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a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1907. 3 MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS. The oyster season begins with September and ends with April. The soup season begins with January and ends with December. Therefore Oysterettes are in season every day in every month of every year. Oysterettes-oyster crackers with a taste that improves the flavor of oysters, soup and chowder.

Always fresh in moisture and dust proof packages NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY ary 1 of each year. He must then present himself for preliminary examination on the second Tuesday in July at the army post nearest his home. He is allowed traveling expenses, and if elected to the school, is granted commutation of quarters the same as provided by law for officers of the regular army of corresponding grades. He is allowed $1 per day for subsistence while attending the school; the proper uniform of his state and his but he must provide at his own expense own text books. If he passes in his studies with a sufficiently high grade, he may be recommended for admittance, after graduation, into the staff college or signal school.

The City Board of Health, in its campaign appealed against the spread National of Guard tuberculosis, for co-operation. Last night a large consignment of folders containing instructions as to how to keep from getting the disease, or giving it to others, was received at the Sumner avenue armory. The health authorities realize that the members of the Guard can do much in way of disseminating information about the care of consumptives and about the proper sanitary conduct not only of persons afflicted with the disease but of healthy persons as well. whether in their own homes or in public places, The circular admonishes everyone to abstain from the filthy habit of spitting except in proper receptacles, to guard against contracting colds, and to keep his office and home well ventilated 80 that there will be an abundance of fresh air always on hand. The recipient of each folder is earnestly requested to take it home and show it to his family, friends and neighbors.

The subject matter is divided into two parts, "Don't Get Consumption Yourself" and "Don't Give It to Others." On the last page is given a list of all of the free dispensaries in the greater city. THE GREATEST PORT. New York Has Four Hundred and Four Miles of Docks. More than twice as many vessels clear the port of London, to be sure, says the New Broadway--one fourteen minutes, as against one every half hour for New York--but the average cargo value is only $47,242, whereas, that of New York is $92.307. In point of tonnage, New York exceeds London by one million.

This is due to a difference in the character of the ports that must be borne in mind in comparing them. London is England's one commercial center, and, aside from Liverpool, its only great place of export and import. On the other hand, New York is not the commercial center of America When the manufacturer of shoes in Boston sends his goods to Baltimore, he either sends them by rail of by vessel direct, without entering New York. If he wants to send his goods to France or Germany, he sends them from the port of Boston. That is, the chief ports of the Atlantic sea coast, New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Norfolk, Philadelphia and Boston, engage a coastwise and foreign trade in entire independence of New York.

Less than per cent. of New York's tonnage is represented in coastwise trade, whereas fully 50 per cent. of London's is coastwise. In other words, of London's commerece, amounting to $1,370,000,000, annually, only $685,000,000 represents foreign trade, whereas, of New York's $1,200,000,000 annual commerce, 000 represents foreign trade, or an actual excess over London of $179,000,000. To accommodate this enormous trade, New York has four hundred and four miles of improved water frontage; that is, four hundred and four miles of docks.

This is half the distance between New York and Chicago. London has less than two hundred miles of similar water frontage; Liverpool has less than one hundred miles, while Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam or Havre has each less than Liverpool. Practically, all the available water frontage of these ports has been absorbed by their docks, while New York has improved only a little over one -halt of its available shore. When all the available coast line is improved, as it must be rapidly, it will measure nearly as many miles as lie between the Atlantic seaboard and the Mississippi River. REFEREES APPOINTED.

By Aspinall. vs. Silberman. F. S.

McDivitt; Hill vs. Portuch, Jacob Neu: Rauk vs. Dangler. William Wilson; Rauk vs. Dangler, Charles Y.

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Guardian Trust Co. 0080 OF NEW YORK. 170 Broadway, Cor. Maiden Lane. RAILROAD MEN DISCUSS PROBLEMS OF TRANSIT Semi Annual Convention in Session in Manhattan.

BIG COMPANIES REPRESENTED New Haven Road the Only Absentee. Retrenchment Likely to Be Considered. The semi-annual meeting of the American Railway Association met this morning in the Waldorf- Astoria, Manhattan, with a large assemblage of practical railroad men in attendance. The association represents 275 railroads, with a voting membership of 328, each road possessing a representative for each 1,000 miles of trackage. The New York, New Haven and Hartford is the only large road not in the association.

The very fact that it is not, having withdrawn recently, may provide work for the present meeting in settling the basis of dispute--the per diem tariff on foreign cars. The meeting was executive, W. C. Brown, vice president of the New York Central, presiding, with Daniel Willard, of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincey, and W. A.

