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THE BUOOKXYIM DAILY EAGTJE. EV YOKE THUKSt)AY, OCTOBEB 26, 1899. 3 TERRY HEBE, TRAFFIC DIVERTED. BETTER COTTON HANDLING. HUNT FOR SMALLPOX CAR.

have on hand subject to call, and be drawn upon as required. "Such cotton, graded and insured and pro 1 tected by a proper warehouse certificate, will make as good collateral for loans as the best i Tabb. Mrs. Marion, Laurence Irving F. Ty ars, H.

V. Stanford, Leonel Bclmorc, William Lugg. Arthur Royston, Charles Dodaworth," Charles Garry. John Archer. Charles Vane, Clifford Brown.

Leonard Calvert, J. Hearn, T. Reynolds. C. H.

Kenney, Frederick E. D. Davlcs, H. Porter. Fred Hayes, W.

Graham. W. L. Ablett. A.

Fischer, R. P. Taab, W. Marion. J.

Pitt, C. E. Howson. H. Cook, Mrs.

Gertrude Firth, Mrs Marie Byron. C. H. Fox, W. Colllnson and Mrs.

S. Holland. Irving and his company begin their American tour on October 30. They will present "Robespierre." They will ho at the Hollis Street Theater. Boston.

November 20. Philadelphia will bo the next stop. They appear there at the Chestnut Street Opera House. December 11. From Philadelphia the company goes to Washington.

D. C. occupying the National Theater. Th follows Baltimore, Brooklvn. Pittsburg.

Cleveland, Detroit. Toledo, Columbus, Dayton. Indianapolis, Louisville. St. Louis.

Chicago. Toronto and Montreal. Canada, Springfield, New Haven. Hartford and Providence. The tour will end at Providence, at which place the company will open March 15.

DYSPEPSIA FOR NINE YEARS Compelled to Live on the Simplest Forms of Liquid Food. CURED BY THE NEW TREATMENT Philadelphia. Auff. 8th, Till J. Jlontli iJi ar sirs i th" past eiKlit or nine yeara I have be.

a cunatant and sufferer from I psla. I hav employed a number of doc ters, and trli 'l alt th" advertised dyspepsia cures I c.iiM to l. without any benerit whate'er. 'rrm newspaper a'fv. rtlsem.

ntp I was ted to try the Ilejta its use In Jamtury an 1 l. tnetlt Immediately: from th.it time rt tip prt'spnt I used'the' tablet.s faithfully aevr.rdiriB to directions, and X. am mnu'W ly cure 1 and have been for two months. I an eat and easily digest all kimis of mild foo.l; whereas formerly I was llmtti il entirely to the simplest forms of liquid food. 1 cannot recnimen'l thi cure too hlgrhly to uuflvrers from this complaint, and I feel so Kratlll.

that I would Kladiy explain the clr eiiniFtitnres of my eiirp to anyone who 'feet' inclined to tall upon me S.tMt'KI. liROlXiHTON. No. 2,619 North 29th at. HYOME1 DYSPEPSIA CURE is a now lomodv; a now method of treat ins nil forms of Dyspepsia, and the ONLY OXK whieli is friiiirantcod.

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"iOc. THE K. T. BOOTH Ithaca, N. Y.

AT LAW OVER A LITTLE BOY, Frank Antley's Stepmother Gets Him and His Grandmother Then Faints. BOY WEEPS AT THE DECISION. The Older Woman Charges That Mrs. Antley Bid Not Take Proper Care of the Child. Magistrate Brenner could not.

in his heart, apply the judgment of Solomon to the case of Krank Antley. which wan before him for settlement this morning. Frank is but 4 years old and Is a bright, dark eyed little chap, who was prettily garbed in a sailor suit of a style which fitted his very small person. His stepmother. Jessie Antley, said that she had pledged one of her most priced finger rings to buy the suit and she was anxious to have the boy sent home with' her.

She had practically charged Mrs. Whittle, I the child's grandmother, with having kid naped the boy from her house at 142 High i Btreet last Sunday afternoon. That was what 1 nrought the matter into court, for Mrs. Ant ley had secured a summons from the magistrate directing Mrs. Whittle to bring taa child to court in order to determine who snould r.avr oi it.

Magistrate Breu his distinguished fore jior could like hi runner, urde; i the two to determine whi more affect i.u: fu baby should be cut in of the women had it, but be patiently. ire a to una out coom. ue ase and then, t. 1 the supmoLior ro tit la Frank home with. her.

As soon as the child heard that he had to go aome with his stepmother he began to cry and shrank from the younger She ar tempted in fnrcv uhn lu with her but he rail from her and sought shelter behind the voluminous skirts of his portly 1 grandmother, si: rick in "I won't leave grandma. That woman, that nasty woman, beats mo." Officer Co schina of tin Society for the Pre vent.ion of Cruelty to Children and a reporter wire present. The tcp mother knew Mr. Cos china's business, and eecmed to think that explanation was necessary. She said that her iiu sbjnd wa at pr in Chicago.

an that he bad giv. instructions to go there and. to bring Krankie her. He haL warn i 1 he!" not under eircuir.ni a rices ta 1 uilow the child to i 1 1 into the hands of hi maternal gratidraolh' Mrs. Whittle.

It waa her intention to leave some time this for Chicago, and sh had told Mrs. Whlttle about it. On Sunday last the grandmother 1 had called at her house. 142 High street. and while aha was up etairs dressing had gone off with the boy, ostensibly for a walk.

She had failed in rot urn with him, and had kept him ever ince. ''My husband has threatened to kill me if i I do not bring the boy with me, or if I let I he grandmother have him," she said. While the woman waa felling her Htory Frank wa. with hfs gr.indt:: and two' other women I'ympat hizeps, who had accom panic. 1 her to eourt.

