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THE BEOOKLYy DAILY STTIN'D AY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1895. HASSAU OPES TO SHEEPSHEAD, YACHT RACE CALLED OFF, AMERICA TAKES THE EARTH, PAIHTS AND OILS ABLAZE. SCENES AT ATLANTA'S FAIR, tko race problem proved to be the happiest hit of the afternoon. The person who attraoted the most attention on tbo platform on Wednesday was Mrs. Joseph Thompson, president of the women's board.

Her weloome, when she spoke, was effusive and thoajrh probably not one person in twenty five could hear her words the whole audience sat in attentive sllene while she read her Bpeeoh. but praise was heard for the government building. The display made by the federal authorities is considered by many to be better arranged, not so estansive, than that at Chicago. Every department has its share of the exhibits. The contributions of the state and treasury bureaus are notable for their excellence.

The fish tanks catch the popnlar faney and for scientific arrangemont and Illumination far surpass the Chicago aquarium. The department of war presents one of those grim displays which never foil to fascinate the most peaceful of men, It was a weary tramp over to the midway, but there ware many who took the walk nnd climbod the slope on whioh are erected the dwellings of the Arab, the Turk, the Chinaman, th Teuton nnd the African. The midway pre sants little that hns not been seen. There is a wheel, just half tho size of the Ferris whoeL It has considerable vibration, but it is said to bo as safe as a house. Opportunity to shoot tho chutos is afforded.

There are several beauty shows. The Dahomey village created the wildest excitement amoncr tho neero visitors, who. before ed her lead, even Increasing it slightly. Then the breeze shifted, getting a little more southing into it, and making the rest of the leg a broad reach. This is Spruce's best point of sailng and she pimply walked away frmo Ethelwynn.

Spruce turned the lirst mark at 2:05:35 amid screeching of whistles and a general salvo of cheers and cannonading. which would convince even the most skeptical that Englishmen would receive fair play in America. Ethelwynn rounded the mark at 2:07:43, two minutes eight seconds after Spruce. For the next hart hour both boats seemed to hold their own In the windward work very well, and at the end of it it would have been difficult to say that either had gained. There was nothing like symmetry in their work to windward, and they split tacks as often as they made.

Beside, the little flyers were so quick in stays that a tack more or less made no difference them, and their forcreaching fully made up for tho slight loss of headway going about. Tho tidg was flowing strong at the time and the boats found it difficult to do more than hold their own in the open, so they headed for the shore. The breeze also had died down perceptibly, which made bucking tho tide moTe difficult. Ethelwynn was the first to reach the comparatively titleless waters under Lloyds Neck and the advantage she gained became at once apparent. Spruce soon saw that he was being overhauled and also stood in under Lloyds Neck.

3 o'clock both were making short boards every mtautc ortwo, still hugging the shoro closely and trying to round Lloyds Point. Ethelwynn was making the best of it, however, and at 3:30. while on the port tack, winded her opponent. Spruce immediately broke tacks and on her return at 3:36 again crossed Ethelwynn's bow by a close margin. Incidents of the First Days of the Exposition.

ATTENDANCE NOT LARGE AS YET The Hotels and the Railroads Raise Prices Features of Speoial Interest in the Exercises at the Auditorium How the Midway Looks Lots of Work to Be Done Bofore the Show Is Complete. (Special to the Eagle.) Atlanta, September 21 Atlanta has been a buty city for the paet woek. The real influx of visitors may bo said to have begun last Sunday. The hotels of established raputatloa got all the early tradw, and they were ablo to ac commodate it. Tho crowd which entered Piedmont park on yodnosday and tramped, over th ground ouee traversed by rebel rifle pits, with fierce sua overhead nnd rough and dusty paths underfoot, was not large when compared with tho magnitude of the enterprise.

Probably 8,500 people, perhaps 4.000, were in the nnditorium listening to speeches and music nnd waiting for tho official announcement that President Cleveland had poshed tho button at Gray Gables. When one stepped outside tho building and ADMINISTRATION BUILDING. glanced tho park it seemed as if Iks sight Beers scattered in little groups at various points lormea no greater number than the audience inside. The trolley companies had little or no trouble in transporting passengers, and this means much when it is taken into con Ridomtion thnt fftlitiAQ fhv rtfToroH wnM not bo tolerated as a regular daily sorvico on any oi ine Dusy urootlyn lines. tion Inst week were, ot course, Atlanta folks.

TK i i mo uilj uvai ucdl roresuaiuu was unaouoieaiy Chicago. There are many and fin exhibits from Chicago ana its officials and citizens havo uuvu uuuuaou uj a spoL mt mviuuion irom At luukti lu vxoii. mu iraiu uiiy oi tne ooum And yet the presence of hundreds of Chleago Continued From Page 1. Lutyens last. who was in magnificent shape, sprang in front at the end of tho first quarter, but tho Englishman clung to his heels like a leech.

