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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGKLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1901. Pacific end, but she can only, carry a small number of men. NOW FOR THE CABLES ON EAST RIVER BRIDGE. WORK OF DEMOLITION ALONG FURMAN STREET.

CASTRQ FOR VENEZUELA TELLS WHY WAR EXISTS. to Brie Basin, and includes the Empire, Martin, Roberts. Mediterranean, Pierre pon't, Prentice, Woodruff, Columbia, Dowb, Robinson, Baltic, Union, Masters, Nye, Franklin, McCormick, Clinton, Laimbeer, Stranahan; Washburn, Excelsior, Pinto, German American, Merchant and Red Hook Rtnrpft ON EVE OF HOME COMING. Accuses Colombia Conservatives of Aiding Rebels and Invading Territory. HS 10,000 MEN ON BORDER.

Bljaxnes Bogota Cabinet and Not the Peo ple oi Colombia Says Nothing. About TTribe. and 1869. some of them of long spans and bold designs, which were considered wonderful at the time when bridge building was in its One of his most renowned bridges was the 800 foot span railroad bridge at Niagara Falls which was opened for traffic nearly fifty years ago. This was about the time when other engineers were beginning to construct iron bridges of modern spans.

While none of Roebling's structures ever failed or even diminished in their original usefulness after having been in service of from thirty to forty years, the most of his bridges have in course of time been replaced by other structures. Generally this was done because they were too narrow or too light for accommodating the growing traffic, so that at the present time but two bridges are in existence with large wire cables made on the Roebling system. One Is the Brooklyn bridge, built by Colonel Washington A. Rocb line. which is still the largest suspension bridge in the world, and the other is the new Ohio River bridge at Cincinnati, which it was my good fortune to build and which is the second largest suspension bridge in the world.

"Ud to date there Is no method of cable making known which is claimed to be superior to the Roebling method, and Chief Engineer Buck of the New East River bridge has recognized this fact and has adopted for this bridge the same kind of cables, evidently under the supposition that they would serve the purpose best and would gH the maximum of strength with the minimum of material. These cables will eclipse In magnitude everything made hitherto. They will be one half times larger than the cables of the Brooklyn bridge and twice larger than those of the Cincinnati bridge. Though immense In size these cables will not materially differ following cable message nas Deen re Wived By the Associated Press from. Torres CardenaB, General Secretary of President Castro ot Venezuela," in reply to a dispatch addressed to the president asking him for a on the Venezuela Colombia situation: "Caracas.

Venezuela, August 17 In the name of His Excellency General Castro, I reply to your cablegram in the following The Government of Venezuela, presided over by General Castro, is fully justi ffed in all its works and acts. It is essen in its practices. It is of the opinion that the Conservatives of Colombia, Rrobably by ruinous and wicked passions, Ijaye resolved to protect and assist in a revolutionary movement against Venezuela and her government. 'All of has been actually proven by lie official publications issued "by the cabinet ijn Bogota. They date from the first of April.

This view has not been denied, either by the Conservative Government of Colombia or by her Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in this capital. "When the Government of Venezuela was surprised by the first and second invasions eit her frontier by six thousand and two thousand men respectively, the invaders were victoriously expeiled by the government and people of Venezuela. said events, 10,000 men have been massed on the frontier for the defense and integrity of Venezuela and its national honor, "these are quite apart from her active service troops, on other parts of the frontier, as well as national troops scattered over the republic, and the reserve militia now under arms. "Venezuela has not accepted the invasion as an International attack by the people of Jolombla against the people of Venezuela, but, knowing its real source, recognizes in It the work of the Conservative government of Colombia against the maje3ty of the nation of Venezuela. TORRES CARDENAS, "General Secretary." If trouble comes, which is regarded here as among the probabilities, it will be necessary to land a good sized force of sailors and marines to save American lives ana property: It is to be deplored that at this time our Navy is found to be so inadequate.

