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THE SUN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898. A THE IOTA'S CAPTAIN TELLS OF THE SANTIAGO FIGHT. MAKES A SPEECH. He Says Country Worth Fighting For Should Take Care of the Men Who Leave Wives and Children Behind-He Loves Soldier Next to Sailor. Sept.

the invitation of relatives residing here, Capt. D. Evans consented to address a mass meeting at the Opera House to-night for the benefit of a fund for the relief of sick and suffering soldiers. When the commander of the Iowa appeared on the platform he 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 snid that ADy Government worth fighting for must care for the brave men who leave their wives and children. To leave them is the hardest part of fighting.

To face the bullets of the enemy is the easiest part of it. This drew forth great applause. He said that it the nation ever learns this lesson, then in the years 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 Santiago, ail the sleepless nights, all the canned grub we had to eat-all is forgotten, every man, woman, and child you meet loves you." I can assure you," he continued, "It is a most delightful sensation." Referring to the battle again, he said he really knew very little about it.

Most of the part of it he saw at one end of the bridge. It was very smoky and he Raw more of his own ship than anything else. Capt. Evans described the beautiful appearance of Corvera's He said: fleet when it emerged from BR Santiago harbor. The Spanish vessels looked fine in their beautiful coats of paint.

But the men behind the Spaniards' guns did not last as well as ours." Speaking of his sensations when the Spanish fleet was destroyed. Capt. Evans said: If you can imagine a basket of champagne compressed into a teaspoonful and taken in one gulp, you can imagine how we felt. It was most Capt. Evans referred particularly to the 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, he remarked: That's what men behind the guns can do when they really learn He spoke of the brave Spaniards who were chagrined at the loss of their ships the disgrace of their Government, and said that their added. we were was all glad of it. Thad the disappointment sad to see. he good luck to save practically the entire crew of the Vizcaya, and had the pleasure of being offered the sword of the commanding officer which I deolined. (Tremendous applause.) it there is anything I love in the world next to an American sailor it is a soldier.

If our country is ever attacked in the future I hope, it will find us as ready as we were 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 morning of July 2, when they went over San Juan Hill." applause.) Private Vervalin followed Capt. Evans, briefly phrasing his acknowledgments for the honor 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 scene of enthusiasm. The Rev. A. P. Van Gieson and the Rev.

George Clarke Cox also spoke. Capt. Evans joined in the applause when England was referred to as "our and when Mr. Cox said: We extend the heartfelt love of this this city to that grand old Confederate, Joe Wheeler." and the army and navy from now on, please God, will never fight on two sides. only on one against every toe that comes." The audience heartily cheered the proposition that the United States should welcome the Philippines for the same reason that we went, to war for the Cubans.

WILL OF J. 6. A STRANAHAN, Estate of Million Left to His Widow and' Daughter One Bequest to Charity. The will of James 8. T.

Stranahan was fled for probate in the Surrogate's offloe in Brooklyn yesterday, There were three codioils. The amount of the estate is not mentioned, but it is said to be a little more than 000. Mr. Stranahan was the possessor shares of stook, in the Atlantio Dook Company, valued at $100 a share. The Atlantio Dook Company has paid 5 per cent.

dividends in the past, and it is expected that in the future, owing to it having been leased by the Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company, the dividends will be Increased, Mr. Stranahan made one charitable bequest, giving fifty shares of the Atlantio Dook Company stock to the Brooklyn Society for the Relief of Respectable Aged Indigent Females, as a memorial of his former wife, Marianne Fitoh Stranahan, once first directress of that society. Mr. Stranahan leaves to his widow, Clara N. Stranahan, an income not to exceed 5 per cent.

on 2,000 shares of the stock. All over that amount was to go to his son, Fitch J. Stranshan. and Mrs. Mary 8.

Oroxson, his daughter, but the son died, and his share will go to Mrs. Croxson, who is a widow. If Mrs. Oroxson dies without issue the major part of the estate will go to Mr. Stranahan'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 sets aside the income of shares of the stock to pay the taxes and necessary, repairs Mrs. on Stranahan the ig property. also to By one receive of $50,000 in cash in lieu of her dower rights. All the other real estate and the rest of the personal estate and a life interest in 2,000 shares of stock are left to Mrs. Croxson, and after the death of Mrs.