At the half mile Conneff let bJlmself out a trifle and when he crossed the line at the three quarters he was twenty yards ahead of Lutyens, while Orton appeared to be hopelessly out of it. Tommy was romping atong as fresh as a daisy at a half mile gait end Orton, looking ahead, saw that Ms English opponent was in difficulties and thought he would take a new share in the fun. 9o, amidst the cheers of the crowd, he sprinted on after Lutyens, caught him up and passed him. That broke the Englishman's heart. About three hundred yards from home he staggered from the track and fell insensible on the grass.

He was quickly revived and saw Oonneff win the race about forty yards ahead of Orton. The time was 4 minutes 18 1 5 seconds, rather slow under the conditions compared with Conneff's own record time of 4 minutes la 3 5 seconds, but then it must be remembered that Tommy was never pushed at any stage of the game. There would have an exciting element of uncertainty about the two hundred and twenty yard run, which figured next on the programme, if it had not been tor the break down of Alfred R. Downer of the London Athletic club last week. He was depended upon to carry off that event, but when his right leg gave way the team had to rely on Gilbert Jordan.

These were the two "who yesterday faced Wefers and Crum. Downer was scarcely expected to go to the post and he was warmly cheered as he took a preliminary canter up the stretch to the starting line. The quartet got off like a flash to a magnificent start and tbey kept at about even terms for fifty yards, when Downer's leg snapped and he fell out. Wefers drew away from the others and won handily by five yards. Crum was second by a yard.

The time was 21 3 5 seconds, a world's record and a remarkable performance when it is con sidered that a short time before Wefers had won a hard race in the one hundred yards. The visitors put only one man into the con test for putting the 16 pound shot. Edward John Watson, and he was like a puppet in tho hands of such giant experts at the game as George R. Gray, the champion, and W. O.

Hfckok. The spectators generously encour aged Watson, but he could not do anything. ana way won an easy contest with a put of 43 feet 5 inches. The world's record, marked up by himself, is 47 feet. Hlckok was second, witn 42 feet.

The 120 yard hurdle was brimfull of excitement from start to finish. There were two champions and record makers in it, for one thing. Godfrey Shaw had the English record with 15 4 5 seconds, while Stephen Chase, who was the main hope of the New York A. had a mark in America of 15 3 5 seconds. Shaw's companion was William J.

Oakley, while Ernest H. Cady partnered Chase. There were several false breaks before tho starter got his men away. Cady went to grief over, his first hurdle and was out of it. Chase also knocked his over, but it did not interfere with his work, and presently he and Shaw were frantically leaping the obstacles together, the American first, a shade in front.

At the last hurdle there wasn't a half yard of daylight between the two, but in the short run to the tape Chase Improved his position and won by a yaTd. His time was 15 2 5 seconds, another world'3 record, but it was disallowed because he had knocked down his first hurdle. The New York team had no reason to exert themselves In throwing the sixteen pound hammor. Here again the Englishmen, realizing how hopeless their chances were, sent George S. Robertson on to the field simply to fill out the bill.

New York presented James S. Mitchell, the champion, and Harry P. Cross. Robertson was ridiculously out of tho contest. He couldn't once, even with his childish throw, stay in the prescribed seven foot circle.

Gray won with a throw of 137 feet 5 inches, with Cross second. Gray's championship throw is 145 feet inch. The most sensational and dramatic episode of the day occurred in the 440 yard run. The event was full of surprise and the finish was as startling and as exciting as any ever witnessed on any track. W.

Fitzherbert and Gilbert Jordan represented the London Athletic club and Thomas J. Burke, the Boston flyer, with George M. Sands, did the honors for the New York club. Sands got off with the pistol, his club mate at his heels and Jordan lost. Fitzherbert was novor of any account from the start.

With half the distance gone Jordan sprinted in strong and lively fasblqn. He had ten or a dozen yards to make up before he got on even terms with the leader, but he quickly got rid of them and beat Sands to a standstill. It looked now as if no human means could prevent the Englishman's victory and with characteristic generosity and impartiality the crowd cheered as he looked down the clear back stretch of lOOyards and saw a gold medal dangling from the finish line. But that interesting little trophy was not to be for him as it happened. Burke pulled himself together and made a desperate effort to catch the foreigner.

He had half a dozen yards to make up in a hundred. Could he do it? The tension was painful and the excitement keen as he cut down the lead inch by Inch. But could he do it in time? That was the question that reached to the quaking hearts of sixteen or eighteen thousand people. Well, they fought on. The tape was within their reach.

Jordan was game to the back bone and he felt the panting breath of his determined opponent over his shoulder. He tried to sprint in these last two or three yardB, but nature had exhausted itself. By a superhuman effort almost Burke flung himself on the line and caught the tape just by a breast In front of his plucky adversary. It was a glorious achievement for the American when everybody thought tho race lost, and the crowd cheered long and heartily. The time was 49 seconds while Lon Myer's American record, established in 1881, was 48 seconds.

