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THE TIMES PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1893. "1CJ frit fi A FIVE MILLION DOLLAR WIDOW TO MARRY HER COACHMAN. THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE IS OPENED IN MOUNT HOLLY. will disgust honest Republicans everywhere with a party that has fallen under the control of Andrews and what he stands for. Mr.

Hioby can afford to bo ousted from the office to which he was honestly elected far better than tho Republicans of the Stato can afford to be responsible for the seating of a man who was not elected, especially when that man happens to bo William H. Andrews. Some are of opinion that while spring is surely coming, it must be by one of the rapid transit lines. THE FLOWER SHOW A GREAT SUCCESS Visitors In Large Numbers Admire the Excellent Exhibits. The second day of the flower show proved It beyond question a great success.

The attendance was very large, the elderly and quiet element predominating. It Is noticeable tbat Interest in the exhibits Is more marked this year than ever before. People admire them for their excellence from a scientific point of view as well as for their beauty. So far as beauty Itself Is concerned the show Is acknowledged to be ahead of any spring show ever given here before. The wife of an ex-Consul to one of the European towns fumed in the flower show line remarked today that In all her residence abroad she had never seen anything to equal the present exhibit at Horticultural Hall.

tho coast, but there is no small number absolutely lost at sea, and with the constantly increasing proportion of steamships the number of these that disappear is not diminished. What has become of the Naronic can only be guessed. She may have been foundered by an explosion or by a hurricane, she may have struck an icoberg or a derelict, any one of a dozen things may have happened to her. But tho friends of those on board will still hope against hope, at least until 6omo trace of the missing steamer shall be cast np by the sea. There would be this disadvantage to foreign monarchs in the prohibition of immigration hither that they would have moro subjects to talk about.

WIN' MRS. HILLER'S CHOICE She Falls In Love With an Uneducated French Canadian Employed in Her Srrvlce In the Capacity of Coachman. He Is Mow Being Polished Vp by a Private Tutor and Will Shortly Lead the Erratic Widow to the Altar. Special Telegram to The Times. BosTONyMarch 13.

Tho widow of the late Dr. Hiller, of Wilmington, who is worth over $5,000,000 and who created such a sensation two years ago, when her husband died, by providing a coffin and mausoleum which cost nearly a million dollars, is going to marry her coachman, a poor, uneducated French Canadian, who has been employed by her less than a year. His name is Peter Snrrctte, but since his engagement to Mrs. Hiller it has been changed to Henry Hiller 2d, in ordor, Mrs. Hiller says, that tho name will be perpetuated.

As soon as the marriage is celebrated Surrette will be put through a course at Harvard University. In the meantime a private tutor has him in charge. Mrs. Hiller's bridal dress will be the most magnificent ever seen in this country. It will be a very thick whito satin, with long court train trimmed with roses and orango blossoms.

The dress will have Empire sleevos and bertha ruffles. The bridal veil will be three yards wide and trimmed in an exquisite fashion. IN A BLAZE OF JEWELRY. Her jewelry will consist of gems seldom seen except on a queen. While in her everyday life she has over $10,000 worth of gems on her fingers, on this occasion she will bo literally covered with sparkling diamonds and other jewels.

The adornments will include an elegant diamond necklace, a tiara, earrings, bracelets heavily set with diamonds and a waist belt of the samo precious stone. Her reception dress will bo of pearl colored silk, trimmed with bands of pearls, with fringe and lace adornments. The groom will be arrayed in a costly evening dress, with a white embroidered silk vest, pearl-colored silk gloves, white satin pun" tie. He will wear no jewelry. The church in which the ceremony will tako place is being specially frescoed for tho occasion and the floral decorations will be beautiful in tho extreme.

Surrette, who. when he first came to Wilmington, was wearing overalls and chopping wood, is having six fine suits of clothes mado for him and he will live liko a king. TRAO MEN EXONERATED The Sonth Street Collision Caused by ice on the Track. According to the verdict of the Coroner's Jury, no human being was responsible for the deaths of the Ave people who were killed In the railroad collision at South street on Washington's Birthday. The elements, and not the engineer of the Washington special carrying the Presidential party on to New York, were to blame for the crash of the mass of steel into the third car of the West Chester accommodation.

Slippery rails, due to snow, Ice and rain, nullified the action of the air-breaks and caused the disaster. The people who lost their lives in the collision were Edward L. Mintzer, and Mary Mlutzer, his wife, of Media, and the Rev. Joseph W. Walker, 55 years old, of Lennl, who were killed outright; George W.

Halues, 47 years old, also of Media, who died In the University Hospital on February 25 from the effects of his Injuries, and Miss Marie H. Reed, aged 17 years, of Media, who died while being taken to the University Hospital a few minutes after the accident. Tho tlrst witness examined was Thomas R. Jones, the engineer who took the "special" at Gray's Ferry to continue the Journey to New York. He tested the air brakes and started.

