The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 3

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Lives of Great Men All remind us we can make our lives sublime, wrote the Opening Formally Celebrated Last Evening. BY CITIZENS. PoetJLongfellow, and by printing such lives for example and emulation, "The Citizen" aids in the uplifting of its readers. Thus, the 1 SUNDAY CITIZEN Will contain some views on the life of the "Father of His Country" and about the lives of many other men who have done noble deeds and made many sacrifices for their kind. Among The Good Things in Sunday's Citizen Are the Following: i The Real Life of Washington Springing to Arms.

Loyal Colonists British leaders I- shots and rough tackied riy at last acknowledge that Boers mnst be irregulars. Light horse regiments. Crack riders floeking to the British standard. Latest tidings from Pretoria. Refugee from the race Iraek prison says the Transvaal is almost an Adamless Men.

Mauser Wounds Heal Very Soon. A fact that has an important bearing on the war. British injured soon back at the front. Roers are perman ently damaged. For this reason shell fire, in the long Hip has been ton mii'-h eulogized.

He wa no in re human. Kilt he w.is worthy of all priise. most He wits modest, too. Krave nnd a good soldier. Had to ljght contention in hi own ranks, as well as the British! Br James Barton.

Ph. I). Were Washington Alive To-Day We should see a different man to that pi' tured by the A man nmong men. a uM. W'heu he for the British the royal officers failed to i recognize his wrth.

and he retired in duigeon to his farm. Boy Firemen Do the Work of Men. Novel organization of juvenile fire fichters. Attached to a Peekskill home. Put our flames that the recular department had left to burn.

Their equipment is com- i pVte and their drill a striking illustration of what self- reliant American boys can do. America's Children of the Ghetto. 'i A league of rich Hebrews has enlisted the help it Israel Zangwili. For a campaign of education. An experiment upon a huge scale Clubs and classes to raise ignorant Jews to the level of the average American zen.

run. will win from the bullet hre. The Women of Oom Paul's Land. Roy Devproux. author of manv books on the Transvasl.

writes of them. No fatal gift of beauty. She exists for use. not for ornament. Her value in the marriage mar- ner capacity ior eiMuring ail triings.

Will Turn Out. Kei oeienus Washington Wedding of Bromley to i matic corps to to be a most on hndemaids. Three hundred guests invited to the ding breakfast at the British Embassy. ADDRESSES Men prominent in public school affairs and in business, as as clergymen of II denominations, were present in the assembly room of the Long Island Business College, In South Eighth street, last night, where the recent opening ot the new high school at Driggs avenue and South Third street was celebrated in a manner befitting the occasion. An audience which filled every eat and every foot ot standing roon was present in the large hall, while several hundred persons were unable to gain admission.

It was after 8 o'clock when former Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Somers called the gathering together. There were on the platform President Charles E. Robertson, Dr. Maxwell, Thomas P.

Peters, ex-Stute Senutor George A. Owens, Superintendent Edward G. Ward, Rev. Samuel Haskins, pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal Church; James F.

Bendernagel, Register Howe, Dr. George D. Hamlin, Rev. Newell' Woolsey Wells, associnte pastor of the South Third Street Presbyterian Church; Rev. James F.

Crowley, of St. Mary's Church of the Imaculate Elwin S. Piper, James J. Byrnes, Rev. Leopold Wintner, of Temple Beth Elohim; George Schaedle, Edward Bush, Bernard Gallagher, John R.

Thompson and others. Chairman Somers, in his opening remarks, expressed his profound appreciation of the large audience in view of the fact that no elaborate preparations had been made for the event. The speaker said that the incident was an unusual one ini the history of the Eastern District and that the new high school was at Inst a real fact. He told of the number of girls and boys who had registered more than 200 which, he went on to say. wan more than any other high school had ever recorded at the beginning of its career.

In conclusion Mr. Somers declared that the new school justified him in saying that the people appreciated it, would support it in every direction and help iu its further development. REMARKS BY SUPT. MAXWELL. Superintendent of Public Instruction was the first speaker.

He congratulate, the Eastern District on the opening, the high school and congratu, latedr school. Mr. Maxwell referred to the presence of many citizens, and said it showed, that were giving their support to-the echool, and it also showed that the people. locality intend to make the 'Eastern District High School one of the institutions. Superintendent congratulated the city of Brooklyn, on, the evidence that the magnificent audience presented.

