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I) THEt NEW YORK TIMES. MONDAY. AUGUST 30, 1897. i i IT i i 't if i i i. i i i 1 I 5 i i i 3 i CRAVES HEW GOLD WATCH Was Bought Out oj a Barrel in New York Below Central Park.

LACK PRINCIPLE Eccentricities; of "Klondike" Timepiece Which Have Interested the Old Town of Flstbush, Caused Discussion, and Pro-" voked Betting. Flatbush Is now In a feverish condition mind over a watch which Charles Graves, who live near the Park entrance, bourht in some unknown street In New York City. Mr. Graves had been to New York before and hought he understood the eccentrici ties and enterprises of that town fairly well He thinks, however, that on this oc- casion somebody poisoned him. because he cannot remember localities.

He Is quite positive that he was below Central Park. but beyond that general conviction hi knowledge falls. He knows, however, that he bought a watch, and recollects that he was by a sign saying that fin hunting-case gold watches were on sale, marked down to $2.5. Mr. Graves had gone to the city to buy a pair of shoes for Vi.M, but was Impressed by the opportunity to svsJk cents snd acquire a timepiece and si valuable awtt.

He understood that the low price was 'the result-of the recent dis coveries of gold In the Kionaiae country. He was struck bv the fact that the man be bought the watch from got It out' of a barrel which he said was a fresh one just imnorted from New Jersey. Mr. UTaves had never before seen gold watches sold from barrels, but the man said that that T-was-te customary way under the operations of the IMngley bill. -s When Mr.

Graves Inspected bis purchase yesterday morning he was impressed" by It. It la an impressive watch, heavily chased outside ana elaborately engraved; It also seems t'te chaeod inside, Judging by the time It makes. The man who sold it said if It did not run he would refund the money. He will not have to return the money. 1'he watch not only runB, but ft outruns any Watch ever mtii In Flat-bush.

When Mr. Graves 'looked at his watch he saw it was He was scandalised by the lateness of his household, and proceeded to roune everybody-with vigorous protests against toe general indo- lence. By the time he hud knocked and shouted and stirred his yawning and as tonished family he looked at his watch again and saw that It was 5 o'clock. The hands did not say whether it was A. M.

or .1 P. und Mr. Graves did not know whether he had gained a day or was short a. night. The fact that the sun was just beginning to how over the hills to the -east and that there was no vign of smoke from any chimney In tovrn but his own convinced him that he was wrong sorae- how.

He did not lose faith In his watch. Look- ins at the engraving and feeling the of It. he became Kailslied thai there had been fcjeriiy a slip of a cog or a temporary displacement of the bail bearings, and wound up the machinery as far is his- strength would allow. lie wound and wounj. According to his calculations tfie watch between three and four mileu of mainspring- He figured that the winder took- up two inches of slack at every turn, and that he turned it more than tto.imu times.

A peculiarity of the mechanism is that the watch seems to lock itself automatically as it Is wound. As the time for morning service wa. supposed to be approaching, Mr. Graves endeavored to eon-suit his acquisition, ani then discovered tftat he wouiJ have to borrow a jimmy or crowbar and commit burglary to open It. Early in the afternoon, howtver, the time limit cSttmtd to have expired, and the i watch atiteii-nly opened of its own accord like a oyster and was found to be poundin? along in the homestretch and again That terms to be a favorite time with it Whenever It haj no other jBpKi.il business to attend to it works -around to Mr.

Graven was displaying his watch with pardonuolc ride last and its pe-culUniles attracted public attention. It mpics to be a conscientious watc-n, arvi makes an honest eftort to agree with every other timepiece it 13 brought In contact with. Mr. Graves says the great fault T- with it Is that It lacks the courage of its own convictions, and has no will of its own. It does not hesitate to jump forward or backward a few hours to harmonize with anything that comes against It, and the village people are vaguely guessing and betting on ft.

Some' think it works double time when the door is shut, and that ac-' cording to It we are now about the 2oth of December. Others insist that It works re-- trogrestilvely at night, and is now opera t-; ng early in last March. Nobody has yet learned, however, exactly what principles It works on. Mr. Graves, after he had studied It a long time, said he did not believe it had any principles.

He thought it was actuated only by a desire to be accommodating and humorous. So long as anybody is watching It it ticks steadily enough. The irtomentthe case Is snapped shut the hands either balk or whirl. It may be closed at 6:35, for instance and opened a moment later at 12:10. Nobody knows whether It Is fast or slow, and whether the time it announces Is yesterday or the day after to- morrow, whether It works In futures or ex-.

i plred contracts, whether It whould carry handicap or be allowed concessions. It Is what the race-track men call an uncertain i runner. If the man with the barrel of watches ean be found a committee of Kiatbush re-. dents will probably wait on him and ask for a clue to the combination of Mr. Graves's watch.

Curiosity has been much excited and bets are being registered on the issue whether the machine is behind or ahead of time. Patrolman Arniei Roaadsnian. Roundsman Milton Woodbridge of the King's Bridge Police Station was held yesterday jjor examination to-day by Magistrate Poole, In the Harlem Police Court, accused of drawing a revolver on Policeman John J. Shannon, of the Kant Klghty-ighth Street station. The trouble occurred when (Shannon found Woodbridge visiting Mrs.

Shannon. Shannon said he suspected tVoodbrlJge of alienating his wife's affections, and set a watch on them. He found them together Saturday night and a scrimmage resulted and Woodbridge drew a revolver. Woodbridge has a blackened ee and several bruises on his face. Shannon Is unmarked.

Cblrkeas la a Cellar Illegally. -i Some unknown person put a coop filled iwtth chickens In the cellar of Mrs. Anna Ilncus's butr store at 150 Ridge Street Saturday night. This was In violation of the law, and Henry Price, sixteen years of age, who is an Assistant Health Board witnessed the act. He waited a reasonable time and then caused the arrest of Mrs.

Pincus. At the Essex. Market Court yesterday, despite Mrs. Ptacus's protestations of ignorance as to who put the chickens in the cellar, she was held in 150 ball far trial. Stabbed Seven Times.

