The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 1

Cite JiMMpt Cti mm VOL. XVIII. NO. 165. 4 O'CLOCK EDITION.

BROOKLYN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1895 TEN PAGES. 4 O'C LOCK EDITION. PRICE TWO CENTS. ROSSIIER REPLIES. HE CAN HOLD IT UP, f'OBLE UONWM.

LARGEST NUMBER JET. There "Were 160 Diphtheria Cases and 48 Deaths This Weefe. CQNSOLIDATIONISTS PROTEST. They Oppose the Resubmission of the Question and Give Their Reasons. "ASEETHING.GALDRON" So Palmer Describes the Plaza Question.

"TH.iT IS MY PRIVATE BUSINESS." This Was His Replr When Asked if He Owned Trolley Stock Ho Has A It Along- Favored (Jiving the l'laza to the Trolley C.iinpany-A Bill to Oust the Present Bridje'Trnsteeg Will Be In-troduced at Never had public edifice a fairer site or an architectural design more noble and beautiful. We hare avoided the mistake, so often made, of providing only for the present needs and early (uture growth of the Institute. The plna of this building is upon A scale so broad and comprehensive, looking far Into the future, that every succeeding addition to it that may be required for decades to come will only serve to bring the fabric nearer to a realization of the complete and magnificent conception of those who designed it. Our rapid growth in population, and in wealth makes it not unreasonable to believe that here will rise what in time may become one of the greatest museums of the world, a temple of art and science, that for centuries will shed abroad knowledge and culture and refinement which shall make for a higher and richer civilisation. The Rev.

Cha rles 11. Baker, rector of the Church of the Messiah, and a trustee of the Brooklyn Institute, then offered the following prayer: DR. BAKER'S INVOCATION. Almighty God, whom to know aright is everlasting life, and without whose favor nothing is strong, nothing holy, grant Thy blessings upon Thy servants, the Mnyor of this city and his council, and upon all gathered for this' public? office. Uireet thorn with Thy gracious favor that all things may be established here upon the best and surest foundations, so that truth, strength and beauty may be shown forth in this work to all generations.

Grant these and all other things necessary or profitable to us for the sake of Jesus Christ, our most blessed Lord -and-Sav iour. Amen. Among: the first bills to be introduced at -the legislative session that opens on Jan. 1 will be, the writer learned to-day, a bridge reorganization bill that will the present trustee and provide for a new Board. Mayor Schieren will in all probability bo made president of this new Board.

An attempt to legislate the bridge trustees out of office was made two years ago and again last year. Governor Flower vetoed the first bill to that effect The bill of last yean didn't get to Governor Morton, thanks ta ticTur ivuuymg Dy certain or tne trustees. There was besides no onblie de. 1 b.i,iv to livo iinon Itsplf. A more decline to make public The consents of an.

meat that "will be satisfied with nothing else. It is not believed that, there will be any trouble at all in passing a bridge reorganization bill within the first few weeka of the aession. "If the present trustees remain in of-. fice, I think they will," Mayor Schieren -aid the other day, when asked by a "Citi-sen" reporter if he thought the trolley; companies would eventually get the Plaza, The Mayor's "If was significaot Tha present trustees will not remain in office, but they may unless stopped by a tax- payers' injunction, give away the Plaza before they go out President Howell bag admitted that lie owns stock in the trolley company that wants the Flaza. Trustee Keeney is known to be at director in the same company.

Both of these trustees favor giving the Plaza to the tolley company, in other words, they believe in voting, as Bridge trustees, to give themselves, as trolley stork owners, a l'laza that the taxpayers paid a coup.e of million dollars for. Controller George W. Palmer is also a Bridge Trustee by virtue of his office as Controller. No one is more readv to give the Plazva to the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company than he. Mr.

Palmer wanted to force the question to a vote months ago. He waa Mayor Schieren's avowed opponent at every l'laza heariug. The writer called on Mr. Palmer to-dav to learn where his great interest in the Brooklyn Heights Railroad came in, but the Controller was less frank than Presil-nt- Howell. "I decline to discuss that snhieet" ha laid.

