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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1899. 23 LEADING CANDIDATES FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION. 'r' WBt 4 WILLIAM SANDS. IUM 1 I GOLFERS TO COMPETE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

Probable Starters in the Metro politan Association's Tourna i ment This Week. CRACKS SURE TO PLAY. Links at Garden City in Superb Condition for the Event Some Practice Scores. The most important golf tournament of the year in this vicinity will be the first annual championship competition of the Metropolitan Golf Association, which will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week, upon the 18 hole course at Garr den City. Although the Metropolitan District is the hot bed of the United States for golfers, the local clu'os were completely overlooked when the three big national events were given out, consequently, there will be nothing of special importance in the tournament line, with the single exception of the Garden City tournament.

There will, of course, be the usual open handicap given by the various clubs, but they do not rank in importance with such ft tournament as that of the Metropolitan Golf Association. It is the general impression that this tournament will, be largely attended; and prove one of the biggest successes Of the year. According to the association's official handicap list, there are 176 men eligible to compete, while 629 are eligible for the handicap at seventeen strokes, and almost an unlim ited number at eighteen strokes handicap. In the handicap limit is placed at eighteen. all those not good enough to warrant a fating at seventeen1 or better, have to play at eighteen" until they can demonstrate their ability upon the links in competition, when their handicaps will be regulated in keeping with the game they play.

Official handicapping in the golfing arena purely an experiment, and as it is receiving its first trial at this tournament, the result is watched with keen interest. The time nay coma when it will be necessary to adopt some' such limitation to the entries for the national championship, unless more than one "day is devoted to the qualifying round. It is a matter that considerable attention is being given to, as a larger field of starters than the United States Golf Association had last fall at. Morristown, would be difficult to handle. As it was, the finish of the medal play round had to be made after dark and with the aid of The entries will close for the Garden City tournament at noon, to morrow, but while nothing official can he obtained regarding the number of competitors, it is generally expected that the majority of the leading local players' will prominent among the candidates for championship honors.

Herbert' M. Harriman of the Meadowbrook Hunt Club, wlio is rated at a handicap of two strokes from FIndlay S. Douglas, amateur champion of the United States, along with John Reid, the intercollegiate champion, and Walter J. Travis, is regarded as a very likely winner. He has been playing over the course almost dally and now holds the record for the course, having lowered his own record several times within the past few weeks until he has brought it down to 83 strokes.

His game is probably the most consistent of any of the many who have played over the links recently. Harriman has made an S3 and an S3 in the same day, while many others feel highly elated when they get around in the nineties. Prior to the preparatory play over the links for the Metropolitan Golf Association tour ivament, ihe course was scarcely known to the public, although one of the ideal golf courses of America. A single' visit to the 'course now is all that is necessary for a golfer to become perfectly infatuated with the links. There are no hills to climb, as the course is almost perfectly level, but there is no lack of hazards and unless one keeps strictly to the course he will surely get punished for his careless play.

A topped ball will also prove costly, as the fair greens are so situated that a good drive is necessary from almost every tee In order to secure a good lie. It is an ideal course for good golf and it will doubtless meet the approval of all who compete in the tournament. It is expected that FIndlay S. Douglas, the amateur champion, will be one of tha starters and also Walter J. Travis, the Oakland crack, a6 they are both booked for the open tournament of the Golf Club of Lakewood, the following week, and the practice would be beneficial to both.

Herbert M. Harriman will unquestionably be a starter and so will Harry Hollins, even though he was beaten by Winston in the interscholastic tournament. Other probable starters will be F. W. Menzies, St.

Andrews; Foxhall P. Keene. Meadow brook; L. P. Bayard, Baltusrol; James A.

Tyng, Morris County; A. M. Robbins, St. Andrews; Jasper Lynch, Golf Club of Lake wood; W. H.

Sands, Country Club of Westchester; A. Xorris, Dyker Meadow; H. M. Billings, Ardsley; S. D.

Bowers, Otsego; F. A. WaJthew, Golf Club of Lakewood; George F. Tiffany, Westchester Golf Club; C. M.

Hamilton, Baltusrol; Malcolm Graham, Harbor Hill; W. H. Davis, Golf Club of Lake wood; A. De Witt Cochrane, St. Andrews; F.

J. J. de Roismes, Golf Club of Lakewood; L. B. La Rocque, Knollwood Country Club; Alexander Morton, Country Club of Westchester; Charles L.

