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a THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER-SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9. 1893. Philadelphia Inquirer PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR BY THE INQUIRER COMPANY JAMES ELVERSON, PRESIDENT 929 CHESTNUT STREET. York Bureau, 41 Times Building R.

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CIRCULATION SUNDAY. DEC. 3, 90,826 YESTERDAY'S CIRCULATION. 93,785 The Inquirer's Circulation Books are always open for examination. The Peace of Europe Again.

Mr. POULTNEY BIGELOW being a schoolmate and friend of the Emperor of Germany, and having been himself subjected to Russian espionage, naturdoes not look with any friendly eye upon the declaration of the Russian Government that the north mouth of the Danube River must be made navigable. He takes the declaration as a sign than Russia wants Constantinople, and to get it is ready to fight Austria and Germany. Upon so slight a thing as an announcement of the improvement of the second river in Europe Mr. BIGELOW has both France and Russia fighting Germany, and his interview is a fairly good lustration of the crazy state of affairs existing in Europe.

The suggestion to improve the Danube, a stream which flows through Gerinany, Hungary, Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria into Black Sea, would thee seem to be a very sensible one, but this is net the first time that such a sugges- tion bas been taken as a declaration of war. 1880, when Hungary made such a proposition, Austria began to talk about building gunboats and there was a regular panic all along the Danube. Russia owns the north bank of the north mouth of the Danube and naturally insists that this mouth, which would give Russian territory additional entrance to the Black Sea and which mouth carries off two thirds of the volume of the Danube, shall be improved. The International Danube Navigation Cemmission, which has eleven years yet to run, has confined its improvements to the middle mouth, which does not touch Russian territory. It the commission will not improve the northern mouth, a matter of consicerable importance to Russia, it would seem as if Russia might be permitted to go ahead and make the improvements herself.

if not permitted the probability is that she will do so anyhow. The English newspapers, like Mr. BIGELOW, consider Russia's declaration as an aggressive act threatening to disturb the peace of Europe. If the peace of Europe stands in the way of improvements so necessary to the welfare of the people, it will do no lasting harm to have it breken. Canadian Views of Long Speeches.

When Senator ALLEN, the clarionvoiced Populist from Nebraska, made his fourteen and three-quarter hour speech against the repeal of the silver clause of the SHERMAN law he had two objects in view. He intended primarily to defeat repeal cr force a compromise mere satisfactory to the silver men, and he desired to break the record for the long- winded championship et the world. It is a matter of history that he did not defeat repeal, and some Canadian fiend with a taste for historical research has ascertained that he did not break the long-speaking record. The Canadian was led to look up the facts by the longdrawn -out eftort of a local orator. The researches in question show that a member of the British Columbian Parliament, named DE COSMOS, talked continually for twenty-six hours in that body in an attempt to secure the defeat of a bill to confiscate the property of many of his constituents.

Under the rules of that house the bill had to be passed by noon of a certain day or fall. It was 9.55 o'clock the day before the bill had to be passed, when he took the floor and be held it until 12.05 the next day. When he stopped his tongue and lips were cracked in many spots and his linen shirt front was covered with blood which had dropped from his lips during his speech. In all that time he never left his feet, but he won his fight. At a still more recent date, in 1887, there was a most remarkable debate in the Romanian Parliament over the impeachment of an ex-Cabinet officer who was charged with misdemeanor in office.

Factional and party feeling ran high. Other questions than that originally involved finally became a part of the issue and the tenure of the then Cabinet depended upon the outcome. Time evidently became necessary to the impeaching party, for the report of the proceedings as made by this writer says that the leader of the accusers spoke for thirty-seven hours. In is held that these efforts must be regarded as remarkable as physical and mental feats, but this scarcely follows. Above all, they do not disprove, as our Canadian friend insists, the theory that "no man can speak logically and directly upon any subject for more than six hours." 'The report of Mr.

ALLEN'S remarks evinces very clearly that two. thirds of what he said bad absolutely nothing to do with the point immediately at issue and Mr. a ALLEN would probably admit now that he did not then think it had. At even an ordinary rate of speaking a man can in that time tell quite all he knows about the strictly relevant points of any question and the best speakers realize this fact. Anything beyond that must necessarily weaken tho argument must also be made in defiance ofthe fact that the greatest speeches in our history were those which stopped when they were finished.

