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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEW YORK. TUESDAY. JUNE 3, 1902. iSSlOW LABGREHS Side Lights on Literature HEARING ON BLUSHING CANAL. Next Friday the Aldermanic Committee on affairs of boroughs will hold a public hearing on the proposition to strike from the map of Queens borough the proposal canal connecting Flushing and Newtown I'reeks.

The people of Flushing aro oppo: to this canal. of the Southwest," the Rev. A. B. Caeo.

California. P. M. CongreRatlonal Education Society, the Rev. Edward S.

Toad, necretary; "Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society," Secretary George M. Koynton. D. D. the Rev.

Samuel Loomls, D. Boston; the Rev. George C. Haun. Wisconsin.

"The New lint lund Problem of To day." the Rev. George E. Hull, New Hampshire. "Texas, the Need anil the Opportunity," the Rev. Luther Rees.

superintendent of Texas: "Home Missions as a Business Investment." tho Rev. T. Calvin McLellnnti. "Points for Investment." the Rev. .1.

D. Kingsbury, D. D. "A Forward Movement In Home Missions." the Rev. A.

H. Bradford, D. moderator of National Council. cnt varieties denit.nd radically different treatment (he English nomr nclaiuro is likely at first to mix the reader up. However, there is much of practical treatment applicable to aH'trees that "ill he veiy jecepiabic to raisers of this king of fruits.

The editor. Harry Roberts, has added a very itit'Testing chapter on ciders that is well worth reading. It should increase the AinerJenii chest measure to sum.1 extent to learn that the tailor gives American cidt pre eminence or tho amount of alcohol cot'Uined in tho beverage. Is it possible that some Maine farmer lias been exporting that treasured "stone fence" that the Adair law snvs shall be made for his own consumption purely? There are some twenty excellent illustrations. (John Lane, crown Svo.

cloth, I on tho ounce; meat Is as cheap in London, in spite of transportation charges much I cheaper when tho intermittent trust busl ncss takes place In New York; ten, though taxed, is cheaper and as a rule better England; kerosene oil is ehoaper 0 cents a gallon to Id cents here; ice not ncces sary in summer, nor a fire at night in win tor: a meal which costs 15 cents here is I served for 12 centa anywhere fn Whltechapel. On the other hand, the difference in rent, which Mr. Carnegie says is much cheaper in England, Is open to question. The price for a singh? room averages a dollar in both capitals; tho rent of a tenement fiat, and a and convenient one, too, runs as low as $1.50 In New York or Chlcngo. Mr.

Car nercie 8nys: "When the masses in Britain realize how heavily they arc taxed compared with the workers of the I'nited Stales, there will probably be a prompt de i maud for reductions upon articles embraced in the term subsistence, and especially for a free breakfast table." Another instance of the apparent impossibility of a rich man finding out how the poor live. Then Mr. Carnegie says that wnires are mueb hicher decay or deterioration for death Is a normal result and condition of trees and grass, as much as litebut that the park has beeu and Is In Its present" state so beautiful and so much a matter' of Just pride and credit to the city. "The conservative statement of President Willcox, In effect that the conditions were well understood and that appropriate remedies toward restoration would be constantly applied, must tend to allay the panic stricken on this subject, and strike a responsive chord in the minds of all who have given the park question special study from a practical standpoint. The parks of Greater Xew York, with all tho changes from rapid municipal growth and the frequent transition of political control are now the most beautiful parks in the world.

Not one of the park systems of Europe, can compare with the varied attractions to be found hero. "One of tho principal difficulties has been tho want of courage in not properly thinning the plantations in all the parks, made necessary by the growth and development of close planting as originally made. "Another obstacle frequently mentioned, but never with sufficient emphasis or thoroughness carried out, is the lack of sufficient soil and space for root growth in planting. These defects are, however, easily overcome by intelligent direction on the lines of well understood methods. The Interment process of a whole park would accentuate not alleviate the difficulty.

The same may be said an to the lawns. As has been well stated Central park is not Prospect Park in these matters. Each park has its Inherent Individuality, both as to composite parts and uses. "The treatment applicable to ono park way be as inapproprite as injudicious or injurious to another. Every place of recreation has an environment peculiar to itself; and because the conditions In one instance permit people to romp at pleasure over the lawns, it does not follow but that other conditions in other places may make the reverse rule Just as imperative and desirable.

"With the full measure of responsibility for the management of the parks directly concentrated, as under the present city charter, there Is little cause for alarm, or reason to doubt but that Central Park and all the parks of the Greater City, wfTT, in the future, continue to be as they have been in the past, the most beautiful and valuable pleasure grounds to be found anywhere." BAIX VACATION SCHOOL. The Hall Vacation School, which has been held In the Hall Memorial House for several summers in connection with the work of the Church of the Holy Trinity, will begin Its session on Monday, July 7, and continue for six weeks, closing on August 15. The branches taught will include cooking, millinery, klndergirten, chair caning, basketry, modelling, etc. Miss Stroud, secretary, will be In charge of the details of work. A Vegetarian CooTi Book.

"A Comprehensive Guide Book to Natural, Hygienic and Human Diet," is the long name or a hook written by Sydnoy H. Heard, which Is really a vegetarian cook book, and that is a most useful thing to havo In these days of advancing meat rates, and the desire for c.ioling and easily prepared foods during the summer time. Although there are some chapters on food and various sorts ot diet, it is not so much an argument for vegetarianism, as a practical plan for its observance. Simple directions for salads, luncheon dishes, and desserts make the book of value to house keepers. ruoo reionn.

nonever. occupies i i volume, and the argument of all food re formers that the nature, quality and quan tit of our daily food largely determines our physical, mental and spiritual condition is largclr dwelt upon. (Thnrnas l. Oroweil Co. I An exhaustive treatise on the culture ot vegetables, called "The of i is by George Wythes.

