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THE BRGOELYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YOEK THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1900. the spread of useful knowledge. Wherever too large. To day it is overcrowded.

And to day a factor is presented that will make this magnificent Lullding renowned not only all over this country, but the world over. I 2Sm aim of any prosperous and splendid an lous American city. Wonderful Growth of the Instit "Five years ago to day our financial sources were slender, our scientific collect, meager. We had a few pictures that he hung in the lecture hall in the old bulldln. I stands for more unremunerated, unrewarded and unselfish public service than almost any other organization for learning in this coun try.

It is unendowed, or practically so, but it is not unimpaired. Its charges are well nigh nominal and Its privileges are almost Innumerable, but It gets its support from the people as surely as the birds get theirs from nature, for the Institute is a habit of the people, a child of the people, a servant of the nnnnla anil ti nnirl it nan Via tT natrl roa SECTION OF INSTITUTE. Ex Mayor Schieren Presides at the Ceremonies Near Prospect Park Plaza. CITY OFFICERS PROMISE AID. Central Portion of the Structure, Now to Be Built, Will Be 140 by 122 Feet, To Contain an Auditorium.

A ceremony, simple in itself, hut of great significance for the future, took place near Prospect Park Plaza, yesterday afternoon. It was the breaking of ground for the central section of the Brooklyn Institute Building on Eastern Parkway. The contract for the main portion of the museum has already been let, Ex Mayor Schieren presided at the ceremo nies and made the opening address. Other addresses were made by Park Commissioner Brower. Controller Coler, Dr.

St. Clair Mc Kelway and Professor Franklin W. Hooper. Controller Coler and Park Commissioner Brower pledged themselves to the interests of the Institute as long as they should be in office. Controller Coler said that he would see to it that all needed, appropriations from the city treasury were made without delay.

Dr. McKelway, in his address, spoke not only from the. standpoint of a Brooklynite. interested in the affairs of the Institute, but from the point of view of a New York State re gent, representing the guardian educational force within the Empire boundaries, in aa dltion, he voiced, what all of his audience. whether they gave utterance to it or not must have felt, the profound regret and sorrow of the Institute authorities over the death of the Rev.

Dr. Storrs. Dr. McKelway said that there had been a temporary Intention to postpone the exercises because of it, but upon a second consideration, it was deter mined that the memory of the Pilgrims' dead pastor could not be better honored than by a continuance of the plans, in' which his sym pathies had always been so deeply enlisted. Yesterday afternoon, although delightfully clear, did not bring with it ideal weather for an open air ceremony.

The wind blew half a gale from the southwest, and the corner of the Institute, where the exercises were held, was in position to receive the full force of the wind. A few decorations in the shape of bunting were placed In position prior to the arrival of the speakers, but they had to be taken down later on account of their noisy flapping. The first portion of the ceremony was the ground breaking. The spade used did not consist of silver, but It was new and sharp and It cut the sod in a businesslike fashion. A score of those present in the little circle of officials wielded the implement before the speeches were made, Commissioner Brower being the first and the next six in order ex Mayor Schieren, Controller Coler, Franklin W.

Hooper, president of the Institute; Dr. St. Clair McKelway, Councilman Lelch and Register Howe. That over, the invited guests repaired to the circle of chairs about the speakers' platform and listened to the addresses. New Section to Contain a Large Auditorium.

The section of the Institute building for which the ground was formally broken yesterday will be, when finished, the principal portion of the majestic edifice. That part already erected and in use Is large and imposing In its appearance, but in reality it is less than half the size of the central section, work on which will now be begun. The new section will have a frontage on Eastern parkway of 140 feet and a depth of 122 feet. It will be four stories in height and built of the same material as the first section. Within it, on the ground floor, will be an auditorium, with a seating capacity of 1,250 persons and a hall of sculpture, 100 by 136 feet.

The contract has been let to P. J. Carlln Co. Immediately after the ceremony of digging or breaking the ground. Mr.

Schieren and the group of notables moved over to where the speakers' stand had been erected. As presiding officer Mr. Schieren opened the second part of the ceremonies with a brief speech. He said: Mr. Schieren's Opening Remarks.

"The absence of the president and the sad death of our first vice president. Dr. Storrs, makes It my duty to preside over this meeting. This interesting ceremony adds another Important section to the Museum. That man would have been considered rash who said three years ago to day that we would be here to break ground for the central sectiori of this grand building in so short a time.

But we are here to day for that most important purpose. This is one of the buildings of the city that will stand" as a monument to Brooklyn as long as one stone shall stand upon another. The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences can well take pride in this Museum. Three years ago we feared that the building now here would be tlldc Jane, a housemaid and C. H.

Koch as Laurence Lavender, a valet from Mayfair. BUSINESS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION. The New' York Business Women's Association has taken room6 at 108 Fulton street, New York City, and will open with a banquet on the, evening of. June 20. It is anticipated that several prominent and well known men and women will be present and that some of them will speak.

