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DEPKW AT MOXTAUK CLUB. DINNER IX HONOR OF HIS A SURPRISING CAKE. for the tenth time Senator Chauncey M. Depew jras the guest of honor at the Montauk Club, In Brooklyn, last night. It was his sixty-seventh Dirtily, and Mr.

Depew was in his happiest Minor. The usual good natured badinage, singing merrymaking were the features of the evening. The annual Depew dinner is one of the principal fixtures on the club's calendar. On the menus was this verse: Chauncey was a naughty boy, Yet Montauk loved the sinner. He said his say and skipped away.

But never skipped his dinner. At the end of the dinner came the presentation of the birthday cake. A large silver colored platter as borne in by two cooks. It bore a large cover and seemed to indicate the presence -of nothing jnore than a large birthday cake. When the cover was lifted in front of Senator Depew a young girl stood up, with a small plush and lace covered cake in her hands.

She said: "Good-evening, Senator! How are you? Shake! As usual, you take the ca'te (extending the cake). And as official duties claim you still, please pay attention to our Montauk Bill." The little girl was Miss May Eggleston, seven years old, known as the "Little Mascot." She referred in the closing words to William A. Avis, who a welcome to the Senator. Charles A. jloore.

president of the club and toastmaster, then introduced, or rather presented, Mr. Depew to the club. The Senator, following the precedent of previous Depew dinners, delivered the only speech of the evening. He was heard amid great applause, and aid in part: Twenty-five years ago there were few railway companies whose capitalization reached $50,000,000, and I think no Industrial corporation existed with a capitalization of $1,000,000. Marvellous as has been the development of corporate combinations and capitalizations, It Is not nearly so wonderful as the advance in public opinion in the twelve months.

The possibility of the formation in any State or any conditions of a company dealing with one of the great necessaries of a commercial and industrial people, with $500,000,000 of capital, would have placed a Populist in the Presidential chair and a Populist majority in both houses of Congress in 1693. "The animal most frequently seen upon the cages of a large portion of the press of the United during the canvass of 1900 and brought out upon the platform at every meeting of one party was the octopus. It frightened millions of voters as to the dangers to themselves, witn its tentacles spreading over and enveloping the country, but the octopus of the imagination of the Populist writer and speaker of October, 19t-0, was a lamb compared with a lion beside the real octopus of March. 1901. A billion dollar corporation formed in October might have reversed the November verdicts.

And yet such has been the march of public opinion, owing to the marvellous conditions which have come up within a few months, that the formation of a $1,100,000,000 company frightens nobody, and is not even the subject of extended editorial comment in the pages of Commoner." The processes and the procession up to the present have so happily included, for their own benefit, every profession, trade and occupation that people are looking for results instead of criticising methods or listening to predictions of disaster. We witness in this rapid evolution a universal effort to nullify the maxim which has existed since barter was known that "competition is the life of trade." In the highly organized conditions of modern society competition has grown to the destruction of all but one of the contestants. The pioneer in this movement of the ruin of rivals was the late A. T. Stewart, whose pathway was strewn with the wrecks of business houses first singly and then in blocks, as he became stronger in capital and rower.

The "business and Industrial world began recently to recognize, as the railway world had discovered years ago, that there Js a point in competition which is destructive of society. It works by closing the factories and 6tores. the transfer and concentration of labor, the ruin of towns and individuals, and causing widespread distress among the worthy people whose means of living have been suddenly taken away. COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS. The new method, or rather the new experiment.

is community of interests. So far it has received the approval of labor because of better wages and more regular employment. So far it has not raised prices to consumer or proved destructive to producer. Its danger the misuse or power. The same danger existed when merciless competition left only the survivor in the field; and it had the added terror of destruction as great as would follow an Invadingarmy and a battle.

Community of interest seeks to conserve the interests of the investor and of the worker, and at the same time, by concentration of management and the endless economies possible In the working together under the one competent head of the various elements which make up the final product that goes upon the market, to give the consumer a better article at a lower price. But these evolutions and revolutions have suddenly brought us to a situation where we are facing another that Is. gigantic fortunes. The archaeologists, digging among the libraries of Asia. across the inventory of Crrjesus and found that that miserable fraud of a millionaire, who has been arousing the envy of generation after genera.

tion for thousands of years, was worth only $3,000 000. Caesar, with the loot of all the world, managed to get together enough at one time to pay an indebtedness to people who did not dare deny his demands' 'of $21,000,000. Fifty years ago" there was no man in the world worth KfO.OOO.OjO; there was only one man in the United States worth 000; there were not five worth $1,000,000. A hundred thousand dollars was counted a. fortune on which to retire, and $500,000 was thought to be the mark of a supremely rich man.

