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A RECEPTION ROBE. Made of white souple taffetas, veined with perpendicular lines of openwork, and trailed over wttfc filmy black Chantilly lace. THE NEW TRIMMINGS. A REVIVAL OF ELABORATE DRESS EFFECTS ON STREET GOWNS Trimmings, which have been creeping steadily into favor for the last tew seasons, will reach the zenith of their popularity next winter, if one may by the number and beauty of new designs shown by wholesale houses and by costume models imported from Paris and Vienna. In deference to the coronation of King Kdward a beautiful trimming in many called the seen in French, St.

Gall and German embroideries of the finest quality. Already one of the. largest houses in this city has sold out all its cornflower designs and cabled for more. One of the most favored designs comes in flowers of almost natural size, in shades of dull rose color and pale gold. The leaves tre of natural colors in dull hades of green, and the whole effect is very handsome.

Another trimming has the cornflowers set upon a band of black, edged with color. The flowers are embroidered in old rose. gold, blue and crushed strewberrv shades, and the band is eprinkied with pale green dotf. An effective trimming is known as the frame pattern. This comes in all varieties of lace, eilk embroideries, appliques and braid trimmings.

It is never seen in cheap goods. The frame consists of circles of ovals formed of floral wreaths of flowers, lattices of leaves and and manufacturers show trimmings by the yard made of detachable flowers in lace, silk embroidery and the like, any of which may be formed into bouquets to put in the frames. The idea is a charming one. as may purchase lace frames in black, white ecru, and put in the centre bouquets of silk flowers of any tint suitable to a costume. Frames of silk flowers come in all sizes from the smallest.

no larger than medallion appliques, to those that could hold a photograph of the owner. They may be had singly, by the dozen or by the yard. Another etunning effect Is the Jackdaw etyle, which has for a close second, in point of smartness, the jasper effects. The Jackdaw style Is a distinct combination of black and white, while jasper is a mingling of these two colors which produces a silver gray effect and at the same time daintily suggests the separate presence of black and white. These two styles of the same colors appear like different colors when contrasted.

They are seen in all manner of trimmings, fourageres. buttons, embroideries and dress accessories. Pearl trimmings are the rage in Paris, and New- York houses are importing pearls enough to trim the hats and dresses of all New- York for some time to come. The smartest pearl ornaments are mostly of medium Rosettes with pendants are among the new corsage together with the new lan and leaf designs. Pearl effects not only come- in but in white Eilk ball buttons, little olives and braid chains, attached to exquisite white silk ornaments made of lustrous braid.

These silk and artificial silk braids the have the soft lustre of real pearls Spangles, so long in favor, will be worn only in black or while, for the colored ones are out date. Nickel gray for costumes is to have a marked place among smart colors, and trimmings are made to harmonize or contrast with it. That braid will be fashionable Is indicated by the fact that manufacturers abroad are using it in lace and Bilk embroidery, fouraseres. dress ornaments and collars. Some of these collars are made entirely of very narrow silk braid or silk cords.

Often the combination of one or more narrow braids with a cord forms the floral pattern which constitutes the collar. With the addition of one of these new collars the Eiir.pleet dress waist may be converted Into a thing of beauty. Many collars are made of moire and other silk, with the pattern outlined by one or more braids embroidered over with silk cords or braid applique. Velvet designs are applied to the Filk. with braid edges.

New trimmings of braid just over from Paris are In wider effects than have obtained for many years. The tendency will be to use trimming in pointed effects-points of a foot or more in depth. ith this end in view, flounce appliques in silk embroidery, jet and spangles, lace and braid designs are made to come in points far up the skirt. All orre lias to do is to apply them. Zipzag braid Is shown In several new styles and In five, widths of the same color.

There are no less than eighteen kinds of black and white looped serpentine braid, and no end of varieties of the fashionable arrowhead braid, that dressmakers either put on plain or twist Into so many odd shapes upon One of he taking Paris novelties is a flat topped pyramid braid, either in one color or in lack and white. Two or three fine silk cords outline the heavy wide basket weave brilliant silk, and still another Is "scallop which has deep points in its upper edge and Is bordered on the scallop with a cord and loop edged braid This comes in fourteen styles and colors and in fizes varying from one-fourth of an inch to an 5n braid in five sizes, with corded effects, is another popular braid for fall, and button effects in braids together with all the flat braids oflrr.KUlar and pointed outlines, promise to hold their own tl i a 're 0 1trongly Indicated for the future except in pompadour effects, but royal blue and vivid are likely to be worn, as they appear in extreme novelties, and the new green has its Persian effects on black are shown, Hot they win turn out may not he guessed unless the demands of Chicago are an indication. That cltv has purchased an enormous lot of Persian effects In the warmest colors. AT.4 77; SUFFRAGE MEETING. The New-York State Suffrage Association will hold annual meeting in Buffalo October 29 to 21.

The sessions will be held at the Unlversalist Church. Mrs. Catt and the Rev. Anna Shaw will be among the speakers. The society is working to interest a in the school election of August .6 in the.

country districts, and also to collect Matistifs as to the comparative number of men ana women in school elections. VRF. KEIJEW IX CHARGE. Mary Morton Kehew will have charge of he. Woman's Auxiliary of the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, which holds Its convention in Boutin in August.