They were all very bit i ter against the stepmother, who. they ald neglected the hoy. The mother of the boy ri; ught of the grandmother died four years' ago, soon after Frank's birth. The baby was taken by Mrs, Whittle, who lived with him for a time in PosMon. a year ago Antley.

who is an electrician, married hia sec ind wife, ami the child has bet with the i jMep mot her at odd times since then. The' grandmother always wanted to kep him; and that is why. it is allegd. phe took hinv Sunday. The two women who were with' tin elder woman declared that when Mre, Whittle brought, him home on Sunday there were evidences that, he had been neglect ed; One of the women was indignant because the magistrate had decided to give the ther the child, ami threatened to call the attention of the superintendent ot the Children's Society to the case.

Whil she waa telling her si to Cowhina the stepmother as suring the crter that the child harj never been sn well eared for as when he had b' on in her keeping, She insisted on her right to th. care of the child, and in view of the decision of the magistrate there wa.s nothing for the grandmother hut to surrender him. Frank strenuously ohjertcd. "I want to go with grandma," he screamed. "I don't want to go with that woman." Wat taken, still screaming, down stairs from the court room.

Then the grandmother kifpt him over and over and dd hirn to be a good boy and "go with the lady." As her snn second wife wan dragging hina of!" lie old we ma sv. ooned on the sidewalk. Her two friends picked htT up and managed restore her uttViently to go to her home. Mrs. Whittle livt on Myrtle avenue, near Canton street, and is ehildle FIGHT WITH BANDITS.

AfchlBdn. Oitibrr 20 Thr Doniphan' who h.ivo rlufloM th authorities for thri'' 'lay? in spin? nf numwnus posses In s.v.iTh of thrin. were encountered fifteen, mik's west 'if Atchison yesterday. There was an exi'liaiin of lire, in which Henry Kolls of Atchisnn narrowly escaped being killed. A fui of men Is betni; organized in Atchison to nifihLJo capture or kill the bandits who aro ealeil in a tleii.se thicket.

I FIGHT OVER CLASS FLAG. Franklin, October 20 Three boys ot i the junior class remained in the hih school building all niviht and hniFted a class nag. When ih other found it floating oior the limine yesterday a Reneral fiht occurred. Webb, a senior, suffered a broken leg, I and Clarence Minor, a Junior, has a broken ann and a knife wound in the body. Tho.

flight was stopped by the city police Eastern District Business Men in Favor of Trolley Cars on Bedford Avenue. IT WOULD BENEFIT TRADE By Discontinuing. Traffic on Portion of Driggs Avenue and Using Division and Bedford Avenues. There is a. tangible movement on foot among influential property owners in 'the Eastern District for the purpose of inducing the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to remove its tracks on Driggs avenue, between Broadway and.

Division avenue, and relay connecting Hues between these last two thoroughfares by way of Division and Bedford avenues. Men whp are taking a leading part in the movement claim that that section of Bedford between Broadway and the fountain on Bedford avenue, has suffered greatly by the trend of business following the trolley lines. It was a mistake, some of the men interested in bringing about the change say, that the Nostrand avenue cars were ever allowed to reach Broadway by Driggs avenue, the latter being at this point purely a residential street. On the other hand, on Bedford avenue, or within a stone's throw of it, between the same points, there are' two of the largest clothing stores in the Eastern District, the Long Island Business College, the Eastern District branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Amphion Theater, the headquarters of various fraternal organizations and minor societies. Both sides of Bedford avenue, at the section indicated, are lined with stores, the owners of which have, according to their own admissions, suffered by a diversion of one, or rather two, important trolley lines along pri vate streets.

The second line referred to Is the Tompkins avenue, which reaches Broadway from Harrison avenue by Roebling street. A committee has been appointed to wait on President Clinton L. Rossiter of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and lay the whole matter before him. All who have so far taken part in the movement are sanguine of success. The committee which will wait on President Rositer within the next few days will be composed of John G.

Jenkins, presi I dent of the First National Bank, and John S. 1 McKeon. the clothier of Bedrord avenue and Broadway. They do not expect that any serious legislative difficulties will be encoun tered and will primarily urge that the com pany change itB tracks will all speed, i "The first wa will do is to endeavor to induce the company to make the change," said Mr. Jenkins, speaking to a reporter of the Eagle this morning.

"Its consent obtained I do not anticipate any other difficulty, providing the consent of 'the property owners street will be unanimous and I have no reason to doubt that it will be otherwise. In fact, a great many property owners are anxious to have the change made as soon as possible. All that would be necessary after that would be to cut two and one half feet off the sidewalk on each side of Bedford avenue, after which the thoroughfare would be sufficiently wid to admit of the laying of two tracks and the passage of cars to and from the ferry." Mr. McKeoh. who was afterward seen, said: "I need hnrdly tell you that I have been, and am.

heartily in support of the movement. Bedford avenue is a natural highway for traffic from Newtown Creek to the ocean. The proper route for the Nostrand avenue ears is along Division avenue to the turn at the fountain and then along Bedford avenue to Broadway. At the time the Broadway elevated road people arranged to have their Uirr station Driggs avenue I was very opposed' to it. Bedford avenue being the highway of traffic, should be the first stop.

The objection was made ami with effect, that a stop could rot be made here on account of the grade, but with the adoption of 'electricity' as a motive power on the elevated road that difficulty can now be overcome. A grade being there; will then make no difference." "I believe that. Bedford avenue should be widened, and not being disposed to grab or ask for myself what would not be given to my neighbor, I say that the street should be widened all the way through to Manhattan avenue. There was really never occasion for the Crosstowh line going outward along Driggs avenue and back again along Bedford. The asphalting of Berry street proved entirely for the benefit of wheelmen.

