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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. FEW YORK, SUNDAY, MAY 12, 161. 12. goosoooooooocoocoocopsoocooooosoosoocoocooooocooccoooog FINE NEW SCHOOL HOUSE FOR MANHATTAN HUE. the completion of the disposal plant the en tire system of mains and laterals in the VII lage of Jamaica, over twenty three miles in I length, and constructed at an expense of $160,000, will be connected with it and put! In operation.

The new plant has lain ever since it was built, nearly four years ago. The Board of Public Improvements of the 9b bss Grid "strong diamond suit the best opening would be the trump. Because you are not protected In diamonds is the reason why you cannot lead trupaps. and because of that weakness the best defense is to lead the diamond which you can trump If It ttgjLiiot out to be partner's suit. v'iij Much has been written in condemnation of the lead ot the low singleton, the danger misleading partner and of killing good cards In his hand.

But many Instances are on record where the lead of this kind has won matches and saved many tricks. In this hsnd It' is the only lead to gain, and the writer, who made It. has the satis HEEISS' GREAT FUTURE, NEW TRANSIT FACILITIES. Bridges, Tunnels and Railroads Will Bring Borough Close to Brooklyn and Manhattan. arid Those Who Play It.

Cwpespjondence Chess GAMES, ANAbYSqS iiy oi xew York has also approved the plans for the construction of a sewer sys tern for the Fifth Ward, comprising Rocka way Beach and Far Rockaway, at an expense of $350,000. Commissioner Kane says that four pumping stations will be required for I maintaining this plant in operation on ac I count of the level surface of the beach. This i will be connected with the present system es tabllshed at Far Rockaway. As over $3,000,000 were spent in the im PRPWCH RENNAISSANCE PLAN, provements of the highways of Queens a THCNOn nCIMIMHIOOHIHUC. HM.

short time previous to consolidation little will be spent by the city or assessment dis Tt "lit Will Accommodate About 1,100 Chil AND PROBLEMS. present resthiff between Messrs. SafTord, Blrdsall andGillejv The scores to date follow: sknfcftS.Sfc ivftnon' BirdsWlpJH.a (b 12 Horsman 0 Ciilley Sif' 0 1 Ji Yonge 0 Vulsntlns "aritor Jord.m "Withdrawn; 2 Powell faction of starting the hand" so that the game could have been saved. If It had been properly followed up. Trick.

I North. I East. I South. I West. 1..

2. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.

8.. 9.. 10.. 11.. 12..

13.. 3 0 9 2 4 6 4 lO 2 0 9 0 4 2 3 A 2 7 VK 7 6 'V 3 lO 8 A 4 6 0 7 0 5 35 6 a a 7 9 lp.0 5 5 8 J0" 5 0 9 A OQ AO A return match, contested betweon. tor ches' North and South. 5: East and West. 8.

Trick 6 We Insist that the play of South at this point Is utterly bad. He should have taken warn lnK from hie jmrtner's failure to go on with diamonds or return trumns and to realize that he could not gst trumps out when his partner could noi suite tne inis play loses uv.o mens, which was whut Elizabeth gained on the deal, an if he had not returned the diamond at this point, the deal would have been a tie. The following is th wav it should have been played. If South had returned North's suit: teame oi me uenirni x. xl.

kj. a. and tot. Mury'B'Jr Church, during the week, gave Cornier tho' verdict by the odd game on of 6J to 5Vil for the two sessions. In the first half honors wer Rand, Wahlberg Miller winning for" Con trnl and, Wilde, TowserTd and Edlln for Mary's.

In the second Encounter the Centrals wire conniderablv strengthened. Grosser, St. Amand and winning, while Wahlberg" drew with Wilson" and TownsnU scored" for the the: many positions? that Lasker has set inforrhnl gatherings' at the Manhattan Club the game study, cm by him and recently, published in his c'usa" cplpmn. In the Manchester Evening News, is noteworthy "In that it elucldates to a nicety that Im portunt factor In the treatment of endings the i Black 4 Ill itll 'B. 111' 'MUM: mn'Ai Ym Trick.

I North. I East. South. I Weat. 1 2 0 9 0 3 0 2 4 6 0 7 0 8 0 3 3 7 155 5 2 4 5 3 IO VJ 4 5 8 lOO 4 0 0 A ft 2ft 7ft lOft 7 4 ft" 3ft ft 8 US 8ft CA A 6 9 ft 2 3 "AQ 10 6ft A 11......

9 A 9 12 1. (3Q 5 6 13 ft' A 7 North and South, 3: East and "West 4 a gain of four tricks. Trick 2 It seems to be the most difficult thing among modpru players to get your partner to return your suit, while It really is the fundamental principle of the succassful game. Trick 6 Now It Is timo to run with your good cards and get la out of the wet. Trick Knst has the best spade and all tho trumps and.

of course, must trump. Trick 9 South can lose nothing by passing and must allow East to get out of so as to force the strong hand with his hearts. There Is probably no greater source of loss to Eastern players at present than the too great readiness to lead trumps, especially when holding four. Captain H. H.

Ward of the Boston team has abandoned the old rule and does not believe In leading trumps with jxactly fcur, even when holding ah established" suit. The contest last Saturday night for the Metropolitan trophy of the New Jersey Association between the Elizabeth Chess and Whist Club, challengers, and the Cosmopolitan Whist Club, holders, resulted in a victory for the challengers by three tricks. The players were H. B. Newman, captain; B.

T. Baker, Dr. Bond Stow and A. Gllhooly for Cosmopolitans, and F. C.

Edson. captain; A. H. Haarblelcher; A. P.

Roberts and J. M. Martinson for Elizabeth. The game was a tits at the twentieth deal, hut on the next four deals the Elizabeth team picked up two doubles and a single and lest a double. George Kllng and John pitmars appeared lo get most of the gcod things on the east and west side at Brooklyn Whist Club last Monday, making 13 plus.

Baker and Tolar being their nearest rivals at 6 plus. J. J. Hlnchman and J. J.

