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THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE-jANUARY 8. 21 1899. MARRIED 60 YEARS. flACIIING DISTRICT SCHOOL Four Generations of the Family of Mr and Mrs Simeon B. Titus Present at Anniversary.

hoot not little. But more than this. the influence of inexperienced Instructors over the pupils is harmful and detrimental to the best mental develop- ment. Mr Robbins is even more emphatic, and says: "I believe that the city of Manchester is large enough, rich enough, and is otherwise capable of procuring experienced teachers for the high school. and that it is an injustice to the pupils to use them to practice upon by teachers who have no expert.

ence or special training for the work, whether such teachers are paid for it or are teaching for the experience alone. It makes of the Manchester high school a training school for teachers to fill positions where experience and special Qualifications are required. It takes from the pupils much valuable time, and. what is much more valuable than either time or instruction, their enthusiasm and respect for school work and their thirst for knowledge." Elliott C. Lambert, a member of the present school board, gives the following opinion: "The plan at present is entirely experimental.

I would not care to speak of it favorably or unfavorably. If the taxpayers do not like it why let them furnish us more money, and we will provide more and better teachers." Experience of a College Man Who, Following the Example of Daniel Webster, Became a Country Pedagogue-45 a Week, Board and Room, the CompensationPlain People with Noble Hearts in the New England Hills. 4 ...0. 1 01 7-A ..,.41, tft liiD t. kl 111 40111,, 4, lit, fr ,,,4 411, 44) pi 1 di: ctir 1( A ftb 0- tce: (row WO 7-mlfrdye it' eet) 7-1 I as.

br--. 11 (mired; but this implement, I am glad to record, was not once applied to them or to any other pupil during my term of service. aly little experience went to prove that time-honored method obsolete. The little girl, Elizabeth Dare, was a treasure. She lisped bewitchingly, and bad a Charming habit of bringing her little bonnet to teacher for adjustment.

Au awkward task, awkwardly performed. Then there were four boys of from 8 to 10 years of age and two girls of as many years. These pupils begun geography under my tuition. and it opened to them the vistas of a world unknown. Boston became more than a fable and the tale of cities over seas set them dreaming.

Except to Roger Whitten. the village clergyman's son, such things were all unknown. The pleasure they took in reading was also extreme, and after a little I began the practice of reading to them a few moments each day from books of my own. I also loaned them books, and these were invariably returned, and in their' original condition, a phenomenon hitherto unmet with. Girls and boys were equally bright.

but the girls never forgave me my clothing, while I won the boys by the gift of a football and by such instruction in the art of self-detense as I was competent to convey. I must come to the bad boy of the school. Ills mother and father were both dead. and he was "boarded for his chores." in other words. provided with food, shelter and nondescript In exchange for milking.

haymaking. path shoveling and similar duties. His age was 17. A certain sum of money de. posited in a bank by his dying mother against his coming of age had given him a consciousness of coming power, and in his manner and modes of thought he seemed superior to his surroundings.

In spite, or rather in consequence of, the bad reports I had received of him. I came to entertain a genuine liking for the boy. My success with him I attribute to the fact that this liking was returned. To the profound astonishment of the community, this bad boy became a credit to the school, and his recitation before the school committee on the occasion of their visit tilled me with honest pride. I have learned eince that he is justifying my hopes.

The other pupils were in their teens, and one was 24 years old. This young man was of superb physique. and was really a handsome fellow. His intellect, however, was not in keeping with his appearance, and it was with difficulty that he could inscribe his name. His brain could not grasp a fact.

In matters farming and dairying he was entirely competent, and his father's farm was exceedingly prosperous, but to him the spelling book was a torture and the geography a legend. He was personally most agreeable, and I became indebted to him for several delightful hunting expeditions. Day by day the school went on. The attendance was good, the school was orderly, and I venture to believe that results were obtained. My interest did not flag.

I was a city youth. I had never lived in the country except in summer weather, and taking into consideration the long cold walks, the cold bedchamber and the unaccustomed fare, the life might almost be termed a hardship. But youth is indifferent to externals. and the story of each day as I looked back on it had the freshness and interest of an original theme. I called.

during the term, on the parents of all my pupils. When since have enjoyed visits more? Invariable were the apples. maple sugar and cider. Invariable also that kindliness and quaint courtesy of the hills. More than that, they appreciated my situation.

and more than one woman expressed sympathy for my probable loneliness and difficulty. I do not say that gossip was unknown, or that they never discussed one, but I feel sure that their criticisms were kindly and their observations not ill-natured. On the morning of Christmas day Mr and Mrs Peters permitted me to entertain my scholars at their home. Several relatives of the Peters' family were visitors, among them two young ladles. who were good enough to relieve me of almost all my duties.

The luncheon, which closed the little reception, included every variety of food that is eaten in the hills. The dinner, which occurred later in the day and after the departure of our younger guests. partook of the nature of a family reunion, and those who have ever enjoyed such an occasion can testify to the glorious hospitality that obtains. Every dish was a gastronomic triumph and I for one regret that dinner still. The habit of "sittin' up" with the maiden of one's choice was explained to me at this time, and I was told that such cceasions were social events which were remembered with pleasure and regret.

All the pleasures of the hills are primitive, for the true life of those communities, thinned though they are by bad times and immigration, abides in the hcme and in the church. At the cod of the term I spent three niehte in a maple sugar camp. The wind moaned through the trees and the anches swayed in the frosty moonlight. Who knows what spirits were abroad, or what mocking fairies walked beneath the shadowy Pities? Ti)' same winds moan across Boston common and the same moon shines. The "store" was five miles away.

and five miles away the nostoffice, my one link with the world I knew. But there, shut in by the circle of the hills. one some' times feels that that circle is complete. do not think that On one of all those days tither I or my friend wished our-se) tc away. This is my simple story of a winter in the Vermont hills.

A winter of cold and swift snow, of plain Ned and plain wcrit. The country and the town are opposite, but the hard. bright face of life shines there and here the same. For all little boys and girls are brothers and sisters under the sun. My friend's school of 24 pupils was a complete success, and we ended our labors en the same day.

