticent; but he looked exceedingly dogged and red in the face. Before he went away he had a brief in terview with Commissioners Sexton and Abell They came out of the Chief’s room looking wor ried. The pressure is wearing on all three. Poli ticians were freely predicting last night that there would be a new Chief of Police before January 1. Some say Captain Titus will be Devery’s successor. Titus smiled when this re port was repeated to him yesterday. “There's nothing in it,” he said. Inspector Kane is an other probability. Commissioner Hess was driven to Police Head quarters in a cab vesterday. A meeting of the Board was at once called. The Civil Service Commissione-s had forwarded the list of ser geants eligible for promotion to captaincies. The Board, after a long meeting, adjourned without making any promotions, however. They said the promotions would prebably be made at to-lay’'s meeting. It was denied that Devery’s case had come up for discussion at all. MAKING READY FOR ODELL. MUSIC, ADDRESSES AND A PARADE FOR THE NEW GOVERNOR'S IN AUGURATION. Albany, Dec. 26.—The Assembly chamber was the scene to-day of the labors of a large body of workingmen engaged in putting up a platform for the ceremonies which are to at tead the inauguration of Benjamin B. Odell, jr. as Governor on ‘Tuesday next. This platform will extend out from the speaker’s desk over thé desks used by the clerks of the Assembly. The chairs and desks of the Assemblymen have been removed, and smaller chairs placed in the As sembly chamber Decorators will be at work to-morrow ornamenting the platform and the galleries of the Assembly chamber with bunting in various colors and American flags. The in auguration ceremonies, which will take place at noon, will be of a simple character. After patri otic airs have been played by the bands in at tendance prayer will be offered by a local clergy man and Mr. Odell will be greeted by Governor Roosevelt in a bri¢cf address. Mr. Odell will in reply deliver his inaugural address. The cath of office as Governcer of the State will then be ad ministered to Mr. Odell by John T. McDonough, the Secretary of State. The- there will be music and the ceremony wili end with a benediction. Governor Roosevelt will give a reception to the general public in the Executive Chamber of the Capitol at 1:30 o'clock and Governor-elect and Mrs. Odell will hold a reception at the Ex ecutive Mansion at 4 o'clock Secretary of State McDonough has placed Brigadier-General Rob ert Shaw Oliver, of the Third Brigade of the National Guard, in charge of the military and civic organizations which will form part of the parade in honor of Mr. Odell. General Oliver to day issued an order appointing Major James L. Hyatt, of the 10th Battalion, of Albany, mar shal of the parade. The organizations in the procession will form shortly after 11 o'clock and march to the Executive Mansion, in Eagle-st., to escort Governor Roosevelt and Governor-elect Odell to the Capitol. The Third Brigade Signal Corps will have the right of the line, and then will come the 2d Batta.ion of the 2d Regi ment, commanded by Major Dunspaugh, and consisting of Companies A, C and D, of Troy, and Company B, of Cohoes. Then w.ll come the 10th Battalion, of Albany, and the separate companies of Orange County, tw¢ from Newburg and one from Middletown. The personal escort of Gov ernor-elect Odell will be the Governor’s Guard, a semi-military organization of Newburg, having as its members many personal friends of Mr. Odell. The guard is made up of officials of Newburg and former members: of the 10th Separate Company, of which Governor-elect Odell was a member for five years. Governor elect Odell and Governor Roosevelt and the members of their staffs will ride in carriages. After the carriages will come the delegation, one thousand strong, of the members of the New York Republican organization, the members of the Washington Steamer Company of Newburg, of which Governor-elect Odell was secretary ana treasurer for a number of years, and other citi zens’ organizations. The extreme left of the line, it is expected, will be held by the Burgesses’ Corps of this city. The line of march of the pro cession will be from the Executive Mansion northward through Eagle-st. to State-st.,, and thence through State-st. to the State-st. entrance of the Capitol. The Governor's party will enter the Capitol by the State-st. door and Governor Roosevelt and Governor-elect Odell will go to the Executive Chamber and remain there until tha moment arrives at noon when they are re quired by the programme to start for the As. semt'y chamber.

YALE WINS A BASKETBALL GAME Catskill, N. Y., Dec. 26.—A basketball game was played on the armory floor here tonight between the Yale and the 16th Separate Company, N. G. N. Y. teams. It was won by Yale by a score of 18 to 12. It was the home team’s first game under the rules of 1901. The 16th Separate Company team on Mon gay ody defeated the University of Pennsy Yani nder the rules of 1900. Linceln, $4 to an re of to-night's game. Established i823. WILSON WHISKEY. That's All THE WILSON DISTILILING CO. Baltimors M4 3 TT ———T————_— TION—TROUBLE CAUSED BY CASHIER. Baltimore, Dec. 26.—Roger T. Gill, of the law firm of N. Rufus Gill Sons, was late this afternoon appointed receiver for the Old Town Bank by Judge Stockbridge The appointment was made with. .the consent of the president and officers of the bank. Mr. Gill is bonded in the sum of $1,500.00, the assets 0" the institution being valued at half that amount. George Schilling, a stockholder and depositor, and Robert L. Gill, a depositor, were the eomplainants. In their statement to the Court they say: i i

While the bank, until a recent period, has done a successful and profitable business, it has recently incurred heavy losses by the bad faith of its cashier, Theodore F. Wilcox, in that, without authority, he wrongfully, without the knowledge of its president or Board of Directors, permitted Isaac Robinson and the United Milk Producers’ Association to draw from the bank large sums of money. and incurred losses thereby which the bank is unable to bear.

Rumors affecting the financial condition of the bank are in circulation, in consequence of which large sums of money have been withdrawn by de positors, and it is a question of only a short time when the bank will be compelled to close its doors. The bank is unable to pay its liabilities in the usual course of business, and unless a receiver is ap pointed it will result in a struggle to keep the doors of the bank open and depositors will suffer loss.

The answer, filed by President E. G. Shipley, is as follows: The bank admits that by reason of the facts stated in the bill of complaint, it is no longer able to meet its current obligations, and, believing that it ought not te further undertake to continue to do business, but that its assets should be held for the mutual benefit of all persons interested, it consents to the appointment of a reeeiver or receivers as prayed. 25 my a an Both the firms mentioned in the bill of complaint are in receivers’ hands. The bank was chartered by special act of the Legislature in 1888. Its authorized capital was $150,000. The officers and directors are as follows: President, B. G. Hipsley: cashier, Theodore F. Wilcox: directors, William H. B. Fusselbaugh, E. G. Hipsley. Charles W. Hatter, Daniel Dgnnelly, N. Rufus Gill, Jacob W. Hook, J. Henry Snyder and George Schilling. The condition of the bank at the close of busi

ness on September 5 was as follows: Resources— Loans and discounts, 912,138 85; overdrafts, secured, 820.315 11; stocks, securities, etc., $60,065 36. banking house, furniture and fixtures, $48,000; other real es tate and mortgages owned, $2,563 54; due from Na tional banks, $99,71576; due from State _ banks, $14,123 28; checks and other cash items, $54.2i122; exchanges for clearing house, $43,659 21; money in bank, $80,836493, total $1,335, 3 3 Liabilities: Capital stock paid in, $150,000; surplus fund, $150,000; undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid, $14,934 80: due to National banks, 87, 297 55: due to State banks, $13,482 07; due to private banks and bankers, $33.34968; dividends un d, §1.465 61; individual deposits subject to check, 645 89; demand certificates of deposit, $5,369 83; certi fied checks, $20,218 15; cashier's checks outstanding. $15,000; total, $1.335,693 38. The United Milk Producers’ Association, a com pany owned by farmers and dairymen who ship milk to this market, went into a receiver's hands in September. Its assets and liabilities were ap proximately $200,000. The Old Town Bank held con siderable of the company’s paper, and Mr. Wilcox, {ts cashier, was appointed co-receiver. At a meet of the unsecured creditors to-day it was decided to continue business under plans submitted by a finance committee of the stockholders several days 0. At a recent meeting of the creditors of Isaac Robinson, a canned goods packer and fertilizer manufacturer, a preliminary statement submitted by the receivers showed liabilities of $356,252 89 and assets of $712,065 83. Efforts are being made to form a stock company to take over Mr. Robinson's busi ness. It is not known to what extent the paper of either concern is held by the Old Town Bank, but the receiver announces that he will begin the work of investigation at once and make public a state ment at the earliest possible moment

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THE ACTRESS MARRIED IN BALTIMORE TO JOHN LEVY, OF THIS CITY. Baltimore, Dec. 26.—Della Fox, the actress, was married to-day to John Levy, of New-York, in the office of the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. The Rev. Willlam W. Way, pastor of Immanuel Reformed Church, performed the ceremony, in the presence of the bride's maid and a few of the court officials. It is announfed that after the completion of her engagement this week in this city Mrs. Levy will retire from the vaudeville stage, with the intention of returning shortly to comic opera, The marriage license, which was issued to-day, says that Miss Fox is twenty-five years old, single, and a resident of New-York, while Mr. Levy said that he was thirty-five, lived in New-York, and had

na relatives STEAMERS FROM PORTLAND TO WANIL4 Portland, Ore., Dec. 26.—A direct line of steamers between Portland and Manila will be in operation by February 26. The Oregon and Oriental Com pany, in order to accommodate the growing trade between the ports, has decided to put into commis sion the steamers Monmouthshire and Carmarthen shire. The steamers will be used exclusively in the service and make regular trips. For the last ear the wholesale jobbers of Portland ha rving to secure the establishment of a NS year steamers to Manila. They sent a representative there to inquire into the trade conditions, and the new steamship line is the result. MACDONALD DISMISSED FROM MACDONALD DISMISSED FROM SERVICE. Washington, Dec. 26.—The condition of Samuel MacDonald, who shot and killed Frank H. Morris, auditor tor thes War Department, on Saturday. continues favorable. He was formally dismissed from the Government service to-day. For Mayor of New-York. First Choice Second ORC Voter's Na ee Addressee ooo ooo For Mayor of New-York. TRIBUNE POPULAR BALLOT. For Mayor of New-York. Please cut out the bailot and forward it to THE TRIBUNE, naming both your first and second choice for the nemination for Mayor of New-York. Vote for anybody whom yeu may think fit and worthy. It makes no difference what his politics may be. Toadd inter est to the plan, it is desired that each parson shall select both a first and second choices. The names and addresses of voters are asked as a guarantee of good faith and to insure valus for the result of the voting as a true expression of public opinion. but the names will not be published and will be treated as strictly confidential. TR Rg Eo Re RR Re I AR stance, that rome “second choice” candidate had a majority of all the votes, whe the best that uny “first cheice™ man could do wonld be r¢ get a plurality, which w be a minority of all the votes cast. doing Announcement of the present state of the balloting will be wade to-morrow. Address all ballots and nominations to ANOTHER BALTIMORE BANK IN TROUBLE. RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR OLD TOWN INSTITU TION—TROUBLE CAUSED BY CASHIER. DELLA FOX BECOMES A BRIDE. WAYGRALTY CAMPAIGH, Tribune Office. New-York SENTIMENTS OF VOTERS. WILL NOT VOTE FOR “BOSS™ MA WILL NOT VOTE FOR “BOSS” MAN. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Inclosed find my first and second choice for Mayor of our city. At the same time no man will Fe A vote who shows himself subservient to

C. Platt. “By the blessing of the upright the city fs exalted: But it is overthrown by the mouth of the w —Proverbs xi, 11 Y J. HR Solas New-York, Dec. 23, 1900. Tq the Editor of The Tribune. Sir- Incicsed pleas? find ~hoice for Mayor. You have Struck a4 eg Bt educational plan. Think ng makes intelligent voters. Ro Ry Dec. 24, 19500. CYRUS H. TAYLOR THINKS PEOPLE WOULD RALLY TO LOW. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I am glad to know that your valuable Jager is taking so ate an interest in the coming m pal election. very good c'tizem should assist to the end that we ray have geod government for our great and growing Ci orty-five years’ ex perience in Brookiyn, havi take ore or less interest in its municipal a and all its Mayors personally; gives me some fy of t ih ta of man wanted for the present occasion for important place of Mayor. Manhattan has had ht few such Mayors as Hewitt and Strong, while Brookiyn has had many to be justly proud of. Among them all now living, 't seems to me the man for the occasion is Seth Low, an early student of municipal government, elected Mayor of our city two successive terms in a strongly. city, giving it one of the best administrations it it ever had. Honored and respe_.ted troushaus the greater city as a man of sterling integrity and large experience, it seems to me that the people, in dependent of party, would rally to his Tt 10 down Tammany and release our eity from pres ent -ungodly rule, and give us 1 <lean and Realtn ful administration That he, or same such man, will be agreed upon by the. citizens of ghia greas Breas Ciky. dependent of party 333m os and look for. BEN

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THE CUBAN POSTAL FRAUDS yRIAL OF THOSE IMPLICATED AS SOON 48 NEELY IS RETURNED-THE CASE AGAINST GENERAL RATHBONE. _ Dec 26 (Special).—It is certain that the government will insist upon a trial of those charged with the Postoffice frauds as soon as Neely prought back. The first case called will be the one against General Rathbone, who will be charged with carelessness in public office and with col in the frauds which are charged against The Government attorneys say positively hat if the case goes to trial Rathbone will be con weted bevond a doubt, unless some tampering has peen done with the court. There is a great bulk of v. the most of it being furnished by Dr. who was suditor for the Department of ves, and who, when charged with fraud, made a gatement of the entire case in the*form of a con are 192 pages of closely typewritten manu which bears the signature of Dr. Reeves. jt §s upon the testimony 10 be furnished from this that the prosecution bases its belief of cer gain eonviction. While the nature of the state ment made by Reeves in reference to Rathbone has peen given to the public, and the confession nas been locked up at the office of the Department of Posts. enough is known to warrant the state ment that Reeves accuses Rathbone of being one of those connected directly with the Postoffice gravés. and that his statements have in some In heen supported by documents which the guditor retained in his possession. Horstic Rubens, who was appointed to assist in she prosecution after Ernest Lee Conant and Al pert Wright had been dismissed, has been at work gor three weeks preparing the testimony, and has made the statement that everything possible will be gone to convict Rathbone when his case comes up. Ir the mean time General Rathbone is preparing nis defence, and his attorreys expr-ss the greatest confidence in the outcome He contends that Rath pone has been persecuted by a number of officials in the United States who have been seeking to make 2 reputation for themselves. and there is no doubt that to a certain extent this statement Is true. When the trial takes place evidence will be submitted by Rathbone’s attorneys to show that sme action of Special Accountant Lawshe in the Rethbone case indicates persecution, and that in some instances his actions were ridiculous. Corre spondence which was referred to Rathbone in cases where disallowances were made will be used as evidence. Some of this correspondence includes statements and vouchers which required days to eoliect. 2nd which were prepared for the purpose of ghowing authority for the disallowance of 10 and 12 penis. nC in many instances as small amounts as one cent. As a rule these were in connection with mems referring to the payment of officials’ sala ries, €1C Genera! Rathbone will endeavor to prove that the dissllowznces made by Lawshe are not only unjust, put that they were made with a view of making a reputation for the auditor, and zlso for the pur pose of persecution The Spanish law is such as te justify the judges who sit in criminal or civil cases acting upon pre sumption to 8 certain extent, and General Rathbone and his attorneys will take every advantage of this feature of the law. They will present testimony to gnow the connection of the defaulting empioves of the Deparument of Posts with those whe are high in authority in Washington. They will prove that Rathbone was practically compelled in z political sense 10 appoint Neely by Perry 8. Heath, and that 4 L Lswshe, who made such a sweeping report and who diszllowed everything where he had an cpportunity for do so without giving the benefit of the doubt to Rathbone, was the man who rec ommended Dr. Reeves to General! Rathbone in a jetter, in which mention was made of Perry Heath end in which Mr. Lawshe said that Dr. Reeves was known by him to be.a competent, hard work ing and faithrul man. A'l this evidence will be used for the purpose of demonstrating to the court thet Rathbone had a right to have confidence in those who, he asserts, betrayed him, and that that confidence was inspired by the statements of the very men who are now interested in the prosecu tion of the case. Rathbone will also be able to prove that upon several occasions Mr, Lawshe made the statement, “We must convict Rathbone, but at the same time we must spare Perry Heath.” All this testimony will be of value to the defence ir the cese where he is charged with carelessness in office. If he can prove that the recommendation by the Washingion officiais of those who were sent to Cube wes such ss to inspire confidence it will 2swve good effect on his case with the judges. There is another ase of the case which is dif ficult to un@erstand—the dismissal of the two at who have been at work upon -the case, with The statement that their services had been able an@$sithful, and the substitution of Horatio Rubens, 2 man who has figured ently in polities in Cuba and whe is the confidential friend in Cuba pf Secretary Root. The fact that Rubens is known as a politician here and that the change of attorneys was made only a few days after the return of General Wood from Washington has created the belief that politics is behind the ap pol ntment of Rubens, and that it means that Rath ne is to be acquitted. This is the way it is con strued by the friends of Rathbone and by some of the officials who have been connected with the case. This opinion is strengthened by the zbsence of any assignment of cause for making the change znd the facet that Mr Conant has always been recognized as the leading American attorney in Cuba

Both Conent and Wright, who now have no con nection with tne case, assert that Rathbone will be convicted if he receives a fair trial They have glways said that the evidence which has been pre pared. 2nd which represents several months’ labor on the part of several officials who were specially detziled for the case, is strong.

The attorneys for Rz*hbone, however, make the statement that the case has been carrieé too far, end tnat the policy of disallowing everything will result in the acquittal of their client. They argue that no Cubzn court will convict Rathbone when it can be so positively proved that he has not been ny treated by the Government making the com plaint

DIECHARGFE FOR G6. V, HANKINFR'S WIFE. EAXERTPTCY PROCEEDINGS SHOW HER LIABI TITIES TO BE ALMOST $600,000 EAXERTPTCY PROCEEDINGS SHOW HER LIABIL ITIEE TO BE ALMOST $600,000. Judge Brown in the United States District Court yesterday granted discharges to seventeen bank rupts. among whom were Christopher Nally, of No. £4 West One-hundred-and-thirty-eighth-st., for merly 2 plumber and builder, whose liabilities were 11782 Effie S. Hankins, boarding house, at No. 218

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the Chicago sporting man, with liabilities of 3$588, 1% zré Arnold Conover, wholesale dealers in millir crv. of No. 138 Fifth-ave., liabilities, $27,208. REPORTED SETTLEMENT OF RUGAR WAR The activity of American Sugar Refining yesterday started reports of a settlement of the ap parently recently revived antagonism between the Sugar Company and Arbuckle Brothers. An of ficie! of the American Sugar Refining Company, however. sent out word from the office that he ¥rew nothing zbout any understanding with the Arbuckles or anybody else. At the Arbuckle’s place of business James N. Jarvie, a member of the firm refused to talk jor publleaston: stock

It is noteworthy that m of the Sugar Trust gossip heard here recently has come from Boston. INTERV ATIONAL "RUBBER DIRECTGRS. The nemes of the directors of the International Crude Ruther Company, which has been incor porated. as printed in The Tribune vesterday, with #0 authorized capital of 330,000,000, have been made public, They are Charles R. Flint, H H. Rogers, John D. Archbold, Albert C. Burrage, A. H. Alden, Szmuel P. Coit, Lester Leland and T. Jefferson Cooliige. 5» A HH. Alden, it is said, will be the

ident A nited States Rub of the COR pans The U the American vele and the Rubber Manufacturing companies are represented in the Boar: The Sombination expects ultimately to con the STRIKING WEAVERS GO BACE TO WORK.

New-Bedford, Mass, Dec. 26.—Most of the strik ing weavers at the Acushnet and Hathaway cotton

milis went back to work this morning. The situa for, with regard to the loom fixers remains un

ef A——— FOR CHILDREN Nothing, that comes in a bottle, is more important for children than Scott's emulsion of cod-liver oil. And “important” means that it keeps them in health. Whenever they show the least disturbance of even balance of health, it promptly restores them. It is to be used as a food, whenever their usual food does not quite answer the purpose of food. Well sens you ned to try. if you like. SCOTT BowNE, #06 Pear! street, New York PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY CHANGES. OFFICE OF FOURTH VICE-PRESIDENT RE STORED—-A GENERAL AGENT AT ERIE. IN. A. Ad ARC Philadelphia, Dec. 26.—At a meeting of the direc tors of the Pennsylvania Company, which controls the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company west of Pittsburg. held here to-day, the office of fourth vice-president, which was abolished In 1897, was re-established. L. F. Loree, the present gen eral manager, was elected to the office. G. L. Pot ter. general superintendent of motive power, was appointed to succeed Mr. Loree. The place of general superintendent of motive power was not filled.

The engineer departments of the Pennsylvania Company and the Pan Handle Road were consoli dated. Thomas H. Johnson, of the Pan Handle, was appointed consulting engineer of both com panies. Thomas Rodd, chief engineer of the Penn sylvania Company, was made chief engineer of both companies. Robert Trimble, formerly prin cipal assistant engineer of the Pennsylvania Com pany, was appointed principal assistant engineer of both companies. R. F. Smith, present superintend ent of the voluntary rellef department of the Penn sylvania Company, who will be retired on a pen sion on January 1, will be succeeded by Frank C Thayer.

G. L. Peck was appointed general superintendent of the Southwest System to succeed John F. Mil ler, who will be retired on a pension. W. C. Cush ing was appointed superintendent of the Pittsburg division, to succeed Mr. Peck. James McCrea, first vice-president of the Pennsylvania Company, will be in charge of the executive department of both companies. Joseph Wood will have charge of the traffic department, and Mr. Loree will be in charge of transportation. J. T. Brook will have charge of the treasury, law and real estate departments. This is a change in the executive department of the road, and is for the purpose of establishing a closer alliance between the two companies.

Several changes were made in the organization of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to-day at a meeting of the directors. The position of general agent at Erie was created, and J. W. Reynolds, now superintendent of the western division of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, was appoint ed to the place. The jurisdiction of Thomas A. Roberts, now superintendent of the middle divis fon of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad. was extended so as to cover the western division.

The Lewistown division was detached from the Pennsylvania Railroad division, and W. B. Mec Caleb, now superintendent of the Sunbury division, was appointed superintendent of the Lewistown division. The low grade portion of the Allegheny Valley Railway was detached from the Philadel phia and Erie Railroad division and placed in the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley division, forming a new division, to be known as the low grade divis ion, and Charles B. Price, now superintendent of the river division, was appointed superintendent of the new low grade division. Prior to the opera tion of the Allegheny Valley Railway by the Penn. svilvania Railroad. in August last, Mr. Price was its general superintendent. The territory now un der his supervisign consists of the River division Sng the low grade division of the Allegheny Valley

ilway The retirement plan will go in force on the Penn sylvania Railroad Company's division west of Pittsburg on January 1, and many veteran employes will be removed from active service and put on the pension roll. The scheme went into effect on the eastern division of the road a vear ago, and hun dreds of old employes were retired. F. L. Shep pard, general superintendent of the New-York di vision, said vesterday: ‘1 do not understand that there are to pe any important changes this slide of Pittsburg, but the retirement scheme will be put in operation on the road west of Pittsburg. That division did not adopt the scheme iast year, as we did on this division. The adoption of the re tirement plan will naturally result in many changes weet of Pittsburg.” The retirement plan will go in force on the Penn sylvania Railroad Company's division west of Pittsburg on January 1, and many veteran employes will be removed from active service and put on the pension roll. The scheme went into effect on the eastern division of the road a vear ago, and hun dreds of old employes were retired. F. L. Shep pard, general superintendent of the New-York di vision, said vesterday: ‘I do not understand that there are to pe any important changes this slde of Pittsburg, but the retirement scheme will be put in operation on the road west of Pittsburg. That division did not adopt the scheme last year, as we did on this division. The adoption of the re tirement plan will naturally result in many changes west of Pittsburg.” NEW CARS FOR THE READING. CONTRACTS FOR TWO THOUSAND STEEL CARS, THIRTY COACHES AND FORTY FIVE IOCOMOTIVESR Philadelphia, Dec. 26.—In pursuance of its plan to re-equip its road, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company has let contracts which in the aggregate amount to a large sum. Two thousand new cars have been ordered, a large proportion of them of the pressed steel class that have lately come into use. One thou sand of these will be made by the Pressed Steel Car Company, of Pittsburg, tc have a capacity of 100,000 pounds. To the Cambria Steel Company, of Johnstown, Penn., goes the contract for 500 steel gondola cars of 100,000 pounds capacity, and to the American Car and Foundry Company an order for 500 box cars with steel underframing of 0,000 pounds capacity. i

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For the passenger service the Harlan Hollings worth Company, of Wilmington, Del, has a con tract for twenty standard passenger coaches, with open platforms. and the Jackson Sharp Com pany, also of Wilmington, will build ten coaches of the broad vestibule tvpe.

Forty-five locomotives are to be built by the Bald win Locomotive Works, thirty-five of them being for freight traffic and ten for the passenger service. Philadelphia, Dec. %.—The directors of the Pitts burg, Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis Raflroad, otherwise known as the Panhandle system, to day declared a dividend of 2 per cent on the pre ferred stock of the company, payable January 15. NEW VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE D. AND H. Sd NEW VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE D. AND H. David Willcox, for many years general counsel for the Delaware and Hudson Company, was yes terday elected vice-president of that corporation, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Roosevelt. Mr. Willcox is a member of the well known law firm of Opdvke, Willcox Bristow, No. i

2% NV acsan.st GOVERNMENT AND PEGPLE ANXIOUS FOR UNITED STATES TO SECURE COMPLETE CONTROL. Managua, Nicaragua, Dec. 4—Cable messages from Washington, D. C.. dated December 1, were published in the “Diario Oficial,” declaring that the Isthmian Canal Commission had reported to the Government of the United States “‘that it is impossible for the United States to obtain absolute possession of either of the canal routes across the American isthmus because of diplomatic impedi ments and of the constitutions of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.” The plea of constitutional obstruec tion is regarded here as very weak, because it is well known that the Congress of Nicaragua re solved itself into a constitutional convention, and at once proceeded to modify the constitution, and then again resolved itself into a national Congress and enacted laws, the constitutionality of which has since that date never been questioned, in con formity with the constitution as they had modified it. Consequently the Congress can, when it is called into extra session by President Zelaya, so modify the constitution as to empower the Execu tive to concede to the I'nited States a belt of land from ten to fifteen miles wide across Nicaragua having the canal route as its longitudinal north easterly and southwesterly axis.

The Government and people of Nicaragua appear anxious to do anything reasonable to enable the United States to acquire full control of the canal route across their country. This is true also, no doubt, in regard to the Government and people of Colombia in the matter of the Panama Canal route. The only probable cause of delay or diffi culty in Colombia is that the armed revolutionists there are obstructing the peaceful assembling of the Colombian Congress for any purpose.

POSSIBLE REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA EX-PRESIDENT CARDENAS REPORTED TO HAVE ORGANIZED AN UPRISING.

Managua, Nicaragua, Dec. 4—"E! Liberal” 2 Government daily newspaper published here, con tinues to refer to efforts which, it declares, Dr. Adam Cardenas, the former President of Nicaragua, and others expatriated from this country have been making to organize a revolution against Presi dent Zelaya. Coincident with these references some of the most honorable and well educated business men of Managua, personal friends of Dr. Cardenas, have during the last ten days been imprisoned in communicado, by the President's orders, in the penitentiary. The friends of the prisoners declare they are not allowed the use of stools, chairs, bed steads, cots or tabies, and are not permitted to use knives or spoons when eating.

The severe conditions alleged to be imposed on these incommunicados indicate that reports of their connection with the threatened revolution have been made to President Zelaya. Certain of the prisoners, such as Frederico Bolosoria, who is

venty-three years old and feeble; Alcemedes uentes, Dr. M, E. Valasquez and Adem Saenz have established characters as quiet men and de voted to their business or profession, who, it is pointed out, know that President Zelava has com plete control of a large number of rifles, cannon ete., and a quantity of munitions of war, and that he is too Xatjant to permit the introduction of arms into Nicaragua by intending revolutionists: also that no revolution can succeed against him at present unless it Is originated by the treachery of supposed friends, as were the very strong but mis managed revolutions organized against him by pretended friends in 1886 and 1898 with whom the men now imprisoned would not associate in such work or have confidential relations of any kind

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1300. RATLROAD INTERERTRS. NEW CARS FOR THE READING.

FIVE LOCOMOTIVES PANTANDIE DIVIDEND. STATUS OF NICARAGUA CANAL. eee elf NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2 PHILBIN TAKES OFFICE.

GARDINER DEPARTS WITH TEARS AND BOMBAST. The final step in the wresting of the District Attorney's office from Tammany control wae taken yesterday morning, when Eugene A. Phil bin filed with the County Clerk the papers certi fying his appointment to the position from which the Governor last week ousted Asa Bird Gardiner. Mr. Gardiner could not let the occa sion pass without indulging in his fatal gift of bombastic speechifying. He met Mr. Philbin in the Criminal Courts Building for the purpose of introducing him to the staff and to the judges. As he had already told his friends that he would make no opposition to his deposition from office, and had been advised by able constitutional lawyers that he was perfectly helpless any way, it came as a surprise when Mr. Gardiner, ad dressing Mr. Philbin in a formal manner, said:

I would like it to be clearly understood that I do not voluntarily surrender this office and that I protest against ths action of the Governor as being without authority of law. I am anxious, while Protesting against this act and reserving all my egal rights, that the public business shall not be injured nor retarded, and to that end I will be pleased to co-operate with you in any way that you may think best in the public interest. Some who heard this instantly imagined that a legal contest was to be started by Mr. Gardi ner, but those who know him well thought other wise. Being asked later what he meant by it, Mr. Gardiner admitted that he had no present intention of making a fight.

District Attorney Philbin replied to Mr. Gardi ner’s speech with dignity, but pleasantly, say ing:

I thank you cordially for your kind words and your offer. It is hardly necessary, because I feel that you are ready to give me every as sistance in your power, and I.shall- not hesitate to call on vou. I thank vou. Mr. Gardiner omitted to introduce Mr. Philbin to Recorder Goff. i When introducing the staff, he said of As sistant District Attorney John F. McIntyre: “This is the man who has tried more murder cases than any other man in the world.” Of Mr. Unger, he said: “Here is a man who has been brought up in this office.” Of Mr. Osborne he said: ‘““This is Mr. Osborne, who has had charge of the Molineux case.” The introductions being over, Mr. Gardiner left the new District Aitorney and went up to the library, where he talked a little in private to his former assistants and bade them fare well. There were tears in his eves when he left the library. He told newspaper men he had nothing 10 say to them. When he left the Crimi nal Courts Building it was u..derstood that he was going to search for a law office somewhere near Wall-st. and resume his private practice.

Mr. Philbin spent much of the afternoon in the District Attorney's office. He said he could not talk about his plans until he had more ac quaintance with the office. He told the staff that there would be no immediate changes in their ranks. The first official act of District At torney Philbin was the placing of his signature to two indictments recently found by the Grand Jury. The first was the indictment found con jointly against two men, Spellman and Matthies, charged with the murder of William Willow, in Doll's Piano Factory, at Onehundredanad thirty-fourth-st. and the Southern Boulevard, on November 13. The other indictment was against John Fietcher Shera, a Wall-st. broker, who was indicted on a charge of having defrauded General Daniel E. Siekles, on September 24, out of £10,000.

Among the callers on District Attorney Phil bin were John McCullagh, State Superintendent of Elections; Job E. Hedges and Magistrate Henry A. Brann. ELECTRIC LIGHT'S CREW SAFE. TAKEN OFF THE BRIG BY THE STEAMER BEN CLUNE. A dispatch from London, received here last night, contained the information that the British steamer Ben Clune, Captain Tayler, from New-Orleans and Norfolk, which left the latter port on December 7 for Rouen, passed the Lizard yesterday, and signalled that she had on board the crew of the British brig Electric light, Captain Edwards, from New-York November 30 for (‘ape Coast, Africa. News that the Electric Light had been aban doned was reported by the Italian steamer Vincenzo Florio on her arrivel here on December 17, but it was pot known before that the crew had been rescued. The Florio passed the abandoned brig on December 13, in latitude 37:08, longitude 35:55. Her foremast was broken off at the deck, the main topmast gone and the bowsprit was carried away close to the stem. The mainsail was set, and under its pressure the brig was slowly forging ahead of the starboard tack. The steamer drew near and sent a boat to the brig, but she was found deserted. The crew numbered eight men, including Captain ¥FAawards

i DELAWARE DEMOCRATS MEET. PLANE DISCUSSED FOR AIDING REGULAR REFUB

LICANS IN DEFEATING ADDICKS. Dover, Del., Dec. 26 (Special).—The Democratic State Central Committee and two hundred other representative Democrats from all over the State, including the members-elect of the Legislature, met here to-day to discuss the most feasible plan to be pursued by the Democrats in the coming ses sion of the Delaware Legislature in the organiza tion of the two houses and the Senatorial question. A diversity of opinion existed as to the Senatorial question, some taking the view that the regular Republicans, known as the Dupont faction, if sin cere in their desire to defeat Addicks as a Sena torial aspirant, would join the Democrats in carry ing out a scheme which would undoubtedly defeat him.

Others were of the opinion that there should be at once an agreement effected between Democrats and

the Fagular Republicans, sc that the Democrats would have one Senator and the Republicans one. R8till others favored Democrats joining the regulars and electing two regular Republicans to the Sen ate. While resolutions were presented to show the exact feeling of the convention, and no vote was taken, the last named scheme seems to meet with the approval of a large majority of the Democrats. No action will be taken by the Democrats until next Monday, when the members of the Legislature will caucus.

WAS DISTRICT ATTORNEY EUGENE A. PHILBIN'S FIRST DAY AT HIS DESK. FIFTEEN ARE ENCOURAGED. THEY SEE IN MR. PHILBIN A STRONG ALLY AGAINST VICE. The Committee of Fifteen is greatly pleased by the removal of Asa Bird Gardiner from, and the appointment of E. A. Philbin to, the office of District Attorney. At the close of the com mittes's meeting yesterday the chairmar, Will iam H. Baldwin, jr., was asked: “Was the appointment of Mr. Philbin as Dis trict Attorney discussed?” “Yes.” he replied, promptly, “and the com mittee is greatly pleased with the appointment, as it makes possible more effective work.” George Haven Futnam, another member of the committee, who acted as foreman of the March Grand Jury. which brought in a present ment against Gardiner, said: “We have great confidence in Mr. Philbin.” The meeting approved the following selections made by the chairman for the various sub committees among whom its work is to be di vided: Finance—Charles Stewart Smith, chairman; John 8. Kennedy, George Foster Peabody, John Harsen Rhoades and Jacob H. Schiff. Investigation—William H. Baldwin, jr. chair man; Dr. Felix Adler, Alexander E. Orr, George Haven Putnam and Professor Edwin R. A. Seligman. Legislation—Austin .G. Fox, chairman; Colonel Joel B. Erhardt and William J. C'Brien. Co-operation with Other Bodies—Charles Sprague Smith, chairman; Dr. Felix Adler and A. J. Smith. Mr. Baldwin sald that the sub-committees would begin work at once, and would report weekly to the Committee of Fifteen at its regu lar meeting, which will be held each Wednesday at 3:30 p. m. The committee will soon open an office downtown and put an agent in charge. It will appoint 2a number of investigators and set them at work gathering evidence of Jawbreak ing. Joel B. Erhardt, who was kept away: from the meeting vesterday by two weddings, said early in the day: One of the things which the Committee of Fifteen might do would be to recommend that the Mayor.have absolute power of removal of all the officers whom he appoints. As the charter now stands the Mayor cannot remove any of his ap pointees after the first six months without cause. Cause means, in the ordinary sense of the word, the bringing of charges and the sustaining of those charges. Bringing charges and sustaining them in a legal way is sometimes a most dif ficult thing to do, even when it is known beyond doubt that an officer is incompetent. In some cities with modern charters power has been given to the Mayor to remove his appointees

at will. In that case there is no divided re sponsibility.

le POLICE IGNORE PURIFIERS.

NIXON UTTERS SOLEMN PLATITUDES AND PLATZEK WAILS. FEEBRLY.

When Chief Purifier Nixon, of the Tammany Committee of Five, was told by reporters last night that the gambling houses which closed up for a day or two while Devery was on vacation were nearly all open again yesterday, and that Cort right's order to the captains to shut them up had thus been practically ignored, Mr. Nixon said ponderously: “Then so much the worse for them." This had a solemn sound, but the public is not looking for sound or even solemnity so much as for action. Assistant Purifier Platzek seemed to sum up the public's opinion of this committee pretty accuratsly vesterdayv when he said: It seems that no matter what we do for the good of the people we are only rewarded by sneers and derision. I suppose virtue in our case will be our only reward.

Charles Stewart Smith is generally acknowledged to he a good judge of men and one not given to taiking on subjects which he does not fully under stand. He said vesterday:

The action of Tammanv’'s committee will not throw dust in the eyes of anybody very long. The fact of the matter is that many of the influential gamblers themselves would like to see the small fry driven out of the business. The Tammany purifiers can, therefore, actually close up a hundred or more of these smaller places and serve a double purpose, The purifiers will not only be playing to the gallery, but they will at the same time be ingratiating themselves with the big gamblers and the leaders of Tammany Hall, who alone would have the power to close up the influentia. gamblers pemanently. The small fry who can’t pay much for police protection or cannot afford to buy pro tection directly from the district leaders aya ne run out of business for a time, while the big men will profit immensely by this flamboyant display of virtue by the Tammany Vice Committee. About all that the Tammany committee will do is to weed out the unprofitable little gamblers for the benefit of the big gambling combination.

STRTCTURAL STEEL POOL MEETING. Tt is expected that a meeting of representatives of the various companies making up the structural

steel pool will be held to-day at the Waldort Astoria.

NEWFOUNDLAND'S TOLU'NTEER FORCE St. John's, N. F., Dec. 26.—The Governor, Sir Henry Edward MecCallum, is arranging for the formation of a colonial volunteer force, to can sist of eight companies of rifles, totalling six hundred men. It is proposed to establish the force after the beginning of the new year. The Jovernment, it is understood, is ready to pro vide the necessary funds. This force will’ be exclusive of the Naval Reserves, the members of which have already been enrolled from among the fishermen around the coast. The volunteers will be recruited from the larger towns. The movement is very popular. NO MORE RLAVE RAIDS IN EGYPT Khartoum, Dec. 2.—Lord Cromer, the British Diplomatic Agent, received the Egyptian- troops of the Soudan, under the Sirdar, Major-General Sir Francis R. Wineate, to-day. He assured a deputa tion from the great Dinka tribe, which formerly suffered severely from slave Jas, that the British a aran them agains rit hg of _ raids and insured respect or their ancient customs. The chiefs departed ex wressing gratituds. "EMBER 27. 1300. ELM-ST. PETITION AGAIN DENIED.

BOARD OF PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS RE FUSES TO REDUCE PROPERTY OWN ERS ASSESSMENTS. The room of the Beard of Public Improvements was thronged yesterday with Elm-st. property own ers and thelr attorneys. They want standing assess ments reduced from 50 to 25 per cent. Only two were heard, Michael J. Mulqueen, attorney for a number of the owners, said it seemed the Controller was under the impression that the property owners had agreed to pay 3 per cent of the assessments for the widening of Elm-st. No such agreement had been made. The street had been widened not for the henefit of the property owners, but as a public necessity. _ Deputy Controller Levy said that it was not riecessary to prove that such an agreement had been made. Mr. Muiqueen jumped to his feet and exclaimed that it was a grab on the part of the city to take out of the pockets of the citizens 33,000,000.

Colonel Franklin Bartlett, for the Mason prop erty in Lafayette Place as a trustee, and for other property as a lawyer, sald: She preple whom I. je nt are assessed 38,000. We find we will have a dead loss for the next ot eight years in rentals. We have to make our own leases at lower rates. I believe the improvement has benefited the city at large and not the individual owners.

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power to relieve individual owmers.. There were cases where no individual owners were benefited, but the Board could not remedy that. Colonel Bartlett thought it fair to assess the city Jer cent and the property owners 25 per cent. r. Mulqueen said a number of his clients had suffered severe josses since the improvement was Tenants had moved out and owners had been com pelled to lower the rentals. One client had lost rentals to the amount of $30,000 since the improve ment was begun, in addition to assessments of $12,000 in three years. After considerable wrangling the Board adopted a resolution practically refusing to alleviate the financial sufferings of the property owners. The petition of the property owners was denied for the second time. The Board adjourned to next Thursday. MAMMOTH DREDGE HERE. THE THOMAS THE LARGEST OF THE KIND IN THE WORLD -—F. HOPKINSON SMITH TALKS OF HER. The first of the two dredges bullt for the execu tion of the contract to dig out the East Channel arrived here yesterday from Newport News. The dredge is the Thomas. She is the largest dredge in the world, and is self-propelling. She made the trip from her anchorage at Newport News to her anchorage off Liberty Island in twenty-seven hours. It was said yesterday at the office of Andrew Onderdonk, who has the dredging contract, that actual work would not be begun before New Year's Day. The dredge has not had a full trial of her dredging machinery, and until she has had this no work on the contract will be undertaken, A trial will be made to-day in the channel whers she is to work. The dredge is 300 feet long and has 2 beam of 0 feet 6 inches. The hull has a carrying eca pacity of 3,000 cubic yards. The dredging is done by means of a 48-inch suction pump on the forward deck. It is estimated-that the pump will suck up a cargo of sand inside of an hour. After loading up she will take her ioad out to sea and dump it. It is believed that she can make three or four trips inside of twelve hours. The Thomas was built at Sparrows Point, Md. from plans modelled after those of powerful hy draulic dredges in England. F. Hopkinson Smith, the author, artist and light house builder. who is a partner of James Syming ton, said vesterday afternoon that this dredge would revolutionize dredzing. Speaking of the power of the suction pumps used on similar but smaller dredges, he said that he had seen a safe that had been drawn through one of them. In Holland, where he had been painting, he said he had observed that they were used for making new land. The project to fill the Zuyder Zee, he said, would be carried out with such dredges. The sister dredge of the Thomas, the Mills, which is in build ing at Sparrows Point, will be finished before next spring.

IN MEMORY OF EX-GOVERNOR WOLCOTT EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS ADOPTS FEELING RESOLUTIONS. Boston, Dec. 26. —At the meeting of the Executive Council to-day the following resolutions upon the death of former Governor Wolcott were reported by the special committee appointed last Saturday through Lieutenant-Governor Bates, and unani maously adopted:

I We meet to-day under a dark and oppressive shadow. On tne anniversary of Forefathers’ Day Roger Wolcott, ex-Governor of the Commonwealth, a noble descendant and fitting representative of Pilgrim and Puritan, passed from the Pilgrim Land to the unseen shores. His best years were given to the service of Massachusetts, and we recognize that in his death the Commonwealth has sustained a loss great and irreparable. She had no better representative of Christian manhood.

In his private relations, in the discharge of the duties of a citizen, in official position. as a mem ber of the City Council. of the General Court, as Lieutenant-Governor and as Governor, he was al ways true to the noblest instincts of humanity. Genial, affable, courtly in manner, patient, un tiring, determined in effort, he made every man his friend and the State his debtor. He called no man master, but hesitated not to enter any service to whieh public duty called him. Keenly sensitive to public opinion, he never faltered in the path that conscience dictated. Crowned with the hest honor, he was equal to every emergency and ade quate to every occasion.

Gone from us in the noonday, we mourn for ail the good he might have done in the afterhoon of life; we mourn him as a man. as a citizen, as a public official, as a friend. His eulogy is to-day on the lips of all the people. None speak of him but to praise. We can add nothing to the lustre of his name. We seek but to record upon the of ficial journal of this Council our unbounded and tenderest sympathy. KCHOOL PRINCIPALS SESSION OPEYS. Syracuse, N. Y., Dei. 26.—The holiday conferences of the Associated Academic Principals of the State of New-York and the State Grammar School Prin cipals’ Association open in this city to-night, and the State Training Class Teachers’ Association convenes to-morrow morning.

James B. Dill, of New-York, addresses the aca demic principals at this evening's session and the Grammar School Principals will tla a banguet. To-morrow the business sessions will ey

LADS DROWNED WHILE SKATING. South Norwalk, Conn Dec. 26. —John Kelly, aged thirteen, and Wille Hull, aged ten, were drowned last night while skating on the Union Mills Pond, at Norwalk Kelly broke through the ice, and Hull,

in trying to save him, also perished. Other boys tried to rescue the drowning lads, but because of thin ice could not reach them, and the two went down in each other's embrace. The bodies wers recovered.

R. T. WILSCN CO. SUED. TOM L. JOHNSON BRINGS ACTION TQ DISSOLVE DETROIT STREET RAIL WAY AGREEMENT.

Decision was reserved by Justice Blanchard, the Supreme Court, yesterday in an action brough® by Tom L. Johnson against R. T. Wilson Co, bankers and brokers, for an injunction restraining the defendants from disposing of the stocks and securities of the Detroit Street Railroad system, pending the trial of a suit for the dissolution of an alleged partnership existing between Johnson and R. T. Wilson Co. Mr. Johnson also asks that a is be for the are attorneys for the defendants. is represented by 8S. B. Clarke. Ex-Justice William N. Cohen and Butler, Mynderss The origin of the suit was the purchase in 1384 by the defendants of the Detroit Street Railroad system, after which Mr. Johnson became asso clated with them In its management. He was to have a one-fifth interest in the company of all stocks purchased or to be purchased by R. T. Wilson Co. in connection with the carrying out of the project for the consolidation of all the sur face raiiroads in and about Detroit. He was also to have charge of the working of the differemt acquired, and was to act as the president of the company at a salary of $10,000 a year. of the financial affairs of the corporation and were to form such syndicates and outside arrangements with regard to the securities 1s they deemed fit. R. T. Wilson Co. were to have the The contract between Johnson and R. T. Wilson Co. was to terminate within three years, if pos sible, but it was extended from time to time until November last. The failure to close the agreement was the formation of a new company for the acquirement of the Detroit Street Railroad system, which was known as the three cent fare, or eight tickets for a quarter combination, which was ene gineered by the firm of Pack Everitt. They obtained a franchise and acquired between fifty and sixty miles of streets under it The scheme of Pack Everitt interfered with thea plans of R. T. Wilson Co. A settlement was reached in 1888, whereby Pack Everitt agreed to deposit 70 per cent of stock in the three-cent fare company, and were to receive in return certalwy stocks in a new company to be orzanized. Pack Everitt did not deposit the full amount of 70 per cent of the stocks, but on November last an arrangement was made between them and R. T. Wilson Co. Mr. Johnson alleges that he, on November IT, orally gave notice that he wanted his share of tha securities and that he would pay his one-fifth share of the outlay by Wilson Co. in their purchase, He alleges that the amount of his interest In the profits or losses of the enterprise was in the nature of a partnership agreement, and that he, for that reason, can apply for a dissolution of the alleged partnership whenever he chooses. and that on making such an application he is entitled to am injunction restraining the defendants from transe ferring or disposing of the securities and for thes appointment of a receiver to take charge of the corporation pending adjudication by the court Mr. Cohen said that R. T. Wilson Co. contend that the agreement with Mr. Johnson was not in the nature of an ordinary partnership. but was an agreement for ths carrying cut of a special enter rise for a special purpose, and that under tha arms of the agreement Mr. Johnson coulé make no demand for his securities until the deal had been substantially closed. That could not be done until the agreement with Pack Everitt had been 5 ‘summated. R. T. Wilson Co. denied that A Johnson had given any notice that he desired a dissolution prior to the making of the Pack Everitt agreement. They admitted that in the be ginning of December ne had given a written notica demanding that the partnership be dissolved. The injunction asked for calls for the restraining of the carrying out of the Pack Everitt a ment settled on by R. T. Wilson Co., as well as debarring the transfer of the securities held by tha defendants. Mr. Cohen said R. T. Wilson Co had offered to give an undertaking in any amount to secure Mr. Johnson against any loss he Signe sustain by the carrying out of the Pack agreement. Justice Blanchard will not render his decision until he has received briefs from y on both sides on the law of the case Et su LL =™"™S™h™""M=—=—=™"™"™™N"™™=="MB€6Gl SSS. RECEIVERS FOR IRON FURNACE COMPANT, LIABILITIES OF C. R. BAIRD co. LIABILITIES OF R. BAIRD CO. PLACED A® <1 S00 008: $1,500,000. 2 giz ar Philadelphia, Dec. 26.--Jpdge McPherson. in the United States District Caurt, to-day appointed John N. M. Shimer and William HE. Stoake receivers in bankruptey of C. R. Baird Co., operating a num ber of iron furnaces. The security required was $25,000, Counsel for creditors, representing about: $160,000 of claims, stated that the business would probably be reorganized. The liabilities are said to amount to $1,500,000. The concerns cont-olled by Baird Co. are ths Elmira Steel Company. Elmira, N. Y.; Cumber land Nai! and Iron Works, Bridgeton, N. J.; Fuller ton Rolling Mills, Ferndale. Penn.; Catasauqua Rolling Mills, Catasauqua. Penn.; Chickies Iron Company, Philadelphia; nville Rolling Mill, Dan ville, Penn.; Roanoke Rolling Roanoke, Va., and blast furnaces at Emporium, Penn.; Roanoka and Ircn Gate, Va. The failure is attributed to the heavy decline In the prices of iron in the last year, and occasioned no surprise in the trade. Mr. Baird issued a cir cular announcing a plan of reorganization. and stating that if the properties and assets are mot brought to a forced or hurried sale’ the will. he believes, be able to pay its debs in with interest. a full, BICYCLE RIDER DROWNED AT SEATING. yo Worcester, Mass., Dec. 26.—James Smalley, nine teen years old, a well known bicycle rider, was drowned while skating at Salisbury Pond to-day. He was playing polo, and skated into a hole in tha fice. The body has been recovered.

RICYCLE RIDER DROWNED AT SEATING. BICYCLE RIDER DROWNED AT SEATING. Worcester, Mass., Dec. 26.—James Smalley, afne teen years old, a well known bicycle rider, was drowned while skating at Salisbury Pond to-day. He was playing polo, and skated into a hole in the jce. The body has been recovered. The Difference between ready-made and madeto order is just the difference between the ordinary Buffet-Library Cars and the New Club Cars in service on the Chicago Great Western Chicago to St. raul and Minreapolis; to Des Moines, St. Joseph and Kansas City. For full information apply to any railrcad agent. call on or address E M JENKINS, City Passenger Agent, 319 Broadway, New York, or F. H. LORD, General Passenger Agent, Chicago Great Western Railway, Chicago. Chicago to St. zxul and Minreapolis; to Des Moines, St. Joseph and Kansas City. For full information apply to any railroad agent. call on or address MM. JENKINS, City Passenger Agent, 319 an New York, or F. H. LORD, General Passenger Agent, Chicago Great Western Railway, Chicago. WISSNER PIANOS Used by Eminent Artists, EROOKLYN: COR. FULTON ST. FLATREUSH AVR NEW YORK: 23 EAST MTH ST. Second-Hand Uprights of Good ere $85—8125. Grands, $175—$309 REED BARTON, SILVERSMITHS, Broadway and 17th Street, N. Y. 6 Maiden Lane, N.Y. REED BARTON, SILVERSMITHS, ‘Broadway and 17th Street, N. Y. 6 Maiden Lane, N. Y. FREE ELECTRIC BELT OFFER wl §TENDAY SFREEWEARING TRIAL fu your own home, we ne and ALTERSAT oe FUKRANT RLECTRIC BELTS any reader of this paper a %o mamey in ad ace; with most all other eats] Yanga ts, appliances and remedios inlk WLC more than ailments. ONLY SURE CURE and disorders. confidential catal a Sas ad ES K FREE FLECTRIC RELY OFFER S2EEW TOG aE Bal

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NEW TAX PLAN PROPOSED. 4 i LOCAL OPTION PROVISION THE CHIEF FEATURE OF THE CHAMBER COMMITTEE'S REPORT. There will come before the Chamber of Com merce at its January meeting a report from the Committee on State and Municipal Taxation con taining the draft of a bill to amend the tax laws which the committee intends to have introduced in the Legislature early in the coming session. The committee consists of G. F. Seward, Charles Fairchild, Alexander E. Orr, John Harsen Rhoades and Clarence H. Kelsey. Advance copies of the committee's report have been sent to mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce to enable them to vote in approval of the report and proposed amendments. The report declares that the biil to be sent to the I.egislature makes no reference to any principle of taxation, neither does it propose reform as to ‘any item of taxation. It proposes a system under which existing individual evils may be eradicated. Several brief arguments are presented to show the necessity for the proposed legislation, among them the following: It cannot be doubted that conditions ted in purely agricultural districts Yaty wi ly from those in the large cities. Thess lat have many things to tax which do not exist at all, or to a limited extent, in the country. At present there is a hard and fast system applicable everywhere. What could be more illogical it cannot be doubted that a certain liberty to suspend or reduce taxation in order to promote the introduction of industries or prevent thelr removal should be permitted. No such liberty exists under the tax system of our State. It cannot be doubted that an increase in the value of general taxables in a given territory would follow the introduction of industries brought about by relief extended in taxation. This would be true 8s to real estate notably. There exist certain conditions which grow out of the facts that the territory of New-York borders on territories of other States, and that these other States, by reason of differences in taxation, or for other reasons, are continually drawing capital and industries from our State. Every one is familiar with instances of the kind. All these things point directly to the proposition that a right system of taxation in our State can only be secured by ting to the several politi eal divisions a certain discretion in the matter of axation. The provisions of the proposed tax measure are summearized as follows: First—For a return to the State Tax Commis sioners of the gross revenue, as defined in the bill, of each tax district in the State, itemized as re spects the sums derived from each class of taxables. Second—For the filing and tabulation of these re turns by the State Tax Commissioners. Thiré—For basing the State tax pro onately on the gross revenue (as defined) of each county or other political division. Fourth—That the local governing bodies may de clare what property now taxable shall be free from taxation or subject to taxation at a reduced rate. It will be seen that the local option provision is the leading feature of the proposed legislation, that the provision is carefully guarded, and that the other provisions are intended primarily to provide svstem under which the local option provision can be satisfactorily worked.

