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a I I A THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1901. 9 IS A CITY OF THE OLD Exposition is Not Greatest of the I Treats Held Out to Visitors. A Latin Community Which Vicissitudes Have Changed But Little. Slow Southern Ways a and Ancient Piles That Grow Pleasing With Acquaintance. Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES.

CHARLESTON, December visitor to Buffalo during the Pan American Exposition took a day or two from its who visited Chicago a during the World's sights to visit Niagara, and every stranger Fair spent several days in roaming through the new city on Lake Michigan. Similarly, every one attending the Charleston Exposition will devote a fair part of his time to loitering through the streets and publie buildings of the curious old town, and visiting the points of interest in its vicinity. A failure to do so would invoke not only the loss of the actual sight-seeing in question, but the loss of that local color necessary to a proper appreciation of the exposition it- self. A LATIN COMMUNITY, The newcomer in Charleston need only walk a few blocks in any direction to make the discovery that he is in a Latin rather than a Teutonic community. In the older portions of the town, and there is very little of the town that does not come under that classification, the great body of the houses are low-roofed and squat, their walls plastered with stucco which was once in gorgeous pinks, blues and yellows, but has been mellowed by time into an almost uniform tint.

The roofs are crenelated in the Spanish fashion, and have held their red or orange tints in the teeth of time and the keen sea winds. The dwelling houses of the better class rise above the common level, and, with one accord, give the cold shoulder to the street, each house opening to the side, where verandas, running the entire length of each story, front into high-walled gardens. The streets are narrow and crooked, and, at the first view, amazingly dirty. Here and there are great buildings; churches, halls, and institutions of learnIng or charity; but all are in unfamiliar styles, suggesting other times and manners of thought. And in this respect the mere modern buildings differ little from their really ancient neighbors, for the Charlestonians, with that sense of the fitting which is common to Latin, and foreign to Anglo-Saxon communities, have seen to it that there should be no glaring modernities to mar the general effect.

The strong sea winds, wearing angles into curves and swiftly destroying the hues of paint and varnish, have done the rest. The finest residences stand along the "Battery," where the Charleston peninsula ends in a shovelshaped curve. Here, fronting the bay, stand the houses of that coterie of rich cotton. kings, who lived in luxury upon the income derived from their plantations and slaves, and confidently presumed that their wealth and power could defy the Union in arms. It is said that one of this number boasted that he built his palace on the water front with the money saved by giving up his habit of smoking for several years.

Seen in the twilight from the promenade along the bay, the great houses, rising story on story, with column and balustrade, are as imposing as any private dwellings in Philadelphia or its suburbs. But daylight discovers the unpainted walls, the broken colonnades and tottering balusters, the neglected gardens, and all the patent evidences that the houses, like their owners, have seen better days. TO HURRY IS ILL BRED. No one, white or black, is so ill bred as to hurry in Charleston. The Northern business man, used 1 to a schedule as exact as that of the Pennsylvania Railroad, will have several very bad quarters of an hour before he at last adapts himself to his surroundings and takes his time.

Though no one hurries, the major part of the population seem to be on the streets, especially the negroes, whose number and variety of color and costume is a revelation. With the negro goes his inseparable companion, the mule, and that patient and much maligned animal is meditating or dozing at the corner of every street. Many of the ways of the people are primitive. In one place, on the principal business street and not far from the centre of the city, the writer saw a cart drawn by a horse and a mule drive up and deposit about one-halt cord of wood along the curb. Shortly after an old negro came along with a saw and sawbuck, and, after conferring with the nearest storekeeper, began deliberately sawing it into stove wood, while the vehicles in the driveway obligingly turned out so as not to interfere with his operations.

In another place a negro was employed in cutting in two a fallen telegraph pole some two feet in diameter, his Implement being a small hatchet of the "boy's tool-box" variety; and, even in the face of these dubious circumstances, he saw no reason to conduct his operations with unseemly baste. Every morning the visitor from the North will be amazed to see the Southern shopkeeper and merchant placing a sign upon his door Inscribed, "Open." For the idea of opening between immutable hours is slow to take root among a leisurely people, who much prefer to announce to the world as above Indicated whether or not it pleases them to be "at home" in a business way. About the dilapidated old market swagger the celebrated turkey buzzards of Charleston, whose brothers may be seen behind the Arctic bear pit In the Philadelphia Zoo. Long familiarity with good society, however, has robbed the Charleston birds of much of their disreputable appearance. A growth of feathers covers their heads, which, in the wild species, are naked; and in their rusty black plumage they have quite the look of respectable undertakers, as, indeed, they are; Their manners are singularly quiet and self contained.

If disturbed by a passing traveler they move Just about AR much as a very impudent chicken would move under the same circumstances, enough to allow free passage and no more: if shouted at or thrown at they either stand stock still, going through marvelous convolutions with their necks, or they approach in the expectation of largesse. It is clear that they fully appreclate their position as the most privileged inhabitants of Charleston. FAMOUS OLD CHURCHES. Among the old and interesting landmarks in the city proper the churches hold the first place. The most famous of these seems to be St.

Michael's, into whose walls 1s built a brief resume of the city's history in the shape of a tablet stating that the church was damaged by the fire of the British fleet in 1779 and of the Union fleet in 1865, that It was partially destroyed by storm, and again by earthquake. In the chancel are still preserved fragments of the shells which came into the building during the last bombardment. The interior is in the old colonial style, with closed pews and a high pulpit outside the altar rail. roofed over end ascended by a eireular stairway. About the walls are the tablets of numerous local dignitaries, includIng several signers of the Declaration of Independence.

In the old churchyard outside lle many others, notably Hague, whose most powerful effort in the Senate has been overshadowed by Webster's more reply. Here also an almost obliterated tomb slab records that "John Porter was at some far away and forgotten State "commander of ye fortifications." In a neighboring churchyard, under the venerable spire of the only Huguenot Church in America, and in a thick tangle of magnolias and live oaks, is the grave of John C. Calhoun. Other churches of equal antiquity are St. Philip's and St.

