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20 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1898. A MEMENTO OF DEWEY. coast. All this was unfortunately not enough.

Those places in Africa aro not very pleasant places and nobody wants very much to go there to live. Nor have they proved a great EDWARD EVERETT HALE, ON FAR EAST POLITICS. NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE KILL NOT BE DELAYED, FACILITIES ARE AMPLE TO WARD OFF CONTAGION. A FINE NEW INN FOR MONTAUK POINT, these twenty nine were sick with fever. Most of the cases were supposed to be malarial fever, the result of sleeping in the trenches about Santiago, and living in the rain In a tropical cllmat6 of hot days and cool nights.

Some of 'the cases were typhoid or typhus fever, and one was a fever following sunstroke. As there had been yellow fever at Siboney before these men left, they were all taken to Swinburne Island for treatment. The hospital there is one of the best, with the best medical attendants and nurses. It has twelve wards, arranged about a central pavilion, with every desirable convenience and appliance. The patients will remain at this hospital until they are discharged.

The remainder of the passengers will be kept on Hoffman Island only long enough to make sure that they have no infectious disease. It is expected that they will be discharged to day. The quarters on the island are comfortable cottages of pressed brick or wood, and a tennis court and foot hall ground give an opportunity to while away the time. The place is supplied with books, newspapers and periodicals, and the island is delightfully cool. During sweltering days and nights it ls one of the most comfortable places around New York.

Both Hoffman Island and Swinburne Island are connected by telephone with the health office at Font Wadsiwwth, and through that office with New York and Brooklyn, but the telephone conneotion to the lower islands is a private cable belonging to the state, and no commjunication can be had with them except through the health office on Staten Island. The cable was laid' two years ago at a cost of The process of disinfection used at the Quar Colonel C. Myles Collier's Visit to Florence and Pisa With the Naval Hero Forty Years Ago. Colonel C. Myles Collier, veteran of the United States Navy and of the Confederate Army, has among the many novel relics of his varied service one momonto in particular which he prizes highly.

It calls back to his mind the days when he was a young and dashing naval officer, the comrade of young George Dewey, and waiting, only for his chance to make, a dash to fame. The valued reminder is in the shape of a government pormk to visit P'is a and Florence in Italy, which was issued to Colonel Collier and Admiral De in 1S59. The two young Yankee officers were serving at that time on the United States steamship Wabash and had been on a long cruise in foreign waters. They were adventurous and enthusiastic, and wanted to see as much of the wor'd as they could. They turned up at Leghorn arter a tiresome voyage on water and they 'resolved to take a little run over Italy to Piaa and Florence, especially.

They applied to eo.e United States Consul, John H. Binder, for the necessary permit and the paper, a fac simile of which is primed herewith, was secured. CoI'lier pcekoted the document and after his delightful jaunt to those cities the company of young Dewey, he stowed the paper away among the' thousand minor things.df kind he wanted to preserve. That was lorty" years ago, and the stained piece of paper has rested alt ehese years in its modest place among so many other papers counted of equal value. Colonel Collier has thought often of his Italian journey with Dewey, and the modest and quiet young navy officer has always had a warm place his affections.

When Dewey broke in upon the attention of the world on the 1st of last May by his dashing feat in Manila Bay, Colonel Collier thought again of their old association. The slim young officer had become a great hero and a figure in history, and the little paper he. had secured forty years ago had become almost precious in value. "This associatirai of Dewey and myself, says Colonel Collier, "ended with the ter minaiion of our cruise the latter part of December, and it has so happened that we have never had the good fortune to meet since. The lapse of nearly forty years, you see, has intervened.

The development of Controller Will Provide Money to Complete the Work. NO SERIOUS LACK. OF FTTNDS. The Present Sale of Corporate Can Furnish All That Is Needed. fox Existing Construction Contracts, and More "Will Be Forthcoming if Plans and Specifications for New Work Aro Irepaxed and Bids Will Be Invited Before the End of the Year.

The people who are interested in the early completion of the new East River bridge have been somewhat alarmed over the possibility of delay in the progress of the work, owing to the lack of finances, followed by the fact that there appeared 'to be a possibility of a shortage of over $600,000 on existing contracts, upon the first of next September, because of the failure of the Controller to advertise for the sale of more than $2,000,000 of the corpor aite S'tock of the City of New York, for the benefit of the bridge. When Controller Bird S. Color was spoken to with reference to the subject yesterday afternoon, and asked why the reduction had been made in the sum asked for by the bridge commissioners who made requisition for over $4,000,000 originally, the Controller said: "This reduction in their requisition is more apparent than real. There isnU anybody who waats to keep the trustees from having the necessary funds. The work on the bridge will be pushed right along, and its financial interests will toe 'ooked after as occasion requires.