Tappin, Westbrook; Daniel Chaun cey, Dyker Meadow; H. W. Colley, Essex County; Cornelius Fellows, Englewood; F. H. Powers Farr, Essex County; Samuel Frothlngham, Rockaway Hunting Club; Otto Hockmeyer, Staten Island Cricket Club; H.

Holbrook, St. Andrews; A. H. Larkin, Nutley; R. M.

Littlejohn, Oakland; J. m'. Mason, Fairfield; C. L. Perkins, Rockaway Hunting Club; j.

E. PaterBon, Richmond County Country Club; T. T. Reed, Montclair; Hugh K. Toler, Baltusrol; J.

B. Upham, St. Andrews; L. E. Van Etten, Knollwood Country Club; R.

C. Watson, Westbrook; George E. Armstrong, Staten Island Cricket John R. Cbadwiek, Richmond County Country Club; W. L.

Gunther, Westbrook; A. G. Jennings. Dyker Meadow; J. H.

Merritt, Dyker Meadow; W. B. Rhett, Crescent Athletic Club; J. B. Tailer, Ardsley; C.

W. Bird. Meadowbrook Hunt Jamea Converse, Golf Club of Lakewpod; S. S. Chauncey, Dyker Meadow; J.

W. Curtis, Fairfield; Duncan Edwards and W. B. Crittenden, Dyker Meadow; Grenvills Kane, Tuxedo; A. L.

Livermore, St. Andrews; H. G. McKeever, Crescent Athletic Club; W. Y.

Marsh, Morris County; E. S. O'FIyn, Crescent Athletic Club; John C. Powers, Dyker Meadow; H. L.

Pratt, Nassau Country Club; George A. Phelps, Hillendale; Jame3 Park, Richmond County; William Shippen, Morris County; C. H. Seeley, Wee Burn; A. Schroeder, Nutley; C.

T. Stout, Staten Island Cricket, and W. R. Thurston. Morris County.

The Garden City links are visited daily by many enthusiastic golfers. CATHOLIC CHURCH NEWS. Bishop McDonnell will attend the lecture to be delivered this evening in the Montauk Theater by the Rev. John P. Chldwick, United States Navy, in aid of the building fund of St.

Vincent's Home for Boys. It is expected that Rear Admiral Philip will preside. On Wednesday evening the choir of the Church of the Sacred Heart, under the direction of Dr. John M. Loretz, will give a concert on board the receiving ship Vermont at the Navy Yard.

The concert will be given on the spar deck. Dr. Loretz and his singers have volunteered their services on the Invitation of the Rev. P. J.

Tulgg, the chaplain, who conducts services In the Navy Yard every Sunday morning. There will be a meeting of the Brooklyn Cottage Association of the Catholic Summer School to morrow evening at 8 o'clock in Nativity Institute, Gates and Franklin avenues. Important business will come before the meeting. The association is composed of Brooklyn people who are interested in the summer school at Plattsburg, N. and it is the intention to erect a cottage on the grounds for the use of members of this borough who attend the session.

The third of the Monday night lectures for the Sylvester Malone library will be given to morrow evening in the Henry McCaddin Memorial Building, Berry and South Third streets. The lecturer will be the Rev. Thomas H. Malone, the editor of the Colorado Catholic. "Modern Infidels vs.

Ingersoll" will b3 the subjevt. The fourth and last of the series will be given on Monday evening, April 17, on which occasion Henry Austin Adams, the editor of Donahoe's Magazine, will lecture on Tennyson. On Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock a high mass will be celebrated in xhe chapel of the monastery of the Precious Blood, 212 Putnam avenue, to mark the closing of forty hours' devotion. A successful benefit was elven on Wednes day evening last In Prospect Hall by the jnoiy iName society attacned to St. Michael Church, Forty second street and Fourth avenue.

The, proceeds were for the benefit of a fund which is being raised for the erection of a new church. The pastor of the church is the Rev. Henry A. Gallagher. A successful entertainment was given in the same hal on Tuesday evening for the benefit of the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Windsor Terrace, of which the Rer.

J. J. McAteer is the rector. Both affairs were largely attended. A musical euchre will be given by the choir of St.

Michael the Archangel's Church on Friday evening, April 28, in the Germanla Club nous, on Schermerhorn street. The proceeds of the euchre will be fore the benefit of St. Michael's Church. To day forty hours' devotion will be hell" for the Jast time in St. Patrick's Church, Glen Cove, L.

