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9 NEW YORK. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1900. MISCELLANEOUS A COMMUNITY THREATENED. MtTTTJAIi BENEFIT L. AND B.

CO. The January statement of the Mutual Benefit Loan and Building Company shows cash on hand, loans on bond and mortgage and real estate, loans to shareholders on stock, Interest and premiums in arrears, earnings apportioned, undivided earnings and surplus, The total loans made since 1893 are" loans settled and repaid, $496,387. INSTITUTE CALENDAR. This is the calendar of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for to day: Department of fine arts Thirteenth lecture in the course on "Greek and Roman Art," by Professor William H. Goodyear.

M. A. Subject. "The Egyptian Origin of Greek Art," Illustrated lantern photographs. Museum Building, Eastern parkway, 3:30 P.

M. fcj V39.U VVrSl ANNUAL GAME OF STBIEES AND SPACES. Don't let the children keep you awake half the night because of their hard coughing spells. It's bad for you, and it's bad for them, too. And it's so useless, for a dose of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral at bedtime will quiet the cough.

These night coughs of children weaken the lungs and make things, especially favorable for serious lung trouble. RECIPROCITY TREATIES. Former Superintendent of Census Porter Favors Them His Views on Woodruff's Chances. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington.

January 6 Ex Superintendent of the Robert P. Porter arrived in Washington in time to attend a banquet tendered to him at the MePherson Club, by Director Merrlam and the different chiefs of the Census Bureau, many of whom served under Mr. Porter when he was superintendent of the last census. Before returning to New York Mr. Porter expects to see a number of leading Republican Senators and Congressmen and urge upon them the great importance to the country of the reciprocity treaties that are now before the Senate for ratification.

To the Eagle correspondent Mr. Porter said: "There is nothing in. my mind, that will come' before the Fifty 3ixth Congress of greater importance than these treaties. The Republican party, when the Dingley bill was passed, pledged itself to reciprocity and these treaties hav been drafted by Commissioner Kasson In order to carry out those pledges. They are tho best commercial treaties that have ever been arranged by this government, and I am surprised at the opposition that has developed.

to them In certain quarters. Mr. Porter, who it will be remembered, was chosen by President McKinley before the last national Republican convention to convey to Garret A. Hobart his desire that the latter should be his running mate. Informed the Eagle correspondent that he agreed with Henry Watterson in thinking that Ambassador William F.

Draper will be the man selected as the Republican candidate for Vice President next year. As Mr. Porter is a close personal friend of Ambassador Draper and has had several conferences with him of late, it is presumed that he speaks by the board and that he would not advocato Mr. Draper's selection unless he knew that the latter was anxious to secure the nomination. Mr.

Porter seems to think that the Massachusetts man will enter the convention with the solid backing of the New England states, and he intimated that his friends propose making an active canvass for him, throughout the West and South. Mr. Porter said he did not know Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, but that It the latter could go before the convention with the solid New York delegation behind him he ought to stand a good chance of securing th nomination for Vice President. THE TJNIFICATION DIVISION. Belief That Mr.

Dewey's Beport Voices Popnlar Sentiment. The divided report of the Educational Commission is now to all intents and purposes he fore the Legislature as well as the people, though it cannot be formally transmitted to the Senate and Assembly until next week. It is signed by all the members ot the com mission, but it explicitly expresses, by agreement to that effect, the dissent of the minority as to some matters of the first importance, and thus discloses irreconcilable difference of opinion and as nearly equal a division as possible numerically. Four of the commissioners advocate 'the appointment of the first chancellor of the proposed Department Of Education by the Governor, with the consent, of the Senate, and three of them are opposed to that arrangement. It is not unfair, therefore, to say that four have consented, presumably without a clear appreciation of tfle fact, to let the schools be made the prey of politics, and three have intelligently endeavored to perform the most important part of the task the Governor assigned them by safeguarding the schools against political influences, so far as a legislative act can accomplish that indispensable object.

For, If a. prediction is ever safe, it i3 now safe to predict that a political power affecting twelve thousand common schools, more than thirty thousand teachers and nearly every family In the state, if it were once lodged with itha Governor and Senate, would' never be surrendered by the politicians to an independent non partisan body beyond their reach. This is the question most deserving of consideration in the whole affair. Mr. Mel vil Dewey, In his excellent letter to the Governor, which has the character and force though not the form of a minority report, gives conclusive reasons for opposing other features of the scheme that the majority approve, but he is especially convincing on this point.