An enjoyable evening is planned. During the following month the rooms will be open to business women in general, but after that only to members and their friends. The rooms will be comfortably and attractively furnished. "The outlook is pleasant, the rooms commanding a view of both the East and the North rivers. The officers of the association are: Cleora E.

Swift, president; Caroline E. Davidson, first vice president; Mae E. Orr, second vice president; Fanchon E. Maddlx, corresponding secretary; Clara E. McKnlght, recording secretary; G.

F. Webster, treasurer; Anne M. Pillebury. The advisory board Includes Miss Grace H. Dodge, Miss Virginia Potter, Mrs.

S. S. Packard, Mrs. H. LeRoy Edgar, Mrs.

Frederic J. Swift. MAUDE ADAMS' COLLEGE WELCOME An event which is eagerly looked forward to by the Smith College students and in which only the undergraduates take part Is the dramatic treat which the Juniors each year give to the seniors. Last year Maude Adams was engaged to give "The Little Minister." Some of the girls decided to give the popular actress a genuine college wel come. Three of them hired an express wagon drawn by an antique horse, which they drove about the campus, stopping at the different houses long enough to beg or steal a sofa cushion, a table and, in one case, a big divan.

These things, together with curtains and college pictures, they loaded on the wagon themselves, and then drove down to the opera house. Having obtained per mission from the manager they proceeded to transform the dingy little dressing room which was to be Miss Adams' temporary abode, into a typical college girl's room. The star was almost overcome with her reception. She said afterward she had never seen such a beautiful audience. Every mem ber of the company took turns peeking through the curtains to see the 1,100 girls all in evening dress.

Afterward Maude Adams sent up to the college 200 calendars with her picture on them and later 400 autograph copies of those books containing portraits of her in various parts just to show how completely Smith had won her heart. HOW TO CARE FOR THE FEET. Openwork hosiery closely resembing lace, and about as durable, are said to be favored by the up to date girl for wear with the lovely slippers and low shoes that the bootmakers have been turning out this season. A pretty white foot is needed to carry off this style successfully and the following treat rnent for the feet is advised: Bathe morning and night in warm water in which a lemon has been squeezed. Dry with a soft towel and In the morning dust with some good powder, using a piece of pumice stone to remove any small excrescences or callous spots that may be observed.

A stiff brush should be applied to remove every particle of dead skin before the powder is applied. At night a little lanoline should be rubbed well into the skin and then a pair, al thin white stockings, which, have been cut. down to the ankle, should be worn. OLD FASHIONED RECIPES. The following recipes were found in the recipe book of a noted colonial housewife and except that the modern baking powder should be substituted for the saleratus called for in the directions they will probably find favor with some housewives to day: Soft gingerbread Six teacupfuls of flour, three teacupfuls of molasses, one teacupful of cream, one of butter, one tablespoonful of ginger and one teaspoonful of saleratus.

Whips One pint of cream; sweeten to taste and flavor with lemon juice and wine. To this add the whites of nine eggs and whip stiff. Apes One pound of sugar, one pound of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful of cream, one teaspoonful of saleratus and flour to make It stiff enough to roll out. Cut into any fancy shapes desired and bake in a moderate oven. Ink stains can be removed from some wash goods by rubbing with the yolk of an egg before washing.

Showing oooooo refer to the picture, "ine iue ot which generous citizens, have purchased and presented to the Institute. I say for, despite the fact that the collection covers many canvases, it Is but one grand work, the wonderful result of a decade of a mas ter's life. It has made a great impression and people will come many miles to see It. Men and women wno win come io see ine metropolis will not neglect this most important and interesting institution. If we have achieved one thing of renown, it is the ac quiring of the work of Tissot lor Brooklyn and her great Museum." Commissioner Brower Grows Reminis cent.

Mr. Schieren then introduced Park Commissioner Brower, who spoke as follows: "My last official act during my former administration of the Department of Parks was to sign with' his honor, the Mayor, on behalf of the City of Brooklyn, a lease of these eligible and spacious grounds to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, to secure for it a resting place for all time. "I also refer with great pride to an act of the Legislature which cast upon Mayor Boody mil mvKfilf as Park Commissioner, the power and authority to select a suitable design for the building, and out of tne nu or izu ae signs presented, each making his selection Independent of the other, and at different times, we found that we had both selected the name desien: and. when we had concluded our examination and made our report, we found the board of experts had unanimously agreed upon the same design. Ever since that time, I have regarded Mayor Boody as a man of high artistic attainments.

"To day we are breaking ground for the central portion for what is destined to be one of the grandest and most majestic buildings on the face of this globe. "There Is no necessity for any assurance on the part of your Commissioner that he will be loyal, energetic and enthusiastic in the erection, care and maintenance of this structure. He was in it at the beginning, and only regrets that he cannot live to see the finish of this magnificent enterprise. "You gentlemen, who have given your time, your services and your wealth, are to be congratulated that you have founded this building and shaped its destiny so well. The city, the state and the nation will all recognize your efforts more and more as the great future gathers around it, with its rich store of art and science.