To-day, in Plttsburg, which is one of our minor cities, are seventy men worth over tI.OOO/XH) apiece. When Commodore Vanderbilt in 1876. his fortune of had passed the mark ever before reached, while row there are In our country several who worth between $200.00 and and a large number who have reached the SlOO.OOn.OCK) limit. Every day there come to me for employment tho sons and grandsons of millionaire fathers and grandfathers, whose- fortunes have been lost in speculation or squandered in riotous living. A large number of these fortunate citizens of wealth are throwing protection around the accumulation of themselves and their class by liberality of gifts and contributions for education and benevolence unknown in any other age or country.

TO PROMOTE SOCIALISM. Bat there is a section of the very rich who are doing more to promote socialism and anarchy by their actions than all other agencies combined. aim to hedge themselves about with a social exclusiveness unknown In Europe. London has been long the social centre of the world. Genius, which has won distinction in art, in arms, In literature, in public lite, in education, in invention, upon the lyric or dramatic stage or in journalism, finds a cordial welcome and appreciative recognition in the homes, both city and country, of the proudest of the aristocracy and the descendants of the oldest and most distinguished titles among the nobility.

Their parks and picture galleries are free and open to the people, and it is this acknowledgement and welcome of the leadership of those who have won success In every department of human interest and the brotherhood of man which have kept the nineteenth century car of progress from running over and levelling the ancestral orders of Europe. But our millionaire exclusives bar the toon and refuse to let in upon a social equality these representatives of Intelligent achievement. They seek to make all except the possessors of exaggerated incomes socially second class. The result is seen In the resentment which well informed people are discovering to exist and to be growing among those who educate, who form and guide public opinion, and whose teachings ultimately crystallize into laws against the holding or Revising of great wealth. We can never have a social life as full and rich, as valued and valuable, as our prodigality of genius and culture could make distinguished, or raise it above gossin.

frivolity, shop and affairs, as that of the great capitals of the Old World, until those who have keen blessed with the abundance which enables them to entertain shall recognize the power and Pleasure of the salon, with Infinite variety of talent and acquirement, regardless of money. Among the guests of the club were Theodore W. Cridler. Third Assistant Secretary of State; W. H.

president of the Delaware, Laeka wanna and Western Railroad, and George H. Daniels, general passenger agent of the New- York Central. Rf.TIHES FROM EDITORIAL MAXAGEMEXT. Morris Phillips announces that after nearly fifty Tears of service he has retiree from the editorship and management of "The Home Journal," now called "Town and Country." He still retains, however, Saran. Bernhardt The great French Actress and woman, is so pleased with the delicate bouquet and flavor of uHfiiairc' fifim Orfll!) America's Best an GOLD SEAL champagne find the Wine Gold Seal The great French Actress and woman, is so pleased with the delicate bouquet and flavor of" flfim Or ill America's Best GOLD SEAL champagne that she wrote to a friend: "I find the Urbana Wine Gold Seal Champagne excellent in fad equal to many French Champagnes, It surprises me that such fflg a.

fine wine can be produced in IBS ii New York, April 7, 1901. a GOLD SEAL Is served In every cafe and club end sold HUE. BEBNHABDT. where half the prtce of French wine. URBAnA WINE Urbana.

N. Sole Mahers proprietary interest in the concern in the form of shares of the publishing company. He will continue to contribute to its columns. "Town and country is now published by the corporation that 01tl Life," but the two publications will not be merged. COMPANIONS IX LIFE AXD DEATH.

ALIKE IN COUSINS AND SCHOOLMATES, TWO AGED WOMEN DIE ON THE SAME DAY. Cousins, schoolmates and friends for more than three-quarters of a century, Mrs. Mary Shaw Merritt, of Stamford. and Mrs. Julia J.

Merritt. of Tuckahoe, X. died on the same day. Mrs. Merritt, of Stamford, was the widow of Matthew F.

Merritt, and was eighty-three years old. Her cousin in Tuckahoe was eighty-two years old. She was the widow of Jacob Merritt. The two women died at nearly the same hour on last Wednesday, neither having known of the other's illness. The lives of the women were closely intertwined.

They were born within a year of each other in the same State, attended the same schools and colleges together, and were present at each other's wedding. Their parents were Quakers of Revolutionary stock. Mrs. Julia Merritt, when she was a child, with her parents visited the island of St. Helena, and from a willow bush growing on the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte secured a willow shoot.

She brought the twig- to this country in a potato, and planted it near her home in Tuckahoe. The willow shoot has grown to be a massive tree, and Is now a well known landmark. On the trunk of the tree a bronze tablet bearing its history is soon to be placed. THE LAST CURTAIN DOWN. WALLACK'S THEATRE THE SECOXD, THE STAR OF LATER TEARS, EXDS ITS CAREER.

