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Four Parts 28 Pages VTDL. 13,083. GREAT BRITAIN'S CRISIS Cabinet Change to Event Historic and Momentous, but Dull. fiOSEBERY A FEATURE Gladstone's Rapt Eagerness to Fight Against the Turks About Ar-menlajfremplifled. 1LISEIBT, CH1UBEKUII, ASD TBS BEST VatlenalUt WIH Be Retnrned with Increase Raake Lea; Drought ta.

Coeunarclal Cabla from Our Owa Cerr-spoadanV. LONDON. Jan 29. Copyright, 1S95, by The New-Tork Times. Except to the gentlemen who will face the necessity of drawing Urge checks In favor of return log officers next month, this great crisis through which we have been passing oil the week Is really not very exciting.

No doubt the papers are right In describing as momentous and historic, but it Is also rather dull. I suppose the truth Is that Lord Rosebery's Ministry sick so long, and taxed the patience of horses and watchers through such a wearily protracted period, and all 'without even the faintest hope of anybody being mentioned profitably In the will, that the final catastrophe finds the mourners mingling a large alloy of relief with these perfunctory tears. It will be another week or ten days before the pub-f 11c wake up and display genuine Interest In the new developments. First of all. It should be said that the coming contest Is not at all the one-sided affair that It Is popularly supposed to be.

The one embarrassing feature In the Liberal outlook Is Lord Rosebery him-self. If he would drop even the faintest hint that he was tired of rolltical life and Intended to withdraw, a new fighting spirit would leap like an "electric fluid through the whole Liberal organization. Ills failure to do this forces his party to bracket speculations as to how he will be got rid of with their calculations of how to beat the common enemy, and this Is not helpfuL But they are all swearing to one another that he shall never, never be Premier again, and. If this, becomes conclusive enough an understanding Inside the party, they may pluck "up" heart to go on. make their fight, and leave the question of deposing him to the future.

It Is Impossible to say what they will lose by this handicap of Lord Rosebery's unfortunate personality. If that can be put aside or tacitly ignored, there Is no reason for the assumption that they are bound to be beaten. They will lose somewhat In Scotland, most likely. and In Lancashire. There are two opinions about London, and the prevailing one Is in favor of Liberal losses, but this too seems to me to be by no means cer tain.

On the other hand. It Is not Improbable that gains In Wales will offset Scotland, and numerous acquaintances of mine who have been working adverse agricultural English constituencies tell me that they expect to win this time! It Is far too early to make an intelligent forecast at this stage. It is enough to say that there will be a cood fight and all the chances by no means on one side. It Is a question of tactics whether the Armenian Issue will be sprung next week or withheld till the dissolution, July1 This card has been described In these dispatches for a long time as being up the Liberal sleeve. There is now a deep anxiety as to the manner In which It will be played.

It seems settled that Mr. Gladstone Is to do it. Lord- Balis bury's speech at Bradford a while ago. In which he practically tfacked up the Turk, has rankled In the eld war horse's veins ever since, and I am told that he has thought of nothing since but of how to assail him most effectively for it. This rapt eagerness for battle against the Turk was displayed In a curious fash ion at the beginning of the week, when Mr.

Gladstone, having urged Sir Donald Currle to race the Tantallon Castle home the minute that he heard of the resigns tlona, could be with difficulty restrained from going to the House of Commons, on his arrival at London, and went that same night and dined with Lord Rosebery In Downing Street, staying till nearly midnight. Considering that he scarcely mentioned Rosebery's name In private talk and never once publicly since he was Jockeyed out of office, and that their personal relations have been formal almost to the point of frigidity, this is i extremely significant Nothing but' Ar- could have effected this striking change In the proud old statesman's posture toward his successor and toward the party which had deserved this help so little. It Is on Armenia, perhaps In a farewell letter to his constituents of Midlothian, perhaps before, that he will throw the tremendous weight of bis authority Into the campaign. This is to be eounted with as a factor In the problem which may swallow up all the others, as in 1874. Ireland.

I think. Is all right The result In Cork Is not at all ta be taken as bowing a great growth In the Parnelllte strength. What It does show Is popular disgust at WUllam O'Brien's behavior and dismay at the folly of his Parlia mentary committee friends la nominating old Xavler O'Brien, a sill 7 old, man wnose fatuity created the whole Tweed mouth check scandal, to succeed him. Elsewhere in Ireland there will be Par-nellite losses Instead of galas, and san- guine Nationalists count on at least six ty-five seats to be won from the Tories nd five from the Parnellites. There are also negotiations for sdeal between the Nationalists and Parnellites to Join la Ulclng Bu Stephen's Oreeo, Dublin, away irom me Tories.

