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Sunday PartThrcei Pages 17-20 January 3-1897 a WESTERN BEEF OR NONE 1 NICE LITTLE COMBINATION CONTROLS THE MARKET. Cld-f MWoned Butchers Are Out of and Your Dealer is Merely a Mt Chopper for a Close Syndicate. Tin of lamb, chops! Fer the Cireo cf yi Yc'd never ate them, muinl" Th extggerateA speaking tubes, the bittrr.ent stairs, become terribly effective cne such a favored visitor as to taken into the lounging room at the back instead of Into the stiff and stately ftTViT. Tho voice came- straight up the stairs and through the open door, and It was evident that lay unexpected arrival tar dinner time had compelled somo cbr.fc In' the household arrangements. My kan and hungry, look might have had something to do -Alth tho quantity of chfp ordered; but I preferred to think It only an excess of hospitality ctt tl.

part of tho young housekeeper. "Well, get as many as you think we'll 'That was the voice of the young housekeeper. "But go right off "to the butcher's. Maria." "lis; wurta; I'll go to the butcher's at wanet." I could not help thinking Maria a very obliging girl; but it seemed to me thai she sat undertaking- more than sho could well perform. To avoid' any misunderstanding about the meaning of the word butcher, stepped over to my host's new oak and- took down his big dictionary.

Butcher," said Mr. Webster; one who s.aughters animals; one occupation is to kill animals for food." Yes," I said to myself, you will have a hard time of t. Maria. You can easily f.r.d a shop where they sell meat; indeed, I saw. one just around the corner.

Eut you will, have to travel' many a weary milo before you find tutchsr in this or ar.y other city." Yoa see I had recently been talking with my friend, the butcher at least with: the man who still calls himself a butcher from force cf habit and I knew that as far as the public is concerned the real butcher is an extinct animal. Specimens may still be round in the big slaughter houses here and cut in Chicago and Kansas City, but as for the Eastern buyer of meat he may go to the shops every day without ever seeing a butcher in his lire. The man in the meat market T7ho slices you off a steak is no tnore a butcher than the saleswoman who sous you a kitchen table is a carpenter wiener v.no is not a butcher told me somo curious things about his trade: that is. about the trade that is dead, as well as aoout me-new trade that has sprung up in Its For Instance, the oldbuteher, the real butcher, bought the live nimni' killed and dressed it. and sold it in section.

to his customers. But the modern carver of rs.w meat bis nothing to do with the live animal. It-is already killed, dressed, and cut into quarters when he gets it. His province is merely to buy it by the quarter and -sen it by the pound. He; knows nothing wui oeet its live state.

Put him In pen wun a uve steer, and he would likely have as lively a time as Nelson Morris had with one In Chicago the other dav. That as a scene that the Illustrated -papers ught to immortalise. Nelson Morris, one the great bsef autocrats, the Sir T.nin of Chicago, tossed about his own stockyard wu ine norns or one or his own steers imp ana in an other large cities, the liuicner was driven to the cattle yards and slaughter houHei- years ago. Here it has been the custom for more years than tie can remember for the. retailer of meat to buy his supplies from the slaughter houses, through the wholesalers.

For the last fifteen years" be hits had the choice wbun-W slaughter houses or buying from one of the great meat monopolies But that is only in the wry iae Place, the beef barons V. tts llai'y their ciutche voaj arons. or the kerosene oil Vj omer recent nobilitv ii i i 3 nave an eafe 'A'1, the' Western meat investing tr, -ZZA "uit-ner ioi.j me. And PhtlCE what he 8alJ' 1 leav the looa! excvllent rertson that the -if i kVled are al" Western cattle is only a choice bt'in luivin. the monopolies alive, or buying from them th-.

r.nein?r..1 arn correct-in th.7 i. J. "My impression1 1 inTi yvixru since, in -com Washington Market, found a stall where nne-looklnR: steaks we iriVT teii.s a pouna, or. a -j mucn less man the current pric That, on trying them, i found them exct rice. nt.

and that on tellinif a friend n'hon "em. he said "Oh. tliMt'u i i-j eut mat les. my butcher; "that is right. Chicago beef made Its appearance alxut aK- r'l'le ha.l a very poor opinion of it at first.

It would hardly sell at any price." of do the butchers en now? I asked. Chicago beef altogether," he answered. Wo could not get any other, or Jell any other. OfJ you understand that in the trade all Weatern beef is called LhltatfoJf, even when it from City or elsewhere." "Then those Western fellows have complete control of the meat trade of the country? I aked. ra'her!" he replied, and chuckled little chuckle that gave itreat raphasis to tils words.

are getting down to the said I. "Who are the 'ho supply our meat?" Armour concern." he replied, the and Xelson Morris. There ut tnt'se tnre the biggest." wnat ,8 the process of getting a roast from their stockyards up to my kitch-fHi mut explain that my friend, mZ. D.urh,r. oierates in a suburban town of the city)'' lnhabitanl8' Wteen miles from w.liic.'.ne".,n refrigerator cars," he answered, and every car is iced once on the bv'J "orn'Um's twice.

