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r. THE BROOKLYN1, DAILY KALE. Nl-W your. TUESDAY. SKPTEMREIl 8.

1003. 5 WANT POULSON'S PLAN TRIED. The Congress Club at last Thursday evening's meeting adopted a resolution requesting the city and B. R. T.

officials to make a test of Niels Poulson's plan for the relief of the congestion on the Brooklyn bridge. RIM MAIL CLERKS LEAD STBEKUOUS LIFE. mm mnai.v. droved that the railway mail clerks Ject to far greater liability to deatB ana serious injurv than the gallant officers anu soldiers of the Inited States Army. on the casualties in the two branches 01 tne service for ten years back.

The modern last mail is achieved through sacrifice of nxr. limb and longevity that is appalling. the last vear or so the position in the train HOW MUCH 4f, TO SETTLE STRIKE SLAVERY J3T1LL EXISTS. A PARROT BIDS ADIEU. Life's Sunny Side.

Oil! when 'tis a And the yel The waters And the cuckoo ships unseen, And the leaves art: waving green Oil! then 'tis sweat. In some retreai. To hear the murmuring dove. With those whom on earth ulot.e we leiv. And to wind through the greenwood together.

Hut when 'lis winter weather. And crosses grieve, And friends deceive, And rain and elect The lattice beat, oh! then 'tis sweet To sit and sing Of (he friends whom, in the days of spring, We roam'd through the greenwood together. W. L. HOW LES.

'Back to the Woods for Mine," Quoth He. in Lenving His Little Mistress. "Hoiecy," a green, red nnd gold Mexican parrel, has tlown his cage at the home of William Roth, its Liberty avenue, and Mr. Roth's year old daughter Gertrude is grieving over the loss of her pet. "Itnmey" was bought by Mr.

Roth last, winter while Gertrude was sick, and while convalescing she taught him to repeat words nud sentences after her. Some Ihings she lnught, him to say were "Goodby" nnd "Hack to the woods for mine." Gertrude never dreamed that some day sli would hear these words front Iter pet under circumstances that would bring her great sorrow. Friday her big brother, Herman, took "lfomey' out of his cage for an airing, lie was accustomed to walk around Ihe big piazza every day or two. No sooner was he out of his cage on Friday than he seemed to hear a call from alar, and. Happing his long unused wings for a moment, as It getting in readiness, he flew to a tree.

Ho sal there on a limb for another moment and then as Gertrude, astonished at his ciuecr actions, called her pet to come to her, he turned with a wicked leer and called out: "Goodby. Back to the woods for mine." Then he flew away and has never been seen by Gertrude since. The little girl cried all day Friday and Saturday for her pet, and Mr. Roth offered the hoys in Hie neighborhood a reward if I hey would find but "Romey" has left, the neighborhood. NEW SHIP FOR ATLANTIC TRADE.

Star of Ireland Latest Arrival of Tyser Fleet in Atlantic Dock. The new steamship Star of Ireland arrived Sunday at Flinch, Edyn South Central pier, Atlantic Dock, to load for the Australian and New Zealand ports. This is her maiden trip, having only taken her Irial trip on August IS. She was built for J. P.

Currie Co. of London and Belfast, but is chartered by the Tyser Line. Tho two corporations aro practically tho same firm. Tho Star of Ireland was built, by Workman Clark of Belfast. Her principal dimensions nre as follows: Length, 3S0 feet; beam, 40 feet; depth, 32 feet; gross tonnage, 4,300 tons: measurement, 0,000 tons; dead weight PARIS FASHIONS TJP TO DATE.

From the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus. Tailor made, of green cloth, ornamented with row3 of stitching of same color; yoke skirt, with panel front. WILL TOUR EUROPE. Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Moore, of No. 630 Flatbush avenue, Flatbush, sailed this morning on tho Kronprinz Wilhelnt for Berlin. Mr. Moore's business is the cause of the voyage, and his duties will tako hir.i to Moscow pnd at. Petersburg in Russia, io Peking In China, possibly to Damascus hi Turkey in Asia, ami to Paris, London ami Liverpool.

Mrs. Moore will accompany her husband throughout the trip. BIG IMMIGRATION DAY. As a sort of aftermath of the Labor Day holiday, Ellis Island officials arc confronted to-day with one of the largest crowds of immigrants of the past six weeks. Six ships contribute a total of 4,573 aliens to be registered to-day, as follows: S.

S. Vuited States, 917; Furnesaia, 380; Finland. Stnton-dam, 598; Deutschland, 267; Neapolitan Prince, 1,011. FOR ADOPTION. A HEALTHY QIHL BABY, 10 DAYS OLD; FCLL explanations Riven and best references required.

Apply to Mrs. HARTS! A. NX, 1,332 Myrtle av, Brooklyn. MARRIED. JACORS AHItHNS On September 7, 151.

by the Kev. Raphael llenjamin. M. of the Koan St Temple, Brooklyn, FLORENCE AllIlK.VS to JESSE DIED. BENNETT On September 7, WILLIAM HE.NNET'P.