Matthew's, and Flinn's Presbyterian Church, where the body of the aged pastor after whom it is called lies under the feet of the worshipers in the central aisle. The statues of Charleston are innumerable. They fill every open square, and start up to meet you at unexpected corners. The most ancient is a battered marble efligy of William Pitt, the elder, erected in 1769 by vote of the General Assembly in grateful appreciation of his defense of American liberties. Next in order of time comes a heroic bronze statue of Sergeant Jasper recovering the flag, built to commemorate the defense of Moultrie in the Revolution, and a very faithful example of that class of American sculpture whose most notable examplar is the famous "hobby horse" statue of Jackson at Washington.

In another place a bronze statue of Calhoun stands on a lofty obelisk, while there is a granite shaft to the memory of the Washington Light Infantry in the civil war, and statues to a number of local dignitaries and writers in verse and prose. VICTIMS OF SUBMARINE BOATS. Considerable interest attaches to a shaft and tablet commemorating those who perished in the first use of submarine boats against the Union fleet investing Charleston; these early craft invariably sinking, whether successful or unsuccessful, with all on board. The inventor's name heads the list of victims. Reminders of the same period are the old cannon standing along the battery, which is no battery at all, but only a small park, each of which bears a tablet stating the fort or sunken ship from which it was taken.

The largest of these guns was stolen from the sunken monitor Keokuk on a dark night while the wrecking crew slept in expectation of the day, and has been the cause of as much heartburning and recrimination as any piece of iron ever used in the service of the United States. In pleasing contrast to these relics of darker days stands a shaft made of the phosphate which has been recently discovered in the Ashley river, and is expected to prove a material factor in building up the new Charleston. There is a little steamer that plies between Charleston and Fort Sumter, and is advertised to leave at 9.30 every morning. As a matter of fact she lies comfortably at her dock until she has secured her full complement of passengers. The advent of any person resembling a possible passenger.

is hailed by the ringing of all the belle and blowing of all the whistles aboard. If the newcomer Is a stranger he runs frantically, waving his hat or cane, and comes, redfaced and panting, up the gang plank into the midst of the cool and self-contained company on deck-if he is a native, he stope to light a cigar. Castle Pinckney was originally a round tower, in the style of Cronstadt: it is now a bank of dirt, supporting a few huts. ONLY A MOUND OF BRICKS. Sumter was a brick and granite fortress, three stortes high; it is now only a mound of brick and stone debris, rising upon the remains of the lower casemate.

Moultrie was a brick and stone fort, close to the water side: it is now an earthwork some distance inland. In Sumter one gallery remains as it was left by the war. The walls are red with Are and the floor is covered with dismounted and rusting cannons and mortars, and with material for making hot shot; while the ground beneath is a perfect warren of bomb-proof and covered ways, in which, in the last days of the great war, a company of Confederate infantry lived, impervious to the hail or Iron rained upon them by the attacking fleet, and easily repulsed boat attacks at the miniature landing below. The history of Sumter and of the older Moultrie is even yet incomplete. On Sumter are mounted two magnificent "long Tom" twelve-inch rifled guns on disappearing carriages, while Fort Moultrie and the batteries on Sullivan's Island are armed with row on row of quick-firing guns.

Both places are garrisoned by the regular forces of the United States, and another new fort has been erected across the harbor. It looks like a case of locking the stable door after the horse is stolen; for the great port of Charleston, where hulking galloon, rakish brigantine, clipper ship and low-built blockade runner succeeded one another in making up the swarm of transport that waited to carry off the cotton piled mast-high along the levee front, have passed away, and the bay is deserted except for an occasional rusty tramp steamer or a few vessels engaged in the customs service or the coasting trade, and has become a playground for innumerable porpoises. A CHANGE SINCE '60. When Russell, the London Times correspondent, visited this place in 1860, the city WAS wild with joy over the fall of Sumter; the water front was crowded with the tents of A citizen soldiery, who excited the Englishman's wonder, alike by their fine physique and their absolute lack of discipline, and he was introduced to a short, square-shouldered, rather vain little officer named Beauregard, who, in common with his brilliant staff and his tumultuous soldiery, regarded the triumph of the South as a matter of a few months. Now, the United States flag flies from fort, and cutter, and lighthouse tender, and from the handsome new custom house, while an occasional negro roustabout dozes against A cotton bale or pile of skids along the wharves.

The new custom house, by the way, was not long since found to shelter a "blind tiger" (for South Carolina is an anti-license State), in the shape of a barrel of gin, but its owner went into court and stoutly swore that it was kept "for bathing purposes," An Incident which seemed to discourage the authorities, for there has been no subsequent effort to enforce that particular law in Charleston. HELD IN AUSTRIAN DUNGEON American Says He Was Thrown Into Prison on False Charge. SEATTLE, December Greenburg, a resident of this city, who was arrested three years ago and thrown into an Austrian prison, where he was held for two months, has returned to this city, According to Greenburg's story he was thrown Into a damp dungeon by the police authorities at Tarnopol, Austria, and told that he would be released if he paid $1,000. He refused and was kept there two months. His plight was discovered by the American consul at Vienna and he was released on bail, after a charge had been preferred against him that he was a Greek named Peter Carpovich, who had been expelled from the country several years previously for procuring women for immoral purposes.

His case was finally transferred to highest courts, where evidence was Introduced to prove his identity. "The money I put up as ball to secure my release while the trial was said Greenburg, "has never been returned to me and I intend to lay the facts before the authorities at Washington." HELD UNDER STREET 7 HOURS Telephone Officials Had an Experience Inspecting a Tunnel. CHICAGO, December men were imprisoned for seven hours below the surface of the intersection of Franklin and Washington streets yesterday. They were A. G.