W. F. E. 111AGNATE3 SCHEME. Baltimore Brooklyn Deal Practically' Settled.

St Louis Club Looking for a Owner, With Money to Burn. Colonels Refuse to Draw Cards, and Bet the Limit on a Bluff Hand. The baseball magnates have returned home for their Nest Year's plum pudding. Several members of the inside circle have made a point of giving out the information that the 12-club league will be In existence at least one more year, as they will not put up money to buy ()fit the "dead weight." The Brooklyn-Baltimore deal has been settled, but the facts will not be given out for some time, as the minority stockholders of the Baltimore club saw a chance to make a little trouble, and succeeded in playing on the weakness of a few Baltimore players. It isn't likely, however, that Messrs Hanlon and Von der Horst will give up their cnly opportunity for making big money In the baseball business simply because Capt Robinson and John McGraw will find it inconvenient to go so far from their barroom and bowling alley.

To these men, Just now, the national game Is simply a good advertisement for their sporting emporium. While the board of strategy may be at home receiving their New Year's callers they have not fully given up the idea of better days for the game. John T. Brush is at Indianapolis, while Frank de Haft Robison is at Cleveland. Both have been dumb as oysters when approached by the young men of the pencil-pushing brigade.

These clever managers will avoid, if possible, telling a newspaper man that which they know to be far away from a truthful home. They cannot be expected to give out the plans they have figured on to land the eight-club league as soon as possible, without the use of money or sandbags. Therefore the public must wait patiently for important news until something develops. Just now all baseball eyes are turned toward St Louis, where Chris von der Ahe is hanging on for dear life by a weak eyelash. Next Friday is set for the day when Von der Abe must make good or get off the map.

The Louisville directors met a few days ago and decided to remain in the big league to the ere' of the 10-years agreement, which has' three years yet to run. If they lose money at the rate of $20,000 a year, as they claim they did last season, it means a loss of an extra $60,000, added to the $40,000 they are now said to be in the hole for, would give the stockholders an even $100,000 of a loss to sleep over. At the end of the three years the players would be free to go to the big league, and the Louisville club and franchise would not ise worth as much as a white chip in a stationery store. If the Louisville stockholders remain in the business for the purpose of forcing the larger cities to pay them big money for getting out of a losing business. they must not be surprised to find all clubs under the national agreement refusing to give one dollar for the best player on their payroll.

If the Louisville people ever had a chance to get out of the baseball business, anything like whole, now is their opportunity, and the same reasoning stands good for Washington. Louisville might sell out at the present time for $25,000 or $30,000. If they hold off one more year they will not get over half that amount, and would finally pass out of the league with a big debt for the stockholders to pay. This is not the first time that Louisville has found baseball a losing game. In 1877, when Devlin.

Hall and Nichols were expelled from the National league for making money on the outside, the players of the Louisville club, then fighting one of the closest races on record for the pennant, went months without seeing a pay day. Poor Jim Devlin told me at the time that his family was actually in want. and he found it impossible to get his salary from the Louisville club, and to this alone he claimed was due the fact that he stood in with a bookmaker to get hold of a little money. Louisville has no claim to national league company, outside the fact that several good sports are willing to inderse the notes offered by the club to local banks. The patronage at the ball games in Louisville is not large enough to run a strong minor league club, and the sooner the backers of the club get together and read the cards face up the better for the club and the league.

Andrew Freedman of the New York club was right when he refused to pay a fancy price for the Louisville outfit Bernie Dryfuss tried to convince the New York management that the Louisville team was a stronger aggregation than the present giants. Poor Bernie failed in his attempt to land the New York man for a "mark," and, realizing that the Detroit offer of 15,000 was a bluff, as the league would never consent to a change of base, Mr Dryfuss has returned to Louisville to think how much better off he would have been had he treated manager McGunnigle like a man when the Brockton boy was developing the colonels into a money maker. The Louisville club has but a few men fast enough for the big eight-club league. Fred Clarke is the only real star in the bunch and the only man worth $5000. Kittridge is a good catcher, but when one realizes that Washington cannot get $3000 for the great catcher McGuire, it would be hard to get $2000 in open market for Kittridge.

1 Cunningham did some good work last season. but has been too long in the business to fetch over $3000. This young man was a well-known pitcher for the Baltimore club when Charley Nichols wore knee breeches while attending school at Kansas City. If put up at auction today the Louisville club would not bring $30.000. Here Is about what the players would sell for: Clarke $5,000 Cunningham 3.000 (lineman 2.000 Kittredge 2.000 lloy 1.500 Ritchey 1.500 Magee 2.1)0(1 AVagner 1.000 Decker 1.000 Dexter 2.000 Frazer 1.000 Seven others 5,000 Total $27,000 The New York club could make good use of Clarke and Hoy in the outfield, Clingman at third base.

Kittredge and Cunningham for a battery. for these men Freedman could well afford to give up 115,000, and with the material he has on hand could give New York a grand good team. In Warner. Rusie, Seymour, Doyle. Davis, Gleason and Van Haltren the giants have a string of players as fast as either Boston or Baltimore.

Ball players are not as valuable as they were a few years ago, although there is, perhaps, a dozen players in the business who would bring a fancy price, such as Collins, Tenney. Nichols, Jennings, Keeler. Davis. Wallace, Long, Bergen. Burkett, Clarke and a few others.

The most valuable players today In the business are Collins of Boston and Wallace of Cleveland. Both are phenomenal all-round third basemen and stand out in a class by themselves, and yet $10,000 would be a fancy price for either man: three times that figure, however, would not purchase the re- lease of Collins from the Boston club. Should Von der Horst and Hanlon sell the Baltimore franchise, minus the star players, to a Baltimore syndicate, It may force Brooklyn out of the eightciub league when the final fixing up comes around. By the sale of the Baltimore stock to new parties, thereby blocking for a time the reduction of the Ill-club league. the clubs on the inside may say to Messrs Hanlon and Von oer Horst.

'We don't want Brooklyn in the big circuit. as the giants should have greater New York to themselves. and Washington will suit us much better as the fourth eastern club." The only way thar Messrs Hanlon and Von der Horst can secure a permanent foothold with the big league is to act with them while they are working to bring about a better condition in baseball. Manager Ed Hanlon should be a fixture in the big league. and while he and Von der Horst should not be censured for getting a fancy price for the left over players and the Baltimore franchise.

yet even they must not exnect favors later on if they oppose the plans made to eliminate the barnacles. The Quaker philosopher Frank Hough says: In the light of the past season's experience, It would be folly to continue the same circuit next season. There is no reason to believe that the cities which did so poorly in a business way in 98 will do a bit better in St-4. On the contrary, there are good and substantial reasons why some of the cities Will do worse uriless there is some radiIda change made 411 the old order of MEN THEIR SUPERIORS. Women at Last Acknowl edge the Eevident Fact Conceited Twaddle That Has Nadi Some Girls' Heals Very feverish.