Then Mr. Maxwel: told of the organiiation or the first high school in Brooklyn. He said that eighteen years ago there was not a school iu Brooklyn which could be called a high achool. The speaker told of the requirements which were necessary to have high school in New York. He said that these conditions were required by the Regents of the State University and that eighteen years ago there was no school which complied with the requirements.

The city had a central grammar school in a building not belonging to the city. Mr. then went on to tell how the first high school came into existence, and then another, and so on until the Eastern District had gotten one. The speaker said that people saw the need of high schools and appreciated their advantages. It was a need to children and to the community.

Mr. Maxwell expressed his sor; row that the new high school was not "Let os not grieve for that," the speaker went on to say. "All authorities are agreed that it is only great teachers who can make a great school. A teacher is the school. All the.

wealth in India, all the gold in the Klondike, all the public libraries ahd gymnasiums, cannot make a great school unless there are great teachers. In the Eastern District, where there is a population of 300,000, there shall be a high school as fine as any in the city of New York. I hope that at no distant day you will have here a school worthy of this growing section." In conclusion Mr. Maxwell paid a high compliment to Dr. William T.

Vlymen, the principal of the new school, and the teachers under him. The Rev. Mr. Wells, who spoke next, th.t Dr. Maxwell had given him the From Plain Reporters to Literary Lights.

Living men and women who have attained names, and in some instances fortunes. Started on the daily press, Scaled the heights by the ladder of journalism Some of our most successful writers who obtained their first experiences while office boys, reporters and special eoiTe- spondents of newspapers. of the Passing Century. The tedious steps which led toward the estab-- '4 lishment of the telegraph and the cable described. Eleo- )l tricity in its experimental stage.

1 Spider Web for War Their threads are so lizht and strong that the Govern-: meut has established a plant for them, says the article. How webs are constructed by the insects. Lord Patmcofote's daughter to Mr. Robert take place Feb. 24.

President and diplo- attend. Scene in the church i expected gorgeous one. Costumes of bride and Revenge. Public Schools in Porto Rico. the Porto Rico Board ti i a i on Rofvpo the.

that of Spain. An ex America's Exhibit at PaHS in 1900. Mr. Victor S. Clarke, president of nf fl 1 1 AW rOici-i Keu tVinip to war the system was modeled on cellent syftem in tneory.

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BT. PETERSBURG. PARIS. LONDON. THE FLOWERS OF SPRING.

Lecture by Cornelias Van Brunt at the Institute. In the Art Building Inst nigh', under the -auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts nnd Sciences, Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt, of New York, delivered lecture oil "The Flowers of Spring," illustrating it with Ntne excellent laritern photographs, which were colored to nature by Mrs. Vnn Brunt. Not a little of the discourse dealt in an interesting manner with trips through Bronx Park, Van Cortland Park, as well as with a trip to South Amhoy in search of arbutus, and a visit to Stolen Inland for bluets and birds' foot violets.

Not the least interesting part of the lecture was the series of views of growing flowers given, the list including Columbine, Cal-tha, Geraniums, Hepa'ica, Dandelion, Bloodroot, etc. The lecturer described how nature, in the preceding year, prepares plants for the new life of the next year, how some are arranged for bursting out of the ground ahead of everything elj. The lecturer reminded his audience of the thought of Thoreau, who said that plants give an example of the value of early effort, and who suggests that all of us should go to tbe swamps in the fall of the year and nee how bravely the plants, in laying down the burdens of the year just ended, prepare to take up those of the year to come. Mr. Van Brunt theu described how nature has arranged in advance for many of the flowering sbruba and trees, by the growth of the catkins, containing the masculine flowers and pollen, in the fall.

He said that the catkins are covered up in a waterproof case, so that no time will he lost in their coming to maturity as soon as the winter is over, and before the leaves have had a chance to develop from the bud. A number of willow catkins were shown, illustrating tbe difference between the male and the female catkins that grow on different plants. Shown, also, were flowers of the red, sugar and foreign maples. The lecturer then described the scouring rush, showing, by the fact that they are found fossilized in coal deposits, to how great an extent the forests of long ages were made up of a species of rush, similar to but greatly surpassing in size the common rush of to-day. FOUNDATIONS COMPLETED.