A car holds thirty eeves, always cut into quarters; fifty sheep, ana an assortment of hams, bacon, livers, "aVn- The sheep come with the ihoofs have to buy hoofs and all." hes rs do not come here? tu.t th nearest meat de- dL i 'r' if, Morris have iSvMrr ly-lni town throuKhout the i flln tJ twenty thousand in. 'i th hat a 1 aeplt in Elizabeth. In i fcomerville." v. any competition among them? Xone to speak of. They agree upon a Lrtce, and you can pay It or let it alone These depots all befoug absolutely to the rms but the men who maSaST them arl town the lhrea tirrr, II .1..

t)rt. same "Then you have some choice, at any i "WllW ou wiU huy your wst- rate, trn kjo, no," be repHed. not at all. I have jo buy my meat in Kilzabeth, because that Thefte three firms f1' the wholo country laid off Into is-I. Ui! butcher must buy in his district.

I could not go to Plainfleld thlatYh 1 ln d0M n)k t0 them replied, with another tra, Hughs. They keep il of their accounts in that way. You whauver meat I buy this week xnust th-y dmaitd it. and where thJt 1 I IheV tllia n.ll.r I paid for before nxt Monday night. On 'tfnno's the three firm raott 1 managers, rather.) und cum-Paw notes If I have been buying of mv week's mgnt.

men can't buy any ornrmour or Morris till I have paid till everything Is paid inn lav mlnil that ed to me "vely damaje fiuita Sor refunin would relaJ1 c.n stand a suit with Armour, or Swirt xi.i- t. cv.pn lhan porterhouse steaks. 18 v0 wy of netting wound jucha cast-it on rule? I asked, no. nn. ho.

ho!" Whoever saw' a seller Zw, UKhJ 'Sometimes." said he; y3. ho. ho. ho!" Hnw.ij it done? liow rhmM I i. i.

110. no. ho! I nnn i. might be done." Ho. ho! Huppoee there was ln Scotch Mains, we'll sav, of lne- that's ln the l'lalnfleid Ifnnn.

vll v. taid up by Monday r.lgnt. and they wouldn't Jw. nw' tip mo a wink, couidn he, by wire, or any wav ho llketl. 1 uld order a little more meat from than 1 wanted? And then w'5on could i-ome down', here and get it.

Oh, yes. 1 IUDDOSi- Hlli'h tt. thlnir inulil be done." Then." I asked. thpre la nn anr-K thlnw as real butchering anywhere ln the Kast-ern States, except where a few Western cattle are butchered in the largu cities? Xo." he replied, "there ss nothing to butcher. There are no slaughter anlmaU In the Kant, beyond a strav on here and there, not worth mentioning.

The only thing we ever butcher Is a lonelv calf now and then. Chicago meat reaches the consumer in about ten days from the time of killing, though it would be Just as good If kept for weeks, as it is always ln a refrigerator." How has this Western meat invasion affected the quality of the i.ieat T.e eat? i tiKKea. narJIy say that if has affected It all. he replied. The Chicago meat nine longer man meat fcilied on the cpot, under th same mode of treatment.

It mav turn dark sooner but it longer." Perhaps you have never had the felicity of. eating what the butchers call "embalmed It Is never seen In this Part of the world, fortunately. But even Swift. Armour. MnrrU jc.

fr their refrigerator cars within reach of every backwoods town. Ho they send the uvci on ice as lar as possible, and then ssnd it ctlil further bv rubbing it with some ghastly stuff that is known in the trade as embalming fluid." The taste or this meat is made plain enough by the name, At the beginning of my talk with the butcher I could hardly avoid an indefinable dread that Swift, Armour, Morris Co. might be doing more for us than we could fairly ask of them. That seeing our need o. meat, they vere supplying us at all hazards, come weal come woe.

from purely patriotic motives. But that feeling gradually wore on. I have excellent authority for saying that in their capacity of Xational Butchers they are holding their own very nicely. WILLIAM DRYSDALE. MAY CAUSE A CHURCH SCHISM.

Expulsion of the Iter. Mr. Morrison from the Methodist Conference. LEXIXGTOX. Jan.

2. -The Rev. Henry Clay Morrison, the Methodist evangelist and sanctiflcationlst and coeditor of The Methodist, a holiness newspaper, promises to be the cause of a war in the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church which may rend it In twain. The Quarterly Conference sitting as a jury here has expelled him from the church. The charges against Morrison read: First WTe charge H.

C. Morrison with contumacious conduct -ifT persisting in resisting the authority of his superiors, in office, and thus violating his ordination voars. Second We charge him with violating the order and the discipline of the Church. Third We charge him with sowing seeds of dissension by improper words and actions. Before these charges became known to the public, members of the conference stated that Morrison not expelled because he was a 3anctificatlonist, but because he had violated laws of the Church.

Morrison's friends say that Item third in the charges shows conclusively that it was the doctrine held by Morrison which caused his expulsion. The Southern Mthodist Church is about equally divided on the question of holiness, so that, should the State Conference, to which Morrison will' appeal his case, confirm the action of the Quarterly Conference, a schism will arise in the Church which cannot be eradicated until the Church is split In two. Xo charges were made against Morrison's private character, which Is considered above reproach. He is a brilliant preacher, a scholarly man. and has been the most successful evangelist the Methodist Church South has had for many years.