Enabled by hia own recent act in resigning the secretaryship of the Board of Regents to take a disinterested view ot the matter, he speaks with his accustomed freedom and with more than his former weight. We agree with him in believing that the machinery proposed for the new department, which is ostensibly designed to simplify and energize as well as unify the educational establishment, would prove in practice to bo unnecessarily complicated and unwarrantably expensive. In those particulars the scheme is cumbrous and extravagant, tiut tho3e are minor faults which it is scarcely worth while) to discuss, so long as a monstrous evil is threatened. "There is another consideration," say3 Mr. Dewey, with perfect truth and appropriate emphasis, "at least tenfold mora important than this unification, and that is, that education in this state should be kept absolutely free from the domination or Interference of partisan politics." If such freedom could unexpectedly be secured at tho outset through the co operation of the present Governor and Senate, there is grave reasor to fear that it might he seriously diminished before the expiration of the fir3t chancellor's term, and no room to doubt that there would be scarcely a vestige of it left thereafter.

Mr. Dewey speaks from long experiemae, in an office which he has unselfishly laid down, and from acute observation of the working of political forces, when he says: "While there would very likely qome certain improvements if the plan recommended by the majority of the commission should be adopted. I am forced to believe after mature deliberation that the danger of injury to our educational interests, it their plan should be adopted without material modification, is vastly greater than any possible good that may come from the improvement suggested." That is the conclusion to which intelligent citizens are already generally committed, and which it would seem that no impartial mind can long resist. We hcge that it will prevail with the Legislature. New York Tribune, January 6.

There Seems to Be Good Reasons for Believing That We "Will Soon Suffer From a Scarcity of Water A Great Reservoir Empty Other Reservoirs Being Depleted Rapidly. The Old Cry of Jobbery Raised by a "Friend" of Brooklyn. So many charges of Jobbery were brought against proposed or real extensions of Brooklyn's water system in previous years that when you now say to some of our cynical citizens there is great danger of a water famine the comment is apt to be: "Oh, yes. I suppose there is a new water supply job under way." For one, I have no doubt that there aTe several shrewd and farsighted money makers who bought land and water rights with a view of disposing of them to the City of New York at a big profit, whenever such an emergency as the present should arise. Nevertheless, It would seem that the main question to be answered at present is this: Is there really a dangerous scarcity of water? That is of far more importance to every man and woman in Brooklyn than any question as to who controls the water which this borough requires for its needs.

That there Is really a scarcity and waste of water sufficient to excite apprehension is most positively declared by Deputy Water Commissioner Moffett and Chief Engineer Van Buren. The latter said yesterday: "While there is water enough, if it is used economically, to supply the people of Brooklyn the waste of 10,000,000 gallons a day will drive us to the brink of a catastrophe. People ought to be warned of the danger. We are compelled to draw continually on the Ridgewood reservoirs, which were never intended for storage. Our loss yesterday was 8,875,400 gallons.

You can see with such a loss every day how long 181,000,000 gallons can last. The Ridgewood reserve was intended to meet emergencies like the sudden breaking of a main or a great fire, but not to be exhausted piecemeal as we are doing at present. "It is the future we fear, for Brooklyn now is five years behind. The very improvements we are asking for now were recommended by me in 1894! and 1895. If anything should happen to cut off the supply, I feel that my position will be known." Deputy Commissioner Moffett was not disposed to talk about the water scare when he was questioned by the writer yesterday.

lie preferred that the chief engineer of the department and Commissioner Dal ton should be questioned. To the statement that it was his duty to speak out on this matter that every citizen had a right to know the exact state of affairs and whether the conditions had bettered or grown worse since he sent out his circular note of warning to householders, Mr. Moffett replied, "The Hempstead Reservoir is empty. We are not getting a drop of water from that source. That fact ought to carry its own warning.

At Ridgewood, we have three large water basins, Nos. 1, 2 and 3. They hold in the aggregate about 300,000,000 gallons of water when full. The water in these basins does not amount to more than 190,000,000 gallons to day. At the Mount Prospect Reservior, we have less than 100,000,000.

These waters are our reserve supply. We get about 85,000,000 gallons from our wells daily. The daily consumption of water runs from 85,000,000 to 104,000,000 daily. We have consumed on an average of 15,000,000 gallons daily in excess of the daily supply furnished by our wells. Of course, that compels us to draw from our reserve supply.

If we continue: to draw upon that reserve as we have been, drawing, we shall soon be in a bad plight. We are using all the available water that can be secured outside of the reserve supply. When the people feel the pinch of a short supply, then I suppose we will be blamed for conditions we have tried to prevent." "What will the department' do should the emergency that you apprehend arise?" I asked. "I can't say positively. It has been suggested that we shut off the water supply at night.

