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Literary and Criticism. 4 Bool; Reviving an Old Tradition in English Fiction. VAKCE. An 111-written Autobiography. llv Morgan.

lii'io. pp. x. 525. Ilenry T-je of this book himself confronted, nt Ine outset, by a.

serious obstacle. The VSXtH of about which it is emhar. as nP ar.d a little absurd, to rite a rex'eV: eV all. i' 1 the strict technical sense or the ni. jjow can any appeal be to the Xn art of fiction, in the se of a book v.hkh by no rule, ami fwi remains', whe-n nil is fuilrt.

beruuiful work nr 7 Only a i last could drag la matters form and the like, with reference to a work i with human tniriiTiiPFS that tsylzUK academically critical upon ftinSEt merely an act of oMan irr.r*rt!--fr.f**. "Joseph Vance" is at once Hre unique. It rovivs the best tradition of Victorian era, tvhen new masterpiece of flrtinn wii read by many but the seller" vis Ft ill happily unknown. Thavkera Wdceni and TroUope snti spacious books In those days, books in which the reader moved round In roomy world and came to cherish gst rani he found there, as amongst the PPM endearing souls he knew. Those books were written en the fide of the angels, and DO one jound theirs old-fashioned, It was left to the little winds of later generations to prefer the jrimy farts of Continental realists to the untlushing Roodr.ess of the English romancers.

Bu: the old tradition has never really lost its sjBMF. the old standards endure, and not only are there countless readers still faithful to them, but. as the present volume snows, we bjre in Mr. Morgan a novelist worthy of the old school. He has Just such book an hi? Baaasaa predecessors were wont to write.

book to turn round iii. a King. absorbing and rtory. He writes in the old vein, wilh a difference, and on that difference hangs. fn is proper, much of his success.

Technical criticism of novel looks narrowly to the question of design. A masterpiece of creative art like -Vanity Fair" Impresses you by itF detachment, as a i arrive fabric, from everything written before or after it. It la a supreme Invention, a thing bodied forth from the author's imagination and given an existence similar to that of a great palatine. You cannot think of it without thinking of the personal force that created it. The singular quality of Vance" iF that of a record as distinguished from that of an invention.

It Is a slice of human life; it la so much experience in which, by process of art that conceals the ert. the reader Is permitted to share. better ftory. ToM for the story's sake, has been produced in the. fiction of our time, yet it Is not through the customary sequence of dramatic episodes that the tale la made effective.

The is laid upon character, and it is in his handling of this best of all literary elements that the author makes the finest revelation of his originality. The supposititious narrator unfolds his life and character from childhood practically to old age. but never did the hero of a novel get himself celebrated with a more unobtrusive use of the personal pronoun. Joe Vance has his love etory. if ever the hero of a novel had one, but "ill written autobiography.

1 colored as it Is from beginning to end by this romance, Is nevertheless co well written that in the cotirse of more than live hundred it does not once slip into sentimentality. If Joe describes himself or emotions he does so with a freedom from pelf-consciousness that allows the essentials of his story to steal, as it were. Into the. reader's mind. All along we find ourselves growing In Intimacy with his personality and character, but WO would be hard put to it to say just where, or In just what specific terms, Mr.

De Morgan had made us acquainted with this or that trait in his hero. Joe is not explained: he is Ihrtr. like any other humen being with whom we have, come in actual contact, and we may tay as snuch of all the other figures, whether they he important or subordinate from the point of view of pure composition. It is a good deal for an author to achieve, if, throughout a long narrative involving many conversations and embodying, too, a certain number of he always causes a given character to ar to write precisely what would be expected by the reader. The last touch of verlahasntade is given when this Virtue of consistency is carried Into the FuLtlest phases of action nd even of carriage: fo that on the briefest re-entrance of a character upon the acane he or she brings just the right atmosphere, the right play of light and shade, into The picture.