His orders were to run ahead of all scheduled trains, and all he had to lookout for were signals. When they were within 100 yards of the nearest signal tower to the scene of the nceident he asked the llreman what slgnnl was upand he replied a redone. The crossing was 7(0 yards further on and the train was running at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. II immediately npplied the air brakes, but they tailed to hold on the slippery tracks and the train slid on. The fireman ot the special corroborated this testimony and said that lie was standing between the engine and the tender when the collision occurred.

Edward T. Munder, passenger trainmaster of the New York division, who was nest called, testified that he boarded the engine at Gray's Ferry, Intending to ride to Jersey City. When about 700 yards below the South street crossing Engineer Jones applied the air. He knew it by hearing the escaping air. At the time the train was running ttt thernte of about thirty miles an hour, and at the time of the collision about eight miles an hour.

Asked what, he thought caused the nceident, he said the condition of the rails. Had the day been clear ana the tracks dry he thought the brakes would have held. In an experience of twenty-one years he never saw the tracks in such a condition as they were on the day of the accident. A great deal of corroborative testimony was adduced, at the conclusion of which the Jury returned a verdict that the deaths were the result of unavoidable accident, caused by the sllppry condition of the tracks, due to rain, snov and lee. LEFT IN A FRONT YARD A Five-Year-Old Girl Abandoned at III on nt Airy.

The police of the Fourteenth district have in their possession a girl aged 6 years, who gave tor name as Mabel Hamilton, hut whose place of residence could not be learned. She was brought to the police station by Walter Brown, driver for Nester of Newtown. While he was driving along Allan's lane, Mount Airp, he noticed a neatly attired woman escorting the child and glancing about as if she were afraid some one was following her. When she reached the residence of Mrs. Rutledge she opened the iron gate hurriedly, looked about quickly and pushed the little one Into tho yard.

She closed the gate, and in a few seconds disappeared around the corner. The child appeared to be an utter stranger to the premises from ber actions, and Brown, who witnessed the affair, summoned Mrs. Rutledge. The occupant of the house knew nothing of the girl or her parents, and she failed to understand why she placed Uer in the yard. Mrs.

Rutledge relnsed to take charge of the child, and Brown handed her over to the police, who began at once to search for the woman. Who she Is or whore she resided could not be learned, and the information given by the girl was of the scantiest kind. All she practically knew was that she was to be placed with her grandmother. The name of the latter she could not give. Nobody In the neighborhood knew the child, and no family named Hamilton had lived there.

The child Is comfortably dressed, and Driver Brown described the woman as being fashionably attired. Shortly after she was taken to tho police station a message was sent to the Cent nil Stat Ion giving a description of her and the woman who accompanied her. The police sny there Is a possibility that the child was illegally in the possession of the woman and that she took this method of disposing of her. Telephone Kilortlon. From the New York Herald.

The present tariff is excessive and Intolerable. The telephone tins become a public necessity and Is to be classed with the other conveniences and comforts which we cannot get on without. Kometbtngought to be done, therefore, to (brce the company to bring Its charges down within reasonable limits, and the sooner It is done the better everybody will llk9 iU What Cleveland Hepresents. From the Ban Francisco Examiner. Grover Cleveland was a personally popular man, but he represontedthe principle of tarlll reform, and his election typifies the aversion of the American people to taxation for the benefit of millionaire manufacturers.

Ciiahlks Jour's ElWnXCKKR Pl'RB BOTTLBD BEF. Jamaica Barsipabii.ia. OGflrJlZflTIOrl EFFECTED Bishop Walden Makes an Address on the Growth of Methodism and Dr. Grey Makes an Appeal for the University at Washington. Special Telegram to Thk Times.

Mount Holly, March 15. The New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference, comprising the distincts of Trenton, Camden, Bridgcton and New Brunswick, began its fifty-seventh annual session hero today. Bishop John M. Walden, of Cincinnati, presided, conducting the opening services and administering the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Nearly all of tho 215 members responded to roll call.

Eev. G. B. Wght, the conference secretary, sent word he was too ill to be present, and Eev. J.

L.Eoe, of Burlington, was elected to fill the vacancy. the bishop's address. Bishop Walden then delivered a very interesting address, in which he referred to tho important part that Methodism had played, particularly in tho growth of tho West. Ho said the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church has had influences upon the growth of the West. The spirit of Methodism is tho same tho world over.

It has been a leavening force in tho world and also an aggressive ono, and has always been in advance of the government. Ho was followed by Eev. Dr. Grey, of Chicago, who made an earnest appeal for subscriptions to a 510,000,000 fund to be used in establishing upon a magnificent scale a Methodist University at Washington. D.

C. He claimed that the various departments of the government were invaluable in connection with the proposed institution and wera as free to uso as if they already belonged to such a university. To locate "it elsewhere such advantages could not bo had for a less cost than eW.000.000. The proposed university was the grandest scheme over proposed in the interest of Christianity in general and the Methodist Church in particular. Located in Washington it would have facilities for learning unapproached by any other university in the world.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING. The Church Missionary Society anniversary was held in tho evening, and was addressed by Eev. J. O. Peck.

D. D. Thursday the anniversaries of the Church Extension Society and the Epworth League will be held, and both will bo addressed by prominent speakers. Methodists In Session at Bcllefonte. Special Telegram to Thk Times.

