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THE BKOOKXYNT DAILY EAG IjE. 16 STUBBS CALLS HISTORY OP EMTIOI TO JOIN RAILROAD LINES BY TUNNELS AND BRIDGES II VISIT TO FRESH POND AND ITS CREMATORY. Perhaps the niche looks too cold and bare, it so, it can be lined with white or purple satin, and this costs another $10. There are about 800 niches in the Fresh Pond columbarian and a number of those are already occupied. In some there is a card only, and this means that that special niche is reserved for some one not yet dead.

Some niches hold as many as three urns, and It is estimated that the ashes of about 2,000 persons, are kept there. The total number of cremations Eince the opening Is about 3.S00. The decorations of some of the niches are very gorgeous. Some are lined with satin, with a silver, brass or copper urn, and a picture of the deceased, in a gilt frame surrounded by a profusion of artificial flowers. There are several stained glass windows in the columbarian, all of which have been presented as memorials to some person whose ashes rest therein.

The crypt with its rows of little black holes with their somber cans, is in the basement. The weight of these cans varies, though all are about the size of a three ami a half pound sugar canister. Those containing the ashes of a very large man weigh as much as seven pounds. A woman's ashes weigh between three and five pounds, while a baby's weighs only about half a pound. The remains of a very fleshy person do not as a rule weigh as much as those of one sparer, but larger boned.

In one corner of the crypt there Is a handsome brass urn. It stands on the floor and its gloss is becoming tarnished and dull. Some time ago a man came to have hip wife cremated. His grief was of the deepest, and while the cremation was in progress he picked out an expensive urn and paid for it, in order that the ashes might have a proper resting place. He neglected to state ford avenue was commenced.

The corner stone was laid October 1873. with, impressive ceremonies in the presence of a large assembly composed of the best known friends of public schools on the island. The Board of Education was W. H. Farrington, Thomas Leggett and Samuel B.

Parsons. In 1S76 Maquis Gould became a member of the board. Acts of Legislature in 1876 and 1S7S conferred increased prerogatives and placed the school under the supervision of the Regents of the University. Some indication of the growth of the school may be found in the fact that at tho time of opening the school. building 416 pupils were on the rolls; in 18S0 there were 1,210.

From that time on to the present yearof 1900 there has been a steadily increasing number. Other school houses for primary grades have been built until now tho scholars number over 6.000. In accordance with the law passed at the last Legislature, colored pupils are now admitted in every public school in Flushing. There have always been colored pupils In the high school. Beside the high school there is now the Washington school have been abolished by school, the Park school and the Washington school.

The seventh and eighth grades at the Washington school have been abolished the board and the members of the classes transferred to the high school. The Washington school has accommodations for 200 pupils. This is as yet a colored school, as there is no likelihood of any white pupils being sent there at present. There are now two colored pupils at the Whitestone avenue school, four at the Murray Hill and twelve at the Park school. The high school building has been added to from time to time until it now presents the commodious and imposing structure which is the pride of Flushing Village.

IN LONG ISLAND CHURCHES. Sag Harbor's New Te wish Synagogue Temple Mishkan Israel to Be Dedicated To morrow. MAP SHOWTITO THS ROUTES QE1 Arrangements for the Incineration of Bodies and the Preservation of the Ashes. THE C0LUMBARIAN AND CRYPT. Germans Favor This Metiiod of Disposing of Human Bemains Cost of Cremation From $35 to $200.

One of the most interesting places on the Brooklyn of Long Island to visit is th6 Crematory at Fresh Pond. To many people the Idea of paying a visit to such a place might be a grewsome one, but there is nothing grewsome about the establishment, and there is plenty of information to be gained by visiting it. Comparatively few people know anything about cremation, beyond the fact that it means the burning or reducing of a body to ashes. How it is done, wherein A COSJXEB IN THE FRESH it differs from actual Dtirial. and what disposition is made of the remain? afterward is a closed cook.