Our naval policy, has been, for several years past, to turn out nothing, but battleships, with the consequence that we are very badly oft for cruisers. Such cruisers as we have are in the great majority of eases away off in the Philippines. The numerical strength ot our squadron is ridiculous, when all things are considered. The Navy list is topheavy with admirals, who are popularly supposed to command naval squadrons, but our foreign naval commands, with the exception of the Asiatic, are seemingly feeble affairs. In the North Atlantic Squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Hlgginson, there are three battleships and one gunboat; in Rear Admiral Casey's Squadron of the Pacific Ocean, reaching from Vancouver to the Islands of the Pacific, there are three ships, two of them battleships; in South American waters," watting at present the arrival of a rear admiral to help command, there is Just one vessel the old Atlanta, and In Europe the solitary old cruiser Chicago, makes up the "fleet," as it is called by Navy folks of Rear Admiral B.

J. Cromwell. Admiral Remey, out in China, has the vast majority of our Navy vessels. There are several gunboats or cruisers nearly ready, after much repairing, at one or two of the Navy yards, but there is, it is claimed, a great scarcity of men to make up their crews. Ever since the building of the railroad across the isthmus, at Panama, our government, has had more or less trouble with insurgent bands and revolutionary governments; and for many years the Navy kept a war vessel stationed nearly all the time at Colon (Aspinwall) oral Panama.

In 1884 an armed force had to be sent to the isthmus under Commander McCalla, upon which occasion troops had to' be landed and the" territory occupied by our sailors and marines until order was restored. That Navy on our coast ought to be considerably augmented by handy, serviceable ships with ample crews' is a plain mill tary iact ana tne iavy ueiju.ri.weui. uuw sorely perplexed to provide suitable means to sustain its reputation lor pronipmecss uuu efficiency in a sudden emergency, which It has always enjoyed. RECIPROCITY IS DEMANDED. Manufacturers Will Meet September 4 to Urge Policy on Government.

Philadelphia, Anust 17 President Search of the National Association of Manufacturers has called, a meeting of the executive cr littee of that organization for September i for the purpose of taking up the question of reciprocity. The subject will be considered in all its phases, after which a call will be issued for a national reciprocity convention. This action is taken aa the result of the dissatisfaction among manufacturers who are in the export trade, and Congress at its next session will be asked to give the desired relief. The sentiment ot the manufacturers, says President Search. Is in favor of securing treaties of commercial reciprocity with other countries, with a view to the extension ot America's trade In foreign lands Within the past few months, he says, Russia.

Italy and some other countries have dealt a heavy blow to our foreign trade by the levying of a countervailing duty. It will be endeavored to show to Congress that American Industries have suffered by the present tariff laws and their interpretations, and Congress will be asked to give the required remedy. Description of the Work to Be Started Soon Under the Direc tion of Engineer Hildebrand. BACKBONE OF THE STRUCTURE. The Construction Will Be After the Roebling System That Has Borne the Test of Time.

Apparently to the many thousands who are watching the progress of the building of the new East River bridge work is dragging unnecessarily slow. Fears in this respect, it must be said, are entirely unfounded. Not an hour is going to waste and each day brings tho time closer when some outward evidence will be noticed in the shape of certain machinery carrying to and fro across the river the wires which will make up the bridge cables. This is considered the most important work in connection with the bridge, for the reason that upon these very cables the future existence of the bridge depends. The most careful calculations are necessary and must be gone over and over again until the exact point of perfection in every detail is reached.

The bulk of this important work falls largely upon William Hildenbrand. who is the chief engineer for the John A. Roebling's Sons Company, who have the contract for erecting the cables, and his very able and competent assistant, Isaac Harby. Their principal assistant is W. O.

Porter, a competent bridge builder of many years' experience. All the plans of these engineers must. before the work can be started, be gone over in every minute detail with Constructing Engineer L. L. Buck and his chief assistant, O.

Nichols. So far the plans of the Roeblings have met with approval of the bridge constructors, and it is promised that the cables in this latest production in bridge building will be the finest in workmanship and material ever turned out. The finest material and the greatest care has been taken In making the wire to be used in the four immense cables. In the manufacture of the wire particular care had to be taken to protect the wire from rusting. This is accomplished at the mill by passing the wire through hot linseed oil.