V. M. II It is one tit a i scries of "Handbooks of Practical Gardening." edited by Harry Roberts. Tho raising of vegetables is fully treated, and chapters arc lidded uprn the history and cookery of each vegetable. (John Lane.

$1). A Philippine Story. The author of "A Soldier in the Philip pines," N. N. Freeman, was a private during the most strenuous days experienced by our men in the far East.

Possessing all advantages for seeing events at first hand. the writer, although somewhat priggish andj stiff in his methods of expression, has a shrewd Judgment and writes mostly not of; elorv or the erandeur of his country's serv ice. but of the hardships and everyday oc i currences of a soldier life. He says: uue In ramps at one placo a little while, then at another place, winter and summer, rain, sleet mid with twenty men In one wall I I i tout, is very disagreeable, unhealthy and nr. nf pleasant.

I spent ono month in camp In New Carmcl and Other Poems," Orleans during the hot weather, and all the 's Santnyana. "The Hermit of pleasure I had there wa3 fighting mosqui Carmel" and "The Knight's Return" are toes. Wc had a fierce battle with them every dramas, and tho longest poems in the col night." i leciion. Spirited verse aro Inserted under The charm of naive ingenuousness is ccr headings of "Elegiac and Lvric Poetm tainly the author's, as the most remarkable convivial and Occasional Verse and events are chronicled in the same stolid, "Translations." (Charles Scribner's Son matter of fact way. (F.

Tennyson Neeiy nunes sen nn or Sons, Company, $1.25.) i "The Cathedral and Other Poems," by The Eelativo Cost of Living in England Martha Gilbert Dickinson, consists of poems and the States. of a religious sort, mostly of the cathedral. In comparing the relative cost of living in a large number of verses being named after England and America Mr. Carnegie, in his ttTwont Piirta of a cathedral, ne work, "The Empire of Business," rc lies, it is feared, somewhat superficial joy" anrt At vesucrs." OLD TIME LOVE STORY. Ellen Olney Kirk Writes a Love Story Without Social Problems or Morbid Questions.

Mrs. Ellen Olney Kirk's latest story "A Remedy for Love," is a very charming old fashioned love story, with no social problems or any overstrained morbid doubts troubling the minds of the characters. Agnes and Theodora, twin daughters of a widower, arc ambitious to have a "coming out" party. Then they long for lovers and when tho lovers are got they quarrel and coquet with them in a genial old fashioned way that is a positive refreshment to find, after the athletic girls, tho modern club women and the introspective, self torturing women ot ir.o;;t modern plays and novels. Here are two girla whose ambitions do not soar above pretty frocke, partners and speedy marriages.

The only touch of modernity is tho father's marriage to his typewriter and secretary. I And even that is done in nn old fashioned style. The pair do not talk philosophy or social economy, he tells her simply that he loves her and she replies that she "would he were nobler than to do it." Three pairs of happily united lovers aro a good allowance Tor one small volume. They arc of various type; The widower, who had been only i married ten months and then Immersed hlm self in science for twenty years, at tho end of that time falling in love with the first pretty woman who was thrown into his company; the sedate girl, who foils in love I with a prig, and the lively girl, who fails in love with a Jolly cousin she has known all I her life; each of these characters has an Interest of its own. The story of their love affairs is told with sprightliness and much delicacy and lightness of touch.

Mrs. Kirk's "Remedy for Love" is marriage. A thoroughly good old fashioned remedy! (Houghton, Mifflin limo. $1.25.) The Poet Laureate. A volume of recent poems by Alfred Austin Is entitled "A Tale of True Love and Other Poems." As a bid for American renders the volume is dedicated to President Roosevolt "with deep admiration and respect." The poet laureate of England is a person of prudent and careful mind; he has discovered, ho, says, "that the only way of ad diesslng the American peome that Is ngree able to them is to do so with unhesitating frankness," so ho will avail himself of it.

I He finds, he tells us, that the office ot poet laureate is often misunderstood. Ho then proceeds to "justify his office" and protests against its being supposed to be a place of i "courtly servility" when It was filled by such I men as Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson and Wordsworth. To claim a. better reverence for his office Is all right, but to claim that whenever he gives expression on great occasions to national sentiment that he is expressing the sentiments of the American people ns well as the English, seems somewhat overdrawn. "The Ideal of both nations is tho same," he says, "as well as their language." But.

In spite of this, the verse that must always bo tempered by a due regard for the sensibilities of royal princes, and whoso sentiments must always be softened to meet the views of those in authority, ennnot always be tho voice of a freedom loving American public. Alfred Austin's finer poems, many of which are Included in this collection, we must admire. To those which are little more than a record of the birth or merriage of royalty the world is blandly Indifferent. (Harper $1.) The Book of the Apple. Volume "VI of the interesting and useful scries of "Books on Practical Gardening." i issued under the editorship of Harry Roberts, to which frequent reference has been made in these columns, is "The Book of tho Apple," by H.

H. Thomas. The author is a practical pomologist and the work would probaoly he of distinct value to the orchard Ist but for ono drawback. These works aro English publications, and it will be found somewhat difficult to identify even some of the most common varieties by their English names. Tomology is not entirely an open book in this country, as every practical orchard nian knows, tor nearly every state in the Union, and especially those of the Middle Vest, where gnarled and dry rotted old veterans, whose Dicmv product produces vinegar at first hand, hark br.ck to the missionary work of "Applesccd Johnny," has a different name for every variety of apple.

As diffcr brought the old play to life. So far as th rest of the play went it seemed to an audience of moderns that the one genuine thing about it was the love scenes between Heleu and Modus. These sparkled with real fire which made the pinchbeck quality ot the tragedy all tho more prominent. But tho performance was a good example of the old fashioned classic school. Indeed, It offered half a dozen examples of various grades of the classic school.