Preparations for Placing of Steel Structure of New River Bridge. At the weekly meeting of the New East River Bridge Commission yesterday afternoon Chief Engineer L. L. Buck reported that the foundations for the intermediate tower on the Brooklyn side have been com pleted, the four remaining capstones hav ing been set during the past week. Mr.

Buck also stated that the timber tower for the erection of the main tower on the Brooklyn side has reached its full height, about one hundred feet, and the erection of the derricks for the placing of the steel tower, on which work in the shop is progressing, has been started. During the week the erection of the false work for the cantilever span has been continued. At the anchorage on this fide the contrac tor's plant is being removed and the granite that will be required to complete the anchorage is being stored. On the Manhattan side, the Chief Engi neer reports the stone cutting for the intermediate tower foundatious has and all of section 6 of the main tower and the accompanying horizontal and diagonal bracing are in place. At the meeting of the Commission only routine business was transacted.

"Collier's Weekly." "Collier's Weekly" for Feb. 17 contains a special article by Senator Blackburn on the political war in -Kentucky. The article is illustrated with pictures of the scene of strife and photographs of the leading poli ticians. Lieutenant Summers has an illustrated article on "Arctic Weather on "the Atlantic," and Edwin Emerson, tells in a most interesting way all about New York'a fire fighters. Frederick Palmer, special correspondent in the Philippines, has a graphic story about American soldiers res cued from Filipinos, and pictures his own article with photographs taken by himself.

There are many excellent photographs il lustrating the departure of the Canadian trpops to join the British Army in. South Africa and of the Paris Exposition as it appears to-day. One is by De Thulstrup, of the famous capture of Spion Kop by the British during "the battle of the Tugela. There are many excellent photographs of the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show, operatic and dramatic favorites, and a new exclusive picture of William J. Bryan and Senator Jones of Nevada holding a conference in Washington on the political situation.

A Valuable Folder and Map. A large folder which is called No. 21 of the Four Track series, has been issued by the passenger department of the New York Central lines. This folder bears the title "Round the World by Way of New York and Niagara Falls in Sixty-eight Days." It contains large amount of information of a cosmopolitan character, and an excellent railway map of the United States, showing the railway systems is good proportion. This folder is a sequel to the address given by Mr.

Daniels before the International Commercial Congress at Philadelphia, and serves to illustrate the immense debt which the manufacturing and commercial interests of the country owe to transportation lines for the effective manner In which they have advertised the products of American soil, mines and mills to the people of on the globe. The map which accompanies this folder Is unusually clear and distinct, and the coloring and shading are artistically treated. A copy of this folder will be sent free, postpaid, on receipt of three cents in stamps by George H. Daniels, general passenger New York Central, Grand Central Station, New York. From the Travellers' Official Railway Guide.

Stopa the Congas mu4 worki ff the Colli. Kromo-Quinln Taitn eura a eold la oaa Say. Mo Cura, No Pay. Frio Me. An account of the magnificent display of native products to be shown by American manufacturers at the Paris Exposition.

Bowser's Tribulations. M. Quad relates how he cimes home loaded with figures and meets several Waterloos. i A Plan to Aid Cuban Orphans. Vivid descriptions of conditions in the island among its children.

Great local entertainment to interest school Academy of Music Was Well Filled with Members. "THE SENATOR" THE PLAY. Actors Were Members of the Amateur Companies of This Borough, and Their Friends Were Pleased with the Presentation. An audience of respi lo quality oc cupied the Academy of Music last evening almost to its fullest seating capacity, on the occasion of the antnm! entertainment in behalf of New York State Council, District No. 1, of the Catholic- Benevolent Legion; Tbe entertainment conihrisod the pinduction by the Stnndurd Comedy Com pany of Lloyd and sparkling four-act comedy, "The Sfnav-r." illustrating social, diplomatic and politir.il life in the national capital.

I ay was performed under the direction of Junes Jor dan Darling, who assumed the leading role. His portrayal of Senator Hnnnihal Rivers, a statesman of the Western type, was hefittingly breezy, iru-qne, energetic and virile. Both the humorous and sterling qualities of the character Mr. Darling acted out with clever art nnd raptured the complete approbation of the audience. As Count Ernest Von Strahl, an Austrian diplomat, Mr.