In the year of his kc. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, East Twenty-second st and KinK's highway, flraveaend, on Thursday. September at V. S.I. Kindly omit Mowers.

BUTTS At Brooklyn. N. on Monday, Septem-ber 7. lira, after a lingering Illness, J. ISLISSA-BKTH Daughter of James A.

and Ele-tlila V. Melts. Notice of funeral hereafter. iDanhury. please copy.) BROWN-On Monday, September 7, M03.

at her residence. 711!) LeKalh av. MARIA LOIISK HOROTHEA, wliluw of Henry Brown. In her Sid year. Relatives and friends are invlterl to attend services at Evangelical Lutheran Zlon Church Henry st.

near Clark, on Thursday at 1:30 P.M. BURKE On September PATRTCK C. BURKE beloved husband of Catherine McLoiurhlhi. Funeral from late resldenee, si. Mark's place, on Thursday, September at 9 thenco to St.

Augustine's Church, where a soil emn requiem mass will bo offered for the repose of his soul. Interment at Holy Cross. 8-2 CAMERON At Tony. on September 4 1'103 Dr. HENRY UK HAVEN CAMERON, of this city.

Funeral sen-Ices at his late residence, 38 Seventh av. on Thursday evening, at o'clock Interment private. CUDOY-On Monday. September 7, 1003. FRANKLIN MARCUS, only son or William and lVi-Ho Hunan Cuddy, aged 21 years.

Funeral services at his late residence. 219 Hooper st, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. September 9 at I P. M. s.a KRANCIS On Sunday, September 6 19il3 WIN-FIELD S.

FRANCIS, son of the late William Francis. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral sen-Ices, to be held at the residence of his sister. Mrs. E. L.

Barnes. 1S9 Franklin av, Tuesday evening, at 8 o'clock. Interment private. SUREY-On Tuesday, September 8. ROBERT J.

FUREY. at his residence. Iu3 Sackett st. Notice of funeral hereafter. NEWMAN On Sunduy, September 8, 1503, EDWARD eldest son of William and Ellen Newman.

Relatives and friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 907 Kent av, Wednesday. September 9. at 0:30 A. M. thence to St.

Patrick's Church, Kent and Wllloughby avs, where a solemn mass of requiem will be ottered for the repose of his soul. BEINHARR. nee DROOE-On Mondav, September 7. 1003, ANNA CATHERINE, beloved wile of Francis H. Helnhard, In her uth year.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at her late residence, 970 ruo av, urooKlyn. on Wednesday, Septcm- oer hi 9 1-. M. interment private. RORKE-On Sunday, September fi, after a short illness, at his home, Lake Mahopac, J.

PRYOR HORKE. Funeral services Wednesday, September 9. at Lake Mahopac. Carriages will meet train leav ing umiiu itnirai Depot gt 8:15 A. M.

7-2 RORKE Veteran Volunteer Flremen-Fx-Presl. dent I. PRYOR RORKE died at his res'dence La ke Mahopac, Y. Funeral services. Wednesday.

September 9 at Lake Mahopac. Carriages will meet train leaving Grand Central Depot at 8:13 A. Joseph H. Downing. Secretary.

BHILLAK On Monday. September 7, 1903 afler a lingering illness, IDA, beloved wife 'of the late Louis Shillak. In her 67th year. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from her late resldenee, 732 Union st on Thursday, September 10, at 2 P. M.

8-2 SMITH At White Plains. N. Mondav evening September 7, 1903, EDWARD SMITH, In his 66th year. Services Thursday, September 10, at the residence of his daughter. Mrs.

Wm Weeks 18 North Broadway. White Plains, N. at 4:16 o'clock P. M. Train leaves Grand Central depot at 3:06 P.

M. 8.2 WILLIAMS On Sunday. September 6. at the home of her father, J. s.

Allen, w.i Kosciusko st JESSIE ELLA, wife of Irving Williams. Funeral services Tuesday evening, September 8, 8 o'clock, at Janes M. E. Church, Reid av and Monroe st. Interment Wednesday.

Cypress Hills. 7.3 IN MEMORIAM. MCGINNISS In memory of our beloved child, GRACIE M. McGINNISS, who passed away 6eptember 8, 1902, aged 6 years. Where'er He sees a smile too bright, Or heart too pure for taint and vice, He bears it to that world of light.

To dwell In Paradise. EDWIN BAYHA, Undertaker and Licensed Embalmer, 118 Atlantlo ave. Telephone 1259 Main. Finest Funeral Equipages. occupied by the postal or mail car was immediately behind the the government insisted that another car dc placed between thst containing the employes and the tender so as to le881 I prospects of Injuries In head-on collisions, i The government also makes certain require-l nients In the construction of postal ears which are intended to give to them real" strength than the average ears.