Waiting on the Court. And still the Dauphin county court has the elevated railroad cases hung up. No work can be done. A large number of expensive foundations have been sunk, the elevated structure itself has beer begun, but everything has been halted pending a decision upon a law passed by the Legislature for the express purpose of allowing elevated railroads to be built. Progress is blocked.

Enterprise is hinde red. The people of this city are denied rapid transit pending decision upon a controversy argued many months ago. In the name of the more than one million people of Philadelphia crying for relief we appeal to the Dauphin court for action. Mr. Adams for Congress.

The haste with which Governer PATTISON got out his call for a special electien to fill the vacancy in the Second Congress district made anything like a thorough canvass for the nomination impossible. Several names were suggested. Certain members of the Union League talked over the situation. Others of the Manufacturers' Club got together and resolved that such and such a thing ought to be done. Various movements for the crystallization of public opinion were broached.

But the time between the call and the election was insufficient to allow of: a concentration of ideas, and there was nothing to do but call the primaries nominate a candidate in the manner provided by the rules of the Republican organization. The result of the primaries was the election of delegates, who have placed in nomination ROBERT ADAMS. who has long been an aspirant for the office. He was fairly nominated, and he will be elected by an overwhelining majority. Mr.

ADAMS is not, perhaps, a great orator, but that is not necessarily a serious defect. There are times when orators have their uses in Congress, but, on the whole, the man who can weigh public matters in an intelligent manner and carry out the wishes of his constituents and of the country, and can influence legislation in the committee stage, where the real work is done, holds the laboring and the important oar. Mr. ADAMS will go to Washingten not without experience. He has served in the State Legislature, and as United States Minister to Brazil he has dipped into diplo nacy.

He is a thorough Philadelphian, and as such is necessarily a thorough American -and there seems to be a demand for the true American spirit in Washington just now. It will be expected of him that be will take hold of the great questions earnestly; that be will uphold the American doctrine of protection; that he will protest against income taxes and rotten State banks; that he will pose the American administration policy concerning Hawaii, that he will do wi at he can to restrict immigration, keeping out the undesirable classes that become a burden on the nation and inviting to America only those who desire to come here to build homes and support the Constitution of the United States; and having fully digested national interests it will be expected of him that he will give considerable attention to lecal interests. We should have at League Island the greatest of all naval stations. Gradually we are building up the yard. The werk should be hastened.

The Ameri- can navy can lie off League Island in fresh water, and every naval officer knows the value of fresh water to the bulls of vessels. The time will arrive when League Island will be a central station from which cruisers can De dispatched te New York and into the Chesapeake without going outside the capes of the Delaware. Ship canals across the Delaware and New Jersey are coming. The only question is, When? Especially is the New Jersey canal needed for the benefit of the commerce of Philadelphia. With new and splendid docks to meet the improveunents going on in the Delaware River the canal is a necessity, tor it would bring us within eight hours of New York Bay.

A steamship from Liverpool could tie up at its dock in this city almost as quickly as It could reach its pier on the North River. It will not be too much to expect of Mr. ADAMS that he will devete himself to the interests of his city, his State and his country. He is intelligent, perfectly able to do good work for Philadelphia and, we have no doubt, entirely willing, and even anxious, te show to Philadelphia what he can do for her. We therefore cominend him to the voters of the Secend district.

This is a Republican year. The tariff 1 is threatened and the votes and the work of sturdy Republicans needed at nation's Let the majority for Mr. ADAMS be a rousing one. the recent State election proved how heartily the citizens of this great State object to the Democratic theorists who are striving to overturn the wise policy which has fostered manulactures and built up business enterprises. Let the protest against Democratic destructien go on.

Let the Republicans of the Second district speak out with their ballots, and let all Democrats out of work vote tor their homes and ier their wives and children. The election will be held one week from next Tuesday. A Preposterous Assumption, Eren now that VAN ALEN has de. clined to become our Ambassador at the Court of King HUMBERT and turned his back upon his country some of the New York papers keep up the discussion of his appointment, one of then going so far as to assert that the members of the smart set in the metrepolis resent the an criticisms that were made upon his selection: as a vulgar attack upon "gentlemen" and an assault upon and their order. themselves The assumption is preposterous.

People whe belong to the smart set in New York, or any other American city, have never yet set themselves up as an "order," and the word "gentleman" is never used either in New Yerk society or the society of any other American city as a word peculiarly applicable to its members. The smart set in New York, as elsewhere, is simply the amart set, and the idea that it is an "order" never entered the head of Mr. VAN ALEN or anybody else. So 1ar as Mr. VAN ALEN is concerned, he proved himself a very decent fellow when he once got his bearings, and it is time to let him alone.

