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TBpE BAf ft EOTfE; NEW YOBK, TXTJSlSBAY, JKE 18, 1901. 6 DEGREE FOB DB. PECH. KITCHENER BF To TtA Y'S cJEWS AND HOUR FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL have preached in Brooklyn for eight years and at every service in those eight years I could couat on the fingers of, both my hands the number of children present. Children should be present at the services.

Some of are ministers to day because we were taught to go to church services. Children know nothing of the worship of God. The Sunday school is being substituted by church members for the church service and the first thing in the church of Jesus' Christ is the cAbout the SS ATKISS SEES And a Hitherto Unreported Incident Which Occurred in Natal. LETTER FROM EDGAR WALLACE. Also an Explanation of Why Kitchener Has Been Unable to Catch De Wet.

Ralph. London correspondent of the Eagle, recently paid high tribute in this paper 10 the work of Edgar Wallace, a new. aspiring and promising addition to the ranks of the world's war correspondents. According to Mr. Ralph.

Wallace is the possessor of a vivid av. picturesque style that is all his own and which, judiciously exercised, has placed him high in the guild of which Russell was the founder and in which Archibald Forbes. Edmund O'Donoyan. Stecs vens. Burleigh.

Churchill and Mr. Halph himself have won their way to fame and fortune. This is a sample of the letters which Wallace has been contributing to the London Dally Mail: SpriPgfrniein I Orange River Colony), May 4. U'lii Such a night as can only be experienced in South Africa the stars great, liquid, white points of fire in the blue black dome. am', just, enough moon to show where the sky ends and veldt begins.

Since this bo the enemy's country, where treason is unknown and only oath breaking is heinous, we may not proceed other than in the light of day. lest the cunning mind of the small commando devise destruction in the form of a gun barrel choken with nitroglycerine, with wires and caps and artful clockwork arrangements designed to operate with suddenness, bringing disorder, wrack, dea'b. mutilation and great beastliness to poor devils traveling first class on press tickets. Therefore the train is drawn up by Spring fontein platform, and dinner having been served at 5:30 instead of 7:30, owing to the refreshment room keeper having an engagement at the latter hour. I have nothing to do but to sit and listen to Atkins discuss ing questions of the day for Atkins is gam ered outside the shuttered windows of my saloon, and he holds views.

The agenda of the Platform Debating So ciety was prolific in subjects, and contained, among others: Should the soldiers receive a day in war time? Shall we ever catch De Wet? Are the Yeomanry good soldiers? Docs a single eyeglass assist the eyesight? Will the militia ever go home? When will the war end? and Is Kitchener a great general some of the subjects dovetailed into others, thus: Voice from Without 'E's the man to finish the war. No 'art larks about 'im. stand no eyeglasses, 'e can't: no 'umbug an' eo old buck. Buller goes up to 'im and says, "I'm general 'ere," 'e says. Another Voice (superiorly) Where was this? First Voice (vaguely) Up in Natal somewhere.

Superior Voice Kitchener was never in Natal. First Voice Csternly) Never mind where he was. Buller comes up to 'im and says. "Look 'ere, I'm general 'ere." he says, "and I'll thank you to get orf the battlefield whilst I'm a conduetirT of my operations." "Oh!" says Kitchener, "p'haps you don't know that I'm a lord, while you're only a blooming sir. 'e says Superior Voice That don't make no difference.

First Voice Wot don't? Superior Voice (scathingly) Sirs and lords ain't no rank, fat 'ed, else you'd 'ave the Dook o' Westminister commander in chief. Third Voice (huskily) My opinion you're torkiug out of the back of your 'ed. Smithy. Smithy (bitterly) raps you re tellm this St. John's College, Fordham, to Give Him an "LX.

To morrow. St. John's College. Fordham, New York City, and of the University of the State of New York, will confer on Dr. James Pech.

a graduate of New College, Oxford, the LL. D. its next commencement, which will take place on the afternoon of June 19. He is well known by students and scholars as a man of considerable learning and classical scholarship. He is the author of a volume of translations from the Greek and Latin poets, entitled.

"Ancient Classics in English a book of original poems. "Lays of Love and Friendship." "Tales for the Instruction and Amusement of the Young," and various essays on esthetic and philosophical subjects. Dr. James Pech will also be remembered by many persons as a musician, who. at one time, was musical director and conductor of a well known society in this city, the Church Music Association, at which, "for several seasons were performed, by a large orchestra and chorus of 500.

the most splendid specimens of the great composers of Latin church music and excerpts from classio opera, and for which performances he wrote some analytical and critical programmes. In early life he was one of the conductors of 'he Royal English Opera. Theater Royal. Drury Lane, and joint conductor with Sir Julius Benedict of the London Orchestral Association. NEW SAENGERBUND RULES.

Kecommendations That Will Equalize Differences in Membership. Recommendations which. If adopted, will no doubt have a decided effect upon all future singing festivals, were framed at last night's meeting of the musical committee of the Northeastern Saengerbund. held at Maenner chor Hall. The committee is busying itself with the preparations for the twentieth national event, to take place in Baltimore, and has of late made careful studies into the causes of dissatisfaction in former years.

is the object of the recommendations to wipe out the inequalities arising among the competing societies on account of the difference in the size of their memberships. Dr. Louis Weyland of Manhattan, presided. There were present Messrs. Karl Kuhl of Philadelphia, August H.

Tiemann of Brooklyn, F. Schmidt of Baltimore. C. C. Lienau of Newark and H.

Koch of Long Island City. The principal resolutions passed are as follows: Societies intending to participate in the contests of the second class are permitted to enter not than sixty singers. Societies intending to participate in the contests of the third class are permitted to enter not more than forty singers. All societies entered for any contest or contests must be represented with at. least two thirds of their entered singers at ail of their rehearsals, else they become liable to be disqualified.