Stranahan, Mrs. Croxson is also to have the Union street house, the furniture and horses and carriages. Mr. Stranahan also leaves the pictures of himselt and his former wife to Mrs. Croxson.

If she dies without issue her income is to go to Mrs. Dutcher. Mrs. Dutcher is also to receive 1.000 shares of the stock on the death of Mrs. Croxson and 2,000 more shares if Mrs.

CroxBOD dies without issue and 200 additional shares which were to go to Mr. Stranahan's eister, Mrs. Mary 8. Burchard, who has died. Mrs.

Pulchria B. Burke, another sister, was to receive 200 shares of the stock, but as she is dead it goes to her son. J. Stranahan Burke, manager of the Atlantic Dock Company propor William E. Dana of Avon, N.

son of Mr. Stranahan's half-sister, receives ten shares of the stock. Joseph A. Dana, co-executor of the estate with Mrs. Croxson, is.

to receive SO $1,000 customary for his fees. services Mr. as Stranahan executor and also also makes the these bequests to the servants of his household: Philip Kelly, who was his coachman for thirty years. is to receive Bartholomew F. Murphy, Cecile for years $500: a Martha gardener, O'Neill.

receives a Dueret, waitress, was to receive $500, but she loses this gift, as she left Mr. Stranahan's employ two years ago to get married. The Kings County Trust Company, of which Mr. Stranaban was Vice-President, is appointed trustee of the funds created by him. The original will was dated July 17, 1880, and the first codicil bears date Oct.

19, 1895: the second codicil is dated Jan. 17, 1897, and the third April 19, 1897. The Atlantic Dock Company was organized by. Mr. Stranahan in 1853.

and he maintained a large interest in this property until his late Illness. The property is located south of the Hamilton avenue terry and nearly oppositeGovernors Island. It is so constructed that any vessel, no matter how large, can enter the basin at all times. The property covers an area of about forty acres, and is lined on three sides by large brick and granite warehouses. It contains four large piers.

besides the two bulkheads which form the basin. Three of the Inside piers are covered and are 700, 800, and feet 000 in feet width. length The South respectively, Central and 75 and pier is the most extensive in this port. The Atlantic Dock has the reputation of being the largest grain depot in the world and is equipped with seven elevators. Its frontage line of piers and bulkheads measures three miles.

The entrance to the basin is 200 feet, leased wide. The Atlantic Dock Company, was to the Brooklyn Wharf Warehouse Company in 1805. Mr. Stranahan held out against the lease for several years, but as the Wharf and Warehouse.Company had secured nearly all the valuable warehouses along Brooklyn water front from Main street to the Erie Basin, Mr. Stranahan at last gave and allowed the Wharf and Warehouse Company to take in the Atlantic Dock, Company's property.

The Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company is capitulized at $30,000.000. Newport Social Doings. NEWPORT, R. Sept. Warren gave a picnic at Hope Island to-day, and tonight the lust Casino hop of the season was held and was fairly well attended by the cottaxers.

Dinner parties were given by Brooks Willing and Spencer in honor Miss Josephine J. J. Livermore, whose engagement has just been announced: by Mr. and Mra. Cornelius Vanderbilt in honor of Mr.

and Mra. George Vanderbilt, and Sire. Elisha Mrs. Harold Brown. Sire.

Charles Astor. Bristed. Mrs. W. Fitzhugh Whitehouse and Mrs.

F. W. Andrewe. The plans for the sale of the Berkeley Lyceum to the Woman's Exchange have not yet advanced to a point satisfactory to the promoters of the scheme, and even on the liberal terms which the owner made to the exchange it has been found dimeult to raise the necessary funds. So the after all be put to some other use.

been a sugproportionas gestion to make it the home of the Art Club, which was recently organized. This is A DAtional society made up of men interested in matters of art in various cities, and its headquarters are to be in New York. It was 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 keep its organization intact through the carlior stages of its existence the club will probably house itself temporarily in the Berkeley Lyceum.