The $2,000,000 which will be available after the sale of tlhe corporate stock of the city will be used for the purposes of construction. There will be plenty of money to provide for the completion of existing contracts and there will be more money provided when the time comes; that will make it necessary to replenish the treasury. We are all of us too much interested in the work to see it lag and we are all equally alive to the importance of having it completed for the benefii of the city as soon as possible." This statement of the Controller removes all doubts concerning the rapid progress of the work. By the middle of the coming month there will be available over $2,000,000, which will more than meet all the expenses required on the contracts for this year. Most of the deficiency figured out by Commissioner Smith E.

Lane, amounting to $640,000, is tor property tnat nas been acquired. As more than one half o'f Bhis amount is due to the Sugar Trust there Is no particular hurry about paying the money, as that institution is not suffering financially at the present time. The cuy is in possession of property, it cannot be taken from the eity and as t5ie interest runs upon the amcunt agreed on at tfhe rate of 4 per cent, per annum no injustice is perpetrated upon the trust in withholding payment, for a time. Neither dees the city lose for if it borrowed funds with which to pay. for the land it would ay at least per cent.

for ttie money so that the lojs is not of muoh account. The only other important item that is being held up tfte salary of the commissioners. The rait broughtvby the old'bridge com KAssionr rs to prevent eJr successors from i'jji. in office acted as a bar to the Con paying tlhem. Tbe decision of the appellate division of the Supreme Court reversing the denl si on of Justice Garretson.

declaring the new commissioners illegally appelated, puts the latter in position to recetve salaries if'tfi Controller is willing to take risk oif. paying them, pending a decision of the Court of Appeals. As yet he has not decided w6at action, he will take, although it is claimed tfcat if he did pay t)he commissioners neither ue nor the city would be responsible in the event of the Court of Appeals 'reversing decision of the appellate division of the Supreme Cou.rt. It is asserted that under a decision rendered in the case of tlhe Police Commissioners some years ago the courts 'held the outgoing having illegally received the pay, the suit lay against fhem and not against tfae City of New. York or its Controller.

The question of. pay has not yet been formally considered by the Controller. Commissioner Julian D. Fairchild in talking about this phase of the case "The commissioners now serving do not care so much about the salary some of the papers seem to think we do. We realize we aro engaged in the creation of a magnificent structure that will be of incalculable benefit to the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn and the honor of being connected with this great work is far more to us than the matter of salary to which we are really giving no thought." The work on the new bridge is progressing very satisfactorily.

For a short time when the question of the debt limit was in doubt and it looked as though all city improvements would come to a standstill for an indefinite time the contractors almost abandoned the hridge. Without money and with thousands of dollars due them they naturally were In a very bad way. But as soon as the financial complications were tfleared up work was resumed with great vigor and is heing pushed night and day to make up for lost time. Much of the structure is now above ground and the results of several years of digging and delving beneath the surface of the river begins to appear. All of the details of the structure which is to be the largest of the kind in the world, have now been figured out by the engineers and a very fine picture of the bridge as it will appear when completed now adorns the office of the commissioners in Manhattan.

The engineers have the plans and specifications prepared for the construction of the two approaches, which will be the next work to be bid for. This ill cost about $900,000 and will be completed before the end of next year, after which the cables, which are to be considerably larger than those on the Brooklyn bridge, will be put in position and the center span hung in place. The counsel for the original bridge Commissioners are at work preparing their papers in the appeal to be made from the decision of the appellate division of the Supreme Court. The questions involved are purely legal, all the facts in the case having been agreed upon. Dr.

Doty Says Public Is Well Protected at Quarantine AGAINST INROADS OF FEVER. The Health OfBcer of the Port Had a Consultation With the Governor Last Week and Was Given Carte Blanche in Case of an Emergency. How New Arrivals Are Disinfected on Board the Ship V7adsworth Ample Quarters for retention Purposes and for the Care of Suspected Cases From Infected Ports. The arrival of several ships with sick and wounded soldiers from the fever infected port of Siboney has brought the state quarantine officers face to face with the importaattasks of keeping infection out of New York. Dr.

Alva H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, Is fully prepared for the emergency and the apparatus on the disinfecting ship James W. Wadsworth, is capable of being operated so rapidly that the delay incident to quarantine will be less than is usual In periods when infection ls threatened. The health officer is prepared to take care of 2.500 persons at the observation or detention station on Hoffman Island, and 300 patients sick of infectious or contagious diseases can be accommodated at the hospital on Swinburne Island. Dr.