Gardner, of the Chicago and Northwestern, as vice presidents, and W. F. Allen, secretary. One of the important matters to receive attention will be the the Standard Rail and Wheel Committee," of which G. L.

Peck of the Pennsylvania is chairman. The other members the committee are J. T. Richards of the Pennsylvania, Julius Kruttschitt of the Union Pacific, W. J.

Wilgus of the New York Central, R. Montford of the Louisville and Nashville, E. C. Carter of the Chicago and Northwestern, William Garstang of the Big Four, R. Ettinger of the Southern and W.

E. Fowler of the Canadian Pacific. This committee will report on the question of a standard improved steel rail, a question that is regarded of very great importance. Other committees to report are: Committee on train rues, F. C.

Rice, Chicago, Burlington and Quincey, chairman; safety appliances, C. C. Carter, Chicago and Northwestern, cairman; car service, Arthur Hale, Baltimore and Ohio, chairman; statistical inquiry, E. F. Knifblo, Buffalo Steel Railway, chairman; standard cipher code, Ralph Peters, Long Island Railroad.

chairman; transportation of explosives, Charles V. Dudley of the Pennsylvania, chairman. A first vice president and several committeemen are to be elected. It was not stated before the meeting began just what discussion there would be of the question of retrenchment in operating expenses and supplies, but it was expected that the matter would come up in some shape. It is not one of the stated objects of the meeting.

and may be taken up in an informal way outside the regular meeting. The question affects the different roads variously, and definite action by the association was said to be open to question. The executive committee. of which President W. C.

Brown is chairman, conferred yesterday with the Steel Railroad Commission committee at the Holland House. It has also been in touch with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Association of Maintenance and Way, and it will report, probably, to-day. These committees have been studying the improved steel rail question. The meeting will continue throughout the day, and possibly to-morrow, if the stated business is not cleaned up. plantnig shade trees and experimenting on various lines.

One of the most recent of these is that of developing a cottage industry in regard to silk growing and reeling. Mulberry trees are being planted, cocoons bought and experiments made that are very favorable thus far. If the cottage industry is successful, there will also be erected a steam reeling factory, which will call for foreign machinery. Another line the expert is pursuing, and one in which he has much interested the gaekwar, is that of the cultivation of fiber plants, especially that of agave and ramie. At present there are only some 4.000 acres under ramie in all India, but it is an industry well suited to Ceylon and to certain parts of India, such as Madras and Kathiawar Peninsula, and the industry is now being Inaugurated on a larger scale.

If the experiments in Baroda turn out as the expert thinks they will, machinery will be purchased for treating an dspinning. At present the demand for ramie is increasing, and yet continental ramle mills are occasionally closed for lack of material. The state also has an experiment station, where some interesting experiments are being made, especially with sugar cane and cotton. Experiments are being made with crossing various cottons, also with growing Egyptian, American, Spence tree cotton, Caravonica, vine cotton. etc.

The native manager seemed to think the Caravonica more promising than the regular tree cotton. He also clalmed to have grown Egyptian cotton for four seasons without very material deterioration, while the American staples became shorter and coarser in the second season. The experiments at this station are started in the right spirit, but the lack of system in observing and recording destroys much of their value, as is the case 00 the majority of Indian experiment farms. In connection with the exepriment station are regular classes of agricultural students, and they are familiarized with modern farm machinery and also learn to operate the steam engine and pump that are used at the station for obtaining water from a deep well. On this farm the latest steel plow was used in adjacent felds to the crude Indian wooden plow.

The steel plow went 8 inches deep and threw a wide furrow; the Indian plow went hardly 4 inches deep, and the furrow was simply the width of the pointed stick. The same field would have to be gone over twice with the Indian plow to cover the ground of one plowing by the steel plow and then the subsoil be untouched, but for certain crops the manager preferred the Indian plow, mainly because it served the purpose with less strain on the oxen. "A GOOD MODERN STORY." The reporter dashed breathless up to the city editor's desk and gasped: "Awful runaway carriage with spirited horses driver loses control of them animals flee in frenzy through public highway tear up vehicle drag helpless woman for three blocks driver thrown out and skull fractured dies in a few minutes other victim finally grabbed from wrecked carriage by a policeman unconscious and at point of death crowd cheers brave deed of officer ambulance called injured hurried to hospital big throng of people crowd around horse continues wild flight down street Thrilling story!" "Write ten lines about it," said the city editor nonchalantly as he turned to the next reporter who had just appeared. "What you got?" "An automobile accident. Chauffeur loses control of touring car and runs into a.

lamp- post. Is thrown out and found dead with head crushed in. Machine badly damaged with front end smashed. axle bent, right wheel broken, tires cut, bool dented and gashed. As far as I could learn the engine was not in any way impaired.