In. any case, it seems beyond doubt that the Natiicalirs win return with Increased ranks 'knd, what is Infinitely more to the point. 1 is tolerably neaiy will havfe a majority In that body. If this happens, then the Irish National cause will have a chance of real and tangible success' for the first time since Parnell ceased to be its rec ognised exponent Sexton's knewed declaration that he Is to retired from public life Is merely his a A against proposed substitution of William O'Brien for himself as editor of The Freeman's People to Ireland are skeptical about flu meaning more, but they could bear eifen other resignations than his with equanimity. To turn to the other side ipf the shield.

people observe that there have been six teen persons, half of them peers, nut into the stop-gap Cabinet, but tjieir attention Is concentrated on two only Chamber lain and Salisbury. Of thJ rest It may be said briefly that they eifnbrace fewer deadheads than Tory. Cabinets usually contain. Five of the old gang have been shelved Rutland. CranbrooV, Knutsford, Aiattnews, and Jackson and that is some comfort Balfour is for the mo-cloud, in the ment under something of a popular stnse.

in troubled times like these he cuts but a slender figure at best, beside the burly, buccaneering form of his uncle. he lias Just been publicly admonished about his sliver foolishness by a round-robin of important Tory magnates, and Is much humbled. There is, at any rate, no bimetal-list nonsense about the jnew Cabinet Chaplin has been taken away from his pet agricultural post where he enjoyed preaching free sliver and high tariffs to farmers, and placed lxjf charge of a department regulating jnunlcipalltles, which he hates. Goscben'fc unsoundness on the currency, too, Is far more answerable for his failure to obtain the Exchequer again than any rivalry of Chamberlain's. i As to Chamberlain, the spectacle of him seated on a high bench in the Tory Cabinet is slowly soaking iltself into the public mind.

When the process Is completed, a permanent change will have been wrought In English politics. A certain small number of those who followed him out of the Liberal party now decline to be visibly branded as Tories, and are returning to their earlier allegiance. Others accept the situation dumbly, without expressing delight even by gestures, and a great many old Tories are openly Indignant at his presence with three Unionist comrades in their Cabinet That this little band of Whig renegades, who contribute perhaps a twentieth of the votes, should get a quarter of the offices seems to be playing it very low down. It Is too much to predict Tory abstentions from the polls on this account but it would be difficult to exaggerate their suspicious dislike of what they see. They say frankly that Chamberlain will betray them as he did Gladstone, and talk vehemently of what will do when he begins playing his tricks.

Lord Salisbury's individuality did not formerly Interest Englishmen much, but familiarity has altered this. He may be what Bismarck contemptuously called him, a lath painted to resemble Iron," but his fellow-countrymen have come to accept him for what he seems to be, perhaps with reservations and certainly with a sort of liking. When he has fought out his Armenian duel with Gladstone, and the electoral Jury has decided between them, It will be time enough to discuss his theories of England's place In European affairs. He Is called a Jingo, but he has kept the Foreign Office In infinitely smoother waters than Lord Rosebery did. In everything, save the Armenian question, the bulk of Englishmen trust him in foreign affairs.

Perhaps even that question Is not an exception to the rule, but of that we shall soon see more. Except some confused reports of risings in Macedonia and of sharp friction between Turkey and Bulgaria, England had no leisure this week or space in her papers for foreign happenings. It is obscurely understood that Russia has slipped up at the last moment in her confident effort to force! a monopolized loan upon China. Paris and St. Petersburg editors still insist that the delay Is only temporary, but the feeling here and In Berlin Is the other way.

The most prevalent explanation is that Germany and England Intervened and persuaded China to refuse. I heaif what seems to be a more plausible story, that the Japanese Minister, who arrived at Pekin Sunday, put his foot down promptly on the project and declared that Japan would resume hostilities at once rather than permit China to give territorial guarantees to the Russians for a mere moiety of her debt which would not only leave the rest unsecured, but place Russia In a position on ihe Pacific of standing menace and peril to Japan. It Is even reported from Tien-Tsin that Japan Is hastily fortifying the Llao-Tung peninsula as a defiant protest to both China and Russia. It io. quite conceivable that London and Berlin had a quiet understanding with Japan in the matter, but I believe It will be found that the latter has taken the initiative In blocking the Russian game at Peklni Again, though the.

week Is ending with gray skies, there has been no actual break la the drought which has now ex tended for sixty-three days, with a total rainfall In the London district of three-quarters of an Inch. This record only once wit exceeded since meteorology became a science, that Is to say, in 1893. Although the partial drought then ran 114 days. It Is said that In several respects the farmers will suffer mors this year. After a prolonged personal struggle.

the French Senator Borenger has succeeded In passing a law which will bear his name, penalising Indecent pictures. advertisements, and letterpress, la the newspapers or other public prints, and It Is said that there Is a tacit understand ing among responsible politicians that whoever Is la office, an honest and vigor ous attempt will be made to enforce it Nothing oould do the republic more good la the eyes of a vast majority of provln dais than soma such, resolute effort to cleans what la called Journalism la Paris. Already eat hears reports of cer KEW-YOKK. SUNDAY; tn tadr, Ftt PART. 2R PAOFA I PltlCE CTVF.