1 'Do yon own stock in the trolley company, Mr. Palmer he was askei. "That is my private business whether I Palmer's Consent Necessary to the Purchase OF THE MANN FRANCHISE. Eastern District Bridge Commissioners Have Secured tba Consent of Majors Strong- and Schieren and Controller Fitch Sr. Palmer Has Referred the Hatter to His CoBosel and May Giro an AnBwer on Monduj.

i Controller Palmer doesn't know whether he will consent to the proposed purchase of the Uhlmann bridge charter by the Eastern District Bridge Commission. He expects to come to a decision on Monday. Should this be in the negative the purchase cannot be made, as the act establishing the Commission empowers that body- to purchase the I'blmann franchise only with the express consent of the Mayors and Controllers of New York and Brooklyn. The Commissioners, after many meetings shrouded in much mystery, have voted to buy out the Uhlmann Company, The Mayor Strong and Controller Fitch, New York, and Mayor Schier en hare been seenred, and the Commissioners are now waiting for Mi Palmer. He has not been very accessible of, late, due, in part, to press of business and engagements out of town, as he claims, and also, perhaps, to a desire to keep ou of the way until ready to sneak.

The Controller was at his office to-day, and when asked about his position on the L'hlmann purchase, explained at some length why he had not yet arrived at conclusion. "Last week," he said, "Commissioners Baird and Deeves, with Counsel C'hoate and Ingraham called on me. and Mr. Iu- srahatn Dresented a statement of the case. I said 1 would like.to see the map showing the lines of the proposed bridge before deciding, as I would like-to act intelligently upon the matter.

They sent me afterward this map. On Wednesday a regular meeting of the Commission was held, and late in the afternoon I got a telephone message from Mr. Batterman wanting to know jt 1 coutn not De present, as tne tw Mayors and Mr. Fitch were on hand. had other business and could not go.

They wanted me to attend a special meeting yesterday, but I said no, as I had an engage ment out of town that 1 could not break. Besides. I hadn all the data I desired. "I wrote to Mr. Baird asking for a copy of the Dronosed agreement with the TThl- mann people.

Mr. Ingraham called on me yesterday morning, but as I hadn't received a copy, I didn't see him. Two hours later I got a copy, but as you can see, I didn have a chance to look into the case. "I have referred the matter to my conn seL asking him to look into the law. 1 shall probably receive a report from him on Monday.

I shall devote a good deal of time to the subject to-morrow. "I am not prepared now to say whether i am in iavor ot tnis purchase or not. and shall not be until I receive my counsel's re port. Your newsdealer will serve you tomorrow with the Christmas number of The Brooklyn Citizen. HO NEWS OF THE PRESIDENT.

lie Is Expected to Be at the White 11 House Hondaj. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. No uneasi ness is felt by the officials of the Lighthouse Board and others as to the Presi dent's safety, though no definite news of his whereabouts had been received up to 11 a. m.

From the very nature of their duties the captains of the lighthouse tend era are familiar with every nook and cor ner along the coast, and Would know where to take most effective shelter. The Violet, it is said, is undoubtedly in some anchorage, though, as the storm has rostrated the wires, no precise news as to er whereabouts is obtainable. There is reason to believe that in case the President should not be able to reach ashingtou ou or before Monday next by reason of th stress of weather and the low stage ot water in the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal, both the Yenernelan correspondence and Secretary Carlisle's report may he sent to Congress on that day. It is said that the President may ret Tim to-morrow, probably in the evening. To do this it will be necesssry for him, in all likelihood, to leave the lighthouse tender at Norfolk and take a railway train.

It is understood abont the Executive Departments to-day that the President will he at his desk Monday morning. BUCKET SHOPS RAIDED. Twenty-three Men Arrested by the New York Police. Three alleged bucket shops, owned, it is said, by H. Valentine were raided by the New York police this morning and twenty-three persons were arrested and taken to Jefferson Hlark.it ivurt.

lne places raided were st Nos. 17 and Broadway, where seven persons were cap tured; No. 4 West lweniy-nintn mreei, where six nersons were arrested, and No, 39 West Twenty-eighth street, where ten others were taken into custody. None of the customers in the places were nmlested and ouly the principals were arrested. A New Superintendent, R.

K. Haldane, of this city, has been ap pointed line superintendent of all the cars running between the ferry and Greene ave nue. This is a new division. Mr. Haldane was formerly a tnotortuan, and Mr.

Rossit says he is entitled to promotion. Broolljnites in Washington. (Special TTw Cltlsen 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. follow ing Brooklynites are registered the hotels here: Mrs. Hartman, Miss May Hart-man.

Howard Marshall. Henry Zueker and Everett Addoms and wife. Mrs. Heckler's Divorce Suit. Judge Van Wfk has allowed Edith Heckler, a daughter of the late Bandmaster Cappa.