McDonald got back into their old lorm ar.d made top the other way, plus. Adam Ohlweiler still leads In the race for season's pins: Adam Ohlweiler. 92; George A. La Vie, SI; George Kllng, 80; R. P.

Howe, 74; E. A. Leslie, 72. The following Is the final and complete score of the Washington trophy finals In the Woman's Whist congress, the result of three rounds of fif teen aeals eacn: Rank. Matches.

Plus. Min. 1. woman 2.. Belmont.

Philadelphia Toledo 4.. Woman's. Baltimore 5.. Winchester, Mass 6. New York.Uadles C.

Work, Richmond. Philadelphia 9.. Howell Women s. Boston 10.. Portland.

Me 11.. Pennsylvania Auxiliary. Phil 12.. Cincinnati 13. New York 14..

Boston 13. Philadelphia 9 13 8 Tvl 7 5 A remarkable thing is the fact that the team finishing last was the highest In tho three days' preliminary play. The finals for the Washington Junior or Cavendish trophy were as Rank. Matches. Plus MIn.

1.. Twentieth Century. Buffalo vi nist ciud. Washington 3.. Woman's, Bnltlmore 4..

Washington Whist 5. Whist. "St. Louis Amsterdam. New York.

7.. Woman's, Brooklyn VtnnhitTY, PhUndelohln 10 814 8 14 13 a 10 6 3 Elizabeth, N. J. 5VC 10. Oman's, Jersey City 10..

Kate Wheelock. Ptaten Island 5 Philadelphia 4 12. Sarah Battle, Philadelphia 3 13. Brooklyn 2 The ten highest clubs in the trophy contest, out of twenty one clubs entered, are as follows: 1 Washington Woman' 2.. Otis Whist Club cf 3..

Woman's Whist. Baltimore 4.. Cincinnati. Three Manhattan Whist Club. N.

Washington C.Xew York 7.. Howell. Boston 8. Brooklyn 9.. Chicago 10.

Whist, 13 10 12Vb 6 12 10 3 ms 11 VS 11 2 2 0 1 10 3 entrance to the harbor of Gloucester. Mass. The pun's true motion space la ascertained from the comparison ot observed stellar proper motions. Its velocity is 1.623 radii or tne earth's orbit per annum. SI.

MoM." The moaning of "Quo Vadls' whither coent nr hra art rhnu irolnir The reading of the story of that title will doubt less convey the information sought by our corre sjiondcnt. II. Lake Success 1b within three anl a. halt miles of Floral Park, and the most direct route from Bedford avenue is by way of Jamaica ana on to Floral Park. A little pamphlet guide and map is publishes By the Long Island Rail road ompany, entitled "Cyclist's Paradise, and may be obtained on application to H.

B. Fuller ton. The names and addresses of graduates from the public schools may be obtained cit applicatic at the schools respectively. C. You will ascertain how to make ycur application for position and other information you desire on application at the office of the president ot the Holshts Railroad system.

To the Edlterof the Brooklyn Eagle: There is a poem which heKlns thus: When 'I am dead, no pageant train Shall watte their sorrows at my bier, Xor worthless pomp of vain Stain It with hyprocitlc tear. I would like to know more about it. I would like to learn the name of the author so as to enable me to find the poem. Can you help me? G. O.

P. Answer The lines given are from a poem by Edward Everett, entitled the "Dirge of Alarlc. the Visigoth," who was the "Scourge of God." He died In the year 410, and it is said that in response to his dying command the Goths turned from Its bed the stream of the Busento and buried therein his body with all hlr. accumulated treasures. The poem Is, as follows: When I am dead, no pageant train Shall waste their porrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain It with hypocritlc tear; For I will die as I did live Nor tak the boon I cannot give.

Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose, Ye shall not fawn before my dust. In hollow circumstance of woefi; Nor sculptured clay, with lying breath, Insult the clay that moulds beneath. 1'e shall not pile, with servile toil. Your monuments upon my breast; Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of Power to rest. Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the Scourge of God." Eut ye the mountain stream shall turn, And lay its secret channel bare And hollow for your sovereign's urn.

A resting place forever there; Then bid its everlasting springs Flow nack upon the King of Kings; And never be the secret said. Until the deep give up dead. My sold and silver ye shall lllng Back to the clods that gave them birth; The captured crowns of many a king. Avenue and Have Twenty Class Rooms, The ransom of a conquered earth; For e'en though dead I will control The trophies of the. Capitol.

But when beneath tlie mountain tide, Ye've laid your monarch down to rot. Ye shall not rur upen its sine Pillar or mound to mark the spot; For long enough th(' world lias shook Beneath the terrors of my look; And now hiit I have run my race. The astonished rchlms shall rfst a spac. My course: like a river deep. And from the northern ivuls hurst.

Across the world in wrath to sweep, And where I went the sot was cursed, Nor blade of grass again was seen Where Alarlc aricT' his hosts' had been. See how their haugjity barriers fall Beneathrtho terrorbf the Goth! Their iron breated legions quail Before, my ruthless sahaoth. And' low the Queen1 of empires kneels. And grovels at my chariot wheels. Not for myself dl'd I aEcend Ih Judgment my triumphal car; 'Twas God alone on high did send The avenging Scythian to the war.

To shake abroad, with Iron hand. The appointed scourge his With Iron hand that scourge I reared O'er guilty king and guilty realm; Destruction was the ship I steered. And vengeance sat upon (he helm. When, launched In fury tho flood, I ploughed my 'way through seas of blood, And in the 'trcam their hearts had spilt Washed out the long arrears of guilt. Across the everlasting Alp 1 poured the torrent of my powers.

And feeble Caesars shrieked for help In vain within their seven hilled towers; I quenched in blood the brightest gem That glittered In their diadem. And struck a darker, deeper die In" the purple of their majiViy, And; bade my northern 'banners shine Upon the. conquered Palatine. My course is run, my. errand done; I go to Him from whom I came; But never yet shall set the sun Of priory that my name; And Roman heart? shall long be sick When men shall think of Alarlc.