According to a further recommendation, the judges must be chosen from cities not represented in the Saengerbund, so as to avoid a repetition of the recent charges of favoritism. The "points" whereby the contests are to be judged are to be changed in the following manner: Intonation, precision, phrasing, pronunciation and general impression It is believed that the resolutions regarding the number of singers to be entered have been prompted by the many protests from small organizations, who claimed to have. been outclassed simply because the volume of their choruses did not come up to that of large societies, whose productions were inferior from an artistic point of view. HARLEM AND THE BRONX. The June meeting of the Harlem Democratic Club will be held to morrow evening at the club house, 106 West One Hundred and Twenty sixth street, when the recently elected officers will be installed.

Judge John Henry McCarthy will make a short address and a musical entertainment and collation will follow. For several months past three Mormon missionaries. Elders Neff. Burroughs and Goffe, have been laboring in Harlem and the Bronx with a view of making converts, but uy id icet. almost the form of.

a. Gre cros3' the Perpendicular Gothic atJLc liiuLunm win oe stone, with a Mosaic pavement and timber roof. The church will seat 600 persons. Owing to the slope of the land, the chrncel must be nlaced at the west side instead of the eart which may be annoying to the High Church members. There will be a side aisle next to the chancel, and a memorial shrine for the holy week sepulchre opening from the north transept.

The crvpt will be fifteen feet high with columns groined arches, and it is evfotri fi.ie I oe reaay tor occupancy in Xovem ucu tne cnurcn must give up its title lu ius present property. RECEPTIONS AT ADELPHI. Two Events at the College in Connection With Closing Exercises. At Adelphi College last evening, in connection with the closing exercises for the year that are going on this week, there were two events in the college building, similar and yet very dissimilar. The one was a reception by the seniors of the Academic Department to the faculty, to the students and to their friends, on the first floor of the institution.

The other affair was also a reception, but it was in the gymnasium, and was not so formal in some respects as the former. It was scarcely, to be expected that it would be so strictly in form, for it was a reception by the seniors to the juniors of the classes that are studying how to teach little slips to grow in kindergartens. In the former reception white was worn by the three young, women of the committee, the Misses Mary Backus. Helen Comins and Theodore Goldsmith; at the reception in the basement the seniors were charming in mortar board hats and black gowr.s, while the Juniors, to whom was tendered the reception by the seniors. I costumes.

ne reception I transformed itself into a which Kerman. was picturesquely danced. There was a collation afterward, and Miss Anna Harvey was presented with a pretty testimonial by the class. The seniors were the Misses Olive Knight Smith, president: Alice Ludlam, Eda Faw cett, Lorctta Walsh. Edith Phair.

Louise i A.naire. Maria Gertrude Eddy, Har ana uunnam. The juniors: The Misses Leila Warren, Martha Read, Emily Mendes. Julia Ross, I Eugenie Kelly, Marietta Manahnn, Marguer O'Keefe. Florence Mornson, Agnes Fish i and Mrs.

Silverman. An exhibition of the work of the kinder fTo'clocl o'n nl rlfo i TO MAKE SANITARY CANS. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, June IS A certificate Incorporating the Sanitary Can Company of Brooklyn has been filed with the Secretary of State. The nupital stock is placed at SIOO.OOO. The directors of the comoany for the first venr Baptist Churchmen Divided on the Question of the Advisability of Noonday Sessions.

MR. TILLY'S STRONG PROTEST. Warm Exchange of Words With Dr. Myers No Decision Arrived At. A conference of Baptist ministers and laymen to discuss the advisability of the proposed change In the time of holding Sunday school sessions from 2:30 in the afternoon to 12 o'clock, noon, was held in the Hanson Place Baptist Church yesterday afternoon, and though both sides of the question were heard, no vote was taken, and It is very likely that it will be brought up again in the near future.

The sentiment among the different churches and their members concerning the change is not known as yet. and none of those present at the meeting yesterday, with the exceptiou of the speakers who voiced the attitude of their churches in the matter, would discuss it. Three churches of the Baptist denomination have already changed the Sunday school meeting hour, regardless of what action their associated brethren contemplate. These churches are the Baptist Temple, on Schermerhorn street Strong Place and Washington Avenue Baptist churches. Bothhadrep resentatives, one its pastor and the other its Sunday school superintendent, at the conference yesterday, and the two men declared, with great positiveness, that the change had worked beneficially and that it was their belief that it would be to the best Interests of the vast majority of the churches of the Baptist faith to follow their example, adding that, in their opinion, it was only a question ot time when such a course would be pursued generally.

Their remarks were supported by another minister, whose church has not yet adopted the proposed new plan, but who declared that he was firmly in favor of the movement. The Rev. Dr. S. Giffard Nelson, pastor of the Baptist Church of the Redeemer.

Flat7 bush, presided over the conference, at which there were present about fifty ministers and Sunday school workers, including a dozen or more women. Dr. Nelson, in opening the meeting, announced that the Rev. Frank P. Stoddard, pastor of the Strong Place Baptist Church, had promised to be present and open the discussion, but that he had been unexpectedly called away.

The Rev. Erwin Dennett, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, he said, bad consented to take Mr. Stoddard's place. He then introduced Mr. Dennett.

Mr. Dennett said that he would state to the conference what Mr. Stoddard would have said had he been present at the meeting.First he called the attention of those present to the lack of competent Sunday school teachers and to the impossibility of Sunday schools maintaining a corps of competent Sunday school workers for any iength of time. A similar condition, he asserted, prevailed with regard to evangelistic workers. Both of these laulte could bo remedied, he said, if the Sunday school classes were held at the close of the morning service instead of in the afternoon.

