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THE BEOOKLYN DAIJLY EAGLE. NEW YOBK, TUESDAY, FEBEUAEY 26, 1901. 6 NEW SMAUGFOX CASES. IBISH PARLIAMENTARY FUNDS. IS TO EXCLUDE CAPITALISTS CONGREGATIONAL GLOB LISTENS TO WARM WORDS E.

mergence of party and the leadership of great men. The speaker believed that in this reasser tion of the individual lay the hope for that municipal reform which all believed to be now imperative. It was the fact that in the development and the conduct of republican government as applied to municipalities the American system had fallen farthest short of ideals. This could only be corrected by agencies which appealed flrBt to the moral sense, a sense whkV the opera tion of party action tended no. to quicken but to dull.

Here in New York and Brooklyn the immediate need was that the individual citizen, sensible alike of his responsibility and of his power, should assert himself and assume tho duties which participation in public affaire and the functions of government devolved upon him. Public opin John Redmond May Come Here to Secure Financial Help. London. February 26 The Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon, commenting on the I alleged shortage of the Irish Parliamentary fund, says: "It is becoming a serious matter that not a single American dollar is reaching the official exchequer, and it is generally accepted among the Irish members that John Redmond will shortly have to undertake a fresh visit to the United States and try to secure financial help." THREW CHILDREN INTO RIVER. Pittsburg, Feb.

26 Mrs. Maggie Diet horn, aged 26 years, walked out on the Twenty second street bridge about 8:30 o'clock this morning with her two children, aged 2 and 4 years, and when in the center of the structure quickly picked up the little ones and threw them into the Monongahela River. Before she could follow she was arrested. Boats put out at once and rescued one of the children, but the other was drowned. The woman was evidently demented.

She told the police that the act was an inspiration from heaven. GERMAN HOSPITAL SOCIETY. Agitation Committee Reorganizes and Plans an Active Campaign A Committee Criticised. The agitation committee of the German Hospital Society held a lengthy meeting last evening at Arion Hall, on Arion place, for the purpose of reorganizing. There were only thirteen members present, when Neumann, the chairman, called the meeting to order.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: William Neumann, president; Dr. John W. Schildge, vice president; Henry C. A. Wagner, secretary, and Louis Schulen burg, treasurer.

In order to compel prompt attendance at the meeting of the committee L. Weide moved to strike from the roll any member who has been absent at three consecutive meetings without proper excuse. This motion was unanimously adopted. Also one by Dr. Schildge to furnish each member a complete list of the members of the committee and their addresses.

Messrs. L. Weide, H. C. A.

Wagner and Theobald En glehardt were appointed a committee to report, at the next meeting, means by which grocers, bakers, butchers and other business men could be induced to furnish the German Hospital at least once a month food stuffs, free of charge. A committee appointed over a year ago for the purpose of reporting upon the advisability of placing collection boxes was severely criticised for Its neglect to furnish the desired report. It will be asked to report forthwith. The committee consists of Messrs. L.

Schulenburg, H. C. A. Wagner and A request of S. K.

Saenger, the ex president of the United Singers of Brooklyn, submitted through Carl Evertz, for the appointment nf n. committee of three, which is to assist him in the arrangements for a theatrical performance in the interest of the German Hospital, was referred to the board of trustees for final action. The performance is to take place on Marcn 5 next. Snh cniTiTnlttees of the agitation committee w.111 visit the several German societies who have severed their connection with the hospital society during the last year in order to induce them to rejoin. R.

Ritter of the Ebenezer Sunday school of St. Nicholas avenue, reported that henceforth once a year a collection in the interest of the society would be taken up at the school. He forwarded t.hn sum of $10 to the society, a. Aiorecni presented to the society $25. WORKMEN ARE CURIOUS.

Those in the Street Cleaning Department Inquire About Uniforms and Fines. Laborers in the employ of the Department of Street Cleaning in this borough have of late complained that they were compelled to get new white canvas suits frequently before their old ones were unfit for service. Considerable curiosity has also been expressed by men in the department as to whero tho'money collected in fines from men in the department went. Deputy Commissioner 'P. H.

Qulnn of the Department of Street Cleaning said this morning, when asked about the matter, that he did not handle any of the money collected from the men under him for trivial or other offenses against the rules of the department. "The amount of a man's fine is deducted from his wages," said Commissioner Quinn, "and it is simply a paper transfer, no money changing hands. The amount received from fines goes into the general fund of this department. We have nothing to do with that matter here." As for the charge made by some employes that they were obliged to purchase new suits of white canvas before they really needed them, it was said that no employe was ordered to secure a new street cleaning uniform until the suits he had were torn or so worn as to be unfit for wearing on the streets. These suits cost $1.20 each, and every man must have two and, if possible, three suits of such clothes.

All of the white canvas suits are secured from a contractor in Manhattan. MURDERED MAN IDENTIFIED. N. E. Clark, Killed in California in 1896, "Was Heir to Rich Estate in Massachusetts.

Vallejo, February 26 On the night of February 9, 1896, an unknowo man was murderously assaulted in a lumber yard and died a week or so later at the County Hospital from the effects of his wounds. At the hospital he gave his name as E. C. Newell. To day Chief of Police Stanford received a letter from a law firm of New Bedford, which shows that the murdered man was heir to a large estate in that city.

In giving his name as E. C. Newell the man had transposed his right name, which was Newell E. Clark. It is said that ho was a wandering member of a wealthy and respectable family.