New York State has five crematories, out of a total of only twenty five in the Union. California has four, Pennsylvania four, and the remainder are divided up among twelve different 3tates. was the first town in the United Slates to estabiUh a crematory, and from jSTti to ItoS there v. tro but twenty five cremations. In iKS au Jicr was established at Lancaster.

which had three creraatiens in the first year history. In lS'io crematories were established at Fresh Pond and at Bsft'alo. and since then nev ones been overyear, and ti.o crematienz ircm t. f.vc in seven years have iaereasd to tivo thousand ye.rly. Visitors to the.

cre.rr.atct az a rule. only the columbarian, vhcre the containing the ashes nre kept. An order for a thorough inspection ef the bttildirg however, be iiroc urcd, and ttis i nation ot the apparatus and rasxhoda. 'o one excepting the employes ci iaca is allowed in the clamber tn which the retorts are located. When a be Incremated the mourners sta en i platform outside the c.

and through, a heavy piate plsss win Jo the body being placed in the rctvrt. At aii other times this window Is covered with a v. 'ritc curtain hung on the inside, and chance vis tors do not see the retorts or the apparatus for placins tae body tborela. Inside this chamber, t) no one Is admitted, the oniy furnishings are en iron cradle, reddened with heat, au a catafalque with rubber wheels. When in use, this catafalque, which is just a3 hig5 as the doors of the furnace, is draped in When a body is to be cremated it brcuarht into the building and carried to the ret.trt chamber.

Some people prefer to have the body remain in tho casket in which it is brought, and In that case the basket is burned as well as the body. In the majority of cases, however, the body is remnvc from the casket. Tbx clothing is not interfered with at all. but after the body is placed or. the iron cradle it is wrapped in a white muslin sheet," saturated with alum water.

This prevents the clothing from catching fire before the door Is shut. The cradle is placed on the catafalque and wheeled in front of the door of the retort. At a signal the door opens, tho cradle slides off into the retort, and the door is immediately closed. In from one to three hour3 all that remains Is the littio heap of pinkish ashe3. Sometimes funeral services are held at the building.

There is an altar and an organ and all facilities for the usual funeral service. The mourners generally remain until the cremation is finished. When it is ail over the ashe3 are removed with steel tools from the bottom of the retort, the ash from the clothing is fanned out. and the clean bone ash Is placed in a black tin cannister and carefully sealed. Sometimes these ashes are taken away by the family, but in the majority II FLUSHING VILLAGE.

Progress of the Village Schools Since John Houldon Wielded the Birch. QUAKERS ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. How the Old Time Schools Were Founded and Supported Poor Pay of the Early Teachers. (Special to the Eagle.) Flushing. L.

October 27 The first school teacher of the Town of Flushing was John Houldcn. who taught a private school from 1660 to 1070. Elizabeth Cowperthwaite, a daughter of a Quaker preacher, taught from 1075 to 1SS1, and payment for her tuition for one of John Bowne's children is mentioned in his diary under date ot 1680 as follows: "Martha Johanna's SO weeks' schooling is paid for by a red wool petticoate to Elizabeth Cowperthwaite." John TJrquhart in 1690 lcopt boarding scholars to some extent. The Quakers, foremast in good works, tired of this desultory system of education, and in 1S03 took steps toward purchasing a lot and erecting a school building, but this plan was abandoned, and the upper story of their meeting house on Broadway was used as a school room. The first teacher employed there was Thomas Makins, who afterward was a celebrated teacher in Philadelphia and author of a number of Latin poems.

The interest thus early awakened was well sustained, and in the early years of the present century Flushing was well equipped with private schools and academic institutions. Lindley Hurray Moore, Joshua Kim ber and William Chase taught a boys' school from 1S10 to 1S5S. In ISIS a building was erected for an academy at an expense of $1,250, which was borne by John Aspinwall. William Prince and two others. It was opened by Professor William A.

Houghton in 1S10, and conducted until when the place was filled by other institutions. The Rev. Charles Carpenter Smith kept a boarding school from 1S20 to lt 2 1. In 1354. Mrs.

Sarah K. Roberts opened a young ladies' school. The first public school of the village was opened in a dwelling house in Liberty street in 1S1 with nineteen scholars. It was first taught gratuitously by members of the Flushing Female Association, two of whom served at a time. In July this association, which founded the school, engaged a teacher, paying a salary of $Ci0 a year and an allowance of $2 a week for board.

The school was regularly visited by members of the guardian society and on June 1.0, 1815. the first public examination occurred, to the great, satisfaction of the visitors, several being present from New York, one ot whom evinced his approval by a donation of $20 to the school npjl 810 to the teacher for her becoming behavior on the great occasion. It was at first supported by voluntary subscriptions, scholars both white and colored being admitted free of charge excepting where parents were willing to pay.1 In 1S2SJ scholars were required to pay 2 cents a week. The original idea of the founders was tho education of (clorod children, sums of money having been bequeathed by several Quakers for that purpose and it was believed by them that the advantage of free instruction would also draw in ail th children of the poor white people of tho village. This expectation was not realized, and the school was taught, exclusively for colored children in 1S44.