The English record for the distance is 48 seconds. The excitement over the race subsided while the running broad jump went on, because here there was nothing to fear from either William J. Oakley or Wallingford Men delsson of the London A. who were pitted against that wonderful litle midget from Boston, E. B.

Bloss. and the big Yale Jumper, L. P. Sheldon. Mendelsson was quickly disposed of and his partner followed suit, leaving Bloss to carry off the honors with a jump of 22 feet 6 inches.

Sheldon was an easy second with 21 feet 11 inches. Both seconds are the same 23 feet, 6 Inches, and Boss tried for thorn, but in the trials his take off was poor and he gave up the attempt. The 'threo mile run closed the meeting. Horan and Wilkins 'were the Englishmen in the contest, while the redoubtable Tommy Conneff and Kilpatrick represented tho New York Athletic club. At tho crack of 'the pistol Horan jumped off in the lead, closely followed by his clubmate.

Conneff, as usual, lying last, and playing a waiting game. Kilpatrick sprang to the front at the end of the first mile, but was Immediately supplanted by Wilkins. When half the distance had been negotiated Horan took the lead again, and Kilpatrick. thinking that the honor of the club and of America was all right in the hands of Conneff, dropped out at the club house. Conneff tried to pass Wilkins, but the 'Englishman was obstinate, and Tommy got nearly spiked for his pains.

At the end of the second mile Horan had run himself, and when Conneff took the load ho gave up alto ge'tiher. The result after that was never for a moment In doubt. Wilkins stuck pluckily to his task, but Conneff steadily stretched out the big gaps between them, and won as lie pleased 'by 100 yards or imore in 15 mlnues 30 seconds. The American record for the distance is 14 minutes 39 seconds, and the English, 14 mln u'tos 24 seconds. The summaries: Eight hundred and eighty yard run First.

Charles J. Kllputrlek, N. Y. A. C.

second. Frederick S. Homn. L. A.

C. Time, 1 minute and 53 2 5 seconds, a world's record. One hundred yard run First, Bernard J. Wefers, N. Y.

A. C. yecond, Charles A. Uradley! Time. 9 4 6 seconds.

Runnlnpr htfth Jump First, Mlcheal F. Sweeney, Xnvler and N. Y. A. C.

Height, feet Mile run First, Thomas P. Conneff. X. V. C.

second. GeorfM W. Orton. Y. A.

C. Time, 4 minutes and 18 1 5 seconds. Two hundred and twenty yard run First. Bernard J. Wefers, Jf.

Y. A. C. second. John V.

Crum. TIhe 31 3 5 SAoonds, a world's record. PuttinB sixteen pound shot First. George Gray. N.

Y. A. J3 feet. 5 Inches; second O. lllckok.

42 feet. Runninsr broad Jump First, E. H. Bloss, N. Y.

A. distance 22 feot. 6 Inches; second 34. L. P.

Sheldon, SC. Y. 'A. C. distance.

21 feet, 11 Inches. TfcJe mile run First. Thomas F. Conneff. 2f.

Y. A. second, H. J. vniKlne.

L. A. C. Time. 15 minutes and 30 soconls.

FELL FROM THE FOURTH FLOOR. Annie Gross, 2 years old, of 347 Meserole street, fell from the fourth floor down the air shaft to the cellar yesterday afternoon. She will probably live though suffering from concussion of the brain and a severe scalp; First Oar Sent Across the Long Island Koad. AIDED BY FLATLANDS POLICE. Commissioner Worth and His Full Force Were Present to See No Harm Was Done A Procession of Trains Hindered the Wire Stringing Nassau People Acted on a Mandamus Secured Yesterday Afternoon.

The first car on the Shaepshead Bay brandh of the 'Nassau Electric railroad successfully passed through the tunnel under the Long Island railroad track, on Ocean avenue, at 11 o'clock last night. There was great excitement before the trolley wires were finally strung, and Police Commissioner Louis R. Worth had the entire Flat lands police on hand to preserve order. The Nassau Electric railroad was represented by a number of its hired officials, and in addition had 1,000 Italian laborers drawn up in martial array. Beside this there were nearly two thousand sightseers.

Commissioner Worth arrived on the scene at 10:30 and found that the electric road people had been unable to string the wires. He was assured by a representative of the Long Island road that the wires could be strung without interference as soon as some trains had passed by. This the commissioner said was a fair proposition, and all hands waited. Then the trains appeared. They were freight trains, cattle trains and passenger slowly.

In all there were four trains and long trains, one behind the other and all moving before the procession had been completed tho Italian army announced their intention of fighting and was only restrained by the firmness of the commissioner. At 11 o'clock the last train went by and the laborers quickly put the trolley wires in place. They had hardly completed their work when a car which had been held in waiting was whizzed through the tunnel amid the cheers of the crowd and the right of way had been established. The trouble which the Nassau Electric Railroad company encountered in making final Arrangements for crossing the Manhattan beach road's tracks at Ocean avenue, forced the company's counsel, James C. Church, to apply to tho supreme court for an injunction yesterday afternoon.

