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JL i i UiivOiv ArHj IiUa I j.iiiii1 AK i 5 PLYMOUTHS PRAYER MEETING. Good BROOKLYN TUNNEL WILL BU FIRST. i Mr. Orr Informs tbe Aldermen That Work Can Be WORK ON THE NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE. Engineer O.

F. Nichols Described the History of the Undertaking A 'WONDERFUL LAND IS THIS. If One Is Seeking fariety He Can Find It in Franee. MR. BARR TERREES LECTURE.

ral curiosity in France, nnd rank among the greatest fortifi. ations of all time. Here, inclosed within the mighty walls of the old city is one of the most renmrkuble of French cathedrals, with it delicate transept and choir of almost unrivaled beauty, and offering strange contract with the huge fortifications that snrronnd it. 8t. Pone.

St. Lizier and St. Bertrand-de-Comminges. are cathedral eities within the shelter of She Pyrenees, each with cuHous 'points of interest, and hardly known to the American traveler. Narbonne and Toulouse bring tho traveler back to modes In civilization and to thriving towns filled with bnsy life.

Toulouse Is especially interesting, with many fine houses of the Renaissance period, all in an excellent state of preservation. Albl is another important town, tjdtb the larg-gest brick cathedral in France, an immense fortified structure of characteristic design, with much sculpture and painted decoration of rare interest. The lecture was throughout sumptuously illustrated with lantern photographs of extraordinary beauty, including not only the churches described, but many views of buildings and places. Reading-for the Home 1 Circle. THE TO AN ENGINEERS SOCIETY.

way will be supported. Each wire used in -the bridge weighs 325 pounds and will be 4,000 feet in length. The ends of each wire will be joined by a screw splice similar to that used on the old bridge. A striking difference between this and the old bridge will be had in the treatment of the shore spans. In the old bridge these spans are 923 feet long, and this part of the roadway as well as the channel spans are supported from the cables.

In the new bridge these shore spans will be only 600 feet long, and the roadways supported on independent, self-sustaining trusses, and no portion will be carried by the cable. The effect of this will materially reduce the size and cost of the cables, as well as the length. The cables of the old bridge are fifteen inches in diameter and 3.500 feet in length; those of the new bridge, nineteen inches in diameter and 2,900 feet in length. This particular form of construction is not novel, but was used in the more earlier construction of suspension bridges, notably the Menai Bridge, built by Telford, and the Niagara Bridge, by Roebling. This form of construction simplifies materially the calculations of stresses and the act of the load bn the cables.

The approaches for the new bridge will be longer than the old. for the reason that they are elevated from the ground to the terminals. The old bridge is 6,000 feet over all, and the new one will be 7,200 feet long. Instead of expensive masonry as on the old bridge, the approaches of the new will be built of steel and ean be completed in less time and at much less cost. The contract for their construction was awarded in August last, and about 2,000 tons of steel have already been made for the work.

The total cost of the approaches will be $2,500,000. The bridge provides for four trolley tracks, two elevated railroad tracks, two roadways, footwalks and bicycle paths. About 500 buildings will be destroyed to make room for the bridge, and the following work will be done in the construction: 125.000 cubic yards of excavation, 60,000 cubic yards of concrete. 6,500,000 feet of timber, 130,000 cubic yards of masonry, and 45,000 tons of steel at an actual cost of something over $8,000,000, exclusive of the cost of the right of way, and it Is confidently expected that the bridge will be opened in two years for traffic. Special Articles for Sunday Are as Follows: A CURIOUS STORY OF OLD BROOKLYN.

How Captain Rapelye Got Rid of Hia Wife and How He Had to Pay. for It. THE MYSTERY OF THE Nikola Tesla Feels Sure That He HS Tierced It. EDWARD VII. PUTS ON DIGNITY.

England's King Drops Many of Hia Old Tastes and Friends. HARI-KARI IS THE ORDER. Dowager Empress Puts Her Officials tat Last Teat of Loyalty. Dr. Hillis Spoke oa "The Fires That Teat Men's Work.