With the pprformancp of last nipht at the Star Theatre the long career of that playhouse came to an end. The closing of Niblo's Garden a few seasons ago and the conversion of Its site to business purposes left the Star the second oldest theatre In the city. Now the turn of the Star has come, while the oldest theatre, the Thalia, formerly the Old Bowery, still remains and prospers. The Star has prospered, too, of late, but it has had Its changes of fortune: the best part of the theatregoing: public deserted it some time ago, and the owners of the property decided that they preferred to turn it other uses. So the curtain fell last night for good and all.

The Star Theatre was Wailack's Theatre when It was built, being the second of that name in New-York. It was opened in IS6I by James Will- Jam Wallaek, with Tom play. "The New President. It was Wallace's Theatre for ttvrnty years, and then, in ISSI. Lester opened the theatre at Broadway and which now again, after twenty more years, bears his name, although it has not borne It continuously through all that time.

In the period when the house at Broadway and Thlrteenth-st. had the title some famous plays were produced there, and it was for a ior.g time acknowledged as the leading theatre of the city. It had a short career as the 3ermania Theatre, and then another prriod of general prosperity not wholly unmingled with misfortune, however, as tha Star. It was long a favorite house for foreign and for the best of American stars. Among thos- who played In it were Henry Irving.

Miss Ellen T-rry. Edwin Booth. Wilson Barrett. Mmc Itodjeska, Sarah Bernhardt, the Kendals Coquelln, Joseph Jefforson. Wiliiam H.

Crane Lotta and Charles and Rose Coghlan. The movement of all first class theatrical attractions and audiences uptown finally made the theatre unprofitable for artisis of this class, and for a time it languished. Then It was turned to the usf-s of melodrama at low prkes, and with this policy it has prospered again for last few MiKmi TWO BIG COUHIXATIOXS. ALLIANCES PLANNED OF BUILDERS OF STEAM ENGINES AND MINING MACHINERY. Announcement from Milwaukee of the prospective alliance of the Pennsylvania Iron Works Company with a group of kindred corporations is regarded here as Indicative of the formation of two large combinations, one of the builders of engines, the other of makers of mining machinery.

It is said on excellent authority that negotiations for both combinations are now In progress, hut that both are still incomplete. The steam engine combination is the larger of the two. and if it is formed it will be known as the- American Steam Engine Company and will be capitalized for $30,000,000. it is reported. Among the firms mentioned in connection with the federation are the following: Corliss Steam Engine Works, of Providence.

R. I. the American Wheelock Engine Company, of Worcester. the Hamilton Corliss Steam Engine Company, of Hamilton, Ohio; Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, of Philadelphia; the Lane Bodley Company, of Cincinnati; Rice Sargent, of Providence. R.

Robert Wethexlll, of Chester. Perm. the Cooper Corliss Company, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and the Vleter Manufacturing Company, of Milwaukee. The mining machinery combination will. It is said, include the Pennsylvania Iron Works, which Is controlled by Elkins.

Widener and Dolan htm is largely engaged In the manufacture of ga chouse supplies, although it makes some engines: the E. P. Allis Company, of Milwaukee, which, although it has an engine department, devotes most of its efforts to mining and flour mill machinery: Ftaser Chalmers, of Chicago, which is almost exclusively a mining machinery house; the Gates Iron Woiks. of Chicago, which builds mining macninery, and the Dixon Manufacturing Company, of Scranton. which makes mining machinery and locomotives.

It Is paid that the object of this combination is to meet prospe-ctlve competition the manufacture of mining machinery when the Company completes Its big plant at Pittsburg. FIREMEX IXJURED BY BTRXIXG LIME. THEY WERE THROWING BARRELS OF IT FROM A LIGHTER. Five members of Hook and Ladder Company No. 4 were burned about the hands last night while throwing barrels of burning lime into the North River from the lighter Cubas at Forty-eighth-st.

The injured firemen are William Boyd, Alfred Smith. James Weiner, Patrick Sullivan and John Schneider. The lighter was loaded with five hundred barrels of lime consigned to the Rufus D.irrell Company, Forty-eighth-st. and the North River, and was in charge of Captain Peter Larsen. Larsen last even- Ing noticed that some of the lime was burning.

A fire boat and several fire engines were soon on the scene. The members of the hook and ladder company were then Instructed to throw the burning barrels overboard. When the barrels struck the water many of them burst, and in this way the firemen were burned. They suffered much from the fumes of the lime. Out of five hundred barrels it is believed that three hundred were destroyed.

The loss is estimated at Sl.OflO. The boat, which is owned by the Commercial Lighterage Company, of No. was undamaged. NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY.

APRIL 21. 1901. GAYNOR OX POLICE POWER. THE JTSTTCE SAYS THERE IS DANGER IN LETTING OFFICER 3 BREAK IN DOORS WITHOUT WARRANTS. The Society of Medical Jurisprudence held its eighteenth annual dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria last night.

At the guests' taMe were Father Thomas J. Ducey, Dr. William M. Polk. Charles W.