Wheeler, president of the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company; John T. Fannin, secretary of the Fanning Manufacturing Company; George W. Jackson, John J. Corbett and William Newman, contractors. They were making an Inspection of the tunnel of the telephone company but failed to make their signals for the elevator heard by those on the surface.

They were finally rescued uninjured. Gen. Bates Joins the Ransom Post. ST. LOUIS, December John C.

Bates, commanding the Department of the Missouri, with headquarters at Omaha, has been mustered in as a member of Ransom Post, G. A. of St. Louis, which includes among its members some of the most prominent army men. in the country.

Among those who mustered in the general were several surviving members of the Missouri delegation who went to the Chicago convention that nominated Lincoln for Presldent, pledged to the support of Edward Bates, father of General Bates. Edward Bates later became President Lincoln's Attorney General. OPPOSE MINT SITE FOR SUB- TREASURY Officials Say Government's Bank and Customs House Should Remain Together. Major Finney Declares That Federal Business Urgently Demands Larger Accommodations Banking Officials Do Not Favor Removal. Though the chief officers of the downtown banks are nearly all, so far as can be learned, opposed to the removal of the SubTreasury to the old Mint Building, there is a prevailing opinion among them that the present quarters of that institution in the Federal Building on Chestnut street, east of Fifth, are very much too small, SO inadequate, in fact, that the business transacted there suffers delay in consequence.

The same belief is held by importers. They say the Custom House has insufficient room because it shares the building with the SubTreasury. By many bankers and other business men the erection of a larger structure for the Custom House and Sub-Treasury is believed to be the best solution of the problem. In an interview with a reporter for THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, a week or two before the meeting of Congress, Representative Henry H. Bingham said that if such a measure received the indorsement of the Secretary of the Treasury he would gladly introduce a bill for the sale of the present Custom House and site and the erection of a new building on a more spacious plot of ground.

Special agents of the Treasury Department recently completed an inspection of the Custom House and declared verbally that It was inadequate for its purposes. It was understood by the leading customs officials with whom they talked in Philadelphia that they would so report to the Secretary of the Treasury. The report has not yet been published. Collector C. Wesley Thomas and Special Deputy Louis G.

Martin hope that it will so impress the Secretary of the Treasury and the President with the absolute need of a new Custom House in Philadelphia that they will give their support to a bill having that as its object. "But," said Mr. Martin yesterday to a reporter for THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, "the Custom House and the Sub-Treasury ought always to be under the same there roof, or at least near together. Otherwise will be added inconvenience in the transaction of the government's business. The Sub- Treasury is the local custodian of the revenues of the government which we colleet in the form of import duties.

We have to make enormous deposits daily. It can easily be seen how desirable it is that the Sub- Treasury and Custom House should be together." NATIONAL BANKS INFLUENTIAL. The question of the removal of the SubTreasury from the financial centre was debated some years ago, when the Post Office building was in process of erection. Quarters for the Sub-Treasury had been included in the plans of the supervising architect. Vaults were constructed for the keeping of the government's treasure.

But the Opposition to the removal commanded so much influence at Washington that it never was ordered, and the quarters in the Ninth street Federal building designed for the Sub-Treasury are to-day occupied by the Internal Revenue Collector. "As between the removal of the SubTreasury to Juniper street and Its removal C. to Ninth said President Henry Stroup, National of Bank, to a reporter for THE the Farmers' and Mechanics' PHILADELPHIA TIMES yesterday, This "the latter would, of course, be preferred. bank, however, takes no position in the The Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank is the Anancial agent of the Philadelphia Clearing House. John C.

Boyd, manager of the Clearing House, frankly said to a reporter for THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES that selfish interests only governed the views of bankers in the matter and declared he thought that it was vain to look for approval among them of a project that meant only inconvenience and trouble for them. An executive officer in the government service, who asked that his name be not used, remarked that the bankers who desired the removal of the Sub-Treasury to the old Mint building had made, in his opinion, a great mistake in associating trust companies with them in the movement. "The goverument," he said. "will not attach much weight to the wishes of men who have comparatively few dealings with the Sub-Treasury. It is the national banks that will have the most influence in this matter, and so far as I have been able to learn only one national bank in the city, and that one on Broad street, desires the removal of the Sub-Treasury to the old Mint.

It has with it. to be sure, AS I understand, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Girard estate and other powerful Interests. But I think there is little bope for the movement." EMPLOYES HAMPERED. Assistant Treasurer John F. Finney said to a reporter for THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES that the thirty-five persons employed in the Sub-Treasury were very much hampered for lack of room.

"There are not even suitable accommodations for counting money," he added. "We have to carry big bundles of bank or Treasury notes up the public stairway from one department to another, because the space is so cramped that there is no room for a private stairway. I am in favor of obtainIng new or enlarged quarters for the SubTreasury, because the government's business demands it. I have written a letter to that effect to my executive chief at Washington." An inspection of the Sub-Treasury quarters reveals accommodations more confined than those of many a village bank. In a wire-screened box barely five feet square a teller often receives and counts $100,000 in a single deposit from a bank.

The customs officials, who say that a larger building should be constructed for both the Custom House and the Sub-Treas. ury, are in favor of locating it still farther down town than is the present structure and as near to the appraisers' stores as possible. An officer of the Philadelphia Public Library, who stands very close to the Board of Trustees, told THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES reporter yesterday that there was, he believed, not the slightest hope that the old Mint building or site could be procured by the elty for library purposes. "Besides, he added, "I do not think that it would be at all desirable. The ground is not large enough.

A central public library must have great floor space and must not be placed on several floors of a sky-scraper. There is great danger of loss of life by fire in the building on Chestnut street, where our central library now 1s. It would never do to put the reading room and the book alcoves farther above the street than these are. I do not think that the idea of taking the old Mint building for the library has ever received definite encouragement from any authoritative quarter." STEEL BY THE ELECTRIC SPARK An 8,000 Plant to Be Built in Tennessee. ELIZABETHTON, December Charles P.

