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CIT1" BUBIED UNDER FOG ferry and Train Service Held Up Boat Crashes Into Battery Wall. Twelve- hour rain was converted Into a sort of ist at midnight on Tuesday, and yesterday when hour came for persons and trade to be taking ca some semblance of activity the city and harbor were In one of the thickest fog palls of It was a persistent fog, and ran up on the. fgtger of municipal history many bad accounts. ajnwten and 1 p. m.

the fog was aa thick the city appeared to be in midnight darkness. diversion of the unwelcome mist wag the up of ferry and train service, and had it been for the subway and the tubes under the rivers the tardy employe with a bushel of excuses not have had the privilege of explaining to the that It was a foggy morning. The blanket alec, interfered with the of the port by holding up not only merchant vessels willing to come In. but by keeping at their respective piers steamers that were anxious to get out. The in its quiet way.

interfered with the work of the Treasury Department by holding up the revenue cutter Hudson in its early morning gtarT down the Bay to meet the liners. In the same fashion the work of the Department of Com- Eeree and Labor was handicapped when the cutter Immigrant was unable to go out in the mist, and Injury as added to Insult when the ferryboat Ells Island, a vessel of the same department, lost hearing? and crashed into the Battery wall. Anxious were separated. While some members loitered shout steamship piers homeward bound paced the decks of fogbound -at the Hook, every one hoping for a shift the wind. Henry W.

Taft. brother of the President-elect, accompanied by his eon Waibridge, went down as tar Quarantine on the revenue cutter Hudson. that the fog would lift in time for- them to the Kaiser Wllhelm 11, on which Mrs. Taft was a passenger. tVhen the cutter started through the fog the Kaiser was aground in the Gedney Channel, and before the liner was pulted Into mid-channel ot noon the cotter went Aground twice, but without damage.

Mr Taft and bis son gave up the trip. ssying they would try it this morning. The Hudson managed to find only two vessels in the fog. and after cruising about for six hours returned to the Battery. The big Cunarder Mauritania, with mail and a Urge passenger complement, was unable to leave her pier, and although the fog thinned out nn.i disappeared about Bp.

it was decided to hold her until morning. It was said last night that she would sail at 6 o'clock this morning. Practically the entire ferry service on both livers crippled, the ferryboats feeling their way cautiouely and slowly back and forth. Although they the longest run of any. the boats of the mv- Bleipal ferry service to 3taten Island made good time, considering the handicap of the fog.

When the ferryboat Ellis Island crashed into the Battery wall a few hundred feet east of the Aquarfcaa there was considerable alarm among the passengers, the majority of whom were immigrants. The overhang ran up on the top of the wall and 4 from its cement base one of the granite supporting the chain fence. The propeller at that erd was damaged. The steamboat Thomas Miliard was pressed ia'o service, but it not until i p. jr.

that stai led for the Island with tfce night force. The wind shifted to the southwest at Sandy Hook at p. and. taking advantage of a light lift, the Bed Star liner Vaderland went through the Narrows to Quarantine and later docked at her pier. Captain Cuppers, of the Kaiser Wilhelm 11, sent a wireless message that his vessel had not been damaged by running into the mud.

and that be would wait until morning to go up to the pier. Tie fog and aiippery rails were responsible for a collision between a Lexington avenue elevated train and another train stalled ahead of it at Fulton and Alabama avenue. George Flynn. the ciotorman of the Lexington avenue train, was thrown from his controller but not seriously hurt. The cars at the point of contact were SIU ER DARTS FLIGHT.

Aerodrome Covers 4 1-2 Miles at Baddcck Accident in Landing. Baddeck. N. S-. Feb.

aerodrome Silver Dcrt. piloted by Mr McCurdy. made a fine flight of four and a half miles, at a rate of forty miles an hour, above Baddeck Bay. at an elevation of between forty and fifty feet. At one point he crossed a tongue of land, going over a tree on his way.

At the lower end of the hay, finding himself too close to the shore for a safe turn, he shut off the power and came down on the One of the wings was broken In the landing and a wheel was injured by skidding. It will take a day or two to repair damages. CHURCHES OBSERVE ASH WEDNESDAY Oereaonies and Sermons in Catholic and Episcopalian Houses of Worship. Aih Wednesday, the first day of Lent, was observed In all the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches and many others yesterday. In St.