Mrs. Kehew Is secretary of the Massachusetts Civic League and of the Educational and Industrial Union, of Boston. KiCHAKI) HAkUI.NO DAVIS NFIW BOOK Ranson's Folly lull page $1.50 VIEW 3 GOOD CHEER. Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on. "Twas not riven for you alone Pass it on.

Let It travel down the years. Let it wipe another's tears. Till in heaven the iieed appears Pass it on. NO SWEETER WORD. "I will not leave you John xiv.

IS (Rev No sweeter word than this can find a tongue, when strength and courage fall with harp "I will not leave you desolate;" A precious word which poets lovr to sing. To tremhiing age a word most "I will not leave you desolate." When loving friends and social loys depart. And troubles come to overwhelm the "I will not leave you When night is comhig on that hides the sun. And weary limbs remind you "day is "I will not leave you ifesoiate. 0 blessed word! I hf.ir it once The service as a sweet "I will not leave vow desolate:" Llng'rlng a while until the Father call, 1 catch the vanishing "I will not leave you desolate." Rev.

W. T. Sleeper. NOTICE. All and intended for the T.

S. 8. should ni'il i to The Tribune Samhlne Society. Tribune Ilui Iriin York City. If the niiorr in observed coniiiinnicntlona intended for the T.

S. S. will be likely to ko astray. The- Tribune Snnnhlne Society no connection with any other organization or publication using- the word "Sunshine" REPORT OF WESTFORD BRANCH. It is a pleasure to note that John Harrison Mills, of the Westford (N.

T. S. S. branch, secured the $100 prize for th" best poem on "The Battle of Gettysburg." There were one thousand competitors. Mr.

Mills is an artist, and, although an invalid, he paints, models and writes, as his health permits. While this branch does not hold regular meetings, several of members being Invalids, yet the true sunshine work goes on. and even' day something is done to brighten the lives of others. Henrietta Fell Mills, the president, reports as follows: "Two of the youngest -Corinne and John have moved to and little Maude Wilbur has gone to Oruonta to live, but their connection with the branch is not severed. Hazel and Mary Crandall have gone out into the world to earn their living.

They are fatherless girls, Just entering womanhood. One is working at a farmhouse and the other in a summer boarding house. Their hope Is to earn money enough to enable them to attend tho High School next winter. Any cheer sent for these girls will be gladly received and forwarded to them. There have 'been many visits paid to the "shut by the well members.

One woman has made fifty-six visits to an invalid eighty-three years old, and has taken substantial cheer at every visit. One dear old man has been made happy by the gift of an easy chair, paid for by subscription, and a comfortable cushion was also contributed. Ours, like other branches. I puppose, finds many sad cases of loneliness and privation that need the brightening rays of sunshine. While my own childhood was a singularly happy one, I have always felt the woes of others, and to alleviate suffering sefms to me the greatest of all human effort.

To uplift and to aid Is the gracious work of the T. S. S. Blessings be upon it! May its mission of love and kindness reach around the globe and the 'kingdom of Our Father." so long prayed for, be established on the earth." I will never despAlr of thtt salvation of any soul. It may have forgotten God.

or fallen in the way, or even have wished to write the warrant of its own condemnation, but. God be praised! no can be happy in trying to escape from Him. (De Ravignan. Into Thy silent place of prayer The anxious, wandering mind recall- Dwell 'mid Thy own creation there; Restoring, claiming, hallowing all. Then the calm ppirit.

won fin. Thy perfect sacrifice shall And all the ransomed powers therein Shall go forth, glorifying Thee. L. Waring. HELPED BT KINDNESS.

Miss M. E. Riker. an invalid member in Xew- Jersey, writes: "I want to let you know that I have been much helped and cheered and my life of suffering made less hard to bear by the thoughtful kindness of Mrs. Young, of Newark.

N. Mr. Wingate. of Brooklyn; Mrs. C.

M. Grantham. Missouri, and Berry. West Virginia. I am doing all I can by letters and sharing with others the sunshine sent to I hope the T.

P. will be blepf-ed in all ways. 1 crause it nends daily jo much sunshine into lives of those needing it." A spice jelly, which is so useful In garniphlng meat dishes and in various other culinary processes, is easily made. Soak a box of gelatine In one. cupful of consomme for a couple of hours.

Then bring the liquid to a simmer, and add one cupful of sherry or Mad-ira wine, two tablespooufuls of tarragon vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and one teaspoorful of salt Cook very slowly stirring constantly, for five minutes. Then strain it through a cloth and set it away to harden. Sweet, green peppers are delightful accompaniments for frlf-d soft shell crabs. Cut thin slices from the outside of the peppers, being sure to omit the white inner part, which is fiery. The.

strips are eaten with salt, like celery. Blueberry bread is in season now. To make it. 6ift together a quart of flour, two heaping teaspoor.fuls of baking powder and a level teaspoonful of salt Turn in cold milk enough to make a stiff batter and add two cupfuls of blueberries or huckleberries which have been washed, drained and dried. Bake in a square, shallow pan.