He Is a son-in-law of the famous temperance lecturer, George W. Bain, but the Bains do not side with him in the present controversy. It is stated that should the State Conference sustain the expulsion, Morrison will carry the matter to the General Conference, which action would precipitate a bitter Church war. LYNCHERS MAKING THREATS. Trytnir to Prevent a Mob from Belne Indicted.

OWEXSBOROUGH. Jan. 2. Eve effort is being made to prevent indictments being returned against the members of the mob who took Alfred H6lt from Jail last week and hanged him. The foreman of: the Grand Jury has received an anonymous letter in which dire vengeance Is threatened should tho Grand Jury indict the lynchers.

Mayor J-. H. Hickman also received an anonymous letter. The letter writers. are directing their work through womea children, the letters getting into their hands In order that they- mlht plead with husbands and fathers to let the murderers go unpunished.

Mayor Hickman has also received a letter, evidently from a negro, threatening to burn the town, unless the murderers are Indicted. The Grand Jury Is busy at work, and it is believed indictments will be returned. ICE YACHTING ON THE HUDSON. A Fine, Smooth Field -orth of Pongb-keepsle. POUGHKEEPSIE.

X. Jan. ice in'the Hudson River north of Pough kecpsie is so, hard that the sun's rays affect it very little, and ice boatmen today enjoyed smooth sailing under a stiff breeze, with the thermometer about the freezing point. i From Roosevelt's Hunt north to Esopus Island wretches the finest Ice field seen in the Middle Hudson for years. It Is as smooth as glass, hard as flint, and strong enough to hold second and third class boats.

The big fleet of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club has not been assembled yet, but a few of the boats are out, and more are being rigged. A Service Pension Bill. WORCESTER. Jan. Gen.

Charles W. Wood of this city, National Commander of the Union Veterans' Union, has prepared a sweeping pension bill in accordance with the sentiments of the convention at which he was made Chairman of a committee to draft a bill for that purpose. The measure, provides that any man who served ln either the army or navy in the period from lbtfl to lXi5 may have his Hume put oh the pension rolls, and that the rat of pension for such service shall be $12 a month fur a man who has served one year, or any fraction thereof not less than ninety days, with I cent additional for every month over a year. It is not necessary to prove any disability. BROOKLlNWATERQUESTION QREAT IN CREASE IN THE SUPPLY IS NEEDED.

'roposition to Walt for Con8lidatlon Delay Would Be Dangerous, Howev Because Great Works ust Be Erected. i Almost elry reader of New York or Brooklyn is ramlliar Vlth the complaints foul water, scarcity of water, or failing ii.ssure of water that have emanated from Brooklyn consumers well-nigh constantly nrlng the last three years, and more partici ilarly during the Summers and Autumns cf 18iU and 1M0. In the for -ner year a water famine was impending, not actually confronting, the city from Way until December, and to avert an nbsolute stoppage of the flow through tht city 'pipes every possible expedient was applied, such as e-ecting temporary pum ling engines at ponds and other sources thu. had been abandoned on account of tl eir polluted condition or that never befon had been util'zed. In the ef orts to avert a the question of 4uality was not given the least conslderatto i.

The question was purely one of quantity. The actual scarcity, cf water may best be expressed by a statement from lie reports of the Department of City WorkJ which show that the average daily distri ution of water for 1SJ14 was or.ly gallons jn excess of the distribution duri lg 18113, which. In Its turn exceeded the llstrlbution of lfeW by gallons dai average. The average daily increase du ing each of the six years 1SSSS to incl lslve was gallons. Costrac a for Kmrrcrnc)' Snpply.

The experience of 1894 was so critical as to cause th i authorities to enter Into contracts for he production of a temporary or emergen supply cf 25,003,000 gallons dally from underground sources by means of deep we; Is, the surface supply and shallow wells i rithln the limits of the present watershed being exhausted. This entire emergency lupply was required by the contract to be delivered in four months from September, 1804. It may ie worthy of note that after more than two years" work, considerably less than Ihe foil gallons has been foun- At the time when this contract was a engineers were employed to make aminations, gaugings. and surveys, in rious localities on Long Inland and across the East and Hudson Rivers, to ascertain here a permanent increase of gallons a day might be found. The result of those Investigations were made publii a year ago.

They were entirely satisfactor as to the qjar.tity obtainable from sever sources, but the financial condition of he city precluded any outlay on the par of the city ln the way of comprehensive development or construction of the necessi ry works. The year 1S05 was, as p. whole, a dry one, but fortun itely the months of June, July, October, a nd Xovember were fairly wet, and the cl ty squeezed along by a process of scrupuli us economy in distribution, and as "a result went through the year with an average water consumption only 4.300- 000 gallond dally in excess of that of 1803 two years revlous. Troi ble from Foul Water. It remalfed, however, for the year just past.

