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TJIK If AKTFOHJ) DAILY CO UK ANT TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1899. 8 POLICE B0AKD BUSINESS. TUESDAY SCKMNO, JfLT IS, V. SOTE AS0 COMJirsT. Mr, L.

T. Shaw, of Chicago, ha Just made acquaintance with the smull mackerel and big lobster of Gloucester; the former he pronounce "the saeetcst flsh be ever ate," while he find the flavor of the lobster as remarkable as the size. Bom- body reported Joe Kent, of Jiukson county, to the church. Soon after W. Freeman, a former In th neighborhood, received threatening btier.

Last Thursday afternoon Freeman found Kent prowling on hla girls. The boys confessed to 1.RJ1 fears, all told; the airla to 3.101 fears. The fears of the boys, according to Dr. Hall's data. Increase In rumber from sevpn years of ase to fiftern; then th-y full off The tiinneousn'-s of the girls grow a upon them fnim four yeats of age to eighteen.

The well-Inscribed ars of five hundred boys and five hundred girls are thus e-t forth in the doe tor's thirty-seventh table: -r. Dovs, Girls Tl umiff and lightning. I'm 13 t.n i H.ptii.n 11 I kiif-ss Pu 11 IN-Blb 't J'tntlc finlmttle IT Vi Hats stiJ Bilce IS 75 limeeis '4 Would Any One Be so unwise as to buy a Piano without seeing- LUDLOW BARKER Assortment of Pianos? It costs nothing to look! It will save you money I They Have the Best Piano; Known in the United States: -Hazelton I vers Pond, Newby Evans, and Looschen Co. Sold on easy payments. Can be hired with privilege of purchase.

BARKER CO. Have several Square Pianos in good order, from $25.00 and upwards. Pianos and Organs tuned at short notice. Sheet Music, ioc. per copy.

PERILS OF 1HE KAIL We do not know of any much more Interesting reading of the kind than the "Ha4)rud tlaiette's" record of inlshapa and disasters occurring on our American roads. That diligent contemporary bas now col Intel, tnbulated and annotated the returns for the month of May, this )er. The steam roads had 1X1 "accidents" In May, of which (3 were collision and 10 were derailments; eight were cases of bolter explosion, broken side rod, etc Eighteen passenger trains collided with other trains. Twenty pansenger train left the rails. Of the "accidents" elfthl were due to road defects, to defect of equipment, 48 to negligence In operating, 19 to unforeseen obsirue-tlona.

Peveiity-one go iVito th record a ''unexplained." Twenty-two railroad employees, thirty-five passenger and seven other persons lost thtlr lives In these May "accidents." Sixty employees, one hundred and forty-two passenger and six other person were Injured. Our contemporary remarks; The record of pnger killed In May la In larger figures than we have hud to record before since July, MM, (Atlantic City and Ixigan), In October, 197, which Included the (lurrlaon dls-aster, 24 psssemnrr were killed, but aside from that the monthly total for nearly three year ha been below a dosen, except in three cases; and In no month ha it reached half that now recorded. A slngl disaster I largely responsible for the unpleasant showing. The night of May 13. at Kxeter, a Thlladel.

phla A Heading passenger train, which bad been Unexpectedly stopped for order, wa run Into by a following passenger train; in ihat crash twenty-eight passenger and one trainman were killed, lxty passenger were injured. These train were running, theoretical-ly. on a five minute' time-Interval. The "Railroad atte" remark; It cannot said, absolutely, that five minutes la too short sti interval for safety. If the place at which the Interval can be corrected are clone enough together.

