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tBCB! ditions, and a very small amount of demorali aggregate there is a differance of but eevon one Una dredths ot a point in value par shot. OOMPABISON OF AYEBAOE3. THE MATCH. SUPERVISORS. ATLANTIC AIT.

have been doubly beneficial to the land. The government that used to pay ten, twelve, and in some cases twenty per could borrow from the great financial houses at five the Fellaheen who were forced to! give sixty per oentl to village usurers could get money from Western banks at ten. Factories vtera rlsinc' evorv form of culture was FRIDAY ETBS1N0. SEPTEMBER 15, 1888. British.

Amorlcan. 9 a 52 Range. qj 300 yards 500 yards 600 yards 378 31114.50 4.S9 343234.09 1.0B 1,043 87 Aggregate. It Blmply remains to complata tha record ot yesterday's shooting by ths following table showing the outcome of the match by shots OF SHOTS. British.

American. 8 Ran 20. 200 500 600 Total 20 49 29 51 1 34 1 31 14 4 103, I0SI85; 5 I Sfs'l a 20 41 31 1 7 I 37 I I ioi loi'ssho 3 2 5 Close Work Between the Amerioan and British Teams. Opening of the Great Contest at Creed moor A Large Crowd of Spectators. The First Stage of the Match Shot In a VIolant Gale Splendid Shooting by Both Teams The Volunteers Leading Nineteen Points at the Close of toeDay'i Work The Final Besnlt Beliered to be a Toss Up as to Which Team Wins.

"I think we shall pull out with five and twenty points in our favor. I want to have something In hand, yon know, at the long distances, and five and twenty points will answerjvery well, I think." As Sir Henry Halford finished speaking the wind howled with redoubled force through the immense treeB that mark ths six hundred yards range, and tha gale whioh had swept over Creedmoor tha day through increased in violence. At two hundred yards tho British Volunteer team had led tho Amerioan nlno points at five hundred yards they had duplicated thla figuro, and at the beginning of the final distance of the first stage ot tha great match they looked forward to still further increasing their advantage. Tha oIobouoss of the struggle up to this point had evidently beon unlookod for by tho British team oap tain henoe tho expressed anxiety for a commanding lead noted tn the opening paragraph above. The first day of the International Military Match was a severe one a harder day for military shooting not having been experienced at Creedmoor this season.

The terrlfle force of the wind was in favor of the forolgn riflemen at tha two hundred yards range, since tho members of the British team are as a rule heavier built and more sturdy thau their American antagonists, and belter able therefore to hold steadily from off the shoulder in a gale, 16 is a bit bad," several of tho Volunteers admitted, but only to qualify tbe admission the next moment by adding, But wo hava it frequently muoh worso at home, you know." The forenoon waa ocoupled in preparing for tho battle of the afternoon. Groups or riflemen and spectators who had come down on tho early trains were scattered about tho club house and adjoining portions ot the range, discussing the ohances of the match the volume of opinion being to tha effect that provided the weather held it was anybody's battle." The first glimmer of assurance was afforded tha Amcrloans when Colonel Bodino won tho oholeo of targets in tha toss up with Sir Henry Halford, and selected the targets to the right of tha British team at the several distances Bhot ovor. The Volunteers and the National Guardsman dined together at twelve o'clock, and an hour later proceeded in procession to tho firing points. Eaoh team marched in military ordor, tho courtesy of on escort to the British riflemen being paid by the Thirteenth Pennsylvania and to the American by the First Maine Begimont. THE MATCH.

Tho orowd about the two hundred yards range numbered olose upon three thousand. The arrangements were excellently oarrled out under the supervision of General Woodward and Colonols Scott and Story. Captain George B. Squlros, Thirteenth Begiment, was tho provost marshal In ohargo of tho police and guards. At tho request of Sir Henry Halford, Captain Charles E.

Bridge, Fourth Brigade Staff, acted as special aid to tha former and rendered efficient sorvice, It was twenty minutes past ono whon Hinds oponod tho ball with a plump oast on bullseye in favor of tho Americans, at whioh the crowd cheered lustily, Ogden followed with a center, and as Parry and Goodoar, of the Volunteers, picked up but 8 pointa between them on tbelr opening shots, the outlook was most encouraging. Hlnman, Pollard, Atkinson, Alder and Howard shot strongly hero, but Dolan and SbakBpere broke oway, while McNevln, from overancloty, pulled his third shot for a clean mias. The soores are very completely analyzed in the tables prlutod below, and the fluctuations of tha shooting need only bo briefly referred to here. From tho running record of tho match it will be Been that on tho ilrBt threo rounds of twelve shots (ho Americans lod tha British 7 points but on the fourth and fifth the Volunteers picked up 12 points more than their competitors tho sixth round resulted In a tie, while tho seventh increased the lead of tho visiting riflemen 4 points further, tho range closing for 9 points majority in their favor. At 600 yards tha first round yielded tho Volunteers a lead of i and the second of 5 points In tho throo following the Americans gained 9 points, wiping out the lead, which waB roooverod in tbe next two rounds by tha Halford men.

Tbe 000 yards ebooting waa a succession of variations. One point of lead was eocurod by tho Amcrloans in tho first round, to which tho British replied by i and 8 In tha next two tho Americans gained 3 and 2 points in tho fourth and fifth rounds, the BrltiBh and the home team's 6 points each in tha last rounds balancing ono another and leaving tho Volunteers with ono point to the good for the distance, and 19 for the stage. The shot for shot reoord of tho Amorlcan team follows AMERICAN TEAM S00BE8. Name. Smith Yds.

(200. JoOO. Shots. T'l. Ag.

455 355 330 5 4 5 5 5 5 5 31 05 4 5 5 3 5 4 5 31) (lilKl. (200. Pollard JoOO. I0U0. 5 4 4 4 5 4 329, 3 4 5 4 5 31 4 55 4 50 5.

33 03 (200 5UO (MM 5 4 4 4 5 4 4 30 4 4 5 5 5 5 4 32 3 3 5 3 4 5 liS 00 (200.. 4 5 4 3 4 3 4 I 3 4 27) 1 4 5 31 5 4 3l) Ogden. 1 4 5 4 3 5 5 5 89 444 4 45 4 201 1500. 5 4 5 5 5 3 32S BOO. .442 5: 3 427) (2JO.

3 3 4 3 5 4 3 2.V .4 4 5 4 5 4 2 28, 87 .5 5 55 4 5 5 31) .534 43 5 5 201 .4 5 5 5 33 4 28; S6 4 5 4 4 3 4 4 2SJ Dolan 500. (200. Hinds 50O. (600 (200.. 4 5 0 3 4 3 3 22 J5Q0.

.5 5 5 45 4 5 3:1 85 McNovin. 5 5 3 5 4 3 30j Howard J500. (000. (200. Shakspore oo.

(w. 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 31 5 4 4 2 3 4 85 2 5 5 3 4 4 2 25 4 4 5 4 2 4 2 251 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 21)f 5 2 5 4 3 5 52!) 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 27; 3 5 4 5 5 4 31 2 I 4 24) (200. Jsoo. (000. Paulding.

82 200. 500. GO'J. 4 5 4 2 4 4 4 271 3 4 5 4 4 5 5 30; 80 5 8 3 4 3 0 5 23) Alder Two miSBea and ton outore are charged agalnBt tho Americans in tha foregoing. Tho detallod record of Volunteora which follows Bhows but ono miss (at COO yards) aud five outers IlIilTISH TEAM BCOBSS.

Name. Yds. 500.. (200 GOO. (200..

(C.W.. (200. J5IX). (000. C200.

Shots. T'l Ag. 4 5 4 4 5 5 4 31) 1 5 5 5 5 34 05 3 5 4 5 4 5 4 30) 4 4 4 5 5 5 4 31 5 5 5 4 3 4 5 31 04 5 5 5 4 5 4 4 32. 5 3 4 5 4 5 5 31) 5 5 5 5 4 5 534; 4 3 3 4 15 3 2d) 4 4 3 4 14 3 2B) Heap 01 4 4 5 5 1 5 5 32; 4 5 5 4 5 4 5 32) 90 4 4 3(5 3 3 20, 5 5 5 4 5 5 33! 3 5 4 5 5 5 431 00 (6011. (200.

4 5 4 3 4 4 1 2) 4 5 5 4 5 5 533; 5 5 4 4 2 4 5 29) DO dOO. 3 3 4 4 5 5 4 2S) 50 4 4 4 a 5 a 3: 89 600. .3 5 4 4 4 4 5 20; (200.. 4 4 4 4 4 3 5 28 I 4 3 5 28 i 4 4 4 31 0 5 4 28) Bates. 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 31 87 5 4 4 5 3 1 5 4 29 4 5 3 1 5 4 29 4 5 2 3 4 27 80 3 4 4 5 5 5 1 30) Godeo! 50O.

(6J0, (200.. 4 4 3 4 5 3 4 27 00. 3 5 5 4 5 5 30; 88 5 4 5 3 3 5 4 2U) (200.. 4 4 3 5 3 4 4 27 500. .5 4 4 4 5 5 5 32; S3 8 3 4 3 5 4 2 24) (200..

4 4 4 5 4 4 3 28) 4 4 4 5 3 5 4 29V 81 4 5 5 2 3 2 3 84 Goodear. Smith, of New Jersey, had the satisfaction of beating the record of his chosen opponent, Caldwell, tbo Brlt lfeh Amerlcan Volunteer, and also of aurpasslng the core made by tho famous McVittie. Pollard has likewise a handsome total, whioh was well earned. Following aro the rango totals and order of merit of tho individual members of the home team AMERICAN BANQE TOTALS. ths country whioh makes so muSb.

money for ao Httlo trouble, and when I say that I have reference to the Long Island Company In its doallnga with us." "Does not the Erigbfon Company think it oould do better by avoiding the payment of the enm yon name to the Long Island Company, in relinquishing the use of Atlantis avenue, and running only to Its terminus at Bedford?" Well, I have always contended that we could make as much money by running only to tha terminus at Bedford, but there Is a difference of opinion among our directors with rogard to that," Leaving Mr. Washburno the reporter made a tour of Atlantio avonue from the ferry to East New York, and found that the sentiment among the business men between tho ferry and Court atreet was antagonistic to the reopening of the tunnel or to any steam projects at all, Journeay Burnham, Joseph O'Brien Co. and all tho other prominent merchants were as emphatlo as they could be in their expressions of opposition to any interference with the avenue as it is, Thoy did not think tho tunnel would ever be reopened, and they did not tLink the company proposing to reopen it was honest or alnoere in its intentions, and anything they could do to prevent tho schema being carried out they would do with a peculiar sense of satlBtaotion. Eist of Court street, or rather between Court street and Flatbush avenue, ths sentiment among the men doing business on Atlantio avenne appeared to be entirely different. With very few exceptions thoy were in favor of any project whioh would lift the thorough faro from its present lothargio condition.