Ddty's trip to Albany on Thursday was for the purpose of conferring with Governor Black on the possible need for a larger force and a larger expenditure of money in the quarantine service; and the doctor was given all the authority he may need to enlarge the force or increase expenses If an emergency should rquire It. Speaking yesterday of the conference with the Governor, he said: "I did not anticipate any trouble; we are well prepared to handle everything that comes here, but I always confer with the Governor when important work is ahead. I may not have to increase the force at all. We can ac JUOOUJ Srvuu oj favlAjJ jj commodate 2,500 persons on Hoffman Island and 300 suspicious cases of sickness or of infectious or contagious diseases can be treated at the hospital on Swinburne Island. Even tnat capacity coula be Increased If necessary, but there is no likelihood that this number of patients Will ever be exceeded.

"We are prepared to handle cases of yellow 'ever or any other disease. There is no difficulty about it. We had several cases of yellow fever about a month ago and took care of tbem at Swinburne Island. "When a ship comes in from an infected port we take the passengers off on the Wads worth and put them on Hoffman Island for observation. If there are any cases of suspicious sickness they are taken to Swinburne Island.

The ship, meanwhile, is disinfected and the cabins are washed down with bichloride of mercury. "The passengers are given haths in the bath rooms on the ship as soon as they come on board the Wadsworth, and while they are bathing their clothes are disinfected in chambers into which steam at a temperature of 200 degrees is Introduced. This ls the best disinfectant for the purpose. Very fine woolens or silk are treated with formaldehyde gas. "By the time the passengers have been through the hath their clothes have 'been disinfected and are returned to them.

They can then proceed to Hoffman Island. The disinfection of clothing is quickly done and the bath is refreshing to the passengers. The Wadsworth is supplied with every disinfecting apparatus known to science, and the work is thoroughly done." The arrival of the Leona furnished a typical ease of quarantine work. There were on board fifty three persons, beside the ctcw, and of Some Light on the Present Situation in the Philippines. SECRET OF GERMANY'S ATTXTUtDE.

Significance of Important Events of the Past Fifty Years, WMch Have a Bearing on Our Recent Conquests. Important Commercial and Strategic Eeatures Russia's Position English Diplomacy Germany's Colonial Policy and Commercial Extension. The "Hailed Fist" Episode and What Came of It An interesting Review of Facts. Ever since the first of May, Americans have leen hearing of German interference in the Philippines, or of foreign interference in general. Lately tiie German warships have caused a certain amount of irritation here by their apparently threatening attitude.

It may have seemed to many that this interference or taik of interference arose from pure "cussedness" or partiality, a VE ing toward Spain on the part of those should have stood severely neutral. Why should foreign nations concern ta in this war? and especially in the Philippines? Why should German warships or any warships have any il'Ore to do in Manila Harbor than in the Harbor of Santiago, for instance? What is there aibout the Philippines that renders thetn more proper for foreign interference than the West Indies? Th answers to ties questions may 3e found in a sketch of European polities in he far east, politics which are within th recollection of all readers, hut which every l)ody may not have clearly in mind. Fifty years ago the only European powers Jiavlng considerable interest in China were Kussia and England, in the 70s, however, France began to develop the interests she had long had in Inuo Cinna and made a third party. The Asiatic powers were not an important element until the sudden rise of Jan. If you look at a map you wiil see that 'vRussia jiolds th north and France and Eng land the south.

Between them and skirting I iaie nnu.e Asiao coast from Kamschatka almost to rj, Philippines is Japan. These powers have territorial interests in far east matters. Of late, however, Germany has had ftmething to say, too. The policy of Russia in the far east seems to be rather simple, at least to one who knows 'nothing more than the outside. There are always those who credit Russia with the Ueep and most awful designs.

But outwardly she seems to be acting merely with a view to her obvious commercial necessity. Russia owns Siberia and desires to make as much of that country as. possible. With the development of western Sioeria we have nothing to do, "out it will be easily seen that the development eastern Siberia necessitates some connection with China. In order to put Siberia into business relations with the rest of the world the Russians are 'building a great railway across the continent from one end to the oilier.

On the west runs straight to St. Petersburg; but there was trouble in finding in astern terminus. It is. of course, necessary that rhe railway shall end at some point where goods can he shipped to the rest of the "World. Xow.

the most southern port in eastern Siberia is which, although in latitude as New York ls ice bound in winter. The Russians, therefore, turned their eyes on China, and the port of Talieuwaa, in Manchuria, seemed a very ex cellent point for the railway terminus provided they could get k. It is. however, a commercial port, and from a military and naval point of view it is commanded by Port Arthur, which has no special commercial advantages' hut is a military and naval position of great From the Russian standpoint the two went together, each 'being useless for hen purposes alone. Hence it was quite contrary to Russian interests when Japan after the war with China demanded the cession of Port Arthur.

With the aid of her ally France, Russia stepped in and calmly insisted that the terms of the treaty should be changed. Curiously enough as it seemed to the rest of the world. Germany joined in the interference. The terms of the treaty were and matters were left clear for Russia to pursue her policy with regard to Port Arthur and Talienwan as well. The probability of Russia's acquiring these ports aroused a good deal of anxiety in England, where there are many people who are terribly afraid of Russia.