The failure of the Woman's Exchange to raise the money necessary to secure the building was not due to any lack of active work on the part of the women in control of the society; but their efforts were unavailing. as the time was especially ill-suited to raising such a sum. Another semi-charitable enterprise which shows its head with unfailing regularity is again being discussed. This 19 the woman's hotel, about which so much has been said and written without result during the past ten years. One scheme which seemed certain of success failed because of a defect in the will of the woman who left 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 persons with zeal 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 in the success that has been hitherto denied to all similar enterprises. The dimoulties of the scheme may not end, however, when the building is erected. At least experience has shown that the troubles afterward can then be great enough to wreck the enterprise.

With Jean de Reszke and Marcella Sembrich singing together in "La Traviata," "Rigoletto" and "Lucia" the old will have such an opportunity as it has not enjoyed for years. M. de Reszke has undertaken these parts in order to rest his voice for Bayreuth and the few Wagnerian performances he will give here when Maurice Grau produces the trilogy. Hitherto the Italian tenors have had the roles which Jean de Resake has sing this year, and none of them has ever proved popular enough to draw large audiences on his own account. It has been the prima donna who was depended upon to All the theatre.

In the past "Rigoletto." with 'Maurel and Melba, drew large audiences only at a Saturday night half-price performance. "La Traviata" has during recent years never drawn more than one audience a season, and not always that. "Lucia" has been popular -only as a prelude to Rusticana" with Calve. But with Mme. Sembrich 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 Poles. These performances alone would serve to make the season at the Metropolitan one of the most brilliant ever known there; but the German 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 have ever had more capable interpreters. It is true that Anton Seidl is not to be here and his loss is doubtless irreparable. But 80 far as the interpreters go no greater excellence could be asked for.

After the first of October Europe will practically be emptied of its most distinguished singers, and the great artists of the lyrio stage will be giving New York the benefit of their services. The subscription at the opera has this year been unprecedentedly large and there seems already promise of certain success for the company. The effects of the five-cent fare to Coney Island are to be noticed not only when the crowds at the bridge entrance storm the cars in order to get places. There, possibly, is the most strikIng display of the popularity of the cheap trip: but there are other evidences which tell the same story just as effeutively. "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 has put us there." An experi0n00 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 his loss in attendance at more than 50 per cent. The crowds that used to jouraey toward the northern end of the island were quite plainly reduced at the later opening in of the season and It they did not increase summer. 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 has 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 carry 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, 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 and every other kind of social diversion for which the bicycle could be made the excuse. None of that devotion to the wheel exists to-day. The fortunate results of it are noticeable enough, however. in every town. The bieycle path which exists in neary every village frequented by city people in summer, the roads made through forests, and every improvement that the casual bicyclist blesses to-day are the result of that enthusiasm which marked the early days of wheeling, and without just such a measure of it they would doubtless not have come into existence.

So even the most virulent stage of the craze has left its good results behind. LIVE TOPICS ABOUT TOWN. STOLE MRS. DE FLOTOW'S JEWELRY. Young Englishman Caught Robbing Fifth Avenue Boarding 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.

McWhirter. When McWhirter returned home at 4 o'clock yesterday morning he ran into Hubert on the stairs. MeWhirter grappled with him and received several severe blows on the head with the butt of a pistol. Hubert Anally broke away and ran into the street, followed by Me Whirter. Hubert ran rapidly down Eighth street.

He was stopped by Policeman Miller of the Mercer street station. Let me go!" he cried. "I am after a man who just ran around the corner. He is burglar." Miller held on, however, and when Me Whirter came up he accused his boarder of burglary. In Hubert's pockets was found $150 worth of jewelry, which he had taken from the room of Mra.

Louisa De Flotow, niece of De Flotow the composer. Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday Mrs. De Flotow identifled the jewelry. She said 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 the butt, was found in Hubert's pocket. Magistrate Deuel held him in $1,500 bail for trial. POLICE AND CORONER AT ODDS. Some One Blundered and Sheridan's Body Was Left in the Water Over Night. The Coroners' office and the police of the West Forty-seventh street station are at odds over the case of William Sheridan, the 16-yearold boy who was drowned on Wednesday last and whose body was recovered on Thursday afternoon in the North River at the foot of West Fifty-second street.

The relatives of the drowned boy called at the Coroners' office yesterday morning and complained that Sheridan's body bad been allowed to remain all night in the water. The body had been fouud at noon on Thursday, but the police of the West Forty-seventh street station sent no notice to the Coroners' office about the finding of the body. John Ca Cavanaugh, the drowned boy's uncle, gave the first notification of the case to the Coroners' office. He was indignant, and said it was an outrage that the body should have been allowed to remain in the water oyer night. A permit was immediately given to remove the body to 267 West Thirty-third street, where the boy lived with his mother.

