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STtffJ fl THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. YOKK, SUNDAY, DECEMBEK 16, 1900. ..11 ALL SORTS OF THINGS DAILY CIRCUS FEATS ON THE NEW BRIDGE. DRY DOCK ON MAIN UNO WILL COST S5DD.DQ0 MORE Engineer Asserson Recommends That It Be Put in the Whitney Basin. buildings will have to be torn Spar makers and boat building, cost $205,000, valued at shipwright shed, cost $4,000, valued at saw mill, cost, $20,000, valued at gun carriage abed, cost $12,000, valued at temporary machine shop, $7,500, valued at cement shed, $600, valued at $500; garbage crematory, cost $6, 000, valued at sewers, railroad tracks, $60,000, valued at $50,000.

It will take several years to build this immense dry dock. If constructed on the mainland many of the princlnal sewers as well as some of the largest water mains will have to be removed to other parts of the yard. Changing the drainage system to meet the demands made upon the space of the yard, may greatly interfere with the service. All these contingencies are now being more seriously considered than at any other time, and in view of the fact that the dock located in this particular place interferes with so many important features, local navy yard officials do not hesitate to say that they feel satisfied the Secretary of the Navy will not permit it to be located where it is now recommended It shall be built. Building the dock in Whitney basin would keep in tact all the present land of the yard, which has become so very valuable because of the Increased demands of the These suspenders consist of four strands of 1 inch twisted steel wire rope, and to each of these suspenders the end of the floor beams PLAN MAY YET BE FOLLOWED.

Main Land location Will Involve Destruction of Nine Valuable Buildings. LOCATING the new million dollar dry dock on the mainland of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, instead of in Whitney basin, will cost the Navy Department about $500,000, to say nothing of the valuable ground it will occupy. Chief Civil Engineer Peter C. Asserson of the Department of Yards and Docks will this week forward to the Secretary of the Navy detailed working drawings locating this new improvement. These drawings show that placing the dry dock between docks Nos.

1 and 2 will necessitate the destruction of nine valuable buildings, many of which cannot be rebuilt in the local Navy Yard, because there is no suitable site available for them. This dock will also take up over two and one half acres of the most valuable land in the Navy Yard, which could have been saved bad Captain Asser son's recommendations to build it in Whitney basin been heeded. It is Just possible that when Secretary Long comprenenas wnai great sacrifices will have to be made to lo on Chan Cy ss $ScV XVHa 4Mt XXKq I PLtiHJIMfe 31 IN THE BARGAIN SALE. Uncle Sam to Dispose of the Ar ticles That the Mails Have Left to Him. LOTS AT FROM ONE TO TWENTY.

Fair of Spectacles Heads the List and Diamond Jewelry Follows On. Uncle Sam is to hold a bargain sale. It Is not an uncommon thing for this government, for so many things pile up In the Dead Letter Office, at Washington, that a real old fashioned housecleanlng is made necessary at times and bargains are the result. When housecleanlng time comes round, the clerks in the Dead Letter Office pull out, dust off and classify and place In convenient packages the dead letters. The auctioneer is then called In and, after due notice is given, the collection.

which would delight any woman rummage sale manager, Is disposed of to the highest bidder. These are prosperous times and this year's collection at the Dead Letter Office is a larger and more varied one than ever. The goods have all been prepared for the auction sale, which to to begin Monday morning, December 17, at 10 o'clock. The sale Is to be continued dally, between the hours of 10 and 7 o'clock, until the whole is disposed of. These goode have been catalogued under three heads miscellaneous articles, books and jewelry.

Under the first there are 3,207 lots, 632 under the eecond and 176 under the third. Included among the miscellaneous articles Is about everything that can be sent through the mails and some things that would never have been admitted had their nature been known. Each lot Includes from one to a scre of articles. Not No. 1, according to the catalogue, is composed of "a pair of spectacles, cheap salt and pepper set, damaged purse, cheap butter knife, cheap sugar spoon, etc." Another a little further down the list is made up of a pair of women's shoes, No.

5, and a pair of cheap scissors. Another includes two pairs of women's rubbers, a cheap belt buckle, a handkerchief, trimming, a handkerchief case, a small cushion. Among others are: Electrotypes, iron and metal articles, miscellaneous castings, three woman's handkerchiefs, small microscope, music, cheap brass watch, small cheap camera, kitchen knife, yarn, chair pad, woman's Bhirt waist, crochet silk, set banjo keys, pair scissors, cheap jewelry, twenty four cheap teaspoons, twelve child's odd shoes, tie, damaged pipe, three freezer cranks, etc. There are scores of gloves, knives, fans, shoes, scarfe, air guns and the like. The books include almost every kind published.