ClTSTfL tain pa pet changing hands and of the abandonment of feullletons Tospectlv how runn g. to avoid prosecution, i Of urse, the most drastic French censorship would leore untouched a great lated to lift Saxon eyebrows, tter-day license In Paris has deal calc but the 1 real too and nubile sympathy la obviously with the new law. All stu nt Paris was en fete yester- day. In ho or of the unveilina- of the bunt Henri Murger In "the Luxembourg The celebration received the Gardens, pictures character so desirable In this particul case by a sharp, dissension celebrants as to what Mureer among th himself ould have wished. The sub- scribe rs the bust held a banquet in! the evening.

rice 6f. This was resented bv large ly of students who declared that such urgeois gluttony was enough to make te poor bons srarcons and i Bri settes of their gra be Vie de -Boheme turn In es; and so, under the Chalr- manship two-fran Paul Verlalne, they had a supper of their own. But even this was tot Spartan enough for a third group, protested that 2f. was even a more off sive Insult to Mureers mem- ory than the 6f. of the capitalists, I and they had feast to themselves at the ln- dividual st of 11 sous.

la has been on the acute point Eralle of total f- BUU WkJt uspended all work for the res- and has ent. und the peremptory command of his phye was to ve begun as a serial publication cannot possibly start before in Octob the end the year. Zola hlmselfl has learned ride a bicycle, and fcrout jwith day long. Henri Rochefort is it now a also to seen every mornina- flvinr round Bois on a machine, and! the chronic! of other celebrities who 'have the fascination of the wheel Is yielded now a gular feature of the Paris pa- pers. The tenary of Maynooth College Is the occa ion of the most Imposing eccle- slastlcal bers an athertng, in point alike of hum- dignities, seen in Ireland for genera tl ns, and not even the flurry of political excitement has diverted popular In Dublin from the celebration.

attentloi Althoug Cardinal Vaughan has been known Ireland, rate cer manv years as no friend tn ie was received with an elabo- monial, and accorded precedence everyw re. Maynooth suffered much during ie years of the land troubles, but now Is gaining prosperity rapldlyl with 600 stu lents and money In band for needed lew buildings. The complimentary banquet of the Society has de of his gave Authors to Sir Walter Besant ltely settled the pronunciation iame at least all the speakers Ions with accent on the sec md syllable, whereas usage has always been here to call It Bessnt" Other ntentlous matters remain about as the were. -The wicked publishers were led over the coals very sharply by one virtuous writer, after another. but the seem not to have minded, for not a igle response appeared from any of thei Hall to anything that was said 'alne, who made the i principal speech nd Is rapidly becoming the rec-spokesman of his craft starts for the Isle of Man with a large ognize Monda party whom If guests, principally Americans.

will entertain for a fortnight at Greeba itle. The ews that Wayne MacVeagh Is to at the Fourth of July banquet of preside the A erican Society in London has given piquant Interest to the I affair. and it seems likely that the! gathering will the most important of its kind ever Id here. There is such a myriad of well 1 1 nown Americans in England this Summ that the assemblage. which will num 500 or more, will probably be as repre tative In a way as anything which at ho ould conceivably be got together and Mr.

MacVeagh promises speeches will be short-f which that does 1 invariaoiy nappen i H. If. WAGIS BUSED FIFE CENTS TON The Example of One Blrmlnsrnam Iron CoJtpaay Followed by Another. BIRMINGHAM, June 29. The Sloss Iron a id Steel Company followed in the wake 0 the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company 1 o-day by pasting notices at their mines Lnnounclng an increase of 5 cents a ton in he wages of their 8,000 lrmlngham rolling mills are refusing orders tor sheet iron, having orders' booked three 1 nonths ahead.

Four more furnaces are go ng Into blast in ten days. I Skilled rolling mill laborers and ore and coal miners are pouring into the State. Treasurer Bowron of the Tennessee Com pany ys he fears a repetition of ithe ad vance Hron made In 187'J, when it jumped from SL7 to $34 in one day. Dam Breaks nt La Jsata, Col. LA UNTA, June 29.

The dim gave way at the Reservoir, forty-six miles above here, at 5 P. M. yesterday, floodin the surrounding country east and filling the Timpas Creek and the many canon! bank full. It Is feared that the Santa Fe bri over the Timpas Creek, six miles west La Junta, will be washed out. The reserv ir contained 20.000.000 nllona.

and drained the foothills of the Raton Mountains for miles. The Purgatory R.ver has been very llKh since eUnesday. owlna- to th heavy Ufa Is rains in tne mountains. No loss of reported. Owing- to the hlg-h mesas from settled probably had time to umd th pooo.

