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8 THE BBOOKEfrATLY EAGLE. KEW YQBK, StTKPAY, AUGFST? 20, RIVER BRIDGE, NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BUN'S COSTLY MUSEUM. AS IT WILL APPEAR tain localities. But woe betide the traveler if he is not gifted with unusual powers of observation, for there are roads under this giant of tropical vegetation which may lead him absolutely nowhere. It is an easy thing for him to become lost and it is said that more than one traveler has started to pursue his course, only to be confronted at last with death.

Mr. Braun started his garden a year ago last March, and that hi3 efforts were appreciated at least by some people is shown by the attention which they attracted from passengers on the bridge cars. The people to and from Brooklyn could be seen reaching out of the windows night and morning and taking in all that they could of "Nature in a City Yard." Not content with simply making a garden, Mr. Braun extended the privilege to neighbors of enjoying the little breathing spot, with its plants and flowers, providing, of course, they observed the ordinary rule3 of decorum. But the naturalist 5 3k tr FREDERICK BRAUN'S LITTLE GARDEN, On the Roof of the Old Bank Building on Front Street.

WHEN COMPLETED. traveled all over the world, and has corresponded with many eminent scientific, men in England, France, Germany, Sweden, Russia and America. He is a member of the Mineral Club of Manhattan, and also of the Brooklyn He took an active part in the excursions some years ago projected by the department of mineralogy of the Brooklyn Institute and was of signal service In pointing out and explaining specimens gathered in these little journeys of local students of science. RAN INTO HURRICANE. Steamship Tyr Was at Mercy of Storm for Forty Honrs.

Philadelphia, August 19 The Danish steamship Tyr arrived here to day from Port Antonio, Jamaica, with a cargo of bananas. Captain Funder reports having run into the West Indian hurricane last Tuesday night off the coast of North Carolina, and that for forty hours the vessel was at the mercy of the storm. The fury of the storm, he said, abated somewhat on Thursday morning, but a few hours later the vessel encountered another severe storm while off Cape Hatteras. The Tyr had one of her lifeboats smashed, lost three ventilators and had her engine room flooded. OFFICERS FOR NEW REGIMENTS.

Majors, Captains, First Lieutenants and Second Lieutenants Appointed New York Men Named. Washington, August 19 The following have been appointed majors in the new volunteer regiments: Harry C. Hale, Illinois; M. N. McNamee, Wisconsin; John H.

Parker, Missouri; L. C. Andrews, New York; Guy H. Preston, Massachusetts; John C. Gilmore, New York; W.

C. Brown, Minnesota; Henry T. Allen, Kentucky; D. A. Frederick, Georgia; H.

B. Mulford, Nebraska: Putnam B. Strong, New York; V. D. Du Boce, California; William C.

Dows, Iowa; Joseph F. Armfield, North Carolina; Hugh D. Wise. New York; A. A.

Wiley, Alabama; H. W. Hubbell, New York; W. A. Holbrook, Wisconsin; S.

W. Miller, Pennsylvania; Charles H. Mulr, Michigan. To be captains Robert Sewell, New Jersey; L. M.

Goldsborough, Elmore F. Austin, New York; W. J. Kendrick, Georgia; Claude E. Sawyer, South Carolina: Noel Gaines, George D.

Lee, Kentucky; Henry Wolcott, Rhode Island; Arthur C. Rogers, Ohio; William L. Murphy, Iowa; Luther S. Kelly, at large; Harry Walsh, District of Columbia; William H. Collier, Kentucky.

To be first lieutenants H. H. Pltcairn, Pennsylvania; Hal Sayre, Colorado; Silas J. McCaughrin, Frederick Mobley, Lewis A. Griffith.

Clarence S. Nettles, South Carolina; John B. Galleher, Frederick L. Wilson, Oscar Bishop, Kentucky; Frederick T. Austin, Massachusetts; William Brown, George E.

Kumpe, Montana; Frank E. Hlpklns, Rhode Island; James M. Shallenberger, Ohio; Richard K. Cravens, Indian Territory; Albert M. Petite, Iowa; Milosh R.

Hilgard, Illinois; C. S. Wood, at large; William J. Watson, Vernon L. Everett, Clyde B.