England has long Telt that China ought to belong practically to her. So far as trade Is concerned, this may almost be said to be the case, for of the foreign trade of China almost SO per cent, is said to be with Great Britain. It was felt that British trade would be curtailed in ports under Russian influence. But it was further felt that this prospective step of Russia's meant that Russian influence was to prevail with the Chinese government, for Port Arthur would he an excellent naval base for a blow at Pekin: it is only about 250 miles away, of which about one half is water. Now the only British possession In China is Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is an immensely important place, but it does not command Pekin; it is a thousand miles away overland as the bird files, quite on the other side of Hong Kong would be a good naval "base against Manila, but it has little connection with Pekin. of Hong Kong the English have come to reeanl as especially within their sphere of influence the of the Yang tse River, which runs into the Yellow Sea, a little to the north of Shanghai. But they hold no territory ihere and to the north of the Yang tse the English have no great hold at all. English diplomacy in the Far East, then, has in the last year or so had three ends, lo strengthen England in Hong Kong, to increase English influence in the Yang tse Valley and if possible to prevent the probable Russian occupation of Port Arthur and Talienwan. Affairs were in this state last fall.

France commercial addition. But outside of Africa there is not much opportunity for colonizing. South America is owned. India and Indochina are pre empted. Australia is British.

The Germans hai managed, however, to get a foothold on New Guinea, some way to the southeast of the Philippines, and in 1SS4 an arrangement was made with Great Britain which sealed the boundaries of Kaiser Wll helm's Land. Subsequently was declared a protectorate over the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and the Marshall Islands, which lie to the north of it. The Germans also had a claim on the Island of Yap, the largest of the Carolines, but in 1S85 the case was decided against them by the Pope as arbitrator. In 1SS5 they joined Great Britain and the United States in declaring the neutrality of the Samoan Islands. But Germany's colonial policy has not kept pace with her commercial extension.

A colonial policy is one thing and a commercial policy Is another. Great Britain's colonial policy has brought about that all over the world there are larger or smaller bodies of Britons not only trading, but living. India. Australia, South Africa, Canada and many more would still exist and be considerable countries if Great Britain and Ireland were swallowed up by an earthquake. They make up Greater Britain.

A Greater Germany of this kind is impossible. We cannot imagine independent New Germanles rising in Damara Land or in the Bismarck Archipelago. Germany, it would seem, will have to content herself with commercialism. In this direction Germany is doing very well. Whatever be the quality ensured by the stamp, "Made in Germany," we know that it is to be seen scattered all over the world.

In the Far East, German trade has made great advances. The German steamship lines do a large business by the aid of the government subsidy and German goods are spreading widely, owing to their cheapness. So Germany naturally has her eye on China, for the. trade of China Is heing exploited as never before. William the Second, Emperor of Germany, is not very highly thought of here In America.

We are probably not wholly correct in our estimate. He has been Emperor for ten years now, more or less, and, although he has done much that has seemed at the time foolish and dangerous, he has avoided all the great difficulties which were prophesied for him, and he has certainly advanced the power of Germany, But entirely aside from his wisdom or folly in other matters, he certainly understands one thing namely, that the great politics of the present are not confined to Europe. The Powers of to day must consider the whole globe. Hence, the German Emperor is concerned with German commerce, German colonies and the German navy. To return to China after this digression.

Affairs between England and Russia were something as we have sketched them, when suddenly Germany possessed herself of the Port of Kiau Chau, on the Yellow Sea. This was a step which had not been anticipated. Certain German missionaries had been mur dered in the Province of Shan Tung, and Ger many, Instead of asking satisfaction for the I outrage through the ordinary channels, which 1 are rather slow, landed troops (November 15) at Kiau Chau and impressed her demands by military possession. China submitted; she promised to pay an indemnity and to build a cathedral over the murdered missionaries, and aiso gave Germany a lease of Kiau Chau and certain exclusive railroad and mining rights in the Province of Shan Tung. Shortly afterward Germany sent a couple of war ships to reinforce her Adriatic squadron.

There was nothing remarkable about this in itself, but it was done in a way that made It seem a straw to show which way the wind blew. The squadron was in command of the Emperor'e brother. Speeches were made at parting. The Emperor bade his brother defend the honor of his fatherland in the Far East and if anybody interfered to strike "with nailed fist." Prince Henry said that he would diffuse about the Far East the gospel of his majesty. Such remarks as these were theatrical, buti they showed the intentions of the speakers.

The result of all this was that Russia at once occupied Port Arthur and shortly leased the Port of Talienwan. Great Britain was a good deal upset, but rallied quickly and leased Wei hai wei and afterward secured some territory on the mainland, opposite Hong Kong. SCie aloe got China to agree not to alienate the Yang tse Valley and secured continuation of the Burna Railway into that region. France also made demands of a similar character, which were also conceded. These advantages to Great Britain seem considerable on paper.