They said that section of the avenue could not, under any elroumstances, be worse than it la now, and they would welcome a change no mattor in what form it came whother steam on the surface, above the surface or below the surface. This is why the majority of them had willingly signed tho application of the South Ferry and Seaside Dlreot Transit Company for permission to construct a tunnel, booause they thought they saw in the undertaking a speedy rcllof against the std situation of affairs which they were trying to overcome. East of Flatbush avenue, the business men and property ownors along the line were unanimously in favor of depressing the road bed on Atlantio avenue. They recognized the fact that rapid communication between Brooklyn and Long Island woe needed aud that Atlantic avenue would havo to serve that purpose, but they thought that In Justlco to themselves and to the city at large the road bod should bo depressed, with all the advantages and tho suppression ot tho evils that would result therefrom. Thus, in threo seotionB of Atiantlo avenuo thore were three different expressions of son timent, going to show, what was stated in tha opening sentence of this article, a wide differeoae of opinion as to what is best to ba done looking to the welfare of ths thoroughfaro and tbe city generally.

REPUBLICAN DELEGATES. One out of Seven for Cornell iu Queens Comity Ex Senator Blrdsall Leading Tbe Administration Forces. The Bepublicans of Queens County havo ohoson their delegates to the State convention. Ex Bonator Birdaall, who was formerly a prominent half breed, has gono over to tho Administration. Ho hat taken charge of tho forces throughout tho county and promises to make an active leader.

There is somo jealouBy over tho favors shown him by tho Administration, espeoiaily on the part of Jamaica Republicans, but it will not interfero with the work laid out. In the First Assembly Dlstiiot John H. King and Benjamin D. Hicks led tho Conkling line and attempted to get a delegation pledged to his nomination, but the effort was defeated. Resolutions wore adopted, however, ouloglzing the President and expressing confidence in Governor Cornell's integrity, whilo a resolution to tha effect that his good services entitled him to a re election was defeated by a vote of 19 to 5.

The delegates to the convention ara A. K. P. Dennett, John M. Clark and A.

Blrdsall, and tho alternates J. H. Sted well, John A Pryor, and John A. Weeks, Jr. Mr.

B. D. Hicks, seeing that the chances of ro elootion as a member of the State Commit too are small, has deolined in advance, and will be succeeded either by Stephen B. French or Mr. Birdaall.

A OEOWL. The Republicans of tho Seoond Distrlot hold their convention at Jamaica yesterday, A good deal of cau ousing was done. Mr. Hicks and ex SuperviBor Clark were on hand to do what they oould In scouring a delegation favorabla to Cornell, and Mr. Blrdsall was assiduous In behalf of tho Administration.

These gon tlemen all reside out of tha distrlot, and some of the delegates expressed dissatisfaction at their presence and conduot. During tho oauoutiug Messrs. Hicks and Clark on the ono side and Mr. Blrdsall on the other had a hoatod discussion of a few minutes' duration ovor a question of faot rolative to tho oonvontion in their die. trict, and Mr.

Blrdsall, oontrary to his custom, Bhowod some temper aud wont off mad. Hia success later iu seouring an Administration delogatlon, with one excop. tlon, restored him to good humor. The delegates are Martin V. Wood, William 8.

Cogswell, Charles Chamberlain and Andrew Williams. Mr. Chamberlain iB the Cornell delegate. Tha delegate to the judicial convention from tho First Dlstriot is Marquis D. Gould.

The delegates from the Second District are Robert A. Davison, William allien, Garret J. Garrotson and A. N. Manly.

EVENISU SCHOOLS. Arrangements lor Tlteir Opening by tbe Appropriate Committee Location of tbe Scboola. At a meeting of the Evening School Committee of tho Board of Eduoation Wodaosday evening the rules for the governmout of night sohools adopted by the board were conBldorod, and Superintendent Patterson asked an explanation of somo of them. In the first place he desired to know whether It was necessary for a teacher of any partioular specialty to obtain a certificate from the Superintendent for that particular branch before being permitted to teaoh. Ou motion of Mr.

Flynn It was decided to leavo It discretionary with tho Superintendent, who Ib to grant a license to teachers of apBeialtles in oases where such teachers are deemed by him to be Qualified. Mr. Pattersou The second quostlon Is whether, under tho rnlcB, Brooklyn teachers alone shall bo employed In tho night schools oltor a service of one term in the night eohools, or of six months In tho day sohools. A liberal interpretation of that rule would deprive us of the cervices of able and experienced teachers from Now York and other places. It was resolved that Brooklyn toaohors alone, regularly employed for Bix months, should be appointed substitutes, and ontslderB ruled out.

Mr. Pattarsou Ths third point upon wbioh I doslro to ba enlightened Is whother, If such teaohors havo Berved one term in ths night schools or six months in tbe day sohools, a certificate other than an A or will be sufficient. A resolution was adopted, after urlher debate, to tha effeot that previous service uv llio evouing sohoole doos not qualify a teaohor without on A or certificate from tho superintendent. LOCATING THE SCHOOLS. Mr.

Harknesa moved that tho evening schools ba located tbe same as last yearas follows No. 1 Concord and Adaiw streets. No. IS Schermorhorn streot, near Third avenue, No. 17 North Fifth and Fifth streets.

No. 18 Maujer streot, near Ewen. No. 22 Java street. Greenpolnt.

No. 24 Wall and Beaver streets. No. 25 LafByetto avonue, near TUroop. No.

27 Nolson Btreet, near Hicfca. No. 85 Lewie avenue and Decatur stroet. High School Western District. High Sohool Eastern District.

Colored No. 1 Willoughby Btreet, near Raymond. Ho amended his motion so as to provide for an additional school in No. 40, to aocotnmodata five claasos. PoDdlng action on the motion Dr.

Doiut read a communication from J. Q. Allen, prlncipol of Colored Sohool No. 2, on Troy avonuo, near Bergen street, urging that the school be opened as an eveulng cchool, with two classes. Mr.

Harknesa' resolution as amended by himself was adopted. No action was taken in regard to Mr. Allen's petition, and the committee after making some minor arrangements for opening the BchooU adjourned. COSEY ISLAND SOTKS. The Oriental Hotel is closed for tho season.

General McClelland has been Btaying at the Brighton for the paet few days. Mr. Levy's engagement with the Brighton Beach Railroad Company expires noxt Friday. Ho will probably sail for Europe soon as he Is released from his labors at the lslaud. Oonterno'a benoflt takea place next Wednesday at Brighton Beach.

The bandmaster is doing all he can to make it a success, and if tho weather is good there is no doubt the attendance will bo encouraging. The band will bo increased from forty flvo to seventy five piecos, tho additional thirty musioians coming from tha Naw York Philharmonio Sooiety. The mnsio will be from tho beBt masters, and will embrace Belcctlons from the old and the new schools and from all nationalities. There will be three ooncerts, The first will last from 12:30 to 2 P. M.

The seoond concert will last from i to 6 P. M. The evening oonoert has beon arranged with great care, and it will be the longest performance of the day. Tho programme consists of ten numbers, and besids ths Molgs Sisters, the Brooklyn Soengerbund, consisting of eighty voices, will make their appearance twice. The programme for this occasion Is as follows PABT 1.

Overture "William Tell" Hoasini 2 Seitet "Luoia di Lamraermoor" Donizetti Solo parts for oboo, olarionoi. French horn, cornet, euphonium and trombone. Messrs Btubbn. Meiling, Weston, 0. and Dehne.

3 Vooal quartet "Old Folks.at Homo," ar ranged by cederlein Moif Siflturd, Misses Hattle, Jennie, Edith and Florence. 4. Cornet solo lery. "5. Grand vocal ohorus "Sturmbesohwerung," (The StillinB of tho Storm) Darrnor Brooklyn Eighty voices.) PABT IL 6.

Ovennre Ruy 7. Vocal anartet "Good Night, Beloved" Prasuti Meigs Sisters, Miasei Hattie, Jennie, Edith and Florence. a Oorneteolo Levy. 0. Grand vooal chorus "Trinklied" (Bacchanalian Sonas) Von F.

Schnlz Woida Brooklyn Saengerbund. (Eighty voices). 10. Coronation Moreh 'te Proohete" Meyerbeer The Loglon of Honor of Brooklyn and Now York had a gran3 fonjlon last night at the Rea Beach Palace Hotel. There were about hundred members present.

The guests were oohveyed from Brooklyn and Now York to Boy Ridge In a Bteamer, whence they wero takon to the island by tho 8ea Beach Railroad. The members of tho Legion reached tbe island about 7 o'clock and marched to the rear part of Sir. Merritt's dining room, whero they found the tablea nicely laid out for ihem and a bouquet opposite each chair. A band of twenty two pieces played at intervals. Singing, speeches and story tolling consumed most of the time till 11 o'olook, whon the guests left for home.

The annual ball of tho Sea Beach Palace Hotel will take place this evening and on Sunday the hotel will close for the season, A large excursion from New Haven, arrived at the Brighton pier yesterday In the Sirlus. The New York, Atlantic and Sea Beach Railroad will cease running after Sunday. Feltman'a Ocean Pavilion will bo open on Sunday, after which it will close for tha season. SAVY YARD MOTES. Cadet Midshipman Henry B.

AihmOre bos been detached from the receiving ehip Colorado and ordered to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, for final examination. A reduction of tho employes of the Naval Hospital has been made, to the grsat incdnvehienee of the daily work of that institution. Further reductions havo also been made in the Construction Department and In tha Department of Yards and Docks. RETCHN OF RKV. HB.

BOCI1E. Rev. S. S. Boone, of St.

Mark's Church, Aaelphi street, wbo returned from Europe Wednesday tn the Perthia, wUl have a reception in the church this evening. Rev. Mr. Joyce, who has supplied the pulpit in the rector's absence in an acceptable manner, has boon highly onloizad by tbe vetlry of the Damn, Hamilton, running thence along tha shore to Bath and 'conoy. Island.

Last Winter artielss were filod Incorporating the Tunnel Extension Company, with a capi tal atoos oi the object oi waicu is to oonstraot a tunnol from the Intersection oil Tenth avenae sod Atlantic'; easterly along Atiantlo avenuo to a point formed by the lntersootion of Sixth avenue. In other words, the object of the road Is to form a connecting link between the proposed rood of the South Forry and Seaside Direct Transit Company and the Long Island Railroad, whon tha tracks of the last named rail road on Atiantlo avenue are sunk beneath tha surface, In accordance with an act of the' Legislature ptsssd last year. The Incorporators are William H. Martha, James McMahon, Charles A. MoMohon, George Vf.