Tonoray and George Boren have returned from New York, where they closed negotiations for the erection of an electrie steel plant at Elizabethton. It is claimed that by this method steel ingots can be produced directly from iron ore in thirty minutes. An power electric plant will be commenced as soon as the site can be decided upon on the Watanga river, near Elizabethton, and this will supply the power for the plant. Illinois McKinley Fund $25,000. CHICAGO, December Revell, chairman of the Illinois Auxiliary of the McKinley Memorial Association, reports that the monument fund for the State is fast approaching the $25,000 mark.

The total amount subscribed to date is $20,910, A TALK ON THE STARS Some Account of Interesting Phenomena of the Heavens for 1902. The stars that shine in the January sky when the centre of Orion is on the meridian are more gorgeous than those of any other month in the year. Two constellations take precedence for the grandeur and magnificence with which they irradiate the celestial expanse. They are the Great Bear, familiarly known as the Dipper, and Orion. The one is always visible in this latitude, its pointers marking with unswerving accuracy the position of the polar star.

Five of its chief brilliants are receding from the earth with a velocity of twenty miles a second, two are approaching us, so that in about 2,000 years the present form of the constellation will be changed, and the observers of those days will no longer see the Dipper as it now appears. The other, visible to all the world, treads the equator with its starry feet, and is superb with its leading brilliants, its shining belt, its glittering sword and its great nebula. These constellations and many others have been admired ever since men and women began to consider the heavens. Poets have celebrated their charms from the earliest ages and the Scriptures abound in allusions to their glory. On New Year's the sun will rise at 7.14 and set at 4.22, thereby giving us a day of nine hours and eight minutes in length.

On the 31st the rising will take place fourteen minutes earlier and the setting thirty-four minutes later, which will give us a day forty -eight minutes longer than when the month began. This shows us that the sun has already made considerable progress in his march to the line from the furthest southern point in his career. The coming year will contain three eclipses of the sun, the first coming on April 8, the second May 7, and the third October 30. These are all three partial eclipses, and not one of them can be witnessed in our latitude. The moon favors us with five phases during January, the first one, that of last quarter, coming on January 1, while a similar phase occurs the last day of the month.

The new moon for the month appears on the 9th, followed by first quartering on the 17th and full moon on the 23d at 7 hours 6 minutes in the evening. The first of the monthly meetings between the moon and the planets takes place on the 7th, when the waning crescent and Uranus come quite near one another, the planet being the further south. Saturn has a somewhat more distant meeting on the 9th, only a few minutes after having been in superior conjunction with the sun. The next visit is to Jupiter on the 10th, followed two hours later by a very distant encounter with Mercury, while Mars' turn comes on the 11th and Venus' on the 13th. On the 21st the closest meeting for the month occurs, with Neptune taking the shifting role.

All to no purpose, however, 80 far as giving us anything worth our while to look at, as the moon's face is too brilliant and the planet too distant to admit of proper scenic display. During the year there will be two total eclipses of the moon, one on April 22, not visible here, and a second on October 26 that will be a real treat for us to witness, as more than five hours will elapse between the time the moon enters the penumbra and its leaving that shady place. The eyes of all are now naturally fixed on the radiant Venus already So large and beautiful and still increasing in size. As the planet is now three hours behind the sun we can see it in daylight. A practical way of finding it is to cut a piece of cardboard in the shape of a right angled triangle, having a base seventeen inches in length and a perpendicular nine inches in height.

Set this triangle in the meridian, (the north and south line as shown by the nearest weather vane will do), with the point toward you and the perpendicular to the southward. Look along the inclined side, keeping the base horizontal, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and after a little practice you will be able to see a white spot away up about ten degrees Dove where the sun was at noon. On the 9th, Venus reaches her point of greatest brilliancy, but her diameter continues to grow until the middle of next month. Mercury on the 2d is In superior conjunction with the sun and becomes an evening star again, in which category it will remain the rest of the month. This planet on its way from the sun meets Jupiter on his way toward that luminary on the 9th, the two being fairly close to one another.

On the 23d Mercury almost reaches Mars, and just after the month closes Venus is passed. So this erratic one plays more of a part than usual at the beginning of the year. Uranus and the moon come fairly close together on the 7th, which is about the only thing that the planet offers outside of his usual distant course. This planet is one of the few morning stars when the year begins. His right ascension is 17 hours 10 minutes, and his declination 22 degrees 59 minutes south, which places him close to the constellation of the Scorpion.

Saturn, on the 9th, is in superior conjunction with the sun and passes from the evening to the morning stars. In the latter group it will remain until July 17, when it will once again be an evening star, and will lend its aid toward giving us some more beautiful celestial pictures. Jupiter also leaves the leadership of nus to assume charge of the morning stars, which he does by being in conjunction with the sun on the 15th. We shall not see much of -this monarch of the skies until February is about over, as he rises too near the sun to be visible much before that time, We shall not again have him as an evening star until August 5, after which we shall keep him the rest of the year. Mars moves so much more slowly than the other planets with whom he was in such intimate association November last, that they all outstrip him in the race to the sun, as he does not reach the goal until March 29, and we won't again this year have him to grace the evening sky.

Neptune helps but little to make our monthly programme attractive this month, and about the only scene in which he is to be found is a meeting with the moon on the 21st. Neptune's right ascension is 5 hours 59 minutes and his declination 22 degrees 15 minutes north, in the group of the Twins. ESTABLISHED HIS OWN CRIME Embezzling Bank Clerk Assisted in the Examination of His Books. ST. LOUIS, December Duddieston, formerly assistant bookkeeper for the Stockyards Bank, of East St.

Louts, was arrested for the embezzlement of $11,054. Duddleston declared speculation in stocks and grain was the cause of his trouble. The Fidelity and Casualty Company, of New York, was on Duddleston's bond to the amount of $10,000. Duddleston was placed under $3,000 bond. He assisted in the investigation of the books of the bank.