Last year the casualtv record of the railway -I killed. clerks sericusly injured, 88; cieiks slightly Injured. 3v2. I I The fiends of the railway mail clerks nn.l..n.-n-,nv fne rears to OJtaln I I for them'thi benefits of a pension list, but ail direction have failed I to dnte. It is hrllei-ed that when members I of Congress understand better the risks, danger and hardships which these men are I called npou to endure, they will view the proposlMon in a inure liberal way.

The Postinas-n- General was last year authorized to pay to the legal representative of clerks kille.l the line of dutv the sum o. M.t'il. that ir the onlv concession lilch I Congrers has yet made. Railroad compa-j and larce corporations are finding it to their inteic3t to care for their disabled eni-I ployvs. and those In charge of the railway 'mail service think it but ju.n that thes') clerks should reieive the same treatment.

The pay of the government employes who I endure tbi3 strumous life ia, rniuparatn my 1 speaking, poor. The men s.tart iu at $800. and it Is posnlMe for a limited few to re-enjve as high as 1 .500 The merit system prevails in tht3 service. Original 81- poiutmenls are secured by passing a civil service oamination. r.n.l the promotions are airo based on ihe element of fltneyrs.

No derision has yet been reached by the Posi 'Jlfiee Ueparlment oiTieirls as to the dis position of the $30,000 v.hich is being withheld from the Bundy Manufacturing Company for the time Decision Awaited in Time Clock Case. clocks furnished to the department by that company. It is understood that tho so-called contract by which Masten and Beavers undertook to bind the department to the purchase of Bundy clocks for a period of four years. merely a letter signed by Mastcii as acting First Assistant Postmaster General, accepting a "proposition'' made by the Bundy people and was, in reality, no contract at all. The fact that Beavers and Maslen undertook to drive away from the department the Dey Time Register Company, whose clocks were favorably passed upon by a duly appointed board, by insisting on tho existence of a bona fide contract with the Bundy Company, has also operated against the company nnd the parties named.

Now that, the matter is before ihe Grand Jury of tho District of Columbia, where efforts are being made to ascertain what became of the "40 per cent." difference between the price of tho clocks, as sold to the government, and that quoted to outside purchasers, the Post Office De partment is considering the question of disposing of the $30,000 that is duo on tho contract. The alleged contract having been repudiated by the Postmaster General, the validity of the purclic.se of the clocks which have not yet been paid for is questioned. It is suggested that as there Is no valid contract existing the department can turn back to the company tho surplus clocks, which were apparently purchased for no other purpose than to to pay for them. XfiULS'OJJllLsave the1 government thousands of dollnfs. Another solution advanced is that a compromise may be reached by which the government will pay the regular market price or less for the clocks, cutting oft tho "40 per or $o0 to $00 advance on each clock.

The Eastern Press Bureau of the St. Louis Exposition Company is informed that three carloads of material World's for the Texas exhibit Yair nave Dce" received at tr 'he commission's headquarters, at Fort Worth. Those in charge of Tennessee's representation at St. Louis purpose to erect a reproduction of the Hermitaao as the state building. Another interesting reproduction of historic buildings will be of structures in towns that have been, pro tempore, the capitals of the United States.

It Is not generally known that the sessions of Congress have been held In as many as ten halls in this country. The first Congress met in Carpenter's Philadelphia. It then met in Congress Hall, Philadelphia, afterward adjourning to Congress Hall, Baltimore, Md. During a troublesome period in the Revolutionary War the Congress met for one day in the old Court House In Lancaster. Pa.

This court houso was torn down in 1SS3, but a good photograph of tho strueturo exists. Congress at, one time met at. York, then at Nassau Hall, Princeton; then in the Court House at Trenton, and again at Federal Hall, New York. Finally Washington became the statlonarv capital of the United States. Fine photographs of all these buildings will be exhibited at St.

Louis. From accounts in the hands of Surgeon General W'yman. yellow fever Is more or less prevalent, in the country south of Mexico and is rapidly approaching to the Texas border. Assistant Sur Yellow Fever Danger in Mexico. geon Hamilton, at Laredo, informs Uencral Wyman I hat he has Information that this disease exists at Linares, ninety miles from Monterey, adding that yellow fever Is gradually getting closer to Monterey.

Mosquitoes of the kind that carry the germs of yellow fever have been seen nar the railroad depots of Monterey, so that there ia more or less danger of the disease being spread broadcast. The rains in tint region have been plentiful and the mosquito breeding places are numerous. Surgeon Hamilton Is exercising the greatest precaution to prevent the Introduction ol yellow fever Into his district. He has personally examined a number of cases of sickness at that, place, and, although he has found considerable typhoid, ho has seon no evidence of yellow fever. The past yenr was a prosperous one for the directors of the Suez Canal Company, as there was a larte Increase of traffic through the passageway.