Serve hot with butter. The bread should bo broke.n. not cut. Mint phosphate Is a hot weather refreshment. Crush sprigs of fresh peppermint, cover them with powdered sugar, add lemon Jui-e.

a little phosphate slices of orange and pineapple, and some candled cherries, and dilute with crushed Ice and water. The pot cheese to be had in city dairies is delicious mixed with chopped gherkins and pickled onions As a rule the city product is Improved with a seasoning of cream and butter. THE TRIBUNE PATTERN. A TISSUE PAPER PATTERN OF BOTS BOX PLEATED SHIRTWAIST. WITH REMOVABLE COLLAR.

NO. 4.181. FOR 10 CENTS. Shirtwaists that fit nicely and accurately are essential to the appearance of every boy. and are best obtained by being made for the individual.

This excellent model shows the fashionable box NO. 4.1M-BOYP BOX shirtwaist, with REMOV- ground, but ma- ABLE COLLAR. dras. line washable, flannel and all shirting materials are appropriate. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is 3'i yards 27 Inches wide or 234 yards 32 Inches wide.

The pattern. No. 4.181, is cut In sizes lor boys six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen and sixteen years old. The pattern will be sent to any address on receipt of 10 cents. Please give number and years distinctly.

Address Pattern Department, New- York Tribune. If in a hurry for pattern, send an extra two-cent stamp, and we will mall by letter postage In scaled envelope. STEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUTE. TTLY 30. 1902.

SOUTHERN CHILD LABOR. CONDITIONS DESCRIBED BY A WHO HAS VISITED THE MILLS. E. J. Lister, a representative of The Drygoods Economist," has been making a thorough examination of conditions surrounding child labor in the South, cotton mills for that paper.

He has made a tour of the different ha? interviewed the owners, and also citizens interested in a child labor law. Mr. Lister write? from an unemotional, business standpoint, and yet his conclusions, as expressed in a recent issue of his journal, do not differ materially from those of Irene Ashby Mc- Fadyen. an interview with whom was published In The Tribune not long ago at the close of her legislative campaign in the South in behalf of child labor laws. He quote various mill operators by name as follows: Landon A.

Thomas, president of a prominent manufacturing company in Augusta. said: "I've be.n opposed to child labor legislation because introduced under the auspices of labor On principle. I'd tight any nieasure thus fathered, however sound in theory or beneficent in practice. Let such agitators carry one point and they'd be emboldened for further efforts." With Mr. Smith, superintendent of another large and well known mill, the following conversation took place: "Don't you consider eleven hours long day's work for children of tender age.

Mr. Smith?" "I do: although 1 worked fourteen hours when I was a boy. and am to-day, as you see, fairly hale ami hearty. Nevertheless. I confess to a strong bias in favor of Congressman Lovering's recent proposal of a uniform ten hour law for the whole I'nfted States." "But the Southern mill operator? went to Washington en masse to uefeat its passage, did they not? "I believe they did." replied Mr.

Smith. "To what do you ascribe the haggard looks of the child operatives?" "To poor diet and bad habits." "Can any children in your mill read and writr?" "Very tew," was the reply. W. P. Smith Whaley, president of three mills in Columbia, S.

said. "I'm opposed to child labor legislation because Instipnted by labor agitators. Capital can have no interest in common with such incendiaries." The mills of this person, Mr. Lister were the only ones in which he wns forbidden to question the operatives. Mr.

Tuller, treasurer of an Atlanta mill, said that they "did not want the labor troubles of the North and East transported to Southern soil, hence they would oppose the first Insidious indication of interference by union leaders, irrespective the Inherent merits of the issue." The objections of the mill owners, summed up In brief, were that restriction of cbild labor In mills alone was class legislation, that It would be useless without a compulsory educational law. that parents lied as to the age of children, and that child labor legislation would discourage the investment of Northern "But when the testimony is all in." says the correspondent, "the agreement entered Into by the Georgia association of mill men stands out as a practical confession that operators, despite any and nil arguments and nt heart realize the evils they attempt to belittle or extenuate." After describing th" organization of the citizens' movement to secure legislation for the protection of children, the correspondent says: In this Georgia movement the most active and enthusiastic worker is the secretary of the committee, the Rev. C. B. Kilmer, rector of St.

Lukes Protestant Episcopal Church. Atlanta. I had a very pleasant chat with Mr. Wtlmer In his study at the. rectory, in the course of which he said in part: "This committee was organized with the Idea that child labor Is a public question In which the citizenship of Georgia vitally Interested.

It is formed under the conviction that the reason child labor agitation has heretofore failed In Georgia Is because all the organisation has been on the other side. This committee unites all elements opposed to child labor The child labor bill, prepared by C. C. Houston, the local labor leader, didn't get hefore the last legislature till the third day adjournment, and never to a vote. On account of the Intense prejudice of mill owners against everything and anything fathered by labor leaders, we have requested labor organizations to stand aside and allow us to prepare and present a bill which they could support.

"When child labor legislation was first mooted mill men with one voice denied that the physical condition of children was at all Impaired by mill employment. In other words, that cotton mills were so many or health resorts. How they have since shifted their ground! Now come forward with a 'voluntary 1 agreement, though not a word was beard about it prior to the agitation for legislation. "When playing golf a while with one. of our leading citizens." Mr.