After the incorporation nf the village. $400 was appropriated for tho building nf a new school house, the amount l.rinn afterward increased tn ST'50. The litiilfiints erected then was the Garden street school house, in 1S44 it was supplemented by the basement of the Macedonia Church, consisting two rooms, until 1S IS. when further steps were taken for a free school. A was bought from the Orthodox for tho new building was onniicneod.

New bylaw? were adopted and Tliomjs Harrison was engaged as principal at a salary nf $S00. In the salary was increased annum and women teachers were employed. Also in that year an offer w.is made by the Flushing Female Association to turn over the colored school to the Hoard of Education, renting to the building occupied by it. and agreeing to furnish suitable teachers per annum. Under the senerul law this offer was advantageous and war accepted.

The rapid of th village and the demand for a higher standard for education led tho board in to decide upon the sue of bonds and the erection of a high school building, which was to ho to the wants of the inc reasitiK po.Milat ioi and creditable in a whore wealth ar.r! rci'me ment had already placed it I'cremost In the list of rural municipalities. Opposition was met with by a elans t. i.payeiv who re tho question of cost importance, and Icsn than a two third vote was obtained. the ttevt tir.u of the Legislature bill was passed making majority vote mid a majority vote was scoured and hotels to Pio $10,000 wore issued. was purchased of James R.

Parsons a rxy.t of Sn.riflO and the erection of the present Inntlsoi to edifice on the corner of Barclay street and Sand THE WORLD' Report of an Expert on the Possibilities of the Island for That and Other Crops. AMERICAN FARMERS THERE NOW Several Colonies Raising Vegetables in a Country Where There Are No Seasons and Prolific Crops. To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Dear sir Can you give me any reliable information as to the climate, the crops and the cultivation of sugar cane in the Hawaiian Islands? Now that the islands have become a United States territory, some Long Islanders are interested in securing the above information, for which they will be obliged to the Eagle. ONE OF THEM. The latest information on the subject is furnished by Professor William G.

Stubbs of the Louisiana Experiment Station, who was sent to the islands to study their agricultural possibilities in the interest of the United States government and take initial steps toward the establishment of an agricultural experiment station, which will be under federal control. Being unable to secure any land for what he considered a reasonable sum. Professor Stubbs finally located a piece of government land which has been set aside for the use of the station, which will be in full blast next April. Regarding the possibilities ot the cultivation of sugar cane in the Hawaiian Islands, Professor Stubbs reports that the soil is the best in the world for the cultivation of cane, bein? superior to that of Cuba. The yield on the arid and irrigated lands of the islands is from eight to fifteen tons of sugar per acre.

But about all the available lands having been taken up in the cultivation of cane already, the increase of prediction cannot far exceed the present output. The total value of the agricultural produce of the islands is about 516,000.000, of which is to be credited to sugar. The drawbacks to the cultivation of cane are the high price of coal which reaches ae high as $12 per ton. the cost of irrizatiou. and the cost of sugar house plants.

Nevertheless the profits are so large as to practically preclude the cultivation of any crop but cane. The island is therefore reallv the sugar bowl of the world. Professor Stubbs says that on the islands there are about sixty plantations, only four of the islands Kauai. Hawaii, Maui and Oahu being devoted to the cultivation of sugar cane principally. The others are devoted to the raising of live stock and the cultivation of rice.

On thr islands where sugar cannot be grcwr. there arc numerous coffee plantations, the high, mountainous lands oe ing used for stock farms. On the side of the islands the yield of sugar is from tx to nine tons per acre, while on the irrigated lands on the arid side the yield is from eight to fifteen tons. Thie yield, however, is not annual, the cane requiring two years in which to mature. Beyond the sugar plantations and some 4,000 or 3.000 feet up the mountains Is grown coffee.

This coffee is extremely popular on the Pacific coast, where it meets ready sale at a satisfactory price. Above the sugar plantations are the cattle ranches. These ranches have become a matter of great insular importance, it being generally believed that they are responsible for the destruction of the forests, which are gradually disappearing, and cutting off the raiafall. The secondary crops of the Islands are pineapples and bananas, both of which fruits are raised in sufficient quantities to export. A sort of may apple, alligator pears, breadfruit and other fruits are also grown In gardens for family consumption.