My course is run. my errand done But dnrker ministers of fnte Impatient, round the eternal throne. And iff the caves of vengeance wait; And soon mankind shall blench away Before the name Attlla. The following interesting deal is tho one on which the Cosmopolitan Whist Club lost the New Jersey championship trophy to the Elizabeth Chess and Whist Club last Saturday night: TI IE DEAL. S.

0. 0, 5. 4. H. K.

9, 8, 3. 4. D. 2. S.

J. Q. 3. if 4. 2.

J. 10, 9, 6. D. 4. S.

10. S. 3. H. 10, 7.

IC 2. D. 9. K. 7.

H. A. 6, 5. C. A.

7, 5, 3. D. 7. 5. West turned the queen of clubs; North to lead.

The question is what would you do if you held the following cards: Spades Hearts 6, Clubs 7, 5, Diamonds 7, 5, the queen of clubs being turned on your left and your partner lead ing tho deuce of diamonds, tho first trick being as follows: 2d Od Kd, 3d? To a Zood player there Is only one ot two things to do either return your partner's teaa or open trump3. Are you projected enough in the plain suits to start trumps? Is it not true that the greatest stumbling block to the advanced players of to day is the too groat tendency to rush to trumps on partner's load oi a low card? Is your partner's suit established? And do you not realize that tho holding of four trumps is frequently a balance of poiyer that has to be carefully handled? To play an aggressive game with four trumps so often results in the complete wreck of the entire hnrd that it. is well known to good players that it is much safer to load from three, two or even one trump than to begin the trump attack with four exactly. As wili be seen by the play that follows, the game would have been won by Cosmopolitan, if South had only returned his partner's suit. On the other hand, what would you lead from the following hand: Spades 6, Hearts Q.

9, 8, Clubs. 8, Diamonds, 2. queen of clubs turned? Of courso thorn only one opening to most players tho hearts. If one could be certain that partner had a side of the I Sortti. West.

East. South. Snnn tr Be Onened TO He wPenea for Its Construction and Equipment. dren Lack of Ornamentation Due to Demand lor Economy. Bids will soon be opened for the construction of new Public School No.

132. which is the last to receive the approval of the School Board. The plans were drawn by C. B. J.

Snyder, superintendent of the Building De partment of the Central Board of Education. This school house will be located in Manhat tan avenue, between Metropolitan avenue and Conselyea street. The plot is 186 feet in front with a depth of 200 feet. It was the site originally intended for the Eastern District High School, but later determined as not sufficiently central for such an institution. The school house will cover an area of 152 feet front by a depth of 65 feet.

It will be three stories in height, containing twenty class rooms, accommodating about 1.10O children, and an assembly room In the top floor seating about 300. The style of architecture Is after the French Renaissance on the simplest lines, with the little ornamentation ar forded massed In tho central pier, surmounted by a pediment from which will rise the flag PROPOSED NEW SCHOOL NO. 132. Between Conselyea Street and Metropolitan pole. Ornamentation has given way to the demand for economy In construction, with the result that No.

132 will be one of the most severely plain school "buildings" In the city. The building will be fronted with red faced brick and trimmed with red sand stone 'and terra cotta, the only extravagance being the placing of the seals of the city and the Board' of Education as medallions on either side of the facade. Fireproof construction will be used throughout, and the combination of window space will afford the best light In every class room, while the double stairways wlll' be lighted on each floor by a single window. These stairs there are two of them will run up from the Manhattan side of the building and being double will mean practically four distinct passages fTom the top to the bot torn of the building. In addition stairs lead on either side into the indoor playrooms In' the basement, which will occupy the whole of! that floor, except the space occupied by the.

boiler and fuel rooms. Tho basement will be well lighted, the windows being entirely, above ground. The main floor is entered by a double flight of eleven steps through a tiled hall in the center of the Manhattan avenue front. This and the second floors have eight class rooms, seating about fifty five pupils each, with the principal's office on the first floor and a teachers' room on the second. Four clas3 rooms are arranged for the.

third floor, while the assembly room, about 65 feet square, will occupy the entire central epace. This room will have the platform at the side, that the windows from front and rear will give ample light in all parts. Toilets for boys and girls are planned on either side of the building on every floor, and the teachers will be similarly treated; they having also locker accommodations. Ward robes will be placed in each class room ea that no confusion will be in the halls into which every clas3 opens, they running around the center of each floor. It is estimated that the cost of "this "building will be about $110,000, and It should he ready for occupancy not later than September, 1902 QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

Correspondents should not fetl disappointed when thh questions are not answered immedUu th information solicited frequently requires considerable research, for which ample time must be al 'oved. The name and address of the writer shtwM accompany every question. Xotes o. A corrsaponrlent. William Rose, in reference to rcply in lust Sunday's Eagle on the old ballad.

"All round my hat," says, "1 think O. will have to find his way to' the British Museum if he is very anxious for this old timer. It was suns some sixty ye. irs ago at Saddlers Wells Theater by a low comedian named Hale. It ran thus: 'All round my 'at I vnr a veening villow; All round my nt for a twelve month and a day.

And if anj body axes me the reason vy I vear it, 'Tis for my true love thnfs far "Ilia lady love had been transported, hence his ffiief. The accompaniment was on the rum ti tum order, but 1 am no' musician, so cannot transmit the ccoro." K. A. IC' The Kagle has not published any pamphlet dealing with the canteen question. Ve cannot undertake to furnish the pubjects of a civil service examination in aniline whatever.

It appears that the Eagle was error regarding the address of the United States Veteran Navy Aysoclaticn. It was changed one year ubo to S9 Burling Slip, Xsw York. ''II. You can secure a fino mnn Lons Island from Hydo 87 Liberty street Brooklyn. Thj question as to whether is best for a nation to be In debt Is one of opinion.

mki tne aavantaaea or dloadvantages should be decided by facts and figures, of which there la abundance. If you desire to commend yourself to the attention of any person or offlelnl, rlte your own letters. If you write to tho superintendent ot the Military Academy at West Point, asking for the Information you desire, he will send oa ths necessary documents. Perhaps, however, you may Had what you want In the Eagle Almanac. A.

