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FT I THE SlJtf, SATtttDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1898. fP 11 EVANS MAKES A SPEECH. mffT TBK IOWA'S CAPTAIN TKT.T.S OF TBK Kf SANTIAGO FIOBT. Jt Say Country Worth Fighting Fer Should Take Oar of the Men Who Leave Wire and Children Behind Lave a Soldier Xext to a Bailor.

PotJOHKrnc. N. Sept 9. At the Invita tion of relatives residing here, Oapt. Robley I).

Ivan consented to addreaa a mat meeting at the Opera House to-night for the benefit of a fund for ho relief of sick and suffering soldiers. When tho commander of the Iowa appeared on the platform be received a rousing welcome. The audience, numbering 2.000 people, stood up and applauded for several minutes. Every by Capt. Evans of the battle of Santiago was greeted with great enthusiasm.

When Introduced. Capt. Evans said that any Government worth fighting for must care for itho bravo men who leave thoir wives and ohil-JL dren. To leave them la the hardest part of fighting. To faoo the bullet of the enemy Is the easiest part of it This drew forth great applause.

He said that If the nation ever learns this lesson, then In the i year to come the necessity for such meetings as the one held to-night would disappear. Capt. Evans remarked that he was never taught to make a speech, but that all the hard work at I Santiago, ail the aloopless nights, all the i I canned grub we had to eat all Is forgotten, -because, every man. woman, and child you meet loves you." Applause. "lean assure you." he oontlnued, "it is a most delightful sensation." Referring to the battle again, he said he really know very little about it.

Most of the part of It ho saw at one end of the bridge. It was very smoky and he saw more of his own ship than anything else. Capt Evans de-I scribed the beautiful appearance of Cervera's fleet when It emergod from Santiago harbor, Ha Mid i "Tho Spanish vosools looked fine In thislr beautiful coats of paint. But the men behind tho Hpanlards' guns did not last as well as ours." Speaking of his sensations when the Spanish fleet was destroyed, Capt. Evans said "If ynu can imagine a basket of champagne compressed into a teaspoonful and taken in one gulp, you can Imagine how we felt.

II.miKht'T. It was most oxhllaratlng." Capt. Evans referred particularly to tho work of the Iowa in rescuing the dying Spaniards. On the quick work of the American gunners In practically destroying the Spanish fleet in thirty-five minutes, ho remarked "That's what men behind the gun can do When they really learn how." Ho spoke of tho brave Spaniards who wero chagrined at tho loss of their ships and the disgrace of their Oovernment and sold that their disappointment was sad to see. "But," he added.

we were nil glad of it I had the good luck to save practically the entire crew of the vlacaya, and had tho pleasure of being offered the sword of the commanding officer, which I 1 deolioed. Tremendous applause. If there Is anything I love In the world next to an can sailor it Is a soldier. If our country is ever attacked In the future I hope It will find us as I ready as we wore on the morning of July 3. and as my friends referring to a private of the rough riders who sat behind him) were on the Siornlng of July 2, when they went over San uan Hill." Loud applause.

Private Vervalln followed Capt. Evans. briefly phrasing his acknowledgments for the honor I done through him to the rough riders. When he sat down Capt. Evans leaned over him and encouraged him to give his experiences at San Juan.

This aroused another scan of en- i thuslasm. rC4 Tho Bev. A. P. Van Oleson and the Rev.

mr George Clarke Cox also spoke. Capt Evans joined in the applause when England was Tern terred to as "our mother." and when Mr, Cox I said: "We extend the heartfelt love of this this city to that grand old Confederate, Joe "TB Wheeler." and "the army and navy from now ft on, please God. will never fight on two sides, only on one against every foe that oomes." The audience heartily cheered the proposition that the United State should welcome the Philippine for the same reason that we wont, to war for the Cubans. u.l or jr. $, a btbamamas, Bitot of a Mivion Xf to His WMlow and Daughter On Bequest to Charity.

The will of June 8. Dtranahon was filed rW i for probate in the Surrogato's offloe In Brook lyn yesterday, Thar war three oodlolls. rjM The amount of tho estate is not mentioned, but It is said to be a little more than 000. Mr. Btranahan was the possessor of 3.270 A shares of stock In tho Atlantlo Dock Company, valued at $100 a share.

The Atlantlo Dock I Company ha paid par cent dividends In the past, and It la expected that In the future, ow-" Ing to It having been leased by the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company, the dividend Will be lnoreased. Mr. Btranahan mad one charitable beauest giving fifty shares of the Atlantlo Dock Company stock to the Brooklyn ISocie.j for tho Belief of Bespeotable Aged Indigent Female. aaa memorial of hi former wife, Marianne Fitch Btranahan. onoe first directress of that society.

Mr. Stranahan leave to his widow, Clara N. Stranahan. an Income not to exceed 0 per cent on 2.000 shares of the stook. All over that amount was to go to bis son.Titch J.

Stranahan. and Mrs. Mary 8. Oroxson, hi daughter, but the son died, and his share will goto Mrs. Croxson, who is a widow.

If Mix. Orox-I son dies without Issue the major part of the estate will go to Mr. Btranahon's niece, Mrs. Mary Helvetia B. Dutoher.

The house on Union street, the furniture, silverware, horses and carriages are left to Mrs. Stranahan for life. Mr. Stranahan sots aside the Income of 300 shares of the stock to pay the taxes and necessary repairs on the property. By one of the codicils Mrs.

Stranahan also to receive $50,000 in cash in lieu of her dower rights. All the other real estate and the rest of the personal estute and a life interest in 2,000 shares of stuck are left to Mrs. Croxson, uud after tho death of Mrs. Stranahan, Mrs. Croxson is also to have the Union street house, the furniture and horses and oarriages.

Mr. Stranahan ulso leaves the pictures of himself niul his former wife to Mrs. Croxson. If she dies without issue her income I to go to Mrs. Dutcaer.