Before the wire Is accepted It must stand the test of being coiled cold around a wire of Its own diameter without cracking, and will have at least a breaking strength of 100 tons to the square Inch. The work of stringing the wires for the cables, it is expected, will be started in a few weeks and once commenced will be conducted rapidly. Besides being important, this work, for which preparation Is being pushed rapidly forward, is also Interesting in all its details, a description of which was furnished by Engineer Hildenbrand to an Eagle reporter. In beginning his interesting description Mr. Hildenbrand said: "When I venture to say that the cables are the most important and essential part of tne structure, I do not mean to underestimate the difficulties that were overcome or the engineering skill that was displayed in the erection of the anchorages and towers.

I merely wish to refer to that fact that stons piers, and steel towers, mag nificent and grand as they may be, are only parts ot accessories to a bridge, while the real and actual bridge building begins with stringing the cables. In fact, a single cable stretched in the air from shore to shore is in itself a sort of a bridge, inasmuch as It forms a connection and establishes communl cation between the two parts of the city. Of course a cable alone would be a very unsatisfactory means of crossing the river, but, considering that thousands of tons of steel work to be constructed afterwards to form roadways and car tracks will find their only support in the cables, the latter may, in the true sense of the word, be called the backbone of the bridge. "The method of cable making such as will be applied to the new bridge was originated by John A. Roebllng and first introduced in 1843 at the construction of an aqueduct over the Allegheny River.

He formed a cable of a number of straight and parallel wires which are not twisted and which are not laid up somewhere else and hoisted in place in their entirety as a cable, but which are suspended in the air In their proper place and adjusted wire by wire, and which are one by one spun forward and backward until a sufficient sum ber of wires for the required strength of the cable has been assembled. "Suspension bridges built before Roebling's time consisted either of chains, twisted ropes or a number of loose strands. His idea, however, was that there is Btrength In union and he believed in combining many wires into one laree cable In which every wire is bound to bear its share in the support of the bridge. The best, and I may say, the only sure way for obtaining this object is by regu latins' every wire relatively to Its neighbor inc wire until all the wires hang properly parallel with each other, which in itself Is a proof that they must nave tne same tension. Any slight discrepancy in the regula tion of the wires Is overcome by the squeez ins and wraonlng process which by the fric tion it causes compels all wires to work in unison.

Roebling built on this system a num ber of cable bridges between the years or 184,5 Other property which the company now con I trols is the KnlcKerDOCKer property, the Watson and Iron grain elevators, the Warren street property, the Indian. Commercial and Clinton 1 wharves, the Richardson Boynton blocH, the Van Dyke and Ferris street property and all lands under water, railroad floats, equipment; all of which property was formerly owned by the defunct Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company. This great corporation was organized In January, 1896, with a capital of $17,500,000, but the company met with misfortunes and finally its properties were sold under foreclosure proceedings to Frederick P. Olcott. chairman ot the reorganization committee.

Through the efforts of'this committee the company was reorganized as the New York Dock Company, Its capital being $17,000,000. A mortgage for $13,000,000 covers the property, being held by the United States Mortgage and Trust Company, as trustees, to secure the issuance of bonds issued to a like sum, and of the par value of $5,000, $1,000 and $500 each. The bonds all earn interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. GOOD DAY FOR ANGLERS. Great Hauls of Blue and Weakfish in Jamaica Bay.

Yesterday was a red letter day with the fishing fleet of Canarsie and Rockaway Beach, and more blueflsh were reported caught by the numerous outside fishing parties than was known to Jamaica Bay in many a year. The trolley cars and the trains of tho Rockaway and' Canarsie" railroad carried tons of fish cityward, and' men were to he seen upon all sides yesterday afternoon and last night carrying strings of large sized blueflsh, the weight of which made them stagger. Specially interesting catches were made by the Amphion, Captain Ed Mills, with 178 great blue and weak fish; the Duane, Captain Mike Rowland, with a haul of (iS large ones, and the Gertrude, Captain Walt Ryder, with 79 blue and weak fish and many bonitas. It was a' great overflow day, and the fish sold iu lively style at Canarsie Landing to the trolley excursionists. TO SPAN THE MISSOURI.