Wilmer went on. "I asked him If he owned any cotton mill stock. 'No. replied, that's blood "Shortly aft. seeing him at a meeting convened by our committee, I asked him If he would get up and repeat what he said to me on the golf links regarding cotton stock and "blood He refused, adding.

"I cant afford to stand against employers when attacked by "Mill owners contend that our legislation is class legislation, because we do not propose to include in the same bill all employers of drygoods stores Included. We replied that labor in all manufacturing establishments Is a class by Itself, and, relative to health and nerve strain, entirely dissimilar to store employment. "Moreover, when mill men plnre themselves on record as admitting that certain regulations of their own practically the same as embodied In our bill- are wise provisions, but object to their being crystallised into law. they are asking for class exemption, which as a matter of public policy every whit as objectionable as class legislation. KltK It is freely admitted that many mill owners are.

humane and do what they can for their child employe but in their way these humane operators do "more harm than many others by preventing legislation which is necessary to restrict those who are not humnne. It Is a.i if an honest citizen should prevent a law against burglary on ground that he personally Is a philanthropist. "Another point. Are men who take a position in defiance of right and justice, the men to be trusted with the care of children? What assurance have wo that they will not do so In other cases? The correspondent sums up as follows: The facts deduced from my tour of the Southern mills are these: That from one-tenth to one-fifth of the total number of cotton operatives are mere chll- That they work from eleven to twelve hours a day. That they are paid from 10 to 50 cents a That hoys and girls from fourteen to That boys and girls from fourteen to eighteen make from V) to 75 cents a day.

That adults rarely earn over $1 a day. ana that on piece work. That the children's work, though not heavy, Is grinding and nerve racking. That the constant buzz of whirring wheels, the high temperature and vitiated conditions inseparable from cotton wear down the stoutest frame and strongest nerves, ana the children so employed ere long lose, the bright eye. healthy glow and elastic step which are the common heritage of youth.

That in many cases these urcblns held In hopeless bondage to their Illiterate, heartless and avaricious parents. Ninth- the normal order of things is alas, too often Inverted, and the saddening spectacle presented of weak children supporting able bodied parents. In lieu of parents supporting their off- not one, out of twenty of such toilers can read and write. The Cracker, who himself has Who Is to blame? The Cracker, who himself has never enjoyed and has but a faint conception ot the benefits of education? In part, yes but primarily and fundamentally two other culprits. First, the mill operator himself, who fights remedial measures- second, the legislator, to whose understandings! it appears, there Is a "lobby' entrance.

The day is coining, and that, in all probability, much sooner than the most sanguine reformer dares hope, when not only will every child now tolling in Southern mills be emancipated from such bondage, but coincident therewith will be enacted compulsory education laws, whereby the freedom thus achieved may be utilized to the full by the preparation of the coming generation of southern operatives for the. privileges and responsibilities of citizenship. IN BBBALF OF BWEATBEOF TICTIMB To the Fdltor of The Tribune. Sir: In the, issue of your paper of July 24. page nine, there is an article headed.

"Works Sixteen Hours a The Tribune Grants a Little East Side Seamstress a Respite." No doubt thousands rejoice In and appreciate your good work, as I do; but doubtless the thinking portion of your renders wonder why the mother and the child of ten should remain victims of an employer who Klvcs them 40 for their Joint labor of sixteen hours. Whymay not the hosts of indignant sympathizers attach their belt to the great powerhouse of The Tribune, take up the work afresh, and with an overwhelming force rout the sweatshops; give the name of me man who preys upon this mother's and child vitality, thus committing slow murder; find out to whom the work Is passed on? I am aware that the subject is complex, that much work has been done; but this Instance shows the need of such an effort as will succ-ed. If the leading daily papers of New-York City would for one month give to this cause a tenth of the space now given to society news and summer resorts, the result for relief to the sweatshop victims would be of Incalculable benefit. F. H.

8. Ijike George. N. July 26. 1902.

to prnjisn woMAy's WOBK. "The Keystone" Is a new monthly magazine published at Charleston, S. by Louisa B. Poppenheim. It is the official organ of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, the South Carolina Audubon Society and the Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs, and Is devoted to their work.

pleats, and includes a removable collar -a feature that has much commend it. The original is made, nf percale, showing rings of blue THE FUME NUISANCE TO END. BIDS ASKKD FOR CHANGING POWEK IN THTRTY-FOURTH-ST. TO ELECTRICITY. District Attorney Jerome, Health Commissioner Lederle and President Vreeland of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company held a conference yesterday in the office of the former.

The District Attorney and the Health Department have received complaints regarding the Thirty-fourth-st. surface cars. On this line sulphuric acid is used, and it is charged that the cars are permeated with noxious Rases, to the detriment of the health of the passengers. Mr. Vreeland explained that his company was getting ready to change the motive power of that line to electricity.

The bids, he said, had already been asked for, and it would be impossible to make a change for at least eight months. In the mean time, he agreed to take steps to remedy the nuisance. This, it was said, was satisfactory to both the Health Commissioner and the District Attorney. MR. GARY AX HATES A CLASSMATE.