I. Next Sunday Bishop McDonnell will make his annual visit to the church and will administer confirmation to a large class that has been under the instruction of the pastor, the Rev. Bernard O'Reilly. The old structure will soon be demolished to make room for a new edifice. The Commissariat of the Holy Land, whose headquarters are at 143 West Ninety fifth street, Manhattan, Is the American representative of the Vox Urbis, a Latin newspaper, which is published in Rome.

The paper appears every fortnight and in addition to the news of the Eternal City it contains items of general Interest from all parts of the world. A fair will open to morrow evening in the parish hall of the Church of Our Lady of Victory, Throop avenue and McDonough street. An opening address will be made by Bridge Commissioner John L. Shea. Tba league and Holy Name table will be under the direction of Mrs.

W. J. Sefton, assisted by members of the societies named. The sadallty table will be looked after by Miss M. Lewis.

The Knights of Columbus will be represented at the table presided over by Mrs. E. J. Sweeny, who will be assisted by a number of young women. Among the many features at this table will be a beautifully embroidered silk banner, emblematic of the order.

will be contested for by the councils of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The flower bower will be in charge of Miss Victory. The proceeds will be for the benefit of the church. TO HELEN GrOTTXD. As the nation joins its voice With, the heroeB who rejoice O'er battles won So the nation claims a share In the dying soldier's prayer And homage, Helen Gould, For what you've done.

Neither riches of the earth Nor the accident of birth Could e'er Incline The promptings of your heart From woman's sacred part In a warfare much less huma Than divine. Life anew you did inspire In hlra, who, shattered by the Are, Lay on the sod; Through the stillness of the night Keeping vigil o'er the flight Of his spirit soaring up To meet Its God. Or, when back from foreign land, You crossed his pulseless hands Upon his breast; And with succor and with sigh, When the victory was nigh. Wove a shroud of holy peace Round his last rest. 'Twas he that In the throes of death, While his painful, feeble breath Was on the wane, With defiance in his eye.

Whispered "Comrades, though I die, For our country's sake flfht on Avenge the Maine!" Though crowned by strip and Btar, Yet a halo brighter far Illumes your brow; Future chroniclers of fame Will perpetuate the name That with reverence and love Wo honor now. RIOHAjRD B. MAYNB. BUDDHA'S STORY IK MUSIC Coming Brooklyn Production of Dudley Buck's Setting of Arnold's Indian Epic, GIVEN IN LONDON YEARS AGO. Distinguished Soloists Have Been Engaged to Make the Affair a Success.

The attention of the musical and literary public is diverted this week from Greek tragedy to the story of the great Indian Redeemer and its musical expression as contained In Dudley Buck's adaptation of "The Light of Asia." A culture which finds pleasure in the vine decked bower of Omar Khayyam and the struggles of the Greek drama, or worships with Verdi at the shrine of Sorrow, should be catholic enough to extend a hearty welcome to a cantata on the life of Gautama, especially when the composer is Brooklyn's most eminent representative in the world of music. It speaks much for the Indifference of our public to choral writing that although "The Light of Asia" was set to music by Dudley Buck in 1885, it is yet to have its first performance here in the Academy on Wednesday evening. London heard it in 1889 under Mackenzie's direction with Nordica, Lloyd and Stanley as soloists. It was through the Brooklyn Oratorio Club's instrumentality that "The Golden Legend" by Mr. Buck was first sung DUDLEY BUCK.

here, and now that society has joined with the department of music of the Brooklyn Institute in making possible an artistically successful presentation of "The Light of Asia." Every effort has been made to insure a worthy performance. Ben Davies, he of the Welsh name and antecedents and magnificent oratorio voice, will be the tenor; Gwilym Miles, the baritone, and Miss Marie Kinkel Zimmerman, who filled Ema Juch's place so admirably in the "Requiem," the soprano. For the past two months Mr. Hall has kept his two hundred choristers busy rehearsing, and they are said to have been drilled into fine shape. Gustav Dannreuther will have charge of the complete orchestra of forty musicians.