Thomas Callahan, twenty-nine years old. of 301 East Fourth Street, was carried into Gouveme tr Hospital at 8 o'clock yestarday morning suffering from seven stab wounds. James Hendtey of 3 Second Avenue, who took him to the hospital, was arrested on suspicion of being the assailant. He was, arraigned In the Ei-'sex Market Court later, and stated that he found Callahan Ivisg at the corner of Cherry and Cor I tars. Street a A broken butcher's knife wasFfound near Mm.

He was discharged Callahan's condition is Hirkars Will Hat Rrase Fares. The public backmen met yesterday at Me Garry's Hal), Thirty-second Street and Lx- Ington Avenue, to dbtcuss the advisability of reducing hack fare to 25 cents a mile. Tney were not in favor of doln so, at least not for the present, and decided to concentrate their energies on the praimaed ordi- nance to prevent public hackmen from standing opposite hotel stands, which are pre-empted by the livery stables. A committee was appointed to go before the Board of Aldermen on Tuesday to oppose the bUL BeekleH Driver Flaea flO. John Shields of 224 Lexington Avenue was fined 110 yesterday in the Harlem Police Court for reckless He ran over the bicycle of Frank Behrln ger of 354 West One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Street at Lenox Avenue and One Hundred and Tenth Street last Saturday night.

SUSQUEHANNA'S QUICK VOYAGE Caat. Bewail Sailed Mia Bla- Sbl trass HeaeUla ta This Port la F.lKkty-alae Days. The big American four-masted ship Sus quehanna, lylmt at anchor down the bay. arrived In port Friday night after one of the fastest voyages nom Honolulu in the record of sailing' vessels. Less than a year ago she sailed from Philadelphia for Japan.

From Japan she went to the Hawaiian Islands, and. sailing thence May 29. with a cargo of 2.100 tons of raw sugar, she made this port in eighty-nine days, covering a course of over 14,000 nautical mile. The Susquehanna is a Bath ship of 2.no tons, commanded by Capt. J.

E. Bewail, nephew of Arthur Sewall. the silver candidate for the Vice Presidency last Fall. She Is owned by Arthur Sewall Co. Capt.

Sewall had with him on this voyage his wife and a sister. The crew numbered thirty, all told. With a spread of 8.000 yards of canvas, the Susquehanna had the northeast trades with her from the Sandwich Islands lo the Horn; which she reached In forty-nine days. She was In latitude 44 degrees south, longitude 118 degrees west on July 4. A pig was killed, and the crew had a roast, with punch and fresh vegetables, In celebration of the day.

Gales were encountered west of the cape, but from to degrees south in the Pacific around to 5 degrees south In the Atlantic onlv ten days were consumed. Fair winds marked the run up the South Atlantic. She was nineteen days from the Horn to the equator, averaging 210 knots a day. and one day's run being 270 knots. She was twenty-three days coming north from the equator.

Many a tramp steamer takes longer; Yet th Susquehanna had light winds from the equator. The. average daily run for the voyage was 100 The trip Is the fastest made by a sailing vessel from Honolulu since the Sovereign of the Seas did it in eishty-two day in the early fifties. The Sovereign of the Seas was one of the best of the clippers turned out by Donald McKay, and one of the proudest sailers that ever hailed from Boston. On her reeord-breaklnjr run around the Horn she one day maiie 4-'tti knots, and for four days averaged knots.

Sailing ships are made larger now than in those days, but they are freight carriers Dure and simple, and the fine lines and nar row prows of the clippers are sacrificed to cargo space. AMERICA'S FAMOUS DENTIST. Dr. Eraai Comes from Paris with the Body of His Wife Goes to Philadelphia. Dr.

Thomas W. Evans, the American dent ist, who for forty years has been the most famous dentist in Europe, was a passenger on the steamship La Champagne, which ar rived yesterday. He returned to this coun try with the body of his wife, who died on June IT. that the burial might take place in her own land. Dr.

Evans was a Philadelphia and is seventy-five years old. He went to Paris In 1M4I. and soon won a great reputation. He has attended to the teeth of nearly all European royalty, ail of the crowned heads. save Queen Victoria and the present Sultan of Turkey, having been among his patients.

He attended Emperor Napoleon III. and the Empress Eugenie, enjoying their especial favor. Investments In Paris real estate which increased enormously in value with the laying out of the bouft-vards, made him a man or great wealth. His fortune is estimated at After Sedan, it was in Dr. Evans's car riage that the Empress Eugenie, with his assistance, escaped the mob and made the journey to Calais.

The character of the friendship of the ex-Empress was exemplified when, on the recent death of Mrs. Evans. Eugenie, then In Constantinople, hurried to Paris to offer personally her consolation. Lr. Evans has Innumerable orders and decorations, but he Brought with him one token of royal Interest of which he consented to speaK, out further than this he refused to be interviewed.

In the doctor's party wire Dr. and Mrs. Edward Ci'ane Ir. Crane, being a partner; ana Miss VY helen ana a valet. Mrs.

earned a valise-like receptacle. which contained a handsome Japanese pooaie. Dr. Evans, speaking with accent suggest lve of the English, said: Thai, poodle Is one ol my most treasurea possess. ons.

it belonged to my dear wife. We once had a little -dog which wus-notlced by the Princess of Wales when she came to my offtoe to have her teeth treated. Some time after I was summoned to England to again attend to the Princess's teeth, and she asked me about that little dog. I told her that we had lost it. It had strayed away.

Nothing more was nald about it, but after my return to Paris, she sent to my wife this Japanese poodle, which had been a present from the wife of Mikado. Dr. Evans has no children. He was met at the pier by a number of relatives, among them Col. Charles F.

Muller of Utlca, N. a nephew, and J. ft. Evans of this city, another nephew, and by Dr. Henry C.

Schurt-leff of Philadelphia. Nearly the entire party accompanied Evans and the body of his wife Philadelphia. The Evans residence, still owned by the doctor. Is at 4011 Spruce Street. Funeral serv.ces over the tody of Mrs.