His parents have died since the tragedy of 1896 and the New Bedford lawyers are waiting for legal proof of his death in order that the large share of the estate which would have fallen to Newell Clark may be divided among brothers and sisters. GERMANY'S POPULATION. Census of 1900 Shows the Empire Contains 56,345,014 Souls. BerliD, February 26 The census taken December 1, 1900, shows the population of the empire to be 50,345,014, of which number 27. 731,067 were males.

Thirty three of the largest towns have populations of over 100,000 each, or an aggregate of 9,108,814. Sinco 1895 the Increase in the population of the empire has been about 4,000.000, or 7.78 per the highest rate or increase for any quinquennial period during the last thirty years. MAY LYNCH BILL FAIN. Phoenix, February 26 The posse searching for Bill Fain, who aided in the murder of Mrs. John Burns, has him surrounded in a dense timber south of Yuma and will starve or burn him out.

The husband, father and brothers of the dead woman are in the posse and a lynching is probable. MIDWOOD COUNCIL ENTERTAINS. Mldwood Council, Royal Arcanum, gave an entertainment to Its many friends at its lodge rooms, S24 Flatbush avenue, last night, following the regular meeting of the lodge. Among the entertainers were George Leonard, pianist; Bert Forrest, comedian and en t.Ttiincr: P. V.

Sanford. monologlst, and One Patient in. Greenpoint and Another Suspected Case. Robert W. Gibson, aged 35 years, was taken from his home at 67 Jewel street, Greenpoint, last night, to North Brother Island, suffering from smallpox.

The health officers have not as yet had any history of the case. The house has been fumigated and there has been a general vaccination of the other occupants of the place. It is understood that the health office experts have under observation a suspicious case In another portion of the borough. The location will not be'given out unless the case Is found to be one of smallpox. COLLEGE PRESIDENT RESIGNS.

Chicago, February 26 After fifteen years' service as president of Beloit College, Dr. Edward D. Eaton tendered his resignation and it was accepted at a meeting of 'he board of trustees, held last night. The resignation is to take effect at the end of the pre3ent school year. Efforts were made by the trustees to Induce President Eaton to take an Indefinite vacation and retain his position, but he replied that he felt he had remained with the institution until it was In such a condition that another could take hold and direct its affairs.

"BROWNIES IN FAIRYLAND." Coming to the Academy of Music on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of This Week. The Brownies come to the Academy of Music on Thursday evening and on Friday and Saturday afternoons of this week. The entertainment to be presented by these con celts of Palmer Cox's brain is such a one as has never before been offered to the public, both young and old. In the production, as it will appear upon the stage au thor has introduced all the well known favorites, but their experiences, their say ings and actions are entirely new and present the peculiari ties in each. The music was especially composed by Mr.

Malcolm Douglass and every number Is melodious. The chorus of three hundred children's voices has been carefully trained, while no less attention has been paid to the costuming of so large a cast oi cnaracters The patrons ami patronesses or tne Brownies I'au'yiana are; Mr. and Mrs. D. W.

Mc Williams, Mr. and Mrs. John Gibb, Dr. and Mrs. Frances Stuart, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles M. Prrtt, Charles A. Hull, Mr. and Mrs.

j. W. Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. George D.

Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Morse, Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred Cotton Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Red field, Mr.

and Mrs. Seth W. Fox, Mr. and Mrs. A.

P. Strout, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Morris Bowman, Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harvey Field, Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick B. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. E. W.

Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles E. Teale, Mr. and Mrs. M.

H. Dorman, Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Pouch, Mr.

and Mrs. William B. Boo rum, Mr. and Mrs. William McCarroll.

Howard McWilli'ams, Charles E. Dingee, Theodore F. Miller, Richard Young, Joseph H. Raymond, John F. Jameo H.

Oll phant, Alanson Trass, uavia a. isooay ana Henry K. Sheldon. PNEUMATIC TUBE DOOMED. Postmaster "Wilson Has No Present Hope That the Service to Manhattan Will Be Continued.

Postmaster Wilson thie morning returned from Washington, where ho tried to have the post office committee of the Senate Include in its provisions enough money to keep in operation the pneumatic tube between Brooklyn and New York. He was unsuccessful and said this morning that he had no reason to believe that the service would be continued after July, when the present contract expiree. "Mr. Loud, chairman of the congressional committee, told me that if he could permit the Brooklyn tube to be continued he would be glad to do so, as it was probably the most economical tube at present in the postal service and was certainly doing the best work. But the opposition to the pneumatic tube service, at least, under existing conditions, is positive and I do not believe anything can he expected ot this Congress In that line.

Whether, however, the pneumatic tube people will continue the tube in operation after the expiration of the contract, taking their chances of getting their pay later, is a question I cannot answer." INTERNAL REVENUE RULINGS. Deeds of Building and Loan Associations to Non Shareholders Are Taxable. United States Internal Revenue Commissioner J. W. Yerkes, in ruling on a question of the taxability of building and loan associations, says: "The exemption ot building and loan associations who loan money only to their own shareholders under section 17 ot the act of June 13, 1898, as construed by the Attorney General, does not apply to cases where such association Is dealing with other parties than its own shareholders.