Eben Plympton, for example, gave to the blank verse of Master Walter a finish and naturalness which pretty nearly matched the skillful ecolution of Kyrle Bellew In Bulwer, and which would havo passed current as fine performance in London or New York in the days when the play was In its glory. Miss Allen's Julia would probably have been recelvod with hysterical admiration in Cincinnati or Chicago. It is a little difficult to believe that Helen Fauclt or Julia Dean played Julia quite as Miss Allen does, but at least neither of them could have worked harder or made any more noise about it. The way that Miss Allen gritted her teeth into some of that blank verse and shook it out into the audience wounded and bleeding, was a caution. But the interesting thing about her performance was that the sincerity of the actress rose above the obvious struggle she was having with the theatricallsm of the old play.

Her country enthusiasm was extravagant, but genuine In the first act, while, as intimated, she rose almost to the height of ue tragedy In the last act. The comedy scf; were brilliantly played, by Adelaide Prince as Helen in the old stylo and by Jameson Lee Finney as Modus In the new manner or possible the manner of the two or three most finished comedians of the eld school, but very far from tho examples that survived until 1880. Aubrey Boucicault played Clifford very well Indeed for any school, and Leslie Allen gave a classic performance of Fathom. Altogether the performance, which will be repeated to day and to morrow, was Interesting as a revival of the stage ant of a bygone day and an agreeable reminder of the fact that Miss Allen can play something beside modern melodrama to the clink, clink, clink of coin that overflows the box office. The demonstration of the audience was a pleasant evidence that Miss Allen has a great public with her.

whether she chooses to play melodrama or classic tragedy. The Casino. On the strength of a long run at a London theater, "A Chinese Honeymoon" began its American experiences last night at the Casino. Everybody who Is anybody on such occasions was there. The play is called a comedy, but It contains nothing that is even remotely suggestive of the title it is a collection of harmless and anything but dull extravagances.

Making duo allowances for the case with which first night enthusiasm is generated, the judgment expressed more than justified the importation. The Casino management wont into the enterprise with thoroughness there were no sins of omission iu the matter of stage effect. The fun provided could easily be identified without referring to the programme for a clue. It is English, you know. As such it is not without what will here be regarded as infirmities, li involves not too severe a strain on the faculties.

There is not the least danger that anybody will miss the point because it happens to be too finely drawn. Some of it is hammered in by main strength, as it v. erC rather than by inference or insinuation. Still, the fun is there, and monotony does not claim it for its own. Also there Is action, such action as is the very fiber of the being of comic opera.

Impossible situations chase each other through the honeymoon from first to last. As to the music, it it soarB to no Intoxicating heights, Seventy sixth Annual Report of the Congregational Home Missionary Society. DEBT IS NEARLY WIPED OUT. Additions to the Church Number of Sunday School and Bible Class Scholars, 133,378. Syracuse, June 3 The seventy sixth annual meeting of the Congregational Homo Missionary Society will begin its three days' session here this evening.

This afternoon the seventy sixth annual report was made public. It is a voluminous' document which will bo referred to a special committee, critically examined by" that committee and reported upon. Its substance is as follows: The number of missionary laborers in the service of the society last year, together with those engaged in superintending the work, is 1,868 (deducting 23 reported in more than one state, Of these, 1,423 were in commission at the dato of the last report, and 422 have since been appointed. They have been employed in 47 states and territories, as follows: In Maine, 87; New Hampshire, 66; Vermont, 57; Massachusetts, 154; Rhode Island, 15; Connecticut, 75; Xew York, 57; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 45; North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, 25; Alabama, 40; Arkansas, Florida, 33; Texas. 12; Oklahoma, SO; Tennessee, Ohio, 37; Indiana, Indian Territory, Kentucky, Illinois, 92; Missouri, 32; Michigan, 85, Wisconsin, 75; Iowa, 95; Minnesota, 105; Kansas, 30; Nebraska, 97; North Dakota, 50; South Dakota, 8S; Golorado, 51; Wyoming, "11; Montana, 15; New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, 16; Arizona, North California, 45; South California, 42; Oregon, 2S; Washington, 70; Aiaska, Cuba, 6 in all, 1,868.

Of these 23 having labored in more than one state, are in this enumeration twice counted. The total number of individuals employed is 1,845. This distribution, retaining the twice counted, gives to the New England States 444; Middle States, 116; Southern States, 109; Southwestern States, 98; on the Pacific Coast, 199; Western States' and Territories. 896; Cuba, 6. Of the whole number in commission, 1,202 have been pastors or stated supplies of single congregations; 546 have ministered to two or three congregations each, and 40 have extended their labors over still wider fields.

The aggregate missionary labor performed is 1,339 years. The number of congregations and missionary districts which have been fully supplied, where the Gospel has been preached at stated intervals, is 2,484. The number of those who have preached 5n foreign languages is 218; 53 to German congregations, 97 to Scandinavian congregations, 24 to Bohemian congvegati'ons, 6 to Polish congregations. 8 to French congregations, 2 to Mexican congregations, 3 to Italian congregations, 8 to Spanish congrega tions. 6 to congregations of Finns, 2 to congregations of Danes, 7 to congregations of Armenians, 1 to a congregation of Greeks, and 1 to a congregation of Welsh.

The number of Sunday school and Bible class scholars Is not far from 133,378. The organization of 166 new schools is reported, and the number under the special care of missionaries Is 2,018. One hundred and seventy six make mention of revivals of religion during th.o year, some of them reporting 140, 90, 70, C3, 60, 59, 50. 42. 41, '45.

conversions. In 150 instances the number of reported converts exceeds 10, and the number reported by 592 missionaries is 4,446. The additions to the churches, as nearly as can be ascertained, have been 4,321 on confession of faith, and by letters from other churches. Sixty five churches have been organized in connection with the labors of the mission aries within the year, and 42 have assumed the entire support of their own gospel ordinances. Sixty one houses of worship have been completed and 271 materially repaired or improved, and 84 parsonages have been provided.