Evans will be held on Wednesday afternoon in St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, and the burial will be at Woodland, Philadelphia. Dr. Evans will remain for a short time In Philadelphia, and will then come to New York to look after some real estate on Riverside Heights, which he purchased when he came here in lsTfl to attend the Centennial Exposition, which is said to be now worth He will then return to Paris. Dr.

Evans in stature Is below medium height, has stooped shoulders, and a thin face. With hiifh cheekbones. He wears short side whiskers. In Paris the doctor lives In a magnificent house, at 43, Bols de Boulogne. Georae Kauber In Trouble-.

George Kauber, twenty-two years of age, of One Hundred and Thirty-second Street and Park Avenue, was held for trial In the Harlem Police Court yesterday for assaulting Michael McNulty of 390 East One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Street, and attempting to stab the policemen who arrested him. He was in a fight Saturday night on Third Avenue with a man who had kicked his dog. and was beaten severely. Crazy with pain and liouor, he ran down the street slashing wildly with the open jack-knife he carried. He cut McNulty, who was reading a newspaper under an electric light, and fought the two policemen who arrested him.

He said In court the Injury to McNulty was an accident, and he wis too exeunt to know what he was doing when he resisted arrest. Dr. Plersoa and Ula Coach maw Hart. Dr. W.

H. Plerson of 101 McDonough Street, Brooklyn, was driving up Brooklyn Avenue yesterday afternoon in his buggy. As he turned into Fulton Street a car of the Street line came out of the carhouse at thp corner and struck one of the rear wheels of the buggy, overturning It and throwing both the doctor and his colored coachman. Clay borne Carter, out on the street. The coachman was insensible when, picked up.

and was taken to the Homeopathic Hospital. The doctor, who was severely bruised, was removed fo his home. It was said at the hospital that Carter's injuries are not dangerous The doctor will probably be confined to his bed for several days. Skall Fractured with a Clab. Frederick Dtercker.

a saloon t.Kent early yes- terasy moraine got into a 'fight with Thomas Brady, who lives at 41 Division Avenue. In the fight Diercker beat Brady Into insensibility with a dub and fracured his skull. He was taken home and his" condition Is said to be critical. Diercker ww arrested, and when he was arraigned la the Lee Avenue Police Court yesterday pleaded elf-defense. us tic Kramer adjourned the hearing until to-day.

A Traass with a Ladles Bicycle. Just at daylight yesterday morning Policeman Kirschner of Hobokea saw a man who bore all the marks of a typical tramp walking up Bloomflcld Street in that city. He was Wdlng a ladles bicycle, the possession of which he could not account for. The tramp was halted, and said he was Robert A drain of nowhere in particular. He was locked up.

The wheel Ja still unclaimed. Flshlaa; Veasela Saokea, The steamship Asturla, which arrived yesterday from Hamburg, reported that on Aug. 25. on the Banks, she spoke a French Ashing brig, showing letters O. with od.ooo fish, and the French bark Pa- trie, with 200.000 fish.

Both asked to be re- portea au weu. SPICER MEELET'S WHEEL How the Joy of McCormick's Ten- merits tween Healed a Breach Be- wo Sweethearts. MISS MAGUIRE'S FIRST RIDE It Led to Disaster on an Improvised Track, and the Unhappy Young Man Seeking Revenge Found Happiness. Wrhen Splcer ItcNeeley brought a bicycle home to the McCormlck tenements last May It was tht most exciting event that had occurred tat many a day In the neigh borhood of Fidty-oevehth Street, west of Tenth Avenue. Kot that events of an exclt Ing nature are llnfrequent in that locality, The gong ofai ambulance is often heard there.

The pdjlice patrol wagon Is well enough known i be readily recognized, and at rare intervals a fire engine leaves its smoky trail through the block. But Mc Neeley's bleycld was far and above the at tractions enumraied. Wheels were not un known to Indlv kluala, but this was the first that had ever cpme there to stay, and feel ings of local bride and social elevation mingled with and added to the natural en thusiasm. When Splcer arrived at the door of his home with the Its heel his mother was proud of him, and only deferred an osculatory demonstration when he asked her to let him alone untlll he got his prize safely intp the house. Id was carried carefully up stairs, and latdr In the evening Mrs.

Mc- Neeley held a informal reception for Its looked splendid with its exhibition. It bright tires an stood in the co a shining handle "bars as it ner protected from the vis ltors' hands by scfa. the red-spotted, gilt-backed After the curl oslry of the manv had been satisfied. Mrs. personal and par- ticular friends rernainea to aiscuss cycling ICS.

and kindred to hat mrk Mrs. Boran. fc it, Mrs. McNeeley?" asked nen everybody had agreed that there was niver anny ling loiKe thot whin we were yuris. It an ins hallraent wheel," was the complacent answer.

He'll be wtarin' wan of thim funny suits? Inquired Mrs. Lenahan. rneditative- ly. "He will tM at." said Mrs. MeNeelev proudly.

but e'll git stockins that 'ull be stay In' up, I'm tnieKinv Miss Makrnire's Discomfort There was on persjn in the 'neighborhood who did not share' In the general rejoicing. That person Was Beezle Magulre, consid ered by many the prettiest girl fen the block. df Bill Magulre, a eub-fore- man on a stretX railway construction gang, and a close fri4nd of the political leader of the district, blie lived on the first floor of the Andromaclie Hats, on the other side of the father gave political prestige of her social standina. and her uw qualitieatld ns had done the rest. Miss Maguire and Splcer were good friends last Winter: ion such terms, indeed, tnat Mrs.

McNeeiCy ana Mrs. Maguire nodded anu iooKed conilous whenlheir names were coupled at thd mothers' meeting on anv convenient doo step. But jealousy and co- quetry had leu 10 ainerences and an open quarrel, and ul the advent of the bicycle the two were not on speaking terms. The wheel sought her troubles home to the girl. She aea splcer and wanted to congratulate an.

but she could not be the first to break tne silence, it galled her when her companions g.cefully announced that Splcer's going to let me learn," or Ain't that a lovely suit." and her heart grew bitter. She made remarks to the ef- feet that Shd cou.dn see why," but the only-result wa the suggestion that Bee- zle was Jealous, ana serve her right One. afternooh. long after Splcer had ac- quired proflcieil cy, a group of eirls sat on the steps of Maguire was trie Anuromache flats. Miss Rhe leader until some one turned the con versation to blcvcleB Then she relapsed others ta.k of fito silence, and heard the now.

under Suicer's tutelage. they had acqui io arc or peaaung wltn- out oeing neld up. you learn, asked Why don't one. H'm. I don- cara for it.