You can see how that would affect the large factories and other places which have to keep fires for their boilers every night. It has been proposed to cut water from the manufacturing places. If that were to be done, many people would be thrown out of employment; their bread and butter would be affected. Another way of meeting the emergency would be to shut off water between certain hours. But no plan can be devised that will prevent great discomforts If we are obliged to resort to radical measures." "There is plenty of water going to waste on Long Island," I.

remarked. "Yes, I suppose there must be 200,000,000 gallons of water going over dams and running through streams to the ocean, that under certain conditions could he utilized by us," remarked the deputy commissioner. "But that water is out of our Jurisdiction. There is plenty of water In Suffolk County for our needs, but It is outside Of our water system." There is no question in my mind that Mr. Moffett Is worried and deeply concerned over the prospect of a scarcity of water that may soon be felt by every family In the Borough Brooklyn.

He could doubtless say more than he reluctantly was led to say, but Is silent, probably because he desires to avoid any appearance of trying to overshadow his superiors, and would not invite criticism from them. In the face of the fact that the great storage reservoir at Hempstead is empty, regardless of the fact that we are daily using and wasting several millions of gallons in excess of the supply furnished by our department wells; ignoring the steady drain upon the water reserve reservoirs at Ridgewood, Chief Engineer Birdsall was yesterday quoted in one of the news columns of this paper as saying: "Chief Engineer. Birdsall of the Water Supply Department, when seen at his office today, declared that the water scare In Brook lyn had reached undue proportions and that the conditions were not as alarming as had been stated. 'There is undeniably a scarcity of water in he said, 'and certain restrictive measures have been necessary, but it Is a mistake to create a scare over it. The situation in the Bronx is Just as acute, but the population is less.

In Brooklyn in certain high sections the probability is, unless the break in the weather comes very soon, that people will be able to get water only In the basements during the day and up to the first floor at night. The flow through the Brooklyn aqueduct is a foot lower than we would like to have it, on account of the scarcity of water, but this lessens the strain on tho aqueduct and decreases the possibility of a If Engineer Birdsall is correctly reported, then he is in violent conflict with the views of the water department officials on this side of the East River. These men have based their conclusions upon what they have learned by personal observation and investigations; Mr. Birdsall's opinions are those of a man looking at a serious condition from a long distance. Soma of the municipal officials whose offices are In the Borough of Manhattan have acted', unwittingly, perhaps, Just as other men might act If they were totally tndifteront to the needs of Brooklyn.

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Only words of praise can be appropriately used for any criticism of the performance. Van Dyck hadcom pletely recovered from his recent Indisposi tion, and his Siegmund was even beyond, what hod been expected. He has been seen in it Here before, and while dramatically no unkind word could be spoken of it. the vocal production aroused some criticism. Last evening his voice was magnificently clear and resonant.

Van Rooy's Wotan was another wonderful interpretation. His sonorous voice and fine presence brought to the imagination an impression of the godlike, which became thoroughly human in the farewell scene of the last act. Nordlca's Brunhilde becomes more interesting each year. Under her steady Etrivlng after an Ideal, the creation continues to grow. Last night she was in excellent voice and acted the part better than ever ueiore.

Miss Susan Strong, owing to the illness of lime. Earaes. appeared as Siezllnde. At times she seemed too placid and her vuicu, wnicn is pure ana well trained, was not always managed with discretion. Mmo.

Schumann Hotnk's conception of Frlclta was dignified and interesting and her singing was, Bupero. mr. i ringio made a. very satisfac tory rtunuing ana the Valkyrie was an exceptionally strong comnanv of sine. Much of tho pleasure of the German oneras Is in tho orchestra.

Einil Paur, who led a lew niguto ago at the performance of "Lohengrin," was again In the leader's ehnlr and Hhowed a thorough sympathy with the score and an acimiraDie control of the musicians. The opera houso was well filled and the au dience was entnusiastic, applauding; vigor ously and bringing the singers before the cur tain repeatedly. FIRE CAUSES LOSS OF $100,000. Columbus, January 6 Fire yesterday damaged the Commercial Hotel containing a number of large wholesale and retail stores, to the extent of $100,000. Palms and Flowers for Weddings, "At Homes, Teas," fresh from greenhouses, at moderate rates.

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DIED. BEAVER On January 5. 1000, at 106 Cumberland St, EDITH SIMPSON BEAVER, In the 23tll year of her age. Friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at convenience of the family.

5 2 BLOCH On. Friday, after a short Illness, FLORA MIRIAM, beloved daughter of Henry and Barbara Bloch. aged 21 years 7 months. Funeral services on Sunday, January 7, at 1:30 P. at her residence.

306 Bridge St. Relatives and friends are invited. 5 2 CORNELL Suddenly, on January 4, eon of the late Rev. Thos. F.

Cornell, in his 31st year. Funeral services Sunday, 1:30 P. at the Church of the Intercession, West One Hundred and Fifty eighth st and Broadway, New York. 6 2 CORNELL At Chappaq.ua. January 4, FLORENCE wife of David W.

and daughter of G. W. Smith of Brooklyn. Funeral services at FriendB' Meeting House, Chappaqua, at 11 o'clock A. 1st day (Sunday) trains leave Grand Central at 9:10 A.