This book is made up very largely ef things, of casual encounters and fleeting sayings. These little things touch the imagination as poignantly do the salient tragic t.i the story, kacauaa invariably they behind them the appeal of flesh and blood, Uic appeal of Individuality. The point may be illuminated by tome allu- sjou to the rough substance of the novel, though, i as we have indicated. It is for character rather thaa for drama that "Joseph Vance" is to be read. The hero is the son of a.

workingman whose wholesome nature bald in thrall by a to drunkenness. The shrewd- of this man. a shrewdness entirely divorced from HKaia impulses, comes to the rescue and w.r him on his legs as a contractor while Joe it .1 boy. The two are befriended by Dr. Thorjie.

man who recalls Colonel in the nobility of his soul, ami it is with his daughter that young- joe fails in love. Al! this occurs very early la the book, and thfiicc-forth the author records not simply the life at his her-, bat the lives of the elder Vance and his wife, of Dr. Thorpe and his children, ann of all the other personages, young and old. go in and out of the houses of three or four closely related families. There is marriage giving in marriage; there are births and there are deaths.

Fortunes are and lost There are changes of scene. There are incidents without number, and some of them are thrilling. V' lie Morgan docs not Rilnt his reader. On the contrary, he is lavish Of mat-rial. But it never occurs to him to use that material with what ue may ill literary intent, with the purpose or building up a plot, of deliberately constructing a romance, duly worked up to a climax.

No. It Is. as tre have said, a rather than an invention that he seems to give and that Is why. as noted in the foregoing paragraph, the little in which the book Is so rich are touching and impressive. They are the links that go to make the chain of life; tfce little that occur to us that pass perhaps unnoticed at the time, bat la after years come back to the memory with almost cruel meaning.

There Is a chapter in this etory In which the narrator tells of the shipwreck In which he suffered an Irreparable lota, it Is by Itself one of the masterly chapters In firtlon. masterly In Its restraint. In Its power of suggesting, by almost Impalpable touches, tragic realities to which the ordinary novelist devote pages of floundering rhetoric. We may note in passing that this book often makes as think with sardonic amusement of the difference between it and the staff that passes for action In so many of the popular volumes of day. Beside "Jaaaall ir.e average "beat ecllcr" Into nothingness.

The stery in "Joseph Vance' 1 may be left for reader follotr himself, but MMirhfnf aunt h-i said -f two Important factors In the charm of this back, its truth to nature and WEEK-END OUTINGS AT ATLANTIC CITY VIA PENNSYLVANIA R. R. Saturdays. March 16 and 23 (COVEni.VG BUXDAIJ 310 AND Sl2 Covers rour.d-tr' transportation and two days' board, according to hotel selected. Through trains will leave New York' on above dates at A.

25 and 2.55 P. M. spirit. We have spoken of the consistency with which the author draws his characters. This is due.

In a measure, we believe, to his artistic Rift, but even more to his insight into the human heart. There great variety in his company of men and women. quaintness of Joe's father and the homely sincerity of bis mother bring distinct notes of interest into Dls own household. In Dr. Thorpe's home the author shows the same scone.

Laaato and her sister Violet their brothers Joey and Nolly make four absolutely outstanding- individualities, and Joey, by the way. the evil genius of the plot. Is a positive triumph of portraiture. AYe inigbt go on Indcflnnltely citing illustrations of Mr. De Morgan's skill In making his characters not simply credible but unforgettable.

His touch is unerring Its sarenoss Is explained by the sympathy underlying it. and that brings us to the golden thread which runs through this novel, and does perhaps more than anything else to rank it with the works of the Victorian epoch. It is a sari book, one of the saddest ever written, but Its sadness is of the humanizing sort that up the waters In the reader's soul, filling his thoughts with sweetness and strength. It is a healing hook, thai makes for spiritual calm and fortitude; a book that deepens the wells of sympathy and makes the reader sharer In the loua happiness that is felt through tears. Joe Vance is good man, a Don Quixote story, surcharged with sorrow, is lit by the sunniest gleams of romance.

He is a hero, as the central figure in a novel is bound to be. But he is a man like ourselves, akin to every one acquainted with grief. His "ill written autobiography." a perfect piece of writing, will live among the works of fiction that perennially give and comfort to men and women. MISCELLAXY. The biography of the late William i v.

which of aa possible some time ago. is now actually under way. It is being prepared by Mr. Charles Whiblo. perhaps rr.opt intimate colleague.