As to the probable effect of the proposed legisla tion the committee says in part: If your committee should be asked what would be the first result of the %{ll if passed, it would state its opinion that meitgages probably would be ex empted from taxation in this and that division, and eventually in all of them. This would lift from our people a burden which is equal perhaps to 1 per cent annually of the entire mortgage debt on indi vidually ewned real estate in the Commonwealth, The loss of revenue so occasioned would be incon egidersbie. The saving to the people would be enor mous. Thirty years ago the Chamber, in an exhaustive report, showed that the incidence of mortgage taxa tion falls inevitably on the real estate mortgaged. This proposition is accepted by all economists. It has been urged upon the Legislature persistently, but without success. Another direction in which relief might be ex pected is the banking interest. Banks are taxed on heir shares at their assessed value, and get no benefit from the exemptions for non-taxable securi ties contained in the law. The result is one which leaves the citizen no room for pride in our tax sys tem. It is stated authoritatively that in a recent year assessments ranged from 10 per cent to 119 per cent of capital, surpius fupd and undivided prof:ts; that the banks paid in taxes in the same year one third of their net earnings; that this taxation was sometimes five times as much as that imposed on <other moneyed capital, and that in interior towns generally the amounts so collected averaged locally fom] 26 to 76 per cent of all the personal taxes col It must be true, in view of these facts tal is not invested freely in banki at Sark our State, that some places are deprived of all local banking facilities, and that the banks which do exist cannot render banking facilities in loans and currency issues in normal measure and at normal cost, EHIRT COMPANY IN BANKRUPTCY. INVOLUNTARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CLIN TON HE. SMITH CONCERN. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy was filed yesterday against the Clinton H. Smith Company, manufacturer of shirts at No. 35 East Tenth-st., by Black, Olcott, Gruber Bonynge for the fol lowing creditors: Cooley, Turnbull Co., $1,836: Bernheimer Walter, $875, and P. Van Volken burgh Co., $1678. It was alleged that the com pany is insolvent, and on October 1 transferred merchandise, accounts, machinery and fixtures to Hardt, Von Bernuth Co. to prefer them. Clinton H. Smith is president of the company. He has been identified with the shirt trade for twenty years, #nd made an assignment on June 2 1899, with liabilities of $75,600 and assets of $21,500. On Sep

tember 16, 1808, the present com ny was incor porated, with a cap'tal stock of $100,000, to continue the business. In the trade it was said that the company has been in liquidation for some time. Clinton H. Smith is not the ex-National Guard officer of that name who was deposed from the Tist Regiment. The directory gives the home of the sident of the insolvent shirt company as Lou giana. OLD PROCESS SERVER FOUYND De4sn James McLaughlin, fifty-six years old, a process server of the Fourth Municipal District Court, was found in his room, at No. 24 Becond-st., about 1 P. m. yesterday, dead from illuminating gas. Mrs. Cohen, who keeps the boarding house, said Mec Laughlin had been a process server for fifteen years. He had been drinking on Sunday night. She did not see him on Christmas. Yesterday she found him in the room, which was filled with gas. A Bellevue Hospital doctor said he had been dead for hours. Mre. Cohen did not think that McLaugh In committed suicide SMELTING COMPANY'S PLANK Dispatches from Mexico received here yesterday to the effect that the American Smelting and Re fining Company was negotiating for the purchase of six large smelters in that country were officially denied yesterday. The six smelters named include two owned by the Kansas City Consolidated Smelt ing and Refining Company, one owned by the Omaha and Grant Company, and another owned by a Mexican company. The American Smelting Com pany was also said to be negotiating for a number of Mexican gold and silver mines, the cost of the entire deal to ta about $40,000,000. Tt appears that the American Smelting Company already owns the smelters formerly owned by the Kansas City and the Omaha and Grant companies, 2nd has no intention whatsoever of acquiring gold or silver mines. On the other hzad, it is the policy of the company to confine iteelf wholly to the re fining and smelting industry. The story contained PREVIOUS TO REMOVAL to 5th Avenue and 37th Street, Davis Collamore Co ILL REDUCE THE PRICE OF EVERY ARTICLE IN THEIR MAGNIFICENT STOCK OF FINE TABLE CHINA AND GLASSWARE, ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL ARTICLES. BARGAINS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. SALE BEGINS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 277TH. BROADWAY AND TWENTY-FIRST ST. Mrs. Barbara Dietz, the wife of William Dietz, of No. 173 Debevoise-st., Brooklyn, a butcher, died on Christmas Day in the Flatbush Hospital, as a result, her husband alleges, of inhuman treatment to which she was subjected by a City Marshal and two assistants about ten days ago. At that time the landlord began dispossess proceedings against Dietz. City Marshal Charles W. Pratt, of the Third District Municipal Court, with two men, went to the Dietz apartments to turn the woman, with her four small children, into the street. Mrs. Dietz was in bed. The men took the bed apart, although the woman told them of her approaching maternity, it is said, and even removed the hot stove. The woman gave birth to a child as she lay on the floor. Neighbors called Dr. Huss, of Sumner-ave. He found the woman in a precarious condition. She was removed to the Flatbush Hospital the next day. Before she was taken there she became in sane. She jumped from a second story window, and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists with a nife, After the woman had been taken to the hospital Dietz caused the arraignment of the City Marshal in the Ewen-st. police court on a summons for endangering the life of his wife. Magistrate Lemon told Dietz to complain to the Mayor. Pratt de clared that if any inhuman conduct was practised it had been done by the men who helped him dis possess the family. The baby is alive and well. ADVANCE IN B. R. T. ON RUMOR OF CHANGE REPORT CONNECTING WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, JR.'S, NAME WITH DIRECTORSHIP BENDS THE STOCK UP. The Executive Committee of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company met yesterday afternoon at the office of Anthony N. Brady, chairman of the Board, and decided upon January 25 as the date for the stockholders’ annual meeting. No other business of public interest was transacted, it was sald after the meeting. Brooklyn Rapid Transit had a rous ing advance in the stock market, selling as high as 887%, and closing one point under that figure, a net gain for the day of 4% per cent. The rise in price was due largely to reports that Willlam H. Bald win, jr., president of the Long Island Railroad Company, was to enter the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at the an nual meeting, as the direct JePresentative, it was assumed, of the Pennsylvania Railroad mpany, puch now owns the Long Island Railroad Com pan Mr Baldwin left town early in the afternoon, and no one at his office could say whether or not there was a basis for the rumor. When Anthony N. Brady was asked as to the rumored entrance of Mr. Baldwin into the Rapid Transit Board, he an swered that it was all news to him. He had noth ing further to say. When seen at his home last night at No. 112 Wil low-st., Brookl by a Tribune reporter, Mr. Bald Jin asked that the report concerning him be con tradicted. He said that he had heard nothing whatever sonceraiog his gible on entry into the Rapid Transit directory. that he was at a loss to explain the foundation of the rumor. It is said that the Pacific Mall Steamship Com pany, the traffic contract between which and the Panama Rallroad Company expired on December 16 and has not been renewed, is about to operate a line of four or more steamers from Central Amerl can ports to San Francisco, in opposition to the Pacific steamship service recently established by the railroad company. It is also announced that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will hereafter bill all its transcontinental freight to New-York and Galveston by way of the Bouthern Pacific, which now controls the Pacific Mail in the dispatches is said to have arisen from the long bruited consolidation of the American Smelt ing Company's interests and those of M. Guggen heim’s by which the former has obtained control of two-thirds of the refining and smelting business of Mexico. The company has already the entire control of the output in this country east of the Rocky Mountains. FOUND HANGING TO END OF PIER. RUSSIAN SAID HE HAD BEEN ROBBED AND THROWN INTO THE WATER. THROWN INTO THE WATER. Raphael Salingky, twenty years old, a Russian basketmaker, living at No. 214 East Fourth-st., was discovered last night hanging to the end of the recreation pier at East Third-st. He was pulled out with the aid of a rope by George Jansen, the captain of the barge Bayonne, lying near by. At the Union Market station Salinsky sald two unknown men, with whom he had been drinking, had assaulted and robbed him and then thrown him into the water. He had man aged to catch hold of the end of the pier and had hung on to it for an hour and a quarter. Dr. Pulsifer, of Bellevue Hospital, found him to be uninjured, but he was taken to Bellevue Hospital as a precaution, Salinsky said he had been robbed of $200. He had not been long .n the conntrv. EVICTED MOTHER DIES. AT THE POINT OF CHILDBIRTH WHEN DIS POSSESSED-INSANE, SHE TWICE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. NEW-JERSEY HAS FIRST CLAIM. CONNECTICUT AUTHORITIES WANT EMMA PF. RICHARDS EXTRADITED. Trenton, Dec. 28. —Governor Voorhees to-day granted a hearing in the extradition proceeding brought by the authorities of Bridgeport, Conn., to have Emma F. Richards, formerly of that city, turned over to them. The Bridgeport authorities claim that, based upon a story that she had be come wealthy, she was able to purchase by notes a livery stable in that city, and that on taking pos session she departed with the horses and carriages, all of which she brought to Bergen County, in this State. Before her whereabouts were learned by the Prigesport police, she got into trouble in Ber gen County, owing to her failure to return a horse after hiring it. he was arrested, and thus the Bridgeport authorities learned where she was. The vernor decided that the woman should be extradited, but not until the New-Jersey author ities were through with her. She will, therefore, have to be tried in Bergen County. If she is ac uitted there she will be turned over to the ridgeport people. PACIFIC MAIL CENTRAL AMERICAN BOATS. HAVE NOT BOUGHT BROOER (COLIIERY. Following the acquisition of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, the largest of the independent an thracite coal producers, in the interest of the Erie Railroad Company, there have been persistent re ports that the remaining Independent properties would soon be absorbed by the coal roads, and that the owners of these properties were anxious to sel! out. An apparent confirmation of these reports, in art at least, developed vesterday, when it was fearned that the Brooks Colliery was in the mar ket. An officer of the Delaware and Hudson Com any said in answer to a question: “The Brooks olliery has been offered to us, but we have not bought it.” He declined to say whether or not negotiations were still pending. “SIGHT SEEING IN THE WOODS In the series of lectures before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Ernest Ingersoll will deliver an address to young people in Association Hall, in Bond-st., near Fulton-st., at 4 Pp. m. to Rorrow, The subject will be “Sight Seeing in the oods,” and a variety of {llustrations will be shown. Mr. Ingersoll is an expert in such matters NEW-VORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. a NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THU WOMAN SALOONKEEPER SAID THEY TOOK RING FROM HER FINGER AND ORNAMENTS FROM HER FARS. Detective Donovan and Patrolman Kent arrest ed Frank Hopkins, of No. 43 Manhattan-ave.,, and Isaac Fine, of No. 38 Siegel-st., Brooklyn, on Tues day night on complaint of Mrs. Sarah Levinsky, the proprietor of a saloon at No. 40 Moore-st., Brooklyn, who alleged that the two men, with five others, entered her place and robbed her. She said the two men stole a ring from her finger and earrings from her ears. The jewelry she valued at $265. In the Manhattan-ave. court yesterday Hop kins was held in $2,700 bail on two charges of as sault and one of robbery and Fine was held in £1,000 bail, on a charge of assault and robbery, to await the action of the Grand Jury. SENTENCED TO FIVE YBARS FOR PERJURY—HIS WIFE TRIES TO SEE JUDGE. WIFP TRIES TO SEE JUDGE. Daniel Doody, the contractor, living at No. 502 Ninth-st., Brooklyn, who was found gullty In the County Court last Friday of perjury, in falsely testifying at the trial of Deputy City Works Com missioner Robert W. Fielding, who was charged with malfeasance, was sentenced yesterday morn ing by Judge William B. Hurd, jr., to five years at hard labor in the State prison. After the sen tence had been pronounced Jere Wernberg, counsel for Doody, asked for a stay of execution of sen tence, which was denied. The prisoner was taken to Sing Sing by Deputy Warden John Wilson on the 2:05 o'clock express. The convicted man's wife made every effort to reach Judge Hurd. She had gained the door leading into the Judge's chamber, when she was stopped by a court officer. She crie HELD FOR ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. MAN CUT HIS THROAT AND WRIST AND TRIED TO GET AMBULANCE SURGEON'S CARBOLIC ACID. John Bast, fifty-three years old, of No. 118 Har mon-st., Brooklyn, was arrested yesterday morn ing at his home by Policeman Roberts on a charge of attempted suicide. At an early hour yesterday morning he drew a razor across his throat and wrist. An ambulance was called and his injuries were dressed by Surgeon Allen, of St. Catharine's Hospital. Bast at first refused to allow the sur geon to sew up his wounds. He made an unsuc cessful attempt to seize a bottle of carbolic acid which he saw in the surgeon's bag. Bast sald he was worried over business cares. In the Manhat tan-ave. police court he was held in $300 bail. DR. DIXON EXPECTS CALL TO BOSTON. HE IS UNDECIDED AS TO HIS ACCEPTANCE $25,000 ALREADY RAISED FOR CHURCH ROOF GARDEN. The Rev. Dr. A. C. Dixon, pastor of the Hanson Place Baptist Church, was seen last evening at his home, No. 71 Gates-ave., Brooklyn, by a Tribune reporter in regard to the call which he may receive from the Ruggles Street Baptist Church, in Boston. The doctor sald he had not yet received such a call, but that it was likely that he would receive one soon. He understood there was to be a meeting of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church last evening. As to whether or not he would accept the call he could not say before considering it from every point of view and con sulting with the officers of his own church. He was strongly attached to Brooklyn and to the Han son Place Baptist Church, which under his min istry had grown from a membership of six hun dred to fourteen hundred. There was a great field, however, in the work of the Bosten church. Dr. Dixon sald the roof garden scheme which he had advocated for the Hanson Place Baptist Chureb had not caused any ill feeling among the members, and that $25,000 out of the $125,000 re quired had been raised without any solicitation. If he should accept the call to Boston he proposed to carry out his roof garden project there, so that in the hottest days of summer the Gospel could be preached in the open air. BOARD OF’ CITY MAGISTRATES MPEETS. The Board of City Magistrates of the Second Division of the City of New-York, comprising the Beroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond, met yesterday afternoon at the Adams-st. police court, Brooklyn. Eleven Magistrates of the total num ber of twelve were present. Alfred E. Steers, of the VIIth District Court, Flatbush, was elected president and Jared J. Chambers, of the Ist District Court, Brooklyn, secretary for the ensuing year. The assignments of the City Magistrates to the various courts are virtually the same as those of last vear. WOODRUFF ON COMMITTEE BILLETS. Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff, before leaving for Albany yesterday afternoon, said that he thought Senator-elect Audette would be given a place on the Cities Committee to succeed Senator Davis. Assemblyman Degraw is to be made chairman of the Committee on Banks. The Assemblymen who are entering upon their second terms will be pro moted. Assemblymen Wilson and Cotton are gmong those who will be advanced to more re sponsible committee places. HOG'S PCGINT BRIDGE COMPLETED. A bridge on Coney Island across the meadow, landing on what is known as Hog’'s Point, has been completed by the Department of Bridges. It is 800 feet long and 4 feet wide, and is high enough to escape the water which floods the meadow at high tide. The bridge is wooden, and has a hand ra the entire length. Six weeks have been occu pied in building it. WINS SUIT AGAINST EMPLOYER. One of the last cases tried before Justice Gaynor this term was a tort action brought by L. IL. Fawcett, as attorney for James D. Johnson, plain tiff, against William H. Harrison, for damages arising out of injuries sustained by Johnson, who was employed in the carpenter shop of the de fendant. Johnson was injured last April. The jury was out ten hours, and handed in a sealed verdict, awarding the plaintiff $3500. MENACE TO VESSELS TO BE REMOVED A sunken coal barge, owned by M. J. Monks, of Parrish, Phillips Co., No. 1 Broadway, which has been a menace to navigation in the Wallabout Channel since it was run down by a Standard Oil Company’s tug some time ago, was ordered re moved by officials of the Brooklyn Navy Yard yes terday. The barge was sunk in twenty-eight feet of water, at a distance of twenty-five feet from the ordnance dock. It was found to be im ossible to moor a vessel at that point of the avy Yard quay wall on account of the obstruction. CAR'S VICTIM A NEW-YORKE WOMAN The woman who was killed in the collision be tween two trolley cars at Broadway and Kent-ave., Brooklyn, on Christmas Eve, was identified at the Brooklyn Morgue yesterday morning as Mrs. Yetta LeshrowitZ, a widow, thirty-three years old, who lived at No. 7 Rutgers Place, Manhattan. She was identified by her brother, Max Bernstein FOR A NATIONAL GOSPEL CAMPAICY Ministers of the United States to the number of sixty thousand will be invited to-day to institute twentieth century National Gospel campaign. The invitations will be sent out from Brooklyn. The call is signed by a large committee represent ing many sections of the country. Nearly every Methodist church in Brooklyn and Queens bhor oughs is pledged to begin the campaign next month. On December 31 4 New-York City com mission of clergymen and laymen will be nominated for the furtherance of the movement. FITTING THE ATALANTA FOR VENEZIET The steam yacht Atalanta, recently sold by George J. Gould to Venezuela, has arrived at the Erle Basin, where she will be overhauled before starting for South America next month. Her en gines will be repaired and cleaned and the yacht will be repainted within and without. Her five guns will be remounted at the Basin DEFENDANT WINS GAME LAW (dcp Justice Gaynor, in the Supreme Court, Brook) yesterday handed down a decision for the defend ant In the suit of the People of New-York State against Charles H. Cone, a South-st. fish dealer, in an action to recover a penalty for an alleged vio lation of the Game law. Cone's defence was that he imported the trout, which he had exposed for sale Jurng the close season, from Massachusetts, and inat the State Game law did not apply to such A case, and, If it did, it conflicted with the Federal statutes relating to interstate commerce, ALLEGED ROBBERS HELD. DOODY NOW IN SING BING. NEW-JERSEY NEWS. KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN. MISS MARSH, OF RAHWAY, LOSES HER LIFE AT WOODBRIDGE. Woodbridge, Dec. 26 (Speciai).—Miss lLueretia Marsh, seventeen years old, and the eldest daugh ter of Frank Marsh, a civil engineer of Rahway, was killed this evening by a southbound Pennsyl vania Railroad freight train at the station here. The northbound passenger train No. 280 was orly a short distance from the station, and Miss Marsh, her father and a younger sister were about to cross the southbound track to take the passenger train to Rahway. Miss Marsh was in the lead, and was so near to the southbound track that the locomo tive of the freight train, of the approach of which neither Mr. Marsh nor his daughters appeared to be aware until it was upon them, struck her with such force that she was instantly killed. She was thrown ten or fifteen feet among the passengers on the station platform, one of whom was Knocked own. Mr. Marsh, when he saw the freight train bearin down upon his daughter, tried to catch her an draw her out of the way of the locomotive, but, in the glare of the headlight. er because he was too late, he failed of his purpote. The engineer of the frofgnt train, apparently unaware of the acci dent, did not stop his train. The body of Miss Marsh was carried into the sta tion to await the arrival of the Coroner. It will be taken to the home of Mr. Marsh in Rahway either to-night or to-morrow morning. Miss Marsh and her sister had been visiting Miss Valentine, a daughter of E. W. Valentine, of this place, and their father had come from Rahway to escort them home. Abram Longridge, of Philadelphia, who was wait ing on the Riatiorm for the train, was also struck by the freight engine and thrown several feet, but was not seriously injured. TEAMSBTER FATALLY INJURED. THROWN FROM A WAGON AND LEG CUT OFF BY A TROLLEY CAR. THROWN FROM A WAGON AND LEG CUT OFF BY A TROLLEY CAR. John Morrison, a teamster in the employ of Henry Flake Sons, of New-York, was driving along the Kearny Turnpike in Harrison, N. J., on his way home last night, when his team ran away. At the corner of Schuyler-ave. Morrison was thrown from the wagon and lay stunned and bleed ing on the trolley tracks. When a car came along it cut off his right leg and injured him otherwise. He was taken to St. James's Hospital in a dying condition. The team continued on its fight toward the Hackensack River, where a colitsion with an other car brought them to a stop. H. Puffy, the motorman, and J. Dalson, the conductor, of the car that run over Morrison, were arrested. i I WHERE THE COATS COME IN. COURT CASE IN PATERSON, CHRISTMAS FEAST IN LONG BRANCH. CSS ARDS ANN A RLENSVINY, LARINICLINRAY FT RAL IN LONG BRANCH. Paterson, Dec. 26 (Special).—The right of a cat to indulge In feline pleasures to the invasion of the rights of a human being is to be tested in the Court of Common Pleas, in this county, and at the same time will be decided what is the proper price for the life of a cat. Samuel Wyckoff killed a cat belonging to Cornelius Tanis, of No. 77 Ham burg-ave., because it disturbed his slumbers. Jus tice Vandervate fined Wyckoff and costs, the whole amounti to $980. Wyckoff has appealed from this decision on the ground that he was within his rights in killing the cat, and that in any case the price put upon the life of the cat by the Justice was too high. Long Branch, Dec. 26 (Special).—Sixteen cats were feasted last night on a specially prepared turkey dinner beneath the boughs of a Christmas tree in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Glisson, of Long Branch. The cats have been the pets of the couple for years, and are their only companions. It was decided this year to give them a royal Christmas dinner. This was accordingly prepared and spread on a tablecloth beneath the tree. The menu con sisted of turkey, cake and potatoes and a dish of milk for dessert. Mr. Glisson is a wealthy resi dent of Long Branch. COURT CANCELS AN ASSESSMENT. Judge Nevius rendered a decision yesterday in the Hudson County Circuit Court cancelling the assessment of $,800 against the property of Gen eral J. Watts Kearny for immediate benefits of a sewer, and that the assessment of $4,000 for pro spective benefits be paid at such time as the meadow lands, on which the assessment Is levied, are opened up for use. General Kearny gave the township the fiivllege of laying the sewer through a portion of his property, with the understanding that he was to assessed only for prospective naflta DIRECTCRS OF TWO COMPANIES MEET. The Boards of Directors of the Consclidated Traction Company and the Newark Plank Road Company met yesterday in Jersey City. The direc tors of the former company ordered a semi-annual dividend of 1 per cent paid to the shareholders, of whom there are nearly five hundred The dividend is paid out ef $150,000 paid the company by the North Jersey Street Railway Company for the operation of the Consolidated Traction lines in Jersey City and Newark. The directors of the Newark Plank Road Com pany appointed Harry W. Fuller as assistant to General Manager David Young. The latter is gen eral manager of the North Jersey Street Railway Company, and Mr. Fuller is his assistant. Mr. You stated that he expects the new line between Hoboken and Hackensack to be in running order hy nevt enring PAWN TICKETS TELI TALES. Henry Newman, of No. 629 Hudson-st., New York, who was arrested on Tuesday at the Adams Express pier, Jersey City, charged with stealing an express package, was held for examination by Police Justice Hoos yesterday. The police reported having visited a room occupied by Newman in Fortieth-st.,, New-York, and finding new handker chiefs, smoking jackets and other articles, in addi tion to paper which had been wrapped about articles that had been expressed by department stores. Fifteen pawn tickets were found on the prisoner and three in his room for articles pledged during the last ten days. REES SPOIL, CHRISTMAS TRADE. Trenton, Dec. 26 (Special).—W. W. Rose, a grocer, of Pennington-ave., had his Christmas trade in terfered with in a unique way on Monday. He hed a quantity of honey in the comb on the sidewalk, which attracted a swarm of bees from a nearby hive belonging to Park Commissioner Robefts. It was impossible to drive the bees from the honey, and it was carried into the store, about half of the swarm gaining admission with it. For several hours customers were afraid to enter the store, and life inside was unendurable with the bees, which were thoroughly enlivened by the heat of the room. ‘he honey was encased in netting and again taken outside by employes, the swarm following. Trade was resumed, but the honey was ruined. The bees had been revivified by the unusually warm weather. SEARCHING THE Wo0ODS FOR HIS ROX. Hackensack, Dec. 26 (Special).—Mrs. James Me Laughlin, of Edgewater, went to Morris Plains Asy lum on Monday with Christmas gifts for her son, an inmate of the institution. She was surprised to learn that the young man had escaped three weeks before, and that the officials had no trace of him, Mrs. McLaughlin says Dr. Evans said that he had sent her notice of the escape, but that she never received it. Mr. McLaughlin has gone to look for his son in the woods of Morris County. Some months ago a relative of the missing man also ecscared from the asvium and has not been found. AGED WOMAN FATALLY BURNED. Miss Carrie Herrer, seventy-eight years old, was fatally burned yesterday morning in the home of her brother-in-law, Bernard Blomeke, No. 227 Broad-st., Newark. Miss Herrer had been accus tomed to rise at 6 a. m. to start a fire in the kitch en range. At that hour yesterday Mr. Blomeke was aroused by screams in the kitchen. He ran downstairs and found Miss Herrer lying in the hall with her clothing in flames. He succeeded in ex tinguishing the fire, but the woman died before a doctor could reach the house. Mr. Blomeke burned his hands in trying to save the aged woman. Miss Herrer was the daughter of a clergyman, and was born at Baden, Germany, and had lived in America fiftv-two vears. Three sisters survive her.

DECLINED CHRISTMAR DINNER. Plainfield, Dec. 26 (Special).—The members of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union had made arrangements to give a Christmas dinner vesterday to the conductors and motormen em ployed on the trolley lines running into this city, when the men refused to accept their hospitality. and the provisions were sent to one of the public institutions. SPECIAL NOTICE. TO-DAY, DEC. 27, at 11 A. M. and 3 P.M. The Fifth Ave. Auction Rooms have received explicit instruc tions to sell by auction the residue of the American art effects of the firm of B. GROSS BAUM SONS, LONDON’ PARIS, NEW YORK, within the Annex, No. 218 Fifth ave., corner of 26th st. Note address, HUDSON COUNTY ITEMS. Congressman McDermott proposes to make an other effort to obtain a new postoffice building for Jersey City. He is preparing a letter to be pre Ri #4. to Congress giving statistics and stating the needs of a new building. generally understood that Governor Voorhees po decided to appoint a Democrat from past of New-Jersey to su udlow Su L on preme Fann ana Hemmant Sod oy Supreme Court Justice Dixon stated yesterday at his home, No. 479 Jersey-ave., Jersey City, that he had not fully considered the application for a sep arate trial for Kerr, one of the young men indicted for complicity in the murder of Jennie Bosschieter, of Paterson. The Justice added that he could not tell when he would be ready to give a decision, but that it would not be for some time. wag 4 most frequen and favorably men. The Jersey City Free Public Library will be re moved to the handsome new building at Jersey ave. and Montgomery-st. to-morrow. There are 63,000 volumes to be removed from the old rooms in Washington-st. to the new building. John E. Rowan, who was arrested several days ago, charged with having robbed Joseph E. Bern stein, a clothing merchant, was arraigned before Acting Justice Maes in the Second Criminal Court, Jersey City, vesterday, and was held in $500 bail to await the action of the Grand Jury. The goods stolen were pawned. Mrs. Margaret Scott Dunn, wife of James Dunn, died suddenly Christmas morning of heart disease af her home, No. 2 Wiley Place, Jersey City, at the age of sixty-five years. She was born in t land, and had lived in Jersey City twenty-five years. She is survived by a husband and five children. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Roeder, of No. 65 Orient ave., Jersey City, reported to the police on Monday that their house had been robbed of goods valued at more than §200. Detective Bennett arrested Charles Ames, a brother of Mrs. Roeder, who con fessed to having committed the theft. He sald he pawned the goods and bought an automobile coat for his sweetheart. The garment cost $15. When Mrs. Roeder learned who the thief was she refused to make a complaint. Joseph Cutapuro, three years old. of No. 314 War ren-st., Jersey City, was fatally burned yesterday by his clothes taking fire at a bonfire. His father, who went to his aid, was badly burned about the face, hands and neck while endeavoring to tear the blazing garments from his child. SAME OLD STORY TOLD AGAIN. BANK PRESIDENT HAD UNBOUNDED CONFI DENCE IN CASHIER. BANK PRESIDENT HAD UNBOUNDED CONFI DENCE IN CASHIER. The suit of Receiver Campbell, of the ruined Mid dlesex County Bank, which was wrecked by Cashier George M. Valentine in 1898, was again be fore Vice-Chancellor Pitney at Newark yesterday. Uriah B. Watson, the bank's president, was ques tioned about the letter the bank had received from the State Banking Commissioner in regard to per sonal loans by the bank to Valentine. Mr. Watson said he had received and read the letter, but that it carried no weight with him. At a meeting of the Board, which Mr. Watson did not attend, Valentine read the letter, but sup pressed the reference to his loans. Questioned further, Mr. Watson said he knew of a loan of $11,000 to Valentine, secured by $14,000 of railroad bonds, und that the debt had never been liquidated. He had no suspicions, as he had unbounded confi dence in Valentine, and believed the loans had been made in the interest of the DEATH CAUSED ‘BY EXCITEMENT. Camden, Dec. 26 (Special).—Mrs. Christopher Sickler, wife of the Rev. Christopher Sickler and mother of Mrs. A. E. Street, of Broadway and Stevens-st., dled suddenly this morning from paral ysis of the heart, caused by excitement. About 2:30 o'clock the Rev. M. E. Snyder, Ph. D., of New Brunswick, son-in-law of Dr. A. E. Street, a den tist, was awakened by suffocating smoke. Hurry ing downstairs, he found the laboratory on fire. After arousing the rest of the family, he sum moned the Fire Department. Mrs. Sickler, who, with her aged husband, lived with the doctor, was very feeble, and it was necessary for Mrs. Street and other members .of the household to dress her and have her ready for removal in case the fire reached serious proportions. When it was known that thé fire was under control Mrs. Sickler was helped back to her bed chamber. She lay back on the bed, placed her hand on her heart, and died be fore a physician arrived. Ghe New CWashable SHIRT WAISTS oi Yonanafe: Vive The new styles for 1901 are here, and shown today. It is a refreshing and interesting display. The styles are decidedly new. There are radical departures from the effects in vogue last season. The box plaits, full sleeves, strap cuffs, are features; as are the sailor collars and bolero effects in the finer ones. There is all the broad diversity of styles that manufacturers will take the time to make now; but which will dwindle later on to the few styles that are made by thousands when hurry orders are coming. The most beautiful and exclusive styles can be selected now. Side by side are the displays of Colored Waists and White Waists —fresh, crisp, dainty and tempting—a pretty picture and a study of style. This brief indication of the sorts and prices: At $2.50—Waists of silk-finished chambray; plait At 75c—Waists in solid colors and stripes; plain, At $2.75—Waists of silk gingham, with sailor cok full fronts; shirt sleeves. lar, vest and tie of solid color. Colored Shirt At 50c—Waists in stripes and figures; full front, French shirt sleeves with narrow cuffs. pocket trimmed with white lawn. At 85c—Waists of percale, gingham and cambric; Other styles up to $4.75. new sleeves and soft cuffs, At $1—Waists of percale; box-plaited back and White Waists. A beautiful array of dainty white lawn waists, front; new sleeves; box-plaited cuffs. Waists of prettily stri ingham At $1.50—Waists of prettily striped gingham; full plaited and hemstitched; some of lace and em broidery in most charming effects; made with front, plaited back; soft cuffs. .75— Wai i i At $1.75 aists of striped madras, in pretty the new nd DR Siecle. At $2.25—Waists of chambray, with vest and re- Prices, 85¢, $1, $2.25, and up to $9. vers of white pique; collar trimmed with white shades; new style collar and cuffs. Second floor, Tenth street. pique. Women’s Dresses This word is of some stylish Tailor-made Suits that came in yesterday. They are made of black pebble cheviot, with fly-front jacket with revers faced with taffela silk; eatire suit lined with silk. The price— $22.50 a suit Then we have today a lot of Dress Skirts of black taffeta silk; the upper part of skirt being laid in tiny plaits; bottom made with flaring flounce; some tri with velvet ribbon, others with ruching of taffeta. Price, $10. Worth much more Second floor, Broadway. ‘Women’s Jackets Under-price A This tells of a group of about a hundred and twenty-five of our better jackets, mostly imported. They are the fine sorts that we kept in good variety until al Christmas wants were supplied. Now you expect less of us and we let down the price to a figure that should take them away in a hurry. The collection includes three-quarter-length coats of mixtures and double-faced tweeds; and short jackets, mostly in black, though some are in tan and other colors; L) of kerseys, meitons, Ottoman and Oxford cheviot. Prices have beea $20 to $38 Today choose for JSifteen dollars each Good assortment of sizes; but the entire offering should be sold out quickly. Second floor, Broadway. JOHN WANAMAKER Formerly A. T. Stewart Co., Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Ninth and Teath Streel NEW-JERSEY POLITICAL opps Es 5 It is a notable fact that as soon ag the 30Uthery At least two Democratic members of the next New-Jersey Legislature have determined to pose the nomination for United States Senator op ex-Congressman Alvah A. Clark by the caucus. There may be others, but 30 far as hegry from the remaining five members outside of Hyg. son County are non-committal. Senator Martin, of Sussex County, when asked if he would Suppor Mr. Clark, replied: “I will not vote for him in the Democratic caucus.” Answering the same Senator Gebhardt, of “No; I expect to vote Ay yy Said: Senators should earry their opposition Hr d the q i caucus there would be plen of t party's State Convention.” But win they?" Haris There may be no political significance—probapiy there is none—in the fact that Edward F. C. Toung,, of Jersey City, is about to give a terrapin supper to his friends, but the friends of Mayor Seymoyp of Newark would not be surprised if he should the market price of terrapin within the 2. ew days. The ity of politics and terrapin n so frequently illustrated—perhaps never Bet. t than when the late John R. MacPherson was for the first time elected as a United States Sepa. tor—that, as between Mr. Young and Mr Seymour the mention of one impels the association of the other. By the way, Senator Cornish, of Warren County, has the reputation of being fond of good living. The spellbinders who helped Robert Davis plia up the Democratic majority in Hudson County as the last election will be the guests at a dinner 1g be given by the Democratic leader of that county to-night in the clubhouse of the Robert Davis As. sociation. The speakers received no salary for their services, but the feast to-night is net int to be In any way a reminder of the old familiar saw, “Talk is cheap.” When Governor Voorhees said the other day that a bill for the abolition of spring elections “mighs be a good thing if it were properiy drawn’ he availed himself, as he sometimes does, of the wide latitude of diplomacy in making even unofficial po litical statements. It was an entirely safe remark to make, in view of the fact that the meaning of it was, as is generally understood, that all properly drawn bills are “good bills" —provided that a ma. Jority of the people, or of the Legislature represent. ing the people, can come to an agreement as fg the spirit and effect of an act without further re gard for it than that it shall be constitutional and Just. Governor Voorhees was doubtless aware of the fact that there would surely be determined opposition to the proposed new law, and he was therefore, accordingly cautious and temporizing when he declined to discuss it at length until he had “had an opportunity to mere carefully con-. sider a matter of so much importance.” There ars already indications that the advocates of an anti spring elections bill have not as yet presented sufficiently convincing arguments to overcome the strong conservative sentiment which seems to pre vall in New-Jersey that, until such conclusive ments have been made, it would be unwise tg change the present custom of keeping separate the conduct of State and municipal governments, especially since the proposed change would in ordi nary circumstances so clearly invite sordid Jartisas complications, to say nothing of possible coilusions which are not to be seriously considered in any re lation to the public good. This appears unif te be the opinion of the conservative people of New-Jersey, and until it is overcome Governo Voorhees was entirely within the lines of disere tion when he said that a bill for the abolition of spring elections “might be a good thing if it were properly drawn.” hile no statement could come nearer to the truth, none couid be more suggestive of doubt as to its practicability at this time thas the Governor's palatable metaphor. WU TING-FANG AT MONTCLAIR. Montclair, Dec. 26 (Specia).—Wu Ting-fanz, ms Chinese Minister, will speak before the Outlook Club in this town on Friday night. His subjes will be “The Unpopularity of the Foreigner White Waists. Prices, 85¢, $1, $2.25, and up to $9. Second floor, Tenth street. $22.50 a suit WU TING-FANG AT MONTCLAIR.

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NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900 LB NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSD. QNIY-Yorans Face 5) PERSIAN KITTENS—-A BICYCLE BUILT FOR THREE. WHERE TO GO TO-DAY. Entertainment of the National wg New] a Women at Delmonico’s, No. B81 Fifto-nve, 38: P m., preceded by business at 2:30 ¢’clock. Christmas tree end entertainment for the children of BE i poy u- Suk, BOClety, Tf the Re lief Ruptured and Cripp NO East Forty second-st., i m. Regular meeting of the West End Woman's Republican Association at No. 2.807 Broadwey, 8:15 p. m. amas Union Prayer Meeting of Harlem, in the chapel of the Collegiate Reformed Church, Lenox-ave. and Ds Shogun Belarmel Sh 10:30 m. HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT. DR. D. A. SARGENT, OF HARVARD, TALES ON PHYSICAL CULTURE FOR WOMEN. “Civilization brings idleness and luxurious Nv ing, and therefore the majority of individuals do not get enough exercise to keep the muscles in health,” said Dr. D. A. Sargent, of Harvard, in his t1aik yesterday in the studio of Mrs. M. P. King, No. 938 Eighth-ave. In speaking of the necessity of physical develop ment in women for the benefit of coming genera ticns, he quoted the mother of the strongest man in the world, who lives in France, and who, when she wants a barrel of flour carried upstairs, shoul ders it herself and carries it with ease. Dr. Bargent urged the necessity of harmonious development in body, mind and soul, saying that it is wrong to develop the physical side only, and a serious problem as well is in increased cerebral development. ‘Nature cares nothing for individ uals,” said the lecturer; “it is the race; she wants eli to be strong and wise and good.” Many interesting facts, Dr. Sargent sald, have been learned in his study, one of which was that the best bred women are tall, while the girls of the shops are stunted from standing all day. “It is 2 generally accepted idea,” added the speaker, “that woman of forty or fifty years should not take gymnastic training. As 2 rule, she needs fit then more than when she was younger, provided ghe has no organic diseases, and without exercise of the proper sort there is more likely to be dis ease Exercise that aids digestion and circulates the will cure disease. To bring our habits of b, earer the natural mode of life, artificial waining 1s necessary. “The spine is most important of all, and should te and elastic. A correct poise is a question. Most individuals have a tendency ‘slump,’ and to aveid this requires a conscious effort all the while. It is also important to keep the chest wells in the best condition, while the head plays 2 vital part in _ the machinery. The function of the brain is not thought alone, but the to brain cells comprise the battery of the system.” Dr. Sargent spoke forcibly on the subject of “waist,” saying that all the instincts of nature were against any constriction of the body—the waist being entirely an artificial production, which was a point most in need of development in women. In conclusion he said: “It is far more difficult in cities to maintain a mental and Frysice] integrity, and so we must 8nd artificial aid to enjoy life and mnnerniar tome AT THE ECLECTIC LUNCEBEON A programme of interest entertained the mem bers of the Eclectic Club and thelr friends at their bi-monthly luncheon at Delmonico’s yesterday. There were viclin solos by Miss Celia Bradford end songs by George Mitchell. “Velma Swanston Howard recited, and Miss Eva Smith read a paper on the play at Oberammergau. Mrs. John Potter gave an interesting review of current books, with this introduction:

I'm down for “Book Notes,” but I've tried to do them and Christmas shopping at the same time, with the result that I found some delightful old book friends in new Christmas dresses.

In concluding her remarks Mrs. Potter said: There ere hundreds of volumes to delight the book lover this year, but any one who has read a book czlled “Woman” knows more than all the pale faces that haunt the libraries. The Eclectic's two special guests yesterday were Mrs. J. Woolsey Shepard and Mrs. Donald McLean. They each meade 2 short speech, in which they com plimented the club on its go>d work in hand—that is, to raise money for the widows and orphars of American soldiers by a special operatic perform arce at the Waldorf-Astoria early in February, in which many leading stars of the opera will take part. Mrs. Shepard said that too many clubs have a Phflastrapic department, ut had no definite Wor.

Mrs. Doré Lyon on yresifol and received the guests, who included Mrs Joseph Himpnreys, Mrs. Sep tima Collis, Mrs. C.D George Mitchell, Mrs. B. Thayer, Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Henry Hall, Mrs. Fentress and Miss Davola. 4 POT-POURRI PARTY Among the many post-Christmas celebrations the “pot-pourri party” to be held this evening at Miss Josephine Walton's, No. 78 West Ninety-fourth-st, Promises to be especially pleasant. There will be games, consisting of endeavors to discover famous artists et one table, at another weil known musi tians, at others writers, mythological characters @nd so on. These will be conducted on the principle of progressive euchre, and those arriving at the booby table will find jackstraws awaiting them.

The score cerds are novel in character, being Water color and pen sketches suggestive of the Christmas season—winter landscapes, Santa Claus, holly, mistletoe, wreath, star, Christmas tree, bells, fliled etocking, plum pudding, boar's head, a dancing couple Ra several bars of a Christmas carol. These designs are divided, one serving for two score cards, end each guest will have the

leasure of finding his match—his other, if not his tter, half. The contests at each of the tables will last five minutes, and at the t2p of the bell the winning couples will advance. Later in the even ing music and refreshments will be enjoved. n

SEULL FRAOTURED IN A PIVAWAY A team of horses attachea to a carriage and driven by James McGrath tecame frightened vesterday gt BSeventh-ave. and Onehundrdandfortyfifth st. and ran away. At Onehundredandsixtysec oné-st. and Jerome-ave. the team came in collision with a wagon driven by George Scweppenhauser. McGrath was thrown to the ground and sustained fracture of the skull and other Injuries. He was taken to the Fordham Hospital A Suggestion for Holiday Gifts JOLGATE’S Soaps and Perfumes. Soaps and Perfumes. “WOMAN'S FUND” CONTRIBUTIONS. MONEY FOR THE HOSPITAL SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ASSOCIATION. Mrs. James Speyer, No. 257 Madison-ave., treas urer of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Hospital Sat vrday and Sunday Association, reports the follow ing additional contributions to the “Woman's Fund” of the current collection:

Mrs. C. P. Huntington and Mrs. William Y. Morti mer, each $100; Mrs. Henry W. Munroe, Mrs. J. W. Minturn and Mrs. O. H. Kahn, each $0: Mrs. J. H. Whitehouse, Mrs. Frank 8S. Witherbee and Miss Katherine E. Turnbull, each $25; Mrs. Charles H. Wesson, Mrs. Charles Tyler Olmsted, Mrs. Robert Olyphant and Mrs. R. E. Livingston, each $20; Mrs. P. G. Bartlett, Mrs. Fred Pearson, Mrs. M. B. Du Bois, Mrs. G. 8. Bowdoin, Mrs. Will iam Rhinelander, Mrs. George L. Nichols, Miss Katherine Du Bois, Mrs. 8. R. Guggenheim, Mrs. George H. Millard, Mrs. H. D. Auchincloss, Miss Elizabeth Stetson, Mrs. 8. N. Benjamin, Mrs. Wal ter H. Lewis, Mrs. J. D. Archbold, Miss Eliza beth Remsen, Mrs. Samuel Thomas, Mrs. Lewis T. Hoyt, Mrs. James Timson, Mrs. Ira Davenport, Mrs. Almira Greer, Mrs. James Amory Moore, Mrs. C. I. Pardee, Mrs. E. Moore, Mrs. Charles D. Smith, Mrs. W. W. Skiddy, Mrs. Daniel S. Lamont, Miss Delia C. Gurnee, Mrs. N. E. Bay lies, Mrs. Henry C. Eno, Miss Juila Wray, Mra. C. 8. Fairchild, Mrs, Thomas F. Ryan, Mrs. 8S. T. Williams, Mrs. J. A. Robinscn, Mrs. J. B. Morgan, Mrs. Frederick K. Trowbridge, Mrs. F. L. Under wood, Mrs. Lewis Collard Jones, Mrs. Austin Cor bin, Mrs. George T. Wetmore, Mrs. Herbert Je rome Davis, Mrs. Arthur Bissell, Miss E. Aymar, Mrs. R. Somers Haves, Mrs. Waltcn M. Peckham, Mrs. William Hamilton Harris, Mrs. Daniel E. Moran, Mrs. J. V. Meserole, Mrs. William Frederick King, Mrs. T. H. Barber, Mrs. Henry 8. Wilson, Mrs. Bradish Johnson, Mrs. Edgar Hendricks, Mrs. John H. Hammond, Mrs. Gouverneur Morris, Mrs. Jonathan Thorne, Mrs. J. A. Stursberg, Mrs. Thomas M. North, Mrs. H. Walger Webb, Mrs. Arnold Falk, Mrs. John Murray Mitchell, Mrs. Alexander D. Irving, Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs. A. Scheftel, Mrs. H. J. Chisholm, Miss E. N. C: Morris, Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham, Mrs. J. Howard Wright, Mrs. Edward C. Sampson, Mrs. E. H. Peaslee, Mrs. William IL. Bull, Mrs. J. C. Bell, Mrs. A. H. Wellington, Mrs. Henry W. Smith, Mrs. S. A. Fisk, Mrs. John D. Flower, Mrs.

Robert H. Robertson, Mrs. John S. Barnes, Mrs. F. C. Moore, Mrs. W. M. Evarts, Mrs. J. H. Crane, Mrs. A, B. Emmons, Mrs. Charles H. Wood bury, Mrs. Charles H. Ditson, Mrs. Henry H. Kingston, Mrs. Clarence W. Bowen, Mrs. George R. Blanchard and Miss K. W. Blake, each $10: Mrs. E. W., Humphreys, Mrs. John C. Southwick, Mrs. E. B. Sexton, Mrs. George M. Cumming, Miss R. Feuchtwanger, Mrs. Albert Hendricks, Mrs. William Oothout, Mrs. Arthur Wellman, Miss M. E. Woodbury, Miss Anna M. Clarke, Mrs. Beverley Robinson, Mrs. 8. 8. Marié, Miss Mary E. Paxton, Miss Emma Calmar, Mrs. W. H. Tillinghast, Mrs. A. Lee Hyde, Mrs. O. B. Jennings. Mrs. Eben Stevens, Mrs. Rebecca King, Mrs. Nathan Rijur, Mrs. Ernest E. Lorillard, Mrs. C. A. Chandler, Mrs. F. M. Waring, Mrs. J. Sinclair, Mrs. R. R. Blackwell, Mrs. Herman Vogel, Mrs. R. Burnham Moffatt, Mrs. William Allen, Mrs. C. K. Rossiter, Mrs. Seth Low», Mrs. C. A. Peabody, jr., Mrs. Rich ard Irvin, Mrs. Edgar S. Welles, Mrs. Sigourney W. Fay, Mrs. W. C. Gulliver, Mrs. J. Lawrence Townsend, Mrs. George Salisbury, Mrs. W_ Stores

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Wells, Mrs. Joseph W. Burden, Mrs. Theodore

I.. De Vinne, Miss Anne 8S. Stevens, Mise C 8. Agnew, Mrs. H W. Barnes, Miss Mary H. Sayre, Mrs. F. M. Freeman, Mrs. J. C. Zimmsrmarnn, Mrs Thomas E.-Satterthwaite, Mrs. EE, W. Sutter Pick

hardt, Mrs. Mark Walton Mackay, Mrs. Henry E. Pellew, Mrs. Stuyvesant Le Roy, Mrs. Thomas Hastings, Miss Marion Davis Collamore, Mrs. O. IL. Richard, Mrs. Theodore Braine, Mrs. J. C. Jones, Mrs. William W. Richards, Mrs. Burrall Hoffman, Mrs. G. Kortright, Mrs. Julius Hart, Mrs. A. V. H. Ellis and Miss Emily Vernon Clark, each $5; Mrs. B. A. Sands, Mrs. J A. Strong, Mrs. Max W. Mayer and Mrs. N. R. Moore, each $3; Mrs. Horace See and Mrs, W. E. Rogers, each $2.

The trial of Cornelius L. Alvord, jr., which was set for yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, criminal branch, has been postponed to the January term, which begins January 9. Judge Thomas, who is to preside at the trial, is obliged to sit in Brookivn this week. Miss Rose McCue, the young nurse, of No. 63 West Fifty-sixth-st,, who on Tuesday was injured by an automobile at Broadway and Forty-fifth-st., died at 1 p. m. vesterday at Roosevelt Hospital from her injuries. Her back was broken and she sustained other injuries. The driver of the vehicle,

Joseph Cavanaugh, of No. 125 West Fortyninth at wae held tn await the action of the Coroner.

The normal girl naturally looks forward to the time when she will have the care of home, hus band and children, yet, sad to say, she is often wholly unprepared to assume the responsibilities when they come 7.0 her. To presume to make a home and care for a family without preparation is parallel to a physician attempting the practice of medicine without study and with the expecta tion of gaining knowledge from experiments on his patients. We would be horrified at the temerity of such a physician, and yet we complacently leave our girls without instruction in reference to the highest, holiest duty of womanhood. Under these circumstances can we wonder that many homes are absolute failures?

One of the first things a girl should be taught is that wealth and social position count for nothing t

unless united with purity of thought and life and honesty of purpose. Until such standards are re quired by young women In choosing their hus bands the marriage relation cannot be what God intended it to be—the highest type of earthly hap piness. (Woman's Home Companion.

A cab driven by Jacob Hewett, thirty years old, of No. 117 East Fortleth-st., was struck by a See ond-ave. electric car at Broome and Mulberry sts, yesterday, and Hewett was thrown from his seat, sustaining a scalp wound.

Charles Russell, of No. 265 Fifth-ave., a passenger in the cab, was thrown into the street, but was not hurt. Michael Toby, the motorman of Ta was arrested.

ALVORD’R TRIAL POSTPONED

WANTR TO ENLARGE ITS HOME. The Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, which was founded twenty-one vears ago to provide a home for Jewish children, and which has a large orphan asylum at the Boulevard, Onehundred and-fiftieth and One-hundred-and-fifty-first sts., issues a strong appeal for $350,000 as a fund for the enlargement and betterment of the asylum, for providing a bigger synagogue and a proper drill

ground for the cadet battalion, and Insuring pro vision for the support and education of fifteen hundred children continuously for the next twenty vears. When the society was founded fifty chil dren were accommodated in the home, and to-day there are nine hundred and fifty.

NR A 5 a? Pda wad VICTIM OF AUTOMOBILE DIES. THF T'VPREPARED WIFE. THROWN FROM A CAB AND HURT

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900 EDUCATING TREMSELVES.

TWO PLUCKY GIRLS WHO ARE PAYING FOR THEIR OWN SCHOOLING—A UNIQUE INDUSTRY.

was determined to keep her side o pluck, and She advice, although neither 0

every day. Two girls of sixteen, twins, Uving neat DUST are earning money—one for a college education and the other for a musical education—by collecting, cleaning and selling to growers fruit baskets and crates that have been used. The idea originated with the girls, and from a humble beginning it has grown to a thriving industry.

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In an interview with a Tribune reporter one of the girls said: We cleared $600 last year on the sale of fruit and vegetable crates that had already been used. Our reason for undertaking the work was simply cause we were anxious to educate ourselves for a profession and saw no other opening. We are twins, and for that reason I suppose we are a little nearer each other than other sisters. At any rate, one seldom or never has a thought without telling the other. When we were little girls living 4 our were di4 not save the pretty little baskets that our ccok and other girls’ cooks always threw away. Wwe undertook once, I remember, to save all that we could lay our hands on, much to the discomfort of the housemaid, whose business it was to keep our playroom in some sort of order. Then, my father’s health falling, we moved to the country, and later when it became necessary for us to earn money we began io raise berries on a small patch of land that went with the house where we lived. Money was far from plentiful at home, and we often thought longingly of the little baskets thrown away sO carelessly in our days of prosperity. My sister and I took turns in driving our wagon to towa with our berries and vegetables, and one day she plucked up courage to ask the jroger to whom we sold most of our produce e would not be willing to save us the little baskets and the crates, which we knew he was in the habit of throwing away. He agreed, but said that most of his things were sold in the baskets, and that if we would take his advice we would go to some of the large apartment houses and hotels, and ask the managers to have the baskets saved for us, adding that we would be able to get Inole from such a house in one day than he would be able to give us in a month. IT BEGINS TO PAY. We had sense enough to see the wisdom of his f us was considered very wise. Next day we called on the manager of a hotel, and he readily agreed to have the baskets and crates saved for us, provided that we woul call and take them away before a certain hour

It was soon proved that we ha small job, but my sister has a lot undertaken no although the first day the number of crates an ers near us, and we were very suc baskets that we hauled from that hotel was more than enough to supply us for an entire year. We determined to try to sell them to other fruit grow

cessful with all who had not bought or bargained for their year's supply. Of course, we charged less than the new ones cost, but as the cost to us was the hauling we made a nice profit on them. At first we sold only those that were not too badly stained to lock

untidy. Those that were tco much discolored were discarded as useless, until we both began to think

that this was wasteful, and to try all sorts of ex periments to find something that would remove these stains without toc much work. One happy day that discovery was made by my sister, and it is the one secret of our profession. Nox we use every basket and crate that we haul from Boston. There are many fruit and vegetable growers in this section who depend entirely on us to supply them with baskets and crates, while from the South we have maay large orders. Now, what we collect one season is our supply for the next; so, cf course, we know what we have and just how many we can supply. We began with one hotel. Now, however, we take them from ten hotels and fifteen apart ment houses. We had but one horse when we started out; now we have four, and we often have to hire others for weeks at a time. Then, too, we had no assistants; now we have four men to do the collecting, while my sister and I remain at home and attend to the cleaning of the baskets and the clerical end of the business.

My sister is ambitious to become a great violinist, while I look forward to becoming, first, a teacher in the public schools, and then a rofessor in some one of our woman's colleges. a have paid our expenses at school for more than two years, and we have every reason to hope that our little enter PHise will take us all the way to our professions.

f it does, then we will turn things over to our younger sister, who now acts as one of our as sistants, and who is already saving up money for the time when we shall want to sell out. ‘When che gets her education out of it perhaps there will be some other girl or woman who will be willing to pay her for the goodwill and custom of the estab lished business, for by that time it appears to me that it will have been in existence long enough to be considered an established business.

HOPES FOR THE FUTURE. There is only one way that I can see that our business can be interfered with. That is by the

grocers and wholesale men asking the return of their fruit baskets and crates, just as the brewers ask the return of their bottles. There was a time, so my mother tells me, when bottles were not con sidered of any value. Perhaps the same fate is in store for our ltitle trade as ended the work of the gatherers of bottles. However, that time is not yet in sight, and it is my purpose to make hay while the sun shines, and I think there is time for other girls in other large cities to do the same thing for an education or for a living. Six hundred dollars a vear gives us each $25 a month the entire year, and i{s more than enough to pay for our schooling and extra expenses, such as the small amount which {is put into our mother’s hands each month for our share in the household expenses. The few dcliars that we are saving each manth go toward an ac count in a savings bank, 20 woich we expect to draw for a trip abroad the summer after oui graduation. We have it all plarned and are care ful never to spend a cent tha‘ should go toward adding to that little account We are sixteen, and

both will be able to earn money in our future call ings before the end of four more years. A TISSUE PAPER PATTERN OF WOMAN'S SHORT CIRCT'LLAR SKIRT. NO 3704, FOR COUPON AND 10 CENTS. The short wsiking skirt has attained a recog nized place No wardrobe is considered complete without one at least. The design illustrated is ex tremely simple and peculiarly effective in plaid ma terial, for the reascn that it involves so few seams. As shown, the material is cheviot in browns and tans, with trimming of narrow braid, and is cut NO. 8,704— WOMAN'S SHORT CIRCULAR SKIRT. bo 2

CaN EY Siew bias, with a seam down the centre front. If pre ferred, the same goods can be used straight with out a seam, but the former method has the advan tage of bringing the straight of the goods on the curved sides, and so does away with the danger of sagging. Golf cloths of all colors, as well as cheviots and homespuns, are correct, Oxford gray, browns and dark tans taking the foremost places in plain colors. The skirt is cut to the instep, but the pattern provides for the still shorter ankle length that is desirable for stormy days. Whether it is cut with or without the front seam, it fits snugly at the hips, where it is provided with short hip darts, and flares gracefully at the feet. The fulness at the back is laid in an inverted pleat, with the placket cut at its underfold. To cut this skirt for a woman of medium size two and five-eighths yards of material 52 inches wide, or two and three-quarters yards 44 inches wide, will be required. The pattern, No. 3,704, is cut in sizes for a 22, 24, oe 9% and 30 inch waist measure. a THE_ TRIBUNE PATTERN COUPON. EN TITLING TO ONB PATTERN, ANY SIZB, OF NO. 3,704 Cut thse out, fiil in with inches. name and addre: mail it to THE PATTERN DEPARTMENT OF THE TRIBUNE. No. 8,704. Waist. in. BING. sss 00ssssenstsasssmsmmsrstsssssnsnnsnnes ABBTEEE. oss 0s oun tas ssormtimnsusss srsssesanssrnss Inclose 10 cents to pay mailing and handling expenses for each pattern wanted.