CAPTURED CLERK INDICTED Sandusky Official Charged With Embezzling $60,000 of City's Funds. SANDUSKY, December Erle county grand jury reported to-day, returning an indictment against former City Clerk S. W. Miller, on three charges of embezzlement aggregating $60,000. Miller left Sandusky at the time his alleged shortcomings became known and was finally located in Havana, Cuba, from which place he was brought back by Sandusky officials.

Addition to Jury's Verdict Asked. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, December In the District Court to-day the attorneys for James Doyle filed a motion for judgment in the suit of Doyle against James F. Burns for $438,748 in addition to the $446,922 allowed by the jury in its verdict. The demand for the additional sum de made on the ground that the jury in its answers to special interrogatories found that a mining partnership agreement or contract existed between Doyle and Burns, and that this finding established the right of Doyle to a share in the Portland Company stock issued for the "Devil's Own" claim, as well de for the Bob Tall, No. 2, and Tidal Wave claims, in spite of the jury's refusal to include the "Devil's Own" in ite verdict.

EMINENT CHEMISTS TO CONVENE HERE Sessions of American Chemical Society to Begin To-Morrow. Founded by Dr. Priestly, the Society Contains Nearly 2,000 Prominent Chemists, and Is the Largest in the Country. The American Chemical Society, which will hold its twenty-fifth meeting in Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania, to-morrow and Tuesday, is one of the largest scientific societies in the world. Its membership, including the most distinguished investigators in the country, numbers 1,863, of whom more than a hundred are resident here.

The mornings of each day will be given up to the reading of papers on chemical subjects, and at noon a luncheon will be given to the society by the University of Pennsylvania. The afternoons will be occupled by visits to chemical and other technical establishments in Philadelphia. On Monday evening Frank W. Clarke, the president of the society, will deliver the annual address at the Acorn Club, and immediately after the delivery of the address a reception will be given to the members of the society and their wives. Later in the evening a smoker, or "Kommers," will be given at the University Club.

A banquet will be held on Tuesday evening. HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. The American Chemical Society is the organized body of the chemists of America, whose object is the advancement of chemistry and the promotion of chemical research. It 1s an outgrowth of a meeting of American chemists, who assembled in Northumberland August 1, 1874, to celebrate the centennial of the discovery of oxygen by Dr. Joseph Priestley.

Northumberland was selected for this gathering since it was the place where Priestley spent the latter portion of his life, where he died and was buried, and where some of his descendants were still living. The Northumberland meeting constituted probably the largest and most representative body of chemists that had ever assembled upon the American continent and the occasion was an inspiring one. It enkindled a feeling of closer brotherhood among the chemists of the New World and the idea was there advanced and generally endosed that the time had come for the formation of a permanent society which should be representative of American chemists and their interests. A year and a half later eight chemists assembled at the home of Professor Charles F. Chandler, in the city of New York, and made the first steps towards the organization of the society.

The general officers of the society are: President W. Clarke; vice presidents, W. M. Saunders, Marston T. Bogert, J.

W. Richards, H. Nicholson, H. A. Weber, J.

Merritt Matthews, William H. Crane, V. K. Chesnut, Felix Longfeld, W. A.

Withers, L. P. Kinnicutt, P. C. Freer, E.

H. S. Bailey; secretary, Albert Hale; treasurer, Albert P. Hallock: librarian, E. C.

Love; editor, Edward Hart. CHILD WILL BE TWICE BURIED After the Father Inters Body His Divorced Wife Will Get It. CHICAGO, December funerals and two burials will take place here in disposing of the body of six-year-old Alice Jayne. The child's parents are divorced. Mrs.

Jayne re-married and the child was living with her father when she died. Both insisted on having possession of the body and the matter was referred to the Coroner, In whose presence the agreement was made. The funeral and burial under direction of the father, Arthur Jayne, will take place first, after which the body will be disinterred and given to the mother. IS A MUCH WANTED PRISONER Man Arrested in Philadelphia Said to Be a Notorious Swindler. CHICAGO, December, J.

B. Thomas, alias who was ar. rested In Philadelphia Christmas day, was to-day identifled through photographs as the man who is alleged to have swindled a Ridgeville, business man out of $8,000 in 1886. 'The identification was made by Superintendent Schumacher, of detective agency. Mr.

Schumacher said today that Dudley, or Thomas, had been using deeds for his swindling operations for sixteen years. Scores of complaints from all parts of the country have been lodged against the man, and circulars describing him have flooded the country, but it was not till last month that trace of him was found In Davenport, Iowa, SQUABBLE IN WOMAN'S CLUB Chicago Society Woman Threatens Suit for Slander and Damages. Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES. CHICAGO, December Chicago Woman's Club is threatened with disruption. Mrs.

Robert Farson was attacked by an anonymous letter writer, who charged her with financial dishonesty. A committee cleared Mrs. Farson. The club appointed a committee to discover the letter writer and, with the help of handwriting experts, the committee secretly decided that it was the work of Mrs. Alice Bradford Wiles, a promi.

nent society woman. The decision leaked out privately. Mrs. Wiles demanded a hearing. If she is not completely exonerated she will sue the club officers and the investigating committee for slander and damages.

POOR TO SEE FLOWERY FIELDS Pullman's Daughter Imitates Helen Gould's Charitable Example. CHICAGO, December Miss Helen Miller Gould as her ideal of faith, hope and charity, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden is building a summer home for poor girls, near Oregon, Ill. Mrs.

Lowden, who was Miss Harriet Pullman, is a daughter of the late palace car millionaire. She proposes to take the sick and weary from Chicago and give them a summer outing. "I want those who have never seen green fields and flowers, those from the Ghetto and the slums," she sald. "I do not know her." sbe is quoted as saying of Miss Gould, "but I love her for her eympathy and work." NEW OIL CO. AT BEAUMONT Special to THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES.