Parker, Kansas; T. B. Siegle, North Carolina. To be second lieutenants William R. Taylor, Gordon Johnson, Edward Francis Hack ett, New York; Frederick W.

Bugbee, INDIAN SKULL FOUND ON CHEYENNE RIVER. BRAUN'S COLLECTION. Arizona; Arthur R. Jones, Illinois: Charles Raymond Wood, Indiana; Carlos W. Pierce, Vermont; Charles H.

Morrow, Walter L. Slack, William A. Haycraft, Lewis W. Dillon, Kentucky; Charles L. Lanham, District of Columbia; Richard B.

Kavanagh, Lawrence P. Butler, William Ray Harrison, Frederick W. Mills, Edmund T. Paterson, at large; W. O.

Thornton, Georgia; Burton J. Mitchell, Howard M. Koontz, Robert Mitchell, Arthur J. Cadden, Kansas. HELD A HOT CORN SMOKER.

The Cortelyou Club of Flatbush opened its social season last night with a hot corn smoker at tho club house on Bedford avenue, near Newklrk avenue. About 200 of the club members were present. The first part of the evening was devoted to a highly satisfactory vaudeville entertainment by well known professional talent, after which, at 10:30 o'clock, hot corn, served a la Maryland, was passed and with It the necessary fixings. The smoker was quite as successful as any of those held last season and was held under the direction of the following committee of arrangements: John F. Weber, chairman; Henry A.

Meyer, Edward B. Carman, Charles Meyer; William E. Roach, Frederick K. Pash ley, Walter Kuhn. THE NEW EAST in January, 1882, or in a period of two and one half years.

This delay was occasioned by the difficulty in procuring steel which had never before been produced in such a quantity. In this connection those Interested in the construction of the present bridge recoil the statement of Alexander Holly, then one of the greatest experts of steel in the country. Mr. Holly had been selected by Sir Henry Bessemer to Introduce the Bessemer process in this country. The trustees of the old bridge sent for Mr.

Holly and asked him if it was possible to get 11,000 tons of steel and he replied: "Gentlemen, I suppose you are aware that that much steel has never been produced in the world for such a purpose, but I think that with the progress we are now making you can get it If you really require it." He did not mention that they could get it and that was the reason for the great delay in tho completion of the superstructure of the old bridge. Roughly speaking, 18,000 tons of steel were required for the old bridge. Forty five thousand tons will be required for the new one. While it was almost Impossible for the old commissioners to get steel in sufficient quantity at the time there are now probably ten concerns In this country that could manufacture the requisite amount in one year. Then, again, work on the old bridge was absolutely suspended from December, 1878.

until April, 1879, and was frequently interrupted from other causes. To summarize the work on both bridges: It required five years to build the Brooklyn tow'er of the old bridge and four and a half the Manhattan: the new, it is expected, will be completed by March 31 next. It took two and one half years to build the suspended superstructure of the old bridge; this work on the new bridge, it is expected, will be completed In one. It required five years to build the approaches to the old bridge; it is expected that the new approaches will be built in less than a year. The present bridge builders expect to begin the construction of cables in April next and finish them in April, 1901, and to have the suspended superstructure completed and the floor laid and ready for use In January, 1902.

If these expectations are accomplished President Nixon's prophecy that the building of the bridge would have been completed in Mayor Van Wyck's term of office will have been fulfilled. Taken altogether and without references to improvements in methods of working acquired with the lapse of years, the stage of progress at which the building of the present bridge has reached would seem to be at least two years in advance of the work on the old bridge. O. F. Nichols, first assistant engineer of the new bridge, having been asked If a comparison might reasonably be made at this stage between the relative rates of progress of the work on the old bridge and the new, said: "The utmost energy was UBed in the con struction of the old bridge and the extremely long time taken up was due to circumstances entirely beyond the control of its constructors.

The pneumatic foundations were large, and at the same time the process was new; the masonry towers, the finest in the world, were necessarily slow of construction; steel had never before been used in such quantities, and an unusual delay was necessary to obtain it and there were also frequent and often protracted delays in obtaining money for the work. "The pneumatic process has since become so general that the construction of the relatively small caissons for the new East River Bridge was really an easy problem. The construction of the large masses of masonry in the anchorages can be more easily done today than twenty years ago, because the stone quarries are more abundant and people are more accustomed to building masonry rapidly, while the manufacture of steel has so improved within the past quarter of a century that what was an extremely difficult work In steel in 1880 would be considered a mere bagatelle to the large steel makers of the present time. The greatest saving of time and money in the new bridge in due to the use of steel for the towers and approaches. These can be built of Bteel in less than half the time and for less than half the money than if built of masonry.