The transljnt receipls. according to Affairs of the Suez Canal Comimny. a report to the Department of Commerce, amounted to more than 103.000,000 franca, a gain over the receipts of the preceding year of 3,000,000 francs. No special reason is assigned for this Increase except that the economical situation In India has recently Improved and that there has been an Increased activity in the trade with the East. The number of vessels passing through the canal was .1.441 In 10.10 3,699 In 1901 and 3.708 In 1M2.

Notwithstand ing the increase in the quantity of tonnage, the mean duration of nassaze for all ves sels navigating the canal was reduced to 18 hours 2 minutes In 1892, as compared with 18 hours 41 minutes in the previous year. The number of troops carried through the canal last year amounted to agalnnt in 19U1. A. B. A.

MARRIED FORTY-THREE YEARS. (Special to the Eagle.) Worcester, September 8 Mr. and Mrs. George P. Stockwell of Brooklyn celebrated the forty-third anniversary of their marriage at the Walling Mansion, Millbury, Friday night, this being the town in which they were married.

Mrs. Stockwell is a daughter of the late Nelson Walling of Millbury and Mr. Stockwell is a native of Sutton, the adjoining town. During the evening a silver loving cup, suitably inscribed, was presented to the couple. It was also the occasion of the celebration of George P.

Stockwell's birthday. Among those present were the Misses Stockwell of Brooklyn. OLIVIER FAMILY REUNION. (Special to the Eagle.) Worcester, September 8 Horace B. OliJer of Brooklyn attended a family re union nt the home of A.

T. Lamoreux, 10 Groton place, Sunday night, it being the first time that his mother, Mrs. Marie Olivier, 89 years old, had met all of her children for over twenty-five years. Five of the six children attended the reunion. Percentage of Death and Injury Received in Line of Duty Greater Than in Army.

YELLOW FEVER IN MEXICO. Disease Rapidly Aoproaching the Tsxas Bsrtltr Decision Awaited in I Time Clock Case. Eagle Hureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. September Incle Sam has an army of faithful workers whom th': percentage of death ami serious Injuries, received In the line of duly, is greater than In the regular military yet the public hears little or nothing of those I persons. They are the men who are enlisted la tht! United States railway mail service, and in a paradoxical war thry lire nearer to (he general public th.in any other class of government employes.

Thev servo on the In at mail trains that are flying about the country day and night being caged in postal cars nad out of the sight of the regular travelers. Hut there is no branch of the great postal system where more accuracy and care are required, or where the conditions of work are so trying end unfavorable as in the railway mall service. In addition to being subjected to the most arduous of physical duties, performed unnatural conditions, tho railway mail clerks have constantly over them the danger of death or injury through a smash-up. With it nil they receive poor pay, get no pension and come in for very small commendation. There uro some ten thousand clerics In the railwny mail service.

In their journeying)- they cover a grand total cf 323, 000,000 miles and last year handled the enormous number of fifteen billions pieces of mail. The above figures are probably not readily comprehended, but it is sufficient to say that they embrace the present operations of a wonderful institution, which is strictly American in origin and development. The United States mails were first carried on rai It-guys, ill 1834. In genesis of this soi vice the roads covered just 73 miles, all told. Two years later the following bulletin was issued from the department: "There are no delays in the mail.

Letters from New York arrive In twelve (lays and thirteen hours, and from New Orleans iu thirteen days and eighteen hours." In another yenr the service had grown until It covered nearly miles of railway, and from that time on it gained very rapidly. At present it embraces the entire country, the mails having been transported over miles of road on June 30 last. It was not until 1864 that the officials devised the scheme of sorting mails on trains en route instead of losing time by having Ihem made up in the offices of deposit. Prior to that year the mail was carried in closed bigs and not opened en route, the sacks being accompanied by messengers to take care of them. But in 1SK4 railway post offices were established and year by year the system was improved and expanded until now It is the most highly developed branch of the entire postal service.

The country is divided into eleven railway mail divisions, with a 'superintendent In charge of each and responsible, for its management. Tho general superintendent, cf the whole outfit Is James K. White, who Is a veteran in the government employ. He entered the postal service In I860, passed through sail the grades of the railway mail system and was made general superintendent in ISM. The railway mail clerk Uvea what may properly be called a strenuous life.

It la nothing unusual tor him to work continuously from fifteen to tweuty-seven hours. Me is on duty several hours before his train starts on a run. He takes advantage of this opportunity to arrange his car, hanging up the pouches and sacks In the iron racks, fixing the destination labels In position and getting in readiness for tho more arduous work of receiving the mall, opening the bags and distributing their contents. He is in full operation by the time the engine pulls out of the station and from that time on to the end of the route the narrow quarters of the mail car present a scene of great industry. Any one who has had difficulty in reading a newspaper reclining In a comfortable chair of a Pullman will be able to appreciate slightly the job that the mail clerk has back in the swaying car.