Bellefonte, March 15. Bishop Warren presided over the Methodist Conference today, having Just arrived from the Philadelphia Conference at Norristown. The dillerent presiding elders presented their reports, which were very encouraging. Dr. Reed, president of Dickinson College, gave an interesting report of that institution.

Rev. Dr. Monroe was elected secretary and Rev. M. P.

Crosswaite treasurer, and all the conference committees were appointed. DEMOCRATS WAITING PATIENTLY. The Leaders Will Indorse No Candidates for Federal Offices. It was stated upon excellent authority that the leading Democrats of Pennsylvania will not Indorse or commit themselves to any candidate for appointment to any of the Federal positions until it is definitely ascertained that changes are to be made by President Cleveland. It Is expected that changes will be made In all of the Important positions, but not until the present incumbents have served their terms of four years each.

The Democratic lenders will not, however, commit themselves to any part icular candidate until the time arrives for the matter to be taken up by the proper authorities at Washington. This course Is generally approved of by most of the candidates themselves, Inasmuch as It gives each of them an opportunity to strengthen himself as much as possible. Those seeking subordinate positions have been given to understand that it Is useless for them to make application at this time, and they have been advised that the proper thing to do Is to wait until alter tho President has appointed the heads or chiefs of the largo olllces und then file their applications with those appointed as such beads or chiefs. It is said that some applicants have already prejudiced their cases by the persistence with which they have prematurely urged their claims. To quote the Inngiiage of an observing Democrat, who is himself an applicant: "It looks us If the applicants for place, big and little, will have to wait until the otlices come along In regular order.

It may try our patience a little, hut I guess that after all it IS belter for us to be philosophical about it." THE 1ALE-P1UXCET0X DEBATE. First Intrllrctnal Struggle Between the Tlgrr and the Uulldog. Special Telesrem to Th Ttmct. Princeton, N. March 15.

To-night, for the first time In her history, the Princeton tiger mettneY'ale bulldog In an Intellectual struggle. The debate, which has been so long looked forward to here, filled the large church to overflowing. The three Yale representatives arrived and spent the afternoon In viewing the town. They brought with them a large Yule contingent, and the affair drew from Philadelphia and New York many prominent alumni of both colleges. The question for discussion was "'Resolved, that tho peaceful annexation of Canada would be beuellclul to the United States." The affirmative fell to rrlnceton and Yale upheld the negative.

The debaters were chosen from both colleges aaer long preliminary trials. Yale's men were J. I. Chamberlain, '01 W. D.

Leeper, law school, and W. E. Thorns, '111. Princeton's champions were Donald McCall, 'W; J. F.

EwifTg, '13, and Mo Heady Sykes, 'W. A. T. McGlll, Chancellor of New Jersey, presided. The debate was one of tho best ever heard here.

Immediately after the debate a complimentary banquet was given in University Hall, of which one hundred and eighty partook. James W. Alexander, of New York, was toastimister. A Child Burned to 13 id 111. Edith Wheeler, a little 4-year-old colored girl, was burnedto death yesterday nftornoon by her clothing catching fire at the range.

The adult members of the family hud all gone out, leaving Edith nnd her younger sister alone, ano in men- romping me cuiiu caught tire. Neighbors werentlractd by her screams and bad her sent to tun Pennsylvania Hospital, where she died almost Immediately. The Saratoga's Summer Cruise. The Pennsylvania schoolship Saratoga, under Commander Strong, will start on her summer cruise during the second week of April. The Saratoga will stop at the Azores, Southampton, Havre, Lisbon, (llhraltar, Barcelona, Vllle Eranche and Madeira, the trip lusting about six months.

Xoborty to Hold Conrt. It was impossible for the Camden Court of Common Pleas to hold a session yesterday, as was Intended, owing to the luet that Judge Miller has resigned to fill one of the new Circuit Judgeships and his successor, Judge Vroom, has not as yet received his commission. The Pernlnn Shsh ho blotted out All staring signs his realms about. Have one. whose mission 'tis to hlcss With bennty, health nd happiness.

He paints on every mountain's front The simple algn, Use Hozodost," Dr. J. D. Thomas, 912 Walnut Street, has now reached the large nuuiber of liie.OdO people In giving Nitrous Oxide Gas for the palnlesa extrac tion of teeth. There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee And like iiiubIc on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me When, as If its sound were causing The charmed oceun's pausing.

The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lulled winds seem dreaming. And the midnight moon Is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep, Whose heart is gently heaving As an infant's asleep 8o the spirit bows before thee To listen and adore thee With a full but soft emotion Like the swell of summer's ocean. Lord Byron. Much Interest is now taken in Philadelphia In tracing up family relationships and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, formed of members of the Historical Society, has made a good start In tbat direccion. The officers include Edward Shippen, president; J.

Granville Leach and L. Taylor Dickson, vice presidents; Edward S. Sayres and Howard W. Lloyd, secretaries, and Charles R. Hlldebrun, treasurer.