"Here the student, not only from our city, but from the uttermost parts of the world, will come to admire its beautiful lines, the classical domes and the beautitul harmony of the whole. But above all, will be rich treasures wl thin, that shall teach our children of the past, and will provide them with the highest culture. And the doors of science will be swung wide open, that they may study Nature and all her beautiful laws. "Mr. Chairman, your institution has a strong hold on public sentiment your proceedings are watched and appreciated; and as the city builds this, noble structure, may you be blessed with willing hands, strong minds and liberal purses, to fully equip it and make It a blessing to every home in this imperial "It will be the pleasure of your Commissioner to co operate with you in every manner in building this monument that marks our city's liberality, a home for your work and treasures.

"It has been said," Mr. Schieren remarked in introducing the next speaker, "that the destiny of the country lies in the men from 20 to 40 years of age, the young men of the who have their reputations to make. That is true, I feel sure, when I think of the young man whom I will now introduce to you. He is not only making a reputation, but has already made one that would satisfy me that in the hands of such young men the country would be safe. The next speaker will be Controller Bird Coler." Controller Coler's Speech.

Mr. Coler said: "Mr. Brower has remarked that he did not expect any of us to live until this building had been completed. I do not agree with him and I expect to prove to him. if I can, that he is wrong.

Mr. Schieren said the destiny of the country lies in men from 20 to 40 years old. If I have been reading the Eagle correctly lately people are pointing toward him he is beyond the limit. "I am not one of those who believe it Is the city's duty to force higher education upon Its believe the city should furnish the highest education to the boy or girl who desires it, and shows a capacity to receive It. From SO to 90 per cent, of nur children leave school when they are 15 years old.

They are trained in the various walks of life and earn their own living and an institution of this kind does more to give them a supplemental education than any other institution that could be devised. "The growth and development of this splendid institution of learning is a distinct gain for the City of New York. Your progress represents advance in good citizenship as well as in technical education. Thousands of men in this great city to day are better citizens because of the training they received from the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and every honest and intelligent citizen is a unit of good government. "The people of New York more than the trustees of this institute are to he congratulated upon the success and development of higher education which is celebrated by this ceremony.

The progress of cities and states is marked by the growth of intelligence and 5oooooooo oi 8SSS you find a community of enlightened people there you will find progress, mental and material, and good government. Bad government is almost invariably a product of Ignorant, vicious or Indifferent citizenship and dishonest politicians fear universal Intelligence more than investigating committees. Institute Develops Sound Public Sentiment. "This institution is an important factor in the development of a sound public sentiment that will in time create and sustain better political conditions and better municipal government. The present time offers splendid opportunities for the work undertaken by this institute.

Public sentiment needs to be aroused and civic pride should be encouraged. "In Manhattan they have the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a museum that is fast approaching the excellence of famed foreign Institutions. This is built upon land furnished by the city and its magnificent collections are the gifts of the people. The same may be said of the Museum of Natural History, the great public library now oeing erected, the zoological garden in Bronx Park and several other similar institutions. In Brooklyn we have but the Institute, though a library system Is now being extended.

"There Is no reason why. If the citizens will promise to fill the Institute, that we should not go ahead with another new wing next year. There should be a new wing each year with the $300,000 appropriation. So long as I am in orace you win receive tne money for the work, if you show the spirit to fill up each building as soon as it Is completed." Mr. Schieren then introduced Dr.

St. Clair McKelway, saying: "The Controller is right when he says there are some men over 40 who have something to do with the building of the nation. If that were not so I could not so truthfully say of the next speaker that he is a man of great force, exercised not alone in Brooklyn, but over this entire country. At one time he feared my advocacy of consolidation and I told him that his paper instead of possessing merely local strength would be a power in the nation. And that was true.

Let me introduce Dr. McKelway." Address of Dr. McKelway. Dr. McKelway spoke as follows: "My friends, my direction or request to be here came late enough to excuse and, indeed, almost to prevent preparation.

But I felt that as an educational officer of the state I should be here on this occasion to show by presence, If not by words, the state's sympathy with the object of this meeting and with the work of this Institute. I was told, if I spoke, I need not take more than ten or twelve minutes, and that was as grateful, to me as to you. But this afternoon one of those grim, not to say curt, and certainly brief notices came from Professor Hooper with which he makes my mail an apprehension and his meaning unmistakable and in which he said that the failure of another expected speaker to be present had reduced the strength of oratory here and must increase the length of my substitute for oratory here. That was not lackiug in coolness and coolness is not ungrateful in summer weather. He also added, 'your address will be the closing and the principal one of the Closing depends upon his ordering of events.

We are at his mercy as speakers Just as you are at ours. But whether my address will be the principal one may somewhat depend upon what I make it, and must entirely depend upon your estimate of it. I think the prediction will not be verified by the event. (Laughter.) "And the professor was kind and considerate in other respects. He sent to me the year book of the Institute.

He sent to me an abstract of the last annual reports. Both were copiously marked at points where statements and statistics relating to the work and progress of this Institute abounded. The more than palpable hint that I should work them in here was tentatively given. I have not had time to do so. And I am not very fond of statistics, either.