HE PROCURES SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE FOR A YALE MAN WHO CONFESSES TO THEFT. Through the intervention of Assistant District Attorney Garvan sentence was yesterday suspended on Warren Prescott Palmer, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money on forged time slips before Justice Newburger in Part I. General Sessions. Palmer had been in the Tombs about a week. Ho had been employed as timekeeper by Thomas Mulcahy.

a contractor, and had confessed to stealing about by means of the forged time slips. While in the Tombs he communicated with Mr. Garvan, by whom he was recognized as a fellow student of the class of '97 at Yale. To Justice Newburger Mr. Garvan said that Palmer had been one of the most popular members of the class.

His father is a photographer of Thompsonville. Conn. After his graduation young Palmer married the sister of a classmate, the daughter of a wealthy Connecticut man. Family troubles arose, and Palmer came to New-York alone. He had been pursued by bad luck.

Mr. Garvan said he was sure the young man was not vicious, but merely a victim of circumstances. He submitted a number of letters, all testifying to the former good conduct of young Palmer, and asked the mercy of the court. Justice Newhurger said he believed the case was one where sentence might properly be suspended, and so decided. Young Palmer left for Thompsonville with his father, who has forgiven his son and will take him back home.

INEQUALITY IX ASSESSMENTS. MR. GROUT MAKES PUBLIC RESULT OF C. B. HBRVEY'S EXAMINATION PARCELS EXAMINED.

Before sailing for Europe yesterday. Controller Grout made public a report of Charles S. Hervey. expert accountant, regarding the examination of 160 of land, where assessments were found to vary from about 19 per cent up to 125 per cent of their value. The report of Mr.

Hervey In part Is as follows: In accordance with your instructions I have caused a comparison to bo made between the assessed valuation and the consideration paid In the transfer of a. large number of parcels of property In the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, between January 1002. and the date of this report, where the consideration mentioned in the transfer was other than nominal and a probable representation of the actual value of the property conveyed. One hundred and sixty parcels are Included In the Manhattan schedule from January to July, inclusive IMt, and 154 parcels in the Brooklyn schedule, the total consideration represented in said transfers being .923 .888 40 and the assessed valuation $5,377.1:3. maktnpr the average percentage of assessed valuation to actual value on said parcels in the two boroughs slightly over 5-1 per cent.

In individual parcels the greatest variation of assessed value to consideration appears, some cases being as low as 20 per cent, Others apparently above lv) par cent. The Inequality between individual parcels Is the mont notable feature. In the It would seem that the assessment of real property not as yet either a science or an art. Accompanying the report are many pages covered with long lists of figures, showing the results of the examination of each of the. parcels.

Among those which are reported as being very heavily ansessed are: Borough of £25 Weal per cent; No. 439 East 57.80 per cent: No 80190 per cent: No. 17 125.7 cent; No. 430 Bast per cent; No. 412 Weal 93.33 per cent; Nlnety-sUth-st.

and 101.26 per cent, and No. 1.323 US.II per cent. Among those which are, reported as being assessed fat below valuation are the following: No 9T6 West 20.30 per cent: No. 245 West 34 per cent; No. 238 West per cent: No.

226 35.55 per cent; No. 6 42.3 per cent; No 23 to 235 West Thirty- M.SI per cent; No. 152 34.54 per cent: No. 40 West 38.09 per cent; Madlson-ave. and 34 54 per cent, and No.

Ml per cent; The. average assessed valuation in New-York allowed by the State is 67 per cent. ASPHALT IiFDS PLEASE CANTOR FIRST TIME IN EIGHTEEN YEARS ROADWAYS ABOUT SCHOOLHOUSES HAVE BEEN ORDERED PAVED. Over one hundred and fifty bids were opened by President Cantor yesterday for twenty-nine contracts to asphalt schoolhouses in this borough. The bids were necessarily low, as the contract called for asphalting or.

the present pavement. Commissioner George Livingston of the Department of Highways, formerly a member of the Board of Education, said that this was the first time in eighteen years that any roadways about schools had been ordered asphalted. He saM that every year since 1884 some member of the board had annually offered a resolution to have this work done, but that this was the first administration that had undertaken it. The bids were all small, averaging about each, but the total reached about $200,000. There were the usual six ITvalde Asphalt Company, the Century Construction Company, the Continental Asphalt Company, the Barber Asphalt Company, the Asphalt Construction Company and the Sicilian Asphalt Company.

The average bids of the Sicilian company were the lowest, being $1 05 a square yard. The Barber company was next, with an average of about $1 08. The averages for the other firms were about as follows: UvaTde company. $1 34: Century Construction Company, $167: Continental company. $157, and the Asphalt Construction Company.

II 20. President Cantor said the bids last year for the same kind of work were at least $2 75 a square yard. He was much pleased at the low figures. MAXHATTAX TOO SLOW FOR FATHER. UNWILUJfa to await or inrnrs over COVTODT OF fHILPREN.

HE gflU TION IN BROOKL.VN. After a deal of previous legislation on the same subject, Louis Sternberger. a Manhattan broker, yesterday secured from Justice Dickey, in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, a writ of habeas corpus requiring his wife to produce their two children in court for the purpose of having the question of their custody settled. The parents separated by agreement In and the custody of the children was awarded to the mother after the proper proceedings under a referee. Justice Truax reversed the referee's decision, and the Appellate Division reversed Justice Truax's decision.