II." Ws regret not being ublo to furnish you with a list of n. 3lcs from which to chotse one for your society. You ought not to have any dllliculty on that point. The Information reeardlns Memorial Day and Ornnd Army of the Republic has been given In th" Enrclo over and over uxaln, ana further contributions rn the subject may be looked for nbout the time cf the forthcomlnt; holiday. "A We have not yet received from the Census Bureau the tlRureR which enable us to arnwer your query as to the proportion of sexes.

A. "The Reef of the JCorman'a Woe" referred to In Longfellow's "Wreck of the llcw nerua." is a dangerous laiei reef on tho west OO Tho meeting to day between Lasker and Lipschutz. scheduled for 3 o'clock after7 nocn, will conclude the champion's engagement at the Manhattan Chess Club. The con test promises to be one of the hardest of the series, and undoubtedly Lasker will bo kept busily employed in endeavoring to keep his record intact, inasmuch as Lipschutz has never been in as fine fettle as during tho past year or two. The most notable feftt of recent, date credited to Lipschutz was his capture of the chief prize in the Manhattan Club six cornered tourney between' Showalter, Hodges, Hymes, Marshall.

Baird and Lipschutz, and his defeat of the Kcntuckian in an. Individual encounter. Against Lasker his play will probably be of a somewhat more conservative nature thanwas that of Showalter, whose brilliant effort to down 'the champion on Thursday proved futile, and only' ended In his own discomfiture. Lasker will remain In? tho metropolis until Thursday, and in tho meantime will fill three additional engagements, twp of these being at the New York Athletic Clubi including a simultaneous performance to morrow evening and a lecture on Wednesday. On Tuesday evening Lasker will meet all comers at the Cosmopolitan Chess Club in Manhattan.

Friday will find him in Philadelphia, where he is booked for a simultaneous, exhibition at the Franklin Chess Club, and on Saturday he will fill a date Pittsburg. Nothing definite can. as yet be said with regard to a possible meeting, between Laslter and Plllsbury. There arc reports'; that Chicago is reaching out after' the 'noted masters, but these are conflicting. Chess Problem 5To.

338. Composed by J. Van Dijk." Black3 pieces. mm. WW.

IMI V.rhlle 6 pieces. White to play and mate In moves. White on 7. on 2, on C. Kt on 7, on 3 ar.d 5.

Black on on 3 anj Kt, 3. SOLUTIONS. Solution to Chci's Problem No. by Ed Pet3ch Mansktonf, is: White. Black.

1 3 6 2 3 PxB 3 4, mate Solutions to Problem No. 3S7 wrre received from H. G. Kent, Chicago, r.l. Thomas lleseman, B.

S. Morse, F. Crulkahank, Cllve N. Hartt. W.

K. Ryder, SteihfeKi. CORRESPONDENCE. K. Your contributions are filed for early inspection.

C. In 387 the Bishop''" correctly placed at Kt 5. The. solution, when found, is a pleasing cne, but. the theme is Well worn and should not have beaten you.

C. Regret to hear it and hope your recovery has teen complete. revised version would now be in order. B. List duly received.

Thanks for your trouble and the information. L. In your variation the kins escapes to Kt 4. after BxP ck. E.

The subject will be taken up later. Much depended upon the same between C. S. Howell and C. P.

Weeks at Uoard 1 in the deciding match cf the Klnss and Queens Chess L.oague cerles played. Tuesday between ths Dutch Arms and Queers; Chess clubs, and which resulted in the championship remaining in Brooklyn. Beside its importance, interest attached to the same because of the 'frUjndly rivalry existing the players" and that their former encounter ended in a draw, cn adjudication of a intricate position: The play on Tuesday ran on somewhat not to say reckliss, lines. The contest waged fiercely for eighteen moves, when Weeks proceeded to gather in the. hostile queen, as a result of a combination having that object in view.

This proved, however, to hav been a premeditated sacrifice cn MoweU's part, for the latter considered three minor pieces ample return for the material dispensed with. As Weeks thereupon sent his own queen, injudiciously, pawn hunting, he was soon in hot water, and Howell readily wen out. The score: CENTER COUNTER GAMBIT. Weeks. Howell.

Woeka. Howell. White. 1 Ki 2 PxP 3 Kt QB3 4 Kt 113 5 Ql 6 K2 7 Q3 Castles 9 Kt5 10 Kt K4 11 KtxBok 12 QR 13 B4 A B5 l.i Bl IS QKt3 17 B3 IS Kt Kt5 Black. Q4 QxP Kt KI33 Kt5 K3 B3 Q3 OKt Q2 B2 ClxKt QKt4 QKt 04 Bl QR4 R3 White.

19 B4 2) BxQ 21 Kt3 PxKt KtxB TxB K2 QXt B3 23 R4 21 KR KKt 23 Kt7 56 QxR 27 Q2 2S KR3 29 RCQ2) K2 30 KU 31 B3 KtxQ Kt(Kt) B3 Kt K5 Black. Kt(Q4) B6 Kt Kt4 32 QKt4 KKt 33 K. tJ2 HX 34 PXB 35K KtxPck XtSmatc As previously reported Lasker, In his lecture Wednesday night, called attention to the Important innovation introduced by jlilsDury in the Ruy Lopez on the occasion of his Kreat game with lr. Tarra'sch at Vienna. The American here played 10.

IC. a new departure (which has Fince heen successfully treated by in reply), following It up by the concentration of his pieces against Black's Q.B 4. point where the Immobility, the tatter's pawns Is greatest. A careful examination of the play ieadlniar un to the position and of tho position itself, will, Kivo the student a capital idea of the delicate nature of maneuvering: required to take advantage of the slight Inherent weakness of Black: a game. The moves follow: RUT LOPEZ.

Pllisbury. Tarrascti. Plllebury. Tarrasch. White.