A conveyance of real property owned by such' an to a person who is not a shareholder or a member thereof, is, therefore, taxable at the same rate as any other conveyance of real property. Any former rulings of this office inconsistent with this ruling are hereby revoked." Other recent rulings of Commissioner Yerkes are as follows: "Every place where games of pool are played shall be regarded as a billiard room; and as there is nothing in the provisions of the law confining the special tax to proprietors of pool tables of the old kind, it is held that special tax must be paid on any table, when it is set up at any place and games are played thereon which are open to the public, with or without price." "Leases embodying powers of attorneys must pay the tax required for both instruments." "Packages containing distilled spirits must be so marked as to show the kind of spirits as known to the trade." CONGER'S RECALL REGRETTED. Pears in Peking That His Uncompromising Attitude Will Be Exchanged for a Milder Policy. London, February 26 The Pall Mall Gazette's correspondent at Peking, telegraphing under date of yesterday, says: "United States Minister Conger's recall, which is practically a rebuff, is very generally regretted. It la feared that his uncompromising attitude will be exchanged for a policy that will prove unnecessarily benevolent.

"To day's meeting of ministers was concerned drawing up a llBt of the provincial officials implicated in the Boxer" movement, whose punishment it is Intended to demand. "The remaining clauses of the powers' demand will take six months to settle. "The Germans continue to punish Chinese troops guilty of brigandage and bloodshed. They have gained a magnificent reputation for military efficiency." NO. 4.

Engineers Are Determining Just What Property Is Needed for Blackwell's Island Structure. CASH AVAILABLE FOR WORK. Commissioner Expects That Contract for Pier Foundations Will Be Let Within Three Months. Preliminary work on Bridge No. which is to connect Manhattan and Queens, wan booming to day.

Engineer R. S. Buck and his assistants were busy preparing the tech nical descriptions of the property on both sides of the river that will be required for the lower foundations and anchorages. These descriptions will be completed this week and next week Bridge Commissioner Shea will a3k the Board of Public Improvements to authorize the Corporation Counsel to commence condemnation proceedings for its acquisition. Mr.

Shea will also send to the Board of Estimate next week a map showing the property, and its taxable valuation. Under an act passed last year the approval of the Board of Estimate is required before any condemnation proceedings can be started. As soon as this work is out of the way Mr. Buck and his assistants will begin the preparation of plans and specifications for contracts for the building of the foundations. These will be ready within two months, it is expected, and if all goeB well, the bridge officials hope to have contracts for all the pier foundations let within the next three months.

These foundations, six in number, two In Manhattan, two on Blackwell's Island and two in Ravenswood, the engineer in charge believes, can all be built for $1,000,000, which amount of money Is already available as a bond issue for It was passed over a year ago. The Bridge Department is preparing to contract within a few weeks for the Brooklyn pier foundation for bridge No. 3, between Manhattan and Brooklyn, but has done nothing the Manhattan foundation. The reason is that with the $1,000,000 appropriation so far authorized both cannot be built. In the case of the Blackwell's Island bridge, however, the present plan is to let all the pier foundation contracts at once as there is money enough In sight to carry them through.

Engineer Buck explained the great difference in cost of the pier foundations cf the two bridges as being due to the fact that practically all of the foundation work for the Blackwell's Island structure will be on dry land, thus obviating the necessity of caisson work. The piers for the Manhattan Brooklyn bridge will be built in the water and immense caissons will be required with all of the expensive machinery for working in them. Owing to the nature of the sub surface ground at the site of the Blackwell's Island bridge the foundations will not have to be built up from so low a grade. Solid rock comes to within a short distance of the surface and will thus make it1 unnecessary to dig deep Into the ground. It thus appears that the engineering difficulties in the case of the upper bridge are so much lighter that, although there has been much longer delay in getting it under way, it bids fair to outstrip the Brooklyn structure.

It is interesting to note that the two bridges, which are under the supervision of Engineer Buck are to be of very different character, that over Blackwell's Island a cantilever structure, while the third Brooklyn bridge will be of the familiar suspension type. LOOK OUT FOR PIERSON. Clerk McGoldrick of the Surrogate's Office Receives an Imperative Letter Prom England. Chief Clerk McGoldrick of the office of the Surrogate to day received a letter, purporting to come from W. T.

Daly of Lambeth Town Hall, England, in which the writer asks that no action be taken In disposing of the personal estate of David E. Pierson until three days after the death of W. T. Daly. The letter is very brief and at the end the writer says, "I am the proved heir." Mr.

McGoldrick says that the only David Pierson on the records in the Surrogate's office died in 1888. He was 18 years old and his will was filed on May 17, 1888. The Joint executors were Clarence and M. Horace Topping of Brooklyn and Robert E. Topping of Water Falls, L.

I. In the will there were several bequests to persons in England, but there were no bequests to W. T. Daly. Mr.

McGoldrick says that he will communicate with the writer, if possible, and meanwhile he is to keep a sharp lookout for the name of David B. Pierson in any proceedings in the office of the Surrogate. BRITANNIA ARRIVED TO DAY. Had to Burn Much, of Her Woodwork. Other Overdue Steamers on the Way.

The Fabre Line steamship Britannia arrived at Woodruff's Stores this morning, after an exceedingly stormy voyage of forty one days from Marseilles. Like most of the vessels that crossed the North Atlantic after January 20, the Britannia encountered terrible weather. She almost reached Sandy Hook on two occasions and was blown to sea again hy the fierce northwest gales that were then prevailing on the North Atlantic. Her coal gave out and much of her woodwork was burned up. Only the foreyard remains of her spars, and her decks are largely gone.