Mr Sternberger appealed, and the appeal was dismissed. On June 2 last application was made before Justice Clarke, in Manhattan, for a modification of the custody order, a.id the case Is still pending there. The father, unwilling to wait, wont to Brooklyn to obtain his writ of habeas corpus. Justice Dickey however, in granting the writ, said that he would not anticipate Justice Clarke's decision, and therefore made the writ returnable on September 1. HOW MR.

CASTOR WILL SPESD VACATION. Borough President Cantor intends to combine business with pleasure on his vacation this year. He will leave the city on Saturday, August to be gone two weeks. On August 19 he is to address the State Grangers' Association at Thousand Island Park. From there he will go through the Great Lak.es.

arriving at Grand Rapids, on August 24. in time to read a paper before the of American Municipalities, and from there he goes to Watertown. this State, to attend the exercises at the unveiling: of the statue to the late Governor Flower, on September During Mr. Cantor's absence from the city George Livingston, Commissioner of Public Works who has lust recovered from a serious illness, will occupy his oince in the City Hall as acting President of the Borough or AUnhatun. THIS TIME POWER IS ILL.

FAILS TO APPEAR AGAIN AND LAWYERS HAVE A HOT WRANGLE. The habit of dodging examination seamed yesterday to have become confirmed in the rase of Peter Power, the mysterious plaintiff In suit against the directors of the Northern Pacific Railway Company to prevent the merger with the Northern Securities Company. On account of three subpoenas served by Pinkerton detectives upon Mr. Power, the attorneys for the Northern Pacific directors thought yesterday morning that his attendance for an examination set for 11 a. m.

in the office of Francis Lynde Stetson, at No. 15 had been assured. Mr. Power failed to appear, however, and George Alfred Lamb, his attorney, had a stormy time with opposing lawyers before the examination was adjourned again. Mr.

Lamb appeared with a large assortment of objections, and with a certificate sigried by Dr. Richard F. Burke, a physician, of stating that Mr. Power was ill with "nervous Irritability of the heart and intermittent fever." Richard A. Mabie, the special examiner, was present to preside at the examination, and Mr.

Stetson was supported by William D. Guthrie and F. B. Kellogg. The proceedings began with a call for Mr.

Power. Then Mr. Lamb astonished Mr. Stetson by saying he understood Mr. Stetson had offered apologies for something he had said last Friday, after the failure of Mr.

Power to appear. "Apologies:" gasped Mr. Stetson. "I made no apologies to you." Mr. Lamb, not in the least disconcerted, declared he wanted another apology, because three "ruffians 1 from Mr.

Stetson's office had his wife and daughter. After watching the of this announcement he proceeded: On Friday last I went to luncheon with Mrs. Lamb. who. with my daughter, was passing through the city.

Mr. Power was with us, and I aFked him after luncheon to take Mrs. Lamb to the railway station. Three men who came from Mr. Stetson's office pushed Mrs.

Lamb aside on the street and persisted in pinning noMces to Mr. Power's coat. My daughter, who is only five years old. was terrified by the action of these men. and my wife hadly frightened.

I must ask. Mr. Stetson, that you apologize for the conduct of these men, and withdraw your remarks about the method of service upon Mr. Morgan. Mr.

Stetson said the men who served the subpepnas were Pinkerton men. As to the service of a subpoena upon Mr. Morgan recently, he said he had understood that his name was used by Mr. Lamb in securing admission to Mr. Morgan's house.

"I make no apologies and no withdrawals," said Mr. Stetson, and he again called for the production of Mr. Power. "F.efore we produce him." said Mr. Lamb, "let us see if he has been legally served.

And here let me say that Mr. Power is entirely will- Ing to come here." Then Mr. Lamb went into a long criticism of the three subposnas and of their force. He declared that if one had been binding there was no necessity for three. He said his convenience had not been consulted in fixing time and place for the examination, and he read from the court's order for the examination in an attempt to show that convenience of a witness and hi? attorney should be consulted.

"I ask you. Mr. Stetson, why the terms of the order have not been complied with?" he said. "I have no answer." said Mr. Stetson.

"We have no answer." said Mr. Guthrie. that you have played fast and loose with Mr. Stetson in regard to the production of Peter Power. You agreed to produce him on a certain day last week, but you failed to keep your promise." That is as you understand it." said Mr.

Lamb, soothingly. "That Is the fact," snapped Mr. Guthrie. Mr. Lamb then said he had been Informed that Mr.

Stetson had received a communication from counsel employed by Mr Power, and he wanted to know about It. Mr. Stetson said Mr. Kellogg had received a letter from one of the attorneys of record In the case. Mr.

Lamb said he wanted information, because he might discharge the attorney who sent the communication. They are attorneys equally with you." said Mr. Stetson. "Their names appear on the original statement." Whose name appears first?" asked Mr. Lamb, with a look of triumph.

"Oh." said Mr. Stetson, with a sneer at Mr. Lamb 'Abou Ben Adhem's name led all the Who's that?" asked Mr. Lamb. "Another Arab." said Mr.

Stetson, and for the first time in the wrangle there was a ripple of laughter in the room. Mr. Lamb said he objected to the examination of Mr. Power in the office of Mr. Stetson.