Kansas City to Have a Finer Than the Eads Structure. Kansas City, August 17 Theodore C. Bates, of Worcester, President of the Union Depot. Bridge and Terminal Company of City, who is here, is quoted as saying: "A bridge, finer than the Eads structure at St. Louis, or any other structure that spans the Mississippi River, will be built across the Missouri River for Kansas City.

In connection with the bridge a magnificent union pasenger station will be erected. The work will be pushed as rapidly as it is possible to push such an undertaking. Plans for the bridge, which is to be three dock and double track, are practically completed." Several Eastern capitalists are associated with. Mr. Bates in this project.

MUST BE EXTRADITED. Boston, August 17 William E. Douglass, formerly assistant teller of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company of Philadelphia, arrested bere yesterday as a fugitive from justice, declined to return to that city to day without requisition papers. He was held in $15,000 bonds until Thursday next, in order to give the Philadelphia au thorities time to procure tne necessary aocu ments. Douglass is accused of embezzling $13,000.

THE OTHEB TEXLOW ONXY. Charles Goudge Had Just Wiit te His Fiancee to Exr pect Him. SHE GOT TELEGRAM OF DEATH. i Son of Proprietor of Old1 Curiosiijy Shpp "Was to Have Married Miss' Ijawson. One week ago to day Charles E.

B. Goudge. 22 years old, tall, broad shouldered and in perfect health, left Brooklyn, fox Milton. N. there to spend his annuafva cation.

This morning within a. few minutes of the time of his departure last Sunday his dead body is expected to arrive 'at his par ents' home, the "Old Curiosity Shop," at 1,550 Fulton street. Last night, with the bereaved family awaiting the coming of Jjfl body was Miss a pretty1 gH of IS, to whom the young man was engaged to be married. Only, yesterday morning Miss Lawsou. rsi celved a letter and a photograph Irom the young man to whom she was betrothed, mailed at noon tho previous day, a little more than four hours before he met his death by drowning in the Hudson River.

The picture was that of the young woman's made, only a few days ago, and intended as a surf prise to her, The letter contained these words: "I have never felt' that I wanted ypii with me more than I do at this time, but'It will not be long, if all goes well, before 'w will share each other's pleasures and sor rows as one." A few hours after writing these words to the one whom he intended to make his lit? partner there came this sad message to jllis's jawson irom N. Y. "Cnaries is drowned; body not recovered." Yesterday this message was delivered at the handsome stone residence at 95 street, where Miss Lawson lives with hej aunt: "Body recovered; cc me at This message came as a telegram and was first delivered to the Uoudge home. Robort A. Fordham, an intimate iriend and business associato of the young man drowned, left with an undertaker for Milton Immediately on receipt of this telegram to briTg the body to Brooklyn.

Charles) E. it. Goudge wap the son H. Goudge, a collector ot antiques, whose home at 1,660 Fulton street contains so much beau tiful bric a brac that it has'long been known a8 the "Old Curiosity Shop." Mr. Gbudgeva place was formerly located at 1,518" Fnlcou street, just across the street from his present home.

The Eagle a few years ago. devoted considerable space to describing. hj collection. Charles, his son, was connected with the real estate office of Fry Lyle, whose office is beneath tho Goudge home. Charles went into the office as a messenger hoy and by, his apt methods and prompt attention to business soon rose to a responsible position.

For the past five or six years It has been hps custom to spend a pirt of the heated 'term at Milton, where he had many friends. Re returned from a trip to the Fan Anierlcau Exposition about ten days ago. Just before starting on his vacation youh'g Mr. Goudge talked over with Miss Lawson their plans for the future. It was decided that they would get married as soon as.they had prepared home.