Andrews Church, in Duane street, the Rev. Luke J. Erers. after the ceremony of the day, delivered a short sermon on the way Lent should be observed. At St.

Peter's Church, Barclay street. It was announced that a schedule of weekday services would be begun by the Rev. Conway on Tues- Cty. 2. and continue until April 2.

Ash Wednesday observances at Trinity Church began xt 739 o'clock with a celebration of the holy comrauaion. Dr. Manning preached the morning MOTHER'S LOVE WINS HER CHILD. Father May Not Attempt to Take Boy from Divorced Wife. Telegraph to The PiSadelpbia, Feb.

Hurrying home from New Terk to-day. when informed that his seven-year-old had been kidnapped by two women and a man a streetcar near his home, in "West Philadelphia. Ralph Watson asked the police to-night to their search. He said he believed the to be safe the possession of his mother, fiivortttl wife, and intimated that he would as try to regain the child. ma that after his divorce his first wife kept chad until a year ago.

when he remarried and the boy a with the second Watson. the kidnapping to the mother's over- love, which prompted her to take desper- means to regain her chad- JOHNSON WILL CONTEST ADJOURNED. tke eoctect over the will of Benjamin N. Johnsos. which disposed of aa estate valued at $3,000,000.

until March 8 before Surrogate of County, yesterday afternoon. a experts testify at that time as to of the document. PIRE IN PENNINGTON SEMINARY. Fire Ia the Penntngtoa I Stgr.lr.rry to-day caused eon-9 among tie for a time, CiS asty about R.O» damage. The flre started the bunding la dormitory that occupied by forty of the girl pupils.

It was ce it is supposed, by as lxoperf ectly Insulated wire CITY NEWS SN BRIEF. A with stealing SCO from New York jj TJnlan. of Trhlch be had formerly J. Tunney. of No.

217 West subset wm held yesterday In $2,000 ball on a affidavit In Tombs Court. streets tor three days. Robert David Jjngmv. twins, thirty-nine years old, their own were sentenced to thirty "the wofktaruee fry Magistrate Barlow, in the Court. The told the they tired of walking the la several days.

rhsarrieg Radd will deliver a lecture on em TiTert Side Young Men's Association. 318 West street. at o'clock. VAHDERLIP BANKING Lectures on Bonds Before the West Side Y. M.

C. A. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank, delivered a lecture on "Government Bonds National Banks" last night in the auditorium iof the West Side Young Men's Christian Association. He began with an historical outline of the banking system, the establishment of which he said was an effort to create a market for government bonds, and not a desire to give to the country an ideal national banking system.

He continued: The imperfections which made themselves felt even at lb.e Inception of the system have become more marked during the progress of time. It would seem that banks could buy bonds and currency against tnem and thus draw interest both ways. But the expenses incident to the issue of banknotes, the risk from the decline in the prlcc3 of bonds, through which the national banks of the country lost quite recently $28,000,000 within a few months, make the proposition a little less attractive. The amount In circulation has grown, but it does not fluctuate with the demand. There is no direct relation in this country between the demand and supply of currency.

High interest rates produce smaller profits, just the opposite of what it should be. The motive to issue banknotes has never been desire to supply currency; when bonds were low the banks bought them for the profit. Mr. Vanderlip then demonstrated, with the help of figures, the fact that it was more profitable to banks to issue notes when money rates were low than when they were high. Upon inviting questions, Mr.

Vanderlip was asked what he thought of the Fowler bill. He replied: the whole It is founded on scientific principles, but I do not rwlleve that it Is practicable politii-ally. In any reform of our banking laws the most difficult problem is what to do our 2 per cent bcr.ds. Some -other basis for the issue of currency must be found. The Currency Commission is doing a monumental piece of work in gathering data and will publish a tremendous mass of valuable information.

They have hten mm impressed with the central hanking system prevalent In E.i:ro}>e. but the trouble is that ne cannot wipe clean the slate and start the thing right. We have 0.400.000 currency secured by bonds which have a fictitious value in he sense that a part of their price Is an investment. This is the most sonoua impediment to any contemplated reform. He was then asked whether the government deficit would not adjust itself automatically with the return of better business conditions, and replied: I doubt it very much.

A revision of the tariff Is ahead of us. probably a reduction in duties resulting in the decrease of revenues, though not necessarily, for the amount of Imports may increase. Congress shows little tendency toward economy, and there Is small reason to suppose that appropriations will not increase in the future. The probability is that other means of income must be found, an.l there are many ways of doing that. SURGEONS TRY RARE Attempting to Restore the Thyroid Gland in Neck of Patient.