When No. 4 hatch was opened to day the cargo In the 'tween decks was found to be all smashed up. Macaroni was strewn about among cheeses and other products of Southern Europe, the whole being mildewed and in a state of partial decay. The ship was flying light on the voyage, having but little cargo on board. As a result she presented a very high freeboard and the heavy gales and high high seas tossed her about In all directions.

The Britannia brought 160 Italian passengers, one of whom died and was buried at sea. While coming to an anchor early this morning at Quarantine the steamship had additional troubles. She Collided with the inward bound schooner Scotia, which was anchored in midstream off Quarantine. The Scotia received some slight damage forward of tho starboard mizzen rigging, but the steamship escaped uninjured. The Anchor liner Bolivia, also long overdue, is expected to arrive at the Union Stores some time to day.

She passed Gibraltar about the same time as the other overdue steamships and was also forced to put into the Bermudas for coal. She left there on Friday last for this port. The Portuguese steamship Dona Amelia, which was also long overdue from Oporto, Lisbon and St. Michaels, arrived this morning at the Commercial wharf. She brought forty eight passengers.

She sailed from Oporto on January 18, so that she was thirty nine days on the voyage and was forced to call at the Bermudas also for coal. The steamship Fernneld is said to be nearly seven weeks out from Lisbon, and has also put into Bermuda for coal. The Peninsula, also of the Portuguese Line, has been towed Into St. Michaels with a broken shaft. The Bolivia had on board 14,000 boxes of Palermo lemons, while the Citta dl Messina, which left Bermuda on the same day as the Bolivia brings 26,700 boxes of lemons from Messina and Palermo.

The arrival these ships will relieve the trade in these fruits, SUICIDE PROMPTED BY NEGLECT. Chicago, February 26 Embittered by what she regarded as the studied neglect of former friends and her husband. Mrs. Gray, the wife of Perry O. Gray, attorney general for the Republic of Liberia, drank a fatal dose ot carbolic acid Friday night and died in the Provident Hospital on Sunday morning.

It was not until to day that the woman a Identity was disclosod by friends. Dr. Lindsay Parker Says the Curse and Bane of New York Is Party Spirit. GENERAL JOE WHEELER TALKS. Henry Sanger Snow Declares the Hope of Reform Dies in Individual Effort.

The dinner of the Brooklyn Congregational Club, held last evening at the Pouch Gallery, was a great success. The speakers were all exceptionally good, and their words infused the listeners with enthusiasm. Among the speakers was Major General Joseph Wheeler. Covers were laid for about. 175 men and women, the dinner taking place at 6:30.

Sitting at the head table with the president ot the club were the Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Inger 8011, Major General Joseph Wheeler, Miss Wheeler, Dr.

and Mrs. R. C. Brush, the Rev. Dr.

and Mrs. Lindsay Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sanger Snow and the Rev. Dr.

William S. Hubbell. One of the pleasant features of the evening was the fine music by members of the University Glee Club, which interspersed the speeches. It consisted of a number of choruses and several solos. The Rev.

Dr. Ingersoll acted as toastmaster, and after a brief address he introduced General Wheeler, who spoke interestingly of his experiences and observations in the Philippines, in China and in Japan. He gave pictures of the physical aspects ot the Philippines, of the lite and the products of the islands. He said the Filipinos would be reconciled to the government of the United States when they understood just what the purpose of this country was in regard to them. Dr.

Lindsay Parker, who followed General Wheeler, made a severe and open attack upon the way that the municipal affairs of this city are managed. He was not sparing of either Mayor Van Wyck or Tammany Hall, but spoke his mind freely. Dr. Parker said among other things: "Nowhere is the establishment of the kingdom of, God more needed than it is in the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. And we must work together for its establishment.

We must unite in the great bonds of the Christian religion, and because of which we ought to be ashamed to be indifferent to the needs of our city. "The other day some hisses were heard because the flag was not half masted on our City Hall. It should be kept at half mast all the time, for the shame of this great City of New York. It Is no need for me to say why. Shame on him.

The curse and bane of the City of New York is party spirit. Justice is practically dead. If I were on the jury I would render a verdict of strangulation by close bound party spirit. Shame on us! I am a party man myself, but I call God to witness that I never allow my party to come between me and my conscience on municipal affairs. "We want a mayor.

1 want a mayor, an honest mayor, a man, an honest, respectable, trustworthy man for mayor. We can get him from either party. There aTe hundreds of men in both parties. We want a decent, reliable and honest police department in our city. This would make it impossible to put the uniform on an incarnation ot bluster and cheek.

A great injustice has been done to us and I want an would make it impossible to render a verdict of not guilty, such as was done several days ago in this city in a certain trial. I want an administration that would extinguish the 'red light where public decency is constantly outraged in order that the filthy lucre may flow into the coffers of the machine in power. "Let us rid the city of this pest, these dives, these dive keepers and those who license crime and degradation. Let us, by our united vote, cast them into oblivion and wrest, In God's name, the city from their vile grasp. We can do it.

We must put aside party spirit when our very homes are menaced by this terrible monster, vice, which flaunts its awful doings before our very (acea and in the sight of innocence and all that is good." General Wheeler touched on many points of interest to the public. In speaking of China he said: "For the past thirty years of our progress we have had the great West as our customer. But now it Is really our com petitor. When In Canton, China, I went into one of the schools, where there were 11,800 rooms, and In that building 11,800 persons were being educated. I was taken to the place where LI Hung Chang received his ed ucation.

