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1 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. MARCH 9. 1902.

MYSTERY OF LOST CREW OF THE MARY CELESTE, BIRD'SEYE VIEW OF LINDENTHALS PLANS FOR BRIDGE RELIEF. NEW PUBLICATIONS. .1 NEW PUBLICATIONS. Yur Future Mate Richardson's Widow, Living in Brooklyn, Tells of Her Dream Warning. HI Which WaiNv Hoes TRAGIC STORY OF THE SHIP.

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Incoming passengers will do exactly the reverse from the outgoing passengers. With the two new bridges completed and in operation, the Brooklyn tunnel thrown open to the nublic and the improvements he suggests. Commissioner Lindenthai is confident that 375,000 people could be safely transported from one borough to the other In an hour. Pound Abandoned at Sea Intact, but All Hands Gone Forever, Leaving No Trace. Of all the sad tragedies recorded in the annals of the sea, thpre.

is none so completely veiled in impenetrable mystery as that the Mary Celeste. Connected with it is a curious story of a dream warning, told last evening for the tirst time to an Eagle reporter by Mrs. Fanny Richardson, widow of the lost mate of the Mary Celeste, who lives still in South Brooklyn, where her husband brought her a happy bride a little more than a year before he sailed on the fatal voyage, from which neither he nor a soul on board ever returned or were even heard of again. Theories without number have been propounded and novels have been written on "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste." and one has just as much foundation as the other merely surmise and conjecture. Before dealing with Mrs.

Richardson's story it is necessary to tell what is actually known of the vessel around which so much mystery has centered for thirty years. The Mary Celeste was a brig of 300 or 400 tons, owned by a highly reputable New York shipping firm and in 1S72 she was altered to a brigantine in the belief that she would sail better under that rig than under all square sails. Her cabin was moved between decks and several other alterations were made in her structure. Three months before she had been commanded by Captain Albert G. Richardson, a young man of fine character, but.

on this voyage he sailed as first mate under Captain Benjamin Briggs, also a young man. After being drydocked and put in first class condition the vessel took on a cargo of alcohol and sailed for Genoa on November 5, 1S72. Captain Richardson was a native of Charlestown, Boston, and came of an old and wealthy ship owning family. Later the family moved to Stockton Springs, Me. Another brother was Captain Lyman Richardson.

Albert only took the position of mate temporarily while waiting for the command of a larger vessel then fitting out for him. Captain Briggs was accompanied on the voyage by his wife and their two year old girl. William Head, a New York man, was steward. These were the only Americans on board, the crew being composed of foreigners. Italians.

Turks and Portuguese. Both Briggs and Richardson, although young men, were fully qualified for their positions. The crew are said to have been about as bad a looking lot as ever swabbed a deck and this fact has always tended to shed a more lurid light around the mystery of the Mary Celeste. A few days prior to the vessel's sailing Captain Briggs met Captain Morehouse of the Nova Scotia brig Dei Gracia in South street. New York.

The men were acquainted, so they talked over their respective vessels and their voyage, the Dei Gracia being also bound for the Mediterranean. They parted with mutual wishes for a good voyage and the Del Gracia sailed several days ahead of the Mary Celeste. The two men never met again, but their ships were fated to cross each other under the most extraordinary circumstances yet chronicled in the history of the sea. The Dei Gracia's voyage progressed without incident until December 7, although she encountered some unfavorable weather that kept her back. On that date Santa Maria, the most southern of the Azores group, was sighted by the sea tired eyes of her sailors and about the same time a sail was made out in the offing.

Mate Devon had the watch and. after some time, he decided that the distant vessel was a brigantine. Captain Morehouse came on deck and both men agreed that the vesel was the Mary Celeste, which was a much faster sailer than their own ship and might easily be in the same latitude as themselves, although sailing much later from New York. They almost simultaneously came to the conclusion that there was something more than strange about the brigantine. She was yawing about wildly, one minute heading up in the wind and then falling off and Ailing away only to round lo again in a way that too surely indicated that there was no steering hand at the wheel.