John Costello is line of presence, courtly and well in his role. Mr. J. Ed Quinn made a very respectable looking representative of the old school in tbe character of Silas Dcnniun. relic of the days of Webster.

Hi- daughter, Mabel Denman, was lineated by Miss Lillian Brockwell, whrn displayed an admirable type of filial faithfulness. Affection and withal a young woman of charming modesty and dignity. Mrs. James N. Ballantine effected a decide,) impression on the auditors in her role of Josjp Armstrong, which she made bright, snappy and cheerfully amusing.

The remaining characters in the cast were well sustained, so that the general effect of the performance was excellent. A marked instance of the audience's satisfaction with the manner in which the play was presented was shown at the end of the third act. when it compelled the performers to reappear before the curtain. The cast was as follows: Senator Hannibal Rivers Jas. Jor4in Darling Count Ernest Von 9)trahl John OcBtello Lieut.

Georjre Schuyler, IT. S. A Harry Richard Vanr Arnoli Baron Ling China: Wm. B. Short Alexander Armatronr John Irwin Ipalah Sharpies James Pennoyrr SUaa Denman J.

Fvi Quinn Erastus Charles Benner Mabel Denman MUo Lillian Brockviell Mn. Armstrong- Mls Roee Josie Armstrong- X. Ballanttne Mrs. Schuyler MIfs Vlttta HMer Mrs. Hillary Miss Roglna.

McAvoy The play was handsomely staged, and the mechanism of the scenic changes progressed throughout with perfect smoothness, all of which enhanced the success of the performance. The stage manager was Harry Gannon, and his assistant, Arthur Hoffman. S. E. Lambert was the musical director, and bis orchestra rendered, with the applause of the audience, this programme during the evening: Overture, "The Senator." H.

Latan; potpourri, "Clorindy," I. Wit-mark; selection, "The Rounders." I Engender; medley, "Sunny Tennessee," Jos. Stern. District No. 1.

of the C. B. for whose benefit the entirtainment was given, embraces the following local councils: St. John's Chapel. No.

Sacred Heart. No. 2: Our Lady of Mercy, No. Madison, No. St.

Joseph. No. St. Patrick. No.

St. John the Baptist, No. Concord. No. Bedford, No.

10; Union, No. 11: South Brooklyn. No. 15; St. Boniface.

No. 23: St. Michael, No. 28; Central, No. 37; St.

Mary, Star of the Sea. No. 49; Brooklyn, No. 59; Holy Family, No. 91; St.

Ambrose No. 95; Holy Name, No. 100; Our Lady, of Victory, No. 101; Santa Maria. No.

St. Charles Borromeo, No. Ill; Holy Cross, No. 115; Park Slope, No. 223; Monica, No.

230; General Sheridan. No. 232; Levi, No. 426; Sympathy, No. 532; Acme, No.

542; Mon-tauk, No. 618. These are the district officers: Stephen M. Coyle, district deputy; Edmund A. Whalen, secretary; Edward Hartung, treasurer; John L.

McCabe, past district deputy; John W. Devoy, past district deputy; Edward A. King, chairman Press Committee. Executive Committee Edmund D. Hennessey, chairman; Edmund A.

Whalen, T. J. O'Hare, P. G. Schakcrs, Edward Hartung, J.

J. McGaughin, T. J. Allison, John A. Hamilton, John P.

Hurley, John W. Devoy, Edward A. King. Peter J. Higgins, Richard Dixon.

FARRAR CHAPTER, P. M. M. Interesting; Musical and Literary Entertainment at the Dutch Arms. The Dutch Arms at Seventh avenue and Carroll street was yesterday afternoon crowded with members and friends of Far-rar Chapter, V.

M. M. Faternity. An interesting literary and musical programme was rendered under chapter auspices and taken altogether the occasion was one of rare employment. Mrs.

Charles W. Elliott presided. Among the nnmbers there wore two violin duets by the Misses Antoinette and Marguerite Pippcre, who were accompanied oh the piano by Miss Fippere. The Misses Pippere are both of them little girls, who apparently, have not yet entered their "teens." They did some very intricate technical work and full merited the applause which was given them. Miss Grace E.