Moreover, the five-minute rule has been in force on the Pennsylvania and the New York Central for several years; and It Is in use on the Delawar 4k Hudson. The Pennsylvania and the New York Central use the block system on their principal lines, but the time-interval govern multitude of trains on their minor lints every day, nevertheless. In other recent codes that we have examined the time Interval appear as follows: lloslon A Albany, Chesapeake Ohio, New York, New Haven A Hartford. Norfolk A Western and Bout hern Pacific, ten minutes for all trains. Cincinnati, New Orleans Texas 1'aclflc, ten minutes for passenger trains and for freight ten minutes by day and fifteen minutes by night.

lOrle, ten for passenger and five for freight. Hnltlmore Ohio, ten for passenger nd seven for freight. Near (founders, a high trestle gave way under the weight of a moving freight train, Two of the train men lost their Uvea; the others escaped with more or Jess serious injuries. "Nearly tha whole of this long and heavy train," LUDLOW BARKER CO. 153 and 155 ASYLUM STREET.

Loot Ladies, look. Last Call On Fine Colored Shirt Waist: All the Colored Shirt Waists tho store liwns, gingham' ai madras heretofore sold at $2.5 12.75 and $3.00 are now yours al $1.50 Each. If vou'll como at onoe vou' secure some of the best produ tions of the season. Tbis is an oil that'll not need repeating. ENGINEERS GOING TO H0LY0KE.

Will Inspect th Hlsr Dam of Water power Company. The Connecticut Civil Engineers and Surveyors' Association will go to Hol-yoke to-day, where they will be the guests of the Holyoke Water Power Company, of which Charles E. Gross of this city Is president, and of Arthur MeMullen of New York, who has the contract for the erection of the dam now being constructed across the Connecticut River at Holyoke. After the inspection of the work on the new that of the old dam which was built fifty years ago, the visitors will be taken In a special car to the top of Mount Tom, where luncheon will be served by the Water Power Company. President Graves of the association believes that more members will go on th? trip to-day than ever before on any similar Irlp.

The view from the top of Mount Tom Is one of surpassing beauty and the Inspection of the dams will sure to be an interesting feature of the trip. Members of the association will leave this city at 9:26 a. m. A special trolley car will meet the party at Springfield for the ride to Holyoke, and the run to the offices of the Water Power Company will be made by 11:30. After the Inspection of the dams the trip up the mountain will be made and lunch will be served there at 2:30 o'clock.

The return to Springfield will be made In time to connect with the train arriving in this city at 7:10 p. m. The Alajor'a Nightmare. (New York Press.) Major Mills weighed 272 pounds, and camped In a cabin with President Jim Jackson. A holo was cut in the door for the convenience of an old tom-cat who lived abovo the Joists.

The major slept with his night shirt open deep at the collar, exposing his manly chest to cooling night bree.es. It was Tom's habit to reach his domicile by leaping on the major's bed and from there springing to th ceiling. One night Jackson rat up late writing; letters, and while the majcr snored a fearful rumpus was heard under the floor. A strange cat had visited Tom. and there was an argument beside which that of Chandler and Gallinsfcr would seem as a mice controversy.

The major never stirred. He lay through it all, with his chest The strange cat gave Tom a frightful licking, at the eoml islon of which Tom retreated to the cabin, coming through the hole In the door at grccsed lightning speed, hifi tall bushed and his claws expanded like an American Imperialist. From the door It was but a leap to th; bed and from the hed but a Fpring to the joists and safety. The leap landed the insane beaat full upon the major's cites-, which was shredded as by a cotton gin, aod the spring removed Tom from view. Jackson's demoniac laughter aroused the major who sat up In bed, trying to stop the flow of rich gore from his many wounds.

"What's the matter, Mills?" "Why, Jack, I've had a damned nasty nifhtmare. I dreamed I heard eats a-llghtlng and got so excited that I must have scratched myself hers on the chest. See this blood." He swore he had torn himself with his nails, and It was a long time Jackson could convince him thai Tom was the guilty party. His only comment was: "I'll kill that cat in tho morning." TWO CHAP.GES BROUGHT AGAINST OFFICER DOKAN. Jiiiiie Heoloy'a barge Withdrawn arid That of Fireman Richard J.