She luffed and tacked aimlessly. All her lower courses were set, but the topsails were furled and all made snug aloft. The Dei Gracia bore down on the Mary Celeste and then it was seen that the boat was missing from the stern davits as well as the long boat from its cradle on the forward house. It was later learned that the stern boat was the only one taken on the vessel. The long boat had been smashed while loading and Captain Briggs had intended to get a new one on his arrival at Genoa.

As soon as the Dei Gracia ran close by the Mary Celeste, Mate Devon had a boat lowered and boarded the latter, where an astounding condition of affairs was found. He expected to find evidences of plague or mutiny and murder on the derelict vessel. He found none. There was not a rope yarn astray. The decks were as clean as if recently swabbed.

The sheets were fast and every rope coiled in place, but the wheel had not been lashed, and as the vessel yawed it turned nacK and torth to the swing of the rudder. Devon descended to the cabin. It was deserted, but in perfect order. There were signs neither of sickness, mutiny nor murder. The captain's watch hung from the lamp bracket that swung above the table.

In the captain's room there was seen on a pillow the impress of the baby girl's head. On the log slate on the cabin table were found some entries for transference to th log book, dated November 24, evidently the flay on which the Mary Celeste was left to her fate. These recorded light winds and fair weather and under them the words "Fanny, my dear wife." evidently written by Mate Richardson, as his widow's name is Frances, but he always called her Fannv. These words seemed the beginning of a letter which was interrupted. A piece of cloth was found on the sewing machine of Mrs.

Briggs. which she had evidently been sewing when the crisis came, whatever that crisis may have been. The startled mate then went to the foc'sle where he found several articles of value in the seamen's chest, including a 5 English note. In the galley everything was in order, apparently cleaned up after supper. A further search of the captain's room showed that only the baby's berth had been disturbed, the others nr.t having been used.

There was no disorder in 1 the store room, beyond that a drawer containing tinned meats had been pulled out and some of the contents removed. Going on the poop Devon found that the falls of the after boat had been cut away with an ax which still lay near the rail, this indicated that in abandoning the ship, those who took the boat, were in too great a hurry to lower if from the davits. The thoroughly mystified mate returned to his ship and told his story to Captain Morehouse, who then made r.n inspection of the derelict vessel, after which he decided to take the Mary Celeste to Gibraltar. He. put in marge wnn a crew ot two men to navigate the brigantine a distance of about I 1.200 miles.

Nothing would induce these i men to go below. They drank the water from the butts on deck rather than enter the gal ley. so thoroughly were they of the abandoned ship. Finally the Mary Celeste dropped anchor beneath "the rock." and the facts wore cabled to the New York owners Thcrr was a heavy claim for salvage, which an Admiralty Court settled at JSO.OOu, it is said. Three months later a new captain and crew look the Mary Celeste on her voyage to Genoa.

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A Dny on a. Trout Stream. A Wild Goose Dinner. In the Wilds of Northern Canada. North American Fish and Game Protective Association.

Kennel Department. Editorial. Amateur Photography. Goose Shooting in the Xorth West, Forestry. Answers to Correspondents.

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City. FLYNN'S EXTENSION PLEA NOT BE GRANTED. Question Whether Jersey City's Mayor Will Give His Consent to Extension of Contract. TO HOLD SECRET CONFERENCE. City Losing Money by lUynn's Failure to Complete His Contract.

(Special to the Eagle.) Jersey City, March 8 Just what Earl Bea consfleld once said, "The unexpected always happens," has happened in the official mind of Jersey City over the request of Patrick H. Flynn of Brooklyn to have his contract for the supply of water to this city extended. It is a grave question now whether tlfe Mayor will give his consent to it, and without his consent Mr. Flynn is virtually placed fiat on his back. Just what the snag: is could not be very clearly learned, but his honor has been prompted by somebody and his views are at present anything but favorable to Mr.