1S9CJ to cap the climax in water troubles id Brooklyn. was excessively wet and was ingly warm. The combination foulness of smell and taste The yeai also excee produced the strearr and reservoirs, which, ln turn, produced i foulness of smell and taste in the wa er that brought complaints loud, long, and lumerous. These oubles have not entirely disappeared vith the advent of Winter weather. The secret of the foul Water is found, in i large measure, ln the fact that the increr.

sing demand for more water by the growi ig city, and the gradual but very perc- ptible drying up or diminution of flow of surface water on the watersheds, and perht ps from the driven wells, has compelled the engineers to continue to draw fron and often to return to, sources which are unavoidably exposed to polluting conditions A great Ito-do has bzen male ln response to the1 uiiversal demands that the ponds and reservoirs be cleaned of mud and other collected Ifilth. Largo appropriations for tho purpose have been made, and gangs of men havelieen at work for several months, but the improvement in the water has not been one ff quality. St re ii In iv IteKervolr. One of the clt's largest reservoirs re- celves thel wash of the streets of the town of Hemps ead, andj is consequently unfit for use. 'his is admitted, and an appro- priation has been made for di-contamlnation, but that propo- verting tlJ sltion in urn encounters the stubtiorn re- sistance of the oyster growers on the coast, beds It Is proposed to turn upon whi the sewage of Hempstead, on the ground that suchlaction would ruin their business.

The actua condition of this source of water supply graphically told in an article illustrates by photographs which appeared ln Harper's Weekly Aug. 31, IMiTi. But asi le from the bad quality of the Brooklyn water, which was nothing else than a soiree of dangi-r to that city during the past ear, It now appears from" the report-Just submitted by the Commissioner of the artment of City Works that the amount I' the total supply has again become mei The average dully amount distribute I during the1 eleven months ending Nov. Lf was only- gallons ln excess of the dally average during the year 1SU." while the dally distribution of lMKi was ibout gallons below what it would lave been had there been sufficient water to -upply the natural average yearly-increase i ullcated by the experience of previous yei rs. It is pai ent that so slight a dally Increase In a larg and growing city, in which the records average daily increases for many ye: rs past amounting to seven times tho daily increase of 1S1K1, could only have been brov about by systematic process of regu ation of How through the water mains.

all the water gates had been left open so as to have permitted un unrestricted circulation of water and distribution Of pi L-ssoire. the excess in quantity used would ve equaled or surpassed thei excesses of any previous years, because of increased population, even reckoning orr the same ratio or mat increase. necking the Pressure. The coiiplamts of reduced pressure, fail ure to gel water on floors of buildings, where formerly I it had flowed from the faucets. and of rclty of water at great fires, may all be asonably accounted for by the process checking," by means of the gates in ftbe pipes, which must have been practice! to produce the result shown by tho repo of lSSW.

This is conllrmed by the freq jent accounts of telephoning ut largo liri "for more pressure, and receiving li in a i iiort time. The mmlasioner of City Work, in his reuort of a lew days ago. urges the Immedi ate laylijg of a UJI-inch conduit east of Mil-burn stiition, 'the Inner boundary of the new watershed, which lias been contracted for. but! not yet commenced, because of dllferetn-j or i.pnr.ou uetwen me city of. flclals a to the necessity for so large a because of a lack of funds.

The conduit. capacityl of this proposed conduit is cal- culatej about fiiMiuiJ.O'io gallons per day, but in tie Commissioner's report he claims that ouv from to 5.000.00(1 gal lons more, are expected from the present watertsM at onceJ d. If the conduit were to be laid and If the full gallons were to be had, probably it would of waled aU nausted in -one or two years at rr.oBt, If the gates of tba city mains wers to be opened. Will Last Only Fonr Years. Varalng was given In tho Chief 1331-neers report ono year ago that th- present sources of "Water supply possessed b7 Brooklyn would answer for only hve years more.

The same warning has since been reiterated several times by the Chief Engineer, the Engineer of Water Supply, and the Commissioner of the Department of City Works. All three have declared Immediate nction to be imperative, because of the length of time required to construct new works. Petitions representing an enormous aggregation of mercantile, financial, and manufacturing interests have been sent to the city Officials requesting them. Public hearings have been proposed by the City Works Commissioner and promised by the Mayor, but no hearing has yet been called. In tho face of so imminent a danger as the city ofliclaU thus acknowledge, there seems to be an Inclination somewhere to delay action on the future, supply until after the consolidation of the cltlea Is effected.

This cannot be before 180S. Two of the five years allowed for the present supply will have passed by that time. The construction of the new aqueduct from the Croton, thirty miles in length. consumed roven years, not to mention the preliminary surveys and estimates, nor the millions of expenditure. Similarly, the construction of the Cornell dam has been going on for five years, and will undouluedly require another five years.

This illustrates that great lapses of time are necessury In the. construction of Important hydraulic works. Waitlnir for Consolidation. In a recent newspaper Interview, ex-Com-missloner White of is quoted a3 recommending a postponement of r.ction until after consolidation is completed, and also recommending the proposition that the Greater Xew York bring 100.000.0tx) gallons oi water daily from the Ten Mile River, a branch of the Housatonic. The main reservoir of such a system would be located at 1 awling's.

X. some thirty miles north of the Croton Basin. If the construction of the Croton Aqueduct. In the matter of time alone, be taken as a guide, it would require from eight to ten years to secure such a supply as Mr. hite proposes, ilnd this supply would all be required by either one of the two cities before it could be delivered.

While waiting a water famine of some years' duration would occur before the construction could possibly be completed, unless the increase or water consumed could be practically stopped which would of course be impossible. From a painstaking and deliberate examination of records published by the Brooklyn authorities there is no escape from the conclusion that Brooklyn must secure a large Increase of water fron: some quarter within four or five years at the utmost, all-absorbing question is, Whence shall It come? Below- Is given a complete list and description of the present sources of Brooklyn's water supply, which will be of in'e-st in studying this question: Source of Wnter Supply. Sources of Brooklyn's water supply -and quantity of water pumped daily on the average during the year li5: OLD WATERSHEDS. Si.iin Creek Gallons, pprary plant). Prlven wclU.