I have not the skill to make them relevant or the art to make them eloquent. Nor do I think that without that skill statistics and quotations are relished by audiences, however learned, on occasions, however impressive and important. I can only say that I will refer you to them with absolute confidence in their accuracy and with a reasonable suspicion of their in terest in hands more deft and more addict ed to details than mine. I have paid my ob ligation to the professor with the expression of my Tegret that I cannot exactly block out what I have to say on the lines at ms own suggestion. Could I do so I would be more 1 ke him and less like myself, which wouia be an Increase of value at the expense of sincerity.

You will have to take me, however, with all my imperfections on my head and the professor and yourselves will have to reflect that an editor, who has something to think about all day besides speeches and Institutes, is less able to talk about institutes than a professor who does not have to think about the newspapers at ail. "The State of New York is hospitable to learning. The state system of public schools Is well ordered, comprehensive and fairly progressive. The administration of It suffers by the relation of the choice ot those In charge of it to political action, but it suffers much less in that respect than is alleged or. supposed, and it suffers less and less In that respect every year.

It suffers also from the infirmity of the relation of some of its administration to theorists, iconoclasts, or experimenters who would force undigested methods upon unprepared communities and who would ignore the fact that our school system is part and parcel of our communal or municipal system and cannot be revolutionized at once any more than a tree can without the uprooting of it and the loss of protection, strength, beauty and usefulness inherent in it at the same time. Still. I know of no state system at all affected by a relation to politics which is less affected thereby than the common school system and which fs more and more overcoming even that relationship as the years go on. (Applause.) Institute a Remarkable Foundation for Learning. "That department of state system of education with which the Brooklyn Institute ia more intimately concerned than the other department is the University of the State or the Board of Regents.

It should not be necessary to an audience as intelligent as this more than to suggest what the State University is. It is not a teaching force, with students under it engaged in instruction or demonstration in a series of buildings devoted to the arts, the sciences or the learned professions. Union, Columbia. Cornell and other universities correspond to that definition, but they are only a part of the State University, just as all the colleges, academies, high schools, professional schools, technical schools and the like are, and just as the libraries, institutes and other means of instruction, stimulation and culture in the state are wherever they are chartered by law or are under state, county, municipal or borough authority. The Brooklyn Institute comes under the cognizance of the State University, and that university Is In sympathy with it.

It is doing a work of higher education, which the state holds In high regard and which the State University is set to foster and to increase. There is no Regent of the University who does not recognize in the Brooklyn Institute a remarkable foundation and who does not recognize in its officers, superintendent and teachers a body of faithful servants to the cause of learning and to public uplift who are entitled to more praise thau they get and whose work on minds and op character will leave an Impress and an influence that will go on with augmented vl tality to the end of time. "We realize two marked characteristics of the Institute. One that It is able to command the counsel and the time, the labor and the contributions, the wisdom and the work of eminent citizens who have not dedicated themselves to this cause as their vocation li life. The religious ministry find this Institute a moral and intellectual prolongation ot their own sacred functions on secular lines Jurists and lawyers here give the time ther can spare from courts and clients to the vindication of justice without retainer and to the elucidation of law to promote the harmony life rathor than to the maintenance of wrang ling for revenue or of contentions for cash between their fellow citizens.

Physicians here. In the respite they can find between cases or In the period of which they can give to their patients by absent treatment, explore and exploit the principles of their science in its relation to health and to conduct, and they are to be commended for doing It. And bankers and traders and importer are on the ofllcial board of this Institute, a' well as Jurists, physicians and divines, an are powerful with their wisdom and witl their experience to keep the Institute on feasible lines and to correct the errors of the adventurous and the temerity of the academic, the speculative or the theoretic, by the application of the doctrines of the possible to the proposition of the impossible and the lines of the prudent and the practical to the aerial territory of optimistic dreamers and of unballasted abstractionists. This Institute 1 I I in Washington street. Now our resources art trebled, our scientific collections quadrupled; our art collections have grown by the addition of many and splendid paintings, sculptures and other works ot art.

The first section of our building Is crowded to overflowing, our force of skilled curators has been created, and we are prepared for the beginning of a work on the second fragment of completed structure. This central section now to be erected will contain the principal entrance to the main building. On its first or main floor will be the beginning of the great hall ot sculpture, 136 feet in length and liu leet in breadth, designed to contain the sculptures by contemporaneous artists, and reproductions of historic art of the world. The classic columns that support tie pediment of the portico will be comparable with those of the Pantheon in Rome. Its second and third floors will furnish ampler accommodations for the scientific collections, for the department of painting and works In black and white.