Black. White. Black. 1 K4 K4 8 PxP Kt Kt2 2 Kt KB3 Kt QB3 B3 Castles 3 IC to 'Kti BS 10 Kt B4 4 Castles KtxP 11 Kt Q4 Kt K3 Q4 K2 12 TIK3 KtxKt 0 KS Kt Q3 13 BxKt Q4 7 BxKt KtPxB 14 ICt QR4! Here is the position: Black Tarrapch. Hi 'fm mi 03 fc ifayii Sg White Plllsbury.

In this position, after White plays Sgnd, In due time, 5, the white knight evenWia.lly becomes lodged at Black's weak point? Jtrr advantage that may bo reasonably expected, to' dfc velop Into a win for White, as. In Jas in the rume. as actually played out. v' It fur nished an excellent Illustration of thi' principle of moDlllty ronnec ny up to aate methoOB A handicap tournament was recently started at the Crescent Athletic Club, with (he; following twelve "entries: :Plr.t..class E. S.

Gllley. Snonha class P. P. Saftord and E. W.

Blrdsall. Fourth class N. S. Schroedcr. H.

C. Parker. W. H. Powell, D.

H. Valentine, P. Coolldge, B. I. Horsman, Jr.

Fifth class H. Yonge. S. E. Vernon.

B. B. Jordan, jr. The contest is now well advanced, the honors at SB i mm imi. WW WW WM' ii 4 9 HP if wm ersi Wfc WM mm 2 WM WA mm Wik WM tit ii im wM wm a Hi a mk gig a mi I I BtG SEWERS UNDER WAY.

Millions Being Spent for Public Im Pressing Need of a Topographical Map. (Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, L. May 11 The appropriation recently of $1,500,000 lor the Blackwell's Island Bridge over the East River from Fifty ninth street, Manhattan, to Long Island City; of 5544.OO0 for the Vernon Avenue Viaduct bridge over Newtown Creek and the passage of the law permitting the Atlantic Avenue Improvement work to go forward Independently of the tunnel, has given a 'fresh' impetus to the demand for property in the Borough of Queens and given an to that borough in the eyes of the residents of Manhattan that it has not before possessed. The proposed Blackwell's Island bridge; says "Commissioner Shea, will be the flnijst bridge in the world. It will have ample accommodation for four tracks for elevated anff trolley railroads, ample driveways, bicycle paths and broad walks for pedestrians.

Itffe estimated that the new structure will cost about $13,000,000. Deputy Commissioner Backus says that the proposals for the bids for the construction of the foundations and She towers will be ready in less than three weeks. The successful contractor will be expected to push the work rapidly to com pletion. The working plans for the high level bascule bridge over Newtown Creek at Vernon avenue and the viaduct over the Long Islajid Railroad, it is expected, will be ready in about three weeks and bids will be invited for that at the same time. This brides will cost about 5700,000 and will take a little over a year tor its completion.

Work will begin in the latter part of June on the elevated section of the Atlantic avenue improvement from Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, to the Town of Jamaica, and early will be broken for the tunnel excavations. This work will be completed in about two years at an expenditure oI $4 ,000,000. The completion of this improvement will be followed by a change of th.9. motive power of the entire Atlantic avenue division, from Flatbush avenue to Jamaica, from steam to electricity, and the running time from the Brooklyn terminal to Jaaaaica; will be reduced to about fifteen minutes. It is confidently predicted by the citizens who are making common cause with the citizens of Brooklyn that before the completion ot the Atlantic avenue imorovement the New York Underground Rapid Transit commission tunnel from Flatbush avenue to Manhattan will be well underway, bringing Jamaica and Newtown within twenty five minutes of the business section of Manhattan.

The eastern terminus of to Brooklyn approach of the new East River Bridge, which is to be completed next year, is but two miles or fifteen minues by trolley or Myrtle avenue and Broadway elevated lines, from the Newtown line. Upon the completion of the bridge all Eastern: District and Newtown lines will converge at the bridge approach. With the cotnpjptloa of these great transportation lines costing not less than $40,000,000, all but one at which are assured, the demand for homes tn Queens will become unprecedented and in the next five years that borough will ohinge. in its character from a suburban lo cauty to an urban section. Long headed men are casting a glance ahead at the future and saying "What are we doing to prepare for the great rush of population seeking for.

homes at a moderate cost Into this newer and comparatively unsettled section of the City of New York?" Chelt. Engineer Risse says: ''What is needd to day is a topographical map of the entire borough, giving a detailed description of every section, all elevations, distances and grades as a necessary prelude' to the laying out of a comprehensive and system of highways, sewers, parks, water supply system, all oi which should" precede extensive building operations, and which will go far toward fixing the character of future improvements In the Dorough. "It will take $800,000 to prepare a complete map for all the wards of the borough, and this year I am allowed only $22,500. If I could be allowed $100,000 per year for eight years I would furnish an accurate survey of the whole borough. We are now working In the sections where the rapid growth of population forces us to act promptly.

Elmhurst. Wyckoft Heights and Qjllege Point are now receiving our attentions We will finish Wyckoft Heights, rapidly' growing section close to the Brodldjfn odtindary, this summer. Long Island City topographical survey was completed by the old city govern njehtfprevious to consolidation. The final map, with the permanent layout of the streets, has been adopted by the Board of Public Improvements and the Council. Its hold up in the aldermanlc chamber is unfortunate.

I should think that the people Of that ward would be wide awake enough to their own interests to press this matter with all the zeal possible. Important pub Ill Improvements are being held back by the delay on this map." The new map provides for a system of several broad highways to run from the East River to the Newtown lino in such a way as to be continued in a direct course through Newtown, Flushing and Jamaica. It alBO provides for a system of parks and shore boulevards and driveways. The New York Consolidated Gas Company is awaitinu the adorj tion of this map before proceeding further in the enterprise of building at Astoria the largest gas plant in the world at an expendi tnr ol over SS.000.000. In the meantime the apid growth of population in the borough has compelled the city authorities to act.

at. once in the interests of the public health in providing an adequate sewer system for the more thickly settled portions of ther borough ar.d several large sewer undertakings have been authorized and in some instances are under way in the borough. Norton, Kirk Baker, who contracted to build the Webster avenue sewer at an cx have started their excavations at Van AIM avenue and at William street, in Long Island City, and are to complete the work in two years. This sewer, which will probably cost $400,000 bo fore completion, will drain an area of 2,000 acres at the Ravenswood and Dutch Kills section of Long Island City in Woodsido and upper Maspeth. The main section is 15 feet in diameter.