Rice, James T. Easton, Joseph B. Warron, George Q. Herman Honry Hawkos, Edward Frlel, A. Kerrigan Thomas E.

Bishop, James B. Clarke and Francis Onm mlskey. The bill passed by tho Legislature In 1881 waa per mlBBlvo. It elves Mr. Richardson permiBBlbn to con struct a dopressod road from Sixth avenuo to Brooklyn avenue, the right to construot anch a road expiring this year.

Tha Long Island Ballroad Company, under the terms of its contract with the Fifth avonuo Rail road Company, which runs for ninety nine years, need not abaro ono cent ol the expenso attendant upon sinking the track, and atill use the track whan it is Bunk. Tha opinion prevails that this scheme is nothing more or less than Utopian, and that Mr. Richardson's object in having tho bill, giving him the right to aink the track, passed by tho Legislature, was to pro empt tho right to use the Btroot, and cause any projeet for quick communication on Atiantlo avenne, to oount him in the problem of its solution. There is no doubt, however, that slnoo tho advent of Mr. Corbin in the dlreotory of the Long Island Ballroad every undertaking looking toward quicker movement of trains and an increase in the volume of passonger trafflo will Invite his closest attention.

The ohances of a depression of ths road, however, as already indicated, are very slim, as tho right to sink it will expire this year. The fact that Mr. Corbin intends, with the consent of tho necossary authorities, to widen the traok of the Manhattan Beah Railroad and run the trains clear down to Flatbush avenue, on Atiantlo avenue, would seem to indicato that no change Is contemplatod on tho part of the Long Island Railroad Company. In fact, it is well known that the latter oorporation Is opposed to a depression of the road bod, and will vigorously fight any movement which has such an objeot in view. Tho condition of affaire, above briefly outlined, lod a representative of tbe Eaolb to seek for an expression of publio sentiment as bearing on the avenue, and obtain an Idea as to what urlher plans, if any, were contemplatod In tha futnro.

MB. WrttlAif H. mtbtha's views. Mr. William H.

Murths, ex Alderman and ex Senator, was found in hi3 office on the corner of Washington and Atlantic avenues. Iu reply to quostions put to him by tho reporter he Bflid "The condition of property on Atlantic avenue is worse now than it has been at any timo since 13C2. Tho situation of affairs along the line of the avonuo fulfills in all respeots the prodiotlon mads by me in 1878, that tho use of steam on the surface would before many years excite a widespread sentiment and demand in favor of a reprosslon of tho roadbed. Hardly any iin nrovomont is noticoable upon tho street since Its occu panoy for steam purposes, and what improvements havo been mado ara of a very Inferior character. Anything that will romove steam from the surface and losssn the danger must necessarily appreciate property, and that is why at the present time I am so strong an advocate of a change.

Now let me tell you this I do not for ono moment dispute tho assertion that It Is absolutely necessary to have quick meanB of communication between Brooklyn and Long Island, and that Atiantlo avonuo la pre eminently the street to bo usad for that purpose. What I do say is this That whon It Is possible to avert Injury to life and property by slaking ths roadbed, suoh action ought to bo taken, and I for ono would to willing to pay my shars of the expense. I know a groat many peoplo in my vioinlty who, if necessary, would be willing to contribute to the expense of sinking the ioadbod, as under tho present condition of affairs not only la their property depreciating in value, but tho lives of themselves and their children are constantly In Jeopardy. As thlugo are now, large numbers of our citizens are prevented free accoss with vehicloa to the park and boulovard drlvos, whereas if the roadbed woro depressed vehicles could cross the intersecting streets at any time." How would a depression of the roadbed affect property 1" The effect of a depression of the roBd along tho lino of Atlautio avonuo would materially onhauca tha existing value ot properly, which Blnco steam was put on the surfaoe has been depreciating stoadlly.and which haB received a blow from the effects of which many peoplo believe it will never recover. I am not, howover, inclined to that opiuloo.

Give us a deprossjd road and you will find that the real estato market along the avo uue will reoelvo an impetus which will bring it prominently to the front," The reporter noxt Bought the views of a prominent real oaUto dealer in Atlantic avenue, who said "East of Flatbush avenue real estate on Atiantlo avonue Is ruined, and so it is also this side of Flatbush avenuo, with the exception of a fow blocks botwoen Court street and the forry." To what oausss do you attribute this depreciation?" Our buBlnoas men say that very broad Btreet nover makes a good business street. You know as well as I do, that thore is not a store between Flatbush avonuo and Court street of any Bizo or dimension at all. In my opinion it was a mistake to romove steam from tha avenuo west of Flatbush In tho first plaoe, ondl do not think that sootlon of the oity will ever amount to anything until sttam is returned to it again. Another reason for tho apathy on tha avonuo Is that the property there is not of oharaotor to attract tha attention of our first ola.83 buslnoss men. Tho numbor of firmB on Atlanilo avenue, which really amount to anything, may be set down as lesB than a dozen." Hava you heard any talk about the reopening of the tunnel 7" tes, and there Is great opposition to tha projso notwltholandlng tho fact that tno company proposing to reopon tho tunnel, elalmed to havo reoaived tha necessary number of signatures.

I tell you, sir, that people will not ride underground when they can rlda on the surface, or when thsy can ride above ground." Then what would you suggest We wont in Brooklyn a system of elevated rapid rauslt roads without speculation or anything of that kind. If they Injure a man'a property let them pay for it. Let them use the tuunel, if they want to, but I think that an derated road would be bettor. At all events, steam bolow the surfato, on the surface or above tho surface, no mattor how it comes, it will bo the greatest of bleBBinga between Flatbush avenue aud tho ferry. East of Flatbush avonue I am In favor of a depressed road.

We will have to rapid transit on avonuo to tho ferry before tho thorough faro will over amount to anything." rOUNG MB. EIOHAKDSON'S VIEWS. Tho reporter next oallod at the offico of' Deacon Richardson, president of the Fifth Avenue Railroad, on tho corner of Atiantlo and Third avenues. Sunday sohool tracts wore on the table. Tho "deaoon" was away at the Thousand Islands, but the reporter saw young Mr.

Richardson, who, among other things, said "So far as we are concerned, wo plaoe no faith In all this talk about reopening tho tunnol on Atiantlo avenue, and extending tho tunnol to Third avenue, with au extension road to 8ixth avonus. We do not fear those projects a partlolo. Thoir interests are inimical to those of the Atlautio Avenue Railroad Company, and wo would not bo flatlsflod to allow thorn to go ahead." "Then you would oppose any movement In behalf of quick transit between Flatbush avonue and ths forry Decidedly." "HaB Mr. Richardson given any attention to the pro pouod plan of slnklue tha road bed on Atiantlo avenue from Flatbush avenue to Brooklyn avenue under tho right granted to him by tho Legislature, which right expires this yoar 7" 'l do not know." "Why do you not know 7" "Because it is not my business." "What are the preoise terms of your contract with the Long Island Railroad Company 7" "Father Is away and I do not feel at liberty to answer that quostlon myself. I will write to him and soa if he would consent to havo the Information mado known.

Ho is the exocuttvo officer of tho company and I am not quallflod to spoak for him In his abaenca on questions of this kind. There 1b ono point of tha contract I can give you, however, and it Is this Tho charaoter of accommodation, tbe number of trains and tbo facilities of travel from Flatbush avonuo shall, to all points to and beyond Jamaica, be eqnal to tho' number of trains, facilities for travel and character of accommodation from Long Island City? so that in every respect the accommodation is on a par with that from Hunter'B Point." Socretary Washburno, of the Brighton Beach Railroad Company, was found at the company's office on Montague Btroot. "What," asked the reporter, "are tho terms of your contract with the Long Island Railroad Company 7" "The contract," vas tho reply, "runs to May 31, 1884. Under it we hve tho right to run trains on tho tracks of the Long Island Railroad Company whenever we may aleot and ara supposed to be ooeorded equal facilities on the avanue with the trains of that company. We pay the Long Island railroad twenty par oent.

of tho receipts from passengers traveling either way over our road." It is said that Long Island Railroad Company has seen fit to throw a great many obstacles in yonr way this Summer, What truth Is there in that report 7" "The company have put a great many obstacles in the way of our trains. They have detained them on the avenue, refused 'to permit them to enter the depot on time and rushed ihem out again the moment time was up. Itisenppised that Ir. Corbin does this in the interes't of tne'San'haHan Beach Railroad." "Has the Long Ie.aud Railroad Company in any way violated its contract with you 7" "Yes. Tha.oomtany, aocordlng to the oontraot, was to rnn twolve trains a day from Hunter'B Point to Brlgh ton Beach.

Tho first year they did this, but thay have not dona it elnce. they were to pay us 33X per cent, of the receipts from Hunter'B Point, and by tho failure of the Long Island Ballroad Company to live up to the contraot we aro lesing from twenty fire to forty thousand dollars a yoar." "How many partit3 are there to yonr eontract." THE "DEACON" COMES rN AGAIN. "There are three, There is the Loug Island Railroad Company, tho Brighton Beach Railroad Company and the Atlautio a'lenue Ballroad Company. Mr. Riohardson reoeives cent from the Long Island Railroad Company for every passenger who goes over the Brighton road." "What plana have jou in view 7" "Something has bjn said abont onr bnlldlug a terminus In the open space between Atlantio avenue and Pacific street, and tatting through the city until wa strike our own lino, put this is merely rumor and I do not think there is anjthlng In it because wa could not very well do It" "What success havJ you bad this Summsr 7" "Onr receipts so far are equal to the receipt of any year we have been renning." 'What would be ajalr estimate of the receipts on the Brighton Boad for one season 7" "Our paBsonger earnings aooorJlng to tha last annual report were "About how mucliof this is clear profit?" "Last year our surplus, over aud above expenses, was $23,000." i "What is your itotil surplus since tue time the Brighton Road hasjbeen running" "The total aurplus up to the 30th ot SeptMnber, 1881, was tjat in, after deduotlng expenses and interest, Wf have had neat surplus every year that we have boe running, notwithstanding tha faot that we pay the long Island Railroad Company from $20,000 to 125,000 a year, Xhew 09 Otlwr railroad in zation may give the Americans the leaa.

ues pair is at present premature, and our men show the pluck that was exhibited: by the American team in the first contest, they still stand a fairly good a chance of winning in spite of the lead gained by their opponents. two is little doubt that the weapon used by the islanders is superior to any Amerioan rifle of the strictly military kind, and therefore they possess an advantage at tho outset. This is an important point to asoertain, and if tho match develops nothing else it will not have been shot in vain. We have become bo confident of our mechanical skill that we are apt to be arrogant and rash. Moreover, when tho object of these international matches is considered it will be agreed.

that this one is really of mora importance than its predecessors, since it is upon a praotical and useful basis. Contests with the intricate and elaborate match riflo settle the question of superiority in the use of a weapon adapted only to fine shooting, without bringing accuracy and precision down to tho practical purposes of war or hunting. Previous matches certainly taught the value of certain conditions in rifling, in tho measurement of ammunition and so forth, but sharpshooters in tho field would have been badlv handicapped with such weapons, whereas tho present match demonstrates the serviceability of an army weapon for the highest grade of marksmanship. While, therefore, we may not in the present match maintain our well earned prestige we may yet learn enough from tho enemy to make victory certain for tho future. At all events it is plain that he is better disciplined than our people.

