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8. THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. MAY 1908. MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS." SjEr 9 '5 POLICE COURT VIEWS EVANS SAYS FAREWELL TO ATLANTIC FLEET Js HENSEL Piano E. G. Harrington Co. Makers.

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50,000 SEE THE FIREWORKS. Joseph Pulitzer Pledges His Paper Anew to Fight Against Publio Evils and Abuses. With every electric light in the building aglow, with a crowd of fully fifty thou sand before Us doors and In City Hall Park, and over one hundred Senators, Congressmen and prominent officials within the building, the New York World celebrated Its first quarter century last night in its new Pulitzer Building, first with a general reception, second an hour of speaking, third, a couple of hours of refreshment. Meanwhile, outside, the crowd gathered thicker and thicker, watching the fireworks, the outward and visible sign of avents within the building. A special train brought most of the World's official guests from Washington to a rendezvous at the Waldorf-Astoria, where other guests met.

In a line of automobiles they were started for the World Building at arriving at 8 o'clock, The party which came on the World's train from Washington Included: Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, William Mooney, superintendent supply division, postmaster general's department; Dr. H. W. W'iley, chief of the bureau of chemistry; Charles P.

Grandfleld, first sslst- ant postmaster general; Frank E. McMil lan, chief post office inspector; Dr. Walter Wyruan, surgeon general, Marine Hospi tal Service; Edward A. Moseley, secretary Interstate Commerce Commission; Colonel W. H.

Walker, Associated Press; John C. Eversman and W. J. Mcllhone. Congressmen from nearly every state in the Union constituted a delegation which would have been enmnleto hnri Speaker Cannon been able to maks the trip.

He sent a message of congratula tion, with his regrets at not being able to leave Washington, winding up with: "Wish the World all success." The entire staff of the WnrM ha w. turned into an Informal recentlnn m. mittee, headed by Raloh Pulitzer the icyicooniauve or nis distinguished father whose interest in the celebration was attested by a cable message from him Ralph Pulitzer's Address of Welcome to. the Guests. After the inspection, at 9 o'clock, the guests were searched out of the hun-dred-and-one odd corners of the building and brought to the twelfth floor, where In the space to be occupied by the library was fitted up a small flag-decked auditorium.

Back of the small dais-draped with flags, was the famous Sargent picture of Joseph Pulitzer, and before the desk of the dais was the engrossed and Illuminated policy of the World as outlined by Mr. Pulitzr upon his last birthday. Ralph Pulitzer in welcoming the guests said: "Gentjamsn: On my father's behalf I bid you welcome here to-night to help us celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ownership of tho World." I am sure you will all regret as deeply as I do that he cannot be with us to-night. But the darkened sight and the broken health, which he sacrificed to make this paper possible', make his presence at its twenty-fifth birthday Impossible. And so we must rest satisfied with the feeling that, though he be physically absent tonight, at least he is present among us in that constructive Imagination, that power of intellectual projection, that power of transmitting the enthusiasm of convictions which has reached across oceans and continents for all these years to keep the World on the course which he laid out for it a quarter of a century ago.

Fortunately, gentlemen, it is not necessary for me to boast that in that quarter of a century the World has succeeded. Its material accomplishment has a solid sponsor In this building which we are opening to-night, which has just been doubled in size, to accommodate our growth. "As to The World's higher achievement, surely there can be no more, eloquent tribute to that than the cordial gathering in its honor of such men as are here tonight. But, gentlemen, there is one thing of which I am not too modest to boast-that The World has never achieved one jot of Its success under false pretenses, out solely by making its performances square with its pledges. It has served the people always according to Its lights, fighting for them when it believed them to be right, fighting against them when It believed them to be wrong.

Bv both kinds of fighting it has earned their confidence and their respect. And it is their confidence alone which has made possible its twenty-nve years of success. Joseph Pulitzer Renews Pledge to right for Public Welfare. At the conclusion of his speech Ralph i-uiuzer read his father's cablegram, wnicn is as follows: "Not self-admiration but self-criticism and self-improvement are the passions of tne worm. Twenty-five years ago it was dedicated to truly democratic ideas, to the cause of the people.

Nineteen years ago the cornerstone of this building was laid with the Invocation: 'Let it ever be remembered that this edifice owes its existence to the public, that its architect is popular favor, that Its moral cornerstone Is love of liberty and justice, that its every stone comes from the people and represents public approval for public service What was said then may oe said with double force to-day. The World may have committed thou sand faults of overzeal but they were muno oi me nana not those of head or ueari. "The World will remain forever Independent, detached from party. The World will persevere with burning zeal in fighting corruption and privilege, regardless of party. But It will also fight humbugs and demagogues, faithless office-holders and shameless office-seekers, who under the pretense of hating corruption, posing as friends of the people, pursue their own personal political and pecuniary ambitions.