Dayton, E. B. Hinsdale, Theodore Sutro, Frank Ferguson, the president, and Justice William J. Gaynor. Mr.

Sutro was toastmaster. The first speaker was Justice Gaynor, who responded to "The Future of Municipal Government and the Doctor the Lawyer in It." "It seems to me," said Justice Gaynor. "that you ought to have called upon our Mayor to respond to that topic or to talk on the subject, 'What I Know About I want to say that in his recent veto of the new charter the Mayor has given us one of the most valuable lessons in government. The tendency of municipal government in this country of late years has neen toward centralized responsibility. In Europe it has been just the reverse.

There, as in Glasgow, affairs are managed by large councils and with the best results. "You can never effect a great reform in this city simply by trying to drive all the loose women off continued the speaker. "The arbitrary use of the police power is an evil greater than these conditions. When the police break in doors without warrants we are encouraging an arbitrary power from which we have more to fear than all the other vices combined. "It is a very serious thing to help the police to make themselves our masters.

It has happened lately in this city, and it happened before when the Police Department was under one who has now risen to a high place in national politics, that an open hall was raided, all the persons within it locked up without warrants over night, and in the morning told that there was no charge against them and that they might go. To arrest people under such circumstances is as great an outrage as to come in and arrest us here as we sit at dinner If such a thing were to occur In England it would awake a protest that would bring the government to its Father Ducey responded to "The Mission or justice and Mercy." He said he had attended tne meetings at Carnegie Hall and at Cooper Lnion, and that before he could give his support to any reform movement he must see something "1 01 1 cere in it than a wish of the outs to get in 1 no spirit of commercialism has so obscured idealism that you rind few men even in the learned ro le.f-sions who try to realize the ideal in the real, he 8 Edward I.auterbach was called upon to speak Informally. He thought that to withdraw the sway from city politics was to withdraw all responsibility. "Remain true to your party, he saw. "If it is wrong, reform it; If it is irrevocabh so.

join the other." ROBS A WOMAN IX THE STREET PURSE AND UMBRELLA OF THE VICTIM. A MINE OWNER'S WIFE. SNATCHED IN THE RAIN. A rainy day robber made a daring and successful attemnt at highway robbery yesterday afternoon in Thirty- first between Sixth and Seventh ayes. His victim was Mrs.

T. P. Barker, wife of a veteran mine owner, who was walking with Mrr. August Balfour. Both women live at No.

245 West Thirty-elghth-st. The women went shopping yesterday afternoon. On their way home through Thirty-flrstst. the wind was In their faces, and they held their umbrellas down to shield themselves from the cold rain and chilly wind. Suddenly they were stopped.

A smooth faced man. about twenty-five years old, with light complexion and about five feet eight inches tall, said to Mrs. Barker: "May I carry your umbrella for you. "Go away," replied Mrs. Barker, drawing back.

A man came around the corner suddenly. This evidently broke up the young man's original plan, and he snatched the purse hanging by a snap to Mrs. Barker's belt, seized her gold nandled umbrella and ran. The strap broke as he seized the purse, and Mrs. Barker was almost Jerked off her feet by the violence of the jounj? man's action.

Mrs. Balfour was quick to art. She pursued the man. She screamed for help, and people ran out from stores and houses by dozens. But the man escaped with money and umbrella.

Mrs. Balfour returned to Mrs. Barker, who was hysterical. She was standing In the rain, crying and then laughing, and Mrs. Balfour broke down when she saw her.

Policeman Reed escorted them to the West Thirtifth-st station, where they told their story Detectives Martineau and Bezant were detailed to find the thief. Mrs. Barker's husband left here for the West several weeks ago to close a transaction in a turquoise mine he owns, for which he has been offered $75,000. OV PROBA7IOX AS TO DOCTRFXF. FOUR UNION SEMINARY GRADUATES FAIL TO SATISFY EXAMINERS OF THEIR ORTHODOXY.

Licenses to preach have been refused to four members of the graduating class of Union Theological Seminary by the examining boards of their respective denominations because of failure to subscribe to certain doctrinal principles. Two of the young men were examined by the Westchester Presbytery, one by the Worcester Central Association of Congregational Ministers and one by the Elizabeth Association of Congregational Ministers. The men were put on six months' probation and then will have another opportunity to try to prove their orthodoxy. The Rev. Dr.

Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of Union Theological Seminary, said yesterday that the refusal of licenses did not necessarily mean exclusion frcm the ministry, and even if they should fail on the second examination they still migHT become ministers. If they should not be able to satisfy the examiners of their own denominations the other denominations were still open to them. "It is not unusual," said Dr. Hall, "for a man to be put on probation. The examining boards usually consist of fifty or sixty men, several of whom may be putting questions to a candidate at the same time.