Still It has been felt by many that she has been overreached in this matter, that s'he has lost commercial oppor tunities, that she has lost influence In China i This may be so, hut as yet Ht is too early to I say. England asks ttiat there be an equal chance for all in Ohtna; stie wants wihat has I been cailled "the open door," namely, that all ports shall be as free to one nation as to I another. Slie fears that these Russian and German partis wilt be ctosed to her, as well as country in their interior, their tilnter lund, as it is sometimes caWed. 'to the fu ture no one can say. So far, however, Rus sia has declared that Talienwan shall he as open as it ever was (Port Arthur Hs not a i commercial port), and Germany has made the I same declaration with regard to Kiau Chau.

Tbis will give us an idea of Lhe present interest of other nations In ifne Philippines. The English are interested for general trade 1 Teasons and because Manila Is directly opposite Hong Kong across the China Sea. Japan is interested because Luzon is the next great inland to Formosa. France has something of the same Interest as England. Tbese pow ers have ftiips of war'on hand.

Wtiat is the interest of Germany which has coneen trated in Che Harbor of Manila the greater part of her Asiatic squadron? It has been said that Germany 'Is protecting tfre commercial interests of Germans in rfie City of Manila. Phis Is probably the ease, but it is also probable that there are other matters in mind. I From lOiau Chau to the nearest German I port is a long way, almost as far as from Ne York to Liverpool. The Philippine Islands came 6lrectly In the way. Manila is about as far from Friedrleh Wiltelm's fn in New Guinea as it ls from Kiau CWau in Northern OhKna.

If events should turn out so that Germ any acquired a good harbor somewhere in the Philippines it would seam to be of considerable advantage to German commerce and to the German colonial system. Germany and Spain could not agree about the Caroline Islands. If now Germany could be of service to Spain in PtiSMppines perhaps Spain would be willing to make up in some way for Germany's loss af Island of Yap. Germany of course stands neutral between Spain and the United States; she aids neither. Still she has at Manila more warships than are needed "to protect her commercial interests." EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR.

Union University, Schenocnady, N. July 27. 1SDS. MOTHER SUPERIOR DYING. San Francisco, July 30 Mother Mary Baptists Hussell.

a prominent member of the reliftious order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy ami of Lord Chief Justice of England, is dying at St. Mary's Hospital, of which she is the superior. LADY BTJDLER RELEASED. San Francisco, July 30 It is reported that Lady Yarde Buller, recently the inmate of a Paris insane asylum, has heen released and is now on her way to Calkfornia. The Latest Project for Pq izing the Locality.

J' WILL BE A MODEL OF ITS KIND. In Time for the Next Season the Point Will Have a Resort Which Will Meet the Demands of the Most Exacting To Be Surrounded by Cottages and Form the Center 'of a Big Settlement. Brooklynites may be surprised to learn that in another year perhaps a hotel will be erected at Montauk Point that will rival any in the world for variety of attractions. It will he known as Montauk Inn, and not only has th site been selected for it, hut plans for the gardens surrounding it, the cottages that ar to spring up around it and the golf links that are to be part of its attractions have been prepared and decided upon. A beautiful summer resort village of modern cottages of th most approved type has also been laid out upon paper for the site which is to day heing considered for a military camp.

Nor is this place to be merely a resort in summer, for it has heen discovered that there is no better place as a Northern winter resort for natural elimatic advantages that government surveys have established than Montauk Point. This same property at Montauk was bought hy the oil magnate, Charles M. Pratt, and Austin Corhin several years ago, and Long Island Railroad was extended to it. JJ famous landscape gardener was employed tcjj lay out the property in the most attractive! way and was at work over eight months pre paring road maps and plans for transform tag wild hut heautiful rolling country Into suitahle villa sites. A glance at the detailed map drawn hy this gardener gives an admirable idea of how easy it was to plan roadsandarrangefor cottages without disturbing the picturesque beauty of the.

place. In the center of the village to be is the large fresh water lake, and not far from this is Fort Pond, both teeming with fish that are hungry for the worm and anxious for the fly. To' th east spreads the ocean with a beach as fln as any along the island's shore, and to the west is the sound, with excellent anchorage for yachts of any description. Last Tuesday Mrs. Charles Pratt, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Pratt, Mr. and (Mrs. Williain V. Hester and a party that represented many millions of dollars accompanied President Baldwin of the Long Island Railroad in a special train to Montauk Point to look over this property.

They selected a site for the Montauk Inn, which will be 'built in the near future. The hotel is to be built on the ocean side and is to have every facility that can be devised tor ne enjoyment of fishing, bathing, swimming, sailing and aquatic sports generally. In fact, the hotel will be better equipped for recreation than any on the island, as it will have, in addition to its. boating, fishing and bathing facilities, splendid livery attached, and horseback riding is to be made a special feature of its attractions. The Shinnecock Hills have long been famous and great plains that have been selected for the soldiers' camp have also long been famous.