The World will continue to expose all fraud and sham, fight nil public evils and abuses, and in the precise language dedicating the corner-stone of the building which to-day stands completed doubled in size this Invocation is repeated: 'God grant that the World may forenpr strive toward the highest deeds, be both a daily srhoolhouse and a dally forum, both a dally teacher and a dally tribune, an Instrument of Justice, a terror to crime, an aid to education, an exponent of true "JOSEPH PULITZER." Following the reading of Mr. Pulitzer's cablegram congratulatory addresses were made by Acting Mayor McGowan, Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chan- ler. Congressman William Alden Smith, United States Senator Gore and Governor Mead, of Washington. Park and Streets Jammed With People to See Fireworks. More than 60,000 persons gathered in City Hall Park, lower Broadway, adjacent side streets, on the Brooklyn Bridge and at other vantage points, including the ferry slios in Brooklyn, and as far as the Jersey shore line, last night, to witness the three hours display of fireworks set off from the top of the World Building, in connection with the twenty-fifth anni-versarv celebration.

Park Row in front of the World Building was next to impassable for the greater part of the three hours turned over to the outside demonstration. Police were few. as it was parade day, and last night the policemen The largest yachts can weather any storm in Port Jefferson Harbor, the haven of Belle Terre, and smallest skiff or motor boat is safe on its land-locked waters. A famous place for a yacht-man's country home. DEAN ALVORD 277 BROADWAY, NEW YORK dined at various places, but the crowds were orderly and the police were not in demand.

During the fireworks display, the top of the World Building, the dome of which was strung with electric was lighted up with red fire, which occasion ally resulted in the tower being hidden in a pillar of smoke. The night effects were unusually fine. The celebration lasted from 9 o'clock until midnight. BALLOONS AS FORECASTERS, The Ways in Which the Aeronaut Would Assist the Weather Prophet, In an aerial voyage the aeronaut and his assistants usually have certain special objects In view that demand their full attention but still, It Is easily possible for an earnest man to make every voyage tell along the special lines In which students of the atmosphere are interested, says Professor Cleveland Abbe, editor of the United States Monthly Weather Review, in Aeronautics. No generous-minded navigator of the ocean omits to keep a full record of wind and weather, barometer and thermometer, ocean currents and temperature, and whatever can be considered as appertaining to navigation.

He does this partly for his own Information, partly as the habit of a cautious man principally because he knows that the pilot chart of the dcean that he uses daily is compiled from thousands of such records gratui tously contributed for many years to the central hydrographic offices at London, Paris, Hamburg and Washington, where the charts are published. Those who contribute this observational data receive the "pilot charts" In return, or a thousandfold more than they give. Precisely analogous arrangements should be made by the aeronauts with their central meteorological offices. They can hardly expect the meteorologist to tell them beforehand what upper winds and temperatures to expect on a given day unless they furnish from past voy ages the material that Is needed for such predictions. The students of the atmosphere who are employed In government weather bureaus get dally reports as to conditions at the earth's surface and as to the clouds, if any are visible, and they have these many years asked for regular reports from balloons and kites as to upper air conditions but asked in vain, because this branch of meteorological work has been expensive and has only lately been developed.

An aeronaut Is but helping himself when he sends us copies of his records, since he Is sure to receive in return Items of valuable knowledge generalized from numerous other corresponding reports. For Instance, in December. 1871, the veteran aeronaut. Professor Samuel A. King, who is still living and active in Philadelphia, communicated 'to- -tne the records that he had saved up relative to his early voyages.

From these I compiled a table and deducted a law that was at once published by the Philosophical society of Washington, showing that in general, with scarcely a single exception, the higher he ascended so much the more did the direction of the movement of the balloon and the air deviate from that near the ground, the deviation being always toward the right, and frequently amounting to a semi-olfcle by the time that he reached the highest current flowing eastward. Of course, such a law as this when once well established would become most important for all long voyages in Horth America and equally Important when one has to calculate for his descent and choose a landing spot on the shore of lake or ocean. I was at that time wholly absorbed In the study of the dally weather maps and the practical forecasting of the winds and weather (telegrams and forecasts were made daily at 10 A.M., 5 P.M. and midnight). The same law had just been revealed by the comparison of these telegraphic reports of the motions of the winds, clouds and upper clouds, but the continuous records of balloon voyages, when the sky was cloudless, now extended this local rule into a generalization of the broadest character.

Subsequently I found that Clement Levy, from cloud observations in England, had arrived at the same result, and eventually I found that Henry Allan Broun had announced it at Edinburgh in 1845. The international cloud work of 1896- 97 has served' to reveal the universality of the law that the upper winds deviate from the lower winds toward the right, in the northern, but toward the left in the southern hemisphere. It will be a fine contribution to our knowledge if some aeronaut, following Professor King's habit of keeping careful records of his voyages, shall show us when and whv exceptions to this rule occur as they probably do occasionally. The records of the recent long distance competition of 1907, in which the balloon Pommers exceeded by a few miles the long voyage of 791 miles by John Wise on 1st and 2d, 1859, show that some of the aeronauts took advantage of this law. In order to get a good record of the varying directions of travel the aeronaut has only to keep lus map at nana ana mark thereon by numbers within circles (1), (2), the position Immediately below him as often as he can possibly ldentfy it.

