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1 THE BEOOKLTN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, THTTBSDAT, DECEMBEE 21, 1899. 3HSCELX.A2HE10U& DB. GEORGE T. PTJBVES CALLED.

THE RIGHTS OF A COOK. MISCELLANEOUS. A Man Wants to Know if He Has the Authority to Enter His Kitchen and Inspect His Refrigerator He Ought to Know Better Weakness of Coffey's Candidate Shown by Additional Figures A Pitiful Appeal From a Child. Unanimously Chosen to Succeed the Late Dr. John Hall.

At a largely attended meeting of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, last night, the Rev. George T. Purves, D. LL.D., Professor in Princeton Seminary and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Princeton, was unanimously called to the pastorate. It was a rising vote, every one present standing.

It is pretty well understood that Dr. Purves will accept. He has been invited to fill the Fifth Avenue pulpit on Sunday, December 31, and if ho consents to do so it will be considered as an indication that he will accept. Don't stop to learn whether it's a subacute laryngitis or capillary bronchitis. What do you care for the name of it? If you are coughing you want help, and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the one thing that will give it to you.

It controls coughs and heals inflamed lungs. It cures consumption in its early stages; and it cures asthma and bronchitis fa IT'S A CINCH. the discharge of the St. Lawrence River with the varying levels of Lake Ontario. The effect of the regulation of the level of Lake Erie would be to diminish tho slopes of the Detroit and St.

Clair rivers for any given volume discharge and to redistribute the flow. This would result in raising the low water etage about three feet in Lake Erie, two feet in Lake St. Clair and one foot in Lake Huron. In conclusion the board states that works can be established for regulating the lovol of Lake Erie which will be of great value to navigation, not only in Lake Eric, but also in the upper lakes and connecting waterways, and will be of no injury to tho lower waterways of the lake system, and that such works can be constructed at a cost which will be small compared with their benefits to commerce. The Deep Water Way Commission is now consldering a project which is of even more importance than the one just reported upon.

It relates to the advisability of a deep waterway from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean, striking tho Hudson River at some convenient point aud continuing down to New York Harbor. It Is proposed to construct a thirty foot channel over this route, which would accommodate vessels of the heaviest draft and insure to New York a permanent retention of its present trade, as well as attracting in that direction a la. go amount of business which now leaves the great laltes by way of the St. Lawrence. Postmaster General Smith has approved plans for tho establishment of an American post office in the L'uit An American cd States building Post Office at the Parla Exposition.

Some time since the air. Postmaster General designated George W. Beavers, formerly of Brooklyn, and now chief of the division of salary and allowances, to formulate a scheme for the maintenance of a United States post office in the fair grounds at Paris, giving him full scope as to what should be arranged for. The latter has now completed all preliminaries and will soon begin the shipment of the necessary equipment to France. Mr.

Beavers will sail for Paris about February 13 and superintend the construction of the office. He will remain there long enough to get It in good running order and will then place it in charge of an assistant. Commissioner Genera! Peck was very liberal to the department in making an allotment of space. He assigned to Mr. Beavers "Mul I see that you have been examining the laws relating to rights and duties of domestics, but you do not seem to have run across any laws respecting the rights of heads of households.

Have the heads of families any rights which servants are bouhd to respect? Two questions which I am personally interested in are as follows: "Has the male head of a family a right to go into his own kitchen when the cook is there?" "Has the male head of a family the right to look into his own refrigerator when the cook objects? MONTAUK." From the tenor of my correspondent's note of inquiry it would appear that he has had no matrimonial experience worth speaking of, that he is probably one contemplating matrimony. Certainly no veteran of domestic life would ask questions which were answered conclusively years ago. Many, many centuries before it was declared that every man's house is his castle. Manetho wrote: "Wherever the ccok maketh her stand there she is supreme. That has ever been the law of the Chaldeans." You have no right to enter the kitchen when the cook is there, any cook will tell you that, and your wife, if you have one, will back her up.

They are the authorities you must consult. In this country the only persons who may be permitted by the cook to enter the kitchen are the grocery boy, the plumber and the cook's natural protector, the policeman. As to the question as to whether you have the right to look into your refrigerator when your cook objects, the. answer is most positively no. You ought to know that you have no right to cast any reflections upon the integrity of your cook, and an examination of the ice box in the face of her objections would certainly be construed as a serious reflection upon her character.