Mrs. Butcher 1b also to receive 1.000 shares of the stock on the death of Mrs. Croxson and 2,000 more shares if Mrs. Croxson dies without issue and 200 additional shares which were to go to Mr. Strauulion's rimer.

Mrs. Mary S. Burehard, who has died. Mrs. Pulchrla B.

Burke, another Mster, was to receive 200 shares of tile stock, but as she is dead it goes to her sou. J. Stranahan Burke, manager of the Atlantlo Dock Company prop-William E. Dana of Avon. N.

son of Mr. Htnuiahnn's half-sister, receives ton shares of the stock. Joseph A. Dona, co-oxecutor of tho cstuto with Mrs. Croxson, 1st to receive $1,000 for hlB services as executor and ulso the customary fees.

Mr. Stranahan also makes these bequests to the servants of his household Philip Kelly, who was his coachman for thirty years, is to receive Bartholomew r. Murphy, for uiunyyeursu gardener, receives $500; Cecllo Ducret, $500; Martha O'Neill. a waitress, was to receive $500. but the loses this gift, as she left Mr.

Htruuahuu's employ two years ago to get married. The Kings County Trust Company, of which Mr. Stranuhuii was Vioe-I'roHldent. is appointed trustee of the funds created by him. Tho original will wus dated July 17.

1M80, and the first codicil hours date (let. ll. 1806; the second codicil is dutod Jau. 17, lt7. and the third April 10.

1807. Tho Atlantic Dock Company was organized by Mr Stranahan in 1853, and he maintained a large Interest In UiIh projierty until his late illuoHH. Tho property is located south of tho Hamilton nvenuoferry and nearly opiKwIteQov-rnors Island. It Is so constructed that any vessel, no mutter how large, can enter the basin at all times. The property covers an area of about forty acres, and Is lined on three aides by large brick aud granite warehouses.

It eoutulns four large tilers. Iwsides the two bulkheads which form tic basin. Three of the Inside piers ure covered and are 700, 800. and 000 feet in length resiectlvely, nnd 75 and I Bo (set iu width. The South Central pier is the niosl extensive in this port.

The Atlantic Dock has the reputation of being the largest grutii depot in the world und is equipped with cwn elevators. Its frontage lino of piers mil bulkheads measures three miles. The en-runce to the basin I 200 feetl wide. The At-antln Dock Company was leased to tho irooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company iu Mr. tilranuhau held out against the lease 1 or several veal's, but us the Wharf aud had secured nearly all the valuable warehouses along tho llnmklyii water fiont from Main struct to the Erie Basin.

Mr. Struuahuh at last gave in und allowed the Wharf and Warehouse Company to tuke in tho Atlantic Dock Company's property. The Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company is capitalized at $30,000,000. BY Newport Social Doings. Ncwpobt, It.

Sept. 0. Wbituoy Warren gave a picnic at Hope Island to-day, and to- i night ih lust Casluo hop of the season wus I held and wus fairly well attended by tho eot- tagers. Dinner parlies were given by Willing I Kponecr ill honor of Miss Josephine Brooks atiu J. II.

I.ivonnorc. whose engagement has just I Leon announced; by Mr and Mrs Cornelius I Vaialoii.i:i iu honor of Mr. and Mrs. lieorge I I Vundetbilt. and bv Mrs.

F.llsha Dyer. Mrs. I I iM. teuuitott ikTLM: i I I JU.diwW- ii LITB TOPICS ABOUT TOWN. The plans for the sale of the Berkeley Lyceum to the Woman's Exchange have not yet advanced to a point satisfactory to the promoter of the scheme and even on tho liberal terms which the owner mado to the exchange It has been found difficult to raise the necessary funds.

So the property may after all be put to some other use. There has been a suggestion to make it the homo of the Art Club, which was recently organized. This Is a national society made up of men interested in matters of art in various cities, and It headquarters are to be In New York. It wa at first proposed to build on the site of the old Hotel Royal, and that is still one of the projects of the society. But that plan will be necessarily subject to delay.

In order to koop its organization intact through the earlier stagos of Its existence tho club will probably house Itself temporarily In tho Berkeley Lyceum. Tho failure of tho Woman's Exchange to raise the money necessary to secure the building was not duo to any lack of active work on the part of ths women in oontrol of the society but their offorts were unavailing, as the time was especially Ill-suited to raising such a sum. Another soml-charitablo enterprise which shows its head with unfailing regularity is again being discussed. This I tho woman's hotel, about which so much him been said and written without result during the past ton years. One scheme which seemed certain of success failed because of a defect in tho will of the woman who loft money to found the Institution.

Many others have been started with earnestness and enthusiasm only to end suddenly when the expense of the undertaking became apparent. The only person with real enough In this enterprise to see a plan through are quite unable to advance the necessary means. The present undertaking Is fortunate enough to be associated with the names of wealthy men and It may end iu tho sucooss that has been hitherto denied to all similar enterprises. The difficulties of the scheme may not end, however, when the building Is erected. At least one experience has shown that the troubles afterward oan then be great enough to wreck the enterprise.

With Jean de Resxke and Marcolla Bem-brioh singing together in "La Travlata." "Rigoletto" and "Lucia" the old rtpertolre will have such an opportunity as It has not enjoyed for years. M. de Resxke has undertaken those part in order to rest his voice for Bayrouth and the few Wagnerian performances he will give her when Maurice Orau produces the trilogy. Hitherto the Italian tenors have had the role which Jean de Boszke has deoldedlto sing this year, and none of them ha ever proved popular enough to draw large audiences on his own account. It has been the prima donna who was depended upon to fill the theatre.

In the past "Rigoletto." with Maurel and Melba, drew large uudlonoes only at a Saturday night halt-prfoe performance. "La Travlata" has during recent years never drawn more than one audience a season, and not always that "Luola has been popular -only as a prelude to "Ca-vallerla Rustieana" with Calve. But with Mme. Sembrioh and Jean de Reszke together these works will probably enjoy a popularity which they are not likely to have again until two equally gifted Interpreters appear In them. It Is rather interesting to note that both of these singers are Polos.