1 THE TRIRTNE PATTERN. Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. ‘Twas not given for you alons— Pass it on. Let it travel down the years. Let it wipe another's tears Till in heaven the deed appears. Pass it on. The kindly word, how far it goes along life's way! The kindly smile, how it lights up a sad, gray day: The kindly deed, how it repays the doer, and how KINDNESS. It sweeps the lines of care from off the troubled ram! To our own hearts again return, with joys anew, Those rays of sunshine which we give in kindness Tue. For Christ's own smile shall set our hearts aglow, and we Shall thrill beneath His praise, “Ye did it unte Me.” —Marv D. Brine. It has been learned that one of the State branches raised as Christmas sunshine $40 to buy coal and necessary articles to make an invalid member com fortable for the winter. Three dollars was also sent as a Christmas greeting to another invalid. A poor German woman with a sick husband and four little children on the upper East Side was feeling unhappy over her sad condition and her utter inability to provide any cheer for the ttle ones. Two T. 8. 8. members who know the worthi ness and need of this family determined to make Christmas a happy day. One collected $7 and sent it by a messenger; the other came to the T. S. S. for aid, and a box of clothing, toys, games, a doll and picture books were sent to this family. Mr. Pettit offered an overcoat to an old T. S. 8. member, a veteran of the Civil War, who is in firm and poor. When it was learned that he was behind with his rent Mr. Pettit gave him as a Christmas gift, so he was made happy. Mrs. Annie Mulligan, a T. 8. S. member, was Santa Claus to a number of children on the lower East Side. She is a widow without children, but her heart is warm for the little ones of the tene ments in her neighborhood. When her good inten tions were learned at the office it was decided to help her scatter sunshine. A list of the little girls who wanted dolls—and some of them had never had one—of boys who needed shoes and mittens and of little crippled ones without even a toy to amuse them, was obtained, and a generous box of all these things and many more besides was sent by express. There was great rejoicing among these poor children when the gifts were distrib uted. The thoughtfulness of those who sent extra dolls, in case ‘‘some children might be forgotten,” helped to make jov in the hearts of these chil dren, whose day would otherwise have been cheer Bua Mrs. M. Walker, president of the New-Haven (Conn.) Junior Branch, had a Christmas party for her children and distributed the T. S. S. gifts. The contents gave great pleasure to the little ones. Miss Eliza Shier, president of the Landrum (8. C) Junior Branch, writes: “The Christmas box from the T. 8. 8. has come, and I send a thousand thanks. How did you know that I would like a stereopticon and views? My children have never seen one, and this one gift alone will afford much pleasure to the children at our meetings. The bot tles of Pinaud’s perfumes will furnish attractive ereetings for all the members.” Sunshine greetings have been received from Miss Virginia McLain, president of the Bahama TR 8 Branch: beautiful Perry pictures from “A Friend in Virginia”; a box containing bed shoes, large and small: bean bags, a doll, scarf booklets, etc., from Miss Harriet Callamer; a package of silks, wools and cards, without a name; a box in which were three dressed dolls, picture cards and stuffed kit ties from Adelaide Clapp; reading from G. H.: novels from Mrs. H. Langdon; calendars and cards from E. P. Burritt; a greeting for a little girl from R. H. D., of Lockport, N. Y,; five dressed dolls from a Sunday school class of the First Pres byterian Church in Roselle, N. J., MM. K. Smith, teacher. The little girls’ names are Grace Day, Agnes Cavanagh (two dolls), Renz Dolsen and Elsie Hawkins. g Will G. H., of Newark, N. J., please send her coples of Woman's Pages to Mrs. A. Null, of Myr tle, Neb., instead of to the T. S. 8. office? MONTY ACKNOWLEDGED. Little Margaret Fisher, four years old, of Filat bush, N. Y., has sent §1 to help make some little girl’s Christmas brighter and happler; S 4A. H., of Manhattan, has given $1 to be used for sunshine work: “A Sunshine Member in Maine” sends $1 for special sunshine, and Mrs. Catherine S. Ensign, of Kingston N. Y.. 36 cents for a badge. Miss Lulu M. Wood has sent Christmas greetings irect to Mrs. Todd, Mrs. L. A. James and Adolph Koch, and Miss Kate Lunan has Sorwarded ecial greetings to all her invalid T. S. correspondents, who are many. Associate Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, says: ‘Religion that spends itself in creeds and does not ripen into character and the richness of a pure and lovely life is like a bar ren fig tree—covered with leaves, but fruitless.” Upon the ~ondition of the oven as much as upon any other one factor depends success in cake making. An old rule states that the oven in which a hand can be held while the clock is ticking twenty times igs at just the right temperature for butter mixtures. Another one says that the oven can wait for the cake, but never the cake for the oven. Tins are better greased with fat than with butter. The latter is inclined to stick and burn. Nothing should be put into an oven while a cake is baking, and the cake should not be moved until it is thoroughly set. Hema n The oven door should be closed gently while the cake is baking. To tell when a cake is done, test it with a broom siraw; if no dough adheres it is ready to take from the oven, Another infallible test is listening. If he ticking sound is very faint or inaudible it s one. In cakes made with butter, when the eggs are beaten separately, the stiffly whipped whites should be the last ingredient added, and should be folded, not beaten, in. When soda and cream of tartar are to be used, the cream of tartar should be sifted with the flour, and the soda, dissolved in a tea spoonful of hot water, should be added just before the whites of the eggs. Flour should be sifted after measuring. Upon the ~ondition of the oven as much as upon any other one factor depends success in cake making. An old rule states that the oven in which a hand can be held while the clock is ticking twenty times igs at just the right temperature for butter mixtures. Another one says that the oven can wait for the cake, but never the cake for the oven. Tins are better greased with fat than with butter. The latter is inclined to stick and burn. Nothing should be put into an oven while a cake is baking, and the cake should not be moved until it is thoroughly set. The oven door should be closed gently while the cake is baking. To tell when a cake is done, test it with a broom straw; if no dough adheres it is ready to take from the oven, Another infallible test is listening. If the ticking sound is very faint or inaudible it is done. In cakes made with butter, when the eggs are beaten separately, the stiffly whipped whites should be the last ingredient added, and should be folded, not beaten, in. When soda and cream of tartar are to be used, the cream of tartar should be sifted with the flour, and the soda, dissolved in a tea spoonful of hot water, should be added just before the whites of the eggs. Flour should be sifted after measuring. A cupful of vinegar placed in an open basin on the stove while cabbage, cauliflower, onions or fish are cooking will permeate the kitchen with its aroma and do away with unpleasant odors. Caulifiower should be placed head down in cold salted water for ten or fifteen minutes before cooking, to draw out insects. In boiling, slightly salted water should be used, and the head should be placed downward in the kettle, One-quarter cupful of almonds chopped to a paste is a great improvement to celery soup. In cooking macaroni or spaghetti it will be found an improvement to melt the butter and cheese to gether and add them to the white sauce, instead of sprinkling them, as usual, between layers of the macaroni. JUS— NS. TACKLED THE HORSE INSTEAD OF LOAD. A big gray horse, attached with his mate to a load of yellow pine, apparently from the yard of Gilson Collins Co, had an adventure in front of the new Atlantic Trust Company's building, in Wall-st.,, last evening about 35 o'clock, that interested the horse and a few dozen spectators. The tackle block from the heavy der rick used for hoisting iron and stone and timber from the street to the fourth story was swinging gently to and fro, even with the back of the gray horse, when one of the workmen told the engineer to “hist a bit!” The tackle block gently swung toward the horse, the hook slipped under the strap running from the top of the bames to the body bands, and before any one realized it the horse began to £0 up. One of his feet was off the pave ment, and he was looking around wih a pained expression on his gentle face, when his predicament was discovered. hen a workman hurriedly sig nalied the engineer to lower away, the hoor was attached to the load of yellow pine and that went up instead of the horse. A cupful of vinegar placed in an open basin on the stove while cabbage, cauliflower, onions or fish are cooking will permeate the kitchen with its aroma and do away with unpleasant odors. Caulifiower should be placed head down in cols salted water for ten or fifteen minutes befor cooking, to draw out insects. In boiling, slight salted water should be used, and the head shoul be placed downward in the kettle, One-quarter cupful of almonds chopped to paste is a great improvement to celery soup. In cooking macaroni or spaghetti it will be found an improvement to melt the butter and cheese to gether and add them to the white sauce, instead of sprinkling them, as usual, betwe sprinkling en layers of the TACKLED THE HORSE INSTEAD OF LOAD A big gray horse, attached with his mate to a load of yellow pine, apparently from the yard of Gilson Collins Co, had an adventure in front of the new Atlantic Trust Company's building, in Wall-st.,, last evening about 35 o'clock, that interested the horse and a few dozen spectators. The tackle block from the heavy der rick used for hoisting iron and stone and timber from the street to the fourth story was swinging gently to and fro, even with the back of the gray horse, when one of the workmen told the engineer to “hist a bit!” The tackle block gently swung toward the horse, the hook slipped under the strap running from the top of the bames to the body bands, and before any one realized it the horse began to go up. One of his feet was off the pave ment, and he was looking around wih a pained expression on his gentle face, when his predicament was discovered. hen a workman hurriedly sig nalied the engineer to lower away, the hoor was attached to the load of yellow pine and that went up instead of the horse. GOOD CHEER. Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. ‘Twas not given for you alons— Pass it on. Let it travel down the years. Let it wipe another's tears Till in heaven the deed appears. Pass it on. KINDLY ACTS. CHRISTMAS BOXES. CONTRIRITTIONS COOD CHEFR SENT RUMORED PEACE OVERTURES. PRESIDENT OF COLOMBIA SAID TO BE READY TO TREAT WITH REBELS. A report was current in this city yesterday that President José Manuel Marroquin, of Colombia, has made peace overtures to the rebels. That some thing not previously expected is to take place at Bogota is indicated by a cable dispatch received by Sefior Emiliano Isaza from President Marroquin, whose personal representative he is in this country. Sefior Iseza was informed by a cable message last woek of his appointment as Colombian Minister to Ecuador. He was expected to leave for his new post next month. Yesterday's dispatch sald: “Make no arrangements for trip to Quito. Await other in structions.”

Sefior Isaza has been one of President Marro quin’s advisers, and will probably be recalled to Bogota should the rebels consent to a conference looking toward peace. Dr. A. J. Restrepo, diplomatic representative of the revolutionists, said he had no official Informa~ tion concerning the terms offered by President Marroquin. He said: I will say. though, that the only terms ars sur render. Our forces are now stronger than ever be fore, and will surely win. The Liberals will never consent to serve again under a President forced upon the people by the Conservatives. SUIT AGAIN ST ADOLPH MONELL-SAYRE KENTUCKY WOMAN SEEKS TO ATTACH MINING STOCK-—SAYRE'S PROFESSIONS OF WERALTH. KENTUCKY WOMAN SEEKS TO ATTACH MINING STOCK—SAYRE'S PROFESSIONS OF WERALTH. Suit was brought yesterday to attach certain stock sald to be owned by Adolph Monell-Sayre in an endeavor to recover $4,500 given to Sayre by Miss Maud H. Kirtland, of Lexington, Ky., about a year and a half ago, to invest for her. In April, 1899, Sayre, who belongs to an old Kentucky family, came to this city and rented the H. Victor Newcomb house, at No. 683 Fifth-ave, for his mother and himself. He said he was wealthy, and lived in expensive style. The explanation Sayre gave of his rise to wealth from the rank of a page in the House of Representatives at Washington was that at Harvard, where he went on leaving Washington, he met men whose fathers had great mining interests and through them learned how to place to advantage the $25,000 oT $30,000 he had in herited from his grandfather. Most of his millions, according to Sayre, were made in Calumet and Hecla copper stock. Having acquired a fortune, as he said, for him self, he expressed his willingness to help his old friends. Miss Kirtland was one of them, and she placed her inheritance in his hands. For a while checks, said to be for interest, were received by Miss Kirtland, but these ceased before long, and then she began to be suspicious. Sayre was called upon for an explanation, and, according to Mr. Wollman, attorney for Miss Kirt land, acknowledged that he had not invested the money but had used it for his own purposes, and romised to re d out of the proceeds of some nvestments in the Klondike. Wheiher he ever realized on his Klondike investments or not is not known. At any rate, he vacated the Newcomb house on July 15 of this year, without paying Miss Kirtland, and has not been seen since by her. A diligent search failed to discover his whereabouts, but it did uncover some small holdings in stocks which it is said will about cover Miss Kirtland’s A VV OPPOSE CHANGING RECORDS HALL. MR. THOMAS, THE ARCHITECT, SAYS THE FOUN DATIONS WOULD NOT STAND ADDI TIONAL STORIES. The suggestion that the new Hall of Records be turned into a County Courthouse, and that the present Courthouse that Tweed built be turned into a Hall of Records, is not meeting with favor among the city officials. It is declared by some of the officials that to change the plans of the new Hall of Records so as to make the building suit able for a courthouse would mean enormous ex pense and long additional delay in the completion of the building. John R. Thomas, the architect for the new building, said yesterday that the present foundations would not safely carry additional stories. “Even If the architect were willing to im pose several additional stories on the foundations,” he said, “the building laws would not permit such a step. To change the height of the stories to make the comstruction of courtrooms possible would make useless all the granite and marble that have been cut for the building. A change of plans now would destroy all that has been done on the build ing up to the present time. I do not believe that any one who comes to understand the situation perfectly will favor a change of plans.” 8. Stanwood Menken said yesterday that if the proposition to change the plans of the Hall of Rec~ ords was made to interfere with the work on the buflding he would call another mass meeting to protest against further delay. Mr. Menken was doing his best to persuade the Council to pass the bond issue for the interior work on the hafidmg He said: “For the economical erection of the building it is necessary to have the exterior and interior proceed in part at the same time, and the interior work cannot be begun until the bond issue is passed.” The Council met yesterday afternoon after a search for enough members to make a Quorum. Enough were finally found, as it was learned that Councilman Sulzer and Councilman Leich, of the Celebration Committee, were in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen ying to push through the ap rropriation for the celebration. After that had Deen successfully carried out a quorum was se cured. ha

Councilman Brice asked the president concerning rumors of a mandamus having been secured. .IEBI COMPANY'S EXTRACT 2 IS IN SEASON all the year ‘round in the Kitchen and Sick Room, but the raw, chilling days of winter always bring increasing sales. It keeps out the cold by keeping in the heat. Chills, colds and influenza are often prevented by its timely use. A tiny 2 oz. jar contains the pure concentrated assimilable essence of many pounds of the finest beef. The genuine has this signature in blue: fretted 3 5XThe Best Cooks in the Country the superiority ‘LEA PERRINS' SAUCE oe mamas, ignabure oN BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Bottle. For Gama, Steaks, Reasts, Soups, a and every variety of made dishes, lrriisa 21 invaluable, Joun Duncan's Sons, Acmvrs, New Yor, THE MARVEX GLOVE {Registered EXCELS IN FIT AND IS MADE OF ONLY THE HIGHEST GRADE KID SKINS soto ony BY BB Altman @o. NEW YORK President Guggenheimer said that an hour to the meeting representaiive of Philbin, man Menken fad served a mandamus the passing of the bond issue for the new Hall of Records. It was explained to the Tepe. nT Tose han wanted It waa hardly proper t a wee was to be so hasty in the matter. The mandamus was later withdrawn. Councilman chairman of the Committee, when he heard this grew red anger, and denounced the actions of the law x “I cannot condemn too severely this firm's A he said. “Here is this new District Attorney, than 2 week. What does Philbin want? The earth? I repeat, I cannot too severely condemn this action.” Following Councilman Goodwin's address 4 reso lution was Introduced con the death of Jus tice Beekman, and as a mark of respect the Coun cil adjourned, to meet on Monday, January 7, at the usual time. LAWYERS MAY BE IN CONTEMPT. JUSTICE LEVENTRITT TAKES TESTIMONY ON WITHDRAWAL OF ACTION AGAINST CHOSEN FRIENDS. Justice Leventritt, in the Supreme g yesterday heard arguments in a motion made by Jacques Herts, formerly receiver of the Order of Chosen Friends, for an order to punish Joseph Martin and Willlam J. Martin for alleged contempt of court. The Martins, father and son, are law yers at No, 302 Broadway. A few days ago Joseph Martin appeared as counsel for Emanuel Popper in an action to recover a $1,000 endowment policy on the life of his wife, issued by the Order of Chosen Friends. Justice Leventritt appointed Mr. Herts as receiver In this State of the Order. Mr. Martin had that another man be named as receiver. as A day or two jater Mr. Martin went before Jus tice Maddox, In Brooklyn, and entered an order discontinuing the suit begun by Popper. This meant that Mr. Herts's appointment as receiver was nullified. Justice Leventritt got no notice of this Subsequently another action was begun b; and Mr. Martin went before Justice Smith and asked that a receiver be ap the order. Justice Smith appointed Martin, a son of Joseph Martin. Mr. Herts began proceedings to have the Martins punished for alleged contempt of court, that the whole action taken in the Brooklyn was a practical contempt of Justice action. Justice Leventritt aanounced that he would probe the affair to the sald such actions were at least discourtecus. lam Martin testified before Justice Leventritt all the proceedings in Brooklyn had been and that there was no contempt of the local order meant. He said Mr, Popper was with the appointment of Mr. Herts as receiver. After hearing a lot of testimony Justice Leven tritt sald that he was confident that contempt the New-York court had been shown in the lyn proceeding. He would, however, take no till the order of discontinuance had been acted on by Justices Maddox and Smith. He not belleve the Justices in Brooklyn case "lv wf i i li 1 HIGH BID FOR CITY STOCK. VERMILYE CO., WITH HARVEY FISK SONS, OFFER 1211-77 FOR ALL OR PART OF $£3.55.000. Controller Coler yesterday opened bids per cent corporate stock of the city, gold in 1840, as follows: For the Department Docks and Ferries, §1,500,000; for the new Records, §.610,000, and for high schools and gh school sites, $445 000—33,355.000 In all, The bids were opened in the presence of meme bers of the Sinking Fund Commission and several representatives of capitalists and banking houses. Twelve bids were received. That of Vermilys Co., jointly with Harvey Fisk Sons, was highest, at 11211-77, for the whole or any part of the bonds. This price is higher than years. The other bids were as follows: W. J. Hayes Sona. Cleveland, 109.845 for $445000; Western Na tional Bank, 110% for the whole; J. W. Selig man Co., 110.95 for the whole; People’s Trust q bills Company, 110.34 for $1,000,000; E D, Shepard Co., 110.617 for $1,000,000; Thompson, Tenney Crawford, $1,675,500 30. for $1,500,000, and $437,554 8 for $45,000; R. Lo. Day Co. and Blake Brothers Co., 111.81 for the first $1,500,000 and 111.32 for the second $1,000,000 and 111.088 for the rest; Farsonm, Leach Co. and Kuhn, Losb Co. 12.04 for $100, 000, 111.830 for $200.00, 56 for $300.000, 113 for $400,000, 111.08 for Saat for JN0.00, TI ut $700,000, and 110.36 for 000: Merchants’ Trust Company, 11 for Trus* $500,000; Company, 110.365 for’ §1,000;000. HE AND AN INSTALMENT DEALER ACCUSED OF MAKING FALSE ARREST. HE AND AN INSTALMENT DEALER ACCUSED OF MAKING FALSE ARREST. Wiliam H. Lee, a city marshal, and Adolph Teitelbaum, an instalment dealer, were arrested by Deputy Sheriff Walgering yesterday on an order issued by Justice Leventritt, 'n the Supreme Court. The prisoners gave $2,000 bail each. The arrests were the result of a sult begun against the men by Dominico Chille, who seeks to recover $10,000 damages for alleged false arrest and im prisonment. Teitelbaum, it seems, obtained a judgment against Romano, an emvloye of Chills. On the night of July 31, says Chille In his com baum, accompanied by City Marshal him out of bed and took him to Ludlow Jail, where he was locked up. He remained two weeks. Chille alleges that both and Lee knew that he was not Romano, they had said he was responsible for Romano's

A CITY MARSHAL ARRESTED.

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TRE NEWS THIS MORNING. FOREIGN —According to a report from the French troops in China a force of twenty-five hunfired Chinese was met by them in battle and five flags and a number of guns were taken by the French, while the Chinese suffered great Joss: the Spanish Minister at Peking fears the discussion over the joint note will last for a year or more. Little news comes from South Africa, but no important Cape Colony town has so far been captured by the Boer in vaders; Cape Town reports that a squadron of Yeomanry has been entrapped by the Boers and captured; there is no confirmation of this, how ever. (Filbert Parker has started for Egypt to study the administration there. It is ex pected that Lord Roberts will be rewarded with an Earidom and possibly the Order of the Garter; Buller's friends expect him, too, to be mentioned in the New Year's list of honors.

DOMESTIC.—It was explained at the State Department that the United States Government is not a party to the settiement of Ainerican missionary claims by Turkey through a contract with the Cramps for a warship. Grover Cleveland wrote a letter in which he said he did not vote for McKinley. Bryan made a speech at a dinner in Lincoln in which he said be hoped to have as much intellectual enjoyment as an editor as he would have had in the White

House. =m——=— A. H. Pierce, the Texas stockman, died, at Pierce Station, Tex. The Seran ton streetcar strike continued. Elaborate preparations are being made for the inaugura tion of Benjamin B. Odell, jr., as Governor of New-York State. State Attorney-General Davies has not yet appointed Deputy Attorney Generals to fill the places about to become vacant; many changes are reported to be planned in the direction of economy in State government, The Court of Inquiry con vinued its investigation yesterday of hazing at West Point. CITY.—Stocks were strong and active. It was learned that William C. Whitney had bought a Van Dyck at a~high figure. It was announced that Rebert-(". Morris would be elected president of the Republican County Committee to succeed @enegai=-Francis V. Greene. It was said thatieffitts were being made to force Devery to retire hy, threats of indict ment and loss of pension. Sub-committees of the Committee of Fifteen were appointed. Eugene A. Philbin assumed active charge of the District Attorney's office, being introduced 10 the judges and his staff by Colonel Gardiner. sion was reserved in a suit brought by Tom L. Johnion against R. T. Wilson Co. for the dissolution of an agreement regarding the purchase of the Detroit street railroad sys tem, Commissioner Keller prepared the testimony to be submitted against the suspended Bellevue nurses and discussed changes in the hospital and in the city charitable institutions.

THE WEATHER.—Forecast for to-day: Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, 38 de grees; lowest, 32; average, 35%. THE WAR IX CAPF COTONT It is not what is being done in South Africa that counts any more than where it is being done. The significant feature of the situation is geographical. lord Kitchener, the British commander-in-chief, has been telegraphing from Naauwpoort, but has now gone north ward from that place. Now, Naauwpoort is not in the Transvaal. nor in the Orange State, but in Cape Colony, and not right on the border either. It is some fifty miles south of the Orange River on the railroad to Port Elizabeth. Of course, a commander-in-chief. even one who Is essentially a fighter, may at times be far from the sceme of actual war. But such does not seem to be Lord Kitchener's case. He tells us of military operations at Britstown, from which place the Boers have retired toward Prieska, capturing on the way, according to another dispatch, a detachment of British troops. Britstown is likewise in Cape Colony, eighty miles from the Orange River and west of the railroad from Cape Town to Kimberley. Prieska is also in Cape Colony, a hundred miles from the border. It is stated, moreover, that railroad traffic between Cape Town and the north has been stopped at Victoria West, which is near the centre of Cape Colony, more than iwo hundred miles south of Kimberley and little more than three hundred northeast of Cape Town. On the Midland line traffic has been stopped at Cradock, which is alinost ex actly half way between the Orange River and Algoa Bay. On the eastern line traffic is still meintsined as far as Stormberg., only fifty miles from the Orange River. Thus all the roads leading from the Cape Colony coast porthward into the Boer States and to Rho desia are blocked—cut or obstructed by the Boers. This is in itself, of course, a grave state of affairs. When Lord Roberts turned the tide of war northward, and Kimberley and Ladysmith were relieved and Bloemfontein and Pretoria were captured, it was confidently supposed that thenceforth what littie fighting was still to be done would be done on Boer soil or the soil that was once the Boers’. But now, many months later, the tide of war is turned back again to Cape Colony itself. Far within the borders of that colony British railroads are cut and British troops are captured by the Boers, and it is thither that reinforcements are to be hurried. The struggle is not to conquer and pacify the Boer States. but to repel the Boer invasion of the British colony, and, indeed, to prevent the Boers from effecting the conquest of that col ony. Not the Lydenburg Hills, but the Storm berz and Sneeuw Bergen are the scene of strife. Nothing could be more exasperating tc the British than such a carrying of the wa into their own land. But exasperation is no the worst of it. Beyond doubt the Boer inva sion, or reinvasion of Cape Colony is inciting any of the inhabitants to rebel against Brit ish authority and to join the Boers. The Boers have shrewdly chosen the scene of their opera tions to end. They coun AE masements., ties where disaffection against the British has been most manifest and sympathy with the Boers the strongest. The result will be more than a mere swelling of the ranks of the Boer commandoes, unwelcome as that must be. It will mean innumerable new treason trials and a great increase of ill feeling between Dutch and British all throngh the colony. Ierhaps it would be too much to say there is danger of a general insurrection of the Cape Dutch, though even so grave a contingendy is being discussed in London. But without that the case is bad enough. Every hour of Boer invasion of Cape Colony means months of trouble and alienation between the two races.

It is not high praise to say that nothing in the late District Attorney's official life became him like the leaving of it, but the fact perhaps deserves to be mentioned with approval that, aside from an apparently intentional display of hostility to Recorder Goff, Colonel Gardiner went through the painful ceremony of retiring to a private station in a creditable manner. He entered a protest against the action of the Gov ernor in remeving him, but such a formal reser vation of legal rights is customary and inno cent. and he not only welcomed his successor courteously, but offered to assist him in every way in order that the public business might not be retarded by the change of administra tion. It is not probable that Colonel Gardiner’s help will be required, since his staff is to re main on duty for the present, but the spirit of the proffer was commendable, and it is not necessary to smile at his final admonition to fidelity in the public service addressed to those whom he was leaving behind him. If he had never presented a worse appearance than that which he presented yesterday there would be much less satisfaction at his departure. But recalling his continuous manifestations of extraordinary unfitness for an office of the first importance, it is an immense relief to feel that he has gone, especially in view of all the evidence tending to prove that his successor was wisely chosen.

Mr. Philbin will have ample opportunities to justify and strengthen the confidence with which he is regarded by his fellow citizens. It is a rather remarkable circumstance that while the removal of Colonel Gardiner has excited no little disapproval, which in some instances has been expressed with excessive warmth, no fault whatsoever has been found with the ap pointment of Mr. Philbin. The new District Atiorney is generally expected to discharge his duties with perfect rectitude of purpose and with a high degree of efficiency, and all that he has said and done thus far is a happy augury of success, The intimation given by a close friend that in the selection of his assist ants he will carefully consider the personal character and associations of men wishing to be retained or appointed is particularly inter esting. It is exceedingly desirable that every man called to do the work of a public prose cutor should be deserving of respect on all ac counts, and not merely because he is profes sionally skilful and experienced. This fact has been too often disregarded by District Attor neys, and public interests have suffered in consequepce. Mr. Philbin is sure of only a short term, but it is within his power to make a lasting record of good service in an office which has been deplorably mismanaged.

Some curious misapprehensions seem to exist concerning the controversy between Bolivia and Chili. It bas more than once been con founded with that between Peru and Chili, and we have seen the statement made, in places where judgment and accuracy are usually to be found, that Bolivia is seeking to regain possession of her prgvinces of Tacna and Arica, which Chill has been holding and administer ing since the war of 1879-83. The truth is, of course, that Tacna and Ariea belonged not to Bolivia but to Peru, and that Bolivia has nothing whatever to do with them. It is the province of Atacama, with its port of Cobijo, which Bolivia seeks to regain, and its status is very different from that of Tacna and Arica, a3 we shall see from a brief review of the facts in the case, Chili declared war against Bolivia in 1879, and also, a little later, against Bolivia's friend and ally, Peru. There is indeed reason to be lieve that she attacked Bolivia chiefly for the sake of thus reaching Peru, whose territory was separated from her own by Bolivia's bit of voleanie littoral. Four years of hostility made Chili the victor, and she then dictated terms to the vanquished. First she annexed—not took for a time or conditionally, but annexed out right, under title of conquest—the Bolivian province of Atacama. This shut Bolivia off from the sea; but that was not Chili's chief object. It also brought Chili into direct con tact with Peru, which was what Chili wanted. Next, Chili similarly annexed outright the Peruvian province of Tarapaca, which imme diately adjoins. Atacama at the north, thus extending her territory northward for some hundreds of miles without a break. And finally she took possession temporarily of Tacna and Arica, just north of Tarapaca, pending the payment of a war indemnity by Pern, but now seems determined, in disregard of treaty, to make that possession permanent. Bolivia's demand, or desire, is therefore not, like Peru's in the Tacna-Arica case, for fulfil ment of treaty, but for the undoing of an ac complished fact. She wants Chili to cede back to her territory of which Chili took absolute and permanent possession. This she asks on the reasonable ground that it is a hardship for her to be shut in from the sea, and thus com pelled to pay transit dues on all imports and exports. Chill refuses it, however, not because of the intrinsic value of Atacama, which is one of the most sterile wastes on the face of the earth, nor because she covets Bolivian transit Sues, for the latter country now sends her foreign commerce through other channels. No; but she keeps Atacama In order to maintain the integrity of her coast line and to keep Tara. paca and Tacna contiguous with her own main territory. She has no mind to let Bolivian ter ritory intrude between two parts of her own domain, as, for example, British ‘olumbia in trudes between the United States and Alaska Two efforts have hitherto been made to effect readjustment of the case. One was in the direction of arbitration by the United States To this, however, Chili would not assent, hav. ing apparent some prejudice against this coun. try. The other was a Bolivian looking toward Argentina for aid. Now, Argentina has 4 boundary dispute of her own with Chili, and probably has no excess of love for the latter But she does not wish to lose the valuable transit dues and other advantages which she gets from Bolivian commerce, the hulk of Which now passes through her territory. Thus the case stands to-day. Chill is in actual pos session of all she at present wants, and aims a a certain hegemony of the South Americar Continent. On the other hana, Argentina, wit, vastly superior natural advantages, is rising rapidly In power, and is drawing more and more closely into her sphere of influence hott Bolivia and Peru, countries also of wealth if only properly The nat perhaps a readjustment of hoy bg of events is therefore toward an of and ndaries ing to the status quo ante hell accord um, which would THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY. BOLIVIA AND CHILI. 07 NTI. YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THUI be particularly well if it could he effected with out further war. i A young woman was knocked down and fatally injured by an autemobile vehicle while crossing Broadway on Christmas afternoon. Sipe was a trained nurse, and therefore presum Ay intelligent, prudent and active. The ve hicle was moving rapidly, just how rapidly is not reported. The engineer in charge of. it saw the young woman crossing the street and rang the gong in warning. Apparently, however, he did not abate the speed of the machine nor attempt to steer it out of the way. He consid ered his responsibility fully discharged by the ringing of the gong. i Without any intent to prejudge this particu lar case, it may be said that the incident is illustrative of a serious evil of our city streets. Engineers of automobile vehicles—not all of them, of course, but enough for consideration— seem to think they are entitled to rush through the streets at the highest rate of speed of which their machines are capable, so long as they ring the gong. It is the business of everybody to listen for the gong and get out of the way. Nobody else has any rights which the “chauffeur” is bound to respect so long as he rings the gong. So some bicycle riders, and ‘not merely a few of them, have acted as though the earth and the fulness thereof was their private property, and pedestrians on crosswalks were trespassers who should be grateful for being warned by so much as a bell clang or a yell that the rightful lord of creation was about to run them down for their temerity. So motormen and gripmen of streetcars and drivers of beer trucks and express wagons and other ponderous vehicles too often regard all less formidable objects as impertinent intrud ers upon the highway, whose duty it is to get out of the way at sound of a yell or clang of gong or rumble of wheels. We are not trying to excuse those who stupidly or heedlessly or wantonly loiter in the roadway and obstruet traffic. It is the duty of a pedestrian to keep upon the sidewalk save when it Is necessary to cross the roadway, and then to cross at an opportune moment and with reasonable expedition. It is, neverthe less, equally the duty of those in charge of vehicles, however propelled, to restrain them within reasonable speed, to keep them under constant control and steerage way, and to exer cise all possible diligence in avoiding collisions. They are as much bound to look out for pedes trians at the crosswalks as pedestrians are to look out for them. They are as much bound to slacken their speed to avoid collision as the pedestrian is to quicken his. It is in fact far easier for the men on the vehicles to keep their eyes on the pedestrians and avoid running them down than it is for the pedestrians to keep theirs on the multitude of vehicles which may be converging upon them from different diree tions. Simply ringing the gong is not enough. “Caveat pedes” is not the only rule of the road. The chief city of the Nation has lagged be hind Boston and Chicago in generous provision of books for the use of the public, but the close of the century indicates the dawn of a brighter ‘day. Work Is now pushed on actively in get ting ready the spacious site in Fifth-ave., be tween Fortieth and Forty-second sts., in which the majestic building of the new Public Library will become within a few years so conspicu ous and beneficial a feature of city life and progress. Suggestions of the possibility that the New-¥ork Historical Society may find a ‘new home iti the imposing structure founded by the liberality of James Lenox and designed by Richard M. Hunt have brought out much discussion. The Free Circulating Library, the collections of the Soclety of Mechanics and Tradesmen and the Society Library have been useful and valuable to the people of the metrop olis, and they have heen managed with excel lent judgment and with an unselfish loyalty to the best interests of the community. And the directors and trustees of other similar institu tions have merited praise and good will. On both sides of the East River and in the borough north of the Harlem, as well as in the entire territory below, a quickened zeal for the credit and advantage of New-York with regard to libraries has been apparent of late. A movement now on foot in The Bronx to furnish the dwellers in that borough with increased facilities for study and reading is steadily gain ing a larger number of supporters. lhe fore most citizens of Brooklyn are considering more liberal plans for library conveniences and the diffusion of opportunities on a still larger scale than that now available. It must be admitted that up to the latter part of this century, with the exception of the Astors, of James Lenox, of Samuel J. Tilden, of a few New-Yorkers like unto them, and of a group of high minded and public spirited Brooklynites, this metropolis had been almost in a Serbonian bog in respect to the urgent necessity of affording our people the benefits of true public libraries of the type which Boston founded on so ambitious a plan, and with which Chicago has been so bountiful. But now inspiration and enlightenment that are certain to bring about splendid results may be discerned on every hand, and a feeling of impatience with unreasonable delay fills the air. In libraries, as in rapid transit and other things, New-York has been slow to take the place among great cities which belongs to her. She has hung back in some of the most signifi cant rivalries of the highest civilization. She has been so far behind that she now has a great deal of ground to make up, and no time to spare in doing it. WAITING FOR THE HERRESHORIPS eS Although it was announced by Mr. that his 90-footer to he designed by Crownin shield would not be constructed with any secrecy, nothing has been officially given out in regard to the dimensions of the yacht, and this has been thought a highly proper precau tion. Boston Yachtsmen, who have high hopes for their local designer and are strong par tisans, point to the fact that there has been much delay in the casting of the Herreshoff boat’s keel, and they suggest that the Bristol people knéw where the lost ninety-five tons of lead were all the time, the intention being to delay any framing of the Belmont-Stillman known how far Crownin until it could be Lawson shield intended to tu As far back as December 9 The Tribune pointed their winners by easy stages, cutting away just enough to make the new boat win, but not moving toward the eXtreme of speed too quickly, thus leaving ful chances for other winners yet to come. With no one else in the trial field, there was perhaps room to beat the Columbia and still leave oppor tunity for a further winner. But it was sug gested that Crowninshield was almost sure to put out his best design at once, which might compel the Bristol people to do the same, and to avoid holding back anything for the purpose of getting further engagements, “Consequent ly,” it was said, “it would not be surprising “to find that the Herreshoffs are even at thig “late hour changing their design,” Whether this hint has been acted on or not, us that the Lawson construction the fact will probably he kept secret for England work has been stopped on oi wll RANG THE GONG. LIBRARIES IN NEW-YORK the Hendersons’ yards, at Meadowside, which was supposed hy the English yachting writers to be the one intended to appear for the chal lenge races. Why it was stopped nobody out side the Lipton-Watson ring knows; but there has been a suspicion that the delay is ordered so that the Herreshoffs may be committed to ome kind of beat through partial construec tion before either the American or English rivals of the Bristol firm consent te put their ideas into form. No doubt, it would be a simple thing for the Herreshoffs to have two, or even three, sets of plans ready, one designed simply to beat the Columbia if she were to he alone in the trial races, and the other, or others, to be used in case either of the rivals was about ‘to produce a racer of the extreme kind. In such an emergency the same lead casting would probably do for either of the designs used, so that the point in construction at which the framing could be changed has not yet been reached, and at present it seems probable that neitkter Crowninshield mor Watson will pro ceed till the Herreshoff craft is at least partly in frame. Of course it is not supposed that the designers wish to copy from each other. These men have been found to be far too much in love with their own ideas to ac cept suggestions, except from already proved victors. But the preparation of alternative plans is a totally different thing, and may be regarded as a wise precaution. As we said before, the Herreshoffs are not bothering about Watson. It is the American, Crowninshield, who supplies the “pinch,” tecause his boats have already beaten the craft from Bristol, and defeat at his hands means more in a busi ness way than a defeat by Watson. Police Commissioner Abell is quoted as say ing that New-York needs several thousand more policemen. All off, Commissioner! What New-York needs is fewer Police Commissioners. rr fp———— Five French gendarmes are soberly circum navigating the globe in order to protect peace in Tahiti after the French fashion. They start ed from Madagascar, tarried at Paris, and have paused in New-York to take breath. A new Tartarin of Tarascon in authority in the French republic must have conceived the grotesque no tion of transferring five French policemen from Madagascar to Tahiti and sending them by way of New-York. Even Devery never dreamed of a transfer like that. em—— eer Hospitality is unbounded this holiday week. Even the faro banks are keeping open house. Not only that; they send out for guests and take them in. A a... Bryan signifies that he will shirk no work on his new paper, however humble, tackling any Job in the business, from typesetting to crying extras, if the needs of the enterprise appear to call for it. Having joined the printers’ union, his work on that side will be legitimate and regular, but whether the newsboys will let him into the guild without a prelude of West Point hazing remains to be seen. ais General Wheeler thinks it important that the Filipinos should be impressed with the perma nency of our rule in those islands, and that everything in our policy, military and civil, should direct the public mind to the assurance that we are there to stay. Pending our recent election a different impression was encouraged, but now the native intelligent enough to know anything knows better and realizes that the new flag will fly over him for an indefinite period to come. Of the insurrection only a few scattered guerilla bands remain, and as soon as they are caught they ought all to be vaccinated with the idea which General Wheeler so judiciously pro mulgates,

As an instrument-af administration the Tsung li-Yamen has no advantages entitling it to per petuity, as the Chinese will themselves find out when it is abolished and a single Minister of Foreign Affairs substituted for it. In China as elsewhere too many cooks spoil the bird's nest and other soup, a proverb to which the political record of the Tsung-li-Yamen gives abundant ang Tre YY Te Police Commissioner Abell is quoted as say ing that New-York needs several thousand more policemen. All off, Commissioner! What New-York needs is fewer Police Commissioners. Police Commissioner Abell is quoted as say ing that New-York needs several thousand more policemen. All off, Commissioner! What New-York needs is fewer Police Commissioners. rr f—— Five French gendarmes are soberly circum navigating the globe in order to protect peace in Tahiti after the French fashion. They start ed from Madagascar, tarried at Paris, and have paused in New-York to take breath. A new Tartarin of Tarascon in authority In the French republic must have conceived the grotesque no tion of transferring five French policemen from Madagascar to Tahiti and sending them by way of New-York. Even Devery never dreamed of a transfer like that. Hospitality is unbounded this holiday week. Even the faro banks are keeping open house. Not only that; they send out for guests and take them in. Bryan signifies that he will shirk no work on his new paper, however humble, tackling any Job in the business, from typesetting to crying extras, if the needs of the enterprise appear to call for it. Having joined the printers’ union, his work on that side will be legitimate and regular, but whether the newshoys will let him into the guild without a prelude of West Point hazing remains to be seen. General Wheeler thinks it important that the Filipinos should be impressed with the perma nency of our rule in those islands, and that everything in our policy, military and civil, should direct the public mind to the assurance that we are there to stay. Pending our recent election a different impression was encouraged, but now the native intelligent enough to know anything knows better and realizes that the new flag will fly over him for an indefinite period to come. Of the insurrection only a few scattered guerilla bands remain, and as soon as they are caught they ought all to be vaccinated with the idea which General Wheeler so judiciously pro mulgates, As an instrument-aof administration the Tsung li-Yamen has no advantages entitling it to per petuity, as the Chinese will themselves find out when it is abolished and a single Minister of Foreign Affairs substituted for it. In China as elsewhere too many cooks spoil the bird's nest and other soup, a proverb to which the political record of the Tsung-li-Yamen gives abundant confirmation confirmation “Perhaps,” says the Washington correspondent of “The St. Louis Globe-Democrat,’”” ‘there never was a public man more thoroughly belled by the cartoons than Secretary Hay. He {is represented as aping English manners and dress. He is re ferred to away from Washington as affecting Eng lish customs. The other day a visitor in Washing ton, a man given to ohservance of ‘form.’ stocd on the steps of the White House and surveyed the Cabinet equipages drawn up in line awaiting the close of a meeting within. ‘Good heavens! he ex claimed, ‘who is the Cabinet officer who doesn't know better than to let a white coachman wear a mustache? A newspaper man standing beside an swered: ‘He is the last man you would guess. And he is 2a man who would never think it worth while to notice whether his coachman wore a mustache, much less to express a preference one way or the other. He is Secretary Hay." If it was left to the newspaper correspondents to select in the Admin istration the officials of minimum exclusiveness, of least personal ostentation, the ideal American gen jjgmas, a rousing vote would be given for John ay. Justice Marcus P. Knowlton, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, is to be the orator of the day at the commencement exercises of the Yale Law School. They will be held in College Street Hall on Monday afterncon, June 24, 1%1. Judge Knowlton was graduated From Yale in the class of 1860. He has been Attorney-General of Massachu setts, His home is in Springfield. He has a high rank throughout New-England for learning and eloquence. The Rev. Dr. 8, G. Barnes, of Longmeadow, Mass, has received a formal call to the pastorate of the Union Congregational Chureh and the head ship of the theological department of Fisk Univer sity at Nashville, Tenn. He was born in Perth Amboy, N. J. In 183, and spent his boyhood in New-Jersey and Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Lafayette College in 1873, and immediately after accepted a professorship of English literature in Iowa University at Grinnell, Towa, which he re tained until 1391. In the mean time he received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Literature from Lafayette College, and took two trips to Europe to pursue his studies. In 18% the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Iowa College. General John G. Parke, who died in Washington the other day, was the last officer to command the Army of the Potomac. Meade was spending a few hours with Grant at City Point when Kyd Doug las, on the morning of May 25, broke through the Federal lines, of which Parke thus had to take command. The battle of Fort Stedman, one of the most brilliant of the war, was also fought under im 4 TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS. Among those who arrived here from Genoa, Naples and Gibraltar on tie steamer Aller yester day were Gideon Allen, jr., John W. Baker, A. C. Dunham, the Rev, J. H. Twichell and th Von Quadt. e Countess Some of those who sailed on the American Line steamer St. Louls for Southampton yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Abel, of Chicago; Haddon Chambers, 8. T. Davis, jr.,, H. C. Davis, of Lon don, Lawrence Perkins, Mrs. Horace Porter, Colo nel De Lancey A. Kane, George H. Jackson, United States Consul at La Rochelle, France; J. H. Bailey and David Barrie. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF GEN. T. T GARRARD Lexington, Xy., Dec. 26 (Special).—General T. T. Garrard, of Manchester, Clay County, is critically ill with pneumonia at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. C. Ford, in Middleshoro. He is a veteran of the Civil and the Mexican wars. General Gar rard is one of two surviving Federal generals in Kentucky, and {s known chiefly from the fact that he i# the power behind the throne in the Garrard White faction, which has waged a feud against the Bakers for a number of years. He has never participated in the baitles, but on account of his wealth and position General Garrard is the real leader of his faction. General Garrard's son, B. T. arrard, was seriously wounded in a fight at a PERSONAL. THE PRESIDENT'S NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION Washington, Dec. 25.—Secretary Cortelyou to-day announced the following programme for the Presi dent's New Year's reception: 11 a. m.—The members of the Cabinet; the Diplo matic Corps. 11:15 a. m.—The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Judges of the United States Court of Claims, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, £X Cabinet members and ex-Ministers of the United tates, 11:25 a. m.—Senators, Representatives and Dele gates in Congress, the Commissioners and judicial officers of the District of Columbia, 11:40 a. m.—Officers of the Army, officers of the Navy, officers of the Marine Corps, commanding eneral and general staff of the militia of the Dis rict of Columbia. 12 m.—The regent and secretary of the Smith sonian Institution, the Commissioner of Fisheries, the Civil Service Commission, the Interstate Com merce Commission, the Commissioner of Labor. assistant secretaries of departments, Assistant Postmasters-General, the Solicitor-General, As sistant Attorneys-General, the Treasurer of the United States. Commissioner of Pensions, Com missioner of Patents, Controller of the Currency, the heads of bureaus in the several departments, the president of the Columbian Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. 12:15 p. m.—The Associated Veterans of the War of 1846-'47, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Union Veteran Legion, Union Veterans’ Union, Spanish War Veterans, the members of the Oldest Inhabitants’ Association of the District of Columbia. 12:35 p. m.—Reception of citizens, which will terminate at 1:30 p. m. Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court yesterday denied the motion made by Rud vard Kipling's attorneys to restrain R. F. Fenno from publishing and selling editions of Kipling's works on which an elephants head was repre sented. The case was argued in November. Au gust T. Gerlitz appeared for Kipling, and Olin Rives for the publishers. Judge Lacombe said that Mr. Kipling had not established a common law trade mark, and that there was no suggestion or a statutory trade mark. John Proctor Clarke, appointed Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed the late Justice Henry Beekman, was sworn In yesterday by Justice Fran cis M. Scott. Mr. Clarke went to the County Court house soon before noon. The cath was adminis tered in Justice Scott's private chambers Mrs. Madeleine Lucette Ryley is expected to ar rive here this week from England. She will go to Rochester to attend the rehearsals of *Richard Savage.” her play, The management of the American Theatre is disturbed by the report that Ralph Stuart is about to leave the stock company of the theatre. port is denied. The re Johann Strauss’s operetta. “Wiener Blut,” which Rudolph Aronson is to produce in t o Rudeiph Aronson 1s to proguce in this city, will be Mrs. Madeleine Lucette Ryley is expected to ar rive here this week from England. She will go to Rochester to attend the rehearsals “Richard Savage.” Of her play, The management of the American Theatre is disturbed by the report that Ralph Stuart is about to leave the stock company of the theatre. The re port is denied. Johann Strauss’s operetta. “Wiener Blut,” which Rudolph Aronson is to produce in this city, called in Engiish “Vienna Life.” city, will be From The New-York Herald. The last Christmas Day of the century was in deed a glorious one, and from all parts of the country come to “The Herald” reports that yes terday was one of rejoicing throughout the 0 The people, enjoying prosperity such as has not been recorded for years t, gave thanks in deed for the manifold blessings that have granted, and there was a grateful outpour of gifts to their less favored brethren that made the day gladsome tc the poor at their door. It was a day of family reunions here, there and everywhere—indeed, the oldtime gather seemed to have been revived as never before—and home was the real centre of attraction, as it should be on such an occasion, thie Indiaced e glorious weather induc many to pass morning and Suny afternoon in outdoo Ry and, as told elsewhere in to-day's “Herald,” was a great gathering of sport lovers on the golf links, the Speedway and the hundreds of o places devoted to o alr recreation. After these leasant outings t Was a return home, the Rents were lit upon the dinner table and toasts drunk to the farewell Christmas Day of the tury—one that saw the whole people ha in spread prosperity throughout our weil favored coun dance on Christmas Eve. The shooting may caus another onthreak of the Clay County feuds. BEPIEY OF AMBASSADOR CAMBON. RETURN OF AMBASSADOR CAMBON. Washington, Dee. 26.—The French Ambassado Se SE PY eX Tew Washington, Dec. 26.—The French Ambassador, M. Camben, -wil return to Washington next Mon day, after an absence of about six months in Eu rope. A letter received from him to-day at the French Embassy said that he would sail on La Gascogne. which is now on the wav over. THE TALK OF THE DAY. A City of Mexico correspondent of “The Boston Herald” says that drunkenness is increasing in Mexico. “Every grccery store nowadays is in complete without its cantina shut off usually by glazed or thin wood partitions, and with a more or less successful imitation of an American bar, for se has our civilization given this doubtful booi to Mexico. Grocery lads, mostly young Spaniards, tend the barz and sell frankly artificial wines and fraudulent brandy and mix the most incredibly bad eocteles. (Do you recognize the familiar cock tall?) With the muitiplication of these cantinas in the American style, often boldly displaying the sigm, ‘Barroom, American drinks,’ has come a scourge of alcoholism in this city such as was never known before. Every day the police pick up the victims of alcoholi¢ excess, half dead and prone in the pub lic ways in the lower quarters of this city, and take them to the police station. ‘Dead from alco holic congestion,’ is one of the most common rec ords in the police stations among the lists of fa talities. The poor and ill fed drink to gain a sensation of transient comfort. They are empty stomached and crave warmth, the false sensation of being fed. Mere lads, sent on err shop boys out collecting bills, go to the barrooms a copita or dram.”

I fairly trembled with joy to think of my enemy's discomfiture. “You will bring the foul crime home to him?” I hissed. “No: we merely deliver it f. o. b.!” sald the de tective, very mysteriously. At this my brain reeled.—{Detroit Journal. The Old Age Pension act, which has just been enacted by New South Wales, provides that every person of good character over the age of sixty five who has continuously resided in the colony for twenty-five vears shall receive a pension of £85 per annum: but if husband and wife be hoth eligible for the pension lst they are to receive only £19 10s each. The pension is to he diminished by £1 for every £1 of income possessed by the pension er. The act will be administered by district boards appointed by the Governor.

i How Soon We Are Forgotten.—“1 see that all the Dreyfus proceedinzs have been dropped.” “Have they? Well, I've said all along that that's just the way every one of those bribed Council men would get off.” —(Cleveland Plain Dealer. The annual day of humiliation and prayer has just been observed in Prussia, according to long established custom, and a great many of the Ber lin newspapers took occasion to print articles upon the recent deterioration in public morality. They asserted that the rapid industrial development of the country and the corresponding improvement in its financial condition had resulted in an alarming growth of social evils and abuses. A Small Matter.—New Man (signal! office)—Indi cations are for fair weather and northerly winds. Which flag shall I put out? Old Man—Oh, any of em. Nobody knows the difference except sallors, and it's too foggy for them to see.—(New-York Weekly. The British Government is about to give a gra tuity of more than a milllon pounds to the soldlers employed in South Africa, but as there are more than two hundred thousand in the field the unit or gift for the simple private is only £5. Lieuten ants are to have six times that, captains twelve times, majors sixteen times, lNHeutenant-colonels thirty-two times, and so on up to generals, who receive £2,000 each.

They sald his heart never would soften At sight of the woes of the poor, Yet he loosens his pursestrings quite often— He has to when putting in more. —(Philadelphia Press, AY: The Aspinwall mansion, in Winthrop Road, Brockline, Mass., which has just been torn down, was crowded with associations of the early days of the century. The house was built in 188 by Dr. William Aspinwall. At that time it commanded an unbroken view of Boston and the Charles River, with all the town for miles around. Dr. Aspinwall had purchased the hill when it comprised forty acres of land, in 1778. He took part in the battle of Lexington and assisted in chasing the British to Charlestown. A portrait of the doctor, taken when he was advanced in life, so resembled that of Washington that, when the house of his son was raided by a pro-slavery mob in this city, this portrait was the only one spared. The Aspinwall mansion, in Winthrop Road, Brockline, Mass., which has just been torn down, was crowded with associations of the early days of the century. The house was built in 1808 by Dr. William Aspinwall. At that time it commanded an unbroken view of Beston and the Charles River, with all the town for miles around. Dr. Aspinwall had purchased the hill when it comprised forty acres of land, in 1778. He took part in the battle of Lexington and assisted in chasing the British to Charlestown. A portrait of the doctor, taken when he was advanced in life, so resembled that of Washington that, when the house of his son was raided by a pro-slavery mob in this city, this portrait was the only one spared. KIPLING LOSES SUIT AGAINST FEVX( JOHN PROCTOR CLARKE TAKES OATH NOTES OF THE STAGE. THE NATION'S MANIFOLD BLESSINGS 1 The New-York Herald. SOCIETY HAPPENINGS H Christmas was a family festival in town, There was nothing of absolute social importance, There was hardly a reaction yesterday in the festive spirit. The opéra, with “La Bohéme,” was 3 gis. traction, as also was the Havemeyer dance, A gloom, however, pervaded society on account of the death of Buchanan Winthrop and other well H T

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were driving early in the afternoon. Reginald derbiit drove in a park cart down the ny a others seen on that thoroughfare -vere Mrs. Here Hann Dalricha. Mrs. Stuyvsant Flak Ma. and Mrs, ornelius Vanderbilt ir. a Orm son and Mrs. Robert and Miss Goelet, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Smith have closed theis country seat in Hempstead and have moved to the house owned by Lady Stafford. in West Six: st. for the winter. Lady Stafford is in Shee where she will remain the spring. The wedding of E. Parmelee Prentice and Miss Alta Rockefeller will take pla-e at the Fifth Ave nue Presbyterian Church on January 17. It will be very small family affair, and there wili be no large reception afterward. The illness of Mrs. Cyrus McCormick's two children, of scarlet fever, t at the country place of the Rockefellers. in the ocantico Hills, will have muca to do with the

ultimate decision on the wedding festivities, which

will not be very elaborate, as both bridegroom Slect and bride-elect dislike any unnecessary pub city. The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Wynkoop and Stuyvesant Fish Morris, jr., ar Calvary Church will be the event of this afternoon. Miss Wynkoop has not selected either bridesmaids or maid of honor. There are a number of invitations to tha church, but the reception will be comparatively

ted, and enly relatives and very “intimata friends will be invited. Among those who entertained specially for Christmas at their country places were Mrs. Alex ander, the daughter of the late Mrs. Edwin Stevaygs, of Castle Point, Hoboken. and Mr and Mrs. Pler pont Morgan, who had a large house party at ighland Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Charles de Kay have sent out in vitations to a number of friends to join with them in a bowl of eggnog on Tuesday evening next, January 1, at No. 413 West Twenty-third-sr. A theatre and supper party will be given op New Year's Eve by Miss Dorothy Edwards, daughter of Mrs. J. Pierrrepont Edwards, of No. 12 Fast Forty-sixth-st. The next evering a dance will be Sven by Mrs. M. Grinnell for Miss Katherine Grin ne Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rhinelander will give a din ner party this evering in honor of Miss Elisa Stro and her flancé. Mr. Kip. Mrs. Francis Me Nei? con will also entertain at dinner. Mrs. William F. Burden will be the guest of honor at the dinner party which Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs will give on Sunday at her home, No. 1} East Fifty-seventh-st. _ Mrs. Oelrichs and Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, jr., returned yesterday from Hempstead, where they spent Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer gave a Christ mas dance last evening at their home. No. I East Sixty-sixth-st., in honor of their young daughter, Miss Adeline Havemsaver., who has not yet made her debut. Mrs. Havemeyer and her daughter re ceived their guests in the handsome drawing room. The hostess was gowned in black satin, “spangled With silver. and Miss Havemeyer wore 4 pretty White frock. There was informal @ancing®id he Picture gallery before supper, which was Served at small tables in the dining room ‘afd ESrridor. About fifty couples danced mn the cotilfon which followed it, and which was led by Harry T. Peters, Mrs. Havemeyer's nephew, who had Miss Adeline Havemeyer for his partner. Favors for one figure were distributed from a (Tristmas tree. For the other figures fans, candies. pipes, canes. orders and silver trinkets were provided. ‘Mrs. William Rhinelander gave a luncheon party yesterday at her home, No. 18 West Fortyeighth St, In honor of the Countess de Laugler-Villars. In the evening Mrs. Ogden Goelet entertained at dinner. Mme. Sembrich will give a tea on Friday at the Hotel Savoy, which will be attended by a number of society people. Among the features of the coming celebration of Lincoln's Birthday, to be held in Carnegie Hall in February, will be the rendering of several zrand choruses by Frank Damrosch and his People's Choral Union of one thousand voices. Among the soloists will be David Mannes, the violinist. The occasion promises to be one of the largest social affairs. The patronesses who will occupy boxes includes Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. Abram S$ Hewitt, Mrs. D. Willis James, Mrs. Seth Low. Mrs J. Plerpont Morgan, Miss Anna RPerew Paulding, Mrs. Henry C. Petter, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, jr. Mrs. Wager Swayne and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. On thé General Committee in charge of this cele bration are Morris K. Jesup, #R. A. McCurdy, W. K. Vanderbilt, Colonel Le Grand B. Cannon, W. F. Havermeyer, General J. Frederick Pierson, F. W. Vanderbilt, Abram 8S. Hewitt and General Henry L. Burnett. There was a very brillant evening at the opera for “La Bohé&me.” All the boxes in the parterre and first tier were occupied, and some of the gowns and jewels were very handsome. Mrs. Astor wore a gown of purple velvet, richly brocaded and trimmed in silver. She had on also many of her famous dlamonds. With her was her daughter, Mrs. Orme Wilson, who was in pink, with a large diamond ornament at the corsage, and on the left a black and gold tulle butterfly. Mrs. William D. Sloane was in white, with a collar and a tiara of diamonds, With her was her daughter, Miss Lila Sloane, who was in rose pink. Mrs. Hammond, her other daughter, also in pink. sat for a while in the back of the hox. Mme. Nordica was one of the observed of observers She was in the Juilliard box with Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman and Miss Louise McAllister. Mme. Nor dica wore sapphire blue velvet, encrusted with gems and heavy with Oriental embroidery. On her head was the famous tiara presented to her some years ago, and she also wore a parure of dia

sande Teer Ce ere gE RR a Te a Kane, sailed with them. They will not return to thig country before next summer. Mr. and Mrs, Sidney Smith have closed thels country seat in Hempstead and have moved to the house owned by La Stafford, in West Sixteenth. st., for the Nady had Stafford is in Ezvpe, where she will remain until the spring. Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes will antem. tain a large party of young people at Shadow Lenox. They will leave town on Friday and will go direct to Lenox b special train. They will remain there until after New Year's. The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Wynkoop and Stuyvesant Fish Morris, jr., ar Calvary Church will be the event of this afternoon. Miss Wynkoop has not selected either bridesmaids or mald of honor. There are a number of invitations to tha church, but the reception will be comparatively limited, and only relatives and very -intimata friends will be invited. Among those who entertained specially for Christmas at their country places were Mrs. Alex ander, the daughter of the late Mrs. Edwin Stevans, of Castie Point, Hoboken. and Mr. and Mrs. Pler t Morgan, who had a large house party at Bighiand Fajis. is Mr. and Mrs. Charles de Kay have sent out ip vitations to a number of friends to join with them in a bowl of eggnog on Tuesday evening next, January 1, at No. 413 West Twenty-third-sr. A theatre and supper party will be given op New Year's Eve by Miss Dorothy Edwards, daughter of Mrs. J. Pierrrepont Edwards, of No. 12 Fast Forty-sixth-st. The next evering a dance will be iven by Mrs. M. Grinnell for Miss Katherine Grin ne Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rhinelander will give a din ner party this evening in honor of Miss Elisa Stro and her flancé. Mr. Kip. Mrs. Francis Me Nei? con will also entertain at dinner. Mrs. William F. Burden will be the guest of honor at the dinner party which Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs will give on Sunday at her home, No. East Fifty-seventh-st. Mrs. Oelrichs and Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, jr., returned yesterday from Hempstead, where they spent Christmas. There was a very brillant evening at the opera for “La Boh&me.” All the boxes in the parterre and first tier were occupied, and some of the gowns and jewels were very handsome. Mrs. Astor wore a gown of purple velvet, richly brocaded and trimmed in silver. She had on also many of her famous diamonds. With her was her daughter, Mrs. Orme Wilson, who was in pink, with a large diamond ornament at the corsage, and on the left a black and gold tulle butterfly. Mrs. William D. Sloane was in white, with a collar and a tiara of diamonds. With her was her daughter, Miss Lila Sloane, who was in rose pink. Mrs. Hammond, her other daughter, also in pink. sat for a while in the back of the hox. Mme. Nordica was one of the observed of observers She was in the Juilliard box with Mrs. Francis Burrall Hoffman and Miss Louise McAllister. Mme. Nor dica wore sapphire blue velvet, encrusted with gems and heavy with Oriental embroidery. On her head was the famous tiara presented to her some years ago, and she also wore a parure of dia monds. Mrs. Hoffman was in black, with some beautiful pearls, and Miss McAllister in white, with a large wreath of white camelias in her dark hair Mrs. Lorillard Spencer was with Mrs. W Storrs Welis. Mrs. Spencer was in rose pink, with pearls and diamonds, and Mrs. Wells was in white. Mrs. Bradish Johnson, who was in black velvet and white satin combined, had with her the Count and Countess Langter Villars. The Countess was in white satin. Mrs. Jules Reynal was in white satin. with a blue pompon. With her was Mrs. Thebaud her daughter, also in white satin. Mrs Edmund L. Baylies was in the Willlam K. Vanderbilt box. with Miss Scott. Mrs. Baylies wore deep red satin and Miss Scott was In blue. Mrs. Willlam Page Thompson was in one of the parterre boxes, black, with a white pompon. Mrs. Joseph Stiek ney had as a guest Mrs. William Jay. Both were In white. Mrs. E. Reeve Merritt was in black. and in had with her Mrs. A black tulle, nnie Ashmore, who was i Others in thé house w Mr, or del Garcia, Mrs, piluyvesant: Fish, a Fresco Taw. pas Mira, M Arrison, Mr. and Mrs. Albert homas "Hite hook Me. aiden, Glee, LT Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phe Stok nd Stokes, Mrs. Henry Cows a Mrs. Herbert sons, Mrs. Frederick Pearson, Mr and Mrs Ca Thille ang nteld. Miss Coudert, Miss Ma hI James A; an Alen and and Elisha Dyer, jr, and Miss Swan. an The engagement has just been announced of Mare shall Clyde, of Philadelphia, and Miss Marjorie Bucklin, stepdaughter of Sartell Prentice and niece of Mroy Jughter of Sartell Prentice The engagement has just been announced of Mar shall Clyde, of Philadelphia, and Miss Marjorie Bucklin, stepdaughter of Sartell Prentice and niece of Mrs, a aan Robinson. DEAN OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE RESIGNS. Lexington, Ky., Dee. 25. —The resignation of Fro fessor D. W. Batson, dean of Kentucky Wesleyan College, at Winchester, was accepted by the Board here to-day. His retirement is due to his opposi tion to the football teams playing on other grid irons. He asked the faculty to expel the mem of the team, They refused, and ne resigned

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PUCCINI'S “LA BOHEME Mr. Grau has promised his patrons an unusually jarge number of novelties this season, in spite of the discouragement which the management of the Metropolitan Opera House has met with since the jest of Wagner's available works was brought forward under the German regime. Mr. Grau's in tentions are laudable, and i* is much to be hoped ttat they will meet with substantial recognition and reward on the part of the public. If they do, no matter whether or not the new works prove to be masterpieces, the fact will bring cheer p nt to the hearts of those us hoping and striving to see opera naturalized in America. When once it has been so naturalized there will be the same varied pleasure for the opera goer that there is now for the lover of orchestral and chamber music, who suffers no dep rivation from the fact that he is living in New York and mot in one of the European capitals. The first of the promised novelties, which was prought forward last night, was new only to the Metropolitan “ist. It was Pussini’s “La Boh2me,” which was first given hers by an itinerant Italian company at Wallack's Theatre, in May, 1898, re by the same organization after it had unéergone one of the changes to which itinerant Italian companies at the Casino in October of the game vear, and finally was Incorporated in the repertory of the Castle Square Opera Company a jittle more than month later. This was its first performance in English, and Mme. Melba, who had gnnounced her determination to add the opera to her repertory, witnessed it from one of the boxes of the American Theatre. There i= no use quarrelling with prima donnas. Jt is =o seldom that they are willing to add to the repertories which they have carried away from the rooms of their teachers that when they do so the condescension ought to be recognized rumbly and with gratitude. Who are we that we should question the use to which one of a hundred millions chooses to put a gift that the remaining pinety-nine million nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred snd ninety-nine must for ever contemplate with admiration, envy and amaze? Te us, surely, nothing can be so becoming a= “modest stillness and humility.” But the age is smpertinent; cavilers will have their fling, and even the humblest of a prima donna's admirers may wish that she might always preserve a har mony between her gifts and our fair desires, and gently fauit her if she preserve it not. “La Boh&me" is foul in subject, and fulminant but futile in its music. Its heroine is a twin sister of the woman of the camellias, whose melodious death puts such a delightfully soothing balm upon our senses that we forget to weep in Verdi's opera. But Mimi is fouler than Camille, alias Vicletta, and Pauccini hes not been able to administer the palliative which lier in Verdi's music. The name of Puccini in con nection with that of Verdi invites a curious com parison. FYive generations of musicians—son, father grandfather, great-grandfather and greatgreat grandfather, an unbroken line reaching back from the beginning of the twentieth century to the second decade of the eighteenth —are counted in the family of Puccini, the first Giacomo of which was born in 1712, the last in 1858. Verdi was the first musician of his tribe so far as the records chow; yet his career covers half of that of the five Puccinis in time and embraces all the phases through which Italian opera hes passed In three-guarters of a century, except the aberration from his own style exemplified by Puccini and his companions of the young “veristic” school. Three generations practically are summed up in Verdi, and in his last work there is more in wention, learning and real fire than in all the works of those who fancy themselves leaders of the rew schoo] which has sprung up within the last decade and half. But these sound like end of the century reflections, which are not essential here. The stage of degradation tc which dramatic music bas been reduced in “La Boh2&me” is that occupied by the art in Massenet's “Nawerryeise.” Sometimes it is for a moment the vehicle ef passionate expres slon, but oftener it is the vehicle of noise and some times pot the vehicle but the sonorous disturbance itself. Apparently it is the wiiling slave of the text, than the text, of the sewing girls in Paris because it tells of the noble sentiments with which one of their kind is inspired when she kills a doting father In order to enter the exalted estate of harlotry. In *“Louise™ the street cries of Paris ars worked into a singing instrumental fabric over, under and between which the stage folk shriek disjointed bits of conversation. The second act of “La Boh&me™ reaches this phase in which music becomes merely decorative. Silly and inconseguential incidents and dialogues de signed to show the devil-may-care life of artistic Bohemia as depicted by Murger in his romance “Ia Vie de Bohéme™ (which had a great vogue among sddlepated persons a few decades ago end the spirit of which decadent writers French have impotently attempted to ape ever since) are daubed over with splotches of instrumental color without reason and without effect, except the creation of a sense of boisterous excitement and confusion. In his proclamation of passion Puc ein! is more successful so soon as he can becoms strenuous; but even here the expression is super ficial and depends upon strident phrases pounded out by hitting each note a blow on the head as it escapes from the mouths of the singers or the ac companying instruments. But the subject has been discussed in these columns with guite enough ful ness heretofore. It is better to dismiss it with a smile than to reflect upon it till vexation sets in. All that could be done to habilitate the opera was done by Mr. Grau and his singers last night. Though Mme. Melba was the direct agency of its introduction into the Metropolitan list, it is not her opera, but Mr. Saléza’s, His impassioned singing, his reckless outpouring of strenuous tone, thrilled Jast night's audience and frequ.utly evoked something like a frenzy of enthusiasm. If the opera secures a vogue fit will be his achieve ment more than that of his companion, though Mme. Melba did some neat character act ing end delightful singing in the first act. In the second her interest was never aroused, and there were only her beautiful voice and placid style to admire in the scene which in the companion drama Verdi's genius transformed into an apotheo sis of vice and phthisis. Messieurs Campanari, Gilibert and Journet romped through the comedy scenes with evident gusto, and sang with an en ergy worthy of a much better cause. Miss Occhi olini, enlisted from outside the ranks of the com pany to replace Miss Fritzi Scheff, was just good enough to serve her not very serious purpose. Al together the performance was exceedingly spirited and the stage furnishings and management ade Its tendency has been carried one etep further in adored the stage folk shriek disjecinted bits of conversation. The second act of “La Boh&me™ reaches this phase in which music becomes merely decorative. Silly and inconseguential incidents and dialogues de signed to show the devil-may-care life of artistic Bohemia as depicted by Murger in his romance “Ia Vie de Bohéme™ (which had a great vogue among sddlepated persons a few decades ago end the spirit of which decadent writers French have impotently attempted to ape ever since) are daubed over with splotches of instrumental color without reason and without effect, except the creation of a sense of boisterous excitement and confusion. In his proclamation of passion Puc ein! is more successful so soon as he can becoms strenuous; but even here the expression is super ficial] and depends upon strident phrases pounded out by hitting each note a blow on the head as it escapes from the mouths of the singers or the ac companying instruments. But the subject has been discussed in these columns with guite enough ful ness heretofore. It is better to dismiss it with a smile than to reflect upon it till vexation sets in. All that could be done to habilitate the opera was done by Mr. Grau and his singers last night. Though Mme. Melba was the direct agency of its introduction into the Metropolitan list, it is not her opera, but Mr. Saléza’s, His impassioned singing, his reckless outpouring of strenuous tone, thrilled Jast night's audience and frequoutly evoked something like a frenzy of enthusiasm. If the opera secures a vogue fit will be his achieve ment more than that of his companion, though Mme. Melba did some neat character act ing end delightful singing in the first act. In the second her interest was never aroused, and there were only her beautiful voice and placid style to admire in the scene which in the companion drama Verdi's genius transformed into an apotheo sis of vice and phthisis. Messieurs Campanari, Gilibert and Journet romped through the comedy scenes with evident gusto, and sang with an en ergy worthy of a much better cause. Miss Occhi olini, enlisted from outside the ranks of the com pany to replace Miss Fritzi Scheff, was just good enough to serve her not very serious purpose. Al together the performance was exceedingly spirited and the stage furnishings and management ade quate.