Dulloti to Ho Investigated Major Kdwln Mronit r.xplalu a Petition Central New uland Road Waut Police Protection at the Depot. Charges against policemen took up a good deal of the time of the police commissioners at the meeting last night. Mayor Preston presided and Commissioners Whaplcs and Smith were absent. James Heaky of No. 93 Sheldon street wrote to the board that on the night of June.

19 he was walking with his wife on Sheldon street and saw Officer Doran talking with a man. The policeman made an insulting remark to his wife and wben Healey called him down for It he says that Doran ordered him to go Into hi houae and struck hint twice with bis fist. In a subsequent communication Mr, Healey withdrew the charges against the policeman. Another charge against the same policeman wa received from Richard J. Dalton, a fireman.

He wrote that on the night of June 17, at 12.20 o'clock, while he waa returning from No. 3 engine house, he saw officer Doran strike a man with hi club without cause. A Healey had withdrawn bis charge it wa Intended to drop the matter, but it wa later decided to table it. The charge of Mr. Dalton were referred to the chief to investigate and report.

Olllcer Haven was called before the board and he told his story regarding the charges brought against him a month ago by a musician named Con-noll, whose temporary residence la New llritaln. Connell claimed that he was assaulted by the policeman, who broke hla mandolin, It was said that there was a small crowd collected on Windsor street and the policeman ordered the men to move on and Connell was one of the number. This case was referred to the chief for further Investigation, Major Edwin Strong, who lives at tho corner of Church and Ann streets, appeared before the board in reference to a petition of resident of Trumbull, Church. Ann, High and cros street for police protection. The petition was signed by a large number of taxpayers.

Major Strong said that there had been several burglaries In that section and from Borne houses considerable stuff had been stolen. The petition was ready to present a month ago and since that time a policeman had been assigned to the territory In question, and he hud given good satisfaction. The attention of Commissioner Lawrence bad been called to the matter and at his suggestion the chief detailed a man. The board approved of this course and decided to have the policeman continued on that beat. Petition from the following, who want to be supernumeraries, were read and referred to the chief foe investigation; John F.

Rohan, democrat, of No. 49 Franklin avenue, occupation, plumber; William F. Schofleld, democrat, of No. 47 Eaton street, occupation, paper-hanger; William G. Reld, republican, of No.

Madison avenue, occupation, machinist. Chief Hill reported favorably upon the applications of Henry J. Gray, republican, and Joseph F. Derby, democrat, to be supernumerary policemen. Olllcer K.

J. Farrell wo-i granted half pay for eight days' sickness; he had malarial fever. The quarterly report of the chief was ordered to be sent to the common council. A communication wa received from W. J.

Martin, superintendent of the Central New England road, asking that a policeman be detailed to tlo duty at the depot of that road while the various trains go out. Mr. Martin wrote that there were often drunken men about the depot and there waa need of a policeman. The matter was referred to the chief with power. There waa some discussion over this question and while it was the opinion of some that railroads should not be furnished any more protection than others, it was thought that the public expected policemen at depots.

No compensation is received from the railroad companies and the policemen who ride on the cars have to pay their fares. FUNERAL OF UNDERTAKER SMITH Will Ho Attended by Klka With Full Honors To-morrow Morning. The local lodge of Elks held a meeting last evening to take action on the death of William J. Smith, the undertaker, and make arrangements for the funcrat, w'hlch will be to-morrow morning. The members of the lodge will meet at the lodge room at 8 o'clock and under command of Alderman Daly, the exalted ruler, and headed by a platoon of police and Colt's Rand, will march to Mr.

Smith's residence, No. 208 Garden street, whence they will escort the body and the mourners to St. Joseph's Cathedral, where services will be held at 9:30 o'clock. After the services the Elks will take trolley cars from the corner of Edwards street and Albany avenue to Mount St. Benedict's Cemetery.

where the Interment will take place under the ritual of the order. The usual lloral tribute will be contributed by the Klks. The lodge appointed the following committee of arrangements for the funeral; Ex-Alderman Martin Mc-Keough Councilman M. J. Plgott.