Many men are unable, he said, to attend the morning service and then take up the work of the Sunday school In the afternoon. The afternoon should be given over completely to rest, he declared, and that if such were the case the evening services would be more largely attended. The Strong Place Church, Mr. Dennett went on. had changed the Sunday school hour to 12 o'clock, and Mr.

Stoddard was strongly in favor of the change. "For two or three reasons." he said. "The Sunday school and the church, in the first place, in Brooklyn have of late become divorced from each other. The only way to bring them together again is to hold the Sunday school at the close of the morning service, and the greatest objection I have heard against the proposed change is that if we do follow out such a course we' will turn the children out and let them be free to themselves for the afternoon and give them a chance to go to Coney Island and such places. 1 have found for my part that boys and girls who want to go to Coney Island will go whether there is Sunday school or not, and I don't think that many of the children who attend Sunday school regularly have any inclination to go to resorts of that kind.

The churches that offer that argument chanee the Sunday school hour in the summer i and children don't go to Coney Island in the winter. "We can't conscientiously ask men i to come to all three Sunday services. They want some time to spend with their families. Again, it is argued by some people that if we do change it the dinner hour will have to be changed also. I do not think that Is a serious consideration." During the months of July and August.

Mr. Dennett said, the Sunday school classes in his church will be held after the morning church service. Frank Harvey Field, the superintendent of the Washington Avenue Baptist Church Sunday school, said ho was a believer in the change under discussion and had long advocated it in his church. A great many people, he said, go to Sunday (school who know nothing of the church. "The fact we want to emphasize." declared Mr.

Field, "'s tbat the Sunday school is a part of (he church. An hour beginning at noon and ending at 1 o'clock is a fairly good time for the Sundav school service. Another fact is that the new plan prevents the minister from sermonizing too long and every one who attends the service can De assured that he won have to listen to a talk of more than foTty or fifty minutes in length. We Could by this means succeed in getting a great many people to go to church who would not go otherwise. Another thing to be considered is the point tbat we must not allow the Sunday school to efface the effects of home training." Mr.

Field said that his Sunday school had inaugurated che change a month ago expecting a bad showing and calculated' experiencing a period of reconstruction. Instead, he said, there had been a gain of ten in the attendance in the main department, while the primary department had held its own. Fie contended that the downward tendency evident in Sunday schools Is due to the attempt to make Sunday the hardest day ot the week for men interested In church wont, tie sam that the Sabbath ought not to be destroyed as a day of rest and declared that this would be done if the churches continued to hold their Sunday schools in the afternoon. As it is now, he said, men have absolutely no time for anything but religious services. Alfred Tilly, the superintendent of the Sunday School of the Hanson Place Baptist Church, in reply said that if the change were adopted a grave mistake would be made unless two classes were held one In the morning, at 9:30, and the other In the afternoon, at 4:30 so that those who cannot go in the morning might be enabled to attend the class in the afternoon, and vice versa.

He said that the proposed change would necessitate practically the abolishment of the evangelistic services, as these could not be held along with the regular Sunday school teaching work in the limited space of an hour. He then read a memorial and resolutions adopted by his Sunday school yesterday afternoon protesting agalust the proposed departure. "I don't think you ministers," he continued, "can afford to experiment with the Sunday schools. If you close the Sunday schools in the afternoon you will make the greatest mistake in your lives." In the proceedings that followed Mr. Tilly's remarks a brief clash of words took place between him and the Rev.

Dr. Cortland Myers, pastor of the Baptist Temple. Dr. Myers was vehement in his argument in favor of the change. "I will never." he said, "be pastor of another church again that holds the Sunday school in the afternoon.

Since we have changed the time of our classes we have Increased our attendance from 200 to 800. I preaching service." "Our increase in membership has been five time's what we anticipated. Next year we will increase to 1,500. Some people say that because we have had Sunday school in the old rut for eighty years we must remain in it how. "I never will accept the pastorate of a church where I have to come to church three times a day and neither will I be pastor of a church where there Is no Suuday school.

I want rest and the men in my church want rest. Three services a day are too much and are an injury. I don't like to mention any particular churches, but I think that the Hanson Place Church, which has a membership nearly as large as the Temple, certainly ought to have a bigger Sunday school 'We would If we had the Mr. Tilly interrupted. "I think you have the Dr.

Myers said. "You ought to double your Sunday school. Gentlemen. I' don't care whether you make the change or not. I don't give a snap of my fingers.

If there is not another church in Brooklyn to follow the example that we have initiated we will continue ours as we have it now." "Dr. said Mr. Tilly, deliberately, "knows a great deal, but we all know he does not know everything. He dees not know that we have not room here to enlarge our Sun? I unj duuuui. ur.

iuusl luiiieutuei t.u we are not as rich as the Temple. I am surprised hear Dr. Myers, say that ht would not become pastor of a church that holds its Sunday school class in tje after noon "I said I would not become pastor under such circumstances because I could not MVhat more could a man say?" Dr. Nelson here interposed and smoothed the Incident over by remarking that Dr. Myers and Mr.

Tllley were both gc'od churchmen and that if one wished to run his Sup day' school in the morning and the other in the afternoou. there was no one to. stop Two or three other speakers also made remarks, including the Rev. Hurqpstorie, pastor of the Emmanuel Church, who was not inclined to "favor the change, but did favor the agitation, because, he said, it was certain to kindle interest in the Sunday schools themselves. HUDSON BAY EXPEDITION.

Planned by Charles Arthur Moore of This City for the Shooting of 3irds and Big Game. 4 Hudson Bay sporting expedition has been arranged by. Charles Arthur Moore, of this city, son of the president of the American Protective Tariff League. Young Mr. Moore is a Yale graduate and the Polar Seas are not unfamiliar to him, for he went with explorer Peary in 1897.