Forty two in connection with the missionary churches, arc reported as in pre paratton for the gospel ministry. society began the year with a net i debt of $63,693.18. The receipts of the Na tional Society during the year from contribu tlons, legacies and other sources were $346,849.59. The expenditures of the National Society for missionary labor and expenses'durlng the year have been $293,063.90. The not debt of the society at the close of the fiscal year, March 3i.

1902, is $9,912.49, a decrease in the debt' during the year of $53, 785.69. The auxlJJa'rV societies raised and expended In their own fields during the year $255,612.65. i Adding this to the total receipts of the Na 1 1 1 uyuoi. uuwcii, we nave a grand total of receipts, for home missions Cor the year of $602,462.24, and a grand total of expenditures UI The number of commissions is less by IS than that of the seventy fifth year; the years of labor were 36 more; the number who hava preached in foreign languages were 1 less; 257 less preaching stations have been statedly supplied. The additions to the aided churches were, by letter, IS less, "arid oh confession 792 less, than last year.

The number of Sunday schools under missionary care have been 35 more, with 13,896 less scholars reported. The woman's department has completed twenty years of organized activity. It has' been conducted during the past year as a part of the general executive office. One hundred and sixty six new Sunday schools have been organized. There are 2,018 schools under the care of missionary pastors and their enrolled attendants' nuinber 133,378.

These Sunday schools are everywhere tributaries to the membership of the churches, and from them come tho larger part of the accessions which each year records. Missionary boxes and gifts of clothing and household articles reported for the year were 550 In number, and were valued at making a total aid rendered In this form since record has been kept of it, Three years ago the society closed Its seventy third fiscal year with an Indebtedness of $133,469. In the seventy fourth year this amount of debt was reduced to The seventy fifth year saw this burden brought down to $63,698. The present year has nearly extinguished this long; standing indebtedness of the society, tho net debt being less than $10,000. The annual sermon was to havo been preached to night by the Rev.

D. Newell Dwight Hlllis, but he is now in Europe. An attractive programme for to morrow and Thursday has been arranged. It is as follows: WEDNESDAY. JUNE 4.

A. Devotional exercises: address, the Bov. Shelton, Eastern Held secretary. "The Gift and the Giver." Woman's meetinE. Mrs.

Will lam Klncnld. president New York Home Missionary Union, presiding; Miss M. Dean MoiTutt, "Glimpses of the Need" Mrs. Dora Read Barber, 'Home Mlssionai" Trophies In Mrs. Washington "Cuba.

To day's Mre. Charles 31. Iximson, "Patriotism To ap' m. Cromrreftatlonal Church Building Society, the Rev. L.

H. Cobb. D. secretary: the Rev. Moods'.

Sew York; the Rev. J. D. Klnss biiry' Utah; "Tho Far East. Maine." the Rev Charles Harbutt, eeoretary: "The Far West, California." the Rev.

J. H. Harrison, secretary: 'The Mingling; of the Nations." the Rev. J. M.

Sturtevant. V. ot Illinois: "Germany In America." the Itev. M. E.

Bversz, D. superintendent of German deuartment. To day's Great Problems: "Shull the ConRresatlonal Churches Acaln Became AcBresslve?" the Rev. Dan F. Bradley Michigan: "The Cry ot Cuba." Sin Rev Georse L.

Todd. Havana, Cuba; "The porKottch Millions," the Rev. William G. Pudde fool. THURSDAY.

JUNE 5. Devotional: annual business meeting for "F'rV The I. BrooKiyn. iimuiou "k4 OPERA AT THE 0RPHEUM. The Isle of Champagno" the Second of the Series of Light, Summer Entertainments.

The Orpheum Opera Company, for the second week of the summer musical srason at the Orpheum, appeared last evening in "The Isle of Champagne," book by c. A. and music by William Furst. It had a long run in Manhattan and should draw audiences here for the week. Tho opora requires, beside good voices, a lot of good scenery and lavish costumes.

These were all in evidence last evening and there was a goodly audience that enjoyed thorn. Stanley Felch had tho leading burlesque part as King' Pommery, tbe Second. He was humorous in his delivery of his lines, but not so forceful as he might have been, and some times Mr. Nicol, who wielded the baton. set the pace too rapidly.

The aim of the leader, of course, was briskness ot movement, but the audience likes to hear the words of the topical songs. Owing to the vivacity of the orchestra the meaning of the words could not always be caught at a distance from the footlights. Miss Louise Gunning as Priscilla fulfilled all expectations, so far as her voice is concerned. She is yet to learn the soulirettish demands of the part as to vivacity in acting. A solo, in the third act, gave her an opportunity to shine as a lyric singer and the audience demanded and obtained a recall.

Fred Knight was an ardent lover in the role of Prince Kisslngen and his clear tenor interpreted the music very well in pitch, accuracy, sentiment and delivery. Edna Thornton was very popular as Diana, and In the duet in tho third act, in which she appears with the king in disguise, the audience seemed to be unwlllng to let her cease responding to encores. Bernicc Holmes as Abigail Peck gave an artistic and thorough presentation of the part. Walter Lawrence as the Prime Minister was forceful and convincing. The chorus, for some reason, was, once or twice, not up to tho standard set by itself last week, but its first night fn trying ensembles Is not a criterion for its performance for the week.

There were many elegant costumes and great pains had evidently been tak'en In the preparation of marches and dances In the third act. For intricate marching evolutions it would be difficult to excel the display. The Orpheum roof garden was open last night and many ascended to hear the concert by twenty soloists, after the opera, which came to an end before 11 o'clock. Colored lights, gracefully arranged, lent a festive appearance and the place should be a popular resort for the summer. The opera announced for next week is "The Idol's Eye," music by Victor Herbert and book by Harry a.

smith. Payton's. Miss Reed, at Payton's Leo Avenue Theater, proved to be a very dainty Rosalind. If she were starring In the Shaksperean comedy, she would attract attention and praise. As it was, the production of "As You.