He was a poor boy once, but has risen to his present position by his own ef forts. Alluding to the Philippines General Wheeler said: "There is no question but that the Americans will control the Philippine Isl ands. It is only a question of time. The Filipinos need only to understand the pur poses of the Americans and they will gladly welcome us to their lands. Henry Sanger Snow, the last speaker, whose topic was "The value and Importance of In dividual Character and Leadership In Polltl cal and Social Movements as Contrasted With Party Action," said in the course of a strong address: "The life of the American people during the past century has been creative and constructive.

One hundred years ago the nation was born on this coast like a young giant, and to it was Riven this vast domain to sub due and to develop. In the one hundred years that have elapsed nationalism has been established, a financial and industrial sys tern effected, productive activities in agricultural and all forms of Industrial life devel oped, a complete political system wrought out, human slavery overthrown, and the governmental system completed. It has been a century of conquest. The whole of the national territory is now subjugated and linked together by the telegraph and by railroads. The work of construction at the end of the century seemed to have been practically completed, and henceforward the national attention should be directed largely to the solution of those great questions of social development Involving the Just relatins of men in society, which are already pressing for solution.

"The work of political and material devel opment has been accomplished largely through the agency of party organization and to day we recognize the political party at its point of most complete development." The speaker believed that the danger now lay in overestimating the value and importance of party. Its growth responded in political lite to the great financial and industrial movements In civil life. It was a movement of consolidation, of co operation, of accomplish Insr great results by means of organization and union of energy. It was doubtless true, however, that its influence upon the Individual is repressive, rather than generative, and that in Its completion it involved a surrender of Individual judgment and leadership, if not of the Individual conscience. Men see great results achieved through party organization, and, being arrayed on party ilnes, they confuse ethical with party distinctions.

Mr. Snow said he believed that the great social and moral questions next to be wrought out should be accomplished not through the dominion of force expressed In party action, but by the development of Individual character; the problems are to be solved not along political, but along moral and ethical lines. He believed that the pendulum of such movements had swung to the extremity of the arc In corporate action and that the swing was already back toward individualism. This would correspond In large measure with the conditions which existed in the old life of the nation when the leadership was not that of party, but ot the Individual; when policies were dictated by force of the wisdom and character of Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Jay and Marshall and their compeers. The value, and effect of such leadership became again apparent when the great crises of the Civil War brought about for the time a sub Philippine Commission FindsThat Satisfaction With American Sovereignty Exists There.

EPIDEMIC RINDERPEST. Agricultural Pursuits in Several Islands Interfered With Much Suffering Likely to Ensue. Guiginto, Bulacan Province, Philippine Islands, February 26 The United States Philippine Commission has arrived here from Manila and has organized a provincial government for this province, which until recently was controlled by the insurgents. The insurgent Colonel Morels, is still operating with his band of 300 men in a porton of the province. Nevertheless, sentiments of peace and satisfaction with American sovereignty appear to be as prevalent here as in the provinces in which governments have previously been organized.

The party arrived here In army wagons and native carts and were driven to the military headquarters. As many natives as could be crowded into the hall were present. The presidents of the town welcomed the commissioners, declaring that the people of the province which had been watered with the blood of Americans and Filipinos earnestly hoped for the obliteration of the marks of war and for the establishment of a peaceful government guaranteeing personal liberty. Judge Taft responded. He said he rejoiced at the fact that the people of the province of Bulacan no longer misunderstood the objects of the American government, which, solely, were to secure for the people the blessings of civil liberty and to develop their self governing capacity.

During the afternoon there will be a big meeting in the chapel and the bill applying the provincial act to Bulacan will be publicly discussed. The women relatives of the commissioners are accompanying them on this trip. An Epidemic of Rinderpest. Manila, February 26 An epidemic of rinderpest exists in the Visayan Islands. The disease first appeared on Burias Island and spread thence to Ticio and Masbate and it is now appearing on the Island of Panay.

Twenty five thousand cariboo have already died on Masbate Island. The natives are dependent upon the cariboo for agricultural operations, and the disease has minimized rice planting and restricted the sugar crop. Much suffering likely to ensue. Rigid quarantine measures have been adopted. The steamer Newark of the Quartermaster's Department has been wrecked on Catandu anes Island.

A new party, called Conservative, is being organized. Colonel Blanco, a Macabebe chief, is the leader of the movement. The church element is identified with the Conservative party. Generals MacArthur, Wheaton and Young reviewed the Thirty third and Thirty fourth Regiments to day. The troops presented a splendid appearance.

General MacArthur's address was highly congratulatory. Captain Lowe, with a detachment of the Twenty fifth Regiment, has captured a la drone camp in the mountains of Nueva Foiji and killed the leader, the notorious Angel Miranda. Lieutenant Lewis, with a detachment of the Third Infantry, has had five skirmishes with the insurgents in the Fanpanga swamps. The enemy were routed and sixteen rifles were secured. Washington, February 26 The steamship Newark of the Quartermaster's Department, reported wrecked on Catanduanes Island, undoubtedly is a small tug recently purchased at a cost of about $5,000 and used for the transportation of supplies In the Philippines.

This is the only vessel of that name in the Quartermaster's Department. EDUCATORS IN SESSION. Manual Training the Theme to Be Discussed at the Chicago Convention. Chicago, February 26 Prominent educators from all parts of the United States are here attending the National Convention of College and School Superintendents of the National Educational Association, which opened today at University Hall, in the Fine Arts Building. Among the prominent educators here are Dr.