Much interest has been aroused among the surgeons connected with the Harlem Hospital, as; well as (ndr frlen-is In the profession, by an experiment which is being tried in an effort to restore the thyroid gland in the neck of Henry Needelman. twenty-seven year? old. loss of which through ar. accident in infancy has inhibited the mental and physical growth of the patient since his early childhood. Needelman fell from a high chair when he was six months old.

and his thyroid gland, which is an important connecting link between the brain and the nervoas system, was removed from his neck. He Is now only three feet eight Inches high, and is able with difficulty to read and write a fewsimple words. His case was brought to the attention of the hospital surgeons when he was removed 1 there last week after being run down by a butcher's wagon at Third avenue and street. Max Needelman, the patient's father, who is a tailor and lives at No. 117 East 112 th street, gave his consent to the surgeons to try a special treatment on his son.

The treatment consists in giving him frequent doses of tablets or grains composed of the thyroid glands from sheep. No appreciable results have so far been achieved. FIVE CAPTAINS FOR SCHMITTBERGER. Some of the Oldest Men in Police Department Transferred. In making the announcement that five captains had been transferred to the office "of Chief Inspector Schmittberger, Commissioner Bingham said yesterday that there was nothing significant in the transfer.

The captains shifted are John W. Wormell. of the Borough Hall station. Brooklyn; Henry Halpin, of the Rockaway Park station; Frederick W. Martens, of the East 88th street station; Stephen McDermott, of the New Dorp station, Staten Island.

William Knipe, of the Herbert street station, Brooklyn. They are among the oldest captains In the department. All that the Commissioner would say was that Chief Inspector had cer- tain work to be done and needed assistance. The captains would, he said, work, under his orders, go to different stations, perform certain work and then make their renorTs. In the future, the chief inspector's office will be open nights, he said, and three Houtenants will do eight work each.

A biotier similar to those in station houses will be kept hereafter In the chief Inspector's office. Five lieutenants, at present assigned to the station houses, have been placed in temporary command of the precincts vacated by the transfer ed captains. SIR ROBERT BOND TO RESIGN. Newfoundland Legislature Prorogued Sir E. Morris to Form Cabinet.

St. John's, N. Pf-h. Following the issue of a proclamation to-night by Governor McGregor postponing the opening of the legislature from to-morrow until March 4, Sir Robert Bond, the Premier, informed his followers that his resignation would be handed in in a day or two. This announcement means that the downfall of the Bond government is at hand and that the Opposition leader.

Sir Edward Morris, will be called upon form an administration. QUEBEC RIVER TUNNEL PROPOSED. Montreal. Feb J. S.

Armstrong, of St. John. N. proposed before the council of the Board eif Trade to-day that Instead of reconstructing the Quebec Bridge a submarine tunnel be constructed about forty feet below the low water surface of the river. The tunnel would consist of a rfee! tube surrounded with a thick covering of cement, boited to the supporting r'prs.

It would run under the river directly from Quebec to The plan will be considered at a special meeting of the board iwrt Friday. ALL EXPRESS TRAINS TO BROOKLYN. All express trains in the subway will now run through to Brooklyn, by order of the Public Service Commission, a shuttle train service having been established at South Ferry to make the change possible. Although the work has not yet been completed, trains were operated successfully yesterday under the- new plan, and the resuits are expected to be much better when the new is in working order. CHARITY SWINDLER SENTENCED.

Mary Ryan, forty-two years old, whom the police caught after a long search, was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment In the House of the Good 6hepherd by Magistrate Geismar. In the Myrtle avenue police court, Brooklyn, yesterday. The prisoner had conducted a successful swindling campaign among the prosperous residents In the Clinton avenue section erf Brooklyn, soliciting contributions to various charities- did not exist. The prisoner, who was of respectable appearance, said In court that her last employment was as a maid for Mrs. Cornelias VaxuJerbilt, eight years ago.

INCREASE IN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. Dr. William K. Maxwell, City Superintendent of Schools, submitted to the Board of Education yesterday his report for the month of January. The total registration last month was 637.567, an increase of 1,839 over January of last year.