The police say they are not to blame in the matter, and that the Coroners' office was duly notified when the body was found. Coroner Hart, who has charge of the case, will make an in GOVERNMENT FOR HAWAII. THE COMMISSION DECIDES UPON ITS MAIN FEATURES. They Have the President's Views--A Territorial Form, with Local Self-Government, but the Real 1 Lodged in Congress and the National Executive. HONOLULU, Sept.

3, via San 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 has 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 the 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 all other territory that may be acquired by the United States as the result of the policy 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 citizonship 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 as possible to Territorial Government in the United States, giving local selfgovernment, but keeping all real power in the hands of Congress and the National Administration.

The Territorial form is adopted as being 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 means 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 be appointed by the President. The powers of the Territorial Legislature will be limited.

The islands will be divided into municipal districts. All local affairs will be under the control and direction of the authorities of these districts. The general 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 they are fitted to receive it. The Commissioners are a hard-working body. They are bending every effort to conclude their labors by Sept.

20 and leave for the United States on the 23d. BROADWAYS UNDER TROLLEY. Its Substitution for Cable Power Began Yesterday-It Will Take a Year to Complete It. The work of installing the underground electrio conduit system on the Broadway cable road began yesterday morning at Bowling Green and at Fifty-ninth street. President Vreeland of the Metropolitan Traction Company says that the change in the system of propulsion will be made without any interruption of traffic and with little tearing up of the pavement.

Necessarily the work will go along slowly, on account of the congestion of trafflo. 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 each side of the double track, and in these will be laid the conduits for the wires carrying the electricity. Hand holes will be laid at intervals of fifteen feet along the slots, into which the insulator boxes will be set.

The conversion will be made a block or two a at a time, so that only a few paving blocks will be taken up at once. 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 ty-Afth street near the East River, will supply electricity for the road. Its capacity will be 25,000 horse power.

The chimney of the power house will be 356 feet high. 76 feet in diameter at the base. with an inside diameter of 22 feet throughout. The company's cable power houses will be transformed for the electrio system. New double truck twenty-eightfoot cars will take the place of the cars now in use, and the latter.

will be mado over into electrie-motor cars use on the side lines. The company ordered recently 400 of the new cars. The underground electric conduit system." said President Vreeland 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.

The 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 he studied the surface railroad question in the leading towns of Great Britain and the Continent. Budapest has the underground electrio system, but the overhead trolley is the thing in other capitals.

in Giasgow the Municipal Council has just appropriated $30.000 for an experimental half mile of overhead trolley road." COLER'S BOND AWARD UPHELD. The Supreme Court Refuses to Enjoin the Comptroller. The course of Comptroller Coler in awarding the issue of $12,888,000 of city bonds to the Produce Exchange Trust Company upon its bid of $104.94 has been upheld by Justices Cohen and Beekman of the Supreme Court, who handed down decisions yesterday refusing to interfere with the award. The syndicate represented by Vermilye and Kuhn, Loeb bid was $105.03, with this condition: "Our bid is subject to the approval of the validity of the issue by our the court to continue the temporary injunctions which were granted just before the Comptroller made the award. They claimed that being the highest bidders they were entitled to the bonds.

William A. Read, a taxpayer, also, stepped in and applied to the court for injunction to restrain Comptroller from making the award, on the ground that the eity would incur a loss of about $250,000 if the sale of the bonds to the Produce Exchange Trust Company was permitted. Then Vermilye Co. asked for a mandamus to compel the Comptroller to award the issue of bonds to them, as the highest bidders. The Comptroller, held 'that the bid of Vermilye conditional one, and not legal, so on Aug.

16 he made the award to the trust company. During the argument a question was raised as to the I legality of the bonds, in view of the contention that the city debt limit had been reached. This question is not passed upon by either of the Justices. Justice Cohen saying that his decision is reached without reference to the city's ability to lawfully incur further obligations. Justice Beekman does not pass upon the validity of the bid itself, giving his decision on a question of law.