The courts have so held. If you have suspicions do not reveal them. Remember what Bacon said: "Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed or at least well guarded, for they cloud the mind." When you fall to thinking that you have any legal rights so far as the ice box is concerned bear in mind the fact that Epicurus said, not Weber and Fields or Andrew Jackson, in defining the proper relations between cook and her male employer, and in pointing out all that the latter is entitled to in a well regulated household: "To the Victims belong all that is spoiled." A Twelfth Ward Democrat, who is one of many Democrats down that way dissatisfied with Senator Coffey's failure to get any patronage for the district, writes as follows: "It has suggested itself to mo that the figures of the vote in the Ninth Assembly District might interest you. They tell an interesting story in the reduced majorities for the Assembly and Aldermanic candidates of the Democratic party, and are a strong rebuke to the practice of nominating 'perennial It further shows that with organization and support from headquarters, the defeat of Cain and Hennessy is possible. The 'Senator from the Fifth' has nothing to blow about.

"In 189S, Cain, Democratic candidate for Assembly in tho Ninth District, received u'aO votes in the Eighth Ward; S33 in the Tenth Ward and 3,255 in the Twelfth. In 1S9A, Cain received 445 in the Eighth Ward, in the Tenth and but 1,830 in the Twelfth 2,455 less votes than he received in the ward in 1898." Hennessy, the Alderman of tho Ninth District, received the following number of votes: Eighth Ward 411 Tenth Ward 413 27s Twelfth Ward 2.7S7 Total 3.7S, 2.72S "This groat shrinkage in the votes cast for Coffey's candidates Hennessy and Cain in a year when they were running as regular Democrats with Republican alliances, indicates what may happen to the Senator's candidates when they are opposed by regular Democrats. The people living outside of South Brooklyn have been greatly deceived as to Senator Coffey's strength." A correspondent requests that toe following extract from a Spiritualistic journal be printed by way his comment upon a recent letter in this column dealing with Spooks: Sir William Crookes, the rcnownfj i Er.slish feii Ust and author ot the work. "Poiicai'ohcR in thy Phenomena of PpJ ritualism," has been recently electetl president of the Uriti.sh Association for the Advancement of Science, and in his inaugural address to that body touk occasion to speak of our Kfat subject in a way cannot fail to be highly gratifying to all Spiritualists. The following are some of his remarks: "Upon one other interest 1 have not ynt touched to me the weightiest and furthest reaching of all.

No incident In my scientific: career Is more widely known than the part I took many years ago In certain psychic researches. Thirty years have patted since I published an account of experiments tending to show that outside our scientific knowledge tprr exists Forcf exercised by Intelligence differing from the ordinary intelligence common to mortals. This fact in my life Is of course well understood by those who honored mo with an invitation to become your president. Perhaps amon ray audience onm may feel curious as to whether I shall speak out or be silent. I elect to spoak, althouRh briefly.

To ignore the subject would be an act of cowardice an act of cowardice I feel no temptation to commit. To stop short in any research that bids fair to wdden the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of dlfTlculty or adverse criticism, is to bring reproach on science. There is nothing for the invent lga tor to do but to go straight on, "to explore up and down, inch by Inch, with the taper his reason' to follow the light wherever it may lead, even should It at times resemble a will o' the wisp. I have nothing to retract. I adhere to my already published statements, rndced.

I might add much thereto." "An eminent predecessor in this chair (Professor Tyndalt) declared that 'by an intellectual necessity he crossed the boundary of experimental evidence, and discerned in that matter, which we in. our ignorance of Us latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the potency and promise of ail terrestrial i should prefer to reverse the apothegm, and to say that in life I hoc the promise and potency of all forms of matter." Professor Tyndall and Sir William f'rookes having been put forward by my correspondent as defenders of Spiritualism, ho writer ot this column will at his earliest convenience present a few statements by these eminent scientists which may invalidate the claim that their experimerts led them to the scientific recognition of spiritual forces. I have been permitted to eNamino a reat bundle of children's letters addressed to Santa Claus, which have come into the possession of Mrs. Sittig, president of tho Christmas Tree Society. Many of these letters are without the addresses of tho writers.

The tickets for the Christmas Tree entertainment have all been distributed and the requests made by the writers of these pitiful letters cannot be granted. Most of these pleas for. tickets and presents are written upon little slips of paper The call carries with it a salary of $12,000 per year, in regular quarterly payments, a parsonage and an assistant. The call was signed by members of the board of deacons, the elders and trustees. The Rev.