The Great Mystery. Why the administration sbould have so long insisted upon making a mystery of its attitude toward Hawaii is something too profound for the average mind. There was nothing to make a mystery about. Everything that has been done in the matter by Minister STEVENS and the late administration was done Gin the open." It President CLEVELAND WAS dissatistied with the policy of his predecessor, or wanted more complete in formation in regard to the Hawalian revolution, no harm could have come either to his administration or the country if he had taken the American people into his centidence. But the President chose to pursue an entirely different policy.

The BLOUNT episode was carefully nursed as a mystery from beginning to end. The para- mount Commissioner's departure for Honolulu was 2 mystery -his movements while there were made as mysterious as possible, and his return was a inystery. BLOUNT's report was the mystery of a long series of mysteries, and so it was kept fer many months. Minister WILLIS' instructions were intended to be another mystery, and such they would have proved had not Secretary GRESHAM, in his boyish glee over the success of his Hawaiian coup d'etat, given the snap away by the premature publication of his letter. The reserve of the State Department in regard to Hawaii has only served to make the administration ridiculous.

What was intended to ba a serious diplomatic drama was turned into the most grotesque of farce comedies before the middle of the first act. The romantic leading man, WILLIS, when he arrived at Honolulu found himself only a first low comedian. The role be had been instructed to play was a complete mistit, and so at last accounts he was waiting for the President and the Secretary of State to invent here some new "business." And now everybody is waiting to hear whether Minister WILLIS is waiting still. THE WORK of examining the WILSON Tariff bill, in order to discover its many constructive defects, has been transferred to officials of the Treasury Department. They have already found many errors in the measure and have only begun their work.

The inference is that they will discover a great many more and that they will these. Then the bill will be gone over again by the Ways and Means Committee and submitted to the President. If it is satistactory to him it will be presented to the House and the debate will be oponed. When a pretense of hearing its opponents has been made it will be forced through the House and an effort made to get it through the Senate. But, patient as the work of these officials may be, it cannot correct the vicious influence of the bill.

The evil of that measure does not lie in any mere trick of consuruction. It is unpatriotic in conception, designedly disastrous to certain industries, like those in this State, in purpose, and effective in the general carefulness with which it was prepared to carry out its framers' intentions. Changing the phraseology will not correct the danger. WHEN LAST heard from the adminis. tration was supposed pondering over the advisability of turning back squarely upon the platform or of simply giving that instrument a sort of profile view.

THE YAWNING chasm in the treasury of the old Keystone Bank remains the real accusation against the managers of that institution. THE PRESENT plight of the Italian Gov. ernient is not made more endurable by the secret attacks which have been made upon it during the last few days by certain elements with which it has long been at odds. It would not be surprising if those elements, rich and powerful as they are, were really at the back of all the trouble. Recent hints from various foreign capitals have brought the intimation that unless some of the other meinters of the triple alliance came to King Humbert's rescue he would be forced to abandon the pelicy which makes his country desirable that organization.

Embarrassed by debts which he cannot pay, under expense for a ridiculously large standing army, and every mistake which he and his advisers make used to still further anuoy him, he answers at this moment to the implied description of the Shakespearean line, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," more accurately than any other monarch on a civilized throne. SOME OF the new paving laid by the local street car companies begins to resemble the ocean's waving front. Is it possible that advantage has been taken of the crooked times to run in some sections of crooked work? A HOROSCOPE of the administration's future indicates that the Kilkenny cats bad a peaceful existence. THE NOMINATION Of THOMAS MARTIN as United States Senator from Virginia is very much of a surprise and something of mystery. Apparently the F.

F. in Virginny" are beginning to tire. Against MARTIN were such true and tried Virginia Democrats as FITZHUGH LEE, JOHN GOODE and Gov- ernor MCKINNEY, but MARTIN led the field on the first ballot, with LEs secend, but considerably in the rear, and the subsequent ballots previous to his nomination made it clear that he had come to stay. MARTIN is comparatively uh. known, even in bis own State, and heys entirely unknown out of it.

What does it all mean? THE REPORTS from Kansas are to the effect that JERRY SIMPSON and kers PEFFER will soon be in search pi other jobs. WHERE DID MR. CLEVELAND pick up torney-General OLNEY, anyhow? York World. And where did he pick, up GRESHAM and BLOUNT and WILLIS? READERS OF the reports of the trial of H. H.