The young couple were in high glee, as young couples usually are at such times. They talked of the style of house they wanted and what pleasure they would derive from selecting the furnishings. They agreed that there need no haste about anything. For the present they would not set any dnte for the marriage. They would rto that on the return of the groom to he from his vacation The wedding might lake place in the.

All, possibly not until spring, hut that point woutti be definitely determined a fortnight hence, they 8aid. and the young man and young woman parted for the last time. "I 'will come home Saturday and we will spend the afternoon nt thf beach." said Mr. Goudge as he said goodby to his finncee. Mr.

Goudge and Lawson first mef'ln the Church of the Epiphany at. TompklrtB avenue and McDonough street, where 'lioth have hecti members for several years. He was treasurer of thp Sunday school. a teacher. The young man was also prominently identified with the Odd Fellows and the members of this secret organization will have charge of the funeral, which will proB ably be held in the Church of the Epiphany to morrow.

SAILED FR0WI BROOKLYN. Porto Rico Stowaways Were Not turoed to Their Island Home. "Better be lucky than rich," remarked" man yesterday. Just before the New York and Porto Rico Line steamship San Juan sailed for Porto Rico. His remark was caihsd for by the fact that a Broadway merchant took off the sblp two small boys who Wad stowed away on the San Juan on last voyage from the island.

The youngsters look about 11 years old. One is black hatred. tBe other rather fair haired. When found on' the ship they were only coffee sacks. To day.

they wore regulation small boy overalls. Evidently they were tickled over the situation. AVaen the New York merchant's order was presented the pair of hrowri sklnned urchins were handed off the ship In short order; The San Juan carries aliout fifty five passengers and 4.0OO measurer) tons of 'cargo. ThiB is InrgrOy dry and provisions. Among tho passengers arc Mr.

De: Ford, one nf the most influential men on the Island. He is a banker and planter. Civil Engineer Wilfred Muggins took down ten mechanles. These nrr going to rebuild the burned pier of the New York and Porjo Men Company at San Juan. Tho ncw.pjftr will he built, of steel.

District Attorney J. M. Keody of San Juan and his faiuily also sail. on the ship. Just as the San Juan rounded to oft Flattery, the Fted I Hteiiinship Zulu, OOua4 for ('uraena and atbo, was haujed iVat rroin Watson's elevator.

She carries about a score or passengers and a full cargo, chiefly of provisions She on hoard about ,200 tons of steel rails ami freight ears for pn nf the asphnlt enmpanles operating near. Maracaibo. The Royal Dutch West India mall stcam shln Oranie Nassau sailed yesterday afipr noon from Robinson's stores for the Hayllan and Uominli nn ports. She carries a i careo of American floods. I The Ati' hor Liner Cnlatnria nailed yester I dav afternoon from the I'nlon Stores far the I Mediterranean ports.

Sh arrles a few pio scngr.rn and a big goneral cargo. i I Tin Scandinavian American Line steam ship Kentur kv s. from Bush fc i K.irty flrst si reel pi or for the Baltic pr. rta. She carries r.O.Ofin bushels of Rraln and North Sea cargo.

STRIKE HINDERS SHIPPING. Many "Vessels in San Francisco Harbor Cannot Be Loaded. Kan Kraiielwo, Ancusi l7 Twenty nlne deep water all eh.irter. to carry grain out of tlilf port for Kuroptau markets, are tied up In the harl.or. unable to take cn their iirgoes because nt 'he strike.

These vessels aggregate 54.746 registered tons displacement and have a carrying capacity of about tons of grain. He side, this lleet of chartered grain fhip. there are four ether grain cnrrylng vessels in the harbor, with an aggregate tonnage of S.429 ti.nv. whlrh have not accepted charters. Four cher vessels are chartered tn carry away cargoes of California but tbey cannot get away for want nf men to load them.