Captain Bartlett, who commanded the Hope in that expedition, is living in Newfoundland and it was on a recent visit to him that Mr. Moore talked over his projected trip and finally decided to carry but the plan. Captain Bartlett will go with him. Other's who have been invited and have agreed to go arc' Robert Rutherford McCor mack of Chicago, sou of (he new ambassador to Austria; George A. Gcss of Worcester.

Samuel Bwight Ward of Albany; William H. Peckham of New York: Stewart Hotchkiss 'of New Haven; Harry Cox of Newark. N. Harry Whitney of New Haven, and Lindon Bates, a young Australian. All these were in Yale with Mr.

Moore. The party is to assemble at Sydney. Cape Breton Island, on July 20. It will go north by a big sealer, tie Alterinc. up the Labrador coast and through Hudson's Straits.

It will be lapded at the Eskimo villages near Cape Cfcudleigh. The special effort of the expedition will be to secure specimens of rare birds, but great sport is anticipated in the shooting of polar bears, caribou' and walruses. Mr. who is now at his handsome summer home in Greenwich. will start for Cape Breton Island on July G.

He expects that the party will get back to New York about October 1. STATEN ISLAND NOTES. The apppintment of Dr. Theodore alser as assistant sanitary superintendent of Richmond Borough by Mayor Van Wyck. succeeding the late John L.

Feeny. has caused intense dissatisfaction among the Democratic politicians in the borough. They were equally divided in favoring Dr. John T. Sprague and Dr.

John J. Van Rensselaer, who are known as organization Democrats. The selection of Dr. Walser is ascribed to the friendship of Congressman Nicholas ur. Walser is the oldest practising physician in Richmond County, and Is famous for his success in stopping epidemics of contagious diseases.

He has often volunteered his services to the Quarantine officials during epidemics. He was health officer of the Village of New Brighton for many years prior to consolidation. He has been known in politics as an independent Democrat. His son, Dr. William C.

Walser, was elected coroner in 1S93 on the Republican ticket. It was announced yesterdaj that the Richmond County Gas Light Company will be succeeded by the New York and Gas Company, a new corporation, the members ot which have secured a controlling interest in the old company. The new company is capitalized at Sl.500,000. and will make many improvements in the present service and extend the mains all over the borough. The present company serves only the populous sections of the North and East shores, but.

has made good profits. It having paid dividends since its formation in 1S57. The directors of the new company are: Armitage Matthews and R. C. McCormick of Manhattan; Hawkins A.

Tucker of Brooklyn; A. A. McGlahan of Kast Bloomfield. N. and G.

W. Sutton of New Rochelle, N. Y. A movement on' foot, for an enormous mass meeting of the people of Richmond I Borough In case the Staten Island Ferry Company decides to run the sunken ferryboat Northfield on its ferry again. It has been announced that when the Northfield is raised the company intends to have her docked and refitted and take her old plac In the fleet.

The rumor has caused much Indignation. There seems to be a growing feeling that not only should the Northfield be permanently retired, hut the Middletown and Westfield, her sister boats, should follow her. The youngest one is the Middle town, built In 1664. So far has the feeling againBt the old boats gone that many persons, especially women, time their trips to and from Manhattan so as to catch the Rob ert Garrett or the Southfield, two of the best boats. The Castleton, a new boat, is out of commission for repairs at Clifton.

With the Northfield sunk, the ferry company Is in a ticklish position, for If it has another boat damaged, the schedule cannot be followed, with no boat In reserve. C. E. COMMITTEES. President Dickhaut has appointed the following committees of the Brooklyn Christian Endeavor Union: Missionary Committee The Rev.

A. J. Brucklacher. Miss Watson, C. W.

McLavey, Miss Wheeler, Miss E. Fuller and Henry T. Munch. Press Committee E. C.

Bahcock, T. E. Jordan, George E. Fredericks, Fred Heln rich, Russell Carter and Miss Hansen. Visitation Committee Robert Nelson.

F. E. Davis, Thomas MacCleery, Louis H. Davie and J. A.

Roy, jr. Bible Study Committee Arthur Redan, Clinton A. Billig, the Rev. Harvey S. Mur dock.

Miss Effle B. Conant, Miss Evelyn Moore, Joseph Mertz and D. L. Van Houton. Assistant Junior superintendents Mrs.

W. B. Hendrickson, Miss Anna Harding and Miss Luella Baldwin. RAILWAY AGENTS MEET. Pittsburg, June 18 About 200 delegates were in their seats this morning when President W.

H. Mills of Ohio called to order the fifth annual convention of the National Association of Railway Agents. The convention will be in session several days. quote, but since space, forbids, wa. roust llat(t ourselves to one, surely, a thaiigJit for the unprofessional layhaan: There will come, a day when "engineers will made war so terrible that by common," cdjjMM the differences hetween nations will be 'wtttW by means other than the sword.

Wh.o then fill be. the popular hero? Perhaps it will 'bis the. mini, who in himself will be recgnixed aathe" tS personification of power, the engineer, the; man who creates forces of army, strength' and control them with an absolute despotism. When standing on the deck of an Atlantic record maker after the pilot has been let off at Sandy IIoBk, 'tis passenger, mue realises tne compressed eriergy 1 which Is let loose when the captain on toe 0Etd5 signals to the, engine room "Full speed The Pyramids are supposed to have been' cbi structed by massing men; the Saracen. In 'fee vaded EuroDe with' a less force: Grant' in campaign of the wilderness commanded 1,000, while took with' Mm to Moscow nuge numner ot ow.uuu; out aucn uumqera art'l nothing compared with what the steamer's on 1 gineer controls with his throttle.