One does not have to tell the newspaper reader that the poem called "The Light of Asia" was written by Sir Edwin Arnold, the Anglo Indian journalist and litterateur, who was knighted for his service in opening the treasure house of Eastern thought to England and Englishmen. Arnold was the son of a local magistrate in Sussex; he was educated at London and Oxford and went out to the Queen's eastern possessions in the fifties, holding for a time the prlncipalshlp of the government Sanskrit College at Poona. Returning home he spent many years in the editorial employment of the London Telegraph. In 1879 he made a literary sensation by the publication of his Buddha epic and followed it a dozen years later wltn a similar poetic narrative of the life of Christ called "The BBS DAVIES. Light of the World." Arnold is an old man now and he has not added particularly to his fame of late years by his widely advertised encomiums of the Japanese geishas, but to him the world is under a real debt.

Whether his poem lives or, like Bailey's "Festus," sinks into oblivion, it has caused Gautama and his creed to be seriously treated and even lovingly admired among an alien race. "The Light of Asia" is a poem of five or six thousand lines. It is written in the meter of "Paradise Lost," but is the reverse of rugged in construction, flowing clearly and easily as a limpid stream and holding the reader's attention first and foremost by the story telling interest. The name of the hero is Prince Siddartha, son of the Rajah Suddhodana, who ruled among the Sakyas about (100 B. C.

The Buddhistic legend of the incarnation of the Godhead in the person of this finely endowed Rajah's son is closely followed. His careful nurture, his contests at games of skill with the youths of the court and his happy marriage to Yasodhara are described and the v.ay led up to the time when the young bridegroom felt his walled ln happiness to be a mockery when co exlstent with the endless suffering of and misery of the outside world. He (led the court renouncing his wife and all the joys of the harem and wandered a mendicant, seeking life's secret from whomever might impart it. With the Yogis he chastised the body and denied the senses; with the forest hermits he dwelt in silent meditation, and, finally, like the protagonist of another faith, he wns assailed by evil spirits and the ton chief sins self, doubt, superstition, lust, hate, greed of days, love of fame, pride, self righteousness and ignorance all of which he conquered. Peace came at last through the quelling of all desire and the philosophy of the moderate contentment of things here below and the attainment of Nirvana hereafter.

Gautama, now known as the Buddha, returned to his father's household to preach the gospel of gradual development and upward progress and of life to every living thing. It would have been impracticable for the MISS MARIE K. ZIMMERMAN Brooklyn composer to do more than make brief selections from so extended a poem. As suitable to his own genius. Mr.

Buck has preferred those portions of "The Light of Asia" which bear on the story; per contra, he has excluded the philosophical and religious disquisitions. Composers like Handel. Mendelssohn and Verdi have made music the potent handmaid of religious emotions; but one cannot quarrel with Mr. Buck that he has not chosen to celebrate Gautama's faith as well as his good works. The double task would have been a large contract for a Christian composer and the music leader of a local church.

The cantata is divided into two parts. In the first the youth and home life of the Prince are developed. Prominent among the pieces in this part are the chorus, "Below the Highest Sphere Four Regents Sit;" a spring song, "Oh. Come and See!" the bass recitative, "Bethink Ye, Ministers," and the reply by male chorus. "Now Flock Kapila vastu's Maidens;" the meeting of Siddartha and Yasodhara in a beautiful soprano and tenor duet, "When All This Beauteous March Was Ended;" the bass solo.

"The King Sent Messengers," and the concluding wedding chorus, "Enter, Thrice Happy." Part 2 of the musical work bears the name of "The Renunciation." Among the loveliest of Mr. Buck's efforts here arc the semi chorus, "We Arc the Voices of the Wandering Wind," and the chorus. "There Came a Wind." In the third part the quick change in the minor soprano solo, "Sorrowful Dwelt Yasodhara," iu preparation for the joyful male chorus, "Him Have We Seen," dramatically describes the return of Buddha. The epilogue and final chorus sound the note of triumph and seemingly embody the whole thematic movement of the composition. MAXWELL HOUSE OKCHESTBA.

Third Concert to Be Given, With Howard Brockway Conductor. The Maxwell House orchestra, Howard Brockway conductor, will give its third concert, this season at the Maxwell House, 245 Concord street, on the evening of Monday, April 10. Mr. Brockway succeeds Charles Edwards Woodbridge as conductor, and the present leader is well known as a composer and pianist. This will be the first public concert of the orchestra with Mr.

Brockway as leader and a warm welcome undoubtedly awaits him. The orchestra will be assisted by Miss Geor gie Grace Smith, soprano. The members of the orchestra are: Violins W. L. Winkler, J.