Dr. Bpaldina" Many Beeesta. NASHUA. N. -June 29.

The will of Dr. He Epward Spalding was probated to-day. makes the following bequests: Dart. moutq College, New-Hampshire Bible Society. $4,000: American fioard of Comm lissioners lor oreign Missions, ban Missionary Association or th.

American State iuf New-York, IS.Ooo; New-Hampshire Orphans' is- noini 01 nuuun, ao.uuu; Tus-Normal Institute, Alabama. S5.000: kegeel urst Congregational Church, Nashua, N. t4 interest to oe usea lor tne Hunaay library. $1,000. Samuel S.

school of: Nash w-York and George F. Andrew of are ui executors. Groom Too Yoasg to Marry. BRIDGE WATER, June Invlutlons had been Issued to the Perkins- Be va4 wedding at the Trinity Episcopal Churih this forenoon. The young man failed to put In an appearance, and the young woman is prostrated with grief.

The oreaaing on or tne ma ten is said to have been due to the disinclination ofTtha Per- kins family to have the young man marry at present. He Is twenty-three years old. and wU Miss Bevan is twenty-nine. Both are known socially nere. They had.

a home fitted up for their occupancy. I TWo Boys Drown at sandy HUL i TFtpT, N. June 8. Oeorxe H. Doty.

aged aged eleven years, and Joseph Van Raaken, ten years, were drowned In the canal at Sandy tuu yeswroay, 1ALE ACCEPTS THE ClIALLESGE Eeadj ti Meet the Winner the Oxford- Cambridge Games and to Return the Qqurtesies Received England. NEW-HAVEN Jllna 9ft An Im. portant (Meeting of Tale's track athletic ad- riwirs iras neiq this city this morning relative! to Immediate action on the challenge off the English track teams to Yale and Harvard for a meet in this country late In the Summer. The Yale Faculty, the athletic advisory committee, graduate alumni, and the Captains and manacers of Yale teams for two years were represented. It was unanimously decided to accept Tale's half of the challenge, and In the formal feply to the English team to express the hop that a team may be sent anlPHL40 niet Ie.

order that for 2 ifhm may precedent ilLE i IeluUr or Intermittent visits to America, and. second, that Tale opportunity to return the U.e"8 ended to her last friida: fe their of who can' win hardly pr.BenJS considerations. Yale win c.wen the winner i of the Oxford- p'ate nd YIe ould be appro priate, as rale represents the American champions, and the winner of that mt the champions of EngiaSd? team wm not I train rigorously this Summer, but the members have bn t. VeP to orotnar? physical con-ln1 "VN callej together In August, If necessary, to meet the En-Um- fevj1 Yale men wiU train wm the New-York Athletic Club, which will SeteP'tgmglBh tciS ROOT BjCST 1CC0DAT FOrIdIXM'S ISIITR A Chleago Conrt Says the Trmsteeshlp Wna ConstrnetlTely Frand.leat. CHICAGO, June Wlndes has decided the case of James W.

Dixon again Henry A. Root The suit was begun by Dixon, as conservator of jthe esute of his brother. Henry W. Dixonj to compel Root, who. for the last ten years- has had charge of the estate under a trust agreement between him and Henry Dixon, to account to the conservator.

The auit was also to set, aside the trust agreement by which Root has had control of Henry Dixon's affairs. The Curt orders Root td account for and JfilUS fci" tteeshlp. and also declares (that the agreement, between him and iU- eUte In question, was oonftructlvely fraudulent i and must be feet I i The jDlxons Uve at Flushing, L. and are-the sons of Senator DUon of wa" 1,1 the United. States Senate t.ht war.

Root is a New-York law- y2 WS2 had an offlc lnl WaU Street until about three years ago. When he went to Montana to take part tn the famous Davis will case, in which he is an attorney as well as one of the claimants.) The Dlxons and Roots iwere boyhood friends, and Dixon Intrusted to Root the one-hundred-thousand-dollar estate which was left him by his father, mostly In New-York City real estate. C'eimed-that $20,000 in securities deposited tn a Chicago saxety vault represents all that is left of the estate. James W. Dixon alleged that his brother was of weak mind, and had been for years under the control of Root He charged that Root sent his brother across the country and to Central and Boutftt America to keen him away from his relatives; that the lawyer had used his brother's estate to his 7rnoPJ.fltVn1 that tlie truBt agreement of 1888 he had Imposed upon a man of weak intellect.

I Root-appeared in his own defense. He testified that Dixon was a man of remarkably fine literary but with a 4iis-taste for business. Judge WIndes held that! Dixon was a man of weak mind, although gifted intellectually In some wivi. Rnnt will lur i 0.E CEST FOR PRESIDEST. CLEVELAND A Treaaary Warrant Sent to Gray tow that Amount Gables.