In brief, we believe that the trade of this section should be restored to' its natural channel. Bedford avenue is an avenue of travel. It has great public squares. The widening of this end of it would de a great deal toward awakening interest in this section of the city. We have, been allowing business to run away from us by sanctioning laying of tracks along what are really private thoroughfares.

The change is very much needed and I have no doubt but that with the present intelligent management of the road we are going to get it." S. H. Cohen, manager of the Amphion Thea ter. is another citizen who is taking an active Interest in the movement. He said: "I was not aware that the Eagle had been Informed of this movement.

It has lately been taking a practical shape and we are very desirous of carrying it through. At present, when it rains, people cannot very conveniently get to the Amphion. With the cars on the Nostrand avenue line coming through, or. say, every other car en that and the Tompkins avenue line, that inconvenience would be avoided. During next season Messrs.

Hyde Behman contemplate remodeling the interior of the Amphion, putting in new seats, decorations and carpets, at a cost of $10,000. It cannot be thought that they will spend this money without looking for a return. It is hoped to make the house equal in attractiveness to any theater In the city." HORSES FOR THE CITY. Fiss, Doerr Carroll Will Supply the Street Cleaning Plant. The contract for furnishing horses for the new street cleaning outfit in this borough lias been awarded to the Kiss.

Doerr Carroll Horse the main oflice of which is on East Twenty fourth street and Lexington avenue, Manhattan. The company's bid was S2'ii; per head, whi. was he lowest. The other bids were which was presented by a Brooklyn company, and $210, the next lowest, by a. Manhattan flrtn.

The Fiss. Doerr Carroll had the con for furnishing horses for the Manhattan i Street Cleaning Department, at $1S0 a head, I but refused to renew the contract, because they claimed that the price of horses had ad vanced. The bids were opened at the office of the Street Cleaning Department, on Park row, Manhattan, Friday. The contract is for 200 rscs, and it is expected that a number will be furnished this week. Each horse Is to be taken on trial for ten to thirty days: The horse market of the firm Is one of the largest in New York, its stable extendB from Twenty third to Twenty fifth street, between Third and Lexington avenues.

There is room for 1,400 stalls in the buildings and hundreds of horses are disposed of every week by the company, and particularly on auction sales days, which are largely attended. MILES TO HUNT BIG GAME. Billings. October 20 General Mllen, who Is here as the guest of Colonel W. F.

Cody, was given a reception at the Billings Club last evening. The party will leave today for Colonel Cody's ranch to enjoy a hunt Tor big game in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming. Refreshing. Horsford's Acid Phosphate A few' drops added to half glass I water refreshes and Invigorates Genuine bears name Horsford's on wrapper. railroad stocks in Wall street, and the entire financial resources of the country will be available for Hb handling.

"I would not, however, make the matter of local cotton warehouse dependent altogether upon roundlap bales, for while these bales furnish the greatest facility and the greatest security, it is nevertheless feasible to introduce this most desirable reform in some degree in connection with the present style of bales. In the informal discussion of this subject with dealers who have been many years in the business, I have been told that the scheme of local warehouses is impracticable on the ground that the amount of cotton Btored would not warrant the expense of building and maintaining the warehouse, let alone the expense of classing and guaranteeing the receipts. From what I know, however, of the temper of thermill owners, and the assurance I have received from foreign spinners who have unhesitatingly expressed themselves in favor of purchasing and holding in local warehouse, cotton until required, I believe this would furnish a large part of the business for such "Again, the interests of the transportation companies would be all In the line of local warehouses, inasmuch as this wuld admit of the hauling of the cotton during the entire year instead of forcing its handling in four or five months. Certainly it is true that such facilities as these, which can be provided at moderate cost, will very largely tend to 'prevent the enforced sale' of the cotton crop and tend to a more uniform market throughout the entire it will afford every cotton producer or cotton buyer facility for the exercise of his own judgment as to the time of sale. I therefore must heartily advocate first, every possible improvement In the 'preparing of cotton for and second, the adoption of the local warehouse system which will 'prevent its enforced and I am certain that with these two factors present the remuneration to the farmer for the production of cotton will be very largely Increased." BUFFALO'S BIG FAIR.

Many Applications for Concessions on the Exposition Midway Already Received. Buffalo, N. October 26 A concessionaire has asked that he be given the privilege of rearing somewhere on the Midway of the Pan American Exposition a typical Arinona mining camp. The aspirant asked that he be given a stretch of land 200 feet in length; along which the cabins of the miners and saloons were to be arranged. Bad men were to be engaged to wear red flannel shirts and tangled whiskers and four or five times each day the director of the show would allow them to fire blank cartridges.

Beside this feature, which may. or may not be seen, there will be many other interesting features, one of which will be the great cy cloram of Dewey's victory; the plan being to have erected a magnificent building in which scenes of the wonderful sea fight at Manila Bay will be reproduced. Another feature under consideration is the reproduction of a typical Japanese tea house, with forty almond eyed beauties to serve tea and sing sweet songs. The work is now well under way and it will be pressed during the winter as fast as the weather will permit. Yesterday afternoon the contract for the Service Building was let.

The structure is to be completed within thirty five days. The building will be the exposition work shop. OBITUARY. Jenie M. Smith.

Jenie widow of Dr. L. Chapman Smith and daughter of the late Franklin E. Penfold. of this borough, died suddenly of heart disease on Monday.