The batteries were jerked out of place and thrown to the street. Steering apparatus was still intact. Carburetor untouched. Gears were lightly damaged. The speedometer was discov- Chesterfield Overcoat son's model THIS seahangs almost straight from the shoulders.

A slight shaping is permissible, but there will be much less than formerly. Chesterfields shown in a large vaLISHED riety of fabrics. OVER HALFA CENTURY $16 to $75 PLACE AND 474 BROKAW BROTHERS ered on the sidewalk. Control and brake levers were twisted a and lamps crushed beyond all recognition. Body of car was displaced to some extent." "Good modern story." said the city editor.

"Write a column and we'll put it on the first OBITUARY. James Merritt Richards, James Merritt Richards, 63 years old, who died at his home in Cornwall, Orange County, N. on Monday evening, was for many years a resident of Brooklyn. He was a member of the National Baking Company and one of its organizers. He was connected with the Calvary P.

E. Church, then at the corner of South Ninth and Eighth streets. About twentyone years ago, shortly after his retirement from active business, he removed to Cornwall, where always enjoyed the presence of his friends at "Maple Villa," as the home was called. For a number of years he had been a member of the board of education of Cornwall. Mr.

Richards is survived by his wife and tour children. Mrs. O. B. Gregory of Brooklyn, Richard J.

of Sound Beach, Miss wood. N. and two grandchildren. The Grace of Cornwall, James A. of funeral services will be held at the house on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the Interment in the family plot at Cy- press Hills on Friday.

Daniel Higgins. Daniel Higgins, resident. of the tenth ward, for half a century who a decade ago retired from a general contracting business which he had carried on for many years, died yesterday at his residence, 196 Nevins street. He was born in Ireland seventy years ago. For forty years he had lived at the Nevins street address, and during that time had been a member of the R.

C. Church of St. Agnes. He is survived by three sons, John, Edward and Daniel, five daughters, Mrs. Milton Smith, Mrs.

James Mullen, Mrs. Charles Hall, Mrs. Thomas McCauley and Miss Catherine Higgins. Charles B. Leggett, M.D.

News was received in Flushing yesterday by Attorney Joseph Fitch of the death of his uncle, Dr. Charles P. Leggett, at his home in Pacife Grove, California, on Wednesday last. Dr. Leggett was eighty-five years old, and was a brother of the late Mrs.

Avis L. Fitch of Flushing. He was born in Manhattan, and settled in Flushing when a very young man. For some years he was one of the leading practicing physicians in Flushing. Some years ago, when his health failed him, he moved to California.

He Is survived by one son, Thomas H. Leggett, and two daughters, Miss Catherine Loggett and Miss Eleanor Leggett. Charles Kelly. Charles Kelly, an authority on dyestuffs, representing the New Jersey Spinning Company and formerly with Herman A. Metz, the City Controller, in the manufacture of dye-stuffs, died yesterday in Passaic, N.

J. He was 55 years old. He wag at one time vice president and general manager of R. Holliday's Sons, dye-stuff manufacturers, and was known as one of the best authorities in the country in his specialty. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus.

He leaves Ave children. Charles Haussmann. Charles Haussmann, a veteran of the Civil War and a former president of the Brooklyn Quartet Club, died yesterday at his home, 271 Degraw street, where he lived with his daughter, Mrs. Percy Lawson. He was born in Germany sixtythree years ago.

He was one of the managers of the firm of Bernhard, U1- mann of Manhattan, and a member of Moltke Lodge, K. of the Brooklyn Saengerbund and the Brooklyn Turn Verein. Two daughters survive him. OBITUARY NOTES. Hannah Zuckerman, widow of Louis Schwartz.

a resident of the Eastern District for nearly forty vears, died on Monday of anemia, after an illness of four weeks at her home, 1255 Broadway. She was born in Germany sixty-two yearg ago and for twenty vearg had lived in the Fourteenth Ward. She is survived by two sons, Max C. and Morris and a daughter, Eva. Philip P.