M. FALLOX On January 3, at his residence, 12 Sixth av. JOHN C. FALLON. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend his funeral on Sunday at 2:30 P.

Please omit flowers. 4 4 GAINS Suddenly, on January 3, BRIDGET GAINS, beloved wife of Patrick Gains, in her 00th year. Funeral from her late residence. Kings Highway and Gravesend av, on Sunday, January 7, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.

GLOVER At Amityville. L. 1., Friday. January 3. Rev.

HENRY C. GLOVER, in the 74th year of his age. Funeral services at Amityville, Tuesday, January at 2 P. and at Orient Wednesday, January 10. at 1:30 P.

M. 6 2 GUNN On Friday. ELLEN V. GUNN. 187 North Fourth, st, Brooklyn.

Friends and relatives invited to attend funeral from late residence, Monday. 2 P. M. HARDY On the 4th JOHN I. HARDY, aged S7 years, at his residence, 760 Third av, Brooklyn.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral service Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at the convenience of the family. 5 2 HINDLE January 5. 1900. HANNAH HINDLE.

Funeral services to be held Sunday, January 7, at her late residence, 160 Jefferson av, at 2:30 P. M. Friends invited. (English papers please copy.) KANE On Thursday. January 4, 1900, THOMAS KANE, at his residence, 547 Vanderbilt av.

Relatives and friends and comrades of Rankin Post No. 10, G. A. and members of Court Atlantic No. 67, F.

of Liquor Dealers Protective Association and Washington Club of Ninth Ward, are respectfully invited to attend from his late residence, on Monday, January 8. at 9:30 A. M. thence to St. Joseph's Church, Pacific st.

Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush. 6 2 KERNE On Thurcday. January 4, 1900, ARTHUR only son of Lorenzo D. and Ada E. Kerney, in the 22d year of his age.

Funeral services Sundae January 7, at 2 P. at residence of his parents, 186 Arlington av. Relatives and friends invited. LEYN'DECKER On Friday, January 5, 1900, NICHOLAS LEYNDECKER, beloved husband of Catherine Leyndecker, in tho 43d year of his age. Relatives and friends, also Leonard Council No.

26, C. B. and the G. K. U.

Society of Koch, Son employes are respectfully invited to attend funeral from his late residence, 203 Hamburg av, on Monday, January 1900, at 9 A. M. thence to St. Leonard's Church on Hamburg av. McBARRON Mrs.

ALLAN J. McBARRON, wife of Allan J. McBarron and beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J.

McCleary Funeral from 106 Clymer st. on Monday, January 1900. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Flatbush. McGANN On Friday, January 5, 1900, at his residence, Surf av, Coney Island, P. H.

McGANN, aged 58 years. Funeral Monday, 10 A. at Church of the Guardian Angel. 6 2 McVOY On Thursday. January 4.

CATHERINE, wife of Robert McVoy. Funeral services at her late residence, 392 Monroe st, on Saturday, January c. at 8 P. M. Interment at convenience of family.

5 2 MERRITT Sixth day morning, first month, 5th, 1900, AMANDA BLAKE, wife of Charles F. Merrltt. Funeral from her late residence, 31 South Portland av, Brooklyn, first day (Sunday) at 4 o'clock. Interment at Millbrook, N. Y.

5 2 MILLER On Thursday, January 4. 1900. at the residence of her son in law, Llewellyn Hlgbie, 70 Underbill av, MARGARET MILLER, widow of the late John Miller. Funeral on Sunday, January 7, at 2 o'clock. Relatives and friends invited.

O'BRIEN On Friday, January 5, MARY sister to James O'Brien and aunt to Revs. Wm. V. and Jos. A.

O'Brien. Funeral from residence, 63 Pilling st, Monday, January at 10 o'clock; thence to Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, where a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated. Friends and relatives are invited to attend. Interment in Calvary Cemetery. 6 2 PORTER On Friday, 3 P.

at her residence, Vanderveer av, near Jamaica, ANNIE E. PORTER. Funeral Sunday, 2:30 P. M. RANDOLPH At his home, 442 Greene av, Brooklyn.

Friday. January 6. 1900, WILLIAM L. RANDOLPH, in his 76th year. Funeral services Sunday, 3:30 P.

M. Interment at convenience of family. 6 2 RANSFORD On January 4, 1900. JOSIAH RANSFORD. Funeral services at late residence, 390 Dean st, Saturday, January 6, P.

M. Members of Rathbone Lodge. K. of are respectfully Invited to attend. SHEPPAKD January 5, 1S00, Captain CHARLES SHEPPARD, born at Newport, Cumberland County, N.