But he doubles the value of his record if he also adds the minute and second (or minute and tenth of a minute if his watch has no secona lor thus he gives the meteorologlstthe one datum that we can only get from free balloons, namely, the true velocity of the movement of the free air. The heat that we get from the sun starts the atmosphere In motion. From these movements when actually known we may reason back to the heat that caused them or forward to the results that must follow. The movement of each part of the atmosphere is the fundamental need of meteorology. The chart and watch, the barograph and thermograph of the aeronaut can alone give us what we so Borely need.

A PRONOUN'S EVOLUTION. He was the hero of the hour. The bands would madly play To celebrate his dawning power, While people said "Hooray!" His friends would earnestly insist That wonders he would do, His name was well up in the list When men discussed "Who's who." A year or so went swiftly by. And various changes came. He dwells not in the public eye, But few pronounce his name.

If in a crowd perchance he's found Unnoted he will be, Unless somebody turns around And merely says "Who's he?" Washington Star. NO REACTION OF SENTIMENT. "Do you think that candidate will be friendly to you after his election?" I think possibly he will," answered Mr. Dustin Stax. I aidn contribute anything to his campaign fund." THE STATE OF MIND.

"Well," said Finnegan, "there's only wan time whin life ain't worth "An' whin is that?" asked ye think It ain't." The Catholic Standard and Times. 'S Onlooker Tells How Justice Is Dispensed by the Police Magistrates. EXCISE A FARCE. Incidentally, the Writer Offers Solution for Liquor Law Violations. i There is no better vantage point for the Socialist and economist to view the lower stratum of society, or the "submerged tentn," than from the spectator's bench in a city police court.

Here they come and go like the shift ing slides in a phanatsmagoria, a real panorama of human life, with the shades predominating, giving a dreary somber- ness to the scenes, though on occaslbns a flash of light Illumines the gloom, only to intensify the darkened surroundings after it had passed away. The flotsam and jetsam of humanity are ever drifting on the city a tide to be raked In by the police and bundled to an Incongruous heap at the bar of the police magistrate, where, In stead of being disentangled, they are often jumbled together into a more heterogeneous mass. Among the weeds and tares are a lew flowers, but these are seldom plucked from their barren soil and miasmatic atmosphere to be re-transplanted and given a chance to bloom on fertile ground and amid congenial Influences. Many a chance Is lost in the police court or rather ignored of plucking a brand from the burning and turning it to a -useful purpose. From the driftwood often good pieces of timber could be snatched which might be converted into steady props to help to uphold the social structure, Adam Smith said: "The philosopher is often hidden In the plowman." By the same analogy the apostle of tem perance now and then emerges from the chrysalis of the drunkard.

This brings us to a review of the inebriates arraigned daily before the presiding magistrates. First there is the chronic toper, with whom drink is a disease that cannot be shaken off. The alcoholic bacillus Is so deeply Imbedded that nothing can eradicate it from the system. The veins become so inoculated with the virus of the poison that no moral antitoxin can effect a cure. Like skilled physicians the magistrates generally give good prescriptions to be compounded and taken in the workhouse and the penitentiary, but these have little effect, merely retarding the disease for a time.

After a trial of these nostrums the insidious malady progresses to the end, defying all curative remedies. But all are not habitual drunkards. Some have been overcome by the wayside and momentarily sink under the temptation of the sparkling glass. There Is the young fellow to whom the first slip Is as the nectar of the gods; or the young girl who has unconsciously fallen, or the Bteady matron who In an evil moment looks on the wine cup when It-Is red. For these there Is balm In Gilead, and after a caution and a short lecture on the shame of intoxication, "His Honor" lets them go to sin no more In that direction.

Generally they profit from the lesson and the police courtEWs them no more. Next come the unfortunates of the streets. Few of them become Mary Magdaler.es, yet here and there some are rescued and find a refuge in the House of the Good Shepherd or similar institutions. There are ten 'police courts In the Borough of Brooklyn and one differs radically from another both In the class of criminals arraigned and In the general surroundings. Each magistrate has a home court in which he is supposed to preside most of the time, but these s-pensers of justice Interchange among themselves and sometimes a magistrate presides in two courts in order to give a colleague a holiday or an opportunity to attend to business engagements.

The First District Court af 318 Adams street and is the home court of Judge Dooley, a 'man who has made his way from the ranks of toil and is well conversant with the sins and sorrows of the under world. A fair man Is Judge Dooley, who always inclines to the side of mercy for the errin. His court tal.es In Police Headquarters and the One Hundred and Forty-ninth and One Hundred and Fiftieth precincts, and always Is one of the busiest in the borough. It might be expected that the rough element of the water front, the highwaymen and even murderers who infest the docks would constitute most of the grist of this legal mill, but such is not the case. It Is one of the tamest coui.s In Brooklyn, chiefly being taken up with the "drunks," street-walkers, shoplifter- and pettv offenders.