They afford unusually good opportunities for testing every quality of a saddle horse. One may ride for miles over the hills on turf that Injures no dainty steed, and the rider may enjoy all the excitement of a chase or a merry dash with the assuring knowledge that the turf offers a more than usually comfortable landing place for a cropper. As for the fishing, it cannot be described. It must be experienced to be appreciated. There are shipped from Fort Pond Bay now, each day, an average of 300 boxes of fish, the boxes weighing 400 pounds each.

Of course a great deal of this is from the Sound and sea, as the fishing smacks unload there In the harbor, but either of the fresh water lakes will soon prove for Itself to am experienced angler that there is more fun in It than has yet been brought out at the end of a trembling rod or a taut fishline. The golf course is already marked out and needs but to be staked to be one of the finest in the country, as experts have testified. It was selected some time ago as natural golf links and looked upon with longing eyes by tourists who have not had their caddies with, them and have resolved to come back again with their implements If they had to play alone. Years ago, before any railroad was within twenty five miles of the desolate spot, Alexander E. Orr, Alfred M.

Hoyt. Colonel Sanger and several other Brooklynites built a lot of cottages on the ocean front and spent many summers there. It was attractive enough for them to ride twenty five miles In carriages to get there. These cottages still remain as monuments to the excellent taste of the arfB ocratlc pioneers. It Is a well known' fact that the aborigines chose that of the Island as the most comfortable to live in the year around, and, not appreciating commercial possibilities of the lower end of Long Island, wondered at the stupidity of the white folk In building their habitations so far from Montauk.

The good sense of the Indians, from their style of living, has since been demonstrated by science, for the government weather reports show the temperature at Montauk Is fully 10 degrees below that of the other end of the island in summer and in the winter time to be much warmer In comparison. The atmosphere is so tempered by the water and the Guy Stream that snow never lasts more than two or three The Hamptons on the east end of the island are 'becoming so popular and so fashionable that there is a demand for additional room and this demand is going to be met by the establishment of a resort at Montaiuk that will rival any seaside watering place on the Atlantic coast, If not excel it by reason of the variety of scenery and the multiplicity of attractions of a pleasuralble character. At the present ttlme there is a place called the Old Third House on the property, which has room for about fifty guests and there the party of financiers and pleasure seekers discovered that an excellent dinner ot fish, lobsters, Jams, could be obtained. This place is a popular one for Brooklyn Res and is noted for Its dinners and its popularity shows how quickly the new Montauk village will grow when it has been started. The party returned on' ithe special oar, stopping off at Southampton to note the styles at architecture there.

Some beautiful cottages have been built at Southampton and. the excursionists were enaibled to see how marvel ously the country tlhereabout has been developed. It is promised the year alf ter next that Long Island Willi have at its extreme northeasitern point the fashionable resort of the North Atlantic coast. F'UNIERlAIi OF JOSEDPfH BANIGHATN, The Dead Rubber King Laid to Rest In Providence. Providence, R.

July 30 The funeral services over the body of Joseph Banigan, the rubber manufacturer, took place this morning at 10 o'olock at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, which was densely filled with friends and citizens, associates and distinguished men of the city and state. Among those present were members of the clergy, including Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, rector of the Cathoilt: University, Washington; Rt.

Rev. Bishop Harkins of this diocese, Vicar General Doran and memhers of the Order of St. Francis, of Alleghany, N. Y. Elisha Dyer, Governor of Rhode Island, also was present, with several state onicials.

The pall bearers were Dr. Stephen H. King of Baltimore and William J. Bowen, manager of the Lawrence Belting Company; Walter S. Ballou ot the Joseph Banigan Rvfbber Company, George Router, of the American Wringer Company; J.

M. Fitzgerald of Providence and Francis Flynn of Wdonsocket. g'NIVTSRiSATiTSTS MEET. Saratoga, N. July 30 The seventeenth annual national summer meeting of the Uni versallsts began here to day.

It will continue till August 3. FAC SIMILE OF THE PASS GIVEN COLONEL COLLIER AND LIEUTENANT DEWEY (NOW ADMIRAL DEWEY) TO VISIT PISA AND FLORENCE IN 1859. antine station on the ship James W. Wads wortlh has attracted the attention of the medical profession and other scientists and in response to a general desire for information on the subjeot Dr. Doty published recently a full description of the apparatus used and the methods employed, with the effects of steam on the bacilli of the bubonic plague, diphtheria and anthrax.

