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THE BKOOKLYN DAILY EACrLIi NEW YOBK, SUNDAY, APBTL MISCELLANEOUS. TO CLOSE I PORTION OF "HAtSTEAD'S FOLLY" ft Mi YARD RELIC. TARDY RECOGNITION OF ROBERTS' SERVICES batteries exploded 'the torpedo attached to ship. The batteries for this purpose are still in the boat. A conning tower In the top was intended for the man who was to steer the boat.

There are dozens of features about the boat, anyone of which, it is said, would have prevented it from being a success. A steam gauge made by the Ashcroft Company and patented February 22, 1859, was used to register the air pressure In the reservoirs. This is a curiosity of exceptional value in this age of the wonderful performances of the Holland, and an effort may he made to preserve the "Intelligent Whale." It may be mounted in a suitable place In the Navy l'ard. to everyone, from the general: in chief to the drummer boys in their own brigades." Sticking of a Convoy in a Drift Described. Describing the sticking of a convoy in a drift he writes: "A scene of indescribable confusion ensued: men and wagons crowded on each other and blocked all the available spacet Kaffirs roared and shrieked and flogged their oxen with their long cowhide whips in a way to make even those accustomed to trek shudder at the cruelty, but all was of no avail.

"It had uot occurred to anyone to send on into line, unless aided by singular saod fortune. At Gravelotte 10.000 French wounded lay out for two days in charge of four doctors; we do not want a single British soldier to go unattended or unhoused. The accommodation has been sufficient up to now, but it is none the less obvious that such a state of things has been averted only by a happy combination of circumstances which it was impossible to foresee at the outset. In this campaign the fighting force has been broken up into four isolated columns of attack, to which must be added three besieged towns. If we had moved our whole strength up the center and fought a decisive action with the whole strength of the enemy, armed as they are.

where would have been the hospital ac commoo atl' for the wounded? The actions fought havu been mostly small and inslsnlfi Curious Points in the British Commander in Chief's Military Career. PRAISE FROM LORD KITCHENER. SiSo the rocky slopes they had won all through I tjie night. Moreover, no considerable action has been pushed home. A Tribute to General Buller Work of colenso been fought to a finish Sir William MacCormac could never have written the Medtcal Department Interest Vltrilline "account the clearance of the in? War Letters.

wounded from the field, which, as it stands, was a sDiendid performance by both bearer I companies and Army surgeons, but one that London, March 4 "I had aln ays wished," taxed their capacity to the full. Had the writes the hero of the Soudan to a corre trenches at Magersfonteln been taken, the slaughter of the Highland Brigade would nave spondent, "to serve under Lord Roberts, and bee oaly an jtem bln nur loss. We can only I am thankful to had this opportunity. suppose that in estimating their war estab He is a very tower of strength." lishments the army medical department at Such magnanimous praise from General hume had a special prophetic vision of both Kitchener shows, not only that he is above I the all petty jealousy, but settles dcflnitel the Ma) Jf the casualty list has been lighter rumors that Roberts was only a figurehead. tnan might have been reasonably expected.

That a man near TO years old coul.1 'lo all that the sick roll has been a far greater stroke Roberts has done in South Africa in the of good fortune. The climate in which most way of mental and physical labor, never ,1, ceases to be a theme of praise and wonder a'nd have lately been coming down Fate of the Earliest Attempt at Submarine Torpedo Craft Construction. CRUDE PIONEER OF HOLLAND. Sank to Bottom of "Wallabout on Trial Day and Almost Drowned Her Projectors. For more than a quarter of a century an "Intelligent "Whale" has been basking in the broiling summer sun and shivering in the wintry blasts on the Cob Dock of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, within a few steps ot the thirty two foot channel of the East River, and yet has not had sense enough to get back into the water again.

There it lies, helpless, deserted, decaying and almost forgotten by all but a few ot the oldest employes of the Navy Yard. The "Intelligent Whale" is the name applied to a submarine boat built in New Jersey. It was constructed under agreements with Cornelius S. Bushnell, Augustus Rice and others. The first contract "was signed on November 2, 1863, and after many changing of hands on account of failures and similar causes, came into the possession of the government.

It was also known as "Halstead's Folly." The boat is cigar shaped, about thirty five feet in length and eight feet in diameter at the widest part, and is made of half inch wrought iron. It is an obsolete affair and scarcely worth the price of old iron, and yet the government is unable to dispose of it without a special act of Congress. This boat never did anything ot greater importance than almost to succeed in drowning its owner and operator. Uncle Sam squandered $30,000 on the machine which cost about $60,000. He never expects to realize anything from.it, and will not even permit, the public to have free access to the curious craft.

If such it may be called. A marine sentry is constantly on guard to prevent the inquisitive visitor from going even near it. When the torpedo was first invented the greatest difficulty experienced was to place it near enough a warship to do the damage for which it was intended1 Early in the THE "INTELLIGENT "WHALE." A Neglected Submarine Boat Lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It "Was Built Thirty six Years Ago. Jingianu.