"The new bridge will be 50 per cent, wider than the old one; it will be 16 per or one thousand feet, longer; while it is designed to carry four times the load of the old bridge. Notwithstanding these larger dimensions, the progress In arts will permit of the bridge to be built within four years, exclusive of one vear's delay, due to want of money during the season 1S98, and for $8,000,000 for tho structure alone, as against $11,500,000, which was the actual cost of the old bridge. "I believe that the bridge will be completed In January. 1902, unless there is more serious delay In acquiring property for the bridge than is at present expected. The acquisition of real estate might easily become a stumbling block to prevent the completion of tho bridge in the time stated." HARRY EASILY FORGOT.

Passengers on the Elevated Witness a Tragedy, With Serio Comic Sidelights. Last Thursday evening about 9 o'clock a comely young couple, neatly dressed and evidently coming from well to do families, boarded a train on the Kings County elevated road, at the Court street station. They seemed as happy as lovers well could be, on a noisy and over crowded elevated train, with a curious lot of young and old people watching all their movements. They chatted merrily as the train sped along, until in the neighborhood of Vanderbllt avenue station, where each seemed to forget the other, much to the surprise of those present. When the train stopped at Nostrand avenue, it suddenly seemed to occur to the young man that that was the place where they wanted to get out.

and rushing to the door, he quickly ju3t as the brake man was closing the nates. He had forgotten the girl, and, owing to the crowd In the car, she evidently did not see him leave. No sooner were the gates closed, nnd as the train stnrted off, ho saw the young woman still sitting where he had left her. He shouted to the gateman: "Stop your train. My girl is in there yet, and I want to get her out." The train continued to move all the faster, and the gates remained closed.

Not knowing what else to do he yelled: "Let me back on the train again." Roth requests were unheeded. Just at this point the girl discovered that her escort was I gone, nnd this was where the real fun began. She wanted to rush from the train, but was restrained by tho passengers. Tho whole car was in commotion. The young woman was almost frantic.

The young man, she sold, was the only person she knew in Brooklyn. She cnlled out, "Harry'! Oh, Harry, what bhall I do?" He could not hear a word she Bald, but called at the top of his voice: "Mary, sit down, and get out nt Tompkins. I'll be up there The rest of his sentence was lost as the train left the station behind. Sinking into a seat half exhausted, the young woman unconsciously expressed her OUT THIS ii The Order Came From Ferdinand MacKeigh, but Martin Luther Chambers Said: "FILL UP THE POND THIS DAY." So at Digging and Delving They Set Every Man The Fond Is the Same as When They Began. (Special to the Eagle.) Old Field, L.

August 19 There was a man in Old Field town who thought he owned a pond. His next door neighbor claimed it, too, and all that lay beyond. So when the flr3t man dredged it out, with all his might and main, the second got a gang of men and dredged it in again. The melodrama of the Old Field pond, now occupying the stage here, has two leading men. One is Dr.

Martin Luther Chambers, the other is Ferdinand MacKeigh. The play, which Is attracting considerable attention for a summer production, may be said to come under the head of tank drama. It is equipped with real water, real sand; real supes and real actors. It also savors somewhat of a continuous performance from dawn to sunset. Difficulties arise when one tries to explain the plot.

There is one; either of the leading men will tell you. that, and in addition will probably volunteer the information that the other is chief plotter. The scene is set about as follows: Sandy beach near Long Island Sound; clam shells and picnic remains scattered artistically about; in the foreground, a pond, trees right and left and on the back drop, the sound is heard in the distance. Having got the location in mind, the rest is easy. Old Field Pond since time immemorial has been used by the people of Setauket as a crabbing ground.

It has been and is an excellent spot to capture the soft shelled side steppers. The fisher folk were unmolested In the right to catch crabs until Dr. Martin Luther Chambers, entered at the left center. "Stop," ordered Dr. Marl'n Luther Chambers; "the pond is on my land and there shall be no fishing here.