Many of Henley's letters will be included in the work These are said to generally brief, but considering bis stylo this will not make then-, any the leas Interesting. Henry Holt Co. announce a new biographical series, edited by Mr. W. P.

Trent, which ought to prove highly Interesting and useful. It will appear under the general title of "Leading Americans," and each volume will contain from half a dozen to a score of biographies. The first volume, prepared by Mr. R. M.

Johnston, will be devoted to soldiers, beginning with Washington and including: twelve other heroes. President David Starr Jordan will contribute a volume on leading American scientists; Mr. Trent will write one on our salient historians, and in other volumes biographies will be printed of our chief actors, artists, lawyers, poets, editors, engineers, naval commanders, philanthropists, statesmen and pioneers. Each essay will be accompanied by a portrait. The new novel by Ellen Olney Kirk, which the Houghtons will lfFue next Saturday.

la called "Marcia." Its heroine la a girl who at twentyone comes into possession of a large estate without the income necessary- for Its upkeep. The tnle treats of her experiences as a worker, and, of course, of her love affairs. of the nt-w musical books coming out In Paris Is If. Henri Marechul's "Pails Souvenirs a'tin Musicien." It contains recollectiona 'f Lm Victor Masse. Auber.

Jules Barbler, Berlioz and others. Under the title of "Act of State in English Law" (E. P. Dutton Mr. W.

Harrison Moore, dean of the faculty of law in the University of Melbourne, presents a technical review of a problem highly interesting to Etudents of constitutional and international law. Between the fields covered by ordinary law. on the ore hand, and diplomacy, on the other, there lies a broad and perplexing array of cases involving questions both of common law and of International polity and equity. Continental countries have, as a rule, provided for this class of cases tinder the head of administrative law; but nothing analogous has ever been done in England. Nevertheless, a set of rules has been growing up for centarlaa.

us the principles of English common law have been; and they are new well enough defined so that codification and commentary are feasible. In seventeen clearly wiitten chapters Mr. Moore sketches Of" growth of the. doctrine of royal prerogative since the seventeenth century and reviews all important typical cases which since that time have given definite shape to the legal theory of "matters of state. 1 Both English and American practices are recorded.

The discussions touching the ambiguous interpretations and rulings concerning martial law. the dangerous American precedent of the civil courts' retroactive power over wartime cases properly adjudicable before a military court. and the open question as to the validity of treaties detrimental to private rights are especially good. The student of international law will be chiefly interested in the chapters on treaties and the rules of succession to state rights and lla And the unprofessional reader would probably be pleased to discover that the American system of federal courts assists the administrative department in a way wholly beyond the power of the highest English law courts. An excellent Index of topics and cases is given.

We are to have still another volume of an autobiographical nature from the pen of Victor Hugo. It will be published by the Funk Company, under the title of "A Post- Seriptum to My Life." and the translation will be made by Mr. Lorenze O'Rourke. Part of the book was written during exile in may note, by the war. that Little.

Brown of Boston, are bringing out a new popular edition of "Lea Mlaerables." It is to appear in five volumea. with photogravure frontispieces. Jaaquin Miller hss not published a new volume of poetry for aome time. Herbert Turner Boston, announce such a publication by him. It will consist of a long narrative poem.

embodying a love story, the scenes of which lsd at the Golden Gate, in the Klondike, in Jafaa anl In Hawaii. It will be called "Light." UcCluro. Philllpa Co. will issue In this country tV.e volume entitled "Through Portugal." by Major Martin Hume, which we announced NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. WEDNESDAY.

MAUPH Ift, 1007. Boohs and Publications. "A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT" "A WONDERFUL JACK LONDON'S Bo nre Ac! a in A The New York Times Saturday Review JACK calls it: a A remarkable achievement LONDON'S the vitality and realism of the story beget new fascination which ultimately reaches connov viction. Purely a work of fiction and VC tinged with no devitalizing touch of scientific primitive investigation. Jack London has per-11 Cf formed a wonderful feat.