By the aid of a light which is poor at the best, legs spread apart in an effort to maintain an equilibrium, he has to decipher all kinds of illegible handwriting, tossing tho letters into the proper bags and hurrying on with the work In order to make up the sack for the next station. The men work In crews, the size of which depends on the importance of the route. One of the crew puts the mail off at each station and receives the pouches for outgoing places. Often the train speeds past a station without stopping nnd In that event tho pouch Is thrown from the door by the clerk, while the pouch from the wayside station is honked by the iron catcher, which is extended to pick up bags alongsido tho track. This process of receiving and putting off mall, distributing letters and making up bags Is kept up lor the entire journey, right and day.

Any spare moments. that the clerk may find aro taken up in checking receipts for registered mail, making reports, answering letters pertaining to official business and various other duties. After fintshing a long trip the clerk may go to his home In the hope of getting a rest preparatory to going out on his next run. Hut before ho can take off his coat he Is liable to receive an order to report at once on an out-going train for another extended trip to fill a vacancy created by the illness of a brother operator. While the working quarters of the railway mail clerk have been greatly Improved In recent years, they are far from comfortable even now.

Sometimes the traveling post office occupies the modest space of twelve or fifteen feet in a portion of the express car. But on large and Important railway lines the arangements are much better, in some instances taking up an entire car. Occasionally the roads make up a special train of postal cars. This Is done on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the night mail from New York City requiring a special train of seven mall cars, and another of like proportions leaves New York City every night for the West over the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad. It takes a man of robust constitution and iron nerves to stand the daily racket to which the railway mail clerk is subjected.

He 1b always overworked, and with it all must be ever alive and alert, expert, speedy and accurate. A letter misthrown by him while the train Is rushing around sharp curves at a speed of sixfy miles an hour may break a heart, burst a bank or ruin a corporation. The constant lurching of cars, the continued effort to maintain a steady and upright position and the monotonous and never ending vibration are terribly destructive to the nervous and mental forces. A stoy is told of one aspirant for employment who was assigned to a hard route. He never finished his first trip.

He went half way, got, disgusted, bought a ticket and returned home as a passenger. When asked what his job involved, he replied: "Lifting and unlocking 200-pound sacks, shaking out contents, arranging same, removing pouches, locking same, carrying same away, jumping on and stamping mail matter, rearranging seeks, then going over same work, continuing same seventeen hours without rest, with trains flying around curves and slinging you against everything that is not slung against you. The annual report of Superintendent White contains a gruesome casmnitv miumn rn 1,11 th? effort" of the government officials to every possible safeguard about its worker on Urn n. of killed and maimed is growing with alarm- ii y. By actual comparison, It Is may ho I hi cat sen.si: ive to whether mine ears, but I sin ive peculiarly sensl-patn.

I mean. I can-en more than uro thai certain ex- i pie, he shrill ones, hurt I me as definitely, thueh not io so great a of course, as a stab in the ear with .1 darning needle wiimM. So Hs rain is concerned I would rather have a give ine a good, smart slap In the t.ee th.an have him shout sharply within a toot or two of my car. ej, and then, too, everybody would say I was justified In punching his nose, whereas In the case of shout I nhould be severely frowned upon ii 1 resented the greatest injury iu the same manner. Now, 1 not one of your hatchet-faced I old nmiils with nerves enough for a whole family and every one of them eternally on edge.

I'm not everlasting going up and down tiie earth looking for trouble. Honest Injiii, I'm a pretty good-natured sort o' chap most of the time. Hut hy the llnctilious tademander (and that's a terrible oath) I can roil up like the water In a hog-wallow when a dozen or inure yawping newsboy! climb upou tho running board of a Flatbush avenue car at Malhono street and yoop and yell and vie with each other in Inflicting wholly unnecessary screeches on the pafeeners. While I am in the humor for It I mav I wo" ln word, too. about the driver v.lio carries a sharp-voiced whiffet around on his wagon-seat and keeps him barking in his tones all the time he Is going through a crow i thoroughfare.

But no! Come to think of it, tl.n word would not look well Iu print. Pet'hUiis you remember the Judge's story, told In this column tho other day, about the young college graduato who pulled himself out of a financial hole by selling frankfurters on Boston Common. Well, here i another Jtory that the Judge told me about the same oung man whoso resources were so many mm bo ingenious and who might now be riding iu his own automobile, instead of being chauffeur for a wealthy Now Yorker, If he had only applied himself consistently' to somo legitimate business. Ho was broke, as usual, when he obtained employment as canvasser for a certain set of books which wero sold on the installment plnn, Etich subscriber paid down, and this was to be the agent's commission. The young man's first move was to go to a certain large factory, show the really good books to the manager, tako his subscription free of charge, and obtain the privilege of displaying his samples on a table near the office when tho workmen came down for their pay.