Mr. Church handed up his papers to Justice Cullen, but his. honor refused to grant the injunction, giving instead an order to show cause. The Long Is 1 and and the Manhattan Beach Railroad com panies are named as defendants in the action, and Mr. Church was particularly anxious to secure an injunction order yesterday that the crossing might be made in time for today when the traffic was expected to be so heavy owing to tho warm weather.

From what appears in the papers an amicable agreement was arrived at some time ago. by whicli the crossing should be made and the engineer of the defendant roads started to draw the necessary plans for the switches and various safety devices. But the Nassau people say that the engineer was not as diligent as ho might have been and when they went down to lay their return wire under the defendants' tracks, a heavy switch engine and several cars were run out and stopped on the crossing at Ocean avenue. In addition, tho Nassau people say, a large force of mon was sent down and the plaintiff's "men were driven away. The blockade by the de fondants has been so thorough and systematic that the Nassau's workmen could not lay any crossing or even put down their, connecting wires.

The line of the Nassau company will carry passengers from tho Thirty ninth street forry and the ferries at the. foot of Broadway to Sheepshead Bay for 5 cents, and the claim was urged by Mr. Church in court yesterday that it was a great hardship on the company to be deprived of the right to cross the defendant roads until all the signal and switching apparatus was in place, in view of the fact that any incompleteness as to such details was due entirely to tho dilatory conduct of the defendants' engineer. Mr. Church said his company had secured all necessary consents and complied with its part of the agreement.

It was the company's desire to have some means of crossing arranged for to day and it was intended to put intemporary flat rails, on which tho cars could be worked across the defendant's tracks and In no way interfere with the operation of their trains. Mr. Church Bald his company bad agreed to place extra gate men and signal men at the crossing and to see that the utmost caution was used, but nothing could be done with the representatives of tho defendants as they refused to allow any crossing before the apparatus was complete in every detail. Judge Cullen heard Mr. Church's arguments, but refused to grant an injunction.

An order to show cause was then prepared, which his honor signed. Mr. Church at once sent men out to make the service on the defendants. In speaking of the apparatus which will eventually be placed at the crossing Mr. Church said it was In the nature of a new departure in surface railroading and would be as safe in its details as anything yet devised could be.

There Mill be a signal tower In a position to command views of both trolley and steam roads in all directions and also what is known as a derailing switch. This will be operated from the signal towerihould anything prevent tho ruotorman of a trolley car from seeing an approaching train on the steam road, the switchman in the signal tower could throw the switch and send the trolley car off on the siding and out of danger. In addition to this device there will be semaphore? and the conductor of each car will be required to go ahead to the crossing and then signal his morornian to cross if the track is clear. SCENE OVER A CORPSE. DOCTORS OBJECTED TO GIVING UP JOHN DRISCOLL'S BODY.

Syracuse, N. September 21 Mrs. John Driscotl of Buffalo came to this city te day and positively identified the body oi tho man killed by a Wost Shore train at Amboy on Sunday morning ns that of her husband. Tho body was in the poksassion of the authorities of tho Syracuse medieul college and was being kept in brine until tho legal time shouid elnpse alter which the body could be dissected. Mrs.

Dris eoll had but a few pennies in her pocket and depended upon the 817 found on her husband to pay the expenses of transporting tbo corpse buck to Buffalo. The mt4ical authorities at first refused to surrender tne body, unless they wore paid which they said was due them for preserving the body. As this would not leave Mrs. Driscoll enough money to take the body back to Buffalo, the coroner woe appealed to. Tho medical authorities rofiued at first to surrender the body to this officer and it was only alter a formal notice bad been served on tbo medical people that thwy gave np the remains.

Mrs. Driscoll left this afternoon for Buffalo with her husband's remains. Boats Gould Not Finish in tho Re quirei Time. "WIND DIED OUT AFTER START. Ethelwynn Got the Best of the Start, but Was Soon Overhauled by Spruce.

On the Beat Home Ethel wynn Did the Best Work Until the Contest Became Hopeless Race to Be Resailed Tomorrow. The international yacht race between half raters, for the Senwantiaka Corinthian Yacht club challenge trophy, scheduled to be sailed yesterday in the waters of Long Island sound, just outside of Oyster Bay, was called off at 4:35 yesterday afternoon, after the competing yachts had struggled bravely through over three hours of varying weather, from a flat calm to a light sailing breeze, without having jounded the course once. Earlyln the morning the enthusiastic small yacht sailors, together with many yachtsmen more or less interested in any sport connected with aquatics, gathered at the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht club's handsome house, in expectation of a great day's racing. Measurer Hyslop of the New York Yacht club was one of the earliest arrivals. He did not havo to search for smooth water in which to measure the little racers, as the whole bay was like a mill pond.