To do the wort Of the engines not less than one and a 'half mill; Inns nf nhle hnitlprt 'merr would h( nitjl more men oi wonting age man are na in tne wnoie otate ot xorit. iuh statmenx, r. striking as It Is. is not fantastic. Thfe' toOofl horse nower cnzlnes of one of "our' ffreaf lihii are equal' to 45.000 average horses, blit can uu ill? mucu wui.ti ud men, auu oei IlB.tl cannot work continuously tor exceeding 8r flours, the number of men must be that of.

tnree hence the total. I leave, it to yon to compute tfi') equivalent amount ot power of the 30,004. nori power plant at Niagara, or the 100.000 horse, power plant for operating the Manhattan Railway now oeing lnsranea in iew iotk. A Sixteenth Century Flyer. The following cut is reduced by permission from a picture in the, June McGlur'es' Magazine.

It illustrates a story ot Robert Barr called "The king's Gold," in whiph 'the author asserts that the invention of a flying machine was experimented with as far back as the sixteenth century. We take Mr. Barr at his word, for his stories of the eccentric James the Fifth of Scotland, which have been appearing serially for some time, have th "With a "Wild Crv JJanni Endeavored to Support Himself." hall mark of conscientious research as well as the brand of clever fiction. An Italian adventurer named 'arim naa constructed a "Well." said the king with a laugh. 'I should still the ability to do so would have been You shall test Vour invention in our presA ence." "But should like to snend some further time in nrcnaratton." demurred the fakir uneasily.

en mishine the Italian suddenly between 1 lraiiTinfjlYer him intn cnOM witii wild Kcreaih Farini endeavbrea to nnri for moment seemed to hover In mla a 1 Til on the framework cracked and the ir.Hm whirling head over heels, ten like a Max O'Rell writes in the Athcneum con rernlnir his new hook: "In your issue of May is vou nubl sh a favorable review oi my book, 'Sa Majeste which ends with these words: 'The book is also to be had In l.U ne.ee Woman." The rendering, etc. It wniiM be kind nf von to allow me to say that the WmHich volume is riot a translation of the French. The book was written in Eng hVi mvseif with the hein ot wnatever English I have at my command. Then I wrote the book in French, very'often with out availing myself of the Englisn text." "Rita's" new novel. "Prince Charmine." is published in Jingiana tms ween.

an har in 41 TTisrhtrmod Burzlar. the four club swicaers: the ankee comedv four. Irene La Tour and her' 'dog Laza, Vernon in vehtriloquial acts, Miss Dag well and Julian Raymond. IN MANHATTAN. Nicholas Garden.

TVa QvmnVinnv Pnncert at the St. NJcholM nr.nn io.t win ho the 250th concert CrariT Voltonhnrn has conducted ill ta revert hf Rpvfinth bv Beethoven, and iha vjn hov "Tnhiipp" overture is another DU.IJUtJl; UJJ LUC Uoiuuiiuv nivprsarv. Mrs. Beatrice Fine, a Californian cinder with a fine reputation in the West, will sing the Jewel Song from "Faust." The musicians of New York and vicinity win bo nsnpeinllv interested in the concert ThnrKdnv liicrht 'when the Moszkowski Piano Concerto will be played in New York for the first time. The solo performer will be Miss Jessie Shay.

The Concertd will be played'tie fore the Wagnerian numbers, Thursday being the regular Wagner night at the St. Nicho las uaraen. The Eden Musee. The new group. "A Mutiny at Sea," at tha tention.

Mew movine nictures were snown last evening and the attractions during the week will "be 'varied and interesting. The afternoon and evenine concerts will "consist of vocal and instrumental selections and tha Interior of the Musee will be kept cpol. ABION AT ULMER PABK. Anrmiil Pip nip. of the Sine insr SoCietT ft Complete Success.

The annual picnic and summernight's festival of the Arion Singing Society took placs yesterday afternoon and evening at Ulmer Park. The members turned Out in good numbers apd on reaching the picnic grounds shortly after 3 o'clock a programme of athletic events was run off. Base ball was played by the young folks, while the others adjourned to the bowling alleys, where they contested for a number of beautiful prizes, Including the Arioh diamond Dancing followed the bowling and it was a late hour when the picnickers started homeward. The entertainment committee Included Theobald Engelhardt, chairman; Egon Krue ger, William Rohlffs, H. W.

Wlppermann and L. A. Baher, and it was announced that the programme for the Buffalo excursion had been arranged. About one hundred and fifty members will leave Brooklyn on Friday morning, August 80, and will journey to Buffalo in a special train of Pullman cars. The headquarters of the Arion at the Glbbs House will be the destination.

The following day the members will visit the Pan American Exposition and will be shown ahout the grounds by several singing societies of Buffalo On Sunday, September 1, an excursion to Niagara Falls will be made over the new Grand Gorge route. On Monday (Labor Day) and Tuesday the fair will again be visited and the start for home will be made on Tuesday night. The officers of the club are as follows: Theodore F. Fritz, president; Theobald Engelhardt, first vice president; John Schlldge, second vice president; Egon Bisen bauer, recording secretary; Peter Bachen berg, financial ecretayy; Otto Fischer, treM first step toward greatness but one and all leave Paradise. When Caroline lifted her head her eyes were blind with misery.

But the crisis had passed. Her heart had sung its requiem for her dead hero but the man had need of her." AU women who have experienced disillusionment iii love will be sure to find some chord of sympathy touched in this story ot three loves, all founded on illusion; but the novel will commend itself still more to men who have suffered from the plague of literary ambition. Howard Grey is a true and strong study: He has not the fatuous misconception of his calling which is usually betrayed by authors who choose an author for their hero. He finds no gratification, but only bitterness, in the success of his purloined plot. But the truest touch of all is the despair which besets Frank from the humiliation of prison.