The Second District, covering the One Hundred and Forty-fifth. One Hundred and Forty-sixth, One Hundred and Forty-seventh and One Hundred and Forty-eighth precincts, has Its headquarters In Butler street, near Court, and Is presided over by Magistrate Tighe, who Is serving his second term as a police jus tice. His is what may call'd the re spectable court of Brooklyn. There Is generally a Bhort calendar and all is over mostly before the noon hour. Judge Naumer presides over the Third District, at Myrtle and Vanderbllt ave nues, where the colored element is in the ascendant.

The buildlnz. dark and gloomy, Is In keeping with Its patrons. if so they can be The benches are taken up with a motley crowd of whites and blacks. Mlrandy and Chloe, if they have broken the laws, have lltle shrift before this stern justice. In the Fourth District, at Lee avenue and Clymer street, presides Judge E.

Gaston Higginbotham. He is regarded, and I believe justly so, as the fairest and Bquarest among his legal brethren. He is popular even with the criminals. Some of the latter would rather be sentenced by him to the workhouse than-get off scot free by "Hlggie" will tell a man or a woman just what he thinks of him or her without beating about the bush. A poor fellow will come before him to be sent to tho island to keep from starving; if he is down and out through no fault of his own, "Higgle" will send him to the nearest restaurant Instead, and tell him to be a man.

If charity covers a multitude of sins, a lot of "Hlggie's" transgressions will be forgiven. He Is a peacemaker also. A husband hales his wife before him. or, as is generally, a wife the husband. "Hlggie" throws oil on the troubled waters of matrimonial strife.

He tells them to "kiss and make up." and very often they take his advice and leave the court billing and cooing like a pair of turtle doves. The attaches Of the Fourth swear by "Hlggie." In the Fifth District sits that cynical old bachelor, Frank E. O'Reilly. O'Reilly's cynicism, however, is only simulated. He Is a warm-hearted, kindly man, and has an honest record both as a citizen and a magistrate, but he is strict and Is reckoned the severest judge to law-breakers on the police bench.

Judge Henry J. Furlong wields the wand in the Sixth District Court, at Gates and Marcy avenues. This is a busy court for a slow man, and no even his enemies, will accuse Judge Furlong of celerity. Perhaps this arises from the fact that he was an English barrister in early days. The machinery of the law does not move fast ih the Island Kingdom.

Furlong has some peculiar traits. He Is the personification of pleasantry to the fellow he is going to lock up; he doles out to him sugar and pie before he gets the bitter pill of the penitentiary, while to the one he Is going to let off. he imparts a lecture scathing and Ironical. In this way he much resembles Mr. Steers of the Seventh.

Steers is a sleek, well'groomed, little man, bland and iuve. Often be will tell is as if its TESTIMONIES iS TO ITS MERITS." I am iiHiiiK two llrnilliir-M, thy Irf Nmire of real ilHNtirf." "I find fho Hrailhnry beautiful and "I ahull Ite filnl nt utiy time to econiineml he Until bury. "The Ideal of Kraml I'llnno In the convenient form of un unritiht." SKILLFUL REPAIRING. Send your Piano tt. our factory Tor needed repairs or rofinishing.

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THE NEW POINT OF VIEW. How Women May Learn the Charm of Out-of-Door Life. There are few ardent sportmen who not been asked, "What is the fuD of fishing?" "Don't you ever get tired of hunting?" or any one of a hundred varl atloas of these questions, says a writer in Forest and Stream. These "outsiders" can no more understand us than we can conceive of a healthy, otherwise normal man spending his vacation at a hotel between a bar, a newspaper and a ticker staying up half the night and sleeping away the best part of the day. Scientists tells us that, excepting a few really abnormal people, such as geniuses on the one hand and degenerates on the other, human beings are very much alike.

Now, what is the explanation of the fact that there Is such a sharp dividing Hue between the pleasures of sportsmen and those of nonsportsmen, and that the one class should think the other mentally deficient? Perhaps I have solved the problem and perhaps not. At any rate, it will be a whole day before this old Florida Special will land me In New York, so I simply can't make my pen behave and I shall try to put my theory into words. Two years ago my wife was a "non," and I must confess that in her eyes I was crazy. Now, as partners should share each other's joys, I one day conceived a great Idea. I brought home a pair of small rubber boots and announced the madam that she was to accompany me for a couple of days' fishing at Canadensis, Pa.