Their annual report for 1892, printed by the J. B. Lippmcott Company, is one of the most artistic specimens of printing seen In Philadelphia in a long time, and Is as creditablo to the society as to the admirable taste and facilities of Philadelphia's foremost publishers. It is done in the best style of a hundred years ago band-work press and wood cuts and band-made paper throughout andcopies are In great demand. Miss Nellie Peterson, of Philadelphia, Is visiting the Misses Maury in Washington.

Mrs. Thomas Fuller, of New York, Is the guest of Mrs. John E. Jones, of 63 Mauhe'm street, Germantown. Mrs.

Irving L. Corse has returned to the Adlrondacks alter a pleasant visit In Germantown. Miss Blakely is visiting friends in Washington. Mrs. Morris and Miss May Morris, formerly of West Coulter street, start on Monday next for an extended trip to California, to be gone for six months.

A series of tableaux vivantes are being arranged to take place In Musical Fund Hall on Wednesday evening, March 15, at 8 o'clock. The proceeds will be devoted to the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. There are few more difficult meetings over which to preside than that of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and that 1b the reason why Richard Vaux was chosen at the last meeting as on former occasions to officiate in that capacity. Mr. Vaux is one of the most capable and skilful presiding officers In Philadelphia.and his tact and wisdom on such occasions excites the admiration and surprise of those ho are familiar with it.

Mrs. Astor, Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mr. and Mrs.

E. S. Willing, Miss Willingand Mr. Barton Willing will visit Chicago early in July. Mr.

and Mrs. James Roosevelt may possibly Join the party. Paderewskl's friends deny that he Is matrimonially engaged to Miss Etta Dunham, the wealthy Fifth avenue belle of New Eggs poached in milk are anappetizlngand nutritious dish for an Invalid. The milk should come to the scalding point, when the egg Is dropped in and cooked as If in water. A little of the hot milk is poured over the toast to soften It before the egg is slipped on.

Miss Ida Wangh's famous William Penn chair 1b being reproduced in the white mahogany furniture for the women's saloon in the Pennsylvania building at Chicago. Miss Annie Griswold Tyngewill shortly be married to Rev. George H. Bottome, assistant rector of Grace Church, New Y'ork. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle leave for this country about April 15.

Miss Julia Marlowe is being much feted In Boston this week and will dine with Mrs. Apthorp on Sunday evening, after which Mrs. Apthorp will bold her usual at home, with Miss Marlowe as the bright particular star. The wedding of Miss Cornelia Bradley Martin and the young Earl of Craven will be celebrated in Grace Church, New Y'ork, on April 18. Mrs.

McKee, the daughter of Ex-Prestdent Harrison, Ib turning her attention to literary work. It is said that she is now writing a story for publication. Oyster plant maybe used for sonpjust as celery Is, making a cream soup that very closely resembles the real oyster broth. Cut up and boll tender the salsify; when It is mashed to a pulp add milk and seasoning as In cream ot celery soup. Pierre Loti's likes and dislikes were chronicled by him lately In a lady's album.

His favorite color Is changing mother of pearl," his favorite perfume the wild "pinks of the dunes," his favorite animal "the cat," Ins favorite color for eyes and hair, It has often changed; it depends upon whom I cure for." In answer to the question, "Which Is the vice you most detest and why?" he writes, "None. I have Immense pity for them all." His favorite occupation is "to wander about In the open air In the East," his favorite pursuit "riding or gymnastics." His Ideal of earthly happiness Is "to be haudsomo, young, agile and strong;" the plensantcst time of the day, "the evening on shore or very early morning at sea;" the country to live In, "India, Persia or Mohammedan country his favorite nation, "the Arabs, because of their tranquillity." As to his hero of history he writes: "I know so little of history." As to his hero of fiction I have no interest In any." As to his favorite writer "I do not read." MISS CHANDLER IN JAPAN. A Charming Talk on Experiences In the Far Eatt. The "Japanese Talk" given by Miss Chandler last evening, at the Bellevue, was a most charming llttleentertalnment. The ordinary line of "Japanese entertainment" bus been run Into the ground by a long season of overwork, but Miss Chandler's "Talk" was something entirely now, and smacked throughout of personal experience In a way that gave It a flavor of reality most unusual.

The room was lined with Japanese screens and hangings, and pillars like forest trees rose at Intervals through lu Miss Chandler stood under a huge Japanese umbrella, bung round with Japanese lanterns, and she herself was attired In a Japanese eostumeof pale bliieand pink, with all the truly Japanese accessories. Her hair was dressed after the style affected by the Mikado's feminine subjects, and little glistening bells dangled from the high combs and pins thrust In It, Miss Chandler's "Talk" was of her own experiences In Japan, In the Interior and coast cities, and cruising through the waters of the Inland sea, "the Rhine of Japan," In her father's flagship. She told flrstof life In Yokohama, with the eurtliqnnkes, the fires and the typhoons as Its salient features. Miss Chandler visited with ber father many of the "closed ports" of Japan, where the Inhabitant had never before seen a foreigner. She quaintly remarked I had never before been such a belle, and I most certainly wish never to be so much of one again." The Mikado's palace and the Castle of the Shogun were annum the places opened to the party by reason of Mr.