Tho natives cultivate the taro plant, which supplies their principal food, and from which the national dish, poi is made. Taro. poi and fish supply about all the food consumed by the natives. There are in the islands now two or three settlements of American farmers who are trying to cultivate vegetables for the home markets. Dut the attempt will probably bo abandoned as previous attempts have been.

When the farmer has prepared his land for any other crop it dawns upon him that there is moro money to be made by raising sugar as cane at once sooe into the ground. It is extremely Improbable that there will ever be any diversity In farming in Hawaii, for the cultivation of sugar eats up everything else. The price of sugar will have to fall far helow the present price before other crops can be raised on suitable lands in the islands. At present the Chinamen raise vegetables in a small way, but not enough to supply the home markets, Tho climate of tho islands, says Professor Stubbs, is delicious, the thermometer never going above 85 degrees nor below 60. There are no seasons.

Vegetation grows the year around, and fruit trees very often bear the ripened fruit and the blcssom at the same time. Some of the more progressive horticulturists have taken advantuRp of this lack of seasons to have fresh fruit the year around. Particularly can this be done with grapes. By careful irrigation a vino ran be made to bear at any time the gardener desires, and the Portuguese gardeners hav fresh grnprn In the Honolulu market everyday In the year. Mr.

ami Mrs. Charles Wallace and son this week. loolt a lrl'J 10 toii Long Island to Be Connected With the Great Trunk Roads of the North and South. CONNECTING LINES UNDER WAY. Tunnel From Dutch Sills to Hacken sack and Bridges and Tracks Aom Port Morris to Bushwick.

(Special to the Eagle.) Long Island City, L. October 27 The proposed undertaking of the New York Connecting Railroad Company to build a line to unite the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad and the Long Island Railroad systems is part of a larger plan which was conceived by the late William Stelnway to connect the City of Brooklyn and all part3 of Long Island with the great trunk lines of the country. Mr. Stelnway originated the idea of constructing a double track tunnel railroad under certain streets and property in the City of New York and Long Island City to connect and consolidate with trunk Unci in New Jersey. A company known as the New York and Long Island Railroad Company was incorporated July 30, 1SS7, for the purpose and located its main line from the Hudson River eastwarfily under Forty second street to the East River, and under it to Long Island City, connecting there with the main line of the Long Island Railroad loading into Brooklyn, and also with the proposed New York Connecting Kailrcad lsad ing to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and all other lines in the Borough of the Bronx.

The company obtained the consents ol a majority of the property owners along Forty second street from Eleventh avenue east wardly to the East River, including the assent of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and the assent of the corporate authorities of the City of New York to tho construction of its line; it likewise obtained the consent of the property owners in Long Island City, also the assent of the corporate authorities of that city. It also obtained the grant from the State of New York to the right of way under the East River. It made an actual commencement of ita construction by sinking a full size working shaft on its main line in Long Island City eighty feet deep to the grade of its proposed tunnel and began the excavation of the tunnel proper, hnd expended over engineering, construction and current expenses. Aiucr a depth of eighty feet had been reached in the tunnel shatt at Long Island City a terrible explosion occurred in which a number of peopie lost thetr lives and the enterprise came to a standstill. The death of William Stc inway, which occurred suose quenily, seemed to put a stop to all further proceedings In the matter.

Oliver V. Barnes, who was the chief cuginaer in the enterprise and closely associated with Mr. Steinway in the work, has resurrected the entire undertaking and says that the time is ripe for the carrying out of the intentions of the original incorporators cf the company. 'Thr. company has Issued a prospectus in which it says it has all the necessary rights and franchises for going fthead with the work.

It proposes to build a tunnel from Long Island City under the East River and under Forty ccconrt street, Manhattan, and North River to a point on the liackensack Meadows, where it will connect with the following railroads: The Pennsylvania Rail r'jad. the Central Railroad of New Jersej the Baltimore ami Ohio Railroad, the Philadelphia and Ohi.i Raiiroad, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, ths Lebigh Valley Railroad, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the New York and Erie Railroad, the West Shore Railroad. It will also connect with the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad, the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, and the various streets and local electric lines having their terminal at Jersey City. The read will pass under Manhattan Island at a depth of from 80 feet to 100 feet. Connccticn by elevators will be made at the Grand Central station, so that passengers can bo transferred to and from the New York Central and Hudson Ptiver Railroad, the New York and Harlem Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and at Forty second stre.et and Sixth avenue by the Manhattan Eiovated Railroad.