Not a ripple disturbed its placid surface, and the streamers on the lofty flagstaff in front of the club house hung limp and inert against the pole. The process of measuring the yachts was not such a laborious one as in the case of the big yachts, but was just as carefully gone through with. In place of the crew, 300 pounds of dead weight was carried amidshlp in each boat, as it lay moored to the club wharf. Spruce IV. which was first measured, was found to be 15.S3 feet water line, against Ethelwynn's 15.24.

The sail area of the Spruce, was just enough below the maximum amount 225 square feet to bring her racing length down to exactly 15 square feet. Measurer Hyslop said to a reporter that it was the flrBt time in ETHELWYNN CROSSING THE his long experience, that he had ever found a boat exactly corresponding to her class limit neither more nor less. The sail area or the EthelwynD was just 20 square feet less than that of Spruce, making her official racing length 14.62. After the measuring was completed, the crowd that had been watching it adjourned to the club plaza, and whistled for a breeze.As the hours sped by, without a ripple greeting thme eagerly watching eyes, it looked very much as though the race would havo to be postponed. At 11:45 the club steamer Aurora arrived from New York, loaded down with people, and taking on board a few more passengers, started for the battle ground, followed by a big fleet of steam and naphtha launches.

Shortly before this, Ethelwynn, with B. C. Baul at the holm, and J. C. Field, her owner, as the assistant, dropped away from the wharf, and, spreading her sails, was wafted by the slicht breeze which had sprung up.

assisted also by the tide, toward the stratlng point. Spruce, in tow of her tender, also started out. Then it began to look as though tho race would be started at least, in spite of an unfounded rumor that it would be postponed until 3 o'clock. By 12 o'clock both boats had arrived at the starting line and Mr. Brand, at the helm of Spruce, with a sailor to assist him, cast loose from his tow and ran up his mainsail and jib.

In the meantime the wind, which was about west by south, freshened a little. Then the signal came from the Oneida, Commodore E. C. Benedict's handsome yacht, which was acting as committee boat, that the course would be three miles to leeward and return, twice over, and that the stakeboat would be anchored northeast by east from tho starting line, off the Centor island buoy. The boats, looking more like little white birds than yachts, maneuvered about the Oneida until she had anchored In her position and the Btakeboat had been anchored Just beyond.

The preliminary signal was given at 12:35, to notify all the fleet that the race would be Bailed and it brought a cheer from the assembled multitude. The committee expected that before the first leg had been sailed the wind would come moro out of the south and would improve percoptibly. The preparatory signal was given at 12:45. which gave the waiting yachts just five minutes to get over the line and, maneuvering for tho choice of positions, started In earnest. Both boats got out their spinnakers and spinnaker poles at once, as the first leg was to bo down the wind.

The wind was nearly dead astern, so that there was no windward berth to be gained, and the only advantage would bo by careful timing, so as to cross the line as nearly with the starting gun as possible. In this Ethel vrynn excelled, crowing at 12:50 not two seconds after the starting gun had been fired. At the Instant of eroding she broke out her spinnaker beautifully and with all drawing started on the first leg. Spruce was not quite fivo seconds later in getting over, but had some trouble with her spinnaker, which lost her at least ten seconds more before rihe Bad all drawing. By this time Ethelwynn had gained fully six or eight lengths on her.

but Spruce by steering directly astern, took much of Ethelwynn's wind and slowly, very slowly, began to creep up. Both boats were now standing directly down the wind, with booms to starboard and spinnakers swung to port. For ten minutes this gradual gain was kept up, at tho expiration of which time only about three boats lengths separated the two, and Spruce succeeded in getting Into a position whore, she effectually blanketed Ethelwynn, in spite of the latter's efforts to keep a'sy. Then Spruce came up on her as though Khc were standing still and passing to port took tho lead. Then came Ethelwynn's turn to try blanketing tactics and she drew up alongside of her opponent again.

For the next halt hour It was a duel between the two in blanketing, neither gaining any perceptible advantage, until Ethelwynn got a favorable slant of wind and forged ahead of her rival. Forten minutes longer she retaiu to At not out or and had tor for a A a Fierce Fire in Chase, Roberts Oc's Manufactory. THE LOSS ESTIMATED AT $45,000. Three Firemen Overcome by the Intens Heat and. One Knocked From a Roof.

Many Narrow Escapes From tha Blazing Oil Spread Over the Water ia the Yard Fourteen. Engines "Work Five Hours to Subdue the Flames. Thousands of gallons; of paint, oil an4 varnish were consumed. by fire yesterday in the storage rooms of the paint and varnish manufactory of Chase, Roberts which covered half the block bounded by Bedford and Driggs avenues, North Ninth and NortB Tenth streets. Firemen had many narrow escapes from death, but despite the danger they were constantly in they saved all Bur rounding property, much to the surprise of the owners and occupants of dwellings and factories.