I am amazed. I shall petition the town board to have it closed." Enter Ferdinand MacKeigh. He also claimed the ownership of the Innocent little body of water. Mr. MacKeigh is connected with the Standard Gas Company of New York, and the late General Spinola was his father in law.

He declares that the pond was purchased from the town by General Spinola and, therefore, belongs to his estate. So there was a deadlock. Lately Long Island Sound has endeavored to settle the dispute by shifting enough sand through the inlet to All the pond up. Like King Canute of old, Mr. MacKeigh objected to the advances of the tide, so long as the water carried sand with It.

He determined to dTedge tho pond and set a dozen cnen with teams to work. The air was filled wtlh summer sounds and birds were singing joyously about the Chambers estate when the news of the dredging was brought to Dr. Martin Luther Chambers. "What?" said Dr. Martin Luther Chambers, "what!" Rushing down to Old Field Pond he discovered that the rumor was true.

Then did history repeat Itself. Dr. Martin Luther Chambers' remarks to the workmen may be found in any account of the battle of Lexington: "And Major Pltcairn strode out in front of the British red coats and, addressing the colonists, exclaimed, 'Disperse, ye rebels, ye vil Hans, disperse; why don't you lay down your arms and But MacKeigh's division did not lay down so much as a finger. But Dr. Martin Luther Chambers was not vanquished.

He organized an army, hastily, armed it with shovels and carts, and proceeded by forced marches to tha scene of action. "Charge," ordered Dr. Martin Lutber Chambers. dollar'n half a man, I reckon," said the chief shoveler. "Anything," shouted the commander, "only fill in that pond as fast as they dredge it It's mine.

I own It. We'll see." And thereupon the strangest scene that Old Field has ever witnessed occurred. As fast as one gang disposed of the sand the other threw it back. At sundown they stopped. The next1 scene will probably take place in court.

Public, sentiment is almost wholly with Mr. MacKeigh in the matter. A petition has been circulated favoring the free use of the pond by the public. The Rev. Dr.

James H. Darlington of Christ Church, Brooklyn, was ona of the signers. SCIENTIFIC TRACK LAYING. Work Now Being Done on the Court Street Line Is of a High Order. Perhaps one of the finest and most scientific pieces of railroad track laying ever attempted in Brooklyn is now going on in Court street, south from Joralemon, where repaying by the city is being done at the same time.

It should make that line of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company one of tha easiest riding in the borough, and the work will doubtless be the first in practically permanent improvements in a railroad way for the future. After much delay on the part of the contractors the work of tearing up Court street was begun about ten days ago, and that thoroughfare is now lined with terraces of new granite blocks. But the actual work of repaying is still further delayed by the comparatively slow work of the railroad engineers in laying new tracks. The east side of the roadway as far as Atlantic avenue Is out of commission and the west sido Is double tracked for the cars. A trench about two feet In depth was dug under the old tracks and In this the railroad engineers are laying the foundations for the new tracks.

These foundations consist of two parallel lines of broken stone and cement, about 12 Inches deep and 10 inches across, laid between heavy boards which hold the mixture together until it is thoroughly set. Then the boards are removed to perform the same duty further along the line. On top of these cement beds the steel rails are laid, being bound together by iron stringers placed at frequent intervals. At present the rails are springy under tho tread, having nothing but their own weight to hold them down, but when the pavement Is completed the blocks will act as locks to form a solid structure. The result will be a smooth and easy riding track surface that should properly appreciated by riders over the Court street line.

In addition the entire street pavement will be of the best character, the large granite blocks being tied together with tar and gravel. ii EAST file HEADY FOR USE IN 1902. 'Engineers Say That Work on the Big Structure Is Now Progressing Rapidly. ANCHORAGES NEARLY BUILT. Use of Steel for Towers and Approaches Means a Great Saving of Time and Money.

Tie most conspicuous feature in the progress of the work on the new East River bridge 'during the past month has been the looming "up 'of the anchorage structure at the foot of South Fifth street, in the Eastern District. When the barricading has been removed and the northern frontage exposed, passengers on 'Kent avenue and on the river steamers will be able to view to advantage the magnitude of the anchorage. Only then can the general public appreciate the enormous amount of labor that has been necessary to form a mooring place for the cable of the bridge that is built to carry four times the load of the 'present congested down town structure. Outwardly the anchorage will r.esenible a huge granite fortification covering the space of nearly half a In no part of the borough has such an enormous weight of masonry been deposited on so limited a space. the building of the anchorage attracts itors daily.