To aay. a weemy newspaper con tains an interesting sketch of the hero of the hour, and brings out some curious points in his military career. "The contrast between 1893 and 1900 in regard to his status and the placo he occu pied then and now is so extraordinary that it calls for something more than a passing remark," says that paper. "At the earlier date, when he returned from India at the end of his prolonged tenure of the post of commander in chief, he was looked upon, and no doubt thought himself, a very ill used and disappointed person. He knew, and naturally better than anybody else, that he was still full of life and go, despite his 60 odd years.

He believed in himself, too, and a man of merit who does not, seldom makes much figure in this crooked' workaday world. Yet he had but little hope, it grew to be almost no hope, of command or appointments. There were undoubtedly influences hostile to him in Pall Mali. He had been offered by Mr. Stanhope, when war minister, the post of adjutant general of the army and had accepted it, but he was never allowed to hold it.

"This is no mere random statement, but a positive fact. When the vacancy occurred, as it did, on the retirement of Lord Wolseley in 1S90, Lord Roberts fully expected the fulfillment of Mr. Stanhope's promise, but it was evaded and Sir Redvers Buller was appointed. There were august personages who did not want to see Lord Roberts at the War Office and who so strenuously opposed Mr. Stanhope as to force him to go back on his word.

The result was that extension of Roberts' Indian command which kept him there until 1S93 and then landed him in i England with the almost certain knowledge that he was to go upon the shelf. When at length he got the Irish command, it was no more than a tardy recognition of his undoubted claims, but he was at the same time plainly told that he need look for no more, least of all for that reversion to the post of commander in chief of the army which it "will probably be within his power to take or leave in November next. "Six months ago anyone behind the scenes would have laughed at the suggestion that Roberts could be preferred to Buller, or even to Evelyn Wood, "as Lord Wolseley's successor. But in that short period the world has moved fast, with many shocks and surprises. There have been changes in the people on pinnacles, the feeble have fallen off and their places are occupied by the strong men who could climb.

We need lay no ungenerous stress upon the abatement of certain reputations, but may fairly point to the deserved enhancement of others. Roberts, by waiting, has at last got his deserts, and it is instructive to remember now how he waited, not hopefully, perhaps, but persistently always, for another chance before he died. He stuck to his work manfully, did it well and 'thoroughly, showing himself the keen soldier that he was at all parades and maneuvers, letting fall words of wisdom and evincing unabated interest in his trade. Through all this he continued the people's hero, for he has ever been a popular favorite, and in this, the hour of his greatest triumph, his loudest plaudits will come from the crowd." An interesting glimpse of Lord Roberts in the field comes from the front. When the news arrived of General French's successful ride into Kimberley, and thus gave the exact completion of his own plans.

Lord Roberts' mild comment was: "Well, that's good news." A letter written home by a corporal of the u.wils uci. ueai uy I the commander in chief, shows how the field marshal treats his men. "There was fighting all round us that day. i uau 5" ur' cnais wun iord Roberts, as he was often waiting near the tent for news. I mentioned that the convoy was in trouble and he remarked: 'Oh that does not matter, mv lad.

the men away" meaning that the object had been attained. General French had entered Kimberley; Jacobsdal had also been taken, and supplies could also be got through from Modder River We have found Lord Rob er.s a thorough gentleman. He has a knack of putting anyone at ease when speaking with him." A Tribute to General Buller. A scathing rebuke to the stay at home war critics and a glowing tribute to General Buller comes from a military correspondent i i i i i i HYOMEI Just Breathe It, THAT'S ALL. Breathe it for five minutes now and then, and it Cures Coughs.

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British Government Agrees to Christian Herald's Plan for the Belief of the Pamine Stricken Natives; Negotiations were concluded yesterday between Dr. Louis Klopsch, proprietor of the Christian Herald of New "York, ana the. British government, by which the former is authorized to charter a relief steamer for the purpose of sending a cargo of corn to famine! stricken India. The cargo will consist of 3,000 tons or more of mixed corn, well seasoned, so as to withstand the violent climatic changes it must undergo on the voyage to Bombay. This life boat, as it may be called, will sail aa early as possible in April.

The appeal for the India famine relief fuB sent out by the million by the Christl Herald, has called attention everywhere to the sad condition in that famine stricken land. Every state in the Union has responded to the appeal with most gratifying promptness. The daily receipts for the fund now amount to more than $3,000 a day and more than 530,000 has already been cabled to India. Upon the arrival the relief ship In Bombay train loads of corn will be promptly dispatched to the various missionary stations throughout the breadless area. COLEB'S APPOINTMENTS.

Nine Men Named for Positions in Pi nance Department. Controller Coler has announced the following appointments in the Finance Department: John A. Valadon, 21G West One Hundred and Twenty eighth street, in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears, Borough ot the Bronx, at 5S00 per annum. Henry T. McCann, 607 East Eighty first street.

Junior clerk in the Bureau for tho Collection of Assessments and Arrears, Borough of the Bronx. $600 per annum. Edward J. Flack, 151 West One Hundred and Twentieth street, assistant accountant, Department of Finance, at $6 per diem. John J.

Sheehan, 113 Crosby street, junior clerk in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears, Borough of Manhattan, at $600 per annum. John J. McNeill, 931 Pacific street, Brooklyn, junior clerk ln the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears, Borough of Manhattan, at $600 per annum. George L. Rauch, 557 West One Hundred and Sixty ninth street, clerk In the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears, Borough of Manhattan, at $800 per annum.