Yet in Three This Woman Easily is the Leader in the Great Struzzle. In the way of practical professional work there are only two things a woman can do better than a man. She is unquestionably a better sick nurse and also a better primary teacher. and no man living can equal a woman when It comes to trimming a hat. In every.

thing else he leaves her miles behind. At a meeting of the Artmite WOman'S club, the subject under discussion was "The Uniform Superiority of Woman." All the speakers dilated, of course, upon her moral and spiritual supremacy, and deplored the long, cruel bondage she had endured: bondage that very naturally had crippled her genius, and thereby prevented an earlier competition with man in industrial fields. Mrs Henrietta Bateman. as president of the chin, concluded the remarks by saying that all woman asked was an equal chance to write her name large in the world's history beside that of an Edison or a Lincoln. With faculties cramped by ignorance, and her field of action confined to the kitchen or sewing chair, what wonder if she is slow today in proving her capacitle8 in science, statesmanship, commerce, etc.

It is the sort of twaddle that is responsible for the feverish, conceited restlessness we have all seen wcrking like yeast in the mass of womankind lately. It is as tales as hurtful, and as incendiary as to tell a workingman that the reason he is not a millionaireor a president is because somebody has oppressed and cheated him out of his rights. Extol by all means the freedom that has made it possible to develop his best capacities, but, for heaven's sake, don't suggest that capital and society alone are responsible for the insignificant place he occupies. No more should you ferment trouble in my sex by telling us that we are the intellectual equals of man. Mrs Bate Man said there were ages of oppression and ignorance to overcome, and that we are too awkward as yet in using our tools to expect anything like ripe results.

The technicalities and traditions of law, medicine, politics and commerce must not only be mastered by one generation of women, but several generations following must absorb it with their mothers' milk, as it were, before we can icok for a Thomas Jefferson or an A. T. etewart. Imagine the vexation of listening to such statements and not being able to ask the speaker why, then, if tradition and familiarity are essential to achievement. are men today the 'best cooks, the best dressmakers and th6 best housekeepers on earth? In the sorry past she pictured, men never denied to women complete familiarity with needles and frying pans.

All the long years of our bondage we were made to earn our board and keep by cooking his porridge and sewing his shirts Yet today who brings the high, est nriees in the market, and is quoted as authority en food and clothes, but Worth and eoseph, tne first a dressmaker. the second a cook. Men. not have made records as housekeepers of the big hotels. Hay.

Lug applied office and business principles to marketing and managtng servants. behold the results are peace and profit. It would only have been natural to suppose that when the Auditorium in Chicago and the Waldorf-Astoria of New York were built, that a woman would instantly be put at the bead of affairs. Her long domestic training seemed to fit her peculiarly to make money and fame. when the chance came to shine along the old humble path her patient feet had trod for so many dark centuries, Not at all.

She Is congenitally deficient in the kind of brain necessary for all and every sort of constructive and administrative work. She is fun of earnest desire to do right, but nature failed to endow her with capacity. Certainly no one pre. tends today that it is prejudice or lack of Opportunity that drags at a woman's petticoat holding her back from her best development. Then hy do these walking delegates of society love to stir us up with such Incendiary doctrines.

They only tend to make us dissatisfied. And, moreover, it directs our attention from the great sphere in which we are supreme; that superior hight from which we can afford to smile encouragingly upon men struggling in the arena below. If man controls affairs, woman controls man. She can truthfully say. I am the tree, ye are the branches.

She is the underlying, fundamental force in the world. Her hands hold the power of life or death for society. In comparison with her sphere and work, all that men accomplish looks feeble and petty. Compare the construction of an electric dynamo or the building of an ocean flyer with bringing a healthy, rosy child into the world, and then fetching him or her up with a sound stomach, a sweet heart and clear brain. And it is women, not men, who rear children.

Those first 10 years, when character and constitution are formed, the father is a very unimportant, secondary consideration. He supplies food and clothing, but the mother lays the foundation for an upright citizen, who will help carry the world a step forward in the next generation. As teachers of children and thereby molders of character, women do the very noblest work the world offers to human enterprise. The, little kindergarten teacher far over in an unfashionable district, who day after day trains the tiny moral and mental tendrils of her childish scholars, is a momentous force In the political future of our country. Wbile men are making railroads and steam engines, she is making lawgivers, soldiers and sailors.

Philosophers and philanthropists who deal with great moral questions agree that all advancement in stamping out crime and furthering virtue must begin with the little child, the next generation. We women, then, hold in our hands the weal or woe of the future. It is to go forward or fall back, as we will it. Isn't that honor and responsibility enough for one sex to carry successfully. It ought to be.

One would think we could afford to let men have first place in other things and not scold and cackle so noisily over insignificant details. ALL IS SURMISE AT THE NAVY YARD Order Received Countermanding All Previous Orders to Place the Auxiliary Yacht Inca in Commission. The auxiliary yacht Inca was not delivered to the Massachusetts naval reserve yesterday. Instead an order was received at the navy yard countermanding all previous orders to place the craft in commission and further stating 1 that she was not to be delivered to the Massachusetts authorities until further orders to that effect were received. What the order mesxs is not known at the yard, no explanation, of course, coming with it.

It is thought, however, that as the state authorities recently signified their wish that the yacht could be berthed at the yard until spring that the transfer is delayed until then to suit the local authorities' convenience and wishes. Some think. however, that as the recently ordered sale of other auxiliaries at other yards has been delayed, the same reasons may have caused today's order relative to the Inca. STORK OF PROTESTS HEARD. Manchester, 11 Citizens Object to Volunteer Teachers for High School.

MANCHESTER, II, Jan 7 The plan inaugurated the first of the week at the Manchester high school for volunteer teachers is meeting with a storm of criticisms, and protests are being tiled with the Superintendent of schools. The criticism is not directed to the volunteer instructors, but to the system which permits inexperienced teachers to practice On pupils at the city's highest educational Institution. Among those who are outspoken iti their 01 position to the scheme are William K. Robbins, for many years a prominent member of the board of education, and Hon Oliver E. Branch, late district attorney.