Edward R. Shaw of the School of Peda gogy of New York University, Principal Au gustus S. Sownlng of the Training School for Teachers, New York City, and Superintendent Charles R. Skinner of New York. There will be a contest between Atlanta and New Orleans for the next meeting of the department.

The place will not be decided on until Thursday. At each annual meeting of the department some one subject is usually emphasized, and this year it will be Manual Training." There will be numerous papers and discussions of the subject. The convention this morning was opened hy an address by Superintendent E. G. Coley, on "Gospel of Work." He was followed by Howard J.

Rogers, director of education, Paris Exposition, in an address entitled "Education at the Paris Exposition." At the conclusion of his address there followed a discussion of "Simplified Spelling," led by E. O. Valle. This evening President Arthur T. Kadley of Yale will speak on "The Use and Control of Examinations." Representatives of fourteen universities composing the Association of American Unl versities began their second annual meeting in Haskell Hail, at tne university of Chicago, to day.

The subjects to be discussed are con cerned mainly with the work of the graduate schools. CALLED TO TWELFTH STREET. The Rev. Mark B. Denman of Chatham, N.

to Succeed Dr. J. E. Lloyd. A successor to the Rev.

Dr. John E. Lloyd in the pastorate of the Twelfth Street Re formed Church has just been chosen. A unanimous call has been extended to the Rev Mark B. Denman, pastor of the Dutch Re formed Church at Chatham, N.

Y. The call has been accepted ana Mr. Denman will be gin his work on Easter Sunday, preaching for the first time as pastor on that day. Mr. Denman has been for a number of years pastor of the church at Chatham, but he Is not well known In Brooklyn.

He has occu pied the pulpit of the Twelfth Street Reformed Church twice and each time made a deep impression. He Is a man about 35 years of age. Is married and has three children. Dr. Lloyd resigned from the church last summer on account of health, he having been troubled with nervous dyspepsia anil insomnia for some months.

He took a trip to Europe and returned in the fall. He has taken an interest in the Twelfth Street Church since his resignation, not desiring to absolutely sever his connection until hi successor was chosen. Dr. Lloyd and his wife will soon leave for Bermuda or some Southern resort, where the doctor can enjoy outdoor life. He Is now In somewhat bettor health than he has been for some time, but he has not thoroughly recovered.

DANISH LOAN ISSUE. Copenhagen, February 26 The municipality has elven notice of the issue of a communal loan of 20,000,000 kroner. Tenders will be of en until jaroa IS. State Superintendent Kilburn Says Institutions Should Establish an Inflexible Rule. DEPOSITS AND RESOURCES.

Evidence of an Improved Financial Condition of the Great Middle Classes. Trust Company Affairs. Albany, February 26 "Against the duplication of accounts in savings banks," says State Superintendent of Banks Kilburn. in a report submitted to the Legislature to day, "and against the practice of accepting deposits which properly belong in the banks of deposit or in the trust companies, it would be wise that the officers of the banks establish" an inflexible rule, and that the law should reo.uire this from them. "The immunity from taxation which deposits in the savings banks enjoy under the law was not intended to cover investment funds, and a wrong is done to the system and to the state if that condition is permitted to obtain.

This proposition is continually borne in mind, and is made controlling by many managements, but it is efared that on the part of others not the many, but the few the desire to gjn rank as a large bank tempts to disregard of it. "There ought to be some stringent provision of law which would be effective to prevent it. The true friends of the system seek to preserve it to the service which it was designed to render, and to save it from all discredit or occasion for criticism or attack. By no course known to me can this purpose be so well fostered as by excluding capitalists and capable men ot" affairs from carrying considerable deposits in the savings banks." The superintendent recommends that the general corporation law be amended so as to permit the use of the word "loan" in the title of the corporations formed to loan money on personal property. Concerning those associations he says: "A measure reducing the rates of interest and the charges which these personal loan associations may make to their customers has already passed the Senate.

The only reasonable criticism which, in my judgment, can be directed against it would bo that its provisions are too generous to the associations in question, but it is so far preferable to existing law that it Is earnestly to be hoped that the Assembly may give it favorable consideration, and that it may reach the statute book." The total amount of money deposited in the savings banks of the state in 1S100 was $268,323,513. about $9,000,000 in excess of the amount deposited in 1899. The amount withdrawn during the past year was $240,013,371, making a net gain in deposits, exclusive of interest, of $28,310,142. In this connection the superintendent says: the gain gives occasion for congratulation depends upon the source from which it came. The time has passed, if, indeed, it ever obtained, when mere growth Is an end for which the savings banks should strive.

It is not properly the province of these institutions to serve as depositary, custodian and investor of whatever funds may he offered to them, but only to carry the accounts of those whose savings are small, or of those who by reason of Inexperience or misfortune are unable to invest for themselves advantageously or safely. Every deposit accepted from capitalists or from those who use the savings banks merely as a convenience tends to prejudice the interest of those who may legitimately claim the benefit of their care. "The total resources of the savings hanks January 1, 1901, were $1,066,064,217.08, the amount due to depositors $947,129,638.90 and the surplus calculated upon the market value of stocks and bonds, $118,339,674.35. The increase in surplus during the year was over $6,400,000 and the increase In surplus on market values since January 1, 1895. amounts to $27,384,353.