Passersby can get a good glimpse of the work through the barricades and those who take the trouble can (obtaih excellent view of the work from sev i eral' of the high buildings around. On tho top of the anchorage itself every day the scene is a busy one. The altitude of the point, as well as the pits or caverns that havo been left in the interior make the top a rather unsafe place for all except those who operate the derricks, lay the cement and attend to the placing of the huge pieces of stone in their proper places. The anchorage is not a solid structure of stone as may be supposed. In the center are two wells fifty feet deep and something like twenty Teet wide.

Then there are the caverns Into which the iron beams or bars dip around the pins of which the four cables of the bridge will be fastened. These latter holes will be afterward filled with No particular object would have been served by making the structure solid as long as the requisite weight of stone bus been placed in its proper situation. Edwin Duryt resident engineer on the Brooklyn side of the bridge, is in charge of the building of the anchorage. Mr. Duryea supervises sixty men who are at work daily on the massive structure.

Cnder his direction all the most difficult work in connection with the finding of a foundation, as well as the 'sinking of the Brooklyn caissons and the subsequent building of the toners, has been accomplished. While the anchorage work was delayed for a considerable time tiring the summer, on account of tho granite cutters' strike, a good supply of granite is now coming in and there seems to be no possibility of a recurrence of the ronner labor troubles. ff nothing unforeseen intervenes the structure will have beeen built as far as it can be until the stringing of the cables commences, about November 1 next. At the prest nt time masonry is being laid on the top at the rate of 200 cubic yards or 450 tons a day. So far, 00,000 tons of granite have been placed on the anchorage.

Before it is completed 40,000 tons more will have been added. When completed the height of the anchorage, from the foundation to the roof, will bo US feet. At the base has been placed 171.2 feet of timber and cement, then 22 feet of masonry, until the surface of the ground was reached, and then 30 feet more of masonry. Of the latter .10 feet the first 17 was what Is known as fine cut work. Above that, where the work now being prosecuted, Is known as rock face, or six cut work and being of a rougher kind is finished much faster than at the earlier stage.

Notwithstanding tjio satisfactory progress being made on the Brooklyn anchorage, an impression generally prevails that the work on the new bridge will be prolonged for an unusual length of lime, as was In the case of the old bridge. In that connection some comparative figures may be here given. The construction of the Brooklyn bridge commenced on January 2, 1870. It was opened to the public May 24, 1883, the work thus taking up nearly thirteen years and five months. The first wire in the hanging of the cables was strung May 2'J, six years and live months after the work was begun.

The Brooklyn anchorages were completed in October, 1 875, after five years; the New York anchorage in July. As in Lhe ease of the present briuge, the old builders could not proceed further with the work until tho anchorages aod towers were completed. The Brooklyn tower was completed in June. 1S73. and tho New York tower in July, 3 ST: and the contracts were awarded for the wire January 11, 1S77.

Plans for the present bridge wore adopted by the former commissioners on August IS, 1896. The present time, almost exactly after a. lapse of three years, finds all the foundations of the new bridge laid, the Brooklyn anchorage more than half completed and the Manhattan anchorage about one third completed. Both anchorages, the engineers are confident, will be finished by January 1, next, that is, within a space of fifteen months. 7iot entirely completed, it should be said but in such a shape that a commencement eon be made with cable stringing.

The contracts recently given out for the steel towers require that these should be completed hy March 31 next year, that is about three years and one half from the date of the commencement of work on the bridge. It is hoped that the contract for wires will be given out this fall. It should also he kept in mind that the present bridge builders lost exactly one year, namely, 18D8, as a result of lack of money. The approaches to the old bridges were begun in August, 1877, and It took five years to complete them, owing to the heavy masonry Used. The present bridge builders expect to complete their approaches in one year.