Thus with very little effort ho secured nbout a hundred subscriptions In that ono factory by quietly explaining io the workmen that they had only to pay the $1, get tho hooka, read them within a month, and let tho puolishers tako them back when tho second payment fell due. If they wanted to For a week or so after that he flew high and did no work. Then, finding himself broko again, he chose, for some inexplicable reason, to pawn his sample set of books rather than go on working the field that he had found so profitable. This, however, put a new Idea into his ever-ready noddle, so he went back to tho publishers, told them he hud lost bis samples, and asked for another boI. In view of tho largo number of orders he hnd taken, his request was complied with and he started out to work among the waiters in cheap restaurants, telling them they could each pay him 1, get the books, read them (if they wanted to), and then pawn them for This proposition was so templing l() tho irresponsible waiters that he managed to pick up another Jim) or so, which seemed to be the limit of his desire, for he then gave up the book business and.

when he was broke again, turned his fruitful mind to other schemes. What fools some smart folks are! WILLIS BROOKS. ART NOTES. Arthur How. the well known art instructor at Pratt's, has closed his summer school at Ipswich and will soon set out on his Journey around the world.

Mr. I.w has long been an enthusiastic admirer of Japanese art, and his admirihlo elucidations of Its principles have awakened great interest among his students at Pratt's, the League and elsowhere. Mr. How will spend some time in Japan, and sillily, among other things, the famous natural and artificial landscapes of the East and of Europe. Ail exhibition of water colors will be held at the October.

Hooper Gallery, about the first of Local. Manhattan and foreign I artists will be represented. A large group of canvases from the brush 1 Hgglesmn will be hung in the Gallery this coming month. Among eiciai recently painted pictures. The Guild i.f Arts and Crafts established nt Ihe Guild House, lnfi East Twenty-third street, Miiiilintlan.

has on its staff of teachers two or mure local artists. Miss Charlotte II. Iluseh is corresponding secretary and applications for conditions of membership may be made to her. Miss Iluseh is president, Amy M. Hicks, financial secretary, and Czara A.

Johnson, rei secretary. The class 111 design is under Amy Mall Hicks; wrought leather. C. II. Huseh: ornamental on tal work, G.

J. Iluseh; enameling, Emily Peacock: basketry. Mary White; china decoration. Mary A. N'eal.

also water color i painting: modeling. Caroline Peddle Ball. 'I i'e guild is an association ef craftsmen cooperating to maintain a standard which shall be ssi in the union of the art of design with tlie art of production. To this end, it lias established work shops nnd salesrooms In guild house. order that the educational and professional aims may be harmoniously developed.

FLATBUSH AVENUE EXTENSION. "Hopeless" Is Under the Impression That It Has Been Sidetracked to Increase "Graft." To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: Would you kindly advise through the column for correspondents in the Sunday Eagle whether the extension of Flatbush avenue is to be made, and ulso when the work on same ia to commence. Or is this promised relief to Brooklyn sidetracked with Bridge No. 3 in order to increase the amount of HOPELESS. Brooklyn, N.

August 27, 1U03. Flatbush avenue is not to be extended io the sense as probably ui'derstood by "Hopeless." The anu-uaeh to the Manhattan Bridge, or Bridge No. 3, however, is to be carried up to the Junction of Flatbush avenue and Fulton and in this way the idea of extending Flatbush avenue will practically bo carried out. The Board of Estimate has committed itself to this plan, but It will be some lime before work on tlie approach will be carried out. It Is expected that the Board of estimate will soon authorize tlie corporation counsel to apply for the appoint mont of Commissioners to condemn the land needed for the upproach to the bridge.

Some time ago a city otiicial discussing the matter in the Eugle said thai if a hustling commission Is appointed the for the ennui ir.iu.tlon of the pi open required could be completed in a year. Meanwhile, as Tammany has refused to appropriate money for the superstructure of the bridge, there Is no immediate necessity for the Approach. fi raili tons exclusive of the bunkers summer weather, ellow bee, with fairy sound, clear is humming rour.d. lawyers believe that Justice Bart left is entitled to the high honor of being presiding Justice, but, then, Justice Bartleti Is a Democrat, which Is apparently a fatal fact. Since Ihe Governor heard lhat.

angry cry "Hands off the Judiciary" some lime ago, If Is thought, that ho will not. think II. discreet to appoint an up-slate judge to preside in Brooklyn. Have we not Judges here in our own county who quite measure up Io the standard? Answers to Inquiries. Note to eor-ef-tion-lents All persons writing lot-tnrs for use in tl.ts rulunm shoul-l ml lress "Lux, Hrooklyn iMily Knale." to Insure tlii.lr celling Into the proper hunds without unnivossiiry d' tay.