William It. Eisele, 2S1 Avenue examiner In tho auditing bureau of the Department o( Finance, at $1,100 per annum. George W. Davison, 1,257 Park avenue, junior clerk in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears, Borough of the Bronx, at $000 per annum. Thomas S.

Fitzgibbons, 245 East Thirty, ninth street, clerk in the auditing bureau of tho Department of Finance, at $1,000 per aa" num. TRYING POR A BANNER. Canarslo Council No. 1,678 of tho Royal Arcanum has been making a fine showing' In its efforts to win one ot the banners to be presented to the council having the best percentage of initiations for the first hre months of 11)00. On January 1 the council had thlrty ono members and last evening at the closing of the contest thoy had seventy six or an increase in threo month ot forty one.

March of Improvement Demands the Obliteration of Kings Highway in New Utrecht. WAS LAID OUT IN 1704. Cutting Through, of New Streets in Dyker Heights Section Responsible for Latest Move. At a meeting ot one of the local bo'ardB of public improvements which will be held in the Borough Hall on April 7, the matter of the t.oposed closing of that part of the old Kings Highway between Seventh and Eleventh avenues will be discussed, and as there seems to be no great opposition to the plan. It may, be said that the actual work will go ahead soon after the hearing.

The objections that may come up against the closing of the famous old road will only emanate from those old residents who are of the opinion that the road should be kept as it always has been, so that it could be pointed out to the new 'comer as one of the most ancient thoroughfares in the country. It is deemed necessary, however, to close It up so that some new streets can be laid out through that section known as Dyker Heights. King's Highway was laid out in the year 1704. The City of Brooklyn was a very small cluster of houses at that time and only a few months previous to the laying out of the road the acres, of the settlement were fixed at 5,177. This, of course, did not mean the city was a compact mass of buildings, as at present.

The groups and single houses that were included had wide intervals between them, as in any country place. Peach orchards flourished In the intervening lots, woodlands appeared in the distance and market gardens showed the thrift of the people. Around tho dwellings were prim gardens bordered with boxwood bush and old faBhloned flowers that the great grandmothers of the present generation used to love. The Town of New Utrecht was at that time an outgrowth of farm settlements, developed and amplified. As a natural sequence, the roads, which had not yet risen to the dignity of streets, were crooked successors to farm lanes, of which the cows had been the original surveyors.

Right of way through farm lands to public wood lots had connected lane with lane in winding roads and crooked by ways. At length, in 1704, a commission appointed for the purpose laid out the King's Highway, and then naturally followed existing roads along the line of the original lanes. It was ordered that the highway should com mence at the ferry, meaning, it is thought. old De Nyse's ferry, where Fort Hamilton is now located, and it was to be "four rod wide," and its limits at the other end to be within the "new lots of Flatbush." The commission failed to carry out the "four rod wide" plan throughout, and the people who wanted an ample and convenient highway grumbled a good deal. This was especially the case with those landholders who had been obliged to remove fences and buildings which lay in the course of the road, and who thought they should receive a reasonable benefit.

The plan or record of the road gave its course from "lowe water marke at the ferry in Broockiand" between the lands of John Aerson, John Coe and George Jacobs "through the lane that now is" and thence straight along a certain lane to the southward corner of John Couwenhoven's land, etc. It touched the properties of Gerretse, Benjamin Vandewater, Dorant and Claus Baruse, Volkertses, Gregs, Eldut, Lucas and others; along fences and paths. After delays and bickerings innumerable, the road was laid out as it remained until the widening of Fulton street in 1849. In some points the original street, in spite of the "four rod wide" of the order, was so narrow as to be almost useless. Especially in the winter, when the snows banked up on the wall side.

The single sleighs found difficulty in passing each other and blockades were not infrequent. During the past two centuries the famous road has seen lots of travel and was' considered the only safe road between Bay Ridge and Flatlands. When Bensonhurst was laid out on the sito formerly owned by Egbert Benson, the question of closing King's Highway confronted the land owners and a strong opposition was made to any such action. The old residents along the road failed to see how they were to be benefited by having the highway closed up entirely, thereby shutting them off from the more settled portion of the then towns of New Utrecht and Gravesend, and when the contractor commenced work, there were some Interesting times between him and the lovers of the old road. It was absolutely necessary, to close up the road, as the lines of the streets ran on either side of it and made very short lots between the road and the street proper.

Accordingly, that portion of the highway between Twentieth and Twenty second avenues, about six city blocks, was closed and at the present time there are houses erected on the site. Shortly after Bensonhurst had been established the big farm then owned by Towns end O. Van Pelt, situated ln New Utrecht, and through which the King's Highway traversed. was purchased by J. Lott Nostrand, and the section now known as Van Pelt Manor was laid out.

It was found that the old road was in the way of the march of improvement herer too, and it was soon closed up, with the possible exception of a short block directly In front of the old Van Pelt homestead, now standing at the corner of Eighteenth avenue, between Eighty first and Eighty second streets. At this corner is an old mile stone and a brown stone sign, on which is stated the distance to De Nyse's Ferry. The old house at the corner Is one of the landmarks and has been visited by thousands of people. Mr. and Mrs.