Flynn's chances for an extension of time. This news was imparted to an Eagle reporter to day by an official of the highest rank in the new administration. What ho says is usually regarded as "straight." "The cty's position." he said to an Eagla representative, "is that by the failure of Mr. Flynn to complete his contract we are losing a large sum of money a day." "How do you figure that?" "Well, you know the terms of the contract. By it we are to receive $500 per day for every day that the contract wasn't finished.

In the mean time we will have to buy water from the East Jersey Water Company at. the rate of $25 per million gallons, when if we had our own water works we wouldn't have to pay that. That with the interest, principle, cost and no pumping, mind, running the new works we consider we are losing something by the forfeiture of Mr. Flynn to complete the contract. It's none of our fault that he didn't do it." "But suppose Mr.

Flynn refuses to pay the liquidated damages of $500 and you refuss to grant him extension of contract time, what then?" "I don't see what reason he can offer for not paying the $500, since he agreed to do so; unless it is a technical one. I do know that when what is termed the 'punitive' clause' in the contract, was mentioned, Mr. Flynn's representatives laughed and told, as I remember, the. city officials that they were ready to put on a force of 2,000 Italians at the works and finish them long before the time. I don't think there will bo much difficulty enforcing that." "But where conditions occurred which could not be foreseen to prevent the completion of the contract within the specified time, do you think that the courts would uphold the enforcement of that clause?" "I was his reply.

"What about the refusal of the extension of time?" "That is, of course, a nice question. Personally, I think Jersey City ought to grant an extension for the very good reason that there is nothing else to do, unless "Unless what?" But the Eagle informant was somewhat hazy about that. To readvertise was out of the question, even if the contract was forfeited; to cet some one else to finish tho work was a quantity to he neglected; to continue the supply from the Basl Jersey Water Company until Mr. Flynn's company finished the contract at his own time, and in the meantime the city probably tied up in complicated lawsuit with the Jersey City Water Company all seemed a problem to deep for him. "One thiqg I do know," he finally said, "is that the city officials will have to meet this in a fair, just and equitable spirit with, of course, a proper regard for the interests of Jersey City first.

Mr. Flynn has, of course, his rights, and if I have any say he'll get them." Mayor Fagan and the Boards of Financa and Street and Water Commissioners will hold a secret conference over this matter on Tuesday afternoon, and the result will be probably the Street and Water Board will grant the extension, realizing that It is the best thing to doA and the Board of Finance will not concur In it. which actios Mayor. Fagan will, uphold. Told Free! William Sfew York our union and individual charity for the support of our boys: we receive no share of the Orphans' fund of the diocese.

We receive no state "St. Vincent's Guild also deserves a word of favorable comment. The guild is composed of women workers and was established for the purpose of doing the necessary sewing and providing household linen and other articles for the home. It includes among its members some of the most enthusiastic workers of St. Vincent's Union.

Its present board of officers is as follows: President, Mrs. M. C. Corbet; vice president, Mrs. P.

H. Forrest; financial secretary, Mrs. A. H. Donohue; corresponding secretary, Mrs.

Jones. Meetings are held on Wednesdays, at 2 P. in the parlors of the home, at 7 Poplar street. I may state that a cordial invitation is extended to all persons interested in the work to attend the meetings, as well as send any clothing or materials for household use. During the past two years July 19, the feast day of St.

Vincent de Paul, ha been known as Donation Day and has been made the occasion for well wishers of the home to contribute toward the support of the institution and thus show their appreciation of the great work which is being done in the heart of a great city. In view of the contemplated erection of a new and improved building in place of the present contracted Quarters, the day will be observed this year, as usual, and the friends of the home hope that the contributions will be more generous than ever." MB. "WHITE'S STATEMENT. Elmer S. White, a member of the West End Republican Club, denies that there were any objectionable features at the smoker given at the Borough Park Club house a few evenings ago.