These performances alone would serve to make the season at the Metropolitan one of the most brilliant ever known there: but the Gorman wing of the company is just as likely to bring it fame. So powerful an organization has never been brought here before and no previous performances of the Wagner operas announced nave ever nod more capable interpreters. It is true that Anton Soldi is not to be here and his loss is doubtless Irreparable. But so far as the Interpreters go no greater excellence could be asked for. After the first of October Europe will praotloolly be emptied of Its most distinguished singers, and the great artists of the lyric stage will be giving New York the benefit of their services.

The subscription at the opera has this year been unprecedented! large and there seems already promise of certain suocess for the oompany. The effect of the five-cent far to Coney Island are to be noticed not only when the crowds at the bridge entranoa storm the cars In order to get places. There, possibly. Is the most striking display of the popularity of the oheap trip but there are other evldenoes which tell the same story just as effectively. "We're on the verge of bankruptcy this year," said a man who runs a concert garden up on the Boulevard above Washington Bridge, "and the five-cent trip to Coney nas put us there." An experience of these places during the past summer makes that description of the situation seem little enough.

There has been nothing like the patronage of former years. One of the proprietors of a resort hitherto most popular estimated bis loss In attendance at more than 50 per cent The orowds that used to journey toward tho northern end of the island were quite plainly reduced at the opening of the season und they aid not increase later iu the summer. It did not. take long to settle on the cheap trip to the seashore as the explanation of the decline, and all the proprietors of resorts uptown are this year explaining their lack of good fortune in this way. It is only in New York that the bicycle appears to have survived as a luxury.

Here It Is ridden for Its own sake, and In most cases Its utility is not much thought of. In the summer resorts the bicycle ha come to have an entirely different purpose. Returning New Yorkers report that It Is only with the object of getting from one place to another that the bicycle holds its place In favor. Nothing could better illustrate its subservience to golf than the fact that It is used chiefly for the purpose of conveying persons to the place where the game Is to be played and riding without the supplementary accomplishment of being able to oarry a golf bag on one's back is not nearly so useful as it used to be. It is an ungrateful condition, but none the less an actual one.

that Its utility as a means of conveyance is all that keeps the bicycle In use to-day in those places which three years ago were given over wholly to bicycle parades, teas und every other kind of social diversion for which tho bicycle could be made the excuse. None of that devotion to the wheel exists to-day. The fortu-nato results of it are noticeable enough, however. Injevery town. The bicycle path which exists in ueury every village frequented by city people in summer, the mads made through forests, und every improvement that the casual bicyclist blesses to-day are the result of thst enthusiasm which mnrked the early days of wheeling, and wit lean just such measure of it they would doubtless not have come Into existence.

Ho even the most virulent stage, of the craze bus left its good results behind. STOJS MRS. DE FLOTOW'S JEWBI.RT. A Young englishman Caught Robbing a Fifth Avenue Hoarding House. Henry Hubert, a young Englishman, took a room three days ago In the boarding house at 12 Fifth avenue, which is kept by Robert M.

MuWlilrtcr. When McWhlrter returned homo at 4 o'clock yesterday morning he ran into Hubert on the stairs. McWhlrter grappled with him and received several suvore blows on the head with the bull of a pistol. Hubert finally broke away and ran into tho street, followed by McWhlrter. Hubert run rapidly down Eighth street, lie wus stopped by l'ollcemun Miller of the Mercer street station.

Let me go!" he cried. "lam after a man who just run around the corner. He is a burglar." Miller held on, however, and when McWhlrter came up ho accused his boarder of burglary. In Hubert's pockets was found $150 worth of i owelty, which ho had taken from tho room of drs. IOtilsu Do l'lotow.

niece of Do Flotow tho boiu poser. In the Jefferson Market l'olino Court yestor-dav Mrs. Do Flotow Identified the jewelry. Hho suid she had heard a noise in her room, but thought it was made by the house cat. An unloaded single-shot target pistol with blood on tho butt, wus found iu Hubert's noeket.

Magistrate Deuel held liim in $1,500 bull (or triul. rohiit: a sit vono.MSR at odds. Some One liliindered aud Hheridan's Body ns I-eft in the Wiiler Over Might, The Coionors' ofueo uud tho police of the Wast Forty-tventll street station are ut odds over the cuso of William Sheridan, tho 10-year-old boy who was drowned on Wednesday last and whoso bod) was recovered on Thursday afternoon iu the North liner at the foot of West Flfty-soc md street. The relatives of tho di owned boy called ut the Coroners' onion yesterday morning und complained that Sheridan's body hud been allowed toremaiu all night in tile water. The body had boeu found at Soon on Thursday, but the police of the West oily seventh street station sent no notion to tln Coroners' office about the finding of tbe body.

John Cavunuugh. tho drowned boy's uncle. tbe first notiilcutlon of tbe case to the 'oroiiors' office. Ho was indignant, and said it was an outraco that the body should have been allowed to remain iu tho water oyer night. A penult was immediately given to remove the body to 217 West Thirty-third street, whero the boy lived with his mother, The ponce say that the) ure not to bluuiu in tbe mutter, and i hut tho Coroners' office was duly notified when thu body was found.

Coroner Hart who has eliurgu yf the case, will make aa tuvoatigaUou. GOVERNMENT FOR HAWAII. TBM COMMISSION DKCIDKS rfO.V ITS MAIS FKATVBKS. They Save th President's Tlows A Territorial Form, with Ioeal Belf-Oovorn-ment, but tho Reel Power Lodged In Congress and ths National Kxeentlve. Homolumi, Sept.

3. via Ban Francisco. Sept. 9. The general frame and outline of the form of government to be recommended by the Annexation Commission have been decided upon.