At Church last night Dr. Hillis' addressed the prayer meeting and the theme w4j "The Fires That Test Meps Work. The subject suggested Itself to the celebrated divine hy the words of tba Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, Works that are tried so as by fire, etc. Dr. Hillis said in part: This letter seems to have been written by Paul from Rome, when he was approaching the end of his career, and it was addressed to the Corinthians because it was in Corinth that be spent the greater part of his life.

The speaker drew a comparison between the old buildings of Greece and Rome aud meVs life. He said that God would not allow mena work to burn up forever. He related the incident of the Scotchman, who, a long while ago, had brought a Scotch thistle to Canada and shown how the seed of that thistle had grown, until it spread' everywhere. The doctor spoke of the stem Presbyterianism of Calvin, of Whitfield and of Knox, aud declared that they all had made their mistakes; that much that they had written should have been destroyed. "Probably, be went on, pfeopie will look back at some of your letters aud wish that they had been destroyed.

I think that every minister after ten years ought to burn up his sermons for the good of religion. Dr. Hillis said that by saving so as by fire, the Apostle Paul without doubt meant character. While men thought only one thought, that thought was followed by another afterward. Dr.

Hillis spoke of the periods of low ideals, and told of the servant, who, on one occasion, carried the sweepings from Carlyle's rooms out of the back yard in a wheelbarrow. Not a single thing bad been destroyed and blooms followed the planting of the sweepings. Nature is very vigilant, proceeded Dr. Hillis. You cant destroy anything and the devil cant.

The best cannot be destroyed, but fire will bnrn up the worst. We are tested by the weak hours of life. and the speaker pointed to Peter, Judas and Saul. He said that when Sir Humphrey Davy was asked what was the best thing he had ever done, his reply was: "The discovery of Michael Farady, then a scullion of 14. Dr.

Hillis characterized Paul's epistle to the Corinthians, in conclusion, as full of comfort on the one hand, correction and rebuke on the other. The devotional exercises were as usual in appropriate keeping with the theme of the evening. To begin with. Charles Wesleys familiar and hymn "Jesus, Lover of My Soul. was sung and following that another Wesley song, which ran partly thus: I need Thee precious Jesus, For I am very poor.

A stranger and a pilgrim, I have no earthly store. I need the love of Jesus To cheer me on my wsy. To guide my doubting footsteps, To be my strength snd stay. At the close of the prayer meeting, there was a sale in the parlors of articles, mainly books, that had been left over from the Plymouth Fair for Home Missions, which had been held successfully in the lecture room of the church on Wednesday and Thursday. HEPTASOPHS JOLLIFICATION.

They Had All Sorts of a Time In Penn-Fulto HalL The Improved Order- of Heptasophs, Montauk Conclave, No. 539, gave an entertainment in Penn-Fulton Hall last evening and jammed the place with their friends. The Heptasophs are beneficial and fraternal, and their motto is: As men become wise and thoughtful they become provident and frugal. A wise man thinks of the future; he prepares in good time for those who are near and dear to him. TheSe were the committees: Reception Charles G.

Percy, chairman; D. F. Ray, E. A. Curran, G.

W. Baker, H. P. Hommel, John Bussenschntt, L. V.

Silver, B. B. Brady, Theodore A. Meissner, Daniel J. Brinsley, James H.

Gaskel, Walter H. Weeks, Fred Mathers, H. A. Mandevilie, George Eldredge. Floor H.

Rnssell floor manager; Walter Weeks, assistant floor manager; Oscar Weinhold, William P. Graham, George H. Eldredge, Fred Maters, H. E. Adams.

The various contests, to the winners of which prizes were given, were great fan. No one guessed the noses right, bnt many were right about the feet. Guesses covering the number of beans in a pint ranged from 150 to 2,000. There proved to be just 525, and the man who guessed 524 took the prize. The programme in full was as follows: Music by E.