B. Hollinger, F. B. Doyle, Carl Volke, Robert Smeaton, R. R.

Rife, A. W. Krogsrud, E. Woodbridge. Viola Joseph Gorman, George Bergluml.

Cello W. 15. Campbell. Bass J. T.

Davidson. Flutes F. M. Adams, F. S.

Martyn. Clarionets E. Wattecamps, William Forbes. Bassoon W. C.

Gallaer. Cornets H. E. Sandiford, J. V.

Miller. Horn J. E. Livingston. Trombone M.

T. King. Tympani C. W. H.

Evans. The programme: Minuet "Military Symphony" Hnv.ln. "Your Voice" licnza. Miss Kmith, with violin ublifato. Gavotte "You und i 'zllmlka.

In Venire Kuhens Slow waltz For l.lano Brockway Howard Brockway. Andante First Symphony Beethoven "A Bed rtosr" IlastinKs 'Always Do As People Sav" Herbert Miss Smith. La Carmela waltzes Vitmark March 'Hoch HapshurKh" Krahl Dancing will follow tiie concert. FABM HOUSE COTILLON. The cotillon which was given at the Farm House last Thursday evening.

April 6. was a pleasant success. The patronesses were Mrs. George M. Fisner and Mrs.

William McKee. It was led by George W. Meacham, with Miss Lottie Purdy of Manhattan. Among those who attended were: Frederick W. Holmes, H.

A. Clink enbroomer Mills Marion Halllday. Stephen Yates. MlRS Combs of Kontucky. S.

S. I ackenthal Miss Suttle. C. 3. Warren.

Miss Vande rveer. 7. I). Berry. Miss Bessiu Fisher, Georne Whitloek.

Charlotte Holmes; c'bnrlea H. tJerlnnn. Miss liessie Cook. William Ham, Miss C. Otiwald, Miss Winifred KIchar.lK, r.

Patterson. Miss t'rsala Banks, W. II. Wing. Mis Lucia Coxc.

William W. Thayer. Miss klehter. Robinson, Miss Lippman, Mart. Ml i ll.

liartlndale, Charles Coy, Miss Vlula Flsli. Ueorue W. Meaeham. Miss Louie I'urdv. Mr and Mrs Walter Moore.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Mr and Mrs. Ii.

S. I'luulleld. r. M. C.

Hanki'nson. Miss Mae J. Thornton Mac Donald. Miss Ellen Seidy, Harry A. Miss (Iraoo Young, A.

c. Vanderpool. Miss MarKurut Ker, Charles Bennett. Miss Grace Iawson, William K. Dodsworth, Mias Inez laws, V.

Elliott iiark Miss ssels, John Barker. Mlns lllossom Benson. Harold A. Moore, Miss Lizzie Goodhue Kd ward H. Wcrnberg.

Mabel Patterson Howard T. Vanderpool. Miss Jessie Holmes, Walter Bennett, Frank St. J. Klehards.

Miss J. Mini. M. Laushlin. Ilenjamln Ely licrrv.

Miss Ta WIRE TAPPEHS CAUGHT. Cleveland, April 8 Harry Shurtleff, alias Cooley, and Austin Wilson, electricians are under arrest upon the charge of attempting to tap telegraph wires. It is said the men were endeavoring to cut in on wires on which sporting news is transmitted, in order to beat the pool rooms. WALTER DUST, INVENTOR. The Man Whose Sewing Machine Ante Dated That of Elias Howe.

REAPED NO SUBSTANTIAL GAIN. He Came to Brooklyn in the Earlier Half of This Century and Opened a Machine Shop. It is the common notion that Elias Howe was the inventor as well as the patentee of the sewing machine. That ho was the patentee is true, but the records at tie patent office and of the United States Supreme Court show that Walter Hunt was the inventor. These records show that in 1S33 Walter Hunt invented the first practical sewing machine.

Attempts had been made before and some of them had been moderately successful, but the first working machine, with an eye in the point of the needle and a shuttle, was perfected by Hunt. The story of Walter Hunt's life is the story of so many inventors; hard labor, lack of money, a keen and practical mind in everything but business, and finally the ideas which have cost so much in time and exertion the property of others. Walter Hunt was born in AVatertown, N. iu 17' G. From boyhood he was industrious, studious and of an inventive turn of mind.

While living in Watertown be, in company with a man named Hoskins, In WALTER HUNT. vented a machine for spinning flax. This was in 182C. and the two men made application for letters patent. The patent was granted and the document, signed by John Quincy Adams, President; Henry Clay.