(10 a week alimony and niuusei tee. in sou against ibsoluie divorce. Frank Heckler for Weather Indications. Forecast OSkio.1 Dunn predicts: Slightly warmer; northwesterly stiittiug to south easterly winds. The ssnirirton B'lresu says: Far, iu extreme northern ptinn liv hf-a! MiMiv: w.irnnr; uortlierly w.nis.

ot The Railroad President Answers Objectors to the PlaZa Scheme. MAYOR SCHIEREN'S OPPOSITION. Mr. Eosslter Thinks It Slnpnlir that the Major Should Htb Voted to Allow the Elevated Kallroadg on the Plaza-mil Lemro th Queitlon to Time and His Patrons to Settle. President Rossi ter, of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad, was asked to-day if he had anything to say in reply to the recently-published interviews by the Mayor and others on the subject of the attitude of the Brooklyn Heights cappaay uion the matter of the Bridge Plaza.

Mr. Bossiter replied that he did not care to be invoked in a newspaper controversy, inasmuch as the application of the Heights company to the Bridge Trustees was a matter of record; that the committee had spent six months in considering the matter, during which time it had given" several public hearings; and that by this 'time the "How to emphasize one phase of the matter very plainly1. At one of the hearings before the Bridge Trustees I made this statement: 'That this company, in good faith, some years ago purchased a strip of laud seventy-one feet in width, fronting on Sands streeet and running through to High street, for the purpose of establishing a new stand for the cars of the company and to meet the requirements of the public. This land was taken by the Trustees of the. Bridge and now forms part of the i'iasn, and 1 am told that assurances were given at that time that the railroad company would be permitted to have terminal facilities at the new entrance to the Bridge when This statement was immediately challenged by Mr.

Henriqucs, who insisted that it be stricken from the records of the meeting. The matter was also referred to' before the Legislative Committee the other dayr and instead oHewttins; meefore-the- committee to give the proot or my assertion, the committee, strange to say, only brought out testimony on one side of the Plaza question, and after allowing biased witnesses to cast, aspersions upon certain of the Bridge Trustees and the Brooklyn ileignrs management, -uiuwuuuucu me is-vest iiratinn. "Now I was not a resident of Brooklyn at the time the understanding of which spvak was made, but, as I Baid before the Bridge Trustees, I have been informed that the understanding existed, but the proof of the existence of such an understanding is not a matter of anybody recollection, out a mattor of actual record. As I stated the Brooklyn City Company owned part of what is now known as the Plaza, in order to obtain possession of which the Bridge Trustees were obliged to get special legislation at Arbany. At the time they first made anplicaeion for legislative au thoritv tlie matter remained undetermined and, at the suggestion of the Legislative Committee, experts were appointed to look into the mutter of new terminals and to make recommendations.

This suggestion was favorably acted upon by the Bridge Trustees and a committee of experts wss appointed in lmsj by the Mayor of iNew lork and the Mayor of Brooklyn.who, after advertising for plans and investigating the same, on Jan. iu, lefui, mane certain rec ommendations, one of which was as fol lows: That as a means of affording needed access to the bridge for all classses of its traffic the entire block bounded by High, Bands and Fulton streets to tne bridge station should be acquired and opened as i plasa. The nlaza would af ford ample ingress and egress for the mad- ways and suiume tPTmmais lor tne niton street surface railways. "I particularly rail attention to this section of the committee's rerjort. for it was upon that report that the Legislature gave tne necessary autnonty tor tne coonemna-tion of the land owned by the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, and it was upon ths assurance of the rpcommenoauous contained in fhat report that the Brooklyn City Railroad Company made no effort to pre vent the passage of the special legislation, or to resist the condemntVn proceedings authorized by that legisla tooa'ha is the assann nee which I referretftto in the hear ing before the bridge tmsrtes and I leave it to any fnir-ininded man say whether the coinnau.v was not justified in view of these facts in expecting thaft terminal facilities would be io iu patrons at the bridge entrance.

It is strange th.it Mayor Schieren. who voted as a bridge trustee to Dermit the elevated railroads to erect their structure over the plaza, should now be so violently opposed to allowing a few feet of the plaza to be occupied by the surface railroads, HORSE SLAUGHTERERS. One Wants to Enjoin the Other from Can-ring on the Business. J. Stewart Ross, representing Henry Bosse, of No.