It Isn't so hard, anyway. Oh. Isn't I put In another. You can't ride, just the same! Taking Her First Leitoa. The upshot watched until was that eight or nine girls Mrs.

McNeeley was talking about the nelg Sbors with a friend from the next street, anh then stole into her apart ments, took ssession of SDicer's wheel. and carried It au tne root or tne tenement. 4t. covered with tar and felt The roof Is fi and slopes gen tly. Wires and ropes of many clothes ilnea criss and recross, and an occa- slonal chlmneyl lends sollditv to the view.

ne gins mov roof into a the poles, converting the fe If somewhat contracted bicycle track The experts showed the way. and then two or three helned 1Wt mnunt the machine. They held her on, laughing at her attempt to maintain an equilibrium. Her own lack hf dexterity had put uer in bad hunpor, an4 the chaffing was more than sne couiu sianq. "Uo 'way! she said sui lenly, I'll ridl it alone." With elaborate but sarcastic politeness urr inruus iwi ner at ner word, and with drew to a saf distance, leaving her sup ported by a corr-entent chlmnev.

Why don you start?" asked one of ner late infractors, and the other girls laughed. That fettled It. and Beezle pressed her feet hard wheel started uown on tne pedal The. lurched to one side, half I the next instant there wua doubled up. an a tangled heap at the base of of ateel, iron, and girl lying part of the co rhbination sprang up and de- anuiiier cnimnev.

iri clarea she wu rii i nun a uii. liut wnen It came to the Iher part an anxious inspec tion was followi-d by looks of consternatinn One handle ba and a pedal were bent an.i No one was fcughing now. Two or three children who au reen watcnlnir the nnnrt were scared by uireais 01 cnamixement Into promising nev to tell, ana the era .1. elded to put Ihe wheei hack in the Neelevs' apartbients and trust to luck for tne luiure. When SpiceH returned from work that night his mothler, without a word, led hi to the riamae ld wheel and pointed at it It is presumed that Splcer did the subWt justice, but no one exactly what said.

It was was damaged the culprit. boon knowh that the wheel ind that he was seeking for He was look ihc SO fierce when he ml lit. tie Maggie Borkin romlnsr In with a un der her arm that he burst Into tears and inyoiuniaruy criea: it wasn't me. Splcer: I didn't touch Who was i tp he asked. Beezle Ma rfuire an' the big girls up on the roof, and 1 nere kjos interrupted the child.

Splcer oralirea Splcer stood ion steps dazed. Beezie the girl who dt! uplte their quarrel could have had bis wheel anything else he owned, to take it from lis room and break It. He could not belle It. Then he decided to g. and ask her.

She answered his ring at the door, and they faced each other, he pained and indignant, she nervous bat dwaant. Why did r0u break my wheel?" he asked, abmptlj How do yo i know I did? was the answer. i1' ltAc nt how I know, but you did. and I want to say that I've a good mind to have ou arrested." then-" a h-ke of the head. I iruess Mr.

Splcer McNeeley, my father can pay for all the damage I did or buy you a ouple of wheels" "It ain't tha broke In Splcer. and you kno it. too. Beezle. but It seems to me that whe a girl shakes a fellow what likes her.

she ought to let him alone I never done a ly thing to you. When 'you shook me I didn't complain. You could have had the i rheel if you'd asked me But you wouldn't i isk. and you wouldn't let me talk t'you. Hat's what geui me.

You never gave mc the chance to offer It to you and yet you go over and take it." He paused to taki breath. The defiant look on the girl's faco had vanished. She stood nervouly twisting ht handkerchief I her flngerav lifting her eye now snd then from tha carpet to look at him. He, abs rbod In his own grief, did not see how hard ihe was fighting to hold back her tears. waa continuing to upbraid her, when a.

loklng sob stopped him. He broke off in an Instant in aatonlahmmt i i i An then-well, Mra. McNeeliy confided to Mrs. 'Lenahan and Mra in confidence ilasc Friday that Splcer and "er lips trembtlna and her eyea iuffuaed. 1 I began when he sprain forward.

Ah. don't co that!" he exclaimed. "I'd BUYERS SPEND MILLIONS Effect on New York Trade of the Work of the Merchants' Association. MORE VISITORS NEXT MONTH The Second Series of Merchants' Ex cursions to This City Under Way-Influx of Buyers Greater than Ever Before Prospects Bright. Estimates of the amount of trade brought to New York through the efforts of the Merchants' Association range from to $50,000,000.

President King; believes that the Summer and Fall buying by out-of-town merchants will reach $00,000,000. The Influx of visitors who are buyers of merchandise of various kinds has thus far been greater than any year since 1802. The second series of excursions from points In the territory of the Joint Traffic Association are now well under way. The sale of tickets for these trips began last Friday and will continue until to-morrow night. A soon as theae excursions are over others will commence from the Trunk yne territory and the South, consequently September promises to be a very busy month In the rooms of the Merchants' Association.

Concerning the work of the association thus far. Vice President John C. Juhring said on" Saturday: "I have talked with several hundred buyers within the last week, and they all speak in the most hope ful manner of the future. They say that business is vastly improved over the corre- spondlng period of last year; that the farrrT ers everywhere are happy over the Tact of Increased crops and at being able to obtain good prices for them. This enables the farmer class to Indulge themselves where heretofore they have been curtailing their expenses, so that now they are in a position to spend more money for food, clothing, farming implements, and other necessities of their lives as-well as to partake of some of the luxuries.

The outlook Is very rosy. There Is- never smoke without some lire, and all this talk coming direct from the local merchants throughout the country who are in close personal contact with the people In their various sections, is pretty good evidence that there Is a degree of prosperity greater than we have experienced for several years. So far as New York Is concerned, the time Is ripe for the Merchants' Association. It deserves the support of everybody who has any Interest whatever, who either lives or does business in the city, and if It gets the support to which it is entitled It will become the largest and most powerful organization of Its kind in the world. Mr.