Mr Branch says: "If the force of teachers employed at this high school is too small I believe the city should provide for a suilic.ent number of competent The present scheme makes of the institution a training school and lowers the standing of the ON OBSERVATION ENGINE Gov Roosevelt's Quick Rich to New York, Dashed Over the G'istening Rails at lb; Rate of 50 Miles an Hour. Was Thus Enabled to Keep his Dance ment With Senator Platt NEW YORK, Jan 7Gov Roosovell made flying trip from Albany to Neg York yesterday afternoon, perche4 above the boiler of the observatiol locomotive Hudson, which is used bi Metals of the New York Central rail, road for making Inspections of thi road. Gen Supt Van Etten of the Now Yor2 Central railroad was in Albany ol. Thursday, and yesterday morning h4 telegraphed to New York for the Midi son to come up and ret him. The ob4 servation locomotive followed the Emt pire State express up the line, makind the trip to Albany in 3 hours and 44 minutes.

which is pretty good traveling) The Hudson was scheduled to leav4 Albany for New York at 2 in wit' Air Van Etten as its passenger. Mean. while Gov Roosevelt had arranged tq take the 2.35 train down. He ha4 several important engagements on hand Including a conference with Senatoi Platt. He found that fog and 'lungs had so delayed his train that it would not leave Albany until 4 tn.

The mat who went to the Albany depot to bus his ticket made such a loud complaint that it attracted the notice of Sup Van Etten. who was preparing to start. He hastened to the governor's mant sion to offer him the hospitalities ot his private locomotive. The governol was glad to accept, and at 2.10 thg engine left Albany, carrying beside Mr Van Etten and the governor, Assi Supt McCoy. The observation locomotive is a cozy concern, with a small parlor built int.

mediately over the boiler. To enter it you climb up a staircase. the foot of which is over the cowcatcher. It has luxurious chair seats, and is so arranged that its passengers can loud down upon the track with expert eyes and count the ties and see that the rails are in place. In the center of the ear is a sort of throne on which the official in charge of the engine site.

regarded with awe by his stenographer and such minor representatives of the road as accompany him and who are on the defensive and who generally are being scolded for any deficiencies that the boss crucial detects along the line. Gov Roosevelt sat on this throne as the engine came dashing through the fog. lie chatted affably with the railroad M. cials whose guest he was. In the cab behind the parlor sat Royal S.

Cornwall, the engineer, an old-time employe of the company, who is generally in charge of this engine. The fireman was Robert F. Shea, who was so much overcome by the fact that the governor of the empire state was aboard that he got his autograph album mixed with the coal and burned it up before he had a chanue to got Col Roosevelt. signature. The engine, considering that there was a heavy fog along the river and large supply of sleet, made an excellent trip.

It wheeled into the Grand Central station at 5.10 having done the distance in 2 hours 51 sninutes 5 seconds. To a reporter he said "It's one of the pleasantest tripe II ever had. I've been on a locomotive before. but never on an Observatiort engine. We dashed down the track al 50 miles an hour in a way that wee positively exhilarating.

We didn't sel much of the road. because there was rain storm. but I realized that we were going. On the engine you seem to he traveling twice as fast as when you're in a car. It was great fun.

The cumstances were so novel that the t'ml passed quickly. and we got here as boo as we started." Five porters seized the governor's dress suit case, and he thanked Mr Van Etten profusely for extending tel him the courtesies of the road. He shook hands with the superintendent and his assistant, and, jumping into as i cab. went to the home of his sistAr a No. 689 Madison av, where he intend to Put Jiff his dark business suit an don the clothes contained in his dre suit case.

Gov Roosevelt chatted with the engineer on the trip, asking him for anecdotes of his railroad life. Engineer Cornwall is an old-timer. who is proud of his business. and who is on the friendliest terms with his engine. He is one of the most careful engineers on the line.

He knows every brook and bridge between here and Albany, and it is his pride that he keeps his locomotive in tiptop shape and doesn't know more than the president of the road. Gov Roosevelt dined at the house of his sister. Mrs Coles. From there he went to the Twelfth Night reception as the Century club, where he spent the evening. INTERNAL FRICTION THE CAUSE.

After Investigating the Rainsford Island Troubles, Mayor Quincy Sees No Reason to Discharete Mrs Everett. Mayor Quincy has been investigating the conduct of the Rainsford island ine stitution for boys, especially with regard to the troubles which occurred there a few days before Christmas. when the boys refused to obey the teach. ers in two of the class rooms. The trouble, it will be remembered, grew out of the forced resignation of Supt Perkins, and charges were made against head teacher Mrs Everett.

Mr Perkins was succeeded by John C. An. thony, and after he took control an in. vestigation was made into the conduct of the institution and the charges against Mrs Everett. The mayor gave out the following statement yesterday regarding the Ia.

vestigationt "In connection with the change of ad. ministration at Itainsford island. it was deemed best to make a full inquiry into certaila charges which had been made against the head teacher, Mrs Everett, in order to decide as to the advisabffity of her continuing in her position. Two hearings of four hours each were held by the mayor and the children's institutions trustees sitting together, and all the witnesses who could throw any light Upon the question were examined. 'At the conclusion of the bearings the board desired the mayor to state his own COTICIUSIOTIS, and the mayor advised the board that in his opinion there was no case against Mrs Everett to warrant her dismissal, and that she should be continued, hi his opinion, in her post.

tion, subject, like all other officers and employes. to a trial by the new superin. tendent. Mr Anthony. and to future reo- ommendations by him.

"Mr Anthony had been present during the hearings, at the request of the trus. tees for children, and he stated to the board at the end of the hearings that In his opinion Mrs Everett eliould be continued. While there was ROTtle con-Met of testimony in the cases the mayor had no doubt as to where the truth lay, although he had no knowledge of the matter in advance, and had deemed the charges made, which related to methods of discipline, worth inquiring into. "The mayor believeit that internal friction in the institution has been re. sponsibie for any diffieulties which have lately existed.

and that there is not likely to be any further trouble of any sort under the new superintendent." EUNERAL OF D. H. munPaY. Services at Lynn and Remains Take to Lowell tor Burial. LYNN.

Jan 7The funeral of Daniel H. Murphy was held in St Joseph's church at 9 a today. There was large attendance of business friends and prominent citizens. The Gregorian mass was celebrated by Rev Fr Coleman. and the music for the mass was by the church choir with Miss Jennie McDonald and Miss Janie Cochrane as soloists.

Michael GrilLts presiding at the organ. There was a beautiful display of floral offerings from friends and members of the family. At the Conclusion of the service the remains were taken to Lowell for interment. The pallbearers were E. A.