He declares that the story circulated that one of the women, a soubrette, who was on the programme, waE kissed by any member of the club during the performance is false. The entertainment, he said, was the best that has been recently held in the section. Mr. White believes that the story was circulated by a political opponent of the club, who is worried by the success of the affair. "STABAT MATES," AT ST.

PAUL'S. Kossini's "Stabat Mater" will be sung at St. Paul's Church, corner Court and Congress streets, the Rev. William J. Hill, D.

pastor, this evening. The regular quartet and choir of the church will be assisted by several well known soloists, and the chorus will be augmented to eighty voices. The rendition at. the church last year was one of the best ever given in Brooklyn. It promises to be even better to night.

Grand musical vespers will precede Rossini's masterpiece. TAMPERING WITH METERS. Lighting Companies Taking Active Measures to Stop a Practice, Said to Be Not Uncommon. During the past few months the local electric light companies have suspected that all was not right with their meters and that certain unprincipled persons were making money by tampering with them. These parties were supposed to be persons who have worked as wiremen and have acquired suffi cient knowledge of the electric business to make them familiar with tho workings of the electric meter.

Their plan is to approach the customer of the electric company, stating that they can place a reducer on his meter that will not affect the candle power of his light, hut will reduce the current consumed and they exact either a lump payment of or more, or an agreement to pay regularly a certain sum per month. If the customer agrees, they will then tamper with the meter illegally in such a way as will retard its action or entirely stop the same. In some cases, the customer may be entirely innocent ot any wrong doing, and in other cases, the customer undoubtedly understands the situation and is entirely willing to conspire with the parties to defraud the lighting company. The lighting companies have had detectives at work for some time. On February 24 last, William Siebell was arrested in Manhattan for tampering with electric meters and was held in $300 bail for trial before the Court of Special Sessions.

"On February 25, George Newman was arrested on the same grounds, and was held in $500 bail. On Tuesday last, both of these parties were convicted; Siebell was sentenced to three months in the penitentiary and Newman to a term of one year. This marks a beginning in the work of the lighting companies to have the law enforced against such persons. The laws of the City of New York are now very clear in regard to the crime of tampering with electric light meters and make it a crime to make any connections or to do anything to a meter that will interfere with its registering correctly. The law not only holds the person who does the tampering, but the customer as well, who allows such tampering to be done by other parties.

The companies have their force of detectives busily at work on a number of clews and further interesting developments are expected within the next few weeks. MBS. MABIAGEB'S EUCHBE PARTY. A delightful euchre was held by the guests or Mrs. Pamilla Mariager.

at 11 Montague terrace, last Friday evening. Four tables played and the prizes were most novel and appropriate. Musical selections were rendered and dancing was afterward indulged in until a late hour. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.

Wadsword, Mrs. G. Castle, Dr. and Mrs. Althaus, Stephen M.

Hoyo. Mr. and Mrs. Barnett, Mr. and Mrs.

Morine, Miss Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle, Dr. Ellis. Mr.

Terhune, Dr. Johnson and Mr. MxDonough, a BROOKLYN BRIDGE: BRIDGE Commissioner Lindenthal's plan for the relief of the congestion at the Manhattan terminal of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge has so many features that a birdseye view of it is interesting. Here is seen the enlargement of the terminal into an immense office building, sixteen stories high, for the use of the city. This part of the improvement Commissioner Lindenthai estimates would cost $6,000,000.

The plan also provides for connections with the new East River Bridge, at Delancey street and the Bowery, and Bridge No. 3, at Canal street and the Bowery, the connections being with the elevated road that would have a commodi Nothing more has ever been heard of those who sailed from New York on the Mary Celeste. Their fate is an impenetrable mystery. Years after, it is said. Devon told that when he raised a hatch cover to examine the cargo he found the head out of an alcohol barrel, apparently blown out by an explosion.