YARD In connection with the gutting of the Keystone. Bank must have done a good deal of thinking over the appearance of such technical terms as "star entries" and "dummy These terms are part of the slang of the account book inanipulator. A habit or custom has to be very general betore it receives recognition in the phraseology of slang. It would be economy to know in how many banks the clerks are familiar with "star entries," made to deceive the bank examiner, and "dummy checks," a device to reduce an overdrawn account. IN SPITE of the defense of longwinded speeches, men ot brains.

will continue to measure the oratorical efforts by the number of ideas which they contain. CHAIRMAN WILSON'S refusal to listen to the arguments for a protective tariff ought to be labeled "Chairman WILSON'S death-knell" before it is packed away. BY AN EX-EDITOR. The Veteran Discusses the Effectiveness of Personality in Journalism. The other day a "personal," so-called, appeared in one of the New York papers in which E.

W. asked Mrs. H. S. S.

to moet Eim in front of the bex-effice of the Garden Theatre at a certain sime, E. W. giving a detailed account of the manner in which he would be dressed and asking Mrs. H. S.

S. to carry a news. paper in her hand. Whether E. W.

met Mrs. H. S. S. is not clear from the enterprising journalism of the metropolis, one paper describing their meeting and departure with great fulness of details; another reperting the appearance of F.

but failing to identify the still another giving an explicit account of the meeting with the interposition of an impostor, who, however, yielded gracetully to E. W. when he found that Mrs. H. S.

S. was little, old and gray, Any old hand at the bellows of metro. politan journalism will recognize in all this the tine Italian hand and pleasing variety of the theatrical press agent, whese only aim in life is to "get the naine of the theatre inte the papers, you knew." It dees not seem to me that the fame was worth the candle. The story was a "take," but it did not rise to the dignity of a heax. Although one of the supposed bystanders was alleged to have asked with some show of indignant sarcasm, "Why didn't they invite the town?" the town seemed unaware of the existence and intended meeting of E.

W. and Mrs. H. S. S.

The whole thing was a fluke, a fizzle, a fiasco on which several of the greatest newspapers in the world wasted considerable space. As the stupid thing stared me in the face in one paper alter another 1 began to ask myself, Has practical joking sunk as low as this in the Bohemia of which I was once proud te be a member? In my own experience I found nothing mere difficult than to give verisimilitude to a "fake." This is owing to the fact that the vitalizing personality of the writer is not felt. If I ever become a professor of journalism I shall devote my first lecture to this subject. It was the personality of the elder Bennett that made the New York Herald, and although the personality of Horace Greeley in the Tribune and of Henry J. Raymond in the Times was manifested in different ways, it was still their vitaliz-1 ing force that gave each of these papers its special field.

People like to feel that they can shake hands with the editor of their favorite paper, although they never saw him or expect to see nim. have known reporters to get into er keep out of jail because of these preconceived notions of the chiefs. Many years ago a prize tight at Now Haven which was attended by Joe Elliot, the greatest of all sporting reporters, for the Herald, and Dan Kirwan, a singularly gifted descriptive writer who died on the very threshold of his career, for the Tribune. "How did you got to the tight?" asked the Yankee squire Elliot, after the police had got in their work. "James Gordon Bennett sent me," Elliot answered.

"Discharged." But when poor Dan, following Joe's ample, averred that Horace Greeley bad sent him the response was difterent. story is too thin, young or ten days." In my day on the New York press the reporter's personality was in the newspapers as well as the editor's. You knew: a story was true because you felt that the man who wrote it swas there." I often miss this quality new-a-days, and recently I have missed it in nothing more painfully than in some of the accounts I have read of the Rev. Dr. Paxton's relations te his millionaire con gregation.

Paxton's story is one that in iny reporting days would have touched my heart-in telling it I think I would have made ny readers feel that I had not rudely torn away the veil from this gifted man's sorrow. I do not know whether Dr. Paxton threatened to "cut off that kid's ears," but if I had seen him in the dusk of the evening, standing bareheaded on the windswept porch of his sister's farm house, whatever his utterances, I should not havo failed to knew that the scene was very, very sad, and that too, was a man like unto other men. The enly noteworthy example of the effectiveness of a writer's personality in journalism that has recently come under my notice was Charles Nordhod's work for the Herald in Hawaii during Blount's stay at Honolulu. It was Nordhoft who moulded the feelings of Blount and the policy of the administration toward the Provisional Government, not by any personal influence he might have brought to bear upon the Commissioner, but through the effects of his strong, but misguided convictions in regard to the rights of the Queen.