He has bmlded a illustrated romance of the unknown ages, and of the in colors. creatures that may have been, and endowed cloth, $1.50 it all with poignant reality." JACK LONDON'S BEFORE ADAM THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, ce 6 not loiijr since, We are glaJ to team thai it is in bo fully Illustrated. Little Is known about Portugal, and Major Hume is the living writer whose observations on tba country we most appreciate. The Harpers have In press new novels by two popular authors, Mr. Norman Duncan and Mr.

Basil Mr. Duncan's story will to the jtfupif of Labrador, whose characteristics he has treated with much sympathy, and Mr. King will depict Americans siudied chiefly at Monte Carlo and Paris. Prom the Harpers comes the news that Mr. H.

Wells has ht-en made a justice of the peace, Folkestone being the scene of bis activity in that character. HI US FOR SUBWAY LOOP. Advertising for Centre Street Section to Begin Saturday. Bids for the Centre street section of proposed bri-iK" loop subway will be opened on April 11 at 12 o'clock. The advertising for proposals for the work will begin on Saturday of this week, and continue for at least three weeks.

This is tho subway that the city Itself Is going to build. Mayor McClcllan taking the stand that If the city builds a four track subway connecting the bridges and reaching into Brooklyn there will be room in it to" operate a belt lino over the bridges as well as allow the Brooklyn elevated lines to distribute their traffic at various Manhattan points, relieving the pressure on tho Brooklyn Bridge. It developed yesterday that the law permits the Rapid Transit Commission to let contracts after advertising only threo weeks. It is the Intention of the commission to hurry forward the plans for the Lexington and the Seventh and Eighth avenue subways, so that they may be advertised next month. advertising will be begun before the Legislature passes the Public.

Utilities bill, it is believed. bridge loop system, being a smaller construction proposition, is under way ahead of the other two subways, The regulations governing the bidding are unusually strict. No proposal can bo withdrawn after it has been deposited with the Board Of Rapid Transit Commissioners. award of the contract Is to be made within ten days after the opening of the proposals. The successful bidder must file a bond in the sum of $300,000.

No proposal 1 ir is accompanied by a certified check, made payable to the Controller. In the sum of $25,000. The bridge loop subway is to be built in three sections, and the section be advertised on Saturday is the most difficult of three. It extends from Pearl to Canal street. The bridge subway Is known to the engineers aa route No.

ft. Ultimately it win include Delancey, Grand, Deabrosses, Canal and William street In Manhattan, and Pulton street, Lafayette avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn. There is to be a station between Leonard and White streets. The excavation is to be almost wholly under cover. The Pearl street and of subway win abut on tho northern end of the proposed new bridge terminal, plans for which were adopted last year.

The Brooklyn elevated trains, after running through the Centre street subway, will enter the bridge terminal ami climb a stoop grado to the bridge tracks. The plans for the Centre street section the subway to be advertised on Saturday call for the building of plpo galleries. disposition of the gas, water and electric pipes in these galleries will afford a demonstration of the practicability of having pipe galleries in all future subways. VOTE $25,000 FOR HEW BRIDGE WORK. Alderman Meyers Thinks City Needs More Tunnels Under East River.

When the Board of Aldermen met yesterday the Finance Committee reported favorably on the ap- of to make preliminary surveys In connection with the preparation of plans for a new bridge over the East River. The IJoard of Estimate has already approved of the transaction. mi. an Meyers said he was not In favor of any more bridges, He said that tunnels were the thine now. and, he would gladly vote for another tunnel.

but WOUld oppose unother bridge. Alderman Downing said that Brooklyn needed both bridges and tunnels. He believed Brooklyn needed ten bridges, in his communication on the matter the Bridge aakl thnt within five rears completion of proposed bndjres and tunnels he thought that another congestion would place, and that another bridge ought to he provided for now. The resolution was adopted. ELLISON ON B.

R. T. MANDAMUS. Corporation Counssl Ellison has advised Assietant Corporation Counsel Bell, of Brooklyn, to take an appeal from the decision of Justice afaraaa, of Brooklyn, In regard to the granting of the manrlamuM to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to compel Borough President Coler to issue a permit for the extension of the company's line In Xostrand avenue to Avenue U. FOR PROTECTTOir OP SAILORS.