J. P. Berry and Charles Dillon. Major Dillon will have charge of the arrangements. At a meeting of the Monday Night Bowling Club last night, John F.

Moran and William J. Peebles were appointed a committee to select a floral piece. The club also appointed James P. Berry, John F. Moran and Joseph E-O'Neil a committee on resolutions.

The following have been selected to act as bearers: From the Elki, Councilman M. J. Plgott. Dr. George C.

Bailey; undertakers. William Marchant, James C. Pratt; from the Monday Night Bowling Club, James P. Berry, Henry Ahearn. There will also be two from the Knights of the Maccabees.

LOST HIS WHEEL A Game of Tit for-Tat That Threatened Trouble. Harry Lecrenler and his cousin, Charles Francis, were off for a good time last night and in the course of their trip visited a saloon on Asylum street. Francis had his bicycle with him and left It outside the saloon. When they came out the bicycle was gone. Lecrenler, believing that he would play a game of tit-for-tat, took another bicycle that was standing In front of the place, but soon left it In front of Tracy Robinson's store.

He then took a car for home. The police were soon after him and he was taken to the police station, where explanations followed and he wa released, after being told that he had taken long chances. The wheel belonging to his cousin Francis, was a Columbia, No. 8.015. and was nearly new.

It had not been recovered last night. Path of William UoKenw n. William McKeown died at his home. No, 205 Woodland street, shortly after midnight last night He was 71 years old. FOUKTKEX Even so carefully edited a Journal a the "New York Pun" has its own aggravations for Its editors.

The day the Pun" tolJ of a party who had made th trip from Tarry'town to Itoston ty trolley. The "Hoston Transcript," appreciating a S0'1 story, copied the article, and yesterday, the "Sun appreciating a pood story, copied from the Transcript" the xci JJ-nt article hich the "Transcript," ipnclatln a good story, had copied from the "Pun," President Hartley of Tale will he In- auRurated In the fall M-anahlle the newspapers are kindly cutting out Ma work for him on a large pattern more; or lew of their own ingenious They have already had the Yan treasury tamed into bank of deposit and discount, and now they have arranged for him to hand over the management of the university to ft "governing board have the idea that when President Hartley ia ready to take up the official aheara will cut a-cording to a pattern of ht own It waa announced and denied yesterday that M. K. Jngalla, the prealdent of the road, ia to remove from Cincinnati to New York, and, at a salary of J75.0OO a year, ia hereafter to devote his time and talents to keeping in order the managements of the different railroads that center around th Morgan and Vanderbllt houses- This is Interesting from various points of view and not least in Us Illustration of the way tha roads are no conducted. Men at large salaries are hired to manage the properties, and then another at higher salary has to be hired to manage them.

What are those to gel who manage Mr. Ingalls? It Is fortunate, indeed, that more nerlous results followed that accident yesterday at the grade crossing Just this side of New Haven. Home people imagine that all grade crossings are where driveways cross railroads, hut a very dangerous kind Is found where one steam track crosses another. Huoh is tha case at that point. All trains entering New Haven from east or north, except on the Northampton division, converge at that spot and their tracks mil all together.

A large freight yard lies between some of the converging tracks. It is a place where every train should be under complete control and every engineer alive to the possibilities rOE yliBUOJiOHVtkltKOE. The editorial suggestion in yesterday's "Cournnt" that the city should care for all of every street, and the trolley company should put down tha grooved rail, caused no little discussion, and was generally approved. The present bicephalous method dales back to lime when the situation was Jut the re verse the present. In old times we used to have horse cars.