Van Pelt still reside there. The portion of the road which It Is proposed to close up runs through the northerly end of Dyker Hejghts, on what was formerly known as Floss Pond Kill, and several old houses, among them the old Bennett farm house, are still there. The many new streets that are to be laid out through that section necessitate the closing of the road, and when the work will have been completed there will be no more of the old road in the former town of New Utrecht. From Twenty second avenue or Bay Parkway through to East New York, the highway Is in grand shape and is considered one of the finest roads in the vicinity. It Is certainly one of the most picturesque thoroughfares to be found within the limits of the greater city, and on either side of the road are built little settlements like Kings Oaks, Oak Cre3t and Manhattan Heights, all of which have grown rapidly within the past year and have to a considerable extent helped to make the suburban section of the borough a place of beauty.

During the past five years Kings Highway has become one of the best and most convenient thoroughfares for the lovers of riding and driving, in that it Is the only connecting road between the Flatlands section ot the borough and Bensonhurst. It runs past the Parkway Driving Club, the Brooklyn Jockey Club and is in close proximity to the beautiful grounds of the Coney Island Jockey Club at Sheepshead Bay. It forms one of the main links to the belt of macadam roads throughout and around the borough and the rider or driver by starting from Bast New York can enjoy a ride over asphalt through Eastern Parkway to Prospect Park, to Fort Hamilton avenue, to the Shore Driveway, to Cropsoy avenue, to Bay Parkway, to King's Highway, to Flatbush avenue and to a point a short distance from the starting point. This ride bounds the borough and wero it not for the King's Highway it would be Impossible tc drive round it, as there arc no roads available. The old residents along the highway In the former town of Gravesend.

including the Berrys, tho De Nyses, the Bennetts and the Ryders, are greatly Interested ln the matter pertaining to the proposed closing of the road between Seventh and Eleventh avenues, not that It will touch their property, but because it will remove a road which has become a fixture in their lives and one on which they loved to drive. a working party with engineers to improve the Rassage. These matters are provided tor in til military manuals, but are despised in South Africa, where, owing to the absence of roads and bridges, they are more necessary than in any settled country. "All the generals and staff officers collected round the drift, giving orders and counter orders and directions, and adding in no small measure to the confusion. After hours of delay, engineers and working parties were at length employed, and they soon leveled the banks, placed stones in the soft mud and dragged the wagons on to dry land." Of the preliminaries to the attack on Spion Kop he says: "Just before dusk the officer commanding (the late General Woodgate) was informed thnr Vie hnd hpn Relpc.t.ed to lead a nieht at tack on Spion Kop.

He had never seen the hill he was to attack, or heard its name, ana no correct maps were at hand. "During the few available minutes he made every effort to view the ground. But time did not allow, and he had to grope his way back to his own camp after dark. So pitch black was the night, and so new was he to the place, that in that half mile he lost himself completely, and had great difficulty in getting home. But he was a brave man; he had received his orders, and he allowed no doubt of success to cross his mind.

To those who knew the ground it presented a gloomy prospect, and threatened a terrible disaster worse, even, than the one which overwhelmed General Gatacre. "The cry was always for 'more men. more, till the hill was so overcrowded that every bullet and every shell produced destruction. At no time should more than 200 men, at the outside, have been allowed on the ex posed ground on top of the Probably a smaller number would have sufficed; The remainder should have been kept well hidden behind the slope. A greater blunder could not have been made by the most ignorant private in the army; but throughout this war wo have never realized that men cannot.

be: crowded together without ruining every chance of success." BRYAN'S INSURANCE BILL. Effort for a Value Policy law Characterized as an Incentive to Incendiarism. Assemblyman Bryan of Jefferson County has a bill before the Legislature providing that fire insurance companies shall pay the full value of a policy in case a building is totally destroyed by fire. This bill passed the House on Thursday by a vote of 08 for to 13 against and is now before the Senate. Similar bills have been introduced in the Legislature for several years, but this is the first time that a vote ot the House has been had upon the question.

The Bryan bill was in the hands of the committee on insur ance of the Assembly, and it refused to report it. Chairman Coughley wanting it to be laid aside. The action of the Assembly was a surprise to insurance men, as they supposed it would take the course of its predecessors. These interests will fight the bill should it be reported in the Senate, and in event of it passing that body the opposition will be carried to the Governor. William T.

Lane, president of the Nassau Fire Insurance Company, and one of the ad visory board in fire insurance matters of the city, said of the Bryan bill: "It is a vicious measure, and every effort will be made by reputable companies to kill it. It Is what is known among the insurance men as a value policy bill, under which, should it become a law, a policy holder can collect the face of his policy, no matter what has intervened since the policy was issued to depreciate the value of the risk covered. For instance, if a piece of property worth $5,000 when the policy is taken out should after several years be destroyed, the owner could collect the face value of the policy without regard to circumstances that might have intervened to greatly depreciate the actual measure, of value of the property. Such a law would be an incentive to Incendiarism and is of the. most vicious character of legislation.