The uspended superstructure of the old bridge commenced in July, lsTi), ana completed thoughts. "And to think that Harry would forget me that way, and so soon, too." "Oh, I guess he'll be sure to find me," said she to the passengers. "But don't you see how he forgot I was with him. That is what bothers me most." The Eagle man waited at Tompkins avenue for the next train to arrive, and sure enough there Jumped from it Harry, eagerly looking for the temporarily absent young woman. Profuse with apologies, all sorts of explanations, and very much embarrassed at best, he escorted her down the long flight of stairs, where, both talking at once, they boarded a Fulton street trolley car.

AMATEUR JOURNALISTS ELECT. Brooklyn Secures Two Officers Before the Adjournment. The third annual convention of the United Amateur Press Association, which began on Friday, was concluded yesterday at 154 East Fifty fourth street, Manhattan. Officers were elected as follows: President, Samuel De Hayn of Philadelphia; vice president. Guy N.

Phillips, Sioux City: secretary, Thomas MoKe, Butler, Pennsylvania; treasurer, V. B. Tlttletield, Brooklyn; official editor, James A. clerkln, Jersey City: historian. Earle V.

Topping, Ronton; laureate recorder, GeorKe Houtaln. Brooklyn; eastern manuscript managor. Harris Reid. Philadelphia: western manuscript manager. Oliver H.

Lafranchi, Reclamation. Cal. directors, Charles Helns, E. H. Smith and James C.

Bresnahan. The Little Star of Mankato, edited by E. B. Howe, was chosen as the official organ of the association. The convention will be held next year at Boston.

CASE OF HARD LUCK. The Perverse Action of Fortune Gave the Ten Dollar Bill to the Barber. Two men were overheard discussing luck, the other evening, In a restaurant not far from the Borough Hall. One of the men seemed to be very gloomy in his views. "I tell you," he said to his companion, "there is no use saying that some people have luck, no matter whether they deserve It or not.

Here's something I know about, for 1 was an interested party. The other evening I went into a barber shop on Montague street to he shaved. The chairs were all filled and I had to wait. There was not even a place to sit down and I took my place near tho man who, as I was told, was Ho had had a drop too much and pretty soon he lurched into the next vacant chair and was soon treated to a shave. I took his seat among the waiters and, after he had been gone for some time I felt something on the chair.

Feeling around under me I pulled out a bill and, on further search, I found another. One of the bills was of the denomination of $2 and the other was a $1 bill. Now, you would have thought that that was pretty good, wouldn't you?" The speaker's face showed continued deep gloom and his companion remarked: "Well, I think some people want the earth with a fence around it. What better did you want?" "Wait until I tell you," said the sad faced man. "I went up in turn to be shaved and grinned as I told the barber of my luck.

'Is TWO PERUVIAN MUMMIES 1ST MR. that said he, and he looked at tho money and then at me. 'Perhaps there is somo more dough around "That barber looked under the chair where the other man had been shaved and there he picked up two bills more. One was of the denomination of ten dollars and the other was a two dollar bill. Now, just think of my luck.

The drinking man might just as well have dropped the ten dollars in my chair as the two dollar one. Ever since that time I have been unhappy because I had such luck. No one knows the man and he had never been in the harbor shop before. He seemed to have been a stranger in Brooklyn. The money has been kept to be called for, but no one has called.

Now, we are going to keep tho money, such as it is." The sad man said he would order whisky if he could afford it, but he couldn't, so he ordered beer for two. FRENCH FISHING RIGHTS. St. Johns, N. August 19 Sir Hugh Mc Callum, Governor of Newfoundland, In the speeches he is making to residents along the French treaty coast, where he Is now inquiring Into the fishery dispute, is very outspoken and emphatic respecting the French claims in that region.

Tho Governor asserts that they have no right there, save tho right of fishing concurrently with British subjects and that they are entitled to no territorial recognition whatever. This is the strongest declaration yet made in favor of tho colony. VISITORS AT SEA GIRT. Sea Girt. X.

August 19 Recent arrivals at the Tremont Include: Miss Stella Warren. 3. F. IffertK. II.

V. Williams, Howard Dunbar, Miss U. tyer. 1.. Watson, Stanton D.

Cowlerj, OeorKe Ctiwl. V. Warder, Dr. E. Marter, rf.

Chiimbi rlln, Mr and Mrs, J. Grtovos, R. J. Soaman, John It. Levlson, D.