Like It," given last, night, has seldom been surpassed in Brooklyn. For a stock house at popular prices it was surprising. The setting of the play was a work of genuine art and as the audience heard the tender love storj mingled with the wit of Touchstone and others, the illusion was kept up by the surroundings. There were plenty of genuine verdure andj flowers to help the singers in their agreeable illusion. Miss Reed made a charming and natural Rosalind and wore her costumf with womanly modesty.

She was especially good in the scene with Orlando's brothej her womanly weaknesses at the story of the wounding being well done. She displayed a deftness in her comedy and read the difficult lines with accuracy and intelligence. In every way she was a revelation to. the, average stock theater goer. So much mention of Miss Reed need not take from the other characters.

They followed their lines well, thore being fewer omissions than usual. Kirk Brown was a manly Orlando. Cleft C. Storch as Oliver was worthy praise. George Hoey was a good Jaques and as Touchstone W.

A. Mortimer was and humorous. The characters were wel. sustained and tho Lincidental singing in the last act was hearti ly applauded. Tne book was touowed more closely than is usual aid the epilogue by Miss Reed was a daintj piece of reading.

This week will end the season at Payton's. The Bijot. At the Bijou Theater last night the Spoon er Stock Company gave a fine performance of the romance of the Soithern war, in five acts, entitlod "A Daughtc of the South." It was the play's initial proiuctlon in this city, and Interest in it was also aroused because of the fact that its autinr, Justin Adams, has recently been engag! to dramatize one of the popular novels cf the day, "Quincy Adams Sawyer." The pity has nothing very original to recommend the plot telling the usual story of the lov; of a Southern girl for a soldier of the Norti. but it is a little better than the average traraa. Most of the scenes are laid in Kcnticky and they gave the scenic artist of the ctmpany a chance to show his best work.

Mis; Edna May Spoon er played the title role and she acted her part with the finish that narks her performances. Mr. Phillips as Ciptain Victor Grey of the Northern army hat a fine manly character to impersonate, aid his performance was good. Hal Clarendoi as Lionel Gordon of the confederate army did most of the heavy work and he playd well. Mr.

Kennedy, as Ichabod Hicks, aued well, and Mr. West, as Amos, a mulattt, played a character part capably Cecil Siooner had a small part, but it was' one Just suited her temperament and she won some of the honors of tho evening. Rolert Ransome, Ben Wilson and Olive Grove acted well. During the play Miss Cecil Spioner. assisted by Harold Kennedy, gave a iew specialty that proved to be one ot th best things they have yet done.

The act consisted of a song written and composed by Harry Breen and T. Mayo Geary, two Brookyn boys, which is yet unnamed. A coupon vili bo given out with the programme this cek and the patrons of the theater will le given a chance to name tho song. To the one whose selection is thought to be mst appropriate, a handsome prize will be warded. Between the acts Claude Thardo wa: heard in some of the latest parodies and he well received.

Next week, "Trilby," witl Miss Edna May Spooner In the title role. The Star The Rentz Santley Company opened a week's engagement at the Star yesterday. This organization is always velcomed at this house, as it presents a god cast in two burlettas. They are entitld "When Your Wife's Away" and "Under 'wo Jar olio includes Daisy Dumo Willard and Wheeler, who show more viaclty than most singing teams; Charles Robiison. Lyons, the Juggler; ruet and Gruet aid the Leonards both of which teams are presenting new sketches.

Next week tho Tnnsatlantic Bur lesquers. IN MANHAT'AN. New York is getting its fll this spring of the would be classics which marked the decline of the Shakspearean "hool. A fortnight ago we had a mincing to modernize "The Lady of last night Viola Allen at the Garrlck give us the real thing In "The Hunchback." The only difference between last nights performance and some of the famous one of the fifties, sixties or early seventies wa that tho play was cut down and twisted auund into four acts instead of the original five. Perhaps that was Justified by the fat that a good many people went home befoo the four acts wc ro finished, although the thereby lost the most genuine thing in tl? performance, tho last act in which, thougl the construction is so artificial that the I ay seems preposterous, the feeling of tl' long drawn speeches is genuine and Mis Allen's performance awoke to a fervo that almost OUTING AT ULMEB PARK.

The inual outing and social reunion of Visitation parish took place yesterday afternoon at Ulmer Park, and it was a great success. The park was crowded, fully two thousand children being present. Special trolley cars were run from Hamilton ferry, the first leaving shortly after 10 o'clock in the morning, and at night, when the older folks arrived, there were pleasant times. The several committees in charge voted tho affair the most successful ever held by the parish. WILD IDEAS ABOUT PARKS.

The Scheme to Buxy Central Park Under Two Feet of Soil Opposed by Expert. Frederick W. Kelsey, one of the original Park Commissioners in charge of laying out the present Essex County, N. park system, who has given the subject of public parks attention both In this country and abroad, said to an Eagle reporter the other day: "The current discussion as to the condition of Central Park w'Hl have one good effect that of reminding the public of the priceless possession of this city in the parks. "Tho statement accredited an official of the department, that Central Park is dying, and proposing a remedy that might prove worse than the disease in burying the present surface of the park under a uniform blanket of two feet of top soil, was perhaps an incidental remark, and could not have been intended as seriously, as several publicists and writers in the dally press have assumed.