In addition to the grain, there aro fifteen vessels under charter to sail for wallan Island ports and return with sur cargoes. Cottages Being Removed to Make Room or an Immense Freight Yard. NEW DRY DOCK COMPANY'S SITE. Thirty six Houses in All Have Been Razed Buildings Built Seventy Years Ago. The hand of time which hitherto has spared the older sections of Brooklyn in the neighborhood of the Heights and the adjacent river front, has laid hold remorselessly on the thirty six small cottages, both brick and frame, on Furman street, on the river side, and workmen are now engaged in leveling the structures to make way tor an Immense freight yard for the newly formed New York Dry Dock Company, an outcome of the old Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company.

The cottages that have for the most part been demolished were built some seventy odd years ago. That was before the river front became so dull and comparatively devoid of interest as it is at the present time. Time was when each tiny yard of the thiry odd cottages was filled with old fashioned flowers and the narrow window panes were spotlessly clean, free from dust and dirt. But the glories of Furman street have long since faded as a place of abode. For years the cot RTTINS OP FURMAN STREET HOUSES.

tages have housed 'longshoremen's families and of late sailors' boarding houses have been the rule. Most of the cottages referred to are, or rather, were, frame structures, in the entire thirty six but a baker's dozen being built of brick. The cottages were of ordinary appearance, two stories and a basement in height with here and there the addition of a narrow attic window. Some had fences of wood and iron in front of them at one time or the other, hut the irrepressible youth and gamins of the docks took generous bits of the fences to either the junkman or for the replenishment of their parents' supply of firewood and latterly there was little fenc ingto be seen. "The site of the houses that are now being demolished, a space of something like 800 feet in length and perhaps 100 feet wide, is to be fenced in and used as a storage yard where the New York Dock Company can shunt its freight cars until there Is the necessary track room for the unloading of the cars.

With the demolishment of the row of old time dwellings three saloons are also scheduled for demolition. The proprietors, however, are scarcely sorry, hoping to secure better locations from a saloonkeeper's standpoint in a more thickly populated portion of the city. It will probably be a month or six weeks before the last of tho structures are razed and the refuse and bricks and mortar carted away and then the once populous row of homes with their Inhabitants of prosperous folk of the middle class, will soon be but a memory. The strip of property acquired by the New York Dock Company by the razing of the row of houses extends from Joralemon to Montague street, along Furman street, on the liver side. The property which this commpany now controls embraces the entire water front running from the Empire Stores above the bridge CONTRACTS ARE BINDING ON i irom otner cables and in making them the sumo principles and methods will be applied.

Through the use of the auxiliary or footbridee structure the work of spinning the wires will be expedited and reduce thp time of construction. The four footways will make it oossiDle for the workmen to regulate and wrap tne wires from every point. We are at present ensaeed in erecting a double set of cable spinning machinery in order to take wires across from either end of the bridge. To explain more explicitly the wire is reeled on large drums standing on the anchorages. re is rasienecl to the so called cable shoe that rests against tho anchor links and the bight of the wire passes a.

nine wneei wnicn is attached to a moving endless wire row. thio driven by proper machinery. Is moving the uuiceic ura ine urums and two wires travel across the river. In former bridges ail wire drums were Disced at n. bridge and the travelling wheel returned empty, thus round trip of the moving rope added two wires to the cable.

In the present case with our more Improved apparatus and luuaunK wire arums at each end of the bridge the travelling rope will return with another pair of wires so that bv a round trip four wlrea will be added to the cable. Each lour caoies will be worked in this man ner at the one time. "It is evident that it. would require a monstrous cable shoe to acnnmmnrinio oil wires in a cable, hence the whole number ot wires is suonivKied Into several bundles or strands each passing around a separate cable shoe. Engineer Buck has decided to subdivide his cable Into thirty seven strands, each of which will contain 20R K'n fi vi which will make up a cable containing 7,900 une oi tnese strands can be compared with a skein of yarn which means thnf it consists of a single length of wire; that Is to say, the ends of the wires as thav come from the mill in lengths not over 3.000 or 4,000 feet long arc spiicoa together ma tine a cnntinn ous wire about 170 miles long.