That his articles were signed neither added nor took away from their influence -they would bave been equally effective if they had been unsigned. have no doubt that his contact with cotlee-colored royalty quickened his pen as the champion the but behind all this was his own sturdy Norse personality infused into his work, right or wrang, which induced many of his readers to extend their bands to him across the Pacific, saying, "Shake for Liliuokalani." It was very grotesque, but unlike Blount's work, Nordhoft's was not a "fake," and, consequently, untike Blount, Nordboft is net discredited. Like the author of the various accounts of the meeting of E. W. and Mrs.

H. S. S. in the New York papers, Blount's affidavits lacked verisimilitude. THE EX-EDITOR.

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will send you free the new game, on receipt of a wrapper and a twe-cout stamp. COTHAM BY 'PHONE FAMILY REUNION AT ELLIS ISLAND A Philadelphian Runs Across His Wife and Children Rather Unexpectedly. Mrs Catherine Filzgerald, Who Killed Mrs. Carrie Pearsall, Declared Insane. Rev.

Dr. Paxton Resigns at Last. George Gould Calls on Superintendent Byrnes-Dramatic Scene in Court -Other Interesting News of New York and Vicinity. By Special Long Distance Telephone, THE INQUIRER BUREAU, NEW YORK, Dec. 8.

Over a ago a Russian weman pawed Rachael Medrick was sent to Ellis Island with her six children by the United Hebrew Charities, who had been supporting peer tor a month. Rachael said she had arrived here last June with her children on the steamer Dresden from Bremen, and went to her husband, Moses, who had been living in Philadelphia for the past three years. She said her husband was unable longer to support her, and had deserted her. As she bad no money the woman wanted the government to send her and her children back to her friends in Russia for nothing. The immigration authoritles decided that as her husband was a resident of this country that fact made his family wards of the nation.

The woman and her children were accordingly sent to Superintendent Blake, of the Departtent of Public Charities and Correctien, who sent them back to Ellis Island as immigrants. The Ellis Island people wrote to the Treasury Department about the case. Instructions came back that the department could net be responsible for the Modrick family and to incur no expense on their account. The family was sent to the United Hebrew Charities, but in a few days came tromping back. The Ellis Island people were greatly worried.

They couldn't turn the family out lest they be accused of inhumanity, yet the woman and her children have been living at Ellis Island for weeks at the rate of $4 a day. The immigration authorities sent the board bill to the North German Lloyds Steamship Company with a request to pay it. The company ordered their Philadelphia agent to investigate the case. The agent reported that Rachael Modrick set out for New York with her children and $400 in ber possessien. The company refused to pay the board bill.

Yesterday a man appeared at Ellis Island and asked to be sent back to Russia, where his family were. He was anxious to join them, but had ne money. When asked his name he said he was Moses Modrick, of Philadelphia. Examination showed that he was Rachael's husband. When told that his family were not in Russia, but on Ellis Island, he was inuch surprised and pulled his beard as though a great grief had come ever him.

The Ellis Island people are now anxious to know who is to pay the family's board. They cannot torce the weman te pay from ber $400 and she declines to pay a cent. They are holding the Modricks till the case is settled and te-day wrote to Washington again for instructions. Moses has been added to the rest of the boarders. On December 10, 1863, Thomas Byrnes, now Superintendent of Police, became a patrolman.

His thirtieth anniversary of police duty will be celebrated next Sunday and six gold service stripes will adorn his coat sleeves. A review of his career would be a history of the Police Department and vast and highly creditable personal achievements. Mr. Byrnes became a roundsman iu October, 1868; a sergeant in November, 1869; a captain in June, 1870; an inspector in April, 1880, and superintendent in April, 1892. Those persons who were passing along Broadway in front of the new Manhattan Life Insurance building at 2.

50 o'clock this afternoon bad a narrow escape from death. Some workmen were engaged in putting into place at the top of the building an iron cross girder about five feet in length. The girder became unbalanced and tell. The men who were working with it clung to the upright girders and saved themselves trom talling. The girder just missed hitting a town-tewn Broadway car which was passing at the time.