There are Bibles, hymnals, prayer books, Testaments, atlases, histories, works of Action and of travel. Under the Jewelry head may be found gold rings, silver rings, diamond rings, watches, chains and brooches. The inscriptions on some of these articles indicate that they are heirlooms and gifts highly prized. POST OFFICE NOTICE. POST OFFICE NOTICE.

(Should be read DAILY by all interestad, as changes may occur at any time.) Foreign malls for the week endine December 22, 1900. will close (promptly in all cases) at the General Post Office as follows: Parcels Post Malls close one hour earlier than closing time shgwi below. Parcels Post Mails for Germany close at 3:51) P. M. December 19.

per steamship Trier, and at 3:50 P. M. December 21, per steamship Bulgaria. ATIAN'T1C MAILS. JIOXDAY At 8:30 A.

M. for Martinique. Guadalupe, Barbados and Demerara, per steamship Talisman: at A. M. for Azores Islands, steamship Fernfleld.

WEDNESDAY At A. M. for Europe, per steamship Majestic, via Queenstown; at A. II. for Europe, per steamship Southwark, via SoutTi ampton and Antwerp (mail must be directed "per steamship THURSDAY At 6:30 A.

M. for France, Switzerland. Italy. Spain, Portugal, Turkey. Egypt.

British India and Lorenzo Marques, per steamship La Champagne, via Havre (mail for other parts of Europe must be directed "per steamship La SATURDAY At 1:30 A. M. for Europe, per steamship Umbrla, via Queenstown; at 7:30 A. M. for Netherlands direct, per steamship Rotterdam (mall must be directed "per steamship at 11:30 A.

M. for Denmark direct, per steamship Hekla (mail must be directed "per steamship PRINTED MATTER. ETC. This steamer takes Printed Matter. Commercial Pupers and Samples for Germany only.

The same class of mall matter for other parts of Europe will not be sent by this ship unless specially directed by her. After the closing of the Pupplementarv Trans Atlantic mails named above, additional supplementary mails are opened on the piers of the American, English. French and German steamers, and remain open until within Tea Minutes of the hour of sailing of stearrer MAILS FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL VMERIC. WEST INDIES. ETC.

TUESDAY At 9 A. M. for Central America (ex cept Losta Rica) and South Pacific Ports, per steamship Niagara, via Colon (mail for Guatemala must be directed "per steamship Niagara at 11 A. M. for Inagua und Bcllzu (also Puerto Cortez.

when specially addressed for this steamer), per steamship Adrla at II. for St Thomas, St. Croix. Windward a'nd Leeward Islands and Demerara. per steamship Roralma; at 6 P.

M. for Jamaica, per steamship Admiral Sampson, from Boston WEDNESDAY At 9 A. M. for Porto Rico, per steamship Mae. via San Juan: at 9 A.

for Inagua and Haiti, per steamship BeHernon; at 9:0 A. M. for Haiti, per steamship Oranje Nassau (mall for Curacao. Venezuela, Trinidad. British and Dutch Guiana must be directed "per steamship Oranje at 12 M.

for Cuba, Campeche, Yucatan, Tabasco and Chiapas, per steamship Havana, via Havana and Progreso (mail for other parts of Mexico must be directed "per steamship at 10:30 P. M. for Jamaica and Province of Santiago. Cuba, per steamship Admiral Dewev. from Philadelphia.

THURSDAY At 12 M. for Nassau. Guantanamo and Santiago, per steamship Santiago: at 10:30 M. for Nassau, per steamer from Miami. Fla.

SATURDAY At 5:30 A. M. for Brazil, per steamship Cyrene (mail tor Northern Brazil. Argentine Republic. Uruiruay and Paraguay must bo directed "per steamship at A.

M. for Venezuela and Curacao, per steamship Maracaibo (mail for Savanilla and Cartha gena must be directed "per steamship at 9 A. M. for Porto Rico, per steamship Ponce, via San Juan; at 9:30 A. M.

for Fortune Island. Jamaica. Savanilla. Cartha gena and Greytown. por steamship Adirondack (mall for Costa Rica must be directed "per steamship at 10 A.

M. for Cuba, per steamship Morro Cattle, via Havana at 11:20 A. M. for Northern Rrazil. per steamship Hildcbrand.

via Para und Manaos: at 2 P. M. for Argentine Republic. Uruguay and Paraguay, per steamship Hormodas; at 510:30 P. M.

for Nassau, per steamer from Miami. Fla. Malls for Newfoundland, by rail to North Sydney and thence by steamer, close at this office daily at 6 P. M. fconnoctinir close re every Monday.