"I object." he said, "to the way in which I was pointed out to detectives here last Friday in order that they might shadow me when I left here." "I ordered that." said Mr. Cluthrle. "because I thought your client was evading service. Have you finished?" "I am entitled to finish In my own time." "Of course; we can't muzzle you." "I wish you'd try you'd like but before 1 get through I may say some unpleasant things." The wrangle went on some time. Mr.

Lamb again referring to the alleged irregularity of service upon Mr. Power. Then he produced the certificate of Dr. Burke. Mr.

Stetson and Mr. Guthrie said the simple certificate was not sufficient to excuse Mr. Power. Mr. Lamb said they mlght call Dr.

Burke as a witness. After more discussion. Mr. Mable ordered an adjournment to Friday at 11. a.

m. in the clerk's room of the United States District Court in the Federal Building. AWOIXTX RECEIVER FOR RREVTIXG CO. ACTION TAKEN KOR PURPOSE OF PROTECTING CRKPITOR9. Justice Dickey, in the Brooklyn Supreme Court.

JSSlSlflsjJ appointed Henry Offermann and Albert H. K. Seegar receiver of the. Malcom Brewing Company. Flushing and Franklin Brooklyn.

In the. petition presented to the court It is stated that the insolvent condition of the company was brought about by the misappropriation of its funds by a former official. The Indebtedness of the concern is given in the schedule as value of plant and stock. 4i Against this property the Nassau Trust Company holds mortgages and assignments to the amount of. $333,760 71.

'William Dick has brought action against the company for lent to it on promissory notes. It was feared that if Judgment was obtained for that amount the credit of the company would be so impaired that it would be unable to continue business. The receiver was therefore asked for in order that the creditors might bo protected. JERSET MEADOWS PLAX NOT COMPLETED. PAPERS TO BE FILED OPTIONS ON 3.729 ACRES.

James C. Young, of the National Realty Company, of Jersey City, said yesterday that the pluns for improving the New-Jersey meadows along the shore from Atlantic Highlands to Atlantic City had not been completed, but options on o.7L'S acres of land had been obtained. The syndicate for the improvements is yet to be Incorporated, he added, but the papers will be filed at Trenton In a few days. BTOWAWATa TO be sext BACK. Amos Martin and William Johnson, the boys who stowed away on the steamship Cevic.

which arrived from Liverpool on Monday, have been ordered deported by the board of special Inquiry on Kills Island. Both boys expressed themselves as being very glad at the board's decision, saying that they had seen quite enough of America. The real reason for their dislike of the new country Is believed to be homesickness. Johnson has an uncle- in New- York City, but the boy said he did not wish to see, him. and only wanted to go home.

The boys will depart on steamship Majestic to-day. FEAROXB STILL W. V. BEAD ATTORNEY. At the Western Union Telegraph Company's office yesterday it was denied that Henry D.

Estabrook. of Omaha, had been made general attorney for the company, as reported. It was said that Mr. Estabrook h3s been appointed solicitor for the company, but George H. Fearons will retain place as head of legal department, BLACKW ELL'S PET DROWNED.

rOUXG GIRL f'ARRIED TO DEATH Wt JL. SWIFT CURRENT. i pet on Islsjsjg. drowned yeaterday while bathing off the almshouse in the East River The body was not recovered. Florence, who was eleven years old.

was an orphan, who lived on the island with her grandfather. Matthew Ellas, the foreman of the cook shop. The child was pretty and popular. Late in the afternoon Florence and a number of nurses went swimming. The child was an expert swimmer.

She was caught by the current, which runs strongly at that point and carried away. She shouted for ftelp. Those who started to swim to her rescue soon found they had all they could do to battle with the tide. REALTY MERGER FLAX APPROVED THE NEW CONCERN TO START WITH IN ITS TRKAf A meeting of the directors of the George A. Fuller Construction Company was held yesterday, at which the plan for the merger of the company with several realty concerns waa approved.

It is said that the new company will start with about f9.ooft.nixv in its treasury in cash. The underwriting of its securities has already been arranged, about $11,000,000 of them having been taken by the Mutual and Equitable Life Insurance companies, the National City Bank, and others. The directorate will, it is said, include about thirty men, and will be strong. WANT THE SAME OFFICE. DRS.

WHITMAN AND SCHULTZE CONTEST FOR THAT OF CORONERS PHYSICIAN. The contest between Dr. Stephen E. "vVhitmar of the Borough of Richmond, and Dr. Otto H.

Schuitze. who has the backing of the Greater York Democracy, for the office of coroner's physician In the Borough of Manhattan occupied the attention of Justice Dugro, in Part I of the Supreme Court, for over an hour yesterday, and then, the motions wero withdrawn because so many points had been raised by the counsel that the Justice found that he could not decide the questions raiMd before he sailed for Europe on Saturday. Dr. Whitman was legislated out of office as coroner's physician by the reduction of the aomber of coroners for Richmond, and in accordance with the act he was placed on the preferred suspended list by the Municipal Civil Service Commission, and was certified to the Manhattan Board of Coroners by the commission for appointment as coroner's physician In Dr. Hamilton WiUiains's place, but the Board of Coroners was disposed to appoint Dr.