A. Van Velsors Orchestra; overture, selected; recitation, Miss Gladys; first prize, advertising contest: instrumentalist, W. Wood; second prize, bean contest; fancy dances, Misses Carrie Krauss and Madeline Bartels; third prize, nose contest; recitation. Miss Mabel Lock-wood; fourth prize, feet contest; recitation, Miss Gladys; fifth and sixth prizes, envelope contest; instrumentalist, W. Wood; serenth and eighth prizes.

Refreshments came after the entertainment was over, and then there was a dance. Aa Ice-Cream Story. One of the best known ice cream manufacturers of New York city is much interested in a bright, ambitions boy by the name of Johnnie. Casting about in his mind for a present of enduring value to make to the lad, he hit upon the Funk A Wagnail'a Standard Dictionary, and sent a copy of that It chanced that the book was parked in his bnsiness place by one of the clerka, who, from force of habit, pasted on (be outside of the package one of the ice cream labels. When the parcel was received In the home of the lad by hit mother, the said: "How kind of Mr.

to send our Johnnie some ice cream! She at once had it taken to the refrigerator and laid on ice, where it remained until Johnnie came home in the evening. Mach delighted at the news, he ran ont and invited a number of his boy and girl friends to an ice cream treat. And when, later on, the company was gathered in the parlor, and the pride of literary America" (aa the St. James Budget once called It), was taken off the ire and uncovered, there was a tableau indeed, and everybody, to qoote one of the Standard's definitions, was agitated as with a dasher. The Saturday Sprite.

The last number of "Saturday Sprite" contains several features of considerable merit. Its theatrical, society, club and National Guard news items are bright. The illustrations are especially fine. FRANCE AND THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS Restrictive Laws Which the Government I Ia Trying to Pass, Arouse Their 1 Bitter Opposition. TALK OF BRITISH REPUBLIC.

Prominent British Statesman Points Out the Reasons Which May Bring It About FOR THE SAKE OF JOHN." Weekly Novelette by Katharine 8. Mae-Quold, Anthor of The Story ot Lois, A Ward of tho King, At the Red Glove, In the Volcanic Eifel," Mias Eyon, of Eyoncourt, The Princes Whim," Etc. STARTED IN FOUR MONTHS, And That the Tunnel to Zlatbnek Avenue Can Be Completed Before That to the Bronx Why Jorale- mon Street le Used. I The Aldermanic Committee on Streets and Highways held a meeting yesterday afternoon in the City Hall for the purpose of considering tiie plana for the Brooklyn extension to the Rapid Transit Tunnel, aa prepared by tbe Rapid Transit Commission. Alexander E.

Orr, chairman of the Rapid Transit Commission; Edward M. Shepafd, George L. Rives and Woodbury Langdon, members of the Commission, were present and went over the same ground covered at the hearing given by the Conncii on Tuesday. Alderman Bridges, the chairman of the committee, desired to know if it was proposed not to have a depot between the river nnd the Borough Hall. Mr.

Shepard said that this would be impossible on account of the grade, it being necessary, of course, to carry the tunnel up from thp river gradu-ally. Mr. Orr explained in reply to a query by Alderman Wafer, that Joralemon street had been selected in preference to Atlantic avenue because the grade of Atlantic avenue would not permit of its use as part of the route. Mr. Wafer then suggested that inasmuch ns the city is $20,000,000 within the debt limit, according to Controller Colcrs statement, the ci(y ought to undertake the work of building and operating the tunnel railroad without letting the contract to any individual or individuals.

Mr. Rives explained that under the existing law the city could not operate a railroad iu the tunnel. The city, be said, could own the road and leas it for fifty year. Could not the Rapid Transit Commission go up to the Legislature and have a law passed that would permit the city to operate the road? asked Mr. Bridges.

I am afraid not, replied Mr. Rites. It seems to me they can get whatever they want, continued the chairman of the committee. If the city operated the road, it would be putting the people of the city to work. Mr.

Bridges addsd that in his opinion a branch of the tunnel should extend into the Eighth Ward. He also reminded the members of ths Commission that the terminal of New East River Bridge No. 3 will be in the neighborhood of the Long Island Railroad Depot, where it ia planned to end the tunnel. Mr. Shepard agreed that this was trne, bnt said that there would be no connection between the tunnel and the Bridge.