She had been visiting her sister at 142 Tillary street and, while returning to her home, was stricken on the street and was taken to the Brooklyn Hospital, where she lingered unconscious till her death that afternoon. Mrs. Smith was born in the Fifth Ward thirty five years ago and her father was an old resident of Brooklyn. She was married to Dr. Smith, a well known physician of Brooklyn, some six years ago and her husband died last December.

The funeral service will be held at her sister's residence this evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. Hughes of York Street M. E. Church will officiate.

Nelson M. Shepard. Nelson M. Shepard. for thirty years a resident of Brooklyn, died Tuesday at his home, 352 Schermerhorn street, in the 6oth year of his ago.

He had been ill but a short time and life death was in a measure unexpected. Mr. Shepard was born in Winsted, in the Berkshire Hills, and was of Revolutionary stock through both of his parents. He came to New York and was at first a successful operator in Wall street. He subsequently engaged in the jewelry business and for thirty five years had a store on Broadway, Manhattan, which he conducted up till his death.

He had been a member of Sylvan CJrove Lodge of Freemasons for over thirty years and had lived on the Heights until the last ten years. His wife, a son and a daughter survive hirn. His family were all members of ihp Rnntist rthurnh nf Pierrepont street and his. funeral services were conducted at his late home last night by the Rev. Cortland Myers, pastor of the Baptist Temple, which grew from that church.

The remains were taken to day to Portland. where their family summer home is. The burial will be at that place. Laura Steven. Mrs.

Laura Steven: who died yesterday at her home, 85 State street, was In her 95th year. She was a native of Buffalo and the house where she was born was burned by the Indian allies of the British in the War of 1812. They came disguised as American soldiers. She interested her children with her graphic story of the event. She was married in 1830 to Andrew Steven, a banker, and after his death in 1SGI came to Brooklyn to live and had resided on the HeiRhts ever since.

She had been a communicant of Grace Church on the Heights for twenty live years. Up to within a few monthis, when she was taken with her fatal illness, her faculties were unimpaired. Her son, John ft. Steven, a well known tea broker, of Manhattan, and her daughter, Frances A. Steven, together with five grandchildren, survive her.

Her father was Elias Ranson, one of the earliest settlers of Buffalo. Mrs. Elizabeth Love. Elizabeth, widow of the late Henry Love, formerly of this borough, died at the home of her son, Loftin Love, in West Orange, N. Tuesday, as the result of a fall.

She was the daughter of the late Captain John George Victor of the British Royal Navy and had lived in Brooklyn for many years. She had four children, all born in this borough. Her son, Loftin, was formerly well known in Masonic circles in this borough, but has lived for the past few years in West Orange. The family is also well known in Belfast, Dublin and London. BUFFALO'S BIG STEEL PLANT.

It Will Bank as One of the Greatest in the World. Albany, October 26 The State Land Board at its meeting to day granted the application of John J. Albright of Buffalo for a grant of fifty acres of laud under water at Stony Point, just west of Buffalo, which territory abuts the site on which Buffalo's big steel plant, is to be erected at a cost of some $20,000,000. This plant will rank as one of the greatest steel works in the world. When In full operation some 8.000 operatives will be employed the plans calling for the erection of two miles of buildings.

The company has paid in $1. 500.000 in cash for the land on which the plant Is to be erected. DISTRICT ATTORNEY APPOINTED. Washington. October 20 The President today appointed Charles H.

Brown. United States District Attorney Tor the Xortharn District of N'ew York. Mr. Brown was Assistant District Attorney under Emery p. Close, whose illness caused his relinquishment of office.

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For sale by all newsdealers. John E. Searles Advocates Improved Preparation for Market and Local Warehouses. flE TALKS TO THE PRODUCERS. Cotton Growers of the South in Convention at Atlanta Listen to Him.

John E. Searles, who is president of the American Cotton Company, delivered an address to the cotton growers of the South at the Atlanta Convention yesterday. The general purport of his remarks tended to show how cotton raising, or, more particularly, cotton selling, might be made more remunerative to the farmers. Mr. Searles eaid: "It must be admitted by all familiar with the business that, while cotton is king, the king has been very badly attired and has presented himself to the gaze of the world in appearance totally at variance with his high position, and that the criticisms to which he has been subjected, even in comparison with hie younger brothers in the remoter countries of India and Egypt, have been well founded.

He haB not only been unkempt and disgraceful in appearance, but has been subjected to all manner of indignities by reason of his Insufficient covering, and notwithstanding his metallic waist bands, has been subject to pluckage, not only by everyone with whom he comes into business contact, but by every passer by and the cattle in the yards as well. Surely the time has come when the condition of this, one of the great staples of the world, should be improved and the existing wasteful and expensive methods of handling should be done away with. "I desire to lay down, as a fundamental proposition underlying the whole question, this broad statament: Every ounce of waste, every needless expense, every loss through faulty cleaning, imperfect ginning or baling, every unnecessary handling in cotton yard or warehouse, every (. barge for screwing, repair of bales, country damage or loss by flre, is for by the farmer. And the reverse is equally true.

Every improvement in the staple, every device which delivers the cotton cleaner and in an advanced state of preparation to the mill, which decreases the cost of transportation, which lessens the fire hazard, which increases the storage capacity Of the warehouse and diminishes the wastage through sampling and unnecessary handling, Increases the price to the farmer. "I believe too great stress cannot be laid upon this proposition and that its truth will he apparent on a few moments' reflection and by tracing the history of a cotton bale in the light the present method of handling it. It Is admitted on all hands that the saw gin now in use sacrifices the fiber of the cotton to speed in ginning, and that in the majority of instances comparatively little care is exercised in the cleaning of the staple. When ginned, the cotton is baled in the ordinary uncompressed bale, which, with the added weight of bagging and ties, must be shipped to the compress, and there after being unloaded from the cars and awaiting its turn it is reconi pressed, with additional cost for recovering, reloaded upon the cars and shipped, possibly to a remote port. Transportation to the point where the cotton is warehoused involves the use of a large number of cars and their detention, which makes the cost of transportation much larger than is necessary.