Flushing avenue system consists of a 3 foot Inch main and 12 inch laterals will be furnished within six weeks. The main line is about two miles in length and extends from St. Nicholas Cemetery to Van Alst avenue and thence to Hoyt avenue and the East River. Early in Juno the Barber Asphalt Company will begin the work of asphalting this splendid avenue a hundred feet in width, from curb to curb, from Henry street to the Newtown line, a distance of one and one half miles, at a cost of $80,000. Ay the Newtown line it will cornect with a broad macadam read extending through New tdw'ny "PIusHing; North Hempstead and Oyster Bay to 'the'Suffolk County line.

The plans have all been prepared for the big Newtown, main to extend down Broadway US the Hoffman Boulevard, where plant, is to be erected. The entire cost of tile main and disposal plant will not be far froth Only bids, were submitted for the work last week In response to an advertisement aid as these we. considered unsatisfactory, new bids arc asked for. Contractor E. J.

McKccgh lias commenced the construction of a four foot brick main on Newtown avenue from Flushing avenue to ura no avenue lyocerrtitiK rapWly irlth the wnrk of tno six main on Van List, avenvc, Lorn Islanl City, which will. Als unpn. its completion, bp tho outlet of the Flushing' and Newtnwn avenue sewers which now connect with Hay: avenue. Contractor Howler has promised to com plete by July 15 the work on the disposal works being built on the Hcrgpn farm at South Jamaica at on expense of 51.750.000. At 5 im 1 i mm MM wm mm White 5 pieces.

"White to plav.and win. Helen Keller, the blind, deaf and dumfc student at Radcllffc College, the women's annex to Har vard Lnlersity. 'numbers among her many marvelous accomplishments the ability to play This is somewhat hard to believe," yet ceases te appear strange, when 1t is considered that she studies both botany and sculpture by the sense" of touch, uses a typewriter, and has; moreover, a. wide range of In all Urancbes ot study. Were this human phenomenon to take up the game of chess, in earnest, 'it is more' than likely! that ilany Plllsbury, invincible' as he now la at blindfold play, would have to take a hack seat.

The annual championship tournament of the Dutch Arms Chess Club has been played to a conclusion with the result that Clarence Howell; the new member of the American' cable match; tram, has captured tho honors for the fourth, consecutive time and without meeting a singly defeat. His flnal score included nine victories and three drawn Kamesv while If his nearest rival. B. C. Selover.

comprised eight victories, three losses and "cn? 'draw. Messrs; Lahey. ilerega. Meyenborg, Stanley and Batch'" finished with tnferior to the above. A mn1tch that has been In progress for some time at the Brooklyn Chess UiXby.

one of the veterans of the club, and Charles Curt, a new and very enthusiastic member, ended In favor of the latter on scores of 54 to V4 Vot sntlsfled with the outcome' Rlxbv chal f'jr a return match, of which four "games, two 3 dy bcen each player winning. a review cf the situation in prior to the last International cablei written for the Birmingham Daily Ga? '7nWt. no the best In'' formed and most pain? taking of the English chess ih reference to the trouble wv maV" weakening of the Bhtlsh'ueR'at 3, r'ay. without either Burn or i nvH.ni. win certainly, not play mean anything.

PrY.iS? trrP hlmso'f that so long is the H'. tlub he show he would net t0nvfor tm he ald if the t. George's Club had the management of affairs would with pleas" ure, and In any position in which the commltteeV" "i'h m' rests on th Lritish infra Cluh; which has of late rbW the of much, severe criticism. A juinjlier of have asked for our opinion. We'are un atj.e s.vj a decided opinion ons way or the 2 exists and much cllquelsm, the famous, club, which has a difficult 1 10 Perform, and we are inclined to think that the committee has done" Its'" brst, having regard to ciicumstances." ths name of tn new pli? "oa ra o.

10 on th British R. P. and not Mitchell, as hais.aU along been supposed. Chess Piny by Mail. No further results being recorder! during the week the score in the national team, match remnias at 14 points for the "West as against 9 for the East.

In tl meantime the various tournaments' under the auspices of the Pillsbury Correspondence Chess Association are moving along, some faster than the others, but all making very satisfactory headway. The initial caam pionsMp tournament Is unfortunately hold back by the Eastern Division, wherein the au, premacy is being contested for by F. B. Walker of Washington and T. C.

Mcllwaine of, Plattsburg, N. Y. A tie between these players in the semifinals necessitated an extra gamo to decide who should represent their division in tho finals, and in the meantime the other seven divisional winners are fast winding up their games. Moreover, the second tournament has forged ahoad of the first in that all the placers in tho finals have a good start on tho homestretch. The third man to make a record of air straight in his section of the Twentieth Century Tournament is William Rufus Pratt, of Hillsdale, who has been competing In Section 3 of the Midland Division.

L. C. Molse of Kansas City. has won the triple tio tourney with Dr. J.

J. Parker and C. H. Achenbach in the Midland Division of the third tournament semi finals, and thus becomes the winner in that division. He has beon started on his games in the final round and, consequence, the Eastern and Western, are the only divisions that have not de cfae'd upon their respective champions.

Owinir'to the large numbers of entries In" the the great distances to be traversed, by the moves in the Western, these hehind hand in all the five tourneys no'w'in progress. The fourth Northern Division seml finals have booh 'started with G. F. JonsscrV E. M.

Sahln and J. E. rl ewis as contestants. An exosptlrinallyr' 'brilliant vleton In the tloth eenturv: 'toumamont wehlnveH 'W TV TT. Lenke.

'of Licking, Va. W. MacJones of Richmond. In a complicated variation of the attack against the. PetroTt much ffavord hy the late Stein Hz.

nib players are competitor til oecLiuii a oi hie rmvistont. Tne with the winner's notes, PETROFP DEFENSE. MacJones. Leake. UacJoncs.