Homo people atlll remember tho quiet days, when the tinkle of the little bell on the horse vtaa one of the chief noises of the bus tlcless town. At that time the car company was the most wearing uor of the street. The feet of the horses wore their wy trip after trip, and the part of the roadway they used waa the most traveled and cut up. Then came rlec- trlrlty, and the cans cesed to use the road at all. They trawl on the rails, and all between those Is untouched, but we atlll stick to the old Idna, that the company must keep In repair the part of the road they used to wear out.

at any un-asptmlted street that the company haa to care for. All between the rails is In as poor a condition as will pas. There one pardonable clement In this: the wheeled Vehicles ara not tempted there and so collisions ari less liable. Hut it means that for a great part of the time a large fraction of the road Is not traveled upon at all. though It belongs to the public.

If wagons attempt It, their wheel ore liable to be twisted eft. If the company would, on all Its ne work, the grooved mil and the city would take care of the whole luymit, each eld would have a better bargain, and all who drive or ride wheels would have safer and smoother going. The Inducement to the company to replace Us rails gradually oil over town would be the riddance cf the core of He part of the street, and this would be likely to prove effective In time. AKE TOO AFEAID OF? Dr. Stanley Hal! knows now what a good m.my Americans ere afraid of or used to be afraid of when they were children.

He asked them, for purposes of selentifto investigation, and they told him. His first circular letter of brought answers from 1,701 persons, mostly under 23 years ot age, and others were heard from later. Ho summed up th results for the "American Journal of Psychology," and the government bas now republished big paper, along with twenty to thirty other papers, in a bulky pamphlet, entitled "Experimental Study of Children." Of Dr. Hall's 1,701 young Americans. .603 had or used to have a fear of thunder and lightning; 143 of any high winds; C7 of cyclones; 44 of queer-shaped clouds; 34 of shooting stars; 25 of northern lights; 18 of comets; 16 of fog; 14 of "storms," any kind; 34 of eclipses; ten ef very hot weather, and eight of very cold weather.

Snakes are or used to be an object of terror to 483, wild animals to 2u6, bulls, horses, to 268, spiders, wasps, to 203, rats and mice to 196, dogs and cats to 79, hawks, owls, etc, to El. No fewer than 432 own up to a dread of the darkness; 55 to a dread of solitude, either by night or by day; 109 to "dream fears," end 203 to a' creepy ter-tw of ghosts. fifty-seven are or were afraid of eath by 205 afraid of the Vater or; general principles, S65 afraid of fire, and 436 of any strange persons; while las confess to a haunting nerv cmsness on the subject of robbers. Dr. Hall heard from SIC boys and 671 premises, pistol )n hand, lodged a bald of buckshot in hla body, walked Into Mayevlllle and gave himself up.

Kent may die. In a letter to the "Sun" a New York physician. Dr. David D. Toal, make himself solid with the little folks aa follows: "For years I have advised mother of families to have all kinds of pet animal for their children to piny with, a the exerelMt of playing with pel develops trio mental and physical condition of children, and.

In coaequenoe give them tK'ttcsr constitution to overcome I have noticed fur the pant thirty year that where dog and. cats are kept In families the children are healthier and th death rate smaller than where they are not kept, If cats were trained that a child's throat could be covered over night with an ordinary bouse cat, men In my profession would have les trouble with membranous croup and diphtheria." Since Sunday Dr. Oliver Wejidcll Holme' eon and namesake haa been the ranking member of the supreme Judicial court of Maseachusetts, He took hi seat on the bench In 1882, hi associate in 1887, 1890, 1891 and 18'J8 respectively. A bill permitting dulyquallfled women to practice as advoratea In the French courts paseed the Chamber of Deputies last month and Is thought to hove a clear road In the Senate. A Hoosler editor, Rayn of the "Geneva Herald," Is now publishing the names ot delinquent Subscribers and appending brief biographies.