The Democratic Primaries Tho Democrats in the various wards and country towns will hold their primaries to day for the election of delegates to the esvoral Assembly district conventions by whom the men will be chosen who are represent this county in the State Convention. It is highly important, both for the local Democracy and the party throughout tho Stato, that this work be intelligently done. This is tho first practical test of whether the reorganization, of which so much has been said, has in a proper sense gone to the root of the evils of the past. Democrats from other parts of the State will expect to see in tho caliber of the delegates some evidence of tho new condition of affairs. If thoy are mot by the old collection of persons who not only did not represent Democratio sentiment and who had no capaoity for the discharge of the duties nominally intrnsted to them but did not own themselves, it will be difficult to convince them that any real good has boon accomplished, or that it is safe to give weight to tho official voice of tho county.

On the other hand, should tho delegates bo men of intelligence, men capablo of speaking for themselves, and plainly the products of a truly representative system, Kings County will exercise an influenco of the first order, and every Democrat will feel assured that the dissensions of tho past are ended. The active men in the various wards who may, perhaps, be indifferent to the impression made in tho Stato Convention, will do well also to remember that tho great silent body of Democrats who have not as yot been induced to join the ward organizations, will not be predisposed to support tho party candidates for local offices if the delegates be, to any notable extent, men identified with, or characteristic of, tho methods which led to tho revolt of last year and tho year before. It greatly becomes candidates and tho friends of candidates to see to it that the votes cast to night, and which will bear fruit on Monday in the Stato delegation, do not produce disgust on the eve of what, by the exercise of good sense, may prove a now day for tho Democracy here and elsewhere. Commissioner Kceve. The Supervisor at Large, in appointing Joseph Keevo to succeed Mr.

Ryan as one of the three Commissioners of Charities, has chosen a man who has it in his power to be aft excellent official. By simply resolving not to allow any consideration of partisan politics to affect his course in office, but to be guided wholly by what he is convinced will be for the good of tho institutions under the commission, he is sure to win the approbation of all of the community whose praise is worth having. This the Eagle hopes he will do and be ieves ho will do. Mr. Koeve is a Republican of the old and vigorous type, but being a man well advanced in years, though not in any way decayed, ho must have had more than enough of political contention.

He is well known in Brooklyn and known to advantage, His self respect has probably been the chief obstacle to his political advancement. Had ho been of a more subservient spirit or loss scrupulous, his intelligence would long ago have won for him somo of tho big prizes which are commonly the reward of party services. There is a very strong inducement for him to be a commissioner on business principles and no other, in the fact that the people of Brooklyn are practically unanimous in their desire to have an absolute divoroe declared between the department and politics, and may bo trusted to retain the services of those who strivo earnestly to accomplish it. A great deal has beon done in this direction. Indeed, there is not much moro to be hoped for than that no backward step shall be taken.

The policy so vigorously inaugurated by Ship man and Henry has been adhered to by their successors. Van Siclen and liissam, and what remains is to continue in it until no set' of politicians will have tho audacity to make an effort for its overthrow. This is what we are confident Roevo will do. Unless all that is said of him is misleading, he is not the man to favor any reaction from what is concededly good to what was unmitigatedly bad. Tho oare of the insane, of the sick, of orphan children, of the homeless poor and the proper management of the Penitentiary ought to bo as far removed from ward primaries and district conventions as the church is supposed to be from the tavern and tho barroom.

Wo trust it will also becomo an accepted principle that commissioners who act in this spirit are not to be removed so long as they are spared in health and strength. It is pleasant to be able to say that in this matter the Supervisor at Large, Mr. Fritz, has discharged an important duty in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. End of the Ejrrpt'an War. The war in Egypt is ended.

The British havo occupied Cairo, Arabi with 10,000 men has surrendered unconditionally, the commanders of all tho forts have also surrendered, and the "colonels" are making "saalam alecum" anew to tho Khedive. A more rapid and complete victory such as was accomplished by tho British general and his skillful officers would be difficult to parallel. Fortune has favored the bold advance of the British in every way, and though General Wolsfeley will not dine with his friends in London to day, he will nevertheless have the satisfaction of receiving the congratulations of the whole civilized world in that very city which only yesterday was threatened with destruction by tho mutinous Pasha. It is difficult to foresoo what the English will do with Arabi. His friend, the Sultan, who was the first to his congratulations to the victorious General will probably make an attempt in Arabi's behalf.

But his Majesty's influence is not in tho ascendant just now, and the chances are that tho infamous prisoner will be turned over to his rightful master who may provide a hot home for him in the wilds of Soiulau. At present it is too soon to think of the future of Egypt, but there are many elements of hope in tho situation. Egypt is a country which will recover quickly from the effects of war. That is a characteristic of all agricultural lands but it is especially vigorous in oue which renews its youth annually in the waters of the Nile. While the great African river bears down a new soil each season Egypt must live.

It is also a couutry whero great works of irrigation are moro 6ure to pay than on any part of the surface of the earth. The inhabited portion of the country, is, except at the Delta, a.nar row strip of land watered by the Nile, and that patch might be widened and the population indefinitely increased by engineering works which would store up and spread moro profusely tho fertilizing stream. The Suez Caual has been an advantage to commerce, wrought to a great extent at the expense of Egypt, whioh has had to pay dearly for the gain of humanity and the glory of do Les seps. Had tbe millions spent on it been devoted to the improvement of the Nile and the construction of railways, the results would I2.eg tlie Moeting X3oard. of Ttto ConimnmoatiOHS From the Commissioners of Charities and Corrections.

The Danger of Firo at Flalbnah The Surrogate's Salary Improvements at the Couaty Buildings. After an interval of six weeks the Supervisors hold a mooting yosterday afternoon, Supervisor at Largo Fritz occupying the chair. Advantago had been token of the opportunity afforded by tho recess to fresco the ceiling, vorulh Iho dests ad pinco a now carpet on tha floor. When at 3 o'clock the board called to order all of tbe members, with one exception, were in attendance, his Honor tha Mayor being also la his seat. Sup.

Gallagher presented a communication from Captain Henry 3. ltaequin, asking that repairs be tnadft to tho Adams street armory at a cost of $'250. He offered a resolution providing for the performance of the work. Sup. Ativaler thought the matter should go to ths Military Couimittoo.

The resolution wes adopted. Sup. Cullou presented trom Comnilaelonor of Jurors William A Furcy a list of persons chosen as jurors. Rsferreil to ComruUtea on Juror. Sup.

BoBBert presented a communication from Captain Stoiulug, of Company Thiriy accond Ueslinent, ak ing that his oommand be furnished with ono hundred lockers. Uefurred to Military Committee. Sup. Uojjes prosentod a ccinmunloation from Colonel Tuttlo, of tho Fortr sovout'u llet(imsiit. calling atteution to tho nocesalty for repairs to tho armory of that oommand.

Referred to Military Committee. Snp. Beaaloy presented a bill for $612 from Tracy, Catltu and Hudson, for serviasu tn connection with Hugh Carboy's mandamus upon tho county canvasser to count the vote cast for him as candidate for Chariiien Cmuileslonijr lust November. Ho referred to Law Committee. THE DAXOEU OF TIKE AT TLX1BVSH, Sup.

Boasluy presented tbe following OF ot "1 Cuaimti' is an Gour.rxTio:. 444 I'mroN Stkkkt, ltitooKLYH, September 14, 1883. Honorable Board of SHjjtifL iaora: Gf.sti.emex Tho questiau of how to provide an adequato protection ugaiuf flro at tlioFIatbunfc Lunatic Asylum received some attention from your lior.orablo body prtsvums to tiio Summer recede. Iu anticipation of whatever aclion aiay be taken in tho matter at today's meeting, I am requustoil by tho Boini of Commissioners or Charities and Correction, lu conjunction with Commissioner Ryau, to submit certain views upon the question, as expressive of tho uuauimous opinion of the board. Tho records of Iho departmout show that a proper flro service for tbo protection of all the buildings upon tho county (arm but moro particularly for tho Lunatic Asylum has beon reforrutl to in communications from tho chief engineer aud in other ways, for somo years past, and accompanying these oommunlcatlons a plan was Bubmitleil upon wblc'a the present board haB been fully advised that, In tho opinion of tho of Dr.

Sbaiv, the medical superintendent, and of othor interested parties Is so aompleto, comprehensive and simple that nothing better could bo devised or desired. It ia to provide tbo nnylum with so extonelve and perfect a water aupply and with all the hose and attachments noi'cjeury met, no matter where a flro might occur, it would bo brought under Immediate control. The plan propoHod Is as follows Commence fifty foet In tho roar of the center buildiug of tho asylum oonnect a four inch pipe to tho six inoh supply plpo run the four Inch pipo through tho sub collar of the entire building; leavo threo Inch outlets under each hall; continue the same to the top of the building, with a three inch outlot In eaoh of the halls tnlrty rour In all with a three Inch gala valvo and one hundred feet of oanvas hose and plpo attached, bo as to flood tk outiro hall lu cose of lire, If necessary. The expense of tbla work would be less, In tbe opinion of tbe board, than tho amount required for any other adequate kind of firo protection, beside being moro reliable, and loo expensivo to keep in order. Thin plan in Us immediate application to the asylum la Identical with that rocom mouded by Chief Euc.lur.or Novlna In hlfl report to your body upon tbe subject.

(Seo printed minutes of 1832, puces 197, 108 ond 1M.) A referoneo to tbe adaptability of chemical fire extinguishers for furuiahlug a perfect proteotion from fire, or such a protoetlou 03 in an institution like tho asylum la moat desirable, may not bo out of plaoo. That thesa appliances havo merits, and tbet their use and the service thoy have performed on many oeea eiono when they havo been tested ban provod valuable there can bono question, but to pxpend a large Bum of money for a great number of thoso machines aud to equip the building Bolcly lu that way Is not, in th Judgment of tbo oommis iioners, a wle, judicious or economical measure. Tho board expresses no opinion at; to the rlgut of your honorable body to pttrobaao these flro extinguishers or as to what the action of tho board will be 1 tbe purobeso Is made. Another feature In this connection it may bo well to ask atteution to. Nearly two thirds of tha Inmates of the asylum are fomaleB who are looked after by femala attendants.