Campbell, contralto, proved herself to be, in truth, an artist. Miss Campbell possesses a remarkably rich tone in her lower register, and her high notes are also clear and unstrained. Her appre ciation of the "composer's sentiments" was. plainly evidenced. Misa Granger gave Tery good reading of the "Chariot Race" from "Ben Hur," and Miss Van Brunt read an interesting paper on the history of the First Reformed Church of Brooklyn.

Ftrrar Chapter's series of literary entertainments are held on the third Thursdays of each month. His Possessions. The rich and rapid young man wag not succeeding very well in his suit with the poor but sensible young woman was anxious to win. "But, Fsnnie," he nrged, "I have fifty thousand year." "Fifty thousand what?" she responded. "Bad habits r-Detroit Free children.

Brooklyn will probably join forces with Manhattan borough for an Easter festival for Cuba's children. Vishnu to Come to Earth Again. description of how Mexican soldiers were All India waits with expectation of the great Hindoo god. When in iuv ifa.iu 111 luc UlUIUilJIUS 111 ntllLU perished. Kalki.

riding white horse, to reward and punish A Buddha he came to preach a new religion of love and (j. The Winning nvuI trill of Frida. The CJ aquis' for the last incarnation he comes, it will be as 7 Two Pages for A graphic Irtufelll '11 ilti every one of them How the daughter and rescued. "The Finger of South," Etc. sity.

In conclusion, the speaker said that we want our boys nnd girls trained nud inculcated with ideas, expanding and of an elastic nature, nnd that people all over the world would recognize in time the progressive ideas of the city of New York. SPEECH BY MR. PETERS. Mr. Thomas Peters, the editor of the Brooklyn "Time," said, among other things: "I congratulate the Eastern District upon the opening of this High School.

It certainly iR time that this great section, containing a generous third of the entire population of the borough, should have a High School. Brooklyn contains to-day six High Schools, and certainly one of them should be in the Eastern District. Queens Borough ha seven High Schools or High School departments. Its population as printed in the morning papers from the figures of the Health Department, is about 130,000. The Eastern District has a population of fully 300,000, and yet it is just opening its first High School.

I believe you will agree with me when I declare that this High School has not come too soon "But this is no time for complaints because of past delays. It is rather our duty to-night, and our pleasure as well, to rejoice over the accomplishment of our de-siresi The occasion should be seized for a word of recognition for those mpn who have worked so diligently that this High School might become a reality. The Eastern District delegation in the School Board under the leadership at times of Mr. Elwin S. Piper, of Mr.

George W. Schaedle and finay of Mr. Arthur S. Somers, seconded by an active local committee with such men as Mr, Thompson and Dr. Hamilton upon it, have worked with unfailing energy for several years in order that this school might come into being.

It has not been light work. It has demanded a great deal of their time and energy, and now and here I want to give it as my testimony that this school would not be in existence to-day were it not for the fact that we have in Brooklyn a system of local committee supervision in our Educational Department. Brooklyn to-day has a School Board of forty-five members. This gives all her sections representation upon that Board. In this way each section finds a ready avenue of approach to tbe governing body.

In this way only the Eastern District gained her just representation in the School Board and was able to press her righteous demands for a High School. "The work that the American public school system does for Americans in and throughout the country can be briefly referred to. The work that the Brooklyn High Schools are doing may be illustrated when it is said that the graduates from the Boys High School in one year won $10,000 worth of prises, at the different colleges. No graduates of a private school in Brooklyn ever accomplished that result. I heard a Brooklyn principal say the other day that in the European countries the men who made most of the new inventions and the new improvements upon all kinds of machinery were from the employer class, while here in the United States all improvements nearly were made and suggested by the laborers on those machines.

Here knowledge is more diffused. The man in America who sits at a machine working upon it daily is-not a part of that machine. He i a breathing, thinking, animate being. He studies the machine at which he works. He improves it and himself at the same time.

Our system of public education is slowly evolving a better brain matter and our people are growing in proportion. A great British critic was in America at the time of the recent illness of Rudyard Kipling, and he was startled to notice how widely read Kipling was, and how even the streetcar conductors were familiar with his work. Both of these facts pay tribute to the result of the American common school system brought to its very highest development in Brooklyn." SENATOR OWENS DID IT. After a baritone solo by James' J. Byrnes ex-Senator Owens, who was introduced as the father of the High School bill, was presented.