Green. George IL Newhall. D. J. Denegari.

Charles W. Gay. Maurice Bresnahan and John It. Madden. i The body was taken to Lowell and Interred in St Patrick's cemetery.

Postmaster at Prides Crossing. '11 WASHINGTON, Jan 7The following fourth class postmasters were appointed today: Connecticut. Itakersville, Albert Clarke; Marie, Woodville, Ablate Campbell; Massachusetts. Prides Cross Elisha S. Pride; New Hampshire, East Soranzey, Mrs N.

M. Woodwerd4 Bouth Barnsteada W. C. Knowlton. To many pecelo the "district school' Is elthcr a childhcod memory or a fleet-leg tteditien of IS time, preserved only to posterity by the laudable effort of the einiday ache()) entertainment.

It is true, however. that this educaComa Mainstay of the backwood existe today le the same primitive and pletur "see teat- whin Daniel Webster knew In the days when he walked over the stone Ne's Itampehire hills with a and the primaries of an education. and began at Dartmouth college his it iellectual life. Nothing has changed; the schoolhouse Is as Of old. The district sehools of Maine, New Hampshire fuel Vermontone need not leave New England to find themare scattered through the half-forgotten townships, established by law, three miles to five miles distant from one another and governed by teachers appointed by the school board of the various towns.

The teachers form a queer collection the daughter of the village lawyer or clergyman or the broken down son of the local "squire." Often incompent, sometimes otherwise. and each with from 10 to 40 children of the soil, ranging in age from 4 to 25 years, in whom to instill the beginning of knowledge. occasionally, and especially through the winter term, which extends from Thankegiving day to the middle or end of February, a school is held by a college undergraduate who is seeking to improve his finances thereby, or to add to his stock of experience, as his case may be. My friend and Myself belonged to the latter class. We left our college home on lite Saturday following Thanksgiving.

Our schocis, for wnich we had been engaged some time before through a college agency established for the to open on the Monday following for a term of 10 weeks. We were to receive $5 a week for our services, and it was also understood that "the town" was to furnish our board at farmhouses "adjacent" (two miles and a quarter) to our respective schools. We learned later that the families thus receiving us had a consideration of $250 the week. wlech included board and room with full care. We were also told that this amount was considered liberal, and it became evident, in toy case, at least, that correeponding feelings of gratitude were added to the natural kindness of my hostess and host.

I hove seldom lived better than in Caledonia county. Vt, through the bitter winter of 94-5. SVe arrived at the theater of our efforts shout sundown of a blustering gray day. November was over and done. The hush of snow lay over the hills and meadows and fields.

We stood on the uneven platform of the little railway station and shivered. The poste mnster, baggage and ticket agent and eonetable was closing his place of business for the witching hour of supper. pesides us three not a soul was in sight. A hundred yards away, at the foot of a rocky hill, began the straggling village street of a dozen or more houses. and at the further end the lights and whitewashed facade of the country store.

The man of many occupations eyed us with mistrust strongly tempered by curiosity. We were too cold, however. to be communicative, and answered his carefully planned attacks with monosyllables. Fortunately the rattle of wheels and the beat of hoofs terminated our one-steed conversation. An ancient express wagon in tow of an enormous white horse could be seen approaching through the gathering dusk.

"Calculate it's Cy Peters." said our interlocuter. "Be you them school teachers for the Harvey mountin" deestrick We said briefly we bellevel we were, and then applied ourselves to answering the cheery greetings of Mr Peters. whose eherlot had finally obeyed the "wholes" and "haw naows" Of its charioteer. "Cv" Peters was m3, landlord. as he has become my loved and respected friend.

His first words of greeting dispelled the cloom and loneliness which the barren desolation of the place had imposed upon the two city-bred lads who were to taste for the first time the rigors of that inhospitable winter clime. In an instant we were seated in our springless conveyance and headed for our five-mile journey across the crooked country roads. It was arranged that my friend was to remain with my host mut hostess over night. We came into the warm farm kitchen from the frosty starlight, tired and cold. A good supper awaited us, and we ate as lads will.

Tint even the good meal and the pleasant welcome of Mrs Peters were insufficient to keep away the pangs of homesickness. and soon we were glad enough to sink Into the ample featherbed of "teacher's room." We visited "my school" (I said it proudly) the next merning, during tha absence of Mr and Mr. Peters at the Orthodox Congregational house of worWe at the village. Farmer Peters showed us the short cut across the fields which lessened the distance to a mile and a half. The schoolhouse was a clapboarded one-story structure, 35 feet in length by 25 in width.

painted white and unfinished inside. Double Seats to the accommodation of about 45 pupils and graduated from the rear occupied the body of the building, facing the low platform on which was situated the teacher's desk. The auditorium was lighted by six eight-paned windows. The walls were covered by dry wreaths nnd flowers with which the room had been decorated at the close of the summer term, presumably as a mark of joy. A partition at the rear of the teacher's desk walled off the woodshed and the dressing room.

An enormous cast iron stove and a transom In the roof for ventilating purposes completed the furniture of the room. Appearsnces were the reverse of prepossessing. They were little better next morning in the bitter light of dawn when the impatience of youth found me, after a Very early breakfast. gazing on the cheerless interior. I had borne away from the farmhouse a sufficiency of advice and kood wishes.

I had learned by he.irt the name of the brightest girl and of the Inevitable bad boy. I had also carefully reviewel the Lord's Prayer, it formula by which each day'S Work was to be begun, I was not alone in the school room; tea small boys. fearfully and wonderfully clad, sat by the east-iron stove and gazed at inc with a solemnity tempered by a strong sense of the ludicrous. Nly gloves. shoes and linen were eyed With contemptuous curiosity, and my general make-up to them, as to the other pupils for several days, was a source of mirth without alloy.

These boys were tempted into the revelation of their names. One of them deftly constructed a fire, and I losed with him upon the spot in a contract for similar service through- ut the term, including the general Care and cleanline SS of HO school room. The consideration was to be a dollar. s.tel the youth had arrived at that early Dour in order to secure this much coveted appointment. With a bright fire in the stove -and IMO schoolroom swept and dusted, took a brighter hue.