Wednesday and Saturday). Malls for Miquelon, by rail to Boston and thence by steamer, close at this oflice dally at 6 P. M. Mails for Cuba, by rail to Port Tampa. and thence by steamer, close at this office dally at 5:30 A.

M. 'the connecting closes are on Sunday. Wednesday and Friday). Malls for Mexico City, overland, unless specially addressed for dispatch by steamer, close at this office dally at 1 P. M.

and 10:50 P. M. Malls for Costa Rica. Belize, Puerto Cortez and Guatemala, by rail to New Orleans and thence by steamer close at this office dally at 1 P. M.

(connecting closes here Mondays for Belize. Puerto Cortez and Guatemala, and Tuesdays for Costa Rica). Registered mall closes at 3:50 P. M. day.

TRANS PACIFIC MAILS. Malls for Hawaii. China, Japan and Philippine Islands, via San Francisco, clone hero dally at 6 P. up to December 517. Inclusive, for dispatch per steamship Coptic.

Malls for Hawaii, via San Francisco, close here dally at 6 P. M. up to December 821. Inclusive, for dispatch per steamship Zealandia. Malls for Hawaii.

Japan. China and Philippine Island, via San Francisco, close here dally at' 6 P. M. up to December 24. Inclusive, for dispatch per steamship America Maru.

Malls for China and Japan, via Vancouver, close here dally at fl P. M. up tc December 525. Inclusive, for dispatch per steamship Empress of India (registered mail must be directed "via Vancouver3'). Malls for Australia (except West Australia), New Zealand, Hawaii.

Fiji and Sanioan Islands, via San Francisco, close here dally at P. M. after December 9 and up to December 29. Inclusive, or on day of arrival of steam Hhlp Etrurla, due at New York December 29. for dispatch per steamship Sonoma.

Mallw for Australia except West Australia, which goes via Europe, and New Zealand, whjch goes via San Francisco), and Fiji Islands, via Vancouver, close here dally at 0 P. M. up to January 5. inclusive, for dispatch per steamship Warrimoo (supplementary mails, via Seattle, clo6e 'at 6 P. M.

January 6). Trans Paclflc malls are forwarded to port of auil Ing dally, and the schedule of closing in arranged on the presumption of their uninterrupted overland transit. SKeglstered mall closes at 3:50 P. M. previous, day.

F. H. WILSON, Poitmamer. Post Office, Brooklyn, N. December it, lA.

m1 yynWiKRlN BARRACKS. a US MWIINE BARRACK GROUNDS nig Navy and the limited size of the yard. It would also give, in addition to the berth ing facilities of the yard, place to moor four additional warships and at the same time have an additional vessel la the dock. This would he accomplished by placing two ships along each side of the new dock at present the berthing raciutles at tne yara are very limited and not infrequently war ships are kept at anchor in the North River or at Tompkinsville because there Is not room to receive them at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The necessary repairs to these ships could be made if there were adequate berthing facilities at the yard, but because of the lack of this room warships are impelled to take their turn to come to this naval station.

The tnatoritv report locatlne the dock on the mainland contended that to place it in Whitney basin would remove it too far from the shops of the yard. This objection, Captain Asserson claims, is overcome by the new cantilever bridge which Congress has ordered built across the Wallabout channel. A railroad track also connects the cob dock with the main part of the yard via the causeway by means of which all the heavier ma chi'nerv for vessels will be carried to and fro. The new dock is very much needed and It is expected the Washington officials will take up the drawings and working plans, now in course of preparation in the civil engineer's office, as soon as they reach the Navy Department. ATTRACTIVE XMAS NUMBER.

Brooklyn Life's Special Holiday Issue Contains Many Artistic Features. The Christmas number of Brooklyn Life, which has just come from the press, Is an issue of unusual artistic merit. There are many things of excellence In addition to the accustomed bright and attractive notes and gossip. The cover by Albert D. Blashneld.

in black, red and gold, Is sym bolic in an artistically suggestive way of the festal tide. There is a double page illustration by O'Neill Latham, most effectively expressive of hope and memory and illustrating with rigor the couplet: "This Is nlprht for sweet hopes," said she the Xmas snow In the But the old man gazed In the lire, said he, 'Tfs a night for memories." The frontispiece is a daintily illustrated one by B. M. Waters on the ever timely mistletoe sprig. C.