The most serious position the firemen were in was when they were caught in a sea of flame in a yard between the burning buildlDgs. The streets around the block In which th fire occurred have been filled in, and after the firemen had been throwing water on the flames for four hours there were two and one half feet of water In all the yards In the block. Two buildings had been consumed and firemen were working to save a structure in which were stored several hundred barrels of linseed oil. The members of Truck company No. were among these barrels when they commenced burning, and blazing oil poured out and rushed down to where the firemen, were.

Eight men ran through a sidedoor to a yard, which was flooded with water. Paint and varnish were floating on the water The flames followed the firemen and they were in the midst of a sea of flame, the oily substance on the surface of the water having caught Are. Members of Engine company No 21 were playing their pipe lines over the yard, and hastily swept the surface of tho water in the yard with their stream, brushing the Are back. All the men but one escaped He was surrounded by flame and lay fiat on aDQ under the water, the surface of which was aflame. The stream of water from the hose of Engine No.

21 was directed to tho spot where he had disappeared. He remained' under the water as long as possible, and when he had to get out of it to breathe he was surprised to find that the fire had been driven away. tuThS ke out ln the mixing room, on the North Tenth street end of the building and the flames spread so rapidly that several one and two story buildings, covering a space 75x100 feet, were burning. In these buildings there were thousand or one and two pound cans of mixed paints and twenty large tanks filled with varnish. This material burned so fiercely that houses fifty feet away were scorched.

The firemen suffered greatly from heat. They had to stand between the seething mass and surrounding buildings. Their clothing smoldered and neighbors ran to them and doused them with water from pails and dish pans. Joslah 'Smith, whose disinfectant depot is opposite the burned buildings, had men on his roof wetting it from a garden hose. He directed the men to turn the hose on the firemen, declaring that his buildings had been saved because of the heroism of the firemen, who stood between them and the flames.

It was so hot where they worked that the water played on them was turned" to steam as soon as it touched the pavement. Sergeant DeLong of the Are department said ho never witnessed so hot a Are before. The firs burned until all the paint and varnish in the three buildings, 170, 172 and 174 North Tenth street, was consumed and firemen were still throwing water on the ruins at midnight. Fourteen engines worked on tho Are for five hours before it was under control and surrounding property was out of danger. Furniture had been carried from all houses within fifty feet of the factory.

Firemen Maher of Engine No. 12, Pearsall of No. 13. and Kiernan of No. 15 were ovencmo by the intense heat and carried away.

Ex Fireman Duffy was thrown from, a shed by a stream of water and had his shoulder dislocated. Most of the firemen who had to stand near the fire had the skin blistered from their handstand faces. The loss amounts to $45,000. PERRY TRIED TO COMMIT STJICEDH. THE (NOTED TRAIN ROBBER MAKES A' DESPEtRATE ATTEMPT TO END HIS LTF33.

Auiburn, September 21 Oliver Curtis Perry, the noted train robber, it is learned on Tuesday last attempted self destruction la Auhurn prison. He In some manner uniknown procured two needles which, he placed In a stick in such a manner that wjien he placed the stick across his nose he prodded his eyes. His optics are now badly Inflamed and it Is only by administering anesthetics that the prison pihyslcian is able to give treatment as Perry obstinately refuses to yield. He says that if he had succeeded in blinding (himself the Governor might he convinced that ha CPerry) meant to reform and might extend clemency. Perry is not allowed ln the hos pitil but is treated in a cell where anesthetics are administered before any treatment is giv uen him.

Twice recently Perry has been dis covered with sand in his pocket with wbicth ita declared he Intended to assault a keeper. MACHINE DELEGATES TO SYEACUSE. OVER 200 WILL ATTEND THE STATE CO. VENTION. Several of the machine delegates to th Democratic state convention will leave for Syracuse to dny.

The rest will go to morrow on the Central road. Quarters have been provided for them at tho Yates house, whore the de legates from the relorm organization wil also stop. It is expected thnt about 250 members of the machine will goto the convention which will open on Tuesday. Tnere was more or less talk yesterday about the candidacy of General Horatio C. King, for secretary of state.

Tho local delegates are friendly to him personally, but will make no fight for his nomination. If he is tho choice of the convention, they will willingly vote for him. It is said that Senator David B. Hill has asked the general to accept the nomination, but the opinion is growing that the senator will not be such a potent factor at tho ooming convention as he has been heretofore. John W.

Weber, a member ot the stace committee, is tho choice of the delegation from his district for renomination. Arthur Soraers of the Fourteenth ward is a candidate for the place now filled by John Donovan of the Thirteenth ward. John J. Pagan of the Twelfth ward is indifferent as to his return, but will likoly be re elected. The two places on the tnte committee accorded to the reform Democrats will probably be filled by Election Commissioner Charles J.

Edwards and Rnfus L. Scott. Ex Supervisor at Largo George Kinkol returned to the oity yesterday after an absence of four months in the Many of bin friends have started a boom for him for the nomination for mayor nnd regard him as one of the strongest candidates that oould be Darned by tho Democrats. Mr. Kinkel, when seen by an Eagle c'eclinod to disoues politics.