"Any one conversant with park making and the development of public parks, in this country or in the larger European cities, would hardly make such a revolutionary and hazardous recommendation with full meaning certainly not without restrictive conditions and subject to various exceptions as to localities. "Considering the topography and natural obstacles that had to be overcome in the creation of Central Park, the wonder is, not that there is here and there evidences of GENERAL Columfcia's Professor of Chinese Named. Trustees of Columbl? University met In Library Hall, in the university, for the last time until next October. Professor Frederick Hirth of the University of Munich was appointed professor of the recently created Dean Lung Department of Chinese, to begin his duties next fall Professor Hirth, who is 53 years old, Is considered one of the best authorities on the commerce of China and his knowledge of Chinese art Is believed to be unsurpassed. Plaza Hotel Property Fetches $3,000,000 Cash.

The George A. Fuller Company, in conjunction with the Central Realty Bond and Trust Company and Hallgarten bankers, have purchased the Plaza Hotel property from the New. York Life Insurance Company for $3,000,000. All of the purchase price is paid In ca'Sh, and the transaction Is the largest cash realty deal that has ever been put through in Manhattan Island property. Work Is to' be begun' at once on the erection of a twenty two story hotel, to occupy the three lots on Flfty nlntli street ad joining the hotel on the west, and as soon as possession of the old hotel Is obtained the structure will be razed and twenty or twenty two story hotel erected ln its place.

Once Wealthy Broker's Plight. Ill and alono, William Wayne Belvin was found in a hallway at No. 20 Broadway. He was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. A few years ago Belvin was a well known broker, wealthy and' respected.

Injudicious dealings at length lost him tho esteem of his associates and his wealth. Two years ago he was arrested for threatening to kill David H. Moffat, a Denver millionaire. Jerome Did Not Originate Term "Ghetto." District Attorney Jerome was vexed over the adverse criticism upon what he called misquotations of his address to Harvard students. "For instance," said Mr.

Jerome, "take this man Abe Gruber. He calls me to account for saying that there 13 a Ghetto on the East Side. During the last campaign the Jewish people started a newspaper called the Voice of the Ghetto. They selected the name. If there is no Ghetto, then the Jewish people are at fault for publishing such a newspaper." Had to Buy Steel in England.

William C. Dewey, of 5 East Fourteenth street, has placed an order with English firms for a larse invoice of structural steel to be used In erecting soveral buildings now in course of construction. It was learned that stefil mills In this country are so far behind in their drders that unless a bonus Is paid shipments are delayed for three months. Taking the bonus Into account. It has been found that shipments from England can be made with a considerable saving when i is necessary to procure the steel for Immediate use.

Hence several, contractors are buying from London manufacturers. Dropped Dead at Noise of The Thirty fourth street car, burdened with the ominous number 1313, was hound westward when It approached Third avenue at 8 P. M. Third avenue car No. 2419 was half full of passengers bound south.

Both cars came together with a crash like thunder. Frederick Schaeffer, 46 years old, on the way from his cigar store at 315 East Thirty fourth street, to his home, at 419 East Thirty fourth Btreet, was standing at Second avenue when the collision occurred. Ho did not see it. When he heard the crash he raised his hands high, cried, "My God! another explosion In the tunnel!" then reeled and fell unconscious. James Dillon, a newsboy, tried to revive him, but he never spoke or moved again.

The occupants of iho cars sustained no serious Injuries. Eviction Joke on Senator Plunkitt. Some unknown wag had a little fun at Senator George W. Plunkltt's expense when had the latter served with what purported to be a legal notice of a suit to dispossess him from what has become to be known as "Plunkltt's Corner" in the rotunda of tho county court house. The bogus summons commanded the Senator to appear before Justice Bolts of the Second District Court to morrow, and show cause why he should not evicted.

The Senator vas worried for a time, but his Tammany friends assured him it must be a joke. This view was confirmed at Justice Bolte's court. Talks of Plot to Kill Edward VII. Mrs. Sydney Rosenfeld created considerable excitement at the Professional Woman's League, 108 West Forty fifth street, by a story implying a plot to mature at the time of the coronation, which was held to threaten the safety of King Edward.

The story is that on the night of Queen Victoria's death, on the walls of London a little placard was mysteriously posted. The wording was to this effect: "Victoria is dead. Remember 3'our oath. The coronation fs the time fixed." DOMESTIC. Shocked While Mending Trolley Pole.

MOUNT VERNON Abel Kanattz; a conductor on the Union Railway, was severely shocked while trying to mend a trolley over here than In England. Are they? However it bo, the struggle for existence i 1 quite ar. hard In the new country as in the old. One often, that Mr. Carnegie has not devoted bin wealth more to the physical than to the mental betterment of the working man.

He could, for Instance, very easily remove, for some thousands at lensf. the reproju trmt rem in higher in America. A comfortable home may sometimes be of even more importance to work ing peopje and their children Minn bnnlro i ney can on relied on to use the home but they cannot nlwavs he relied on to 'retd books. Old Commonwealths. The Rebuilding of Oid Commonwealths" is by Waiter H.

Tape. The "OH Comm.m wealth: nre tho old Southern and this volume Is a scries of siudies of nonular educational work there. They show how tho aristocratic system of education and the ecclesiastical system failed to reach tho masses, and how the present rlnv builders lot the public school svstem are bringing a new social order and are for the first tlmo developing the capable, neglected masses of the population. The title page tells us that there are es OIl tile IraltllllK of the fnrrrnttnn mrn in the Southern Stater. (Doubleday, Page $1.) Verse in Various Moods.

"Bramble Prae hv Rnhor. i cnUcalrin of Varioi hiJ. tic. sonic grave, some lighter and fan They are rhythmical and brieh' and eiful. ru tne lighter verse used in cur rem.

puDinat.loiia. have a good (Charles Scribners' Sons, standing. Sons, "Bugg's Bar." by Howard V. Sutherland, Is a collection of ballads of Klondike experl ences, some humorous and some very much iweisc. most oi tnem are weak imita tions of the work of the more gifted poets, (Dre.xel Biddle, 50 cents.) "Elecampane and Other Poems" is a col lection of short pieces of verse by Thomas J.