THE ORATORIO SOCIETY. Christmas week, with all its other functions and fccompaniments, would still be strange and unfa miliar of aspect to many New-Yorkers without the regular production of “The Messiah” by the Oratorio Society. But the society is at its post of duty this year, as usual, and yesterday began the performance of its agreeable labor of love with public reheersal at Carnegie Hall under the lead ership of Frank Damrosch. Like that of the Phil. harmonic Society, the Oratorio Soclety’s public re hearsal is virtually an afternoon concert, but the latter organization iabors under the handicap that many of the male singers are prevented by busi ness from attending afternoon performances. So vesterday there was a lack of balance in the choir which will be overcome at to-night's concert. An audience that filled the auditorium to overflowing listened with interest and reverence to Handel's familiar strains. To this sudience it is unnecessary to speak of the music or its presentation. Both the ecore and the scclety’s interpretation are to it as household words. Of the solo ports it need only be said thet they were in the competent hands of Mme. Lillian Blauvelt, Mrs. Morris Black, H. Evan Willams and David Bispham. The so-isty’s third concert will be given on Thursday evening, April 4 when Dvorak’s Requiem Mass will be sung. ¥RE 1. X. Pp. STOKES IN A CITY OFFICE APPOINTED TO BE SCHOOL INSPECTOR OF THE TWELFTH DISTRICT. Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes, of No. 118 East Twenty Second-st., was yesterday appointed school in Lsector for the Twelfth District by Mavor Van Wyek. Mrs. Biokes last night declined to discuss her wppointment. She is a daughter-in-law of Anson Phelps Stokes. Before her marriage she was ize Edith Minturn. TO BE SCHOOL INSPECTOR OF TH TWELFTH DISTRICT. MUSIC.

CASBTELLAXNE SUIT PUT OFF AGAIN.

DECISION IN SUIT OF DEALER WERTHEIM ER POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY 9. Paris, Dec. 26.—Before the First Civili Trib unal of the Seine to-day Maitre Bonnat resumed his speech, begun on December 20, when the case was adjourned for a week, in behalf of the Count and Countess de Castellane in the sult of Charles Wertheimer, a London briec-A-brac dealer, to recover payment for art objects sold to the defendants, the transaction, taken as a test case, involving the sum of 12,946 francs. In elaborate arguments counsel set forth the counterclaim of the Castellanes, who demand a reduction of the debt, provisionally estimated to be at least 2.000,000 francs, and the restitu tion of objects taken in exchange by Wertheim er, under the penalty of 1,000 francs for each day's delay in the restitution from the day of judgment, finally claiming damages to the amount of 300,000 francs. Counsel suggested that experts be appointed to appraise the ar ticles involved, and suggested that these ex perts be chosen from an ordinary list or from among the presidents of the Exposition juries. He explained that George J. Gould, of New York, in aiding the Castellanes in this suit, de sired to accomplish a duty which the Court “had previously confided to him, while the Cas tellanes, after throwing off Wertheimer's yoke, brought the case into court because they thought the publicity of the hearing was better than the mystery of suspicious pacts and equiv ocal arrangements. In so doing, counsel as serted, they did an act of dignity and courage. Maitre Foucauld, counsel for Wertheimer, ~e plied, saying that the authenticity of only five articles, of the value of 50G,000 francs, could be possibly questioned, and while Wertheimer affirmed their genuineness he would consent to another expert examination, on the understan:i ing that if the articles were declared spurious the 500,000 francs was to be struck out of his bill; but if they were declared genuine the Cas tellanes were to pay the full price, no revalu ation being admitted. Wertheimer, counsel added, opposed the restitution of the art works which the Count de Castellane gave him in pledge for payment of the total of the bill on the eve of his departure for America. Maitre Bonnat aga!n spoke, affirming that the Castellanes only secured delays in payment and the withdrawal of Wertheimer's suit by fresh purchases of articles for 250,000 francs which were barely worth 15,000 francs. This, counsel claimed, was selling delays at usurious rates. The Castellanes, counsel continued, demanded an expert valuation of all the purchases, and not of a few objects. The case was adjourned until January 9, when judgment will be delivered. DECISION IN SUIT OF DEALER WERTHEIM ER POSTPONED UNTIL JANUARY 9. EXPLOSION OF SOLUTION SHE WAS PRE PARING FOR BICK CAT IGNITED HER CLOTHING. May E. Butherland, twenty-five years old, who, with her sister Sarah, was employed as a sales woman by Miss Emma Brown, the proprietor of a fancy goods store at No. 377 Broadway, Brooklyn, was fatally burned last night. She went to the rear of the store to prepare a sulphur solution for a sick cat. Miss Brown was in the store waiting on customers. Her sister Sarah was in the cellar. Suddenly there was an explosion. Customers ran from the store. Miss Brown ran back to the kitchen and Sarah came upstairs. They found May Sutherland writhing in agony on the kitchen floor. her clothing aflame. They tried to smother the fire with blankets, but were unsuccessful. Miss Sutherland died before a physician could arrive. The girls lived at Red Bank, N. J. Helen Win rich, who vay Bb Sanna over the store, in her efforts to the flames had her hands badly burned. ECONOMIC AND HISTORICAL CONVENTIONS TWO ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET TO-DAY IN DE TROIT—SEPARATE AND JOINT SESSIONS. TWO ORGANIZATIONS TO MEET TO-DAY IN DE TROIT-SEPARATE AND JOINT EBESSIONS. Detroit, Dec. 28.—Prominent historians, educators and political economists from all parts of the country are gathered in Detroit to-night to attend the annual conventions of the American Economic Association and the American Historical Associa tion, which will open to-morrow. After separate sessions to-morrow morning and afternoon, the two societies will meet In joint session to-morrow evening in the First Methodist Church. Friday morning the associations will go to Ann Arbor, where joint sessions will be held in the morning and afternoon, returning to Detroit in the evening, when an entertainment will be given the visitors at the Detroit Club. About twenty-five members of each society are in the city to-night, and it is believed that by noon to-morrow the number will be swelled to two hundred and twenty-five. President Eggleston of the Historical Association, who was taken ill suddenly last week, will be unable to preside over the meet ings, and ex-President Rhodes will reside in his stead. Papers on historical, economic and educa tional topics and their discussion will occupy the delegates at all of their sessions, both joint and RBETIRTATAS RESULT OF EXPERIMENTS BY PHYSIOLOGISTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Chicago, Dec. 26.— “The Record” says that experi ments on turtles have convinced Dr. Jacques Loeb and Professor D. J. Lingle, physiologists of the University of Chicago, that common salt in the blood makes the heart beat. What is more. they assert that not only does salt keep the heart in ac tion, but that it possibly may cause the heart to beat again after it has once stopped. For several months Dr. Loeb and Professor Lingle have conducted a series of scientific tests to prove their theory, and have made public the results they obtained. In the experimental work, instead of taking the heart as a whole a small strip from one of the ventricles was used. The blood was re moved and the piece of flesh suspended in different solutions. In this way their conclusions were educed. Suspended in a solution of sodium chloride the strip of turtle's heart began a series of beats. Separated from all nerve connections the lifeless strip of heart muscle responded perfectly to the presence of the salty solution. For weeks the experimenters worked to ascertain what properties salt contained to cause this rhythmic ting of the heart that were not pos sessed by calcium or potassium, the salts of which enter the composition of the blood. In making the investigations they discovered that a pure sodium chloride solution was destructive of heart tissues, and that by mixing calclum and potassium solu tions with the sodium solutions the poisonous destructive effects of the sodium chloride were Mrsrarmrnmae The funeral of William F. Sage, playwright and dramatic critic, tock place at 1 p. m. yesterday at the house, No. 231 East One-hundred-and-tenth-st. The services were conducted by the Rev. William K. McGown, of Grace Episcopal Church, One hundred-and-sixteenth-st., near Third-ave. About sixteen persons were present in addition to sixteen members of Pinta Lodge, K. of P., No. 331. The body was taken to Fresh Pond, Long Island, for orema tion The body of Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson arrived here yesterday on the steamship Aller. The funeral is to take place at the home, No. 210 West One hundredth-st., to-day. The body is to be cremated at Fresh Pond Dr. Oren George Hunt, a well known homeeo thic physician of this city, died at his home, No. 134 East Nineteenth-st., on Christmas Eve, from hemorrhage of the stemach, after an illness of less than twenty-four hours. Dr. Hunt was horn at Portage, N. Y., on December 21, 1858 and raught school for several years in order to earn the sum necessary to carry him through the New-York Homeecepathic College, which he entered in i853. On his graduation, three years later, h- was ap pointed a physician and surgeon in 1he 41S usary connected with the college, and in 188s VAS NIASE A member of the Executive Committee, ievoted to the practice of his profession, in which gave especial attention to the heart and lungs. his sud den death is believed to have heen due to over work. Charitable and kindly of nature. he de

voted much time to gratuitous professional werk among the poor. Dr. Hunt was unmarried. WOMAN FA TALLY BURNED. SALT MAKES THE HEART BEAT. FUOANERAL OF WILLIAM FF. KSAGE. MRS RICHARDSON'S BODY ARRIVES. DR OREN GEORGE HINT DEAD NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. a 3 3 ~N CTT, SER “Nid Nv MAY SAA =3 COULD NOT STAND THE EXPANSION. CLEVELAND DID NOT VOTE FOR M'KINLEY. TEXT OF HES LETTER TO “THE ATLANTA JOURNAL." TEXT OF HES LETTER TO “THE ATLANTA JOURNAL." Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 26 (Special).—The following is the text of Grover Cleveland's letter denying that he voted for President McKinley: Princeton, December 24, 1900. To Editor of Atlanta Journal. Dear Sir: I do not like to be called upon to deny or notice anything “The Constitution” may charge against me, but since you seem to be disturbed by its statement that I voted for McKinley, I am willing to say absolutely and without reservation that it is not true. I will be drawn into no further discussion on account of “The Constitution,” nor into any further denials of its untruths. Yours truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. The letter was called out by criticism printed in “The Constitution.” Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 26 (Special).—The following is the text of Grover Cleveland's letter denying that he voted for President McKinley: SENATOR ELSBERG ON PARTY MEASURES DRAWS A DISTINCTION BETWEEN POLITICAL AND NON-POLITICAL BILLS. DRAWS A Senator Nathaniel A. Elsberg spoke to the mem bers of the Central Republican Club of the XXXIst Assembly District last night, in the rooms of ths club, at No. 191 West Onehundredandtwenty seventh-st., on ‘The Work of the Legislature and Experiences of Legislative Life.” Mr. Elsberg said that the Legislature represented the average sense, the average virtue and the average intelligence of the community. Mr. Elsberg objected to calling members of leg islatures ‘slavish dummies” because they occa sionally voted in favor of party measures for party's sake. He said that it was not asking too much to demand that a man sustain and advocate the intelligent opinion of the majority of his party, if that opinion was arrived at in a caucus and was to be upheld as a matter of party expediency. To make his point clearer, Mr. Elsberg drew a dis tinction between political and non-political bills. Po litical bills never involve fundamental subjects. They are not bills on which a legislator votes by rule of conscience; but, on the other hand, they are merely bills in which votes are controlled by the question of what had already been called ‘‘party ency.”’ Speaking of the State constabulary, Mr. Elsberg said: The police power of the State ought to bé exer cised by the State. The State did originally exer cise this power, although it surrendered the peace preserving element to localities. It is well, however, to remember the service of that element. ROYAL COMPANY FOR THE YACHT RACES EMPEROR WILLIAM AND THE PRINCE OF WALES MAY COME OVER TO SEE THEM. MAY COME OVER TO SEE THEM. London, Dec. 27.—The New-York Yacht Club, says “The Daily Express,” “will invite Emperor William and the Prince of Wales to witness the Cup races, and President McKinley will also send notes expressing the pleasure their visits would give.” Sir Thomas Lipton, who has been interviewed on the subject for “The Daily Express,” said he thought it within the range of possibility that the Prince of Wales would accept such an in wvitation LORD WILLIAM BERESFORD WORSE. London, Dec. 27.—It is announced that Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford, who has been suffering from peritonitis, but whose con dition on Christmas Day was somewhat im proved, has had a rather serious relapse. FIVE YEARS FOR ALLEGED SWINDLER. Paris, Dec. 26.—The Appeal Court has confirmed the sentence of five years’ imprisonment imposed on an ingenious swindler named Goffray, who posed in clerical circles here in April last as the “Cardinal Bishop of Washington,” soliciting funds to convert the young Indians of New-Mexico. Sev eral times Goffray succeeded in celebrating mass, and once was nearly arrested on the point of cele brating mass at Strasburg, Finally he appeared at Montellmar, in the Department of Drome, where he lectured to the Trappist monks on his terrible adventures in the Rocky Mountains, where, he sald, he was scalped by the Indians, to whom he was preaching the Gospel. The fraud was discov ered by Goffray alleging that the Indians of the Rocky Mountains were Esquimaus. NEW PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA Sierra Leone, West Coast of Africa, Dec. 26.— The President of Liberia, W. D. Coleman, resigned December 11, owing to the disapproval of the Legislature of his interior policy. G. W. Gibson, the Secretary of State, was electzd President by the legislature. COMMERCIAL TEACHERS IN CONVENTION. Ra VAR A AWS A aA Ad A ABN TE et i Re sali Lah RAL Ao Abe 2 Detroit, Dec. 26.—The fifth annual convention of the National Commercial Teachers’ Federation be gan to-night in the Hotel Cadillac with a formal welcome to the city by Mayor Maybury, and will continue until Satyrday. The Federation is com posed of the following associations: The National Business Teachers’ Association, the National Pen manship Teachers’ Association, the National Short nand Teachers’ Association and the Private Com mercial ‘Schools Managers’ Association. 38 HIN 0 ily i Og! F010 SE TL sb OO RE DT ETE IEE METEOR MEE gt After IL. L. Williams, of Rochester, N. Y., had re sponded to Mayor Maybury's welcome on behalf of the one hundred and wenty-fnive teachers present, W. C, Stevenson, of Port Deposit, Md., president of the Federatior read his annual address, which wns entitled “A Review and Pre-Review of Com mercial Education.” He sketched the progress of commerciul education from 1 inception to the present day, and made a plea for a more practical curriculum in the common schools. Beginning to morrow, the different assoclations comprising the Federation will hold separate meetings in the morn ings, spending the afternoons in jeint federation meetings. COULD NOT STAND THE EXPANSION. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. “PEACE AND GOODWILL." To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I wish to express my hearty appreciation of the editorial in yesterday's paper entitled “Peace and Goodwill.”” It struck a responsive chord and did me good. I hope it may be the means of acing good to many, J. Elizabeth, N. J.. Dec. 26, 130. SR A “CAPRICES OF LOCAL TRAVEL.” To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Your comments on the propensity of pas sengers in general, and of women in particular, to remain standing near the rear doors of trolley cars when there are no vacant seats, are well taken. Men are not wholly free from the propensity, but women are by far the worst offenders. This is partly due to a certain native inability to under stand why they should “move up front” and partly to a dread of trying to advance when the car is making its spasmodic starts and halts. Many women cannot readily reach the straps, and, failing those, they are quite without means of retaining their balance, save by bracing their feet well apart, which most of them seem incapable of doing. Trol ley cars should be provided with some sort of fixed braces or supporters more readily: “within reach than the ordinary straps. I understand that experiments are being made in this direction. It occurs to me that straps or other flexible at tachments might be stretched, say, from the strap rail overhead to the window ledges. These might serve in a way for seat divisions,: and would be within easy®reach of anybody tall enough to go about alone, while they would hardly interfere at all with people passing or standing in the aisle. New-York, Dec. 25, 1900. cee HUN, 1 AN ENGLISH ADMIRER OF THE TRIBUNE Sta, AN ENGLISH ADMIRER OF THE TRIBUNE. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I fear I am guilty of taking a liberty, but as an Englishman who is spending his second winter in the United States I cannot refrain from asking leave to express the pleasure I obtain from a dally reading of The Tribune. It is not merely that your editorials are, as a rule, not unfavorable to England, although that in itself is naturally agreeable to one of her sons, especially during the last year, when misapprehension as to the real grounds of her quarrel in South Africa is so widely spread elsewhere. But the qualities that stamp all your leaders—kindly allow me to say it—seem to me to be a singular moderation, insight and judgment; and those qualities are sufficiently rare in the journalism of any country to stamp your paper with distinction. The closing sentence of the leader headed “Go ing Back to Quebec,” in to-day’s issue, gives pe culiar gratification to an Englishman, for it ap pears to be an exact statement of the truth of the matter as to the French Canadians and Great Britain. If a guest of your wonderful city may be al lowed to speak further, he would add that your treatment of questions which are purely American strikes him as being equally remarkable for Its sane and judicial character. CHARLES DOWDESWELL. New-York, Dec. 24, 1900. ROCKEFELLER GRANDCHILDREN BETTER. At the country home of John D. Rockefeller, near Tarrytown, last evening the report was given out that the two children of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Me Cormack, who are suffering with scarlet fever, are steadily improving. The children were taken ill on Saturday, and are under the care of Dr. Coutant, of Tarrytown, and Dr. Hoyt, of this city. The house is quarantined. E. Parmelee Prentiss and Miss Alta Rockefeller are at the homestead. ROCKEFELLER GRANDCHILDREN BETTER. THE WEATHER REPORT. YESTERDAY'S RECORD AND TO-DAY'S FORECAST. Washington, Dec. 26.—During the past twenty-four hours there has been snow in the Upper Ohio Valley, from the Lake region eastward, and in Eastern Montana; elsewhere east of the Rocky Mountains the weather has been fair. Temperatures are 8 to 20 degrees lower in the Middle Atlantic States and New-England and the ex trems Northwest, and they. have risen about an equal amount from the Upper Mississippi Valley southwestward. There has been rain over the northern plateau and North ern Pacific Coast region, while over the middle and southern districts, west of the Rocky Mountains, falr ~reather has continued, with somewhat lower tempera ture. There will be rain Thursday in the southern por tion of the West Gulf States, snow flurries in the Mich {gan peninsula and along the eastern lower lakes, snow in Wyoming and rain or snow Thursday or Friday in Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle; with these exceptions generally fair weather is indicated for Thursday and Fri day. It will be colder Thursday In the Middle Hope, the Mississippt Valley and Minnesota, and colder Friday in the Southwest, the Western and Middle Gulf States and the Upper Mississippi and Lower Ohlo valleys. On the New-England and Middle Atlantic Coast the winds will be fresh weet to northwest. On the South Atlantic Coast they will be variable. FORECAST FOR TO-DAY AND FRIDAY. PFPORKCUCASYT PUR 1U-VAal AND FPRIVAL. For District of Columbia, New-England, Eastern New York, New-Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary land and Virginia—Falr Thursday and Friday; fresh west to northwest winds. For Western New-York—Fair Thursday, except snow flurries near the lakes. Friday fair; fresh westerly winds, For Western Pennsylvania—Fair Thursday and Friday; winds mostly fresh westerly. TRIRUNFE LOCAL OHSERVATIONS, meee HOURS: Moming. Night. nen. ‘23450678910 121234567 881011 CI EL Len og} 30.5 J IRELUEL IL GL ERT TE TT TE TT HET TR CITRATE TT TP ETE FET PvE TL EE EE) RUA UEL SOTO SHIUTVSD FUEL POET DUTT STS VOO CORD TROD OTL UUet CORE D000 000 00 LORLELL Chg i in this diagram the continuous white line shows th changes in pressure as indicated by. The Tribune's self recording barometer. The dotted line shows the tempera ture as recorded at Perry's Pharmacy. Eu HEI 0h 0 ODL DO) FELD 0 DRL 190 tO OMB 3 5 32 Mp a er pt 20.3 Tribune Office, ec. 27, 1 a. m.—The weather ‘esterday wag fair and cold. The temperature ranged between 32 and 38 degrees, the average (353%) being H'% lower than that of Tuesday and 12% higher than that of the cor responding date of last year. e weather to-day will be fair, THE PASSING THRONG. “We had a moral coward in our cavalry company all through 1884,” said Colonel George W. Dunn, chairman of the Republican State THE CONTRA- Committee, at the Fifth Avenue BAND MULE Hotel one night this week, “and AND THE he couldn't be made to fight. He CCWARD. couldn't help it. In all other re spects Matt—call him Matt—was a very handy man t¢ have around. One day early in 1864 our regiment captured a big mule from the “Rebs,” and as none of the senior officers seemed to want him he was passed along to me. ‘He'll be handy to carry your camp equipments,’ sald my colonel, when he turned him over to me. He was a big str~ag fellow, and he did come in mighty handy, just as the colonel said. The boys in my company soon acquired the habit of hooking all their pots and pans to this big mule, and on the march he looked almost as big as a small load of hay. Knowing it was of no use to try to get any fight out of Matt, I said to him: ‘Matt, you'll have to look out for this mule and all the truck hitched fast to him, and if you lose him I'l put you out on the firing line where you'll get plugged full of minies.” The mule was slow by nature, and after he became a camp drudge he became lazier still. Matt used to swear and sweat to Keep the beast going, but he always kept near him. One day in '64 we were out on *he Weldon Rallroad jogging along toward a patch of woods. Suddenly a brigade of ‘Johnnies’ swung right out of those woods and opened on us. The air was full of bul lets in ten seconds. I rode around trying to keep the boys in line, and was approaching a clump of brush which fringed a newly ploughed fleld when I heard some one sobbing, spluttering, swearing and hitting something all at once. It was Matt, crawling along on his hands and knees on the side of the camp mule furthest from the eneny. The tears were streaming down his face, and he was hitting at the mule wherever he could see an open ing between the pots and pans. ‘I know—wh—what —you want—you-you b-b-big long eared son—son of a gun,’ sobbed Matt, ‘vou wanter git me shot, dod blast you,—an’'—an’' that's why don't move faster.” The sight tickled me so I almost fell off my horse,” concluded Colonel Dunn, joining in the hearty laughter of the Amen Corner. HH LAL ria bp! ne tH bet (001 YA vATYY Wi A fr 1s le ursday, 2m. o'clock p. m. trair from New-York City. STARLING—Suddenly, of heart disease, In Greenville, Miss.. on December 10, 1900, Major Willlam Starling. TEBO—On Christmas Day, William M. Tebo, aged sev “I often find myself woadering what became of a boy who at the age of about fourteen left Auburn, the citv of his birth,” said Con CONGRESS- gressman Payne, chairman of the MAN PAYNE'S House Ways and Means Commit STORY. tee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Monday night. ‘“He was a bright, manly fellow, but he never had heard his father's history till a day or two before he left the city. His father and his uncle, while young men living in a small farming village. murdered a pedler for his money. The father of the lad of whom I speak was the weaker and younger of the brothers, and was dragged into assisting in the crime by his older brother. The younger brother served a long term in Auburn prison, and when released secured a position as superintendent from a labor contractor in the prison shop. He married a nice woman in Auburn, and the boy of whom I speak was one of the children. This lad engaged In a fight with a schoolmate one dav and whipped his antagonist. The beaten boy, bruised and bleeding, as he started for home, said bitterly: ‘No wonder you whipped me —your father's a murderer.” ‘You lie!" shouted the victorious boy, but there was something in the glances of two other playmates that caused him misgivings. Hurrying home he told his mother what had happened, and then, for the first time, he knew the unwelcome truth about his father, who had died only a year or two before. The little fel low was simply overwhelmed. At supper he took his mother aside and said: ‘You and sister can do as you like, but I won't live here another week, and I won't go back to school!" That same night they all decided to go to the Far West. Only ths nearest relatives of the mother ever knew what be came of them. I often wonder what became of that boy. I was District Attorney of Cayuga County at about that time and knew him well. He was a brave little fellow.” HORSE IN WATER DRINKS WHISKEY. NEARLY THREE QUARTS GIVEN TO AN ANIMAL WHEN IT IS BEING RESCUED. NEARLY THREE QUARTS GIVEN TO AN ANIMAL WHEN IT IS BEING RESCUED. A horse of the Street Cleaning Department fell into the North River from the Forty-seventh-st. dump soon after 5 p. m. yesterday and remained in the water four hours. In that time nearly three quarts of whiskey was given to the animal. The horse, attached to a garbage cart, was driven on the dump. The driver was turning the cart when the horse stepped over the edge of the dump and fell. The weight of the cart held the animal sus pengded until the harness was cut. The horse then dropped fifteen feet into a garbage barge. Ropes were procured and efforts were made to hoist the horse to the dump. But the ropes parted and the horse fell into the water and floated under the pier. Several men jumped into a rowboat and got the animal to the Forty-eighth-st. pier. Here it stuck in the mud and had to be towed back to the Forty-seventh-st. plier. It was kept afloat until the arrival of a portable derrick from the de partment stable in East Seventeenth-st. When the derrick had been made ready for hoisting the horse two of the bellybands broke. At the third attempt the animal was lifted out of the water. WEDDINGS. Clyde, N. Y., Dec. 26.——At the home of Judge Charles T. Saxton, of the State Board of Claims, this evening, Miss Ida Louise Saxton was married to Professor Arthur Henry Wilcox, of Rochester. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Alexan der Bramley, of -New-Hartford, before one hundred invited guests. Arthur Saxton, of Albany, was the best man, and Miss Helen Saxton the bridesmaid. The bridegroom is principal of the Rochester High School. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox went West on their wedding trip. Their future home will be Rochester. Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 26 (Special).—A fash ionable church wedding took place at the Taber nacle last evening when John Dilger, assistant superintendent of the Erie, with headquarters at Jersey City, was married to Miss Viola Couse. The ceremony was perfermed by the Rev. A. W. Hayes, Gilbert E. Nichols, of Port Jervis, being best man. The church was elaborately deco rated and crowded with ests, the wedding being a fashionable event of the season. Mr. and Mrs. Dilger are enjoying a trip to Niagara Falls and Washington BEATS ONE SQUAW AND SCALPS ANOTHER Chamberlain, S. D., Dec. 26.—News has reached this city from Brule Indian Agency, that Hand some Elk, the most dangerous redskin of the Northwest, beat his squaw in a brutal manner with a neck yoke. It is thought the squaw will die. Elk then seized another Indian woman, Bear Bird's daughter, and scalped her. Then arming himself with his rifle and other firearms, he went into the hills a short distance from his home, and left word that friend or foe must not approach him. Burnett's Vanilla Burnett's Vanilla re. Don't let your grocer work off can: axeeihatitey Pa Toantat mem IRaaetteo TENS" is pure. Don't let your grocer won ui a off a Shea and dan gerous substitute. Insist on having Burnett's BAIRD—DATESMAN—On Wednesday, December 26, 1900, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. JI. Elliot Wright, D. D., Grace Good, da ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Datesman, of Lock Haven, Penn., and Ad dison W. Baird, of New-York City, BISSELL—THOMAS—At Stamford, Conn., December 28, 1800, by the Rev, Charles Morris Addison, Blessie Mary Thomas to Victor Manuel Bissell. BISSELL—THOMAS—At Stamford, Conn., December 28, 1800, by the Rev, Charles Morris Addison, Blessie Mary Thomas to Victor Manuel Bissell. Notices of marriages and deaths must be in dorsed with full name and address. Bennet, Elizabeth W. Bleakley, Rosalie A. Coe, Martha D. Ferris, Isaac W, Howard, Pamela A. Jansen, Margaret H. Moore, Willlam H. O'Neill James B. DIED. Ryerson, George M. Starling, William. Tebo, Willlam M. Walker, Amelia E. White, Joseph T. Williams, mas B. Winthrop, Buchanan. BENNET—At Greenwich, Conn., December 286 1800, Elizabeth Weaver Bennet. Funeral from her late residence at noon Friday De cember 28. Carriages will meet train leaving Grand Central Station at 11:02. Interment private. BLEAKLEY—Rosalle A. Bleakley, wifow of William Bleakley, we a Poo ate) Verplancks, N. Y., on December 26, Xo, aga 88 years. Setvices at ar December 20, at 1 o'clock Train aver Grand Ceatral Station, 10:30 o'clock a. m. Carriages in waiting at Peekskill. COE—At the home of her son-in-law, J. R. Weeks, South Orange, N. J., Martha Della Coe, widow of Albert B. Funeral services at the residence of her sister-in-law, Miss C, M. Coe, No. 620 High-st., Newark, N. J, on Thursday, December 27, at 2 p. m. Har. FERRIS—On Christmas ight, at Mount Vermon, N. Y., Isaac Ward Ferris, M. son of the late Chancellor Ferris, in the 61st year of his ge. Services at his late residence, 0. 160 South $th-ave., Mount Vermon, N. Y., on Friday, December 28, at p. mW. Harlem train leaves New-York at 11:35 a. m. Interment at Kensieo, 30.0 Gi 1] ni HOWARD—At rest, Christmas Day, Pamela Atkins, widow of Samuel Emerson Howard, at her late resi dence, No. 182 Auitht, Brooklyn. Services at the Ch of the Holy Trinity, Montague and Clinton sts., Brooklyn, Thursday, December 27, at 11 a. m. Kindly omit flowers. Boston and Portland papers please copy. JANSEN—On Tuesday! 25th December, at the residence of Mrs. Martin R. Roome, Pompton Plaias, N. J., Mar garet H. Jansen, widow of the late Thomas H. Jansen, in the TSth year of her age Funeral at Pempton Plains o on Friday, the 28th inst., at 2 o'clock p. Mm. Carriages will be in on arrival of train leaving fopt of Wem Soa at 11:85 a. m. and Chambers-st. at CORN us AN Greenwood Lake Division, Erie R. R., MARRIED. ave., Flatbush, Broeklyn, N. on enty-two years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the from Place and Wi December 27. at o'clock; thence to the church of Holy Cross, East Broadway. near Rogers-ave., where a solemn requiem will be offered for his rest. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery. Montreal, Rome, Utica and Oswego papers please copy. WALKER. —On Wednesday, Decemuer 28, 1900, at No. 954 East 138th-st., Amelia Eveline Walker, in the 46th year of her age. Notice of funeral hereafter. WHITE—Of pneumonia, at his residence, No. 121 Madi son-ave., on Wednesday, December 28, Joseph Theodore White, in the eighty-ninth vear of his age. Funeral! services will be held ar Danbury, Conn. on Friday, December 28, at 1:30 p. m. Train leaves Grand Central Station at 9 a. m. WILLIAMS —At his residence, No. 41 West seventh-st.. 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THE DOWNFALL OF SPAIN Th AN EXPERT REVIEW OF THE NAVAL WAR OF 1898. hg 2 DowRPALL OF Xi ig Shalory or he Spa -Ameri ar. With Thoetrations, Maps and Battle Plans. $vo. mn wwii E80 Roston and Battle Xvi, 450, Boston: iatue, DIU PP. The American and Spanish navies in the spring of 1898 were, on paper, about equal strength. The actual strength of the former however, «greater, and that of the far less, than the apparent strength. In brief statement of fact we have the key the secret and the sum of the Spanish American war at sea The luminous and au thoritative pages of the work before us, delib erately and judiciously prepared by one of the foremost naval experts of the world, do little more than to enlarge upon that statement in all its varied phases of cause and effect. Mr. Wilson begins his volume with a detalled consiGeration of the tragic prelude to the war in Havana Harbor Every pertinent fact and every serious suggestion concerning the de struction of the Maine is discussed by him ex haustively. He is not altogether satisfied with this Government's conduct of the inquest, and he does not think the evidence adduced eatirely convincing. In that we suppose many in this country will agree with him The faci is that fn every such catastrophe there are things which never can be found out. It was simply impossible to get direct proof of the cause of the disaster, beyond, at any rate, that which was offered. Circumstantial evidence had to be accepted as a basis, though not the sole basis, of judgment. And on such grounds, with all his caution and reserve, Mr. Wilson declares that the evidence “does seem to have estab jished the probability that the Maine was de stroved by a mine.” We are not aware that most American judgments have been more posi tive than that. Certainly no American could repudiate more strenuously than Mr. Wilson does the libellous charge that Zross negligence and lack of discipline prevailed upon the Maine, and none could wish to pay a higher tribute than he does to the order, loyalty and chivalry of both officers and men upon that ship and throughout the Navy. This is the first sounding of that keynote of contrast between the oppos ing navies which, as we have said, is character istic of the book. It was felt in the United States as well as in Europe that the loss of the Maine left our Navy perilously weak: no stronger than, if as strong as, that of Spain; and it was on that account that the Oregon was ordered to make her long and dangerous voyage to reinforce our Atlantic fleet. On paper the United States had only forty-three ships, while Spain had fifty-six; and while we had the greater number of battleships, Spain had the greater number of armed and armored cruisers. When, however, it came to actual mobilization of the fleets a far different showing was made. The United States’'s ap parent strength of forty-three fell to thirty seven, while Spain's fell from fifty-six to twenty-seven. In the former case the loss was scarcely 14 per cent; in the latter nearly 52 per cent. Still more impressive was the showing in respect to the real fighting ships—battieships and armored cruisers. Of these the United States had an apparent strength of seven and an actual stpength of seven, while Spain's ap parent strength of eight was reduced to an actual strength of four, a loss of 50 per cent. The same rule held good throughout all details of manning, equipment and discipline. Spain had twenty-two admirals to our eighteen, and sixty-one captains to our forty-five. Yet she ren sadly short of mien in trying to equip Ad mira] Camara’s squadren;’ while in our Navy the actual effective strength of the personnel was found to be somewhat above the nominal strength. We had, -mereover, the inestimable advantage, unknown to Spain, of being able to draw to a practically unlimited extent upon a Nation of expert engineers and skilled me chanics for whatever increase of naval force was needed. Our ordnance was in perfect trim, while Spain's, as appeared at Santiago, was out of order. We had plenty of ammunition, while Spain's supply was scarty. Our men had been constantly drilled in target practice, a thing al most unknown to the Spaniards, Mr. Wilson de claring that “it is probably the case that the shooting in the American fleet is as good as or better than in the British fleet.” The Ameri cans, officers and men, were of the highest disci pline, intelligence and general efficiency, while the Spaniards, though brave as lions, were un trained, unskilled and devoid of that mechani cal aptitude which is a primal requisite in mod ern navel warfare. Finally, the United States begag the war with well matured plans of cam paign, while Spain.had no plans, and those which she adopted in emergencies were directly opposed to the best judgment of those who were to execute them. And yet the United States Government entered the conflict with an excess of caution amounting to self-distrust, while with amazing fatuity the Spanish Government, in its overplus of self-confidence, proclaimed its ex pectation of an easy victory, because of its navy’'s superior equipment and discipline! oa mth RS on bogie. The subsequent in ably confirmed these views of the rival Pcwers. For the selection of Admiral Sampscn for the chief command and ‘for the conduct of the Oregon in her famous voyage Mr. Wilsor has only the highes: com. mendation. At Manila the Spanish commande: Was guilty of indecision and bad judzment ir his choice of fighting ground, while the Ameri can commander showed splendid daring in the manner of his entrance to the harbor. The bat tle was a military execution rather than a rea contest, because the Spanish ships were hope lessly inferior to the American, and the Span lards themselves unskilled, though not lackin n valor. No such considerations can, however n Mr. Wilson's opinion, detract from Admira Dewey's deserved reputation, which rests ‘he fact that he was perfect] ¥vo te destroy Admiral Btorteso prepared Bot onl also to meet any hostile or Pe S415 been opposed to him. 2 ay The Santiago campaign began with a curiou comedy of errors. Mr. Wilson thinks Admir: Schley erred in judgment at Cienfuegos, but tha he did so because he supposed the Spaniard would do the thing that was obviously exp dient. He did not appreciate their capacity fc blundering. On the other hard, Admiral Cerver having committed the initizl blunder of going Santiago, continued to blunder in neglecting vi;

EYE Brera Te TOR, BE IS blun dered thus because he supposed the United mzking his fleet its objective. detained. the harbor. HH But, says Mr. Wilson, truly it was Impudence Of the ccuiest and most calculating kind. To that, we may add, as, indeed, the author does, that it was most effective. There were futile debates among Cervera’ captains as to whether their sortie from Santiago should be made by day or by night. Admiral Sampson decided that ques tion for them by making it continually midday. The story of the battle of July 3 is chiefly a redemonstration of the hopeless contrast be tween the two fleets in equipment, discipline and skill. Mr. Wilson elsewhere points out the ineffectiveness of our bombardments of Santi ago, San Juan and other places. Buf here the value of those bombardments was made mani fest in the increased accuracy of aim of our men and in their familiarity with action under fire. ad they not thrown away those tons of metal at the Morro and other forts they might not so surely have riddled Cervera’s ships. Care ful attention is given to Admiral Schley's ma neeuvring of the Brooklyn. concerning which there has probably been more and more violent disputation than on any other incident of the war. Mr. Wilson concludes that while Admiral Schley may have erred in judgment his motive was unimpeachable. His ship was the swiftest in the fleet, but weak in armor, and she was the target of the hottest Spanish fire. If she were disabled early in the fight the loss of her might seriously handicap the American fleet, it not being sure that any other ship could keep pace with the swift Cristobal Colon. Therefore he decided to swerve off and let the heavy battleships bear the brunt of the fighting with the slower Spanish ships, reserving the Brook lyn for a possible race with the Colon. As a matter of fact, since the Spanish fire was all too high, the Brooklyn's danger was actually in creased by the increase of her distance from the foe. But, whatever be thought of Admiral Schley’s judgment in the matter, Mr. Wilson emphatically declares it to be “cruelly unjust to impugn his personal courage,” a judgment with which the impartial verdict of the American Nation and of posterity will doubtless agree. Mr. Wilson so carefully considers every salient point as he reaches it that there is little left for final summing up. What he says briefly about the perils of fire and the necessity of fire proof construction may well be taken to heart by the chiefs of every navy in the world. Equal ly pertinent, especially to our own country, is his reminder of the need of adequate coast and harbor fortifications, and the need, moreover, of keeping them as fully up to date in equipment and discipline as the ships of the navy. There will be few who will challenge his opinion that at Santiago there were no higher honors than those won by the engineers in the throbbing, tumultuous inferno below decks. Upon them depended both the getting-and the keeping the ships in the fight, and tne maintenance of their efficiency at every moment of the fight. The result, he justly thinks, should be a more ap preciative recognition of the engineer's services and a corresponding improvement of his tech nical status in the service. The prime object, the ultima ratio, of naval tactics is to hit the enemy with your projectiles. To do that re quires equally the services of the engineers in the hold and of the “men behind the guns” in the turrets. It was the superior skill of Americans in both those places that made so certain and so overwhelming the downfall of Spain. Seah 7 2 3 SE AR

FIRE ALARM A HALF HOUR LATE. FIRE ALARM A HALF HOUR LATE. MAN HOLDING KEY TO AN OLD FASHIONED MAN HOLDING KEY TO AN OLD FASHIONEL BOX REFUSES TO GIVE IT UP.. BOX REFUSES TO GIVE IT UPR... Fire destroyed the house of M. 8S. Campbell, a two story frame structure in Rockfield-st., near Valentine-ave.,, The Bronx, early yesterday. Mr. Campbell was aroused by the smell of smoke at 3 a. m.,, and found his back parlor in flames. He hurried back to his room and roused his wife and two-year-old daughter, Eva. Smoke by this time filled the hallway so thickly that Campbell was unable to get his family through the hall, and they were compelled to take refuge on the roof of the piazza. Here trey stood shivering, clad only in their nightclothes, the little girl tightly hugging her Christmas doll. Albert Boeri, who lives directly across the street, and Timothy O'Connor, a friend who is staying with him, went to Campbell's assistance. They went to the roof of the piazza of Mrs. Moore's house, adjoining that of Campbell, in the hope they would be able to help Campbell and his fam ily across, but six feet of space intervened and they had to abandon the attempt. Returning to the street, they tore up the wooden pavement, and with the planks they went back to Mrs. Moore's veranda and formed a bridge, over which they took Campbell and Lis famliy to safety. Boeri then ran to the street to send out an alarm. The nearest box, that at Bainbridge-ave. and Mosholu Parkway, is one of teh ola style. A sign over it announced that the key could be found at Grammar School No. 88, in Briggs-ave., near Rock field-st. Boeri’s vigorous ringing of the janitor’s bell was answered by the assistant janitor, Gus tave Steiger.

“Hurry up, there's a fire. Give me the key, quick,” exclaimed Boer.

“What fire?” sleepily asked Steiger. “I don't

know anything about fires on the outside.” alarm, “Well, then, let me in. Let me ring the schooi sald Boerl. “You'll have to go around and see Mr. Oliver, the, janitor, who lives on Summit-ave.,”” came the reply.

Finding remonstrance was useless, Boeri started to find the janitor He met Charles Hogan, e neighbor, and together they returned to the school. house. The two men pleaded with Steiger to let them have the key, but after some time spent in an argument he became angry and shut the door in their faces. Then Hogan remembered that Po. liceman Lamb lived not far away, and they has. tened to his house. He gave them his key.

Half an hour had been lost. When the first en gine, which had to go mile, reached the scene the house was wrapped in flames, and the house of Mrs. Moore on one side and that of John King or the other were in danger. Battalion Chief Mec Cartney sent out a second alarm, but all that the

firemen could do after so long a delay was to pre vent the flames from destroying the adjoining houses.

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FORMER GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY WILL OPEN LAW OFFICE THERE NEXT WEEK.

FORMER GOVERNOR OF KENTUCKY WILL OPEN LAW OFFICE THERE NEXT WEEK. Indianapolis, Dec, 26 (Special).—Former Governor William 8. Taylor, of Kentucky; former Prosecutor R. N. Miller, of the same State, and Assistant At torney-General Merrill Moores, of this city, have formed a law partnership and will open an office in the Law Building on January 1. The two Ken tuckians are under indictment for alleged com plicity in the murder of William Goebel at Frank fort last winter, and both have been in this city since the Federal Supreme Court decided the con test case adversely to Mr. Taylor. Mr. Moores has

been the chief assistant in the Attorney-General's office for six years, and is a lawyer of recognized ability and standing in the profession. It is under stood that Mr. Taylor consulted with a number of Republican attorneys before deciding to open an office here and that they all advised him to do so. DID MAYOR KEEP A GAMBLING HOUSE? States fleet would attack Porto Rico instead of So Schley erred CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF BISMARCK ARRESTED ON THIS CHARGE. in supposing that the Spaniards would do right, and Cervera erred In supposing the Americans would do wrong. The one overestimated, the other underestimated his antagonist. Bismarck, N. D., Dee. 26.—Judge Winchester, of the District Court, to-day issued a warrant for the arrest of G. E. Patterson, Mayor of Bismarck, on the charge of keeping and permitting a gambling house to be kept. Mayor Patterson appeared before Judge Winchester this afternoon, who set the hearing for January 3. Mayor Patterson said he With the details of what followed we need not be much It is pleasant to observe, however, that Mr. Wilson pays a due tribute to that which has always seemed to us the master feat ure of the siege, namely, Admiral Sampson's nightly use of searchlights at the entrance to There was in it no thunderous would decline to give bail. He is now in the cus tody of the Sheriff. He denies Le had an interest in a gambling outfit which was seized, an has em shock of battle, and yet we doubt if there is eny other picture in the whole war more im loyed counsel to fight the case. Mayor Patterson I been prominent in State polities, and has been Mayor of the city for a number of vears pressive to the judicious observer than that of the vigil, from nightfall 10 daydawn, of a battle WIFE TAKES POISON AFTER OPibpow: Mrs. Maud Hawthorne, twenty-two who lived with her husband, Robert at No. 285 Marcy-ave,, Brooklyn, attempted suicide early yesterday morning by swallowing mercury performa: re A ted in the the grim arc of the supporting fleet. It ship lying within rifle shot of the Spanish forts and literally flooding the harbor gate with light, While beside her in the shadow lay a comrade ship with every available gun trained upor. that glittering highway, and far behind them lay tablets. She went to the Eastern Distriet Hospi. ta) unaided shortly after midnight. She said that he Jae Rarrelled oD, het husharia The woman wi a 0 apjpear ord-ave. “Impudence” one not hostile observer called it. Was a of war. this morning for examination d-ave. station Years old, Hawthorne, ANT. VORTK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. KELLER’S CHARGES READY TESTIMONY AGAINST BELLEVUE NURSES PREPARED--RADICAL CHANGES DISCUSSED. At the office of John W. Keller, Commissioner of Charities, the various alleged abuses in Bellevue were rehearsed yesterday, and the testimony of many witnesses was put in shape. Various com munications from doctors, annua! reports and sworn statements from inmates of the alcoholic and in sane pavilions at Bellevue were all made out, and to-morrow morning Dr. Fowler, chairman of «ne Governing Committee of the Mills Training School for Male Nurses, will have the evidence, charging his nurses with improper care, neglect and brutal ity te their patients. Commissioner Keller was also investigating the increased mortality among the babies on Randall's Island, and is endeavoring to find out if neglect to these unfortunate children is due to the manage ment and treatment of his subordinates. Commis sioner Keller said that Homer Folks, of the State Charities Aid Association, had assisted him for the last two years in finding the best treatment for foundlings and other -children. It was a hard proposition. Homer Folks had been watching at tentively the Randall's Island institutions, and had made a record of every death. It was owing to Mr. Folks's report that Commissioner Keller had ordered the immediate investigation as to the mortality in the children’s institutions. Mrs. Dunphy, superintendent of the instituticns on Randall's Island, had been requested to make a re port of the mortality to the Commissioner. Yes terday she began going over the books with a staff of clerks, under Mr. Keller's and Mr. Folks's juris diction. Mrs. Dunphy reported that the mortality for the year 1900, with the last three months out, showed a percentage of 46.67. The whole year of 1599 put the mortality figures at 45.05. The in crease for 1900, Mrs. Dunphy declared, was due to the epidemic of measles, which occurred In Feb ruary, March and April. All morning the reports and figures were being changed over the wire from Randall's Island, but in every instance it showed that the mortality was high. Commissioner Keller finally said that hs wanted to show that the transferring of foundlings did not prove successful. Eight had been seized with con tagious diseases. Five of the foundlings had died at North Brother Island and two had been re turned to the Infant's Hospital, but had died soon afterward. Another had been sent io the Willard Parker Hospital, and had died at that institution. So out of a possible transfer of eight foundlings all had died. The Commissioner said the scheme of boarding out children had proved to be the best, He could put all the Protestant children out board ing. An association would take charge of all the children, but the Catholic Church authorities ob jected on the: ground that Catholic orphans and children might be placed in Protestant families. Mr. Folks had agreed with the Commissioner on the idea of boarding out the children. The scheme may be adopted.

many witnesses was put In s3ape. Vauives =u EY arms from doctors, annual reports and sworn statements from inmates of the alcoholic and in sane pavilions at Bellevue were all made out, and to-morrow morning Dr. Fowler, chairman of ne Governing Committee of the Mills Training School for Male Nurses, will have the evidence, charging his nurses with improper care, neglect and brutal

ity te their patients. Commissioner Keller was also investigating the increased mortality among the babies on Randall's Island, and is endeavoring to find out if neglect to these unfortunate children is due to the manage ment and treatment of his subordinates. Commis sioner Keller said that Homer Folks, of the State Charities Aid Association, had assisted him for the last two years in finding the best treatment for foundiings and other -children. It was a hard proposition. Homer Folks had been watching at tentively the Randall's Island institutions, and had made a record of every death. It was owing to Mr. Folks's report that Commissioner Keller had ordered the immediate investigation as to the mortality in the children’s institutions. Mrs. Dunphy, superintendent of the instituticns on Randall's Island, had been requested to make a re port of the mortality to the Commissioner. Yes terday she began going over the books with a staff of clerks, under Mr. Keller's and Mr. Folks's juris diction. Mrs. Dunphy reported that the mortality for the year 1900, with the last three months out, showed a percentage of 46.67. The whole year of 1599 put the mortality figures at 45.05. The in crease for 1800, Mrs. Dunphy declared, was due to the epidemic of measles, which occurred In Feb ruary, March and April. All morning the reports and figures were being changed over the wire from Randall's Island, but in every instance it showed that the mortality was high. Commissioner Keller finally said that hs wanted to show that the transferring of foundlings did not prove successful. Eight had been seized with con tagious diseases. Five of the foundlings had died at North Brother Island and two had been re turned to the Infant's Hospital, but had died soon afterward. Another had been sent i{o the Willard Parker Hospital, and had died at that institution. So out of a possible transfer of eight foundlings all had died. The Commissioner said the scheme of boarding out children had proved to be the best, He could put all the Protestant children out board ing. An association would take charge of all the children, but the Catholic Church authorities ob jected on the:ground that Catholic orphans and children might be placed in Protestant families. Mr. Folks had agreed with the Commissioner on the idea of boarding out the children. The scheme may be adopted. INSANE PAVILION AFFAIRS. The probing of the insane pavilion affairs was next discussed by the Commissioner, and sugges tions from Dr. A. E. Macdonald, of the Manhattan State Hospital, were read. Dr. Macdonald sug gested that a mode of transferring the indigent insane direct to the Manhattan State Hospital without the present ‘roundabout way’ could be put in use. Dr. Macdonald said that the necessary fee could be reduced to $10 and various qualified examiners about this city would gladly accept it. An examiner could be called in any neighborhood, go direct to the house of the insane person, call in another consulting examiner and then give notice to the Manhattan State Hospital authorities direct. The Manhattan State Hospital would send its own ambulances, doctors, nurses and all necessary and immediate treatment at once. The person would go direct to the Manhattan State Hospital, and not be held for observation and a long &etention at Belle vue Hospital. Commissioner Keller approved the ideas of Dr. Macdonald and emphasized the word “fees.” The Commissioner in the morning had abolished the fee system im Bellevue Hospital and had issued a new order doing away with all fees in any of the institutions under his jurisdiction. He sent around the order to all of the institutions and makes the acceptance of a fee by any person employed in the department punishable by instant dismissal. The Commissjoner said the new order did not cast any reflection on the Examiners in Lunacy at Bellevue Hospital, Dr, Allen Fitch and Dr. Valentine Wild man. He knew of several prominent physicians, some of whom were now connected with the visiting and consulting staff of Bellevue Hospital, who had en tered the insane pavilion and charged fees in private cases for private hospitals. In these cases it was impossible for him to take action, as the ex aminers were called in for a consultation and were not employed by Bellevue Hospital for that pur pose. The law allowed this. With the poor or pauper patient, the examiners adjudged without a fee, but after the case had been determined it was doubtful if the Man hattan State Hospital would accept him as a proper inmate. Friends of the man would say he was destitute, but the authorities of Ward's Island would make a searching investigation, and if they found that the patient was not indigent he would be sent back to the Bellevue authorities or dis charged, to go where he pleased. The present method at Bellevue, said Commis sioner Keller, would be remedied. It was a pavilion for the pcor, and not for the rich. Patients for private hospitals should be sent to them direct. In speaking of the alleged ‘“railroading’’ of pa tients, the Commissioner said the only possible way that could be done was through negligence or collusion on the part of the examiners. who might make a mistake or be dishonest in their profession. The Commissioner thought every insane case should be disposed of in open court. If the people dic not want to go to Bellevue Hos pital to have people committed they should take their people to the private institutions. THE CHARGES AGAINST THE NURSES. After a long explanation of the present mode and the remedies that might be effected, Commissioner Keller dwelt on the charges against the nurses. In the examination of fifteen of the inmates of the alcoholic ward, when Thomas Wright and Dr. Lent were inmates, eight had alleged that they were treated with brutality and neglect. That was why the nurses who were in charge of the pa vilion had been dismissed. The eight patients had made long statements, which were all prepared in typewritten form with various other letters and typewritten matter, as well as a long explanation of the Commissioner's present stand in the affair. The matter was all made into a neat parcel, and was sent by special messenger to the care of Mrs. Willard, superintendent of the Training School for Nurses. She is to hand it to Dr. Fowler. At a meeting of the Board, after the inquest in the Hilliard case is held, some action will undoubtedly be taken. The governors have not taken action, and the discharged nurses are still attending the school but are not getting any practice in nursing in the wards of Bellevue. The Commissioner says the Board of Governors has tried hard to get the best nurses possible, and had not the slightest knowledge of the alleged existing conditions. The inquest in the Hilliard case will be held to day at the Coroner's office, and various Bellevue employes and officials have been summoned to ap ind there, th n the course of the long and searching investi gation Edward A. Dunn, of No. 204 East roadway, who was seized with an epileptic fit on Monday and who was removed to the alcoholic ward at y Bellevue Hospital, complained of the loss of $230 after his admission to that ward. Commissioner s Keller immediately sent a private secretary to in d vestigate. It was found that the records of the hospital showed that Dunn had entered with $3 and had signed for that amount. However, the n rules had been viclated by Ira M. Chapman no office. pose. The law allowed this. With the poor or pauper patient, the examiners adjudged without a fee, but after the case had been determined it was doubtful if the Man hattan State Hospital would accept him as a proper inmate. Friends of the man would say he was destitute, but the authorities of Ward's Island would make a searching investigation, and if they found that the patient was not indigent he would be sent back to the Bellevue authorities or dis charged, to go where he pleased. The present method at Bellevue, said Commis sioner Keller, would be remedied. It was a pavilion for the pcor, and not for the rich. Patients for private hospitals should be sent to them direct. In Spesking of the alleged ‘“railroading’’ of pa tients, the Commissioner said the only possible way that could be done was through negligence or collusion on the part of the examiners. who might make a mistake or be dishonest in their profession. The Commissioner thought every insane case should be disposed of in open court. If the people dic not want to go to Bellevue Hos pital to have people committed they should take their people to the private institutions. THE CHARGES AGAINST THE NURSES. After a long explanation of the present mode and the remedies that might be effected, Commissioner Keller dwelt on the charges against the nurses. In the examination of fifteen of the inmates of the alcoholic ward, when Thomas Wright and Dr. Lent were inmates, eight had alleged that they were treated with brutality and neglect. That was why the nurses who were in charge of the pa vilion had been dismissed. The eight patients had made long statements, which were all prepared in typewritten form with various other letters and typewritten matter, as well as a long explanation of the Commissioner's present stand in the affair. The matter was all made into a neat parcel, and was sent by special messenger to the care of Mrs. Willard, superintendent of the Training School for Nurses. She is to hand it to Dr. Fowler. At a meeting of the Board, after the inquest in the Hilliard case is held, some action will undoubtedly be taken. The governors have not taken action, and the discharged nurses are still attending the school but are not getting any practice in nursing in the wards of Bellevue. The Commissioner says the Board of Governors has tried hard to get the best nurses possible, and had not the slightest knowledge of the alleged existing conditions. The inquest in the Hilliard case will be held to day at the Coroner's office, and various Bellevue employes and officials have been summoned to ap pear there. In the course of the long and searching investi gation Edward A. Dunn, of No. 204 East roadway, who was seized with an epileptic fit on Monday and who was removed to the alcoholic ward at Bellevue Hospital, complained of the loss of $230 after his admission to that ward. Commissioner Keller immediately sent a private secretary to in vestigate. It was found that the records of the hospital showed that Dunn had entered with $3 and had signed for that amount. However, the rules had been viclated by Ira M. Chapman, a nurse, who took Mr. Dunn's money without anot er nurse being present. This Chapman admitted. n his own admission Commissioner Keller dismissed him from service in Bellevue Hospital and gave notice to Mrs. Willard. Chapman cried and sald that he did not know he had violated any rule and denied the alleged misappropriation of Dunn's money. Commissioner Keller said that he mined to stop all violations, and would RS root his investigation until the hospitals under his care were free from all abuses. He wished the men who made charges would go to him personally. It was after 6 o'clock when the Commissioner left his ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS Washington, Dec. 26.—The fo Navy orders have been issued ARMY Slowing Army and dhe leave ol absence on surgeon's certificate granted Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM F. SPURGIN, 16th In fantry, 1s extended three months on surgeon's cer t.ficateg. The resignation of Major JAMES T. KERR, assistant adjutant-general, as captain of infantry (I7th Regi ment) only, has been accepted. apiain CC. 8. PERY, to duty as member of Naval By. amining Board, Washington Yard, December 26, Lieutenant A. B, HOFF, detached the Massach tts, proceed home and sick leave granted for one, month. ¥raign L T. Coop BR (retired), to duty on the Saratoga, ecember 26, Ensign B. E. HAYDEN (retired), to a in Office al Intelligence, December 26. ny of NAVY LITTLE LIGHT ON CUDAHY CASE. ACTIVE SEARCH FOR “PAT” CROWE-—MR CUDAHY PELIEVES KIDNAPPERS WILL BE CAUGHT. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 26.—It is now known that “pat” Crowe was seen in South Omaha scarcely twenty hours before the abduction of Eddie Cudahy. On Monday night, December 17. a well known citizen of South Omaha conversed with him for nearly an hour. Just before they parted Crowe was questioned concerning his future plans, and laughingly replied: “Oh, I have something big on; you'll hear from me soon.” At the time this was viewed as an idle boast.