The length of the wire in one therefore, will be about 6.000 miles and that of the four cables 24,000. or equal to the clrcumferpnce nf tho earth. The total weight of the four cables is aoout 4.0UU tons and their aggregate strength 90,000 tons. The combined weight of the superstructure and moving load which the cables must sustain is estimated to be 15,000 tons, or only one sixth of the strength of the cable. From the magnitude of these figures and the exactitude which Mr.

Buck requires for all work on the bridge you mav imagine that, cable makinn necessitates deli cate calculations and accurate measurements. "Regarding the wire drums let me explain more fully concerning them. There will be located on each anchorage four drums for each cable. Each drum Is 18 feet wide containing, four tons of wire. As it requires thirty to thirty two tons of wire for making one strand, and as two strands of each cable are made simultaneously, it Is necessary when the four drums are empty to replace them by full drums, which con be done while the spinning goes on.

and will not interrupt the work. The drums are provided with brakes in order to regulate the speed of the wire when running out. The regulating of the wires Is done at each anchorage according to signals given by the regulators stationed on the upper deck of the footbridge. The spinning is done in this manner: Starting, for instance, from the New York end the one wire is fastened to the shoe, the traveling wheel carrying the bight of the wire takes two wires across. On arriving at the Brooklyn side they are placed around their ive shoe at the Brooklyn anchorage.

Then the first wire fastened to the New York shoe is regulated by the Brooklyn crew and then the second wire is regulated by means of signals either to tighten or loosen by the gan on the Manhattan anchorage. "While the regulating goes on the wheel returns from Brooklyn to the New York sldn with two wires which are to be used for making the second strand and Is placed on the shoe for the second strand and regulated In the same manner, as the two wires for the first strand. This goes on until each strand has 208 wires. Those are bundled ur by wrapping every ten or twelve feet. Then the strand Is put in Its final position.

During this operation the shoes are released from their temporary seats and put forward Into their permanent position and the strand which rcstR on rollers on the ton of the saddles at the tor of the towers Is lowered Into the saddle. These two operations lower the strand about fourteen feet nnrt brings It about three ffct above the lower deck of the footbridge making It convenient for the workmen to wrap the r.paratp strands and finally make the entire mass of strands Into the permanent cable. The regulation of the strands relatively to each other Is clone hy Inserting a segment of steel betwpen the cable shoe and the anchor pin which will raise the strand If It hangs too low. or by taking a segment out which will lower the strand when too high. RAPID RECRUITING.

Fifth Increment of Artillery to Be Complete Soon and Promotions Will Be in Order. Eaglrc Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, A'igttnt 17 Somewhat marvelous progress has been made In recruiting in the Army and It looks as If the fifth lm re ment of artillery Increase has been completed or will be within a few days. The fourth increment was completed last week nud the promotions In the Artillery Corps In conse qut nce thereof were made to from August 1. There was a balance of 171 recruits to go to the credit of thf filth and up to August ft.

the total new recruits available for the Artillery Corps numbered Of this total 558 were enlistments, flvo were by assignment and three by transfer to the corps from other arms. On August 'J, ineretoro. the aggregate forte to the credit of the Artillery Corps was 710. and. allowing for the same" ratio of recruiting.

'h number of th" men required to complete the fifth Increment has been already obtained, probably, or will be within a day or two. It becomes nvT.tmry. therefore, to prepare a list uf the offlr ers who be odvawwl hy reason of the completion oi the fifth Increment of artillery increase. The lieutenant colonel to be promoted Is J. L.

Tlemtm on dutv nt Fort DankH. Mass The majors to be promoted are G. S. Grimes, on duty at the Presidio and J. M.

K. Davis, on duty with the Inspector General's Department. The captains to he promoted include Medorem Crawford. G. V.

Whistler and H. A. Reed. The senior lieutenant will he S. Van A.

An druss and the senior major will tie B. K. Roberts. MC KINLEY VISITS HIS FAHM. Canton, August 17 I'resldent McKinley to dav visited his farm near Minerva, nineteen miles southeast of I'nnton.