He added that the South Brooklyn Extension would be feasible and would come In due time. Mr. Orr said that it will only be about four months before work ia if the plans are not delayed In the Municipal Assembly, and that the tunnel will be completed before tbe Manhattan tunnel, which, he stated, it la expected to complete before Jan. 1904. Chief Engineer Parsons also replied to Mr.

Wafer's question regarding the use of Atlantic avenue, stating that hy using Joralemon sti-eet the city will not have to take any private property. The Long Island Railroad Company at present owns a tunnel in the lower part of Atlantic avenue, and their rights would hare to he acquired by the city. Nobody appeared in opposition to the plans. WELSH ALUMNI. Former Students of Public School Ho.

35. The eighth annual reunion and reception of the Welsh Alumni Association of Public School No. 85 was held last blight at tbe Hotel St. George. The affair took place in the large assembly room of the hotel downstairs, which was brilliantly lighted and decorated for the occasion, The gathering of ladles and gentlemen was quite select.

The ladies were resplendent in jewels and charming costumes. The beauty of the latter was emphasized by the contrast of tbe sombre shades of the gentlemens evening dress. It was shortly before 10 oclock when the music of Muller's orchestra started up the waltz. Then the floor became at once a maze of gliding feet, swaying bodies and smiling faces as the happy dancers went round and round, keeping step to the music cadences. The pleasures of terpslchore were kept up nntil after midnight, when an intermission was taken to allow the merry-makera to give some attention to the demands of the inner man.

After the collation, the dance was resumed and kept np nntil the 'wee sma hours when all departed for home well content with their cveningXJeasnre. Tbe Star aud Stripe at Aore. A good American had been making some soul-stirring remarks about the glorious atar-spangled banner when an Englishman who ia pretty well Americanized told a little atory apropos: I remember once to have seen the stars and stripes applauded uproariously on a peculiar occasion. It happened msny years ago when the British flag wasn't as popular in the United States as it is now and a party of us Englishmen were at a theater in New York considerably farther down town than theaters are now to be found on Broadway. The play was 'Richard and if you remember there Is a scene in the play where Richard, after patting his foes to flight in terrific style, mounts the wails of Acre and plants the British color Evidently the management knew the temper of the audience nnd felt that even under such circumstances the British flag would not be a good thing, so what did they do but give Richard the atar-spangled banner, and, by all the gods, he took it with him in the charge and planted it on Acres walls.

It waa ridiculous, of course, and wa Englishmen laughed, but the audience took it quite aa tho correct thing, and the way the people stormed snd shouted snd clapped was enough to have made Richard turn over In hi grave. Historically it was asay off, dramatically it nns open to criticism, but it was a honliug success. Washington Star. Guide Hla Audience from the Rhone to the Pyrenees and Introduce Them to the Strange Cathedral of the South A Delightful Trip. Barr Ferree, president of the Department of Architecture of the Brooklyn Institute.

began, las-t otrning, in the Art Gallery on Montague street, a course of illustrated lectures on "The Cathedrals of France. The subject for the evening was From the Rhone to the Pyrenees: The Strange Catiudrnl of the South. In beginning his lecture Mr. Ferree remarked that the ttateler in search of adventure or of the beautiful would find no fairer country for his wanderings than the beautiful land of France. Adventure iu the way of hail breadth escapes or dangerous travel one mil not find; but if one likes to be inconvenienced he can be most uncomfortable; if ho Kites to see strange places he will not hate to go far from Paris to get to them: if he would study strange manners and customs and eat strange dishes, ail these are his for a short journey on a railroad, or brief trip by stage; and if, above all.

one is journeying by cycle he will find the most splendid roads It "was ever the good fortune of mortal to wheel over. And then he will see all sorts of strange, curious and beautiful sights. There are handsome cities, and strangs ones: cities built on hills or sunk in deep valleys; cities amid rocks, and cities high up on mountains. There is the most modern city in the world, which we know to ho Paris: and there are cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries still lifting their mediaeval walls for the astonishment of the Twentieth Century. These are Carcassonne and Aigues Morten.