Allan Gilbert has contributed a very pleasing full page work and F. W. Read has done a fanciful bit of black and white of what Christmas may really mean to the people under the sea. R. G.

Vosburgh and G. Wright have contributed some attractive examples of their brush work and there are minor bits of illustrated humor in profusion. The sixty and odd pages of the volume contain letterpress matter that Is bright and attractive in theme and treatment. Aside from the dominant note of Christmastlde, the usual departments and features society, books, amateur sportB, clubs and the plays are fully covered. The letterpress is particularly good, and the entire volume is an attractive addition to the publications of the season.

A BIRTHDAY PARTY. A party was given In honor of the birthday of Charles E. Dodds at his home, 126 Duffield street, on Tuesday evening. Dancing, games and a donkey party were enjoyed. Gertrude Downey won the first prize, William Gorden the second and Christopher Plunkett the booby prize.

Among those present were Misses K. Baker. T. Downey. H.

Seeba. E. Seeba, May Seeba. Ethel Williams. A.

Dunn, J. Bryant. M. Wade. E.

Easty, S. Plunkett. B. Cooney. K.

Cooney, M. Downey, E. WllllamBon, V. Williamson, J. Downey, E.

Williamson. H. Aldrtdse. W. Gorden.

E. Smith. A. Jones. E.

Jones. D. Neary. A. Baker, A.

Kraus, Mrs. Kins. Mrs. D. King.

Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, A. E. Jones, Mrs.

Nicolls. Mr. and Mrs. W. B.

Bryant. Mrs. Jones. Mr. and Mrs.

E. DoddB. inn i FEATS of the utmost daring, more exciting tiian ever performed beneath a circus tent, are of daily occurrence on the towers of the New East River Bridge. It is a continuous performance, weather permitting, and the performers are superstructure men employed upon the new structure. There are about thirty two men, all of whom have reputations as expert bridge builders, who perform these feats which appear to the eye of the casual observer to be wonderful, but to them their midair work Is conducted much the same as that of a laborer on the street, with unlimited space.

The completed towers, with the saddles in position, are something like 344 feet high and the workmen from the street surface have the appearance of Liliputians. Although through the completion of the towers the surface is comparatively but a few square feet they accomplish their hazardous tasks with the same precision as if their surface space were unlimited instead of having what might be termed only a footbold. What is still considered perilous feats by observers is considered ordinary work by these men. The really thrilling work was during the erection of the towers, when one or another was compelled to make his way, walking without balance or even a reassuring rope, across a thirty two foot beam at the very top the structure. While working at this dizzy height during gusty weather it is necessary for a workman to lay himself flat against it, and be ready to regain his position when the gust has passed.

Judgment in this respect is gained only through experience, and this is one of the reasons that only experienced men are employed and consequently accidents by falls are of rare occurrence. In this respect, also, these aerial workers constitute an aristocracy of themselves. The work upon the structure is being pushed rapidly forward and every advantage of the present spell of good weather is being taken. In the construction of this remarkable structure mathematics of the most intricate Jtiud have entered and the responsibility for Its exactness has rested upon the shoulders of Chief Engineer Lefferts Buck and First Assistant Engineer O. F.

Nichols and their corps of able assistants. Even before the first rivet was driven into the structure it was known the exact number that would be required and each section of steel in the frame was figured to its exact fraction. All the steel work on the Brooklyn side is furnished by the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company, or, more properly speaking, the American Bridge Company. The superintendent of the work is W. F.

Leaman, who has a famous reputation and hears scars of many accidents. The work on the structure should have been further advanced than it is, but vexatious delays have been the cause of its backwardness. The work Just being completed should have been done as far back as March last, as the contract called for. However, an extension of time" was granted and each day an unprecedented amount of work is accomplished. With the placing of the four roller beds and thirty six ton saddles the work on the towers, it might be said, is almost accomplished.

The roller beds, which weigh twenty seven tons, and the saddles were hoisted to their lofty positions by a specially constructed apparatus. The superstructure used was composed of specially selected yellow pine beams, 14x14. CATHOLIC CHURCH NEWS. Bishop McDonnell will officiate this after Boon at solemn benediction in the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Aberdeen street and Broadway. The occasion will be the final pilgrimage of the year to the shrine ot Our Lady of Lourdes, which Is erected in the church by the members of the Holy Name Societies in the diocese, under the auspices of the Diocesan Union of the Holy Name Societies.

The pilgrimage will include the societies of the First and Second Districts, which are as fellows: St. James', St. Paul's, St. Charles', Assumption, St. Anne's, Our Lady of Mercy, Star of the Sea, St.