It is stated that until shortly before the Cudahy abduction Crowe was engaged in the dairy business with his brother-in-law, at Albright, just below South Omaha. Mrs. Crowe has admitted to a re porter that her husband was in South Omaha on the Saturday preceding the abduction. Diligent search is now being :aade around Albright for a buggy answering the description of the vehicle used by the abductors. That the bay pony at Pacific Junction, Iowa, founid there Friday morning, in the stable of Mrs. Bud Mack, is the horse of the kidnappers of Eddie Cudahy is firmly believed by the Omaha police and the authorities of the Iowa town. The horse was found after neighbors had noticed a strange man coming from the barn in the early morning. By identification on the part of Frank Glynn, of this city, it was proved that the animal was not the horse which was seen in Omaha, but as the animal had been advertised under big headlines and no owner found it is believed to have been ridden across the ferry at Plattsmouth by one of the kid nappers, who slept in the barn over night and left he Jlorse behind. The animal will be brought to maha. Mr. Cudahy expresses himself as pleased with the progress of the case and believes; that the Kkid nappers will be apprehended. He makes a denial of sensational threats he is reported to have mad in certain dispatches. Both r. Cudahy and the police have been receiving letters from ‘‘Eloise T..," who has been writing from Cincinnati, asking why the police think “Pat” Crowe is one of the Kkid nappers, by what law he could be punished. etc. The letters are written on stationery of the Wind sor Hotel, Omaha, two months old, when the hotel was under a former management. The letters ap parently have been mailed to Cincinnati from here and remailed by a confederate. Other letters are from cranks and sympathizers. St. Joseph, Mo., Dec. 26.—Two police officers here declared to-day that they saw ‘“Pat’” Crowe in this city after the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, jr., but efforts to locate oe have proved unsuccessful. THINK THEY HAVE SEEN CROWE. THINK THEY HAVE SEEN CROWE. FARMERS IN INDIANA TELEPHONE FOI DETECTIVES. Muncie, Ind., Dec. 26 (Special).—The Muncie po lice late to-night received telephone calls over the farmers’ private line to come to a poinf\ near Shideler, eight miles north of Muncie, to arrest a man who answers the newspaper description of Patrick Crowe, the alleged Cudahy kidnapper. Two detectives, Benbow and Huckett, started, well armed, for the place. T. C. Tuttle and other re sponsible farmers made the calls, and are posi tive they have the right man. He is well dressed and called at several farm houses, begging a place to sleep, saying he did not like hotels in cities and towns, always preferring the farmers’ homes. He says he has oil and natu ral gas interests, and at one place was jingling gold in his pockets while conversing with a farmer. There were indications that his heavy ulster coat carried two big pistols. Shideler is only two miles from Eaton, a good sized town.

VALET TURNED TABLES ON HIS MASTER CHARGED WITH STEALING CHAMPAGNE, HE CALLED HIS MASTER’S WIFE AND WOMEN FRIENDS AS WITNESSES. 5 Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 26 (Special).—~The trial of Philip Brown, of New-York, valet of Charles L. Bucki, a wealthy lumberman of that city, was called in Judge Baker's court this morning. Brown was charged with the larceny of several bottles of champagne from his master. He was arrested on Saturday and placed in jail. When the case was called to-day it was found that Brown had sum moned to appear Mrs. Bucki and a number of women friends as witnesses. The attorneys for the plaintiff immediately stopped the proceedings and the defendant was released. In anticipation of sensational testimony a great crowd had collected. It is stated that a damage suit against Bucki will nrobhably follow.

PRISONER SIGNS DENTIST'S NAME. REFINED MAN, WEARING EXPENSIVE CLOTHES ACCUSED OF STEALING BRIC-A-BRAC. A man of refined bearing, whose clothes were made by a tailor getting high prices, was locked up in the West Thirtieth-st. station last night on the charge of stealing $8 worth of bric-a-brac. He was registered at Louis King, a musician, of No. 600 Lexington-ave. The police say the name and address-.are fictitious. Charles E. Smith, an auctioneer at No. 8 West Twenty-eighth-st., caused the arrest. He said the prisoner had entered his place and taken a small powder box and a china plate worth $6. He called in Policeman Conboy, who arrested the man. In the station house a box and plate were found in the prisoner’s pocket. Mr. Smith identified them. The prisoner was reticent and nervous. He ob tained permission to send a telegram to “his brother.” The message was signed by the name of a well known dentist. At 9 o'clock two men, who said they had re ceived the prisoner's telegram, entered the sta tion. One said he was the accused man's brother. He was extremely nervous, and said It must be a mistake. It is astonishing. My brother don't drink. He don’t use morphine aor any drugs to stunt his moral principles. I can’t under stand it. It must be a mistake. Perhaps he had a drink or two, and, not being used to it, lost his head. I believe it was an attack of kleptomania. The sergeant agreed to accept $500 bail. The two men hurried out to look for it. Bail was furnished early this morning. CITY COMMITTEE'S OFFICERS. The Executive Committee of the Republican City Committee of New-York, comprising delegates from all the boroughs, met in Parlor D R of the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday afternoon, with Charles H. Murray presiding. As far as practica ble all the old officers were recommended for re election, and the list as agreed upon for submis sion to the full Citv Committee, which meets to night at 8:30 o'clock at the Murray Hill Lyceum, is as follows: President, George H. Roberts, jr., of Brooklyn; first vice-president, Charles H. Mur ray, of Manhattan; second vice-president, John G. Deubert, of Brooklyn; third vice-president, Ed ward H. Healy, of Manhattan; fourth vicepresi dent, George W. Bidgood, of Manhattan; fifth vice president, Jacob I. ousman, of Richmond; secre tary, George R. Manchester of Manhattan; assist ant secretary. Philip W. Reinhard, of Manhattan; treasurer, Hugh McRoberts, of Richmond; chair man of the Executive Committee, William H. Ten Eyck. Sidney H. Goodacre was appointed ser eant-at-arms. A letter was read from Lemuel E. uigg declining to run again for chairman of the Txecutive Committee. HAWAIIAN DELEGATE GETS $1,000 MILEAGE Washington, Dec. 26.—Robert H. Wilcox, Dele gate in Congress from the Hawaiian Islands, has just received $1,000 for mileage. It was the largest claim of the kind ever made,” but it was paid promptly by the sergeant-at-arms of the House. Every Congressman is entitled to mileage at the rate of 20 cents a mile ‘by the most direct and practicable route from his home to Washington and return.” The distance between Honolulu and Washington is figured at five thousand miles. Mr. Wilcox will draw $1,000 more for his return trip.

SKRTEAMER ASHORE ON FLORIDA REEFS. Miami, Fla., Dec. 26.—An unknown American steamer Went ashore on the reefs a few miles south of Miami late yesterday. The sea has been run ning so high since that the wreckers have been unable to reach her. The ship Is painted a lead color, with a yellow funnel and a red emblem on the smokestack. On account of roughness of the water no boats have been able to get near enough. to ascertain her name. The Key West station has been informed, and the tug Dewey, which is here, will go te the disabled steamer as soon as possible. MISS FANCHON THOMPSON IN “CARMEN.”

Chicago, Dec. 26.—Miss Fanchon Thompson ap peared as Carmen to-night at the Auditorium Theatre, with Grau Savage's Metropolitan Eng lish Grand Opera Company. This was her first presentation of the character since her partial breawdown 4 her debut in New-York City, and the theatre was wacked. Miss Thompson was evidently nervous at first, and her voice did not have much vslume. As her nervousness wore away her por truyal of the character of the fickle Spanish cigarette maker improved, and she won" frequent curtain calls. Her volce, however, was apparently hardly powerful enough to flli the big Auditorium.

v DECEMBER 27. 1900. Philadelphia, Dec. 26.—The Rev. Dr. Thomas Murphy, one of the most eminent Presbyterian clergymen of Philadelphia, and a leading writer of ecclesiastical literature, died to-day at his home here, after a brief illness, from bronchial pneu monia.

Dr. Murphy was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1823. When twelve years old he came with his parents to the United States and settled in New Hartford, N. Y., He entered Hamilton Coilege and, after he was graduated, with high honors, he con tinued his studies at Princeton University, where he received the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. One of his books, entitled “The Presbytery of the Log College.” is a work on the religious life of Prince ton. Soon after his graduation Dr. Murphy was

ordained pastor of the Frankford Church, this city, and remained with that church the whole of his active pulpit life. After his retirement five years ago he devoted his time to literary and mis sion work. He was the author of four volumes of church literature two of which, “The Seven Churches of Asia" and “Pastoral Theology,” are used as textbooks in many theological seminaries. and are regarded as authoritative by eminent acholars. Among the various honors conferred upon him by his fellow clergymen was his election as commissioner to the Pan-Fresbyterian Council in Ireland in the early seventies.

nt tion, made a personal tour of Lis district yesterday afternoon and evem:ng. He visited, according to hig statement, every place that had been reported to him as a gambling house or pooiroom, and he said ORITUARY. mre PEV DR. THOMAS MURPHY. WILLIAM M. TEBO. William M. Tebo died on Tuesday at his home, No. 37 St. Paul's Place, Brooklyn, from a complica tion of diseases. He was seventy-two years old. As a civil engineer his first work was the dredg ing of the Black River at Carthage, N.Y. On March 17, 1853, he married Ida L. Brentley at Rome, N. Y. A son and a daughter and Mrs. Tebo died several years ago.

Through all the northern counties along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario Mr. Tebo was well known. He came to Brooklyn a year after his marriage, and began work there as a dredger. He worked for many years with William M. Beard, who founded the Erie Basin. Many important dredging contracts were undertaken and completed by Mr. Tebo, the most noteworthy of which was dredging under the East River for the erection of the abutments of the present Bridge. In 1885 he bought the land at the foot of Twenty-third-st., Brooklyn. There he carried on the business of steam dredging, shipbuilding and the wharfage, storage, repairing and towing of boats and pri vate vachts. He added coal pockets, and had powerful tugs for sea and coast towing. This yacht depot is known all over the world to seafaring men. Mr: Tebo was stricken by paralysis about seven years ago, and since then Andrew T. Sulli van. formerly postmaster of Brooklyn, has had en tire management at the Tebo docks. Mr. Tebo took an active interest in several charitable institutions. He leaves a sister, who lives in Montreal, and four grandchildren. The funeral will take place this morning at the Church of the Holy Cross. The burial will be in Green wood Cemetery. ———p—— TAIMAN P. HYDE. Talman P. Hyde, sixty-nine years old, a well known resident of Williamsbridge, died yesterday. Mr. Hyde was Deputy Commissioner of Streets for the Borough of The Bronx. Before annexation and when the Anexed District was a part of Westches ter County, he was a Highway Commissioner and

Supervisor. At one time he was village president of Willlamsbridge. Mr. Hyde was a well known figure in the Democratic conventions in The Bronx, A widow one son and a daughter survive him. PE IT WW FEFRRIS pr Dr. Isaac Warde Ferris, a well known Mount Vernon physician, died at his home, No. 160 South Ninth-st., in that city, early yesterday morning from heart disease. Dr. Ferris had been ill for about a year. He was born in New-York City sixty years ago. He was a descendant of the old Ferris family and a son of the late Chancellor Ferris of New-York University. Soon after receiv ing his diploma as a graduate physician Dr. Fer ris married Miss Cornelia Danforth, daughter of the late Judge Danforth, of Schoharie County, and a sister of Elliot F. Danforth, former Treasurer of New-York State. Dr. Ferris practised for sev eral years in Schenectady, N. Y., and about twelve years ago moved to Mount Vernon He was a lead

ing member of the Reformed Church of Mount Vernon, and also a member of the Westchester County Medical Society. A widow, who is prom inently identified with the work of the Bureau of Charities in Mount Vernon, and two daughters— Miss Mary Ferris and Miss Cornelia Ferris—sur we mm 3 THOMAS BISLAND WILLIAMS. Thomas Bisland Williams, a member of the New-York Stock Exchange since July 13, 1876, with offices at No. 42 New-st.,, died early yesterday morning at his home, No. 41 West Thirty-first-st. He had been suffering from laryngitis for about a year, but the immediate cause of his death, which was sudden, was aneurism of the aorta.

Mr. Williams was formerly a member of the brokerage firm of Van Dyck Williams, which dissolved about five years ago, at which time Mr. Williams retired frcm the Governing Committee of the Stock Exchange. Mr. Williams was born in Mississippi forty-seven years o. He was a di rector of the Higley Sawing and Drilling Machine Company and the sas City and Omaha Rail way Company. He was a member of the Univer sity, New-York and South Side Sportsmen's clubs. Mr Williams leaves a widow. TOSEPH THEODORE WHITE. Joseph Theodore White died yesterday at his home, No. 121 Madison-ave., from bronchial pneu monia. Mr. White was eighty-eight years old and was born ir this city. He was the youngest son of Joseph Fairchild White, of Danbury, Conn. Mr. White entered business in this city when a boy of fourteen years, and had since that time been identified with the drygoods business. He went to California in 1849 as a merchant. Mr. White was at one time connected .with the firm of Starr Marcus. Mr. White served for eleven years in the 7th Regiment. He was con nected with various business organizations, among which may be mentioned the Bergen Oil Company and the Callender Lamp Manufacturing Company. FIDELIS M. VOIGHT. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 26 (Special).—The Rev. Fidelis M. Voight, guardian of St. Joseph's Convent, at Utica, N. Y., and rector of the church at that place, died this morning in St. Francis's Hospital from a stroke of apoplexy. He was born at Jeffer sonville, Ind., on February 21, 1855, and began his novitiate in the order of minor ceonventials at Syracuse on May 6, 1875. He studied at the Uni versity at Wiirzburg, Bavaria, ard was ordained in 1879. He was named as guagdian of the Lady of Angels Convent at Albany in 1892, and of St. Joseph's Convent at Utica in 1809. Father Fidelis spent ten years in Trenton, from 1882 to 1882. He was the first chaplain of the New-Jersey State prison, being appointed in 18384, and continuing un til he left the city.

WITILIAM H MOORE Plainfield, N. J., Dec. 26 (Special). —William H. Moore, of West Sixth-st., died to-day at his home in this city. He was forty-six years of age, and was born near Rahway. Early in life he became interested in electricity, and for many years had been employed by Thomas A. Edison. He served

two térms in the Plainfield Common Council. Mr. Moore leaves a wife and one daughter. OBJECT TO ASPHALT DEAL. CASE HEARD BEFORE VICE-CHANCELLOR AT NEWARK—-DECISION RESERVED. Hearing was had yesterday before ViceChanceil lor Emory, at Newark, N. J.. ou the application of Henry E. Spinks, of Ohio, whe acts for himself and other stockhoiders in the Asphalt Company eof America, for an injunction restraining the officers and others of the American company from trans ferring certain stocks of the American company to the National Asphalt Company. The American company was organized in New-Jersey in June, 1899, with an allowed capital of $30,000,000, and has a paid up capital of $6,000,000. The National Asphalt Com pany was organized in New-Jersey in May, 1:00, with an allowed capital of $15,000,000, which was in creased in August to $22,000,000.

Last September the National company, in a ¢circu lar letter, asked the stockholders of the American company to exchange their stock in the American company for 5 per cent gold certificates of the Na tional company. The American company share holders were to deposit their shares and the Na tional company was to provide a sinking fund of $50,000 to meet the interest on the collateral Counsel for Mr. Spinks alleged that the Na tional Asphalt Company was insolvent, and un able to assurie the vast assets and liabilities of the Amencan company, and that the arrangement was sought to be brought about by collusion, con spiracy and fraud.

Counsel for the National company, in opposing the application, sald that there was no obiigation on the company to do otherwise with the $6,000,000 of stock than to lay aside $25,000 a year with which to pay the interest. Counsel sald that the deal has been consummated: that the National now holds Sha 0 jhe 600,000 shares of the American company; deal was closed on September 18, when the stock was surrendered by a ma

i jority of the American stockholders; that stockholders have since made the exchange: the deal is a just and equitable cne for the Amery. can stockholders; that the National company able to pay the Interest, and that the dea} mutually profitable. Counsel for the Nationa} said that it was impossible to restrain the fer by injunction. as the order would restrain doing of something which was done. closed ang completed. The Vice-Chancellor reserved decision. i General F. V. Greene, formerly president of mya National Asphalt Company. when seen at his last night sald that the deal was completed the stock transferred some time ago He said thas 9914 per cent of the stocicholders of the A company had agreed to the deal and that pp Spinks was one of the holders of the 4 per cen: who had not agreed, and that he had a suit, alleging frand and conspiracy. as usug} in such cases. He refused to say anything about the assets of the National Asphalt Company. po 11 F VICE FADES BEFORE THOMAS. TENDERLOIN PLACES ALL CLOSED To HIM—-SOME BAD MAY EXIST, BUT

YOU CAN'T HELP THAT Captain Thomas, of the West Thirtieth-st. sta. a single place open. He returned about 9 o'clock, signed his name to the blotter, sought his private room, sent for a reporter and gave out the follow ing: after returning to the station that he kad not found

You may say that I personally. with my have been out this afternoon and’eve on a of the precinct and have visited every place w it has pe said gambling or pool rooms were operation. I have been unable to find a single open, neither a gambling nor a pool room o sort. challenge anybody to come into the T loin and find any gambling. You go out into Tenderloin and look all over it and you won't a single place running. I couldn't get into a place. “Did you visit Farrell's resort in Weat Thirty. fourth-st.?” “Every place was visited.” replied Captain Thomas. The Captain was asked if he visited one in West Twenty-ninth-st., one in West Thirty-first-st. and one in West Forty-first-st. He replied: I want to say again that no place was excepted. There is no gambling going on in the Tenderloin. The Tenderloin is in better condition so far as being free from vice is concerned, I think, than it ever has been, if I am to believe influential residents of the district who have sent letters te Jice is bound to exist and what does exist ia well regulated. The places known as dives ars closed at 1 o'clock, according to the excise law. The streets are free from soliciting women as far as I am able to keep them so. You may walk on Broadway from Fourteenth-st. to Fortysecond st. and no woman will solicit you or molest you There may be some on the street. but you can't help that. Women have a right to walk on the streets according to the Constitution of the United

tates. But it has all been done away with, with, of course, a few exceptions. Many prominent hotel keepers have come to me personally and other people have sent, letters voluntarily. stating how pleased they are at the condition of the Tender loin. Clergymen in the Tenderloin have come to me in the station house and commended me and praised the condition of the Tenderloin. I have the letters in my desk, but I cannot give them out to the public without the consent of the writers, though I would gladly do so with their sanction. The Tenderloin is as well policed and as good as it is possible for me to make it. I'm here all day and part of the night and keep as observing an eye on all police matters here as I can.

+H i gg WORK ON HUDSON RIVER TUNNEL.

PREPARATIONS FOR VISIT OF ENGLISH CAPITALISTS WHO MAY FURNISH FUNDS TO COMPLETE

A large number of men are at work getting the Jersey City end of the Hudson River Tunnel into good condition. The mouth of the tunnel has been pumped clear of water, and the boring which re mains to be done can be started with little delay. The present work on the tunnel is said to be im Jeejaration for an inspection which is to be made

y a number of English capitalists. These capital ists, it is said, will furnish §1.000.000 to continue the work and complete the project. Frederick B. Jennings, of the firm of Stetson,

Jennings Russell, attorneys for the American bondhalders, said to a Tribune reporter last night that yas via that the Jute! was hing e ou tha e had 0 S& the reported inspection by A English He added that altho there was n said about the tunnel now, there fore lon.

ts. to be be be COFFEY AND FRIENDS SECEDE.

MORE DEFECTIONS FROM THE RANKS OF CROKER'S CLUB GIVE EVIDENCE OF BROOKLYN DISCON1: ENT. The Brooklyn Democratic machine has given further evidence of its opposition to Tammany Hall. Among the men who are reported to have resigned yesterday from the Democratic Club are Senator Michael J. Coffey, Assemblyman John J. Cain, Congressman Mitchell May, Dennis W. Sul livan, superintendent of the Coney Island and Bryoklyn Railroad Compary; James C. Church, George W. Phillips, John A. McGarry, Joseph A. McGarry and other friends of Senator Coffey. It is said that Senator Coffey and his friends now feel that Richard Croker has not treated them well It is reported that many who have resigned will join the Manhattan Club, and Congressman Mitch ell May said yesterday that he resigned because he was dissatisfied with the way things were going. He said that there was no reason why one Demo cratic club should have a monopoly.

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JOHN WANAMAKER, Broadway, Fourth-ave, Ninth and Tenth sts., display the new styles in washable shirt waists, stylish tailor made suits in black pebble cheviot, black taffeta silk dress skirts and women's jacke:s at reduced prices.

O'NEILL'S, Sixth-ave., Twentieth-st. to Twenty first-st., are proceeding with their semi-annual sale of women's muslin underwear, and many bargains are offered. JAMES MCREERY CO. Broadway and Eleventh-st., begin to-day a sale of muslin under wear at reduced prices, in preparauion for stock taking.

B. ALTMAN CO. have in stock the Marvex glove, which is sold only at this establishment.

DURYEA WILL TO BE PROBATED. CONTESTANTS DID NOT OPPOSE APPLICATION, BU# WILL FIGHT IN SUPREME COURT.

i Mineola, Long Island, Dec. 26. —-Mr. Honeyman appeared in the Surrogate's Court at this place to day and submitted an application asking that the wili of the late Edgar E. Duryea, the millionaire starch manufacturer, be admitted to probate. Counsel for the daughters of Mr. Duryea. who are the contestants, had previously given notice that the proceedings before the Surrogate so far as the contestants were concerned had been with drawn,.as it had been decided to begin suit in Supreme Court to have the will set aside as A Giuvacd be applica a the Surres the

0 one op t al on, and the gate said he would any a decree admitting the will to probate. Mr. Honeyman moved for an order placing the costs of the proceedings of the last few weeks upol TE contestants, 53 thatihe e Surrozate said that would posipone ing the decree until Saturday in order to give the contestants’ counsel an opportunity to be heard of the matter of costs. Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 26 @Special).—As a result of an effort to purify the city an anti-swearing crusade has been begun here, and its fruits de veloped in police court to-day when Willlam Burke

was sentenced to thirty days in for swearing He was arrested on a NaS of Ro profane aa guage under the State code, convicted, and the sentence followed.

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HAZING INQUIRY ON AGAIN

TWELVE CADETS EXAMINED IN MILL TARY COURT.

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STORY OF A CADET BEING BOUND HAND AND FOOT AND PLACED UNDER A WATER FAUCET

West Point, N. X., Dec. 26.—After a Christ mas recess of three days, the military Court of Inquiry this afternoon resumed its in n of alleged brutal hazing at the West Point li tary Academy. Twelve witnesses were examineg by Generals Brooke, Bates an Clous. They were all of the present first class and classmates of former Cadet Breth. One of them, Cadet Tidball, of Virginia, swore that he had seen Breth ex rsusted after going through an exercising or deal In camp in 1807. Some of the men who were hazing Breth gave him whiskey when he became exhausted. The witness could remem ber only one of the hazers, and this was Lieu tenant Mumma, who was graduated last year. Cadet Russell said that he had heard of a cadet being bound hand and foot ang placed under a water faucet. He could not vouch for the accuracy of his information and did not re member the name of his informant. The witnesses were all asked whether they had held any conversation with other cadets as 10 the withholding of testimony at the in vestigation, and they ail denied that such a thing had taken place. They said that, on the contrary, all the cadets were anxious that everything should be told. To-morrow Congressman P. O. Phillips, of Cleveland, will be a witness in reference to the statement made that he came to the academy in 1898 in order to have his boy protected from

Mr. Phillips has denied this by telegraph, but he sent word to-day that he would be in court to-morrow afternoon. Horace Booz, of Bristol, Penn., a brother of Oscar 1. Booz, who died three weeks ago, will also be here to-morrow, and it is understood thet he is coming here to testify. These two, with the exception of Father O'Keefe, will be the first outsiders examined since the court be gan the taking of testimony here. The courtroom was thronged this afternoon by officers and several women, who watched the proceedings attentively. There were only two men civilians in the room besides the reporters. The first witness called was Cadet B. F. Browne, of Virginia, now of the first class. In reply to General Cious, the witness said that he knew Booz, but did not remember his being ill while at the Academy. He denied having given any “hell sauce” to any fourth class men. The witness said that he knew a cadet named Me Manus, who took a teaspoonful of the pepper sauce, just to show his fellow cadets that he could de so, McManus was a third class man at the time, and suffered no ill effects from his taking such a quantity of the sauce. Cadet Brown said that he had taken part in “feet inspections,” which consisted of dropping hot candle grease oa the bare feet of fourth class men. Some of the questions and answers were as follows: “Did you know Cadet Breth?” asked General Claus. “Yes, sir; he was in my class.” “Did you ever know of his being dropped out of his tent?” “No, sir.” “Was he ever put In a straitjacket?” “No, sir; I never heard of such a thing in the academy.” “What do you make fourth class men do?” “Nothing in barracks, but bracing,” answered the witness. “In camp I have had a fourth class man act as special duty man. He cleaned my gun an@ bayonet and carried water and cleaned my tent.” The witness described how cadets had been made to run down the company streets while others threw water on them. This was called taking a bath. “Was it on account of the danger of hazing or because they wished to avoid scandal outside of the academy that the classes voted to do away with the practices?’ asked General Brooke. “There was no danger, sir, and we voted to do away with hazing because of the stories pub lished about it,” replied the witness. “Was there any brutality in the hazing that you know of?” “No, sir, there was no spirit of brutality in it. If there were brutality by word the fourth class man would resent it.” pi “Then he would have to fight,” suggested Gen eral Brooke. “Yes, sir.” “And get beaten.” “No, not always, sir; the fourth class men have won fights.” “Do you know of any men being especially prepared or instructed in fighting?” “No, sir.” “Was Cadet Keller prepared for his fight with Cadet Booz?” “No, sir; Keller was rather a poor boxer,” was the reply. “Did Keller ever have any other fight before he fought Booz?” asked General Bates. “No, sir” “Then he was not known as a fighting man?” @asked General Brooke. “No, sir.” These questions were evidently prompted by the receipt of a newspaper clipping sent to the court during the Christmas recess, which stated that unless a man was skilied in boxing he had no chance at West Point against cadets with bruising abilities. Cadet Brown was exactly. one hour on the stand, and his examination was the most thor ough and exhaustive which has taken place since the court began its investigation. Cadet W. D. Smith, of Maryland, was the next witness. He said that he had a fourth class man to make up his bed, clean his gun with hop cards, carry water and do other work for him in his tent. “Did you ever know of a cadet being dragged from his bed and out of his tent to the street?” “There was always bedding under him, sir,” was the reply. The witness described a number of ridiculous things dene by fourth class men at the bidding of upper class men. He told among other things ~40€En ne WaE not xnown as a ngnuing man?” &sked General Brooke. “No, sir” These questions were evidently prompted by the receipt of a newspaper clipping sent to the court during the Christmas recess, which stated that unless a man was skilied in boxing he had no chance at West Point against cadets with bruising abilities. Cadet Brown was exactly. one hour on the stand, and his examination was the most thor ough and exhaustive which has taken place since the court began its investigation. Cadet W. D. Smith, of Maryland, was the next witness. He said that he had a fourth class man to make up his bed, clean his gun with hop cards, carry water and do other work for him in his tent. “Did you ever know of a cadet being dragged from his bed and out of his tent to the street?” “There was always bedding under him, sir,” was the reply. The witness described a number of ridiculous things dcne by fourth class men at the bidding of upper class men. He told among other things of a man being required to stand on his head, and while in that position speak a piece and deliver a right hand salute with his left foot. “What do you mean by sagging men were re quired to do things?” Bary ere you exercised yourself?” asked General es. “Yes, sir; I did fifty eagles, one hundred wooden Willies and seventy-five footballs.” “All at one session?’ asked General Clous. “Yes, sir; it was in a dark tent, and the man ih was exercising me could not see me very we fad “How long did the session last?” “About fifteen minutes, sir.” Describing other forms of hazing in vogue now, he said the most ridiculous was a “Sammy “What ‘Is a ‘Sammy Race’?’ asked General Brooke, “Two cadets were seated face to face with a bow! of molasses between them.” explained the Witness, “each being supplied with a spoon, and they were instructed to feed each other.”

“Hag there been any conversation among the cadets regarding this inquiry, with the purpose of limiting the answers or information desired by the court?” asked General Bates. “No, sir; I don’t know of anything.” a cadet should refuse to do what he 18 required 7’ “He would be called out, sir.” means wouid have to fight?” Yes, sir.” The witness explained that the fourth class man might be excused from fighting if the upper class committee decided that the order which he had disobeyed was one which should not havo been given. Cadet Edward Canfield, jr., of New-York, was sworn and examined by General Clous. In reply to General Bates's question as to whether there was a sentiment among the cadets to withhold information from the court the wit ness said: “Directly to the contrary, sir. The sentiment is to have everything come out.” Cadet Cojey Enos, of New-York, who was ore of the#®entinels at the Beuz-Keller fight, testified that Booz came up th+ hill toward the fort in a confident manner. Xor the first half of the first round Booz seemed to have the let ter of the fight, but as soon as he got a blow in the eve it took all the sand out of him and he lay down. The fight lasted about a round and a half. Neither man knew much about boxing. Taere was nothing scientific about it.

Cadet William Tidball, of Virginia, swore that on one occasion, when in camp in 1887, Cadet Breth was exhausted from exercising, and he said some of the cadets gave him liquor. “Whiskey?” asked General Brooke. “Yes sir" “Can you remember any of the cadets you saw there at that time?” “Yes, sir; one of them was Lisutenant Mumma, who was graduated last year. The witness said that he had eaten quinine pills when he was a fourth class man. He was never required to take pepper sauce, ar he used it frequently at his meals. Cadet George M. Russell, of New-Hampshire, knew Booz. He had exercised Booz and braced him. “Was Booz hazed more after his fight with Keller?” asked General Clous. “No. sir: less.” “Did you see any brutality practised on fourth class men?” “No, sir.”

“Have you known of any?” “I heard that former Cadet J. J. Fleming had been tied by the hands and feet and placed under a water spigot I only heard this, and don’t know how true it may be.” The court adjourned at 6 o'clock, to recon vene at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. INCIDENT EXCITES THE SUPERSTITIOUS AND GIVES RISE TO OMINOUS RUMORS. AaN Adie 4 Add dA 0 4 L354 DULL LNAVWOALLALAV US AND GIVES RISE TO OMINOUS RUMORS. The gilded hands of Old Trinity's clock stood motionless all day yesterday. They had stopped a few minutes after midnight on Christmas morn ing, and thus having ushered in the merry holi day they had refused to count off its hours and bid it depart. By the more superstitious people of the neighborhood the stopping of the clock at the witching hour of twelve was considered most ominous. The old applewoman near by, at the corner of Rector-st. and Broadway, declared that every time the clock stops a member of the con gregation dies within a week. She said that she had sold hardly a handful of her wares since that ominous midnight. And the crowds of brokers and lawyers, mes senger boys and hackmen who throng Wall-st. through the rush of the day found themselves at as great a loss mentally as did the applewoman financially. Thousands glanced up at the meaning less dial and wondered what had happened. Sore, more curious, entered the church and sought out the sexton. One man, who had at last captured this functionary after long and patient search, in quired, nervously: A “Say, is the Bishop dead?” “No,” was the answer. “Not that I know of.” “Yes, but the clock’s stopped.” “Well?” “I thought you must have stopped it. Well, I'm glad it doesn’t mean somebody's dead.” The sexton was immersed in a bath at 11 o'clock last night, when the bell rang violently. Thinking some one was dying, the sexton hurriedly dressed and crept to the door. “What is it?” he asked, shiveringly. “Your clock is stopped,” was the answer, and the figure that spoke disappeared in the darkness. The sexton declares he said nothing. In order that the flood of questions may be checked, Henry Fick, a watch repairer, of No. 25 Eighth-st,, will examine the mechdnism this morning. Mr. Fick is employed regularly in winding the clock. He performs this task every Monday morning, and spends three hours winding up the two one-ton weights. The clock has not stopped before in a year. SECOND ANNUAL TOURNAMENT FOR RICE TROPHY AT MANHATTAN CHESS CLUB. At the Manhattan Chess Club the second annual tournament fer the Rice trophy was begun yes terday under the auspices of the tri-collegiate chess league composed of Brown, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. When the men put in an appearance yesterday it was found that there were three new players— Chapin, of Pennsylvania, and the two Brown men, Easton and Neckless. A time limit of fifteen moves to the hour was adopted. The teams are: S. H. Easton and R. E. Neckless, Brown; L. C. Karpin ski and E. H. Riedel, Cornell, and J. 8. Francis and J. 1. Chapin, University of Pennsylvania. For the first round the pairing had been arranged as follows: Francis (P.) vs. Easton (B.), Chapin (P.) vs. Karpinski (C.) and Neckless (B.) vs. Riedel (C.). Yesterday's games were as follows: Po, 8 ee 9 0 po ol «o ow PL] A Ee aR ERE RR vel K peg al en wlLLL1D MM US od Ht ots ME Md oS JE at Ps T Reade, SCC Late @W LON wm LL en 0 B88 ido MAR Ram Heremnbniinion S 4 ch FENCE NE EEN Br sa MROMO wo da aids _n HBR38RARIIR FIRISTTERRERRRERES< dir og Ew pg wm Spin Yoo “VM ey «a bP 00 ou 0 REO TRO ei Re Ra gaa oSlaed edad daa lala ani 1110s jrmay Be Eee Cl od 8 Om an Rp ERE Tn, Raina 3) mL ML LN] SEE IROE LECEL 4. du nm RRO RR gE RRR RE RANRASRERARS S. H. Easton i 8 w 2 Salwar mwas DP wo 0% woo. 300 b 3 2 5 8 2 5 SER AL MM, no LOR oF =r HESS hi voeo Sane PR Lk i OR Hata Rata age ae 2 Sa Buf ah OE b di Ed ME BML Hn IR EARS TYR IRS ES Zaniagns rape. par——_———o— 1 "py A 8. MEE Ld Lo) BEER aie dmgagdogtiy Li Rm Hdd i gad d TE ad wT Eu tamd TTT LAAAMARORRRO RMON OOM AOR RMA DY wa an me on Ee] Wes, Ran 2 8 oie Bu 00 M4 Pea SR IES EE ALE EP LJ Ld Fu il ad Landis addon don ddodmmr bo REAR eee CARN ARRARRRARIRENER 3 Me vo iol 2 «5285. 050, BAC ey Toow 4 BORE ainda tn On tu a ax odie LANCER ORY oo QUIN AMEN MMAR aa EM, 2 3 gg 2% HEE a lore” a ue oR® hf My CORSE Cu: a -ha iS wd ak od RRR Ete A Ny d A3RUEIRARAASIURILSESIGB ILL 0 M32 a «0 ORT wn 0, You 8 0 Be ERA Mo md ER mn .Q wt] 4) ENCE ERR ERIEg AMMRQUM MRAM MRACRMANLAD Hi} Hl hud 2 m Mea woe TET Pt TOPE T VTL, ot “xix a ETL Te Ty Ta Tae Zuid ddd Gan donanin gms dna on HRT RAS ANE NRO RNAI RRIKRER 4 6 The second round will be played in the following order to-day: Easton (B.) vs. Chapin (P.), Kar nsii (C.) vs, Nickless (B.), and Francis vs. edel (CL). Long Branch, N. J, Dec. 26 (S8pecial).—A series of live bird and target shoots took place at Holly wood this afternoon. The principal contest was a handicap sweep at five live birds for a horse. “Harry Mapes, killing Btragnt was the victor. Sweeps were won by Charles Burk, William Heyer, J. Von Emmons, E, Johnston, George 8 James West, Arthur Sussman and Henry Kahle, OLD TRINITY'S CLOCK STOPS. CHESS. SEECOND BOARD—PETROFF DEFENCE. FIRST ROARD—FRENCH DEFENCE. THIRD BOARD—OUEREN'S GAMBIT DECLNIED. MAPES WINS LONG BRANCH SHOOT. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900.

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900 PROGRAMME OF SPORTS TO DAY RACING.—Crescent: City Jockey Club, New-Orleans; Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Tanforan, Cal. BILLIARDS. Knickerbocker Athletic Club tournament for club championship, Knickerbocker Athletic Club, 8 p. m. BASKETBALL.—University of Pennsyl vania against Mount Vernon Institute, Mount Vernon. CHESS.—Tricollegiate tournament between Cornell, Brown and University of Pennsyl vania, Manhattan Chess Club; intercollegiate tournament, Columbia Grammar School, 1 to 6 p. m., and 8 to 12 p. m. SHOOTING.—Live bird shoot of East Side Gun Club, Newark. WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP AT ST. LOUIS NOT POPULAR WITH PLAYERS HERE. The efforts of the Mound City Country Club, of St. Louis, to push itself into notoriety were gen erally discussed among golf players in this city vesterday. This enterprising organization has taken upon itself to announce a world’s cham pionship at St. Louis in connection with the fair to be held in that city in 1903, and to secure the approval of both the United States Golf Associa tion and the St. Andrews Golf Club, of Scotland. The attractions of the links are set forth in glow ing terms, and among other pompous inducements the sum of $10,000 is offered in prizes, with a purse of $5,000 to the winner. There is a breezy Western flavor to the project, which is intensely amusing to players familiar with the orthodox customs of prominent Eastern golf clubs. Most of those seen vesterday were inclined to treat the whole thing as a joke. Walter J. Travis, who should certainly be included in any “world’s championship,” smiled broadly when the subject was mentioned to him.

“I don’t know that I am familiar with the Mound City Country Club,” was his comment. ‘It strikes me as very Western for one thing, and when the matter is broached to the St. Andrews golfers I can imagine their amusement. I don’t think fit will be taken seriously, either here or abroad.” Other players were equally prone to consider the project a good joke. As one of them put it: “Of course, the Mound City players can hold anything they like a=d call it what they please, but as for getting anybody to recognize their claims, that’s a different matter. I suppose if they are foolish enough to give away $10,000 in prizes there will be plenty of men to play for them, but I don’t believe they will get any of the cracks to go in if what I hear is true.” There can be no doubt, however, that the club will push the scheme vigorously. When R. B. Kerr, secretary of the United States Golf Associa tion, reached his office vesterday he found a letter in his mail from President McGrew of the Mound City Club, making application for the association's sanction. “What disposition do you expect to make of it?” Mr. Kerr was asked. He replied: “Why, I hardly know. I do not remember the name of the Mound City Golf Club among the list of members of the association, and so I cannot see how its application comes within our jurisdiction. I will acknowedge the letter, but further than that I cannot say.” The point raised by Mr. Kerr as to the club’s lack of membership in the association is regarded as taking the matter out of the League's hands. According to the constitution, no club may hold a National championship unless an associate mem ber, and it would be hardly proper for the associa tion to give its approval of a world’s champion ship to a club which enjoys neither allied nor as sociate membership. The letter received by Mr. Kerr sets forth that the suggestion that an inter national golf tournament be held in that city in 1903 had been made at a Mound City Country Club meeting, and says that at the annual meeting of the United States Golf Association, in February, he would present a request in proper form for authority to hold ona. Mr. McGrew continues: The reason why the tourney should be held in this city of St. Louis is that during the year 1303 we propose to have a world’s fair, which will be larger, greater and grander than any fair that has ever been held in the world—we make no exceptions—and we think it proper that the royal and ancient game of golf should be advertised properly at that time, and we know of no better way than by giving a sufficient number of prizes to justify a visit from all tne noted golf players in the world. We would not attempt this without the permission of your association. We would also require the permission, of course, of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, In case approval is withheld the St. Louis club will hold a golf tourney, leaving off the champion ship feature, the letter says. A letter of similar import has been addressed to the secretary of the St. Andrews Golf Club, asking that organization to join in giving its consent to the project. While it is hardly possible that either will recognize the championship feature, it seems evident from the tone of Mr. McGrew’s letter that St. Louis will have a tournament that will outrival in lavishness of prizes anything ever held on the links of either country. At the Dyker Meadow Golf Club yesterday, 'n a match with James H. Merritt, a new amateur rec ord for the winter course was established by James L. Taylor. His card was: QUE ascesncssssnsennrnse 5 3 5 5 6 4 6 5 4-43 dn i ciersssenssonsnane 5 4 4 4 4 4 6 3 3371-80 VYARDON TALKS ON AMERICAN GOLF. pn London, Dec. 27.—Harry Vardon, who was a pas senger from New-York on the White Star steamer Majestic, in the course of an interview at Liverpool vesterday said the American people had treated him most hospitably, but that the American golfers had still much to learn, as neither the players nor the links was up to mark. He intimated that he intended to return to the United States soon, but that he had not decided whether he would settle there. The play-off of the tie in Lakewood’'s open tour nament between Walter J. Travis and Archibald Graham, on the North Jersey Country Club, seems likeiy to be postponed until spring. Travis said yesterday that they had tried to arrange the match for New Year's Day, but that Graham found it im possible to arrange his engagements for that date, and that now it had been indefinitely postponed. Jasper Lynch, secretary of the Golf Club of Lake wood, has announced a two day open tournament on the Lakewood links for Monday and Tuesday of next week. Former champion “Will” Smith and David Bell, professional at the Midlothian Country Club, of Chi cago, will begin their series of California matches at Coronado, where they are engaged to play from January 1 to 9. From there they will go to Los Angeles, where a similar series of exhibitions will occur from January 9 to 15. J California has now a half a hundred links, and it promises to become a winter mecca for gollers. Last week new links were opened at Santa Barbara, At Los Angeles the Westmoreland Golf Club has filed articles of incorporation, while the new Sacra mento Golf Club has started its career by engaging W. J. Bradley as its professional. RE A CC CARNIVAL OF SPORTS. The Athletic Committee of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club has prepared a good programme for its winter carnival of sports, to be held in Madison Square Garden on February 4. The one mile Interscholastic team race will be open to the schools of New-York and New-Jersey. The one mile intercollegiate team race, of four men each, each man to run a quarter mile, is expeeted to draw together some of the best of the college runners. Invitations have been extended to Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Columbia and New-York I niversity to enter teams. WON'T FIGHT AT CINCINNATI. The announcement was made by William A. Brady In this city yesterday that the proposed prizefight between James J. Jeffries and '‘Gus™ Ruhlin, scheduled to take place at Cincinnaf) on February 15, would not be held in that city. It was sald that the authorities had decided to pre vent the bout. The proposed contests between Me Govern and Lavigne and McCoy and Ryan are said to be postponed indefinitely. The prizefighters and promoters are Javiag a hard time of it, and it is Janis to look ja f some of them will hays to go to work before long. GOLF. NETTW AMATEUR RECORD.

NOTES OF THE LINKS THE OLD FIN KEEL-CENTREBOARD CON TROVIRSY TO BE FOUGHT OUT AGAIN. Boston, Dec. 26.—The cost of the Hanley cen treboard craft which is to be built for the America’s Cup defence trial race will not exceed $75,000, including the running expenses for the year. C. C. Hanley, her designer, is a great be liever in the best development of the former American type of yacht, and at his City Point yards yesterday he instanced many cases up to the present day in which the pure centreboard yacht, with no outside ballast and with no weighted board, had defeated the more fasnion able keel racers. The Thordis, the winner of her first eighteen straight races, was the forerunner of the Meemer and the Ashumet, which have had much success as centreboarders, as also the first Acushla, the Windora and the Little Petr. The second Acushla, brought out by Hanley for the Hannan brothers, of New-York, was not mentioned, as she proved to be a failure in the New-York waters.