There arc palaces and castles and honaea old and npv; and the older they are the stranger and more fascinating they seem. And if to thpse surface delights one adds a knowledge of the historical associations of France, an acquaintance with the people who lived in it, and the deeds hy which they mnde that country what it is, one has unrolled before one a panorama of real and living interest, as well as of marvelous picturesqueness. Those who visit the cathedrals with me, said Mr. Ferrety will leave little of France unexplored. We will go up into the Alps of Dauphiny nnd of Sarny, nnd into the Cevennes and the Pyrenees.

We will travel long weary distances by train, continue oar journey in stage coaches or by special carriages: nnd in one place at least by boat. We will see much of French peasant life, and we will not be disturbed in our tour of inspection except in the most remote places. All told, there are one hundred and fifty-one cathedra cities in France, and many more cathedrals and ex-cnthedrals. In the redistribution of the ecclesiastical provinces by Napoleon many of the older aces were consolidated and the churches which, for hundreds of years, had boasted the throne of their own Bishop, did so no more. But they are atill called cathedral churches by the people living by them, and some of them are among the grandest churches in France.

The south of France is thickly studded with cathedral cities. The town has always been a notable factor in France. In the south each little town was a country or government to itself, very frequently with its own bishop, who, in time, often became the chief of the city. Thi is not unnatural in an undeveloped mountainous country, where means of travel are difficult and journeys from on place to another are only accomplished with great expense and much danger. The many cathedral cities in the southeast Indicate, therefore, the Individual or separated development of the towns, and keep alive to this day features of early history never, it would teem, to be wiped off the map of France.

Another notable fact is that the growth of civilization In France began in the southeast, in the valley of the Rhone, and followed the general direction of Roman conquest. The oldest cathedrals arc thus in this part of France. Later on, after Gothic architecture had reached higli development in the north, there was a reflex moyement toward th'e south, and Gothic architecture, a northern art, tried, as best it could, to gain a foothold in the south among the Romanesque, that flourished though never successfully. This, however, did not happen until the trouble some time in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, when the people were bnsy with wars and were too poor to build large churches. Mr.

Ferree started his hearers in their journey at the ancient Papal city of Avignon, with its curious little old cathedral and its vat papal palace or castle. Then he passed into Provence, that land so rich in legends and in buildings, visiting Aix, with its beautiful cloister; Yaison. with it strangely deserted cathedral, on the roadside; Arles, with Its magnificent sculptures, and great church of St. Trophim, partly of the Eleventh Century, and partly of the Fourteenth. All these cities are comparatively well known, and their cathedrals hold an important place in the history of Romanesque architecture.

The towns themselves are full of Interest, and have many notable monuments besides their cathedrals. From Aries a trip was taken up into the higher parte of Provence, end visit made to the almost unknown cathedrals of Digne, Siteron, the latter almost in the Alps; and then bark to the coast, where the equally unfamiliar churches atFre-jus, Maguelonne, Adge and Eloe were visited in rapid succession. Most of these were Interesting types of fortified cathedrals, built to resist the attacks of pirates and other enemies, approaching by the water, and most, of them, if not actually on the Mediterranean, were within sight of ij. From the roof of Maguelonne Cathedral It is sometimes possible, on very clear days, to see the most easterly of the Pyrenees end the most westerly of, the Alps. From Elne, which is close to the Spanish frontier, a turn to the north was taken, and a visit to the city of Carras-sonne, whose walls sod towers constitute the largest and mo-t important architectu Something definite about the work on the New East Elver Bridge was told by Mr.

0. F. Nichols, principal assistant engineer of the New East Kiver Bridge before the Brooklyn Technical Society, a German organisation of this borough, in Arion Hall, Inst night. Mr. Nichols address was entitled "The New East River Bridge, and it was replete with stereopticon views as the bridge appears at the present time, and as it will appear when finished, two years hence.