The basement floor, on a level with the ground where we are now standing, will contain a large auditorium, accommodating 1.250 people, together with storerooms and workrooms. "The expense of the building is justified In that its presence here in this community bo increases the taxable value of real estate that it forms no burden upon anyone. The work of the Institute we must build in the future on the foundations that have been laid in the past, upon the humble efforts in the Apprentices' Library in Cranberry street, In the first half of this century, in the later efforts in Washington street, near the corner of Concord, and upon the work of the last fifteen years, which constitute the period of the Institute renaissance. "The spirit of the Institute may best be found in the lives, the character and the motives of those who have labored for it in the past. To go no further back than ten yeara ago, and to speatc only of those who have passed beyond the bourne whence no traveler returns, I must refer first and foremost to that son of Brooklyn, in his youth an assistant librarian of the Institute, a successful man of business, a brave soldier, a public spirited citizen, a brave commander of his regiment In the War of Rebellion, a general in th militia of his native state, a member of tha board of trustees of the Institute for a quar ter of a century, its president at the time ot his death, the man whom everybody loved General John B.

Woodward. The guldins principal of his life was the help of his fel lowmen. In the motives whicti prompted him to action, whether in peace or in war, ws may find the watchword of the Institute. Work of the Rev. Dr.

Hall. "And again I may refer to that sterling: citizen, son of Virginia, member of the board of trustees of the Institute, first president of our department of botany, president of the council during the last six years of his life, firm believer in the purposes for which the Institute was established, friend of Abraham Lincoln, rector of Holy Trinity Church, man of the people and servant of God, most virile and courageous defender of democratic institutions, broadest and most liberal interpreter of the Sermon on the Mount the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Hall; the spirit Of whose life is best expressed in the words: "Inasmuch as ye have done It unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done It unto "And so here, this afternoon, chastened by sorrow In the loss of Dr.

Storrs, standing on the site of what is destined to be a great temple of learning for none less than all people, under the clouds of heaven and In the presence of God, the all loving Father, we consecrate ourselves anew to the duties and obligations of life, as members of the Institute to labor to Its up building, as residents of Brooklyn to make this city of our homes a better place for those that come after us, and a3 public officials to discharge the duties of our offices In the interest of all the people In the fear of God and the love of man. "Born in New England and having made his home in Brooklyn for more than half a century, lie was circumscribed by no geographical or time limits. He had the roots of his being firmly planted in all that was true, dignified and admirable In the history of mankind. His companions were the poets, philosophers and seers. At his right hand were always Homer, Plato and Sophocles: at his left Virgil.

Horace, Juvenal and Marcus Aurelitis. In close conversation with him the fathers of the early Christian Church, the scholars of medieval Europs, the great geniuses of the Renaissance, the long line of English poets and men of letters, historians and essayists, the philanthropists and servants and men of affairs. "The spirit and purpose of the non conformist, and of the English commonwealth were of his bone and sinew; the blood of the Pilgrim Fathers and the Massachusetts Bay colonists coursed in his veins. The men of Concord. Lexington and Bunker Hill wore as his daily companions.

In his Intellect he carried, as perhaps no other In our day and generation the culture and scholarshiD of tho world, and deeper than this in his heart he carried the love of the Master, and out of the fu'lness of his exuberant nature he poured forth his gifts of learning and the abundant, fruition of a consecrated religious life. As a citizen a statesman; as an orator a Chrysostom; as a preacher a prophet and a seer. In memory we hear his rich voice and his buoyant nnrt well rounded sentences: his benign and divine countenance, and in his presence we pledge ourselves each to do in his own small hut individual way what he can to carry reward the work that Dr. Storrs has now laid down. Inspiration for Workers.

rhn livAa tio mpn whoso TiampH Iroaflv ViAan mTitlnnpi1 nnH in thnRft of Edwin Beers, of Darwin G. Eaton, of Josnua M. van UOtl, ot tu n.ev. Baker, of tne Rev. Dr.

tsenrenas ana many others who have labored with us in the past for the upbuilding of this temple of learning, we may find our inspiration and as tney nave laDorea so win we iu.uui iubi all may find here in this building a source of inspiration and of encouragement. The pupils and the teachers from the schools, the voung and the old. the rich and the poor, the ignorant and the learned, all. alike mav find the opportunity not only to acquire knowledge, but also a place to which they can bring their contributions, collections and works of art." 4.mong those present at the exercises were: Bird S. Coler.

Controller of the City of New York; George V. Brower, Park Commissioner; Charles A. Schieren, acting president of the Institute; St. Clair McKelway. member of the Board of Regents: Register James R.

Howe, Felix Campbell, Eugene G. Blackford. Thomas T. Barr, Clarence W. Seamans, Superintendent Charles C.

Martin, Professor Franklin W. Hooper, Carll H. De Silver Colonel Henry T. Chapman, James McMahon, John Louehran. William R.

Meade of McKim, Meade White; R. R. Parker, Hayden W. Wheeler, Frank Squier. Charles L.

Wood bridge, William Brown, Dr. James Cruik shank, P. J. Carlln Professor John S. McKay Edward Merritt, Barr Ferree, Dr.

R. Ellsworth Call, John Hyde Brewer, Adam H. Leich. Stephen McKeever. E.

Sherman White, Professor William H. Goodyear, Dr. Walter Gunnison, Principal Almon G. Merwin, Professor Irving W. Fay.

Professor William C. Peckham, Captain P. McLaren, Edward L. Graef. Wallace P.