Charles H. Koehnan of Dayton. Ohio, came in to see me a day or two ago. He told me that he had not been in New York since 187, and when I asked him what had Induced him to come this time, he replied that he had read some of the circulars of the Merchants' Association, and fnat-rftey had decided It. He also said that the wide publicity which had been given the work of the association In the newspapers and calling attention to New York as the great market of the country had influenced him.

V. dry merchant, of Win ston, N. C. who is now in this city, says: This is my first visit to New York in two years. Last year was so poor that I had very little need for extra goods.

This season the prospect is so encouraging that I have come on and Intend buying to make up for not having come here laat year I am an advocate of New York from the word Go! I have been doing business Just long enough to appreciate the manifold advantages presented to the merchant trading In the New York market." George T. Gately of the William Barr Dry Goods Company of St. Louis, said: Business with our house is never dull. We have not felt any of the so-called depression in trade. We are away ahead In all departments this year.

The New York market Is the only market for live business men. and all live business men are well aware of this fact. We buy all our goods from the New York market, and have been doing so for forty years. If there were a better market we should have known of it long before this." iac.ob"- oods merchant, of Llaotiier said: "This Is my first visit to New York in six years. I have been lesmen.

-J am ver? glad that I came on, for I find a very tine market and prices very satisfactory." CONEY ISLAND UNMOLESTED. Xo City Official Dlatarbed the Serealty of the Showmen. No curious official was at Coney Island yesterday, and a general feeling of relief felt by showmen and hotel keepers The Bowery was In full blast, and all' the shows were running double time, with the performers costumed and painted A SCORCHER CAUGHT. William Crowley-; twenty years old. of 415 East Thirteenth Street, a tailor's apprentice, had an engagement last night to take a bicycle ride with a young lady.

Crowley, was to meet the girl at Fifty-ninth Street and Eighth Avenue at 8 When he mounted his wheel It was a case of scorch or be late, and he scorched. Selig Whitman, better known as Ajax." of the bicycle squad, saw Crowley scorching and a chase followed. When Whitman closed up on Crowley he shouted to him to stop. Crowley looked back and said: "I've got a date up town Please excuse my haste! Whitman did not like the explanation, and he Increased his spurt so that he caught Crowley after six blocks of fast work. At the West Thirtieth Street Station Crowley wept.

He told about his girl being all alone up town waiting for him. He left his bicycle for security, and hastened to take an elevated train to cancel the engagement for the ride. Cigarette Pasqnale'a Sarrlleare. Cigarette Pasquale, fifty years bid. of 401 West Fifty-sixth Street, was arrested last night by the police of the West Sixty-eighth Street Station, charged with stealing a pocketbook In the Church of St.

Paul the Apostle, on West Fifty-ninth Street, near Columbus Avenue. The Pauliat Fathers have received several complaints from per- meir pocKetDOOKS In the church Last niBht Annie McKlnney of 117 est Sixtieth Street went to the church and placed her pocketbook on the seat of r7. at ner devotions. He relth Wl8 ew behind her. boLe fVn suddenly and the pocket-boolt disappeared.

It contained J7. James Kw chuTc'S AIIeael Gamblera Fined. George Miller, nlxtw iu, waa arraigned la the Morrisanla Police Court, yes uo iutr uiarge or Keeping a gambling house at 684 German Place, With him were twelve white and colored men, who wer charged with gambling. There tad been many complaints made, of Miller's place and two detectives disguised as iaboreni entered the room Saturday nia-ht. Crana.

poker, and pool were being- played. A squad of twenty men broke into the place at a given signal, and a scramble followed The men went through windows like black streaks, and some disappeared up the chimney. A dosen were caught, and each paid Sbo UafoVytr.ai,tICe- Wer was helf in A Septaaa-enariaa Arrestea. Lincoln Corcoran, seventy-five years old. who lives In a shanty at Ryder Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street, waa arrested by the police of the Alexander Avenue Station last night on the charge of mn been teased by the children of the neighborhood, and at ruck n1 on the head with a wound.

received a slight scalp Ta Morale af Aaarehlats. H. M. Kelly of Boston read a paper on Anarchiats' Morals before the New York Debating Society last night at Us rooms 1.824 Avenue A. There was a small attendance.

Mr. Kelly said that Anarchists have no standard of morality. Each man and each woman most establish his or her Wn standard, WILD STEER IN THE STREETS. Mast a Tssr Ik WmI IK Raced with Caehraaa la Dlteh, A ateer had a great deal of sport In Eleventh Avenue and some other street yesterday afternoon, and contrived to promote the activity and stimulate the Interest of Charles Cochrane of 631 Eleventh Avenue. The steer was one of a drove which arrived at tha foot -of West Twenty-third Street at 3:30 o'clock, on the way to tha Eastman establishment, In West Forty third Street- He organised himself as a mutiny while going cUp Eleventh Avenue and disorganized the entire precinct.

He galloped and gamboled about through Fortieth and Forty-second Streets and Eleventh and Eighth. Avenues, and apparently had a pleasant time, all by himself. People fled In all directions as he approached, and many impromptu visits were mads without the formality of Introductions or Invitations. Men. women, and children dived Into the most convenient doorways.

Having amused himself with the tour, the steer returned to Eleventh Avenue, and proceeded to do business with Mr. Cochrane, who had sought refuge in a deep trench which has been dug for a water main. The steer jumped Into this, nearly landing on Mr. Cochrane, and then the two had a straightaway race, There was no room for manoeuvres. The steer could not turn, and Mr.

Cochrane did not wish to turn. Each did his best, and they went a block In excellent but unrecorded time. Mr. Cochrane's lead waa being cut down rapidly when he reached a favorable place, and scrambled out an Inch or two ahead of a pair of menacing horns. He was slightly bruised, and had no breath to spare.