I tell what the motive may be that is behind, such bills, but it would work the most harmful results on both the insurance companies and owners as well. "There are some few states which have the value policy law, but they are all states in which there are no home companies. Among these states are Mississippi. Nebraska, Oregon, Kansas, Kentucky and Florida, and the experience of outside companies In these states warrants the statement that such a law is an incentive to incendiaries to over insure their property. "It is the custom where a loss is sustained in this state, when the insurance company is informed by the owner of the loss of his property, for the company to send its builder to view the premises and to endeavor to effect an amicable settlement of the loss.

Generally losses are settled this way. But in event of a difference of opinion between the two parties the owner and the insurance com pany will each have the right to exercise the privilege of appointing an appraiser, who, in mm, agiei; upuu uu union tr, auu me uuuiiub 0f any two of these three is accepted as the measure of damage. It is very rare that in la case of total loss a satisfactory settlement cannot be made." JBIG CROWD AT ATLANTIC CITT. Number of Visitors Continues to In crease Weekly. (Special to the Eagle.

Atlantic City, X. .1., March 31 The number of visitors at this resort continues to increase at a most astonishing rate. Several of the leading hotels are now crowded to their utmost capacity and have even room engaged until after Easter, while all have their quota of guests. The crowd Is, without exaggeration, the largest ever seen here at this season. Among the visitors are an unusually large proportion of Brooklynltefi.

Universal attention is now centered on the big golf tournament which is to take place next week on the links of the Country Club, at Xorthfield. The tourney, which will occupy practically the whole week, will be participated in by over one hundred of the leading amateurs of the country. The most notable single event will be the appearance of Harry Vardon, the British champion, who, on Tuesday, will play a thirty six hole match game, playing the best ball of Herbert M. Harrlman and Findiay S. Douglas, the present and former amateur champions of the United States.

The entry lists for the tournament are still open. W. E. Edge of this city is th secretary of the tournament committee. The Brooklyn colony at the Hotel Brighton includes I'inkerton, Thomas Cochran, L.

Hine, Lyman X. Hine, Miss Sarah Seaman and Arthur W. Palmer. A party of well Itnown Brooklynltes at the Albemarle consists of J. E.

Austin, Mre. E. E. Austin, Leslie W. Austin, Hayes M.

Austin. C. E. Austin, Miss Booth and Mr. and Mrs.

V. T. Used. W. D.

Sargent, Mrs. Henry S. Snow and MiFfi Snow of Brooklyn are registered at the Windsor. Dickenson and Mrs. T.

S. Grey are among the Brooklynltes sojourning at the Hotel Senate. Mr. and Mrs. J.

K. Smythe ot Brooklyn are guests at the Hotel De Ville and Mr. and Mrs. W. F.

Nav bert of the same city are sojourning al uie Hotel St. Charles. Mr. McDonegall and Miss McDonegall of Brooklyn registered at the Irvington during the week. Xew York arrivals at' the Avon Inn are: Mrs.

M. A. Mclntlre, Reed Mclntire. Miss S. Robertson.

Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Self, J. 1). Fischer.

Mis Martha Smith, Henry film Ire, Harding Mclntlre, 'Henry Clay Fish and wife, William F. Steif, James B. Camp, C. I). Oscar, wife and family, G.

W. Coatc s. Colonel John D. Rogers, Professor, Samuel McCune Lindsay, wife and family, Mrs. Cloud Speakman, A.

D. Harlan, Mrs. Charles Ai Miss Birdie Baker, Miss Huey, Graham Hastings, L. S. Wood, J.

H. Reel. BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. Judge Edward B. Thomas, sitting in the United States District Court yesterday granted orders of discharge from bankruptcy to Daniel Bacon, Emanuel Simons, Lincoln Valentine, Henry Marcus, S.

T. Hatch, Agnes McCabe, Bunle Freedman and Pyser Book staver. August Wilson, formerly a hotelkeeper at Coneji Island, now a bartender at Surf avenue nd Thompson's walk, yesterday filed with the clerk of this court his petition as a voluntary bankrupt. He schedules one creditor secured in $700 and seventeen unsecured with claims amounting to $13,220.93. He has no assets.

Charles S. Freidman, a salesman living at 593 Flushing avenue, filed a similar petition. He names 25 unsecured creditors in 51,194.93 and assets valued at $75. EAGLE'S BIG PEAT. The Paris Exposition Supplement of the Brooklyn Eagle last Sunday was a surprise even in view of the Eagle's record for big things well done.

It was a sixty four page' edition containing a wonderfully complete description of the American exhibits, and business men and manufacturers and pleasure seekers will find much in it of interest whether they intend to visit the exhibition or not. Fourth Estate. EXECUTION OF FILIPINOS. Hew Policy Inaugurated in tlie Treatment of the Insurgent Leaders. Washington, March 31 The execution of Morales and Gonzales, the Philippine leaders, it is said at the War Department, marks the inauguration of a new policy in the Philippines.