409 Kent avenue, moved in the Supreme Court to-day to enjoin Jacques Renard from slaughtering horses at Wood-haven. Bosse says that a contract exists under which he was to slaughter horses and sunnlv Ilenard. and neither was to do the slaughtering within 100 miles of New York, Hosse also wants JM.ts damages, juogo Bartlett reserved his decision. Kirk's Short Liberty, George Kirk was discharged from tha penitentiary this morning after having served a term of aevf months for illicit distilling. He was arrested outside ths prison gate hy Detective eiser.

of the Central Office squad, on a requisition of the Uovernor of Ueorgia. Kirk made his escape from a Southern prison in 1SS3, to hich he had been scut for life on a charge of killing a man. Kirk was taken before Judge Bartlett in the Supreme Court this afternoon. He admitted his identity and was turned over to an officer from Georgia. King; of Hair Call-) Ont the Reserves.

ROME, Dec. 14. King Humbert has signed a decree calling Into active service tha soldiers of the iAjri class. The correspondent of the 'Tent fi News" in Rome tars that General Baratieri, commanding the Italian forces iu Abyssinia, is to be recalled. City Jottings, Frederick Moody was arested hist night on a rhnrce of violating the Kxcise law at No.

20 Elm place. The shw shop at No, 170 Myrtle avenue wiiw entered lust nittht and twenty-tive pairs of j.l:i. stolen. aim.iH'.i Sell ir-m a wagon nn Fr-mt lst niirht and fnicrnr.vj ius 1. lie was to the 1.

i. crer, ki jir. nossuer, 1 wisa Twenty-eight new cases of diphtheria were reported to the Health Department to-day, making the startling total of 100 for the week. 1 11 Of this number forty-eight have resulted in death. Both in the number of deaths resulting from the disease sad the number of cases never in the history of the Health Department has so alarming a total been heard of within the same period of time.

Health Commisisoner realizing that he ought to bestir himself in some to meet the inroads of the dread disease, has made a feeble effort to do so by sending out communications to the homes of families in which the disease is raging asking the parents to allow the Health Department officials to take cultures from the nostrils of children who are apparently well, but who may have the germs in their noses. How these communications will be received is a mere matter of but, there can be no doubt that even" with the seconding of such a course on the part of the public, the disease will still go on fciereaaing, as it does not measure up to the requirements of the. case. Dr. Wyckoff, the Deputy Health Commissioner, when seen this morning, said: "We are studying the disease, and we are askingr the public to- help us.

We the treat medium tdrougn irhieh the disease propagated. Children hr the sitae Re in an incipient form, and are going to school, where they propagate the germs of diphtheria. The only way we can get at the knowledge whether children have the irerms in their noses is by taking cultures tberefonn. and to that ena have been sent out. But diphtheria is not alone in its ravages throughout the city.

Measles are spreading very rapidly also. There were 133 nieaBles cases reported for the week. Scarlet fever is also large, there being o3 cases during the week. "It is remarkable the number of measles cases at this time of the year" said Dr. West the secretary of the Health Department, this morning.

"Measles is peculiarly disease, and we never hod large a number before at thi time of "Howo you account for Itr "I cannot account ior 11; 11 THE SCHOOL CENSUS. a to 0.70.000 Children to XUtlO as.v This City Old pnough to Go to School. The school census has been completed by the corps of officers to whom was entrusted the work by Police Superintendent Mc-Kelvcy. It required some two hundred officers to do the work, and the Superintendent says that it waa Completed in less than four weeks. From the ngures gain ered by the officers it appears that there are children, of school age in this City.

All the census books were turned over to Snnerinteiiilent aiaxweu yesierunj, day Chief McKelvey received a letter from him thanking the police officials for the good work accompusneo. LOUDON 60SSIP. The Dunravea Syndicate Will Sell Talk Trie III-, It Is Said. LONDON. Dec.

14. The Rivisra yacht ing season will open at Marseilles on Feb. 211. In the larger class of yachts that will take part in the regattas are Mr. A.

Uur-clay Walker's Ailsa, Mr. A. D. Clarks" 1 W.W Rritan. Satanita and the Prince of Wales' Britan nia.

inese win rorm me iwums iv their class. The twenty-raters will include Mr. Howard Uoakis rwsgara, tne new j. V. XIOS8, boat.