These germs were usually killed at a temperature of 135 degrees and never survived 155 degrees of heat. In order to reach this temperature inside a pack age ui papers or a ounaie or clothes, a higher temperature in the disinfecting chamber is required. The tests were made by the use of linen disks soaked in cultures of the bacilli. The virility of the bacilli was maintained by the inoculation of guinea pigs and white mica The cultures were freshly prepared In each ease by Dr. C.

B. Fitzpatrick, who did this in conneotion with his work on the plague antitoxin. Dr. Doty's article gives the results of many such tests, showing that to insure germicidal effect a temperature of 155 degrees inside the packages must he secured. To secure 'this a temperature of 200 degrees in 'the chamber is necessary.

In some cases steam at a temperature of 240 degrees was used, with exposures of three to ten minutes. Short exposures at high temperatures were found more effective in securing the desired results inside packages than lower temperatures with longer exposures. Dr. Doty says of the steam process of disinfection: "There can he no di the superiority for many purposes of steam over all other disinfectants. The certainty of its germicidal effect, the rapidity of action and its high penetrating power under proper conditions give it the highest rank.

Unfortunately the cost of the apparatus necessary for its proper application limits its use mainly to quarantine and other public service. Although potent when intelligently employed, steam is worthless when improperly applied." The apparatus in use on the Wadsworth for disinfecting clothing and mail consists of a rectangular shaped chamber having a double shell with a space of two inches between its walls. The Inside dimensions of the chamber are 39 by 48 inches by 7 feet 2 inches long. The shells are made of 5 16 open hearth flange steel, riveted at the ends to heavy cast iron rings, the outer surfaces of. which are indented and contain 1 Inch shaped rubber joints for the purpose of making the doors air tight.

The doors are convex and swung on cranes, fastened to the chamber. A car for the reception of the material to be disinfected rests on rollers upon rails running lengthwise through the chamber. The clothing and other articles to be disinfected are put into the car and run into the chamber. The steam is then introduced for about 10 minutes at a temperature of 200. The door at the other end of the chamber is opened and the car Is rolled out so that the disinfected articles can be removed.

The steam ls supplied from the boiler of the steamer. Both moist and dry steam outlets have been constructed by a system of valves, allow the operator to get almost any quality of steam desired. The steam enters through a 2 Inch pipe to a reducing valve which controls the pressure, which is usually kept at 15 pounds to the square Inch. When the temperature is 2:0 to 2:50 degrees a pressure of ten pounds ls used. For obtaining a vacuum in the chamber a steam exhauster is used.

This is arranged so as to exhaust the steam in the space wfthin the chamber or between its walls. It acts on the principle of a siphon, a current of steam rushing by the mouth of the opening from the chamher. A vacuum of 20 inches, which answers the purpose, can be obtained in one minute, where a pump would take much longer. The chamber has a fresh air Inlet which is of great practical value and is a device first used at this station. The chamber is covered with 1 inches of asbestos, which prevents loss of heat.

ELEVEN LEFT BEHIND. Most of Troop Cs Invalids Are 111 With Typhoid Fever How the Roster Now Stands. Troop which left Newport News on Thursday, July 28, on the transport Massachusetts for Porto Rico, is composed of three officers and eighty nine men. Since the troop left Camp Black, on May 23, for Camp Alger, a number of changes have occurred in the ranks. Two of the men have died.

O. B. Henshaw, who was kicked in the stomach by his horse, succumbed to the effects of an ope.aticn, and Corporal Edward D. Brown died from typhoid fever. When the troopers left for Porto Rico Captain Clayton was obliged to leave at home eleven men who are ill, the complaint in most of these ease being typhoid fever.

These unfortunate men are Trumpeters Louis S. Barrett and Robert M. O'Neill, Sergeant J. Crook McLeer, a nephew of Brigadier General McLeer, Corporal James Weir, Corporal Henry J. Wieman and Privates Walter L.

Bell, Freedom N. "Ulrick, Charles E. Fiske, Albert R. Fish, Frank B. Ogilvie and George S.

Stephenson. Private Victor Beson was transferred a short time ago to the Rougn Riders. Five new men have been enlisted since the troop left Brooklyn. The roster of the troop as it is now composed for the Porto Rican campaign is as follows: Captain Bertram T. Clayton, First Lieutenant Winthrop M.

Tutitle, Second Lieutenant Henry Claus, First Sergeant George Weymouth, Quartermaster Sergeant Edward McLeer, Sergeant Charles I. IDe Bevolse, Sergeant Paul Grout, Sergeant John S. Fiske, Sergeants Ed ward H. Walker and Charles Curie, Corporals William S. Norton, Maurice V.

Theall, Howard P. Armstrong, George J. Morgan, H. Olln Wilson, Charles P. Benjamin, Charles Backus, Philip R.

Backus, Roman L. Cronkite, James G. Cronkite, Arthur W. Faul, Albert U. Faulkner, William P.