Stephen's, St. Peter's, St. Agnes', Visitation and the Blessed Sacrament. An invitation to men of other parishes where there is no society has been extended to take part in the exercises. Those taking part will assemble in the old church at Broadway and Hull street, and proceed in a body to the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and take part in the procession to the shrine.

After the procession a sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. F. H. Wall, the pastor of the Church of the Holy Rosary.

Manhattan, and the president of the National Union of Catholic Young Men's Societies. Others who will take part in the cervices will be the Right Rev. Mgr. P. J.

McNamara. V. the spiritual director of the Diocesan Union; the Very Rev. Mgr. John I.

Barrett, secretary to Bishop McDonnell, and the Very Rev. Eugene H. Porcile. pastor of the church. The services will close with the benediction.

It is expected that about 2.000 men will take part in the exercises, which will begin at 3 o'clock. This evening there will be a public blessing of a set of new and hnndsomc vestments In the Church of the Visitation, Verona and Richards streets, at which the Rev. William T. McGuirl, the pastor, will officiate. There will be solemn vespers in honor of the occasion and a serniru will bo preached by the Rev.

John T. Woods, the pastor of the church of the Holy Cross. Flatbush. The new vestments are of cloth and silver and were made in Rome, where they were purchased by Fai.hnr McGuirl during his visit to the Eternal City, at. the time of the pilgrimage of the priests of Brooklyn, which took place in the spring.

The set is complete, consisting of chasuble, dalmatic, cope and humeral vail. An event of interest during the week has been Hie monster euchre that was held under the auspices of the Holy Name Society of the Church of the Sacred The euchre took place in the hall of the "Sacred Heart Institute, on AdelpM streec, near Park avenue, on Wednesday evening and woo attended by fully a thousand people. The number was much larger than expected, the hall being crowded. There were 600. who took part In the games and there were about 400 nou playcrn.

Thirty two prizes were distributed, twenty two of which were presented to the players having won the largest number of snmra, an. I the remaining ten to non players holding winning numbers. After the games a reception was held. The spiritual director of the society is the Rev. Father Sullivan, to whom much of tho credit for tho successful outcome of the evont is due.

Ho was, however, assisted by a very efficient committee, consisting of W. T. Scott, chair PROPOSED LOCATIONS OF THE NE VT MILLION DOLLAR DRT DOCK AT BROOKLYN NAVY YARD. will be attached. The floor beams and the entire suspended structure will thus be suspended from the cables proper by the suspenders.

The advantage of having the four continuous root bridges as described, one under each of the cables. Is that the workmen will be in a position to work at all parts of tne came in adjusting the wires and attach ing the cable bands and fixtures. When the cables are entirely finished each will have a casing of eheet steel one sixteenth of an inch in thickness to protect them from the weather. The process of stringing the wires for the cables will be done by means of traveler ropes which will extend from anchorage to anchorage, adjusted directly over where each cable will be. It Is probable that there will be four traveler ropes and they will run directly over the four foot bridges.

The wires which will subsequently make the cables will be carried over these travelers on sheave or wheel. A single wire will be held at one anchorage aad a loop of this wire passed over the wheel, which will be moved oyer to the other anchorage and. as it crosses, will actually carry two strands of wire with it. When the carrier wheel reaches the op posite anchorage the loop in the wire will be passed over the end pin in the anchorage and the wheel will return with another pair wires. This process will be repeated until ail oi tne zso wires are placed In position to form one strand, at which time they will be bound together with temporary wire bands and another strand will be made in the same manner.

It is expected that the principal cable ma chinery will be located on. the Manhattan anchorage, owing to the fact that there is more room at that point to operate, but as a matter of fact both anchorages will be used as workshops from which the cables will be made. All four cables will be built up at the same time with four sets of ma chinery, and it is expected that will so ex pedite the work that the four cables will be built more rapidly than ever before thought practicable. The work on the cables, however, all depends upon the conditions of the weather. In calm weather the work can be conducted without interruption, but must entirely cease during high winds.

During the winter months this necessarily will make progress slow, aed it is expected that It win oe deep into next year before the cables are nnlsned. The total length of outer cable from center end pin of one anchor chain to center end pin of anchor chain opposite at mean temperature without superstructure lead feet, inner table length 2,985.06 teet. The elevation of the cables In the center of the span at mean temperature without the superstructure will be 161,027 feet, and with tue superstructure will De 156,748 feet. REDUCTION OP. WAS TAXES.