"WASHINGTON, warrant for 1 cent uJ 29. A Treasury favor of rover Cleveland, President of ithe United States. was forwarded to-day from the Treasury to Gray Gablea This sum was found to be the adjustment of year. account is stated due him as salary upon his account for the fiscal The President's salary; monthly by Thomas Holcomb, Auditor of the Treasury for the State Department From there the account was sent to the warrant division, examined and initialed by the chief of the division, Acting Secretary Wyke then signed, and Acting Controller Bowers certified to its correctness. The warrant was completed by United Stages Treasurer Morgan- directing the disbursement officer ol the White House to pay the sum mentioned in the warrant and his account with the Treasury would be credited with the amount im the warrant on its presentation to the Treasury.

The President's salary Is 50, 000 a year, paid monthly, and the monthly warrant is for $4,166.66 2-3, or $4,166.67 2-3 each month. It was found that one-third of a cent tor three months had been overlooked In lra-v-ing the warrants, and the cent sent to-day Is the result of the correct adding up of the account. I Marder at a Church Trial, i MEMPHIS. June Downs, a member of the Mount Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, was shot and killed early yesterday by Thomas Choate, a member of an Opposite faction In the The congregation was present at the trial of Downs and his wife, charged with living together without being married. The charges were preferred by Deacon Clowers.

They fell to Che ground, and Mrs. Clowes attacked Mrs. Downs in the church. Mrs. Choate became mixed i up in the melee.

Choate pushed Mrs. Downs away. Downs rushed in and pulled off his coat but before he could take a hand Choate shot him through the heart. Choate was captured. The: inquest was held In the church, in the presence of the entire congregation.

Killed with a Baseball Bat WASHINGTON, June 29. James A. New-som of Memphis, Tenn.il for many years cue Of the doorkeepers of the House of Representatives, was fatally assaulted last Thursday! night by Lewis Berry, at a Summer boarding house at Carlln Springs, Snd died yesterday. Newsom had been drinking heavily, and I assaulted bis wife, who left the house and returned to Washington. Newsom continued his violence, and in a -struggle with young Berry, who was a visitor, was bit with a baseball bat end his skull fractured.

Medical aid was summoned, but Newsom never recovered consciousness. Richard O. Crawford Arrested. CHICAGO, June failure of Crawford A Valentine, stock brokers, took an Unexpected turn when Richard O. Crawford, one of th partners, was taken Into-custody on a wiirrant charging him with falling to account for $10,000 deposited by 1 Vic tor Falkenau, to cover margins In a wheat deal.

Bonds lr the sum of $3,000 Were given. Craw fort! A Valentine failed about five weeks ago, and at that time Mr. Falkenau had the amount alleged la the complaint in ninni um una. olnt In the hand of th Frand tn Tallying LX.WATER. Minn, Ji Laaafcer.

STILLWATER. MUn, June 29. -Charles T.i Goodrich of this city was arrested last night for the alleged fraudulent tallying of logs, by giving the scale to a different mark from the one given him by the scaler for whom he tallied, thereby defrauding owners of i many thousands of feet of ioga This Dractlce, It is alleged, has been carried on for many years, ana it is estimated that as much as $100,000 has; been lost to lumber men. Gaests of tho Misses Onanism, POUGHKEEPSIE, N. June 29.

The Mlases Chanler are entertaining, at Rokeby their Summer home near Tarrytown, Will-lam Astor Chanler and Lieut. Hohnel, the AlricaA axDlorer. and Miss Fairchtld. daughter of ax-Secretary Charles B. Fair- Ch4- a CAUGHT IN HER CRADLE The Defender's Launch Proves Fat from Successful.

SHE IS SOW STUCK 15 THE MUD No Damage Done, bat a Delay la Fitting bat Bare to 1 Fol low How the Acct- dent Happened. BRISTOL, R. June 29. There Is disap pointment deep and dark in many a breast In this old town to-night, as well as the hearts of those who have been here, but have left tor other places, for the Defender. Instead of riding safely afloat alongside the Herreshoff piers Is lnglorlously stuck In the mud on the ways between the piers, with no immediate prospect of getting off.

Up to the time of her taking' bottom, the launch was a most successful one. Just why the success was not continued Is what a diver Is trying to find out. but the most probable reason is that the ways were not properly cleared for the passage of the cradle, for the boat ran nearly to the enjd of them before stopping. Had she gone her own length further, she would have floated all' right, or had there been a couple of feet more water, the same result would have been obtained. As It looks now.

the Defender cannot be floated until a higher course of tides, or except by the rise of lighters on each aide, as was done with the Jubilee in Boston a week. ago. Mere pulling of tugs will be useless, for that was tried to-day; Immediately after the accident, without success. The yacht Is. however, uninjured, and still rests firmly In the launching cradle.