Walsh of 68 Second street, a member of Morning Star Council. Knights of Columbus, and of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church. died at his home, Saturday evening, aged 26 years. His parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Philip Walsh, a brother, Daniel, and a sister, Helen, survive him. Florenz C. Kaempf, a member of Zeredatha Lodge, No. 483, F.

and A. died in the arms of Policeman Kelleher of the Eightyeighth Precinct. Manhattan, at the corner of Eighty-fourth street and Avenue on Monday. His body was taken to the Morgue at Pellevue, where the autopsy revealed the cause of death to be apoplexy. Mr.

Kaempf lived at the corner of Jackson avenue and Woodside street, Woodside, L. I. Thomas Bell, president of the New York Sand and Facing Company, 610 Kent avenue, died suddenly last night at his home if Catskill. where he had lived since 1862. when he married Miss Anne Overbaugh of that place.

He wa: born In Scotland in 1928 and went to board sea at the the United age of States 11. In 1850 he Massachusetts, served on ship employed in surveying the harbors of California, and was the personal assistant of Commodore Goldsborugh. Olaf P. Hanson. for twenty-five years 3 baker in business at the corner of Utica avenue and Herkimer street.

died Monday night at his horne. 1189 St. Mark's avenue. He was 8 native of Sweden. He retired from active business five years ago.

A widow and three 501.8 survive him. One gon is Peter B. Hanson. the Democratic candidate for Assembly in the Seventeenth District. Rudolph Muller, for thirty-flve years in businesg at 841 DeKalb avenue, died there yesterday, in his 58th year.

He WaS born in Germany and came to Brooklyn when 18 years of ago. He leaves a widow and five sons, Rudolph William Louis Edward J. and Fred A. He belonged to St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Wilson Cleveland Derby died yesterday at his home. 215 Cumberland street. He was native of Connecticut, and was 17 years old. He was for fifty-five years a house and sign painter, with an office at 160 Malden lane, Manhattan. He was attendant of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church.

He is survived by a son, Harry and a dauchter, Ida W. Derby. William Bagley. aged 77 years, died yesterday at his home, 400 Dean street, of pneumonia. He was unmarried and leaves brother.

Charles, of this borough and a slater. Mrs. Plato, of Clay Centre. Kan. Frank H.

Palmer of 186 Sixth avenue and A member of Commonwealth Lodge, F. and Plymouth Rock Lodge, K. 02 P. and 8. Grant Court.

0. of died to-day at the services will be held at his late home Friday Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. The f-perat evening at 8 o'clock. "Hold said the learned chemist. "Didn't I give you a bottle of my wonderful tonic that would make you look twenty years younger?" "You did," replied the patient, "and I took it all.

I was then 39, and now I am only' 19." "Well, then, will you please settle this bill you owe me for the treatment?" "Ch. no! As I am only 19 now, I am a minor. and minors are not held responsiible for the bills they incur. Good-day, Bits. MISSION WORK IN CHINA.

Six Ways in Which the Truths of Christianity Are Presented to the People. In the London Times the Rev. Lord William says: There are six ways in which the great truths of Christianity are brought before the people of China. First. there is the primitive and simple way of preaching.

Street set up, to which all have which chapels, the doctrines of Christianity are explained; or the missionary hires a room in a village, where he can tell to simple country folk the message of which he is bearer. Such great bodies as the China Inland Mission and the London Missionary Society still believe in this direct method, and say that the results are encouraging; but there are great difficulties in the way; if the preacher is a foreigner, he may easily make mistakes which bring ridicule on religion. The slightest alteration, not only in pronunciation, but in the tone in which a word is said, alters its meaning. A Chinese gentleman assured me that he heard a preacher speaking about a mad pig, and it was only after some thought he realized that the Supreme Being of Chinese theology was meant. On the other hand, a speaker in the Shanghai Conference quoted as A result of such work the conversion of a man who was a confirmed opium sot, and who owed his conversion to the stumbling utterances of a learner of Chinese to whom he had listened at first out of amusement; this Chinaman subsequently became a great and successful preacher.

And the Church Missionary Society and the older missions can quote many other examples of such successes as this. Especially among country folk is the quiet but laborious toil of preaching the gospel from house to house and from hamlet to hamlet most successful. We had no opportunity of visiting his work, but Dr. Gibson of Swatow was always quoted to us as an excellent example such work. Still, I think the weight of opinion is that China must be converted by Chinese; and, therefore, far and wide through China colleges and schools have been built from which Christian native teachers can be drawn.