Considerations That Should Weigh Against Too Hasty Action. The Brooklyn Eagle which has come to be an advocate of wise action in government affairs as against changes In existing condition for merely partisan ends, advises against too rapid reduction of war taxes. President McKinley recommended a reduction of $30,000,000, while Secretary Gage is. more conservative. It is stated that the House committee on ways and means has decided to lop off $40,000,000.

The Brooklyn Eagle says on this decision: "That it would be a mistake to cut very much from the income of the government ought to be apparent to every one. It is im p. rtant that the federal revenues should be slightly in excess of the expenditures. American manufacturers are meetiug the home demand more completely every year. The proportion of home manufactured products consumed here is growing larger and the proportion of foreign goods is growing smaller.

As we import less the revenues from customs duties will decrease." These considerations ought to have weight in determining the actiou of Congress. Of the proposed reduction of the beer tax the Eagle says: "The reduction in the tax on beer is a matter of politics. It is useless to consider it on its merits, as the Congress will not treat il in that way. Both political parties desire the favor of the brewing interests, and they will win it if possible. If the brewers are content with a reduction of 20 per the rest of us may have to be satisfied that they have not demanded a greater concession.

If beer must be relieved of its burden for political reasons, the tax on conveyances and checks might well be retainea. men tne total reduction would not amount to more than $30,000,000. the sum recommended by the President. But if beer is the result will be due to politics and will be contrary to public policv." This criticism is hardly just. Congress cannot properly discriminate against anv industry.

If there is to be some reduction fo war taxes that reduction should be distributed. Congress cannot exercise police powers in a revenue bill for the purpose of regulating the beer traffic. The beer industry should be treated fairly, and without fear of the supposed political power of the beer magnates. If they assume that they must enter politics as a class to promote policies that are not acceptable to the masses, it will be the worse for the magnates. But, without reference to the beer question, conservatism should prevail In reducing war taxes.

A full treasury is verv desirable. No nation that has to borrow money in time of peace to keep its business running, can be considered entirely free or prosperous. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle HE SPOKE THE TRUTH. "No. sir!" cried the great editor, indijt nantly, "I never spoke an untruth In my lire!" "I can quite understand that," replied the crusty visitor; "all your time is taken up in writing them, no doubt." Catholic Standard and Times.

framed of timber and placed outside of the steel saddles for the real bridge cables. The foot bridges will give to the workmen a platform upon which to stand while constructing the bridge cables. The flooring of these bridges will be of timber and so arranged as to permit the passage of workmen and to enable them to handle conveniently the heavy castings and pieces for connecting the suspenders to the bridge cables. The bridges will be steadied by guy ropes extending to the towers and will assist In steadying the bridges during a high wind. It is estimated that these bridges will cost at least $100,000.

Their usefulness will be entirely confined to the erection of the bridge cables and will be practically useless when the cables are completed, and will then be removed. The superstructure or cantilever span nearest the anchorage and extending across Kent avenue has been completed. The remaining or connecting epan will be commenced within a few days. These connecting spans it is expected will be ompleted during the month of January. The steel work is nearly eleven months behind what the contract called for.

When the temporary foot, bridges are erected so that they will stand suspended directly under the bridge cables four traveler or carrier ropes will be extended from anchorage to anchorage to be used in making the bridge cables. It was stated by a bridge official that the Messrs. Roebling would start work on Thursday to erect the plant necessary to make the cables for the bridges. The wire necessary for the main cables will be made at Trenton, N. and will be 3 16 of an inch in diameter and will have a strength of 2,000 pounds per square inch.

Each wire will be made in 4,000 feet lengths and will be shipped to the site on drums or spools. In each cable there 'Will be 10.000 wires laid straight and parallel to each other and will be first grouped into strands of 37 to each cable. Each strand will contain 2S0 wires and will be temporarily wrapped. When 37 strands for each cable are made then the wrapping is taken off and the 10,000 wires are grouped together in a cylindrical cable. This cable is held together by heavy clamps or bards of cast steel weighing from 300 to 400 pounds each.

These bands will be placed twenty feet apart and will secure the suspenders to the cables. HOLIDAY POULTRY TO BE GOOD. Turkeys "Will Be Fatter and All Kinds Will Be' in Better Condition Than at Thanksgiving. Poultry for the holiday festivities will begin to arrive at the wholesale markets of this great city on Monday and from all accounts premises to be of far better character than that received for Thanksgiving. Then turkeys were mostly thin and all classes, being, improperly prepared for long transportation, on account of unfavorable weather, reached the city in bad condition.