From the time the bale leaves the gin until it reaches its final destination at the mill, the fire hazard is The loss from this source is so great that the cost of insurance against fire and country damage by reason of the exposure of the cotton and its barbarous handling makes a heavy tax against the bale. "When this cotton reaches the mill, what happens? The mill owner, in estimating the value of the cotton received, deducts first all tarer whether iron or jute, all waste by reason of the damage or soiled condition of the cotton, the weight of all sand or foreign substances contained in the bales, and, carefully figuring the net amount of clean cotton received and the cost of cleaning and preparing the bales for his machines, the net value which he finds is really the cotton which he pays for. He does not take into account at all the enormous cost of handling or transportation, or insurance, or sampling, or wastage. These are matters in which he has no interest. He simply estimates the amount of good cotton received and its cost to him when freed from dirt and delivered in the form of a bat to his cards.

Now. let us see What can be done, if anything in preparing cotton for market, which will, by lessening the charges, and protecting the cotton, increase the price to the producer. "In the first place, let me suggest that the question of seed is worthy of the serious consideration of every farmer. He should see to it that he gets the best quality of seed adapted to his soil and then that the seed cotton is delivered to the gin in the best possible condition. We are for the present dependent upon the saw gin for stripping the lint from the seed, but I believe that in the very near future an improvement in this direction will be made which will save the fiber of the cotton and largely increase its yaiue.

Pending this, however, every gin should be equipped with the very best machinery obtainable, with ample power to run it and with sufficient capacity to admit of its being run at a slower speed, which to some extent will save the destruction of the fiber. The model gin plant will have a seed cotton bouse with a series of bins for different grades of cotton, where the seed cotton as received from the farmer can be graded and stored, so that the cotton taken from the seed house may be of the same quality and make bales of uniform grade. This, of course, implies the sale by the farmer of his seed cotton to the gin, which will be a step in advance of the present system in many sections, and will no doubt for a time be resisted by the farmers who prefer their own bales, but a little experience will show that such a system will enable the gfnner to deliver the bales not only of uniform grade, but of uniform weights, and if the farmer desires to reinvest his money in the finished bales, he can readily do so and will occupy precisely the same relation to the crop. The system provides for the cleaning of the cotton on its way' to and in the condenser, after which it Is formed into a but of uniform weight and thickness and rolled into a bale from which the air is excluded, making it practically non combustible. During the process of making the bales two samples are taken which represent perfectly the quality of the cotton.

By these samples the cotton is classed and the buyer is perfectly safe in selling by these classifications any amount of cotton graded by such samples. "As above stated, the roundlapbale as it comes from the press is ready for direct shipment to the mill without the intervention of any compress, without iny unnecessary delay in shipment, and the cotton is in a package which enables the railway companies to load their cars to the full weight capacity, which enables a steamer to carry at least 50 per cent, more in weight than can be carried in the same space in uncompressed bales, and without the enormous fire hazard which belongs to the old style packapce. It is true that up to this date the railroad companies have made to the roundlap bales only the concession of compress but when this package becomes a larger factor In cotton shipments, it must, and of necessity will be treated as a new commodity by the transportation companies and will have a rate based not upon the present cotton rates, but upon its own meritB as an independent article of merchandise and In keeping with its improved form and the carrying capacity which it admits of. Already on foreign shipments round lap bales are bid for at a reduction in freight of all the way from 30 to 40 per cent, below the best rates for square compressed bales, while the rate of fire and marine insurance is about one half. "Thus much for the first part of my topic 'Preparing Cotton for and "now I come to the second part.

'How to Prevent Its Enforced The answer to this is embraced in part in the first proposition, namely, to have It better prepared for market, and second, cotton having thu3 been prepared and put in a form where It can be conveniently and economically stored, this will in my judgment Inevitably follow: Packages of cotton put up in this form will be purchased by the mills In this country and by the spinners abroad and held in warehouses convenient to the point of production until they are needed for consumption. Havinp; boon carefully classed and. the samples retained, there is no reason why these bales may not be stored Indefinitely for account or the mills, with entire assurance as to the quality of the cotton they Dying Man Rode Over Bridge in Fulton Street Trolley. ROAMED ABOUT THE STREETS. Patient Hurried Away by Health Officials to North Brother Island.

The health officials are to day trying to find the Fulton street car in which Charles H. Brown rode across the bridge yesterday. Brown is dying from smallpox in the hospital at North Brother Island and the fact that he spent all day yesterday wandering about the Brooklyn streets in practically the last and most venomous stage of the disease has been wqrrying Dr. Black, the local health officer. Brown was quite incoherent when he reached the health office at 38 and 40 Clinton street shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon; 'and it was only by the most searching questioning that something like a history of his case could be procured.

Brcwn, who is 40 years old. had been living in the Glenmore House on the Bowery, for some time, but last Saturday he had been at the Clinton Hotel, another cheap lodging house, at 17 Myrtle avenue, in this borough. He left there on Saturday afternoon, having spent Friday night and Saturday forenoon in the place. From the time that he went away until yesterday morning he does not remember where he was. but he knows that he' was very, very ill, somewhere.