It took three policemen about ten minutes to disperse the crowd which had gathered in as many seconds. The Reorganization Committee of the Nicaragua Canal Construction Company report that they have found an investment of actual cash and interest thereon of $4,451,568.61, and in securities, issued for purchase of plant, $2,923,200, total of $7,374,768.84. The funded and "floating debt, including disputed items, amounts to $572.456. Of this $225,000 is due the Maritime Canal Company, which can be liquidated in case the reorganization plan accepted by holders. 'The plan offered by the committee follows: A new company with a capital stock of $12,000,000 is to be formed, of which $6,000,000 is to be retained in the Treasury, and $6,000,000 is to be distributed to stockholders of the present company, in exchange for their old stock, or is to be sold for cash requirements and to protect and maintain the present plant.

The new company will OWn all the assets of the present company. It will have in its treasury stock of the Maritime Canal Company amounting te $14,876,750, and obligations for first mortgage bonds of the Maritime Canal Company amounting to $5,559,950. Six million dollars of its own full paid stock will be in its treasury, or will be held by trustees tor the benetit of the company. Depesitors of stock will receive tor each ten shares one share of the new corperation, par value $100. It has been learned that the Pirating, which sailed yesterday, will put in at the port where the America is lying and that both vessels will proceed to Brazil together.

Drs. Carlos F. Macdonald and Austin Flint have decided that Mrs. Catherine Fitzgerald, who is now confined in the Tombs on the charge of shooting and killing Mrs. Carrie Pearsall, is new insane and was insane at the time of the shooting on East Eighty-sixth street.

The decision of the experts is not final in the case. Mrs. Fitzgerald will taken to court and a jury will pass upon the issue of responsibility. Mrs. Fitzgerald is the wite of a clerk in the County Clerk's office and a sister of Police Inspector McLaughlin.

The National Sugar Company has been organized with a capital of 000. The plant of the company is located at Yonkers, with a daily capacity of 1000 barrels. Granulated sugar will be the principal output and the sales will begin early in January. The outcome of the trouble in the West Presbyterian Church, on Fortysecond street, is the resignation of Rev. Dr.

Paxton, the pastor. A short time ago Dr. Paxton left the city, and at meeting church directors there was an exciting time. Some of those present made charges against the pastor. Elder Robert Jaftray, of No.

7 West Forty-sixth street, has been expecting to receive Dr. Paxton's resignation tor several days. When be opened his mail to-day he found a letter from the pastor formally tendering his resignation. Heidelbach, Ickelbeimer Co. will ship $500,000 goid coin to Bremen to.

merrew on the Trave. Kuhn, Loeb Co. have canceled the $250,000 gold which they engaged for shipment to Europe. The goid tA be shipped morrow will be taken from the banks. The local institutions are in a good position to meet withdrawals of the metaL George J.

Gould called at police headquarters this morning and had a private conversation with Superintendent Byrnes that lasted an hour. When Was leaving he refused to give any information to reporters about the object of his visit. It is suppesed it had reierence to Mrs. Zella Nicolaus, who has sued him for $40,000, and there are rumors that she is to be arrested. know all about Mrs.

Nicolaus," said Byrnes. "She is an adventuress with a long history. No, I cannot give details just now, nor Can I say what action will be taken against her by Mr. Gould." Quite a dramatic episode occurred today in Part II of the Court of General Sessions. James Ryan, 30 years old, of No.

80 Stanton street, pleaded guilty to the grand larceny. After severe censure by Recorder Smyth the prisoner was sentenced to two years in State Prison, whereupon his wife with screams denounced the Recorder for having stolen her husband from her and fell fainting to the floor. Blood gushed from her nese and mouth, and it was some time alter the poor woman had been removed in an insensible condition from the court before she recovered. The Advisory Committee on Immigrant Traftic of the Western Traffic Association has decided to offer the joint agency of the association to Charles M. Pratt, at present general passenger agent of the Minneapolis and St.

Louis Railroad. The details of the new pool have not been made public yet, but Chairman Caldwell to-day said: is the first time in the history of this immigrant business that an organized, detailed method of control has been devised, but there is every prospect of its success now. The principal factors among the steamship men have accepted the plan and it starts off well." tion The first fruits of the wholesale evicof scarlet women were in evidence In Jettersen Market Police Court to-day, when twenty were arraigned for haunting the streets. Justice Kech, for the first time, announced his platform. "These women," he said, "have been turned out of their homes by the authorities.

I will not bave them flaunting their misery on the public streets. As the city has deprived them of their homes, it is the city's duty to supply a refuge, and I will see that all that are In accordance with this determinaiion brought before me a are taken care et." he sent nineteen of the prisoners to the island for tour months. The twentieth went free. Edward Payson Weston has decided to start en his walk from Bowling Green, in this city, to the Capitol in Albany on Monday evening, December 18, at 9 o'clock. 143 miles to complete his task within Mr.