Naturally confusion often results. When you consider that in addition to this there Is no set form of no questions which a candidate may consider beforehand prepare to but that on the contrary the examiners ask such questions as occur to them on the spur of the moment, it Is not to be wondered at that a candidate should often give answers that do not express his real thought or belief. It is a very trying ordeal for a young and inexperienced man. "Union Theological Seminary is not be blamed for one of Its students being put on probation. Our charter provides that we teach without partiality for any creed or denomination, and we teach only the broad principles of Christian faith.

Each student settles his points of doctrine lor himself." In the case of the candidates examined by the Westchester presbytery is seemed to he in regard to the doctrine of the atonement that there was disagreement "between the board and the candidates. The candidates held that the saving element in the atonement lies in its revelation of the love of God. while the examining board thought that the atonement meant the saving of lost souls from an angry God through the blood of Christ. In the Elizabeth case the doctrine of evolution was the stumbling block. The candidate declared that the ultimate appeal should be made to rational conviction, and not to the Scriptures.

The Worcester candidate was unable to find ground for a positive belief in immortality, although he did not deny the possibility of immortality. He also thought it unnecessary to agree with the teachings of the Bible at any point where his convictions led in the opposite direction. ROBBED BY THREE MEX IX THE STREET. A MAN IDENTIFIES A PRISONER AS ONE OF THE THIEVES. With his clothing wet through, Benjamin Fleck, of No.

170 walked to the Eldridge-st. station last night and reported that he had been robbed of his gold and chain, valued at $38, at Delancey and Essex sts. Fleck said he 'was passing a corner, carrying his umbrella, when three men stepped in front of him. While one held him another took his watch. of the men Fleck trave an accurate description of tne men and were sent! out- They retnrn'd soon ri with a man who described Charles Moreenstein twAty-two years old.

of No. Fleck Morgenstein- from a row'of' twin- -thm" taken hi watch. The prisoner dev'ed the charge. WESTERTELT AXD HERLIHY. WHAT THE TWO CA.PTAINS ARE ACCUSED THE HEARING ADJOURNED.

The examination of Police Captains Joslah A. Westervelt and John Herlihy. which had been set down for yesterday morning at the Centre-st. court, was adjourned by const-nt of the counsel for the captains and the District Attorney. It will proceed next Friday morning, when Magistrate Cornell will come to the city from his country place to hear the testimony.

The charges against the captains were presented In the court yesterday previous to the adjournment. Those against Westervelt are sworn to by John D. Woods, the detective who was in the employ of the Tammany Committee on Vice. The charges mention several poolrooms in the Second Precinct, including the one at No. 20 Dey-st.

which raided by the District Attorney, and Woods declares that he visited the poolrooms frequently in 1599, 1900 and at the beginning of this year. Westervelt is charged with neglect of duty in failing to close the poolrooms. The charges against Herlihy are for neglect of duty in failing to close many dens of vice in the district east of the Bowery, known as the "red light" district, while he was in command of the police there. The places mentioned in the charges are those that were testified about on Herlihy's trial before the Police Commissioners. The charges are sworn to by James Reynolds, head worker of the University Settlement.

Dr. Edward T. Higgins. of No. 818 East has been appointed a coroner's physician, at a salary of a year.

Police Commissioner Murphy demonstrates that he still knows how to distribute places by appointing J. I. Bacon an auditor, with a salary of $2 000 a year, and Catharine A. Hickey confidential stenographer, at $1,00) a year TITUS SAYS HE DIDN'T SEE FLYNT. MOREOVER HE DECLARES THE POLICE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR HIM.

The comforting that the Committee of Fifteen intended not to make any raids last even- Ing was received by officials at Police Headquarters yesterday, and Commissioner Murphy violated his rule of remiining late in his office on Saturdays. He left Police Headquarters about noon, and did not return. The Commissioner said he was tired of talking to newspaper men. The only man at Police Headquarters who would talk yesterday was Captain Titus of the Detective Bureau. He declared that the report that-Josiah Flynt had gone to Police Headquarters and had had an interview with him incognito was "gauzy." Then he said 'I do not know this man Flynt.

The only picture we had of him was a small vignette, published in the magazine, and this was so small that it would be impossible to recognize any one by it. We do not know how this man looks. We have no of him. We are no; looking for him. We have made no effort to find him.

after we tried to subpoena him the first time. "It would not be a difficult matter for Flynt himself to call on me and ask for an interview, and not be recognized. As we do not know Flynt this would be very easy. But no one called on me yesterday to ask for information who was not known, to me. so the whole yarn Is false.