Dr. R. R. Booth, moderator of the session, presided over the meeting. PE ARSAXiH RO SSITER.

Miss Anna Belle Rossiter and Richard Franklin Pearsall, the latter connected with the old Long Island family of Pearsalls, were married at noon to day in St. Ann's Church on the Heights. The bride was escorted to the altar by Dr. Cady, an old friend of her family, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr.

Reese F. Alsop, rector of the church. The bridal couple were unattended, except for two ushers, R. C. Peabody and C.

J. Peabody. The bride was becomingly gowned in a traveling costume of castor colored broadcloth, with trimming of white satin, and wore a pretty velvet toque to match. The wedding was attended by several hundred frieada of the contracting parties. DEBATING CLUB MEETS.

Parliamentary Debating Club held its last meeting in the old year Monday night in its rooms, 1,101 Bedford avenue. With the sincerity of a single taxer. Dr. Charlotte H. Woolley presented the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That a tax upon land values is preferable to any other form of taxation." Dr.

Woolley did not lack for supporters and won the merit for best argument. Mr. E. L. Holywell contended forcibly for the negative, which, however, proved the popular side, more sustaining it then the other.

INSTITUTE CALENDAR. This is the calendar of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for to day: Department of Philology Fifth lecture in tho course on "French Authors." by 'Mrs. Richard Gottholl of New York. Subject. "Les Hlstorlens Modernes." The lecture will be given In tho French language.

Art Building, 171 Montague street, at P. M. Department of Botany Lecture tty Cornelius Van Brunt of Xew York, on "Tho Flowers of Autumn." Illustrated by beautiful lantern photographs, taken by Mr. Van Brunt and colored to nature by Van Brunt. Art Building, 174 Montaguo street, at P.

DURYEA IMPROVING. Walter E. Duryea of Glen Cove, who broke his neck while swimming in Long Island Sound last August, and who has been a patient in Roosevelt Hospital since that time, is improving. He is now able to raise his arms. He will remain in the hospital under the care of Dr.

eGorge C. Creevy, the resident surgeon of the private pavilion, for some months. BONNER MEMORIAL ALBUM. An album, a memorial of Robert Bonner, was presented to the Bonner family by the National Association of Newsdealers, Booksellers and Stationers at the New York Ledger office, William and Spruce streets, Manhattan, this morning. F.

R. Sampson, secretary of the association, made the presentation speech, and Robert Edwin Bonner accepted the album on behalf of tho family. TO DEFEND ALLEGED DEFAULTER. Santiago de Chili, December 21 Lawyer Allin has arrived here to defend Frederick T. Moore, formerly assistant teller of the National Bank of Commerce of Boston, who was arrested in October last at Valparaiso, charged with embezzling $50,000 from the bank.

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CAXD.l On Tuesday, December ID. at Platte. Clove. Greene County, X. JOHN MYRON CANDA, In the 72d year of his age.

Ftncral from St. Ann's Church, Clinton and Livingston sts. Brooklyn, Friday, December at 2 P. M. EARMORE On Wednesday, December 20.

MAUDE IIU.VTER BAR.MORE, daughter of George L. and Mary C. Ilurmorc. Funeral services at her late residence. 321 One Hundred anil Twenty fifth, street, on Friday.

December 22, at a P. M. DUGAN On December 18, at his residence. 1S9 Nassau st. JOHN J.

DUGAN. beloved son of Catherine and the late Peter Dugan. Funeral on Friday, December 22, at 9:30 A. thence to St. James' Pro Cathedral.

Members of Brevoort Council No. 1,30. also Christopher Council No. 130, K. of and Amara ith Council No.

144, Home Circle, re spectfui'y Invited to attend. 3 FOIVLJSR On Wednesday, December 20, 1893, CATHARINE widow of the late Daniel Fowler, in the S3d year of her age. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence. 406 Cumberland st. on Saturday afternoon, December 23, at 3 o'clock.

Interment at the convenience of the family. 21 2 METCALF On December 20, JOHN METCALF, aged 51 years, brother of Henry Metcalr, Detective Bureau, Brooklyn. Funeral from late residence, 430 Seventh av; thence to St. Stanislaus' Church, on Fourteenth st, near Sixth av. at 9:30 A.