He said he believed that this so scared those on board, fearing the balance of the cargo would explode, that all bands at once deserted the ship. Any one who has seen alcohol on Are knows that had such a thing occurred the next thing in all human probability would be the ship in a mass of names. He saw no evidences of fire in the hold to justify his explanation. Long after the news reached here the friends and relatives of the missing ones kept up an anxious search. The Secretary of the Navy requested all vessels passing in the vicinity of where the abandoned brigantine was found to heave to for twenty four hours.

No clew was ever found and at last all hope was gone. The relatives of the missing ones put on mourning, which Mrs. Richardson has never laid aside. Among the theories propounded was that those on the Mary Celeste were made away with by the crew of the Dei Gratia, but the idea was too preposterous to hold, although it is said Captain Lyman Richardson, brother to the mate of the Mary Celeste, sailed for some time in an assumed character for the purpose of ascertaining if there was anything in the theory. Mrs.

Richardson, who, as stated, has never put aside her widow's weeds, was seen at the home of her brother in law, Samuel Robinson. 322 Fourteenth street. Time has dulled the keen edge of her grief and she talks freely ot the bright young sailor whom she evidently adored. He was a spiritualist, Elthough Mrs. Richardson and all her family are strict Baptists.

She said last night: "I always believed and always will believe that my husband. Captain Briggs. Mrs. Briggs. her baby and the cook were, murdered by the crew.

We were married on October 12, 1S7I and our baby was born on October 15. Three weeks late'r, on Election Day. he sailed on the Mary Celeste. After leaving the house at 4:30 o'clock in the morning, he turned back and said he wished his things were not on board as he did not like to go. Mother said if he felt that way he ought to stay home.

He said that would not do and, after kissing me repeatedly, he went away. In the letter he sent my by the pilot, he said he felt as if his heart would break when he was leaving the house. We were deeply attached to each other. He was one of the tenderest and most thoughtful men, not only to me but to others, and it Is now evident that he had a presentiment that he was leaving me forever. "On the night of November 24, between 12 and 1 o'clock.

I awakened from a dreadful dream. My screams filled the house, and I knew then that my husband was lost. He had always told me that he would send me warning if anything should happen to him. I did not believe in spiritualism and. only laughed at him.

dreamed that I was going on board a wrecked, dilapidated looking ship, that had no masts, and that I had to walk aboard on a square joist of timber. In the distance I could see a large ship with white sails bearing down upon us. When I reached the deck a hideous looking man came up to me, I thought, and put something like a snake around my waist and said, 'that is part of your husband, and it Is all you will ever see of I awoke screaming, as I toldQ ou. and nearly went distracted. The last entry on the log was on that very date, November 24.

and I am Quite sure that whatever catastrophe happened, occurred at that very hour when I dreamed I saw that man. "It was not uutll Christmas Eve that I learned about the abandoned ship, and for year I knew little and cared less about what was going on. 1 had never seen my baby, which died shortly after birth. My hus band's sea chest had been sent home, and about a year after I was examining it. I found an old log book in a false bottom that was under bis things, and in it was a letter dated on that fatal November 24.

at 8 o'clock in the evening. In it he said that he was then going on watch, that a terrible storm was raging in which rubber boots and coats were of no consequence. "I did not abandon hope for a long time. Every poor or ragged man that passed I sent after hoping that it might be my husband, but now that is all passed away. "Yes; I have heard that story of the barrel of alcohol told by Mate Devon of the Del Gratia, but I do not agree with him.

I think it is far more likely that the crew broke It open, drank it. lost their heads, then murdered the four Americans on board and got away in the after boat and were lost. There were red stains on the deck, but these were analyzed and found to be paint. I never before heard of the entry about myself on tho log slate, but I did hear that 'Fanny, My Dear was scratched on the paint of the cabin My picture was taken from him room, and I never got it', neither did I ous terminal within the new office building, and thus connect with the present bridge. Commissioner Lindenthai says that the total cost of the improvement would be $14,500,000.