This I may call the second method of teaching Christianity. These schools are generally open to Christian and heathen alike, and, though no boy is compelled to accept Christianity, parents are warned that the teaching of Christianity 1g an essential part of the curriculum. The plan is one with which we are only too conversant in this country, and I am happy to say that in China Nonconformists approve of denominational education. There is a sharp divergence of among competent judges as to whether English should be made the medium of instruction or not. If the study of foreign languages is accepted as a part of an educated man's culture, a5 it is in Europe and as it is in Japan, when the period of change is over, China will ever be linked with the thought of other nations.

If she only learns Western knowledge through Chinese translations of our books, she will not only lose much of what she reads but she will in the time to come be again separated by the gulf of language from other nations. It seems to me, therefore, of great importance to bring China in close touch with the West and its literature by teaching foreign languages. Still. this is also done by what I may call the third method of advancing Christian teaching, namely, by publishing tracts and books in the Chinese character and language. A vast amount of work has been done in this direction by many societies.

The fourth method is chiefly followed by Roman Catholics, and is both merciful and fruitful. The Chinese often cast out their baby girls and leave them to die, and in several places in China for many years the sisters have received them into orphanages. We saw several of these orphanages. and pretty but pathetic sights they were. The children were very happy in the peaceful Christian life of the convent; still, it was pathetic to gee the poor cripples, whose own mothers had no love for them, looking to women of alien race as mothers.

Several times we saw little ones who could not recover from the usage they had received, and whose wan smiles told of the kindness they were experlencing. This work has been fruitful in building a really Christian population; for when these children grow up they are married to other Christians, and thus a race of people exists in China who have been Christians for even four generations. The method is, perhaps, the most attractive to the onlooker. Medical missions have done a stupendous work in China; more than any other form of mission they have shaken the prejudice against the West. We saw many of these missions, all well appointed.

Perhaps the one that impressed us most was that of Dr. Main at Hangehow. He has established such a position in that city that when one walks around the vast City of Hangehow with him, one finds it hard to believe that Europeans were ever unpopular in China: and when one enters his leper refuge and sees the happy smiles of welcome on the faces of the poor sufferers, one understands the reason of his popularity. The Mandarin Che Tseng, who spoke excellent French and who was in charge of the questions that concern foreigners in this province, told us that there was no friction in that city with Protestant missions--which I suggest is owing to Dr. Main's influence.

But I feel it is invidious to mention any one hospital as excellent; for all we saw, and we saw were excellently managed. At Shanghai we met the members of the Medical Missionary Conference; they all pleaded for more nurses to help to traia the Chinese women in the science of nursing. They also urged that hospitals should be better staffed and that more medical schools should be started, and told us how intelligent and efficient their Chinese pupils were as operators, in spito of the great disadvantage in which they were placed owing to the objection the Chinese have to dissection; at Jessfeld, as illustrating this point, they have to point out to the student that the skeleton in the laboratory has a high nosebone and therefore could not be a Chinaman; otherwise they would be afraid of touching it for fear of being haunted. The English as opposed to the American missions wanted money. Whatever faults the Americans have as a nation, generosity is certainly one of their virtues.

Perhaps I might mention the Women's Hospital at Canton, of the American Presbyterian Female Medical Mission, as an example of American generosity and efficiency. It wag also very interesting as an instance of how much can be done to help the women of China by training native women as doctors. When we visited the hospital, Miss Fulton, M.D., was unfortunately ill, but her place was well filled by Miss Lunn, a Chinese lady doetor, who spoke English admirably, She took us round the hospital, looking most professional in her national dress, which in Canton consists of a black coat and trowsers. She told us how gladly her compatriots welcomed her skill, and how necessary it was in China for women 10 be attended by women. The sixth method of preaching the gospel is by means of women missionaries.

Most members of the commercial community who talked to us about missions at all always explained how wrong they thought it that white women should be not only exposed to the danger of death but, what is far worse, of torture. For instance, we were told the story of the murder of a young English lady by the method which Chinese cruelty has prescribed as the loathsome but appropriate punishment for an adulteress, and were asked how could any one justify exposing an English lady to such a terrible end. The answer, which I think is the right one to give, is that either women must do the work or the work must be left undone: for the Chinese are most particular that a man should have no dealings with women to whom he is not related. For instance, all the inquiries into the condition of women had to be undertaken by my wife. She found the condition of Chinese women very pitiable.