Grady, Alexander Jardln, John Plnover, George W. Randall, Francis W. Richards. Otto Wieters, Frederick Waller. William B.

Bryant, Mortimer D. Bryant, Edward Byrne, Albert W. Christopher, Archibald F. Commiskey, Henry De H. Cameron, Henry T.

Cadenas. Charles P. Goodrich. Horace B. Holmes, Frederick E.

Johnston, Henry Merry, Charles B. McLeer, Harvey S. McKntglK. George A. Mullarkey, John Montgomery, John Edwin A.

Shewan. John J. Walsh, Isaac Werthelmer, Frank S. Ansell. Edward S.

Anderson, Elliot Blgelow, Milton M. Crook, Alfred J. Clayton, Anthony Flala, Robert E. Field, William A. Hayes.

Edward M. Loomis, William H. Moon. William B. Marx.

Arthur B. Newton, Frank B. Otis, J. O'Brien. Walter C.

Pettee. Albert N. Stevenson. Henry Selmer. Robert Trlcklen, Noel M.

Bush, H. Bennett, Cornelius S. Bevolse, Arthur J. Griffin, Honry T. Hodg kln.

James J. Kitchen, William B. Lester, James C. Maclln, Sydney G. Maltler.

Daniel S. Peters. Alfred J. Patterson, Charles J. Rich, Frederick C.

Swezey. Louis V. Twyeffort, James W. Wilson, John H. Walters, Joseph L.

Zemon, Wluiam J. Stoeke. James D. Tilford, Carroll Le Roy Mosher, Henry Noyes, Ernest Suldner, Saddler Frank McCue, Blacksmith Henry J. Le Francois, Wagoner Peter Schamlng.

A MURDERER SENTENCED. Jersey City, N. July 30 William Reid of Hoboken was to day sentenced by Judge Lippincott to be hanged on Thursday, September 15 for the murder of Andrew Henry in Hoboken on May 14. Reid called Henry, who was a ward politician, out of a saloon, and shot him three times. Reid thought that Henry should have secured him a and hiB disappointment at not getting work is said to have causied him to shoot Henry.

those characteristics which have sounded his name in eminent praise not only in our own but foreign countries surprised me in but one feature. This was in his wonderfully prompt and determined I knew that nature had supplied to Dewey a splendid character, a heart fully courageous and a mind that needed onily development. But he was so quiet, so gentle in all his acts thait I was unprepared to learn of that bold dash of his fleet over a mined channel, past well armed forts in a strange harbor and this in the darkest hour of night. I do not recall in all my experience a more worthy man, a better officer or a gentler gentleman than Admiral George Dewey." Colonel Collier was a distinguished young officer of the Navy up to the breaking out of the war, after which he did gallant service in the Confederate army. He served in many important capacities in the Navy and was at the Brooklyn Navy Yard when the war broke out.

Being a native of Virginia and all of his family being identified with the Southern cause, he resigned from the Navy and went to tile service of his native state. He was temporarily an officer of marines hut was afterward transferred to the Army, serving with distinction under General Joseph E. Johnston. A free translation of the pass for Messrs. Collier and Dewey, as printed above In the original, Is as follows: Consulate of the United Stales of America at The Mr.

C. M. Colier, officer of the American frlffa te of war Wabash, lyinp at anchor in these roads, desires to visit Florence and Pisa on his own affair and for his own pleasure, in company of a Mr. Duwey. The undersigned, consul of the United States of America at Leghorn, prays and requests the authorities, civil and military, In Tuseany to permit thm to pass freely and in case of an attack to render protection and assistance.

(Signed.) H. BINDU. United States Consul. Leghorn, Sth March, isr.9. rem me Xjonaon uracaic has no immediate interest in northern China; her possessions to the south rendered it pos sibie that she might desire some concessions from China there, but so far, she said and I did nothing.

Japan also was quiescent. Somewhat overawed by Russia, France and Germany, Japan was perfecting her military system and giving orders fur new battle I ehips. Things were set going by Germany. As we Ibave seen Germany had at this time no territorial interests in China. But Germany noiv desires to be a colonial power.

0 nt! disadvantages of the loose bond which held the German states together until i 7: was that It did not make possible a colo: policy. Germans who emigrated came largely to us and became'' Americanized. There was no Greater Germany beyond the seas. When the Genman Empire was founded, saw the necessity of colonies. The obvious place was Africa, and 'in the SOs Germany arranged protectorates or possession over the Kamerun Region east of the Niger and running north to Lake Tchad, Togoland in Guinea, East Africa, where they bought the co astland from the Sultan of Zatnzlbar, and Daaaaraaiid Great Namaqua.

Land on the west GENERAL SEuAHTiER'S TCROOPS LANDING FROM TRANSPORTS A.T AIQIJEai FOR ATTaIiCK ON SANTIAGO. 4.