Fifty or Blxty cbomioal flro extlnguiahora placed in the femala wiog of tho building would bo comparatively ueeleR3 no matter bow great their merits. It Ib witbln reason to Buppoee that femulo uUomlavito, with tho Blight oxporlenco necosHary to familiarize them with the appllauco, inlgbt bo of sorvjee in tbo use of hoso in oase of flro, but to havo any satisfactory as Buranco that they would acquire a knowledge of and coutrol ovor chemical fire extlugulsherfl, to such an extent as to make them useful whan oocamon required, in hardly to ba axpeoted, espeoiaily lu view ot the faot that changoB among this corpB of femalo attendants are being frequently mado. For this reason ths placing of those machluea In the femalo wing of tho asylum would be practloally of no value. From the Information gathered upon tho subjoot it Is the opinion of the board that chemical firs oxlin gulshors aro deslrablo aud prove thoir efficloucy, esps clally whero the water supply is olther too limited or the means of using it too imperfect. At prosout no Buoh condition of thlucs oileu at tho asylum.

Tho water supply there, and at all tbo county buildings In fact, received from tho Flntbush Water Works Company, Is abundant and moro than double In volume what it waa a few mouths ago. Tho ordinary pressuro in tho flro hydranto will forco a good nizod stream ovor tho top of tho building. A full supply of water is obtainable everywhere, eron on tbe upper floors, so that tbo plan submitted lu this oommunloation would seem to bo the beBt for the purpose required. Very rospootlully, A. H.

W. Van Sicr.F.N, President. Tbe oommunlcotlon was received, or.IovoA printed in tbe mluutcH and referred to tbo Committee on County, Farm. Penitentiary and Morguo lor examination and report, ASHIKO ron ACTION. Sup.

Bensley presented tho following BOAHl OF OF CHAKITlSg and) Hon 14. COllHEOTIONS OF KlNHfi COUNTY, 444 EllllOU Street, BnooKLVN, N. September 1 Honorable Hoard of Suprretnors Genti.umf.n A resolution adopted by the Board of CotnmiSdioucrB of CbaritinB and Corrections at yaster day'fl meeting request me to ask yonr honorable body to tulio eoma action as toon an po.viblo upon the appropriations made by the llord of Estimate for tbe ubo of this dcrarluieiit din ing the present fiscal year. Such imnroveruuutfi as thy co. jst.

noHon of a new heating apparatus for tlio lio ipltil, tbo furuiahlug of a cooking apparatus at the any tutu and tlio cteam heating of the couter building of that institution, for which special appropriations were made and which awilt confirmation by your board, it in should bo completed and in working order beToro Winter baglns. Iu order to havo tbe work done in timo It will be nccos sary lo have it begun at an early day. Tho board trusts: that your honorable body glvo tho uecossary attention to tbo mattor iu ordor that tbo wolfaro of the department and tbe comfort of thojo undor its oharga may not bo affected. Very ruspectfully. A.

II. W. Van Sioi.f.k, President The communication was received aud placed on file. THE COST OF HASQIS'O. Sup.

Gednoy, on behalf of tho Law Committee, reported in favor of paying tbo claim of Sheriff Stogman for 827. 11 for expenditures Incidental to tbo Imprisonment and execution of James F. Walsh. The bill vra ordered paid. Sup.

McDonald presented a resolution conflrminc; theaunua! appropriations na determined by the Board of Estimate. Tho figures hove already boen publlithed in these coluinun, tlie aggregate being Tho resolution was adopted. riBB SITINQUI8HEB8. The following resolution came up under special order of the day. Jieiolval, That tbo Holloway Chomleal Fire Extinguisher Coiunatiy bo and hereby are dlreotod to furnish forthwith, for the use of tbe County of Kings, at the County Buildings, 100 of tbo Holloway fire exttu guishera, at tbo prloo of $45 each, and that the proper ofiloors be and heroby ara diroctsd to onter into contract for tbo 80ino.

Sup. Lako moved that action upon the subjeot matter of tbo resolution bo indefinitely postponed, Tho motion was agreed to. Sup. Godnoy presented tbe following Whereas, somo provision should be made for the proteotion of tho county propertv against loss by flro, now be it Resolved, That it is the opinion of tho board that stops be forthwith taken to loy pipes for tho Introduction of water into all the county buildings. Sup.

Armstrong moved that the resolution be tabled. The motion was agreed to. THE StJStnOOATE'g SALARY. Sup. Godnoy presented the following Whereas, Through Inadvertenco tha salary of the incoming Surrogate of Kings County baa been fixed at $7,000 per annum and IViercaJ, The salary of the Surrogate of the County of KingB Is fixed by statute at $10,000, and thlsjboard baa no authority to reduce or alter iho Bame.

Now, thercforo, that no improper act remain upon tho reo ordo of this boaid, be it Rnolr.ed That bo much of tbe resolution of thla board adopted July 20, 1882, in the following words: that the salary of tho Surrogate lo be elected at the next general election, Novomber 7, 1832, be and th aome Ib hereby fixed at tho sum of $7,000 per annum," be and tlio pome hereby la rcBclndod and deolared void. Sup. Lake raised the point ol order that the board had no power to tako any action In the matter of salaries of county officers at any timo other than that fixed by law tbe second menting in July. If tbe board had made any mistake it oould not now remedy it. The chair declared the point well taken and ruled the resolution out of ordar.

The Doard then adjourned. HU8IC AT THE PARE. The fifteenth concert of the present season will be given at Prospect Part, to morrow afternoon, bj Eban's Twenty third Boglment Band, when tho following programme will be rendered March, Turner 1 cstiral" Overture. UeU Yilt7 Wine, Woman aud Song" btraus. Uomnnco, "Was it a nroam?" Galop, os ClKoana;" Mill! or FnitaMr, "War Wtlsor.

Overtutp, "Kra Dmvolo" Munz. "Tiio Moonlight Solt is Fadins" Maylatl vase. jI(jn K'jvo Grand Solii. tlon, "Maritana" llunr.ritiu Danca. "Cardaa" Medley, Musical fllof.nigV "Hail Columbia." Wallact HiiB'elmann Boollgo HUSIIVKSS NOTICES.

SUNDAY EAUIiE. ORDER YOUK OARKIKK TO LHAYB THE RAGLE 03 SSS9S 5 DDT A it NN sSS3a A A gUUNNN DD AAA BBSS' UU KH DDD A A AS WELL AS ON THE OTHBlt PAYS OF TUB WE Bel. CONTAINS ALL TUB NKW3, PRICK THREE OENT3, Tartles dealrinc tha BUSDAt Eaoi.e loltvt their Once can a nd their addr to thU office and it trill bo awn to tno earner wlio sortes taa Kaole ui taair Uulricc MALARIA 1 CHILLS! DUMB AUUB: Positively curort. Emory's Standard Dure Pills ner fail to cure tho most obstinate cases; plotaant to tako uirar coated no isriointf or bad ofTocts; L'5 oeata a box Uruggiaia, WHEELER A BOLTON 20t Fulton at. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Of vir description, at tho EAGLE JOB PR1NT1NI Frieu reasonable tot 4riv class work.

A Giaaca at the Present Condition of the Thoroughfare. The Different lrojcets Concernloff It and In What They are Likely to Result The Difference of Sentiment Along the Line Between South Ferry and Court Street, Court Street and Flatbush Irenne and Flatbush Avenue and East New York A Strong Demand in Favor of a Depressed Ballroad The Condition of Real Estate and the Character of Whatever Improvements Have Been Mafle Ihe Terms of Daaeon Richardson's Contract with the Lonsr Island Railroad Company aud the Finger he has In the Brighton Pie The Tali About Be open In? the Tunnel Faafc and Gossip as Gleaned by the Roadman. There has been no time duriDg the past thirty years when Atlantic avenue has not been a bone of contention. Its history has been one of strife and discontent so far as affecting the residents of the city who were Immediately interested In it, and it has been one, moreover, which may possibly repeat Itself in the numbor and variety of tho ohanges whioh are likely to be brought about. That it is serving (he purpose for which it is pre Bminffntly fitted as a means of rapid communication between Brooklyn and the stratoli of oountry to tho east Is not, at this day, disputod by any intelligent person, but there are now, as there have beon in the paBt, complaintB that rapid transit is not furnlehod in the way it should be, and that it is unfair to saoriflca the interests of a largo and growing section of the oity when suoh a sacrifice oould be In the main averted.

Tho demand now among the property owners along the line, and among the residents of the wards affected by the thoroughfare, is for a depressed instead of a surfaoe road, from Flatbush avenue to East Hew York, while the railroad projects affecting that portion of the Btrsot below Flatbush avenue, and whioh, if carried out, are destined to completely change its oharao tor, aro already well advanced. Nearly all of those who visit Brooklyn, aud cerlalnly all of those who rosido here, are impressed by the shadow which seems to have been thrown ovor the street, and with the want of that life and animation whioh charnoterizeB every other thoroughfare of its bIzo and proportions. Wider than almost any other street, it runs through the heart of Brooklyn with several lines of cars oroeslng It, and to the casual observer there appears to be no reason why it not be iu the flower of prosperity and rlfo with oommeroial aotlvity. The section botwoon South iferry and Court street i the only one whioh baa kept paoe with the progress of the times, which evidences aggressive business aotlvity, or whore tho surroundings are at all in keeping with what the observer would naturally eipeot to flud on such a thoroughfare. Here It is that tho only improvements on tho street of any conssquenoo during tho past ten years have been made, and hero it Is that is centered whatever of life and industry from a aommerotal standpulnt is to bo attributed to the avenue.

Within tho past bIi months a majjntfloont five story building has been erected at the corner of Clinton street seven smaller brick buildings have been pnt up nearer the ferry, while ascond ing the Hill and approaching Court street, are tho Btores of Journaay Buruham, 3. O'Brien and other firms which rank eeoond to none in the city in all that constitutes first business Reaohing Court street, howevor, tho tide of commeroe seems to roll In both direotioua through the latter thor. ouRhfaro, elthor to tho South, thereby supplying a business artery to the southern section of ttfo city, or in the direction of the Hall, whore Brooklyn's business interests are chiefly olusterod. Cross Court street, and Atlantic avenue is as apathotlo as It is possible to be there 1b no enterprise, no business worthy of mentioD, and that whioh is douo is almost of a kind that would be scorned on the main thoroughfare of any Long Island village fifty miles away from the confers of population. So it is up to Flatbush avenue and beyond Flatbush avenue to East New York.