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Hanley's idea is to carry the dimensions of centreboard craft which have been successful in the small classes to the 90-foot class, and there build in the same proportions, relying in the big boat on the stability of broad beam in the same way as the skimming dishes of the old time did. He thinks that yachts with wood en planking and frames, which will give to th€ moticn of seaway, are more desirable than the unyielding structure of steel and bronze, which has no give and take about her. These argu ments are at this day interesting by reason of their antiquity, and are shared by a large num ber of boat builders who carry on business far from the chief yachting centres, but they seem strange after the extraordinary speed records which have been made by the Defender. the Columbia, Valkyrie II, the Syce, the Jolly Roger, and many others of the heavily ballasted fin keel variety. Boston experts are therefore looking forward to the perhaps final proofs regarding a question which for many years formed the greatest and most prolongei yachting argument ever known. The sudden and unexpected change that was made by Her reshoff when he produced the Defender as a keel boat to meet Valkyrie 1II had the ef

fect of leaving the old time question unsettled among the big Cup yachts, and the Vigilant, whose draught is now given in the New-York Yacht Club book as 14 feet 4 inches, was too near the keel type to provide an example for the former representative racer of this coun try. If Hanley succeeds in gaining first place in the trial races he will please a great number of Americans who have been to a large extent coerced by the judgments of Herreshoff and other experts, and who would be glad to go back to the kind of boat they believed in during the earlier years. Mr. Hanley sald yesterday that his plans were now complete, and that the yacht could be begun at once. He also denied that Thomas W. Lawson, the intending owner of the Crown inshield craft, was in any way connected with the centreboard boat which he has designed. A new marine was put down yesterday at the Hanley yards in a large storage basin con nected with the workshops, where there is twenty-eight feet of water at high tide. THE HERRESHOFF BOATS CASTING. THE HERRESHOFF BOAT'S CASTING. NO FLAWS IN IT DISCOVERED YETPROG RESS OF THE WORK. Bristol, R. I., Dec. 26 (Special).—The workmen began this morning to remove the banking of red clay around the ballast mould of the new Herre shoff trial yacht. After the clay and woodwork had been removed the huge casting of lead was exam ined carefully for the purpose of discovering any possible flaws in the running of the metal. So far nont have been found, and the big lump that is expected to do good work for the stability of the next Cup defender is believed to be beyond criti cism. The work of planing down mand smoothing will begin to-morrow. The casting weighs ninety four tons, and after its surface is made as smooth as glass, and after it has been boltéd to the keel plate, it will be sheathed in copper.’ 79 7 The lead keel is thirty feet long onthe top, and its greatest depth at the forcfoot is seven feet. It is pointed at the bow end and is a rounded six inches In thickness at the after end. The height of the stern is five feet, giving the upper part of the lead an upward rake from aft forward. The bulb in its widest part is three feet thick. The yards now have a busy look, and are likely to continue so till May 1. The plates of Tobin bronze have arrived, and have been placed in the metal workers’ department. The plates will be put on in the “in and out” style, as were the Defender’'s and the Columbia’s. The larger angle steels for the midship. section are expected to arrive to-night, and the work of setting up the boat’s frames will be begun as soon as the ballast casting has been bolted to the keel plate. Some of the smaller frames at bow and stern have already been bent to their required curves. The Tobin bronze which has so far arrived weighs 22 000 pounds. HAFF MAY TOOL THE LAWSON BOAT. Boston, Dec. 26 (Special).—Captain Hank Haff, the celebrated skipper of the three cup defenders, Puri tan, Mayflower and Volunteer, arrived in this city to-day and had a long talk with General Paine, the former owner of these successful defenders of days gone by. The confidence existing between General Paine and Hank Haff is a matter of history, and it has always been thought that if the General had any say in cup matters again the old skipper would be once more at the wheel. Mr. Haff also saw Mr. Lawson, the intending owner of the Crownin shield design. The result of the two interviews has been sufficient to east a good deal of doubt on the reported engagement as skipper of ‘“‘Nate" Watson, and it is believed now that Haff has been offered the command of the Lawson craft. LIPTON'S AGENT CALLED HOME. re The sudden departure of David Barrie yesterday on the steamship St. Louis caused some caurlosity as to the reason of his recall. He said before leav ing here that he only received word from Sir Thomas Lipton on Monday last, and he supposed that he was wanted in regard to matters con nected with the challenge races. His own words were: “You know from previous experience what a lot of arrangements have to be made before the challenger arrives on this side, such as the char tering of tugs, tenders and other vessels, and I suppose this could hardly be settled fully by letter, and that many of these matters of detail will have to be talked over.” David Barrie is the New-York agent of Sir Thomas Lipton, who attended to all the prior ar rangements for the first Shamrock. AFFAIRS OF THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN—BELDING NOT A CAN DIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. AFFAIRS OF THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN—BELDING NOT A CAN DIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. The veteran officials of the League of American Wheelmen are much concerned over the loss of membership in the organization, and the prediction is made that some plain truths will be spoken at the annual convention at Philadelphia, in February. Conway W. Sams, of Baltimore, the president, says that he will not stard for re-election. While he does not favor any man in particular for the office, he seems to be of the opinion that Robert T. Kings bury, of New-Hampshire, the present first vice phesicent, is the most likely candidate ror the place. he membership has dropped steadily ever since the cry was raised against racing, and many peo ple are of the opinion that the veteran members made a woful blunder when they decided to cut away from all connection with sport. To-day the total membership is less than 26,000. The highwater mark was over 100,000. Other candidates mentioned in connection with the office of president are A. B. Choate, of Minnesota; H. 8. Earle, of Michigan, and Milo M. Belding, jr., of this State. Some of the State official's are disposed to depose Abbot Bas sett, the secretary, and to have the National head quarters moved from Boston to this city. It is sald that neither President Sams nor Mr. Bassett has drawn more than one-half of his stipulated salary this year. i

Some of the professional and amateur riders in this distriet are of the opinion that the death of Oscar Aronson, a competitor in the recent six day race at Madison Square Garden, might have beun avoided if proper precautions had been taken im mediately after he was injured on the track. In speaking about Aronson, a rider sald yesterday:

The trouble with Aronson was that those who were looking after him aftér the accident gave too much attention to his bumps and bruises, and too little to his Physical condition generally. he been remove the building immediately after the accident, the chances are that the pneumonia

Some of the professional and amateur riders in this distriet are of the opinion that the death of Oscar Aronson, a competitor in the recent six day race at Madison Square Garden, might have beun avoided if proper precautions had been taken im mediately after he was injured on the track. In speaking about Aronson, a rider sald yesterday: The trouble with Aronson was that those who were looking after him aftér the accident gave too much attention to his bumps and bruises, and too little to his P sical condition generally. Had he been removed from the building immediately after the accident, the chances are that the pneumonia YACHTING. CYCLING. in time to have might have been controlled saved his life. It is singular, however, how these athlates drop off like a shot as soon as any dangerous illness tackles them. The popularity of the sidepath movement in this State can be testified to when it 1s known that 150,000 sidepath tags were disposad of during the year. These sidepath tags sold for 50 cents each in all counties except Monroe, where only half of the amount was charged. When it is remembered that thousands of riders did not take out tage it can be seen that there were many bicycles in this State during the year. THE RACETRACK. HOLIDAY SPORT AT NEW-ORLEANS UNDER FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. New-Orleans, Dec. 26.—Weather fair: track fast, Miss Hanover was run up $205 over the entered ing price and bought in. May was fined $25 for careless ride on Colonel Cassidy in the sixth race, which possibly lost him third place. Summaries: FIRST RACE—Selling;; one mile. Jeasle Jardoe. 101 (Richards), Shlamd3ul. SAR hee Dugzenia 9. 89 (Cochran? 7 to 2 and 8 to 5.......... Zanetto, 102 (Brennan), 10 0 1.....ceececenccnss seed Time—1:42%. Waterhouse, Defender II, Jim Conway, Bright Night, Grey Dog, L. W., La Princessa, Crystalline and Jerry Lee also ran. SECOND RACE-—Selling: one mile. Animosity, 107 (Wilkerson) even and 1 to 2....c00venee 1 Menace, 96 (May), 1210 1 and 5 0 L..v.feeuvnenaseens Valdez, 108 (McQuade), 12 to 1........ REO 3 Time—1:42%. Varro, Gracious, Sempire, Egyptian Prince, Porter B., Belle of Elgin, Hinsdale and Kohnwreath also ram. THIRD RACE—Selling; mile and a quarter. Monk Wayman, 112 (Mitchell), 4 to 1 and 8to 1 Major Mansir, 85 (Cochran). 3 Stool and even.....oeuuun Beana, 102 (May), 3s a SH Bees vnnnvrrnenns ava Time—2 AA Admetus, Governor Boyd, Spurs and Sir Fitzhugh also ran. FOURTH RACE—Handicap: six furlongs. W. J. Deboe, 01 (A. Weber), 5 to 1 and 2 to 1........ 1 Georgie, 111 (Cochran), EL five Sand even.......scavne.. 2 Sakatuck, 109 (Dupee), 5 to 1......c.cocnnn Bs akbwhnins 3 Dash 14 Goebel, Choice, Diana Fonso, Midsummer, Cherries, W. J. Baker and Bertha Nell aisc ran. FIFTH RACE—Selling; one mile and fifty yards. i Miss Hanover, 101 (A. Weber), 8 to 2 and even........ 1 Belle of Simpson, 98 (Cochran), 20 to t and 8 to 1...... 2 McGrathiana Prince, 107 (Mitchell), 8 t0 5.....cvunnn.. 3 Time—1:45. Fleuron and Sockem also ran. SIXTH RACE—Selling. One mile. W. B. Gates, 103 (A. Weber). TtoS and 1 to 2........ 1 Pacemaker, 108 (Dupee), 3 to 2 ard 8 to 10....... aren 3 Eitholin, 106 (Berman), 8 to 1........ccviircnetnnnnans 3 Time—1-41%. Colonel Cassidy, Henry of Franstamar, Heroics, Helen Paxton, Tragedy Judge Magee and Tom Cromwell also ran. ENTRIES FOR TO-DAY. First race (selling; one mile)—Fannie Leland, 84: Star Cotton, 94; Sunlocks, 97; Brother Fred, 103; Monomaniac, 103; Frank Ireland, 103. Tago, 108; Inuendo, 108; Faith, 103° Ward, 103; Blocker, 103; Petit Maitre, 104; The Planet, 108. Second race (selling; six furlongs)—Patchwork, 99; Bells of in, 103; Sig. Levy, 103; Divonne, 103; Ep. Curtsey, 105; atin, 105; Callear, 08; Georgia Gardner, 107; Johnnie McCarthy, 108; Amoroso, 109; Syncopated Sandy, Third race (selling; six furlo Bragiblcusin a oT; Scorpaleite, 97; Rondell, 97; Billy tterson, 97; 87; ur. 97; Glenbow. 100; Cogswell, 100: Red HE 101; Assessment, 103; Rommerrack, 104; Shut ow Fourth race (handicap; six and a half furl nen Lake, 06; Left Bower, 87; Tom Collins, I Ree Baker, 103; Annoy, 103; Meroni, 104; Sir Florian, 0 Fifth race (soliing; six furlongs)—Monometallist, 102; Pillardist, 102; Zaza, 102; Azua, 102; Diggs, 107; Junaetta, 107; Kiss Quick, 108; Thurles, 110; Mo elmo, 111; Come mand, 111; Horseshoe Tobacco, 112; Bermuda Prince, 113. Sixth race (selling; one and onc-sixteenth miles) —Bar rica, 96; Miss Loretta, 86; Lady Curzon, 06; Dick Furber, 09; Pantland, 102; Uhlers, 105; Phidias, 105; Spurs, 105; Heroics, 107. ENTRIES FOR TO-DAY. First race (selling; one mile)—Fannie Leland, 84; Star Cotton, 94; Sunlocks, 97; Brother Fred, 103; Monomaniac, 103; Frank Ireland, 103; Tago, 108; Inuendo, 108; Faith, 103; Ward, 103; Blocker, 103; Petit Maitre, 104; The Planet, 108. Second race (selling; six furlongs)—Patchwork, 99; Belle of in, 103; Sig. Levy, 103; Divonne, 103; Ep. Curtsey, 105; atin, 105; Callear, 08; Georgia Gardner, 107; Johnnie McCarthy, 108; Amoroso, 109; Syncopated Sandy, Third race (selling; six furlo Bragiblcusin a oT; Scorpoleite, 87; Rondell, 97; Billy tterson, oo 87; ur. 97; Glenbow. 100; Cogswell, 100; a Sigma 101; Assessment, 103; Rommerrack, 104; a Up. X Fourth race (handicap; six and a half furl het: nen Lake, 06; Left Bower, 87; Tom Collins, I J. Baker, 103; Annoy, 103; Meroni, 104; Sir Florian, on Fifth race (soliing; six furlongs)—Monometallist, 102; Pillardist, 102; Zaza, 102; Azua, 102; Diggs, 107; Junaetta, 107; Kiss Quick, 108; Thurles, 110; Mo elmo, 111; Come mand, 111; Horseshoe Tobacco, 112; Bermuda Prince, 113. Sixth race (selling; one and onc-sixteenth miles) —Bar rica, 96; Miss Loretta, 86; Lady Curzon, 96; Dick Furber, 29; Pantland, 102; Uhlers, 105; Phidias, 105; Spurs, 105: ernie p CLOSE FINISHES AT SAN FRANCISCO. SS San Francisco, Dec. 26.—The sport at Tanforan to-day was marked by close finishes and the defeat of the favorites, five of them failing to connect. “Winnie” O'Connor was in evidence, riding three winners and being second twice. Mounce put two over at good prices. Don Luis, a 15 to 1 shot, was the surprise of the day. He beat Herculean, favor ite in the last race, in a drive. Weather fine; track good. Summaries: FIRST RACE—Flve furlongs: selling. Montallade, 104 (Mounce), 8 to 1... .c.vinvinnn 1 Carter H. Harrison, jr., 104 (O'Connor), 12 to 1.. Maud Ferguson, 104 (Enos) 10 to 1 3 Time—1:01%. Genua, Espirando, Jingle Jingle, Saintly, Novua, Merry Boy and Alleviate also ran. SECOND RACE—One mile; selling. Pupil, 104 (Mounce), 10 to 1........... vesarnsasen FREES Alas, 104 (O'Connor). 11 10 J...coveavverenranemesees Imperious, 105 (J. Woods), 4% to 1......... cerereneens 8 Time—1:42%. Duckey, Lothian, Cyril, Socialist, Mary Kinsella, Lou Rey, Melkarth and Jolly Briton also ran. THIRD RACE—Seven and one-half furlongs. *Artilla, 104 (O'Connor), 4 to i.. McGyle, 104 (J. Woods), even... *Sam Howard, 104 (J. Waldo)..... Shrsstteter niet ant Time—1:386. 1 2 *Sam Howard and Artilla coupled in betting. William F. Eight Dollare, Lizella, Sweet Voice, Geld Finder, Jim McGowan, Canejo, Nemesis and Lily Maud also ran. FOURTH RACE—One mile: selling. Torsida, 107 (O'Connor), 8 to 5........ ssasssasuantanss 1 Billy Moore, 100 (Burlingame), 50 to 1.....cccvevnnans 2 Coming Event, 96 (J. Waldo), 9 togl..... snassenenenss 9 Time—1:43. Sybaris, Kickumbobk, Mitten, St. Wood and Bellpunch also ran. FIFTH RACE—Five and one-half furlongs. Toah, 115 (O'Connor), 6 tO J..ccaccrecrcncnnsarssnnens Eonle, 115 (Farrell), 8 to 1 2 Bab, 116 (T. Burns). 9 to 3........ Rasessssstansetnnns 3 Time—1:08. Courtier, David S., Argreror, Rathmar, Oscar Tolle, Follow Me and Instante also ran. SIXTH RACE—Mile; selling. Don Luis, 99 (Coburn), 15 to 1...... PIERRE GO NT SNA ly Herculean, 101 (Mounce), 8 to 5....ccevvevenenenns ee 3 Lamachus, 93 (J. Walsh), 6 t0 J..eeevirrnannccnnnnnen Time—1:42%. Uarda, Perseus, Hohenlohe, Gliesando and Wallenstein also ran. ENTRIES FOR TO-DAY. First race (mile and a sixteenth; purse)—Acrobat, 105; Free Lance, 104; Walkenshaw, 102; Meadow Lark, 101; Ping. 101; Tirade, 100; Limelight, 99; Perseus, 86: Jen nie Reid, 93; Snips, 95; Opponent, 87 Second race (one mile; prize; three-year-olds and upward)—Free Pass, 102: Ulloa, 102; Jolly Briton, 102; Royal Prize, 102; Spike. 102: Gold Baron, 102; Foul Play, 102; King's Pal, 102; Devereaux, 102; Parmenion, 102: ‘Synia, 102; MeGyle. 102. Third race (hurdles; mile and three-q hapds cap, over seven hurdles)—Lome, 1358; og ey Eva Moe, 138: Texarkana, 182; Mike Rice, 125; Charles Lebel, 125; Silverado, 120; May Boy, 120. Fourth race (six furlongs; Re two-year-olds) Gelden Age, 118; Joe Frey, 116; Silu 105; Articulate, 103: Marshall Neil, 108; Tenny Belle, 100; Andrattus, 100; Bard of Avon, 100; Ada N.. 100. Fifth race (mile and a quarter: selling)-—Locochee, 107; Topmast, 107; Lothian. 107; Sir Rolla, 104; Imperious, 104; Koenig, 104; Owensboro, 101; Morinel, 101; La Bor gia, 92. Sixth race (five and one-half furlongs: maiden two year-olds)—Immodel. 108; Grayletta, 108: Cambaceres, 108; Limb of the Law, 105; Fonse, 103; Haratamb, 105: Straight Shot, 105: Spindle, 105; Long Tom, 105: Tola, 105; Slap Dash, 105; Follow Me, 105. pe Vail, 4 ST ioFUNe, JATRTHITIRE TIR TERA as Tr aaahae also ran. ENTRIES FOR TO-DAY. First race (mile and a sixteenth; purse)—Acrobat, 105; Free Lance, 104; Walkenshaw, 102; Meadow Lark, 101; Ping. 101; Tirade, 100; Limelight, 99; Perseus, 86: Jen nie Reid, 93; Snips, 85; Opponent, 87 Second race (one mile; prize; three-year-olds and upward)—Free Pass, 102: Ulloa, 102; Jolly Briton, 102; Royal Prize, 102; Spee, 102: Gold Baron, 102; Foul Play, 102; King's Pal, 102; Devereaux, 102; Parmenion, 102: ‘Synia, 102; MeGyle. 102. Third race (hurdles; mile and three—g hapdy cap, over seven hurdles)—Lome, 1358; og ey 5 Eva Moe, 138: Texarkana, 182; Mike Rice, 125; Charles Lebel, 125; Silverado, 120; May Boy, 120. Fourth race (six furlongs; ro two-year-olds) Gelden Age, 118; Joe Frey, 116; Silurian, 105; Articulate, 103: Marshall Neil, 108; Tenny Belle, 100; Andrattus, 100; Bard of Avon, 100; Ada N.. 100. Fifth race (mile and a quarter: selling)-—Locochee, 107; Topmast, 107; Lothian. 107; Sir Rolla, 104; Imperious, 104; Bens, 104; Owensboro, 101; Morinel, 101; La Bor gia, 92. Sixth race (five and one-half furlongs; year-olds)—Immodel. 108; Grayletta, 108: Cambaceres, 108; Limb of the Law, 105; El Fonse, 103; Haratamb, 105: Straight Shot, 105: Spindle, 105; Long Tom, 105: Tola, 105: Slap Dash, 105; Follow Me, 105. two TARAL TO RIDE IN VIENNA. Mount Vernon, N. Y., Dec. 26.—Fred Taral, the jockey, has signed a contract to ride for Baron von Zeitaffel, of Vienna, Austria, for the next three vears, and will sail for Europe in February. Taral will take with him to Vienna, with the rest of his family, his son, John Fred Taral, whom he is train

ing to be a jockey. On his return from the Austrian engagement, Taral contemplates retiring from the

+rrf PRIZEFIGHTERS ARRESTED. NO HAVEN FOR PUGILISTS TO BE FOUND IN NEW-JERSEY. 1] NO HAVEN FOR PUGILISTS TO BE FOUND IN NEW-JERSEY. Perth Amboy, N. J., Dec. 26.--Thomas Dwyer was arrested here to-day on a capias iss'ed by County Judge Woodbridge Strong, charging him with tak ing part in a prizefight at Woodbridge several weeks ago. The fight, which took place at an entertainment advertised as a “smoker,” was in vestigated by the Middlesex Grand Jury, but it was not known that a indictments were found until Dwyer was arrested.

Thomas Dunphy, who once ht with “Tom my” Ryan, has also been arrest and other ar rests are expected.

NO OPPOSITION IN N. Y. A. C. ANNUAL ELECTION OF THE CLUB LIKELY TO BE A FRIENDLY ONE THIS YEAR. ANNUAL ELECTION OF THE CLUB LIKELY TO BE A FRIENDLY ONE THIS YEAR. Members of the New-York Athletic Club seen at the clubhouse, in Fifty-ninth-st., last night wére of the opinion that there would not be any eppesition ticket in the fleld this winter. The regular nomina tions, headed by President Van Wormer, have been made and posted, and for the first time In vears the members as a whole seem to be entirely satisfied with the selection made by the Nomi nating Committee.

Still, there is a chance that tha different ele ments in the club may decide at the last minute

to name independent candidates. The ziection will 1ake place on Jan 5, which will give 3 Stance 0 any possi e op on post up t Inidnlgnt on Saturday Ro club wil serene usual refres ertainment the house on New ean ATEW YORK SUPREME COURT NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, COUNTY Sia BY oa i OF NEW YORK.—The Mutual Life Insurance Come Bat of Rew So. Plaintiff, against Jacod D. Butler and others, In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreciosurs and Sale, duly made and entered ir the above-entitled actiom, ng Sau the Sib 3 day at December, 1900, I, the in Public Auction, at the New York Real Estats No. 111 Broadway, in the Borough of Manbat New York. on the Sth day of January, 1901, noon, on that day. by Peter F. Meyer Co.. the premises directed Hy sald judgment to therein described as follows: ~All that certain lot, piece, or parcel of the City of New York and bounded and lows: Beginning at the Northeasterly corner dred and forty-fourth Street and Convent A ning thence Easterly along the Northerly line of dred and forty-fourtn Street one hundred Rutherit and parallel with Convent Avenue thence terly parallel with One hundred a Be a Bn dred feet to th ly line of thence Southerly along the Easterly line of nue twenty feet to the t or place of to any sxisting cov ts and agicenunts and against nuisances affecting Dated, New York, December 10th, 1906. JOHN DELAHUNTY. Rafores. CHARLES E. MILLER, Attorney for Plaintiif, 32 Nas pau Street, Rew For City. ot wa The a diagram of tne property sold described above, the street number being 73 Convent Ave

i at i tig re I adil Ree RAIL WAY JUBAUO, STV SWEETS The approximate amount of the lien or charges to sat. tafy xhish She above described property ia to 36 eOid. Bf 1.258 33-100, with interest thereon from the 84 day mber, 1900, together with costs and allowance amounting to $423.28, with interest from December Tth, 1800. together with the expenses AY the ap= proximate amount of taxes, assessments, or othe~ Mens, which are to be allowed to the Jarcaner out of $a yar terest. Dated. New York, December 10th. 1500. JOHN DELAHUNTY. Referees. ET HT HH HII ee E IN _——__ QUPREME COURT County of New York bounded and deserided as follows from sald map: UPREME COURT County of New Xorg. Joan Ra Plaintiff, ve. Walter M. Stafford, et al, Defendants. In pursuance of a judgment of foreclosure and sales made and entered in the above entitled date the sixth day of December. 1900, IL the the referee in=said judgment named, will sell at auction at the New York Real Estate Salesroom, Broadway, in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, on the 31st day of December 1900, at 12 o'clock noon on that day, by James IL. Wells, Esq., auctioneer, premises directed by said judgment to be sold, and therein described as follows All those three certain lots. pieces or parcels of jand with the improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and County

beng in the Borough of the Broax, City, and State of New York, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Being al! those three certain lots, Nos. 16. IT and 13, on a Map designated as a “Map of building portion of the Dater Estate in the 23rd Ward of New York™ as surveyed and laid owt by Horne, City Surveyor, and which said map was the office of the Register of the County of New the 28th day of September, 1802. and designated No. 739. and which said three 0ls taken together i H iH ginning at the cormer formed by the intersection of northerly side of 136th Sireet with the easterly side Union Avenue: running thence Northerly Along the easterly side of Union Avenue Eighty-six and one-hundredths (86.42) feet to lot No. 13 on the aforesald map: thence Easterly er nearly so and along a line drawn between said lots 18, 17 and 18 on the one side said lot No. 13 on the said map on the other side X five and sixty-seven one-hundredths (85.67) feet to lot g 10 on the aforesaid map: thence Southerly or nearly so along a line drawn between said lot Nou IS on the side and said lor No. 19 ca the aforesaid map on the side One hundred and four and eighty-seven dredths (104.37) feet to the sald northerly side Street: and thence Westerly along sald northerly 156th Street Seventy-five (73) feet to the peat or beginning, b2 said several distances and ess. 1 Dated New York, December Tth, 1900 THOMAS J. RUSH, Referes, MERRILL ROGERS. Attu a tor Plaintiff, 111 Breadway. LX. CIty. The folinwing is a diagram of the property to be sold as described above, the street numbers being 716 Union Ave nue and 1007, 1008, 1011 East 138th Street.

i. ni i Tha approximate amount of the lien er Shares to satity which the above described property is be sold is $1770.98, with interest thereon from the ath day of De cember, 1800. together with costs and allowances ing to $160.25, with interest from Dec. 6th, 1900, with the expenses of the sale. The premises will be scid subject to four certain prior mortgages Two for $11,000 each, on which two mortgages there is due the principal sum of $13,000," gt interest thereon from October 3, 100 at J por annum. A Third for $18. thers is due the pricigal October 20, at sum of $18,000, with interest from annum. ra Fourth for $15,950; on which there is due the gei cipal sum of $15.950; with interest thereon from 80, 1900, at 6% per antrum. Dated New York, TRéemBesTth, 1000. TC _ wOoMaAl T RUSH Referee. ATEW YORK SUPREME COURT. COUNTY OF NEW YORK.—Cord Meyer and Chris Meyer, as executors of the last will of Cord ceased, plaintiffs against Henry Bushmann and defendants. In pursuance of a judgment of and sale, duly made and entered in the above tion. bearing date the 23rd day of December, 1} undersigned, the referee in said judgment named, at public auction at the New York Real Estate NX». 111 Broadway, in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, on the twenty-seventh day of December, at twelve o'clock noon on that day, by Peter F. auctioneer, the premises directed by eald scld. and therein described as follows: All that certain Jot of land, with the buildings thereon, situated in the Twenty-third Ward of tne City and of New York. which was desig ated as fot numb 2umbep 206 on “Map of Wilton, Port Morris and Fast M of Morrizania. County of Westchester. N. To surveyed by Burkhout, Civil Engineer, New York, TE 5 ‘filed September 20. 1837. and numbered 3; of the Clerk (now office of the Register), o County, bounded and described as follows: Ta the point of intersection of the Easterly line of Avenue with the Northerly line of One Hundred and tieth Street, and running thence Sont last mentioned line, one hundred and four (108& thence Northeasterly and parallel with Robbins Avenue. fifty (50) feet: thence N rthwesterly and with One Huhived and Fiftieth Street, one hundred Sout (104) feet to the Easterly line of Robbins Avenue, and thence Sout! westerly along ‘he last mentioned ine, Any (30) feet to the point of beginning. Dated New York, December 4. 1900 DAVID R. DALY. Referee. EDWARD T. HCRWILL, Attorney for Plaintiffs, No. BS Montague Street, Brooklyn, Neg York. e following is a dlagram of the property above de scribed and it is known by the street numbers 580 and 332 Map Number 578) Robbins Avenue.

Ji nl HE The approximate amourt of the lien or cizrgs to satisfy which the above described property is to be sold is $8,318.87, with interest thereon from Nove.cter 21, 1900: together with costs and allowance to plain! ffs’ aleunting to 3375.31-100 wirh interest fon December 1800, also with costs to the guacdia~ ad of the ppro taxes, other liens which are te be allowed to the purchaser of the purchese money or paid by the referee is $490. or terest, Dated New York, December 4, 1900. VAVID R. DALY. Referee. NEW YORK SUPREME COURT Po of rie New York, The Em: nt Industrial Sa Plaintiff, against Charles F. Rime and others, In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and duly made and entered in the above-entitled action, ing date the 13th day of December, 1800. I the signed, the Referee in Said judgment named, will sell at Public Auction. at the New York Real state Salesroom, No. 111 Broadway, tn the Borough of Manhattan, of New York, on the 13th day of January, 1801, _—n o'clock noon. on that day. by D. Phenix Ingraham, Auctioneer, the premises directed by sald judgment to be sold, and therein described as follows:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the 12th Ward of the Clty of New York (Borough of hattan), on the Westerly side of Third Avenue, and described as follows, viza.: Easterly in front by the Third Avenue, Westerly by a line drawn parallel to the Third Avenue at the distance of Ninety feet therefrom, Northerly by the centre line of the block be tween One hundred and twenty-sixth Street and One hun dred apd twenty-seventh Street, and Southerly by a Une drawn parallel to the sald centre line on the side thereof at the distance of twenty-four feet inches therefrom and seventy-five feet northerly northerly line of One hundred and twenty-sixth Street, the said lot being twenty-four feet and tem inches width throughout and ninety feet in depth on each side.

Dated, New York, December 24, 1900. ARTHUR D. TRUAX. Referees. R. E. J. O'GORMAN, Attorneys for ainug, 4 and 51 Chambers St., Borough of Manha! b York fegk i i 258 City. The follow is a diagram of the to be as described above, the street number No 2.888 Third Avenue: beng 19% Strvant AS0TR Sireet. The te amount of the lien or charge satisfy which the above-described property is to be $22 368 67-100, with interest thercom from amounting to $323 30-100, with interest i 18th, 1900. together with the expemses of the sale. The approximate amount of laxes, assessments or other ich are to be allowed to the out the purchase money, or paid by the is $2. Tis 53-200 and interest. Dated, New York, December th: TIO ARTHUR TRUAX. Referse. DVERTISEMENTS and Suber HHpHione x received at their Uptown Office, No. 2d door north of 31st-st., until 9 o'clock p. advertine ments received at the following branch Nnces at sifice rates until 8 o'clock p. m., viz: 354 Sth-ave., 23d-st.. 152 Gth-ave., cor. 12th-st.; Macy's, Shave, i }4th-st.. 142 Columbus-ave., near West G8th-st. West 424-st., near Gth-ave.; 92 East lith-st am 42-st.. batween Tth and Sth aves. 159 East ATtheat.: 8d-ave., between Toth and TTth sts; 1, Sd-ave., near Slat-st.; 1,708 1st-ave.,, near S0th-st.: Tremont-ave.; foreclosnre Sales. 3dr 158th SF Ne BE i E. Centre Line of Block. Centre Line of Block.

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The stock market opened strong and excited, svith an enormous volume of business in all de partments. Advances of two and three points were common in the initial dealings, but before the end of the first hour speculative liquidation caused reactions throughout the list, many stocks losing a good part of their early improve ment. The pace at the opening was too rapid. Heavy profit taking sales, however, induced greater caution among enthusiastic bulls, while they created a better technical situation and attracted substantial buying in all the attractive stock and bond issues. Afternoon trading was accompanied by a quieter business, but by re mewed strength throughout the market. Peo ple's Gas was a prominent feature; also Brook iy» Rapid Transit, which made a maximum gain of over five points. Both stocks were taken by good class of buyers, while in each issue the ghort interest was forced to beat a retreat. People’s Sas stock has nothing to commend it ss 2 short sale, but, on the other hand, it has #n its favor many factors that entitle the stock to 2 higher price, and which now appear to be exerting their proper influence upon its quota tion level. It is generally believed that changes of importance in the stock ownership of Brook vn Rapid Transit have taken place, but a good and sufficient reason for the advance in the company’s shares may be found in growing earn ings, reduced cost of franeEportation and divi dend possibilities. All tlie good stocks were in active demand in the“Jast hour, with heavy buying orders for traders who sold earlier in

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Texas and Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Many speculative holders of stocks will un doubtedly convert paper profits into cash this week. The idea has gone abroad, although it is not universally accepted, that the market will reach its bull limit by the first of the new year and that the reinvestment of January dividends and interest will mark the end of buoyancy in stocks. In well informed circles it is thought, however, that people who buy at the current level on good margins will be able to weather any speculative storm that may develop, and sell thelr securities at big profits early in the new year. The bear element will take advan tage cf the flimslest sort of unfavorable de welopment to weaken prices, but, barring some radical change in the situation, there should be little opportunity for important bear success. Money will be easy for the next three months at least, save, perhaps, for the rest of this week. Factors governing actual values will doubtless continue in favor of higher prices, and speculative conditions ought not to produce more than passing reactions. The breadth of the present market and the character of buying ap pear to insure a continuance of bull activity for gome time to come. If sharp declines take piace, so much the better for speculation. When the cheap and medium priced stocks have en Joyed the improvement to which they are en titled by increased intrinsic worth it will be time to believe that the bull market is at an end. Meanwhile it will pay to exercise caution. It will pay to base speculative operations on big margins and to refuse to be upset by tem parary downward fluctuations.

'nion in 71% Thi 8/33; TRY, 70 s3% ng 7 587, Nu 3 KT, s 19 El a 7 We is ress 5 78Y 4“ whe v 7 £3 4 oe] Aiki 8314 4,9 1's a 1 nn a 4.910 60 p34 1st L Tel ,270 "ws 1 d pret. 12 Ba. o ewes 28 44 4 Totel I Certs EL sal a3 s 0 oS ds S1 1 LS. $a.1908, B Us. ae] 18 -8. Jone 0 1S A 5 dn i00T 110% FH 2 2 de. 1907 cox. 1 U.S 3 3% Hig 17 DE. ba. cou. 4 Boman 1003. Asked a vy 1 reeils 189 3 w 1, cou -105% LH 3-85a1 108 10 poh Snoomes, 1 ern P Mi 0 od me 3 Activity In Southern Pacific was a feature in yesterday's market, while buying of all the Southwestern stocks was a noteworthy develop ment of the Gay. Texas and Pacific received a fair share of speculative attention. While the ralircads in the East, West, Northwest, and to Some extent In the South, have figured in big deals and In the community of ownership scheme, the roads in thc Southwest have en jcyed prominence through growing earnings &lone. It cannot be doubted, however, that al! the Southwestern properties will soon attract greater attention through the extension of the concentration of control idea. Moreover, other developmenis which will have a favorable ef fect upon Southwestern securities are thought to be pending. Dividends are in prospect fo: Bouthern Pacific, Missour! Pacific, Atchison common, Bt. Louis Southwestern preferred and Missouri, Kanses and Texas preferred. Boutherr Pacific's stock is now held by some of the strongest banking and raiiroad interests in the country, and it is not unlikely that a plan tc pay dividends in 1901 is being arranged. Tota sales were 1,423 467 shares.

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as 18 RIE TARA 73EPERED A ATE ZAR ay aia oF THE DAY'S OPERATIONS IN RON THE DAY'S OPERATIONS IN BONDS, GOVERNMENT BONDS.—Market strong. Final guotations follow RAILROAD BONDS. Market Strong. Total sales amounted In par value to $4,256,700, against $3461.500 on Saturday. The heaviest dealings were in the Atchison issues, Baltimore and Ohle 4s, Brooklyn Union Elevated ists, Central of Georgia Bs, 24 and 34 incomes, Central Pacific #%s, Erie

general 4s, St. Louis and Jron Mountain 4s, St. Louis Southwestern 1sts and 28s, Northern Pacific 4s, Southern Rallway 1st 5s, Union Pacific 4s, Wabash debenture Rallway Ist Gs, co nsin Central gereral 4s, BONDS. |Open High|Low. Fin.| Bid.| Ask.| sold. |e js rf ws Bu CT 24 Bol foul Bi ki it 1245 ao az! 32%] 82) 32 82%) 400 oa pod 91 91 Foy 58 na s2 |1s2 [182 [182 [178 [190 17 x Nn 0 40 39%| 40% 300 Wal Th TOK) The Tha) TR), U5 7] 7 1 88Yy oo 37% 37% 30% oS 2.540 or or |o27 lor [21 21] 800 fox Zl Ba 85% 55% 55%| 3.516 961s] U6%| 96 96% B6%| 97 2,085 4415] 44%] 44%] 21,450 451, 4D 43% a 50 CREME iH Sal 33%] 2.800 ir ae iba aE 1 11 oh Ame pean. Mitta ito uz 1s 100 Cablel 1 wip wm i} =r ART HE a EE ER TE emndondn oar atu] 47 48% 18 1.700 Zo os oe 58 B8%! 58 1.000 88 Bx! Sou 87] 47ie| 47x] 47900 88% 88% 87% 88% 881g 25,760 i 9415] 82% Bas is Bis 5,00 Tox 7a Fou 78%] 76 76% 25 3 2 at RE onl so Si] 878] 8° [126,640 75% [175% 170% 1 Se 18 100 5 85 85 80 90 100 oy Bui Budd GX l= Canada South...| 58 58% 57%] 58% 58 ii 1,000 i Paci 146 146 |145%)146 [1451 148 500 Ches Ohio. 42%] 42% 41% pein 421; 42 12.28 Chic Bur Qv.|142% 142% 140% 141% 141 141%] 20.150 Chic East-ll.| Di K eer Chic Alton... 40% 41 40 14 40% 4,700 rr 76 74%) T5%| 75 T5%| 2.050 ol Tlie 18 16%] 16 16 16 16%] 2.100 do pref A..... 76% 70% T6%| 76% T6%| T6%| 125 do pref B.....| 413] 4215] 41% 4214) 42 4215] 800 do deb.. 91g] 91% Pll 91% 91%| B13] 440 cn Jnd Louis.| 27% 2s) 2 26% 27 300 "St P.. 15 190 190% [1 383 1385 1885 59.730 cn Mis Pow 18434 1525 1841 184 185 507 on Ran 1167 167 167 168 [169 100 do prof... [215 0 3s {39s Bub 180 Chie R14 Pac. 119% 120/119 119% 119% (120 13.570 CSL PM&O. 125 135 [125 1125 125 127 BO Pref... _— Chic i Tr...} 1s! 13 au) 1 2, 13% 2 2% 508 0 pPref..cu.ces Cl Til To%| Tiel T2 72 72%! 1,800 Ss Clam iis us 1s jus 80 1 S— m—— on Le os eel| Im 1 T0 8&8 70 500 Clev 2 Pitts. —_— —_ ool Pod, iron! 55 568% b4%| 60% 0% 5% 9,825 DO PRs nssnssr Col Soi. 81% 8 TH TX TH 1,300 o 1st pref....| —_— _O oc. Com Cable......| R Consol Coal. Bo Ga 191 [103% 190% 103% |199% [104 5.627 *Cont Tobacco. 3 ik 3 on oes Fy 050 “a Sh Du con Ik 129% [122% 123 (122% 1124 3.800 Denv Ric Or 20% pity 180% 15g a00% son env do pref........ se) F944: Sax 84% 85 2512 M Ft oi 20 20 19%) 10% 19%] 20 825 LUD. RR —_— _— —_— a— uly Rap pean® TOE LW hee) sa slic a8 th As 3 aml Bare: on U0 LL 26 26 26% 24% 25% 25% 25%( 40,210 sh 44 2 44 3415] 44 4415] 400 COEEIE IE REE a v BTL 81 a9 do pref ex aiv| Tea 78! 7 15 TT%| TT Tia, 2.5638 0 T. I] -4 Gas El B Co.| T1%/| 71% Fol isl 1 100 Gen PElectrie Do l139 200" ort pot 185 1.500 Glucose Sug R..| 4! 4 ,03: Go pref........ 08 7 98 400 Gt Northern’ pf. 180% 1805 (188% 189 188% (180% 1,000 HB Clafin.... 113 114 1118 1118 Hocking Valley.. 42% 42% 42% 42y 421% 1,250 Wi pret, SEER T4h Tabs 2 2 Tas, 7 au hi R25 omestake Illinois Central. 190% 1304 120% 128% 120% B50 do Leased ne Int Paper....... 2431 28 2415) 25% 25%) 26 6,700 do pref...... T3145] 14%) T3 1 TH 73%! T4 2.400 *int Power...... 1%] 55 6413] 5 65 55% 600 Int Silver..... 4%) 5% Jowa Central.... %i 20%! a! 22%! 23! 5,169 BO Pref. ..o.nn pid) on 473, 48 48 amg 1,200 Int Steam Pump! 29 Bu 29 205 28 2019 1,238 BD PIF .csessss (ls TT% —_— Kana Mich. 23 22 120 1.22 124 129 Kan City So. 1414 Pr 14%! 145! 14%] 143%] 1,400 do pretf........| 837%] 37%] 368! 87 86%] 37%| 1.100 Keok Des —_— —_ blag 5%! G0 pret. ....co —_— —_—t a 22 25 ee King Pem. 0%! 93%] 01! 8] 83 9p 100 Knick Ice of i 123.1 19 rem BO pet. 5 rneee 43 55 a Laclede Gas....| “3 _ G0 PIL. anne —_ 29% 100 i L E Western.| 48 48151 48 48% 473] 48%! 1,230 B00 pref...ene- 113% (114 [113%|114 [113 [118 400 Lake Shore..... —_— 20 260 Long Island..... T2 Louis Nash. i 57% 87 87 8114 six ik 8,625 Man Beach.....| 17 Manhattan El. [11 116% n2y 116% 1164 116% 80,300 Md Coal pref.. £0 *Met St Ry ex 4172 173% 170% 172 aii 111% 172 10,725 do rights...... 1, Met W S eof Ch. tend 291% 29% iy 30 32 16 TE SR 83 84 Mexican Cent...| 14%! 15 14% 14%] 15 5,000 Mex Nat ctfs.. Au 4] 4% gh 4 414 100 Michigan Cent. ren Nid 106 te Minn St Louis! 70 707%! 70 70% T7011 T0% 2,100 PPef.uins nnn 11023; 11023; 1023; 1023; Po 1108 H 100 MStP&SSM 205 21 21% 20% 211; 300 80 Pref. onsene 8 5 i A Mo Kan Tex.| 17 17 0%] 16% if do pref........ 47% 453! 461! 461, 461, Pu esd Missouri Pacifie.! 70 713 69% 71%) 71 71%! 31.270 Mobile Ohio..| 46 46 45% 40 i 4615 630 1 ES Morris Bssex.| 90 [192 "Nat Blcult..».» wa 38 3754 38 373! 38% 1,125 i DRE ener) 82 $2 92 91 92 400 *Naacnal Lead.. 20 20 19%! 20 Pos 20 500 0 Pel... —_— 090151 923! *National Steel. a 417%] 403; 413, a1] 417 9,600 *do pref. iz 928: 92 02 teal 700 National Tube. 65 63%! 65 pri 651 8.050 fo prer.... 108 [104 1104 "1104 108 104 New Cent Coal. *N Y Air Brake! 165% 165% 165% FRE 168 “100 N Y Central.... {143 LE 114315114814 143151 10,160 N Y Ch St L.| 23 24%] 28 24 235} 23% 5 8,750 do Ist pref. [105 rere do 2a pres..... 53 oT 53 533! ran oD 1,210 NY Lack W./134 [134 134 1134 1134 136 20 NYNHL& H. 212 1212 1212 1212 211 1213 100 NYOnt W..,!| 203 2915! 285; 201] 204 29%! 13,050 Norfolk West. 447; 447% 44 44 44 44,| B5.9%o do pref......., R280! R31 R95 Son 831, $100 North American! 19 19%! 19 193, 19%. 1,300 Northern Pacific| 84151 B41.1 B11 8215 4 R821, 47,500 do pref........ 895! Rol 8635] STIL! 87] 87%! 11080 Navona], Salt. 1 I As 33 35% 43 yg 4315! 50 0 pref... Kt 7 1%! 73 74 pi Ohio Ind Gas.| eg ang os hi 25 23 gL Red hed fad! Bell IRC BS RE acifie 61 do 1st pret. 21 ol 91 oul 88 a2 To do 24 pref.... —_— 66° 181 Pacific Mail..... pens) 444] a3) ou 5 44 1.250 Penn Port a enan hha lies i wld kB oh 29 “oo T BN BB Resine-j 4 1144 in 7. Peoria East..| 17%] 17%! a fi a 44 a Peo Gas C...'103 [1081 102% 1106 100 108 80,690 Pele Marquette. 7s EX xs 35 LE SRE 2 73 73 800 POC &FL S| 80%) 7 57° a Su 0 Préf.... sn. £9%| 90 PFt W&Ch...|] ARIE a oni do special... ol Eo ion 5 185 me] Ss ar 8] 51 51 pinto nl Sl Se) BE 2 Ciena: 2 202 an Reading Eu 25% 24%) 2531 251 283, 4.800 G0 23 peer. 30m] Shg| ee] oo Buk Gu 2281 Pref... 3 b Rens a ara 2) ar 36% oe sly 6.660 ron t 1 16 18%] 16% 161! 3,200 *do pref.......! 5% 83 64 Rip Gr Western, J —_— _— a 64x 3,000 RY FURR, 8 8 as Rowe W 2 OF {Em hid a ATA oz a3 63 pre ai 62 do 24 pref.....] 20%! oot 23 J 2015! 201, Hd Bt LL San Fr. 24% 24, ou 24 233, 24y 730 do 1st pref....| 78 78 1 TR 78 TR] 7 100 do 2d prof..... Bat! 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Twin City R Tr! 69% 697%! 69% 89%! gol =n poy Denv Rio Gr. 80 pref... sae Des M Fr D. 80 Pref. uesuse *Dul So 8 Atl *do pref.......} Eights Ave... ss] Exle 1st pref.... do 24 pref.. Evans T H... BD Peles oe Federal Steel.... do pref ex div! *Ft W D City| Ft W Rio Gr. Gas B Co.| Gen PElectrie Co! ref Gt Northern pf. 8 H B Claflin..... Hocking Valley.. 80 pref... Homestake Illinois Central. do Leased Line Int Paper....... G0 pref. coors Pint Power... Int S{iver...... Jowa Central.... Bo pref... sn. Int Steam Pump BO PINES. .censen Kana Mich... Kan City So. Go pref....oone Keok Des M. BO DPEL. cones King Pem.... Knick Ice of Ch BO pet. 5 rneee Laclede G GD PRL. ernsns L E Western. 80 pref.ccons Lake Shore..... Long Isiand..... Louis Nash...| Man Beach. 4 Md Coal pref... *Met St Ry ex 4! do rights...... d Mexican Cent... Mex Nat ctfs... Michigan Cent. Mion 2 St Lovis) 80 Pref. cnien Mo Kan Tex. do pref........ Missouri Pacific. Mobile Ohio. Morris Essex. *Nat Biscuit.... 80 pref....... *National Lead.. 30 pref....... *National Steel. So pref....... National Tube.. Bo gmef........ New Cent Coal. *N Y Air Brake! XY Central....|{ NYCh St L.! do 1st pref....| do 24 pref..... NY Lack W.! NYNH% H. NYOnt W. Norfolk West. do pref........ North inl Northern Pacific| fo pref......ox National Salt..!} “80 prof....... Ohio Ind Gas. Ontario Silver.. Pacific Coast. do 1st pref.. x3 do 24 pref.... Pacific Mail. sans Penn Coal......1 Peru BR R......} Peoria East..| Peo Gas C...! Pere Marquette, do pre 80 pref........ Pullman 3 ReaBing ....cnn do 1st pref.. do 24 pref..... Rens Sara.. *Rep Iron Stl, “80 pref.......} Rio Gr Western. BO PRal.... no. Rome W eT St Jos Gr ices Sh st &1r Texas Pacific. do Land Trust Third Ave R R. Tol Peo West Tun City R Tr bd 8 %s Leather... “do pret....... U S Rubber.... do pref........ bas MONEY MARKET. —Call money advanced to 8 per cent yesterday, but the greater part of the business was done under that figure. The time

money market was nominal at per cent for al dates. The demand was at a minimum. The Suh Treasury debit of $1,075,139 at the Clearing House was chiefly due to payments on account of pre. miums and interest on Government bonds. The dts bursements for pensions are much Smaller, usual, toward: the end of the month. There is still a large amount of money held in thig city subject to the orders of out of town banks, that will be available for borrowers In case of a closer money market. There is a contest between bor rowers and lenders. Money lenders are desirous of putting out as much money as Practicable on time, while borrowers, having in mind the approach ing disbursements for interest and dividends esti mated to amount to as much as $175.000,000, only seek day to day accommodations @S a rule, Money rates follow: Cell money, 3 cent, 5% per cent the ruling rate. ime money, 41; r cent for ty days and for three and four months. and ber cent for six months on railroad col ia’ Commercial paper, 43205 per cent for three RAILROAD AND OTHER STOCKS. Actual sales——|—Closing—] Shar {Open HighiLow.| Fin.| Bid.| Ask.| sold. *Unlisted. +Small lots. MONEY AND EXCHANOD cts rier. Tr ATT Vv PRIRTINT THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. NFW-VORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. four and six months for the best names, and above for names not so well known. FOREIGN EXCHANGE.—Market firm. Actual closing rates follow: Cable. Sight. Sixty days. Sterling .4 85% @4.85% 4.84% 84% 4.81 Francs 5.168% 5.17%-1-16 5.20-1-18 R'ham'ks. 5% 94 15-16 04 Guilders _— 40 1-16@40% 39 13-18 Bankers’ posted rates were: Sixty 4ay3. Demand. Sterling .....oesccree nse snsdeB) 4.85% Paris francs....... PEFREL RL 5.16% Belgium francs. ...eeeessssecssssssscs 5.20% 5.17% Switzerland francS.......seeseveccrccs 5.21% 5.18% Germany reichsmarks.....c.csececeeee 094% 95% 40 40% TY A11and NIIACTIS. cv cv cessntsssssnsssas DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.—Domestic exchange on New-York was as follows at the places named: New-Orleans—Commercial, $1@$1 76 discount: bank, par. San Francisco--Sight, 12%c; telegraph, 15c. Cincinnati—Between banks, 1214@15c premium; over the counter, 50c¢ premium. Boston—10¢c premium. Chicago—3c premium. Charleston—Buying, par: selling, 1-10c premium. Savannah—Buying, ec off; seiling, par. BANK CLEARINGS. New-York Exchanges, $134,567.343; balances, $9,838,720. Philadelphia—Ex changes, $17,369,787; balances, $2,919.97. B timore— Exchanges, $3,648,751; balances, SI Boston—Ex changes, $18,634,490; balances, $i FOREIGN MONEY MARKET.—Call money in Open market discount London, 3%4@3% per cent. rate for short and long bills, 4@4% per cent. Berlin discount rate, 5% per cent for three months’ bills, 31, per cent for short bills. Berlin exchange on I.ondon, 20 marks 41% pfennigs. Paris exchange on London, 25 francs 9 centimes. Paris discount rate, 3 per cent. FOREIGN SECURITIES.—The London market was closed. Spanish 4s in Paris, 70.30. French rentes, 101 francs 47% centimes. THE SILVER MARKET.—Bar silver, dc; Mex ican silver dollars, 0c. Bar silver in London closed at 29 9-16d. GOLD PREMIUM.—In Madrid, 34.35; Lisbon, 38,25; Buenos Ayres, 130.80; Rome, 5.47. THE FEDERAL TREASURY. Washingten, Dec. 26.—The condition of the Treas ury, divisions of issue and redemption, at the be ginning of business to-day was as follows: RESERVE FUND. THE FEDERAL TREASURY. Gold coin and DUIIOB. cc aeenenensannsessensses$1530,000,000 TRUST FUNDS, DIVISION OF REDEMPTION. Gold coin sities at ...$264,313,379 Silver GOlIATS ......sceeessases 427,107,000 Silver dollare of 1890........... 4,681,602 Silver bullion of 1880........ 57,221,308 United States DOteS.......ess 670,000 OLB] seeessersnsssesssssenssnssssssesnannss $754,808,379 DIVISION OF ISSUE. Gold certificates outstanding.............. ....5$264,318,379 427,107,000 Silver certificates outstanding.........cceeee Treasury notes outstanding.........ccceesecee- a1, Currency certificates outstanding........eeeee- 1,570,000 TOLAL vesvessanssnceavsraies cesses ve eeeaas.$754,803,379 GENERAL FUND. Gold coin and bullion.....eceeeeeee eeeeesssss 362,250,611 Gold certificates ...scscecesssscrcscccacs eve uel L110 Silver coin and bullioN....cecccocraencccnnnes 4, 251 Silver CertificBtes ......cesesseccsccssanccccss 4,506,137 United States nNotes..........- ree dtearens 2 D000, 101 Other ASSES ....sscesceassssesrssencsssnncune 11,834,776 Total in Treasury aed sen trees see..5126,050,627 Deposits in National banks......ceeeeceeene- $9,640,584 PORAL aunascsssssriossesnssnsnnss eens ness -$226,600,212 Current liabilities Rp gen I eenees 84,535,288 Available cash balance.......eeececeaansee .$142,064,928 GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS.—Customs Teceipis reported from Washington, $812,253; internal reve nue receipts, $047,216; miscellaneous receipts, $39,497. Total receipts for the day, $1,798,967; expenditures, $1,680,000. Receipts for the month to date, $38,042,951; expenditures, $32,835,000; excess of receipts, $5,207,991. Receipts for the fiscal year to: date, $284,038; ex penditures, $265,724,533; excess of receipts, $18,313,811. Receipts of National bank notes for redemption, $315,130. SUB-TREASURY.—The Sub-Treasury was a debtor to the Clearing House, $1,075,139. rANDS AND BANK STOCKS. 14500 U 8 Con 2s, Coup. 10. 105000 Mex Cent 1st Inc. 500 do 3s, Coup. ...11 0% O00 dO ...cvncvncneer =iE 116% 10000 dO Na ili B50 Jo is CoN. oe 20000 do 2d INC........ 13% 1000 Adams Ex 4s....1 5000 do 10000 Am Cot O 43s... 19000 Ann Arb 1st 4s. cee 110415] 15000 M K T 1st 4s... 000 “oly 1 £3 11000 V6 40000 A T SF Adj 48 BXlg| 2000 CIO EO «inozsienns S8ig| 18000 9000 40. viene on. 888g 15000 3000 do Gen 4s......102% jee 10000 dD ones nesnss 102% 11 ERB LI a Th GOD) AD -savirirs BRE 7 1g G0 os nsaseter 21000 Balt O is... 100% 15000 Mo P 1st Con Sl 24000 dO ssasene SEPP sms nase 26000 do 3%8 ....eenn 20 Soo do Trust 8s .103 6000 do Swn 3s... kdb G0 eeeios eee lg 1700 Pn ind Bl oe anu S000 00 Mab Ohio Gen 4s i or J TIRING 10000 Mut F&G Fe. 1102 0000 (30 severe 10000 300 5 Y gosh L "om iB seas sans Soo do LIANE CR ey Eee 0 ao Hes lo gL 5000 G0 ~eoeervarenans So X I T's 8 Speco B00 Can ae DP 45...0ns00mn va 46000 Cen of Ga Con 5s Jou 18000 25000 do sessseneae do 10000 NY O W Ref 4s. 1074 EERE ER 5000 cies 43000 do imei Gen] TOW NY S W Gen 55.103 520K 5 gs3 1000 Nor W Con 45.100 52000 dO .eevenenneses SSK| TOOT NC id 40000 dO ..oersevanene Sth “oo a EERE h% on 22 iors: Ae] hat, fo SRL iE 25000 do 1s 221000 Nor Pac Gen 3s. 3 28000 do Tots! 500 i LA INE ES jus 162000 do 20 Sos500 3 saesrssssans 35k Cord seman seven GH 20%71000 do Prior 45..... 105% Eide do Bal L000 d S000 $4 fas 13000 o reatsprseses eli 4 pS hh Sag] EI b L000 Cen of NJ Gn Bs. 120% 10000 R R N 4s..102% 5000 do’ Reg ........127 a 1600 ore Sh L 6s.....120% 5000 Cen Pac Gtd 4s.. 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Ris Phen ds JO {0000 “007. et. severe 82 8000 C St B13 O 8.134%] 2000 90 Gen 05 cone d100 Zo cnle TT Su.0 boty 1000 St Ln Swn fst.llll 051 RUG. 30, «ercesesss .o a 433 WY 00 araeirn esos at, FA5000 0 risers aren 6 srs reser nan 20000 Col’ 80 Tat 43. 5° 25000 G0 B07w pital 3% 1000 Col M14 1st 1s. S040 2900. do .......e..s.o. hy 5000 C CC st I. St 58000 Sav anies sense fa v st. 103 cess tac anan Kl 8000 Col F 1 Gen bs. rind a a Hew "x 00D R G Imp 5 10645 is Th RR, NY 1st Con E10! 1 BRL EI RA, 10000 Erle Prior 45.5201. 95%] jooo sa HOW 1ent 6s. 131 00.30. «ss ennrrinnse PRY 120000 “do ..12c0. ens Roig OR oo Lin asrense WA% (14000. do ceee. SOY S00: 0 sere asenruny basi, LE, eR EE SOL. 5000 do RR TT bin Jot ae DLE ROI; 198000 do... T10T UNiE 24006 So Pac Ci Tr 4x! £2 150000 do Gen 4s... Soll ee Jo Loic... S96 20000" do... 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S206 114% 100 GVG N 1st Ts 104%) 23000 do pull In 2000 EVO IO S000. de aire iin S00 Hook V 1st 4l5s..105 ois Union Pac In 1% ae L&C NB... won to [LI he por 25000 Kan C P 1st. 86 i 4 go sxeinriesimsie sss 107% 55000 Kings Co Elev 4s. 87% 2000 va Mid" Gen Be. bit 5000 do 3000 Wabash 1st fs... 117% 11000 a0 00 dod 0 1073 2000 do 11 2 |dboo0 do Den BIL 4214 0000 Lac Gas 1st Ba. 107% oS ratugs gles ss 12% 200 42 Hot, WBGHd 414s.103 sk Jo ar ete rare yi TB 102% oN Yi 20000 L 1 Unified "4s Rly s Ie r Ast. 130% 23000 do’ Con 48... 104121 4000 Wis Cent wth 8 i HHT 305000 4 \aare. ores SO Total Sales of bonds, 1043 23000 40 eee 87 CONSOLIDATED EXCHANGE SALES STOCKS. ANI EAAD,. Open- High-|{ Low- Clos ing. esl. est. $ng Say Open- High-|{ Low- Clos ing. est. est. ing. Sales. Amal Cop, 03% 90 Ror a pre 0% pid 17.030 Am Stl W....| 45% 141 rere E00 Am Sugar Ref. 144 144 Coan 112% 3.510 Am Tobacco....| 118 1% 474 474; 2,040 At Top 8 F aa MX ua ssi 2470 aes 82 Balt Ohio 5 82% A 22 88 59,440 Eklyn Rap Tr 86 priv 41% 41% "400 2 {Ohta in| 12m 40% 141%| 20/210 Chic Bur Qy.| 142% 188% 187 1383 18,070 Ch Mh asp. Ja34 120%) 119 199i 8.310 Ch ac. i p Col Fuel 1.1 “65 onl Bl EEE Cont Tobacco...| 40 26 24%! 2g 3,360 Brie id 50% 58% 50 5.620 do 1st pret.... fon 57% 56 57% 8,350 Federal Steel... edd ST 8TH 87% 820 Louis Nash. 13% 117 13 116%, 10,750 Manhattan 45% iy 5% 10 Mo K &T pt.. TO%R Ti! ep! 71 6,100 Net Bloneel loa nia is) aml Tio Noy Steal: 43 143 men! 149% 80 Nye] 18 Bx 2 66 NY Ont W.| as 2 44 dau! 40 Norf West... Bi f1% &2% 8,910 Nor Pacifie..... 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Lees [43 T h STOCKS. STOCKS. Qpen- High-| Low- Clos- NE. est ft “ont. F Swe wad BONDS. Opa] Hue ar {Gre saien AIT STF ad) S8%| So%| Ss%| Ssk| 38000 MINING STOCKS. Open Hien] 1ov- Go E. ing. Bales. Allce 40 .40 .40 100 Anaconda Gold. “50 50 50 S50 500 Brunswick Fl 20 .20 .20 KOO Crip Crk Gas...! 121% 12% 12% 12%) 1,000 Con Cal Va..! 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.50 200 Hale N'reross| .20 .20 20 20 R00 Kings Pem..| .25 .25 .25 25 200 Mollie Gibson..| .24 .24 .24 .24 1,000 BE Total SAIEP....:c.eacvursssrenens Lirica rvs rune 4.100 WHEAT. Open—- High-| Low Clos- Sales, ing. est. est. ing. bush. January gpiion.. 70%! 70% 70%! 55,000 May option..... 78%] 78%! T2%| onl 119,000 By —mm———— Open- Fag] Tor Gos. salen a 7 add] 88% RS%| S8%| S8%| $8,000 PYPORTS OF WERCHANDIRE. Port of New-York— 1898. 1899. 1800. Week ending Dec. 24.. $7,248,404 $4,583,072 $10,476,012 From January 1.......472,705,872 455,546,740 560,140,789 WATT, STREET AND EXCHANGES. FOREIGN TRADING.—Although the London KX. thange was closed, arbitrage houses bought about $0000 shares in the local market. The heaviest purchases were of Southern Railway, St. Paul, Northern Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande. STOCK LOAN QUOTATIONS.—Loan quotations were: Atchison common and Erie common and second preferred, 2; Atchison preferred, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Missouri Pacific, New York Central, Northwestern, Northern Pacific pre ferred, Reading first preferred, Rock Island, St. Paul, Union Pacific common and preferred, Man hattan, Delaware and Hudson, Southern Railway preferred, Louisville and Nashville, Baltimore and Ohio common, Pacific Mail and Amalgamated Cop per, 414; People’s Gas, Sugar Refining, American To bacco common, Continental Tobacco common and preferred, United States Leather preferred, Brook lyn Rapid Transit, Tennessee Coal and Iron, Fed eral Steel common and American Steel and Wire common, 4%@5; Northern Pacific common, 4@4l3; Western Union and Erie first preferred, 4; Illinois Central, 3. TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON.—Tennessee Coal and Iron Company shows a surplus of 37591 for November, against $239,047 in November, 1883. The stock advanced yesterday on buying by insiders. The November surplus makes the surplus for the year to November 30, $1,750,710, or within $73,418 of the amount necessary for the dividends. ATCHISON.—Atchison common made a sharp ad vance at the opening on home and foreign buying. It is thought that the stock will be placed on a 4 per cent basis in 1901, and it is said that promi nent interests are holding it for 70. PEOPLE'S GAS.—People’'s Gas made noteworthy improvement on inside buying and short covering. It is thought that the stock has now started in earnest for the level to which its real value en titles it. Chicago was an active buyer, chiefly for the shorts. Flower Co. were heavy buyers throughout the day. J. 8. Rache Co. were also active buyers. DES MOINES AND FORT DODGE.—The active ity in Des Moines and Fort Dodge shares and the comparatively large purchases of the stock last week are belleved to be for Rock Island account. The earnings of the Des Moines and Fort Dodge have increased to such an extent that there is a feeling among the common stock holders that they will be entitled to a dividend on their holdings be fore very long. AMERICAN TOBACCO DIVIDEND.—The di rectors of the American Tobacco Company have declared the regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent on the preferred stock and 114 per cent on the common stock. HEAVY MERCHANDISE EXPORTS.--Exports of merchandise from the port of New-York for the week ended Monday amounted in value to $10,476,012, an increase of $5,802,940 over the same week a year ago. HEAVY BUYING ORDERS.—After the early reaction heavy buying orders were executed by Housman Co. in the Eries, St. Paul and Union Pacific. Moore Schley bought Erie on a large scale. Wassermann! Brothers bought 10,000 Union Pacific. Jacob Field bought 5,000 and H. G. Weil 6,000 American Tobacco. C. I. Hudson Co. sold about 15,000 Tobacco. F. W. Savin bought 5,060 St. Paul at the opening, and sold 5000 Sugar Re fining and 7,500" Southern Pacific. Strong, Sturgis Co. were buyers on a large scale all around the room. SOUTHERN PACIFIC.—A new pool has been formed in Southern Pacific stock, and much higher prices are predicted. NORTHERN PACIFIC.—Reports that Northern Pacific will retire its preferred stock have been punctured by authoritative denials. Buving of the stock should he helped by the road's big earnings, which for the third week in December increased $122,644 TO TAKE A TREASURERSHIP.--On December 31 J. Preston McAnerney will resign as assistant cashier of the Seventh National Bank in order to accept the treasurership of one of the large coal companies of this city. FORT WORTH AND DENVER CITY BONDS. —The interest on the first mortgage bonds of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railrecad Company, which was reduced for a time to 4 per cent, will hereafter accrue nd he payable at the orig inal rate of 6 per cent. It appears that the present earnings of the property are not sutficient to pay the full interest on the bonds. Accordingly the principal bondholders have requested Henry K. McHarg, Sidell Tilghman and Franklin B. Lord to act as a bondholders’ committee, and in order that this committee shall have necessary authority the bondholders are urged to deposit their bonds at once with the United States Trust Company, under a bondholders’ agreement lodged with it, BI'VERS AND SELLERS. The principal buyers and sellers in vesterday's market were: Moore Schley (8,000) and Rogers Gould (3,000) bought Erie common; Woerishoffer Co. (3,00) and Provost Bros. Co. (3,000) sold. E. D. Hunter Co. (2.0060) bought Erie 2d preferred. Tate Haves (2,500) bought Erie 1st preferred. Joseph Connah (1,500) bought Northern Pacific com mon. H. G. Campbell Co. (2,600) bought St. Paul. Strong, Sturgis Co. (2,000) hought American To bacco, H. B. Hollins Co. (2,000), Strong, Sturgis Co. (2000), C. I. Hudson Co. (2,000), Dominick Dominick (2,000) and H. P. Garduer (2,000) sold. John Muir Co. (1,500) bought Denver common. Heage, Lounsbery Foster bought Erie common, first preferred and second preferred. KEdey Sons (2,000) and C. Minzesheimer Co. (15,000) bought American Tobacco; Dick Bros. Co. and Strong, Sturgis Co. sold. HKdey Sons (2.000) bought Continental Tobacco. J. Muir Co. (1.000) sold Tin Plate. John Muir Co. (1,500) and Roberts, Blair Co. bought St. Paul. Joseph Connah bought about 5,000 Northern Pacific commen. H. I. Nich olas Co. (1,000), H. Content Co. (1,600) and J. J. Manning bought Sugar Refining; F. W. Savin Co. (2,000) sola. John Muir Co. bought 3,000 Den ver common in all. Moore Schley bought Erie 1st preferred. Charles Head Co. and A. A. Housman Co. (2,000) bought St. Paul; Wasser mann Brothers (2000) and Van Emburgh Atter bury sold. John H. Dunne (5.000) and Strong, Stur gis Co. (5,000) bought Tin Plate. C. I. Hudson Co. (15,000) sold American Tobacco. John Muir Co. 2,500) bought Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Rob erts, Blair Co. sold 1,00 Atchison common, 1,000 Atchison preferred and 1.000 Northern Pacific com mon. Edey Sons (5,000) bought Kansas and Texas preferred. Joseph Connah sold Manhattan. John Muir Co. (1,000) bought Atchison common. R. H. Thomas Co (about 1,500) and Moore Schley bought Manhattan. Mcintyre Marshall (1,000) sold Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Moore Schley (1,000) and Halsted Hollister bought Tin Plate; k. CC. Randolph and Wassermann Brothers sold. Rolston Bass bought Metropolitan Street Rail way; T. L. Manson, jr., Co. sold. Harris Fuiler (2,000) bought Southern Railway common. The advanc2 in Manhattan was begun on bid ding up by Jacob Field and W. B. Oliver. IL and S. Wormser Co. became large buyers, and above 114 the buying became general. The rise was ac companied by rumors of control by the Metro politan Street Rallwas; J. 8S. Bache Co. were the largest buyers of People's Gas, THE STEEL STOCKS. Tom Texas Paci 3 ton Bi pry. 4“ Railroad stocks have monopolized speculative at tention for several weeks, but it is generally be lieved that the good industrial issues will share in the upward movement to'a more important extent before the bull market reaches its limit. It is thought that within the next sixty days the sound preference issues of the steel companies, as well as some of the common shares, such as Federal Steel and National Tube, will sell many points above the current level. Certain transactions have recently taken place in Republic Iron and Steel pre ferred which warrant the bellef that this issue is about to advance to a price more in proportion to its actual worth. From the Investment point of view it {as interesting to study the merits of the various preferred industrial stocks, and in the case of Repubiic Steel preferred it may be said that in vestigation of the company's position, earnings and dividend returns leads to the conclusion that this issne is selling far under Its actual value. A pre ferred stock of a company that is without a bonded $ebt has the standing of a mortgage issue, and this Ai fic Foteres so. Ls Sein H