As it was not going to be any fun for her, my wife induced an old friend to go along for company "while crazy Will was the madam was Interested In qirds; in fact, now she is very well posted on the birds of eastern North America. The beautiful little Broadhead, winding through mountains and fields, attracted her, the whole atmosphere of what I can only describe as the open got into her blood, and those "girls spent two entire days up to their knees in the clear, cold water of the stream. Wet feet were the lunch of sandwiches tasted good, and although madam caught "nary a fish." she decided to leave the children long enough to give us a fortnight in the Temagaml Reserve. The following winter, when I went to the interior of Florida, she again accompanied me and we spent a week camping on the edge of Green Swamp collecting specimens. A trip to Newfoundland last spring made the madam perfectly "camp wise," and as I am writing this she has both hoys at Mohawk, a little settlement in the "mountains" at the geographical center of Florida.

The idea is to, be where they can all be outdoors. Oh the whole I am happy to say that the lure of the open has as strong a fascination for my wife as It has for myself. She has at most caught two dozen fish, has never discharged a firearm of any kind and would never kill anything if she did know how to shoot; so her entire pleasure consists of seeing and studying the various birds, flowers and other manifestations of the Creator, and living the care-free life of the open. TELEPHONE ETIQUETTE. Conditions under which otherwise polite persons feel that they can be rude are those attendant on a telephone conversation.

With the first "Hello" many a man drops his courtesy as if it were a garment that did not fit him. And women do the same. It, the "central" were to record all that she (It seems -to be usually a hears, and all that is said to her, our ears would tingle. True it is, that she often is surly, pert, and ill-mannered. But if she is Ill-bred, tljat is no reason- for the "connecting parties" to follow suit.

Were one really amenable to arrest for profanity over the wires, the police would be kept busy if they performed their duty. But petting aside the underbred who swears, let us listen for a moment to the perso. for he Is courteous under ordinary circumstances: "Hello! Central! how long are you going to keep me waiting? I told you I wanted '3040 Yes! That's what I said! alnd if you would pay attention to your business you would know it! I never saw such a worthless set as they have at that central office. Got them, did you? It's time! Hello, 3040, is that you? Well, why the devil didn't you send that stuff around this -morning? Going to, right away, are you? Well, It's time you did. What 'ails you people, anyway? Central! I'm not through, and I wish to heaven you'd let this line alone when I'm talking," and so on, ad infinitum.

Is all this worth while, and is it neces sary? And must women, who, as they call themselves ladles, do not give vent to expressed profanity, so far copy the manners of the so-called stronger sex that they scream like shrews over the telephone? From Marlon Harland's "Complete Etiquette." EDUCATION IN A NUTSHELL. I can say "hic.haec, hoc," and decline any verb in Latin, but I was told the other day that I mispronounced the English language and spoke It Incorrectly. I know how many segments there are in a bee's foot, and can discourse learnedly on the origin of life, but I'm beggared if I understand much about this synthesis of forces which I call myself. I could write you a splendid essay upon the arts of subsistence in former times, and describe to yoj in detail how our savage progenitors managed to eke out an existence, but I don't believe I could broil a beefsteak nor make a bowl of porridge. Neither can the girl I am going to marry.

I have been told how all the lower animals propagate themselves, and know more or less about the scientific breeding of cattle, but I am entirely innocent as to how the human species should propagate its kind. I can tell you much about the nature of bacteria and other horrible creatures, but I confess that I don't know what the symptoms of the commonest diseases are, jior how to treat them. I can tell you all about the chemistry of matter, but should my mother take I would not know what to give ner. I could dazzle you with a dissertation on the economics of money, but I am at a loss to know how to earn a cent of It myself. In short.

I know everything that is not worth knowing. Puck. GAVE A SMOKER. A smoker was enjoyed last evening by a large number of members of the George A. Owens Republican Association at the club house, 112 South First street.

Former Senator Owens, who Is the standard bearer of the organization, as well as the Republican leader of the Fourteenth Assembly District, was present with a number of Invited guests. There was a fine vaudeville programme, and refreshments were served, in of Issues an Address That Is Read on All the Battleships and Other Vessels. ADMIRAL EXPRESSES REGRET. Leaves for Washington and Will Retire Formally on August the 18th. San Francisco, May 9.

Rear-Admiral Robley Evans' flag was to-day hauled down from the main truck of the Connec ticult in San Francisco harbor amid salute of thirteen guns, and to-night the first commander-in-chief of America's first battleship fleet is on his way to his home in Washington to remain on wait ing orders until the date of his retire ment for age on his 62d birthday, the 18th of August. Accompanied by mem bers of his family and his staff, Admiral Evans left at 6:20 P.M. No' advance an nouncement of the hour of departure had been made in order that crowds at the Ferry terminal and Oakland railway sta tion might be avoided. As the blue ensign of the retiring com mahder fluttered down to the after bridge of the Connecticut, a new flag of slmt lar design was broken out in token of the presence of a new chief, Rear-Ad-mlral Charles M. Thomas, who brought the ships from Magdalena Bay to Santa Cruz and who acted for Admiral Evans at all the South American and Southern California social functions of the cruise, taking over control of the big fleet In bis own right.