Secretary of State and William Wirt. Attorney General, is still in the possession of Mr. Hunt's heirs. With this patent Messrs. Hunt and Hoskins came to Brooklyn and opened a machine shop at 44 Gold street, where the electric light power house is now located.

The object of the two men was to establish a manufactory for the spinning machine. The shop was open for about a year, but the business for some reason did not prosper, and the firm ceased to exist. During I his year of 1S2G and up to 1835 Mr. Hunt was busy night and day. His brain was always working and he flooded the patent office with requests for patents.

Many of his ideas patented and some of them are in use. But with the proverbial carelessness the patent rights have been allowed Co pass to other hands. For this reason comparatively few of his inventions are to day known by his name. Some of the more important of Hunt's inventions during this period were a knife sharpener, in 1S27; an alarm gong, which in an improved condition is found to day in engine houses, telegraph offices and police stations, in the same year, and in 18X1 a self supplying twisting machine. In 1S33 he introduced the Globe stove, which immediately came Into general use.

and which at the time could be found in every cross roads store and country school house from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Other inventions put out. at this time were the conical ball and Ihe repeating rille, both of which were sold to the original makers of the Winchester rifle; a shoe to permit acrobats to walk on a ceiling, a massage roller to use v.iih the galvanic current, and. finally, the humble but necessary safely pin. All of this work, however, bad been on the side.

For years he had been thinking about and planning a sewing machine. In 1SS4 he succeeded in constructing a working machine. This machine had the distinctive device of the eye in the point of the needle, and a shuttle. The years of work upon the machine, however, had exhausted Mr. Hunt's resource, and, as has happened to many inventors, Just when he was on the threshold of success, he was stopped by a lack of money from patenting and pushing him invention.

At this lime he became associated with a man named Arrow smith and a few machines were built. Arrowsmith then became involved in other ventures and was obliged to let the sewing machine lie idle. Hunt, tried to Induce Arrowsmith to let some other man take up the Invention, but Arrowsmith refused, and a result the fruits of the invention wire lost to both of them. A few years after Elias Howe secured a patent for a sewing machine and put the machine on the market. Hunt brought suit against Howe and endeavored to have the patent set aside, on the ground of prior invention.

Judge Mason, who was then commissioner of patents, subsequently acknowledged Ihe priority of the Hunt" Invent ion. but decided that the Howe patent should stand, on the ground that lluiii had Inst bis rights by neglecting to patent his machine. The facts as to the invention were brought, out in 18(12 through a suit bnnighi by Hunt against Isaac M. Singer and Edward Clark to compel payments under a contract made by Hunt with the defendants in May, 18r.S. By thiH contract Singer and were to pay Hunt $100 a month.

In rid urn for which Hunt was to refrain from contesting Howe's patents, and was to allow Howe to get a renewal When Howe got the renewal Hunt was to" have $50,000. The original of this contract Is now In the possession of the sole surviving daughter of Hunt, who, at the age of 70 years, is living in Tarrytown, X. Y. Through out this contract Hunt is spoken nf as the inventor of the sewing machine. The case was in the courts for ton years, ami Hunt was finally awarded The case was a notable one, and was reported in 1 Daly Reports The Court of Appeals sustained the judgment.

Hunt died in 1S09, almost in poverly, claiming to the last the invention of the sewing machine. Other devices patented by Hunt and not already mentioned were a concrete or moulded stone which, with some changes, is used today; a street sweeping machine which street railroads used until recently; a self closing inkstand; a fountain pen; a forest saw for use in the woods: warming tables rcr hotels; adamantine candles, made by pressure; and a dozen others of greater or lesser Importance. In 1835 Mr. Hunt patented the idea of cloth collars, and the adapting of the fabric to the required shape. In ISf.G he patented a new repeating pistol and elongated priming for firearms, used during the Civil War with the Springfield rifles.

One of his last devices was a safety lamp 'for kerosene. PRIVATE'S SENTENCE COMMUTED. Washington. I). April The President has commuted the sentence of Private Joseph F.

Buckley. Company E. Louisiana Volunteers, to dishonorable discharge with forfeiture of all pay and imprisonment for life. The prisoner was found guilty of murder at a court martial held at Camp Columbia, Havana, and sentenced to death. Fie will be confined in the Leavenworth Military Prison.