'is. Nirhnls began his lecture by referring back to the year of 1788, when it was in.u proposed to erect a bridge from New York to the then village of Brooklyn. Brooklyn had then 1,600 inhabitants of whom one-quarter were slaves. It was not until 1817 that horse boat traffic was established betwei New York and Williamsburg, and about seven years later horse power was removed and replaced hy steam. In 1836 the total receipts a day for ferriage from passengers crossing between the two places was not $100.

The rapid growth of Brooklyn went on from that time 1850, and the ferries then in existence became greatly crowded. One of the greatest ice jams in the history of New York wag had here in 1854 or 1855, and at that time teams crossed for several hours between the two places. It called for a safer method of transportation than the old-fashioned ferriee, and it was then that John Roebling began to make a study of a bridge here. This was as early as 1856, or soon after the Niagara bridge was completed. As usual in such great undertakings it needed forceful man, and no person appeared until in 1865, William C.

Kingsley took up thp work. Through his labors legislation was secured and the Government gave Its consent for the erection of the present Brooklyn Bridge, known as No. 1, and which was completed in 1884. Much might be said in relation to the hear-. ing this bridge'-had on the construction of the bridge at the foot of Broadway.

The two sections of the city are so widely separated that it was always believed that it required independent communication on the river between Williamsburg and New York, and people recognised that the proper thing was to have a bridge of their own here. On March 9, 1892, Senator McCarren had a bill passed in the Legislature which provided for such a bridge. The bill created the East River Eridge Company, and it was authorised to build two bridges, one near the foot of Broadway, and the other ifear the foot of Hudson avenue. This company was the offshoot of the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad, of which Frederick Uhlman was the president He was energetic, and -'tried to promote the interests of the new company, bnt he was not able to get financial support to undertake the construction of the bridges. Surveys were made, but the work could not be commenced, and in 1895 a bill wafs passed in the Legislature authorizing the construction Of another bridge near the foot of Broadway to join the two cities, New York and Brooklyn.

Mr. Nichols told Of the appointment of three commissioners each by the then Mayors Schieren and Strong, and the appointment in August, 1895, of L. L. Buck as the chief engineer. The preparations for the work was begun immediately, and the first contract for the New York tower foundation was given out in October, 1896.

The lecturer told of the delay in getting the necessary land for the site. He said it was decided to build a bridge 118 feet in width, supported by four cables, each 18 inches in diameter, as the great width of the bridge would have to sustain a load four times as great as the old bridge it was found that the stiffening trusses would hare to be heavier and also three times as deep as the old bridge. Mr. Nichols added that the reason that steel towers were decided upon was that a greater height could 1 he obtained, the new bridge towers being sixty feet higher than those of the old bridge. The steel towers, he also said, insured a greater sag to the cables and a greater stiffness to the bridge and permitted the nse of smaller cables.

Masonry towers, Mr. Nichols said, would have had to have foundations twice as large, would have cost five times as much as the present towers, and taken three times as long to build. Mr. Nichols referred to the building of the caissons on the Brooklyn side, making of them and their dimensions, how they were sunk, the amount of material used in their construction, and in this connection he said that seldom were foundations carried to such a depth on the Williamsburg side 115 feet below high water mark by compressed air, with such few accidents and no deaths. Mr.

Nichols told how the work went on and bow long the men worked until the foundations had been huilt. Speaking of the anchorages, he said important work devolved upon their construction: for instance, on the New York side, 3,500 spiles were driven, while on the Brooklyn side few spiles were required. The steel towers rise to a height of 330 feet over high-w atcr and contain 3.000 tons of steel each, end are surmounted by four steel saddles ca weighing thirty-seven and a half mns. The saddles are placed on forty rollers and will carry the cables. There ill be four- foot-bridges, one for each i able, and from which the cables proper ill be built.