Chandler official position, which are not to be seen by the ordinary "globe trotter." Miss Chandler's command of" pigeon English was amusingly apparent In Iter descriptions of conversations with the natives, and her whole narrative, enlivened with the laughable happenings of Ufe in a strange land. Mr. Blount, it appears, lias actually started for Honolulu on a commission from the President to find out the true state of affairs there. This is a wise proceeding. The more the hasty annexation scheme is looked at the more questionable it seems, and the judgment of a thoroughly competent and impartial American is needed to remove the doubts that surround it and satisfy tho country that we are going ahead in the right way.

When a young man's hat is too small for him the next morning it's generally felt. Help for tho Academy. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the oldest institution in America devoted to artistic culture. For many years its galleries afforded practically the only opportunity our public had of acquaintance with the representative works of both an cient and modern art, and not only by its permanent collections and its annual exhibitions, but especially by its schools, it has done a very great work for public education. All of this work, including the erection of the magnificent building upon Broad street, has been supported entirely by individual generosity.

Tho Academy has never from the first received any assistance from the city or the State, and its present application for an appropriation from the Legislature is the first it has ever made. To any one familiar with the work of the Academy it will appear eminently proper that it should receive this appropriation promptly. Very many educational institutions of far less value are assisted by the State, and the art schools of the Academy, recognized all over tho country as second to none, have well established their claim to public support. It is only for the schools that the appropriation is askod. The galleries sustain themselves, but the Academy has no means to enlarge and popularizo its collections, since all its resources are taxed for its educational work.

Some addition to tho working capital of tho schools, by which they could be so extended as to become easily self-sustaining, would thus be a doublo benefit and one that the public of Philadelphia would have reason to appreciate. PERSONAL AND PERTINENT J. AmiOY Knox, of Texas Sitings' fame, Is now the manager of the Mount Vernon, X. jVciri, and Is muking it a very enjoyable weekly issue. Ex-Steaker Reed has been lecturing in Chicago on "Progress and Leadership." If Mr.

Reed's party did not make much "progress "at the last election, Mr. Reed, personally, learned a few Ideas upon "leadership" which will widen his experience. The Board of Directors of the Equitable Trust Company has elected John II. Connel-lan title officer pro tem, to serve during the absence of Trust Officer Thomas Robins on a six weeks' wedding trip. Mr.

Counellan has been connected with the company since its organization. George Howard, who is in Fitchburg Jail, and who has been considerable experience as a reporter, concludes that "there Is more money In larceny than In literature." And he is an authority. He has tried both. Professor Totten has again predicted a soon-to-come end of the world. It is a brand new prophecy.

There Is nothing small about the professor. He doesn't try to patch up any of his bursted old prophecies and palm them off as new stock. He keeps a stock of fresh-drawn millenniums on hand. The managers of the World's Fair are now seriously doubting the possibility of having the show so far advanced as to be ready for opening May 1, and well Informed members say that they will have to put the almanac back for a week or two in order to keep faith with the public. Chicago exposition "courtesies to the press took a rough start when Colonel Samuels, of the horticultural department, made a violent assault npon Major Trueman, the New York Timet correspondent.

Striking favors of this kind will not tend to conciliate the scribes. A few Milwaukee bachelors started a home for themselves on the co-operative housekeeping plan, but it was a dismal fall-lire, one of them getting married to drown his misery and the others taking refuge in ordinary boarding houses where ladles presided over the soup tureen. Little Rhode Island comes to the front again. She starts the first crinoline factory In the country. The Mansion House relief funds nro a special feature of London's help lor distress In any part of the world.

During the past twenty years $10,500,000 have been received for 6uch purposes by different Lord Mayors. Mascagni, the Italian composer, has been lionized In Berlin and has been more hon ored than an Imperial visitor would have been. But even the enthusiasm of his reception had Its penalty. He had to make more than a thousand autograph hunters happy. Mrs, Stevenson, wife of tho Vice President, pleads guilty to being unable to make a speech.

Mr, Stevenson Is to be congratulated. Silence is golden. COLUMBIA CLUB'S SMOKER. An Informal and Highly Enjoyable Dp-Town Festivity. A highly enjoyable musical smoker was given by tho Columbia Club at their house, Broad and Oxford streets, Inst evening, which was largely attended by the members and their friends.

The musical features consisted of Instrumental and vocal selections, largely Impromptu In character, and refreshments wero served at 11 o'clock. The entertainment committee consisted of the following members: Franklin M. Harris, H. S. Moorhead, John T.

lialley, John Wiseman, Robert Stuart, Edwin Hulpen, Frank H. Caven, Henry C. Dtngee, Walter T. Bradley, Charles Mngulre, Arthur Moore, Stanley Henry A. Frleka, Harry Sonimers, Kd-ward Foede'rer.

Among those present were: James Hllllngton, Frank P. Godwin, Dr. L. K. Baldwin, A.

C. Daniels, William H. Castle. Ernest Lacy, M. L.

Keen, Thomas H. 11. Lewis, E. A. Walz, George H.

Lukens, George B. Mc-Klriney, William F. Bacon, F.dwln D. Ross, Harry Hcblmp, Adam A. Htull, Frank E.