KILLED IN AN ELEVATOR SHAFT. When Tee Fell Fitzsimmons Held Out His Arm to Break the Force of the Fall. William Tee, 17 years old, of 220 West Sixtieth street, fell from the fourth floor down an elevator shaft into the collar at 10 West Twenty-fourth street yesterday and fractured his skull. He was removed to the New York Hospital, where he died soon after admission. The young man had been employed in the packing department of E.

P. Dutton book publishers. fee boarded the elevator and rode up as far as the fourth floor, where he got off on the wrong side, stepping on a narrow ledge fronting on the street. Then he leaned across the shaft toward the knob of the door. He lost his balance and fell into the collar.

John Fitzsimmons, one of the employees who was in the cellar, saw Tee falling and held out his right arm in order to break the force of the fall. Fitzsimmons was knocked off his feet. His arm was badly crushed. Explosion Wrecks a Drug Store. A five- pound jar of carbolic acid crystals exploded in Rockow Pick's drug store, 1733 Lexington avenue, yesterday morning.

Abraham Rockow placed the jar on a gas stove to reduce the crystals to a liquid form. A few minutes lator a terrific explosion occurred. Henry Labovitch, the elerk, was thrown across the room. A customer who was waiting for a prescription was blown through the doorway and out into the middle of the avenue. All the windows and mirrors in the store were broken and the prescription counter was wrecked.

The fire which followed was put out before the enarrived. No one was seriously injured. The damage was estimated at $4,000. NEW BOOKS. Brief Revlews of Important and Interesting New Publications.

It seems as though some one was always scoring off the Alps. Hannibal, it the venerable Titus Livius told us no lies, got over them with the aid of elephants and a large supply of vinegar: Napoleon rode across them on 4 white horse, according to the Century, poster, and on a mule, it M. Thiers was mistaken, and not so very long ago the hardy hunter Tartarin immortalized himself by falling 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 more 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 bicycle over ten of the highest passes, and has written the story of her labors in a small book published by the Century Company.

Mra. Elizabeth Robbins Pennell, who wrote "Over the Alps on a Bicycle," doesn't seem to think much of the Alps. Wherein she agrees with another distinguished writer-Mr. Le Gallienne. it we remember rightly--who has also alluded to them somewhat contemptu- ously.

It was in immortal contributions to polite literature that they were described as greasy from having been climbed 80 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 bicycle," she says in a burst of bold facetiousness, "you must first have your bicycle, and then get it to Switzerland.

Like most people, and I have wheels. 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: who the deuce is and what has he with the 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 the pictures with which Mrs. Pennell's husband has illustrated his wife's book, appears to have a well developed "bicycle 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 picked myself up and looked over the side. Half a dozen zigzags below was coasting like mad, foreshortened so I could only see the top of his head. He approached a curve.

As he turned it he leaned right out over the precipice. He took his hands off. Heavens! WAS he falling? No, he WAS lighting his pipe. It he could get down, 60 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 curves, there no trouble.

I actually caught up to he was sitting on the bank at the time, smoking." There is a great deal more like that in the book. Mrs. us how she pushed and pedalled and perspired, where she stopped for meals, how she once ate two breakfasts in order to climb an exceptionally steep hill, and how, once, when she was thinking out what she describes as "an elegant phrase for my notebook," she ran into a cart and buckled her She seems to have had heap of trouble, and in spite of the vivacious beginning of her story she soon develops 8 fine, healthy scolding capacity, which she the end, with hardly a lapse into cheerfulness. She scolds the Swiss hotels and keepers, the roads, the customs officers, the peasants, the tourists, and the wandering goats. She scolds the mysterious and unobtrusive who, on one occasion, got wet to the skin and was foolish enough feel unwell.

He always collapses somewhere, somehow, on these trips." she says. She even administers a mild scolding to Mont Blane because she couldn't see it from her window in Geneva. As for that comparatively harmless and often mildly amusing individual that some writers speak of so contemptuously the tourist-he moves her to much wrath. She describes him as eating and drinking like a pig. and she solemnly assures us that in Switzerland he nover sees further than his own nose, always walks in the middle of the 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 language which he does not understand; while, worse than all, is the actually takes his coat off and shows his braces" when the weather is unpleasantly warm. Then, too, tourists will insist upon asking absurd and unnecessary questions, and will even speak to perSONS to whom have not been formally presented. two English women, thee, who wished to find out the distance their destination, said Combien to Mrs. Pennell. But she information to give away.