Moore, A. M. The verses are of all sorts and fitly set under the title of "Miscellaneous." (The Robert Clarke 75 cents.) "The Ship of Silence and Other Poems" by John Urfington Valentine, is a collection of vtrses reprinted from various magazines. Poems of nature and lnve make up "most of tne collection. (Tho llowen Mcrrill $1.) "Lyrics" by John Vance Cheney, is a collection of the poet's earlier vorson.

many of them being now out of print. Most of the versos seem to he written in mclancholv mood, the hopeless, dark ride of life, the fear of death, the decay of the year and like mournful subjects running through the verse. (C. C. Bcrahard 75 cents.) OQ Members of the executive committee ot tho department of philosophy, Brooklyn Institute, met in annual meeting at 171 Montague street last evening.

Professor Edward Howard Griggs presided, ho and Mrs. Griggs having made the trip down from Montclair, N. expressly for this occasion. After the election of Professor S. H.

Dod son of the Jamaica Normal School to the position of corresponding secrcrarv, in place of John Angus MacVannei, Ph.l) and the addition of Dr. E. N. Henderson to' the executive committee, H. Delmar FreiK read the report of the oommittea on 'conferences, of which he is chairman.

In it was noted the increasing interest in conferences evinced In every instance last season. This led the committee to suggest their con'inu nnce in thy season to come. Professor thought that the work of the department la greatly strengthened by conferences and after some planning of the lecture courses for next season a return was made to this branch of the department work. It was decided to invito Dr. William T.

Harris of Washington. D. for a special conference and for conferences to follow tho lectures Dr. MacVennel will be asked to hold a series on Jesse D. Burke, a recent fellow of Columbia and a Californnan who has made a name in his state along ped'agos ical and ethical lines, to conduct one or more on "Ethics Dr.

French, a series on "Evolution," with other leaders to be selected later by the committee. If the lecturers can be secured whose names were decided upon last evening the department of philosophy will present one of the best groups of lectures for Institute members to choose from in tho season ot 1902 3. The president of the department rrofessor Griggs, has already signified his willingness to lecture. His course of six on "Robert Browning" to the Poetry and Ethics of will bo giver, under the joint auspices of his own department and that of phiiologv. other 'distinguished names on tho list are Profes or Felix Adlsr and Professor Nathaniel B.

Schmidt of Cornell, both on "Ethics" 0 fessors Murray of McGill Universit'v Watson of Queen's College (Toronto), to whom will be assigned, respectively "Psychology; or. Ethics of Habit." opment of Philosophy Subsequent to Kant and Professor Harris of Amherst (author of "Moral on "Application of Evolution to the Conduct, of Lire." This li is probably not complete. Other names which came up for discussion may be added at a later date. CHURCH UNION TROLLEY PARTY. St.

Peters' Social Union had its annual trolley party last evening. This is the social organization attached to St. Peter's Episcopal Church, on State street. There were ISO persons in the party. Three special trolley cars met the party at Fuituu ami Bond streets at 7:30 o'clock, and conveyed it to Dlstler's Wrest End Park in Jamaica.

There an enjoyable evening was sprut a fine supper was served. The gathering broke up at midnight, when a delightful return ttlp was had. Tho Rev. Dr. Lindsay Parker, the rector of the church, did not accompany the party because of the recent death of his sister.

The committee of arrangements consisted of Archibald Arthur, chairman; Charles M. Waterbury and Richard F. Bjcrja. as i so as i NEWS, pole and received injuries necessitating the attendance of an ambulance surgeon. He was thrown completely off the top of the car, landing on his head on the pavement.

Carrie Nation Pardoned. TOPEKA, KAN. Mrs. darrie Nation, who was sentenced to the Shawnee County Jail for a month and to pay $100 fine, at the rate of $1 a day, for smashing saloon fixtures, has been pardoned by Governor Stanley. Two Years for Bunning Postal Card Factory.

CHICAGO E. Louis Smith, who ran an establishment for making bogus postal cards that was the largest rival to the government printing office ever discovered, and who put millions of his counterfeit cards on the market, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by Judge Kohlsaat. The law permits a penalty of twenty years, but clemency was recommended by the Postoffice Department. He Broke Boy Trespasser's Collar Bone. NEW Little Ravmond Bill, the 6 year old tson of Colonal Edward Ly Din, puoiisner or tne Music Trades Review, is lying at his home with a broken uonar Done Decause he persisted in running across the property of Henry Noel Potter the general foreign nnt house Electric Company, who recentlv took a cottage in Rochelle Park, next to the one occupied by the Bills and has been trying to grow a lawn.

The boy's father said that Ajr. Porter was so angry when he saw the child on the lawn that he picked him up and over tbe fenco wlth suh force collar bono was broken and he afterward became unconscious and delirious. FOREIGN. Morgan on Way to Athens. BERLIN A special dispatch from Milan to the Vossicho Zeitung reports that J.

Pierpont Morgan, on board his private yacht Corsair, left Venice for Athens. Paris Police Prefect Shot At. PARIS As M. Lepine, the Prefect of Police, was leaving the Bispat Hospital, where he had been visiting a policeman who was injured In a recent riot, several pistol shots were fired at him from a group of men who stood on the opposite side of the street. Lepine was not hurt, and the men fled.

As no policemen were present at the time no one was arrested. Europe Favorable to St. Louis Pair. BERLIN W. I.

Buchanan, who came to Europe as the representative of D. R. Francis, president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to inquire confidentially as to tbe attitude of the several governments toward the proposed exhibition, has had a sympathetic reception here. Mr. Buchanan, "in the places he has visited, has found feeling generally favorable toward the fair, and believes that when the governments are formally notified that the fair will be held in St.

Louis in 1904, the invitation to participate will he accepted and that satisfactory representation will be arranged. Cab Struck King's Carriage. LONDON King Edward was driving to St. James' Palace when a cab ran into his carriage. The cab horse fell and lay struggling under tbe royal vehicle.