The bunting of the new commander was Baluted by thirteen guns Bred from every Bhlp In the fleet, the waters of i the bay and the green surrounding hills echoing the signal shots. On hoard each of the sixteen battle ships the six torpedo boat destroyers and the auxiliaries of tne Atlantic neet an address from the departing commander- in-chief was read. Admiral Evans was not permitted by his physician to go aboard the Connectl- ut during the ceremonies attending nts relinquishment of active naval service. The address expressed tne great regret the. admiral felt in leading the ships and his thanks for the loyal support ofSthe men and officers during his long tour of command.

His address In full was: United' States Atlantic Fleet, U. S. S. Connecticut, Flagship. "San Francisco, May, 9, 1908.

'Fleet General Order No. 9: Upon relinquishing command of une United States Atlantic fleet and hauling down my flag this day aboard the V. S. S. Connecticut, flagship, 1 desire to express to the officers and men of the fleet my great regret at leaving them and my appreciation of and hearty thanks for their continuous and loyal support.

It has been a source of great satisfaction and pride to me to note my period of command, not only to see ttis number of vessels in the fleet steadily Increase and the unitsbecome more and more formidable, but to see the Bteady improvement in drill, shooting and In everything that attends efficiency and especially to witness the growth of that feeling of comradeship and spirit which transforms a group of vessels Into an efficient war fleet. "I am sure that both officers and men feel this same pride In the great increase of efficiency in these matters, and as it has been accomplished through their loyalty and zeal, to them I extend my thanks for all that they have done. "In taking leave of them, I wish to say to each and every one that they nave my warmest sympathy and best wishes for continued prosperity and good toriune in tne future. "I shall always watch their movements with pride and interest, and I trust they will extend to my succes-. sors the same loyalty and hearty support that they "have always given to me, in order that I may be able to see from my home the fleet which I am now leaving progress steadily in efficiency, so that It Justify the faith of our people that our war fleet is and always will be a perfect source of strength for upholding the safety and honor -of our flag and 'a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful "I desire that this order may be read as soon as possible at a special muster aboard every ship In the fleet as a farewell greeting from a departing commander-in-chief, In whose heart the officers and men will ever find the warmest sympathy, D.

EVANS, 'Rear Admiral U. S. Commander-in-Chief U. S. Atlantic Fleet." The salutes prescribed by naval regu lations were the only manifestations of pomp or ceremony attending Admiral Thomas' assumption of command.

It was his desire that the requirements of the occasion should be as simple as possible. Not long after his flag was flying he had returnea to tne snore to participate in the welcome which Oakland, across the bay, desired to extend to the fleet. After a late night ashore attending the city banquet at the St. Francis, and the ureenway ball at the Fairmont Hotel, senior and junior officers alike were turned out early this morning to march a brigade parade of bluejackets and marines from the combined fleets through tne streets of Oakland and In review of the secretary of the navy, Oakland being his home city. For the officers who did not parade as well as those in the march, there was a beautiful automobile ride during the luncheons, picnics and to-night a banquet and a.

ball. Another long week of never ending gayeties is before the officers and men of the Atlantic fleet hero before they set sail for Seattle and other cities on Puget Sound on May 18. THE AMERICAN ATHLETE. Why does America lead the whole wdrld in athletic sports? It isn't the much-talked-Qf mixture of races, although that may be a slight factor. It isn't the climate, for we have ever? variety of climate In the United States and our chm-plons come from every part of the country.

It is the national spirit the spirit that makes America take the lead in everything that requires quickness, determination, dash, boldness and grit, declares Robert Edgren in an article on "The Record Breakers" in the New Broadway magazine. This theory is proven when foreign athletes come to this country and compete here for a year or two. They may have been champions in their own land champions of many years standing. But invariably they absorb the hustling American spirit. They train and compete, after a few months, with the enr ergy of Americans.

And they always Improve uoon tbeir former records. John Flanagan came here with a hammer-throwing: record of about 145 feet. In ten years of American competition he raised his mark to 172 feet. 10 inches. At Athens, Daly, the Irish long distance champion, was beaten In the five-mile race.

Two years in America has made him our national long-distance champion, both track and cross-country, five and ten miles. Glarner, the great half-miler the Olympic Club of San Francisco, was a good runner In France, but In America he improved until he ran within two seconds of Kilpatrick's long standing world record. He did his training In the cold winds and fogs of San-Franeisco, out near the ocearn a far less favorable athletic climate than the balmy one of France. BUILDING NOTE Inq23. In order to complete the four hundred and tenth story of the SkyndicateBuild- ing, the contractors will have to raisMhe -ty three or four feet.

Harper's Weekly. $225 A BRAVE MAN, YET A COWARD. His Weak Point Was an Aggravated Case of Toothache. In the American Magazine "The interpreter" tells of a brave man who a coward. "But everybody is coward and hero both.