Not having heard that the place was for sale I was compelled to reply that I did know." On another occasion the elusive not, Was more humorous. Presently I saw toiling up on his bicycleand he had not yet got on to the pass, poor man--a lone black flgure, his hat in his hand. As he came near he raised his head, and in well-known accents I heard: how's the road fur Shamminy You'll said It seems to us that there was a touch of the lightness of Gibbon in that repartee. When I grumble," says Mrs. Pennell, people think because I am not enjoying myself.

But they do not understand. I hated to walk, to push the machine, to be sweltering July sunshine and smothered in dust. after it was over "But I knew I should be immensely proud of my achievement, and I was 'game' to the end. J. said that was the way you felt when you were climbing the high peaks--it was the true sporting spirit- and so we did what we could to make best of my temper." The discomfort involved in pushing a heavy machine over a stiff pass is doubtless trying to nervous sysof things, We cannot help thinking that tems, and apt to make one take a gloomy Slow.

Pennell might have written in a more cheorful vein if she had taken a ride in the ordinary common or garden diligence now and then; and we wish she had enlightened us as to the identity of the mysterious Some of Mr. Pennell's pictures look not unlike the work of those lightning artists of the music hall stage, who work with a piece off burnt cork and a sheet of brown paper in full view of the audience. Perhaps they were drawn when Mr. Pennell was 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 he learned to talk, read, write, without direct teaching, and illustrated with a large number of drawings and cuttings originated in the child's mind as a result of his activity. In "China in Transformation" (Harpors) Mr. Archibald R. Colquhoun, special correspondent of the Times (London) in the far East, gives the results of his observations during several prolonged visits to China. The Golfer's Alphabet" (Harpers) contains a series of really funny pictures in the happiest vein of that excellent artist, Mr.

A. B. Frost, with rhymes by Mr. W. G.

Van T. Sutphen, We have also received: The Women of Homer." Walter Copland Perry. Illustrated. (Dodd, Mead Co.) A Child- World." James Whitcomb Riley. The Homestead Edition.

Vol. (Scribners). Anglo-Saxon Superiority--To What Is It Edmond Demolins. Translated from the tenth French edition by Louis Bert Lavigne. (Imported by Seribners.) His Little Royal Highness." Ruth Ogden.

Illustrated by W. Rainey. (E. P. Dutton Co.) Cross Trails." Victor Waite.

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8 10 Gov. Isl'd. 8 42 Hell 5 35 Arrived-FRIDAY, Sept. 9, Se Campania, Liverpool Sept. 8.

Be British Queen, Smith, Antwerp Aug. 24. Be Strathnairn, Cuming, Liverpool, Ba Energie, Tholen, Hamburg. Be Adirondack, Owen, Kingston. 8s Alacrity, Taylor, Bermuda.

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Ship Celticburn, Davidson, Hull. Ship Durbridge, McLauchlan, Havre. U. S. battleship Massachusetts, Boston.

later arrivals see First Page.) ARRIVED OUT. 8s Cymric, from New at Liverpool, Ba Salerno, New York, at Newcastle. Ba Pacino, from New York, at Rotterdam. Ba Benmhor, from Yokohama for New York, at Suez. Ship Kosmos, from New York, at Falmouth.

Bark MacLeod, New York, at Wellington, N.Z. Bark Elvira, from New York, at Thameshaven. PASSED. Be Bona, from New York for King's Lynn, passed the Lizard. 8a Patria, from New York for Hamburg, passed the Lizard.

Ba Maasdam, from Rotterdam for New York, passed Prawle Point. Se Manhattan, from New York for Belfast, passed Malin Head. SAILED FROM FOREIGN PORTS. Be Fuerst Bismarck, from Hamburg for New York. 88.

Ivydene, from Shields for Now York. Ba Ema, from Genoa for New York. Ba Helios, from Hamburg for New New York. Ba Styria, Venice for York. Ba Borderer, from Antwerp for New York.

Be Paula, from Bremen for New York. Ba Venetia, from Iquique New York. So Victoria, from London for New York, Be Furnessia, from Moville for New York. BAILED FROM DOMESTIC PORTS. So El Paso, from New Orleans for New York.

OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. Sail To-Day. Mails Close. Vessel Sails. La Champagne, 6 30 A 10 00 A A Etruria, Liverpool.

80 10 00 Aller, Naples. 800 A 11 00 A Statendam, 10 00 A Winifreda, London 10 00 A 900 Trojan Prince, Ohio, Hull Holstein. 00 A 12 00 Alene, 00 A 12 00 Pretoria, 30 A 12 3 00 Hudson, New Orleans. 00 Concho, Cherokee, Galveston. 8 8 00 Sail Tuesday, Sept, 18.

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Madiana, At. 1.00 00 8 00 Bromen. 10 00 A Seminole, Orleane, New Orleans 800 New A Sail Wednesday, Sept. 14. Majestic, Westernland, Liverpool Antwerp.

...10 900 30 A 12 12 00 00 British Queen, Antwerp Lydia, Catania, Tampico. 100 PM 8 00 Havana. 8 00 INCOMING STEAMSHIPS. Due To- Day. Queen Olga 24 Susquehanna.

25 Exeter City 27 Panama Bordeaux Aug 29 Chattahoochee. Due Sunday, Sept, 11. La Navarre. Havre. Sept Excelsior New Orleans Fontabello.

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Southampton. Sept Alliance. Port 6 Astrakhan Shields 80 Prina Willem Port au Sept Lucia Louisians. New Orleans. Sept Due Wednesday, Sept.

14. Spearadam Hamburg 81 11 P840 New Orleane The Returns for Jersey City Said to Be Une duly Large. State Superintendent of Education C. W. Bax.

ter of Trenton, N. has refused to accept the reports of the census takers in Jersey City. He says the figures are too high. He sent a communication to this effect to the members of the Board of Education, who met last night. The Superintendent says that the returns contain 11,916 names more than those of last year and 16,445 names more than those of 1890.

Mr. Baxter says in his letter that the population of the city between the ages of and 20 years, a0- cording to the census. is 73.567, or 37 per cent. of then total population. This percentage, he says, incredibly high.

On this ground the reporta, committee were and to make an Merschelmer investigation. were appointed The rejected. Directors Meggins. sus takers are paid at the rate of 5 conte a MARRIED. Bennington, Sept.

8, by the Rev. Edward B. Tibbitte, Mary Bryan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Justin Kellogg, of Troy, N.

to Dr. Joseph Reynolds Tillinghast, of this city. DIED. Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, on Septy 8, 1898, Welcome 8. Jarvis, in his 45th year.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services at his late 187 Hancock street, Brooklyn, N. on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at Greenwood. Boston, Sept. 9, Catharine, beloved wife of Philip Logue and mother of the Rev.

Charles A. Logue of St. Mary's Church, Leonard and Maujer Brooklyn. Funeral at Boston on Monday morning, Sept. 13, New Brighton, Staten Island, 01 Sept.

7, 1898, Christina, beloved wife of Nicholas Muller. Funeral from her late residence, Clinton and Hen. derson New Brighton, Btaten Island, at 12 o'clock noon, Saturday, 10th inst. Interment at Greenwood. Kindly omit flowers.

transport Houmanian and buried at sea Aug. 80, Daniel K. Reynolds, Come pany 71st N. Y. Volunteers, aged 27 yearig eldest son of Amelia Miller and Theo.

W. nolds. Memorial service Sunday, Sept. 11, at 4 P. af Calvary Methodist Church, 129th st.

and Sevenths Omit dowers. 157 Hawthorne Yonkers, on Sept. 8, 1898, of typhoid fever, Edgar Waterman Root, First Sergeant Company 71st Regiment, N. Volunteers, aged 24 years and months. Funeral services at his late residence on Saturday, Sept.

10, at 4 P.M. Interment Buffalo, N. On Sunday, Sept. 11, 1898. KENSICO CEMETERY.

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WILLIAMSON'S SCHOOL, NEW LONDON, is devoted solely to the physical and mental training of such boys. SEND FOR CIRCULARS AND REFERENCES. SLEEPLESSNESS, Indigestion and Pain are horrors that PARKER'S GINGER TONIC will abate. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM aide the hair growth. WANTED- Complete file, 12 to Sun date, office.

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0. Moreho Pastor. camymecting all day; also.