And yet it is a sad truth, proving the world an aritficial hell for true souls, for every day there are committed a thousand crimes worse than those which send men to. prison, but which do not blight the spirit with shame simply because they are not listed on a particular category. "The temperament that finds its motive power In affection and appreciation cannot face the enervating strain of the. world's mistrust. His impressionable mind clamored for the sustenance of friendship.

Without It he had" starved. Morbid self torture had developed intermittent melancholia; the last despair was easy." And here is a true bit: "He eJi convict 99! The great expanse heaven spread over his head, dusted with countless worlds; the wide free plains ot earth stretched out to meet the horizon, and a son of this inheritance was chained in thought to a small stone cell, where he had paid man's toll to fellow man. He did not know' that he was free; that in the eternal justice of things there was no unsettled score against him. He was socially an outcast, for ever and ever, unless Unless oh! had he the power? unless he could rise from his death triumphant creator of a new world!" Pathetic delusion! As if the writing of a book were the only form of rehabilitation for a soiled name! And yet to a certain extent it is true, unimportant as the making of a book is to the making of a bridge or a tie clip, yet it is a fact that our absurd society allows what is called "genius" when it expresses itself in writing words on paper, to condone an injudicious'pastwhich no amount of honest industry with a broom will wipe out. And when the man gets what he calls fame the little insignificant fame of authorshiphow is he bettered? "What proflteth it a man." groans Grey, "if he win the whole world and lose his own soul?" The training for literary success seldom leaves much palate for the common joys of existence.

Engineering as a Profession. Pointed, original and most instructive is Mr. William Barclay Parsons' address at Cornell on the above subject. Although delivered on Founder's Day, last January, and therefore long since familiar to Cornell men, it is more recently that Mr. Parsons has attained a reputation outside his profession by his book, "An American Engineer in China" (McClure Phillips).

That book was notahle for a sane observatipn and broad minded judgment far from usual in travelers who write books, and on coming across the recently printed copy of Mr. Parsons' Cornell Address we read it with more expectation than one usually accords to set speeches. The expectation was riiofe than satisfied. It is the sane and solid speech of a thoughtful and broad and peculiarly serene rhind and admirably evinces the training which Mr. Parsons impressed on his hearers as best befitting a man for a scientific profession; If you were called on to design the foundation for a tall arid slender such as the Washington Monument, would consider the nature of the sand on which it is to rest, would take into account disconnected character of the composing grains, and the liability ot their disturbance by other excavations or by the action of the weather.

Then you would compute not only the' weight of the shaf t. but the effect, of wind pressure on the several sides, which might not be equally uniform, and having fully balanced all of these forces you would design your foundation, broad to distribute the superincumbent arid varying pressures and deep to' reduce the internal strains. So it is with education. Although the ultimate practice may be but in a single line, nevertheless the education to carry it. like the foundation of the monument, must be as broad, that is extensive, and as deep, that is as thorough, as it is possible to make it.

On such a foundation any structure can be erected. Wherefore I say to you avail yourselves of the opportunities are yours to day, because I can tell you that there are hours coming when you will need all the help you can get. Broaden your minds, not only with mathematics and science, hut' with literature and liberal subjects as well. The greater the stability of mind tbat you possess, that is. the greater and more varied its information, the tailor will be the shaft that you can erect on it without fear of its toppling over: for to complete the comparison between education and the foundation, the slender shaft can be said to be typical of the work of the modern engineer specialised in a single channel.

This simile of the Washington Mdunment Is peculiarly well found. So are many other points in the speech, which we should like to last night. One can only conjecture that the man's head must have been slightly turned when he imagined that he could improve his fortunes by becoming an actor. His acting is comic, but that does not entitle him to be described as a cpmedian. However, there is hope for Mr.

Brennan. In the first act last i night he learned to take off his hat. in the presence of ladies and in time he might acquire other rudiments of stage training. His engagement at the Criterion, however, is hardly likely to last long enough to complete his education. Mr.

Brennan's supporting company was of various degrees of mediocrity which it would be cruel to particularize. The young woman who played the actress from the Aquarjum suggested that that London resort was twin 'sister to a Coney Island music hall, but at least she was alive. Star. Clifford Sr. Dixon's Innocent Maids gave a good entertainment at the Star last night.

The burlesque offering is called "The Innocent Maids in Lever's Lane," and several new songs and dances ane introduced during the act. The vaudeville part of the programme includes Clifford and Hall, singing and dancing team; Hcey and Lee, Hebrew comedians; Xevada Farricgton, in operatic selections and changes; Eflie Broolyn, popular songs; Crawford Sisters, singing and dancing souhrettes, and Clifford, and Dixon, talking comedians. Next week, "The Gay Girls of Gotham." Bergen Beach. Bergen Beach is now in full swing and last night a large crowd patronized the Ferris wheel, the scenic railroad, automaton theater, hippodrome track and the Alhambra dancing hail. The free shows in the Troca dero and Casino Pier also had a good attendance.

"The Pah American Girl" in the Casino pleased a goodly crowd as' well. A poker game in the second act is fully as funny as the one that Billy Barry made famous, and Is participated in by Al Shean, Stephen Maley, Charles Warren and Charles Banks. Gertie DeMilt. the soubrette of an opera company which is supposed to visit the Pan American, sang herself Into popular favor and made the hit of the performance. The large and well trained chorus, too, made all kinds of hits, led by that favorite of former years at the beach.

Minerva Courtney. Nellie Nichols, who has the title role, also made a big impression on her audience. Brighton Beach Music Hall. Despite temperature that rendered wraps and overcoats desirable Brighton Beach was thronged last night and an appreciative audience of fair size filled the Music Hall and gave Mr. Grover's array of artists a hearty reception.