There were 64.077 scholars on part time, a decrease of 7,818 compared with the same month a year ago. The average dally attendance was 523,570, which was an Increase of 35,409 compared with January of 3505. The Increase in registration In elementary' of the five boroughs was 13,472. as follows: Manhattan. The Bronx, 3.250; Brooklyn.

7.871; Queens, 2.136, and Richmond, 106. In Manhattan there were 13.67," pupils on part time last month and Brooklyn i. irew-TOBK DAILY THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1909- FORT FIRES HOT SHOT Governor Resents Interference of Partisan Committee in Legislation.

rFrom a Staff Correspondent of Tribune Trenton. Feb. Governor Fort, in statement to-day, repudiated the action of the Republican State Committee, which at Its meeting in Newark last Friday clothed Its executive committee with power to go to Trenton and "confer 'and advise" with the Republican members of the Legislature on party legislation. The Governor had just finished reading a clipping containing an interview with ex-Governor E. C.

Stokes. In which the latter said that the executive committee had been appointed a legislative committee to co-operate with the Governor and Legislature on party questions whenever conditions warranted. Governor Fort said: I regar.l the- action of the state commlttre as a gratuitous reflection upon the Governor and the legislature. Every Senator or member I h6 seen to-day nas expressed himself of the same, opinion. The people of the state elected the Governor and members of the Legislature to represent at Trenton, ar.d not partisan committees.

This sort of thing is what makes trouble all the timf. There is not the least lack of harmony between Governor and L-gislature. either in Senate or House nonf whatever and those who pretend that there Is are simply doing it to excus? action in a course which every man who his any self-respect must resent. Neither vernor nor the Legislature needs their help, and as for myself, whilo 1 will gladly confer with any one on any public question. I do not propose to sit quietly by and permit attempt to run the Legislature by outside and unsolicited advice.

"When the Legislature itself not competent to do its work It will no doubt rail in p. hut until it does I shall support It in its oplr.u that it is able as yet to to the business of the state. FORT URGES MUTUAL INVESTIGATION. "Spare No One," Writes the Governor to Prosecutor Scovel. Camden, Feb.

That Governor Fort is interested in the investigation of the affairs of the State Mutual Building and Loan Association was shown to-day in a fetter received from him by Prosecutor Scovel. The Governor writes: I hope you will make the investigation Just as sweeping and thorough as possible. Spare ro one. If there is anything wrong in the Department of Banking In any way have it fully shown and developed. If any Individual Is guilty and the law permits punishment, see that punishment is meted out.

P. Kennedy Reeves, secretary of the. defunct association, was before the grand Jury to-day. It is thought that indictments may be found by tie end of the week. VETOES INAUGURAL TRIP BILL.

Trenton. Feb. 24. Governor Fort ser. to tie Assembly to-day a veto of the bill appropriating COM to send himseif and staff to Washington to attend the Inauguration of President-elect Taft.

Th Governor asked that a resolution adopted authorizing him to 'xpend from the emergency funfl fi.W> toward sending the Esnex Troop to Washington and to spend WOO to pay the expanses of rimself and staff. A resolution carrying out the Governor's suegejtion was adopted by the House. THE WAGES OF GRAFT. "Rather Councilman than Mayor" Remark Attributed to' Klein. Pittsburgh Feb.

"1 would rather be a Councilman than Mayor; there's more money in 1-." This Is the language attributed to Councilman John F. Klein by Harry B. Wassell, a witness in the graft trial against Klein. Councilman J. C.

Wasson. President of Council William Brand and W. W. Ramsey, the ex-banker, charged conspiracy. Mr.

Wassell also testified that an agreement was made between Wilson, the detective, posing as a lumberman, and Wasson. to pay $3,000 for paving Fourth avenue with wood blocks and 15 per cent of all future contracts. Cumulative testimony was given by Wassell and by T. S. Huffllng, detective.

The testimony in the case has directed suspicion against eighty-eight members of councils, and It is persistently rumored that th number will be Indicted by the next grand Jury. I MOUNTAINEERS KILL GYPSY WOMEN. Husbands Pursue and Shoot Three of a Band in Mexico. Cullacan. Mexico.

Feb. Two women and three killed and another woman wounded in a fight between mountaineers and a band of on the road to Mazutlan. Nun of Wie fight has reached here. The mountaineers demanded that gypsy women attend a dance, and when they refused opened fire. Two of the women fell dead and another was badly wounded.