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55 a3 3 {s instanced in the case of many industrial pre ferred securities, including Republic Steel. The iron and steel stocks will undoubtedly be features of the market in the new year, as the trade is Im proving rapidly and as the managements of the various companies expect another record breaking year in iron and steel. Republic Iron and Steel pre ferred pays 7 per cent dividends, and sells at pres ent at 64. Such a price for the stock of a carefully managed money making company is manifestly ab gurd. The course of good industrial stocks should coon be in the direction of much higher prices. FRIE AND THE NEWSBOYS. After midnight on December 31 newsboys will not be permitted -n any trains of the Erie system west of Salamanca, and after January 31 the same con ditions will exist on trains east of Buffalo and Salamanca. After the last named date newsboys will not be allowed on any trains on any portion of the Erie Railroad system. ORDERS FOR STEEL CARS. The American Car and Foundry Company has re ceived an order for five hundred cars, with steel underframe, from the Reading Railroad. The com pany’s facilities for making steel cars are such that by the spring this department of its business will add materially to the income account, as it is expected that the large orders now being re ceived will be followed by even heavier contracts in 1201. Much discussion has been indulged in re garding the next dividend on the Car and Foundry common stock, and It is now possible to state that one-half of 1 per cent will be declared. Earnings have been heavy since September, and interests identified with the company said yesterday that its present condition and outlook had never been hatter TEXAS AND PACIFIC'S BIG GAIN. The Texas and Pacific Rallroad reports for the third week in December gross earnings of $19,035, the heaviest for any corresponding time in the history of the company, and an increase of $109,159 over the same week a year ago. From January 1 to December 21 gross earnings have increased $1,181,100. The company is doing a remarkably heavy business, and earnings will show a large surplus for the stock after all charges. In another vear Texas and Pacific ought to earn enough to pav a fair dividend. CENTRAT, BANK'S REPORT. The report of the condition of the Central Na tional Bank at the close of business on December 13 shows loans and discounts, $8,388,233 36; total re sources, $17,390,774 07; individual deposits subject to check £7 971.6822 60 DIVIDENDS AND INTEREST. The directors of the Fourth National Bank have declared a semi-annual dividend of 3% per cent, pavable on January 2. Interest has been declared by the following institutions: Manhattan Savings Institution, 3% per cent; German Savings Bank, 3%; per cent; Irving Savings Institution, 4 per cent; American Savings Bank, 3% per cent; Citizens’ Savings Bank, 313 per cent. Union Dime Savings Institution, 3% per cent, and Greenwich Savings Rank 3. ner cent SECURITIES LISTED. The following securities have been added to the Stock Exchange list: Chicago Great Western, $§1,. 700,000 4 per cent debenture stock, making total listed $22,376,500; $1,903,000 additional general lien 4 per cent gold bonds of 1996, making the total listed $33,857,000, of the Erie Railway; $10,218,000 additional 3% per cent one hundred year gold bonds of 1997, making total listed $40,760,000, of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and $75,000,000 preferred stock and 000,000 common stock of the Northern Pacific Railwav THIRD WEEK FARNINGS. Railroad earnings Jor the third week in December show the following changes as compared with the same time a vear ago: Ann ATHOP. ooh rae ns wna ves enue $6,376 Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg 6,431 Canadian Pacific. ....concevvvnsns 4,000 Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling. *8,286 Central of Georgla........... 10.817 Denver and Rio Grande...... 6312 Evansville and Indianapolis "L223 Evansville and Terre Haute.. 1600 Fort Worth and Rie Grande....... 6312 International and Great Northern.. ee 20,418 Louisville and Nashville............. 800 Mexican Central... cccessienes venneve 782 Mexican National.......coveeee *5,384 Northern Pacific (second week). G14 Missouri, Kansas and Texas. 70,796 Rio Grande Southern... 189 Rio Grande Western.... 200 8t. Louls Southwestern. 54 Sherman, Shreveport and Southe 16,410 St. Paul...... Ease arnatcy 720 St. Louis and San Francisco. 47,973 Texas Central........... —.e 328 Toledo and Ohlo Central. 6,839 Toledo, Peoria and W. estern .es 3,908 Texas and Pacific ..109,1359 Wisconsin Central.. 6,574 Wheeling and Lake Erie 347 Wabash ...cesesserescsncsnnvnn 54,633 *Decrease. OUTSIDE SECURITIES. The outside securities market closed strong. The principal trading was in American Distilling is sues, the sales of which were the largest in some time. especially for the preferred stock, which advanced nearly three points. The common ad vanced over one point. Sheet Steel preferred was active and strong, closing at the highest. The bank stocks held firm and were in good demand throughout the session. The copper shares were firm, although only a small amount of trading was dene. General Carriage was active at 4 Inter state Oil shewed i sharp decline of thirty points, being offered at from $0 to 50 without sales. MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. ACTIVE STOCKS. ACTIVE STOCKS. FF Fyothingham. No 2 Broad-at (Furnished by C. F. Frothingham, No. 20 Broad-st.* Bid. Am Ag Chem.. 26 do pref....... Am Bicycle com 6% do pref. cess. M2 Am Hide L.. 11 do pref...cee. aT Am Bridge #3'% do pref....... a Arlington Cop.. 7 Anthracite Coal. 83% Brit Col Copper. 21': British Ex 0s.. 98% Cast I Pipe Fy.. 3% do pref J0 Cal Copper..... 1 Compressed Alr, 43 Con Equipment. 13% Con Rub T eom 3 lo pref....... 26 Dis of Am com. T do.pref 32% Electric Roat... 25 do pref 47 Electric Vehicle 212 do pref...... 30 Electro-Pneu 3 28 Empire Sugar... £33 3 Flem C Coke... 13 6% Gen Carriage 20 Havana C com... 9 1132} do pref........ 44 39 [Illinois Transp.. 45% Interstate Oil 92 Nat Sugar pref. «104 i“ NEng G C. 87s New-Eng Trans. Ne N%IN Y El Veh.... 6% 983, Otis Elev com... 27 al: BO POE sien nas 87 31 Royal B P pref. 93 2 Rub Goods com.. 30 Coon Copper od 23 (Va Coal 1 C.. 3 40 Worth Pump pf.110 Asked. Pid. Asked. INACTIVE STOCKS. American Chicle American Chicle pref....... American Bank Note..... -r American Graphophone..... American Graphophone pf.. Am. Press Association...... Am. Soda Foun. com..... Am. Soda Foun. 1st pref... Am. Soda Foun. 24 pref.. American Thread Co, pe... Amer, Typefounders'...... Amer, Writing Paper com. Amer. Writing Paper pref.. Barney S. Car pref...... Celluloid Company. ...cceee Cen, Flreworks com. ...eeeee Cen, Fireworks pref.....eee Chesebprough MIg....ceccnee on Car Beating. ....vveans Fmpire Bay State Tel... Empire Steel .......cc0nes aed Empire Steel pf. ......coe General Chemical General Chemical pf........ Gorham Manuf, pref........ Hudson River Tel.......o..} Iron Steamboat ......ceveee J. B, Stetson cCOM...ccvense J. B, Stetson pref.....cccen ton Monotype .......se Lorillard oref.......coveeee Madison Square Garden..... Markeen Copper ........eee Mergenthaler PRA Mexican National com. National Enamel Shami: National Enamel S. pre N.Y. Loan Imp. ...cceseee N.Y. &N. J oir Anas anne Old Dominton 5 a RREORGIE Pitts, Bess. teemsas Reng Balt MAB «ous «vrs sess Pittsburg Plate Glass. Planters’ Compress Pratt Whithey pref... Rotary Ring Spinning. Sdfety Car Heat Light. Simmons Hardware com....!| Simmons Hardware pref....' Si Mfg Co 1 HH h.o2 a se} Union Switch Signal. Union Switch Signal pf. Union Typewriter com... Union Typewriter 1st pref. Union Typewriter 2d pref... EB 8. Envelope com... LR) Ehvelape pref. Bllalgx lll lganBaral {al [aalal (Bl lela lc] sddal aml loll |lcosasm 1 ee A a i SAAT LED rt OR EAR SE 9eE02 2£| |2] orBe

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pu git 11] Ld Loe ic’ o E 2) Gud gat. 18528 2858 as Ere e.Laul B..E3 Fe r—————— ERunBBE) oF! E8EEi, vily dese Bi435 288 ate. period. Bid. Asked I RR A A dn mst cA EE i,t, i... saFsageatnssn sagnsesseqmaanssiatnsasonsneasangngasenseonsenianalasatasin i Sp EE i a i |i 3 fo i ICT Sul fuse aad sajeses jose TILL lg Wd VP gd |g RO p— NETERLL (7- RT RI ORISA Coiniisin Pind vas] jaues LT NLL elas Syeade¥auy el le] Eads “ele |e AHH Fin wire Hei in eg 0 1 BH fof 5 A wage Lh) “igagen grugesg &%3 BEE Cre ©2238 egans crRRENTICLOND a HEE HHI EH ERT HHH HEHEHE site EEE HERE EH HEH ERELELTEEREE HHH ELLCEEEELEE REAVER EEERZRRRIALAZALAS ee. ge oF £3 oN er oN oN e- oi FEE AEERESER TTR TIL TIO FRESE EERE NARE JERE TEE SEE HEME RESET REUREL BRET ERM 4 FEITIRARRE LY 3h Raat 2 HHI ol HE HE SURE BE THEE THE oh oH i 53 sBagaiAl T0afe dp Riifabbabhy igag BIR 1 lg, 3% EEG L, REA Tae HR TT LE ridad PERTH ERE Bi HHI HEN HI SEER SSRAREEESR33ssss5a0E REE EE aaa LEI FH EERL EE STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES. Int. period. Bid. Asked. BS&FFRRCIst7s1909.] J. &J. 100 102 Ba TthAve RR Co 0p c. QF 235 240 do 1st 3s 1004............ rab. 103 105 do 2d 3s 1914.. esse) Todi EN 108%) 112 B'way SRR Colst3s, 1924) J. J. 114 118 do 2d 5s, 1905. Y hak ld 108 Bkiyn City R R Co 10 p o..| QJ. 230%! Wns BS WERRCauige, H pp i A. 2Q 102% CF Nan R R R Co stock] eR Eee Q-J. 197 28 LEYS EEL NN RT Deets oan J. &D. nn ns do serip 5 p c, 1915. J &D. 100 102 Sth Ave RRCol3pe..... QJ. 390 410 421 St M St N Ave R R! Co 1st 6s, 1910. M 8 13 do 8 peine, 1915........ J &J Cd GO SOCK on mages hs 50 8th Ave RR CoS pe...... i Q.-J. 185 203 W Ave RRCoS8pe....... Q.-M 202 -_— do con Ss, 1909.. a——aa M N. 1907 108% do 1st con 5s, 1948... F &i 18 120 6th Ave RRCoTpe..... Q.-J. 206 210 S Ry Co (L I 1st 8s, 1922 u7 18 STREET RAILROAD BONDS. Int. Int. rate.| period. Bid. [Asked Atlantic Ave. 1st, 1909.....] 5 A O 107 108 Atlantic Ave gen, 1901..... 5 A&O 14 nr Bklyn Heights 1st, 1941....] 5 A&O 10 Bkiyn B W E zen, 1933..] 5 A&O in Bly QC 8 14). cane} 5 J &J 99 102 Bklyn Crosstown ist, 1908. 5 J&J 108 -_ Bklyn Newtn 1st, 1939.] 5 J &J 114%; Coney Island B 1st, 1903.] 5 J&J 102 108 Coney Island B ctf, 1903.] 5 J &J 10 Calyary Cem G 1st. 1907. 8 J &D 108% Gpt Lorimer 1st, 1910...] 6 M&N!| 108 -_ Grand St N'n 1st, 1906..; 6 !M N 101 04 Jamaica Rk 1st. 1930. 5 J &J 104 on Kings County L, 1949......] 25 0 Nassau Elec con, 1851......] 4 Jad 335 8s Nassad Blea 1st. 14k. «coin 5 'A&0] 110 ns New W F1 1st, wensa] 4B F A 100 Sea Beach 1st, 1918.........] 4 M&S 85 90 GAS COMPANIES. NEW-YORK. (Furnished by C. F. Frothingham, No. 20 Broad-st) Bid. Asked. Bid. Asked, NY &East R Cen Un Gas 5s..108 108 1st 5s, 1044...110 113 |Equit Con §s....118 118 Nor Un 1st 3s..104 107 [Mutual Co....... 298 298 Stand Gas 6s...130 135 N Am Co Ss....108% 108% do 8s pref....180 150 |[INY& ER Cn 5s.107 20 do 3s, 1930...113 17 MISCELLANEOUS GAS COMPANIES. Int. period. Bid. Asked. §|snmsask 8 nus meg fae a ll RL wg 574, «Jeaee’ 2 7 wg TM ea" ERE CTC EL Ody, $a Bica FA ro EEL I BY ER AE ERR Ti asi digg ie iC idole] od ERE ILE RL I BT RINE Bo (ig iow.) Mig. q 8 0, Fay oid is ib je j# 120 8 eager og My US L8 5 geg3-8 0 010 a05g y 1662400 np RE Endl Fp 1 nie WeB gi gly lo 2 jak d Cum, we SEERA ag Agent ELLE LL LT LPL EP mm BER UA q &8 &uw tl pits {oma Jase rate.| period. Bid lAsked Atlantic Ave. 1st, 1909..... 53 A&0| 107 108 Atlantic Ave gen, 1901..... 5 A&O 114 nT Bklyn Heights 1st, 1941.... 3 A&O 100 Bkiyn B W E gen, 1933.. 5 A&O iM Bklyn QC Sec, 1841.....] 5 J &J 99 102 Bklyn Crosstown ist, 1908. 5 J &J 108 -_ Bklyn C Newtn 1st, 1939. 5 J &J 114%; Coney Island B 1st, 1903.] 5 J &J 102 103 Coney Island B ctf, 1903. 5 J &J 10 _“" Calvary Cem G 1st, or 8 J &D 108% Gpt Lorimer 1st, 1910...] 6 M&N 105 Grand St N'n 1st, 1906.. 8 !M&N! 101 104 Jamaica Rk 1st. 1930. 5 J &J 104 on Kings County L, 1949...... ]5 0 Nassau Elec con, 1851......] 4 Jad 85. 88 Nassaa Elec Ist, 1984......] 5 A 0 110 Rs New W F1 Ist, 194l......] 4%! F A 100 Sea Beach 1st, 1918.........] 4 M&S 85 90 GAS COMPANIES. NEW-TORK. (Furnished bv C. F. Frothingham, No. 20 Broad-st.) Bid. Asked. Bid. Asked. NY &East R Cen Un Gas 5s..108 108 1st 5s, 1844...110 113 |Equit Con §s....118 118 Nor Un 1st 3s..104 107 [Mutual Co....... 208 28 Stand Gas 6s...130 135 N Am Co 8s... 10a Js do Gs pref....18 150 NY& ER Cn 8s. do 3s, 1930...113 nr MISCELLANEOUS GAS COMPANIES. Int. period. Bid. Asked. Bay State Gas Co.......... 1%1 13-18 Bing Gas 1st mtg 3s, 1838... A O. 90 os AO SHACK «or ensues or snatns ee 28 -_ Buff C Gas Ist mtg Js, 1947] A. O. 84 13 40 MINCE caevsirssesesanss 3 S C Gas Co of NJ 1st 5s, 1 J. J. 7s [1 Con Gas Coof JC 4p. c...] M &N 102 do 1st Os, 1904...... a ane M N. 101 105 Colum Gas Co 1st 1832. 4 J 104 108 DG E Ce 1st Con 19494 J. N. a a3 dO BIOEK: over nevs ans tem 18% Ft W Gas Co 1st 6s, 1925. J J 53 a2 Grand Rapids G L. Co Gs... M N. 103 105 do 1st jo F. A. 103 106% Indianap Gas 1st 6s, 1920.. M. N. 88 100 Lafayette Gas Ist 0s, 1924. M N. a0 88 LEW Yala NN A O. yd a Mad G E Co 1st 8s, 1928. A. O 108 108 NEG C 1st meg 3s, 1927 J. D. BX; 66h Rn eR SR 12% 13% oh Nk EEE Ta 3 8 do 4p (BeW)is arene QJ 3 32 Fetes aay Oswego stock. 4 2 Lh G Ist mtg 5s, 1858] J. J. $9%[ 2 GO ACK cass sonnei as wnne 9% 13 St. Joseph Gas Is 3a, 1087... J. J. 90 ®0 BUOEHE 5 vee enic ans cfs 14 35 St Paul Gas Con Js, 1944... M 3 mT st GO SICK Tac nrinsss case 45 0 West G of Milwaukee p ec. J. J. 96 98 do Tat 9e 183. cc avn ue M N. 108 108% FERRY COMPANIES. Int. period. Bid. Asked ee Rim FF 1ef ("on 5S 104% 1 AA 3 QE SEW GAS COMPANIES. NEW-YORK. (Furnished bv C. F. Frothingham, No. 20 Broad-st.) Bid. Asked. NY&East R Cen Un Gas 5s..108 108 1st 5s, 1944...110 113 |Equit Con §s....118 118 Nor Un 1st 3s..104 107 Mutual ogo na 298 208 Stand Gas 6s8...130 133 (108% 108% do 8s pref....180 ms NYRR Siar 20 MISCELLANEOUS GAS COMPANIES. MISCELLANEOUS GAS COMPANIES. Bay State Gas Co.......... Bing Gas 1st mtg 3s, 1838.. dO SER «ove srecrun satus Buff C Gas 1st mtg Js, 1947 [La Re C Gas Co of NJ 1st 35s, “1988 Con Gas Co of J C 4 p. Cane do 1st Os, 1904..... cts ams Colum Gas Co 1st 1832. DG E Ce 1st Con 1948 Re RR RR Ft W Gas Co 1st 6s, 1925. Grand Rapids G L Co @s... do Ist oo RE man Indianap Gas 1st 6s, 1920.. Lafayette Gas Ist 0s, 1924. L W V Gas 1st 8s, 1925. Mad G E Co 1st 6s, N E G C 1st mtg 5s, 1927 AEB. wxeesnesransnus a Ohio £1 G 1st mtge 6s, 1938 da 4 Pp G (NeW esvs ease Pep a Gas Oswego stock... Symcus G 1st ‘mtg Ss, 1856 0 MACK caer sorssssns anes St. Joseph Gas 1st 5s, 1937. SUCHE ower asic nme tence St Paul Gas Con [2 1944... G0 SI0CK aneceranesnass West G of Milwaukee 6 p eo. do lat Sa: 108. ec cant ue Bkilyn E 1st Con Os, 1048... G0 SOUR «onus crass. sasiees Hob F 1st mtg 5s, 1946 N Y E R Ferry Co stock do 1st mtg Js, 1923. NY HF Ist gn mg 5s, 1948 Qo HOEK «rinsreacns inns NY NJ F 1st meg 5s, 1048 10th&23d S F 1st mg 3s.1910 nln FIR Y Ba he. EAC E RAY DYE UU ARN. Furnished by R. I. Day Co., No. 1 Broad-st At T S F com la 4 tAtch 4a 101% 101% do pref... .2. S813 New-England 8s..109%¢ Am Tel Tel. “133 136 Edison Elec Hl..215 218 A Sug Ref com.140% 141% Old Dominion Min 3% 30 do pref 113%: 116 Atlantic Ea Bost Albany..253': 244 Bost Mont.... “sa 3 Bost Me com.193'% 193%: Butte Bost..... 2 Ch Bur Qy.. ETE 41% Cal Hecla.....8513 33 Fitchburg RR pt. 138%; 139 Centennial Hn 28 Gen Elec com...180% 197% Frankiin 13 B 4% 14% Quincy Old Colony .....202 202 Tamarack U S Rubber com 28 26% Wolverines Union Pac com.. 77% 78% Boston EI 133 15% West End com.. 88 92% Arcadian Np 2 do pref 110 Wyandotte a IN Westingh Elee 30% ALOUCR ~err re 2B do preferred... 3 a5 CHICAGO STOCKS. (Furnished by Valker Brothers, No. Tl Broadwayk High. Low. Cles& American Linseed Tw i oy do preferred ea 38% i EI American Strawboard 32 8's 2 American Tin Plate. 5 Bla Chicago Union Traction. 4 11% 1's Netrorchiun Fevaiea 1a 12 etropolitan National Biscuit F 8 fam aN do preferred i a2 West Chicago waeed 00} a SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS. San Francisco, Dee. 26.—The official closing qué tations for mining stocks to-day were as follows: Tl SE Ag Se ti Kentucky COM ..eenseens Alpha Com ...v.vnnvneen 02 L Wash Con...... “aenans ABLE: «uuu ees weasel xican AAAS canmans Belcher ...<s... worse +12 Occidental Com ....coass Best Belcher. ...cu.. 24 Ophir A “rams am. aan ssun aan 02 Overman .......ccensswr ha “ew Fuotest App PR wesane L lenge COR sas enn Vi I LL Chollar von cee 2 Sg ROP vse FEBS Confidence’ 30 Nevada ....esesns Con CRI Va .ovouuee 1.30 Standard a Con Imperial .......c..n. OF SYRAICAT® ..vvevven wenn Crown Polit «..xvv vee JO SE Lows ccasrrssssscess Gould Curry... 31 Union €0OB ..versessnsers as NOPCIOSS. «x vax AT Utah Con hi bt id BL LL 1 Yellow Jacket a sesant ans adasen. Furnished by R. I. Day Co., No. 1 Broad-st Dec.22. Dec.26. 22. Dec At T SFcom 4% 47 Atch ds Die 100% do pref... .T. Ss Wi, New-England 8s. 306 ie Am Tel Tel..155 136 Edison Elec Hl. .215 28 A Sug Ref com.140% 141% Old Dominion Min 20% 30 do pred... 0. Raz 116 Atlantic SF Bost Albany..253': 244 Bost Mont.....321 320 Bost Me com.195'2 1932 Butte Bost..... 52 82 Ch -H1% 141% Cal Hecla.....513 83 Fitchburs R ot. 13833 139 Centennial 31% 2% Elec com. ..183% ed RABI ccoaene 27 BRE do pref... 130 OsCeolt .....e.... 13% THE Mexican Cent... 14% 1 QUINCY ..covee...1id 1B ng Colony .....202 202 Tamarack RT BN S Rubber com 28 20% Wolverines 49% Yd Pac com.. TT Boston EE cevee.- 138. HB Went End com.. 93 Are rene ns be 0 pre i Wyanisis a. Westingh Elee 30% do preferred... 63 jan CHICAGO STOCKS. (Furnished by Valker Brothers, No. Tl Broadwayk «Furnished by Valker Brothers, No. T1 Broadwayk (Furnished by Valker Brothers, No. Tl Broadwayk RE EI High. Low. Clos Low. Close American Linseed seennense Tw do preferred ea 38% i nN American Strawboard 32 8's American Tin Plate. 55 ok) Chicago Union Traction. 11% 1's Diamond Mateh 182 131 Metropolitan Elevated 4s... as oR National Biscuit 38 TH do preferred i a a2 West Chicago wend HEF OH big ig 7) SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS. San Francisco, Dee. 2%. —The official closing LL et Araanes. rae taint aaa Rl I aot San Francisco, Dee. 26.—The official closing que tations for mining stocks to-day were as tations for mining stocks to-day were as follows: Fo REE SN Ra Rehtuehy Con Alpha Con ARE Sh Wash Con...... AES «oo... Mexican Belcher HB eaican Con Best Belcher 24 Ophir aaa 02 Overman ha fa es 3 Roost ‘hallenge COR ex cee vage Chotlay Pu rnsnsnves Jar Sag Belo CORRAONEE 2 eovrns 3) Sterra Con Car Ya... vin 1.30 Standard Con Imnerial [OF Syndicate Crown POE vnssev raven REE ET TE Gould Curry....... wre «21 Union €oB .ccovneesnnens Hale Norcross. .17T Utah Con ‘ess emnmmnanmnnd SHE 3a esas sve en snes ABETOHOW JAGKEE +eenvesnas Justice sesame ssesesses eel BANK STOCKS DANK SITUOUCUAS. (Reported by Clirton Gilbert, No. 2 Wallet) STREET RAILWAY COMPANIES. Int. period. Bid. Asked. STREET RAILROAD BONDS. Bey Int. rata! pariod. BIA Aske STREET RAILROAD BONDS. FERRY COMPANIES. BOSTON STOCKS CHICAGO STOCKS. SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS. Int. period. Bid. Asked. Lo in 162 1ggenoggaseantiunagenuasanf As ansengzssfegsnensest tanned’ anross CI Ld RC LA A CRT T- HT SRT RTC pe: ale dUBey 4eeeed Wy are a4 FAA REACT 1 PPAR TAMRAC AF AEH Int. period. Bid. Asked PPL 0 8 dilestan) |e ida o 2%. _— a vat 1

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PRILADEILPHIA SRTOCKR 4

PHILADELPHIA RTOCKR. Reposted br Tie Haven Townsend 40 TWaltees Reported br De Haven Townsend, 40 Wall PE

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i] I (ahaa as EAI E fans go iffadelan? Bi EER Cini bpd aly hil tt or TT bei nak Pass Ry Se 10TX 107% People's wesc Con Be.....108% 300 Union Trac ds. Asph Se.... 37 8% Asphalt Bs Newark Pass Bs 118% 118% SECURITIES AT AUCTION The following securities were sold vesterday at auction at the New-York Real! Estate pr Adrian H. Muller Son: Salesroom $2,000 Omaha and St. Louis Railroad first mo 5 cent bonds (T'nion rigage ceriboates) oi Trust Company 73% a gr re Ln pany RE rman a. EE 3 4 Rajirons Coun a reg P Railroad first £1.000 Harlem River and Port Chester i mortgage per cent registered bond (guar anteed by New-York, New-Haven and Hart ford Railroad Co LTR REE 107 $2000 New-York Ges Electric Light, Heat and Power Company first mortgage per cent bonis, Ane TB... -o ccars cnnmnsiansssa 108% $1.00 New-York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad first morigage 4 cent bond. due 1937.... 108 ERMINE es aes aia 45 erican 8 xr Company 114%

$1,000 Central! Rall of New-Jerser general Rorigage 3 per cént bond. Sue 1887 A 128% $1,000 New-York, and Western Rail road Company per cent general mortg

BRA, BAL TIED sein names ninemsn nesses 8" 10a $1000 Northern Prcific Terminal Company of Ore gon first mertgage 6 per cent bond, due SRS. en re EEE aE aie Ahan. ny $1000 New-York, Ontario snd Western Railway Company refunding mortgage 4 per cent bond, Su I Ray aaa pial an 105 000 Canada uthern Railway Company second il mortgage 3 pér cent bond, Que 1918... 109% 3 shares New-York, New-Haven and Hartford Reftninl DDIM vn vegnr roes seams s sons 210%

$2000 ng i SRE RE ARERR $1000 Aldany end Sesiushants Rafifuss Company first morigage cent registered bond, EE rt alin 12% 7 per cent

due $2000 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad first mortgage 7 per cent bends, due 1833. Coupons Jargary and July-..... 00. SHR 115% $2000 City of Chicago Sanitary District 3 per cent Gue 1802. Coupons and Novem- 00 ber $5000 T'nited States 4 per cent registered bonds, due 1825. Interest February, May, August end November .......-cocemecnzeaecs 13874 45 shares Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company...1. 451 10 shares Schermerhorn STRIPE, 0% 2% shares Brooklyn Warehouse and Storage 2 COMPANY ..vrsssrssssesancansas sossssnass 40 shares Gansevoort Bank... .......cc0o0ee $0.00 erry rst Mo! IP EE pit GUarenty COMPANY ....csvecom-carsssrsmss=" 21 100 shares National Bank of Commerce. 333% ox Fstate Title

shares Citizens’ Bank of Elizabeth, 3... 2% 2 shares Elizabeth Telephone Company. 51 300 Shares T'mion Debenture Company. or 10 shares Rational City Bagh Wp Ya mam aid, shares Nationa! Bank SINMErce. ..«.on shares Butchers’ Hide and Melting Associa— ee RED. «esses ap ances asl Sasaans ass 3sen 13 Shares Holland Trust COmMPany..eeceeres--- a AD 5 shares Central Trust Company. cesses" 8 RATLWAY EARNINGS. 1808. pL R TRY 282 ANN ARBOR A of

Third week in Dec... 826.007 228.710 $35,085 hy xo Des. HM... 1.412314 15IT698 1,631.88 SUFFALO. ROCHESTER AND PITTSBURG. Number of miles. 33 338 aT2 Third week in Dec.... $65.25 $79,227 S85. 568 ad Dee 0...on TIKES 3.961.875 5.510.920 CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL. Sumber Mss a 0 133 6.154 6.37 A a Tell sTsos3e #784771 $906,491 In 3 10 Dac, 2...oee 34954189 B9.418.800 40,444,201 ~LEVELAND., LORAIN AND WHEELING. Number of miles...... 192 192 102 along Toad uate Less 2.0873T CENTRAL OF GEORGIA. Smtr +f TR xe 1.524 1,336 1.669 a i et.... SISSSI. gigagss SlMi0) Jan 1 to Dee. 21... F 441309 5615.56% 6,372.715 rs CANADIAN PACIFIC. Bw nia 347 8.675 6.952 er he hoon 001.000 000 Jam 1 vo Dee 21...... 25.174.5680 28,163,811 29,274,443 DESVER AND RIO GRANDE. 1008 enue S225900 "Jan. 3 to Dec. 2l...... £454 427 9.400.612 10,705,813 EVANSVILLE AND INDIANAPOLIS Number of miles. 158 46 148 Third week in Dec. $5.960 $7.308 $6,085 Jat. 1 10 Dec. 21.. B13 63x BI4.528 824.820 EVANSVILLE AND TERRE HAUTE. Number of miles. 1687 167 187 Third week in Dec.... $25,514 $26,302 $27,902 Jan. 1 te Dec. 21...... 1,228 TUS 1.368.097 1,575.884 FORT WORTH AND RIO GRANDE, Number of miles...... 148 146 146 Third week in Dec.... $11,155 £4.008 $16,674 Jan. 1 v0 Dec. 25...... 535,198 469 518 034,305 INTERNATIONAL AND GREAT NORTHERN. Number of miles...... TT 7% 75 Thiré week in Dec.... $101,769 £100.286 £120,704 Jan. 1% Dec. 21...... 8.847.002 4,267.351 4.070.914 LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLLE Number of miles...... 2,955 2 98x 2 988 Third week In Dec. $466,455 $85¢ Sul $578,453 Jan. 120 Dec. 21...... ®2.151.887 25,295,302 27,155,114 MISSOURI, KANSAS AND TEXAS. Number of miles. 2,167 2.222 2222 Thinéd week in Dec. 3270440 $266.316 $317,112 Jan. 2 to Pec. 31...... 10.526. 08% 11. 916,837 12,070,960 MEXICAN CENTRAL. Number of miles...... 1,858 2.010 2,00 Third week in Dec.... 8314874 $370,768 $316.006 Jan. 1 10 Pee. 21...... 12,144. 685 14,868 6041 16.646 818 MEXICAN NATIONAL Number of miles. 1.218 1,218 1.264 Third week tn Dec.... S1IK210 $181,118 £125,732 Jen. 1 to Pec. 21...... €.003,592 6,160,284 6,908,427 RIG GRANDE WESTERN. Number of miles. 550 582 €10 "Third week in Dec..... £56,150 $83, 500 $86,700 Jan. 1 to Pee 21... 2.192.526 2.75% 039 4 666.075 RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN. Number of miles. ING 180 180 Third week in Dee... £5 S88 £16 R80 £11,055 Jan. 3 to Pec. 21...... 147, Ran 476,940 531,868 FHERMAN, SHREVEPORT AND SOUTHERN. week in Tec.... $6,621 $23,331 2toDec. 21...... £360,260 361.871 02 487 ST. LOUIE SOUTHWESTERN. Number of miles... 1.238 1,258 L258 Third week in De Se, $158 182 F148 420 ny Jan. 1 to Dec. 21...... 5.430.230 5.663 370 6,267,428 An AND PACIFIC. Number of miles. 1.490 1.492 1.482 Third week in Dec. -$227.426 $2006 876 $218. 034 Jan. Yto Pec. 22...... 7 713.820 SO87.719 9.215 878 TOLEDO AND 9HIO CENTRAL Number of miles... 871 371 371 Third week in Dec.... 857.487 $42,112 £45 951 Jan. 1 to Dec. 2%...... 1.8170 1.964.327 2.362.352 TOLEDO, PEORIA AND WESTERN. Number of miles... 238 248 248 Third week in Dec..... Si8.108 S18.373 $22 37° dan. 1 10 Dec. 21. 950 557 $97.190 188 850 WABASH. Number of miles... 2,055 2,328 2,328 Third week in Dec..... $271,220 $318,088 $372,721 Jer. 1 to Dec. 21...... 13.376,218 14,888 874 15.897 0438 WISCONSIN CENTRAL Number of miles... “37 “37 A8’T Third week tn Dec... 801,472 SKS 274 £64 550 dam. 1 16 Ieee. 23...... 4.775.253 5,378, 505 5.189.114 WHEELING AND LAKE ERIE i) week in Dec... $43,273 855,748 57.005 Jen 110 Dec. 21...... L508268 2.415.424 2.808 TY CHATTANOOGA SOUTHERN.

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Secong week in Dec. £1.210 $1.913 1,867 Jap. i to Pec. 14...... 6,961 T=. 86% 715 NORTHERN PACIFIC. Number of miles. 4, ast hs 5.328 5,400 Second in Dec.. $479, .514 Jan 1 to 14...... B35.008 20.718 715.358 30,328 166 SANTA FE, PRESCOTT AND PH@ENIX. Number of miles, 168 224 224

Second week in Dec. $15,427 SBT 18, Jan. 3 to Dec. 14... 786,172 yg 50.001 SHE, MILWATKEE AND ST. PAUL N her Number of miles...... 8,15 6,152 6.376 Gros earnings. 500,448 $4,022, $3 005 Iperating expenses. LO05,149 2488715 2.306.648 Net earnings 595. 2% ant oe Ps $0585.29 S$152307T1 $1.581.357 B16, O70 $18.090.548 £18 810321

Operating 910,135 343 1 Net earnings 5 mos. $6,915 485 Jain $6,930,559

“Month of November Number of miles 336 336 338 18,672 $440,006 $364,192 Operating expenses. 259,87% 32% 996 208,049 Net earnings mos. $125.413 $140.916 $145,707 KANAWHA AXD NICHIGAN. Monte of November— Net earnings .._.... Tames sees #3 July to Now. 30 2 $i £arnings $405,251 $451,566 $503,686 Cierating expenses.... 279.8% 331.650 257.928 a th of November— Sa STi in i $52 0 $7 or au Operating expenses 34.521 Nel Spruings $18. 4 OmMEr MOOmE Lore. oon cl Totals a ss §18.562 $12,566 LL RE re RR TE 0.194 10.671 Surslus $1.38 $3eR $1.68 uly 1 to Nov. Gross earnings $258.857 3% 634 Operating expenses... 177.008 201} a3 Ha Net arnings 5 mos. TT aa1 aR 371.482 Other 2. Tos. $81.302 Lon 371.402 a Totals PPG IT, eee 864.448 £74,315 Snes ssavessan B4TST Add Surplue vere $20,568 £20,506 £21,001 ST. LOUIS AND SOUTHWESTERN. G Month of Nevember... TOSS earnings $634 870 $506, 252 £200,975 ting expences. 397,382 A068, 801 456,961 Net carnings SIATAAT $2uas2 $444 004 Betterments _..... rapa 18,768 19,081 irass raiders 220716 sa24,913 July 1 to Nov. 30— oo1 ngs .BR6 2.308: SSO $8,073, 352 Operating expenses 1.869 987 1,865,730 1.851,707 Net earnings 5 mos.. $737,569 £040,125 $1,421,552 Retterments ee 126.645 114,084 CT RRP RN r— $813.48 $1.307.488 TOLEDO AND OHIO CENTRAL. Month of November S187. earnings is 187,208 $200,200 £217,800 Operating expenses. 124,515 133,046 170,087 Net earnings. $62, 688 $67,253 $47,812 Other income. bene 408 12,201 TOAIS ....oenevesaes $68,146 $T9.004 $48.02 a Sans atban 43.831 25,055 35.519 Surplils ....c.ciusan $16.315 $43,569 $12. 573 July 1 to Nov. Gross earnings $582 130 $940.924 $1,005,255 Operating expenses... 562,381 633,858 $08,185 Net earnings 5 mos.. $269,760 £307.076 £202,070 Other tneome.......... 2198 12.357 716 TOAlS ..oneoveneanen SZALOYS $310.433 $292,756 CDATEES ...convtonsnne 200.874 166.454 170,804 Burplus ....ssee..s.. $62,124 $152,079 $121 982 WABASH. Month of November— Number of miles....... 2.08 2.328 2.326 Gross earnings......... $1.222.301 $1,410,460 $1,431 584 Operating expenses..... 938.411 1.040.254 1,051,676 Net earnings......... 8282, 680 $370,208 £379,908 July 1 to Nov. 30 Gross earnings. $7,399,120 $7,218.637 $7,667,577 Operating expenses..... 5.414.201 5,125,574 5,280,086 Net earnings 5 mos... $1,084,829 $2,083,063 o, 278,401 WIRCONSIN CENTRAL, Month of November 1900, 1800, Changes. Gross earnings. EA 392 $464,118 Dec. $33,728 anu npbesinns iD Dec. 9.685 Net earnings. c.oee..0 $153,647 $177, 6e8 Dec. 824.011 Other fncome........... 1.605 2.431 Dee. 826 Total net earnings... $155 252 £180,944 Dec. $24 867 Fixed charges.......... 133,734 128.944 Inc. 4,7%0 BUrpiuE. oc csueerae 821.518 £51,175 $29,657 Gross earnings 5 mos. 32 332.120 $2.641 418 Pos ‘$30%, 289 Expenses .......:s000. 1,465, 1,511,380 Dec. 45,707 Net earnings. of mos... $866,477 $1,130,028 Dec.§263.5501 Other income. L 7.5 Dec. 1,207 Total met earnings... 95. 141 $1,127,900 Dec.$264,759 Fixed charges.......... 674,881 2 Inc. 24.554 Surplus 5 mos. $198,253 $487.366 Dec.$289,113 FINDLAY, FORT WAYNE AND WESTERN. Month of October—

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Net earnings 10 mos. $3,268 $2.484 Inc. $10,514 Gross earnings Expenses Net earnings. ...ocae Other income: .....eees Total income. covennse HOCKING VALLEY. Month of November— and taxes.... Fixed charges..........

Surplus. $407 775 $184,577 208 $184,980 68,396 F110,584 Grose earnings 5 mos. 35/051 902 Expenses and taxes. Net earnings 5 mos. $875,048 es Other income Total income. Fixed charges. Surplus 5 mos £562,408 car mea cess enane 1,179,854 12,165

$867,214 264,800 220,184 $169,369 $169,269 61,711 $101,658 $1,779.331 1,045,101 $734,220 $784 229 336,836 $207 an uc. $18,222 Inc. 3,014 Inc. $15.208 inc. 103 Inc. $15,611 Inc. 685 Inc. $14,926 Inc.$235,572 Ine. 134,753 Inc.$120,819 Ine. 12.183 Inc. .$132, 985 Inc. 20,864 Inc. $165,115 Chicago, Dec. 26 (Special).—There has been a nar. row and easy wheat market. To-night's close is isc under last Saturday, and the whole range within isc. May opened at 73'%gc, sold between 733%c sellers and 78%.c, and closed at 72%c to T2%c. The De cember closed at 68%gc. The English markets were not going; Paris was off a fraction. World's d, their respective husbands ant wives, if any. their judgment creditors, and all persons claiming under or through any of such unknown persons, all of whom are unknown te the plaintiff, Defendants. Trial desired in New York County. —Summons. To the above named Defendants: You are hereby sum moned to answer the complaint In this action, and te gerve a copy of your answer on the plaintiff's attorney within twenty days after the service of this summons, ex clusive of the day of service, and 'n case of your failure to appear, or answer, judgment will be taken against you by defaw't for the relief demanded In the Dated New York. November 16, 1900. SETH I TERRY. Plaintiff's Attorney, Post Office Address ar Office, No. 66 Broadway, Bovough of Manhattan, News _ H Bassford, his wife, Henry E. Passford. Helena his wife, Japet F. Marshall R. Maynara Marshall het husband. Lillian V. Hynes, Thomas Hynes, her husband, Chariotte ford, Willtam H. Speer. Jr., administrator of the goods ford), hill, Grace A. Callender. Willlam H. S. Callender. husband, Henry O. Packard, Hattie El hla wife. Fpencer C. Packard, Alice B. Callender, Ira Calender. her husband. John J. Clancy, Samuel A. Basse ford (som of Samuel W. Bassford), If living, and Bassford, his wife (the mame “Mary” being fictitions, het true Christian name being unknown to plaintiff, if bes who (as well as whose name) is unknown to plaintiff all persons or owners unknown to the plaintiff. having claiming any Interest in or liem upon the lands and prers ses sought to be partitioned in this action and deserthed as follows, viz: —the widow, heirs at iaw, representatives, devisees, grantees, assignees and kin, of the said Samuel A. Bassford (sem of Samuel W Bassford), if deceased. thelr respective husbands and wives. if any, their judgment creditors, and ali persoms claiming under or through any of such unknown all of whom are unknown to the plaintiff, defendants. The foregoing summons is served upom you by tion, pursuant to an order of the Honorable James gerald, Justice of the Supreme. Court of N Y complaint in the b ark of 1D h at the County Court Hetma, im the Burough of hattalk 5300, “he ar SAMBO! oe nt having beer 4 2) y J a Aa a this action is to parsigion.-and on o ses hereinafter described, according to the respective right of the parties, or If partition cannet be had withow material injury and of Louis Bassford {described letters of administration as IL. Bass. 3 bi fig i in a to the sald rights, then for a sale of the sald premises and division of the proceeds of the sab after payment of the costs of this action, the said premises being deseribed as follows, vis: All that certain trianguls plot of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough o the Bronx, in the City New York, and bounded and of running thence southerly along the westerly side o ga'd former Geant avenue to its intersection with th westerly side of Webster avenue, a distance of eighty two feet more or less: themce nertherly along the westerly side of Webster avenue to its intersection with the south: erly side of East 179th street, a distance of eightv-twe feet more or less: thence westerly along the southerly side of East 179th street to the place of 8 distance of three feet mure or less. Dated New November 21, 1900. SETH SPRAGUE TERRY, Plaintiff's Attorney, Post Office Address and Office, 66 Breadwar Borough of Manhattan, New York City. the southerly side of East 178th street (formerly Centrm EW YORK SUPREME COURT, COUNTY pw. 4 Te nN ET EE +Y OF NEW YORK.— Abraham Cohen. Pigmu, Bertha Cohen, Defendant.—Summons. County of New York. To the GA You ape hereby summoned to answer the action and to serve copy of your answer on attorney within ig days ans a, servion SEE: summons, exclusive of the day of tl of your failure tc appear or answer, gent wi taken against vou by default for the relief demanded 18th, 1900 e a office hattan, City of New York, XX To iba abeve Sageg oe Bertha, Chih: ™s o! summons is Serv you a an order of the Honorable I 3 Justice of the Supreme Cuurt of the Stata of of New dated the 13th day December, 1900, and filled with dated he he afion of the Cleric of the County of New York, at the County Court House. Borough of Manhattan City of New York, on the 1Sth day of December, J. P. SOLOMON, Att'y for Plaintiff. Office and Posh office Address No. ST hattan Clty of New York, N. Y. J. Plaintiff's Attorney. Qffice and Post Borough of

YORK, by the grace of God free and independent Rober THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW to George W. Fanning, Frances Amelia Hunter,

Fanning, Emilie Talbet, M. Fapning the heirs and next of kin of William Fam ning send Kate Fan ning, of the City of 2 York, has lately 3 the Court of our County New York a certain wi pc estament of William Fanning, Mate of ed to appear the of ow one years, are required to appear by your Loins if you have one, Or it you have none, one thousans pine hundred and ome, at half past ten o'clock the. forenoon of that day, then and there to bate of the said last Will and Testament. apply for ome to be he neglect or failure to do so, a guandian will be appoints by the Surrogate to represent and act for In testimony whereof we have caused the Surrogate's Court of the said County of New be hereunto affixed. of the ork Witness, Hon. Abner Surrogate of our said fh 1 York, at sald County, the da: of December, in the year of our Lom one thousand nine bundred FAIRFAX McLAUGHLIN, Clerk of the Surrogate’s Court. MEE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW ¥N PURSUANCE of an order of Hon Abues CHRISTLAD LR Street, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Thomas, a Surrogate of the County of New York notice is hereby given to all persons having claims agains Matthew Duseman, late of the County of New York. de ceased, to present the same with vouchers thereof to the subscriber, St~ her place of transacting business, No. 3 Broadwar, Borough of Mathattan. In Ct Dwtet York, on or before th day of next. New Y Jeter the i ton Tn, C E DIKEMAN. of the Estate of Dikeman, Z. VILLE Atte TORRIN MARGARITA In pursuance of as thot ll SEL $i be Safes NPE HERE Sapings Banks.

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NTRDER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. CONFESSED BY A MAN WHO SURRENDERED HIM SELF IN CALIFORNIA.

3 Sacramento, Csl., Dec. 2%.—A man named H. Green has surrendend himself to the police, taying that he and his brother, John, murdered man named “Bil” Feeny at Claire Station, Isabelle County, Mich. in 1875. He says they took Feeny out, knocked him on the head, cut his throat and robbed him of $800. Green says he and his brother afterward went to Detroit, enlisted and were sent to Dakota. There he shot and wounded a man named Sslby, but was acquitted on the ground of self-defence. He then went to Buffalo, re-enlisted and was sent t» New-Mexico, where he deserted ané returned to Michigan. He committed a burglary at Corunna. Shiawassee County, and was sent to the penitentiary in Jackson for five years. His convict number was 1,802. Green says his brother was the “John Morgan” who was killed while the

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two were trying to hold up a Southern Pacific over Jand train near Davisville, in this State. He states that he is willing to pay the penalty for his crimes. H Jackson, Mich. Dec. 26.—The records at the State Penitentiary here show that Henry Green, who has surrendered himself to the police in Sacramento

and confessed to a murder and burgl in this State, was sentenced from Shiawassee Quuty in 1578 to six years’ imprisonment for burglary. his tallies with Green's statement to the Sacramento mn ilre

RIG NAVY YARD CONTRACT AWARDED. Boston, Dec. 26.—The contract for building the sea wail and extending the water front of the Charles town Navy Yard has been awarded to Norcross Bros.. of Boston. The job is a large one, and for +he work the Government will pay about $155,000. The work will be begun immediately, and when fit is finished the area of the navy yard will be in ros ced hy twenty ACTes.

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1 COTORADO RPRINGS RSTOCKS. Closing quotations on the Colorado Springs Min tng Stock Exchange, furnished by Willlam P. Bon wright Co. of Colorado Springs:

100 fi Asked. camanvune 11 Little Puck 11% Magnet 32 Pilgrim 1% 12 ILE 3% 8 Findley Cand) 1

nnn 1 Isabelle 66 1 BEL wenn 16

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VIRGINIA HOTEL SOLD TO CENTRAL REALTY, BOND AND TRUST COMPANY. The transaction of chief interest in real estate eircles yesterday was the sale of the Virginia Hotel, in Columbuse Circle, to the Central Realty, Bond and Trust Company. The exact figures are withheld, but it is cnderstood that the sale was for considerably less than $300,000, at which the prop erty has been held. The Virginia ie a seven story brick hotel, with a g¢rontage of 75.3 feet in the Circle, 75.11 feet in Broadway, 40.8% feet in Eighth-ave. and 97.2 feet in Fifty-seventh-st. The building is owned by Eugene O'Conner. L. J. Phillips Co. were the brokers whe conducted the deal. Officers of the Central Realty Company refused to say what would be done with the property. There have been persistent rumors, however, that the building, which is old and in need of many modern improvements, is to be torn down and a high class structure erected in its place. It was said, furthermore, that the Pabst Brewing Company was contemplating such an im provement, and that its negotiations for the acqui sition of the property have been conducted through the Central Realty, Bond and Trust Company.

It was learned later last night, and on the best of authority, that the purchasers do not intend at present to tear down the building, but to release it for the next ten years. It was also said that the entire management and policy of the hotel are to be changed. Charles T. Barney has sold a plot, 76x100, on the east side of Seventh-ave., 50 feet south of Fifty fifth-st., and a lot on §Be ith side of Fiftyfifth st, 25x100, forming an L with the former. The Wyoming apartment house, on plot §0.5x100, occu plies the corner. John N. Golding has sold No. 38 Wall-st. for Mrs. Annie Thompson, of Paris. The property is a seven story brick gtructure, on a lot 21.6x36.4, known as the Thompson Building. Slawson Hobbs have scold for John C. Umber field to a client for occupancy the new five story American basement dwelling house, size 20x63x100, Xo. 314 West One-hundred-and-fifth-st. Terms pri vate. Harris Sokolski Son have sold the six story tenement house, with stores, on plot 45x52, at the porthwest corner of Orchard and Stanton sts. The Frank L. Fisher Company has sold for M. Boniheim the two five story double flathouses Nos. 302 and 104 West Ninetieth-st., 70x100.8%;, for $100,000; also, for Clarence True, for $43,000, No. 8305 West Ninety-seoond-st., a 25-foot five story American basement dwelling house, the first completed of a row of five. 8. B. Goodale Son have sold for J. W. Dimick, Jr., for $27,000, the lot, 26x115.7, No. 121 West Twen ty-fourth-st. The buyer is a builder, who will erect on the site a seven story store and loft building. Abram Bachrach has bought No. 227 to 231 East Fiftieth-st., three three story brick dwelling houses, on plot 60x100.5. Mr. Bachrach will remove the Satnt buildings and erect two modern apartment H. Bokolski Son have sold the northwest cor ner of Orchard and Stanton sts., six story tene ment house, with stores, on Plot 43.6x52. nn I oad tor Jennie N. Wats 4 -st., a four story euteling Jouze, ou Jor gn Story nck us vy o. have sold for a client, for about $50,000, (he two five story double tenement houses, on a plot 5.10x1022, Nos. 220 and 222 East “fourth st. 0 transactions are reported: The sale of No. 241 West Seventh-sixth-st., Ay story dwelling house, on lot 20x102.2, by a Mr. Galladeau and the sale by the Woodcock estate to Louis Lese of No. 231 East Seventy-seventh-st., a three story &nd basement dwelling house, on lot 25x102.2.