I collected from the desks and sorted Into piles the battered school books, arranged the teacher's desk and awaited the hour of battle. At 8,30 the pupils began to arrive. Large cowhide boots reaching almost to the knee and worn outildo the trourecrs, Coats of many color A shirts guilt! SM el' collars termed the costumes of the boys The girls wore gowns of uncertain and with pathetic attempts at nxin' had adorned themselves with wern-ollt ribbons and laces, tied and in fashions that have long gone bl'. All carried dinner pails, -for their hones were from one to three miles dis- tal- in every ease. Boys and girls together there were 19 all told.

Every maid and boy in the district who intended to attend the school was in evi(ence. and I entered their names and ages in the paper covered register, There were three children of Rye years of age. constituted the primary division. 1 I') tong weeks they strove with the htilties of the cat and rat legend, and log arithmetical calculations of vary- tog simplicity. Exeept that they silt- rtrel from the habit of laughter on very and all occasions, better children were seen.

The mother of the two lithe boys twice visited the school and implored to apply the rod of correction as re JOHN B. CORNISH ELECTED Sixteenth Annual Meeting and Election of the New England Insurance Exchange. The 16th annual meeting of the New Erg land insurance exchange was held yesterday noon at the exchange rooms on Kilby As there was to tie an election of officers and the reading of important reports concerning the year's work and suggestions for the coming year, the meeting was fully attended. Pres F. A.

Weatherbee was in the chair. The president is usually reelected for a second term. but Mr Weather-bee had firmly declined to be considered as a candidate this year. The address of the president dealt with the different branches of the work which had been taken up by the organtzation during 1898. He ccntrasted the harmony prevailing in insurance circles in New England with the troubles of New York and the west, as follows: "The New England Insurance Exchange.

the steady old wheel horse of all tariff organizations, continues to plod along, attending strictly to its allotted work. its members ever loyal to our organization, striving to help each other, and insisting upon a maintenance of our New England standard of correct practice in everything pertaining to the business in our charge. "Considering the friction and turmoil existing in other parts of the country, we certainly have good reason to congratulate ourselves on the condition of business in our jurisdiction, and let us see to it that there shall be no departure from the straight path we have been traveling the past 16 years, that we may continue to enjoy the full confidence of our companies, as I believe we always have. "While we hear of a costly rate war on the Pacific slope, of the shaky condition of boards in the west, of longstanding board troubles in the south, of a complete dissolution in the great metropolis, we have good cause to congratulate ourselves on the situation in New England, which still remains unshaken by reason of the good faith and confidence which prevails among us." W. B.

Medlicott. chairman of the executive committee, then delivered his annual address on the work of his committee. It was a lengthy report, and is in part as follows: "Forty-three meetings of the exchange have been held, and the average attendance has been 57. the largest In the history of' the exchange. The number of active members at the beginning of the year was 126.

tlx have resigned and 14 new members have been elected, making a net gain of eight and a total membership of 134. Three honorary members have been elected. "Sixteen tariffs have been revised. Two tariffs, Pawtucket, 11 and northeastern Vermont are in type, and Brockton and New Bedford have been surveyed and will also be ready for tabulation ere long. "The boot and shoe factory schedule has been revised and all shoe factories in New England have been resurveyed on the new schedule and a new tariff for these risks will also soon be issued.

"On the recommendation of the steamboat committee all rt.tes on steamboats have been declared off. "In the spring it was thought advisable and, in fact, necessary that some change should be made in the issuance of tariffs and the application of the co. insurance clause, and your executive committee met the corresponding committee of the Boston board to devise some scheme whereby the two boards should act in harmony i- this important matter. Great care at time were expended for many weekb Over this, and while the course that seemed wisest to the majority of your committee was not the one finally adopted, as a whole, in its method of application we believe that the outcome will be of lasting benefit to underwriting interests in New England, and will tend to satisfy the yublic." The election of officers resulted in he unanimous election of Mr John B. Cornish of Springfield fire and marfne insurance company as pres and Messrs W.

B. Medlicott, C. B. Fowler and V. B.

McClellan as vice preste. The executive committee comprises C. H. Wilkins chairman. G.

T. Forbush. C. H. Rice, C.

C. Clifford and A. W. Sewall. Mr J.

B. Cornish, the new president. was proposed by Col W. A. R.

Boothuy and seconded by Henry R. Turner. tie I made a brief address, thanking the exchange for the honor and promising to I keep up. to the best of his ability. the standard of excellence which for 16 years has been maintained.

John B. Cornish is a Massachusetts man and was born on cape Cod, where he still lives. He has been connected with insurance for many years and has been an active member of the New England insurance exchange almost tram Its inception. He is well known as a speaker at educational and patriotic gatherings and has frequently delivered Fourth of July orations on the cape. Be is very popular among insurance men.

SOLACE WILL CARRY SUPPLIES. She May Become One of a Rertular Line of Transports for Special Benefit of the Navy. WASHINGTON, Jan 7Sea Long has ordered the Solace to proceed to Manila as soon as she can be made ready for the voyage. Admiral Dewey has asked for supplies of various kinds, and the Solace will carry sufficient to supply the fleet on the Asiatic station fur six months at least. The vessel will be attached to Dewey's fleet, and in all probability, if this voyage turns out successfully, she will form one of a regular line of transports which will ply between the United States and the Philippines, for the special benefit of the navy.

PAYMENT OF $20,000,000 TO SPAIN. Congressmen Considering What Appropriation Bill is Likely to Contain Amount Provided in the Treaty. WASHINGTON, Jan 7The payment of under the terms of the peace treaty is beginning to receive attention from members of the house committee on appropriations, and it is likely that the amount will be carried in one of the regular appropriation bills. probably the sundry cisil bill. Chairman Cannon says, however, that the question has not been formally considered yet.

as there have been no estimates.submitted and no official information on the requirements of the case. Moreover, there is no desire to anticipate action on the treaty, and until it is ratified the house is hardly in a position to carry out this provision as to pay. men t. in the event of ratification. however, speedy action will be necessary.

The treaty provides that the payment shall be made "within three months after the exchange of ratifications." and another provision requires the exchange of ratifications within six months from the date the treaty was signed, viz. Dec 10 last. This would bring the payment before tho next session of congress, so that the appropriation must be made at the present session. Owing to the short time elapsing after the senate acts on the treaty and the cloee of the present session. it is felt that little time will remain to deal with a matter of this magnitude.