The mountaineers fled, but were pursued by the gypsy men, who succeeded In killing three of them. GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST Patrolman Harte Said to Have Fired a Shot at a Citizen While Intoxicated. Patrolman William J. N. Harte, attached to The Church street and living at No.

West atraet, was arraigned yesterday in the West Side on a charge that. ar intoxl' ated condition yesterday morning, he fired a pistol shfit at a liv ng at No. SlO West Bdi street, while the latter was waiting to apply for work at a contractor's office at Ninth avenue and 33d street McGinnis said th -t Harte was about to flre another shot at him when a city fireman in uniform, who later fled with the revolver, threw Harte on his bar-k and disarmed him. After hearing tii complaint Magistrate irnell put Harte under 12.000 bail for examination on Friday. Commissioner suspended Harte, whose record or the force Is good, lmmed.ately upon receiving notice of charge preferred against the patrolman.

PARDEE FLOORS HIS ANTAGONIST. Oakland. CaL, Feb. Stung by the eolthet "liar," applied to him by B. Jones, of city.

during a meeting of the Merchants' Exchang-j last night, ex-Governor George C. Pardee the former with a blow on his chin. Before hostilities could be resumed Jones was taken away by a patrolman. The meeting was called to discuss the proposed amendments to the city charter and the memorandum agreement with tb-e Southern Pacific Company. After Pardee had finished a speech and Jones Indulged in a discussion, which terminated in blows.

BUSINESS TROUBLES. The proceedings in bankruptcy filed yesterday in the United States District Court were as follows: Morris J. Loeb. in the clothing business. No.

125 Greene, street, voluntary petition; liabilities, $3.409 55: assets. $300. The bankrupt owl A. Goldberg, of Port Arthur. $1,169 Charles S.

Pike. No 297 West Houston street. voluntary petition; liabilities. 11.070 88, assets, $180 i Involuntary petition against Pneu. 1" Electric Company, engaged in the manufacture of automobile carburetors.

No. 1610 Broadway, factory at Nf. 238 West 108 th street, by John P. Robinson, of No 163 West 106 th street, and others, with claims aggregating $8,655 11. Admission of Insolvency ana desire to be' adjudged a bankrupt are alleged by petitioning creditors.

Schedules of the Bumsignore Haberflaanery Corporation. No. 3639 Broadway, show liabilities of $8,911 59. with assets of $10,913 61- The assets include stock worth $6,198 46 and fixtures, worth $4,649 40. The alleged bankrupt corporation owes Ely J.

Rieser First avenue and 2Stb street, $1,750, secured by a chattel mortgage. Schedules at the Rustic Construction Company. No. 33A Fulton street, show liabilities of $5,307 35 and nominal assets of $22,539 32. The latter include stock in this city and Peekaklll.

N. Y. valued at sketches and photographs. $100; debts due. $5,241 68; unliquidated claims, deposits in $146 34.

and notes and certificates for barrels of whiskey, $2,521 30. SAN FRANCISCO MINING STOCKS'. San Francisco, Feb. The official closing quotations for mining 'stocks to-day were as Alpha Con 05! Hale A. Nvrcmai .15 Andes OS Kentucky 03 Mexican 68 Best 'A 83 1 Occidental Con 17 Bullion Ophlr 1.2f«1.Z1 Caledonia .051 Overman .10 Challenge Choilar Savage (Vtnfldpncs rtm Nevada JR Con'Cal Union .22 Con 1mperia1.

Utah Con Crown, point .30 Yellow Jacket 38 Gould Curry 121 ARMY AND NAFY NOTES Newberry Sends Further Instructions to Commandants of Yards. Tribune Bureau. 1 Washington. February 24. RADICAL.

NAVAL, Secretary Newberry has sent out to commandants of navy another memorandum in further explanation of the policy and views of the Navy Department on the subject of navy yard organization and methods. It is announced as the Intention of the department to have all public works executed by contract wherever possible. An Important new ruling is that when it is found impracticable to detail sufficient officers to assist in the manufacturing department, favorable consideration will -be given to recommendation for the employment of extra civilian aid; that is. experienced shop superintendents, civil engineers, etc. It Is also provided that "the principal technical assistant to the commandant will be called the 'manager of the manufacturing or, when brevity is desirable, simply the An admonition given against crippling the manufacturing department by maintaining a large inspecting staff.