A crowd of several thousand people gathered, and watched the steer charge the end of the ditch In vain efforts to get out and resume the sport. At last policemen from the West Forty-seventh 8treet Station managed to put a lasso over his head, and twelve men. a derrick, and a wagon were sent out as a wrecking partr from Eastman's. After several ropes had been broken the animal was ignominlously hoist ed out and Into the wagon ana hauled away. Mr.

Cochrane will make a special point of trying to get a piece of him to eat as a matter of personal satisfaction. CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL." The Rev. Father Lavelle Tells of tha Plana for a Eaiargemeat, The Rev. Father Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick's Cathedral In this city, and head of the Catholic Summer School at Lake Champlain, returned home from the latter place on Saturday.

He was much pleased with this, year's sessions of the school. which closed last Friday. Our school has passed the experimental and problem stage," he said, and is now a fixed insti tution established on a substantial founda tion. Financially it Is self-sustaining. The attendance this Summer has been greater than ever before, and a large number of distinguished people' visited it.

Chief among these were ex-President Cleveland. Vice President Hobart, Arch bishop Corrlgan, Apostolic Delegate Martl- nelli. Bishops Wattcrson of Columbus, Ohio; Mcviuatd of Rochester, Farley of New York, Monahan of Wilmington Gabriels of Oadensbura. and Mars. Nuaent of Liverpool and Conaty of the Catholic University In asnington We were obliged to turn awav.

for lack of room, as 'many persons as we accommo dated, in consequence of this Immediate steps will be taken to increase the accommodations of the place. We have 450 acres of land, which will meet all requirements ior some time to come, and Dy next Summer the present accommodations will be doubled. Pledges have been received already for the erection of club, or community, houses by prominent Catholics la Rraflklvn Hnnton Run's! In Rwhost0i acuse. and Albany. These' houses wllf each De similar in style to the large structure built by New York City people early last Spring.

Private cottages will be erected by Prof. Dundon of the Normal College, the Rev. Father Healy of St. Bernard's Church, In this city, Cornelius O'Reilly of this city, and Mr. Yawman of Rochester.

This Summer school brings a higher education down to all people that care to avail themselves of it. We shall have more courses of lectures next year, with a wider scope. Many of the educated people who attended the lecture? this year expressed surprise at the high grade of our educational TEMPERANCE TOR CHILDREN. Catholie Total Abstinence Inioa ill Take Them iato the Orajanlsatloau The Rev. Alexander P.

Doyle of the Paul-Ist Fathers, General Secretary of the Cath olic Total Abstinence Union of America, has returned from the twenty-seventh an nual convention of the organization, just held at Scranton, Penn. Father Doyle says the convention was the most successful In the history of the union, and was one of the most important. The body now numbers 77,254 members, of whom 3.459, belonging to 1 5 societies, were added during the last year. For the last four years the total In crease In membership has reached 21,841, uniuueu in inuiviauai The convention did more real work for temperance than anv Drevioua one ever did." said Father Dovle. becausA if ritr- ilnded to make special effort to gather In cnuuren into tne organization, thus estab- usning ineir ruture and the future of the movement.

This work will nornmniiahai by the formation of juvenile societies. All the Bishops of the country now pledge the girls and bOVS at confirm inn hat a in from intoxicating liquors until they are years oia. nen tne Bishop leaves the parish after confirmation the responsibility rests with the parish to see that these boys and girls are organized Into iwiai duounence societies and the sentiment encouraged and strengthened in them This work will be begun Immediately throughout the country, and the practical "l.T"1 DV "-nnstmas thousands of children who have taken th mini nence pledge will have been enrolled Into a jucmie iciuiicrance army. A Xew Medal for Sanaa. When Director John Philip Sousa stepped on the Btage at Manhattan Beach last night to conduct his concert there glittered on his breast a new decoration.

The medal, which is quite large. Is In the form of an American flag. It is of solid gold: red. white, and blue enamel. Indicating the and union of the flag, the stars Mmr Across the flag In letters of gold are the wnrH, 14 TV, r-a anA Ct oinjwii orever.

This IS the title of Mr. Sousa'a intent ma rh which has been such an enormous success at the beach during this Summer. On the reverse of the medal are engraved the woras. iong uve tne March King." Mr. Sousa's new decoration Is the gift of a prominent New York society lady, who has been a constant attendant upon his concerts at Manhattan Beach during the last nve yeary.

Tried Twice to Kill Himself. Francois Mathlas, sixty-eight years of age, a well-known resident of Richmond "alley, S. whose home is on the Amboy RoadA made a double attempt at suicide 1., Cn ik a Eiuruy njgnt, ne nrst oranic a solution oi pans green and then slashed his throat With av-nenlcnlfe rr Washington of Tottenvllle sewed up the wound and used the stomach pnmp. rt is thought he will recover. He'haj bean de- iPimucui lur soma ume.

May Visitors tm Statea Ialaaa. Over 80.000. people visited Midland and 8outb Beaches, at Staten Island. The crowds were the largest seen on Staten TfttanA Vi I a fititmmM i Staten Island Rapid Transit and the electrlo wens crowueu mrougnoui tha day The latter companies were unable to carry the crowds in the open cars, and the Winter wen urougm into service. A Yaaas Girl Fatally Injared.

Delia Mooley; seventeen years old. of Grand Street. Jersey Cltv. 621 to cross the street in front of her home last Pitch whan aha ..1. i i i jv ut a trojiev car of the Consolidated Traction Company's Una.

and fatallv inlurawl Craw at Aqaaraaa. Twelve thousand visited the yesterday. being- one of largest attendances sine The fleh In a loa-a-erheai turtloa the t- Indian seals, and the brilliant rolored soecl test wcU tam main at- nv MV In a ten-day's visit to New York you try to sandwich shop ping with sightseeing and it's a constant hurry a jump into a place and a scramble out again. Winter goods are ready, but you needn't buy. Leave your measure when settled quietly at home, it will be easy to order.

Clothes, shoes, hats and fur nishings by mail or express for man or bOy. Your money back if you want it. Rogers, Peet Co. Prince and Broadway. warren and Broadway.