Government to Have All Important Lightships Equipped with Submarine Belli. The United States Light House Board has arranged with the Submarine Signal Company to equip with submarine bells all Important lightships -not already equipped. This includes the lightvessels south of Katteras. those on the Great Lakes and those on the Pacific Coast. The Point au lightship.

Lake Erie, which is maintained by the lAke Carriers' Association in Canadian waters, has been equipped, arid work Is in progress on Bar Point, at the head of Lake Erie: Lake Huron and Poe reefs. Lake Huron; Gray's Reef White Shoal. Lansing Shoal and Eleven root 8 a ike 9 lC wiu'be when they go on the station at the opening at navigation. The Pacific C'oaat will be equipped as opportunity offers. The five new now building will supplied with submarine bella be fore leav Ine the shipyards.

The entire coast of the Lnlted States will be protected by submarine signals, and. Canada having made similar arrangements, all North American v. at will soon have the advantage of such protection. Boohs and Publications. Art Exhibitions and Sales.

IN PREPARATION FOR PUBLIC SALE AT THE Fifth Aye. Art Galleries, MC riFTII AVEM K. Mr. James Silo. Auctioneer.

The Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Chinese Porcelains, Bronzes, Rugs and other Art Objects, including; Rare Black Hawthorn and Blue Hawthorn Vases, Apple Green and other valuable specimens, The rispaiu of Miss Clementine Bash, OF KKATTI.K. Long Krxiilrnt of IVLin. The Entire Collection on exhibition from April Ist. at the above galleries. JfO FEAB OF EPIDEMIC.

MX. BETTS AT KATOXAH. Xo Danger of Typhoid Spread, Says A ssis taut Engineer, Assistant Engineer of ihf Water Department, who supervision of the sanitary work under Commissioner O'Brien, was In Katonah early yesterday on still hunt fur danger, but he found that there been no Increase In number of typhoid tats beyond reported In The Tribune, and also that of tho usual precautions had been overlooked. But he was ho much concerned over the nppearanct of one of the cesspools belonging to the home of a patient that he ordered the Immediate use of a liberal quantity of Quicklime. Mr.

Betti made a thorough Investigation of the whole typhoid section, and said that there seemed co reason to fear an epidemic in Katonah, or contagion in New York City. A heavy thaw would not be a good thing to' Katonah at this time, and consequently not a benefit to this city. The very boast ut the village that the soil in the place is sandy might prove a menace, for the cesspools are sunk in this sandy soil, and only one of tiioae where typhoid patients are is protected by cement. The contents of these goes into' the soil an! Joins the general drainage to the brooks. Quicklime will be liberally used to overcome the danger from this source.

The extra Inspections were made yesterday. Samples of water were taken ut the springs and elsewhere for analysis. This will be continued until the Immediate danger of infection has passed. The springs near the school are now receiving renewed attention. It does not follow that, because the water taken soon after pupils of the school were stricken with the disease there was no Infection In the water at an earlier date, when the patients were using it for (linking purposes.

The springs nre email and the Infection taken one day might easily be washed away the next. The are not protected. The surface drainage of the slopes round about runs Into them. There is no safeguard against contamination. It Is beginning to be believed more and more thnt the children who nre 111 were infected by these The illness of the fourth patient, tho painter.

Is believed to have been un unfortunate coincidence. Miss Smith, who was of the victims of accident on the Harlem division on February 16. taught in the Katonah school. There are about 160 pupi.s of all grades. A new building Is going up.

and In It the village water will be used. This water comes from protected springs, la pumped to tank on the hill back of the village and Is conducted thence to the homes. The springs and the tank are carefully guarded against contamination. Nothing is cafe from contamination from the many aliens brought In by the contractors. At Cross River dam.

less than a mile from the village, there are about twenty temporary houses for the laborers. Some of the houses are nor more than twenty feet long, but will contain more than ten men. The snow covers unsanitary conditions, btit a reporter for The Tribund yesterday saw the Improvised cesspools used by the laborers. They are on both high and low ground, and the contents may drain lnt" the water supply streams without hindrance. The garbage is periodically burned; the cesspool contents are not.