The general storekeeper is placed in charge of the coaling plant and its personnel. The captain of the yard will have charge of all floating craft In working order, together with their crews. Commandants of yards are cautioned to recognize the necessity of "a broad view of their responsibility," and not be bothered "with trivial reports where things are progresilng satisfacto- I rily." They are further advised not to gauge their performance of duty "by ftie number of hours spent in their office or the number of their signatures affixed to public documents," and it is add- ed, "the fewer of both the One Important new feature, which offers the prospect of purchase of material in an unexpected direction, is the rule that "all machine tools rendered unnecessary by the consolidation of work, and too old, too weak, or too Inefficient, will be surveyed, appraised and sold according to ORDERS following orders have been issued: ARM Major HSNBT A. WEBBBR, medical corps, from Fort Backs to Fort Niagara. Major JOHN LTNOH.

paymaster, from Philippines to San First Lieutenant CHARLES VAN' WAY. from 12th to Mh to Fort D. A. Russell. First Lieutenant FREDERICK M.

JONBS. from VHh to 12th Cavalry. First Lieutenant WALLA' E. SABINE. r.Wieal msprve corps, from Philippines to San Francisco.

Second Lieutenant KiCHASL COOHBT. Phil.pplne Sooulb (recently appoint" to M.inila April 3. Ser-ond Lieutenant HAItRT S. BERHV. 13th Cavalry, renignation acrepted from March 1.

Dental burgeon S. DAVIS BOAK. rrom Cuba to Vancouver Barracks. Leaves at absence. First Lieutenant W.

WINTRRBCRN. Cavalry, thw months: First Lieutenant ROBERT DAVIS, Field Artillery, one month. NAVT. Commander W. S.

SIMS, detached inspection duty. Washington: to command the Minnesota. March vice Captain J. HUBBARD, detailed aid to Assistant Secretary of tee Navy and member General Board. Washington.

Commander W. MILLER, detached the Minnesota; home: await orders. Commander W. J. MAXWELL, detached navy yard.

New York; to duty General Board. Washington. Lieutenant Commander J. R. EDIE.

to recruit- Ing station. Baltimore, March 6. vice Commander H. O. DUNK, to navy yard.

New York. Lieutenant Commander J. LANG, to office naval Intelligence. Navy Deportment. March ft.

Lieutenant Commanders W. K. HARRISON end O. P. JACKSON, to Minnesota.

Lieutenant R. I. CURTIN, detached the Maine: to the Minnesota. Passed Assistant Surgeon E. H.

11. OLD. detached navy yard, Washington; to temporary duty train- Ing station. Newport. Lieutenant O.

P. BROWN and Ensign S. JOYCE, detached the California, to naval hospital. New Tork. MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS- Tht following movements of vessels have been reported to the Navy Department ARRIVED Feb.

23 Dolphin, at Washington. the Lebanon, at Norfolk; 'he Montgomery, at Pensacola. SAILED. Feb. The from Norfolk for Wafhinirton; the Ifolaaa from Guar.tanamo for tartest grounds.

The Buffalo, from San FranciiK-o. May 3. for Asiatic station and return, touching at Honolulu and Guam both ways. PrehU placed in reserve, navy yard. Mare Island.

The Severs ordered commissioned at Annapolis as station Naval Academy, relievtnr the Hartford. LINCOLN COMMITTEE HAS BALANCE. Aldermen Spent Nearly 11.000 of $25,000 Appropriation for Celebration. The Lincoln Centenary Committee appointed by Mayor McClellan closed Its work yesterday at a final meeting in the City Hall. It found a balance of out of the appropriation of awarded by the c.ty.

It was thought the balance would be more than but Alderman Bent, reporting for the aldermen's committee, said, the committee had spent 1369 for badges, circulars and other incidentals. A good deal of surprise was manifested over the size of the bill for expenses presented by the Aldermen Aldermen and Bent represented the board Their expenses, according to the statement rendered yesterday, arrfounted to IMB. When Alderman Bent was about the bill he said: -We found that little wan being said or done to arouse interest In the celebration, and we made it our business to advertise it by sending out circulars and personal letters. Nearly all the expense was incurred by advertising." CAUGHT WHALE IN FISHING NETS. Norfolk.

Itt. whale sixty feet long nnd estimated to weigh eight thousand pound? found in fishing BS4S to-day off Beach, above Old Point OWBafnrt. It hail a great wound in the and lived oaiy for a short time. It is thought to have been struck by a ship. TOO EXPENSIVE A REPRESENTATION.