W. Tvlson, V. Rurksut, Miss Clara Cawl Percv S. Orlfllth, Mr. and Mrs.

.1. 1'. II. In. mann, Mrs.

SofTehr, Mr. and Mrs. Ksher llurkurt. Miss Winnie Woodward, Miss Fannie Woodward, Miss Ethland Woodward. Mr.

and Mrs. John Kindle A L. Altemus. Mrs. HedRcs, Ira H.

Washburn. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nash, Mr.

and Mrs. William M. Canby, A. H. Weeks Juali M.

K. Rood, Miss Mary O. Reed. Miss Klslo A. hvans and Predrlcka Warren.

MARTIN AND REIFF WIN. London, August 19 The Lenton Firs Selling Plate was won by Skeets Martin, the American jockey, on Solano. Bcgolly was second and Hartsholme finished third, in a field of twelve horses. L. Reiff won the Robin Hood Plate on Mr.

Richard Croker's Sallna, and Martin was second, on Lord William Beresford' Blast. Veduct was third. Nine horses ran. Interesting Collection of Mineral ogical Specimens Housed in an Old Bank Building. HIS UNIQUE FLOWER GARDEN.

An Old Stone Pile Made Gay With Colors Until His Unruly Neighbors Interfered. A French author has written charmingly of "An Attic Philosopher," and a fellow countryman of his has described in dainty detail a Journey around his room, but It has fallen to the lot of a wise man of Brooklyn to discover the hidden beauties of "Nature in a City Yard." And another Brooklynite, Frederick Braun, has exemplified the well known axiom of Dean Swift, to wit: "And he gave for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together." A little over a year ago Mr. Braun, who is known all over the United States and In Europe as a mineralogist and scientific au authority on paleontology, archaeology and geology, moved with his family to 9 Front street. The locality Is an historic section. It figures' in one of the earliest paintings of Brooklyn, namely, Guy's celebrated picture, "Brooklyn in 1820." The street was for many years the leading thoroughfare for the city's councilors at law end more than one man who subsequently became mayor of the city hung out his shingle in a street which is now largely occupied as the dwelling place of Italians.

Even the building into which Mr. Braun moved is historic. It was occupied for many years by the old Brooklyn Bank, which was one of the oldest, if not tho oldest, institutions of the kind in this community. With Mr. Braun's moving went several collections which would ornament the shelves of any museum in the country.

And where the money changers had reigned supreme for years, and where the bank shades had held hospitable sway, a little museum was established with Peruvian mummies, rare fossils and other curios, or, to speak more correctly, scientific specimens. But Mr. Braun was not contented simply to establish a resting place for his valuable collections, his eyes, accustomed to discover beauty in the smallest twig and to read evolution and development even In a sand heap, took in a small, unattractive spot of earth adjoining the building, 9 Front street, and which is under the jurisdiction of the Brooklyn BRAUN'S FRONT STREET MUSEUM. Bridgj authorities. The plot included a small stone yard and was evidently regarded by some of the Front street denizens as an excellent depository for the reception of old clothes, exhausted whisky bottles, antiquated yellow journals and other specimens not of a scientific nature.

The place was certainly not an inviting one to establish a garden where plants would thrive and where flowers would blossom. But this is just what Mr. Braun did. Ho opened the windows at the side of his museum and calling Mrs. Braun to take in the view, he resolved to pay a visit to the bridge authorities.

He asked permission to turn the waste spot into what, if it did not become "a joy forever" would at least bo "a thing of beauty." The bridge people not only agreed to Mr. Braun's proposition, but to show that they appreciated it sent a number of their own men to help him in fixing tho stone wall and rendering such service where physical strength was required. Mr. Braun then set to laying out his little park. His wife, little daughter and son, who share in the naturalist's enthusiasm, assisted him.

The garden was about 80 feet long by 20 feet and 10 feet wide at different points, and the design was a most tasteful one. The naturalist worked evenings, on his return from business, and Sunday mornings, and, as stated, was Joined In his labor of love by his little family. As the place was largely composed of rocks and grass, ho carried soil there and took plants that would thrive any where. His idea, so far as plant life was concerned, was the survival of tho fittest. He made a garden of morning glories and when the flowers camo out there had not been such a spurt of color in many a long day as decorated the side wall of tho old bank building.