Groom, Dr. H. Delmar French. Among those who joined In putting a spaas ot earth Into the cart were: George V. Brower Charles A.

Schieren, Bird S. Coler, Professor Franklin W. Hooper. Carll H. De Silver St.

Clair McKelway Eugene G. Blackford James McMahon, Felix Campbell, John Loughran. Thomas T. Barr, William H. Lvon Colonel Henry T.

Chapman. Clarence Seamans. Frank Squier, William R. Meade, William Brown P. J.

Carlln, Edward Gray, Dr. James Crulkshank. Dr. Almon Cr Merwin, Professor John S. McKay, Charles T.

Goodwin, Wallace P. Groom, Dr. Walter B. Gunnison, Dr. R.

Ellsworth Call, Dr. H. Delmar French. GRACE CHURCH DEDICATION. The dedicatory services which are being held In the new edifice at Fourth and Ovington avenues.

Bay Ridge, recently erected by the congregation of Grace M. E. Church, are being attended every evening by large audiences and last night the church was comfortably filled. The speaker was the Rev. C.

J. Young, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Manhattan, and his remarks were well received. Choirmaster Palmer had arranged an excellent musical programme. Mrs. Alma Webster Powell sang two selections.

The Rev. Cornelius Woelfkln, pastor ot the Greene Avenue Baptist Church, will bo the speaker at the services to night, and some new music will be heard. Bishop Andrews will conduct the services on Sunday nlght that it comes to no harm. A Great University in Itself. "Another feature of the work of this great foundation which commends it to me is this: It is a great school or university In itself.

Its departments of liberal and useful arts, Its lectureships of science ana of literature, its exhibitions of painting, its disccurses on criticism and on history, its occasions of music, its evenings of readings of oratory and of scientific instruction, all the vast and varied fields In which it works make it as veritably a part of our system of higher education and of our system of elementary education as any of the institutions which the people possess and which are worked in their benefit. And to think tnat not oniy this generation but the last decade and a half of this closing century have witnessed the development of this great plant irom feebleness to Immensity, from a moribund condition to one which is vivid and vital with good, and from two or three minor and petty departments into this grand college or system of instruction! It is beyond any one'3 power to avail himself of all of the occasions and of all of the facilities of this Institute. Were life punctuated only with the necessity to cat and to sleep and to attend upon all of the occasions of the Institute, eating and sleeping would have to be curtailed, and then hardly half of the occasions of the Institute could be' commanded by any mortal. "Yet this is not the Indictment of your system. It is the commendation of it.

None for all, but something for every one. None could go to all your occasions. But there is hardly any learning which does not find its exemplification under your plan and the seekers after such learning can find somewhere in that plan the mission which they seek or the knowledge which they need. Yours is a great system of electlves. The people make their own election and they rarely make a mistake.

If parents have to cautinn their children against the veritable dissipation with which you tempt their intellects or their tastes, they certainly do caution them from noble directions and need to preach only temperance, not prohibition. If readers cr teachers are appalled by the sweep and the variety of your curricula, they can trust the taste of their minds as epicures can the taste of their tongues. The fact of a feast carries in it no necessity for gluttony and leaves most happily no excuse cr possibility for hunger. I know you do it. and I have sometimes thought that you overdo it.

But that is not so. They who overdo It are not you who spread the table hut those who gorge where they should feed. Part of Brooklyn's Educational System. "And it is one of the felicities of our municipal government, whose imperfections we deplore and whose scandals we mourn, that this Institute has been made part and parcel of our educational system; that the noble building already in use is public property, that the noble addition for which ground has been broken here to day will be public property; that the persons in official charge of the finances of the Institute, for building purposes, are public officials and that the bonds of the people and the credit and the revenues of the government of the people are pledged to the maintenance of edificial foundations already laid and to the progressive completion of the great series of structures here competently planned and secured against the fickleness of parties, the retrogressive tendencies of rule, the chances or changes of control, or the witlessness or the wicuAdness of administration itself. This is a noble function of any government.

This is a noble purpose of any administration. This is a fine asset for any people. I take this to be one of the compensations of consolidation, if it be not one of the justifications of it. I know of no result that is more benign as the consequence of consolidation, and I know of no trust which by its very character and purpose Is more self safeguarded again maladministration or parsimony or pettiness or partisanship than this. An administration that would "exploit" an Institute would burglarize a church, sack a school, swindle an orphan asylum or steal the pennies of the blind.

We may trust public opinion, we may trust the press and the pulpit, we may trust the ennobling, the enlarging and the uplifting influences of this foundation itself to insure it from the abuses that elsewhere present to cupidity temptation, to avarice opportunity, to the sale of law a market and to the purchasers of protection for crime the infamous privileges which they would buy. (Applause.) "My friends. I would had it been possible that this occasion had been postponed. Tbe most eminent man connected with this foundation yesterday exchanged worlds with the serene assurance of immortality. But it could not well be postponed for It Is only one event in the crowded life of a great city to which every day brings imperative occurrences, and perhaps the best respect we can pay to the great and good man who has gone is to mingle our thoughts of him with our duties to this foundation to which he was devoted and to which his service Invaluable just as from it his fame Is inseparable.