Yesterday he decided to come to Brooklyn to see a doctor. He got on a Fulton street and East New York car at the Park row entrance of the structure and rode over to Myrtle avenue. There he alighted and feeling very weak he wandered into the Adams street station. There was an ugly eruption on his face and hands and the sergeant, who was not sufficiently scientific to diagnose the case as smallpox, saw that he was very ill and advised him to go to the office of the Charities Commissioners on Livingston street. He got there before the office was open and lingered at the door for a period that he thinks was about, an hour.

Then he got tired and went somewhere else, he does not know where. Nothing more could be got from him and nothing further is known of him until he turned up at the office of the Hjfalth Board on Clinton street. He looked so woebegone and ill that quite a crowd collected the door of the Health Office. The employes s.uv at once that he was suffering from smallpox and at once isolated him in a room in the basement that is kept for just such emergencies. A physician who was called in confirmed the diagnosis of such an experienced layman as'Clefk O'Shea, who has charge of the contagious diseases records, that the case was one of true smallpox, and a telephone message was sent at once to Manhattan for the ambulance to take him without delay to North Brother Island.

The crowd outside, which could see the man through the basement windows, lingered on and looked at him sympathetically. One of the clerks tried to shoo tbem away, but they persistently stayed, until Dr. Black instructed" the clerk tp tell the people that the man had a very bad case of smallpox and that there was danger of infection. This was sufficient for the curious. The crowd broke and ran in a dozen different directions and the fact that a smallpox patient wad ih trie' pVac'e kept the front of the building clear of onlookers for the rest of the day.

In a very short time the patient was carried off to the hospital and the room which he had occupied in the office was thoroughly disinfected. The lodging house also received a visit from the disinfoctors, and the bedding used by the man last Friday night was taken to the Kingston avenue hospital and destroyed. The lodgers in the place will be watched for a day or two. The doctors of the sanitary squad are actively at work, trying to trace the man's movements yesterday and for the days that he wandered about. HAGAN DISCHARGED.

No Evidence Upon Which to Hold an Alleged Assailant. The case of Joseph L. Bergen of IB Fourth place, one of Superintendent McOullagh's deputies, who charged William Hagan, a young South Brooklyn man. with assault, came up before Magistrate Steers, in the Butler street court, this morning. According to the story told in court, Mr.

Bergen, while returning to his home on the night of October 1, was attacked by five men on Cole street, near Manhannet place, and robbed of his watch and chain. in cash and a bunch of keys. Bergen seized one of the alleged robbers, who turned out to he Hapran, and took him to the Hamilton avenue station house, where he was searched, but nothing was found on him. Bergen was badly beaten by the highwaymen and came near losing one of his eyes during the assault. Assistant District Attorney Tyler said there was nothing by which the accused could be held en the charge, and Steers accordingly discharged Hagan.

WANTED TO KILL HIMSELF. Brooklyn Man Enters a Manhattan Police Station for That Purpose. Magistrate Crane, in the Kssex Market Court, Manhattan, to day (Thursday) committed Xavier I.oretr. 51 years old, of 275 Grand street, Brooklyn, to liellevue Hospital to be examined as to his sanity. He entered the Union Market Station l.

isi mght and told Ser gtant Sweeney that, ho wanted to kill himself. "Say," he said, "my wife committed suicide in March last by cutting her throat with a razor while we were living at Avenue C. Give me the razor that used so that I can cut my throat. I want to join my wife; I hear her calling me constantly." The sergeant said that he did not have the razor. "Well.

then. I'll have to kill myself with laudanum." said Lorenz. He took a bottle of laudanum from his pocket and raised it to his lips. The bottle was scoured by a policeman and he was locked up. DID NOT VIOLATE THE LAW.

The arrest 'of Addison W. Halloek and Alfred C. Ostrander, late yesterday afternoon, on a charge of having violated tin election law by certifying to false acknowledgments in petitions for the nominations of independent labor candidates in the Eleventh Assembly District, was not by any moans a surprise in political circles, for the matter has been talked of for som edays. Halloek is a well known Republican leader of the Fourth Ward and, like Ostrander, is employed in the oifice of George E. Waldo, Commissioner of Records.

Halloek has a plaeo as comparer and Ostrander is what is known as a locater in the oflice. They both deny that thc are in any way responsible and their plea of not guilty was duly recorded. They will have a hearing on the 31st inst. and in the meanwhile, as stated in the Kaisle yesterday, they are out on bonds of each. The complainant is 1 1.

Redmond, who swears that the accused, as notaries, certified to the names of Patrick I.ani.ry mid Evers, who hare boon dead, it is alleged, several months. BOLIVIA'S NEW PRESIDENT. Washington. October 2fi The State Department has been Informed by United States Minister Bridgman at La Paz that Pando was elected President of Bolivia yesterday. The English Actor Gives His Views on Plays, Critics, Syndicates and War.

GOVERNMENT AID TO THEATERS A Possibility With All Nations in the Near Future Miss Terry Glad to Be Here Again. Sir Henry Irving. Miss Ellen Terry and their company of fifty two players arrived this morning on the steamer Marquette from London. The company had practically the entire steamer to themselves, for there were only a few names on the passenger list which were not included in the company. Tile steamer also brought 280 tons of scenery for staging Sir Henry Irvlng's repertoire of plays which includes "The' Bells." "The Amber Heart," "Waterloo," "Merchant of Venice," 'Nance Oldfield" and "Robespierre." Sir Henry and Miss Terry appeared to be in the best of health and the actor is in looks very little older than when he last visited this country.