But so far as could be learned the laborers are very healthy. It was said that only one man was being attended by a doctor, a pneumonia convalescent. A physician from a riVarby sanatorium visits the laborers occasionally. Drs. Carpenter and Chapman, when seen yesterday, said that their were making good progress toward recovery? and that neither was in danger of death.

The suspected case had not developed. It might be typhoid eventually, but Dr. Chapman said that the patient at this time was absolutely free from every symptom of that disease. Dr. Chapman said that there had been suspicious cases of disease in the village a little before the typhoid attacks were reported, but that none of the former patients was ill any longer, and a diagnosis had been unable to establish the nature of the disease.

The time of danger to the whole water supply is fust approaching. When the general spring break-up occurs the Italian camps will be the object of careful scrutiny by the'lnspectors. The latter will demand a cleaning up as soon as the snow has gone and the dirt has been laid bare. And the Water Department has been urgent In its Insistence that the spring coloring of the water supply In this city does not necessarily mean contamination or the possibility of infection. Store Closes at P.

M. CONCERTS In the Wtnamaker Auditorium today at .11 A. M. and 2:30 P. M.

Mr. Arthur Depew at the Organ, Mr. Ferdinand Himmelreich at the Piano, Mr. P. K.

Van Yorx at the Angelus, Mr. Deno-Nemes, Violinist, Mine. Nemes, Pianist. The Display Of Women Dresses Grows More Interesting Daily Won. en who are studying questions of style, and icajriaaj that which is most becoming, and most pleasing to them, individually, are delighted and helped by visits to Wanamaker's.

The showing includes Dresses and Tailored of every variety favored this Spring. The completeness is earlier than because of Easter's early date. Among the groups of gowns interesting at the moment are the smart Tailored Suits of fine worsteds, in the Spring colorings, in stripes, checks and plaids. The new effects in sleeves cause immediate admiration. Touches of newness are manifold, and the tailoring is of the highest character throughout.

Prices range from $15 to $52.50. Third floor. Stewart Men's Fine SHIRTS Of Imported Madras at $1.50 This new collection of Men's Xegligee Shirts will interest men who appreciate fineness of quality as well as refined patterns in the materials from which their shirts are made. The shirt making equal to the usual custommade shirts. The materials were woven especially for us in Glasgow, and the shirts made up in our own They are in plain negligee style, with attached or separate cuffs.

Sizes 14 to 17. $1.50 each. Main Wanamaker Building: Superlatively Beautiful Spring Suitings For Tailored Gowns These imported suitings of soft. lustrous broadcloth and smart English worsteds arc light in weight, of unquestioned beauty of weave and finish, and show the latest effects in color tones, the color-blending in the stripes, checks, plaids and overplaids being strikingly effective. Imported Broadcloths: chiffon all the new Spring- shades.

to $3. 52-lm-h Checked and Striped Suitings, in brown and (fray tints. $1.75 to $2. Fancy Visroreaux Suiting. In mixtures and fancy weaves, in shades of tan and eara, and in pray effects; hard and soft finish.

52 in. wide, $1.75 and $2. New Herringbone Cheviots, in mixed gray, blue, tan and effects; 54 In. tl.ta. Ensrllsh Worsteds.

In plaids, checks, stripes and overplaida: stylish mixtures in the gray tones. Special Values in Spring Dress Goods Homespun Suitings. mixtures of gray, tan and brown. 75c. Fancy Panama Suitings, in stripes and checks: stylish colors: 54-ln.

wide. Second floor. Stewart Building. Lace Net Waists Smart Models Out big Waist Store affords an unrivaled collection of Blouses from i which to select. Made of many different fabrics, they show infinite variety and beauty, and no end of modish devices in trimmings to give distinc! tiveness to the style.

We call special attention today to five attractive mod- I els. which express the newest designs: At Of plain net. trimmed with Re; and Valenciennes lace. At $6.50 (if plaited net. with of figured net.

and trimmed with Cluny In: sertion. At $7.50 Of net. with panels and Cluny At Of strips of nailj and filet lace. trimmed with batiste and medallions. At $13 cream-colored net.

prettily trimmed with applique. i Fourth floor, Stewart Building. Wilton Rugs at Low Prices A fine lot of highest grade ilton Rugs, seevred at remarkably prices from a manufacturer's surplus stock. Quantities are not large, and the range of sizes is more or less broken, altogether there is excellent choice in each of the sizes nameil below. 9 at worth ISO.