There are yet many details to be worked out and many questions to be settled. It hs developed that the Congress members of the commission had Important consultations with President McKinley before they left for Honolulu, and came here with pretty definite ideas as to the wishes of the Administration in regard to the form of government to be recommended. It also appears that tho results of the war have made them a much more Important body and have laid upon them far more wide-reaching duties and responsibilities. They are to form a government for Hawaii that will serve as a model for Porto Rico and II other territory that may be acquired by the United States as the result of the poller of territorial expansion. What President McKinley has Impressed on the Commissioners is the need of a form of government for Territories where the majority of the people are not Americans in training, but may eventually become so.

which will Insure good government according to American Ideas, and at the same time admit to full citizenship those not Americans just so soon as they shall be fitted to receive it. The commission, having Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines in view, has determined to make the form of government conform as nearly sb possible to the usual Territorial Government in the United States, giving local solf-rovernment but keeping all real power in the lands of Congress and the National Administration. The Territorial form is adopted as bolng In accordance with American thought and tradition and gradually preparing for Statehood and an extension of the municipal idea; or. In other words, local self-government Is adopted as affording a moans of restricting the suffrage sc that there will be a certainty that the whites will rule. This restriction Is a precaution against the Japanese, who are already the largest element of the population.

The Governor will bo appointed by tho President. The powers of the Terrltorlsl Legislature will be limited. The Islands will bo divided Into municipal districts. All local affairs will be under the control and direction of tho authorities of these districts. The genoral plan of government delegates to Cougress most of the duties generally assigned to Territorial officials, but leaves the matter in such shape that more and more power may be delegated to the people of the Islands as thoy are fitted to receive It The Commissioners are shard-working body.

They are bending every effort to conclude their labors by Sept. 20 and leave for the United States on tho 23d. BROADWAY'S VSDF.R TROT.T.ET. Its Substitution for Cafcle Power Began YesterdayIt Will Take a Year to Complete It. The work of Installing the underground eleotrio oondult system on the Broadway oable road began yesterday morning at Bowling Green and at Fifty-ninth street President Vreeland of the Metropolitan Traction Company say that the ohange In tho system of propulsion will be mate without any Interruption of traffic and little tearing up of the pavement Necessarily the work will go along slowly, on account of the congestion of traffic.

Much of the work will be done at night. No change will be made in the roadbed. Two narrow trenches will be dug. one on oaoli lde of the double track, and in these will be laid the conduits for the wires carrying the electricity. Hand boles will be laid at Intervals of fifteen feet along the slots.

Into which the insulator boxes will be set. Tho conversion will be made a block or two at a time, so that only a few paving blocks will bo taken up at onoe. The blocks will be removed from the street while the work is going on. The work will take a year to complete. The new power house, now building in Ninety-fifth street near tho East River, will supply electricity for the road.

Its capacity will be 25.000 horse power. The chimney of tho power house will be 356 feet high. 76 foot In diameter at the base, with an Inside diameter of 22 feet throughout. The company's cable power houses will be transformed for the eleotrio system. New double truck twenty-eight-foot oars will take the place of the cars now In use.

and the latter will be mado over Into electric-motor cars for use on the side lines. The company ordered recently 400 of the new cars. The underground electric conduit system." said PresldentVreeland yesterday, is by far the most perfect system of propulsion for surface roads. The success of our lines already equipped with this system has led us to begin the work on Broadway a year sooner than at first planned, I confess that the cable does not give an adequate service on Broadway. Tho new system will.

America, by the way. is far ahead of Europe in the matter of surface roads. Our chief engineer has just returned from abroad, where no studied the surface railroad question In the leading towns of Great Brituiu aud tho Continent. Budapest has the under- round eleotrio system, but the overhead trol-ey is the best thing In other capitals. In Glasgow the Municipal Council has just appropriated $30,000 for an experimental half mile of overhead trolley road." COI.KR'S BOSD AWARD VPHEID.

The Supremo Court Refuses to Enjoin the Comptroller. The course of Comptroller Coler In awarding the issue of $12,688,000 of city bonds to tho Produce Exchange Trust Company upon Its bid of $104.04 has been uphold by Justices Cohen and Beekman of the Supreme Court, who handed down decisions yesterday refusing to Interfere with the award. The syndicate represented by Vermilyo and Kuhn. Loeb fc Co. whose bid was $105.03.

with this condition "Our bid Is subject to the approval of the validity of the issue by our counsel" asked tho court to continue tho temporary injunctions which were grauted just before the Comptroller made the award. Thoy claimed that being the highest bidders they were entitled to the bonds. William A. Bead, a taxpayer, also stepped in and applied to the court for mi injunction to restrain the Comptroller from making tho award, on tho ground that the city would incur a loss of about $250,000 if the sale of the bonds to the Produce Exchange Trust Comiiuny was permitted. Then Vermilye A Co.

asked for mandamus to compel tho Comptroller to award the issue of bonus to them, us tho highest bidders. The Comptroller held 'that the bid of Vermilye A Co. was a conditional one, and not legal, so on Aug. 10 he made the award to the trust eompuny. During the argument a question was raised as to tho legality of the bonds, In view of tho contention that tho city debt limit had been reachod.

This questiou Is not passed upon by either of tho Justices, Justice Cohen saying that his decision is reached without reference to tho city's ability to lawfully ineurfurthor obligations. Justice Beekman does not pass upon the validity of the bid Itself, giving his decision on a quostioii of law. KILLED IN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT. When Tea Till ritzsluimona Held Out Ills Arm to Break the Force of the Full. William Tec, 17 years old.

of 220 West Sixtieth street, fell from the fourth floor down an elevator shaft Into tho collar ut 10 West Twenty-fourth street yevterday and fractured his skull. Ho was removed to the Now York Uos-pltal. whero he died soon after admission. The young man hud boon employed In the packing department of E. P.