We are making no efforts to find Flynt. We do not care to have hoboes and tramps roaming about in this building. We do not care to associate with that kind of people." A XEW DRIVEWAY PLANNED. LINK BETWEEN CLAREMONT AND AUDUBO.V PARKS WILL COMPLETE TWENTY MILES OF MACADAM ROADWAY. Plans have been drawn in the engineers' offices cf the Department of Highways for a connecting link between Claremont and Audubon parks, on the North River front, which, when completed.

v. ill afford drivers and riders a new drive over macadam streets for a distance of twenty miles. Andrew E. Foye, chief engineer of the Department of Highways, in referring to the projected work yesterday, said: When our plans have been carried out there will be another extremely attractive drive added to the number already owned by the city. The extension contemplated by the engineers will connect Claremont with Audubon Park at about Two-hundredthst When completed one can drive from Fifth-aye.

at through the park to thence up Riverside Drive to Claremont. There Is where the new work will begin. Tne extension will run along Riverside Drive to to the Boulevard Lafayette, and thence to Dyckman-st. at Two-hundredth-st. The driver can then go through to the Speedway, down the Speedway to to the viaduct, over the viaduct to down Seventnave to the park, to where he started from Altogether, this will make a distance of about twenty miles, all on macadam with the exception of the roads over thf viaduct.

The connecting link between Claremont and Audubon Park will be about one and one-half miles long with a roadway 100 feet In width, a Imdlepath and two walks for pedestrians. The sides ol the roadway will be arranged by landscape gardeners and the between the roadway and the Hudson River will be laid out with park effects Just north of the viaduct at One-hundredand-thlrty-sixth-st. there will be a lower walk, close to the river, bordered by grass plots and shrubbery The driveway will be carried over Onehundred-and-thirty-eighth-st. in order to give traffic access to the prospective dock at the waterfront there. With reference to the work on the viaduct Mr.

Foye said: The viaduct proper is completed, but there is a lot of filling to be done behind the abutment on the north side. It will require about forty thousand cubic yards of dirt. I should say, and. as the space for handling teams there is somewhat limited It will take several months to fill ihe hole. The electrical work on the viaduct is not In but aside from the two features mentioned the' viaduct is done.

IIOLAUAX SCATTERS FAVORS. THE COMMISSIONER IMPROVING THE TIMK BEFORE HIS OFFICE IS ABOLISHED. Maurice F. Holnhan, who was captured in the Dey-st. poolroom entered by the District Attorney, yesterday in "The City Record" announced the appointment of twenty-eight topographical draughtsmen at SMM a year each.

Mr. Holahan'a department Is abolished by the revised charter, and the commissioner apparently is determined to "make hay while the sun shines." The work of his department is transferred to other departments, where it will be taken care of, no doubt, without any trouble. The twenty-eight new draughtsmen come principally from Manhattan, and seem to be well distributed among the various Assembly districts. salaries, computed to the end of the present year, will amount to about $20,000. DIXXER OF WMBTCBBBTMM BAM.

SPEECHES MADE RY JI'STICE HAIGHT. ABRAHAM GRI'BER AND OTHERS. Two hundred members of the Westchester Bar dined at the Murray Hill last night. Joseph F. Daly presided.

The guests of honor were Justice E. W. Hatch, of Che Appellate Division; Eugene B. Travis. John Byrne, of the Appellate Division: Justice Halght.

of Buffalo: Abraham Orober. Justice Edgar M. Cullen. of the Court of Appeals, and Surrogate Theodore H. Silkm.in, of Westehester.

A number of amusing lerters of regret were re-ad, purporting to be from President McKin'ey, Senator Platt, Governor Odell. Grover Cleveland and Simeon Ford. Senator Platt could not come because one of his war horses tOdell) had kicked over the traces. Justice Haight spoke in place of Justice Alton B. Parker, who was not able to be present.

His remarks deal; with reform in the administration of the Supreme Court. Abraham Grubtr made one of his characteristic speeches, and closed by reading the following: God bless Westchester County bar. And bless its clients, too; Likewise ihe long enduring case And tendency to So let us, while dine and drink. And feel our spirits soar. Have grateful thoughts for those fools Who paid for It in law.

Other speakers were Judge Woods, of Putnam County. Charles H.iines and John F. Brennan. of Yonkers. OLD SCHOOLBOYS DIKE.

Under the title of the George White Alumni Association a number of the former pupils of George While, principal of Public School No. 70, gave a dinner at the Hotel Savoy last night in of their old schoolmaster, who is one of the oldest principals in the city's public schools. Many men now prominent in business and the professions were pupils under Mr. White. Many were the guests last night, who included Justice Francis M.