A part of it is, of course, due to the appreciation in securities which has occurred within that time, but even at that It is less now in proportion to the amount due to depositors than it was six years or even one year ago. In 1895 the percentage of surplus to liabilities was .1314. and at present It is .1261, a decrease of three quarters of 1 per cent. Calculated upon the par value of stocks and bonds, the present surplus is $70, 018,318.24, or .0739 of the amount due to depositors. In 1S95 the percentage was .0879, or one and four tenths more.

The comparison proves that the banks are distributing to their depositors the full percentage of earnings which a wise regard for possible emergencies would sanction. "The number of open accounts in the savings banks is 2,072,190, an increase during the year of 90,819," says the superintendent. "Accepting as a correct ir'lex the well known fact that managers of the savings banks are continually extending the practice ot attempting to confine the accounts in their institutions to the accumulations of wage earners and to the funds of the unfortunate and those untrained in business, this increase in the average of deposits may be taken, I think, as evidence of an Improving financial condition of the great middle classes, and is not correctly chargeable to an Increasing use of the savings banks by persons oi means. "A summary of the reports of the fifty seven trust companies shows a decrease during the year in their aggregate capital amounting to $900,000. an increase of $9,430.

361.37 in their combined surplus and undivided profits, a gain of S114. 580. 200.48 in deposits and of in total resources which amount to $797. 983, 512. SJ.

That, is to say. the fifty seven trust companies in the state have resources equal almost to ene half of the aRgregate of those of the five hundred and thirty six state and national hanks reporting in September, 1900. or. to make the comparison yet more striking, the forty one companies located in Greater N'ew York have resources amounting to per cent, of rhe combined resources of all of the state and national hanks in the state. The Interest, profits and commissions earned by the trust companies during the year aggregate $33,992,377.27.

the interest naid and cred ited by them to depositors to $14,244,490.90, their expenses to $5,044,794.43. the dividends paid to J5.555.33S.1C. and their taxes to $695. 460.88. In round numbers their earnings increased nearly S400.000 as compared with the year 1S99.

their expenses nearly $750,000. and their taxes $100,000, while dividends decreased 5S0.00CI. "The great change that has taken place in our system of loaning money and making Investments since the former territory of the United States has been eo fully developed and settled. Is illustrated by the constantly decreasing number of foreign mortgage, loan or investment companies licensed to do business within this state. Thlrt.v nine such companies were licensed to transact business within this state on the first day of October, ISM.

"At the present time only three companies of this character are authorized to do business in this THE MONTAGUE STREET PIES. Flint, Eddy and the American Trading Company's West Coast Line to Cbili, Peru and Ecuador is reported to have secured the Montague street pier for some weeks to come. The Queen Louise is scheduled to soil from there on February 2S and the Glenelg on March 15. This company is said to have secured a contract to transport 400 freight cars and three or four locomotives to the west coast for the Chilian government. Report says that 500 cars altogether have been ordered, and that the other 100 will be forwarded by William R.

Grace Co. on the steamships of the Merchants' Line. NEW GERMAN LINES. Washington, February 26 Nine largo vessels have been ordered by a Bremen steamship company with a view to the establishment of a line of Gorman steamers from New York to Africa and East India, according to United States Consul Managhan at Chemnitz, in a communication to the State Department. In addition to these plans the consul says the same company proposes to establish a line tram New York to Mexico and the West Indies.

ion was always ready to support conscientious and intelligent leadership and quick to recognize the authority of individual char acter. It was true in the main that that which men will to have they may have so long as the object sought was worthy their aspiration. The results sought will Inevita bly be accomplished, so It be true that which is the of to day Is the popular theme of to morrow, next year the demand of the multitude and then the triumphant law. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs.

A. A. Spear, Mrs. M. A.

Brush, Dr. George W. Brush, Mr. and Mrs. A.

H. Topping, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Field, Jeremiah Town send, Dr.

and Mrs'. Edward W. Avery, Mr. and Mrs. George Blanke, Mr.

and Mrs. F. D. Green, Mr. and Mrs.

B. F. Blair, Mr. and Mrs. E.

J. Wright, Dr. and Mrs. Truman J. Backus Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. Purdy, the Rev. Sydney H.

Cox, Dr. Gertrude G. Bishop. Mr. and Mrs.

John F. Anderson, A. G. Dana, Mrs. J.

w. reckleton, Dr. Lucy Hall Brown, Mrs. Isaac F. Cary, Mr.

and Mrs. Furman Clay ton. Dr. and Mrs. R.

S. Royce, Mr. and Mrs. Henry unapln. Mr.

and Mrs. Isaac B. Lewis. Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Loud, Mr. and Mrs. John H.

Burtis, Mr: and Mrs. John R. Rogers, Mrs. Mary M. Gilbert.

Mrs. A. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Titus, Mr.

and Mrs. A. C. Perry, Mr. and Mrs.

H. A. Sinclair, Mr. and Mrs. William R.

Ritchie, Mr. and Mrs. Horace S. Warner, Mr. ana Mrs.

C. E. Swift. Mr. and Mrs.

F. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Ives, Mr.

and Mrs. William Mackey, Mrs. James Golds bury, Mrs. Emma A. Williams, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank B. Ogilvle, Mrs. J. S.

Ogilvle, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Magnus, Mr.

and Mrs. W. D. Juhring, Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph W. Sutphere, Mrs. w. A. Welsh, Mr.

and Mrs. George W. Bally, Mr. and Mrs. John Bliss, Mr.

and Mrs. John L. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander G.

Brlnckerhoff, Mr. and Mrs. William Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Edward D.