23d inst. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Flat bush. Friends Invited to attend. 21 2 NICHOLS On Monday.

December 38, 1899, ELIZA, widow of the late Henry Nichols, In tho SSth year of her age. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services, from the residence of her daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, 503 "Wil loughby av, on Thursday Decembor 21, at 8 o'clock. O'MEARA On Friday, December 22, a solemn maps of requiem will be celebrated for tho re poBO of the soul of MARGARET C.

O'MEARA. beloved wife of Patrick B. O'Meara, who departed this life on Wednesday, the 13th at the Church of St. John the Baptist, 1VIII ough and Lewis avs, Brooklyn, at 10 o'clock A. M.

Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend. PECK At Hackensack. N. December IS, CORNELIA A. SINCLAIR, wife of Charles A.

Peck. Funoral services ot her late residence, Central av, Hacltensack, Friday, December 22, 2:30 M. after arrival of 1:10 train from Xew York, X. Susquehanna and Western R. nnd 1.130 train.

New Jersey and Xew YorK R. R. 20 2 QUIRK On Monday. Decemher IS, 1S39. MARGARET (PEARL) aged 5 years, youngest daughter of James and Margaret Quirk of 320 Twelfth st.

Funeral private. SMITH ERS On Tuesday. December 19. In his 20th year. CHARLES HENRY SMITHERS, eldest son of Charles Henry and Emily Brett Smithera.

Funeral services on Thursday evening, December 21, at 8:30 P. at 269 Berkeley place. Interment private. (Montreal papers please copy.) 20 2 WILLIAMS On Thursday. December 21.

MARY WILLIAMS, wife of the late Frank Williams. Funeral from her late residence. S9 Pacific st, on Saturday, December 23; thence to St. Augustine's Church, where a requiem mass will be offered at 10 A. M.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend. 2 1 2 WOOD On Wednesday. December 20. THOMAS JOHN WOOD, late of Belfast, Ireland. Funeral services at his late residence, 230 Flat bush av, on Friday, December 22, 2 o'clock.

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Prime. Brooklyn; Miss Grace L. Van Holland, Nyack; Frank A. Russell, Tarrytown; Mrs. F.

E. Sllsbee. Pennsylvania; Miss V. A. Cranton.

Bridgeport. Lieutenant Charles A. McKln Eley, Boston: Captain George D. Monroe, United States Army: Miss Bertha Marlowe, San Francisco; Mrs. K.

Allen, Baltimore. St. George A. F. Macdonald.

Schenectady; Miss Atkinson. Honesdale. Pa. Mr. and Mrs Billings, Glin Cove: Mr.

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Jackson, Troy. X. Y. A. 73.

Huchting, Brooklyn: C. Chambers. Philadelphia; T. B. Diehl.

Brooklyn: S. P. Hamilton, Boston; C. Godvine JCew York. PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE.

From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Hue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Gown of gray crepe de chine; waist trimmed with a yoke and bodice effect of heavy cream lace; also trimmed with a band of embroidery across front. 13TEC REGIMENT'S SURGEON. Dr. Henry P.

De Forest, formerly assistant Burgeon of the Thirteenth Regiment, has been appointed surgeon. He will enter upon his duties with the Xew Year. READINGS BY MRS. SANGSTER. The Home Mission Circle of the Greene Avenue Baptist Church met yesterday afternoon to listen to a special programme.

The feature of the exercises was the reading by Mrs. Margaret Saugster of various of her own poems. Miss Lulu Eggleston sang a solo, and Mr. Farrington rendered several solos on his violin. The attendance was quite large.

MUST KEEP OUT OP THE ARMORY. Colonel Austen has Issued an order to the superintendent of the Thirteenth Regiment Armory that the names of all members dishonorably discharged shall be prominently posted, and no such person will at any time be allowed in the armory. The Colonel says that men bind themselves on oath to perform certain duty and where they willfully violate It and are disgraced by dishonorable discharge they have no place among true soldiers. MID WEEK THEATER NOTES. Christmas week in the Brooklyn theaters will introduce a number of successful plays to Brooklynites.

At the Montauk Theater John Drew and his excellent support will be seen in "The Tyranny of Tears." which the favorite comedian brings direct from a long run at the Empire Theater in Manhattan. At the Columbia Miss Viola Allen will again be seen as Glory Quayle in "The Christian," a play which filled the same theater to overflowing when the actress presented it a year ago. At the Academy of Music Mrs. Fiske will be seen in "Becky Sharp." the emphatic success of the present dramatic season in Manhattan. While it is unfortunate that the influence of the syndicate makes it Impossible for Mrs.