Scott, Ralph Tretr, Maurice J. Power. Dr. Thomas Hunter, of the Normal College, Joseph Green, THE BIG STORE ACTTY IH ITSELF CIYTII itntiAiaa IA AYE ttEATWfOVAITAIN Sn the Suit Section. We announce for Monday, April 22, a special offering of 300 Women's Choicest Spring Suits that heretofore were priced at from $25.00 to $35.00, at the uniform price of fO The assortment includes Broadcloth Suits, with folds of millinery satin value $27.50, Cheviot Serge Suits, lined throughout with best taffeta; value $25.00, choice Broadcloth, with imported Persian band trimming; value 529.75, Homespun Suits over the very best quality taffeta; value 526.50.

rl Cheviot Suits, with elaborately stitched satin straps; value $27.50, MOnaay Broadcloth Suits, in various extremely stylish designs; value $35.00, a Silk Foulard Dresses, entirely new styles; value $25.00, 1 YQ 7 Princess Suits of Homespuns and Cheviots, value $27.50, 06 JJrcss Skirts. We contracted for 1,000 Silk Dress Skirts of one number ye and begin the sale of same to-morrow at The skirt is of very good quality taffeta; top of skirt solidly tucked with -inch tucksflaring flounce, with 3 clusters of rose ruchings; fully equal in appearance to any 425 00 skirt now in the market. Jin important Offer of 150 Sitk "Dress Waists for Monday, April 22d. This sale embraces a manufacturer's entire sample the most exquisite things he made this and in all this assortment there are hardly two alike, most of them being copies of imported models. Sizes 34 and 36 only.

For a quick sale we have arranged them in 2 lots. All the $15, $18 and $20 Waists We will offer Monday at O. All the $25, $30 and $35 Waists We will offer Monday at O(J Need tze tell you that the sooner you come the better the selection you zcill find? jCace and Chiffon Sftodes. An importer offered us a limited lot of these fine, stylish robes the i other day at a price we couldn't resist. You won't be able to refrain from buying either when you see them, for nothing like them was ever offered in New York at the prices we will resell for to you.

I Lace and Chiffon Robes, with waist complete, of cut-out taffeta appliqued on silk Brussels net, with two rows of crepe lisse, wide ruffles edged with iuby ruche; worth fully 530.00; for this sale, 3 19.75 Chiffon Robes, handsomely embroidered with silk Battenberg braid, two rows of crepe lisse ruffling, edged with juby ruche; regularly worth for this sale, 14.75 for summer hotels, restaurants and country houses at very low prices. If you are interested in napkins at present you will be interested in these offerings for Monday: Full Bleached Napkins, 20x21 inches, worth All Linen Dinner Napkins, 24x24 inches, Si. oo a dozen, at 85 of a heavy quality, at, per dozen, 1.95 Half Bleached Napkins, 20x20 inches, of Hemstitched Bar or Finger Bowl Doylies, a heavy quality, at, per dozen, 1.00 6x6 inches, at, per dozen, 24 All Linen Dinner Napkins, 21x21 inches, Fringed Doylies, with white or colored borat, per dozen, 1.39 ders, at, each, 22 No charge for hemming the above goods. "Our Sreat Pure Jood Is better, bigger, broader, more advanced than anything of its kind in the land or in any other land, so far as we know. Every thought and plan that could help the sale of good, pure foods at moderate prices is studied and developed here.

Get out your passbooks or grocery bills and see if the prices quoted here do not show a material saving over what you have been paying. Then the kind of goods we sell and the manner in which we and care for them is so infinitely superior to ordinary stores as to make comparison needless in some cases even ridiculous. Here are some specials for to-morrow: N. Y. State Cream Sugar Corn, can 6 Maple Syrup: H.

0. Co. specially prepared Ver- Solid red ripe Jersey Tomatoes, eta 7 Dt Sa fuU re S- rice 50c; oai Macaroni: "Hazel Brand" Macaroai. Spaghetti aa.l Vennicelli.maae from finest imported wheat, llb.pkg 10 Memmac Columbia River Salmon, flat Armour's Mild Sugar Cured Hams, 12 TV- Jams: "Milford" pure trtnt Jams, assorted fnuta-caa ffigS; 13 baches: "Center YeHow £ur; SF 44 9 bHt XXXX ta 465 Southern Pears. Urge can, Mackerel: Choice fat family Mackerel, "no heads, no 95 tails," 10-lb.

pails, 95 Ras Poe es. can. 10' Roast Beef; Choice cut Porter House Roasts, cut Starch: 5 lfcs best Gloss Starch, from native cattle, 16 Washiag Powder: "Hazel," smooth, soft and pure, Hindquarter choice Canada Spring Lamb, 11 lb '-tf-t IS Butter: Choice Elgin Creamery Better, Mb. pails, Ib 21 "Itscgood" Soap, box of 100 caies, 10 Jelly: Bar-le-duc, genuine Imparted Jelly, reg. price, "Hazel" Family Laundry Soap, box of 60 1-ft.