"I was in the battle of Paslg," Private Dan Kvana of Kansas write home, "and when we got our first volley from the Insurgent, to ay that I was bluffed Is putting It light, I must have got back my eand pretty quick, though, for the first thing I knew we were charging imong the Filipino like all git out." Mrs. Potter Palmer gave a dinner Sunday night In honor of Mrs. Fred D. Grant, Mis Julia Dent Grant and the Rev, Dr. Nevln, of Rome.

Her three principal guest reached Newport Sunday morning. in 18K4 Capt. Les Linn, who died the Other day in Santiago de Cuba, waa editing a democratic paper at Wabash, lnd, and surprised the other Hooaiers by whopping over to Maine. A few months tater, and in eelf-defenae, he killed William Hlckt-y, One of the smaller Maryland cltlea ha Just made the pelting of brides with rice a punishable offense. Of forty-seven negroes who presented themselves at a recent school-board ex amination in New Orleans, forty-two were graduates and five were not.

One of the non-graduates and three of the graduates passed the examination; the others failed, Of the rejected one balled from Holy Family Academy, one from Lelnnd University, four from New Orleans University, nine from Southern University and twenty-throe from Straight University. "We recom mend," say the school board, "that the attention of these 'unlvcrstties' be called to the facts above stated, and that iney raae auen steps as will prepare suitable candidates for teachershlpa In our schools. If our colored schools are to be placed In tho care of colored teachers, we do and shall expect preparation nd qualification of a reasonably high character from applicants." LETTERS FROM TUB PEOPLE. Colebrook'a Wturn Policy. To tlis Kditor of The PouraaJ; What Colcbrook has lately done In the way of preserving early and original records stems worthy of note.

Though not Incorporated until 1779 last, I believe, of the original towns Colcbrook' town history really begins at Windsor, where the proprietors organized, January 30, 1732-8, with Lieutenant Henry Wolcott moderator, and Roger Newberry clerk, at a meeting held "at ye Meeting House In ye old Society on ye West Side of ye Great River." The original record book, in use till 1770. contains, besides the formal record of proprietors' doings, many transfers of "rights" before the lots were laid out, and Incidentally affords much ot interest to the local historian end genealogist. The book haa begun to show decided slgna of years and use. What the town has done, haa been to have the worn page restored by the Emery process (lining with transparent sllki, and the book very thoroughly and handsomely Tebound. In its present form It la a decided credit to the town whose beginnings it chronicles.

Respectfully, Robert C. Rockwell. Colebrook, Conn. "FIret Citizens" of Lyme. To the Editor of The Courant: I copied the enclosed list of names from tho first town meeting book of Lyme, January 14, 1677, which may be of Interest to some of the readers of "The Courant." Yours, Daniel I.

Lay, Lyme, Conn. Mr. Richard Ely, Mr. Usher, Matthew Grlswold, Abraham Drunson, Matthew Grlswold, Thomas Lee, Abraham Waterous, John Horden. Richard Wallis.

Isaac Waterous, John Robins, John Lay, John Comstock. Woolstan Hroekway, Richard Smith, Richard Smith, Peter- Pratt, Peter Lay, Henry Champion, Henry Champion, Widow Marvin, William Measure, Widow Waller. William Waller, John Waller, Aaron Huntly, Ealtasser DeWoollf, Edward DeWoollf, Stephen DeWoollf, Joseph Peck, Mr. Moses Noyse, Robert Perrigo, Richard Lord, John Smith, Henry Peetherson 36 persons. Died at the Hospital.

Mrs. Ellxabeth Creedon died at the Hartford Hospital at 1 o'clock this morning. She had chronic Bright' disease and had been in the institution since June 2S. There's a little expansionist living in the upper fceoTlon of the city whose father Is an officer In General Otls's army. She was recently taken out to dinner, and in reply to a query as to where her father was, replied: "Oh, he's away off there," pointing to the Kast, "lighting the Philistines!" Philadelphia North American.