The Improvements which havo been mado along the llne.oan almost be counted on tho fingers, and oven these are of a character which oonnot be re erred to with any degree of satisfaction as evidencing the building up or growing condition of tho thoroughfare. PAST AND PRESENT. A glance at the history of Atiantlo avenuo is replete with interest. Bteam was brought into the city on the avonuo byltho Long Island Railroad compauy about 1810. The company obtained Its chartor from the Legislature and operated a steam railroad on the island, and by subsequent legislation was authorized to come into tho oity, and build and operate a steam road on the surface in tho city limits to Boerum street, From that point to tho river the company constructed a tunnel and the road wbb oporated with the terminus at South Ferry until 1862.

About that time tho property ownors between Flatbush avenue and the South Ferry organized such a vigorous opposition against the use of steam on the surface that tho Legislature passed au act abolishing steam on tho surface within the limits ot tho city, and stipulating that tho Long Island Railroad Company, for the relinquishment of steam and tlio reimbursement df the oost of the tunnel should bs paid the sum of $125,000 which amount was assessed on tho property holders on both sides of Atiantlo avenuo, from the South Ferry to the city line. Tho railroad compauy assigned its claim to Sir. E. B. Litchfield, who collected tho assessment from the owners.

Mr. Litchfield likewise secured from tho Long Island Railroad Company tho franchise and right to use and operate a steam railroad from East New York to Jamaica, and under that right tho Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad Company was orgaulzod, and operated a horse railroad from South Ferry to East New York, aud arranged with tho Long Island Railroad Company for a steam surfaoe road from East New York to Jamaica. About 1803 Mr. William RicbardBon, better known aB "the deacon," secured by purchase from Mr. E.

B. Litchfield the franchise to oporata tho horse railroad, and the assignment of the rights of the Brooklyn Central and Jamaica Railroad Company of the Bteam road between East New York and Jamaioa. About 1670 the demand for somo form of rapid transit within the oity limits was urged so strongly that Mr. Richardson petitioned the Common Council to permit him to use steam motors on Atlautio avenue, between Flatbush avenue and East Now York. While aotion waa pending on this proposition the demand was broadened in its scope so as to include quick oommunloation with all parts of Long Island.

Publio sentiment was aroused, aud a bill introduced in tho Legislature authorizing the Atlantic Avenue Ballroad Company to operate a Bteam surface road, or to cont'root wilh any other railroad company to accomplish this raBnlt, and designating Atiantlo avenue, from Flatbush avenue to East New York, as the line within the oity limits. This act waa passed, and Mr. Richardson made a contract with the Messrs. Poppenhusen, who then controlled the Long Island Railroad Company, the terms of which wore exceedingly favorable to the Atiantlo Avenue Railroad Company, requiring a payment to them of a royalty for tho use of the roadway in the oity limits, and a percentage of tho income resulting from all the passengers carried. Mr.

Richardson was to receive five per cent, on the first $100,000 of receipU, two and a half per oent. on the second $100,000, and ono per cent on the balance of iuooma for ninety nine years. This would give the Atiantlo Avenue Railroad Company a royalty of about 35 cents per capita for every passenger pur. chasing a tloket for Qroenport, and a lessor amount in proportion to the distance traversed. Mr.

Riohardson receives about twenty four thousand dollars per annum for the use of the roadbed irom Flatbiuh avenue to East Now York, aud tho same rato of fsre on the shortened line from tho ferry to Flatbush avenuo that ho formerly received for a like Beryico to tho oity Hoe. Thi royalty, together with the porcentagea of tha Long Island Railroad Company, la said to be equivalent to about fifty thousand dollars a year. THE COMPLAINTS ALONG THE LINE. Since the oconpanoypf the Btroot for steam putpose in 1878 the number of trains running out from the Flatbush avenne depot has lucreased enormously. The Long Island Railroad through trains, the Brighton Beach and Coney Island trains, tho rapid transit trains and tho reoent addition of the Manhattan Bsach rapid transit trains make up a total of trains oporated in tho ten working hours of tho day, averaging tares hnndred and thirty in number, and this is said to bo equivalent to the exclusive uss of tbe street for steam prrposea.

Property ownors Bay that not only doeB this make it extremely dangerous for all vehicle traffic at tha lnterseoting streets, but that property along the line has been greatly depreciated in value, and all forniB of improvement have been seriously rotarded. The volume of depreciation In many instances, particularly for store purposes, is said have reached nearly fifty por oent Again, it is said that tbe existing situation of affairs has proved a dangerous barrier to that portion of the city embraced in the Seventh, Twentieth, Twenty.first, Twentv third, Twenty fifth and Nineteenth wards, by depriving the residents of free access with vohleles to the park and boulevard drives. There are hundreds of gentleman who, owning fine teams of horses, will not permit their coachmen to drivo across the railroad track, particularly during their absenco at business in the hours of the day when their wives and daughters would most appreciate a ride, Too Incessa noise of heavy trains, the escape of steam, and the many stoppages of the rapid transit trains, it is argued, have driven away all people of a nervous temperament, and the prevalent oondltlon of things has caused a desire for a depressed road on the avenue to bo strongly urged as the only relief under the elroumstances. A depressed road, it is argned, would glvo vehicles free passago through the intersoetlug streets, make this portion of the road free from tho minor annoyanoes, and consequently appreciate the value of property. The movement is cald to have the encouragement and support of all the large property ownerB on both aides of the avenue, and likewise of many prominent citizens and property owners in tho adjacent wards between Flatbush avenue and Albany auenue.

Meetings are to bo hold, and the demand put forward with all the vigor and emphasis that capital and determination can briug to its assistance. While tho movement for depressed road above Flatbush avonuo Ib taking suoh active form there aro railroad plans affecting Atiantlo avenue below Flatbush whioh are wall ander way. Already a orporation has aecured the consent of a majority of the owners of tho property on Atlantic avenue between South Ferry and Third avenue for the construction of a tunnel road. Tho application for coneent to use the street, based on the signatures obtained, la now pending before the Mayor and the Commissioner of City Works, who. It olaimed, by a remote act of the Legislature have the authority to give the company permission to proceed with its work.

The South Ferry and Sea Side Clreot Transit Company is the name of ihe oorporation, the president of which is Mr. Jamos G. Brown, who waa identified with the construction and successful completion of the Metropolitan Sixth avenue Elevated Ballroad In New York City. The company is reputod to have a oaylUlof $2,500,000. WHAT IT IS PBOPOSKB TO DO.

It proposes to reopen the tuncsl routs from 8onth Ferry to Bocrum, streot, and continue a tunnel from the latteKpoint to the Junction of Third avenue and Atlantic avenuo. Then, brauchlng southerly in a straight line parallel with Third avenue, the aompany propones to run direct to Bay lUdge ana Fort TLHIb Fapor ha tbJ Largetit Circuit tiom ot atty Evenlnjr Paper Pafclksbed fn the Unltod Statos. Its ralaa at an Adrerlislag Medium In Uaoreforo apparent. Tbe Labor Convention Adopts nTFroo Trade Platform. Among the many mistaliea committed by politicians not the least conspicuous is their method of dealing with workiugmon whom they usually court by a fow glittering generalities in their platforms only to smile indifferently when tho time conies for action.

It would be a strange commentary upon our boasted school system if tho workiugmon of tbo country should remain content with this treatment. It is creditable to tbeir intelligence that they have at all events prepared to take action themselvos find have organized in several States upon ihoir own responsibility. Within two weeks moro than ono Stato convention has been called and plat forms setting forth certain causes of complaint and proposing remedies more or less feasible have adopted. It cannot in candor bo moinlwned that all the reforms proposed by them are practicable, but on the whole they have made a fair showing to the world, have stated their case forcibly and have not been unreasonable in their demands. But by far the most encouraging action has been performed by the littbor Convention at Buffalo, representing the varty in this State, namely, its full committal tho policy of free trade.

This we consider me of the most essential subjects that laboring uen anci by this we moan tho mochanics, zlerks and all others who work for wages can discuss. Tho moment that they begin to realize how intimately tho tariff is bound up with the prob2em of wages, and how it really operates in contradistinction to Ub operations as the capitalist benefited by it sets them forth, protection is doomed. It is only by nractisiug deceit and by plrtiisiblo misstatement that tho beneficiaries by tho tariff are enabled to gain the support of the people as soon as the facts are ascertained working men will no longer suffer thcmselveB to bo victimized by paying two prices for everything they buy ono for the article itself, including a reasonable profit to the manufacturer, the other representing an additional and utterly unwarrantable profit. When workiugmen ponder tho question as to who is benefited by a protective tariff and examine it, they must smile at their unwisdom in never before having penetrated tho sophistries of tho agents of the privileged few. Tho task of eliminating from the whole list of industries those which are benefited is a long one, but it is convincing.

First of all it is clear that no man who raises farm produce can bo benefited, because we import no farm produce; builders, masons, carpenters, plumbers, gas fitters, painters, plasterers and bo forth, cannot bo benefited by proteotion, for none of the products of their labor can be brought into competition with foreign made houses, walls, doors or cellars. Those who live by custom work cannot be enriched by it, since thoy make articles to order. Laborers who dig, 'longshoremen, porters and men ho live by muscular exertion surely gain nothing because they aro protected from aothing miners who produce copper, silver, old, lead, coal clerks in stores, merchants, teachers, clergymen, lawyers, drivers none of these men can be protected, and therefore cnu in no way be benefited by protection. But they must be taxed all the same to beno fit somebody, and the puzzle still is to find out who that somebody is. The protectionist answers that the tariff keeps up the wageB of the workman in the lines of industry that are protected, and the mechanic, professional man, 'longshoreman and farmer are taxed for hie benefit.