This is the execution of the death sentence by order of the military officer in com I mand in the cases of persons, natives or oth I ers, convicted and sentenced by military com missions organized under the rules of war. Morales and Gonzales were convicted by a military commission of the murder of Filipinos and were sentenced to be hanged near Bayanbang, March 30, and the press dispatches from Manila show that the sentence was carried into effect. No official report of these cases has been received at the War Department and it is stated that General Otis has acted entirely on his own responsibility in the matter under the authority conferred by the articles of war. There have been several other cases where the death penalty was imposed by military tribunal, but up to the present Instance no case where the death sentence was carried into effect. All the previous cases were submitted to the President for final action, and in every instance the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.

According to the legal officers in the War Department the insurrection in the Philippines amounts to a state of war and in that view ot the case General Otis acted entirely within his authority in ordering the execution of the two Filipinos without special authority from the President. It is stated at the War Department that Genera! Otis' action is undoubtedly intended to suppress brigandage and outlawry in the Philippines, hut some conservative officers fear that his summary action may jeopardize the safety of American prisoners now in the hands of the Insurgents. BURGLARS WERE TIMID. Feared a Full Prom the Street and Made a Paltry Steal. A burglary, ln which the would be thieves failed to get much booty, was reported to the police last week, but, as usual, was not made public.

The details of the case are interesting despite the fact that the loss entailed amounted to only about one dollar's Worth of cigars. Last Tuesday afternoon two young men walked into the Elephant Club, at 1,411 Fulton street, and while one engaged Manager Thomas Curtis in conversation over the cigar counter, the other made a critical examination of the front of the store and then pushing open the swinging doors made a hasty though complete examination of the bar. He seemed particularly Interested in the window at the side of the building, opening Into a vacant lot at 1,413 Fulton street. He also looked at the assortment of billiard balls that were exposed on a desk behind the cigar counter. Mr.

Curtis paid little attention to the man, believing that his apparent curiosity was that of a newcomer who wished to see what the place was like. The events that followed lead him to believe that the young men were burglars and were looking over the lay of the land preparatory to making.a raid. At any rate, on the following morning, the discovery was made that the side window had been broken open and an attempt had been made to loot the place. Mr. Curtis advances the theory that the burglars were after the billiard balls which they had seen on the previous afternoon, for the drawers of the desk had been ransacked without result, because it Is the custom to put the valuable ivory globes in the sate.

The only things missed were a handful of cigars. It is reasoned that because the cigar counter and safe Is In full view of the street, the burglars were afraid to expose themselves to view. They crawled as near to the case as possible and took as many cigars as they could and then escaped. TESTING VOTING MACHINE. State Commission to Decide About Bard well Votometer To morrow.

The Xew York State commission on voting machines, consisting of Proressor Robert H. Thurston of Cornell University, H. de B. Parsons and Phillip T. Dodge, tested yesterday the Bardwell votometer, a voting machlfie of exceedingly light construction, occupying little space and made to record straight, snlit or restricted voting.

The machine works with a key and is so constructed as to permit voting in the manner prescribed by law, but Illegal voting is an impossibility. The machine is the invention of Arthur F. Bardwell ot Springfield. and is on exhibition at 52 Broadway, where the test was m.idn vosiov. I day.

The commission will make known Its decls ion in regard to the utility of the machine to morrow. The law requires that everv voting moLuuiu u.ii navi; mu approval OI tDe COD1 missir.n before it can be adopted by any of the counties in the state. TO HOLD A FESTIVAL. The Consumers' Park Brewing Company ot Brooklyn lias arranged for a festival, to bo held on Friday, April 6, at 3 o'clock' in the afternoon, on the premises, (H6 078 Franklin avenue. The officers and directors of tho company are: Herman Raub, president; Ileitis, first vice president; C.

second vice president: Charles Paul secretary; Frank Raub, treasurer: Ferdinand Slevers, C. F. Berney, George Muohlhoefer, Anthony Mark, August Ludeman, Samuel Fink, Henry Frelcha; A. J. Wostermayr, counsel.

orange ana Moaner rtivers in rapia sue cesslon. the proportion of sick to wounded in this war will form a record in strong contrast to the past, and one which it will bo unsafe to rely on in the future. "These notes of warning must not be taken in any way to reflect on the merit or era ciency or me arms meuiwi sum ai present nav an earlv but emphatic tribute to Surgeon General Wilson, the principal medical officer of the campaign, and to the able and devoted staff of army surgeons serving under him, for the success which they, have distributed with inadequate resources over a large and varied area and for the personal zeal and professional skill which they have brought to bear on the performance of their individual duties. "'No doubt some friction has existed between the Red Cross Society, the Army Medical Department and the Good Hope Society, a local movement which has given most generous and useEul assistance to the hospitals. Complaints have been made about the meat and cooking in spite of the Swiss chef whose cordon bleu is pointed to by the authorities with as much pride as a Victoria Cross.

One officer inmate of considerable service told me that the beef was tough and unpalatable, and that they could hardlv eat it. But the beef is the worst thing" in South Africa except, perhaps, the mutton. These minor defects have, as far as possible, been remedied since the hospitals were opened." Queen Victoria's Visit to the Wounded. The visits by the Queen to the wounded In the hospitals at home is well brought out by the following account in the Daily News of her trip to the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich: "In the hospital at the present time there are some 700 patients. 1 nese mciuoe oou wounded soldiers from South Africa.