June 8. 1820. Relatives and friends, also Joppa Lodge No. 201, F. and A.

respectfully Invited to attend funeral services, 3 P. Sunday, January 7. Interment 2 P. Monday, January from his lato residence, 270 Ecltford st, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 6 3 SPRAGUE At Hollls.

X. on January 4, 1900, ANNIE SAYRES. wife of Franklin B. Sprague, in the 36th year of her age. Funeral services on Sunday, January 7, at 2:30 o'clock, at tho residence of her parents, 305 Madison st, Brooklyn.

WEBER On January 5, PETER WEBER. Prospect Lodge No. 290, I. O. O.

F. Brothers: You are respectfully requested to attend the funeral services of our late brother, PETER WEBER, at the establishment of Milton L. Reeves, corner Sumner av and Madison st, on Saturday evening, January 6, at o'clock. Fraternally. ALEXANDER YUILL, Noble Grand.

Charle3 A. Ford. Secretary. 5 3 WINTRESS On Saturday, January' 6, SUSANNAH DOBSON, the faithful and beloved wife of David H. Wintreos.

Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral services her lato residence, 464 Lexington av, Brooklyn, on Monday, tho 8th at 8 P. M. (Wakefield and Huddcrsfleld. Yorkshire. England, papers please copy.) 3 MILTON L.

REEVES, FUNERAL. DIRECTOR and embalrner; office and parlors, corner Sumner av and Madison st; open always; coaches, camp ohlrs to hire; lady jtAfctndant. Tel, 283 Bedford. 's THE say that there is no genuine scarcity of water in Brooklyn, and to credit politicians with getting up a water scare. This alleged journalistic friend of Brooklyn says to day: The political combination holding options on water privileges In Suffolk County or owning the ponds and streams outright has begun its agitation for an increased water supply for Brooklyn, which will take in their options and privileges, for which they expect handsome compensation.

The cry used to bring about these results Is the usual one a scarcity water; only Ave days' supply in sight; if there should be a break in the water line the city would be without water and at the mercy ot the fire fiend. The political speculators in Brooklyn passed a bill which prohibited the City of Brooklyn taking water from Suffolk County, and Assemblyman. Burr amended the charter of Greater New York so as to continue in force this prohibitive law. After consolidation, when the political water schemes began to agitate the scheme of extension, believing the charter wiped out the old restriction, they found to their amazement It had been re enacted. The Legislature will begin active work next week.

It Is hoped by playing on the fears of the people a public sentiment can be crea.ted that will assist In the passage of a bill to rejjeal the law keeping the city from entering Suffolk County. Then there can be an extension, which will require the purchase of water rights, and the men who have Invested can reap large profits from the sale of their water rights. There will, too, be large, fat contracts to go around to favorite contractors. Ex Commissioner of City Works White and the Manufacturers Club ought to he able to ascertain without much difficulty if it be true that Brooklyn has and will have tor some time to come all the water it needs. And if It can be shown, outside of a news story whicn does not present evidence of a single fact, tfcat Messrs.

Moffett and the Brooklyn engineers, of the Water Department are playing upon the fears of a great community, are in league with speculators and corrupt contractors, these officials should be promptly removed" and punished. I am of the opinion that they have been grossly slandered. MUL. STORIES ABOUT HENRY GEORGE Told by His Son Richard Before the Single Tax Club. Before an audience ol forty persons, mostly women, Richard George gave some rare and interesting reminiscences of his father, Henry George.

The talk, presented in a conversational tone and in a desultory way, given before the Single Tax League at its meeting room, 1,101 Bedford avenue. President Van Cleef introduced Mr. George, after the business of the evening was over, and he talked from 8:30 till 10:30 o'clock. He resembles his famous father in appearance as well as in manner, though he has more humor in him than his father had. He said in part: "I remember being told of a young printer in the winter of 1S64 65, living in two rooms in San Francisco with his young wife, who had left' Sacramento to better himself, but only found things worse.

Three dollars was a good week's wages for him. He wa6 then 25 and his wife was 20. He worked at job printing and was glad to get 25 cents for a job to buy a can of salmon for a meal. Oat meal was the staple food for the family and Henry George would often go out on a pretense, when the meal was being eaten, so that he should not take another's share. When I was a baby the doctor said care should be taken of me, for I was starving.

My father could not even borrow money enough for needed food. One night he stopped a man and told him his condition. He said he muet have $5. It was almost a hold up. He got it.

"With the devil haunting him he wrote even then on the of time. He regretted his lack of education and made the most of what he had. It was at this time that he began literary work for the papers, and wrote an article on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which created a sensation. He secured employment on a San Francisco paper as reporter and an article he wrote on Lincoln was used as an editorial. "My first flash of remembrance was as a child in a high chair, with an anxious father watching inc.