In this fact lies the antidote to disappointment, for it promises a successful floating In due-time, and nothing more serious than a delay jin fitting out. 'm I Every preparation for the launch had been completed by noon, and at that hour the workmen knocked off to eat a caterer's dinner, spread for them at the expense jof the concern. Half an hour later they were ready for the launching; so, too. were the special guests and the spectators, who had been admitted to the North Pier, while out In the harbor. Just beyond; the ends lot the piers, was a big flotilla of rowboats and launches.

1 Cameras were not allowed on the piers, but the boats bristled with pieces of snapshot apparatus, all trained and focused ion the big door of the south shop, from which the Defender was soon to emerge. Further out in the harbor lay many steam and sail ing yachts, together with several tugs and a lighter or two, just to set off the beauty of the yacht. The yachts themselves were gay with many colored flags and signals, so that, the scene was decidedly a brilliant, as well as an animated one. Towering above the others, the huge spars of the Colonla made her a striking figure. She had been towed up from New-London, bringing Mr.

and Oliver Iselln and a party of friends, who had been there to see the Harvard-Yale- race. Not far away the big white hull of W. Vanderbllt's steam yacht Conquerer loomed up, while close at hand was the smaller Shearwater, chartered this season by ex-Commodore E. D. In the shops in the meantime there had gathered a party of over 100 special guests, which Included many New-Tork Yacht Club members, as well as Summer residents of this and other bay towns.

Bristol's 400 was also well represented, and the Herreshoff family was out In force. Every' precaution was taken to see that none but the invited guests secured admission to the shop, and the usual watchman waa reinforced by the town's Chief of Police. President John B. Herreshoff stood near the door while the party was gathering and welcomed his friends. His wonderful faculty of recognizing a person Just as certainly by the voice as an ordinary person would by seeing him was shown in dosens of cases.

For the convenience of the immedi ate lauhchln' party, a platform had been erected near the bow of the boat, and foremost In the group was Mrs. Iselln. who was to christen the boat- In her hand she held a bottle of champagne gayly decorated with ribbons. Mr. Nat Herreshoff: walked around the boat several times, and finally gave a good look at her stern from a plank thrown across the ways at the water-front door of the shop.

At the critical moment the north pier was covered, not all over, with people, but on the edges, from where the best view could be obtained. There was plenty of room for everybody. Many crawled upon the small buildings and to the. tops of masts and derricks In the vicinity. There were many rowboats around the piers.

Just before the last moment the lighter was moved out of the way. The first sound of the hammers at the block was heard just on the hour set for the launching, 12:45. To those on the pier It was a muffled noise, and very few seemed to realize that in a few minutes the boat would shoot through the opening. There was no demonstration, and the holders of cameras appeared to take no unusual Interest focusing them. In the Interior of the shop all eyes were on the party grouped at the bow, jwlth the chrlstener at the front.

She stood expectant, with the bottle In her right hand. and waited for sign of life along her keel," which would tell that the time for the christening had For the finishing touch. two with hammers went to the front of the keel, at the 'very and began to drive tho wedges! that would give the first push to the boat. hammered twenty times each. There was no loud shouting of orders.

In fact, no exclamations of any kind were heard. the boat moved. The men raised their hammers to their elbows and looked at the hull. Their work was done. Down the ways the Defender began to sUde at 12:54.

I was a hum of pleasure and delight in the crowd around the boat. Smash! went the bottle. The ribbons with which It was wound prevented the pieces from fWpg on the heads of the spectators below. "There she goes!" "She's off A faint cheer tried to start from the crowd la the shop, but It did not gtt out. They seemed to be holding back demonstrations tn fear that the boat might stick on the ways.

But she did not It was aaj easy glide, and within a second or two her; stern shot out Into the open air and she began to plunge Into her first bath. The whistles of the yacha and steamboats were blown and the cannon of the yachts were' fired. The crowd set up a cheer. Smoothly and cleanly down the ways did the Defender slide, her rudder an sternpost. clearing a way for the bulk of the keel, while swiftly and surely the water crept higher on her glistening bronse hull, but just before she was waterborne, and while the echo of the cheer was still la the air, she stopped with a sudden Jar and brought tm.

solidly. The Ceatlanee am Page Ik THE STAFFORD ESTATE 8UCCESSITL Deciiion lnl the $15,000,000 Suit Brought 1 the Gereinment Made Judge See to Its FftVar. SAN FRANCISCO, June Boss, In the United States District Court this morning decided the suit of the Government against the estate of the late Senator Stanford for $13,000,000. The decision Is against the claim of the Government. The action against the estate was begun by direction of the then Attorney General Richard Olney, about a year ago.

as the preliminary step to force the Ooversmenf claim against the original holders of the Central Pacific grant. The Government Issued bonds to aid in construction of the road, but the defense claimed that no agreement was ever made to pay the Govern ment back the amount advanced; that the bonds were a second mortgage, and that. While Individual members at mrnorstlnn under California law are responsible for its own, toe mortgage was not a oebt. The total amount of the second mortgage Is 900.000,000. It Is said that it the Government should pay off the first mortgage of 1120,000,000 It could foreclose the second mortgage of 100,000,000, and come Into possession of the road.