Underground cennections will he made with the Rapid Transit system ot New York City when constructed. In Long Island City connections will be made not only with the whole Long Island Railroad system, of nearly four hundred miles, but with all the electric lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, embracing five hundred miles of surface and elevated railroads, communicating with every part of Brooklyn and al3o the numerous pleasure resorts along the seashore. To complete the New York and Long Island Railroad system will require the construction, first, of the tunnel division from the Hackensack meadows to Long Island City, 5Vi miles; the extension from the tunnel portal westwardly across the meadows, 3 miles, and the New Ycrk Connecting Railroad division, 7 miles, making sixteen miles of "main line. Four miles of sidings will be required In the terminal yards at the Hackensack meadows, making twenty miles in all of double track. The following is an estimate of the cost of building and equipping the proponed tunnel and railroad line from Long Island City under the East and North Rivers and Manhattan Island: 27, SSI lineal feet double track tunnel, nrohcd and dralneJ.

S1S0 per lineal Tunnel approaches and portali 40.080 Sis miles double track railway. M5.000.... 150.C00 fix shafts, elevators and 300.GOO Heal estate and station r.OO.i)e.O nKlneerlnjr and general expenues 300, 000 Electric riant anil motors 1, 000,000 Terminal yardp, live miles of tracks, 3lff nnl system and htilltllnEi. IIOO.OOO Ctintlnirencles, Interest, etc 772.800 Total Js.SOO.GOO The business tributary to the line when completed will consist of the freight going from the eight trunk lines Into New York, Brooklyn, Long Island and the New England States. This traffic at the present time, under all the disadvantages of a broken line, partly rail and partly by wator, attended with unavoidable delays and dangers, Is very large, constant and remunerative.

It consists of an average of four hundred cars per day to Long Island and six hundred cars per day east bound into New England. The return traffic Is about two thirds empty cars and one third cars loaded with manufactured goods, shipped from Brooklyn, Long Island and Now England factories destined to Western and Southern cities. The movement is very unirorm and reliable. The same may bo said of the passenger traffic, which will probably always be about equal in each direction, hut as the line will alford a rapid transit from New Jersey to New York City, Long Island, Brooklyn and New England, It will rapidly develop to many times Its present volume. To form tho through line from New Jersey to tho New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad will ot course require the completion of the New York Connecting Railroad, which Is located and ready for from a point In Long Island Clly where the Now York and Long Island can make a clone connection with Its tracks, and thence to a connection with the tracks of the Now York, New Haven and Hnrtford Railroad at Port Morris.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallrond Company haa already purchased a large tract of land from the East Bay Land Company for a terminal yard, In preparation for receiving and forwarding this traffic which will require rebllllng for the numerous towns ot Now England. The New York Connecting Railroad Company, formed by tho same promot Sag Harbor. L. October 27 The new Jewish synagogue at this place, which is named Temple Mishkan Israel, is now completed and will be dedicated with appropriate services to morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The dedication sermon will be preached by the Rev.

Dr. Greenfeld of tho One Hundred and Thirteenth Street Synagogue, New York, in English, followed by Dr. Blaustein. superintendent of the Educational Alliance, of East Broadway, New York, also in English. The opening address will be made by Rabbi B.

Abramowitz of the Mishkan Israel, in Hebrew. Several local speakers wili also take part in the exercises, which will be interspersed with the singing of the psalms. The synagogue has been very prettily decorated with plants, flowers and flags, and printed invitations sent to many of the prominent neople of the village. The Temple will be open every Saturday for religious worship, and a Sunday school will be conducted Sunday for the Instruction of the children. The Jewish Association of United Brethren, which owns the synagogue, was organized in 1SS3, for "the payment of a weekly benefit to sick members, to provide for the attendance of a physician, the payment of funeral and burial expenses and to provide a place FLTJSHING HIGH SCHOOI of burial; to provide a meeting place for the association and a place of worship for its members; to promote in all proper ways the social and moral welfare of its members." The society numbers thirty families and its officers are: President, Nathan Meycrsohn: secretary.