AUSTIN, Texas, December charter of the Becky Sharp Oil Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, was fled yesterday in the Secretary of State's office here, Chicago, Houston and Beaumont capitalists are the principal stockholders. More than 600 oil companies, with capital stocks aggregating approximately $250,000,000, have been chartered In Texas since oil was discovered at Beaumont less than twelve months ago. Frank H. Peavey, Grain Man, Ill. CHICAGO, December condition of Frank H.

Peavey, the Minneapolis grain man, Ill of pneumonia at the Auditorium Annex, was said to be much improved today. Hammond, who is attending him, stated that Mr. Peavey's temperature was 103 and his respiration 60, crisis will be reached said Dr. Hammond, "and I expect that the patient will go through it successfully. His wife is here, and he is being given every possible attention." CHeSS The seventh American chess congress is a prospective event that has just appeared on the horizon of Caissa.

to be held in St. Louis during its World's Fair in 1903. It is calculated that $10,000 must be raised to make the congress a success. Subscribers to the amount of $10 will receive the book of the congress containing the masters' games properly analyzed, the best problems (with solutions) contributed to the problem tourney, name, address and amount of each subseriber and all the other proceedings of the congress. Names of managing committee are Max Judd, Office Men's Chess Club, St.

Louis, Ben R. Foster, St. Louis Chess Club: Dr. J. L.

Ormsbee, secretary Missouri Chess Association, Springfield, Mo. Subscriptions and all other communications relating to the congress should be sent to Dr. J. L. Ormsbee, Springfeld, Mo.

PILLSBURY'S FAREWELL. On Saturday, January 11, Champion Harry N. Pillsbury will give his farewell blindfold seance at the Franklin Chess Club prior to his departure for Europe to enter the Monte Carlo tournament, which starts February 1. Mr. Pillsbury will represent the Franklin at Monte Carlo, where the first prize will be 5,000 francs.

The Junior Chess Club schedule has been recast owing to the withdrawal of Mr. Scattergood. The University of Pennsylvania chess tournament terminated by Mr. Pardes winning to 1 and first prize, while Mr. Addleman took second honors with a score 2.

The University has a strong chess contingent this year. The triangular college chess match between Pennsylvania, Cornell and Brown will take place next week in New York city. Two from each university. MOST BRILLIANT GAME. There is one game that stands as the most briliant on record.

It has never been surpassed or even equaled from the standpoint of pure brilliancy. 'We allude to the Evans gambit partie won by Anderssen, the then champion, from Jean Dufresne in white's development, but is really better play. 8. Kt 3. to 3.

9. to 5. to Kt 3. He could not play Kt on account of to sq. in reply, 10.

to sq. Kt to 2. It is better to play to Kt 3, menacing Kt to 4. 11. to 3.

to Kt 4. This counter move has been tried in many similar situations in this gambit and was thought to be an effective way of meeting 1853. White- Black-Dufresne. 1. to 4.

to 4. Kt to 3. Kt to 3. 3. to 4.

to 4. 4. to Kt 4. Kt P. 5.

to 8. to 4. 6. to 4. P.

7. Castles. to 6. Made for the purpose of threatening the attack. 12.

Kt P. to Kt sq. 13. to 4. to 3.

14. Kt to 2. to Kt 2. 15. Kt to 4.

to 4. Better is Kt to 3. 16. P. to Now for the beginning of the end.

17. Kt to 6 ch. Kt. 18. P.

to Kt sq. At this point the game was broken off in the October issue of the German Schachzeltung with the announcement that white won the game in. a wonderful way and the chess public was invited enter a guessing match to discover the modus operandi. Following forms the great conclusion: 19. to sq.

Kt. 20. Kt ch. Kt R. 21.

ch. Q. 22. to 5 ch. home.

23. to 7 ch. moves. 24. Kt mate.

FINE PLAY. Fine 7 3 play by Mr. Meredith, of New Jersey. No. 2,181.

BLACK. WHITE. WHITE. White to play and mate in two moves. THE PROBS.

Mr. Belcher's (No. 2127) done through sq. Dr. Graham's (No.

2128) through the same move. Found by Priofae, Albert C. Lowe, The Happy, William J. Ferris, I. P.

Blakemore, George C. Reukauff, C. B. Mindil, Huston, J. P.

G. T. McClure, R. Allen, Clericus, Em. Valentine, Albert T.

Rex, G. A. Potter, L. J. Bur, H.

A. Halloway, B. T. Newnam, S. 0.

M. Ovington, Rethmedy L. Bates, Charles L. Cooper, J. H.

Smythe, T. B. Miller, Frank H. Reeves, S. M.

B. ONE-PAWN PROBLEM. Mr. Eugene B. Cook's 2x1 curio, illusmade with a single white pawn.

trating how a two problem may be No. 2,132. BLACK. WHITE. White to play and mate in two moves.

TWO GREAT SHIPS FOR ORIENT Japanese Steamship Company to Order 19-Knot Boats in Europe. SAN FRANCISCO, December Tomioka, superintending engineer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, has arrived here from Yokohama, on his way to Europe, to arrange for the construction of two new steamships for his company to be added to the line now connecting this port with the Orient. The new steamers will each be 500 feet In length between perpendiculars, 545 feet over all, with a brendth of 61 feet, with a gross tonnage of 11,500 cargo capacity or a net tonnage of 9,500 and a horse power exceeding 15,000. They will be required to make at least nineteen knots. Broker Held for Gambling Operations.

OMAHA, December R. Penny, head of the defunct brokerage firm of with headquarters here and branch offices in Iowa and Penneral Nebraska, was to-day arrested, charged with "maintaining and operating gambling devices." The warrant was sworn out by 1 Beatrice, customer, who claims Penny Co. owe him $600 as profits on deals placed with the firm. Mr. Penny 80- companied the Gage county sheriff to Beatrice.

Blew Open Safe and Got $500 in Stamps. COLD WATER, December The postdfice at this place was robbed last night. The safe was blown open with nitro glycerine, and about $500 worth of stamps and money were secured. All papers and books were carried away. The robbers escaped.