The cost of the foot-bridges will exceed $100,000, and the work of making the cables can commence when they are constructed. The specifications for the cables require that they be about nineteen inches in diameter, with 10.400 nires in each cable. These wires are known as No. 8, and are about 16-100 of inch in diameter. The iron and steel in its strongest form when drawn into Miiali wires and the specifications require that the wire for this bridge reaches a Micngth of 200.000 pounds to the aqnare in.

h. The ire in the old bridge his a length of 170.000 pounds to the squire 'ii. h. The wires will be laid straight and i r. 'illel in the cables and be clamped to-h.

hy esst steel clamps at every twen-r ei. thee elsmps will support the 'c uu.pcnders from which the road MR. RIDDLES CENTURY. Ho Has Appeared aa a Reader 100 Times Before the Institute. Yesterday afternoon, at Association Hall, George Riddle, assisted by Arthur Clnassen and his orchestra, read "Henry V.

before a large audience. It was the 100th time Mr, Riddle has appeared before the Brooklyn Institute, and while no official recognition was made of the event, ths audience took the matter into their own hands (literally) add gave recall after recall at the close, until Mr. Claassen, taking the cue, played Auld Lang Syne," when the popular reader was given a hearty oration. Throughout the afternoon the applause had been liberal, but Association Hall was made to ring with the last round. People were all ready to laugh at the time they knew Fiuellen was due to appear in the play, and with the first notes of his squeaky voice the enjoyment was evident.

Another part that gave pleasure was the pretty lore scene with the Princess Katharine, in which Mr. Riddles perfect French was a joy to hear, while the girls words lost none of their grace by being spoken ny a man. The heroic rally of the army "for Harry, England and St. George" was delivered with ail the fire that could well be put into it, with telling gesture and rowerful tone, and the words spoken to the herald, though few, were effective in the extreme. One of the delights of listening to Mr.

Riddle is that one can always hear every word. There is no faulty delivery that causes him to drop a tone, which Is an annoying trait in some readers. Perhaps this is due to its resonant-timbre and good carrying quality as much as to training. Much of the agreeable Depression made by the affair was due to the music. In addition to the usual incidental passages, Mr.

Clnassen played for the prelude the Corouation March, for the funeral music for the three conspirators a march by Greig, and for the accompaniment to the prayer God of Battles the "Largo (Handvljitepnged for violin obligato. Mr. Kapp. concert-meister, modestly refused to take the applause meant for him until Mr. Riddle insisted upon it.

Other numbers wete the Priests March" from Ath-nlla (Mendelssohn), a minuet (Bizet), and the march from the Leonore Symphony (Raff). The reading will he repeated this evening also at Association Hail. Next week Hamlet" will be given on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening and will close the series. RUDIMENTS. OF ELECTRICITY.

Prof. Crocker Delivers an Instructive Lectnre at tke Polytechnic. The're was a large turnout of members of the Brooklyn Institute Department of Electricity last evening in the large lecture hall of the new Polytechnic building, the attraction being a lecture by Professor Francis B. Crocker, Th. of Columbia University ou The Meaning of Electrical Terms.

The lecturer went to tho very beginnings of the science and gave detailed description of Toit, ohm and ampere, which may be said to represent electromotive force, pressure or resistance and current respectively. In fact. Professor Crocker said because the electricity may be measured like any fluid the aame terms are used in describing it. It i governed by the same laws of resistance and pressure nnd its measurement may be and usually is, even in commercial electricity, brought down to one-tenth of 1 per' cent. Electricity as used nowadays is one of the most exact of the applied sciences.

The lecturer said that the idea commonly held that there is something occult or mysterious about it is not so at all. It is based absolutely on the three fundamental nnits, from which all others can be deduced, and is as uniformly accurate as the science of astronomy. Relative meansrments of volt, ohm nnd ampere in the incandescent and arc lights, the telegraph wire, the ordinary bell and ail the forms of use to which we are accustomed were given. These were placed on charts and were copied info the notebook, which the faithful member of the Institute always carries. A ranged on a table were the various batteries, machines, etiv used in the demonstrations.

Aa the lecturer was not in the laboratory, all these had to be put in place by Edisons men. who made the connection with the lighting plant of the hall. The process of arrangement was watched with inteass interest, especially hy some of the younger member of the department who were present The demonstrations were effective and again the notebooks were brought into play and the results of each experiment taken down. Professor Crockbr was aided- in making these hy an assistant Mr. Titus.