Leake. White. tlarV. 13 B3 Kt B4 14 KKt3 15 KKt4 It Btt. (0) 16 Kt2(d) 433 17 Kt32 Ki IS Kt K4 KtxKt 13 PxKt km; Z0 BQJfc) UxKtP White.

Black. 1 Kl K4 2 Kt KB3 Kt KB3 3 rQ4 PxP 4 K5 Kt K5 5 K2(a) rKtSck 04 7 PrP. e.p. KB4 8 PxBP QxP 9 KtxP Kt JB3 10 KtxKt PxKt QB3(b)B K2 12 B2 Castles 31 BS(f) K7! a QxRlh) Black announced mate In nine nrnrot ftt. 3 graphical maps are prepared Several large tracts as at Auburndale.

in Flushing; the Lawson purchase, in Jamaica; a new settlement south of Queens, St. Albans and otner sections are being laid out in streets, sewered and furnished with electric lights by private enterprise. Several large new modern schools have been completed in various sections since consolidation. Plans have been approved In the past six weeks for over $1,000,000 worth of new build lngs, and the large growth of the ten years from 1890 to 1D0O, in which the population of this borough increased 75 per will be far exceeded in this decade. CATHOLIC CHURCH NEWS.

Bishop McDonnell will visit St. Agnes' Church, Greenport, L. and St. Patrick's Church, Southold, L. respectively, this morning and afternoon and administer confirmation.

On Tuesday the bishop will confirm a number of children "in St. Joseph's Asylum, Willoughby and Sumner avenues, and on Wednesday he will visit St. Joseph's Church, Pacific street, near Vanderbilt avenue. On Thursday, which is Ascension Day, the bishop will administer the sacrament of confirmation In the morning at the Church of St. Mary.

Star of the Sea, Court and Lu quer streets, and in the afternoon, at the Church of the Sorrowful Mother, Morgan avenue and Harrison place, and on Sunday next at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Corona, and the Church of Help of Christians, Winfleld. There will be a musical vespers at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Clermont avenue, near Park, this evening, beginning at 7:30 Will Be Located in Manhattan Avenue, o'clock. The programme will consist of compositions from Beethoven, Gounod, Rossini, DeBerlot, Bohm, Thorne, Lejeal, Chamlnade and Loretz. The new composition, Faithful Cross," by Loretz, will be sung by Miss Christopher. There will be a chorus of fifty voices.

The soloists will be the Misses Kathleen Poulson, Nellie Murphy, Ethel Lloyd, Alice Britt. Lillian Myers, May Downey, Mabel Christopher, Charles Porter, H. B. Gold. Violin solos will be rendered by W.

King and Percy Lusk will give organ solos. John M. Loetz, the organist of the church, will direct and he will be assisted by Clinton Mosher. Brigadier General James McLeer and his staff, in full uniform, will be present at the competitive drill to be given by the students of St. Francis' College, next Wednesday evening, at the Academy of Music.

The General will present a handsome pennant to the successful company. The judges will be Colonel David E. Austen, brigadier general. Thirteenth Regiment, heavy artillery; Colonel Alfred C. Barne3, Twenty third Regiment Infantry, and Colonel Adolph L.

Kline, Fourteenth Regiment Infantry. The usual second Sunday of the month services will be held this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock In the chapel of the Monastery of the Precious Blood, 212 Putnam avenue. A sermon will be preached, which will be followed by benedic tion of the blessed sacrament. The Rev. John J.

Dolan, assistant pastor of the Church of the Nativity, who, with the consent of Bishop McDonnell, has taken charge of the work of collecting funds for the establishment of two scholarships from Brooklyn in the Trinity College, Washington, IJ. conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Nnmur for women, has issued a letter to a number of Catholic women in Brook lyn, requesting their aid In raising the money necessary for the establishment of the schol arships. Each person who contributes $100 will be considered a founder of the college, and each person who contributes any sum less than that amount will be considered a benefactor of the college. There are also offered spiritual benefits to all the contributors. Contributions may be sent to the Father Donlan, Nativity rectory, 495 Classon avenue.

There will bo a regular meeting of the Ladles' Guild of the Convent of Mercy on Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the convent building, 273 Willoughby avenue. Missions are in progress at Patrick's Church, Kent and Willoughby avenues, and St. Anne's Church, Front and Gold streets. At both churches the services are being largely attended. Wlngham's messe solenolle.

op. 14, will be sung at the 11 o'clock mass this morning in the Church of the Nativity, Madison street and Classon avenue. Tils mass was composed expressly and rendered for the first time at the Antwerp Cathedral, on the Feast ot the Assumption, August 15, 1S76. Tho vespers this evening will be selected from Donizetti and Dachauer. Forty hours' devotion will be held to day in St.

Matthew's Church, Degraw street and Utlca avenue; Church of tho Star of the Sea, Far Rockaway, and St. Patrick's Church, Long Island City. Next Sunday the devotions will be held In St. Agnes' Sack ett and Hoyt streets; Church of Our Lady of Victory, Throop avenue and McDonough street; Church of Our Lady of Lorotta, Hempstead; St. Agnes' Church, Greenport, and St.

Sebastian's Church, Woodside. THE CliEF CLUB ORCHESTRA. The Clef Club Orchestra to close its season'B work with a concert In Crosby Hall. 423 Classon avenue, on May 18. The orchestra is now terminating its fifth season, and has a membership of about fifty.

Its object Is entirely educational, and its steady growth in numbers and continuous improvement musically is proof of the untiring efforts on the part of each member to make tho Clef Club a worthy educational institution and a model orchestra. Tho orchestra is fortunate in having as its director August Mctz, a thorough and thoughtful musician, who seemingly possesses the faculties necessary for the successful life of such an organization. At tho concert above referred to the club will bo assisted by Miss Frieda Slender, so prano; H. Uietmann, oaruone, and Karl cellist, GEN. VINCENT'S WLiK DEAD.