Fiske to appear at one of the regular theaters, there can be little doubt that "Becky Sharp" will fill the Academy during every night of the week. Xo lover of Thackeray and no lover of fine acting can afford to miss such a performance as is given by Mrs. Fiske. The Grand Opera House will present Hyde's Comedians, an aggregation of vaudeville talent which it would be difficult to improve upon. At the Bijou "The Queen of Chinatown" will be the attraction.

This piece is sure to draw crowded houses, and all lovers of good old hair raising melodrama may be sure of getting their money's worth. "A Stranger in a Strange Land" returns to the Eastern DiBtriet to amuse the patrons of the Gayety. An excellent play to laugh over and digest the Christmas dinner. Felix Morris, excellent character actor, and most delightful of comedians, heads a real holiday week bill at Hyde Behman's. The Standard Opera Company continues to play to large houses at the Park Theater and well deserves them.

Excellent Christmas week programmes lir.v been arranged by Manager Williams for both the Music Hall and the Xovelty. "Vanity Fair" is the name of the burlesque aggregation which will be seen during Christmas week at the Star Theater. Pnt Ypnr ScoIn, WIIIm And valuable papers in the vaults of the Eaglo Warehouse and Storage toot of Fulton st, for safe keeping. a membcrship to ten members, to be paid $10,000 a year each. This commission is then empowered and directed to "assume the management of and to extend the postal system of the United States to cover the public transportation of persons, baggage, parcels and general freight." Trie various railroads ar to lie "obtained" by the government and their owners are to TCccive a compensation based on the average annual earnings of the past seven years.

The government is given authority to take possession of any road by giving a formal notice of. its intention six months in advance. The working periods of employes of all kir.dK on the roads is limited to eight hours per day, and no change in the personnel of the various companies is to occur by reason of the change in ownership The civil service is also extended to these employes. A whole system of transportation tolls, letter and parrel rates, passenger fares and freight charges is arranged in detail in the bill, together with an elaborate transfer system. The sleeping car charge problem is solved by arranging this schedule of prices: Tourist's car.

upper berth, 25 cents; lower berth. cents; palace car, upper berth, 75 cents; lower berth, $1. A. B. A.

MME. VON KLENKTER'S MJSICALH. A number Rrnolilyuitr attended the mu Eicah held yeste.J afternoon at tho etudto of Mme. Avails von kienncr. 40 Stuyvesant street, between Tenth street and Second avenue, Manhattan, at which an excellent pro grammo was rendered end very appreciatively received.

Mrs. Frank M. Avery of this borough sang in a thoroughly artistic manner the solo. "Es hat nicht sollen Sein," from tho "Trumpeter of Saxlngen." and ivas also heard v. iih pleasure in a trio, "The Roses That Hav Bloomed," J.

Call, with tho Misses Travers, Keith and Knapp and Mesdame E. A. Buleu aiul K. S. Dunn.

Mii; Marion Mott sang 'The Cirla of Seville." Danza, and Miss Ada Lohman, "Sunrise." Wekerlln. Both singera have been heard several times in Brooklyn. The other partieipanLs tiic programme and. their selections wcr: Mitt. Katharine 3.

Uonn. three Gorman ongs. by Rubinstein; Miis Mabel Porter, "Spring Is Here." Edith A. Dick; M. j.l.

Parker. "lieine Topaze, Masse; Miss Grace Ames, "Mia Piccrella, Gomes; Miss Antoinette Huncke, "Kommt Ein Schianker Weber; Miss Beissle A. Kuapp, "II va Yenir," Aubor; Mrs. Emma A. Bub.

n. "Ah, Je Vcux, Briser," Auber, and Mins Frances Travc r.s, "Yoci I Primavera J. Strauss. COURT HOUSE DECORATIONS. Paintings and Statuary Adorning that New Appellate Division Building on 'Vie'w.