He said he had lost the trond of thingii while away, but was not a candidate for any office Chairman James D. Bell of the Soneral committee has sent a communication to the committee appointed by the Tenth ward. anti Mc Garryito club, in answer to their request for a special meeting of the general committee to take action on their protest In It iir Bell says that he cannot comply on accosut of tho state convention. Tho primaries will be held mS tho flht bween the warring factions will bo renewed. At 5:40 o'clock last night John Bellly, njred 23, of 1.7G1 Dean streot, while trying to board a trolley car.at Fulton street end Rochester avenue, fell to the street.

His right lee won soTerely injured. EoUly was tnken home. tho gates were opened, climbed the fences and rooig of shantios by the score to get poeps at I the people to whose race they belongod, vet i whoso tongue they conld not speak. The mid way is democratic in its prices and can scarcely fail to bo of paramount interest to the youth of Atlanta. Yet with all that was to be seon last week.

many aays or unceasing labor must elapse before Atlanta can call her exposition complete. The illustrations of saenos on the opening day printed in some of the weekly papers are probably glimpse at the future, for tho things which they depict do not yet exist. Everybody in Atlanta has taken it for granted that tho exposition is an unqualified sueoess. The hotel proprietors have made extravagant preparations, which include mnny cases the turning ont of regular lodgers and the application of higher pricos to transients. Men who have never been in the hotel business before haVe convertad their dwellincs into hostelries, or put np tho cheapest kind of structures, with the expectation of filling them from cellar to roof.

One house near Piedmont park Is a eight. One corner of the front poreh has been boarded up with rough planks in order to accommodate an extra guest or two. The trolley roads hove raised the price of a ride to the exposition grounds from 5 cents to 10 cents, which Atlanta residents admit to be ex aeedingly unpopular. There is no competition, however, and henoo no apparent reliof. Persons going from the center of the city toward the exposition grounds are carried to a certain point for a nickle.

Tho motorman then turns the current full oa and the car goes whooping alotig for half a mile more, making no stops until it is within the company's gates at the exposition grounds. There the extra nickel is collected, in addition to the admission to the fair. Leaving the exposition the same plan is adopted. In a month more, when the buildings now being erected in the pork are completed, tho unsightly railroad tracks taken up and the roads improved, the exposition will he at its best The New York state building will be finished in a couple of weeks. People'of the Empire state may be gratified to know that It is a permanent structure nnd will be used as a elub house by the Piedmont elub after the expositien Is over.

The proportion of New York state exhibitors i6 smaller than at the Columbian exposition. This, according to one authority in Atlanta, is because New Yorkers wake up slow. They pooh hoohod the idea of paying regular rates for space nt the cottoa states show. When they realized the importance of the enterprise it was too late, and they had to take what was left. CHOKER A DELEGATE.

CHOSEN TO GO TO THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. The Twentieth assembly district Tammany convention in New Y'ork city last evening eleotcd Richard Croker, Thomas F. Grady and Peter Seery delegates to the state convention to be held in Syracuse next week. When Mr. Croker arrived from England, recently, he announced that he would not go to the convention, as business engagements, he said, would prevent.

He was at the Murray Hill hotel in New York yesterday and was visited by many political and turf friends to whom he said ho Intended to increase his stables and to spend met of the remainder THE EXPOSITION. of his life in England and France. He went 'to Saratoga yesterday afternoon. SWALLOWED CARBOLIC ACID. At o'clock last evening Mrs.

Mary Harter, 30 years old, of 93 Sklllman avenue, swallowed carbolic acid with suicidal intent and died shortly afterward. She had for some time been suffering from epilepsy and had become despondent. An ambulance was summoned and Mrs. Harter was removed to St. Catharine's hospital, where she died five minutes after she was admitted as a pa tient.

Mrs; Harter leaves a husband and three children, FACADE OF THE FINE ARTS BUILDING. THE START. Two minutes later, however, Ethelwynn again crossed Spruoe's bow so close to shore that both were obliged to come about on the port tack, which placed Ethelwynne to windward, blenketing Spruce. In the next two or three tacks Ethelwynn had increased her lead to 100' feet. It now became apparent that unless something extraordinary happened the race could be finished within the time limit; so that Ethelwynn took a long board on the port tack into the bay in search of wind, but, not finding it, was driven by the tide half a mile more to leewiard of Spruce, who could not herself hold her own against the strong tide.

At 4:10 Ethelwynn again came about on the starboard tack, at same time with 'Spruce, headed again for shore. It was then seen that Iby Iher long hoard out into the sound she lost a full mile. The unequal struggle without wind against a hard tide was kept up fifteen minutes, hut it was a hopeless fight, and at 4:35 Spruce, 'upon signal from the judges' steamer, came up into the wind, and, dropping mainsail and jib, was taken in tow BOW OF THE SPRUCE. the club house, Ethelwynn following a fow minutes later. Both boats were magnificently handled during the entire race, and skipper of each deserved all the credit he received.