NAVAL TRAINING STATION. Barracks to Be Located Near War College Building at Newport. Washington. D. April 8 Captain Francis Dickens has just returned from Newport, where he selected a site Tor the new naval training station barracks on the west shore of the island just north of the naval war college building.

He was accompanied by an architect who has already begun, under his direction, the preparation of plans for the construction of barracks capable of accommodating 1,000 apprentice boys, for which Congress has appropriated An Evening With Two English and American Humorists. On Saturday evening of this week Professor Charles Roberts, of Manhattan, will give an evening in Association Hail with two typical English and American humorist. There is this similarity between the writings of the two men Thomas Hood and Bret. Harte that they have both held equal sway over the domain of laugliler und of tears. Each side of the writer's nature is recognized iu the following selections: Bret Harte: "How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar." one of the must moving, tender and delightful stories: "Sclina Pediiia," ludicrous burlesque of the haunted house style of novel writing from I lane's so called "condensed nov.ls." Thomas Hood: "The Dream of Eugene Aram." "A Xocturn Sketch" and "More Hullabaloo." Bret Harte.

a rejent. portrait of whom i reproduced herewith, is quite as much a favorite of the British reading public as he is with readers in America. The author of "M'liss" and "The Luck of Roaring Camp" moves in tl social and literary circles of London, and his short stories, sometimes with an Old World scene and sometimes harking hack to the gold digging fever aad the frontier life of the early 50s. are eagerly sought after, particularly for the holiday supplements of the English periodicals. The ex Californiati has never lost his trenchant Americanism, and is hoped he will long be spareii to illustrate the virility of the West to our island kinsmen.

Th' re is a goodly number of important, le, tutvs on this week's ticket and Institute members will be well repaid by attending them. Dwight. L. ICImendorf will have a houseful at his description of "Jamaica. Porto Rico and the Lesser Antiles," In Association Hall, tomorrow evening.

The lecture will be IIlus tr.Hed. like tile others in Mr. IClmen lorf'o series, by colored telephoto view and the c.ne matographe. Friday evening, in the An Bu.ld.iig. Ur.

C. Iliwki of Lawrence, u.ll del.ver a lecture, open to the general Institute on "A Trip to the Transvaal." illustrated by a rich and uniq'i set of views. The speaker will carry his audience not only through Pres. dent Krugur's demesne, but to luirban. Xatal.

Johannesburg and Capetown, describing the diamond industry, the daily life of the Boers, etc. A character sketch of Cecil Rhodes of Africa and a rare picture of Harney Barnato, the African millionaire, who paid no less than a hundred pounds to have tine negative of it destroyed, are among til special features. Otmr events of tile wi ck are two lectures oa natural history subjects by Director Charles B. Davenport of tine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: two lectures iiy Prof, ssnr on "The Highlands of Scotland." in the New England Congregational Caurch and on "Japan and the Japanese" In the Art Building: together with the opening of new courses of lectures by Dr. Richard Gottheil of Columbia University on "Palestine." and by Miss Louise Bota IIendriksen on "The Euglish Painters." INSTITUTE HltKT Fi i Whose Works rts Will it ad.

CHARITE.A SMOKELESS FUEL I Many Advantages Are Claimed for I a New By Product of Bituminous Coal. EXPERIMENTS OF MINE OWNERS. Abraham 3. Jennings of Brooklyn; Gives Some Interesting Facts About the Substance. An important discovery of what tray called a in fuel has made in the West.

It is known among mine owners as charite, and although its value and the method of making it have for some time In on known to those interested, no public has been made. Abraham B. Jennings of Brooklyn, who is largely interested in Western and Southern mining property, has with charite and believes that it is a coming boon for the people. Atlitnpts to secure a patent for the fuel were made, hut the depart i ment refused all applications the ground i that it would be interfi ring with a great pub lie interest. I Mr.

Jennings has great faith in 'he new fuel, anil has given to the Eagle a statement of its qualities, its history and the method manufacture. Concerning charite Mr. Jennings says: "Charite is a smokeless coal heatings making steam and for ail domestic purposes. It burns freely, with small blaze, is easily kindled, makes a safe and agreeable tire iu stoves, ranges or grates. It bums up clean, leaving Jess ash than any other fuel, or about per cent.