baa, 25c; our price, bar, Milk: "Fern" Condensed Milk, or Superb Cream, can 7 Large Sweet California Navel Oranges, 30 Guincess's Stout, the genuine imported, dor, 1.53! Sausage: Selected Cervelat Sausage, thorough! sea- St. Julien Claret, a fine California wine, caae of 12 i soned, regular price 18c; special this sale, 10 2.45' Tapioca; Fancy Pearl Tapioca, 5 23 Laubenheimer, a light California Rhine wine, case of Oats: Victor Oats, 6 12 2.BS' Corn Meal: Yellow or White, 10 19 Niersteiner, an imported Rhine wine, from Barck- Prunes: Santa Clara, thin skin and meaty, 10 49 a-R, case of 12 5.50 Baking" Powder: "Haze." Cr.axn Tartar Powder. Kudesheimer, an imported Rhae wine, from Boick- 6.00 cin 15 "tvi'iiljit Si. Emilioa, imported from Armand freres, Bonn an WCU puUr 28 deaux, France, else of 12 5.5$ Blend, 4 Pontet Canet imported Claret, from Armand freres. Golden Santos, fresh roasted, 5 70c, 15 Bordeaux, Francefcase of 12 6.00 Rice: Fancy Flint Head Rice, 4 Fr.ar'i Santera a fine qa3 of California Saa- Soup: "Royal" Concentrated Soup, best by test, 3 terae, equal to many Haat'Sauternes, doz.

3.50 cans i California Pert and Sherry, according to vintage, Cranberry Sauce: "Anderson's," 2-lb. can, reg. gallon, including jug, $1.25, 51.05 and Bft price, 20c; special, can, California Claret and Zinfaadel, souad and Sardines: "Guy" Imported French Sardines, pure npe. 75 ani 60 Olive Oil, 1-4's', can, Maryland Rye gaL, 2.00 Tea: New lot fancy Formosa Oolong, Gunpowder, Monoceahela Rye eal. 1 Young Hyson, India Ceylon, English Breakfast Teas, 43 OUCrol and Pepped Whiskey, prime pickings (1900 5-ft.

caddy, lb. 43 Old Crow and Pepper Whiskey, gaL, J. 50 Crackers- Nic Nacs, Ginger Snaps and Sugar Cakes, Finch's Golden Wedding, 3.00 per 5 Scotch and Irish Whiskey, 3.QQ ex-AsaeaaWnMUl Harry Russel. MM berger ex-Assistant District Attorney David Charles Hesa Terence Fariey. ex-Assemblyman Charles S.

Sinsheimer, Judson G. Wells and exj Adiim Scbats, Judge SchAtX, In the absence of Thomas E. i nmmins. the president of the association, pr. There were only three toasts on the list Guests." responded to by Justice acott Schools." by Dr.

Hunter, and -The City oi York" by Joseph I. Green, who spoke for Will Mil A. Elsberg. Over one hundred persons were present. COLORED BANKRUPT IX JAIL.

SMALLEST PETITION EVER FILED HERE-LIABILITIES ONLY Richard Cialborne. a colored man, of Mount Vernon. was committed to prison there yesterday for debt by Magistrate Bennett on the complaint of Adam E. Schatz. Claiborne's attorney at once obtained a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Brown of the United States District Court.

requiring the prisoner to be produced in court in this city to-morrow. Claiborno has filed a petition in bankruptcy as a poor person His liabilities are given as J139. and no assets. He has only Adam E. Schatz who obtained judgments against him for and costs, and Ellen Cranshaw, $3 borrowed money This is the smallest amount involved in any bankruptcy petition ever filed XICA RA UA UTS RAILS HERE.

Washington. April Consul at Managua, Nicaragua, a report to the State Department, says that the Xicaraguan 'Government has placed an order with Its agent in New-York for .2,900 tons of steel rails for the new central branch of the National Railroad, which is constructed by a German engineer. Considering that Nicaragua always has purchased Germany and England, says the consul, and that the contractor for the road is a German! icing of this order with a United manufacturer is an item of considerable importance growth of this trade with "-ntrxl FIRE IXSURAXCE MERGER UXDER WAT. A merger of several small fire insurance companies Is said to be well under way. although men who are perfecting the plans refuse to discuss the details of the linn It is said that the syndicate amply supplied with capital.

It will continue each company as an independent concent en the community of interest plan. l- Is believed that the movement has the sanction of the Royal Insurance Company, which threw weeks ago took over the business of the Lani cashire Insurance Company, of Mar.cheater. Eat- land. An officer of the latter company said terday: is a movement foot to consolidate a r.vmber of fire insurance companies, but I am un- able to say what concerns will be absorbed. I have no idea whether or not the Royal is Interested In the plan.

That company's acquisition oftha Lancashire was ratified by the stockholders two days ago. On April 19 the United States risks of the Lancashire company were, reinsured in Hartford Fire Insurance Company. We shall withdraw from this country- It will take probably six months to liquidate all 'outstanding matters." The Lancashire Insurance Company established United States branch in 1372. Its premiums In fore I on January 1. 1910.

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