The flllne of the suit ereatMl mhiMmKU excitement in California because of the many things that depend upon the decision. If the suit of the Oonrnmmt had hun successful suits against C. P. Huntington and others would have been decided In uviciumfgL mm iney were Identified with the Stanford suit. The Stanford estate had Just been appraised at 917.600.000 when the suit was Bled, so that it the case had been decided tn favor of the Government the estate would have been wiped out and the be-questa to the Leland Stanford.

Unl yersity would have been of no value. Other Interests were also involved, causing the decision to be awaited with the greatest COOD WOK OF WOMEI DESICIEBS Tho New-Tork School Completes Tens thnt Was Fall of The third annual meetlnr of T.mA Directors of the New-York School of An- plied Design for Women was held yesterday in the school rooms. 200 West Twentv. third 8treet. The annual report ahows the numner or students to he S54; number "of Instructors, JT.

The Secretary and Treas urer is Miss Ellen J. Pond; Assistant Secretary, Miss H. Z. Blckford; Second Assistant Secretary-Miss Q. Assistant Treasurer Miss Isabella Kellon; T.fhr.ri.n Miss J.

Van Salisbury. Sixteen free scholarshlns wr TrantH4 tO the SChOOl. Which COVerAd th. tnltlnn of 950 for the year. The principal fact of interest tne Treasurer's report.

-which kuwi io sen-supporting on the tnltfnn tm 914.498.11. and the expenses 91316.01, leaving a balance of S1.18ilO. xsesigns nave Deen sold through the office to the amount of 94.888.36, Including archi- i mna oraers are still on hand, be'" fiiied during the Summer term. t-k TOlpfcto1" are EHhtt Root. he Rev.

John Wesley Brown, rector of St. Thomas's Church: Oiwrn r. the Sunrem rvnr- Thomas B. Clarke. Fred.rte Om-i lnshleld.

Carroll Beckwith. Francis Lathrop. John deary. Mrs. Dunlap Hop- Vf Tint l(r lamaa Km Ke-mp, and Mrs.

Carroll APPLIED CBRISTUIITT II FICSHI50 JLpTl Cheekier tUM Oclvry' To-dnyv .) FLUSHING. L. June 29 -Convinced tnat the several churches without diatin.s. tlon as to creed or sect are at variance In their teaching within principles of practical Christianity. Mrs.

M. P. Irving and a number or others, assisted by the Rev. D. Chockley, will to-morrow organise a society to known th.

a.i it-l. Christianity: 7 ..7 Irving, who Is at the head of the "oclety originated with iProfiJ Oeorge.D. Herron. Professor of Applied Christianity of Grinnel College. We believe that business and -politics as conducted to-day are contrary to all Ideas of Christianity.

The churches, while doing pre and good work, are more theoreci-. Practical. Our society Intends to establish no creed or sect. Services re "jwo any one, ncn or poor. A Treasurer Kills SAN FRANCISCO.

Juna 2B. Lnula PUi ex-Treasurer of the Bnal BTlth Society, committed suicide yesterday by asphyxiation. Blanc was discovered to be short 913,000 In his accounts Some months ago. He was one of the most prominent Jews in the city. Blanc was not prosecuted, but the society faUed to re-elect him as Treasurer.

A cuminaiion 01 sis DooKS increased the original deficit about 917,000. Earthquake on a Lake Snperlor Island. 8AULT STE. MARIE. Mich Jnn sv Assistant Engineer Glenn E.

Balch of tho Kmiea states Lake Survey reports finding appearances of an earthquake on Batche-wann Inland T.lr. t-v strip Is i 200 to 800 feet wide and 1,200 feet vnQM. ana upneevai. wita trees up torn and broken rocks, show the effect of the mighty shock. Batchewanna Island is Isolated and uninhabited.

Fnnd for the Irish Elections. OTTAWA. Ontario, June 29. John Costl-gan, who represents the Irish Catholics in the Dominion Cabinet, has received a vauK(iun i rum uiwira tiiaae, aakinc that his subscription te the fund for the Irish elections in the present campaign be supple- meniea vy inenas or tne cause in Canada. As tho elections take place within two months, he says the need of urgency is great.

I Opening of tho Chantaneima Aaeesably. CHAUTAUQUA. N. June opening of the twenty -second annual assembly occurred this morning at 10 o'clock, RiaKon Vln-fit Miller, President, delivering the opening tmwa present. An excursion party of 800, arrived to-day nt oomttuv or thai rr.M r-ini.