In discussing the salient points which he says should commend his plan to the public, the Commissioner says that it provides for a commodious terminus for the Manhattan Elevated Railroad of double the capacity of the existing City Hall station, which will obviate the disgraceful crowding at that point. Further, that it provides for the extension of the Navy Yard bridge, by means of a two track elevated railroad, along Canal street, and that it would provide for a loop, under roof, of the Fourth avenue surface cars. The interesting feature of get his sextant, his good clothes, bedding or other things. I still hold to the idea of mutiny and murder, and at the last his father agreed with me that this is the real solution of the mystery of the Mary Celeste. "Just one thing more: You may have heard of a sword being found on board.

That was a trick sword that a juggler gave my husband; that is all there is to it." All connected with those that sailed on the Mary Celeste are now dead, with the exception of Mrs. Richardson and the youngest sister of her dead husband. The bereaved woman bears her trouble resignedly. But the fact remains that Mrs. Richardson's story does not make the story of the Mary Celeste anything less of a mystery, that has no parallel, than it was before, although it is told here for the first time.

Men who have watched the tragedies of the sea know that there is always a well defined, probable cause why a ship is lost. Some are unseaworthy, some are cranky and liable to roll over, storms, Icebergs, shifted cargo, explosions all these are possible causes. Ships have foundered as the Silas Fish did, almost without warning, until the compressed air ripping up the decks told that all was over, but there were good reasons in all cases. None of these reasons, or theories, apply to the case of the Mary Celeste. The condition of the ship when found did not indicate that a violent storm was raging when the vessel was abandoned.

There must have been mild weather or the lower courses would have been taken in. There were no signs of fire, mutiny or murder to account for the cause of all on board deserting in such a desperate hurry that even a foreign sailor would leave a 5 Bank of England note behind him. There were no signs of fire on hoard. Everything was as It should be, even to the pots and pans in the galley and the berths in the cabin, with the exception of the one that bore the impress of the baby girl's head and her" clothing, left behind. All these things make the mystery of the Mary Celeste deeper than ever.

The discovery of the letter in the bottom of Mate Richardson's sea chest only deepens the mystery. Dated on the same day as the last and interrupted entry on the log slate it tells of storm. The ship's condition when found, as described, does not bear this out. Yet two weeks elapsed between this last entry and the date of the letter before the Dei Gratia picked up the derelict Mary Celeste, and then there was not a rope yarn astray and the ship was as tight as a bottle. Those on board arc gone forever and the solution of the mystery of the Mary Celeste will probably never be learned until the sea gives up its aeau.

GARDNER GILES. A very pretty wedding took place last month at the American Episcopal Chapel in Havana. Cuba, when Miss Julia Baylis Clles of Brooklyn was married to Charles Frank Gardner of Taunton. Mass. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.

Dr. Sharpe and the bride was given away by Dr. Luis Bar alt. Tbe church was lavishly decorated with roses and white satin ribbons. The bride wore an exquisite white satin gown and a wreath of orange blossoms.

She was escorted to the altar by Dr. Baralt, preceded by the maid of honor, little Miss Adcle Bar alt, and the ushers, four of whom were officers of the Vcdado Battery. The church was filled with many prominent Cuban and American friends of the bridal pair. The biide is the daughter of James H. Giles, a well known architect, and granddaughter of the late Rev.

John W. Brown of Astoria, and was prominent in many social events in Brooklyn previous to taking up her residence In Cuba. The groom is a descendant of the old New England family of that name and Is a brother of the Rev. Herbert Gardner of Providence, I. BATH BEACH BONIFACE CASE.

To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: In your issue of Thursday, March 6, under the heading, "Bath Beach Boniface Sued," your informant has made several mistakes in regards to my case. Mr. Gold ing nor any one of his party ever claimed that they gave me any of their jewelry while in bathing. They claim that they gave it to Alfred Williams, who attended to the valuables' office. Neither did they claim the amount to be SS43, and in my evidoe on the stand I testified that I had received $1.25 from Mr.