Hartford. Feb. Assembly agreed to-day with a committee that it was not worth while to send Governor Lilley and his staff and sn escort of the two companies of Foot Guards to Washington as Connecticut's representatives at tho inauguration of President Taft. The ililllirlna called lor an appropriation of $12,000. CHICAGO GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago Feb. Shifts of scenery by leading buIlT in the wheat pit brought the July delivery into the foreground to-day, and that option advanced to a point nearly 2c above the closing flo-ures of the previous session, the high mark of the day being reached at $1 03 The market closed Strong and only a trifle below the high point. Corn closed firm, and oats and provisions Bl principal owners of wheat for May delivery turned their attention to-day to the July option of which month they bought freely throughout the entire day. This stirred to activity a 'arge number of sleeping snorts, and purchases' from those interests added greatly to volume of business, which was unusually heavy all day. During the day the price ranged from to l'-4c above yesterday's final quotations Trade in May was quiet, and the price of that" option ranged from Vie below to above the previous close.

Further sharp advances the price of wheat at nearly all the principal era-n centres of Europe, reports of "winter killed" wheat in Missouri and a continued brisk demand for cash wheat, in this country to the bulls in their efforts to force prices higher. During the day July sold between and $1 The market closed strong, with prices to ate to above the previous close, final quotations on July being $1 to 91 May at the finish stowed a. net gain of dosing at $1 16- Notwithstanding receipts of more than 1,000 cars corn was strong from start to finish. A number of cash interests that sold freely yesterday were active buyers to-day, aad. there was also considerable covering by shorts.

A- part of current arrivals are used to fill old contracts, and this, it was claimed, accounted for the firmness of the market in the face of. the heavy movement to-day. Demand for cash corn by Eastern shippers was said to be on the increase market closed strong, with prices up to to to with May at 65 and July at to 66 Vie. Oats were Inclined to drag, but the strength of wheat and corn prevented any declines. Receipts from the interior, it was claimed, were likely to continue on a liberal scale for some days.

and. with the falling off in demand, the price in cash grain was inclined to sag. Selling throughout the day was chiefly by local holders. At the clos.e prices were a shade lower to He higher, compared with the previous close. May being at 54Hc to 54 He and July at Trade in provisions was extremely light and prices ranged within narrow limits.

A 5c to 10c advance in the price of live hogs had a steadying elect on the market. At the close prices were unchanged to 2He higher, compared with yesterday's final quotations. Interest toymen WHEN THE CAT GOT 3IAD Her Digestion Wouldn't Work- Same Thing Happens to Humans. Horace Fletcher, of mastication fame, talked to the League for Political Education yesterday morning at the Berkeley Theatre about the influence of mental states upon digestion, and left some people in greater despair than ever about the attainment of dietetic righteousness. For it la not enough to chew.

It One must also cultivate faith, hope and charity and cease to worry about one's rent. All this has been conclusively proved by the use of the X-ray on cats. Pussy Is allowed to get "good and hungry. Mr. Fletcher stated, and then she is permitted to eat as much as she wants of some food that she likes, the food being stained with a which doesn't detract from its flavorp which renders it opaque to the X-rays.

She is now placed beneath the X-rays, ard. taking it for a flre, she stretches herself out in great content to digest her dinner, the course of which can be traced through the digestive apparatus by Its opaqueness. Everything goes along smoothly tintil the attention of the cat is distracted. Then the process Is delayed, but if the cat is annoyed and gets angry enough to spit it stops altogether and does not start again until a considerable time after the cat has regained, its composure. The moral is obvious.

Avoid all perturbations of the spirit if you want your food to digest, even after you have chewed it. Mr. Fletcher seems to think that this Is quite simple. Hatred. Mr.

Fletcher stated, is the most fatal of all the hurting the hater Infinitely more than the object against which it is te.i. and millions of children, he is convinced, may have been killed by a sharp word spoken to the mother at breakfast, the mental disturbance curdling her milk and rendering it poisonous. But. fortunately, he does not consider it necessary to give one's self uv to the business of digestion, as the cat does under the "If you fletcherlze," he said, "you can do the most strenuous physical and mental work Immediately after eating." TEN MILLION EGGS ARRIVE. Ash Wednesday Market Offers Plentiful Supply to Consumers.