My second was shortly after when my father started for New York by the Pacific mail. His absent mindedness showed itself at this time. He went to the barber's with my brother Harry to have his hair cut, and he became so absorbed in a paper he found there that he had the boy's hair cut too short and Jolted about it to hide his feelings at the parting." 'We went to Philadelphia. I remember his return from there to the West, by rail, and he at that time wrote about which would be bet teT the great civilization with its attendant poverty, or the happy life of the primitive We had a whole house when we went back to San Francisco and fortune was pleased to pmile on us. We had a cellar in which we kept a horse.

There he met John Swinton. My father with others started the Evening Post at a cent a copy in a city where a penny was not known. They bought a lot of pennies and when the newsboy was offered 0 cents he had them for change, and the people had to buv the Post for four more nights to get rid of their change. The paper proved a success from the start, and opposed monopolies from the first. He could not be coerced bought or persuaded.

He hurt his hand at this time and could afford to hire a stenographer. "I remember our second trip East and father's buying the Arabian Nights for Henry, and sitting up to finish it in one night. At this time he was associated with John Russell Young John Hasson and others In an effort to beat out the Associated Press. He returned to California and wrote on the Chinese Question an article which stirred the people. He also read on political economy, and wrote a paper on wages which was praised bv John Stuart Mill.

"He took mv mother advice on personal matters to his great benefit. In religious matters he conceded her right to care for her children She was a Catholic and had her children' baptised by the priest, but all grew to realize that there was good In all sects." VIGILAWCIA RESERVES. The Vigllancia Naval Reserves, a new organization, held a public meeting on Thursday evening last. Tho company started with twenty four members, and many applicants are seeking to join. At a recent meeting the officers wore elected for the coming year.

It Is the intention to have commodious headquarters located in some central portion ot the city. I i I SLOW PROGRESS OK BRIDGE. New Commission Receives a Report Which Shows Good Management, but Scanty Funds. PROCEEDS OF BONDS, $5,255,148 Construction of Steel Towers and End Spans Well Under Way Contracts for Cables Not Yet Approved. The new East River Bridge Commissioners met yesterday afternoon in the Manhattan offices, 49 Chambers street, and beside transacting routine business received a report from the Commissioners of Accounts of an investigation of the affairs of the commission.

The report is a lengthy document, signed by Commieslojers Hertle and Owen, and contains details of the receipts and expenditures of the commission since the organization, in August, 1E95, to the end of 1S9S. Regarding progress made in construction during the year 1898, the report reads as follows: "Owing to lack of appropriation, very little pi ogress was made on the work during 1898; but at the time of this writing (December 27, 1899) the tower, foundation and anchorages on both sides of the river are nearly completed. On February 21, 1899, a contract was executed to the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company for the construction of the steel towers and end spans, the amount of contract $1,220,230. Construction of this contract is now well under way. "On December 9, 1899, a contract was entered into with the John A.

Roebling Sons Company for the construction of the steel cables, suspenders, etc, amount of contract $1,398,000, which Is now pending the approval of the Controller. It is a satisfaction to state within the province of our examination the administration of the affairs of the new East River Bridge Commission, under the present Commissioners, is all that it should he. Their accounts and records are kept in orderly, intelligible shape and no criticism, in our opinion, can he offered as to proper office methods and bookkeeping. "In. our report of January 17, 1898, we called your honor's attention to the amount $57, 379.91 charged on the books to expense account up to December 31, 1897.

An analysis of this account disclosed the fact that of the total amount of $57,379.91, $46,177.68 was for legal expenses, $45,000 of which was paid to William G. Choate and Henry O. 1L Ingra faam. As a contract, we call your honor's attention to Table which discloses the fact that during the year 1S98 no payments for counsel fees or other legal expenses have been made." The tabulated statements attached to the report show that on December 31, 1897, there was a balance on hand of $90,156.18 in the commission's treasury. This was increased to $2,204,086.18 by the issuance of bonds authorized by the Board of Estimate.

At the end of the year 1888 the balance was $834,512.37. Included in the expenditures for the year 1898 were the following: Pay roll, commissioners, pay roll, officers and appointees, real property, New York tower foundations, Brooklyn tower foundations, New York anchorage, Brooklyn an chorage, rent, sundry expense, furniture and fixtures, engineer's supplies, 5593.73; ecgin eer's personal property, $521.44: advertising, appraisal, consulting engin i eer, inspecting engineer, sewer account, $600; gas main, total expenditures. The statement of the total receipts and ex I penditures from the organization of the Com I mission, in August, 1895, to December 31. 1S9S, I shows the total of proceeds from sale ol bonds to be $3,188,580, and the total expenditures, balance on hand at end of 1SBS, At the end of 1898 the Commission had obli I gated itself by contract to the extent of $2,399,593.46, on which payments had been made to the extent of $1,112,333.66, leaving the balance of contract indebtedness at $1, 287,259.80. Since the end ot the year 1S5S, bonds have been authorized by the Board of Estimate to bring the total of the bonds authorized for the use of the East River Bridge Commission up to $9,562,473.66, and the contracts fcr the steel towers and end spans and the steel cables and appurtenances have been entered into.