Ac cording to the "Yachtsman," the presence of the Valkyrie III. in the Mediterranean next season "is improbable. It is reported that the Dunraven syndicate intends to sell her. in ir.nMieh insurance company has re ceived a vIid premium for writing a pobcy th. nf I'nnce tlenrr or uanenocrs.

who volunteered for service in the Ashantee campaign. The amount 01 iue puui-j ja tUHl.UtsJ. ne consensus i uiuiou military men is that it is nara on toionei Sir Francis Scott, who commands the expedition, to be saddled with the responsi-bilitv of looking out for the safety of the prince. as tne priiiee 5 ir.nuj, shot to join the steamer that takes him to the Gold Coast, ne received a imu 1... the Oaeeu.

expressing 1 kD -iHea for a nrosnerous voyage and r'" iJ7 safe return. 1 rioeeaa Henry's wife, and the JJucness ot uanght wept as they turn gooa-Dy, and the prince was also in tears. irehihM Forbes, the well-known war correspondent is seriously ill. To-morrow the Christmas number of "The Brooklyn Citizen" will be published. An Unknown's Death on Washington St An unknown nift was taken sick on the lit in front of No.

205 Washington arreet this atternoon. lie was carried 11110 the saloon at that number and died. In his pocket was a card with the address of atrick Farrell, io. less lorn street, upon it Dr. lirusn, 01 on tinrse pnu-e, aiu the man died of heart trouote.

tie was about 50 years of age. She Brought Back Three. Albert Aubrey, of No." 502 Warren stret, committed an assault on Johanna Hen- drickson by knocking her down aud beating her abmit the body. She bad one child by hiui in Sweden, but when she turned up the other day she had three children, and this state of affairs aggravated Aubrey, justice Tighe held him for examination. Shot at His Wife.

Hannah Whitstein. 24 years old, of Bel mont avenue, near Osborne street, quarreled with her husband this morning. She refused to give 5 cents to a boy to make a fire nil he tired two snots at ner. none or wnicn took effect. He made his escape.

To Xeet Old Gravesend Claims. The Sinking Fund Commissioners met to day and adopted a resolution to buy 10 of city bonds to meet old claims against the late town of Gravesend. Cardinal Melchers Dead, ROME. Dec. 14.

Cardinal Taul Mel chers is dead. He-was born in Munster. Germany, Jan. ISM, and was created cardinal July 1, lVvj. Seven Men Killed by an Eiploflon.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 14. A powder maea-ne at Arkvii, Belgian Luxemburg, ex-ded this UKiniiiiif, kitiJtig Seven men. Ths Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences. CORNERSTONE LAID.

Tli3 Memorable Ceremony Took Place 'This Bright Afternoon. ORATION BY DR. STORRS: Addresses hy A. Angnstns Healy, Professor Hooper, Mayor Sculoren, Clair McKelway and Both low-An Ode by Dr, Cbadwlck-" For the People, by the People." Last September a little company of public officials, scholars, clergymen and business men stood about a spot of ground on the East Side lands, just the other side of the I'rospect Park reservoir.Vand shoveled the new epaded earth with considerable vim and energy. To-day frost is in the air, and icy winds blow over the Eastern Parkway, MUSEUM DR ARTS yet Mayor Schieren has journeyed out to that-same snot to do a bit of work with a siver trowel, and with, him are President Seth Low.

of Columbia College, New York Dr. Richard 8. Storrs, Mr. A. Augustus Healv.

Professor Franklin W. Hooper, Father Sylvester Malone and many other Brooklvnites. Neither the digging nor the mason's work referred ore in themselves apything re markable. Biit they represent a great deal, They mean that this city is aoou to have the nledge of a beautiful classic museum that will delight, instruct and entertain her people for ages to come. Thi structure to be erected oft the scene of the exercises to-day is the Greek wing of the vast edinee, planned by Messrs.

McKiro, Mead White. It will face 191 feet on the Eastern Parkway and have a depth of 71 feet. The first, second and third floors will accommodate temporarily the collections in sculpture and architecture, In science, and the paintings and works of art: but with the building Of new sections it will ultimately be devoted in its entirety oiii-wsji BJ3nP0J(I Few recent events in Brooklyn have been attended by the elaborate prepartioas made for the laying of the Museum cornerstone. More than a thousond invitations were sent out. Two immense tents were erected iu Institute Park to protect the invited guests and general public from the ele ments.

Leaders in civic, educational nnd religious affairs were invited to attend. Dr. Itichard S. Storrs, than whom no Brooklyn rlerirvman has a wider reputation, was asked to make the chief address. Success crowned the work this afternoon.