Golding in payment for the use of five suits and bath houses, and not that I had received only 25 cents for the whole party for the safekeeping of their valuables. There is no charge, nor has there ever been, at my place, for the chocking of valuables. Kindlv rectify the mistake. WILLIAM C. SHIELDS.

71? Bay Twenty second street, Bath Beach. ETJCHBE FOB HOSPITAL FUND. America Lodge No. 14 will hold a euchre on Tuesday at 2 o'clock in the Johnston Building Cor tho benefit of the hospital fund. BY ST.

E. It Is the Only Refuge in Brooklyn for Friendless Catholic Boys. GIFT FROM THE LATE DR. BODKIN A Good Place for Wealthy Laymen to Deposit Their Money. St.

Vincent's Home for the Care and Instruction of Poor and Friendless Boys, at 7 Poplar street, was left $500 by the will of the late Dr. Dominiek' George Bodkin, the well known Brooklyn physician, patriot and philanthropist. If wealthy Catholic laymen of philanthropical tendencies could realize the immense good which the home is doing under the guiding hand and the wise executive care of the Rev. William L. Blake, chap OLD ST.

VINCENT'S lain, there would be numerous visits on the part of the aforesaid laymen to their respective strong boxes iu the safi deposit companies and such an overhauling of wills or making of codicils as would astonish not only the friends of the home, hut serve as a shining example for oilier rich men to go and do likewise. It should be ri that while the archdiocese of New York has two splendidly equipped homes for boys, the diocese of Brooklyn, with a Cat holic population of half a million souls, has r.oae whatsoever, in the strict sense of the i. rm. For years past friendless Catholic boys had the little brick house al 7 su ort as the only refuge to whu they muM to keep this going has been an 1 1 i 1 1 struggle, for the Tcasou that the rcsoun es of the institution were limited. The home has had no big endowments to depend on, and it has bad to draw its support almost entirely from the small sums or mites of the masses.

But even in the face of these limited opportunities it is thought that the time has come for the erection of a new building, and Father Blake has instructed a firm of architects to prepare plans for a building which, it is believed, will more nearly conform to the requirements of the home and provide for the increasing demands made upon the institution. In the new home hundreds of homeless and friendless boys will not only receive moral and religious instruction, but at the same time will be taught one or more useful trades. It will be one of the objects of the home by these methods to make bread winners or useful members of the community. The classes in the new building will not be educational alone, but will include a complete equipment for elementary mechanics, wood carving, forging, electricity, etc. It would require more than the services of an expert statistician to estimate the good done by St.

Vincent's Home for Boys. During the past year nearly 400 friendless boys have been fed. lodged, clad and educated either in day or night school. In addition to this they have been taught the tenets of religion and led to direct their thoughts and lives in the better way, which, it is thought, is a far wiser plan than establishing institutions for reformation later on. Said an old friend of the institution, in speaking of it to an Eagle reporter: "St.

Vincent's Home has done a wonderful work, notwithstanding its circumscribed quarters in the little old fashioned brick dwelling, 7' Poplar street, and although the chaplain, the Rev. William L. Blake, has had a hard struggle since he was appointed to that position three years ago, he has made a brave fight in behalf of the orphan HOME FOB, BOYS. boys for whom the home was founded. This has been done without relying in any way on contributions either from the city or church.

The home is altogether dependent on the good offices and generous kindness of St. Vincent's Union. This organization, which is under the special protection of Our Lady of Good Counsel, has been established for the purpose of taking better care of the poor boys who apply to the home either for a shelter or as a refuge from the storms of the outside world. The membership fee is only 25 cents a year, and although the union numbers many members I believe that if the nature and scope of its work were better understood and appreciated the membership would be increased by tho thousands. The work of St.

Vincent's Union, in truth, shows that it will not do to despise small sums. Indeed. Its history and labors are an excellent illustration of the magnitude of trifles. As Father Blake well says: 'The, work is one of common humanity, and we feel that we must appeal to all. We depend entirely upon.