They were very generally absolutely ignorant, inured to suffering from their youth upward through the unnatural process of binding their feet, absolutely subject to the will of the husband, who can, if he chooses. use corporal punishment. It the parents are poor they will sometimes sell their daughters to a life of shame, when MISCELLANEOUS. VICHY the name PROPERTY) REPUBLIC (FRENCH is genuine and the only water that has the guarantee the French Government for absolute purity. Natural Alkaline Water Used at meals prevents DYSPEPSIA CELESTINS GOUT and INDIGESTION Ask your Physician they are often cruelly treated.

One ample will suffice: a poor slave girl was taken into a missionary hospital, and, much to the bewilderment of the nurse, she had convuisions when a fire was lit in the ward. It transpired from certain marks on body that it was the custom of her owners to punish her by inserting red-hot opium needles into her flesh, and she thought the needles were being heated for the purpose. 000000000000000000000000 THE REALTY MARKETS One of the most important real estate sales which has occurred at Glen Cove, in some time, Was consummated this week when W. R. Kinnear purchased the Schwab block, on Glen street.

Mr. Kinnear came to Glen Cove about three years ago and leased the Schwab store, which is part of the block. He has been In business there ever since, and has had an option on the property for some time. The block contains three stores besides the one which Mr. Kinnear occupies, and is in the business center of the village.

The purchase price is not stated, but it is reported to be in the neighborhood of $25,000. T. F. Archer's auction sale of the Dunlevy property at Westbury, L. held on Saturday, was very successful, a parcel of eleven acres selling for $17,500 cash.

18TH REGIMENT ARMORY NEARING COMPLETION Col. Austen Plans to Open Drill Shed With Elaborate Ceremonies ARMY SCHOOL OF THE LINE. Privileges Open to Militia Officers at win the Fort Leavenworth Institution. The latest, prediction as to the time when Thirteenth Regiment Armory will be available for the uses for which it fs intended is Thanksgiving. Colonel Austen has become somewhat restive under, the long series of delays completing the laying of the new floor, in the painting of the walls and galleries and in the construction of the new rifle ranges.

"The whole business should have been done long ago," the veteran colonel reiterates on each succeeding headquarters night. time set for the completion of the big drill hall is opportune, to say the least, and will give Colonel Austen and his command a pertinent reason for the strict observance of the national Thanksgiving holiday. If plans of colonel are carried out, the drill shed will be opened with elaborate ceremonies, combining a military review with an athletic carnival. It is said that the colonel's plans for the opening are very ambitious. Indeed.

they should be, for the enlarged armory in fact, the largest building in the world devoted exclusively to military purposes. The entire building is now 580 feet long. The administration portion is 180 feet long by 200 feet wide and the drill shed is 300 feet long and 200 feet wide. There are 80,000 square feet of floor space. Two-thirds of the new floor has already been laid; but the job is far from being two-thirds completed, as the floor must be planed and dressed before it can be used.

To plane and dress 80,000 square feet of floor is no mean job. The former operation effected by a traveling plane. which is operated by electricity. This machine stands about four feet high and is of several hundred pounds weight. A fourblade revolving plane is located in the bottom on of it.

This plane can be nicely adjusted SO as to shave a very thin crust from the floor, or a thick one, as need be. The whole machine travels on four small rollers. The dust and shavings from the plane are transmitted by a forced draught of compressed air into large bag, SO that absolutely dirt is left after the operation of planing. The new floor is laid upon a concrete foundation, properly waterproofed, and when completed will be one of the finest in the land. In the enlarged shed there will be plenty of space to maneuver the one of the finest straightaway courses regiment of 1.280 officers a and men, and in the country will be afforded for athletic events.

Indeed, the Sumner avenue armory is A remarkable building in many respects. Under the new drill floor will be a 100- yard rifle range. with sixteen firing points and a pistol range for officers. Under the administration part of the building is a large swimming tank, 50 feet by 20 feet, ranging in depth from 4 to 7 feet; an engine room, where electric power for interior illumination and for searchlights is developed; bowling alleys and billiard and tables. A large gymnasium is on the third floor.

The tower of the buiding will soon be equipped with a powerful 30-inch search- light. With its great beam of light officers of the regiment hope to "pick up" and track vessels in the bay and thus acquire an experience heretofore restricted to the one or two weeks of maneuvers at the seacoast forts during the regimental tour of duty. While the drill shed is temporarily out of commission, the various companies in the regiment are drilling as best they may in the memorial or assembly hall in the administration portion of the mammoth building. This hall is about 150 feet long and 75 feet wide. Next week all drills are to be suspended on account of the election.