Washington, May 11 Mrs. Laura Lancaster Vincent, wife of General Thomas M. Vincent. U. S.

for many years a resident at Washington, died here suddenly yesterday. She will bo burled at Another big plus was made last Wednesday nt the Brooklyn Woman's Whist Club, by Mrs. T. Baker and Mrs. Charles T.

Harris, 15 East and West. Mips Campbell Mrs. Johnson were Eecond. with 9. Mrs.

S. Swain and Mrs. Walker were top North and South, with 7 plus. With two more games to play before the close of the season the standing of the leaders follows: Miss M. H.

Campbell. 121; Mrs. F. H. Johnson, 121; Mrs.

C. T. Harris, 114; Mrs. E. J.

Seymour, 109: Mrs. J. W. Greene. 99: Mrs.

C. E. Heald, 81; Mrs. C. W.

Vail, 82; Mrs. E. E. Tucker, 81. The annual election of officers of the Woman's Whist Club took place Just before the game was.

called and the following officers were reelected to serve for a second term: President, Mrs. E. T. Baker; vice president, Mrs. E.

J. Seymour; treasurer, Mrs. C. W. Vail; secretary, Miss M.

H. Campbell. The club has never heen In such a prosperous condition, having several hundred dollars In the treasury and no debts and a membership of ninety five, limited to one hundred. The Saturday afternoon game for gentlemen, which has been given each month since December, was omitted last month on account ot the The next game, however, will be held at the club rooms." on Saturday, May IS, at 2 o'clock. The Cosmopolitan Whist Club of New York gave a house warming at its new in the Knickerbocker Athletic Club to a number of specially Invited guests last Wednesday night.

A luncheon served after the frame. The affair was voted a great success. The first prize were Mr. and Mrs. A.

W. Foster of Bay onne. There was a tie for second prize between Mrs. Garland and Dr. Bond Stow and Mr.

and Mrs. Vail of Brooklyn. They adopted a novel way to decide the tie. which afforded great entertainment to the spectators. Four deals were played, Mr.

and Mrs Vail selecting Mr. and Mrs. Baker as their partners and Mrs. Garland and Dr. Stow selecting Dr.

Cole and Miss Campbell. The two" rival pairs playing together at one table and their partners at the other. The first four deals resulted In a tic. but on the second four Mrs. Garland and Dr.

Stow won the prize, gaining four tricks on the second frame. Those pairs making plus scores finished in the following order: Mr. and Mrs. Foster (1). Mrs.

Garland and Dr. Stow (2) Mr. and Mrs. Vail (2). Mr.

and Mrs. Baker (3) Mrs. Thomson and Mr. Fogel (4). Miss Campbell and Dr.

Cole (10, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker (6), Mrs. lAUell and Mr. Gllhooly (7), Mr.

and Mrs. Newman (8), Mr. and Mrs. A. A.

Smith (9). Mr. and Mrs. Beddall (IC). The prize for best score made by any team in the three dayf preliminary play for the Washington trophy was won by the Cavendish Whlst club of Philadelphia, whose members are Mrs.

G. A. Brooke. Mrs. Rodman Wlster.

Mrs. Harry Rogers and Mrs. F.lllson. The prize for best individual score in the three days preliminary play for Washington trophy was awarded to Mrs. H.

K. Weeks of the' Colonial Whim Cluh ot Baltimore. 19 tricks plus; Mrs. Martin of Buffalo Whist Club was. recend with 16.

and Mrs. C. W. Davis. Cran fdrd Club.

Washington. 13. Mrs. E. H.

Johmon of the Trlst Whist Club of Philadelphia won the prize for the greatest aggregate trick score in the tour days play for Washington trophy with a score of 21Vi plus. Thi prize was donated by Mls3 Kate Wheelock. A. Harvey McCay was awarded the prize donated by Mrs. H.

W. Cannon for the gentleman making the best ocore in tho evening games, with a of 16. A. Ohlweiler of Brooklyn came within a trick of securing this handsome prize, a set of cold sleeve buttons. Mrs.

C. T. Whltller of Brooklyn took the prize for the bnst trick scorn made during the congress, total of 43 tricks. Miss M. H.

Campbell secured the prize for grente. number of topp fO. This wat a ppclnl prize donated by Mrs. F. H.

Johnson of New York. At lh Knickerbocker Whist Cluh last Thursday night Mr. and Mrs. T. Baker mule top score.

11 plus North nnil In ectlon A. Mrs. Cal kln and Mr. Gnrhnd. bu.

and In section Tt. Mrs. Buohnell and Mr. Zimmerman were top with 5. and Mr.

and Mrsv W. 13 plus w. Tills IWload for the season's record5at 'fe plus: Khw Campbell, 72; Mrs. Whlttier, 68. B.

T. BAKER. ujwn vv aite resign ea. COMMENTS. (a) 5.

BxP, advocated by Mason, seems better than the text move, though the latter is highly recommended. (b) If 11. S. XZ. QxB, Rt B7 ck.

13. 2, Qr 4 ck. 14. B.3; 6. 15 GxP 2 16 5 Kt Bfc T3.

ck, 3. 18. 3, KtxR' and aftef.JOhe exchange of queens the authorities Bay JiHic hM the better game, although White Ibis tiro pawn for the exchange. (c) If 15. BxBE IC PJTlf, ck.

IT. Q. c.ilfW etc. IfSlfc PxP a ilayfoBbfts. a 6 aria White see ma quite help less, i A.

tt)i, Bx 4b Mie jSost alBS only mcrw or WWt acfter Back's aJvantaaaT Is: not ml ((Q thitefctenedV a. JSX aq Srt ttfixP, rs yie much betterV tras not try wnito cormpt taao either If 25. BxB. jL 1U1U MUU, The fntUrmt! S3. Ojdt.

BxB 'ck. MMK Kt 3 mTKWfi. Kt' KanS'fii ok.i a. s. aia.

ck. A IS CK. IS. KB 4. sK 'B Kt 6 ck.

ST. MB, Kr IU clt'KxB. SI. Any, matey three moves.) I fl ti h'C'P" male.