Weston will have to walk at least seventy-twe consecutive heurs. CAUGHT ON The sharpest kind of competition exists among the toy dealers at this season of the year, and the hibits they make are therefore very attractive. If one dealer is fortunate in procuring an exclusive specialty, it is zealously guarded lest a rival may learn the fact and add a like feature to his stock. Sei far is this carried that any person who looks about a toy store without manifesting a disposition to buy is regarded as a "spotter" from some other store and is not encouraged. One enterprising dealer will equip a life-sized clown with an electrical apparatus next week at a cost of $85.

The proprietor of a Hatboro hotel feels himself aggrieved by a burlesque description in this column of a lunch obtained in that village by two city officials. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to say that not only was there no mention of the hotel where the lunch was supposed to be taken, but that there was no reference to the particular hotel in question, as its well-known reputation for good cheer, not only in the county, but among those. Philadelphians who have partaken of its hospitality, sufficiently guarantees. Edward Roberts, who is in the secret service of the Treasury Department, is at the Continental. He stands over six feet in his stocking feet.

A wide-brimmed, soft felt bat surmounts his big frame and a military beard adds to his martial appearance. He attracts as much attention in the hotel corridors as he would in the mountains when after moonshiners. "I want te go te a show for amusement, not to be enlightened," he said last evening, "so I'm going to the Winter Circus." W. R. Shelby, to whom the country is indebted for much of the artistic and beautifully -finished furniture now in use, has come te the East to enjoy the holidays.

He is from Grand Rapids, and is registered at the Stratford. John E. Davidson, third vice-president, and J. T. Brooks, second vicepresident of the Pennsylvania Railroad Western lines, are at the Stratford.

Armand D'Avray, a wine merchant from France, is enjoying a short stay at the Metropole. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Carriere, of New York, are at the Bellevue. At the same hostelry are Reginald Fendall and Miss Mary Fendall, of Washingten, and G.

Mather, a banker from Cleveland, Onio, OLD HUTCH BOBS UP AGAIN. He Will Once More Start In Business as a Broker in Chicago. CHICAGO, Dec. 8. The noted board of trade operator B.

P. Hutchinson, "Old Hutch," will again embark in business en the board. He will open au office Monday to deal in grain, provisions, stocks, "and all other merchandise." Since his return from New York several months ago his fortunes have changed for the better. At one time since his return the old man sold bis membership to relieve current pressing necessities, but a few days later he made some lucky trades and bought it back again. -The dwelling of Groceryman James Finn, 2540 Richmond street, was damaged by fire to the extent of $50 yesterday.

CITY NOTICES. CROUP IS QUICKLY RELIEVED. and Whooping Cough greatly helped, and its duration shortened by Dr. D. Jayne's Expectorant, the oid family standby for Coughs and Colds, and all Lung or Throat affections.

American Watches-ALEX. R. HARPER 728 Chestnut street. second story. her Dry Goods- -Strawbridge de ANTE-CHRISTMAS SCENES AND SIGNS Hard Times Have Little Apparent Effect Upon the Great Holiday Season.

Some Characteristies of the Rush in the Big Stores. Salespeople and Detectives Have Their Hands Full Child-Life Upon the Streets--Christmas Trees Are Coming to Town. The green emblems which mark the approach of the season of the Nativity are beginning to appear upon the streets, the store windows are assuming their wonted ante-Christmas gorgeousness, and upon every side the pedes- SCENE ON EIGHTH STREET. trian is greeted with the old familiar sign, "Holiday Gifts." Christmas is but a fertnight away, and many of the stores along Chestnut, Market, Eighth and other shopping ing of holly and laurel and other everthoroughfares have a assumed their deckgreens, which they will wear until after the new year has been ushered in. Christmas is ene season that is never affected by the times, however hard they may be, and a glimpse of the big emporiums during past week has revealed that, even though money be scarce, a large proportion of what is afloat has found its way into the pocketbeeks of holiday shoppers.

PLENTY OF WORK FOR THEM. 40h, how I wish it had come and gone!" sighed one of the tired salesmen in a big Chestnut street store the other day. "Yes, I mean Christmas. The two weeks before the holidavs have very little fun in them for us. Upon certain days we are behind the counter for from twelve to fourteen hours out of the twenty-four, and every hour of the day is one continual rush and hurry and bother.