Bram Stoker, who is Sir Henry Irvlng's manager, also came. on. the Marquette. He said that he had had his hands full looki out for the players and keeping track of their property. He said further: "The weather during the trip was delightful except on Wednesday a week ago, when we encountered a gale.

There was nothing of note happened on the trip except that we were delayed on account of the fog. Ten of our company will arrive on the Etruria." Sir Henry Irving was seen In his cabin while the ship was coming up the bay. He said: "I have had a delightful voyage over and I am certainly glad to visit America. We shall Henry Irving, Who Arrived To day. present before the American public "Robcs niprrn." a ereat nlav bv Sardou.

"Robes pierre" was written by a master hand and by a man on the spot and therefore It has the I Inr nl color of the age. But I do not wish to I praise the play: let the public do so. It Is bound to be successful." i He was told of what Zangwill had said of the plav. and replied: "I know Zangwill and io "wonderful man with wonderful talents. and I am sure that if he had seen the play he would have changod his mind." "Has the stage degenerated?" was asked.

"No. The stage has not degenerated. I was asked that question sixteen years ago. and I can sav that in my opinion the stage has not degenerated. The people may have degenerated, but not the stage.

The young never see the degeneracy. It is always the old that say there is degeneracy." Speaking of Ibsen's Influence on the writing of plays. Sir Henry Irving said: "Personally I am not an admirer of Ibsen. But he has influenced to an extent the writing of plays, but not the splrii. lie has Influenced the method of dialogue.

Ibsen's dialogue is a great ihir.a; for the actor. It. goes along so I nicely." "What is. in your opinion, a good play?" "Do you mean to name a good play or to give an analysis? Ah. 1 am not enough i to do the latter.

Shakspeare wrote good plays. Sardou h.n also written gni.d plays. By the way. is Mr. in New York? I should like to have seen him.

I love Jefferson and I hope he will be In New York." Speaking of critics and criticisms. Sir i Henry had this to say: 1 "Dramatic criticism In England is as serious i as it has always been. 1 see that Mr. Clement Scott has left our ranks. 1 have known him thirty years and lilted him.

I have also known some great critics In America. There are line critics In France, and in faei critb ism I is not confined to any country. II' the critic i will study and enter into the spirit of the play, he actor will do good wo lt. "There Is no country like America for itfi i theaters. The public hero is very cute and lis a little ahead of oilier countries.

The American, in spite of criticism, will go to i see a play unprejudiced, and If he does not like a play, will stay away." "What parts dp you prefer to play?" "All; though I rather incline to the Mer I chant of Venice. 1 have not brought all my nlavs heTe. but I expect to come again and often. I have a new. play In view.

It Is entitled "Charles the Ninth." and Is founded on events which occurred in the times of the St. Bartholomew massacre. Two men are responsible for It. but I do not care at this time to mention their names." "Why does Germany produce Shakspeare's plays more often than England, France and other countries?" "Because the state pays. In a production of a series of classic plays there Is a heavy outlay, and in Germany the state steps In and helps.

In that country the play Is looked on as a matter of education as well as amusement. I believe the time will come when the same thing will be done by other governments and in America." Sir Henry Irving was asked If. in his opinion, a theatrical syndicate was advantageous. He was rather reticent in discussing the matter, but said: "Syndicates are advantageous and disadvantageous. A syndicate In sympathy with the actors and the theater is.

I should think, a benefit." Speaking of the recent yacht race he said: "Vnu know that I was here during the race I before this last one, and I can say this time I 'Hail Columbia." Was it not Richelieu who said. 'Hope is sweeter than possession." I think that these races do a great deal towanl making a good feeling between England and America. I have not met Sir Thomas Upton, but I understand he is a true sportsman." The actor eagerly inquired about news from the Transvaal. "Ah," he said. "England needs the moral support of America.

It. Is a case of liberty where the flags fly our flags England and America. England I do not think will do much In the Transvaal before January. Of course you also have your troubles in the Philippines." "You know." said Miss Terry, when introduced by Sir Henry, "I am to be excused from nil interviews. Yes.

1 am very glad to get back to America again and I have a warm spot in my heart for the country. My stay in America always does me so much good that. I am In favor of coming over here every year. I escape the London fog and improve my health. "I will play alone on Saturday afternoon and Sir Henry alone at night.

A sort of a division of labor, and the public will have a sort, of an unadulterated Terry play. My favorite character is Portia in the Merchant of Venice which I hae portrayed many times. I have been playing that ever since I was very young. There. I have said too much.

You must i xcuse me." When the Marquette arrived at her pier, Mr. Franklin of the Atlantic Transport Lino and other officers, went, on board the vessel and were Introduced by Bram Stoker to the actor anil Miss Terry. Both thanked the ofll eials for the courtesies that had been extended tn them during the trip. I Sir Henry was among the last to leave the ship and from the pier he nnd Miss Terry were driven to the Phi.a Hotel. The other members of he company will stop at differ ent hotels In the city.

Others in the company which arrived on the Marquette were: Maud Milton, Bren da Gibson. Beatrice Irwin. Cecil Cromwell, Jessie Cross. M. Holland, Grace Hampton, Aline Davies, Doris Digby.

Louisa Hale, Queenle Tarvln, Mrs. Belmore. Mrs. O. F.

Davis. Mrs. Tyars. Miss Celia Howson. Mrs.

MARTIN DID NOT WEIGH IN. Sea Fog, Which Finished Second, Was, Therefore, Disqualified American Jockeys Win Again. London, October 26 At the Newmarket Houghton meeting to day the Bretby Nursery Handicap was won by Killarkln, ridden by J. Reiff. St.