Creek :t.u71.414 Driven well. Halsley 1JW7.W.S Driven wells. Jumcco l.llU'ii.Mit) Driven well-. Springfield 1.217.7SW Pond pumpmg ma. Stream 2.MU.1M3 Driven wel's Clear Stream 3.1t7.il4 Driven atts I'ond Driven wells alts Pond Pond pumping sta Smiths Pond 7,141, 34 Pond pumnina sta Gravity, (surface wa- ter Streams.

XEW WATERSHEDS. Freeport. (temporary Gallons, plant Driven wellj. Gravity, (surface water) 31.722.480 Streams. Total from old watershed 43,796.837 Dally.

Total from new watershed 30.421,147 Daily. Total water pumped Into city in S0.217.9S4 Dally. llenvy Pumping; Required. While only SO.000,000 gallons of water were used dally, the actually pumped by the engines at the wells, ponds, and pumping stations along the line and at the Riugewood and Prospect reservoirs in the city, amounted to 150,000,000 gallons daily. The excessive pumping results from rtf rr-, v.

a i'y iu H. height of 4tf feet at Milburn all the water from the new shed, including the gravlty supply, gallon,) so that It can I fl t-mr TJI.I 1 IT sun vjr i- iviukc uuu. nere me -note ai gations must be again ilimnprl 171 ffo Inlrt (ho soe avcaI. .1 this total, (J.imi.OiiO gallons are once more pumped 8C feet Into the Mount Prospect reservoir. 1 v.

'UIIIJIIK V' I ttliu over again amounted in lssto to Kalni. 1 (Ill 1 ruut.u,, 1 1 pumping aione, oeiore me water vas deliv- ru uiio me uisinuuimg pipes tnrough the treets of Brooklyn. THE NEW JERSEY OFFICES Candidates Who Hope to Receive Fed eral Appointment. TRENTOX, Jan. 2.

The politicians In Xew Jersey understand that United States Senator Sewell will have a good deal to say about the distribution' of Federal patronago in Xew Jersey the next four years. He al ready has heard from a number of men who are desirous of securing places of honor and There Is plenty of gossip In connection with the United States Marshalship, the Appraisershlp of the Port of Xew York, and the Postmastershlps in Trenton and Jersey City. The United States Marshalship is worth $3,000 year without demanding all the time of the Incumbent. The present Marshal Is Col. George Pfeffer of Camden, whose term will expire next May, and there are already two aggressive candidates in the tight for the office.

Ex-Assemblyman Thomas Aleott of Burlington has announced his candidacy, and has begun to get his petitions and indorsements. His principal opponent is Mayor Emory M. Yard of Tren ton, who nas been tne ueputy Marshal for several years. It has been stated that former Congress man Hart Brewer of Trenton Is. In this fight, but this probably is not so.

He is a personal friend of President-elect McKin-ley. having served on tM? same committees with him in Congress. Mr. Brewer's friends expect that he will get something, pleasant as a token of friendship. He is a candidate for the office of Appraiser of the Port of Xew York, which pays a salary of a year.

AU the Xew Jersey Representatives and Cnited States Senator Sewell are for Mr. Brewer and he proposes to make a strong fight. If Mr- Brewer shall not get the Appraisershlp ne may secure some foreign mission. It is believed Former Postmaster Alexander C. Yard of Trenton will be reappointed.

So far no formidable opposition has shown Itself to him. It Is rumored that Capt. L. X. Clayton -of the Seventh Regiment is candidate, but he has not yet become aggressive.

In Jersey City the leading candidate for Postmaster is City Controller S. M. Dickinson, who had the office before. There is a strong opposition to him, because he has held so many omces. Custom Feea Cat Oonn.

WASHINGTON, Jan. United States Collectors of Customs along the Canadian border have a practice of requir lng importers of animals brought Into this country for breeding purposes to make a separate affidavit for each animal, thus se curing Its free entry. A fee of 10 cents Is charged In each case. Secretary Carlisle has ordered Collectors to discontinue the practice, and directed them to require separate oaths only for each class of animals and in the cas of eheep ono oath for each invoice. 4MM Kalian for the Corbln Colony.

ATLANTA. Jan. 2. A party of 4O0 Italian peasant farmers passed through hero yesterday on their way to Join the Austin Corbln colony at Sunnyslde, Ark. These colonists came from the estate of Prince de Ruspoli.

Mayor of Rome, who superintended their selection and emigra tion. Colored Dress, Goods. Sale To-morrow (Monday) of 85c. and $1.00 ALL WOOL FANCY MIXTURES, 46 inches wide. 55c.

vard. (Rear of rotunda.) ENTRANCES, iSth 19th St. and 6th Ave. 18th Street Elevated Station. 00D NEWS FOR FARMERS THE OUTLOOK FOB, THE NEW YEAR FAVORABLE TO THEM.

Secretary Morton Says Their Prospects Are Very Encouraging The Agricultural Condition of the World. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2. The outlook for farmers ln this country is decidedly favor able, Secretary Morton thinks.