Townsand, E. K. Reyeiithaler, it. B. Pearce, T.

M. Hnber, Charles DIesingor, C. N. Mann, O. 'J'.

Moxey, tl. C. Vnnsant, Bamuel Cherry, F. H. Hcsh, Mahlon D.

Young, John Hopkins, H. I j. Agar, Burtelet, W. J. BobBt, Frank Hess, Dr.

J. L. Giilhraltli, Dr. Myers llclilngs, Wllllnm Kiicinmerle, Joseph Reed, L. (iarron, ().

Darlington, George Sullivan P. Nixon, Florence J. Heppo, Charles K. Ilellman, (ieorge D. Dobbins, Ferdinand Van Horn, H.

S. Khnlmll, Edwin A. Frlcke, William T. Bailey, Hum mil Gal-bruit Henry Moore, Jacob T. Bennett, Samuel Kennedy and J.

V. Kelly. A large bed of tulips in the upper part of the hall has attracted particular attention for the beauty and brlllinnco of its coloring. It 1b a part of the exhibit of William K. Harris and has been awarded a special prize.

To the same grower has gone the first premium for a collection of six azaleas. Another special prize went to F. G. Cox for a collection of fifteen flowering plants, special ment ion for the same being also awarded, and another special prize was given to William Joyce, gardener to Miss M. L.

Baldwin, for a fine collection of orchids. The flowers remained In remarkably good condition, being all the better lor the moist atmosphere of the opening day. A number of the cut flower exhibits were renewed and a collection of nasturtiums from the green-bouses of Mrs. G. Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon, added to the show.

To-day another list of prizes for cut flowers will be awarded and the exhibit In the foyer will be renewed In competition for it. IT SELLS WOMAN'S WORK. An Exchange That Needs Aid to Make it More Helpful. The fifth annual meeting of the Philadelphia Exchange for Woman's Work was held at the Exchange rooms, Twelfth and Sansom streets, yesterday at noon. The secretary's report spoke In detail of the work of the Exchange during the year, and demonstrated the good it has been able to accomplish, even although it remains one of the smallest Woman's Exchanges In the country.

At the present stage it is Impossible for It to be self-supporting, and aid for It Is needed In two ways by subscriptions or donations from friends, and by the patronage of the general public. An Impression has gone abroad that the exchange has only fancy articles. It has those, but it bas also useful articles of every description, and orders may be placed for any kind of goods desired. Breads, cakes, pickles, preserves, canned goods, as well as clothing and art work form a part of the goods handled. The total receipts for the year were the expenditures, balance, 15011.02.

NiunrJerof consignors ot goods, 403. Over 815,000 was paid out to consignors as the net proceeds of work sold during the year. The exchange expects to make an exhibit at tho Columbian Exposition. The election of officers of the exchange will occur to-day. The Bureau of Domestic on South Sixteenth street, operated in connection with the exchange, will be continued another year.

It Is more of a distinctly charitable work than the exchange, finding positions for competent persons making application without making any charge for its services. During the year it received 2,256 applications for servants; 1,820 applications from servants; allowed Sttl servants to register, and found Jiositions for 6.18. There Is a training school or cooking connected with the bureau. FRIENDS' CARE OP THE INSANE. Reports Show the Asylum to be In a Prosperous Condition.

The annual meeting of the corporation of the Friends' Insane Asylum was held at Arch Street Meeting House yesterday afternoon. Samuel Morris, the president of the corpora-tlon, is at present in Australia, and in his absence Dr. James J. Leviek presided. The report of the secretary showed that tho financial transactions of the corporation for the year amounted to the sum of $116,382.28, in-eluding a balance of in the treasury.

The patients under treatment in the year Just ended numbered 144. The most important event of the year was the erection of a new ward for excited or violent women patients. The new ward, which it is hoped will be completed by the early summer, will accommodate twenty-five patients. The cost of the finished structure will amount to something over The following onicers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Samuel Morris; secretary, Thomas Scnttergood; treasurer, Caleb Wood Board of Managers, John C. Allen.

Samuel Morris. Elllston P. Morris. Francis R. Cope, Henry Haines, Edward Kettle, John Webster, Richard J.

Allen, Thomas Scattergood, Caleb Wood, Edward Bettle, Alexander C. Wood, William Scat-tergood, James Enilen, George 8. Webster, Samuel BUldlo. Howard Comfort, Joel Cud-bury, Henry Cope and Walter P. Stokes, to take the place of William Evans, resigned; clerk of the board, Edward BetUe, Jr.

Too Officious Coroners. From the New York World. When a Coroner is called upon to investigate a death and finds beyond any doubt or question that it is a case of deliberate suicide his legitimate work Is done. His solo function is to ascertain the cause of death in order that crime if there be any may be detected and punished. A Coroner has no business to prosecute his inquiries further than this; especially he has no right to exploreand revealany facts concerning the dead which In no way bear upon the purposes of his official Investigation and the revelation of which may bring sbunie to the memory of the dead and heartbreak to the living.