About 150 have recently arrived in the Winifredian, and they inciude some very curious cases. The remaining 400. who for the most part have reached the stage of convalescence, were nearly all seen and spoken to yesterday bv the Queen. Her majesty was wheeled in her chair through the wards. Colonel Bourke acting as guide.

As each bed was reached, he gave details of the case the name of the patient, the regiment to which he belonged, the nature of his injuries and the field on which he received them. To each invalid the Queen made a kindly remark: 'Are you still 'Was the pain hard to 'Were you long on the battlefield before the ambulance arrived?" these were some of the questions put by the Queen to heroes of Colenso, Spion Kop and Magersfontein. "The brave fellows seemed to have nothing but reassuring answers to make. 'I'm quite well now. your was the usual answer, often belied by the bandaged limb or pale face.

'I am so the Queen would say when the patient was compelled to speak of" a broken arm. or a bullet in the chest, or of hours suffering on the battlefield. Then, again, when testimony was borne to a rapid recovery and a comfortable convalescence, the Queen would smilingly say: 'I am so It was interesting to follow in the footsteps of the Queen, and to hear the soldiers describe these little interviews. 'She spoke softly in a low said one', 'but every word she said was quite She is the kindest lady I have ever talked said another. A third was amazed at the Queen's penetration.

'First she asked me what my name was. and I told her it was "Woods." and then she said. "Are you an Irishman?" Now. how could she have known But Woods was not the only one to whom this inquiry was addressed. The Queen found many Irish soldiers during her tour of the wards and they were all objects of particular solicitude.

The Queen presented each soldier with one of the bouquets she bad brought from Windsor, and this circumstance was afterward proudly dwelt upon by the men. One wounded warrior took himself sorely to task for having missed the golden opportunity for thanking the Queen for her Christmas present of chocolate. 'I had quite made up my mind to tell ner now mucl, we seemed a haps tnougnt oi aim uu it sort of rewara tor aujLuius done: but somehow or other it all seemed to go out of my An ccno Ol ueoerui jiai.uuiuiiu Koodoosberg is contained in a letter of a private at Modder River to the Pall Mall Gazette: "One poor chap at our regiment," he writes, "staggered during the marcn. ana v. novn rv nairn vine i on Ule Vfc.lrU ln a dying condition, piteo'usly moaning for water.

As soon as they gave him some ho expired. When brought in he emaciated a conQition as to "0 ot lhe boots are falling off. the hill rlimbinsr playing havoc with shoe leather. Scathing Description of Tactics Em ployed "by Some Officers. An officer present at Spion Kop writes in To day such a scathing description of the tactics employed in this fight that the edi little opportunity of lnnuencing tue minor ac tions of a battle, but to those selected officers who are either advisers or commanders.

Some ot these have proved themselves to be equal to their reputations, some of them have astonished even those who knew them best for their utter lack of common sense, for weakness in difficulties, and even for Inability to put in practice tho elementary rules of war that all soldiers have learned in the lower grades of the service. This last failure strikes one the more when we consider that thev have all, or nearly all, received a high lilitary education at the Man college, many them have even Deeii lecturers unu proies or as teachers, fail utterly when confronted with the harsh realities of the battlefield. The 'dead shot' who can put out a candle at wenty yards takes a wild aim when confronted with an antagonist at fifteen paces. "There is only one remedy for this stale of affairs: all generals who ha vp proved their inefficiency, and they are as plentiful as the ant heaps which cover the feouth African nlalns. should he at nnen recalled: the nnces sitios of the country demand it.

There Is no difficulty In discovering them; thW are known i sixties a man named Halstead of Newark, N. believed that by means of a submarine boat the torpedo could be used with disastrous effect on the warships of an enemy. Accordingly, he contrived an odd shaped iron tube or boat by means of which he hoped to be able to descend beneath the surface of the water and proceed near enough to the enemy's vessels to place the torpedo where it would do the most effectual work. He appealed to members of Congress to assist him in his undertaking. His proposition, after years of work, received attention.

The government agreed to advance half of the money necessary to build it. This was the first sub marine boat undertaken on this side of the Atlantic. The boat was finally built in Xew Jersey, the best material and latest improvements being used in her construction; After years of toil it was finally completed and launched. Many private tests were made and then the odd looking craft was taken to the Brooklyn Xavy Yard. Although repeated efforts were made to secure an order from the Secretary of the Xavy for ah official test of the boat, it was not until one of the members of Halstead family was elected to Congress and George M.

Robeson of New Jersey was placed at the head of the Xavy Department, that this long delayed order was issued. The boat lay on the Cob Dock for ten years and had the name "Intelligent Whale" painted on her side, because her inventors believed she could be moved about tinder water not unlike that great sea fish. Before Secretary Robeson ordered an official test made of tho boat, she was renamed the Halstead Sub Marine Boat. The new name was accordingly painted over that of "Intelligent Whale." A committee of three was ordered on from Washington to ascertain the merits of the submarine boat. Before the committee arrived the brother of Congressman Halstead, who had been devoting himself to perfecting the boat, thought he would make a preliminary trial of the craft to assure himself that it was in perfect working order.