Schuitze. who was urged for the place by the Oreater New-York Democracy, and who is on the eligible Frederic E. Pt-rham. of Nathan. Leventritt A Perham.

sought a peremptory writ of man dam is against the Board of Coroners to compel the appointment of Dr. Whitman, on the ground that ths law fixed his status as that of a Civil Servlca employe suspended without pay and entitled to reinstatement as soon as any similar position to that held by him should become vacant. Justice Dugro promptly dismissed the points the Corporation Counsel's office, which were that Mr. Whitman's term of office had expired by the aoolition of the office of the coroner who appointed him. and that each coroner had the right to appoint his own physician on assuming; office, and that Whitman was seeking not a office, nut a promoti-jn, because the salary of Manhattan coroner's physicians is $3,000 a.

year. while that of the Richmond physicians) Is only gJ.gM Justice Dugro then heard the argument advanced by William Hepburn Russell in behalf of Dr. Sch-iltze's application for a writ of peremptory mandamus to compel the Municipal Civil Service Commission to certify the name of Dr. Schultse to the Manhattan Board of Coroners for appointment to the place Mr. contended that fact that Dr.

Whitman had been a coroner's physician In Richmond 4id not entitle him to appointment in Manhattan, and denied that the eiassa stmi.ar. but Mr. Perham contended that the only difference was that of loca.ity. and that both offices were within the greater city. Mr.

Russell also contended that, the law providing for coroner's physicians scave the appointment of such officials to tho coroners, and that these men could legally serve only dliring the terms of the who appointed them, and that th- placing of theew nun in the competitive under the protection of the Civil Service law. defeats the statutory provision that each coroner should appoint his own physician. It was rhen upon the Intimation of Justice Puiio that he would not attempt to decide the cases before he returned from Europe, that counsel withdrew the motions and had them adjourned until next week. DI SB ROWS GRANDFATHER DEAD. HOSEA BALLOT PERKINS.

RETIRED BUSINESS MAN. PASSES AWAY. Hosea Perkins died yesterday at Ba. in. at his home, on Washington Heights, after a long 111-ness.

Mr. Perkins was born in Dover. N. on August 4. 1519.

He came to this city seventy years ago. and engaged In the carpet business with his brother. James Perkins, who died in 1872. He was commissioner of the Board of Education, appointed by Mayor Grace, and was Identified, as nwpactar, with the cause of education for forty years. He was Intimately associated With the- late Charles O'Conor.

James Gordon Bennett and Robert Bonner. and was one of the last old time residents of the Washington Heights district. He is survived by one son. R. R.

Perkins, and four daughters. Mrs. T. A. Disbrow.

Mrs. H. M. Noe. Mrs W.

J. McCreery and Mrs. G. H. Pay son.

There are ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Mr. Perkins had not been in active business for thirty years, having devoted his later Ufe to the study of languages. He was an honorary A. both from Bowdotn and Dartmouth colleges.

In politics he was a Democrat, member of the Tammany Society and the Democratic Club. He was also member of the Fordham Club and an expresident of the Washington Heights Century Club. Mr. Perkins was the grandfather of Louis Disbrow. who is under arrest in connection with deaths of Clarence Foster and Sarah Lawrence at Good Ground.

Long Island. BIG RISE IX REALTY COMPAXT STOCK. The feature of the curb market yesterday wan the rise in the stock of the Central Realty Bond and Trust Company. The stock opened at 725. and went up to S44K Last week it waa qnotwl on the curb at 550.

The continued rise In the stock was based on the belief that the realty combination will confer valuable privileges OB the stockholders. H. E. TREMAIX A VICE-PRESIDENT. Falls.

N. July The fourth anmal meeting of the New-York State Historical nils tlon was called to order by the first vice-presMaafc D. C. Fair, of Glens Falls, at the Fort William Henry Hotel. Lake George, to-day.

At the business meeting directors for two years were elected, as follows: General Henry' K. Tremaln. of New York: the Rev. W. O.

Steams, of Glens Falls; Dr. Sherman Williams, of Glens Falls; Robert O. Bascom. of Fort Edward; Francis W. Halsey.

of New- York; Harry M. Watroi s. of Hague: Dr. W. Seward Webb, of New-York, and the Rev.

Dr. Joseph E. King, of Fort Kdward. The officers elected were: President. James A.

Roberts, of Buffalo: first vice-president. Daniel C. Farr. Ph.D-. of Glens Falls; second vice-president.

General Henry Tremain. of New- York; third vicepresident. John Boulton Simpson, of Bolton; treasurer. James A Holden. of Glens Falls; secretary.

R. O. Bascom. of Fort Edward: assistant secretary. Frederick Richards, of Ticonderoga.

TBIXKS THERE'S MISTAKE IX THE Y4JTJP. A dispatch from Tacoma. yesterday said that George Wagar. a New- York capitalist and lumber dealer, was alleged to have been snlsnMed in a Nome mining deal by one Charles Russell, to the amount of $60,000. J.

H. Burton, agent for J. R. Stokes Lumber Company, of Charleston, at No. 18 Broadway, said he had never heard of George Wagar In the lumber business in this In and that the dispatch could not nave any rriferatsj whatever to H.

R. Wagar. who was In the lumber business in Alabama with his son. rredertdL Mr" Burton was confident there waa a mistake In the name of the lumber dealer who hi as alleged RICHARD HARDING OAVIS His New Book RANSON'S FOLLY full page Ji.jo. 5.