The Secretary, in a bulletin over his signature, issued to-day, said: The outlook for the American farmer in 1S07. Judging from present indications, is decidedly encouraging. While It Is of course impossible thusearly to predict as to the size and qualltjfejof his crops, there are good grounds for believing that the de mand for some of the products of American agriculture to be harvested next Autumn will be exceptionally strong und active, with prices correspondingly high. This is especially true as regards wheat. The year Just closing has witnessed a shortage of unusual extent in the wheat crops of several of the chief wheat-growing countries of the world.

The great Russian fcanpire, which ranks next to the United States in importance as a country of wheat supply, has produced this season a largely diminished crop, while India and Australia, other leading sources of suppfy, have actu ally changed from exporting to Importing countries. The next wheat crop of Australia will be harvested in January, and the indications now point to a product far bo- low tho The same Is true of the coming crop of India, to be gathered in April. The reports received from Argentina and several other countries are also unfavorable. These unusual shortages, occur ring simultaneously in different countries, have caused a scarcity in the wheat supply- not experienced for years, and the result is a marked advance in the price of this im portant cereal. The Wheat Stringency.

As the amount of wheat at present available In the world Is so far short of probable requirements, it is fair to presume that the reserve stocks that would under normal conditions be carried over Into next season will be very much diminished. This undoubtedly create an Increased demand upon tho forthcoming crop, to the great benefit of the farmer. One of the' natural results of the present wheat stringency to a heightened demand for other breadstuft's. The high price of wheat is already causing a more liberal use of such cereals as may b2 substituted for It, among them the great American grain, Indian corn. According to The Xew York Journal of Commerce, a cargo of 140,000 bushels of corn was shipped the present month from Philadelphia to India, the flrst cargo ever sent to that country from the United States.

Several Instances of like nature havo been reported, and the returns already received are sufficient to show that our total exports of corn this year will prove to be greater than ever before. There Is every reason to hope that the beginning thus made will lead to a still larger exportation of this cereal ln the future. The outlook for corn In the United States during the coining season Is rendered even more favorable by the fact that' the prospective maize crop of Argentina bids tair to be an unusually poor one. Price of Fnriu Product. To the agriculturists of the country, the most gratifying figures in the statistics for the calendar year will be those showing the increased prices obtained or prevailing for two staple products wheat and potatoes.

For all other products of the farm, the prices have been lower than they were in tho preceding year. Henry A. Robinson, the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, has prepared some information showing the prevailing farm prices for the year, and they, are highly interesting and valuable. As compared with lstc. the average price per buahel of corn waa .214 to .253.

The average price of wheat was .727, as against last year. Rye was .403. as against .44) In lH'X, Oats in 1SH5 averaged in lKSi the average price was I'o-tutoes were in lSJo in .27. ln 1WO the average price of hay was per ton: in lsvtl the average price was per ton. Tobacco, in IMC.

averaged per pound; ln ly.MS the average price was per pound. Cotton, averaging ln 1SW5. averaged .000 in lKHi. The following table shows at a glance the average farm prices of products for the-. two years, together with tho percentage of Increase or decrease in the average prices: AVERAGE FARM PRICE3 OF CERTAIN FAIiM t'Rul'S, ItF.C.

i. COMPAKUD W1TU THOSE OF lt90. of Increase or Crop. Crn. pr bunh.H.

Vheat. per bu.hei Oats, pjr Itve. tr 15. .440 lS9n. IxtcreaM.

$.214 .727 42.8 fl.5 8 4 .322 4.3 .7 7.9 C.540 21.7 .000 13 0 13.2 Barley, per bu.hei ..337 Potatoes, per bu.liel. Hay, per ton 8.3.V Tobacco, per pound. Cotton, per .070 In the case of wheat there was a smaller crop than In lSDti and an Increased price. Corn showed a decrease of price out of proportion to the Increase of the crop. Oats, with a reduced crop, brought also a reduced average price.

Tho same was true of rye. Barley, with a greatly reduced crop, fell In price. Potatoes were scarcer than ln and brought a higher price. Hay was more abundant than ln the year previous, and cheaper. So were tobacco and cotton.

The whole crop of the year, by products, together with the percentage of increase or uecrease, is given in tne fol lowing table of preliminary figures that are believed to be nearly correct: ESTIMATED PRODUCTION OP CERTAIN FARM CROPS IN ISiW. COMPARED WITH THAT OF JfcW. PTC't; of Ine. or Corn, bushel .2. 151.

lS.0i0 2. 1V.oiw.ui0 u.4 -Wheal. Duuiei. i 1U 1 Oats, bushel S.M.443.WM Rye, bu.hel. 27.2IU.OOO Uarlt-y.

17.73.U00 buahel 2U7.237.U Hay. tons Tul.accj. pound 4J1.5II.OOO Cotton. Ivies 111.004 24.tatu.uuo ii a 7ii.wo,u 11.8 Sl ZUU.WMJ lu.3 4S. 114.UUO I.

44i.U.tiiiU to tt.2so.uuo From the two tables It Is possible to rain an idea ot tn value to tho producers of cOrwsmnltino miD JiaDies' SaUorht0; 3d Floor. Are prepared to make at short notiqe, SKATING SUITS. Also, PARTY, BALL, and DINNER GOWNS. To-morrow (Monday). Balance of MODEL COSTUMES and WAISTS, at Greatly Reduced Prices.