Thirty-second and Broadway. BAVARIAN K1HMESSE OPEN First Day of the Twenty-fourth Grand and General Volksfest at Sulzer's Park. A WEEK'S ENJOYMENT AHEAD Grand Inaugural Karch Led bj in Gorgeous Uniforms and Decorations Statue TJnveiled in Afternoon and Tableau Shown at Night. A genuine Bavarian Kit-mess, or Jahrmarkt. was transplanted yesterday with all Its accessories to Suiter's Harlem River Park.

It was the first day of the Twenty-fourth Grand and General Bavarian Volksfest, arranged and held under the auspices of the Bavarian Volksfest Ve-reln of New York," which is to continue today and conclude next Sunday, Long before the strains of the brass band gave the signal for the opening of the festival the grounds were filled with' a host of enthusiastic celebrants bent on a day's unrestrained enjoyment. Their ranks were being constantly augmented by fresh arrivals from every part of the city and vicinity, and when at last a fanfare of trumpets announced the beginning of the opening-march It seemed as If tha place were filled to Its utmost capacity. Such a march it was, too. At the head was the ancient and honorable company of Bavarian Pioneers, In gorgeous uniforms of blue and green. The officers, with half-foot-wide epaulets, brass shields facing; their stock collars, rows of medals of every known metal and conceivable design, won at the different donkey-stabbing matches, pot-beating contests, and peasants' handicap races, held by the organization, led the mile-long array of marchers.

They were the heroes of the occasion, and they carried themselves with becoming dignity. Right behind them, the cynosure of all eyes, walked a little man in the uniform of a Bavarian trooper of 18T0. an old-fashioned, cutlass dangling at his side from an enormous belt that nearly covered the upper part of his spare frame. He wore the iron cross of the Franco-Prussian war, and at every step would raise his hand to fondle the token of his prowess. Then followed the dignitaries and officers' of the different Bavarian organizations represented at the festival, and behind them, from two to six abreast, according to else, the rank and file, including women, children, and lunch baskets.

Twice the procession marched by the reviewing stand, which was, however, minus reviewers, as everybody was in the parade. When ranks were broken President Charles Lindner of the Xew York Volksfest ere In made an address of welcome In German, liberally interspersed with the Bavarian dialect and a choice collection of New York's most famous idioms. The responding oration was delivered by Charles A. Klemens, Grand President of the National Alliance of the Bavarians of North America. This followed by the feature of the day's programme, the unveiling of the Bavaria," to the tune of the Bavarian National hymn.

Heil der im Siegeskrans," Amid deafening applause and ringing cheers the doth was removed from a six-foot gilt statue of a woman, at whose side stood an open-mouthed, ferocious-looking gilt lion. This classical group was mounted on a pedestal decorated with blue and white paper tpaettes in a variety of designs, bearing on one side the Inscription. Welcome. 1873-1897." and on another the American coat of arms with a picture of George Washington. The- other two sides of the pedestal were blank.

This closed the formal exercises, and the park was turned over to the visitors, and they in turn to the tender mercies of the waiters and the proprietors of sideshows and various devices. The part of the festival dearest to the heart of every Kir-messe attendant had Kegs with unmistakable contents suddenly appeared, as if sprung from the ground, on the ends of long tables, and disappeared with almost equal rapidity to make room for fresh ones. Around every booth where prizes were offered for varied accomplishments surged an ever-moving throng, and the carousals. Punch and Judy shows, and stage performances were liberally patronized. At the entrance fresh arrivals still came pouring In.

and when the evening's entertainment commenced there were fully 5,000 persona In the park. The feature of the evening waa a series of laoieaus. lniroaucing Henry the Lion Founding the City of Munich In lLVJ" and Printing of the First German Book In the City of Bamberg." Pyrotechnical displays, Illuminations, and stereopticon views closed the day's programme. Gray'a Sanity la Dosbt. Alexander Gray, forty-seven years of age, of 108 Trinity Place, was committed in the Centre Street court yesterday to Bellevue Hosp'tai for examine tlon as to his sanity.

He was arrested on the charge of threatening to kill his wife and John Gleason. who lives In the house with them. Mrs. Gray Is forty-five years old and the mother of fifteen children. She said her husband wss Insanely- jealous, and threatened to kill her and Gleason because he heard Gleason whUlllng and thought he was signaling to' her.

hejoid Magistrate Cornell she believed -him Insane. Gray kissed his wife and the baby she was carrying- as he was taken away from the ourtk 2 A Rearae at Jbaekaway Beaek. Rosa Hall, twenty-eight years of age. of Union Hill, N. while bathing in the aurf at Rockaway Beach yesterday was taken with crarnps while a Ion distance from snore.

When she screamed for help there was a panic among the bathers. Capt. i. H. Walters started at once to the rescue, and reached the woman before she sank.

He brought her ashore unconscious. After an hour's work she was revived, and later fully recovered. Stakaea tha Barkeeper. Joseph Kennaugh. twenty-six years old.

513 Third Street, Hoboken. was arrested yesterday, charged with subbing Joseph Craig a barkeeper at Newark Street and Park Avenue, Hobokea. Kennaugh. It Is atleaed entered the saloon and began to bother Craig, until ha came from behind the bar nd struck him. Kennaugh then drew a knife and slashed Craig across one of hU wrists and stabbed him la the back.

Thi wounds are not serious. 7 iM AMtl KM ETS. MANHATTAN BEACH fcr Ossasi The Bostonians, 1 1 Sa I fa a ur KVUM HOOD. 'J- Da Vl. HH ma raus.

1 IE' Sousa's Concerts. 14 Pain's Fireworks, LYCEUM VAflXU TftOHMAM'. ktaaanA JrL acu iiMaoay. Am "THE CI RCt'S CIKV," every Erasing at la, MUsl Wad. Ll MJ2.