The sign "Bank Shades" could be seen above tho morning glories and was suggestive of "smiles" in days nnd nights gone by, but the morning glories seemed to fairly burst with all of the shades and tints of the rainbow. Mr. Braun had just returned from a tour to Cuba and he brought with hlra some specimens of orchidee, plants of an onion like form and of parasitic growth, from which spring out leaflets which run into stems on which flowers will bloom. He bedded these on rocks and since they were transplanted they have come out. Of course, in cold weather, theso orchidee should be removed to hot houses.

Another plant in the little garden which has a grim suggeetiveness about it Is one of tropical growth. It reaches a height of about 20 feet and spreads out In branches which are airly bristling with points or nettles. It Is probably more of a tree than a plant, and It affords a space between the ground and the first branch for a traveler to make hia way, especially in groves of the trees to cer found that he had more faith in human nature than was justified by" the facts in the case, and he learned that there are parasites in other dominions than that of plant life. Someone over night sprayed acid on the plants and threw all manner of rubbish into the pretty garden, until It looked as if it had been stricken by a I'orto Rican storm. The stains of the acid which had been thrown on the flowers, shrubs and plauts, could be seen on the side of the house.

It may be stated, by way of explanation, that entrance to the garden Is effected by ladders leading to and from a side window. The little Front street garden serves as an introduction to the museum within doors, which, in the opinions of many scientific men should be transferred to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The naturalist has given a life time to study in various departments of scientific knowledge. Like that of the real enthusiast in general his study represents much self denial and a continuous struggle between the ideal and the realistic part of life. When he took his present quarters he put up 204 running feet of shelving, to say nothing of any number of glass cases, as depositories for his collections.

The shelving and the cases, however, only provide for a limited display of the different collections. The specimens that are stored away are far in excess of those seen by the eye. Some idea of the scope and the value of these collections may be obtained when It is stated that the paleontological collection, or that covering fossils, include about 16,000 specimens and is valued at the archaeological collection numbers about 1,500 specimens and is valued at the mineraloglcal collection comprises about 1,500 specimens, exclusive of thousands of geological and phenomenal rocks, and is valued way up in the thousands. There are also collections of marine life and the financial value placed on some of the collections does not begin to cover the cost of time, travel, labor and study. Mr.

Braun says the true seeker after scientific knowledge in the departments represented by his collections must be a naturalist by heart and not by sight alone. A part of the shelving In the muBeum represents the Crinoidea. Corals, cephalopoda, Crustacea and sponglam. In the different sections named there are 5,000 species and from 15,000 to 16,000 specimens. The smaller forms are mounted and the larger forms are loose.

One of the shelves represents sponges and the student may find thereon genera and species of sponges from the lowest Silurian upward, of American and European locle. A second section represents the Crustacea, such as trllobites, etc. Another section represents corals and contains many excellently preserved specimens of this and other countries. One of the cases represents the cephalopoda, showing the straight cham AZTEO BKOLI. PROM MEXICO VALLEY.

ANGLO FOUND NEAR BAXON SKULL PORTLAND, ENG. A GROUP OF SKULLS IN MR. bered shells from the primary rocks and the curved and volute fornix of the secondary age, with the representations of the similar forms of tho still existing nautilus, etc. Another fossil case represents the sea urchins and star fishes, mostly of the secondary and tertiary formations, in beautiful specimens. Several shelves of the museum are filled with a series of archaeological implements, representing the stone, bronze and Iron age, by beautifully preserved specimens of most all ancient nations, including a good display of the Aztec and the Indian.

A group of shells attracts the attention of the visitor to the museum. Roman, Anglo Saxon, Aztec, Indian and American, the latter of Revolutionary War times, are Included in the group. In the dim light, as Mr. Braun was describing them, they presented somewhat of an uncanny appearance. Mr.

Braun was born in Prussia, and in giving a short sketch of his life, said: "A desire to see the world made me go away from home without money at an early age. I proposed to my guardian that he should advanco me some money, as I had reason to expect provision from my father's estate, which was a comfortable one. His reply waB: 'No, my boy. If you want to see the world you must se It with your own And so I did," added Mr. Braun.

The rest of the naturalist's history reads as if it had dropped from the pen of Richard H. Dana, or W. Clark Russell. Jhe naturalist has.