18th Street Elevated Station. the country of the crops' they have raised curing tho year. The Department of Agriculture cannot now say how much of the crops has been turned Into cash. Jf all beyond the needs of the producers could be so converted, the agriculturists would be rich enough. Based upon tho table of rates prepared by the department, the value of the crops, as enumerated above, would be as follows: Corn Wheat Oats Kyc liiirley Potatoes Hay Tobacco Cotton $462,240,000 132.2o-j.0O0 07 2.000 24.720.OUO 3 14.

Wo, MO Total It is at present impossible to tell, from the information received at the Department of Agriculture, to what extent the gain ln the price prevailing recently for wheat has reached the producer, but it is not believed that the farmers have derived the principal advantage from iUi Many who have hebl on to their wheat, confident that the condition of the world's market will Justify them in awaiting a demand at an advanced price, will probably realize if the needs of the world remain normal and the deficit In countries that have been obliged to go abroad is not made up from unexpected sources. There Ss great probabllitv, however, as indicated by the reports of representatives of the department, that before Spring the reserve supply of wheat In the United States will be drawn out for export. It may become exhaust d. and in that event the farmers will go to nest year's market with wheat Just from the farms, and will not have any reserved stock to draw upon. Outlook for 1807.

For 17 the outlook is at present, confined to the operations of farmers in planting Winter wheat. The condition ot Winter wheat on. Dec. 1 averaged for tho country 09.5 per as compared with 81.4 ln 1S35, SO per cent. In 1894, and pt.5 per cent in 1803.

In the principal Winter wheat States the percentages werei Ittl; Michigan, DO; Indiana. 100; Illinois, 99; Missouri, lol; Kansas, loJ; Xcbrasko, SW: California, The farmers of the country are undoubtedly under the impression that wheat Is to be a good crop in lSOT, for they are putting more acres of It to seed. The acreage Just sown appears from latest returns to be 10.V2, as compared with the acreage harvested ln lSKi This estimate, which, the department says, is preliminary to the completed returns to be issued in June next, makes the area sown for the harvest' of 1S07 to ba WJS6.470I acres. From Europe the reports are not alarming for the farmers of that continent. The conditions for Fall wheat seeding throughout Kurope.

except in France ana Southern Russia, are reported generally favorable. The increase in acreage is probably not great. The statisticiaa of the Department of Agriculture, like i his feilow-statlstlcian ln the Treasury, has no official opinion, but merely an insatiable appetite for informa tion that can be tabulated. He would have the sources of information for the depart ment enlarged and liberalized, so that from every Intelligent Consul of the United States, for instance, the department would be entitled to receive at once, briefly or at such length as the importance of the information deserved, such news concerning crop conditions or prices as could be turned to tne advantage or the people who depend upon their cropsi for the wherewithal to pay the taxes that go to maintain the different departments of the Government. The Importance of employing our Consular officers In this work is regarded by the Government ottlcera who make up the crop statistics as so evident as to need no further argument than is made in the statement of the case- to secure its approval by the Congress and the proper officer At present we are compelled to await for periods sometimes too long the full information ac cessible in great markets, often for weeks after It has been available to alert agents tor omer SOUTHERN FREIGHT TRAFFIC Important Increase In th Kiniber of Car lied at BlrmlnKhajn.

Ala. BIRMINGHAM, Jan. report of the Alabama Car Service Association, which handles car ln the Birmingham dis trict and adjacent territory, for eleven months of 1800, shows a total of 220,019 cars handled, against 217. T30 the same period last year, a gain of 9,183 cars for 189U over ISiCi. The sain is an excellent ihowlnr.

considering the decrease in the coal output. There was a gain In October of 4,157 cars and a decrease in November of 733. Saed Vnder the Gambit as Aet. CHICAGO. Jan.

2. Counselman Day, one of the big Board of Trade and stock-broking firms, have been made defendants in a suit tiled by Hugh McFariane, who has speculated la railroad and other stocks through the firm and lost 152,794. according to the declarations made in his bill. He avers that he paid part of hla losses In cash and gave a note for which is still held by the firm. He sets up the law against the collection of nambllna- dehra and.

ln addition to suing for recovery of the note, asks for damages, half of wmcu ku iu mo vuuuijr tnat amount Is awarded blm. Bank Salt Settled Oat of Coart. BAT CITY. Jan. 2.

The suit of the Union National Bank of Troy, N. against the Preston National Bank of Detroit and others, which had been on trial In the United States court here for the last few weeks, was ended last night, th par. lies naying reacneu a settlement out of court. It Is said li.fvl,u big victory. The case arose from the Moaher Bon lumber failure of October, 1S, for mora than SI ruaion, Bar nlnar Corn for Fael.

a 1 IT I h. ujianji, jan. z. as a result of continued wet weather throughout the State farmers have begun to use corn for fuel for fear it may spoil. The market price for corn Is only cents a buaheL and It Is uiu IOT SUI Sale of Housekeepio, and Fancy iLineos To-morrow, (Monday.) i i TABLE XU6lNfiS 2x2 1.55,2.35: 22tf $1.45, 2.60.