There will be BO headquarters on election night and the next regular headquarters night will be on November 12. A general order from the Federal War Department was received by the regimental adjutant last week, announcing the establishment of the Army School of. the Line at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. and setting forth the privileges open to militia officers. These, to be eligible for admittance to the school, must be not.

less than 21 years of age and not more than 36. They must be of sound health. good morals and citizens of the republic. They must have been of the militia for at least three years prior to their applications for admittance to the Army School. No married officer will be admitted except upon special authority from the Secretary of Any militia officer desiring to take advantage of the courses of instruction offered in the new school must be nomimated to the secretary of war by the govarmor of tia state cot.

Later than Janu- MODERN INDIA. Rapid Progress Being Made in Baroda- That Is the Nation's Garden. In the following report Special Agent W. A. Graham Clark describes what is being done in the State of Baroda in the of that section of India and efforts being made development, to establish industrial plants which will require machinery that can be supplied by the United States.

Mr. Clark writes: India is not a nation, but simply a collection of heterogeneous people. The mass of population, in spite of their suntanned skins, are Aryans, but the yellow race is represented on the northeast borders, consists while in the large Coromandel part of coast the sec- colored race. The religious beliefs are numerous and range from Buddhists the east, pagans in the north and Mohammedans in the northwest, through the great bulk of Hinduists in the center to Buddhists and Christians in the extreme south. The methods of government are as diverse as the peoples.

The British only claim portions of the country as British territory, and the numerous native ruling masses ranging from thousands to 11,000,000 subjects, are more in the position of allies than actual subjects. Many pay nothing toward the English government, British law does not Zun in their territory, they levy their own taxes and tariff dutles, issue their own money and maintain their own standing army. Their allegiance to the British crown is, however, evidenced by the British resident, who is stationed at their capital. These native states comprise two-fifths of the area and over one-fifth of the population of all India, and a knowledge of the policy and plans of their rulers is frequently of importance to the foreign exporter. One of the most progressive of the native rulers is the Gaekwar of Baroda.

He is one of the trio of Indian princes who alone are entitled to a salute of twentyone guns, the other two being the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Maharajah of Mysore. Baroda state is non-tributary and has a revenue of some $4,000,000 a year. It has an area of 8,099 square miles and some 2,000,000 inhabitants, and lies mainly between Bombay and Ahmedabad. It is not one continuous strip of land, but is scattered over Gujarat and into the peninsula of Hathiawar, several of the sections being separated from the main part of the state by other territory. It lies in one of the most favored agricultural sections and is called the "Garden of India." Luxuriant crops are grown of grain, cotton, tobacco, opium, sugar cane and oil seeds.

It is one of the best places in India to study the native arts and industries. The ruling race are Mahrattas, but the mass of the people are Gujarats. The parsees are few in number, but the leaders in manufacturing, their town at Navasari marks the point at which these Persian fire worshippers first settled on the Indian coast. The present dewan or prime minister of Baroda is a Parsee. The capital city, also called Baroda, contains 100,000 inhabitants and important station the Bombay, Baroda Railway.

It is on the exporting and importing center for the state and has some fine streets lined with houses with carved teak wood fronts; also parks, palaces, public buildings, etc. It has waterworks, but not electric lights. An import duty is levied on all merchandise entering the state and also an export duty on certain exports. The import duty averages about per cent. There is expected to be quite an increase in the industries of Baroda at an early date, and one that will call for good quantities of foreign materials.

The has employed foreign experts in various lines on many occasions, but has recently added a new official known as the "Economic Adviser to the State of Baroda." The man selected, R. C. Whitenack, is an American, and will have charge of the work of exploiting the resources and developming and encouraging the industries of the country. His Arst work has been to get capitalists to organize a bank under the state patronage. Heretofore high rates or interest have been charged the small dealers by the native money lenders, and the wealthy class have kept their money in Bombay.

The bank has been organized with 20 lakhs capital, but if the present plans are carried through will have a capital of 50 lakhs of rupees, which 19 over $1,600,000. Moreover, its head bank at Baroda will have branches at Ahmedabad and Bombay. According to the custom on which most Indian banks are organized, only a portion of the capital stock will be called in, and the remainder left with the stockholders as a reserve. This bank is expected to stimutrade all around. British investors fight shy of independent native states, and heretofore no bank could hope to be a success in Baroda, for the reason that the, law gave tax collectors the right to seize funds and property wherever found without process of civil law, but the organizers' of the new bank have persuaded the Durbar to change this law to follow the British law of civil procedure.