What element of the total population of this country then does ocme under tho beneficent sway of the protective tariff Just about 00,000, and in order to keep up their wages 50,000,000 of people are heavily taxed. That is every 100 persons in the United States are made to pay twice as much for an article as it costs to manufacture it in order that the wages of ono man shall bo maintained. From this it ought to follow that all the men who work in tho iron mines, tho iron and steel manufactories and tho cotton mills of the United States aro purse proud and prosperous, seeing that the ontiro country is forced to contribute to their support. But hero again we are met by another cheek. Have not these men, women and children whoso labor is so heavily protected just been on strike Have they not been starved into submission to a further reduction of wages Has it not just appeared that in spite of tho enormous contributions levied for their benefit upon SO, 000, 000 of people the wages of men.

women, yes, and little children, too, are so low that the poor creatures have to work seven days in the week an average of fourteen hours a day to keep body and soul together? It is clear that the iron miners and workers and tho cotton mill operatives are enormously benefited by protection, when it appears that they average Borne a week for seven days' arduous toil, and since their wages are about 20 per cent, higher tjian those of the pauper laborors of Europo, while the cost of living is just double that of the Old World, thanks to tha tariff they must bo reveling in luxury and bless the system which protects them into starved paupers' graves. Still, even when wo reach the alleged beneficiaries of protection we have no account given of the millions upon millions of money annually taken from the people to keep up tho wages of these factory hands. Where has it gone to A step further and we find it in tho pockets of the employers, who are dividing it up among themselves and accumulating colossal fortunes, who are feeing their agents to go about the country preaching the beauty of tho protective system which does bo much for them; who aro paying the election expenses of other agants pledged to maintain this to thorn highly profitable swindle who are laying by capital wherewithal to still further tyrannize ovor their starring employes by suspending operations and letting them die of hunger just as soon as tho markot is glutted and prices fall. This very over production is due to the fact that thoy have robbed the country until it is too poor to buy for a time, and then thoy turn this robbery to their own advantage by provoking strikes and so forcing up the price of their goodB. It is a happy discovery that tho workmgvneu of this State have made.

Let them continue to inform their brethren all over the country and there will speedily coma an end of protection. Tlie Rifle Contest at Creedmoor. At the short ranges it appears that the British riflemen boat their American competitors yesterday by 19 points, ai.d inasmuch as the preliminary practice indicated that the latter team showed to best advantage on this stage it seems to have been" accepted without question that our representatives aro to be vanquished in the match. But it is not American to surrender at the first blow, and as Colonel Bodino pithily remarked, he had "seen sicker men cured." The lead in itself is not so formidable as it looks. Comparing tho two scores for the first day it will be seen that while tho difference represents a perceptible percentage in favor of tho visiting team, it is not so great that it may not "be overcome in tho later struggle.

It must be borne in mind moreover that yesterday's conditions, though unfavorable to both sides, were especially so to the Americans. It was essentially an English day, with a dull sky and shifting lights, to which tho visitors have become accustomed through their own moist climate. Again it will be observed that whereas at the '200 aud r00 yards ranges the British gained niuo points each, as the range lengthened the Americans began to hold their own, and came within one point of tying their opponents. Thirdly, the inferences drawn from the praotice are not binding, and in the match the American team may reveres the order and shoot better at longer distances. The failure of the Scotch team in the Conten nial match is suggestive.

On the last day tbey teoko to pieces after gaming what seemed to be a decisive lead. So perfect waB their organization that the collapso of ono man on the team involved the demoralization Of the remainder the British team now engaged in the match presents just such con encouraged, wages were paid such as no native had heard or rrom ine days of Pharaoh downward. All these agencies of light and civilization are ready to return. The English must establish, with European assent, a strong, law abiding and regular government, safe from all ohanoe of military revolt. It is likely enough that the hrmrthnldGrs must, as before, consent to some i sacrifice, for they cannot expect Egypt to pay its debts full wnen ic nas naa sucn enormous losses.

The interest on the debt will probably be reduced. Egypt will also gain by the reduction of the army to a force engaged mainly for services in the Soudan. The system of taxation carried out with such good effect by the control must be revived. The international tribunals will be restored, and foreigners must be compelled to pay their fair share of taxes. Egypt must oease to bo a military State there must be no jiative army foreien carrisons under European authority must secure order, while Khedive rebuilds with improvements the beneficial system which Ismail undermined and Arabi destroyed.

Mow the Turf In Degraded. Plunger Walton, it seems, made a handsome little fortune of off the defeat of the favorites yesterdar at Shoepshead Bay. It is narrated that ho risked $20,000 on Girofle against ventured by the bookmakers on Barrett and Bootjack, and since his horse camo in first he pocketed the stakes. Mr. Walton may not care for what the public thinks of him and his actions in this, and other turf matters ho may be exultant over the magnitude of his acquisitions, but whatever he does think himself the publio will continue to regard him as an unmitigated nuisance who ought to bo ruled off every reputable race track.

His example will prove demoralizing to thousands of excellent but unreflecting young men and give a stimulus to betting large sums whioh is nothing short of gambling. His pernioious influence serves to degrade a wholesome and exciting Bport to' the level of the faro bank, for in a healthy state of society the race and not the money won on it should constitute the attraction, and just as much zest can be obtained by hazarding S3 on the result as by staking $50,000 at a time. There lies all the difference in the world between the better who wagers a trifling sum to give him a lively interest in tho race and tho gambler who "puts up a fortune" upon the hazard of the test. Plunger Walton is a thorough paced and demoralizing gambler. How to get rid of him does not seem an easy question to answer.

Perhaps if a rule were made and enforced limiting tho amount of money to bo bet by any individual and so framed as to make indirect methods of staking a sum in excess of that limit punishable by exclusion from tho track, Mr. Walton might bo permanently banished. Suoh a limit is usually fixed in gentlemen's games at poker, and if the race track is to maintain its position as a gentlemanly sport some such plan must be adopted to purge it of unscrupulous adventurers. There is nothing, of course, to show that Girofle did not win fairly. One of the Loril lard horses was beaten, and that circumstance is sufficient to indicate fair play.

But no mat ter how honorable tho horse owners may be, Mr. Walton has long ago demonstrated his ability to control races independently of their upright desire to let tho best horse win, and he is notorious for making "arrangements" with jockeys. It may be true, as he says it is, that he never bribed a jookey to lose a race, though the testimony of Kelly is to the effect that he asked that precious person to pull his own entries for a consideration. But Mr. Walton is too shrewd to tie himself down to tho simple business of this kind.

He confesses to paying jockeys large sums to win, which is equivalent to bribery, and he iB none too delicate to maneuver in other ways. At all events he has given the jockeys a broad hint to act together upon this basis that unless somebody pays them to win they will not win. This, carried a step further, gives tho Plunger full control in this woy Supposing he offers a jockey $1,000 to win, which he can afford to do, that implies that the jockey will use every effort to secure the prize, even to parting with a large slice of the sum. He probably puts by a third of it for distribution among the best mount to prevail upon them to lose. Each does his share and the Plunger's horse is successful.

He may declare that he never approached a jockey directly with bribes to loae, but ho understands that tho person singled out for victory will not hesitate to make his" victory certain for the sake of a fraction of his fee. Thus it is that Walton has demoralized the turf and neutralized the efforts of honorable men to maintain its standard. Ho ought to be especially singled out for banishment. The Government should leave no stone unturned to secure if possible the confessions of Rerdell and Miner to be used at the retrial of the other conspirators in November. If Judge Wylie permits them to go at liberty on bail they will certainly fall into the clutches of Brady and Dorsey and be so "fixed" as to render their information of no account to the prosecution.

It is probable that Mr, Jay Hubbell's Bedouin attacks on Federal employes will hereafter bo less fierce and frequent. This surcease of zeol may be traced to an event which has just transpired in Michigan. The great blackmailer's constituents, to whom he appealed for a renomination to Congress, have not only rejected the appeal but manifested something like indignation at his audacity in making it, by nominating a man who is most offensive and antagonistic to him. The intelligence also comes that his hopes of succeeding Senator Ferry are totally eclipsed. If there were some State where Mr.

Hubbell is not so well known as he is in Michigan, he might move in and repair damages. But, unhappily, his fame is national and there is no refuge for him but retirement. Hon. G. Frisbie Hoar is a United States Senator, from the State of Massachusetts.

He voted to pass the River and Harbor bill, and so did the Hon. W. W. Crapo, representative in CongresB from the First Massachusetts District. Mr.

Crapo is one of tho Republican candidates for Governor, and Mr. Hoar, acknowledging the bond of sympathy between them, cordially supports his candidacy. Worcester is the Senator's home, and last Tuesday nifrht he exerted his influence with his constituents in that city to secure the election of delegates favorable to the nomination of Mr. Crapo. The result was that out of thirty seven delegates chosen thirty are pronounced partisans of Mr.

Bishop, Crapo's leading rivaL In his capacity as a moralist there would appear to bo something in this situation for Mr. Hoar to think over. Tho Hon. John Sherman has undoubtedly heard by this timo of the distressing fate that has befallen a whilom friend and ally. This friend and ally is a woman, and her misfortune therefore appeals all the more powerfully to him.

Her dwelling place was Louisiana, her present residence is the jail at Canton, Mississippi, aud her name is Eliza Pinkston. It appears that since Eliza bade the Hon. John an affectionate adieu in tho Winter of 187G 77 she has broken through the moral restraints with whioh the friendship and counsels of that illustrious man surrounded her. Obbyiug the law whioh renders the descent to Avernus an easy one, she has accomplished in five brief years her fall from tho lofty plane of President making to the base level of petit larceny, and is now ignobly deprived of her liberty by confinement in a Mississippi calaboose. It would be rash to assert that under these painful circumstances the heart of the Hon.

John bleeds for her, as the Sherman heart 1 1 .3 VI 3 IS not COpiOUEiy suppneu wiui miuuu jui purposes of that sort. But it is within the limits of probability to say that the tidings of her death would have been more agreeable to him than the pitiful spectacle of her present condition, The Washington Gun Club of the Eastern District hold their annual excursion to Lake Hopatcong, N. yesterday. Tk affair was in every sense a brilliant anccasp. Sportsmen representing various Brook lyn clubs and prominent olUzeaa gece guests.

The sympathies of tho crowd which watched every movement of tho Bhooters' yesterday waa about evenly divided. Each team had its adherents, and there wore numorons outbursts of applause, MoNevin's Bplendld 33 at 500 yards being cheorcd to tho echo, wiping out as It did, his failnro at the first distance. At the oloaa of the day'a shooting tho odds whioh had previously been offered upon the British team were materially re duced, It being regarded as oertaln that tha Americana would crowd their Voluuteor antagonists very elosely in to day's competition. CURRENT EVENTS. Police Surgeon Jaroee W.

G. Clements, of New York, died yesterday in Ulster County. The Richmond County Democratio Conven tion yesterday indorsed Congressman Perry Belmont' courso in Congress. Attorney General Brewster will deliver nn oration before the Stato Bar Association at Its annual meeting to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday nexttn Albany. Tho Rev.

Henry Vidaror, Rabbi of tho Con gregation Sherlth Israel, of San FraDcIsco, formerly of Philadelphia, diod yosterday at tho age of 49 yonrg. Henry L. Scranton, lessee of tho Central Hotel, Long Branoh, has dlaoppoarod, owing his laud lord, butcher and baker. Ten thousimd persons attended the Veteran Reunion yesterday at Laconia, N. H.