2.8S 2x3 $1.75, 2,25, 2.10, 3.45; 6-8 NAPKINS $1 .45, 1.58, 1.0, 2J30 3 3-4 NAPKINS $2.50, 2.90 3.401 250. doz. DINNER NAPKINS, $1.90 doij value 2.50 and 2.75. 300 dz. Huck Towels, $.50 dlz.val.

2.0p" 150 2.65d2val.3.fi) 200 "HemsVchedHuikToweIs3.00!l I value 4.50. Vi I j-. Also one lot of fine Irish hartdj? loom Table Cloths, 2 2 yds to 1 6 yds AT ONE-HALF ORIGINAL I -M 3 ENTRANCES 18th St, Htb St. and 6th At; 18th Street Elevated Station, DEFECTS IN STEEL ARMOR; The Resnlt from Faalts In the SprU i i lleattoaa Rather tka Diafcoaeaty. 5j WASHIXGTOX.

JanA Z-Tho special board appointed by Secretary Herbert examine a number of defective structural steel plates delivered by ihs Carnegie SU Company at Newport News for tho battleships Kentucky and Kearsarge has submitted Its report to the avy PepartmeaL The board made extensive tests of material at tho ship yards and arrived at the following conclusions: If the specifications held' to requift the test of the plates to made by bendiksg the specimens longitudinally, a large proportion of the steel complies with the specifications. If a transverse bending test' is" also required, only one lot of plates the -17-inch plate meets the demand. 'jj "The defects are attributed to the faet that the plates received, mcst the woth in the mills in the direction of jtheir length and the failure of the Inspectors to detect these defects was due-to the. failure of fl specifications, ln their to require transverse bending test. The board belleHa that more reliable steel for hull plates would bs obtained by changing tho present requirements so as toS allow the tensga strength to Tary between 57.000 and 08.000 pounds per square Inert requiring a.

minimum elongation of a per cent, of steel above OO.ouo pounds, and- one-third of 1 per cent, additional elongation for eaeb 1.O0O pounds below tSO.OOO pounds. The plates for the battleship lUirwis were found to be of better buality than those rolled for the Kentucky and Kearsarge. In aU cases, however, the steel was found to be of superior quality to the best commercial steel, as well as to that use4 -ln any foreign navy." Upon these findings, the department baa-authorized the inspector at Newport News to use so much of the. steel plate on hand as he may find suitable, while the inspectors at the mills have been -Instructed to hereafter make the transverse bending lis the plates. The Steel Board has been ordered to meet at the department Saturday next to confer with the Secretary respecting- me cnangea necessary lO do Enacts in LUS specifications.

1 H. Thonght Bis Sadary Too Larri PORTLAND. OregtmJ Jan. i When fcje-Oov. Pennoyer entered, upon his duties' ks Mayor of Portland, lni: July he ex-pressed the resolution 3o accept only cbe half of the salary allowed him by biw.

which is (5,000, as he considered It isk- -cesaive. Yesterday Mayor Pennoyer" efl clally paid Into the City Treasury one-b'lf of his legal salary, which hei declined' accept on the ground that the -duties of 'tis office were not worth it. andi he directed Auditor Gambeil to- draw a 'warrant tor half of -the remainder, amounting to about S1.250, to the order of: Secretary WalpOle of the City Board of Chart tie, to be for the reliet of the needy. Salelda of a. Maraklaa rmr.

T- NEW HAVKN. Jan. i-i-Mr. Lo jsa Btowe, an inmate of the Keeley Institute, West Haven, was found dead: In ber room this morning. She had Inhaled gas through a rubber and left a written record? of her condition up to the moment the! gas overcame hen, Mrs.

Stowe was a widow. aooui ioriy years or age. sne came to trie Institute from Derbv. ahe waa Seell connected and In comfortable drcumstaneea, one was under treatment for the morpbino habit- i Redeeaaed hy tho Go-rermsmeaf WASHINGTON, JaaV Trary Department to-day redeemed la United States bonds; commonly know as Currency 6s." issued in aid of the PsiHfle railroads. These bonds were called- under a clrcuUr of Noy.

23. 1890; and due for presentation and redemption Tes- leraay. ine toiai amount or the bonu ts $9,712,000, and 4.145,WA are UU ouutand- in. -w i Mexleaa Xflaers SaCoosvteeU 1 1 CITY OF MEjgcO.an. i-It Is reported from Pachuotk State of Hidalgo, that, fire In one of Ihe levels of the Banta Cerrua! Mine, one of the most celebrated Mlver mines ln the country; shut off the esk of tnirteen miners, wno pensnea iron sunoca- tion or miming.

An Englishman ttam4 Richards, who led a reaoua Dartv. witiiuf' located to death. i Cheasleat Sewero JAMAICA, L. Jan, 2-The plais cf Engineer John L. McLoughlln.

preparyd for the local Board of Sewer Commissioners, tor a chemical sewerage system fori this village, have been approved by the. State Board of Health. tsaki that? the system ts better than the tUtratioa system, and will cost less, i p. Carpet Works to LOWELU Mass, works of tho Lowell Manufacturing Company, hlch makes Brussels and Ingrain and employs from 000 to Ouo persons, will 'tart attain In all departments lloadav. aflar a A two weeks shtu-dowa, II.