The great granite cornerstone reposed in proper place, A. D. MDCCCXCV was cut In deep letters on its face. On the top of the stone was an. iron p.ate, under wnica was secured the bronze box containing the documentary of the United States, the State, tlte city and the Brooklyn Institute.

It needed but a wave of the silver trowel and a dab of mortar to realise the ex- niK-tcd ceremony. Presideut A. Augustus Healjr called the assemblage under the tents to order at 3 o'clock and delivered the following brief address: PRESIDENT HEALY'S ADDRESS. Mr. Mayor, Members of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Fellow Citizens We have met on this historic ground, consecrated by the blood of patriots more than a century ago.

to witness, and to celebrate with appropriate exercises, the laying of the cornerstone, by our Mayor, of the Museum building to be erected by the city for the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sseiences. Seventy years ago the corner-none of the building of the Institute was laid by General Lafayette in the presence, it. is said, of the President of the United Stales, John Quincy Adams. The Institute soon outgrew this original structure, as, laicr on, it had outgrown, before it -was ruined by lire, the larger and more dignified building on "Washington street, that for many years was one of the principal ecli-tices of our city. In recent years, as we all know, the work of "the Institute lias made extraordinary progress, and Uie nnmlier of iis members has grown from hundreds to thousands.

A new intellectual life has here begun, am! It is steadily increasing iu vigor and activity. The time has now arrived when there is genuine need fur tile Museum building, the commencement of which we lire lK'i'e to celebrate. Thp Museum is needed, not only that thp work of the may have lurc-if scope, and jistri-ihis and 3-tive denurueiuL receive tiie ben-r'it nd of coiuruons rt and but lite in'MInn of 1 r.wiKiyn muy have thieir for a iiui: kuowlilco h'hI culture viu-ii are by many of our sister jif airs Krpnf.iie. 1 r.ri ii i.reel, as all of V. e-r.

U-til tie II the -ni Mi I i v- -i i To the Cltlsens of Brooklyn! In answer to the appeal of the League of Loyal Citizens, the Consolidation League of Brooklyn fails to recognize the force of any argument in the demandfor a resubmission. The question of consolidation has been settled. It could with equal justice be said that the election for Supreme Court Justices was indecisive because the majority was small. The demand for a refenudum of the proposed charter as a whole does not appeal to the calm judgment of any thoughtful citizen. The whole bar of the metropolitan district, or a' seiocte.l committee of its most brilliant members, could not frame a completed charter which would meet the requirements of the various departments of the municipality or even satisfy any large proportion of the people.

The only logical procedure Is by a declaration that both cities are consolidated, and then by separate bills to consolidate the separate departments of the government. These bills would be discussed by the press, and by all bodies of citizens, before final passage. The final determination would be a charter which would be the result of more thorough consideration than could in any ollttr way be obtained. The alnio'! unprecedented increase of the eity and county debt, and the increase of the ttix rate, are arguments that appeal more forcibly to the citizen, than does the purely sentimental idea of separate corporate ex- unhealthy condition could not exist. We demand a formal declaration of consolida tion upon the lines indicated, with the firm belief that the fnture will justify the prediction that Brooklyn's territory and New York's money are the only combination that will adjust the present unnatural condition of affairs.

THE CONSOLIDATED LEAGUE. James Matthews, president Sanders Shanks, secretary. THDRMAN'S FUNERAL. Simple Ceremonies Held at the Ex-Senator's Columbus House This Morning. The -brief and simple 'burial services of Allen G.

Thurman were held at the family residence, Washington avenue and Rich street, this morning. There were many more present than could be admitted to the house, notwithstanding the private character of the funeral. A profusion of flowers covered the space about the coffin, which was placed in the archway leading from the residence the deceased had occupied, to that occupied by his (c, Allen W. Thunnari. Among the early arrivals was Governor McKinley, accompanied by the State Officials; ex-Governor Campbell and the Hon.

L. T. Neal, of Chillieothe, were also present The services at the house were conducted by the Rev. J. L.

Groser, himself 80 years eld, and a close friend of the deceased. The Rev. Mr. Grove rofliciated at the 11 nam 1 nf Mrs. Thnrman.

three years ago. sod the services deeply Impressed Judge Thurman, who at that time requested the Rev. Air. Urover to repeat at jus iiiuenu, askITtTresm. Dr.