TRANSFER OF THE GILL BUILDING The transfer was recorded yesterday of the Gill Building, Nos. 9-13 Maiden Lane, and in part pay ment the Hotel Earlington, Nos, 48-55 West Twen ty-seventh-st. The titles were closed late Monday afternoon. Walter B. Horn, who is said to act for J. Plerpont Morgan, transfers the Hotel BEarl justin for $700,000 to Frank N. Gill, who transfers to Mr. Horn the Gill Building property over a mortgage of hm, The rokers in the trans action were H. Cammann Co., representing the Gn, and fiiay Davis the "Morgan inter A £350.000 APARTMENT HOTIRR A seven story brick and limestone bachelor apart ment house, 83.3x146x irregular, will be erected for Ada E and Mary A. Bingham at the southeast earner of Broadway and Ninety-fourth-st., from ville ‘Bagge: Biths by Ne e. The structure will be ivided into sixty apartments, and will cost $250,000. pee, AUCTION BALES YFSTFEFRDAY By D. Pheenix Ingraham Co.: No. 312 East Bixth-st.,, south side, 175 feet east of Second-ave., 25x97, a five story brick tenement house; leasehold; foreclosure; to Philippina Maisenhelder for $3,400. By Peter F. Meyer Co.: Ne. 317 to 329 West One-hundred-and-eighth-st., north side, 10 feet east of Riverside Drive, runs east 175x north 100.11x west 100x south 35.11x west 75x south 65 to beginning, with easement over adjacent strip on west side, 10x50, seven five story stone front dwelling houses: foreclosure; withdrawn. By William M. Ryan: No. 12 East Onehundred -twenty-first-st., south side, 180 feet west of Mount Morris-ave., 20x100.11, a four story stone front dwelling house; foreclosure: to the plaintiff for £25 600 fe REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS ie ie Tid ail i ii Bi dict Bors “al i rtd a from Life to Morris R in

Bid. Asked. Portland .......328% 329 Union .....eossss 10 Vindicator 135 Work ......s ee 1 21% AOREIR »0rrenn ore SO 30% Battle Mountain. 18% Col City Men. 9 9% Copper Mountain 3% 3% Damon .......ss 18% 14 Garfield Consol... 7 —_ Gold Coin....... 450 525 Gold Sovereign... T% Mountain Beauty Fa 8% Pappoose 6% 6% i RAINE Pre T= -m NSA RASS 8B ARN EB Bl ue SC The Hotels of the Florida East Coast Hotel Co. will open for the Season of 1900-1901 on dates shown below: ST. AUGUSTINE: a a ayaa ses eee NOW CDN

HOTEL ALCAZAR, Joseph P. Greaves, Manger. HOTEL FONCE DE LEON, Ilobert Murray, MANAZer....cssceccoes January 16, 1901 CORDOVA, Rooms Only.... Now Open AIPORT I TNT SAD BE Gn adh sadn ociieinn ORMOND: HOTEL ORMOND, Anderson Price, MANAZErS..ccscsssrsssesssss JANUATY 12, 1801 PALM BEACH: THE BREAKERS (formely Falm Beach Inn), Fred Sterry. Manager. January 16, 1901 HOTEL ROYAL POINCIANA, Fred Sterry, Manager... ..cceeecesens December 23, 1900 MIAMI: HOTEL ROYAL PALM. H. W. Merrill, MADAZOr....occcssssssssses January 12, 1901 KEY WEST: HOTEL KEY WEST .cccecssssssesssssssacsssscssscasssssssccsnsne Open All the Year NASSAU, N. P. Bahama Islands): HOTEL COLONIAL, H. E. Bemis, MADRBOr «cre eessnssnssesesssss January 15, 1901 2 Bemis, MADBEECE .«ccvcrensessssssss ss December 24, 1900 ROYAL 7iCcTORIA, H. E. Other Hotels at stations en the line of the Florida East Coast Railway now open FLORIDA. WEW SANFORD NOUSE, On St. Johns River. Thoroughly re modelled; private baths; best of beds: New York chef; unexcelled cuisine; fine black bass fishing; splendid duck, quail and English snipe shooting. Rates reasonable. Send for descriptive pamphlet. INGLEHART ACKERMAN. L Buttenwieser; mortgage, $50,000; R S, $168... Sist-st, s, 133 ft e of Masdison-ave, 16x102.2; New-York Life Insurance Company to Richard W Buckley RRR Dae ER 21st-st, Nos 25 and 27 West, 26.6x98.9; also, strip adjoining above on west side, 0.6x98.9; Rodman wa C Pell to Herbert C Pell .........covceovvaan Washington-st,. No 331, 20x56; Sth-ave, No 208, 24 7x107.4x24.6x108.1; also, 23d-st, W 8, 150 ft 8 e of Oth-ave, 25x98.9; John H Wray to Eliza T Wray, part and all title; mort gage, $7,080: R S, $10........ eta sehen saan 2 Sth-ave, No 507, ws. 20.3x95; Sylvanus G Teets, et al, to Samuel A Teets, two-thirds part; mort-— gage, $25,000; RS, $8 .....ocvuun nnaancoanns 130th-st, No 124 West, 16.8x99.11; Marietta Wil sey to Samuel Rouse; morigage, $12,000; R S, Thompson-st, No 180, e s. 25x10); Frank Donnel ly to Anna Majewski; RS, $3..........0.....0 14ith-st, n e corner proposed Railroad-ave, East, 125 5x99.7x109.7xs 100.8; Henry J Behrens, jr, to Edward Dart; mortgage, $13,000............... 144th-st, n e corner proposed Railroad-ave, 125.5 x00.7x w 109.7 f1 to ave x s 100.8; Hettie W Dart to Henry J Behrens. jr: mortgage, $13,000 127th-st, No 234 West, 12.6x99.11; Mary J Oliver Bg Hettie A Campbell; mortgage, $5,500; R 8S. 3 1 100 1,000 2,700 THE LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. 37 and 39 Liberty Street, 44} and 46 Maiden Lane. Always has money to loan on Bond and Mortgage at current rates of in terest and Mortgage charges. Prompt action on good applications. "TITLE GUARANTEE AnD TRUST COMPANY. Knows and discovers all that can be known or discovered about a Real Estate Title. All that is unknowable and undiscover able it insures against. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $5,000,000 146 Broadway, New York. 175 Remsen St., Brooklyn. Citp Property For Sale. i ARGAIN.—Two valuable corners, Morris Park, 1. 1., 60x90. You can double your money in less than a year. F. LADD, 186 Remsen St., Brooklyn. Co Let For Business Purposes, UILDINGS, stores, lofts and oMces yo let on Ann, Beekman, Barclay, Bond, Chambers ste., City Hall Place, Church, Cliff, Dey, Duane, Elm, Ferry, Frankfort, Front, Fulton, Gold, Greenwich, Hudson, John, Leonard, Maiden Lane, Moore, Nassau, New Chambers, Park Place, Pearl, Reade, Rose, Spruce, South, Vesey, Water, Wes White, William and Worth sts. RULAND WHITING, 5 Beekman st. Country Seat for Sale. 250 Acres, suitable for Game, Preserve and Stock Farm. Northern New Jersey Railway Station on property. Con-— nections with New York and Philadelphia. Game and Trout Stream. Large orchard, abundance of nuts, woods, springs; large house, heated with hot water; coal yard and creamery on property. A rare chance. Address Box 84, Allamuchy, N. J. <usiruciion. fF pa EG For Young Ladles—City. OARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 607 5th ave. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Huntington Gard College preparation. Af ETROPOLITAN Der. P. Cad dergarten Medel Kindergartens; Free TEMPLE COLLEGE.--8, man, D. D., Z. A. CUTTEN, Prin. Kin ning; Academic; Music: larships: classes now 10 For Boys and Young Men—City, PERENoLoGY tells what the boy is best fitted for. FOWLER WELLS CO., 27 E. 21st St., City. For Both Sexes—City. HE BBRLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAG A 1,122 BROADWAY. N. Y. 73 COURT ST. B'KLYN, Branches all over Europe and Americ a. Terms begin now; fee reasonable. Trial lesson free. (AWARDRBRD TWO GOLD AND TWO SILVER MEDALS AT PARIS EXPOSITION FOR BEST AND MOST PRACTICAL te ten For Boys and Young Men—Country. FARFIELD ACADEMY, FAIRFIELD. CONN. —$350 to $450. Boys carefully trained. FRANCIS H. BREWER, A. M., Prin. OME SCHOOL, Mr. and Mrs. number of boys, 7 tc 16 years, Drummond imited M., 40 Whalley-ave., A. M. DRUMMOND, New-Haven, Conn. S———————————————————————— M73 PLEASANT MILITARY ACADE the-Hudson. Our beautiful new bui January 1st. will make room for six m Jee. Hon. JOSEPH H, nd. A. MY, Sing Singon Iding, to be opened ore cadets, Refer CHOATE, Embassador to Eng M——————————————————————— JEWTON INSTITUTE, NEWTON, N. J.—Established +X 50 years. Superb location. Large grounds. A home school especially for younger boys. Individua] care and attention. Military Dept. Terms moderate. For circular address PHILIP S. WILSON, A. M., Prin. i hay next term of the GUNNERY SCHOOL win begin Jeruary 8th. Address JOHN C. BRINSMADE Principal, Washington, Litchfield a Co., Conn. PP @eachers. R. W. G. NOWELL, private tutor at pupils’ at 117 E. 824-st. Two pupils received in XPERT EDUCATION. —Backward youth cessful for college entrance recefved by expert tutor (married) of long experience, in his pleasant home, ar Morristown, N. J. Success guaranteed. Number limiteq Highest recommendation. Entire charge taken. if wisheq. For circular and terms apply to H. PENN Morristown,

homes or family. 8 and unsue N. J. TT TE Dancing Academics FEE NARDO'S DANCING ACADEMY, 11 St.—Classes and strictly private Ro West ale and evening, “ns every day a i———— GEORGE DODWORTH,

Nos. 12 and 14 East 46th Stree! t. CLASSES AND PKIVATE LESSON! Season Now Open 8 School Agenaies. iy si PARR op itn ER EE GR Lh AND FOREIGN TEAC A erp pay gs AC HERS AGENCY Mrs. J. YOUNG-FULTON. 23

ming. 7th ave. and 14th st EE R. W. G. NOWELL, private tutor at Pupils’ homes or at 117 E. 823-st. Two puplls received in family.

XPERT EDUCATION.—Backward Youths and unsue cessful for college entrance recetved by expert tutor (married) of long experience, in his pleasant home, ap Morristown, N. J. Success guaranteed. Number limiteq. Highest recommendation. Entire charge taken. if wisheq For circular and terms apply to H. PENN, Morristown, N. J Dancing Academies ERNANDO'S DANCING ACADEMY, 117 West F St.—Classes and strictly private lessons every ahs and evening, T GEORGE DODWORTH, Nos. 12 and 14 East 46th Street, CLASSES AND PRIVATE LESSONS. Now Ope I School Agencies. "AMERICAN AND FOREI Gor toms CAN AND FOREIGN TEACHERS AGENCY lies Professors, Teachers, Tuto Aung ages, Behook: And Pe aiics Mrs. YOUNG-FULTON, 23 BD ars. inter Resorts. {Dinter Besoris. pr ot Sp ppt Fl ORIDA EAST COAST HOTEL CO.

inter Resorts. FLORIDA EAST COAST HOTEL fieal Estate. City Drogertn for Gale Uo Let For Business Durnoses. Countrn Propertn For Gale. Instruction. For Young Ladies—Ciiv A MERICAN AND FOREIGN TEACHERS A AGENCY lies Professors, a achara, Tutors, Jovernesses, ha ug a YOUNG FULTON “2s rs Sanne rr rm Tr ATT Vv TRIBUNE THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. NEW JERSEY. The climate at ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. during the Winter months is most equable and healthy. HADDON HALL, The popular beach front hostlery is always open, Golf links. Hot and cold sea water baths. LEEDS LIPPINCOTT. New York Office—Fred, H. Scofield, 1 Madison Square. HOTEL DENNIS, Atlantic City's Famous Hostlery, fs now undergoing additions and improvements and will reopen about January 19th, remaining open thereafter throughout the year. Under new management. A WALTER J. BUZBY, Prop'r. Successor to Jos, H. Borton. HOTEL LURAY, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Open Pavilion and heated Sun Parlor directly over board walk. Porches on a level with and joined to boardwalk. Sea and fresh private baths. Golf privile JOSIAH WHITE SON. ATLANTIC CITY, N., J. HOTEL MORTON. OPEN THE ENTIRE YEAR. One of the best equipped hotels; steam heat; elevator to all floors: hot and cold baths; fine table. Sea View, Ocean and Virginia Ave. MRS. N. R. HAINES, Owner and Proprietor. OTEL TRAYMORE, ATLANTIC CITY. N. V. Remains op:n throughout the entire year. Dining room enclosed In glass. Over nfty private baths attached to suites. Salt and fresh water baths in the house. Every modern luxury and app intment. D. 8. WHITE, Jr. Owner and Ytroprietor.

+m e— pag PENNHURST, Michigan-ave., second house from Beach, Atl:atic City, N. J.—Open entire year. vator to street level. A special rate for the winief sco. Booklet mailed. JAMES HOOD. THE LAKEWOOD, LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY. The Palace Winter Hotel of the North, in the Pine Woods of New Jersey. Perfectly appointed. Unequalled cuisine. Environment superb. Four hundred elegantly furnished bedrooms, one-half en suite, with private baths and open fires. The famous Hydrotherapeutic Baths remain under the direction of the house physician. Write for booklet and diagram of Open from October 1 to June 1, A famous resort hotel in a famous hotel resort. DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager. A. J. Murphy, Assistant Manager. Golf at two ciubs. LAKEWOOD. HE LEXINGTON. LAKEWOOD. N. J. Opposite Laurel House. Open all year. Sunny rooms, open wood fires, private and public baths, steam heat, electric lights, Rates $2.50 day and up. A. 85. LARRABEE, Prop. HE TOWERS, Lakewood, N. J. Beautifully situated. Delightful climate. Fine drives. Golf and all out door amusements. House modern in every respect. Mod erate rates. For full information rddress ihe Propiietor, PARK AVENUE HOTEL, PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY. UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Refurnished and redecorated; new elevator; new open plumbing; private baths; electric light. JOHN D. BAILEY, Manager, Formerly of Allenhurst Inn. THE LAKEWOOD, LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY. The Palace Winter Hotel of the North, in the Pine Woods of New Jersey. Perfectly appointed. Unequalled cuisine. Environment superb. Four hundred elegantly furnished bedrooms, one-half en suite, with private baths and open fires. The famous Hydrotherapeutic Baths remain under the direction of the house physician. Write for booklet and diagram of rooms. JAMES N. BERRY, Manager. LAUREL HOUSE PARK AVENUE HOTEL, PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY. UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Refurnished and redecorated; new elevator; new open plumbing; private baths; electric light. JOHN D. BAILEY, Manager, Formerly of Allenhurst Inn. PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA. Three fine hotels including the Carolina, the largest in the State. Fifty furnished cottages. Direct connection from New York and Boston. FULL GOLF COURSE, FINEST IN THE SOUTH. Address Resident Manager, Pinehurst, N. C. KENILWORTH 1MMN, BILTMORE, ASHEVILLE, N. C. OPENS JAN. 16TH, 19801. One of the best appointed and most luxurious hotels in the South. Magnificent mountain scenery. A climate superior for its tonic effects. GOLF, Orchestra and all amusements. Send for booklet and particulars. KITTRIDGE BRYAN, MANAGERS, WASHINGTON, D. C. THE SHORENARM, WASHINGTON, D. C. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN. ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF. Located in the most fashionable part of the city and within five minutes’ walk of the EXECUTIVE MANSION, TREASURY, STATE, WAR and NAVY DEPARTMENTS. JOHN T. DEVINE. VIRGINIA. VIRGIN'A HOT SPRINGS. OPEN ALL THE YEAR. h House connected with Homestead Hotel. Waters vem House, for persons swifering with Rheumatism, Nervous troubles. Gout 8nd Ve FRED STERRY, Manager. GEORGIA. THOMASVILLE, GA. PINEY WOODS HOTEL OWN IN THE PINE FORESTS. 7 COUNTRY CLUB, GOLF LINKS, QUATL AND TRAP SHOOTING, BICYCLE PATHS. HARVEY WOOD, Hotel Beilevue, 8 Park Place, New York. Mondays, AUGUSTA, HOTEL BON AIR, “5 This well-known hotel will cpen Dec. 15th, 1000. Selec: patronage. An excellent Golf Course and facilities for all cutdoor sports Only 22 hours from N. Y., three through trains daily, with Pullman accommodations. For partic ulars address, C. G. TRUSSELL, Manager. Alse Manager New Frontenac, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, N. Y. One of the most elegant of sum mer hotels. Boston. 10 to 12. BEERMUDA. BERMUDA. THE IDEAL WINTER RESORT. THE PRINCESS HOTEL, Open from December to May. Accommodates 200 guests. For terms, etc., address N. S. HOWE, HAMILTON, BERMUDA. Circulars at F. H. Scofield’s, 1 Madison Ave., N. Y. In n on RAMILTON HOTEL, BERMUDA Situated on high elevation in the centre of the OPEN DECEMBER TO MAY. elt, Hamilton, the ¥.of capital of Bermuda. Send for booklet, A. C. BROOKS, MANAGER, HAMILTON. BERMUDA EE Citp fjotels. THE CHELSEA, WEST 23D ST., NEw YORK. Absolutely fireproof. Modern w Apartments furnished or unfurnished: an ewesllent restaurant maintained. Rates reasonable HE LAKEWOOD, 270-272 West 39th Ra 8t.—Thoro 3eit ye eelable, Select apartment hotel, hy H H &hts; writ esks; board for two, $16-$18. writing 4 sultes with ee a VIRGINIA. VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS. OPEN ALL THE YEAR. Bath House connected with Homestead Hotel. Waters very beneficial for persons swifering with Rheumatism, Gout and Nervous troubles. FRED STERRY, Manager. Bath House connected with Homestead Hotel. Water very beneficial for persons swifering with Rheumatism Gout and Nervous troubles. FRED STERRY, Manager. GEORGIA. THOMASVILLE, GA. PINEY WOODS HOTEL, WN il THE PINE FORESTS. COUNTRY PorUE, GOLF LINKS, QUATL AND TRAP SHOOTING, BICYCLE PATHS. HARVEY WOOD, Hotel Beilevue, Boston. 8 Park Place, New York. Mondays, 10 to 12 A This well-known hotel will cpen Dec. 15th, 1000. Selec: patronage. An excellent Golf Course and facilities for al) cutdoor sports Only 22 hours from N. Y., three throug trains daily, with Pullman accommodations. For partic ulars address, C. G. TRUSSELL, Manager. Alse Manager New Frontenac, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, N. Y. One of the most elegant of sum mer hotels, Ty A tt To AUTHORS SEEKING A PUBLISHER.

Manuscripts in all branches of literature, suitable for publication in bock form, are required by an established house; liberal terms; no charge for examination; prompt altenticn and honorable treatment. “BOOKS,” 141 Her ald, 234-st., New-York. i DVERTISEMENTS and subscriptions for The Tribune received at their Uptown Office, No. 1.242 Broadway, 2d door north of 3ist-st., until 9 o'clock p. m.; advertise ments received at the follow offices at office rates urnvil 8 o'clock m., viz.: 254 Stheave., a. eo, cor. 284-st.; 152 2 cy’ CRO La TT TEE ‘A receieas- EMENTS and subscriptions for The Tribune received at their Uptown Office, No. 1,242 Broadway, 2d door north of Jist-st., until 8 o'clock p. m.; advertise ments received at the following branch offices at regular office rates urnvil 8 o'clock p. m., viz.: 254 Stheave., s. a, cor. 284-st.; 152 th-ave., cor. 12th-st.; Macy's, Sth-ave DAILY TRIBUNE. THURSDAY. DECE Winter Resorts. NORTH CAROLINA. VIRGINIA. GEORGIA. Citn fjotels. Books and Vublications THURSDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1900. tii Nt. WR md Tie J OVERNOR'S ISLAND, N. Y.. Nov. 28, 1900.— Sealed IPI will be received here until 12 M, Dec. 28, 1800, for constructing storehouse, Governor's Island. Information furnished on appileation. U. 8. reserves ngat io Aceept or feject pay all bids an ereo nvelopes con ould y Parked “Proposals for ain proposals 8 R. ee iee————————————————————————————————————n to A DYERTIEMENTS and subscriptions for The Tribune A received at their Uptown Office, No. 1,242 Broadway, 24 door north of 3l1st-st., until o'clock p. m.; advertise ments received at the following pranch offices at regular p. m., viz.: 254 Sth-ave., 8. e. office rates until 8 o'clock cor. 23d-st., 162 6th-ave cor. 12th-st.; Macy's, 6th-ave. and l4th-st., 142 Columbus-ave., near West f6th-st.; 108 West 42d-st., near 6th-ave.; 92 East 14th-st be marke ‘XPOPORRIN A BT JONES, Q M. Fo ee——————————————————————————————————_—————E pb HE DVERTISEMENTS and subscriptions for The Tribune A received at their Uptown Office, Na. 1,242 Broadway, 24 door north of 31st-st., until 8 o'clock p. m.; advertise ments received at the following pranch offices at regular office rates until 8 o'clock p. m., Viz.: 254 Sth-ave., 8. e. cor. 23d-st., 162 6th-ave cor. 12th-st.. Macy's, 6th-ave. and l4th-st., 142 Columbus-ave., near West 66th-st.; 108 92 East 14th-st West 42d-st., near 6th-ave.;

Mean Steamers a_i tPa teetet et tet y HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, Twin-screw Bxpress Steamers during Winter on Ger man-Mediterransan service. Service to London, Paris, Hamburg resumed Mateh 2, 1901. TWIN SCREW PASSENGER SERVICE TO PLYMO¥TH, CHERBOURG AND HAMBURG, ALSO N.Y. TO HAMBURG DIRECT. Pennsylvania.Dec.29, 11 AM. [Cap Frio...Jan, 12, 10 AM. Pretoria.......Jan. 5, 5 AM. Pheenicia...Jan. 19, 3 P.M. HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINB, 37 B'WAY, N. Y. AMERICAN LINE. NEW-YORK—SOUTHAMPTON—LONDON. New-York...Jan. 2. 10 a.m.| Friesland.... ..Jan. 23, noon Kensington. ....Jan. 8, noon| Vaderland..Jan. 30, 10 a. m. Noordland..... Jan. 16, noon| New York...Feb. 6, 10 a. m.

i RED STAR LINE. NEW-YORK—ANTWERP-—PARIS, Kensington. Jan. 9, noon| Friesland. Jan. 23, noon Noordland..... Jan. 16, noon| Southwark......Jan, 30, noon INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, Piers 14 and 15, N. R. Office 78 Broadway. For Porto Ricoa Steamships of the RED “D’” LINE wil! sail for San Juan and Ponge as follows: 8. 8. CARACAS........ sesrvans Saturday, Dec. 28, noon 8. S. PHILADELPHIA........ Saturday, Jan. 12, noon For freight or passage apply to BOULTON, BLISS DA A General Managers, 135 Front St. FRENCH LINE. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQURE. DIRECT LINE TO HAVRE-—PARIS nee). Sailing every Thursday at 10 A. M. From Pler No. 42, North River, foot Morton St. L.a Normandie....... Dec. 27|La Champagne........Jan. 17 La Gascogne.......... Jan. 3|L’ Aquitaine........... Jan. 24 La Bretagte SC trrenend Jan. 10| La Gascogne.......... Jan. 81 eneral Agency, 32 Broadway, New York. SETI den sin Baia MALLORY STEAMSHIP LINES. From New-York Wednesdays, Fridays and urdays FOR TEXAS, GEORGIA AND FLORIDA, STRAIGHT and ROUND TRIP Tickets issued to all points In Texas, Colorado, Arizona, California, Mexico, os TY earsla, Florida, ae, Deligntin Excursions, e for our 80-pa ‘‘Pocke wide’ (mall free). C. H. MALLORY con Gen. Agts., Pler 20. a Nv A CUNARD LINE. TO LIVERPOOL VIA QUEENSTOWN. Campania.Dec. 20, 11 A. M.| Umbria... Jan. 18, 2 P. M. Etruria..... Jan. 5, 6 A. M.| Campania..Jan. 26, 10 A. M. Servia....Jan. 12, 10 A. M.| Etruria... Feb. 2, 2 P. M. VERNON H. BROWN CO., Gen. Agents, 20 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. mo LADIIS going abroad: Now disengaged, first-class, experienced courier-maid; good packer, needlewoman, etc.; €even languages; highest references; testimonials. TRAVEL, Box 41, Tribune Office, Mreean Sleamers Mean Steamers Bn isin RA ART HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, Twin-screw Hxpress Steamers during man-Mediterransan service. Service to London, Paris, Hamburg resumed Mateh 2, 1901. TWIN SCREW PASSENGER SERVICE TO PLYMO¥TH, CHERBOURG AND HAMBURG, ALSO N. Y. TO HAMBURG DIRECT. Pennsylvania.Dec.29, 11 AM. [Cap Frio...Jan, 12, 10 AM. Pretoria.......Jan. 5, 5 AM. Pheenicia...Jan. 19, 3 P.M. HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINB, 37 B'WAY, N. Y. AMERICAN LINE. NEW-YORK—SOUTHAMPTON—LONDON. New-York...Jan. 2. 10 a.m.| Friesland.... ..Jan. 23, noon Kensington. ....Jan. 8, noon| Vaderland..Jan. 30, 10 a. m. Noordland..... Jan. 16, noon| New York...Feb. 6, 10 a. m. RED STAR LINE. NEW-YORK—ANTWERP-—PARIS, Kensington. Jan. 9, noon| Friesland....... Jan. 23, noon Noordland..... Jan. 16, noon| Southwark......Jan. 30, noon INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, Piers 14 and 15, N. R. Office 783 Broadway. RACKS GAS HEATERS. HN tat tt ARI. UE TI” a TE gk. a a cn 0 iy ONLY PBRFECT GAS HEATER; blue flame; no odor; no chimney ventilation needed: healthful; moist heat; 13; cents per hour; 70 degrees in zero weather; the very perfection of heating. Salesroom, 106 East d-st.. New-York. a RILILJARD AND POOL TABLES, BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES, new and second hand; lowest prices: easiest terms. MARX BROS. 24 Union Square. RUSINKSS CHALCES, pg gi py Sg WW Samra ry os PATENTS! “INVENTORS HAND BOOK" FREE; patents economically secured and profitably sold. INVENTORS' COMPANY, 150 Nassau-st. BOARD AND R[}OOMS. A.—A.— HOTEL ROLAND, 56th-st., between Madison and Park aves. Modern hotel, with every comfort and con venience. DELIGHTFUL ROOMS, $1 PER DAY, $6 WEEK. LIGHT ROOMS, WITH BOARD, $12 PER WEEK. SUNNY ROOMS, WITH BOARD, $14 PER WBEK. Every room has hot and cold water, steam heat and electric light. Suites of two and three rooms, with bath. References re guired. CANNOT BE EQUALLED FOR THE MONEY, 89 WEST 82D-ST., three doors from Broad way.—Neatly furnished rooms, with room. 1 GRAMERCY PARK, corner 2lst-st.— —Parlor, bedroom and bath on first floor; also small room; references. 1.—40 EAST 38TH-ST.—Large rvom, with board; referegces exchanged. 122D-8T., 150 WEST.—Large, handsomely furnished room, witn excellent board, in a New-England family; references ex changed. 25 EAST 45TH-ST.—Handsomely furnished back parlor; hall room; southern expos— ure; breakfast optional; gentlemen. 839 WEST 34TH-ST.—Front rooms; run ning water; large closets; excellent table; terms reasonable; gentlemen preferred; ref erence. 694-696 MADISON-AVE., 623-st.—Large parlor floor suite, private bath; one other large room, with board. 8T. ALBANS, 7 East 31lst-st.—Redeccrated throughout; elegant suite; private baths ad ae; parlor dining room; table ard. BOARD AND ROOMS, BOOKS. BOO LOVERING’S BOOK STORE LUVERING DUUN oll Uni For nearly 20 yea RA near at ars on Broa rm “he AAA ANNAN a SA 823 BROADWAY, NEAR 12TH ST. Everybody ir New York and for fifty miles around knows Loverjng. His store is headquarters for book-lovers and book buyers. All kirds of books to suit all tastes and a'' pocketbooks. Historical books, biographical, religious, scientific, books of travel. books of fiction, books for children, poetry ete., ete. Anything you want, and positively at the lowest prices to be had in the "nited States. Encyclopsedias on sale for a song—Ap pleton’s, Chambers’, Britannica, and Peo les’. Books and libraries purchased. LOVERING. £23 Broadway. near 12th st. CARPET CLEANING. CAREFUL CARPET CLBANING CO.—Ca pets cleaned by steam. bv hand or on th CARPET CLFEANING. CAREFUL CARPET CLEANING CO.—Car pets cleaned by steam, by hand or on the floor. 1,608 Broadway, 421 East 45th-st COE BRANDT. Tel. 132-—-38th. DETECTIVE AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL DETECTIVE aGENCY, Licensed and bonded, 320 Broadway, Rooms 717-718, telephone 1,631 Franklin.— All civil and criminal cases attended to by expert detectives, male and female. DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE. ROLLTOP NERV A DESKS 2

OFFICE FURNITURE in great riety of and price va siyle Tr. CG. SELLEW, 111 Fulton St. DRESSMAKING, ———————————————————T EE. cs ci. A —A.—A. —DRESSMAKER, formerly with Mme. Connolly; thoroughly reliable and up to date in everything pertaining to first class dressmaking: elaborate and stunning designs for evening gowns, opera wraps, dinuer gowns, ball gowns, ete. Mrs. CULLY, 105 West 45th-st. I A EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, ST. BART ROLOMEW'S 211 Bart i a Oa Ey. first class domestics are FIRE, BURGLAR AND WATER PROOF SAVES. The only absolutely fire and burglar proof Safes in the market; felt packed doors, highest finish, low est prices. AMERICAN SAFE CO. P. H GROSS SONS, General Agents, 332 CANAL-ST., West of Broadway POR SALE, Ra i INDESTRUCTIBLE PHONOGRAPH and Graphopnone records, 50c. each; all fine masters; Edison or Columbia records, $3.50 r doz.; supplies cut rates; 24 inch Brass orn, $1.50; inch, $2.80; Dia bragla glasses, O¢. each. J. M ELLYNNE. 02 Broadway, Room 4. RE FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET. A LARGE ROOM for two gentlemen, with or without board; accommodations; pri vate family. FARRELL. 373 Sth-ave. KINDLING WOOD, Ring ison uare EB MELURrs MURRAY a B88th-st. Largest dealers DESKS AND OFFICE FURNITURE. ROL x TOP me DESKS OFFICE FURNITURE in great va riety of slyle and price T GQ. SELLEW, 111 Fulton St. DRESSMAKING, ————————————————T a. A —A.—A. —DRESSMAKER, formerly with Mme. Connolly; thoroughly reliable and up to date in everything pertaining to first class dressmaking: elaborate and stunning designs for evening gowns, opera wraps, dinuer gowns, ball gowns, etc. Mrs. CULLY, 105 West 45th-st. I eh ne onl EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, DRESSMARKING, AR pf Su SS tT i A i A —A.—A. —DRESSMAKER, formerly with Mme. Connolly; thoroughly reliable and up to date in everything pertaining to first class dressmaking: elaborate and stunning designs for evening gowns, opera wraps, dinuer gowns, ball gowns, etc. Mrs. CULLY, 105 West 45th-st, EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S 2n Bans nT ux LL on are supplied. EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, FIRE, BURGLAR AND WATER PROOF SAVES. Le i a a ad The only absolutely fire and burglar proof Safes in the market; felt packed doors, highest finish, low est prices. AMERICAN SAFE CO. P. H. GROSS SONS, General Agents, 332 CANAL-ST., West of Broadway. FIRE, BURGLAR AND WATER PROOF SAVES. POR SALE, Ra i INDESTRUCTIBLE PHONOGRAPH and Graphopnone records, 50c. each; all fine masters; Edison or Columbia records, $3.50 r doz.; supplies cut rates; 24 inch Brass orn, $1.50; 830 inch, 80; Dia, glasses, 5c. each. J. M ELLYNNE. Broadway, 4. POR SALE. FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET. A LARGE ROOM for two gentlemen, with or without board; accommodations; pei vate family. FARRELL, 378 Sth-ave. KINDLING WOOD, tt Rite up 370 Madison Squnte a nf En oe ES san, KINIOLIN 00D FACTO “ind dave. Larges dealern FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET A LARGE ROOM for two gentlemen, with or without accommodations; pri vate family. TR A 373 Sth-ave. e— RKRINDLING WOOD. RE RE Nut EE RLY MURRAY HILL

KINIDLING WOOD FACTORY, 88th-st. and lst-ave. Largest Lowest prices. Proposals. Proposals. BOOKS. NEW YEAR'S DAY S EA

Desirable trips covering this holiday are offered by the OLD DOMINION LINE steamships, electric lighted and steam heated throughout, leave New York Saturday and Sunday. Dec. 20th and 30th, at 3 P. M., for Old Point Comfort and Norfolk. Passengers can leave Norfolk on return, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, for New York direct. Tickets for continuous round trip, including meals and stateroom accommodations, $13.00. Tickets for round trip, including m als and stateroom accommodations en route, and 13% days’ board and lodging at hotel, Old Point Com fort, $16.00. Steamers sail from Pier 28, North River, foot of Beach St., New York, where staterooms, tickets and full in formation may he obtained. TELEPHONE, 1380 FRANKLIN. Mediterranean Express Service. {NORTH SERMAN *HAMBURG-AMERICAN LLOY NB. To NAPLES "AND GENOA VIA GIBRALTAR BY EXPRESS STEAMERS. tAller......... Dec. 20, noon| tWerra. Jan. 11 A. a *F. Bisma'k.Jan. 5, 11 A.M.| *Columbia.Jan. 2 11 A. $*K.M.Th..Jan, 12, 11 AM.| +K. Wm. II.Jan. 26, 11 A FOR ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, JAN. 5, 22. FEB. 2. Return tickets availabie for the steamers of either line from Naples, Genoa, Gibraltar, Hamburg, Bremen, Lon don, Southampton, Paris and Cherbourg. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD, HAMBUR RG-AMEBRICAN OELRICHS CO., Agents, LINE, 5 Broadway, N. Y. 87 Broadway, N. TY. tFrom Congress St., Brooklyn. Take South Ferry. t*From Pier 52, North River, foot of Gansevoort St. OLD DOMINION LINE, DAILY SERVICE. For Old Point Comfort, Ncriolk, Portsmouth, Pinner's Point and Newport News, Va., connecting for Petersburg, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Washington, D. C., and entire South and West, FREIGHT AND PASSENGER STEAMERS SAIL from Pier 268, North River, foot of Beach St, EVERY WEBK DAY AT 3S P. M. H. B. WALKER, Traffic Manager. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD. FAST EXPRESS SERVICE. CHERBOURG—SOUTHAMPTON—BREMEN, *K. W. 4d. Gr. Jan, 3, 10 A M.| *Trave.....Feb. 12, 10 A. YT TAVE er nness Jan, 15, Ak we Feb. 28, 10 A, *Lahn....Jan. 29, 10 A. M.|[*K W 4 Gr..Mch 35, 10 A, QELRICHS NO. 5 BROADWAY. Lewis H. Meyer. oy 4 South Third St.. Phila. SPECIAL NOTICE. *From Pler 52, North River, foot of Gansevoort St tFrom Congress St., Brooklyn. Take South Ferry. CLARK'S HOLY LAND PARTY M. M. M. ‘by N. G. Lloyd express S. S. “Aller,” Feb. 2, $540; Special features, exceptional advantages. EXCURSION EUROPE by specially chartered 8S. 8. “City of mee rs 8,415 tons, June 26, $250. Programmes ready. F. C. CLARK, 111 Broadway, N. Y. Mediterranean Express Service. {NORTH SERMAN "HAMBURG AMERICAN LLOY To NAPLES "AND GENOA VIA GIBRALTAR BY EXPRESS STEAMERS. Alley... Dec. 20, noon| tWerra.... Jan. 18, 11 A M. *F. Bisma'k.Jan. 5, 11 A.M.| *Columbia.Jan. 22, 11 A. M. $*K.M.Th..Jan, 12, 11 AM.| +K. Wm. II.Jan. 26, 11 A.M. FOR ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, JAN. 5, 22. FEB. 2. Return tickets availabie for the steamers of either line from Naples, Genoa, Gibraltar, Hamburg, Bremen, Lon don, Southampton, Paris and Cherbourg. NORTH GERMAN LLOYD, HAMBURG-AMERICAN OELRICHS CO., Agents, LINE, 5 Broadway, N. Y. 87 Broadway, N. Y. tFrom Congress St., Brooklyn. Take South Ferry. t*From Pier 52, North River, foot of Gansevoort St. OLD DOMINION LINE, DAILY SERVICE. For Old Point Comfort, Ncriolk, Portsmouth, Pinner's Point and Newport News, Va., connecting for Petersburg, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Washington. D. C., and entire South and West, FREIGHT AND PASSENGER STEAMERS SAIL from Pier 268, North River, foot of Beach St, EVERY WEBK DAY AT 3S P. M. H. B. WALKER, Traffic Manager. NORTH hsm by LLOYD. EXPRESS SERVICE. 10 A. M. 1Trave........ Jan. 15, noon |*Lahn...... Feb. 268, 10 A. M. *Lahn....Jan. 29, 10 A. M.|*K W 4 Gr..Mch 5. 10 A. M. QELRICHS CO., NO. 5 BROADWAY. Lewis H, Meyer. 45 4 South Third St.. Phila. SPECIAL NOTICE. *From Pler 52, North River, foot of Gansevoort St. tFrom Congress St., Brooklvn. Take South Ferry. CLARK'S HOLY LAND PARTY ‘by N. G. Lloyd express S. S. “Aller,” Feb. 2, $540; Special features, exceptional advantages. EXCURSION EUROPE by specially chartered 8. 8. “City of mee rs 8,415 tons, June 26, $250. Programmes ready. F. C. CLARK, 111 Broadway, N. Y. i i I EE BANKBOOK No, 864,806 of the Union Dime Savings Institution is missing. Any per son having a claim to it is hereby called upon to present the same within ten days or submit to having said passbook cancelled and a new one issued. LOST OR STOLEN.—Passbook No. 32,407 of the Excelsior Savings Bank, 23d-st. and 6th-ave. All persons are cautioned against purchasing or negotiating the same, and any person having a claim to said passbook is hereby called upon to present the same to the bank on or before the 6th day of January, 1901, or submit to having the passbook declared cancelled and ex jigdiened and a new book Issued in lieu thereof. LOST OR STOLEN.—Passbook No. 32,371 of the Excelsior Savings Bank, 23d-st. and 4th-ave. All persons are cautioned against purchasing or negotiating the same, and any person having a claim to sald passbook is hereby called upon to present the same to the bank on or before the 6th day of January, 1901, or submit to having the passbook declared cancelled and ex Huguished and a new book issued in lieu ereof. LOST.—Bankbook No. 840,414 on Dry Dock Savings Bank. Any parson having claims upon said book is called upon to present the same to the bank within thirty days, or the sald book will be declared cancelled and ex tinguished and a new one issued in lieu thereof. a Nut Eat AE ———N—EN———————N tit EER BANKBOOK No, 864,806 of the Union Dime Savings Institution is missing. Any per son having a claim to it is hereby called upon to present the same within ten days or submit to having said passbook cancelled and a new one issued. LOST.—Bankbook No. 840,414 on Dry Dock Savings Bank. Any parson having claims upon said book is called upon to present the same to the bank within thirty days, or the said book will be declared cancelled and ex Hagulehed and a new one {issued In lieu ereof. ALTA HRIERAUOUAR AYU. OWL, LT OL TY LOCK Savings Bank. Any person having claims upon said book is called upon to present the same to the bank within thirty days, or the sald book will be declared cancelled and ex a and a new one {issued In lieu Treof. MACHINERY, AT REDUCED PRICES.—500 second-hand wood and iron working machines: fully guaranteed: machinery bo t and ex changed. GEO. B. EDDY, Madisoa-st. HELP WANTED. Female. NEW-YORK FREE SETLOTNENY BU 80 West 29th-st. CONDUCTED BY THE STATE OF NBW YORK. FREE TO FMPLOYERS AND EM PLOYEES. Servants are in -vaiting from 9 a. m. to Pp. m. Reference inves‘ gated. TL HELP WANTED. A a tt lB rc ti Male. ATTENTION.—Men wanted; cheap trip to any European port, London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Bremen; also free passage and steady position procured. Shipping Offices, 5 Clinton-st., and 73 West-st. MEN WANTED on cattle steamers to Lon don, Liverpool, to work for passage. Ap ply 64 Greenwich-st. WANTED.—Gardener, married; must un derstand care horses, cows and every thing about a private place. Lock Box 111, Thomaston, Conn. WANTED.—Men to travel to Europe by as sisting feeding live stock on fast steam ers; also experienced cattlemen for steady work. Call perscrally, Atlantic Shipping Office, 207-200 2d-st.

HELP WANTED. et A, Ei El MIN Femule. WANTED.—Strong and competent chamber maid; city reference required. Call to day, from 10 to 12, at 40 East 20th-st. WORK WANTED. MACHINERY. AT REDUCED PRICES.—500 second-hand wood and iron working machines; fully guaranteed: machinery bought and ex changed. GEO. B. EDDY, Madison-st. HELP WANTED. HELP WANTED. Ri i i male. Fe NEW-YORK FREE SET LOTMENY BU 80 i 29th-st. CONDUCTED BY THE STATE OF NBW YORK. FREE TO FMPLOYERS AND EM PLOYEES. Servants are in —vaiting from 9 a. m. to Pp. m. Reference inves* gated. nererence inves* gated. TE TL CO i HELP WANTED. Male. ATTENTION.—Men wanted; cheap trip to any European port, London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Bremen; also free passage and steady position procured. Shipping Offices, 5 Clinton-st., and 73 West-st. don, Liverpool, to work for passage. A ply 64 Greenwich-st. i WANTED.—Gardener, married; must un derstand care horses, cows and every thing about a private place. Lock Box 111, Thomaston, Conn. WANTED.—Men to travel to Europe by as sisting feeding live stock on fast steam ers; also experienced cattlemen for steady work. Call perscrally, Atlantic Shipping Office, 207-200 2d-st. HELP WANTED.

Femule. WANTED.—Strong and competent chamber maid; city reference required. Call to day, from 10 to 12, at 490 East 20th-st. WORK WANTED. rr Se Nt. a Female. COMPANION. Young lady, speaking French, German, English, musical, as useful companion with family or lady going abroad; experienced traveller; highest ref erences. M. M., 44 Sth-ave., Brooklyn. GOVERNESS. Scotch; teaches English branches, French and music; assistant housekeeper and secretary; highest English and city references. K. M., Box 84, 1,242 Broadway. Eee KINDERGARTEN teacher, engaged daily till 2, wishes to form afterncons select private class at pupils’ residence; German, English; highest testimonials. DISSHIN, 800 Bergen-st., Brooklyn. DN READER would like employment in morn ing hours; would either read to and amuse children or read to an invalid; excel lent references. Address RBADER, 92 East 14th-st. YOUNG LADY, experienced, as telephone operator in a long distance office or other office work. A. H. D., 1,581 Pacific-st., Brooklyn. WORK WANTED. Male. A— WM. IL. HARTUNG, Public Expert Accountint and Auditor, Room S828, 150 Nassau-st., N. Y. ARTIST.—By a young man, where slight ability for drawing would be of use; illus trator's studic preferred. J. H. FERRIS, 71 Broad-st. me AMERICAN, 35, temperate, honest, rella ble, fair education, unquestionable refer ences, wishes work of any kind; board and ng or small wages. D. M., Box 20, Tribune Office. ACTIVE German-American, 24, good edu cation, excellent penman, four years’ me chanical experience, desires position; ref erences; bond; city or country. JUNIOR, 963 Home-st., The Bronx. BUSINESS MAN who has had considerable experience as office manager, etc., and is soliciting insurance, desires salaried posi tion, J. DUDDENHAUSEN, Box 321, 1.269 Broadway. BOY (17), good penman, can write and speak French, in wholesale house with chance of advancement; no experience. LEON MEGE, 164 East T0th-st. BOY (15), In office. BENJAMIN TRAGER, 188 Monroe-st. BRIGHT young man, 28, handy with tools machinery and factory work: willing, goo worker; has a mother to support; will de anything. ROONEY, 2,215 Sth-ave. COLLECTOR.—Mercantile or real estate thoroughly posted In renting, repairs. &eo. 18 years’ experience in New-York City and Brooklyn: bond and Al reference furnished. O. W. DAYTON, 272 48th-st., Brooklyn. CABINET MAKER.—Competent and well plegammended. in ae amis; fine GIEDAMAN, 487 20-ave ELBVATOR RUNNER,—Youns man. 20 a. Fade Bel Address JOHN. 418 Tth-ave. HELP WANTED. 3 HELP WANTED. I a A fH itl $8. Male. ATTENTION.—Men wanted; cheap trip to any European port, London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Bremen; also free passage and steady position procured. Shipping Offices, 5 Clinton- st., and 73 West-st. MEN WANTED on cattle steamers to Lon don, Liverpool, to work for passage. Ap— ply 64 Greenwich-st. WANTED.—Gardener, married; must un derstand care horses, cows and every thing about a private place. Lock Box 111, Thomaston, Conn. WANTED.—Men to travel to Europe by as sisting feeding live stock on fast steam ers; also experienced cattlemen for steady work. Call perscrally, Atlantic Shipping Office, 207-208 24-st. HELP WANTED. Femule. WANTED.—Strong and competent chamber maid; city reference required. Call to day, from 10 to 12, at 49 East 20th-st. WORK WANTED. eC Nt, a Female. COMPANION. Young lady, speaking French, German, English, musical, as useful companion with family or lady going abroad; experienced traveller; highest ref erences. M. M., 44 Sth-ave. Brooklyn. GOVERNESS. Scotch; teaches English branches, French and music; assistant housekeeper and secretary; highest English and city references. K. M., Box 84, 1,242 roadway. KINDERGARTEN teacher, engaged daily till 2. wishes to form afternoons select private class at pupils’ residence; German, glish; highest testimonials. DISSHIN, §00 Bergen-st., Brooklyn, RFADER would like employment in morn ing hours; would either read to and amuse children or read to an invalid; excel lent references. Address RBADER, 92 East 14th-st. YOUNG LADY, experienced, as telephone operator in a long distance office or other office work. A. H. D., 1581 Pacific-st., Brooklyn. WORK WANTED. Female. COMPANION. Young lady, speaking French, German, English, musical, as useful companion with family or lady going abroad; experienced traveller; highest ref erences. M. M., 44 Sth-ave. Brooklyn. GOVERNESS. Scotch; teaches English branches, French and music; assistant housekeeper and secretary; highest English and city references. K. M., Box 84, 1,242 Broadway. KINDERGARTEN teacher, engaged daily till 2. wishes to form afternoons select private class at pupils’ residence; German, glish; highest testimonials. DISSHIN, §00 Bergen-st., Brooklyn. RFADER would like employment in morn— ing hours; would either read to and amuse children or read to an invalid; excel lent references. Address READER, 92 East 14th.<tr YOUNG LADY, experienced, as telephone operator in a long distance office or other office work. A. H. D., 1581 Pacific-st., Brooklyn. WORK WANTED. ARTIST.—By a young man, where slight ability for drawing would be of use; illus trator's studic preferred. J. H. FERRIS, 71 Broad-st. AMERICAN, 35, temperate, honest, rella ble, fair education, unquestionable refer ences, wishes work of any kind; board and lodging or small wages. D. M., Box 20, Tribune Office. MNeean BDicamers. ct ————ENTN—— NEW YEAR'S DAY S EA Desirable trips covering this holiday are offered by the OLD DOMINION LINE Express steamships, electric lighted and steam heated throughout, leave New York Saturday and Sunday, Dee. 20th and 30th, at 3 P. M., for Old Point Comfort and Norfolk. Passengers can leave Norfolk on return, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, for New York direct. Tickets for continuous round trip, including meals and stateroom accommodations, $13.00. Tickets for round trip, including m als and stateroom accommodations en route, and 13% days’ board and lodging at hotel, Old Point Com fort, $16.00. Steamers sail from Pier 28, North River, foot of Beach St., New York, where staterooms, tickets and full in formation may be obtained. TELEPHONE, 1380 FRANKLIN. OLD DOMINION LINE, DAILY SERVICE. For Old Point Comfort, Ncriolk, Portsmouth, Pinner's Point and Newport News, Va., connecting for Petersburg, Richmond, Virginia Beach, Washington, D. C., and entire Seuth and West, FREIGHT AND PASSENGER STEAMERS SAIL from Pier 268, North River, foot of Beach St, EVERY WEBK DAY AT 3S P. M. H. B. WALKER, Traffic Manager. LOST, SATE, SV. STU, SPOCial intages. EXCURSION TO NADI ered 8. “City of Rome,” Programmes ready. bi FOR LRK, 111 Broadway, N. Y. WORK WANTED. Male. FOREMAN.—Fifteen years’ experience in manufacturing all kinds of men's =nd boys’ clothing; would like a position ai the same or as an inside contractor; best refer ence; moderate salary. Call all week, SCHAFFER, 662 Broadway, Brooklyn. INTELLIGENT American will give $10 for situation as collector, watchman or any work not too menial; references. W., 196 Centre-st,, Brooklyn. JANITOR.—By young Swedish couple; ex perienced; understands steam heat and repairs; husband a machinist; ne children. JANITOR, 419 West 33d-st. MATTRESSES REMADE a: customers residences in three hours a specialty; new tickings and hair supplied; sole users own patented otcillating hor bs Th chines and collapsible benches. THE MAU BORGNE M OD, 846 Sth-ave. Country orders solicited. Telephone $67 Columbus. PORTER, useful man or anything, by a young Swede, 26. C. A., #42 Pacific-st. Brooklyn. PLATER, polisher and brass finisher, ex pert; 23 years’ experience; th fy up to date; recommendations. F. WEB 730 Manhattan-ave., Brooklyn. PAINTER, decorator and paperhanger, by practical mechanic, with best city refer ences; for owner or estate; chargel very Moderate. PAINTER, 632 Fulton-st._, Brook yn. PAINTER.—By first class house ter. WILLIAM TURNBULL, 55 Horatio-st. ences. VAN LOOCK. 207 West 20th-st. WATCHMAN.—Night or day: understands class furniture splicing of all of running gear; strictly temperate; best of reference given. J. LANG, 723 11th-ave. WANTED.—A line to sell on commission to Chicago dealers. C. H. COCHRAN, 309 Leland-ave., Chicago. YOUNG MAN, 23, at anything: knows how to drive and care for horses and fur naces. D. BOWE, 519 East 81st-st. YOUNG married man at anything; fair education; good penman; handy and wide awake, at any trade; no canvassing. ROHDB., 35 Reid-ave., Brooklyn. YOUNG MAN, married, good education, wishes place in office or anything where there is chance for advancement; firse— class reference. Address C. BERWIND, 2,454 Sth-ave. YOUNG MAN (22), German-American, to do anything; outdoor work preferred; ood reference. O. STEIN, 206 Fast 96th-st. YOUNG MAN (23), in store or factory: Strong and honest. J. RUDDY, 324 Wes: 12th-st a YOUNG MAN desires to learn fly finishing in‘ piano factory. Inquire 305 West 1434 t.. 4th floor, west. YOUNG MAN. 18, as assistant shipping clerk. JAMES TIMONY, 968 4th-ave., Brooklyn. LDHVESTIV SITCATIONS W Tab Male. b ATTENDANT, NURSE, to invalid or nervous gentleman; 10 years’ experience, surgical and mental cases; massage; refer— ences. NURSB, Box 20, Tribune Office. BUTLER.—Wel! trained; good appearance; willing, honest, industrious, temperate, faithful; highest personal 4 years’ refer ences; wages, $50 to $60. BUTLER, Box 267, 1,269 Broadway. 14 BUTLBR—(COOK.—Protestant couple; best references; city or country; wages $30 and WHIGHAM, 492 Lexington-ave. BUTLER or USBFUL MAN.—By a young colored man; good reference. Address H., care J. Lawson, 227 West 18th-st, E BUTLER.—Thoroughly competent; strictly sober; Armenian, Protestant, aged 28; ac customed to high grade service; just dis engaged; excellent written and personal rof erences. EDWARDS, 1.242 Broadway. BUTLER, chef, steward or otherwise, by Frenchman of upper class training and long experience, of strict deportment; best city references. BONARDY, 250 West ~St. BUTLER —English, middle aged, single: expert at silver and table decorations: good height and appearance; personal ref erence. BETA, Box 257, 1,269 Broadway. BUTLER or SECOND MAN.—Aged 27; tall, clean, neat appearance; thoroughly com petent in all branches; good valet; 3 years’ personal city references. HENRY, 530 6th ave. SS ON yas twa vears wih an English references. ease address LOUIS SCHMIDT, 130 2d-ave. eal COACHMAN—COOK.—English Protestant couple; man coachman, garden: wife ex cellent cook and housekeeper; will take care of gentleman's country place: best personal reference. COLLIER, 151 West 234 st. er COACHMAN.—Married; no familly: thor oughly reliable: understands his business: sehet, willing: 1 years’ Best references; last em plover can be seen. WALKER, 2 Fast 106th-st, ry 79 COACHMAN.— Married: no family; good appearance and figure; best references: last employer can be seer. THOMAS, care of J. B. Brewster Co., 1.61» Broadway. COACHMAN.—First class in ev respect; hest references from best New_York wi Washington families; married; aged WILLIAM DUGGAN, 868 3d-ave. EE COACHMAN.—Thoroughly rellable: under— stands his business; sober, willing. best city Tefersiite fram last and former em oyer, Ww can seen. A RT Box Si LT Pranive dress MAR COACHMAN.—By experienced city driver: first class references; ieaving on account of family giving up horses. Call or address C.. 168 East T0th-st., private stable. ee i hs h a the country; rst class al re ce; obliging. 314 West 30th-st. Saber COACHMAN. First class; colored: private family: 14 years afore West 27 COACHMAN.—Marrted: no en ands the Piaper 4 H r—————————————————————— GROOM or SECOND MAN man; understands ul or RR found sober and SarHiages. will be five years refer WORK WANTED. GRAND CRUISES HAMBURG-AMERICAN Ling

Delightful Itineraries arranged. All appointments strictly first ciass, Tr llediterranean i} Orient By the twin-screw express S. 8S. Anguste Victoria, LEAVING NEW YORK JAN. 31, 1901. Duration 67 days: rates $450 and upward. A limited number of passengers will be carried from New York to Alexandria only At Special Rates. Mediterranean 3 Black Se; By the large new twin-screw Crulsing Yacat Prinzessin Victoria Luise, Leaving New York March 8, 1901 Leaving Genoa March 26, 1801. Duration of voyage about 65 days. Rates $450 and up. ward. Passengers ieaving for the Mediterranean during the winter can arrange to join the yacht at Genoa. For particulars and descriptive pamphlet apply to HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE, 27 Broadway, NM. JAPAN-GHINA HAWAIIAN AND PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PACIFIC MAIL 8S. 8. CO. OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL 8. 8. Co TOYO KISEN KAISHA. Between San Francisco, Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe Nagasaki, Shanghal, Hong Kong. ICR wees van Jan. 8|CHINA.....comm...... Fab 3 RELIC. cee ssonse Jan DORIC. «eee. Fob, HONGKONG MARU. Jan. 24 NIPPON MART. raw “Feb, 8 or t, passage and general ormation p 349 Broadway, or 1 Battery Place, Washington Belding and 287 Broadway. REP D LINE. For La Guayra, Puerto Cabello, Curacao and Mars. caibo, via Curacao—Calling also at Porto Rice. From Roberts Plier, Brooklyn, 5 8 CARACAS......-evvrrunve Saturday, Dec. 29, noon S. S. PHILADELPHIA........ Saturday, Jan. 12, noon These vessels have superior accommodations for pas sengers. BOULTON, BLISS DALLETT, General Managers, 135 Front St A WHITE STAR LINE. NEW-YORK- Ri wk —LIVERPOOL. Teatonic. Majestic ham Jan. 23, noom Cymrie. Jan. J "5:30 AM. fe. fan. 16, acon! Pama aa eh. 8, moog passage, t an eral information apply to For S ARQ Senor LINE Plor Wx Naren Office, Broadway, N. ¥Y. ANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. yor D DATES OF STEAMSHIP SAILINGZ THIS COLUMN TO-MORROW. A WHITE STAR LINE. NE FORE WN LIVERPOOL Teatonic. .......Jan. n| Majestic a snsne Jan. 23, noom Cymrie. Jan. 9. 8 3 A M.! Oceantc...... Jan. 30. 2PM Germanic. .....Jan. 16, noon|Teutonic........ Feb. 6, noon to For passage, freight and eral information apply WHITE ITB STAR LI Pler 48. North River. Office, Broadway, N. ANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. FoR D DATES OF STEAMSHIP SAILING2 THIS COLUMN TO-MORROW. Ocean Sieamers. He —S8ingle; life Bp and outdoor, and capable of entire charge of gentleman's place; written and personal reference. M. Tribune Office. GARDENER and FLORIST.—Middle German-American, 30 Yeaty oki; practical experience, especially greenhouses, apiag. vegetables; can milk; on private place. Address GARDENER, 307 hy Eekid GARDENER and USEF UL-MAN. <Stagiat mi e-aged; greenhouse, horses, furnace; in country. Address MODERATE, 15, Tribune Office. GARDENER.—Singls; under and out side ening, flowers, tables Jaw, furnace; qary stock; Jace, eacell ent olty refer ho he 23, “Tribune OMce. GARDENER pert nead and fruit under and out= Wohin all outside details: aged 48; mar. ried; no family: English; thoroughly com~ tent man in all respects. Address E. N. L. care Bridgeman’s gsed siore, 37 East t. GARDENER.—Single; under glass and J refererces. S. W., Box 20. ES GROOM or USEFUL MAN. Understands outside ing; towers, shrubs, wvege tables, lawn, furnace; care of stock; gen excelient city Tribune Office. the care of horses thoroughly, ef goun personal reference. GUINAN, est

reference; work Ds FE USEFUL MAN.—By a young man on gen tleman’s place; understands care of horses {ti ii and cows. Call, BRAY, 418 East USEFUL MAN.—Honest, steady pan, o fx need; handy and useful around willing to do anything: Al reference; adate more than wages. J., 182 Bast 23d-et. USEFUL MAN and walt on table; city ref erence. Address T. M"CARTHY, care Mrs. Fitzsimmons, 344 West 42d-et. TserrL MAN —French, 28. speaks some English; handy in chamberwork, silver cleaning. etc., in private family; references. HENRY, 49 West 24th-st. rere eee———— USEFUL MAN.--Single; understands cars furnace, steam, all Rasal work; reference. N. M. Box 23, Tribune Office. USEFUL Man.—In private house; can walt ad table; aged 18. A RODY, 243 West d-st. 3 USEFUI-XAN. pr a colored willing and ood ROBERT HARRELL 1 ave, VALET. —Young PEnglishman as valet by the day, week or month. VALET, Box 79. 1.242 Broadway. WAITER —In private Aig hotel, club or restaurant; willing to de useful; by week or month. ANSON, Box 89, 12:3 Broadway. WAITER and USEFUL MAN. are 2a work; staady tion; five place. L. FINGEL, 214 East hl t Bf DCMESTIU SITUATIONS WANTED Female. J0OK.—By English Protestant wo: cook, plain washing: small Shia: city or short distance in country. 120 West 24th-st., Room 13. COOK—CHAMBERMAID—Two neat youlg giris; one cook and laundress; other cham bermaid, waitress; fond of chiidren; no ob jections to country: references. Call after 12, MURRAY, 137 East 32d-st. COOK.—By Scotch Protastant; partiouladly neat, clean and economical; good refer ances; city or country. COLLIER, 151 Wess 23a-st. COOK and LAUNDRESS.—First roast, soups, baker or general house worker; also chambermaid, waitress; refer ence. 440 6th-ave. A Af COOK.—By French woman: 4 years sonal city references; disengaged January objections to country. Address MARID, Box 370, 1,227 Broadway. CHAMBERMAID and WAITRESS. —By a competent girl; willing and obliging: sonal references. Call 436 West Mrs. Sullivan's bell, one flight up, front CHAMBERMAID.—By a Scotch girl In private family; no sewing; two years’ ref 3 bed

Q hy w erence: no cards. Addcess M. D. An 8 Box 7, Commack. Long Isiand. HOUSEKEEPER. —An educated, lady as housekeeper. the care of childred an invalid, or as companion to a lad¥s thoroughly experienced; would leave citfi best of references. M. 11 East YTth-st. HOUSEWORK. —Respectable young gith lately landed, to do light housework in private Allerican family. Call CO 48 East 134th-st HOUSEWORK.—By a Protestant womals small wages and yood home; city or couli= fry. best references. Room 8, 150 West th-s HOUSEWORK.—Competent woman to general housework: sober, willing obliging: honest. 140 West 25th-st. NURSE, ATTENDANT. —Experienced iB massage and Swedish movements; to iB» valid gentleman; tist references; doctors’ also. KESSLER 8 East 28th-st. Be ee NURSE —Respectadle woman would came home: best care. STEINER, 1 West 127th-st. NURSE. —English; child ov infant; fine rei erence; good seamstress: fond of childreds sity a or country. 327 East 3ist-st.. top HOR. Ee NURSE and SEBAMSTRESS By English Protestan:; speaks and teaches refined; particularly neat and ve rsonal city reference. CO wm est 23d-st NURSE. Professional English; all diseases; would care for invalid Py generally useful. BURK, 228 W. SEAMSTRESS. Competent, by home; 1 ring, Bn PU neil Rr DWE gl By SEAMSTRESS. —Thorougnly competed the day or take work home: dresses. finishing, alterations and sewing. Mrs. HOOD 136 West

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