Cahoon, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Christie, Mrs. Carrie F. Chase, Mr.

and Mrs. George C. Leverlch, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R.

Weed, the Rev. Dr. and Mrs, i Edward P. Ingersoll, Mr. and Mrs.

James Armstrong, Mrs. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. F. M.

Turner, Mrs. C. C. Creegan, Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Beales, Mrs. Sarah A. McFarlan, Mrs. J. H.

Van Wie, Mrs. Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Edward White, the Rev. and Mrs.

M. B. Taylor, Miss Mary C. Crocker, Miss L. Gertrude Gregory, Mrs.

Ada C. Cox, Miss Anderson, Miss P. B. Anderson, MIsb M. J.

Corwln, Miss H. F. Clark, Mlas Alice Horton. Miss Prentice. Miss Sutphen, Miss Emilie F.

Barry, Miss Stephenson of Toronto, Canada; Miss Carrie GumL rt. miss c. Burgess and Messrs. M. Gray, J.

H. Loud, Edward McFarlan, Livingston L. Taylor, Frederick O. Titsworth, the Rev. Howard A.

M. Briggs, H. Waller Brlnckerhoff, J. P. Marflng, George A.

Graff. C. Thurston Chase. John Arbuckle, James H. Smith, A.

H. Gilbert, G. H. Coggeshall, B. F.

Jayne, Byron Horton. John B. Warner, J. S. Ogllvie, P.

W. Goldsbury, Douglass Burnett, E. A. Race. George C.

Brainerd, John Bliss, Charles F. Taylor, Charles G. Titsworth, George Starr Bishop, Albro J. Newton, Paul S. Scott, R.

G. Brown, Henry R. Heath, Joslah Royce, Seabury N. Healy and Hiram Burnett. The officers of the Congregational Club are as follows: The Rev.

E. P. Ingersoll, president; vice presidents, the Rev. Dr. C.

Creegan, Dr. George W. Brush, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, George W.

Bailey and W. Freeman; Dr. Edward Everett Cady. secretary; Ezra J. Wright, treasurer.

CommitteesExecutive, the Rev. Horace Porter, chairman; Mrs. K. A. Anderson and George C.

Bralnford; outlook, Robert G. Brown, chairman; the Rev. Mark B. Taylor, the Rev. F.

D. Green, Thomas Christie and Henry D. Annable; membership, William. Mackay, chairman; Alfred Romer and William reception, George W. Bailey, chairman; James K.

Heath, Dr. Gertrude G. Bishoo, living A. Lewis, Franklin Sllleck, the Rev. D.

Butler Pratt. Mrs. W. A. Walsh, John H.

Burtis and William P. Rltchev. INVITATION TO CONGER. Minister Asked to Speak Before Hamilton Club in Chicago. Chicago, February 26 E.

H. Conger, United States Minister to China, who passed through the siege at Peking, has been invited to be the guest of the Hamilton Club on April 9, which is celebrated by the club as Appomattox Day. This is perhaps the first invitation that has been extended to Mr. Conger to be the guest of any organization while in this country on leave of absence. The cablegram inviting him to be present on that occasion was sent by the club last evening.

It is the intention of the Hamilton Club to secure an expression from Minister Conger on the Eastern situation. WANT TILYOU PUNISHED. Argument on the Motion to Restrain Him Prom Improving Certain Property. Lawyer Walter E. Warner before Justice Gaynor in Supreme Court, special term, today, moved to continue an injunction obtained by Bass and Broomer, lessees of the Sea Gate Hotel at Coney Island, preventing George C.

Tilyou from constructing a projected garden and canal or bayou, on land bought by him from Paul Weidmann, subject to the lease of the plaintiffs. It was claimed on the argument that Tilyou had constructed a fence shutting out the plaintiff's approach to the ocean. Hughes Heisted represent the defendant and former Justice Frederic A. Ward appeared as counsel and argued the case for defendant. It came out In the ar gument that Tilyou bought the property in question for $99,000, and that he had spent $75,000 In the Improvements; that he had laid down 3,000 loads of loam for the pur Xose of planting trees and flowers and that he had spent still more to provide places of amusement for children and grown up people.

Robert H. Roy replied to the points of Judge ward. Justice Gaynor reserved his decision, after vacating that part of the order, which directs that Tilyou shall remove any structures wnicn ne has put up. HAYTIAN DOMINICAN DISPUTE. Good Relations "Will Be Restored if Hayti Recalls Her Troops Prom the Frontier.

Cape Haytien, Hayti, February 26 What is known here as the Phitobert incident was caused by the occupation by Haytian troops of some territory in dispute. The Dominican government is disposed to re establish good relations with Hayti if the government of that republic will recall its troops. As announced in a dispatch received from Cape Haytian yesterday, a skirmish had taken place between Haytians and Dominicans at Phitobert, on the northern frontier. A party of Haytians was suddenly attacked by a number of Dominicans and the Haytian consul at Dajabon sought refuge at Ouana mintho, Hayti, about five minutes from the frontier. Tho Dominican consul at Cape Haytian received orders from his government to repair immediately to the scene of the disturbance and endeavor to put an end to the fighting and cause the Haytian consulate at Dajabon to be respected.

SHEETS MARTIN IN TROUBLE. American Jockey Ruled Off the Egyptian Turf. London, February 26 The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: "Martin, the American jockey, has been suspended from the Egyptian turf far fouling a gentleman rider at the Cairo races." A.