Secretary Cortelyou and Colonel Myron T. Herrlck accompanied him. The trip was made to Minerva in Colonel Herrick's private car. The party will return at 5 P. M.

Washington, August 17 The Department of State has received a dispatch dated August 1, from the consul at Maracaibo, reporting that Dr. Range! Garbiras has invaded Venezuela with 4,000 men from the frontier of Cucuta Everything possible was done by the Venez uelan government to meet the invaders. The first fight took place at Encontrados and the invaders were obliged' to retire. The invaders took two steamers to come to 5rIaracaibo. but these boats were recaptured py the Venezuelan troops.

There was an absence of news at the State Department to day concerning the Colom a Venezuelan troubles. The Navy Department, which is directing "all its energies to hurrying ships to the scene of the enforce our treaty' guarantees, expects to have three ships on the way within twenty four hours. The Machias, which has been detained at Hampden Roads by the threatening weather south of Cape Hatteras, will be. able to on her Journey to day, assurances having been given by the weather bureau that all dangers from the gulf storm along the Southern Atlantic has now passed. This information was telegraphed to the Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard.

Word was received at tho Navy Department 4o day. that the Iowa had arrived at San Francisco, and she was instructed by to proceed as soon as possible to 'Panama on the west coast. It is probable she will havte to take some 'coal aboard, hut the department believes rstie will be able to sail on her 3,400 mile Journey by to morrow morning. No word come from the Ranger, at San Diego, and' the officials at the department are somewhat puzzled at her delay in starting. It waB supposed that she would be able to sail at short notice, as her commander had warning to prepare her for sea, but nothing been heard from him since the orders sent him yesterday morning.

11 Norfolk, August 17 Having been ad by the weather bureau that danger from the recent storm had passed, the gunboat Machias weighed anchor shortly after 12 o'clock to day and sailed for Colon. Colon, Colombia, via Galveston, August 17 The steamship Canada, from Venezuelan ports, arrived here to day. Her larst of call was Sabanilla, where' the eitua tlon was sold to be tranquil. 7. Dr.

Rico, the Colombian Minister to Venezuela, was a passenger for Barranqullla. He without awaiting his passport. General Jeffries arrived here on the Canada. He left the gunboat General Pinzon formerly the American yecht Namouna), liwlth General Alban on board, at Sabanilla. "i Nothing was heard of the rebels yesterday.

7a certain degree of confidence has been re along the railroad line, owing to the of tie troops. The French cruiser Suchet is coaling at the railroad wharf. Several of her officers went tn Pnnama this morning on an excursion trip. Guayaquil, Ecuador, August 17 The Ecuadoran Congress, in session in Quito, after a scrutiny of the votes cast ror ue clared General Plaza legally elected to the office, with a plurality of 65,000 votes. Gen Dio will assume office August 31.

Dolicy with reference to the "Colombia Venezuela hostilities will be the same as President Alfaro'a is as yet uncertain. 1 NAVY UNPREPARED FOR CRISIS. Jhoice Bet ween Battleships and Gun v. boats Cruisers Are Needed at Panama. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street.

Washington, August 17The political situ iation at the. Isthmus of Panama is causing some worry to the Navy and State Depart ments. Daily reports from the isthmus are disquieting in their tenor, and the dispatch r. of war vessels to Aspinwall and Panama indicates that our government expects trouble. It unfortunately happens that the present force of ships at Secretary Long's disposal is limited in number.

Beyond the battleships of Admiral Higginson's fleet, there is but one solitary small cruiser In a gunboat on the Atlantic side which Via ready to send. The Mayflower, which could easily carry 200 men, has Just been put out of commis sion at Brooklyn, and nothing smaller than 'J the 10,000 ton Massachusetts, outside of the Machias, is available for this unexpected emergency. The Pacific side is just as badly off. Ad i' mlral Casey, who commands over there, has but two ships available, and the two are of. the largest size of our battleships.

'The old iron gunboat Ranger, that for many years has been doing surveying work, has been ordered to the isthmus, and, In fact. la the only one that could be sent for the tuk of savins the Panama Railroad at the I.