The race, not having been made within the requisite time, was declared off, and will be Balled over again on Monday next. THREE MEN HURT. CRASH OF AN IRON AWNING AT THE WALLABOL'T MARKET. Three men were seriously injured by the falling of an iron awning in course oi construction on ono of tho new Wallabout market buildings yesterday afternoon. One of tho men will probably die.

The aeeident it is bolieved will causa the market men to tnke some measures to prevont similar accidents in tbo future. Much ad Terse criticism has been passed among tho store proprietors on tho new awnings. The awning which fell wag being put up in frent of the wholesale butcher store of Protzman Seaton, at the corner of Flushing and East avenues. An iron arm extending fifteen feet from the brick building was supported by pillar that was not fastened either at the top or bottom. At 1:30 o'clock the pillnr toppled over nnd allowed the iron cross pieces, weighing about two tons, to fall to the bidownlk.

John Morrissey. years old of 173 Marion street, was standing on the Bidewalk and was carried down with the falling iron. Frank Perry, 40 years old, of 20 Palmetto street, was sitting oa the seat of a dirt cart. piece of iron struck him in the arm causing lacerated wound. Thomas Farrell.

a laboror oi 144 Wntkins street, was also wounded in the arm. Captain Brown of the Twenty third precinct witnessed the accident and summoned an ambulance from the Cumberland streot hosdital. Morrisy wns taken to the hospital, where his condition was found to be serious. The or oner was notified and took tho man's ante mortem statement. Perry and Carroll were treated by Surgeon Ives and left for their homes.

Captain Brown mado an examination of the wreck. The workingmen. he said, acknowledged that the pillar was insecurely fastened. The work was being doso by the Shormau Iron works, on South Ninth streot and Kent avenue. Tho market men have oiten heard to say that they behoved tho weight oi ih iron awnings which are being ereeteq on all tho buildings be too great for tne fastenings and supports.

E. B. HARPER'S 'WILL. A FUND TO START A MASONIC INDUS TRIAL SCHOOL. Tho will o( tho late Edward B.

Harper, prasi dent of the Mutunl Reserve Fund Life Insur ance company, filed yesterday in New York, provides that 5,000 shall go to the trustees of the masonic hall and asylum to be applied in the erection ot a hospital and industrial school. The estate is valued at 4100,000 and upward. The widow is to receive all money duo from insurance policies as a part of a uud ot S100.000 to go to her. The testator roqueited that Frederick a. Burnhnm bo elected his successor.

In the evi nt of a failure to elect Mr. Burncam tho will requests that one third of the sum due tho testator from the company should go to Mr. liurn ham for five years. The widow is to receive one half of tho residuarv estate nnd a brother in Baltimore, one linlf. HELD THE MERIONETHSHIRE.

The British steamor Merionethshire, which arrived yesterday afternoon from China and Japan, wai1 detained by Deputy Health Ofiicer Sanborn until consultation coutd bo had with Iloalth Officer Doty. Thre had been no cases of illness on board of tho Merionethshire, but in view of tho fact that cholera was prevalent at some of tho ports in Japan nnd China Iir. Doty deemed it advisnble to detain tho steamer for a thorough cleansing and disinfection. She Will be released to morrow eTning probably. people at the exposition is not based on.

sentiment. liven the Atlanta people say that It is with a keen eye to businost that Chicago hns turned her face toward Atlanta. She is given credit for being the first of the big Ainoricnn cities to size up the eotton states nnd international exposition accurately and to take prompt advantages of the opportunities it offered. Next to Chicago, Richmond, New Orleans, St. Louis and Washington were equally well represented by their citizens.

New York brought up in the rear of all these cities and Brooklyn wns nowhere. Few Northerners have eomo to Atlanta us yet. The exercises in the auditorium, which is a roomy iramo structure with seats that tor size and comlort are a delight after an experience in the average theater chair, were such as generally accompany the opening of expositions, Tho audience was keyed to the proper pitch ol enthusiasm and ant through the whole programme, whioh was lengthy. Perhaps the most significant incident was the speech of Booker T. Washington.

Professor Washington is a negro, and he formally presented to the publie the work of his raco as represented in the negro building on the fair grounds. Tho address was full of fervid pa GENERAL VIEW OF triotlsm for the South. The presence of a whito audience did not cleter Professor Washington from tolling what he believed the colored race bad done for the South. They had made the exposition possible, ho said. Their future nnd the prosperity oi the South were bound together by links tbat never could be broken.

This portion of his recital was listened to with no marks of approval or disapproval. Then the speaker raised one forolingor and said Impressively: "Remember this: In all the forms ot social life the negro can bo as separate from the white man as the fingers ono from tho other, yet tho two races can be one as the hand in all things which make for their mutual progress." The roar of approbation which followed thlssentiment was spontaneous. It was probably louder and lasted longer than hny outburst of npplaus i durinir tho oxeraises. 'Professor Washington's terse summing up oi fllTvaaVMGC;.