The programme Included the favorites of the leading vaudeville theaters of the city and several novelties that excited warm Interest. Miss Aurle Dagwell's songs were enthusiastically received, and the Hawaiian Queens in their operetta, "The Queen's Fair," made a decided hit. The three Merrills introduced some excellent new bicycle tricks and the Rio Brothers proved themselves thoroughly up to date acrobats. Others on the programme were Crawford and Slantey in an act entitled "The Tramp, the Piano and the Dude," George W. Stewart in "A Trip on the Mississippi" and the Jenny Eddy trio in songs.

The vitagraph with a series of new moving pictures was not the least entertaining feature of the evening. Next week's bill wilt Include Dolan and THE NOVEL OF THE DAY. The Plot of Plagiarism. "Another Woman's Territory," by "Allen." (T. y.

crowell fi: $1.50.) "Another Woman's Territory." takes the attention to have and to hold, for it strikes a true note of love's tragedy and possesses a plot. It is a plot that has been used, as far as our recollection serves, only five times since Anstey wrote "The Giant's Robe." A clever novelist who has succeeded in the world's estimation and failed in his own. is accidentally placed in possession of a work of genius by an untried hand and tempted to publish it under his own name. He believes that the real author is dead; but of course he isn't, and of course he turns up breathing vengeance and exposure and stays his hand for fear of hurting the woman he lovee, who has generally married the villain out of admiration for the work which he didn't write. In the Dresent case the details are as follows: Frank Osmond was a'young JSnglish man," who had been sent to jail for forgery, arid after his release had gone to New Zealand with his sister to bury his shame.

To their retreat comes Howard Grey, the successful but disappointed Australian novelist; frank, after confessing his shame and showing ail "the evidences of suicidal despair, gives Grey a MS. novel and disappears'. Grey feads the manuscript and perceives that it possesses the inspired touch which his own work mlssec; he hastens back to tell Frank that, he is a genius and need not despair, when he picks up the youth's cap oh the edge of a river and concludes that he has drowned himself. The sister, Caroline, agrees with this opinion; Grey comforts her and ultimately marries her, partly from a vague scruple of thus giving tier thje result of her brother's work. He publishes Frank's book' and wins fame.

Then' he falls in love with an actress, who admires him tor his book; while Caroline, his wife, loves him for himself When he reveals his theft the aclress rejects him and Caroline stands by him; and the title of thehovel isVaken from a fine scene between the two women; there the wife, who has suppressed her feelings for some years in order" not to interrupt Howard's work, exclaims; "You are on another' woman's territory; you are on ray territory! You love my husband; so do I. But your right and mine can never be equal; I am his wife. You are a queen made for conquest, but I shall resist you. This territory is mine!" The word territory has a particular application, since the scene takes place at Caroline's New Zealand cottage, which the actress had rented in ignorance of the owner. In the meanwhile Frank, the ex convict, has gone to' Melbourne and made a start as a writer on the columns of the Argus (which, as most, people know, is the name of the Australian newspaper which has had the honor of discovering most of Australia's talent).

Then he comes across a copy of Grey's plagiarized novel; indignant at what appears p. theft more criminal than hie own youthful indiscretion, he starts to confront Grey with his treachery and discovers that Grey's wife is his sister. He withholds the thunderbolt. Instead, he conceives the idea Of executing a private vengeance 'while at the same time reclaiming his own by turning the novel into a play. The play is called "Convict it succeeds.

The curious part about all this is that an Australian novel called "Convict SO" was published some yeara ago in England and has since been dramatized. One awaits developments on this point. Ie it all a true story and is the anonymous "Alien" reclaiming her own in "Another Woman's Territory?" There are many passages in this book which bear the hall mark of poignant truth, although the more real the feeling the more inadequate becomes the author's expression of it. Take, for instance, the passage In the play which is quoted three times as the keynote the drama: "Can't I make you understand I shall not suffer, shall not even blame you? Mitje was the fault for having mistaken the craven for the king. Despise I do.

Pity may follow in a softer mood; and, if I never see your face again, I may learn even gratitude that you yourself have saved me from the madness that you taught." That is the tragedy in the love of the actress; this 2 the tragedy in the love of the wife; when she discovers that heir husband's fame is built on what he stole from her brother: "He of all men! There comes a tragic hout for every woman large enough to create for herself a god among men. when she awakes from her illusion to discover that he whom she has worshiped is just one man among men not. different from others. In that hour some women begin to die, some to grow hard, some to learn laughter, some to take their AT THE THEATERS. New Play at the Park and First AJ pearaace of Edward C.

Brennan at the Criterion. "Becky Bliss, the Circus Girl." cavorted over the stage of the Park Theater last night to the uproarious delight of hundreds of friends. This was the name of the play, a comedy by J. A. Frajer, and the cavorting was done largely by Cecil Spooner In the title role.

It is an "Old Homestead" drama, smelling of the daisies and new mown hay, bringing into action the heart full old farmer and his dutiful helpmate, the son around whom all the trouble arises: an heiress with a fortune, the designing lawyer and his detective tool, and last, but not least, the waif from the circus, who does much damage and creates howls of laughter at the most inopportune moments. Edward Kelly Is the farmer and he is the bulwark of the play as well as the plot. He is excellent in his character drawing and at no time overdoes the homely lines of his book, while the range of his emotions was finely shaded. Mrs. Spooner enacted the wife in a.

manner as true to the life as dramatic imitations thereof will permit and many times during the evening she fully earned the heafty applause with which she was greeted. Walter Wilson was the love stricken and maligned son and he made him as lovelorn and heart broken as the most lachrymose maiden could ask, so much eo, in fact, that one sometimes wondered why so slf contained a young woman as Edna May Spooner, the play heiress, persisted la defending and loving him. Edwin H. Curtis was the conscienceless lawyer after the hand and fortune. of the heiress, and he proved worthy of the contumely with which his final exit was accompanied.