The, decorations of the now building for the appellate division of the Supreme Court at' Madison avenue and Twenty fifth street, Manhattan, were on view for the first time yesterday. Among tho exterior decorations was the large group by D. C. French, which is to Bur mount the main pediment. This group Is called "Justice." Tho central figure, "Justice," Is supported by "Power" and "Knowledge." The two largo Eeated statues Hanking the entrance on either side, representing I liu.

opted tt9 the Xty.v Cmin It.uy.; "Forr run "Wir iiom," v.oro exhibited. I is tho sculptor. Tbo main mn ludin is iroun 'i with marble pilasters, with bronze olc! capitals wains ootiKK of tho same Sienna marble, 10 feet, 9 inches in height, leaving spaces ot about 1 feet A inches between the wainscot and the cornice, except the wall surfaces between the pilasters directly facing the bench of the Justices, wb.ern a lower wainscot leaves spaces for three square panels. These spaceO ure tilled with an elaborate Fcnes of. allegorical figures paintL by ('.

V. Turner, H. O. Walker. Edward SininuuiH.

IS. H. BlashfielA, G. Maynard, Kcnyon Cox, Joseph LaubeS POWER AND KNOWLEDGE. Curt House in Manhattan.

II. Siddon Mowbray, Robert rteid, Wlllarfl Metcalfe and otht rs. In the nuiin ball, the frieze which is on th north wall, facias the entrance and returning around the elevator, has painted by II. Siddon Mowbray, and represents "The Transmission of the I. aw." The subject is illustrated by ebt groups in the following order: Mosaic, I Greek, Roman.

Byzantine, Norman, Common Law and Modern Law, representing distinct periods that havo had their Influence on our own. The groups are united in each case by an allegorical winged figure. of various hues and in scrawls. One of these letters reads as follows: 71 De Sales Place Brooklyn. Dear Santle Clonic.

My papa is sick in tho hospletal. My Mamma has not any money to Bay me and my sister anything. So Pli ie Santio Dear. Send us something. My sisters nam Is Lillian she Is 0 and 1 am 8 years old.

RUTH AND L1LLIAX STOTT. 71 Do Sales pliico. "Buy rue and my sister anything. So Plise Santee Dear Send us something!" And he will, sure. iiL'L.

JOHN BLAIR'S EXPERIMENT. The second in the course of modern plays which the commercial theaters will not produce, was presented under tho direction of John Blair in the Carnegie Lyceum last night, it was Paul Hervieu's "Les Tenailles," which has been translated into English by George F. Eustis and Paul Kester uuder the title of "Ties." A woman in the audience who seemed to have something to do with tho enterprise, unwittingly delivered herself of a phrase which aptly characterised the play. When sho returned to her seat at tho close of one interval between tho acts after she had been going about seeing various people she remarked to her companion: "I will, yes, 1 will get nervous prostitution if this keeps up." "Tics" is one of the products of nervous prostitution. People with good, healthy nerves would never behave as those in it do.

You take a silly, neurotic woman and put her in any situation and she will make a fool of herself and make her associates exceedingly weary, if she does not provoke them to do foolish things The heroine in this play is a woman who has discovered after bring married live years that she does not lovo her husband because he is not romantic, and because he does not got angry with her, but is calm and considerate and kind. She wants what the romanticists and the boarding school girls call "a grand passion." She tells her husband, at last, that she loves another man and asks hirn to consent to a separation. He refuses. The third I and last act opens ten years after this refusal and it appears that tho couple are living in tho country and have a nine year old son. i The father wants to send the boy away to I school and proposes to exercise his paternal 1 authority when the mother tells him that he is not her child's father.

Each confesses that the other is the woman giving the i fool's excuse that the husband drove her to her misdeed, and the husband tacitly udmlt I ting that he did and the curtain falls. The I only touch of comedy in the whole thing is in this act when a brother in law asks the husband to postpone his second quarrel with his wife until lie away, because such scenes spoil his pleasure, and are uninteresting. This remark was heartily applauded, showing that in spite of the large number of queer looking people before the footlights there were enough healthy minded ones there to appreciate the futility of the exploitation of ncuroticism. But it must bo admitted that the third act. was dramatically effective and that Miss Florence Kahn, as the wife, displayed fine abilities.

She has profited by a study of the naturalness of Mrs. Fiske and for the most part, acts without, suggestion of staginess. Mr. Blair war, tho husband, who was made dictatorial and unimaginative to Justify the folly of the wife. He carried him self with discretion arul acted with consider able power.

Tho others in the fast wore Frederick G. P. Augustus Anderson, Miss Alice irarrinertcn and Gae Bennett. METPyOPOLITAN" OPERA HOUSE. The mere announcement that Calve is to sing "Carmen" is always sufficient to fill the Metropolian Opera House.