Yrria Earl. James CyrU SooU. Herbert Oraaaaat CIHEMATOC A ta'iif Exhibit every hear frees 1 ACADEMY OP MCSIC. 14a St. A Irvma- PL A Oraod New Spectacle.

zav at b- NATURE s. Chora, aad apeeiaM People. BaUeta. aoeeiaMasf Mats. Labor y.

a Sat, X. iX 5 IP THEATRE, ay sad SSth ktaaaate Edwta Know lea ill opea Saturday Kvf SP-fc OITHEK. ROMA Ull SUW.Vn BAUbr ,4 XAlflSOtt SO, CARE ROOF GARDKX. Law week of ta Bnaiia To-aight Pa a. unwunc mwuif rupiuv umkp i ta atetrupolitaa Ptnunnt urcaaatra, itrupolltaa rvnnannt i ADMISSION ftOC KNICKERBOCKER KTEX1KG8 SAT.

MAT. SJii ROTJSD Or PlKAIlRE. T5 Next week Oeo.Bdwardcs Gaiety SALE Or SEATS BEGINS 1B.VBBDAX.it WHAT HAPPENED TO JONtS Frtc Lowar Door.llXO 1 amx'claO EiTPIRE THEATRE. Vway A 40th BL. Wed.

Frca fraoa London. fi SECltKX SKUVICEa HOTT8 THEATRE. 24th near Bway AGAIN Evga. JO. atat.

Sat. 2:1. 8epr. S-ABacheka's Boearnwos AR RICK THEATRE. SSth 8t, nr.

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a Bwayi Ida. Krcalaga, Si 14. Very Little Kaust If AID MUCH' At A RG CESUTE. OLYnpinnooFGAnoEn. BIG VACDEVILLE BILUr Is CASINO I TTTE WHIRL.

OF THE TOWX1 Laat 4 Weeks! Ext. Mat. next ILaboc Day.) SEPT. 27 First tins, Tb BU of Kw Tori, ii rT A 1-h BTs. at 8:15.

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HARLEfl Opera Hon. Eve. Vat. 13 niNrDncT Tt HERALD 8Q. THEA.

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FROM PABMS.W- Hill IGraod snceeas of thelLex. A. CdSi, TkM 'Mllitmi-r CrtmmAr. 1 hl Prteea. i- Murny Mat.

Thu.8atiBACliaJjU&-S BA11X4 li Q-a On. Hooaa, 23d St. A Sta Av. Mat. Wed 8at HOYf'S A BLACK SHEEP.I i ii 14TH BT.

THEATRE, near Sth A v. TO-NtGHTj aiata Wed. and -Sat. Big London Socees. ii SHALL.

WB FOMtilVki Ha.it PLEASURE PALACE, eSdl May Howard; 40 Others; 1J0; Eva. 1- Baaelnll. Pol Graiaii ta lay, 4 p. NEW XORJC VS. CHICAGO.

i THE TURF. CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB RACE TRACK 8HEEPSHEAD BAT. 1 ALT M.N' MbE'l LSiG. 1V7. i Aug.

24. 26. 27. 2a SO, Sept. 1.

2. 4. St lU Six race each day. Racna- rain or shine 1 RACE 2JMP.M. CVNOKRT BT LiKTE Trains direct to track.

Leave foot Eat 84 lit N. ru 1. R. it 11 A. 12:1 12:40.

1:10. 1:40, 2:10. 2:40. P. M.

(Special Parlor Cr Train 1 o'clock.) NUMHH CAR ATTACHED TO THIS TRAIN GOING A -NO Hb'ltiUUG. Boats lev Con Whitehall St. (via Bay Ridge Ferry! half hourly from 11:10 A. M. to 3:10 P.

SC. Kings Couatjf Elevated vta Brooklyn Brlda every twenty mla ute. All Brooklyn electric ro a a-rect ta Special accocnmodatlona returning from track a riGHTrna beggar. Callnaaa Aakea Alsaa an Taess Faaajht Tlelaasly. William Callahan, A driver, of 232 Easf Tehth Street, was held la $1,500 ball, in th Terkvlll Court yesterday on a charge ol stabbing- Lawrence Bolfer of 629 Zorlmei Street.

Brooklyn. left arm' wajf cut from elbow to wrist. He and Jamae McKlnney of 223 East Fourteenth 1 Streef were accosted by Calls ban at Third Ave nue and Fourteenth Street at 1 o'clock yes? terday He becred for money, and afterward spat In Bolter's face. lu' ths fight that followed he drew a knife an4 cut Bolger, and then attempted to cut Mor Kinney. ij Callahan threw the knife away and but waa caug-ht by two detectivea McKinr ney's clothea were cut almost Into ribbons by the knife, but bo was not injured.

1 court yesterday Callahan said that be was drunk and did not know what ba was dor inc. V-r -i it- a'aBnBnaBjBBBBaaBBnnBBBBaaaaaBaaBBBaBBana aaaaannaaaaa NEW PHASE OF iUTE k'LTJSQ. Iareatar Eddy Haa Maealaa at Sarraaasltaa; Caaarrr 5 Residents of Bayonne N. pee cullar object suspended la the air on Saif urday afternoon near the Kill von Kail it a height of about 300 feet. Closer Inspection, revealed that -It was attached to a line fly lng- five Eddy kites and one Hardrave bosf kite many hundred feet above It.

The strange object was a flying- earners obscura, an Invention of William A. Eddy the kite man. who' calls It -Vlts- scope, and -'in Us mirrors were tefl! ed views of the waters of Newark Bayif with yachts and row boats and even vlevf of distant Staten Island, atr. Eddy's to ventlon, which was only perfected a moots ago, resembles a giant magio lantern wit a lenses and screena The framework Is about 8 feet square, aad the screen three -feet diameter. It Is attached to a regular kite string and can ba turned In any direction Tha reflection are seen with the aid Gel -r il Mr.

Eddy says his Invention wia be vm able In time of war. Tha enemy can ba observed if located behind a kill or fortllW cation. Distant objects at aea may. also be ScruUnlsed. Seised wltk Crasaps Walla Batatas 1 Richard Saur of S7 Jay Street.

Brooklyn wss caught In the undertow yesterday aft ernooa while bathing at Rockaway Beech Uf Guard Qallagnar went out for Mm an caught him. On tha way back Inpctt Tower and Capt. Barry of the 1K saver arrived and assisted him. Saur suCerd i III effects from his experience. i OrtH'X-OHTA.

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