Great as he was. grand as he was, practicality was his distinguishing virtue and punctuality one of his coronal graces. The practical thing for him when his earthlv tenement wore out was translation to higher and to deathless spheres. The practical thing for us when confronted with duty here is to go on and do it. dead though he be and quivering with grief for the loss of him though we be.

And as he, were he with us and were he able and had he promised to be here would certainly have come, punctual to the minute, so may our practicality and our punctuality be the translation into action of our tribute to him of whom knowledge was a liberal education and the very imitation of whose virtues is an enlarg ment and a benediction to tne soul, ment and a benediction to the soul." (Ap plause.) Of the last speaker. Director Hooper, of i the Institute. Mr. Schieren "It is truly said that there are men In the community that need no monument. Their very lives seem to be written in the pages of history and cannot be effaced.

Whatever they do Is not for themselves but for the people. I. feel that many generations to come will bless the name and gratefully remember him who was roallv the fountain head of all you see here, Franklin W. Hooper." Professor Hooper's Speech. Professor Hooper said: "On September 14, 1S95, nearly five years ago.

a small gathering of representative citizens, rich and poor, learned and unlearned, gathered on this spot at the breaking of ground for the first section of the Museum Building. The first spade full of earth was raised by the then Park Commissioner, Frank Squier, and after him, by the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, D. D.

the Rev. Charles R. Baker, D. D. David A.

Boody, William J. Coombs, Joshua M. Van Cott, James Hamblet and a score of others. The list of names is notable in the fact that a majority of those who took part In the ceremonies cannot join us to day, except It may be In spirit. Among the speakers on that occasion were, the Rev.

Charles R. Baker, that splendid embodiment of the scholar, the citizen and man of God, and the Rev. Richard S. Storrs, who gave the principal address. From the address of the latter I quote a few significant sentences: "Every occasion takes its importance and dignity from the moral significance which is associated with it, and so it.

Is that this commonplace occasion to day, humble In appearance, is really dignified, made noteworthy, and worthy of being commemorated in future years. "We are here to turn the first sod on this stately hill for the superb, commanding, conspicuous building, to be devoted to the pur pose of art. science and good letters for all time to come. And the forecast of tbe accomplished work casts back Its luster on this apparently humble beginning. The Institute began its career 70 years ago.

In the "llnge of Brooklyn; it has witnessed the erection of this Immense area of beautiful homes abounding where formerly was merely a wild waste ot territory. It has seen its population increased to more than a million. It has outlived its early friends and favorites. One by one the faces have faded away, and the institution lives, while its friends and patrons depart. (Referring to the Rev.

Charles H. Hall, who died two days previously.) One is laid away yonder, in the serene quiet of death, a great citizen and noble officer of this institute, whose resolute and eloquent voice we are no more to hear, whose eager and animated face we are no more to see, but he always will live in his influence upon this Institute, and In all other institutions of charity, good and learning. We establish an institute to day that is to exhibit the prime needs of man for the public welfare. To open to the humblest the gates of access to the far reaching and enriching culture of the world Is the noblest 29TH ANNUAL MEETING Of Brooklyn Nursery and Infants' Hospital Managers Reports of Work for the Year. The 29th annual meeting of the board of managers of the Brooklyn Nursery and Infanta' Hospital was held yesterday afternoon at the institution, 396 Herkimer street.

The Rev. Dr. T. A. Nelson, chairman of the advisory board, presided.

The Rev. Charles W. King of the Bushwlck Avenue Congregational Church, Mrs. H. F.

Aten, first directress, and Mrs. Shannon, secretary, occupied seats on the platform, as did also Dr. F. E. Risley, chief of the medical Btaff.

The report of the year's work at the nursery was made by Mrs. Shannon, the recording secretary. It showed that forty board meetings and three special meetings were held and also a conference of the advisory board, medical staff and managers to consider what plan was best to pursue in consequence of the withdrawal of the usual appropriation from the city. Some were in favor of making the hospital a private institution, others suggested accepting the commissioner of charities terms with regard to the payment of a certain sum per day for every child committed by the city to the Institution. The latter suggestion was adopted, but in order to carry on its work for the past year the institution was obliged to borrow this plan being deemed preferable to mortgaging the building.

The number of children admitted was 164, but the deficit in the treasury crippled the work to a great degree. Public and Sunday school children, Christian Endeavor societies, King's Daughters and a number of churches have aided in the work by donations of money, supplies and clothing. An Easter bazar, conducted by the young ladies' committee, netted $500. Two members of the advisory board, J. W.

Elwell and A. J. Pouch, died during the year. At present there are eleven children in the nursery committed by the city and about twenty in the hospital. The sum of 38 cents a day is allowed for every child under 2 years and 00 cents for the children in the hospital.