"ilrnteful" The instrument iu speak of is pri'tiahly a ehattrl niortuaKe. It cannot re-crrderl oecauso It in not "aeknowlo.lKi'il" bofore a notary or eomniisslontT or othor olllr-lal. A rhal-t'-l morlKawe only a eondit ional sale. II does not heroine an ahs-inte sale unless the rnortKRKnr fails to pay the iiiTiount staled therein ai the time it Is due. When it Is paid the mortiiaKo le nuil and void.

It Is not neeessary to reeord It. 1s merely a nollre Io third parties and therefore only a protection. (See Laws of 1MI7. I'hanur 418, Article VIII.) R. T.

ftmytiie If you were paid by a elieek whirh vou aeeeiuoii and deposited In your hank lor eol-leetton, and the ehe, rame liaek marked there Is no reason why you eannot sue Hie person for the Roods he bonsht of you. 'Pile de was not dlsrhnrged even IhouKh you Rave a reeelpl li. Payment by cheek is not absolute. Mrs. L.

'P. O. Vou should pay no att-ntion to tiie old phrase. "The xreater the truth the preater the libel." ir the letter which was circulated Inlured your irlend he can sue for libel and the writer Is allowed to come In court end siioiv that It was the trill II nnd try to "justify" the, wrlllnr on that theory. ('.

T. ft. Yes. The contract Is In, linn. The slcnatiire need not he In Ink; lea, I peicll ts siiftl.

rlent. Neither need the full name he sinned to a contract, t.ne wimple Initials of the party iiir all lhat the law requires. RETURNED FROM CAMP. The members of Companies D. and Forty-seventh Regiment, who participated In the Joint pleasure trip to Highland Beach, N.

returned home lost night thoroughly pleased with their trip. Nothing occurred in any way to mar the outing, which was made especially pleasant owing to the fine weather which prevailed. Tho three companies, comprising about members, and making up a provisional battalion, left the Marcy avenue armory Saturday afternoon and reached their destination hy tho water route where they selected a fine site and pitched their tents. Tho command of tho battalion devolved in turn upon Captain Ernest E. Jannleky of Company and Captain Charles H.

May of Company I), while Lieutenant W. C. Hnnton acted as battalion ailjuiant, and First Lieutenant John Fi. Christoffel of Company was quartermaster and commissary. Major and Surgeon Frederick .1.

J. Wood of Ih? Forty-seventh Itegiment, who was granted two months leave of absence and permission to leave the country. Is expected back this month He has been making a tour through Europo and visited England, Germany, Holland and France GLOVERSVILLE PLEASED. The following is on extract from a letter from a prominent citizen of Gloversville, In reference to an article on Gloversville, in last Sunday's Eagle: To the-Editor of tho Brooklyn Eagle; "I received your copy of the Brooklyn Eaglo and very much enjoyed reading it. Our local paper copied the article very nearly in full and It created quite a sensation as well as a good deal of pleasure.

Whoever wrote the article was a fine writer." A READER. Brooklyn, September 6, HI03. ANNUAL C. K. OF A.

MASS. Ths annual requiem mass for the deceased members of the Catholic Knights of America was celebrated yesterday morning at Church of St. John the Evangelist, Twenty-first street, near Fifth avenue. The Rev. Father Duhlgg, pastor of the churctt, was the celebrant.

Members of the various branches of the order in the borough assembled at Hartung's Hall, Fifth avenue and street and marched In a body to th" church. GOLD MEDAL FOR LIFE SAVERS. A gold medal, with nine gold bars, will be presented to Jack Flnnerty, who has a record of saving twenty-eight persons from drowning in the waters around New York, tho presentation taking place at Rob's Casino, North Biach, on Friday evening, September 11. Legal Light for Laymen BY LUX." The Question of Costs. The power to award costs in lawsuits was originally given so that the party in the right could be compensated for Ins trouble by the party iu the wrong.

Thus, for example, when one party litigant has prepared and served a complaint which Is not sufll- ciently "definite and certain," the other party may move to have the mistake rectified. If the court so decides, it grants the motion usually with $10 costs, which is supposed to compensate the defendant or his attorney for the trouble of making a motion to rectify a mistake made by tho other party. Tho presumption, of course, is that the mutiou was necessary to protect defendant's rights Rnd interests that he could not make a proper answer until the complaint was' more "definite and certain," and this being so, it does sewn reasonable that the extra trouble he is put to by the other party's carelessness or ignorance in pleading should be paid for in costs. But the practice is abused. And the abuse of the practice is becoming Intolerant and Injurious to the reputation of the profession.

Why not this instead of promptly making a motion for everything, why should not every lawyer fli'Bt write a note to his opponent, something like this: Dear Mr. I find that the complaint you served In the ease of Is not su.llelently definite nnd eer'mn to enable me to prepare my client's answer. Will you have tlie klndnesB to amend? Or, In ease you think your pleading Is (rood, will you kindly ae-cept short notice of motion eo tint the court may promptly dfeide the question, without costs to either party? Yours truly, etc. As It stands now, lawyers are accustomed to examine papers not with a view of determining whether their clients' Interests are Injured hy some technical defect, but whether they could make a motion and get costs. Why not make a rule, or at least a custom, that will tako away some of this gambling spirit this demoralizing system of making motions for costs? Surrogate Thomas of New York County has admitted to probafo tho will of Adaline I).