host 41 '2 Wind 35 Kt.d of world II Water 61 H'ibtiers it M- hiihlitrn 91 47 14.J 41 H.luhls 4 vir-eiiuw louimes in, 1 4 Nolt-ea 1 Itiuli'tl alive 'i 82 ln'M(rltitir thlt.as 21 i trowMtitf J9 lnnd 4 KollUid 4 fi i i M- ftltvnens 1 it'll 7 lilillctile 1 The doctor remarks that the dread of being kidnapped, of blood, of-cloud-shapes, of shooting star and of the end of the world seems to grow less as the boys and girls grow up. but the dread thunder-storms, reptiles, rob. bera, machinery and self-consciousness seems to Increase, lie remark further that "many infantile feara remain through life" and It's. so. Probably there are hundrede of men and women right here In Hartford who know it to be so.

THE BURT1NQ QROUHD. We print elsewhere this morning another letter from Mrs. Holoombe, regent of the Huth Wyllys Chapter, l. A. about the old Center Hurylng Ground Phe recites the patriotic work thut has been done In tha renovation of Gold street and the restoration of many of the gravestones of the original settlers of this town and State, Hut about three hundred and fifty stonne are still crumbling, and these bear names well known all over the country.

i'Uhllc spirit and local pride bava done more than could be expected In tljls long deferred work of respect for the dead. l'eople living elsewhere, who trace their families back to early Hartford, may now well help out In the matter of restoring the stones that have upon ihem the names that they themselves bear and wish to have honored. TflE B0DB1NC1 OF OHICAOO'8 TOOR. The Northwestern University liaa "settlement" in one of the Chicago slums, Ir, Henry Wade Rogers, the university's president, is living there this summer, It ia not at all the place most of us would pick out for a vacation sojourn, jnt apparently the doctor is so busy seeing and studying the strange world which, ha finds himself that he doesn't mind Its discomforts. Saturday evening he sat on ths steps of the settlement house wllh a "Times-Herald" reporter and talked about his discoveries.

The conditions in Chicago are not yet quite so bad. be thinks, as they used to be In the congested districts of Ixmdon or New York. Hut they will become as bud, perhaps worse, unless the city wakes up to Its danger and Its duty. He does not know what Is to become of the families whom the board of health la driving out of the clammy, fever-breeding basements, but he Is convinced by what he has seen that the evictions are absolutely necessary. He welcomes the official Inspection of lodRlng-hotises as another step In the right direction.

Art Illinois statute prescribes that not more than six persons shall be permitted to sleep In any lodgirg-house room at one time, "Right across the street from this house," said Dr. Kogers to the reporter, "we found eight people steeping In one room that was full of sewer gas and not larse enough to accommodate decently one person." It Isn't the public health alone that is menaced by the herding and filth and dense ignorance of all things sanitary In the city's near-leoted districts. Chicago's industrial future is threatened. Wretchedly housed labor la sickly, undependuble labor, as London found otit years ago. The prob lem thus has its economic side as well as Its philanthropic.

The talk of some of his brethren, to whom prohibition of the tratllo In intoxicant la the one all-sufficient solution, makes this Methodist university president tired." He said to the reporter: If these people only knew that sickness causes two-third of the poverty In the world they might turn their energies toward bettering the sanitary conditions that surround the poor. In the wards In this city where the tenement-house conditions are the most pitiable they would find the largest number of saloons. The people who live In these filthy holes and often suffer for lack of food are of necessity driven to whisky for a stimulant. Remove this condition and you remove many saloons. The problem Is much too big, In Dr.

Ropers' opinion, to be grappled with success by private philanthropy hopes the time is coming when benevolent Chicago capitalists will invest a part of their wealth in the construction and maintenance of model lodgings for worklngmen. Hut the first thing needful, and the supremely Important thing, Is action by Chicago herself. She should create a tenement-house commission, and find out just what must be done, and then do it. Northwestern University's president calls upon the Civic Federation to give Chicago no rest henceforth until the commission la organised tnd at work; he mentions Charles Hutchinson and Franklin MacVeagh as types of the class of Intelligent, public-spirited citizens that ehould be drawn on for the commissioners. George Burges say a he used to be a civil engineer In this state and, later, worked for the New York Central.