For every child over 2 years the sum of $1 per week is allowed. According to the city budget the sum of was appropriated for the nursery with the proviso that the money be earned through caring for children committed by "the city authorities. The sum of was received from the city since last June, but the greater part of this amount was for the care of children who were in the institution when the present charities regulations were put into effect last January and were accepted by the city as dependent children. Few children have since been committed by the city. For the past four months the income from the city has averaged about $22 per month.

The treasurer's report was submitted by Mrs. John Hoagland. The receipts for the year, including a balance on hand of $2,201.28, were The expenses were $15, 398.18 leaving a balance of $3,771.52. The of the contingent fund, which is made up of donations at the monthly meetings of the managers, was made by Mrs. Shannon.

The receipts Including balance on hand of $13.78, were $32.95 and the expenses $23.71, leaving the balance on hand $9.14. Mrs. Randolph reported for the wardrobe committee. The last report showed there were 1,389 articles in the wardrobe. During the year 2,523 garments were cut, 1,289 made and 465 donated; 881 children's and women's garments were given away, also 292 pieces of bed linen, 916 articles for nursery use, S3 pairs of children's and 62 women's shoes and 195 garments.

There remain on hand 29 pairs of shoes and 82 unfinished garments. The total number of articles in the wardrobe of the institution is 5,041. The report for the infants' hospital, prepared by Miss R. A. Doty, was read by Mrs.

C. M. Oakley. New cribs and furnishings were donated by the Atlantic avenue Sunday school through Mrs. A.

J. Pati, by Sabbath school of the Church of Our Father, through Mrs. M. Remsen and by Mrs. Dullman In memory of her daughter, through young ladies committee and medical supplies were donated through" Dr.

Rodney Fisk and Dr. N. Robinson, money through Dr. W. M.

Butler and Mrs. H. L. Higgins, the latter giving the donation of the Junior Christian Endeavor Society of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for cribs. Through Mrs.

R. A. Doty two sums of money were contributed and one from the Unity Sunday school. During the year 330 cases were treated in the hospital; 237 were cured; 19 relieved and. 54 died.

The average number for the year in the hospital was 30. Most of the patients were under 6 months, and the remainder under 1 year. In connection with the year's work Miss Doty told of a little colored boy who spent six weeks in the institution suffering from a broken leg end was so reluctant to leave his pleasant surroundings when he was pronounced cured that he announced that he "would break de odder leg an' come back." He was back in a few weeks with the other leg The report of the young ladies' committee was made by the secretary. Miss Caroline Doty, and showed receipts for the year, expenditures, balance, $203.59. During the meeting it was announced that the young ladles' committee had donated $75 to the general treasury of the institution.

After the presentation of the reports the Rev. Dr. Nelson, who has been inerested in the nursery for twenty one years, spoke a few words of congratulation on the excellent showing in spite of the adverse conditions and financial embarrassments of the past year, and said he was firmly convinced that the difficulties would soon be satisfactorily adjusted. Dr. King also spoke briefly and In commendation of the reports for the year and Dr.

F. E. Risley, chief of the medical staff, expressed the hope that a satisfactory plan for carrying on the work of the institution could be arranged by the managers, advisory board and physicians and that the nursery eould continue Its useful work. During the eleven years that he had been connected with the nursery the past twelve months, were the most trying time in his experience, owing to the financial stress. The meeting concluded with the election of officers, the following being chosen: First directress, Mrs.

F. H. Aten; second directress. Miss Delia Dauchy; third directress, Mrs. H.

L. Higgins; recording secretary, Mrs. Sidney Fisher; treasurer, Mrs. John Hoagland; secretary for executive board, Mrs. Charles F.

Patterson. The meeting was followed by a reception held under the auspices of a committee of which Mrs. Sidney Fisher was chairman. LADIES' AID SOCIETY Of St. John's Lutheran Church Gives an Entertainment and Festival.

The Ladles' Aid Society of St. John's Lutheran Church gave an entertainment and strawberry festival last night In Schlellein's Assembly Rooms. Professor Weber's orchestra furnished the music. The entertainment began promptly at 8 o'clock. After the overture there waa a hoop drill by twenty girls, under the direction of Mrs.

George H. Klager. Then J. and F. Meyer entertained with a sketch.

George Rockfellow showed his skill as a coin manipulator and a farce, ontltled, "Who is brought the entertainment to a close. The cast of characters Included C. H. Lammers as Bloomfleld Brambleton, a country gentleman; Miss Clara R. Schoper as bl3 daughter Cicely, J.

Walter Rennels as Simonldes Swanhopper, a model young bachelor; Miss Elizabeth A. Lampe, as Ma the Revival of Picturesque Styles. 88 SSSS In this charmins summer evening gown there are several striking examples of the changing fashions. The lace alld chiffon fichu, so gracefully draped about the square" cut nock and falling in a jabot down the front of the corsage, is becoming one of the essential features ot the summer fashions, as Is also the cluster of artificial flowers caught In the folds iiear the neck. The long, filmy scarf is another popular fancy which women are hastening to adopt.

The gown is of white Oriental satin cut en traine and without trimming at the bottom. i.liw;l lw.V,.'..