It was no wonder, then, that last, night every available corner was filled with music loving humanity, for in addition to that Krear, artist there were to appear Alvarez, the new tenor; Eames as Ml caela. and Plancon, for the first time was to try the part of the brave toreador. It was in every way a notable performance. It is rarely that a Manhattan audience becomes very enthusiastic, but last night the applause was unrest rained, and. in fact, at times a little too spontaneous, interfering with some of the music.

It is inconceivable that there will ever come a tenor to this country who will share equally with Calve the honors of the evening. There is about her a personal magnetism and which carries ail before her. She dominates the opera and the other singers make a more or less good background for her presentation. It is more with her acting than with her voice that this done, for, while last night she sang as well as ever, the actual beauty of her voice is not equal to that of Eames, but there is hidden away somewhere in its depths that which moves the very soul. As Carmen Calve is the living embodiment of physical passion.

She is the warm blooded wanton, the lustful animal with no idea of constancy. Her presentation of the part was in no degree softened or chastened from its previous faithfulness to this conception of the part. who on Monday night did not make a particularly favorable impression, appeared to much better advantage last, night. Tho music seemed better fitted to his voice and. while in the.

first two acts he was without distinction. In the last two ho showed decided force. This was particularly true of tho conclusion of the third act, which was given with great dramatic vigor. Plancon Is the best toreador there has ever been In New York, vocally, and there Is every reason to suppose that when somewhat more familiar with the part he will make more of the action in it. As usual, Karnes was a delightfully charming Micaela.

fresh, innocent and girlish. Signor Mancinelli conducted, and, while1 there were two occasions when he did not have the orchestra well in hand, that was a small matter in comparison with the general beauty of the orchestra's part of the performance. Friday night "Tannhauscr" will be sung in Cermnn. PLEASED WITH LOCAL MEMBERS. The Association of Xew York at its resuiar mnetitiR on Monday nicht expressed its gratification that, the House of Representatives passed a currency bill whereby gold shall be firmly established by law as the single standard of value, and especially expressed its appreciation of the stand taken by live of the representatives from Brooklyn and Long Island, namely, Messrs.

Uriggs. Wilson, Fitzgerald and Scudder. In supporting this bill 0:1 the floor of the House an 1 in voting for it. The association expressed Its disappointment that Congressman May did not vote for the bill. CAE, SHOPS DESTROYED BT FIRE.

Dubuqnc. December 21 The car shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road were completely destroyed by fire this morning. The loss Is about $100,000. Three hun ired men are thrown out of employment.

Weirs in Niagara River Would Raise Level of Lake Erie Three Feet, COST WOULD BE $3,120,000. Thixty Foot Channel From Lake Erie to the Hudson Proposed Brooklyn Man for Paris Post Office. Eagle Bureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. Washington, December 21 The movement or an American syndicate, headed by Buffalo people, to make a deal with the Canadian government and the local authorities at Montreal to divert the qrain traffic from Buffalo George W. Beavers, The Er.ioltlynlto Who Will 'tart the American l'ot Ofllce at the Paris Exposition.

and the Erie Canal to Montreal and the St. Lawrence River routo has greatly worried tho merchants and shippers ot the large cities of the Empire State, particularly those on the lake and on the Erie Canal, and all sorts of propositions are being made to improve the present condition of the route in order to retain the grain carrying trade. The Deep Waterway Commission is working industriously to suggest a scheme by which the syndicate's plan to take this business oyer the Canadian route may be defeated. At. urgent recommendation of Congressman John B.

Corliss of Detroit, the commission was last summer directed to report on a proposition to maintain the high water level of Lake Erie. The channel of the Great Lakes in supposed to be 20 feet deep. Often from the effect of the wlnd or extremely low water, the depths at the Lime Kiln Crossing, in the Detroit River, is reduced to IT feet, rendering it impossible for the larger vessels of the lakes to pass, and they are frequently required to wait for days at a time for high water. The conditions in Lake Erie are often worse than this. Under the influence of varying supply, evaporation and discharge, the monthly mean level of this lake has bad an extreme variation of 4.0 feet during tho past seventy years.

The low level generally occurs at a time of the year when navigation is most active. If the level of the lake could be maintained at or near a high stage navigation would be greatly benefited by securing a maximum depth when it is most needed. Great inconvenience and loss Is occasioned by this periodical dropping of the water, which seriously lessens the harborage. A special hoard, composed of Colonel C. W.