Samuel Heller; treasurer. Arnold Spitz; acting rabbi, M. Sllvesteiy of Russia. The synagogue occupies a commanding site at the corner of Elizabeth street and Atlantic avenue and stands on a terrace six feet above the roadway. The entrance faces west, on Atlantic avenue, and is by a flight steps.

Its dimensions are 24x30 feet, with audience room 24x26 feet and vestibule feet. Its seating capacity is 100. A handsome altar occupies tho center of the floor and another at the east and high Gothic windows with stained glass and Welsbach gas system furnish light by day and night. The Jewish women are not allowed to worship in the body of the synagogue with the men, so a frallery seating fifty persons is being provided for them. The gallery is also used for a mooting room.

In the basement is the baptismal font, hot and cold water baths, hot air heating apparatus, three bathrooms and three living rooms for janitor and family. The building is painted white, without bell, cupola or steeple, and cost 52.000. Another society known as the Independent Jewish Association exists here, with a ood sized membership, which now worships In Engravers' Hall, but it is arranging to erect a synagogue in tho near frmiro. Its officers are: Pre. ident.

Benjamin Schwartz; vice president. Max Grorsman: financial sec etarv. H. Schwartz; recording secretary. FI.

Treiheift; treasurer. Frank Jade; acting rabbi, M. Kei Kol. Affiliated with this association is the Ansche Arness, a secret beneficial society. A school is maintained for the instruction of Jewish children and both societies have cemeteries on the Easthampton turnpike, Just i.utvid the village limits.

The Jewish population of the village numbers about. 200, not all of whom belong to these societies. LONG ISLAND PERSONALS. A. Itcnjamln has bcn elected reprent nf nffolk Council No.

Km al Arcanum. Unv here, to Ml the vacancy caused by the death o'f Allan Homevhuty'rie. The Jtov. anl Mrs. r.

N. nkamn of PatohoBiio n'e returner! frnm a visit with Brooklyn friend: Walter iti'M ami Patcho uo vlfOtlntr at Washington. I. c. V.

ilie; f. Adams of is elerj: the Cnlon rapuo Club of rtro.jklvn Wllwn n. Smith and family of Crnoklyn have their sumnv home at and returned Mr. and Mit. A.

Tojeman. Mr. awl Mrs. alien. Miss Weeks and Mm.

Welch of nhu left for ICliKland yesterday, "where thrty wili niuln for month. IBLAHTD BAILROAD AND THE' ers as those of the New York aa Lone Island Railroad pri poses to build a railroad to connect ts New York Central and Hudson River; HaB lem and New York, New Haven and Hartf lines at a point in the Bronx with the. Island Railroad system at Bushwick Juncq in the Borough of Queens. This proposed commences at a point on the Port Mq branch of the Harlem Railroad, near the! tion with the New York. Nov Havehl Hartford Railroad.

Thence the line extfl southwardly to one across Randall's and and Ward's Island to a point. the East River at Hell Gate, rwhil will be crossed with a steel cantllevl bridge, of a single span of 30 feet wide and 135 feet above the su face of the water at mean hiisli tide. passes the jce from the Long Island approaj at Astoria southwardly through Long Tslal City and Woeflsliie, Winfleld Junction, Hill and Mnspcth, to Hush wick Jun'ctlel whers It makes connection with the Log island Railroad system. Tho New York Connecting Railroad Compaj was incorporated In witn a capital $100,000, for the purpose as statad of "opa atlng a steam railroad ten miles in. lcagjl The capital stork is fixed at $100,000 ancr tj directors are Oliver W.

Barnes. Henry Davidsor, John McDonald. Frank M. CIul Cannes w. Mac'rer, II.

s. Thomas King, Alfred P. Boiler and WilHjrn A. Barae' all of Manhattan. The of tho above nsnird projeel propose, by means of their orojecteJ lines.

tie together, by continuous all rail eonneeti'a Hn'B, the railroad systems of Now EhglaJ r.j the with the great trunk lines the West, South and Sjtithwest. with td mlnals at Jersey City, and to connect Brool lyn and the rest of Lcfg I. land. with tael great population and ia. and ImporM niar.iifacturinc interpr.tf.

wl: i fur tmnir cxleti ling to all points of tho CO try. ihey a. i propose, by eorin tioris wfl the Lonx Island Railroad to conve paS' onL rr; a proposed zra.n I central unid station, iu I he heart of Erook'jn, from whil they can react tr.eir homes any part ot ti borough In a few minutes. It ii also pa posea, oy connection witn tae It of the Island Railroad nn.1 byopenif up two eld and disused lia the New Ycl una Jianbattan Beaca line, from the fjot Quay street. East River, throitsh Oreonpal to a Junction tith the present ilanfcattl Beach line, extenaing from Lonr IrjlahnVCI to the beach, and the old Sotitlie RaTTroi lino of Lons Island, on South Eijhtb sihfS irorn me n.