Van Vplcfcennltig, of the C. Hospital, Loses His Position. Ambulance Surgeon Van Volckenning, of the Long Island College Hospital; appeared before Health Commissioner Emery yesterday afternoon to explain his reasons for not taking Joseph Brady to the hospital when Brady had fallen unconscious at the Bridge terminal week ago and the sur- 5 eon bad been called 10 attena tne man. he surgeon had refused to take the man to the hospital on the ground that he was intoxicated. The surgeon's explanation to the Health Commissioner proved unsatisfactory, and Dr.

Emery asked him forthwith to resign. WHO IS 'JOHN ENGLISH?" A Demented Man Who Says He Lives in Lincoln Place. Policeman August Weissner, of the East Eighty-eighth Street Station, New York, about 9 clock this morning found a man wandering aimlessly about Lexington avenue and Ninetieth street lie was bare footed ud suffering from the cold and ex posure, the policeman got a pair of shoes from a storekeeper and took the man to the station where he told Sergeant McCullough iL.it he was John English. 34 years old. He said he was a bookbinder and that he did work for the Martin B.

Brown printing concern in fark place. Asked where he uvea 111 mat oouta ue got troro him was that his home was in Lincoln place. A family named English lives at No. 141 Lincoln place, in this city, but the father's first name is James. Don't forget it.

It will interest vou. The Christmas number of "The Brooklyn Citizen, uut to-morrow. ARBITRATION FAILS. The Striking Engineers Refuse the Terms of the Conference. GLASGOW, Dec.

delegates representing the striking engineers of Belfast and the loeked-out engineers of the Clyde have rejected by ballot the terms of settlement proposed by the conference of employers and employees, presided over by Lord James. The terms were that the Clyde erigineers should get an advance of a shilling a week, to go into effect immediately, and receive toother shilling increase in February. The Belfast men were to receive a shilling a week advance, begiiming in Kchniary, with the understanding that there should be no change in the raie of compensation for six months thereafter. Senators-Elect for Jesse Johnson. Senators-elect Wieman.

Wrny and Brush were In Albany yesterday. They were there on the same business, although they did not go together. The object of their business was to put in a word with the Govrmor for Jesse Johnson for Court of A piieals Judge. Uvcrnr Morton- not in AShauy trtv did not see him. Seiinlor Wienian said Colonel Vie.

ihi Governors pnviite sei-r-et-Hry, tela him that iMie t'e. lUiam's b.i.l uit as tie.Hi rvreived. Mild liint j.r..!',-tiOy no. orf w.iui, 1 he iiitvntuivnt of hs a bust tm The next thing on the programme was I expressly tor the AX ODE. Rad by the Rev.

John WV Chad wick at tha laying of the cornerstone of the Museum Building ot the Brooklyn institute ox Ana ana Why break we here this precious mold that knew Of Ola the farmer nonesi ton ana sweui, -rrh- ih that once. Instead of a-llstentna- dew. With ruddy drops from manly hearts were wet? Here curled the smoke it pleasant household ores. Here the full wains went horn with harvest cheer. And sturdy youth their genial.

Jovial sires. Helped heartily through all the changing year. Mia hnt mhnrm nf war went rooting- UD The Bummer grass, the flowers that did no wrong, AND SCIENCES. And Historv brimmed her Immemorial cup. Cnirte more with wine to quk-ken deathless sonf.

So Peace and War their various memories blend, To doubly hallow this enchantea srouna, And, ss we hither on our errand tend, We hear their voices from the deep profound. Is ft for peace or war that we are here To lay this stone from which at length shall A temple grand, which shall for many a year Remain a beautiful and glorious thing. For peace Indeed! for here shall breathe around That nulet air and still which Milton's heart Craved when he would truth's deep abysses sound. Or pleasure find in his Immortal art. Here from the market's fierce and deafening roar And from th dally social noise and fret, Beloved city of the island shore, Thy sons and daughters, coming, shall forget All foolish pleasures and corroding cares, What time the priests of science shall unroll Her mystic page, while Art her splendor bares To flood with rapture the attentive soul.

How the huge earth was fashioned they snail learn, And hear the singing of the morning stars. Through countless ages see man's promise bum Like the red sun ihrougn morning s.ousay pars, Here like the kings the guilty monarch saw, Coming and going, we shall see them, too; And nations rlslner. failing, by that law Which smltea the evil, crowns the good and true. Poets and painters here with rival powers Bhall speak and bid the happy moment stay; And the deft sruiptor from the fleeting hours A glory win that cannot pass away. For peace or war? For peace, Indeed; and yet.