Button A book publishers. Tee boarded tho elovator and rode up as far as the fourth floor, whero ho got off on the wrong side, sloppiug on a narrow ledge fronting oil the street. Then ho leaned across the shaft towurd the knob of the door. He lost his balance and fell Into the collar. John FitzsimmoiiH, one of tho ouiioyees who was in tho cellar, suw Tee falling und held out his right urm In order to breuk tho force of tho fall.

Tlt.simmoiis was knocked off bis foot. Bis arm wus badly crushed. Kxploilon Wrecks Drug Store. A five-pound jar of carbolic acid crystals exploded in Rockow A Pick's drug store, 1733 Lexington avenue, yesterday morning. Abraham Rockow placed the jar on a gas stovo to reduce the crystals to a liquid form.

A few minutes lator a terrific explosion occurred. Henry Labovltch, the clerk, was thrown serosa the room. A customer who was waiting for a prescription was blown through ths doorway and out into the middle of the avenue. All tho windows and mirrors in the store were broken and the proscription counter was wrecked. Tho fire which followed was put out before the engines arrived.

No one was seriously injured. The damage was estimated at $4,000. NEW BOOKS. Brief Reviews of Important and Interesting Maw Publications It seems as though some one was always scoring off the Alps. Hannibal.

If the venerable Titus Llvlus told us no lies, got over them with the aid of elephant and a large supply of vinegar: Napoleon rode across them on a white horse, according to the Ctnturv poster, and on a mule, if M. Thiers was not mistaken, and not so very long ago the hardy hunter Tar-tarin Immortalized himself by foiling over them while every year adventurous gentlemen with alpenstocks festoon themselves on ropes and hang In picturesque attitudes from the various peaks sometimes falling over but happily mora often coming back to write papers which are read and discussed with Interest and spirit by members of the Alpine Club. But now the Alps have had a blow that Is calculated to make any self-respecting range of mountains look smaller than It was. A woman has pushed and pedalled and coasted on her blcrclo over ten of tbe highest passes, aud has written the story of her labors in a small book published by thi CWifurg Oompany. Mrs, Elizabeth Robblns Pennoll, who wrote "Over tho Alps on a Bloyolo." doesn't seem to think much of the Alps.

Wherein she agrees with another distinguished writer Mr. Le Oallienne. If we remember rlghtly-who has also alluded to them somewhat contemptuously. It was In one of his immortal contributions to polite literature that they were described as greasy from having been climbed so often. Which seemed to some persons to be unnecessarily hard upon the Alps.

Mrs. Pennell begins her record In a merry vein. "To go over the Alps on a says In a burst of bold facetlousness, "you must first have your bicycle, and then get it to Switzerland. Like most people. and I have wheols.

Unlike most people, when we want to travel we ride." At this point it Is probable that the Intelligent and inquiring reader will say to himself: "Now. who tho douce is and what has he to do with tho story any way seems to be a mysterious sort of chap, who doesn't say much, but who is able, on occasion, to make himself useful by blowing up a tire, or by taking Mrs. Pennell's bicycle to the nearest repair shop, and from one of tho pictures with which Mrs. Pennell's husband has illustrated his wife's book. appears to have a well developed "bioycle baok." He also seems to be a somewhat reckless rider.

"I ran Into the gutter and sat down In the bushes," says Mrs. Pennell at one point "I pioked myself up and looked over the side. Haifa dozen zigzags below was coasting like mad, foreshortened so I could only see tho top of his head. He approached a curve. As he turned It ho leaned right out over the preoi-plce.

He took his hands off. Heavens I was he falling? No, he was lighting his pipe. It he could get down, so could I. It Is true I rode for a while In a most ladylike manner, but after half a dozen turns, by keeping my pneumatic on and by back pedalling for all I was worth, by turning as short as possible at the ourves. there was no trouble.

I actually caught up to J. he was sitting on the bank at the time, smoking." There is a great deal more like that in the book. Mrs. Pennell tells us how she pushed and pedalled and perspired, where she stopped for meals, how she one ate two breakfasts In order to climb an exceptionally steop hill, and how, once, when sho was thinking out what she describes as "an elegant phrase for my notebook," she ran into a cart and buckled her wheel. She seems to have had a heap of trouble, and In spite of the vivacious beginning of her story she soon develops a fine, healthy scolding capacity, which she exerts to tho end.

with hardly a lapse Into cheerfulness. She scolds the Swiss hotels and hotel keepers, the roads, the oustoms officers, the peasants, the tourists, and the wandering goats. She scolds the mysterious snd unobtrusive who. on one occasion, got wetto the skin and was foolish enough to feel unwell. He always collapses somewhere, somohow, on thoso trips." she says.

She even administers a mild scolding to Mont Blanc because sho couldn't see it from her window In Geneva. As for that comparatively harmless and often mildly amusing individual that some writors speak of so contemptuously as the tourist he moves her to much wrath. Sho describes him as eating and drinking like a pig. and she solemnly assures us that in Switzerland ho nover sees further than his own nose, always walks in the middle of tho road and is stone deaf. She finds that the German becomes a public nuisance when he travels, and that the Englishman is forever trying to speak some languago which he does not understand: while, worse than all.

is the American who actually takes his coat off and shows his brnoos" when tho weather is unpleasantly warm. Then, too, tourists will Insist upon asking absurd and unnecessary questions, and will oven sueak to persons to whom they hove not been formally presented. Once two English women, who wished to find out the distance to their destination, said Cvtnbien Argeiitifrer' to Mrs. Pennell. But sho had no information to give away.

Not having heard that the pluco was for sale I was compelled to reply that I did not know." On another occasion tho elusive was even more humorous. Presontly I Baw toiling up on bis bicycle and he had not yet got on to the pass, poor man lone black figure, his hat iu his hand. As he came near he raised his head, and in woll-known accents I heard: 'Buy. bow's the road fur Bhammluy 'You'll suld It seems to us thut there was a touch of the lightness of Oibbon in that rcpartco. "When I grumble," says Mrs.