Among other state encouragements to native industries, there is a technical school at Baroda, where instruction is given in machine running and in native arts. The state also employs experts in various lines, though until the recent appointment of an economic adviser their work has been more or less disconnected spasmodic results. obtained. A German' expert in horticulture has been employed for several years in laying out the parks, palace grounds, streets, Auction Sales To-day. BY WILLIAM H.

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Parker et al; Coombs Wilson, attorneys, 84 Broadway; John C. Stemmermann, referee. Adjourned ine definitely. AT THE MACMILLEN CONCERT. Feelings of the Blonde Girl, With Weeping Willow Feather.

"Isn't he the dearest thing?" The girl with the weeping feather and the double row of blonde puffs gazed soulfully at Francis Macmillen. "But so much smaller than his pictures would lead one to believe," said her friend with soft, Southern drawl, "and much younger looking. he did you say? I reckon he is younger." "Isn't he too handsome for anything?" pursued the blonde, still in a questioning mood. "So awfully artistic looking. Not a bit like an American." "I have known Americans who looked just as artistic," said the Southerner, "but, unfortunately, they were not 89 artistic as they looked." "Wasn't that.

just too heavenly?" gushed the blonde, patting her puffs with tender care. "I wonder what it was. Oh! Mercy! Mozart. Did you ever! It sounded quite modern. Mozart is so old fashioned and tinkly." "I wonder if his mother is living." mused the Southerner, referring to the violinist.

"I am sure I don't know." responded the blonde. "He has brothers, I believe." "If he had a thousand brothers, or even fathers-well, you know what I mean--it would be nothing compared with a mother's love and pride in her son. I would give my life for a son like that," the Southerner said. "Dear me, Adele!" exclaimed the blonde. "You do exaggerate so! What is this thing by Have you ever heard it?" "Yes, and played it, too," replied her friend.

"But," with a twinkle in her eye, "I think you have the name "Well." and the blonde looked very superior, "I don't see why they have such silly names for anyway. The French are so stupid. When I was in Paris this mer I couldn't make them understand word I said. And Mademoiselle said I had a splendid accent. Oh: There's Mrs.

Humphries (bows sweetly). Doesn't she look a fright in pink. I don't see how she dares do it. As I was saying, when 1 was in Paris I met Kitty Blanchard and told her that I had just came from sells. She laughed in my face and said I meant Varsoy or something.

As it I didn't know what I meant. She is the rudest thing!" "Sh! He is going to play." admonished the Southerner. "My!" said the blonde in ecstasy, "Isn't he as graceful as a girl?" "You mean some girls. don't you?" said the Southerner. "Well.

as graceful as a graceful girl, then!" pettishly exclaimed the blonde. "You are too Her mind wandered at once. "He is 000 perfectly adorable. That Deboosey thing is awfully queer. I am so glad that he didn't fall down the Alps.

Of course, I know it was a press agent story. But I think it is so undignified for musicians to advertise that way. I am sure Mr. Macmillen would not have allowed it if be had known." "Perhaps." said the Southerner, hiding a smile behind her programme. "But the very greatest artists, and those with long established reputations--Rosenthal, Paderewski, De Pachmann, and even the dirine Sarah herself--do not hesitate to make use of such means to bring themselves before the public.

As far as I am concerned, 1 congratulate Macmillen in having managers of up-to-date methods of advertising." "My dear Adele," said the blonde, pityingly, "I don't see why you should get excited about it. I think Madame Van Dyk has a real pretty voice The accompaniest is very fine? Why, I hadn't noticed. Very German "Oh! Pshaw!" drawled the Southerner, drawing on her coat. "What's the use!" -The Listener, in the Musical Courier. Everybody knows one or more of those conscientious egoists who cannot rid themselves of the idea that no one can be trusted to carry out the simplest details of routine work without their personal, supervision.

It was one of the these men who sailed from England for America. leaving in his brother's care a parrot of. which he was very fond. All the way across the Atlantic he worried about the bird, and 110 sooner had he landed ad New York than he sent back this cablegram to his brother: 'Be sure and feed parrot." And the brother cabled back: "Have fed him, but he's hungry again. What shall I do next -Tit Bits..