He told how in 1894 he saw the necessity of a high school for the Eastern District, and the bill was made a mandatory one. He related the opposition of the then Mayor Schieren because there was no money on hand at the time, and also the opposition of thesBoard of Education to the high sehool'project. In conclusion the speaker expressed his appreciation of the new high school and said it supplied a long-felt want in the Eastern District of Brooklyn. Tart second of the programme opened with another selection by the Glee Club of the Boys' THigh School, and there were brief addresses by Elwin S. Piper, Edward Ward, the Rev.

Dr. Wintner, Mr. John Thompson, Principal Vlymen, ahd the Rev. Father Crowley. The addresses of all were in appreciation of the good work accomplished in high schools, and congratulating the Eastern District on what it has succeeded In obtaining.

Of these speakers Mr. Thompson told how glad he wag to see the High School completed. Mr. Thompson did not refer to the fact that he an4 Mr. Somers probably did more to bring about the completion of the High School than anybody else.

Mr. Thompson devoted days to the work, and it was through his persistent efforts that the present school building was finished in the time it was. A soprano solo by Miss Minnie Gallagher was greatly appreciated. Children to Take Part la a Big Fes-. tlvaL The Music Committee of the local School Board and S.

K. Saenger, the President of the United Singers, which has in charge the grent singing festival to be held in this borough in July, and Arthur Claassen, the musical director, will shortly haTe a conference relative to the gathering together of between 3,000 and 4,000 children with vocal nbllity to assist in theevent. This was made known at a special meeting of the Executive Committee held Wednesday night in Arion Hall. The committee also decided to place the brome busts of Wagner am! Liszt nnd Emperor William's prise in niches in the armory where everybody can view them. of a German judge was fonnd In By Comrie Colqnhonn.

Author of Fate," "His Better Self," "A Son of the Women. Churchill Foresaw the End While he was a prisoner of the Beers ia Colenso. "The beginning of the end." He found Scotsmen and Englishmen fighting on the side of the Boers, and heard the republicans chant an evening Psalm. With the sunlight came different feelings. By Lord Winston Churchill.

Mr. Peddie Overhears the Burglars' Plot. He takes measures to balk the rogues and to secure their capture. His friend's house was not robbed. There is always something of value to the maker of the home and her daughters in these pages.

It may be the recipe for a new and enticing dish, or the latest fashion in garments, or the talk of the clubs, or the bargains and novelties in the shops. Every woman should read "The Sunday Citizen." Experts Write for Important Departments. Building-Loan Associations, by J. T. McKechnie.

Guardsmen and Veterans, by Sergeant Taylor. At the Ringside, by John W. Fox. Society and tbe Clubs. Current Literature, by Re.

Dr. S. Giffard Nelson. On the Track With the Racers, by Msjor Wheeler. Our Schools and the Teachers.

Artists and Their Work, by James McLean. Your Newsdealers. Ijrtext, "Do not despise the dny of small things." The speaker added that he would Order of BUILDING SHELTERS. Fresldemt Rpsaiter States the Work Has Already Begum. President Clinton L.

Rossiter, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, wheu seen yesterday stated that he had issued orders for the establishment of shelters at Thirty-sixth street and Fifth avenue, at Sixty-fifth street and Third avenue, and at Eighty-sixth street and Fifth avenue. These were the place where the State Railroad Commission ordered that shelters should erected for the protection of passengers who were compelled to make transfers at those points. Mr. Rossiter stated that the work of establishing shelters would be pushed as rapidly as possible, and he hoped that at least one of them might be finished to-day. Iastltnte Calendar.

This is the calendar of the Brooklyn. Institute of Arts and Sciences for to-day: First lecture in the course on "The Great Buildings of the World," by Mr. Barr Ferree, president of the department, honorary and corresponding member of the Royal Institute of Architects. Subject, "Venice; the Church of San Marco and the Doges' Palace," illustrated by excellent lantern photographs. Art Building, 8:15 p.

m. Address by the Hon. Edward W. Hatch, judge of the Supreme Court of New York, on "How Crime is Punished." New Polytechnic Hall, Livingston street, near Court, 8:15 p. m.