Comparatively few persons know about or have heard of it. but those who do know and have tried it and used it, speak highly in its praise and have begged to have a supply of it. "A few years since, the superintendent of a bituminous coal mine in Ohio. Mr. Mus grave, experimented with the coal they werer ruining, with a view if possible of obtaining a coal fuel that in burning would be free from smoke and at the same time retain more ot the carbon or heating power of the coal than coke does when made from the same coal.

la that work he was assisted by an able chemist, Harold M. Xyo of Cleveland, o. When I. who had an extensive interest in the mine, learned of their operations and the progress tney had made I took part in perfect ins the process and developing the business. Professor Ilibilcov.

a geologist of bih reputation and well known. to some prominent citizens Bretoklyn. who several years ago examined I the property, writes thus of this new fuel: 'A ni.n rn i .1 nil 1 .1 Int. nn i taat i 11 I or a new iirii vreJ I fii i. ii srck.

i. i an.) all vt i I l.v Muski ii I II. It. ii. invnl at.

n.lent 1 liy ,1 ha rit.ri i iri fu l. cii: i dti t. The II' in wi! Kv :itn.ii;v it I Hi r.it. ink pr make a se i 1 it flll.tlC. Irau." eill "When this fuel was in a measure perfect rd.

and tie. ess defined, tin tavento. na' orally desired to secure the benefit of the labor and money expi nd by obtaining a United State; patent. Prepa. arlins were made to manufacture the new fuel on a large scale and distribute the sum.

We under stand that about thirty car loads were made 1 and distributed, oine far as (Irand ItApids, from which flattering letters vt re received and til demands made for a liberal supply. Unexpectedly the coal property was placed in the hands of a receiver, which for tile time put att end to all further work i it lia line. An application for a patent for the new 5 ii iri'd had been made through a leading patent at torney who was coulident of ohiuining one iu the United ritates and ICurcpe. "Legal proceedings wore taken to reinov.) tile ceiver. who in tiiis tnaJtir had against the will of the majority of lite bond i and also stockholders.

Arte; a lorn; con test tiie receiver was remove. i. t.ne court in Ohio declaring that he was illegally and a udti lent The cal properly 'through re organization proceedings has lately been placed entirely in the hands of its i right ful owners. "All tiie efforts to obtain a i.a:en for the new fuel failed, though scv tal appeals were I made to obtain it. Some of tin reasons why, as 1 understand, were because the proces as not entirely new practically it was the as ied in nuking eharejal out of wood.

The decision, however, aitts: allowing a ptitotit was in the line of jcihiic interest, and it is w. ii that it is for had been i perhaps another great monopoly tio.v l.e the j.u i ic i the face. My object in oniliiir, the nf the pub. to this ford is that all sivl may know the fact, that th re is a simple pro i free to till by which bituminous coal can made into a fuel which burning is a fri fre ti smoke as han oa'. is.

made ot wood, und that for ail toirrioses tin re is better. Tie' making of the fuel is a question of labor, rather tiinti skin. Care is required that in th" baking it is not allowed to bun: as ed. desiroving, it vitality. It tnk coal to make one ten of coke: for charite about one and a half to of a ton of coal.

It. takes inor. to cur it. that six to seven days, whip for coke ainmt two day s. "In mailing tiie charite.

the coal is piled somewhat as wood in. nuking charcoal, and cover with earth to prevent its being run. sumed. Tln re otb. particulars relating to the pror vs of making that cm be mora i perfectly Portir i from e.n v.

lio have had practical experience iu Athens Coimtv. (., or of Mr. S. W. Mtissnuv.

Marietta, o. Charite is softer and apt to crumble more than is also lighter ight. float kiltie 111'' COiv. SitlKS in of beat required in the bakina The degree process is 500 to loo mves an. averaging as ascer ait.e I by nr.

ttist it.itif iinent. it is sold at the per gross 1 feel assu.nl that if proper brick oven were r. instructed i.jk.. it. being used to make' coke ov ns that weald save the I hy pr.jiluet?, ur.

ammonia and other eiiemic.il material? the charit would be made moro perfectly, ami by tiie saving of tho.se useful by predu. ts. it caiild at a less rate. "We satii i v. 1.

re 1 there was not more Anthracite cal scattered over the earth and loss bituttih'e'iis. II. win, doeth all things well 'Cith up the fragments that noth ing lie lost. 1 tie h.is last its valuable by products, as tii. ar culL d.

while the bituminous is found all over the world richly laden with elements valuable to man. and n.n only that, but gives men that need work something to do to prepare the fuel ajid extXAflt the valuable vjleuiea1.