Pennoll. "people think it is because I am not enjoying myself. But they do not understand. I hated to walk, to puBh the machine, to bo sweltering in July sunshine and smothered In dust. But after It was over I knew I should be immensely proud of my achievement, and I was game' to the eud.

J. Buid that was the way you felt when you were climbing tho high peaks-it was tho true sporting spirit aud so wo did what wo could to mako tho best of my temper." Tho discomfort involved in pushing a lieavy machine over stiff pass is doubtless trying to nervous systems, and apt to mako oue tako a gloomy view of things. Wo cannot help thinking that Mrs. Pennell might have written In a more cheerful vein if she bad taken a rido iu tho ordinary common or garden diligence now and then: aud wo wish she had enlightened us as to the Identity of the mysterious Some of Mr. Pennell's pictures look not unlike the work of thoso lightning artists of the music hall stage, who work with pieco ofl burnt cork and a sheet of brown paper in full view of the audience.

Perhaps thoy were drawn when Mr. Pennell wus riding on his bicycle In "A Study of a Child" (Harpers) Louise E. Hogan gives a careful and interesting seven years' record of a child's natural growth, showing how ho learned to talk, read, write. Ac, without direct teaching, and Illustrated with a large number of drawings and cuttings originated in thu child's mind as a result of his activity. In "Chiua iu Transformation" Harpers) Mr.

Archibald R. Colquhoiin, special correspondent of tho Times ILoudon) in tho far East, gives tho results of his observations during several prolonged visits to China. "Tbe Golfer's Alphabet" I Harpers) contains a series of really funny pictures iu tiie happiest vein of that excellent artist, Mr. A. B.

Frost, with rhymes by Mr. W. 0. Van T. Sutphen.

We have also received: The Women of Honior." Walter Copland Perry. Illustrated. (Dodd, Moud A Co.) "A Child-World." Juiues Whltcomb Riley. The Homestead Edition. Vol.

X. (Scribnors). "Anglo-Saxon Buperlority To What Is It DueV" Eduiond Demollns. Translated from the tenth French edition by Louis Bert La-vigne. (Imported by Scribners.) His Little Royal Highness." Ruth Ogden.

Illustrated by W. Ralney. (E. P. Dntton A Co.) "Cross Trails." Victor Waits.

Illustrated by J. W. Kennedy. (L. C.

Pasre A Co.) "The Grenadier A Story of the Empire." James Eugene Farmer. M. A. (Dodd, Mead A Co.) "John O. Patou, Missionary to the New Hebrides," An autobiography.

Edited by hi brother. Vol. lit. Illustrated. (Fleming H.

Rcvett Company.) "Natural Taxation. An Inquiry Into th Practicability. Justice and Effects of a Scientific and Natural Method of Taxation." Thomas G. Shearman. New and revised edition.

(Doubleday A McClure Company.) America' Foreign Policy." Essays and addresses. Thomas Salisbury Woolsey.M. A. (The Century Company.) The Aloestls of Euripides." Ed lied. with an introduction and critical and exegetlcsl notes.

Herman Wadsworth Hayley. Ph. D. (Glnn Co.) Stories by Foreign Authors. Italian: Ed-mondo de Amicls, Fogazcaro.

D'Annunzlo. Costelnuova. Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian: Slenklewlcz. Blkelas, Maeterlinck, Lemonnier, Maurice Jokat. "A Little Puritan Rebel." Edith Robinson.

Illustrated by Amy Backer. (L. C. Page A Co.) "Bonnie Macklrby." An International episode. Laura Dayton Fessonden.

(Rand, Mc-NallyACo.) FATHER Bt'REAV'S NEW BOME. Quarters Secured on the Twentieth Floor of the American Surety Bnlldlag. Tho local Weather Bureau. In charge of Forecaster W. H.

Emery, will remove soon to quarters In tho American Surety building. Vice-President R. A. 0. Smith of the Surety Company said yesterday that tho lease had been signed by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson on Thursday.

The bureau was notified sometime ago that It must leave its present quarters in the Manhattan Life building, which it has occupied free of charge. It is understood that tho removal will tako plnce before Sept. 10. In answer to nn inquiry, Mcc-Presldont Smith said that no changes would have to be mado in the American Surety building, oxcept tho erection of steel polo 100 feet high. This the company will put In place and the signals displayed from it will bo visible for a long distance.

The bureau will occupy commodious on the twentieth floor of the building, rout liia on tho Broadway side. This will do sway with tho necessity of taking two elevators to reach the office, as In the Manhattan Llto building. The task of transporting the various dolicate instruments of the bureau to the now quarters will not be an easy one. Stock Seized by the Sheriff. The Sheriff lovicd yesterday upon the stook of Sol Ig A Storn, wholesale dealers In children's clothing at 001 Broadway, on writs of replevin.

Tho firm stated on Wednesday that It had assets of $15,000 in stook and $32,000 outstanding accounts, ami that the liabilities would not exceed $25,500. Hew SubUextioof. ANKOTJKCB The Control of $,. Srfi. The Tropics.

BN0eIs By BENJAMIN KIDD The rivalry of the future is for the inheritance of the tropics. Mr. Kidd's thoughtful discussion of the future of two of the richest parts of the earth's surface is of special value just at this time. A NEW EDITION OF Social Evolution Clotb, Cr. IZmo.

$1.50. The summary of the forces of modern progress which the author presents in this interest- The Appendix jng must com. Contains an mand the attention Of Aniter to every reader. Nowhere ins Critics, do we recall their presentation in a more succinct form. A most interesting contribution to the social philosophy of the time.

New Edition. The Story of 3w Price, New and Gladstone's Life. Enlarged Edition. By justin McCarthy, M. P.

Author of The Four Georges," A History of Our Own Times," etc. Illustrated with Many Portraits. New Edition, with Chapters describing the last months of Gladstone's With five life and his funeral at "Chanters Westminster. Lnapie Buckram, 8vo, $6.00. added.