Augustus Phillips was the breezy detective and with Cecil Spooner presented an element of freshness calculated to break up the emotional scenes lpto which they were injected. But the homely old play, like all of its kind, finds many sympathetic souls, and from a condition bordering on tears it more frequently carries the audience into howls of laughter. Between the acts Edna May Spooner sings several illustrated songs in a small but sweet voice, and Claude Thardo, styled "The Sidewheeler," sings character songs and dances. Next week, which is announced as the last of the season, will witness a double bill, "The Happy Pair" as a curtain raiser and "The Child of the Regiment." The Criterion. Ex Assemblyman Edward C.

Brennan has made a record. Last night at the Criterion Theater he acted beg pardon went on to the stage professionally. The play was Sydney Grundy's "Arabian Nights" and the cast included some of the actors who appeared in Mr. Biennan's ill starred venture at the Amphton. Fortunately, Garrett W.

Owens, the leading man ot tbat venture, was absent. The substitution of Mr. Brennai. for Owens may not have been exactly an improvement, but at. least It afforded variety.

It Is natural to sympathize with a man in misfortune, but it would require something stronger than sympathy to enable one to commend the entertainment which Mr. Brennan offered varn, and praps i am any ow. wnetner it:" uu "ul uavu mei wuu makes no difierersce about bein' a lord or sir much success. They liave captured two wo or not, that's wot Kitchener told Buller 't men' however, and their change of faith has any rate. Kitchener's the bloke to end this raised a storm in local church circles.

One of war them is Mrs. Thomas H. Blair, until recently Several voices, hitherto silent, rise to ac President of the Young People's Christian claim this sentiment. Endeavor Society of the Port Congre Smithy (waxing enthusiastic at this sup Church, and the other is Miss Eliza port) Whv. e's got more sense in 'is little! Dickenson, who was secretary of.

the so finger than than than (lamely) twenty Urs. Blair lives at 713 East One Hun Bothas. and he'd no mora think twice about i and Mlc'3 sbootin' you or me than I would about killin' nf street Hundred and Thir. a Tne Greek chorus asserts itself. P'aD for sv building of St.

Ignatius' Youthful Voice (well modulated) Why rfurch corner of West doesn't he catch De Wet. then? i fn.A, Eighty seventh street, snow Three Voices and scornfully) Why doesn't 'e catch De Wet? I Smithy (finely sarcastic) Why don't 'e catch De Wet? Look 'ere. you're a Yeoman, ain't you? Modulated Voice (nervously) Yes. Smithy tir.dignantly) And just come out, I'll take my oath. Thought you was.

Why don't 'e catch Tie Wet. my lad? Why. because 'e can't trust the Yeomanry with anyone else. Roars of laughter and a mild voice asking tor a fuller explanation Smithv Well, 'ow does a soldier learn to i be a soldier by experience, am't that it And no Yeoman ain't a real Yeoman till 'e's been captured twice ain't that so? An' where will you find a commandant as '11 treat a Yeoman so nice an' kind an' gentle as Tie Wet? Why don't 'e catch De Wet? Why, De Wet's a bloomin' field trainln' and Alder shot maneuvers to a Yeoman! After a pause, during which fhe mild young Yeoman presumably retires, somebody asks why Kitchener objects to the monocle only tec querist did not say monocle, but relied on conveying the sense of bis question by referring to it a pane of glass. Smithy Cos 'e's a soldier an 'likes to see everything reg'lar and well balanced.

If 'e 'ad 'is way sergeants would 'ave stripes on each arm an' soldiers 'ave medals on both breasts. Wot's a single eyeglass but un rop'kr1 fine side nf the face is all class. an' the other side's all all face. If they'd wear spectacles it 'd be all right: but the young officers won't wear spectacles for fear of being mistaken for colonels ana arartea to the Army Pay Corps. Husky Voice (suspiciously) Wot are you gittin' at wot's the Army Pay Corps got to do with it? Smithy (pleasantly) Oh.

It's only a bit of a joke of mine sarcasm. Here follows several earnest appeals to Smithy not to dislocate his jaw using long words. By easy stages the debates became theological, with many and weird premises, with divers curious and unprintable deductions. Dear old Atkins! Here were dozen man who had probably seen more battles In one year than most generals see in a lifetime, and yet their talk was not of war. of bloodshed or great daring, but.

Just the subjects, the self same subjects they would argue out in times of peace over i r. rV common beer at the bar of the Green Man. It seemed more than incongruous at times to hear here in the loneliness of the rolling veldt, with the black peaks of the distant hills, sooty bulks against the velvet black sky line, with death lurking in the darkness about, and over all the solemn hush of even it seemed strange, not to say unnat ural. when Tommies, who. In keeping with the rcene.

should bv rights he speaking in awed whispers of golden deeds and glorious sacri flees, are arguing in strident cockney on the legitimacy of the birth of Moses. "Found Mm in the bulrushes yuss. that's wot she said." SHINNECOCX CLUB'S STAG. The members of the Shlnnecock Club of the Fifth Ward gave a stag In the spacious rooms of the club at Bridge and High streets last night and everyone who attended had a good time. A programme of songs and music was preserted by the following artists: Benjs.mln Baker.

James Hand. William K. Jones. Thomas Healy. W.

H. Spencer. Will lam H. Keen. M.

Goldman. B. Bauck. 0. Gallagher.

Joseph Lyons. P. Murray. George are William Hooker of New York City, will Turner, Frank Turner. James Driscoll, James iani C.

Kraft of Jersey City and Rohcrt F. yle, M. Murray. Denis Daly, R. Jones, Mullens.

Thomas F. Mason and 'William Kraft Thomas Christy and Thomas Coleman. of Brooklyn..