More than ten million eggs came into the New- York markets for Wednesday, and the wholesale price dropped to 23 cents a Consumers who for a long tirre have paid high prices should now be able to get the finest eggs at moderate rates. State eggs, hitherto 3 4 cents, have gone down to only 30 cents a dozen, but they are bound to decrease still further price, as March and April are the two cheapest months in the year for locals, and an enormous number of Western eggs corr.e in at the same time. Neither fish nor eggs are asked for nearly so much during the Lenten season as they used to be fact, report a yearly falling in the observance of Lent. But it is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the decreased consumption of eggs and fish is counterbalanced by an ever increasing demand for meat The first and last week? of Lort are the est for meat, which invariably rises in the four middle The sale of poultry will remain Seen in the Shops A shop at 34th street and Broadway is selling table linen of beautiful designs at greatly reduced prices. For instance, dinner napkins that were formerly S3, $13 and C6 a dozen are being sold for almost half these amounts.

This lot also contains some handsome tablecloths at marked-down prices. Twelve dollars and forty-nine cents is the price a3ked for a handsome imported leather belt, finished with a buckle inlaid with real ivory. Another pretty belt is a combination of brown velvr-t and gray suede, with a large pearl buckle. Then there are innumerable belts in the pretty Persian and Dresden effects in silk and cretonne, that go so well with all sorts of gowns. Besides the jet hats now so popular are some smart affairs in straw and flowers.

A dashing hat Is a large flat leghorn, with the crown smothered in tiny pink and white and a large pink ribbon rosette and long streamers on each side. Another hat 13 of ecru chip, trimmed with white and purple lilacs, while still another is real flower hat composed of violets. Art Exhibitions and Sales. Art Exhibitions Last Evening ot Exhibition is raoodi to nay that in this collection there a steady irlow of purest TRIBUNE- MiADISON SQPE soun NEW YORK. CUT On Free View Day and Evening The Notable Art Treasures collected by the late Henry Graves, Esq.

New Jersey The Beautiful Porcelains Will. Be Sold This (Thursday), Friday Saturday Afternoons At 2:30 o'Clock At the American Art Galleries. Aad The Valuable Paintings Vifl Be Sold To-morrow (Friday) Evening At 8:30 At Mendelssohn Hall, FORTIETH EAST OF BROADWAY. 'Admission by card, to be had free cf the managers) The sale win be conducted by MR. THOMAS C.

KIKBY. at The American Art Association, Managers 6 East 23d Madison Square-South slack until the week before Easter, when trade will brighten up, as a large supply pected of broilers, roasting and Lens Island spring ducklings. These will thea the place that turkeys and geese held at giving and THE TRIBUNE PATTEBN. Such a protective apron as this one is desirable for the younger children. It can be over frock or in place of one, as liked: It can made from chambray.

gingham, percale or any at the inexpensive printed wash fabrics, or it can tm from the more sturdy and durable linen. SO. 8.261 TISSUE PAPER PATTERN OR CHILD APRON. FOR 10 CENTS. The quantity of material required for the medium size (four years) 's 2 yards 32 or yards 44 inches wide.

The pattern No. is cut in sizes for of two, four and six years of and will be mailed to any address on receipt of 1" cents. Please give number of pattern end age distinctly, Addreae Pattern Department. Xew-York Tribune, If in a hurry for pattern send an extra 2-cent stamp and we will mail by letter postage in sealed envelope. In Paris even the infants are mad over airships, A writer in a current magazine relates hew by a.

happy chance he caught a tiny girl wao fell from. a window In Paris. Down with her came a tangled mass cf string- ar.d paper, aeroplane!" the babe gasped, clutching- it. A3 he set her on her feet. Toy airships are the most popular gifts for small Parisians and Parisiennes, and it 13 very pretty ta see the little ones playins with their wee craft in the pi: on a sunny day.

The daintiest and most exquisite tfisrs. medallions, which thp clevei' girl can use in so many ways, may be picked up now for a song. Dainty little oatmeal sets are of pale tlue. pink or green china, and consist of tiny pitcher, a plate and a botvl. They are $3 a set.

Collar supporters, with a rutiie ready for immediate use. eczne in all sizes and various heights. Many of the shops are- showing the prettiest and daintiest of lawns, batistes and dimities in floral an.l striped effects: and the sirl who is clever enough to make her own summer gowns should take advantage of these sales. Practical and convenient, especially for one who travels, is a. box.ike nail buffer, containing a complete manicuring outfit.

named I are only 5.