Now be lives In the woods near Ilhlnebeck. and corns his bread by pulling driftwood out of the Hudson. His ambition (he say is to get a raft of hie own. with a little bouse on it, and pass all bis time on the river. C.

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TUCKER'S SONS JOHN M. GALLUP CO, we are told, "sank to the ground (about IMS feet below the level of the track) In such regular order that most of the cars were found standing right side up, or a nearly ofn the surface of the ground would permit, and some of them with the rail of the track In position under them." Nobody wa killed on an American elevated railway in May, but car jumped off the structure in two Instances. The surface street-railways bad a baker' doen of "accidents" In May; they killed one person outright and Injured forty-nine. WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSTON. Death of a I'romlnoiit Sou been Kitu-vnlor.

Colonel William l'reston Johnston, whose death wa announced in yesterday's "Courant," wa a Yale man of the class of 1852, classmate of the Hon. George O. Pill, Cooke Iounbury and Dr. M. Storrs of this city and of W.

W. Crnpo of Massachusetts. President Oilman of Johns Hopkins, Penator W. M. Stewart of Nevada and Homer It.

Kprague. Ho wa a charming southern gentleman and had had a remarkable career. He was born In Louisville, January 6, 1S.1I. and was eon of cien-ernl Albert Pblney Johnston, who commanded the Confederate forces nt Phl-loh and was killed In that battle. After attending; the best schools In Kentucky, young Johnston was Bent to Yale.

After Yale he was graduated at the Louisville Law School the following year, and In 1W4 married Miss Rosa Duncan of New Orleans- He began the practice of law In Louisville, but the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the Confederate army a major with the First Kentucky Regiment. Hewas subsequently appointed by President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy to become his atde de camp, with rank of colonel of cavalry, When tho Confederacy collapsed Colonel Johnston adhered to the fortunes of Mr. Davis, and was captured with him. After release from prison he lived a year in Canada and then returned to Louisville to resume the practice of law. When General Lee became president of Washington and Lee XTniverslty Colonel Johnston was appointed to the chair of English history and literature, which he held till 1S77, when he resigned to complete the biography of his father, General Albert Sidney Johnston.

When this was completed lie accepted the presidency of the Louisiana State University at Raton Rouge, and when Tulane University was founded he was chosen president of that institution. A Mulhattanlan Well. (Cincinnati Fnnulrer.) Flemlngsburg, July 10. The town well, which has supplied citizens with water for the past eighty years, to-day begen filling with crude oil. Barrels of the oil have been pumped out and carried away and the supply seems to bfe Inexhaustible.

To-night the town Is wild with the oil fever and a movement is on foot to organize a company to develop the well. The town Is brilliantly lighted to-night by the flames from oil poured In the streets and gutters and a general celebration is In progress. No signs of oil in this vicinity have ever been observed before, and the super-stltloue ones are Inclined to look upon the wonderful phenomenon of to-day as "uncanny." Business men, however, are Jubilant. Why the Cilrle I.tked the Sermon. (Congregationallttt.) Colonel T.

W. Higgtnson saya that the best compliment he ever heard paid to the character and wisdom of Phlllli Rrooks wa that by a student of Vassar College, who said when asked how she liked his preaching: "Like Jt? Ha is the first man who ever preached here who did not say one word from which any one could Infer that we were cot human beings." Music Dealers. 201 ASYLUM STREET. Look At Our Special Offers in Second-Ham -AND- Prices From $10.00 to $100. Our warerooms are filled to overflowing and we vvi close out 20 INSTRUMENTS At the above figures.

Be sure and examine them befor purchasing. JOHN M. GALLUP CO. 20i Asylum St. (Cor.

Haynes), Hartford, Conn. iii.jii.uliim.i iii in. a 1.