For war no less; so make the omen good or those who once their manly bosoms set Like mountain winds against the bristling wood I PROFESSOR HOOPER. Uny, th wood njralnst th rush I tip storm That trail its venial wamy in trie mint. But leves uns.rotltxj th sinewy limbs th norm Of freedom nope ana uonor owing trust. Wnr to ft be! -The omen hailed with Joy! Our rotrlieails Durei to trk me mysue Men "Which wal us to th battles that destroy All a pints dark, all innuencea malign, Tbnt threaten life, that hinder and delay Man ifttHl hour, when nnaii crouch no more. But utaml trect, and ckMi'UfM as the day That Quoub a continent ttum soora to short.

"What do we build? Hehold an armory I here birun whne ulemnlni? wuii nhall rltw Ah-v our civic turmoii i whtimttm- aea. Been I rora rur me aa.uint skies, Within tPhoe snaotnus hntls nhall he hftstiwed Ail end thm utrlfe Of Truth with Krror tht hw onwnrd (lowed I.ike a great vr turouft. th Uatelcsa Ufa Of man on earth. Theee let us tnke and smite That citadel ft Herein abirie The ht'ft of datkness, loving still the nltfht hen mornmif ixapt'J' Bales ara opea ld. Bhnll ha-e rrrt comrsntons re the powers Of man" unc'i'in'i i-ie sim ncalhipss rnind The lli-tt ItFht f.r lum until the liourn Of fear and iremuuiiB iti are botuiui.

With Pti-h a battle tnpd. oh. who would stand A iiriwfi in witNt ploe CM. we rorne at Tttv ornrrmtid. And we slia.ll S1 the glory of Thy At the t-lxo nr Mr, Cli.t.lwick'a ode, 11 JdiDj (M-.

dire of i in ri'' in io siiiv rifi'SMir Institute. ('lie m.lll tin' :r.ti of toe llniM-inn owitstockior not," he said. The reporter suggested that the public might rejsnrd it as of more than private interest but Mr. Palmer was not to be moved. "I have nothing lu say about the Plaza." he replied.

"That matter is a seething il- dron just now. I have kept out of the con troversy so far and 1 propose to keep out. He would say nomore. The people, meanwhile, are saying a great deal auu thinking a great deal, too. THE CRISIS IN TURKEY.

Native "Ne'vrspapers Accuse Ameri can Missionaries of Stirring Up the Armenians. CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 13, via So fia, Bulgaria, Dec. became known to-day that the British gunboat Dryad, which is to act as the second guard-ship for the British Embassy here, had qui to an exciting time while passing through the Straits of the Dardanelles.

When she approached the forts of Kum Kale and Sedil Bahr. at the entrance of the xanlanelles, their garrisons, not. having been notified that the Sultan bad granted permission for the war-ship t. pass, were alarmed, and quickly manned the guns, which were loaded aud trained on the incoming The commander of the fort sent out a boat to meet the Drvod. He was finally satisfied as to her identitv and convinced that she had the right to enter, snd sne was allowed to proceed.

The absence of new from the interior of Asiatic Turkey; and particularly frotn Zeitun, is causing much uwasiness among the Armeuians and others here. GENERAL CAMPOS RESIGNS. The Spanish Ministry DlvldaJ on the Cuban War Question. PARIS. Dec.

14. A dispatch from Mad rid to the "Figaro" says that General ap- tines Campos has resigned his commiunt of the Spanish army in Cuba and will be succeeded by General Seyler, at present commanding the Fourth Corps of the Spanish army with headquarters at Bar- celona. GIVES A DINNER. Th Brooklyn Day" Speciul Com. mlttee Dined with Sr.

Woodrtiir. Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff hist night gave a dinner to the Citizens' Committee having charge of the Brooklyn rrangements at Atlanta, of which cunnuu- tee Mr.

Woodruff was chairman, and 10 the special committee on resoluthms. a was selected by members of the 1. 9 party. The dinner was served at 7 0 and appropriate souvenirs were present, i. A verv handsome basket of tlowers presented to Mrs.

Woodruff by tl.e conjtnittee. Treasurer Nissen made a very safi.f n. tory report of the finances of the tee. Resolutions were read By Ih.im 1 Wilson, secretary of lh i i- tee, thankins Hi-sirs, j. nnnison, Bern, Bryant.

I': WaiLaee and tbeir efforts in bavin nia.le the trio joyable one. Mr. All-i-r. elj.t. of the special committee, rea.i 1 resolutions uieinim looted, rhankm? 1 lullt Cluh, ami tue lama, for tiie emir-- s.

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