A Campalsn of Education. From the New York Press. A newspaper carrier has been fined $100 for delivering papers on Sundny In Plttfburg, and a man has been arrested In the same city for hauling newspapers to a railroad train on Sunday. The fine and arrest are due to the continued existence of a Sunday blue law-passed In 17W. An attempt was lately made to amend this act so as to conform It to the conditions of the present age.

but the legisla tive committee In charge of the bill reported against its passage. The sole remedy at the present time seems to lie in a "campaign of education." The Craze for Office. From the St. Louis Republic. In bis condemnation of the mad craze for spoils Mr.

Cleveland has the profound sympathy of every Democrat. The Democratic party is the party of reform In the civil service, and it bas worked persistently, and with a determination failure could not daunt, to redeem the civil service from the disgraceful condition to which It was reduced by being treated as a spoils machine for the Republican party. Rlbot's Whip. From the New York Tribune. The crack of Premier Rlbot's whip Is heard and on dashes the chariot of state, while the assailants of the Republic are temporarily distanced.

Possibly this process of fighting off the enemy can be prolonged until the Panama Investigation Is closed. Premier Rlbot Is a bold driver, and there are many behind him who cun be thrown over to the wolves. What Cleveland Indicates. From the New York Journal Mr. Cleveland clearly Indicates in his Inaugural that the Democratic party's platform pledged to reform the tariff must be redeemed.

No taxation for the mere purpose of protection; no bounties to particular Indus-tries; taxation as low as possible; economy In This Is the programme. An Educating Campaign. From the Hartford Courant, Instead of an extra session of Congress we are to have, It appears, another campaign of ediicutlon-the object this time being to educate some of the free coluage nonsense out of the Democrats In the Henate and House and make them more amenable to the financial guidance ol President Cleveland. Very Desperate, Indeed. From the New York Advertiser.

As usual, the country must look to the Re. publican party for useful legislation. And even it will be unable to accomplish any good unless there be found a few conservative Demoorats to act with Republican Congressmen In the Interest of public wellare. It la a desperate chsnoo. Mork policemen have been fired, but the old rule still holds good that more get loaded than are fired.

The Commission Must Go. The House committee on municipal corporations decided last night by a good majority to report favorably tho bill to abolish the Pnhlic Building Commission. This puts an end to any further pretext for delay. Tho bill has already passed the Senate and must bo one of the first Senate bills considered by the Honse, even if compelled to follow the regular order. There are very good reasons for expediting the passago of this measure to the extent of making it a special order on second and third reading.

Work upon the City Hall is now and must continue suspended until the bill is finally acted upon, and the sooner it is passed and becomes a law the better. It will not be wise to assume, because the bill has finally run tho gaunlet of the House committee, that a final and conclusive victory has been gained. If the vote could be taken at once there is not tho shadow of a doubt that the bill would pass by a large majority. But a policy of delay has been employed with the committee, and now that the bill is about to pass out of the committee's hand the samo policy will be invoked to delay final action in the House. Tho bill is on its way to final passago with a'good prospect of success, but its friends must bo alert, watchful and aggressive to the end.

As A matter of fact tho idea back of giving a man a coat of tar and feathers is to make it hot for him. Mb. McAdoo mado a thoroughly excellent record in Congress, and his appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy is not only a recognition of sterling character and oflidal integrity, but secures to the department tho services of a very efficient officer, who will ably second Mr. Herbert in tho administra tion of naval affairs. The only other noteworthy nomination among those sent to the Senate yesterday is that of Edward B.

Whitney Assistant Attorney General. Mr. Whitney is a lawyer of distinction In New York, but what makes his appointment politically interesting is that he has been prominont in opposition to the Hill machine. Fun may be made of the undertaker and sexton, but they get in their little dig at last. Beginning in tho lliglit Place.

Tho citizens' committee of the Third ward and the Committee of Fifty began at the right place to probe the Third ward election frauds to the bottom by arresting Ex-Mercantile Appraiser and Councilman-elect Harry Hunter on the charge of conspiracy to cheat and defraud in the making of election returns, in the casting of illegal votes and in preventing qualified voters from voting. If there was any fraud it was committed in Hunter's interest, and there can bo little doubt that he was cognizant of it and in all probability directly inspired it. It is better, therefore, that tho prosecution should include tho principal rather than the minor accessories of the fraudulent act. Having begun right those responsible for the prosecution should hew to tho line, no matter whoro the chips may fall. If Mr.

Hunter inspired or was accessory to fraudulent voting or false returns ho should bo convicted and sent to tho penitentiary instead of being allowed to take his seat in Councils. If his opponent, Mr. Monroe, was guilty of or abetted fraud in his own interest he, too, should be prosecuted and punished. It makes littledifferenco whether Hunter or Monroe or some one elso sit in Councils from the Third ward. It is all important that no man shall represent tho ward whose election is vitiated by fraud.

Every man against whom a charge of election fraud can bo sustained by unmistukablo evidence Bhould be prosecuted impartially, no matter what his polities, position or condition in life may be. The law against election frauds is mado for the protection of an honest system of government, and all violations of it should be relentlessly punished. There are signs the days are not so cold in Washington since inauguration. Few of the office-holders arc said to be trembling in their boots half as much as they were early in the winter. People who strain at gnats can now vary tho pastime by straining tho present supply of city water.