There has been some talk of dealing with the payment in a special till, but this is not feasible, as a special bill has no privilege under the and Is easily open to obstruction, whereas the general appropriation bills carry unusual privileges and are almost certain to pass before the session ends. For this reason it is probable that the payment will be placed in the sundry civil or some other general appropriation bill if the provision le retained in the treaty as ratified. The appropriations committee has not determined what appropriation bill to take up next. It will be either the sundry civil or the fortification bill but in any event action on the Spanish Item IS likely to be deferred until action es the treaty is secured. Surrounded by four generations of 1 their family Mr and Mrs Simeon B.

Titus celebrated the GO anniversary of their wedding on Friday afternoon and evening, at the home of their daughter, Mrs Fanny Titus Hazen, 61 Oxford st, Cambridge. The old couple still enjoy robust health, and participated in the amusements and gayety of the celebration with as much zest as the younger people who were present. There Is only a difference of ene year between the ages of Mr and Mrs Titus, he having been born in 1817 and she in 1818. They are both natives of Vershire, Vt, where their families have been known for generations as hardworking, thrifty and patriotic people. Mr Titus was the youngest of a family of 33 children, and comes of a long-lived family.

several of whose members have come close to and some even passed the century mark. Mr Titus was born in Vershire, and lived in the old homestead for 73 years, when he and his wife moved to Cambridge, where they have since resided ith their daughter. Mr Titus' fattier was Joseph Titus, and his grandfather, Lenox Titus, was a soldier in the revolutionary army. Mrs Titus' maiden name was Morns. Eliza J.

being her given name. She is a lateral descendant of Robert Morris, who was a signer of the declaration of independence, and her grandfather, William Morris, was a revolutionary soldier and marched with his comrades to Lexington, where he fought. That the patriotic fire of the family has not diminished was shown by the fact that not less than 15 members of the Titus family served in the war of the rebellion, three sons and a daughter of the old couple who celebrated the 60th anniversary on Friday offering their services in the cause of the union. Of the three sons who served in the things to quicken the Interest in New York, Brooklyn, Cleveland and St Louis. No one seriously believes that the old league guard will adhere to the old circuit unless Compelled to by their own inability to agree upon a plan to reduce it.

There is a long time between now and Feb 28, however. While the owners of the St Louis baseball team are fighting their battles eit the local courts, Brush, Hart, Robinsoh Co are working night and day to bring about the formation of an eight-club organization. The trio are willing to throw out the weaker clubs and take a chance of beating them should it come to a fight in court. The more conservative members of the national league will not consent to be a party to such high-handed proceedings. and that is all that prevents the trio from pushing through their plans at once.

The St Louis case is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to Louis Republic. If the league concludes to go ahead with the 12-club affair next season, these cities may be put down as sure losers: Cleveland, St Louis, Louisville, Brooklyn, New York and Ba 'Amore. NVhat folly it would be to postpone the reduction which is inevitable, with the hope of being able to buy the undesirable clubs at a cheaper figure next season? The money that will be lost in 99 would mare than suffice to buy out four Inquirer. Pres Jim Hart of Chicago is quoted as follows: "From my point of view, there will be one big league that will control baseball all over the country. It will probably be made up of Boston, Brooklyn, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St Louis.

With Washington, Ba le.more, Louisville and Cleveland forced out by legitimate means, there will be a chance to organize two formidable minor leagues to embrace all other cities worth having. Baseball news In Boston is scarce this inter. We are counted In the eight-club circuit, have the finest team on earth, and the people patronize the game. We have the same cfilcers year after year, at the same old grounds, a manager that grows better with age, and a great team, with the majority young players who will remain as a nucleus for years to come. The year cif 99 promises Well for the sport In the only city that has an unbroken record in professional baseball, and a record for clean, upright playing that did much for the game in the 70s, when the teeirooms of Brooklyn and Philadelphia threatened to drive the sport cut of Existence.

as well as the last two years. when the public showed signs of disgust at some of the methods ueed by the leading teams. For over a dozen years I have attended the annual meetings of the national league. The first time I ever saw Richard Pierce present at a meeting was this winter. As Brooklyn is the home of this old tinier, and many of his old associates were advertised as great league wagratea one would naturally suppose Dicky Pierce would show up at the meetings.

Like many of the players of the present day, playing ball was a pure busttieSS proposition with Pierce, and when the game had no more use for him after a long service he pulled away, until some one advised him to try and "jolly" the magnates for a benefit. The old timer sat around the corridors of the Ffth av hotel hoping the magnates might consider his case, but the chances are they. never gave him a thought. A. -J.

Reach, half owner of the Philadelphia club and a wealthy wan, was a schoolboy with Pierce back In the fifties, and even he brushed by without a nod. Sentenent in baseball has fled: both magnate and player are row out for all in sight. Col John I. Rogers of the Philadelphia club put himself bin very bad grace with the baseball writers ef the country by his selfish act at the league meeting in New York. Messrs Brush, Hart and others tried to have the league pass a law to send each baseball editor a.

complimentary season's good for all the league grounds. Col Rogers was the only one to oppose the move, and that was enough to kill the scheme. The idea originated with the New York newspaper men. who have been so badly treated by Andrew Freedman, and who have nearly killed the sport in New York by getting back at the giants. Col Rogers has been the target for the Philadelphia scribes for several seasons, and didn't propose to let the boys appear to have a show on earth.

Men like Col Rogers can do a lot to injure baseball, when they are aLowed to represent their clubs. Manager Selee thinks pretty well of catcher Crisham of the Brooklyn club, and may land the clever young player after toe Baltimore-Brooklyn deal has been completed. Martin Bergen hes a grievance against manager Selee. whom he claims tined him Va. then failed to keep his promise to refund the player his money.

Bergen is sticking close to his Brookfield farm and looking as tugged as a sailor. Billy Hamilton is spending the winter collecting his house rents at Clinton. Billy, as well as Martin Bergen, felt disappointed at not receiving an invitation to the banquet given by manager Selee and the players to the newspaper men after the close of the season. Victor Wili15, the Boston pitcher, was recently at West Baden Springs, Ind. Cincinnati would like to trade Miller for Donovan of Pittsburg.

As Pres Kerr has more confidence in Donovan than he civil war two gave their lives for their country, the third being now in Vermont. He was taken prisoner by the confederates, and served live months in Andersonville prison. The daughter, now Mrs Fanny Titus Hazen, was a nurse in Columbia hospital, Washington, during the civil war, and Is now president of the Massachusetts army nurse association. The old couple had 11 children, six sons and live daughters, and of these there are seven now living, three sons and four daughters. They were married in 1838, in Vershire, Vt, Mr Titus being then 21 years old and Mrs Titus 20.