The total proceeds received from bonds sold up to THE SECOND CINDERELLA. With H. Evelyn Pierrepont leading the cotillon, the second Cinderella for the winter of 1899 1900 passed into local history. Mr. Pierrepont carried out a very interesting series of figures, and danced" alone.

The favors of the evening were paper trivialities exclusively, and had been exceedingly well selected. It was, take It altogether, a very entertaining night. The Cinderella's patronesses lor this vear are Mrs. Jonathan Buckley, Mrs. James W.

MacBride. Mrs. W. Sterling Peters. Mrs.

Jo seph F. Stillman, and Mrs. William A. Taylor. The subscribers of the season Include Miss Marion Wood Low, Miss Marsaret Achelis, Miss Elizabeth Achelis, Miss Louise Maxwell.

Miss Lois Low. Miss Anna Low. Craig Colgate, Arthur Corlies, Robert L. Plerrepont, Miss Bessie Tousey, Miss Millt cent Turle, John F. Talmage, Miss Florence Baylis, Miss Florence Lee, John F.

Talmage, David Stuart, W. W. Rossiter. jr. Miss Swan, Mr.

and Mrs. William Lewis Newton. Miss Clara Ogden, Miss Florence Arnold, James T. Terry. E.

R. Tinker, Miss Mary Howard, C. Sheldon Parsons, E. S. Hewitt, Miss Clara Packard.

RECEPTION BY MRS. T. H. LIDFORD. Mrs.

Thomas Harvey Lidford and Miss Lid ford of St. Johns place were at home on Wednesday. Receiving with them were Mrs. Kilburn Powers. Miss riarnlvn nn of Philadelphia, Miss GoddaTd, Miss Griggs, i nuas iiumueri, yiiss rarer ana Miss Ethel Samuels.

The reception was followed by an informal dance. Those present In the evening were the Misses Atterbury, Isabel Attetbury Burrell, Dltmars, Goddard, Griggs, McCord' Parker. Ethel Samuels, Sherman, Julia Sherman, Byron H. Brooks, Dr. John Jennings, Dr.

Frank H. Knight, John Mason Joseph 0 McCord, Stanley MIddleton. Norman E. Nelson, Lindsay R. Parker, Robert V.

Samuels, Aubrey Shaw, Claflin Wight. 'TBIXJMPH: OF CEUTBAIJZATIONV Safeguards Against Executive Encroachment Demanded of the Legislature. The report of Governor Roosevelt's commission appointed to plan a state system of education which would unite existing agencies has been made public. The forecast of the report is proved to have been accurate, and there is no need for changing the comments suggested by that forecast. But the report presents with added fullness the fact that the unifying commission was itself anything but a unit.

In fact the commission was 3plit as evenly as can be a commission of seven, Into four and three. Three of the seven Justice Daly of New York, William Kernan and Melvil Dewey opposed the following recommendations of the commission: Giving Governor Roosevelt, with the confirmation of the Senate, the appointment of a chancellor for eight years at a salary of $10,000 a year; nullifying all regents more than 70 years of age; putting in the Governor's hands the appointment of new regents; giving to the chancellor instead of the regents the appointment of heads of divisions, and giving to the chancellor instead of the regents the power to fix the salaries of heads of divisions. The fact that three of seven members of a commission selected by the Governor, and whose conclusions, indorsed by Governor Roosevelt, enlarge the powers of the Governor, dissent from the propriety of those conclusions, indicates that the people and their legislative representatives may not be so evenly balanced on this question. The commission's report, so far as it can go, is a' triumph for centralization over common action, for autocracy over democracy. But the Legislature, which in theory is the check upon autocracy, is to have its say, and the Legislature is not selected by the Governor, and the extent of its functions is abridged by the recommendations ot the Governor's commission.

There are two theories of government, each of which has many advocates and for each of which strong arguments may be presented. But as between one man power and government by the people the decision has been made on this side of the water. Particularly in education, and in that department expressively known as common schools, is any tendency to establish a dictator resented and resisted. To take from the Legislature and from the regents elected by the Legislature and from the Department of Public Instruction officered and controlled by the Legislature the direction of educational institutions, and to add to the power of a two years' governor the control of the state's education for eight years by the appointment of a supreme being to be known indefinitely as chancellor and to be paid definitely $10,000 a year, is to set a king's throne on the beach and order the tide to vacate. The people look to the Legislature to defend its own dignity and authority from executive encroachment, to keep public education public and to reject the proposed substitution of Russian for American methods.