RAILROADS PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD FOR THE WEST. Car. Daily. Week-days. TRAINS LEAVE BROAD STREET STATION.

8.40 A. M. daily, Pittsburg, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. (Dining Car.) 10.25 A.

M. daily for Pittsburg and Chicago. (No coaches to Pittsburg.) Limited to two Butfet Parlor Cars. 11.40 A. daily, Pittsburg and Cleveland.

12.20 P. M. "Limited," Pittsburg, Chicago, Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis. (Dining Car.) 4.30 P.

M. daily, Pittsburg, Toledo, Chicago, Nashville (via Cincinnati and Louisville), indianapolis and St. Louis. (Dining 8.25 P. M.

daily, Pittsburg. Columbus, Indianapolis, Louisville and St. Louts. 8.50 P. M.

daily, Pittsburg and Chicago; for Toledo except Saturday. 11.05 P. M. daily, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Cleveland. 11.20 P.

M. daily, Pittsburg and Chicago: dally Knoxville, via Shenandoah Valley Route; for Cleveland except Saturday. Lock Haven 114.25 A. M. Kane Express 78.30 A.

M. Elmira and Renova Express. A. M. Williamsp't Sundays, 4.30 P.

M. 25.30 P.M. Erie Express P. M. and P.

M. Cumberland Valley R. 4.25, 8.40, 11.40 5.30 11.20 P. M. week-days.

Sundays, 4.30 and 11.20 P. M. FOR BUFFALO. Via Emporium Junction, 8.30 A. M.

and 8.25 P. M. daily. Via Canandaigua, 8.30 A. M.

week-days. 8.50 P. except Saturday, and 11.20 P. M. daily.

SCHUYLKILL DIVISION. For Phoenixville. Pottstown and Reading, 5.40, 9.10, 10.28 A. 12.52 (Saturdays only), 1.30, 4.10, 3.33, 8.42 and 11.50 P. M.

Sundays, 6.50, 9.00, 9.23 A. M. 12.32. 5.58. 8.30 P.

M. Phoenixville only, 7.29 A. 2.52, 4.48 and 5.52 P. M. week-days.

For Pottsville, 5.40, 9.10, 10.28 A. 1.30, 4.10, 8.42 P. M. week-days, Sundays, 6.50. 9.23 A.

5.58 P. M. For Hazleton and Wilkesbarre (through vestibuled trains. Pullman Buffet Parlor Cars and Coaches), connecting for Scranton, 9.10 M. and 4.10 P.

M. week-days. FOR YORK. Express, week 8.20, 4.20. 4.40, 5.00, 5.18, 6.50, 7.38, 8.20.

9.03, 9.50, 11.00 A. noon, 12.35. 1.40, 3.00, 3.50, 4.00 (Limited $5.56. 6.00, 7.02, 10.00 P. 12.02 night.

Sundays, 3.20, 4.20, 4.40. 5.00, 5.18, 8.25, 9.50, $11.20 A. $2.30, 4.00 (Limited $5.56. 6.35, 7.02, 10.00 P. 12.02 night.

For Boston, without change, 10.50 A. M. weekdays and 8.05 P. M. daily.

For Sea Girt, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and Long Branch, 8.20, 11.02 A. 3,30 and 4.00 P. M. week-days. For Lambertville, Easton and Scranton.

6.50, 9.01 A. 12.00 noon. 3.52. 5.00 (Lambertville and Easton only), week-days. and 7.02 P.

M. daily. Buffalo, 9.06 A. M. week-days, and 7.02 P.

M. daily. WASHINGTON AND THE SOUTH. For Baltimore and Washington, 3.50, 7.20, 8.32, 10.20, 11.28 A. 3.18, 3.29, 4.46, 5.25.

6.20, $6.55, P. and 12.20 night. week-days. Sundays, 3.50, 7.20, 9.12, 11.23 A. 3.13, 3.29, 4.46, 5.25, P.

and 12.20 night. For Baltimore, accommodation, 9.12 A. 2.16 and 4.01 P. week-days, 5.07 and 11.28 P. M.

daily. Atlantic Coast Line-Express, 12.03 P. M. and 12.20 night, daily. Southern Railway--Express, 6.05 and 6.55 P.

daily. Seaboard Air Line Railway-" Florida and Metropolitan Limited, 3.29 P. daily. Express, 7.20 A. M.

daily. Norfolk and Western Railway--For Memphis and New 6.05 P. M. daily. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway--Express, 10.20 week-days, and 7.31 P.

M. daily. For Old Point Comfort and Norfolk, 10.16 A. week-days, 11.26 P. M.

daily. FOR ATLANTIC CITY. LEAVE BROAD STREET STATION via Delaware River Bridge--Express, 9.40 P. M. week-days.

Sundays, 9,20 A. 7.14 P. M. LEAVE MARKET ST. -Express.

9.00 A. 2.00, 4.00 (60 minutes), 5.16 P. M. week-days. Sundays, 9.00 and 10.00 A.

M. Leave MARKET STREET WHARF as follows: For New York-Express, 9.00, 9.48 A. 4.28 P. M. week-days.

For Seaside Park, Island Heights and Long Branch, 8.12 A. M. and 4.00 P. M. week-days.

Sundays, 8.30 A. FOR CAPE MAY, SEA ISLE CITY, OCEAN CITY AVALON, STONE HARBOR, ANGLESEA, WILDWOOD AND HOLLY BEACH -Express, 9.00 A. and 4.00 P. M. week-days.

Sundays, 9.00 A. M. FOR SOMERS' POINT -Express, 9.00 A. 2.00, 4.00, 5.16 week-days. Sundays, 9.00 and 10.00 A.

The Union Transfer Company will for and check baggage from hotels and residences. J. B. HUTCHINSON, J. R.