"To our thinking Mr. Mo- Carthy's facile pen ban never bean employed hotter than iu this engaging; volume. The book is rich In brief und pithy characterizations of men niul measures, and abounds In those etriklug turn of thought and phrase that fix the attention and stamp themselves on the memory." TKe IHal. Cardinal Manning tBi. Archbishop of Westminster By EDMUND S.

PURCELL, A Less Member of the. Roman Expensive Academy of Letters. Edition. Two Volumes with Portraits, t'lolli, hvo, tts.so. It Is not lo bo wondered at that this elaborate work, so anxiously and impatiently uwuited, baa stirred the Christian world profoundly.

Nothing like ithasap-peured for generations." The Evening Ttl-rgrnph, 1'hlludelpliiii. The Story of China By DEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULOER. Author of "The Life of Gordon," etc. With Portraits and Maps. Two Volumes, Clotb, 8vo, $9.00.

Revised the new edition of this Edition standard work have been wltb new added chapters on changes Chapters jn pu5ijc aflTa.irs in China during the time since the book's issue; on the new leaders, such as Li Hung Chang on the war with Japan and its results, etc. II lll.lslll 1 BY THE UNILUI EOIPUI. ti FHth Avcnae, New York. ioTBABU IN TBK PHnJPFlHM. raiuoiu book.

wlilTlMU'B book (tors, 1 law si. Sjiv 5f ij Have Just Published xO i China in Transformation By Archibald R. Colquhoun. With Frontispiece, Maps, and Diagrams. 8vo, Cloth, oo.

Mr. Colquhoun has chosen a most opportune moment for putting on record the results of his observations during several prolonged visits to the Far East, a task which he has had In contemplation fpr some time. Recent events have forcibly drawn the attention of the world to tbe condition and prospects of China, and this timely volume presents in a compact and popular form such an account of the country as will interest the general reader, and yet of pronounced value to men of business, politicians, travellers, and others who may wish to be further informed regarding the subject. i A Study of a Child 1 a- By Louise E. Hooan.

aaaSSFKm-- with a Colored Fron- -1L Illustrations by the ifiPir lrtnH Child. Crown 8vo, rs3utLtfCP-- Cloth, Ornamental, A DRAWING BY Till CHltD tn this work Mrs. Hogan tells the story of the growth of the mental facilities in a child, in a natural way, without any of the ordinary hothouse methods so often producing a hybrid. Although we have all noticed and been impressed almost startled by unexpected bursts of intelligence in the little ones about us, few have ever made snch a study of the development of the human soul, and given us such patient, loving data. Not only does the work tell us of the growth of the body, but also of the character building in the litUo.

ones. A Constitutional History of the American People. 1776-1850 By Francis Newton Thorpe. Illustrated with Maps. Two volumes.

Crown 8vo, Cloth, Uncut Edges and Gilt Tops, $5 00. Mr. Thorpe's work is an original study in the history of politics in this country. To quote from the Preface It contains the evidences of changes and, it is believed, of progress in the ideas and opinions which the American people have held respecting the principles, the organization, and the administration of their civil institutions. It is a record of the evoltuion of government in this country since the Revolution, and it rests upon authorities hitherto almost entirely disregarded." The Golfer's Alphabet 1 Pictures by A.

B. Frost. Verses by W. G. van T.

Sutphen. Small 4to, Illuminated fj Boards, 50. VC" The humors of golf are apparently inexhaustible, N-ifiW and Mr. Frost, himself a keen player, has worked con JrfrMr amort in illustrating the harmless foibles of his fellow- jr jm enthusiasts. The verses of tbe alphabet are by Mr.

Jk2 Sutphen, and have the agreeable lightness of touch Hir that characterized the half-dozen stories contained Hi msar I within the covers of The Golucide." fmt New York HARPER BROTHERS London iSr lfS PUBLISHERS ytilf, MARINE INTELLIOENCM. KIMiTUKK ALMANAC THU DAT. Sunrliei can I Hun lots. 17 I Moon rljei 12 1 2 HIGH WATER THIS DAT. BmdrHook.

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Bark MacLeod, from New York, at Wellington. H.Z. Bark Elvira, from New York, at Thauieshaven. rAMKD. Bs Bout, from New York for King's I.rnn, passed the Lizard.

Bs Patrla, from New York for Hamburg, passed the LUard. Ha Maaxdam, from Rotterdam for New York, passed Prawl" Point. Bs Msuh-tttu, from New York for Belfast, passed Malm Bead. HAILED FROM rOREION PORTS. Bs Fuerst Blamarck.

from Hamburg for New York. Ba Ivjdeue, from Hhlelda for Now York. Be KuiH. from Genoa for New York. Ba Helios, from Hamburg for New York.

ba Htriia, from Venice for New York. Bs Borderer, from Antwerp for New York. Be Paula, from Bremen for New York. Ba Veaetia, from luultiue for New York. Ba Victoria, from London for New York.

Bs FurnesHlu, from Movllle for New York. SAILED FROM DOMESTIC l'OETS. 6 El Paao, from New Orleans for Now York. OUTOOIMQ STEASfSBirS. Mail ToDau.

Alailt Clou. Vtntl Sail: Le Champagne. Havre A 30 A 10 (hi a Ktruria. Liverpool (I 80 A 10 00 A Allor, Naplea IIOOAM- 1100AM Htatmidam, Rotterdam 8 00 A 10 00 A Wlnlfreda.London 00 A Pbtenlula, Hamburg 10 00 AM Trojan Prince, Axores Ohio, Hull HolHteln. Haiti 10OO AM 1.00 Alone.

Kingston 10 oo A 11(M Pretoria, Barbados 0 30 A 12 00 Hudson, New Orleans 3 00PM tlherokee. Charleston 00 Concho, Oalveston 8 00PM Sail Tutidau. Stpt. LI. Ealaer Wilheliu dor Uroaae, Bruinou 700 AM 10 00 AM Madlana.