The lecturer was introduced hy W. S. Barstow. president of the department In a gracefully worded speech, in the course of which he said there bad been lectnre upon ej-ery form of electricity except these fundamentals, which had always been taken for granted. Unhappiness Explained.

The reason people are not happy, said Mr. Meektona "is that they insist on misdirecting their energies." Thats perfectly true, Henrietta, he answered. "I know so many husbands who insist on talking about The Ultimate Object of Modern Social Tendencies and How Shall We Purify the Ballot, when they ought to be putting their minds on the question of whether the storm doors are locked for the night and the milk jar set ont on the front porch. Washington Star. 'i i HORSESHOERS FEASTED.

They Also Listened Last Night to Vaudeville Entertainment. The Master Horseshoers Protective Association, Local No. 42, of Kings County, had its annual banquet last night in Arion Hail. The banquet was preceded by a vaudeville entertainment. An nudience numbering nearly' 1,000 persona wag present The decorations of the ballroom were of the prettiest kind and comprised flowers as well as flags and bunting.

The vaudeville part of the programme comprised Andy Amann and Frances Hnrtley, in an amnsing comedy, A Clean Case; Dan Regan in blackface comedy; Miss Madeline IJurdette, in songs; the Ford Brothers, in dadoing and singing; Rob Gameila and Miss May Shirk, in singing, and Messrs. Henry and Gallot in pictured melodies. After the entertainment the entire party proceeded to the banquet hall, where the officers of the association, comprising Miles F. MePartland. president; N.

B. Thompson. vice-president; Walter J. Croak, recording secretary; George W. Perry, financial secretary; Charles J.

McGinness, corresponding secretary; Edward Mackey, treasurer; Owen Daley, sergeant-at-arms, and Donly Deacon, J. H. Tourtc, John J. Kelly and John Flood, occupied the main table, pn the same table were visitors from horseshoers' organizations in Albany, Buffalo, Watertown, Newark, Trenton, Hackensack, Jersey City, Hoboken, Long Island City, New York and Rochester. Among these persons were P.

J. Rooney and Thomas O'Brein, of Albany, who made addresses, well as Lawrence Fagan, Michael Halloran and Henry McCann, of New York; Dr. McKenzie, of Rochester, and Mr. Partland, of Kingston. The address of welcome was made by President MePartland.

All the speeches were on the good accomplished by the organization. This association was founded about six years ago, and its purpose is to fix prices and be 'warned against deadbeats. The organization also looks after widows and orphans. At the present time six shops are rnn by widows nnder the direction of the association, while one shop is in charge of minors who are 12 and 14 years old. At the end of the banqnet the entire company repaired to.

the ballroom, where the reception began. When dancing was once nnder way it was kept np with vim until nearly daylight The committees in charge of the affair comprised; Floor manager, Denis Kennedy; assistant floor managers, Edward J. Francois and Alex Corcoran. Floor Committee Thomas Dooling, Gilbert Dean, James E. Maher, William J.

Buckie, E. J. Parker, John McDonald, Joseph Brotheridge, L. 8. Barrett A.

Volk, Michael Gowen, Michael Flood, Joseph McFadden, Charles Meade, C. J. Koch, D. Rahiliy, Daniel Ward, Albert Bahr, George Brooks, Jacob Heller, William Maloney, Edward Mills, Thomas Conway, Michael Kiely, A. Grossarth, B.

H. Duffy, Layden, Richard Cousins, Thomas J. Greece, Fred Parr and James Tatty. Reception Committee Norman B. Thompson, chairman; Michael Gillen, Henry Bauman, William Bash.

P. Durkin, John Denig, Michael Heaney, Philip Krier, Patrick Mann. Robert Keenan, Thomas Corr, John O'Halloran, Frank Kelly, E. K. Baynon, William Daly, P.

McLoughiin, L. Coughlin, John Kelly, J. Hilderbrand. William O'Hara, Thomas Shaw. Frank McFadden, Louis Hellert, M.

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