At their anniversary celebration the Other day there were present their two daughters, Mrs Hazen and Mrs M. Pisrson of Dorchester, and one son, Charles M. Titus of Roxbury. A grand-daughter, Mrs Alma M. Conant, and two of her children, grandchildren of the old couple, and another grandchild, E.

Roscoe Hazen, were also present. When at home in Vermont old Mr Titus lived within three doors of the late senator from that state, Hon Justin S. Morrill. Mr Titus voted at every presidential election since he came of age in 1838. The old couple have lived the ealm, peaceful life of the country couple, "early to bed and early to rise" being their motto; their fare the substantial fare of the country and temperance in all things being their constant care.

They have always enjoyed excellent health and are still hale and hearty. If they live to the age of some other members of their families they will undoubtedly celebrate the diamond anniversary of their wedding. They moved to Cambridge so as to be with their daughter, Mrs Hazen, seven years ago7 and there in their own sunny room they were surrounded by a happy crowd of friends, who carried them numbers of appropriate gifts and helped them to enjoy the unique anniversary which they were celebrating. The old couple entered into the spirit of the occasion and were exceedingly happy. has In Watkins as a guide.

Donovan will remain close to the gentlemanly president of the smoky city club. A sporting writer in New York, suspected of having passed his 12th birthday, urges Freedman to trade Rust Hartman and Tiernan for Young, Wallace and Burkett. Wonder who told this young man that Tebeau was exchanging two tens for a five? Every team with a chance for the first division will take its spring practice in the south, and most of the boys will be headed that way in less than 10 weeks. T. H.

Murnane. To DISPENSE WITH ARMS. Gen Ludlow Issues a Proclamation Urging Havanna to Turn In to Him Al They Own. HAVANA, Jan 7---Gen Ludlow, the military commander of the district of Havana, has issued the following proclamation to the citizens: "It is known that large quantities of arms and ammunition are in store at numerous places in this city, greatly in excess of any possible requirements. "These accumulations are the result of the war conditions whicri have existed for three years, and now that the city is in a condition of profound peace and no member of the community has any requirement for deadly weapons of the character indicated, it is evidence at once of good faith and patriotism to dispense with their retention.

"Actuated by these feelings many citizens have for several days past been turning in these arms, and have requested the authorities to receive them. "Castle La Punta has been designated as an armory for their deposit, and receipts are given for the weapons turned in." In the same proclamation physicians are ordered to report infectious diseases. saloons and restaurants are allowed to be opened until midnight, instead of closing at 11, and to relieve suffering and stop professional beggary, the guards patroling the streets are to take notice of cases of illness and destitution. with the locality of the street and the number, and emergency rations will he issued. In cases of illness special food will be supplied by the doctors.

The Cuban generals will meet today at Mariana to decide upon the course they and their commands will pursue. They will probably decide to disband. MAY BE WORK OF INSANE MAN. Michael Coss to Stabbed In New York CafeFrank Balenta Under Arrest, Charged With Deed. NEW YORK, Jan TA man holding a blood-stained stiletto dashed wildly down Prince et at 7 o'clock this morning.

Half a block behind him came another man, yelling "Murder! Stop himl' The fugitive ran Into Mott st. pursuer followed. still yelling. Policeman Tracy grabbed the fugitive. who had by this time thrown the stiletto away.

"He has killed a man at 217 Mulberry et. the second man declared, as he came up breathless. He said he was Joseph Volentino, and that it was in his care that the crime had been committed. The policeman hurried there. Sitting in a chair, with his head leaning on one of the round tables of the cafp, was Michael Cossio, a cripple.

He had a fearful wound in the right side of his neck. The table and floor were covered with blood. The wounded man was hardly able to talk, but he managed to say that he did not know why he had been stabbed, and that he had never seen his assailant in his life. The alleged would-he murderer said he was Prank Balenta, 25 years old, of IR Mulberry st, employed in a brewery on the east side. The attack upon Cossio seems to have been entirely unprovoked and may be the work of an insane man.

The condition of Cossio is critical. DOUBLE-TRACK LINES ASKED. Somerville and Medford Councils Petitioned by the Boston Elevated. The Boston elevated railway company Las filed petitions with the city clerks of Scmerville and praying for locations for double track lines from Powder House park in West Somerville to the West Medford station. These petitions result from pressure brought upon the street railway coin-petty by real estate holders in both Somerville and Medford Hillside, through which the proposed electric line is Le run.

The route desired is from Powder House park, West ISomerville. through College av to Tufts college, thence down Boston ay, ihrough Medford Hillside to Harvard ay. West Medford, thence to the West Nietiford station. The proposed line will come to an end on a spur track at the junction of Harvard av with High IA. If the line is built the reconstruction of the bridge over the Mystic river at Boston av will be necessary, as the present bridge is not strong enough to sustain the weight of an electric car.

I HELP WANTED in a hurry can be secured through the want columns of The Daily Globe. DEATH OF HON AUSTIN HARRIS. Prominent Citizen of East Nachias, Me, Stricken With Heart Diseate. EAST MACHIAS, Me. Jan 7---1on Austin Harris, a prominent citizen, well known throughout the state, died of heart disease at his home here this morning.

Mr Harris was preparing for breakfast, when he was taken violently ill and fell to the floor. He expired a few minutes later. lie had held many responsible public positions, having served several terms in the legislature. both as a member of the house and the senate. At the time of his death he was treasurer of Washington county and was also a director of NVashington county railroad company.

BANKING ADEN AT HIS BIER. Funeral of Albert W. Greenleaf Held at Newburyport. NEWBURYPORT, Jan 7The funeral of Albert W. Greenleaf was held at his home on Parsons st this afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev Dr S.

C. Deane of the Unitarian church, in the presence of a representative gathering of citizens. among whom were the leading bank men of the city. Mrs C. W.

Lunt sang "One Sweetly Solemn Thought." The interment was at Oak Hill cemetery. The pallbearers -were Albert C. Titcomb, William H. Swasey, Joseph E. Moody, Frank O.

Woods, Moses H. Fowler and F. E. Raymond. Rowan Makes 27.5 li.nots.

SEATTLE. Wash. Jan 7The torpedo boat Rowan constructed by Moran Bros of this city. has been given her official trial. For two consecutive hours she maintained an average speed of 27.5 knots.

Her contract only calls for 26 knots. Lleut R. F. Lopes will have coin. mend et the Emu'.

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