Money; Asoesaahle In Hllnola. SPRINGFIELD, HL, June Aaalstant auwuct uwiwu fiiwtu aaa readored aa opinion that under the revenue laws at State all moneys are to" be assessed 'and otys neia oy insurance companies for tho purposo of paying loaaes UaiUo te occur are sssessable. and not exempt from taxation. maii ThoaBooton Yacht Bah Wrecked. PORTLAND.

Me, June yacht Hub of Boston was wrecked ea Bristol Ledge In a thick fog Thursday night. The flva occupants were found clinging to the haU-eubmerged wreck, and were taken off Itenped em a Pool. R. Thomas, sixty-two years old. of 338 onmoway.

tfrooxiyn. while on his way home yesterday afternoon. tr.A horsecar at the Grand 8treet Ferry and on "PP a7d hs ell heavily to the ground, fracturing hU rlcht arm. He was taken to Oouvernour Hoe- iltlM AblaaU Dodsro at Ha HAMILTON. Haas, June Bin- uiot arnTea nere at llxn A.

and was takentoberrealdeaoeln an ambulance. She Btooa In. nd. wandeid a lltUe owing, to uiu crowa at tae siauoa. Allea G.

Thnraaan la Bettor. COLUMBUS. Itm. a p. Thurman.

who has been tn very feeWe It aa 1 la tka 1 a. a. a- I CBACK SHOTS HOLD ST7AY I Itfiempta JLiaxen" at tls Ct'JLrA Open Hem SCBUtZIFST IT GLFJDALE Pin Welcojne to Cneots List of Honorary Prixee Rnlee of tho Festival j. aad CosnmUtoea ta Charge. The first volley of conviviality of the first National Schaetsenfeet was fired last night at the Central Onera Hon: A genuine German Kommers was given ta honor of the sharpshooters from other cities, and the: welcome accorded the visiters was of such cordiality as to leave no doubt to their minds that their stay here Will be, one of aaaxnorabla nlcas-ur Covert were" laid last lalghV for" fioo'persoua fr- oseiy at o'clock the President of the National Schntanft wmi.m tv.k- called the assembly to order and delivered a onei ana rervent aoaress or welcome to the visiting! delegates.

He spoke of the object of the National Schuetsenbund. and said that ltj Is Intended to band together Into one united family all sharpshooters of this country, for If. united ther wtn i.mm wiMiaawwii, am saia. aesire te promulgate i conviviality and hb- n.y. ana tne coming achuetseafest brings the ditferent sharpshooters together, it will have toad a perfect bull's-eye.

His re-markajwere greeted with much applause. axter. nur: eta Bchuetxe win ich aela Waa suna- Rlilunl Watimaw of the United Singers of New-Tork, dellv- erea an address that, was frequently inter. rupteq by vociferous plaudits. Mr.

Katsea-mayer; regretted that tho' visitor mm other cltles have reached here Just as the city was about to experience the dri est Bunoay known in New-Tork for years, thus hampering the welcome the Germans of the city would JOke to extend to them, The situation, thought, would prove a po cullarj experience to-Western who are accus cornea to taxe tneir Tmiita inio the 'parks oil Sundays and there ealov rre the beauties of trees and flowers, and listen; te sweet musio they peacefully oi-lnk: their beer, He Jsras followed by Lorens ZeUer. Chab kan'of the Finance- CommittM. who ra markid that "It an Ul wind that blows no one gooa." as ail dry New-Torksrs are cordially Invited to the Schuetsen Fest. at a Weber, er Glendale 'Park. Long Island, where the grounds will be wet every day through out the festival.

Mr. ZeUer bade the guests a hearty welcome and expressed the hope that they would enjoy being here as much as New-Yorkers are pleased to see them. Speeches were also made by B. Kaempf-fertj and Henry Kroeger. and Jolly songs were rendered by the audience to the accompaniment of a military band.

AC the park to-day there will be a gen-eral shooting: contest, and a reception ta The 8t, Louis Independent Schuetxeu Veriln delegation arrived yesterday after-Booh; It consists of Hermann Bloch. M. XCasar. Henry Bobrtng. George Theias.

Vincent Raon. J. Bchrber. H. Theiemaa, Jk.

Hefier. W. Arm-' Pvtse Pa vllton. bruster. Robert Htrold.

Louis E. Pftffener. Alfred Gfeller. Dr. E.

X7, and Louis Blcber. The officers of the Austrian raan-c Z-vr Donau were visited by a committee day and. accepted the innutloa to pate ta the parade to-morrow morr They wia be la charge of th eomr.i' i Oan, Carl ZUtUusctr vsa oTJohlelav, Chalnnaa Raocptlon CtxaaUttaa. Herraaa i Qaartamaat -5.