Towusond. Tho matter was contested principally on the ground that the testator was of unsound mind and had been unduly influenced through spiritualism. Tho turro-gate In his opinion gives this interesting information upou the subject: "The belief in spiritualism would not affect her testamentary capacity. It may bo that if you could show that, her belief in spiritualism was used as a means by which undue and Improper Influence could be exercised, that that would be a ground for refusing probate; but it has never been held that belief in what wo call and know as American spiritualism would render a person Incapable of executing a will. There Is no decision going to that length, and that the evidence on the subject rather shows the testatrix to have been little more than an Interested inquirer into those alleged phenomena.

"We have largely outlived the craze now. There was a time when a very large portion of the most Intelligent people In the country professed some sort of belief in that notion. If It was true thnt spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, through what are called mediums, then it Is not Insanity so to believe. If It is raise, and she was deceived into believing It, it is nut Insanity to be deceived by a trickster a manipulator of cards or a theatrical exhibitor of Images supposed to represent the dend. That is not Insanity.

You cannot condemn the will on the ground of lack of testamentary capacity on that ground." One of the admittedly brightest lawvers of this borough Is Isaac N. Kapper of the Pearsall combination. It was commonly reported that in, 1901 he was offered the Fusion nomination for surrogate, which for some unknown reason he declined. There are many who were forced to recall tho famillHr quotation that there is a tide in the affairs of men, which, If taken at Ihe flood, leads on to fortune. But then tides have a Perennial habit of rising and falling systematically, and therefore Mr.

Kapper may yet again encounter a flood tide. The great political question now engaging the lawyers Is, Whom will Governor Odell appoint to succeed Justice Goodrich, who will shortly retire on account of the age limit? If It Is to be a Kepuhlican Supreme of Second Department it will be either Justice Maddox or Justice Dickey. Since It is a appointment, the bar Is hoping that the Governor will exercise unusual care and discrimination In making the selection. No doubt most of the have extra large capacity to meet the de- mauds of the colonial trade. The ship is equipped with three Insulated holds, rcfrig- orated by the CO.2 process, to hold xu.ouo carcasses of chilled mutton.

She is lilted with tripte expansion engines, of 23, 43 and 72 inch diameters, with a 4S inch stroke. These are operated by three single ended multi-tubular boilers equipped with How-den's forced drought. The furnaces consume about 32 tons of coal daily, and (lying light the vessel made the run across the Atlantic from Barry Dock iu 11 days 4 hours, an average speed of 11 '4 knots per hour. The vessel Is equipped with the latest devices in the phapu of electrical lighting and communication. Tho Star of Ireland is commanded by Captain Kearney and carries a crew of llfiy-one men, all told.

The officers are ns follows: C. T. Milder, first mate; W. McQueen, second mate; L. Beare.

third mate; A. T. Selfe, fourth mate; II. Stevenson, chief engineer; K. I).

Carnegie, second engineer: J. Boyd! third engineer; C. Cm-dock, fourth engineer: J. Wryalt, fifth engineer, and T. Radford and J.

Stevens, refrigerating engineers. The work of loading the ship will com mence to-morrow morning, and it Is hoped tr.nt sue win De nolo to sail by the end of the month. GARRITY AGAIN IN THE TOILS. Has Now Been Arrested Six Times for Abandonment. James A.

Garrity, 30 years old, was arrested Sunday night for the sixth time, upon a charge of abandonment preferred by his wife, Augusta Garrity. James lived In a hotel at Nostrand avenue and Park place, while his wKo occupied a small furnished room at X17 Fifth avenue. Officer Cloonan learned that he was living in a hotel and he went to the place with a warrant, concealing himself near Garrlty's room. When the latter returned, shortly after 1 o'clock Monday morning. Cloonan grabbed him.

He was taken to the Jail and lafor w-as arraigned beiore Magistrate Dooley in the Duller street court complaint of his wife. Cloonan told the magistrate that he had arrested the man five times previously. August said lhat according to a stipulation fixed by a city magistrate she was to receive $1 a week from him. She snid she had received notjiing from him in a year and Magistrate Donley directed hlra to pay her $2iS. In default of this sum he was sent to tlie penitentiary for six months.

Garrity was arrested in IS99. August 2ti, May 10. litol; January January 4, 1W13, and September 7, 11103. DEVERY AT FASHION SHOW. The nine prize winning Parisinn gowns at (he Fashion Show nt Madison Square Garden, will be placed on exhibition to-day.

The judges made the awards last night. William S. Devcry ha3 notified the managers of the show that he will attend tonight with a crowd of his friends..