Some people are afraid of one thing and some are afraid of another. One man would go to wa. who would uot go 10 sea. Another man delights in the terrors of tho deep who is afraid ol lightning. I know an English naval offl- cer who was described as the "bravest man In the service." He was not only brave.

He was a byword for recklessness wherever soldiers or sailors met. Ou one occasion, on a bet, he went up in a balloon, agreeing to descend in a parachute. He knew littl- or nothing about parachutes. "When he was ready to come down he found that the harness of the parachute, which was supposed to go under his arms, couldn't be disentangled. So he seized tho bar of the parachute in his hands and dropped out of the basket.

"In Cuba he joined one of our batteries at El Caney. Our men proceeded to bc-i-bard a Spanish blockhouse. The first Bhot was a good one and the English visitor showed his appreciation, by slapping the artillery officer on the back. At that minute the Spaniards replied with an even better shot. The correspondents and some of the soldiers behind the gun.

seeing the shell Coming, dove into the bushes for cover. The shell burst with terrific expl -ion, Evrrbody thought that everybody else was killed.1 Out of the cloud, of dust and splinters emerged the sailor man. His face was red, but only moderately excited; his monocle was held firmly in his eye; he was leaning forward, clapping his. hands and shouting to an enemy some miles distant: 'Capital! as If he were applauding a fine catch at cricket. "Another time a shell burst very, near him and everybody in the neighborhood thought he had been But by some curious chance he escaped and was heard to remark: 'Extraordinary! The same thing happened to me at These and a hundred stories are told about his intrepidity and coolness in the presence, of danger.

No doubt some of them are fables, but even the existence' of many fables abou- a man's gallant; deeds Is pretty good proof of his courage. "I talking about these stories onej day with a man who knew him well. 'Most of them are said he, 'but, do you know, I never saw a greater coward In illness than Whenever he has a toothahce he's sure he's going to ARMY ENGINEERS. If Congress desires a comprehensive scheme of river and harbor Improvements, a complete scheme. Involving the Interdependence of all the it has only to appoint a board of engineer offi cers to evolve such a scheme.

It would then obtain a report characteristic o( the proceedings of such boards, safe, thorough, minute, practical and economicala report which Congress might safely adopt and follow. If it is quick results that are desired, the remedy is simple. The can-' 1 not work without money, and the rapid- Ity with which results have been produced as soon as money was available! has boen truly astonishing. When the money is available the work will be dons at once. Let Congress remove the needless re strfctions upon the prosecution of these works, and let it also, if desired, place all the public works under a single bureau, with a secretary at its and the corps of engineers doing the work, and, above all, let It appropriate money before it asks for results.

And, as a last suggestion, let it allow the hardworking engineer an adequate eompensaJ tion for his labors, and Bee if by driving the wolf from his door it cannot thereby, increase his efficiency. It it is desired to improve -the present Bystem of carrying on tho public works, why begin by abolishing that portion of the system which Is thoroughly good? Congressmen should take thought deeply before voting to abolish the Corps ot Engineers. They should carefully consider whether they can obtain in any way a body of servants more honest and efficient than that they now have; and not subject themselves to the humllia4 tion of having to recall them when ones they have been discharged. Army and Navy Life. IN A BISHOP'S MEMORY, 1 From the Buffalo Commercial.

Friends of the late Bishop Satterlee 14 Washington are talking with awe and wonderment of the fact that close to thai grave of the who died recently, lilies have blossomed; and that an off' shoot of the celebrated Glastonbury tbom ot English legend and tradition also is about to blossom in the same vicinity. Years ago Bishop Satterlee received the lilies from Paltestine and pianiea mem In the erounrta of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, but they never blossomed until this spring, since the bishop's death. So with the thorn tree a shoot of which was sent him Bome years ago from England. WHEELS.

He was a great inventor! "Th fhin I am working on now, he hoirsin HtrokinK his thin beard with a thlner hand, "will be a boon to every fam ily and will startle tne wnoie woria. fact it will put tne Alarm iiock itusi. out 'of business. The idea is Bimply specially prepared tablets that help you get up In the morning. For Instance, if you want to arise at 5, you take five tablets; If you want to get up at 6, take six tab lets, and so on.

But how win it airect tne Alarm ClocK Trust?" Why. these tablets win cause a ring ing In the ears at exactly the hour de sired But the little crowd could wait to heap no more, and hurriedly disbanded. Har per's Weekly. HER BUSINESS. What business Is Miss Caddie in I Oh.

she's in everybody's business." 1 Wholesale, eh?" Yes. except when it comes to a bil of scandal; she retails that." The Catholic Standard and Time. a prisoner who pleads in bis own behall that he does not doubt a word he utters, and goes almost as far as intimating that the law-breaker mas on the side of right, so that the latter ls certain of being let off scot free, until, suddenly, like the knell of doom, the words, "Held for the Grand Jury" almost shatter his tympanum, dispel his Illusions and land him In a cell In Raymond street. Magistrate A. V.