Ht. Kltts 100PM 800PM Hemluols. Charleetou 8 00PM New Orleans, New Orleans flooPM Wtdiifdau, Stpt. Majestic. Liverpool IIOOAM 12 00 Westernlaud, Antwerp .10 30 A 12 00 British Wueeii.

Antwerp Catania. Havana 1 HI OO Lydia, Tainplco 1 00 8 00PM IHCOU1NO BTEAUSUIPS. Hut To-Pay. Alsatla Gibraltar Aug 24 Oiieeii tilga Olbralur Aug 24 Husquebaune Houlhamptou Aug 2r, K-etrrCtty Swansea Aug 27 Panama Bordeaux Aug IS Chattahoochee Savannah Bept 7 Vut Sunday, Stpt. It.

La Navarre Havre fept 8 Exoclaior New Orleans Bept II Foulaliello Bt. Thomas Sept rt Jacksonville Bept 8 Ihu Monday. Sept. II. Anrhnria Olasgow Bept 1 (ieurgic Liverjlool Kept 2 Colorado Hull Auk 3d OhaliueMe New Orleans Bept IVilcridge Bt.

Lucia Bept ft Port Adelaide Bt Lucia Bept 6 Itut Tvttday, Stpt. It. Keuslucvoa Antwerp Bept 8 Georgian London Bept Brooklyn City Aug 30 Uhynland Southsmptou Hhj.i a Alliance Colon Bept Adirondack Port Llmou Bept Astrakhan Aug ao Prtns WUlem II Portau Prince Bept 7 Newton 5t-Lc! fl Lonlataue NewOrlsaus Bept 8 Ihu Wtdnuday. Stpt. IU.

Rotterdam Bept 3 Uam ore Hamburg S1 BPaav Wew BafS SCHOOL CENSUS REJECTED. The Returns for Jersej City Said to Be Ua duly Large. State) Superintendent of Education C. W. Ban ter of Trenton.

N. has refused to aocopt the reports of the census takers in Jersey City, Ha says the figures are too high. He sent a communication to this effect to the members of the Board ot Education, who met last night. The Superintendent says that the returns contain ll.lilt) uuines more than those of last year ana 10.445 names more than those of 1890. Mr.

Baxter says in hi letter that the population of the city between the ages of 5 and 20 years, ao-coniine to the census. Is 7H.507. or 37 per cent, of the total population. This percentage, ha says, la incredibly high. On this ground tha report were rejected.

Directors Meggina. Mooney. and Merschelmer woro appointed a eomtnitteo to make an investigation. Theeen aus takers are paid at the rate of 5 conts a TII.I.lN;HAHT-KKLI.OGO.-At lleiinlngtoB, Vt Bept. 8, by the Bev.

Edward B. Tibbltte, Mary Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Justin, Kellogg, of Troy, N. to Dr.

Joseph Key uolda Til Hug hast, of this elty. DIED. Cornwall-on-ths Hudson, on Bep t), 1888, Welcome 8. Jarvls, tn his 4Mb year. Relative! and Mends are respectfully Invited tof attend the funeral aervlcea at hi late residence 187 Hancock street, Brooklyn, N.

on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at Greenwood. LOGIIE. At Boston, Bept. 8, Catharine, beloved wife of Philip Loguo and mother of the Bev.

Charles A. Logue of Bt. Mary's Church, Leonard and Msujer Brooklyn. Funeral at Boston on Monday morning, Sept. 7 3.

New Brighton, BtaUn Island, oaj Sept. 7, 1888, Christina, beloved wife of Nlcholaa Uuller. Funeral from her late residence, Clinton and Hen. derson Now Brighton, BtaUn Island, at 1) o'clock noon. Saturday, 10th last.

Interment at Greenwood. Kindly omit flowers. REY.NOLUI1.-Oq transport Roumanian and! burled at sea Aug. 80, Daniel K. Reynolds, Oom pany I).

71st N. Y. Volunteers, aged 37 years, eldest sob of Amelia Miller and Theo. W. Bey nolde.

Memorial service Sunday. Bept. 11. at 4 P. Calvary Methodist Church, 128th st.

and HereutU av. Omit flower. BOOT. At 187 Hawthorne Yonkers, N. on Sept.

8, 1888, of typhoid fever, Edgar Water man Boot, Pint Sergeant Company 71st Regiment, N. Volunteers, aged 24 year and months. Funeral services at bis late residence on Saturday, Bept. 10, at 4 P. M.

Interment Buffalo, N. oa Sunday, Bept. 11, 1888. fPHE KEN8ICO CEMETERY. Private station.

Har-1 lein Railroad i 48 mlnutea' ride from the ilraad Central Depot. Oraoe, 10 Kaet 42d st. jlprrial A SCHOOL FOB DELICATE AND BACEWABD BOY8. DR. WILLIAMSON'S SCHOOL, NEW LONDOsT, Is devoted solely to the physical and mesial training of such boys.

BEND FOB CIBCl'LARS AND REFERENCES. i i HI.KKl'I.KNSN KSS, indigestion and Pain are horrors thst PARKER'S OINGKK TONIC 01 abate. PAltaKR'S UAlll JiAl.SAkl aids the liqlr growth, "WASTED -Complete, file, to date, of this year Buui usme price, av, bus 13 Bun ofllce. Strlirjipu $rtirtf. i RACE CHURCH, Broadway, corner 10th 8 A.

Holy Communion. lo A. M. Morning prayer aud sermon. I 8 Eveusong and sermon.

All seats free. MADISON AV. REFORMED CUrilCH, comer7t The paawr. the llev. Abbott E.

Klttredg. will praacb at 11 A. aud at tbe chapel, corner of eoth at. and tat at sP. M.

4J KCON DBT. METHODIST Church. A. 0. MorilinjMi Pastor li ta-tpmeetlng all day; itti ttflM ammmumamMmmnmwmmammmmunmmmmmmmw9B.