Heavy excess of quantity over demand made matters worse and all grades of handlers from Western hunter to city jobber suffered losses to a greater or lesser extent. Wallabout Market dealers say that it was the worst poultry traffic they ever experienced. Turkeys have since had three weeks more feeding and the weather is much colder two most important factors for'gocd condition. Arrivals of general poultry for the last six days fell 6,000 packages below those of the preceding six days and about equaled those of the corresponding period of a year This leaves the market In good shape for fixing and maintaining values. BLUE BOOK FOR 1901.

Brooklyn's Elite Directory Is Larger and More Valuable Than Ever. The Brooklyn Blue Book for 1901 has just been issued by the Brooklyn Life Publishing Company which, for the past two or three seasons, has continued the work of compiling elite directories begun some years azo by an other agency. The Blue Book appears this year in an enlarged form and consequently is of greater value than ever to society people and. in fact, to all who are In any way interested in the doings of those who move in tho best circles of the borough. The volume is handsomely bound in covers of deep blue color, upon which the title is put In plain gold letters.

The paper Is of the finest quality and the typographical work measures up to the standard set in last year's edition. The arrangement of the names is made, as usual, on the alphabetical basis and the college and club abbreviations are conveniently and intelligibly presented. Among the valuable features of the Blue Book are lists of those deaths and marriages in which Brooklyn society has been most interested during the past year; a street directory, an index to advertisers (of whom there are not a few), aad an At Home list which is a necessity, as an object oi reference, to people who have many social obligations to discharge. Club members, by the way. will appreciate the complete list, printed In the back of the book which contains the names or the leading clubs, a list of their officers and the date of their last annual meeting.

This is not confined exclusively to the moro prominent social organizations, but includes educational institutions, such, for instance, ns the Brooklyn Institute, all the more prominent musical societies and moat of those institutions which, having been established for purposes of literary culture, are not widely known outside the limits of their own membership. braced and bolted and provided with steel head plates. A nineteen straud wire rope 3,000 feet long, made of plow steel, rove through two four wheel blocks were used to lift both the roller beds and saddles. The saddles are 19 feet long, feet wide and 4 feet in height at the center. The last of the four saddles was raised placed in position yesterday.

The elapsed time for hoisting each of the saddles into position averaged about thirty minutes. Very little delay and no trouble was experienced in placing each in position. This work being concluded, the next in order will be the stretching of the first cable. This cable will be the first to connect the two towers and will be one to which the four temporary foot bridges will be suspended. There will be twelve of these cables made of twisted wire 2 inches in diameter.

These wire ropes have been manufactured by the Messrs. Roebling at Trenton, N. and within a few days will be delivered at the grounds of the bridge. The work of stretching these cables for the foot bridges will be commenced very shortly, or directly after the timber frames to be used as saddles for the foot bridge cables are in position. The first cable for this purpose will be carried across the river by a tug boat.

The cable will be reeled out much on the same principle as laying a telegraph cable and will rest upon the bed of the river. The other end will be made fast to the Manhattan anchorage, and when preparations have been completed it will be raised by machinery to the top of the Manhattan tower. It is expected that during this operation traffic on the river will be stopped for a few minutes until the cable is raised to a sufficient height for traffic to be resumed. The other cables to suspend the foot bridges will be carried across on this initial cable. The ropes will extend from one anchorage, passing over both towers at the height of 330 feet to the other anchorage, and will be located lower than and directly under where the cables are to be suspended.

The saddles for the foot bridge cables will be man; Joseph Glacken, D. J. Donohue, James Martin, John Downey. John Budwig, Joseph Quinn, Felix Deegan. William J.

Farrell, John Hammond, W. C. Swusley, Thomas J. Curley, John Bulkley and Frank Gibbons. Some of the prize winners were: Miss Annie Farrell, Miss Maggie Reilly, Miss S.

R. Gallagher, Miss Frizzel. Miss Mary Curran, Miss A. Kiesman, Mrs. M.

White, Miss Alice Mc Goey, MiiJs Glacken, Mrs. John Brady, Mrs. J. Reardon, Thomas Green, Mr. Cunningham, John Sheehan, Patrick White, L.

H. Lemmermann, John V. Dunne and J. Costilo. The pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart is the Rev.

John F. Nash. The advent ember days preceding Christmas will be Wednesday, Friday and Saturday of this week. The quarterly conference of the priests of the diocese will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at St. John's Seminary.