B. Voorhees conserves, or. at least, tries to conserve, justice down at Coney Island, which is the Eight District. Voorhees Is a phlegmatic man of Dutch extraction, and goes slowly. He knows the habitues of the seaside resort, but contrary to expects tion the Coney Island court is compara tively free from the rowdy element.

It Is tame when compared with some others In the borough. Alexander Geismar. a former rabbi; is the judge In the Ninth District Court, at Fifth avenue and Twenty-third street. He is a man true to the rabbinical teachings and endeavors, as best he can, to dispense Justice acebrding to the old standards. He is well liked and bis popularity seems to be deserved.

The last of the Brooklyn magistrates It Judge Hylan, whose court Is situated at 133 New Jersey avenue, taking- in the Tenth District. Hylan has a pet aversion to the newspaper men, and will not allow them to come behind the rail. He even instructs the complaint clerks to deny to them Information. This severity seems to be owing to a personal coutenr.pt for the knights of the quill. He is a man of quick temperament and sudden emotions, and his decisions In the police court often come in for a good, deal of hostile criticism.

Of late most of the police courts have received their share of unfriendly comment, and that some of them deserve censure, only the minority will deny. The "Man Higher Up" has something to say in tho police court, as elsewhere, and the influence of this nameless lnr dividual always has prevailed and will prevail to the end. Almost all of these men are active politicians and are supposed to uphold their party. In the matter of the violations of the excise law, much time Is wastedin the police courts and very little "accomplished. Dr.

Parkhurst, I believe, lately made some remarks in regard to this, which" aroused the Ire of Judge Furlong, who invited the Manhattan divine to take a seat with him some morning on the bench and see for himself how the cases wore disposed of, but Dr. Parkhurst declined the invitation. There Is a laxity, it seems to me, in the law appertaining to excise cases. A policeman makes an The liquor dealer has his counsel ready to defend him. The officer 'takes the stand and is subjected to a catechiBm of foolish questions, as absurd as they are ridiculous.

He swears that the owner sold to him whisky or beer, as the case may be. Then the lawyer asks him how he knew the liquor was whisky. He didn't know; he believed it to be whisky; it tasted like whisky, etc. "Was it a distilled, fermented or rec tified spirit This is the same oia Question which is ever, hurled at the prosecuting witness, and even the same answer is given- U(J Kn would not be well to have oiiieiTirf nnd snecific law to cover this niK.otinn nnrl nreveut the waste of time, If the saloonkeeper sells liquor or liquid to an officer as whisky, then whisky ohmilrt It be considered, ana tne ae fondnnt found guilty of -the offence, even if the liquor had been only dishwater or a Bolut on of rat poison. nis wouiu Ottio th matter.

The same with beer The lawyers cannot be blamed; they must do eomethir.g..ior tr.eir money. On the whole the police court is an unenviable place for a decent spectator. It is a veritable lazar-home of humanity. i.nnii inrtlee's salary Is $6,000 an- Mfi.44 for every day in the year, which Is not at all bad when it is taken Into consideration that their work does not average tnree noursa day and that many of them are off the Kan nTi fnilv three months In the year enjoying themselves or attending to other business to swell tneir mccmeo. AN ONLOOKER.

WONDERFUL NAVAL GUNNERY There can be no doubt but that, com pared to the target practice of to-day and rotninai of to-day. the practice at Santiago was very poor and the pointers very poor. The training was given gun pointers then, and for some years afterward wae bo farcical that it was pathetic No one knew this at the time, and the training was serious In its purpose, but ridiculous in its attainments. We can only say this now because we have learned what we can do. In ten years more we may look back and say exactly the same thing of the training oi to-aay.

To-dov It is the. best training we know of, and in 1898 it was the best training we knew of. Consequently, all these statements are comparative and must be considered as such. When Captain Scott of the British Navy sent in his Bret reports of his target practice, conducted under the scheme he had originated, it was so vastly superior to anything any other ship In the British Navy had done that the admiralty politely refused to believe him, and would not bo convinced that his records were not "as- Bumod" until they had seen his gunners shoot. It is a modification of his plan that is now In use In our navy, and had any one thought of It and perfected it ten years ago and sent in records of it, there not the slightest doubt but that his reports would have had the same reception Scott's.

Captain H. C. Davis. U.S. M.

in Harper's Weekly. THE UNLUCKY "iJUARTER." Those who believe that 13 is an unlucky number should fight shy of a quarter dollar for It has thirteen stars, thirteen let ters in the scroll held In the eagle a beak, thirteen marginal feathers on oach wing! thirteen lines in the shield, thirteen horizontal bars, thirteen arrow-heads and thirteen letters in its name, who would have a quarter? Harper's Weekly. TRAVELING TAFT. De Style They have moving pictures of Taft npW. Gunbusta It would be more wonderful they could get a picture of him not moving.

Harper's ANATOMICAL. Investor When will the company be on own feet again -j Receiver When It is out of my hands. r's. Weekly.