BimJw. Station, through Johnson street to th6rri front at the foot South Eighth fitreeV open up these sections of Brooklyn to direj freight ana passenger cornr.niniclibr wi" tae outside worlfl. It is raid the charters lights of way of these lines arc still good ai the track of tne urcenpomt line intact By the present lines of the Long UU Railroad communication could be held all parts of Atlantic avenue, as fat wcisl Fiatbush aveuue. and by a reonenlns of! old tunnel on Atlantic avenue, with. the 18 River front and the water front rallrna the New Ycrk and Brooklyn Wharf and Wi EELIGIOTJS NOTES.

The South Side Clerlcus will meet at the' Inj Boy Shore, next Monday wher. r.ev. rl. it. sumoril will deliver an ssavl I litre will Be two masses en Thura.

am camia uay, in 1'atrlcK 3 Ltmrch. There will be a special rally service aiit'iu aunaay scnoci lome; ttiiernoon. Sis. Flmon nnci Day, to morrovv onservco in bt. Peter's Episcopal Church, Shore.

St. Mary's Catholic Clmreh. Klnnt Tulln in IllK moved to thp rear of Iho chnri i trnnArB Several larse oak trees wen: cut down to allil trie, moving and work on the new edifice commence as seen as possible. Children's Day will be observed at the Whi sd.no i.uineran cnurcn to morrow evening. Conductor J.

R. George and Engineers Thorr Keenan and Elenjamln Locke of the Lackawanl jiauroau will address the congregation. of Whitestone Methodist Church to morrow moil inf. The Rev. Joseph P.

McOtnlev will preach Episcopate" In St. Patrick's Church, The Bay Shore Methodist pulpit will he fllll to morrow, morning una evening, ny tne Hd FlInehbaUBh. assistant pastor of Cornell Memorl unurcn, Mannauan. Tho Rev. Edward P.

Armstrong havlnir rptu from his vacation will occupy hln pulpit In ijuj an.t vjoiiBrt'KaiiwNai 10 morrqw; The Rev. R. Edwards of the Church of tl cuufli imiii, nun iit epieu tne call tne i nurL ni me iioiy i ctnuorter, HrooKlyn. Serviced at the Union Chapol, South ifi morroiv evening, win oe conducted oy Mr. Ha ry uiinn, an cvnnsciiRt irom iast York.

The Rev. Wllllum J. White of Grecnport tl prvnen in ne Aieuioaist t.nurcn at Southold The Rev. J. E.

Lloyd, D. Ph. D. of Bri lyn will preach at the Presbyterian Church. Ufci old.

to mnrmtv pvpnlnir At tho annual meeting of the Union Baptist Church Robert Roe and Mr. I)ubocq'ji elected trustees; Philip Evans, clerk, and jS Efldle, treasurer. In the First Reformed Dutch Church, JaWl tho Re Robert K. tvick, who. han visited Pol tine, will begin a series of sermons on the a ict.

Thursday, November 1, All Saints' pay, night Hev. Ulshop McDonnell of Brooklyn administer the sacrament of confirmation; to ab sixty children of St. Mary's parish, at Ja.ni&lci The nnnunl meeting of the Long Island Bl society will be held at Lake Grove enuNcrec ber 13. The fellowship meetings under tho dlrectiori Ihe Suffolk Aflpoelatlon of Congregational Ohurel and nilnlotera In various villages of.tU6.ooui have been bo well attended that they UL tlnuo next week. The women of the Mlsslonnrv Society of Sou old met with the Mnttltuck Society Friday of noon.

A missionary society has been organized" IB. Sag Harbor M. K. Sunday school with the folll ing omccrs: President, Mlsn Bertha Deck; president, May Hall; secrotury, Miss Florer Smith; trennurer, Le Roy Rock. The Rev.