The king alighted and stood upon th.o pavement until matters were righted. Medieval Pageant at Vatican. ROME A "Lourdes Grotto" was inaugurated in the Vatican gardens yesterday. A superb garden party was given, which was attended by the Pope, who rode in an old six horse Berlin and was surrounded by the mounted Noble Guards. The court appeared in medieval costumes, and for the first time the women were allowed to wear afternoon toilets.

BOYS WATCH FLOWEES. A dozen members of the Boys" Protective League, formed for tho purpose of watching the floral decorations on Quincy street block beautiful, between Bedford and Nostrand avenues, met yesterday afternoon at 216 Quincy street, and perfected further plans looking to the carrying out of the objects for which the organization was formed. Button pins of red and white enamel, bearing a spray of flowers, were distributed to the members present. HARLEM AND THE BRONX. The annual election of officers of the Harlem Democratic Club will be held at the club rooms.

106 Went One Hundred and Twenty fifth street, to morrow evening. Many yachts belonging to members of the Harlem Yacht Club have recently been robbed as they lay at the anchorage of the club, at the foot of East One Hundred and Twenty flrct street. Tenement House Commissioner Do Forest has appointed seven more sanitary Inspectors for this section of the city. The delegates to the Republican County Committee from the Thirty fifth Assembly District have unanimously indorsed ex Judfte Ernest Hall tor one of the vacant seats on the Supreme Court bench. The first reception ot Franklin Chapter.

Eastern Star, will take place rtf Majestic Hall. Or.c Hundred and Twenty fifth street and I evlngton avenue. Tuesday. Jur.e 17. The commencf ment exercises of the Harlem Commercial Institute will be held In the Yountr Men's Chri.stl.nn Arso.

lati.in Kail next Friday 'evening. The first smoker ot tho new rottowatomle Democratic Club, located at f.xlncton avenue and One Hundred and Twenty fifth ttreet, will take place nest Thursday evening. ly on statistics wnicn uo not aeem to have been tested by experience. They refer, of course, rather to the "centers of population in the respective countries than to the capitals; but as tho i majority of poor toilers for any single dis trict are to be found in London and New York, the deductions are open to dispute. Mr.

Carnegie says that living is necessarily cheaper in the United States than in England, because England imports its food from the United States. Thus, quoting the Bureau of Labor statistics of Massachusetts, which he calls "the highest authority," he puts the relative cost of subsistence at (14 per cent, for America against 81 per cent, for England. The present writer, who has been a laborer in both countries, has founil that it is possible to live a little cheaper in London than in New York. Mr.Caruegie's comparison of prices ought to be correct by theory, but is not in fact, and he is the last man one would expect to see depending on theories. It is not true, at least for New York, that meat, beer, tea and tobacco are much cheaper over hero because they are not taxed.

Tho laborer's mug of beer costs penny (2 cents) in England; the difference in tobacco does not exceed 1 cent it sinks to no depressing depths. Senbrooke, as tbe bridegroom, disclosed no striking originality, probahly because the opportunity was not afforded. Edward Stevens, the Emperor, could have done no better. Van Rensselaer Wheolcr was in splendid voice and Ad pie Ritchie fulfilled all the obligations imposed upon her by looking exceedingly attractive and by dancing gracefully, her singing being a trifle worse than indifferent. Amelia Stone narrowly missed making a real hit.

Nor Is a miss as good as a mile in her case. She makes more than enough use of what she probably regards as the power of facial expression, something not remotely resembling contortions being among the consequences. It is a mistake easily remedied. Katie Barry is one of the positive acquisitions. It is not beyond her to translate pathos into humor without spoiling the effect of either, without making I the mixture incongruous, grotesque.

Aimee Angeies was the agreeable surprise of the i evening, her imitations being clever enough i to insure her hereafter. It would seem as though' the Honeymoon would run through several moons. Grace George in "JTrou Frou." Grace George has secured a good cast for "Frou Frou" at tho Garrick on Thursday night. Wilton Laekaye will play Sartorys, Henry Bergman Brigard and Grace Henderson Louise. NEW BERKELEY INSTRUCTORS.

Important Changes In Faculty Made Necessary by Expansion of Work. The expansion of work in the Berkeley Institute has necessitated several additions to the teaching force, and other changes of organization for next year. The newly developed needs are mainly in the highest du rl men ts whom tbe nlimhpr nf Rturtonrc ie: I rapidly increasing. Miss Margaret Sweeney, Ph. a member of the faculty of Weilcslcy College, will take charge of the collegiate department and assume the general duties of vice principal.

Miss Sweeney is a gradu ate of Radcliffc College (1SI5) and also a I graduate of Yale Univorsity, where she received the degree of doctor of philosophy. For three years she was principal of Radcliffc Kail, h'elniont, and to her work in the Berkeley she will bring the results of an experience extending to every form of educational work with young women. She will give instruction in her special field of English literature and philology. Miss Charlotte E. Haynos, who has for many years been associated with the executive work of the school, will give her entire time to mathematics and physical science.

Miss Anna A. Vaupcl, instructor in French and German, has been granted a leave of absence for the comlns year. Her work will bt taken by two new instructors. The French classes will bo in charge of Mile. Louise Guebln, a native of Paris and a graduate from the normal training department of the University of Paris.

Mile. Guebln will cone directly from her teaching In Paris to Berkeley. The German classes will be in charge of Fraulein Laura Cecilia Gicse, who is a graduate of the Packer Institute and a German teacher of several cars' experience. Another addition to the faculty will be Miss Helen Isabellc Wulbridpc, a former student in the Berkeley, who graduates this year from Smith College with the many iionois of a brilliant college career. Miss Walhridge is well known for her personal qualities and literary work, and she will be cordially welcomed by her Brooklyn friends.

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