It had been lifted from the cob dock into the water by means of a crane and taken to the entrance of what is now known as stone dry dock No. 1. Just before the committee put in an appearance Mr. Halstead, accompanied by an expert machinist, whom he had employed to assist him in malting the official test for the committee, descended to the bottom of the Wallabout channel. The precaution had been taken before going down to attach a chain to one end of the boat.

The Washington Inspecting party arrived while the boat was under water. The members of the committee waited for half an hour or more for the odd boat to come to the surface, but failing to malte its appearance the commandant of the yard ordered it. pulled to the surface. The order came none too soon, because the two men In the boat, which was brought to the surface endwise, were standing in water up to their necks and almost dead. The packing about the manhole at the top of the boat had become dry in the years while it lay on the cob dock, admitting the water after the boat was lowered below the surface.

There was no means of communicating with there above and the men wore helpless. The committee was disgusted with the whole affair, and to add to the consternation of all concerned a deputy sheriff put in an appearance shortly after the men had been rescued ready to levy on the boat. The creditors who had advanced money to construct tho craft were afraid the contrivance would be a success and they would lose their money should the government accept, it before they could legally attach their claims. To forestall any further trouble and avoid complications tho committee ordered the submarine boat taken back to the cob dock, where it has remained untouched ever since. The boat was then ordered to be closed, a heavy chain being passed over the trap door on the top, the ends of which were welded together.

An Eagle man lately received permission to inspect the "Intelligent Whale" and yesterday the chains were broken and the trap door opened for the first time in twenty five years. The newspaper man was the first to descend into the boat, the interior of which was a mass of cobwebs. Lying about the bottom of the boat in confusion were the lamps, tools and apparatus used when Halstead and his machinist companion almost lest their lives. The Interior is crude and very primitive, and it is not at all surprising that the Intelligent Whale proved such a perfect failure. In each end of the boat are huge com pressed air tanks, which were supposed to 1 contain sufficient air to supply six men while under water ten hours.

The boat was pro pellcd by means of handpower, connected with a small inclosed propeller on the rear of the craft. It was submerged by means of horl stomal rudders, such as arc use! on the I Whitehead torpedoes. One of these propcll pis is located on iach side of the boat and I Is controlled by cranks on the inside. There arc also several pumps for removing any i water that might find its way into the boat. mi ntf.lru nn1 i ill vuiy uui: i.

u. worked when the preliminary test was being made twenty five years ago. In the bottom of the boat is trap door through which a man In a diver's suit was expected lo descend with a torpedo lo the side of a ship that was to be destroyed. The torpedo was to be attached to the side of a wooden ship by' means of a screw, or to that of an Iron hull with a loadstone. The diver then carried wires back from tho tor 1 pedo to the sub marlno boat and by means of of the Daily Telegraph at Chiveley.

He i tonal column of that paper says, "Napoleon wrote, before Ladysmith was relieved, as i bitter commentary comes to mind. 'Lions led follows: by And it is not the asses who pay "Sir II. Buller is certainly a dogged fighter the toll." The officer writing the account and cares little cither for the ignorant says in part: carping of self made generals or the squall "I repeat that it is impossible to hope for ing of a non taxpaying public, which the first glimmer of success until a man of imagines it can make generals as it can ability is placed in command, and until the prime ministers by its blatant praise or I minor leaders are men of at least ordinary ln blame. Nothing makes the soldier in Natal i telllgence and vigor. so sick as the criticisms of the amateur ex "I ('o not profess to know for what special perts.

Oh. how we should love to see these qualities the latter have hitherto been critics going tip a kopje in a blazing sun to chosen, but nearly all are men well known tell us where we ought to pierce the position throughout the army for incapacity whose in front. But tnis is. after rill, the old story i very names excite derision among all who of a popular government it believes everv have served under them. man must win every battle he fights Con "I refer, not to regimental officers (of whom sequontly it requires a man of Buller's I wish to speak with much respect) who have moral courage to attack these Immensely strong positions, and his grand, heroic character comes out most strongly in retreating when he sees success must be too dearlv purchased.

Buller has fought and retreated three times; in none of these retreats has he yet lost so much as a baggage mule. So his troops are in high spirits and they love him. as they always will love a man who gives all praise to others an2 accepts all blame himself." The Medical Service of Army. the British The Cape Town correspondent of the Times sends a long and important review of the "1 am far from condemning military medical service of the liritiph army Ho science; I believe it to be almost impossible maintains that, on accepted calculations it'' lo a Sacral or a staff officer capable of would be necensirv in i Performing his duties who nas not given years would be necessatj to hae in the field pro I aml lhought to his profession. Talk visron for sick and wounded equal to 2 1,000 I ers writers however, arc rarely men of men with 19,400 beds.

whn are admirable as olli ws. uiilUK name hosnitals. which arp only temporary entrepots and must be evacuated as fast as they are filled," lie continues, "the utmost capacity of the present hospital accommodation for the wounded in this campaign does not exceed S.000 beds. "We arc bound to examine even now a far less startling disproportion of demand and supply that can be remedied in the future. Tho best Intentions and the most honest CMrk on the part of the army medical staff ot here could never have brought the two.