General Sherman made the speech of the day, which was well received. The famous stud farm of the lata H. Price McGrath, near Lexington, Kentucky, was sold yesterday to Milton Young, tho well known turfman, for $40,912.50. Lieutenant K. W.

Young, of the Fifth Ar tillory, U. S. a son of tho lato Joseph A. Young.was married at Salt Lake, on Tuesday last, to Miss Wasala Richards. Lieutenant Young reoently graduated from the Military Academy at Wost Point.

Thore wero 1,126 now cases of yellow fover in BrownBVllle, Toxas, last week and 24 deaths. Up to yesterday thore had been this wook 187 cases and 3 deaths. Throe fourths of the population are recoivlng aid from the Relief Committee. A reception will be tendered Mr. Alexander M.

Snllivan, ex Member of Parliament on Monday evening next Mayor Grace will preside. The address will bo devoted to the Land League movement and to questions relating to the best Interests of Ireland. The Very Reverend Mgr. Doano, of Newark, N. continued yesterday the exercises of his silver jubilee.

In the morning he celebrated solemn hiRh moss in the cathedral for the children, nearly 2,000 of whom were present. The price of petroloum oil has advanced iu Cincinnati since Monday morning oight conts and continued to advance eaoh day. The Balos during tbo week roaohdcl figures not heretofore attained in that markot. The total salos yeBtorday were 4,431,000 barrels. Tho cauBe of tbe advance was the drainage of the oil baeins in tho phenomenal Cherry Grova oil region, The annual mooting of tho American woman's Suffrage Association is in session In Omaha, and tho meeting woro largely attonded yesterday.

Sixty eight delegates were prosent. Governor John Hoyt and Judge Kingman of Wyoming Territory addressed tho convention and claimed that tho experience of thirteen years of woman suffrage in thoir territory had provod so benoflclal that all parties wore now united in its support. It was voted to make an active campaign in Nobraska for the passage of a woman suffroge constitutional amendment. The Woman's National Industrial League in Washington effeotod a permanent organization last evoning by the alectlon of Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of Washington, as president Mrs.

Harriet L. Dobson, of Now York, vico president; Mrs. Lnmia Duudore, of Washington, recording secretary, and Maria Barton Greene, of Massachusetts, corresponding secretary. A lettor was read from General Bosocraus Indorsing tho loagua aud demanding Government work for women. Rev.

W. H. Scott, president of the Ohio University, is on trial for heresy at Athene, 0., before the official board of tho MethodlBt Episcopal Church. Tha charges are that he denies the Trinity, tbe vicarious atonement, the divinity of Christ, total depravity and tho reBurroction of tho body. Public opinion la entirely In favor of Dr.

Scolt. Tho case will go to tho conference at Ironton next week, and will excite wide attention bocauso of the former high church position of the accused. No new eases of emaUpox: were reported in Paterson, N. yesterday, and tho fooling of anxiety is lessening. Tbe twonty ona patients In the hoBpltal are doing well.

Six persons have died thus far. Tbo health luepBctor appointed to aid in stamping out the disoaso has beeu astonished and shocked at the filthy condition of many housea visited by him. Sovoral tenement houses have boen vacated, and tho Board of Health, acting on bis reports, will causa othora to be thoroughly oloanert. The three days' estiyal of the Myst'o Order of Iho Oriole closed In Baltimore last evening, with a speotaoular procession wllnested by many thousand visitors. The slrcots were brilliantly illuminated.

The pagoaut was composed of throe divisions. The firat consisted of nine floats reprepontlnff tbo Rulers of Bevolfl and envoys from foreign potentates. The eeoond division conalBtod of eleven floats representing Illustrious women, and the third, of sixteen floats, was designated to illustrsto an epic pcem. A little boy of ten years was arrested in New York for drunkenness, yesterday, and whon questioned iu the Jefferson Market 1'olico Court ssld that he waB arrested three yesrB ago for Btoallng a borso, and served two years and eight months in the House of Eougo. He earned five dollars a week driving a horse for an lee company.

The JuBttco waa in a quandary what to do with the youthful orlmlnal, but It is likely that he will go baok to tho Honno of Uefugo. His mothor wa In conrt, but admitted hersolf powerless to manage him, or to hope for his reformation, John N. Tallman, a member of the Produce Exchange of New York, was expelled yosterday by a unanimous vote of tbo Board of Managers for dishonest praotlcos toward his omployors, Messrs. Hal shlzer Buckman, grain and feed merchants. He has boen a member of the Exchange since 1873.

Tall man was a olork In tho employ of this firm and for sovoral years has engaged in peculations of minor sort aggregating probably $3,000, through opening firm letters and appropriating and withholding sums of money paid him. Tho directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company met yesterday In Now York and adopted a resolution authorizing tha issue of a naw obligation amounting in value to 11 1 10 per cent of tho preferred Btook to ba issuod to proforred stockholders only. Tho etock Is to run not more than five yoars at per cent. Interest, and is redeemable at any tlms within five years. This Ibsuo is made to meet the olaim that the company since its organization in 1875 has earned a surplus of which should hare been paid dirldonds on preferrod Block, which hoe, instead, boen used in oxtendlng and maintaining the road.

The latest claims filed again6t the appropriation for paying the miscellaneous expenses oaueod by the sickness of Presldout Qsrflold, aro those of Harry J. Moore and Dr. Lamb. Moore aeke for $176 for carrying bulletins to tbe members of tbe Cabinet. He complains that he got up at 6 o'elook in the morning to do it, Moore is a regularly appointed messonger of the Government, drawing salary as such.

Dr. Lamb wants $1,000 for making the autopsy. It will not ba allowed, on tho ground that Dr. Lamb Is a regular employe of the Government and cannot draw two salaries. The Pension Bureau publishes a statement showing some omozlng figurce.

During tha year ending June 80, 40,039 original claims for pensions and 34,148 claims for inorease of pensions were filed. Tbe number of claims rojeoted was tho total amount paid for pensions during the year, inoluding the cost of disbursement, was $54,390,280.54 total number of pensioners on tho roll, 285,697, a gain over the previous year of 18,867. The total amount paid by the Government for pensions from 1791 to 1801 was Tho total amount paid from 1861 to Juno 30, 1882, was About $530,000,000 In all have boon disbursed on acoount of pensions. The National Convention of the Mutual Benoflt UnionB, in lection in New York yesterday, elected the following officers President, George W. Bnrkhardt, of Detroll; seoretary, J.

F. Shumate, Ur bans, Ohio; treosurer, T. A. Young, New York; executive committee W. S.

Campbell, Phlladelphlo; J. J. Areher, Albany; J. 0. Terry, St.

Paul; G. F. Pholps, Gftlesburg, Hi, A committee on legislation was appointed to meVt fn November, and a resolution was passed urging eaoh association to aid in the formation of State unions, snch being the surest protection against injurious legislation. The delegatos onjoyed a dinnor at Manhattan Beaoh in tbe evening. A banquet was given to Engineer Melville and his comrades, Noros and Niudarraann at Delmon ioo'a lost evening.

There were pro3cnt 150 guests in clnn ini? Mavor Grace, ex Mayor Wlckhum, 8enator Jones, of Florioa; Judge Brady an Postmaster Pearson. Tho Beat rsserved for Commander Berry oi the burned Bodcera was vaeant. Speeches were made By Judge Brady, Engineer Melville, Mayor Grace, Chief Engltioer Ieherwood or tho navy, uoiigreasman liooin aon and Corporal Tannor. In front of Engineer Mel ville's seat was a circular plaque borderod with sliver, flowers and follsgo, and showing in relief a part of tbe Aretlo ocean and the laud about the mouth of ths Lena River. The tables were handsomely decorated with flowers.

The Aztec Club, composed of military offi cer who served in the Mexioan war and their descendants, held their annual meeting and dinner In New York last evening. General Hanoock, president of tho club, occupied the seat at the head of the table, and at bis right was Mr. George W. Chllds, of Philadelphia, The menus were each a different scone from tho land of tho Axteca, and the name of tho guest surroundod by Moorish, Persian or Etruscan ornamentation in lnetal lio or bright colors, bost suited tbo dsolgn. The cards wore mounted on beivy satin ribbon of deep Dine, rea or pink.

Among the guests waro Generals U. 8. Grant, C. Dunn, Sobofiold, Eltz John Porter, 8hephord, Augur ana Loilng, Colonola Rondrick, 1'losd and Jones, Lioutonsnt Barter and Commander MoCansley. At a business meeting the new officers chosen were General W.

8. Hancock, president General U. 8. Ora of, vice president G.uoral H. Coffee, secretary, and Gen.

axel W. Haguer, treasurer. 8l Name. 30W 31 05 Pnllard 29 31 83 OS 8 Hinman 30 32 23 90 4 Ocilen 27 31 31 89 5lAtkinaon 20 32 27 88 6Doln 25 28 34 87 7 Hinds 29 29 28 88 8 McNevln 22 33 30 85 OiHoward 31 29 25, 85 SOlShakepere 25 29 29; 83 11 Paulding 27 31; 24 83 27 30! 23 80 Aggregate 331 389.343 1, 043 The aianding of the Volunteers is shown In the table BBITI8H BANOB TOTAI.8. Name.

I'McVittio 2 Dods 3lHeai 4 fioultor SIG'nldwoll 6 Parry 3 01 Oliver A cm.si.jiln 3 31 34 32, 33, 33 32, SI 27 30 32i 29 3411! 1,002 S3 As a BunDliment to tha foregoing a runuing racord of the match Ib appended RUNNING BECOBD. British. American Honnd. TSl TTgr (5 1 gp First 4B 50 2 Second 0 51 2 Third 3 5' jJ Fifth 5 4 49 Siitn 4 Seventh Hi 11 Eighth 53 Ninth SB 5 51 Tenth 65 59 4 2 Twelfth Thirteenth 57 3 54 Fourteenth 5J Fifteenth 1 Sixtoentb J3 4 43 Seventaanth SS 49 EiKhtoenth Ninotoenth Twentieth 52 6 46 Twenty first 47 53 8 Totai 1.002 47 1,043 23 340 9 331 5 gg 600 yards 8 843 British lead L24j Tk6 Anal nt th at fiOO Yards WOTO Shot in poor light tho hour being very late. Up to that time, however, tho light had been of the best description, tho clouds breaking away as tbe BhooUng began at the first distance, and tha sunshine continuing throughout tho afternoon.

From the comparison made Ifr aann thnt thn Tlrltifth 1ft OnW OnO Haivn and a half pointa per man for tha entire shooting. Tha ftHn.hitlow "centers" at 200 UiOLagv ui tuu yarda where tt waa least axpeoted but in the grand.