Unification need not mean to annihilate everybody but one. IN EONOB OF MSS. GILBERT. Women Artists and Authors of Note Honor Their Friend. When Mrs.

G. H. Gilbert's men friends got together last October and presented her with a silver service on her eightieth birthday her many women friends determined that they, too, would unite in an expression of their regard for her art and personality. Their time came yesterday afternoon. Mrs.

Gilbert had been invited to dine last night with Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Bosworth of 41 Park avenue, and had been asked by Mrs.

Bosworth to come early in the afternoon. When she arrived the house had begun to fill with her many acquaintances among women artists and writers, who, with their husbands, came to honor her. From 4 until 6 o'clock the stream of callers was constant. Many of the women artists or authors brought gifts for Mra. Gilbert in the form ot sketches dose by themselves or of autograph copies of their books.

The affair was a complete surprise for Mrs. Gilbert. Among the remembrances given to Mrs. Gilbert were a water color sketch done by Ro sina Emmet Sherwood, a sketch by Dora Wheeler Keith, a collection of magazine articles by Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin Blashfield bound especially for the occasion, and a sketch by Rhoda Holmes Nichols. Liliie Hamilton French presented a copy of a magazine story, bound by herself, and inscribed to Mrs. Gilbert. Mary Mapes Dodge brought a copy of her "Hans Brinker," offered, to one "for years admired, beloved and honored by thousands of true friends vh03e faces she may never know." Elizabeth Wetmore, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Helen Dawes Brown, Maude Wilder Goodwin and Mrs. Elizabeth Custer each brought Mrs.

Gilbert copies of their best known books, inscribed to her with a bit of dedicatory verse or prose. Among those present, in addition to the authors and artists mentioned were Mr. and Mrs. John Drew, Miss Annie Russell, Mrs. Charles Melville Dewey, Mr.

and Mrs. St. Clair McKelway, Mr. and Mrs. George Christopher Riggs.

Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Mrs. James M. Towusend, Mrs. Henry F.

Dim ock, Mrs. Ernest Seton Thompson. Mrs. Abbey Sage Richardson, Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler, Mrs.

Alfred Atmore Pope and Miss Pope, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Wetmore, Mrs. Clarence Postley, Dr.

and Mrs. M. Allen Starr, Mrs. A. T.

Van Nest, Mrs. E. Cornelius Benedict. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles B. Foote, Miss Jennings. Mrs. Charles Homer, Mrs. William A.

Homer, Evert Jansen Wendell and Douglas Taylor. New York Times (to day). WEEK OF SPECIAL SEBVICES. The Eighteenth Street M. E.

Church began evangelistic services last Sunday night at the watch night service. Meetings have been held nigntly the past week and' will be continued next week. The pastor, the Rev. Frank A. ScoSeld.

will preach to morrow morning on "The Divine Forgiveness" and in the evening on "The Prodigal's Father." It is the custom of the Rev. Mr. Scofield to preach a short illustrated sermon to the children before the regular sermon. The members ot the Junior League sit together in the gallery and sing during the service. Tomorrow morning the sermon will he on "A Preaching Clock." and in the evening on "Tom's Strange Dream." This church has a.

fine choir, Herbert Doane being the director, Miss Burgess the organist and Mrs. CloyA. Williamson the soprano, and a chorus colr of thirty voices. An excellent programn 6 of music will be rendered to morrow at ooth services. EABL 6TTLICK MODJESKA'S GUEST.

Modjeska gave Earl Gulick, the New York boy soprano, a theater party at the Boston Theater In Boston Thursday everng. An informal reception was given atter.ward. A BALLADE OF THE OLD "STEAK. Some one knoclss at the outer gate. Give him a welcome, glad and free.

Winds blow cold and the hour Is late; Bid him eMer who'er he be. Bring you a message kind to me, Happy youth, in your eyes of blue? Shall we find the promise we wait to seeT When will the old year's dreams com true? Here atone by the fire we've sate. Huddled close with our memory; Hands clasped idly, we blindly wait, A ad answer back from the sky or sea. How of the songs wo sang in glee, Axrl the roses that blossomed in mornlntf dew, And the laughter and love and the lit hoped we? When will the old year's dreams come truet Golden once was hia curly pate. Ah the old year, fair of face was he; A blithe young rogue with a smile for fate.

His eyes were sweet when he made hl plea To tarry here In our company. Promises many fulfillments few. We loved him well, but we'll truBt not ye. When will the old year's dreams come truef Gay young year, here's a health to tfiee, troso and a glass and a song for. you, tell us the secret you'll agree.

When will the old year's dreams com true? Kate Masteraon in SAtfc.