Milllcent finished second. Jouvence, with Tod Sloano up, and Lefeu ran a dead heat for third plaice. Ten horses started. The betting was 8 to 1 against Killarkln and 2 to 1 against Jouvence. Nippon won the Third "Welter.

Handicap. Martin finished second on Sea Fog, and Lord Earnest ran third. Korosko, with Sloane in the saddle, was unplaced in a field of seventeen horses. Martin was reported to the stewards by the clerk of the scales for failing to weigh in on Sea Fog. The latter was disqualified.

Lord Earnest being placed second and Saeripant third. The betting wan 7 to 10 against Sea Fog and 100 to 1 against Korosko. Martin won the Houghton Handicap on Ailyer. Edmeo finished second and Ogle was third. Elfin, ridden by Sloane.

was unplaced In a field of fifteen horses. The betting was 3 to 1 against Ailyer and to 1 against Blfin. The Dewhurst Plate race resulted in a victory for Sloane on Democrat. Diamond Jubilee and Goblet were eieeond and third, respectively. Only three horses ran.

The betting was 5 to 2 on Democrat. Germantcus. ridden by L. Reiff, won a 2 year old selling plate. Sloane took second place with Golden Horseshoe, f'anderose was third.

Sixteen horse.i ran. Betting wan 10 to 1 against Germanlcus. FOUR TRAINMEN INJURED. Accommodation Train Collides With Freight Cars in a Fog. Pittsburg, October 26 The Butler accommodation train on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad ran into a freight at.

L'ndercllff, to day. The pa.s. en.c": escaped wiih a shaking up. but tour trainmen were seriotiisly injured. Their are: William McChristian.

baggagemaster; William Schri ver, engineer; William French, conductor; S. M. Mitchell, fireman. The two first named are injured internally and may die. Both engines were badly damaged and a number oi freight cars were demolished.

The accident wtus due to the heavy fog and a misunderstanding of signahs. ASSERSON GOES TO NORFOLK. "Will Prepare Plans for New Quays at the Navy Yard at That Place. Captain P. C.

A. chiof ontjineer of th 1 Ilroortlyn Navy Yard, has boon selected by S' rwary of thr Navy in tu Nurf ilk this week to superintend the laying out and dtvi'h' upon improvements lu be in tu N.ivy Yard at that place. He is al. to pre pun plans for tht new quay wall. aluti the I iv.tfT front of the yard, only recently ae quire.

i. Thin is a speei.il honor Captain At. er son, and is a recognition of his rinr skill as an engineer. Homo time since the government purrharsed I an addition of about 7' to thr Norfolk Navy Yard, and it is on this new tract that the improvements are to be made. Tho Nor folk Navy Yard has not been us h1 nearly as as the one located in this city, but the Navy Department has decided to enlarge and Improve it.

A new quay wall is one of the fir. iniprove incnM needed at the Norf dl; yard, and this beiiiR sueh an important tart or at a navy yard, Captain Asserson will prepare all nece.s 'f aiy plan1 el ihi work t.irtni at once. Ho will also lay out tho yard for ets i new Captain Aisser.son was civil engineer nf the Navy Yard at for more than nine tren years, and. practically speaking, built that stabllr ment as it stands to day. Mia cervices wore so efficient, and' so wc.W were his efforts dimetr that the govern merit saw I that such a valuable man nuht to he eoiinct ed with the best navy yard in the country.

I He was accordingly assigned to Brooklyn. where he has been for the1 past thirteen 1 years. i Anions naval oflicials this recognition nf Captain A ergon's ability by he Navy De partment is considered a hijrh honor. There arc hundreds of other able civil enfffneers 1n the United States Navy, many cf v. horn aro much nearer Norfolk than Brooklyn, but tlr i government wanted to th? beu.

The work at Norfolk will require a week. I or possibly more. During bis absence Cap tain Asserson's assi.stantn. Messrs. Goodrich and Coxe, will be in rharsf of the in the Brooklyn yard.

The rebuilding of dry dock No. 2 is In charge of Asris'atn Civil Engineer Coxe, while First Assistant Civil i Engineer Goodrich has the supervision nf the new buildings and work. FROST GLOVER. "Last night Miss Christine Kellogg Glover, daughter of Rosabella Halloek Glover, was married to Frederick Wonhm Frost at the home of Dr. Narhaniol Matron at 41 Greene avenue.

The wedding was very pretty, although simple, as only the immediate friends and relatives of the bride and groom were present. The rooms were decorated with palms, ferns and chrysanthemums. While the wedding man from Dohongrln was being played the bride, on the arm of Dr. Matson, entered through the library. She was pre coded by two bridesmaids, Miss Mary E.

Cramer of Portland. classmate of brth bride and groom; Miss Lorena M. Frost, sister of the groom, and the maid of honor. Miss Esther cousin the bride. The groom was attended by his brother, Mr.

Arthur H. Frost. The bride was attired in a gown of while Chant illy tissue and point duehesse laee. The bridesmaids wore white silk mull with yellow ribbons and carried golden and white erysan themuins. The maid honor wore white Rennaissaiiee over yellow satin.

The ceremony was performed by Ke v. i r. fir ad ford 'au 1 Raymond. LI president of Wesh van I'ni versily. Middle town, who usd the Episcopal service.

Mr. and Mrs. Frost will reside in Brooklyn. MR. PEARTREE HONORED.

I Paris. October The Journal UthVlelo says that Mr. Peart ree. president of ho American Chamber of Commerce, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of his active in tin' negotiations of the Franco America. commercial i r.

a ty. BEECH AiVl'S 53 1 I rnahe I he li i warth livin Cure Minus and Nervous Disorders. 10 rriit. and rruth, til ctvuic Mlarrn i.