And, then, Christmas crowds are 80 unreasonable. They never know what they want, ar.d will insist upon going through the entire stock in your department before they can make a choice. It seems so much harder to buy things for other people than for yourself." All the big stores have increased their force of salespeople in order that the regular employes shall net be overworked any more than necessary. In same of the larger establishments this increase amounts to as much as 10, 20 or even 25 per cent. of the original force.

In order still further to reduce the hardships of the extra work which the season entails many of these estah. lishments have a custem of paying the salespeople a certain percentage for all the goods which they sell per day above a fixed amount. This percentage is, of. course, in addition to the regular salaries, and means much to the employes who are in popular departments, where sales are quick and steady, and whe are expert at their business. Another foature of the holiday rush in the large stores is the enforced increase in the system of espionage which it is necessary to keep upon the crowds.

This espionage is intended as much for the protection of the shoppers themselves as for the firm, because pick. pockets are fully as numerous in the busy throngs as are shoplifters. Nearly every establishment of any size nowadays has its staff of private detectives, who are well-dressed, unostentatious inen, and who are in continual circulatien throughout the store, indistinguishable from hundreds of other men 10 the crewds, but who, while ostensibly looking at goods and occasionally pricing an attractive article, have both of their sharp eyes always FIRST LOAD OF TREES. upon the lookout for suspicious characters. Net only pickpockets, shoplifters, kleptomaniacs and other questionable characters are to be found in the holiday crowds, but also cranks of various kinds, and it requires men of no small tact and official ability to sift these nondescripts from the thwusands of people who daily surge up and down the aisles of a great store during ante-Christmas season.

In addition to the private officers a large proportion of the staff of the city detectives is assigned to circulate among the crowds of shoppers, not only inside the stores, but also upon the streets. SCENES ON THE STREETS. "Here's yer latest Christmas novelties! Only a nickel- -five cents!" "Look at greatest toy ever invented! Only one dime!" And so on with many variations, The cry of the fakir in heard in the land and TOTTEN'S "HARD- -TIMES" PRICES. Hundred 2 gr. Quinine Pills; mail, 25c.

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ROYAL BAKING POWDER 106 Wall N. it is beseeching the great public to buy every conceivable object as a holiday present, from a wonly dog to a patent cleaner. The Market street sidewalks are thronged with these peripatetic merchants. Dozens at then are evidently new to the businesssmall contingents of the great army of unemployed whe have seized the opportunity which the season offers to gain an honest penny or twe. One of the great features of the streetscenes from now on until Christmas is the great influx of child-life into the hurrying throngs along the principal theroughiares.

Chestnut street is already beginning to be brightened by groups of merry little ones, and it is no unusual sight to see groups of a dozen or more huddled in frent of the windows of the big contectionery stores, feasting in anticipation upon the sugared dainties so temptingly displayed behind the glass. When achool is over nowadays the little ones do not go dutifully home, but hasten down town to take in the sights. The first load of Christmas trees came inte the city one merning last week from Jersey, by way of the Market street ferry, and as it moved up the street among the tangle of cable cars and heavy teams, shedding its piney grance upon all sides, it attracted general attention. A throng of excited street-gamins pursued it for blocks, some hardy urchins even climbing up behind and breaking off little branches of the trees, which wore triumphantly in their bats or buttonholes. Whole forests of trees will begin to come into town this week, not only from the sandy stretches ei South Jersey, but also from Pike county, from Mount Pocono and from other Pennsylvania localities, as well as from Maine.

Pine and spruce trees will, as usual, be the great faverites, and a good demand FECTIONS ANTICIPATION. is expected inasmuch as some of the Water street commission merchants, who handle the greater proportion of the trees at first hand, have given orders QUAY MAKES A CAPTURE. Aided by Two Well-known Philadelphians the Senator Arrests Fishermen. JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 8.

-A special to the Times- Union from Fort Pierce, says: Senator Quay, his son, Richard, P. J. Hoban and Peter J. Hughes, two Philadelphia guests, at daybreak this morning captured Isaac Robinson and Marion Williams, two fishermen, in a sloop in front of his residence, at St. Lucie, tisbing with gill-nets, in violation of the law prohibiting fishing within one mile of any inlet.

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Yesterday Mrs. John Stewart, aged 83 years, mother of Pastinaster Daniel F. Stewart, died in this city. To-day the postmaster's father died, aged 80 years. The old couple will be buried together on Sunday.

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