Raymond, Albert Noble and George Y. Wisner was appointed for the purpose of suggesting a scheme for regulating tho level of the lake. This board has found that by an expenditure of $3,120,000 the level of Lake Erie can be raised about three feet, and that the same operation wlil serve to increase the depth of the surrounding waters also. The members of the board report that to maintain the level of a lake at or near some fixed I stage, the discharge must be controlled, so I that it will always be approximately equal to tho difference between the supply of water to the lake and the evaporation from Its sur face. In the case of Lake Erio this can only be accomplished by establishing regulating works in or near the discharge waterway.

These works must be so arranged that they will not only maintain the level of the lake at the stage adopted, hut also so that they will produce no injurious effects upon the lakes and waterways from which a Dart of the supply is derived or upon those which receive the discharge. This is the problem which the board has been considering. The engineers report that the best location for works for regulating the level of Lake Erie is at the foot of the lake. Just below i liuffalo Harbor. Tho location in the Niagara River, below Tonawanda, has been selected 1 as one of the moat dceirable.

The works pro jected by the board are designed to distribute the discharge of the lake 60 as to reduce its variation of level to a small amount. It 1 lias been decided that this result cannot bo attained by the use of submerged, fixed woira only, and a series of is added to secure the control dosired. A canal with a Jock is provided on the American side around the 1 end of the dam and the rapids at the head of the river, affcrding a much safer navigable channel than the present one through tho I rapitte. The tmjini is of the opinion that by the adopt inn of tills regulating system the i lake can be maintained at a level of only six inches less than the extreme high water stage, under all conditions of supply. Tho I changes of level due to violent ivlnds would be only temporary and infrequent, and in the opinion of the board would not seriously interfere with the regulation's of the lake level.

The current velocities in the Niagara River below the point where the canal enters it will nut lie increased by the operation of these works. The cfiei't of these modifications upon Lake Ontario, the board reports, will be to r.lightly increase the rate of rise In the spring. This will not Injure the navigation interests of tho lake. The board reports that it has not been able to obtain reliable data connecting a site on the ground Hour of the United States building, in a conspicuous spot near the main entrance. Here a miniature post office will be erected, perfect in every particular.

In the arrangement of the postal equipment the system adopted for offices in this country will be closely followed. 'All appliances found in an up to date office in the United States will be provided In the Paris office, cancelling and registering machines, racks and pouches for letters and newspapers, etc. facility provided by the Brooklyn office will be furnished at Paris and patrons can send registered letters and buy money orders for both domestic and International purposes. One of tho great advantages of such an office is that Americans visiting Paris "without knowing in advance whero they will stop can have their mall directed in rare of the postmaster at the American office in the exposition grounds. All malls addressed in this way will go direct to this office from New Yorl: and will not be subject to rchandliug by any of the French postal officials.

Mail for the United States deposited at the American ofilce In the fair grounds will be treated in the same manner. This practically makes the Paris establishment a branch of the Xew York post office. Four experienced American postal clerks have been picked out to bundle mail matter at litis office. Each of them speaks French as well as English aud are expert, employes. They are Leopold P.

Moore of tho Philadelphia office, Henry F. Dortun of the lialtimoro office. W. A. Brown of the Boston office and a Pittsburg man yet to be selected.

They will be assisted by several clerks to be designated by the French postal authorities. Among tho freak bills which have been Introduced at this session of Congress none has attracted more attention because of its A Socialist's radical and wild eyed Scheme for features than one pre seated by Senator Pet road Management, tigrew. The bill is entitled "An act for the establishment of national system of post roads and for the extension of the Post Office Department to cover the entire business of public transportation." Senator Pettigrew dodged tho re JUSTICE, SUPPORTED BY for the Nov. sponslhilny of fathering the bill by statini; that he presented it by request. The measure, which covers pases of print cd matter, is a wonderful coustruction and embraces the most hoi'iful views of tli" state It turns into the hands of the government cials the management of all the railroad.

of the country. The bill is a marvel for uiani tude of purpose, as well as for the multitude of detail. sho A'lnK its author was not only well ver.se. I uti railroad matters, but on postal systems as well. It proposes the merging of the Inter state Commerce Commission with tho Post Ofilce Department and Increases Its Ik.