I ft. in. lft ft. at $33.75. worth I la IS at $35, worth If you are not ready to receive these rugs just now.

they may be par- chased today and held for you for later delivery. Fifth floor. "vTanamaker Building. JOHN WANAMAKER Formerly A. T.

Stewart Broadway. Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Stresta. (ITY A BAD LAXDLORD. Its Tenement Houses Found Filthy and Sources of Disease. All the city's tenement house holdings were printed in the City Record yesterday, the list showing that more than half of them are unfit for habitation.

The city owns sixty-two tenement houses, and of thts. thirty-three are uninhabitable and against them, according to the same official publication. 1.03 violations of the Tenement House law have b.en filed. Forty-six of the sixtytwo have interior rooms, without proper and a dozen more than ten families each. The'cuy has Just learned that it ha.

not single Jepartment or buresu with power to pull down Se Sings, and It will have to go to the Leg.We for authority to do so. Most theai are plcni" ground, for about every known variety of bacilli- A commission was appointed last year -by the Estimate to Investigate the condition of SSovld" Property owned by the city. It has that of seventy-five thirteen not tenement, the city getting yearly in rentals. The sixty-two tenement houses average violations a buildlnjr. The commission says that the best of these houses, one at 153 street and Bradhurst avenue Tfour story and cellar brick tenement arranged for one family on each floor, hi In this condition: The earth floor covered with sccumuUtion.

of washed The plaster celling of the cellar Is in bad condition, broken, defective and The skylight In tne roof over the stair ell ts not adecuate. The wash basin In the first story apartment to missing and the waste connection no? properly closed The faucet 1 and when turned on discharges on the floor. The washbowls to the third and fourth story apartments are cracked and defective. The covers of wash trays floors and woodwork surrounding sinks and wash was" la the apartments are decayed and saturated. Candy Boxes Ice Cases Candy for St Patrick's Day Unique favors and pretty oddities in the shape of fancy green boxes.

Tack Homer pies, pipe Shamrocks, hearts, harps, hods. hats, flags, snapping mottoes, and in other forms, sugges- tive of the sentiment of the day. are i here at prices which ranjre frorrt 10t to $6. Favors, from 3c to 15c each; some st 10c a dozen. Candies for St.

Patrick's Day I Gam-wafer Pipes and Shamrocks, 50c pound. Small Shamrock Hard Candy, for fining boxes. 25c a pound. Small White Candy Pipes, 23c pound. Assorted Chocolates and Bonbons, 30c and 60c a pound.

Green Jelly Gum Drops, 50c pound. Basement. Stewart Building. 14 ft. 3 at $50.50.

worth $92.90. im- I in. 12 at $52 50. worth $83. II ft I in.

11 ft. I at $60. worth 539. 11 ft. 3 in 15 at $65, worth 132.30.

The plumbing is in generally bad repair. Tho front area Is not paved, graded or drained. The commission, that it believes the city should not continue to tease houses which violate in almost every resp-ct the laws and regulations which its own officers are required to enforce. "Against the slight Income." the report says, "must be the cost to the city in dTseass caused by the wholly unsanitary condition tits houses in which it Invites occupancy and the heavy moral coat of placing the city tn the position of a slum landlord." Some descriptions are unprintable. The commission cites the opinion of the Corporation Counsel th.it the city should dispose of all buildings it acquires within ninety days of vesting tlfle.

The commission reports condition of every house. Una house at No. 7S-S2 Fifth Lone Island City, had forty-two violations. VOTE $1,133,500 FOR WATER SUPPLY. The Committee on Finance reported out at the Board of Aldermen meeting yesterday a resolution calling for the appropriation of 51.t33.3W for necessary improvements to the water supply of Manhattan and The Bronx.

resolution was adopted. Any Hour of Use 24 you caa talk fnaada near, ar yet: can stnaman aid if tho need arises. Ml entire rcsanicts tliis great city are el way a at yoor call If you have a Telephone YORK TELEPHOME 1 5 5.