C. H. Wilson or the Bog Hnrhor jpr byterlan Church, who him been at YoUngs'toi for nevern 1 weeks, has returned and will cupy his pulpit to morrow. Roellf IT. BrookH, for two years past In cha ot St.

Mary's Mission. Duntnn, has Imcn ppol nsslstnnt tr, the rector of St. MIchacTii Chur High street. Ilrnnklyn. The Rev.

Elmer Furman of the UnptW GhuT who recently went to Sag Hnrhor from EV ookl Is doing rood work and the church has under his pnstorlitc. The choir of the Sag Hnrhor Metho.ilit JfiiJ will conduct a left of song lo niorf.oto"'.4B The Rev. Henry Murray, rector of flt' ''R of Ltma'ii Church, Rockaway Buueh Is tak a census or tho uarlnh. FOND OLTTKB ABIU37. what inscription he wished on the urn, and he did net select a niche, not even a box in the crynt.

The custodian at the crematory is waiting for him to come back and claim the remains. The visitors' hook ccntainr, nemos not only frmn all over this country, but from many foreign countries as well. The majority of the are German, and, indeed, the Germans who hive been c. cr.jatcd here, far outnumber all the rest cf the nationalities pot toQclher. There have cremations of bdie.s from the New England Stater, and one from is far ai North Carolina.

LCNG Grr ami has I en the oart of Xvcc ihvtrKlnir to be built fc 1 7. Gurinlrorv. Ov.t ilt ST. fleets liar sol. his nitrc iio'rtch at thut ritCf i fu'Vy ih.

v. Icj will eriLirge and iv. liumnit r. air. A.

3 r.f rk purchase a iui at fa n. wn th bdv, iri yt' where he Ih rloto: Hr Hotel Lvl i IV. red husinps ahJ to Ices tho Organisations Sustain in the Death of H'lis. Pjrstms. The death of Mrs.

Chattncey C. Parsons of Iicmp. and Xew Ycrk removes from Long olub circles one of its known and highly valued workers. The licmpst jad Woman's Club was or snized at Parsons' Hempstead resi uenee ir. iSJi.

For five years, and, in fact, until she felt unable longer to serve, she was its president, and her retirement she was made an honorary president. The Kuniingr.cn Culture Club held its last meeting at the home of Mrs. Irving Sammis. A timely topic had been chosen tor discussion, namely, the present troubles in China. This was followed by the regular topic in charge of Mrs.

Brush and Mrs. Fleet, who presented "Venice in Literature." The club will meet on Tuesday afternoon next with Mrs. A. B. Fleet.

Patchogue Sorosis had a visit from, and a talk by, Mrs. Lozier on Monday evening. Next Monday the members will celebrate Halloween. The Sea Cliff Good of the Village Auxiliary has abandoned its idea of buying a site for a library adjoining Pirio Park. The matter was taken up by the women because the lot in question had just changed hands, and was to be used for business purposes.

As it was almost the only available site for a library near the center of the village, the women were very anxious to acquire it. but as they found it, however, beyond their resources, they are looking for another site. The Fortnightly Club of Rockville Center AT FEESH POND. is preparing for a visit from Mrs. Mary E.

Craicie of Brooklyn. Cralglo has promised to attend the first November meeting. The next regular meriting of the club will be on Tuesday, October SO. Th. Oyster Bay Woman's Club will have its next, regular meeting on Thursday, No vc rnbi'i 1.

It will include a "Review of Current Mvents," a slietch of "Alexandria Under the by Mrs. Phllllp.n; a paper on "Cleopatra," by Miss Louise Denton and one on "The Altitude ol Paganism Toward Women," by Mrs. Painter. mm mmm mmmmmm, mmd, in mTTt HULLirmiii AIM 10H ttiil I rnTTrrh illllllllll II ilinTirrrtltiJ.lUiUiHiM...l..r THE CUEjUATORY of cases they are placed in the columbarian. The actual cost of a cremation is $35.

For thin sum the ashes are delivered to tho family sealed up as described. If, however, it is desired to keep the ashes at the ctremarory there are other cxpon.ees, which malic the cost of a first, class cremation amour un to nearly $200. A niche in the columbarian C03ts from 5 10 to according to location. An urn to hold the ashes coalK from to At the latter price one gotn soibi hrasn, or heavy silver plate, if a dcor for I ho niche is desired, this costs from to $10..