Section on Constellations. The stndy of the Gemini. Canis Minor, Monocreros, Museum PRICE 3 Gts. Berry Social Club and the Sewanhaka Bowling Clnb. The ladies were assisted by the Sir Knights of Chamber'i Tent.

The Floor Committee were James Kerrigan, Alfred McKay, Frederick Connors, Herbert Richardson, William J. England and Charles Korrow. Music was furnished by Professor Yates. Euchre and Reception, One of the social functions of the Park Slope last week was the enchre and reception given by Roderick G. Waller and Harry L.

Stacy at the latter's hdme, 319 Twelfth street, on Thursday evening last, to a number of their friends. Prizes were won by Miss Tessie Macdonald, Mrs. John G. Thomson, Mr. William Waller and Mr.

Arthur E. Fielding. After supper violin solos were rendered by Professor William Rumph, assisted by Miss McGill and Misa Macdonald, and the well-known Klondike Quintet and a host of others, after which dancing was continued to the early hours of the morning. Among those present were the Misses Jennie and Bertha Waller, Mabel' and Martha Jaderluhd, Miss Ruth McGill, Miss Helen Bacbett, Miss May Foley, Miss May Stacy, Messrs. Frank and George Lewis, Mr.

John Thomson, Mr. G. Nelson Tower, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B.

Stacy and Master Thomas and a few other well-known Brooklynites. Give It Wide Berth. Sandy Pikes Strike Denver oft our I'm-itin' list, pard. Pellucid Fete What fur? Sandy Pikes Why, dia paper aays dat: ennf soap has arrived In dat city to supply 150,000 people fur a year. Chicago Newt.

like to revise the text and mane it, i'o not despise the place of smnll things." He said that the present site of the Eastern District High School was one of the most historical in that part of the city. In its own history it had bound together the old village of Williamsburg, with the greatest city. The Rev. Wells next gave history of the building, which datea, back more than fifty years, and in conclusion he wished it all the success that could be given to an institution of that kind. The Glee Club of the Boys High School gave several selections, which were loudly applauded.

PRESIDENT ROBERTSON'S AD-' DRESS. Charles E. Robertson, on being said that while the new high school was small, it should not be despised. He went on to say that high scnools were an absolute neceasitjr because if any defects In elementary studies in the grammar schools were found, those defects would surely be discovered in a high school. This, said'' the speaker, is a progressive age, not tallow for a light, but electricity.

It was an age of specialties. Mr. told the, audience it ought to be congratulated because, Bince consolidation, the new high school was the first and only school that was erected in Brooklyn, and" to the local committee was due credit and congratulations for having brought about the work. The speaker referred to the-corps of teachers as one not to be excelled by any other, not only in New York, but In the whole United States, Mr. Robertson said they were young, progressive and specially He said that more attention had been given to high schools in Brooklyn than in any other borough In the city.

Even Manhattan, the ipenker said, had awakened to this neces Building, Eastern Parkway, 8:15 p. m. Conference to be conducted by Mr. Crawford Capen, on "The Stamps of Greece." Collections of Grecian stamps will be exhibited. Art Building, No.

174 Montague street, 8:15 p. m. Lively Times in the Egg Trade. The exceptionally mild weather during January evidently made the hens of this country think that spring had arrived. At any rate, new-laid eggs have been shipped to this market in surprising quantities this month.

For the past three days receipts were 33,295 cases about six times as many as came during the corresponding three days of last year, when we received 5.T29 cases. Most of the cases contain thirty dosens. Although there are still some refrigerator eggs, by far the larger part arriving are very fine quality pf, new-laid. Prices for such have declined from 184 cents per doxen at toe beginning of February to 13ty cents to-day. A year ago the wholesale rate was 29 cents.

With the price now only a trifle over 1 cent each, this article ia probably much the cheapest food obtainable. It will require, however, a very sharp public appetite to consume the vast amount coming to market. Reception of Coral Hive, No. 193, L. O.

T. U. The fifth annual reception of Coral Hive, No. 193, L. O.

T. was held on Lincoln's Birthday at Caecilia Hall on Grand street. The affair, which proved a success, was. attended by many different associations, among those were Chambers Tent, No. 105; O.

T. Perfection Tent, No. 113, K. 0. T.

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