Willoughby and Lewis avenues. On Tuesday a paper on "Dogmatic Theology" will be read by the Rev. Edward W. Gannon of St. Sebastian's Church, Woodslde, L.

and one cn scripture, by the Rev. Martin J. Hogan of St. Mary's Church, Roslyn, L. I.

On Thursday papers on the same subjects will be read, respectively, by the Rev. Thomas J. Baxter. D. of St.

Paul's Church and the Rev. Herbert Brady of St. Vincent de Paul's Church. A comedy drama in four acts, entitled "Josiah's Courtship," will be given on Monday and Tuesday evenings by the members of St. Peter's Dramatic Association in St.

Peter's Academy Hall. Hicks and Wtirren streets. Those named to take part are T. Murtagh, Joseph Cooney, Joseph Kelly, George Decker, Joseph Keating. Matthew Corbett.

Joseph Miss Flannery, Miss N. Moylan, Miss N. Mc Inevney and Miss M. Paden. The proceeds will bp used to fit up a club house, reading room and library for the boys of the parish.

The performances of the association In the past have been very creditable and the coming event promises to be equally well presented. Mozart's Twelfth Mass will be sung at 11 o'clock this morning by the choir of the Church of the Nativity, Mndisori street and Classon avenue. At the vespers this evening, commencing at 7:30 o'clock. Augber's vespers will be sung by the chofr and Grainer's "Alma Redemptoris," as a bass solo. Dr.

William H. Pilcher Is tho organist and choirmaster. Forty hours' devotion will bn held to day in St. Charles Borromeo's Church, Sidney place. Next Sunday thn devotion will be held In St.

Louis' Church, Ellory street and Nostrand avenue. A religious retreat for single men will open nt the last mass this morning in the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul's, W.vthc avenue and South Second street, of which the Rev. John L. Belford is pastor.

QUITE AMICABLE. rfviggs Sterns and you arc both very positive chaps. Don't you ever quarrel when you iret to talking? Wuzzle Oh, dear, no! The thing Is impossible. The fact is, we never disagree. Wo never talk on the same subject, and neither of us listens to the other.

Wo just talk, that's all. Boston Transcript. cate the dock on the mainland, that he will yet order it constructed in Whitney basin. Ater Congress appropriated one million dollars for the construction of a new stone and concrete dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in compliance with an order from Secretary Long, Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker, commandant cf the local navy yard, appointed the following board of naval officers to select a suitable site: Captain Peter C.

Asserson. civil engineer and chief of the department of yards and docks; Naval Constructor Francis T. Bowles, chief of the department of construction and repair; Captain Frank Wildes, captain of the navy yard; Commander R. R. Ingersoll, chief of the ordnance department.

These officers, after repeated meetings, submitted two reports, the majority report locating the dock on the mainland, while that submitted by Captain Asserson contended for a site in the Whitney basin. Commandant Barker forwarded both reports to Secretary Long, with the suggestion that he appoint a beard of naval experts to further examine sites for this million dollar improvement. The commandant, who is noted for his practical methods and business like manner of disposing of things, contended that since this was to be an improvement to stand for generations, its location should be doubly carefully considered. "We are building for the future, and in making expensive improvements of this kind we should go slowly. There is no reason why the Navy Department should rush ahead with such important work without first thoroughly exhausting every proposed available site," concluded Commandant Barker In referring to the location of this new dry dock.

The draughtsmen of the civil engineering department of the Navy Yard were put to work months sto by the Chief of the Bureau of Yardr and Docks at Washington preparing drawings and making estimates concerning this new dock. The chief of the bureau then visited the local navy yard, and In company with Chief Engineer Asserson went over the entire matter, spending several days in doing so. Taking all the facts into consideration, including the retirement of Captain Asserson on January 5, 1901, it was decided to build the new dry dock on the mainland. Constructing a dry dock in a basin of water is an original idea with Captain. Asserson.

and since he will not be in the service when this dock is built, the Navy Department deemed it advisable not to risk placing this unusual undertaking in the hands of some one other than the venerable civil engineer himself. It has been clearly shown by Captain Asserson that Just as good a dock can be built in Whitney basin as on the mainland, and at $300,000 less in cost. The new plans, which will be forwarded to Washington this week, show what valuable property will have to be destroyed for this new dock. The dock, which will be 575 feet long and 141 feet wide, will be surrounded by railroad tracks. It will extend midway between Docks Nos.

1 and 2. and from the Wallabout channel in a southwesterly direction reaching almost to Morris avenue. This will take up over two and one half acres in the best part of the yard, where a reasonable estimate places the valuation of the land at $100,000 per acre. The following.