WOOD, PHILADELPHIA READING RAILWAY train), 9,80, 10.30, 11.25 A. 12.52 (dining car), 1.30, 8.25, 4.00, 5.00. 5.51. 7.00 8.20 (dining car) P. 12.05 night.

6.00, 8.30, 9.30, 10.80 A. 12.13 (dining car), 1.30, 3.10, 5.00, 5.43, 8.20 (dining car) P. 12.05 night. Leave 24th and Chestnut streets, 3.25, 6.05, 10.20. 11.31 A.

12.57 (dining car), 3.34, 5.56, 7.05, 8.24 (dining car), 11.58 P. N. 6.05, 10.20 A. 12.16 (dining car), 3.34, 5.56, 8.24 (dining car), 11.58 P. M.

In addition to the Liberty Street Terminal, all New York trains except the 12.05 midnight and 2.30 A. connect at Jersey City for new Terminal foot of Whitebal' street (South Ferry). Parlor cars on all day express trains and sleeping cars on night cars to and from New York. FOR BETHLEHEM. EASTON AND POINTS IN LEHIGH AND WYOMING VALLEYS.

2.30, 6.00, 8.00, 10.85, 11.00 A. 12.30, 2.00, 4.30. 5.30. 6.00, 7.00, 8.30 P. M.

6.15, 8.82, 10.35 A. 1.82, 4.00, 7.00, 8.80 P. M. (11.00 A. 8.30 P.

M. week-days and 4.00. 8.30 P. M. Sundays do not connect for Easton.) Wilkesbarre Scranton.

Vestibuled flyer 6 P. M. week-days. Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Chicago. 10.35 A.

12.30 (Black Diamond Express). 7.00, 8.30 P. M. A 7.00, 8.30 P. M.

The 7.00 P. M. daily has no connection for Buffalo or 8.30 P. M. daily for Niagara Falls, For Schuylkill Valley Points.

For Perkiomen R. R. points, week-days, 6.04, 8.58 A. $1.36, $5.21 P. M.

A. P. M. For Phoenixville and Pottstown--Express, 8.30, A. 4.06, 6.36, P.

M. 4.30, 11.08 A. $1.36. 4 36, 6.06, 7.21 P. M.

Sundays.Express, 4.00, 9.06 A. 4.06, 8.36. 10.38 P. M. For Reading--Express, 8.36, A.

4.06, 6.36, $11.36 P. M. 4.30. A. $1.36, 4.86, 6.06, 7.21 P.

M. Sundays P. M. A. $1.51, $6.21 -Express.

4.00, 9.06 A. 4.06, 8.36, P. M. For Lebanon and Harrisburg -Express, 8.36, A. $4.35, 6.86 P.

M. 4.80 M. 7 21 P. M. Sundays 4.00 A.

4.06, 8.38 P. M. $7.06 A. M. For Gettysburg-Week-days, 4.30, 8.36, M.

For Pottsville -Express, 8.36, A. 4.06. 6.36 $11.36 P. M. 4.30, A.

6.06 P. M. Sundays -Express, 4.00. 9.00 A. 4.06, P.

$7.06 A. P. M. For Shamokin and Williamsport -Express, 9,36, A 4,06, $11.36 P. M.

4.80 A. M. Sundays--Express, 4.00, 9.06 4.06. P. M.

Additional for Shamokin-Week-days, Express 6.36 P. M. $1.36 P. M. For Danville and Bloomsburg-Week-deys, $10.21 A.

M. Lock Haven, Clearfield and Bellefonte-Express (sleeper) daily except Saturday, P. M. via Subway. FOR ATLANTIC CITY.

Leave Chestnut Street and South Street Wharves: Week-days-Express, 9.00 A. 2.00, 4.00, 5.00 (60 minutes), 7.15 P. M. 10.00 8.00 A. 5.15 P.

M. Sundays-Express, A 9,00, 0 7.15 P. M. 8.00 A. 5.00 P.

M. Parlor cars on all express trains. FOR CAPE MAY AND OCEAN CITY. Week days 8.45 A. 4.15 P.

M. SundaysChestnut 8.45; South 8.80 A. M. FOR LAKEWOOD 8.45 A. 2.00, 14.15 P.

M. Detailed time tables at ticket offices, 13th and Chestnut 834 Chestnut 1005 Chestnut 609 South Third 3962 Market add at Stations. Pullman parlor car. Union Transfer Company will call for and check baggage from hotels and residences. Anthracite Coal.

No Smoke. No Cinders. Trains Leave Reading Terminal, Philadelphia. FOR NEW YORK. 6.00, 7.30 (two-hour train), 8.30 (two-hour BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

THROUGH TRAIN SWESTWARD. Leave Philadelphia, 24th and Chestnut Streets, Sunday. only. $3.08 P. M.

Sleepers, CINCINNATI. ST. LOUIS, $7.30 $12.20 P. M. and P.

M. Sleepers. CLEVELAND. 14.17 P. Sundays, 8.08 P.

M. PITTSBURG, A. 14.17 P. 113.08 and $9.38 P. M.

"Pittsburg First class fare from Philadelphia on this train only $8.00, second class $7.50. Pullman Drawing-room Sleeping Car. Dining Car serves breakfast. ROYAL BLUE LINE For BALTIMORE and Washington, 110,26 A. and 14.17 D.

$7.26 and $9.38 P. M. R. "ROYAL LIMITED, finest daylight train in he world. Exclusively Pullman Equipment, Buffet Smoker, Parlor and Observation Buffet Cars, Unexcelled Dining and Cafe Car Service.

No extra fare other than Pullman charge. Dining Car. For other trains to Chester and Wilmington secure time table from Ticket Agents. Offices 834 Chestnut 13th and Chestnut 1005 Chestnut 3962 Market 609 8, 3d 1209 N. 2d and Station, 24th and Chestnut Sts.

FOUNDED SEELEY'S HARD RUBBER TRUSSES, ARE RUPTURE CURERS. CHESTERMAN STREETER, 25 BELOW 59 11 MARKET. TN ST. TO.