The Andrews Outrage. One hundred and seventeen members of the House of Representatives have voted that elections do not elect, in Crawford county at least. William H. Andrews, twice repudiated by a majority of the voters of his county, was awarded a seat by disfranchising the voters of three townships upon a strained legal technicality that if enforced impartially would unseat at least one Republican Stnto Senator and probably several members who voted to sustain the construction in the Andrews case. Twelve Republicans were honest enough to vote their convictions and record themselves in favor of seating the man the voters elected, but unfortunately twelvo were not enough to prevent tho perpetration of a foul wrong.

So far as the effect of tho outrage perpetrated by the Republicans of tho House Is concerned the Democrats will have little cause to complain. The seating of Andrews is almost certain to make Crawford county permanently Democratic. As an act of partisanship it was a piece of stupendous folly that will react upon its perpetrators and make Republicanism a stench in the nostrils of tho honest people of the county that twice refused to return Mr. Andrews to the Legislature. And its effect will not be bounded by county linos.

Nearly every Republican newspaper of reputation and standing in the Stato protested against the outrage, doclaring that tho party had had enough of Andrews. The act of the Republican Representatives, making the party responsible for Andrews after the voters had twice declared against him, PUBLISHED EVERY DAY. PUBLICATION OFFICE: THE TIMES BUILDING, Chestnut and Eighth Streets. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT: THE TIMES NEW BUILDINQ, Sansoni Street, above Eighth THE DAILY TIMES Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for Six Cents a week. By mail, Three Dollars a year; per month, Thirty Cents.

THE SUNDAY Tl ES Five Cents per copy; Two Dollars a year by mall, THE WEEKLY Tl ES Fifty Cento a year by mail. Specimen Copies sent Free. THE TIMES, PHILADELPHIA. EIGHT PAGES PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 10, 1893. The Slranslois Still at It.

Those who feared that the special meeting of the Select Council yesterday would not meet or, to be exact, would be loft without a quorum had good grounds lor their fears. No excuses were offered, no leaves of absence were asked or granted, no rairs announced, but the stubborn fact remained that just a majority of the members had business elsewhere. This deliberate absenteeism ran have but one meaning. The majority of the absent members doubtless intended to send over the trolley ordinances ordered to be reported by the railroad committee on Tuesday until the expiration of the present Councils. They mean to discriminate in favor of one surface railway system and against all others.

They thus virtually admit that they do not represent the people by whose votes they are elected, but are public obstructionists who have buncoed their constituents. There is still time for these absentee Coun-cilmen to show that they have experienced a change of heart. While the last regular session will be held to-day there will be time for several special sessions between this and April. A special session can be devoted to the consideration of these trolley bills and the whole bunch passed. A motion for such a scssiou will doubtless be made.

Will yesterday's absentees vote for it and be present or will they repeat yesterday's tactics and vote against it or remain away? The citizens of Philadelphia are asking this question with their memorandum books out and their pencils in their hands. A list of obstructionist Councilmen will bo handy for future reference. Titerf. are two sides to the business of office-holding, but it is only natural that the man inside shouldregard things from his own outlook. The very first Postmaster appointed by President Cleveland is a Pennsylvaniau and he is an editor.

The Mcadville Messenger has thus early been muzzled. And yet we have no doubt that Robert B. Brown will make a good Postmaster and will continue to edit his Weekly with independent discretion and with continued devotion to Democratic principles. Is its hearing on universal liberty the first free-for-all fight was the American revolution. Disappearances at Sea.

Tho Naronic is likely to add one more to the long list of mysterious disappearances at sea. Theru are now so many steamships constantly traveling to and fro on the ocean highway between this country and England that it seems difficult to understand how one of them can go astray and no trace of her be found. Yet this is far less wonderful than tho frequent and familiar instance of a man who walks out of his house in a crowded city in broad daylight and is never heard of moro. When wo remember what a petty thing the biggest steamship is upon tho vast surface of the deep, and for how long a time it is possible to sail, even upon frequented routes, without meeting other craft; when wo recall the various dangers to which a steamer may be exposed from within and from without in this great solitude of waters, the marvel is rather that so few are actually lost. Old men can still remember tho disappearance of the President, half a century ago, which sailed from New York for Liverpool and never was heard of.

It was in this vessel that Tyrone Power was returning homo, and its memory is thus preserved in tho story of the stage. The history of transatlantic steam navigation has many instances of mysterious disappearances. The names of the City of Glasgow and of the Pacific, of the old Collins line, readily recur. Tho fate of each of these is entirely a matter of conjecture. They steamed out of port and into oblivion.

The City of Boston was another famous ease, but some trace of her was afterwards found, in a piece of floating board, and a bottle that came ashore long afterward told of the founding of tho Zanzibar that had left New York and had not otherwise been heard of. These mysterious disappearances might be continued in a long list, including the sloop-of-war Wasp, of which no traco was ever found, and more sailing vessels and ocean tramps than it would be possible to mention. Tho whole number of vessels lost is reckoned at over two thousand annually. Of course the greatest part of these are wrecked upon.